Chapter 524: Reduction of the town army to control the grassland

Regarding the abolition of the feudal town, Li Chen has been thinking about it for a long time. www.biquge.info Since he was forced to flee from Xufu, he thought that one day he would level this feudal town, and as for how to level it, he hadn't thought about it.

Although he later learned that the feudal towns were not entirely local separatist forces, and that the real secession was the three towns of Hebei, the heart of the abolition of the feudal towns never wavered.

Chasing commanders, soldiers mutiny at every turn, this is a unified country that can never be obtained. This trend must be suppressed.

In fact, as long as this trend is suppressed, the feudal towns will not be abolished, and there will be no big problem. However, in Li Chen's view, these are all related to sexual gains. The feudal town represents a kind of localism.

If we use the human body as a metaphor, the town is like a cancer cell, or a tumor. Although the tumor in the three towns of Hebei Province may have been cut off as cancer cells, there are still tumors in several other places, which may turn into cancer cells. Although the feudal town must be changed, at least the name must be changed, the authority and all kinds of things must be changed, and the most important thing is that the soldiers must be replaced.

Li Chen wants to use the model of the Shence Army to transform those old armies, first of all, starting from the three towns of Hebei. That's a big project.

'Holy man, I'm afraid this matter will not be easy. Li Deyu pushed his reading glasses again. This is a new product, in fact, the principle is the same as the telescope, but Li Chen didn't expect it until one day when he discussed things and saw that many prime ministers were far away, and he suddenly had an idea, thinking of reading glasses.

Several prime ministers have a pair, and they are all exquisite, similar to the glasses of later generations, with frames, and the bridge of the nose is high-end, and the price is not cheap. Of course, Li Chen also asked the Royal Optical Factory to launch a simple, later style that still relies on ropes to connect the ears, without frames, presbyopia, and rushes to the mid-price market. Low price, at present, not many people will buy, will use reading glasses, are all a handful of age, and have to read articles, such people, family background is usually not bad.

It's hard to say, but it's easy to say. Li Chen smiled. Disarmament should not be a problem, Li Chen is ready to pick the most difficult to start first. First of all, the soldiers of the three towns of Hebei were reorganized.

The first is to send veterans of the Shence Army as officers, reorganize them according to the model of the Shence Army, and carry out a few months of transformation, so that they will not be exposed to new weapons, and will start from the most basic drills.

A large number of officers, who have graduated from military schools, and some veterans, will be filled. According to the Divine Army model, there will be a new military flag, and they will not be hung with someone's surname as the banner. There will be guidance, a change in their spirit, new officers, and a reorganization of them in accordance with the new law.

In particular, it is necessary to separate their officers and reassign them from the lowest, middle, to highest. Some of them will be transferred to military academies and serve as instructors of a certain subject, some will be given new posts, and some will be retired. This part also needs to be screened, in short, a principle, no one will remain in their place of origin. If you stay in your hometown, you will not be involved in the military.

These officers are especially in need of reform. Keeping them will only lead the new army badly, he just wants to scare the crooked wind of chasing the commander, and in the long run, it will only get more and more intense, and sooner or later, someone will be in a yellow robe.

Soldiers and officers will have an observation period, and if they can't adapt to it, they will be laid off. There are several ways to cut out, and if the soldiers are concerned, Li Chen has thought of a lot of ways out for them. Those who are unwilling to comply with the regulations of the new army, or who have accumulated habits that are difficult to change. There are several ways out.

For example, when going to sea, the fishing industry along the Datang coast is thriving, but the three towns of Hebei are a little backward, and Youzhou also has a long coastline, but because it has long stood outside the imperial court, the fishing industry here lags behind other areas of the Tang Dynasty.

One is to enter the factory. Li Chen will vigorously develop new industries in Hebei, such as fishing and supporting ice factories, pottery factories, and various industries and businesses. Li Chen will set up a new technical vocational school to train these soldiers who have been laid off, or who have been transferred.

In addition, Li Chen also wants to vigorously develop the wool textile industry in Hebei. Hearing this term, several prime ministers were stunned, China, basically there is no wool textile industry, unlike Europeans, wool is their most important textile raw material. The Chinese, in addition to silk, mainly use plant fibers.

'It's a sweater. Li Chen asked people to take out a few woolen sweaters that had been prepared a long time ago and give them to the prime minister one by one. Why do you want to do it yourself? On the one hand, it is respectful, and on the other hand, because it is a confidential meeting. The security standards are very high, and no one can approach them.

Although there is a bachelor who is in charge of the meeting minutes, Li Chen simply does it himself, which can be regarded as inviting people to buy people's hearts. For those who are too low, this kind of action is not necessary, and it is just right for the prime minister.

Several prime ministers put on their sweaters at Li Chen's signal. Now that the weather has cooled down, Daming Palace is on the plateau again, which makes it even more chilly. However, because Ayagiden has geothermal heating, it is very warm.

After putting on the sweater, a few prime ministers went out into the courtyard to feel how comfortable the new clothes were, 'Yes, light and warm.' Several prime ministers patted their bodies, light but warm sweaters, thinking that this kind of clothing, things must be very popular, but what does it have to do with Hebei?

It's a big deal. Li Chen said with a smile. 'I'm going to turn this wool into a weapon to control the grasslands.' After a little sale, Li Chen began to talk about frontier trade.

For a long time, the border market was a means to restrain the northern nomads. Many dynasties have used the frontier market as a way to control those aliens. If you are disobedient, I will cut off the border trade so that you can't buy things from the Central Plains.

Does it work? Not necessarily. For a long time, people always felt as if the nomads had suffered a disaster, and they would often come to the Central Plains to plunder and make up for their losses. Actually, that's a false impression.

When they really suffered, they had no incentive to invade. The horses froze to death, they couldn't grab it at all, and they had to be busy with disaster relief. And many times, the clear grassland is smooth and rainy, and it is still grabbed. It's hard to say exactly when the nomads will come and grab it.

However, one thing is certain, that is, when the mutual market is closed, it will come to rob it. Otherwise, they lack a lot of things, which cannot be produced on the grassland, and they are necessities, and if they can't buy them, they will come and grab them.

'How is this wool going to control the steppe?' Several statues looked at each other, how can this thing control the grassland? This is not tea, cloth and other things, not what the herdsmen need, or even grassland production, how to control the grassland? It is indeed very mysterious, if Li Chen didn't have experience in later generations, he probably wouldn't have thought of it.

Datang also uses mutual markets to achieve border tranquility. Basically, they will not close the market at every turn to control the nomads, but they will only trade with those