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Liu Jun's method of conscription is very special, after tasting the sweetness of Kunlun Nu's courage and good fighting on the battlefield, Liu Jun made the idea of forming a Kunlun Nu cavalry when the recruitment operation was in full swing.

Kunlunnu's physical fitness was an excellent candidate for the formation of the heavy cavalry unit that Wang Yuan had always hoped to build. As the commander of the Jiannan cavalry, Liu Jun is also full of expectations for the formation of this heavy cavalry. Therefore, from the very beginning of the recruitment operation, Liu Jun had already planned to use pure Kunlun black slaves to form a heavy cavalry force.

Of course, there is only one way to source these Kunlun slaves, and that is to reach out to Yang Guozhong. As early as a few years ago, Yang Guozhong used the issuance of household registration as a control hand to control the large and small traffickers in Datang. In the face of Liu Jun's request, Yang Guozhong had to help his nephew, because this was a request made by Mrs. Qin's son.

Yang Guozhong's request for black slaves is as easy as a breeze, he only needs to say hello, and those traffickers who are secretly close to Yang Guozhong will make a large number of goods like tricks. So in just half a month, Yang Guozhong brought Liu Jun 2,000 Kunlun slaves, and all of them were tall and powerful, and they were all Kunlun slaves who had been purified.

Of course, Liu Jun will never pay a penny, if these Kunlun slaves are worth 10,000 yuan each at market price, more than 2,000 Kunlun slaves are worth 20,000 or 30,000 yuan. For ordinary people, this may be a huge amount, but for Yang Guozhong, it is like giving Liu Jun a small gift.

After Wang Yuan learned about this, he praised Liu Jun greatly, because Liu Jun's method provided Wang Yuan with a new idea, that is, using mercenaries is cheaper than recruiting soldiers. A Kunlun slave can become a soldier for only about a dozen or so costs. Moreover, recruiting them has no worries, and there is no need to consider their families and the issue of pensions for those who died in battle, which can be described as extremely cost-effective. But Wang Yuan would not do this unless he had to. Because while there are benefits, there are actually many disadvantages.

First of all, it is inhumane to do so, once he accepts a large number of sold black slaves as soldiers, he will inevitably help the traffickers of the Tang Dynasty. Many of these trafficked Kunlun slaves were abducted, and the traffickers tried their best to trick them into coming to Datang, and cut off their eggs, which is a kind of bestiality and racial oppression, and Wang Yuan will not encourage these barbaric acts.

Secondly, the use of a large number of these Kunlun slaves is actually not good for the combat strength of the army. Whether an army can be invincible or not does not depend on force alone, but on a combination of all aspects. In particular, mental encouragement, cohesion among soldiers, and the ability to cooperate with each other are all important factors in defeating opponents. And Kunlun Nu does not have these, they may be tall and strong, but they lack spirit, and they do not have the spiritual inspiration to fight to the death for the Tang Dynasty, just a group of mechanical soldiers who are ordered to do it, which is by no means the kind of army that Wang Yuan wants.

Since Wang Yuan returned to Jiannan, in more than a month, the number of soldiers and horses in Jiannan Road and Longyou Road has risen in a straight line. From the beginning of the struggle, by mid-November, the total number of soldiers and horses in the two towns had exceeded 100,000. There was a flock to the army everywhere. At this rate, the replenishment of the 125,000 troops in the two towns could be completed by the end of the year.

Although Wang Yuan knew that how to make these recruits train and grow quickly was a big problem, if he could not train these soldiers well, he would be like the Tubo people who were several times the size of the army and suffered heavy losses, and the effect was counterproductive. But all this is only a matter of time. Ge Shuhan and Song Jiangong were both extremely experienced generals, and with their separate training, these recruits should grow rapidly.

Recruitment is the top priority, and once this matter is resolved, Wang Yuan's pressure will suddenly be much less. There are soldiers in the battalion, and there is no panic in my heart. Of course, Wang Yuan still has a lot of things to do. The millions of dollars brought back from the capital were divided into several large pieces. Nearly one million guan was allocated to Liu Xunzhi to increase the progress of hoarding grain and cloth materials. A part of it was allocated to Zhang Zhengyi to speed up the research progress of the new use of the Fuhuo Fang. Then there is the equipment of the army, the subsidy of military salaries and the creation of weapons and armor. It seems that three million is a large amount, but in fact, under the division of all aspects, it is actually still stretched.

But at least, the three million were lost, alleviating most of the situation. For example, conscription, such as the storage of food and supplies. With money, these things are solved.

Taking advantage of the winter leisure, Wang Yuan also began to order the reinforcement of the city defense of the state capitals of Jiannan and Longyou. Although no one felt that this matter was necessary, especially those state capitals in the east, which were not bordering Tibet and were located in the land of Bashan and Shushui, they would basically not be threatened by anything, and this kind of reinforcement of city defenses seemed a bit idle. However, no one dared to disobey Wang Dashuai's order, and the local state capitals still organized the people to start repairing and strengthening the walls of the state capitals.

So in Jiannan Road in the harsh winter season, you can see such a scene. Everywhere the city is being strengthened and heightened, and the people are busy. In the barracks of several border towns, the recruits trained hard in the snow, enduring the bitter cold and intense training. On the avenues inside and outside the gates of Chengdu, there were long queues of truckloads of grain and supplies returning from the inland state capitals, transporting truckloads of high-quality rice into the major granaries of Chengdu. These scenarios are almost everyday and commonplace.

Building high walls, training troops diligently, and accumulating more food is an overall summary of what Wang Yuan needs to do at present. Wang Yuan felt like he was in a race against time because he was worried that he didn't have enough time to deal with the upcoming challenge. Wang Yuan was actually not very satisfied with these things in front of him, many things were done very sloppily, and they couldn't reach the kind of situation that Wang Yuan thought in his mind, but the time was pressing, and he could only try to improve it as much as possible.

After entering the wax moon, most of the complicated things have also been on the right track, and Wang Yuan can be regarded as a little more relaxed. Every day, I also have time to get together with my wives and concubines to laugh, tease the eldest lady Shunhua, and walk around the yard with her stumbling steps.

On the third day of the lunar month, Li Xin'er was dizzy and vomiting after waking up early, and her body was extremely unwell. So the family immediately invited Lang Zhong to diagnose, but the result was great news. Li Xin'er, who wants to have a child and wants to go crazy, is pregnant! This great event suddenly made the Wang family beaming, and the housemother finally became pregnant, which was a big concern for her. From then on, everyone could live more comfortably, because the mistress would no longer complain and vent her anger on others over this matter.

Wang Yuan was also very happy, in order to fulfill Li Xin'er's long-cherished wish, he tossed on Li Xin'er's belly. Now it's okay, Li Xin'er has always been worried that the position of the main mother is not guaranteed, and when she has a child, this worry is unnecessary. And I will also welcome my second child, which is also an exciting thing. Although he knew in his heart that with so many wives and concubines by his side, sooner or later it would be a situation with a group of children, but after all, it has been more than a year since the eldest lady was born, and the stomachs of the wives and concubines have not moved, and Wang Yuan is also a little puzzled.

After Li Xin'er learned that she was pregnant, she immediately threw all the housework to others, saying that she no longer had to worry about housework and raised the baby with peace of mind. Don't tell yourself anything, because it will affect you and your children. Lan Xinhui and A Luo and others also had to take over the affairs of the family, so that Li Xin'er could raise the baby with peace of mind. Li Xin'er's stomach couldn't see an obvious bulge at all, so she was already walking with her hands on her waist as if she was ten months pregnant, her steps moved very slowly, and she had to be accompanied by four or five maidservants to help her when she entered and exited.

Not only that, but soon Li Xin'er entered another worry from the joy of pregnancy, that is, the question of whether the child in her womb is male or female. With the eldest lady Shunhua in front, everyone is actually very worried in private, and all the children behind them are daughters. Now Li Xin'er is anxious about this kind of problem. So he compared some of his own behaviors with the stable woman in the house, such as liking to eat sour things, and asked the stable woman and said that it was a sweet and sour girl, so Li Xin'er would be very happy. If you eat something sweet one day and think it tastes good, you will be worried. and constantly calculated the day when he conceived in the same room with Wang Yuan. Whether it is a full moon or a missing moon, a double day or a single day, an auspicious day or a bad day. Because according to folklore, these will affect whether a boy or a girl is born.

Even Li Xin'er would come to Wang Yuan to ask Wang Yuan whether he was in the same room in the first half of the night or the same room in the second half of the night, which made Wang Yuan cry and laugh. Wang Yuan really wants to tell Li Xin'er that the child in your belly has actually set the gender of male and female, and it is useless to toss again. And I really don't care about having a boy or a girl. But Wang Yuan knew that she wouldn't listen to these words to Li Xin'er, so she could only be busy with her work.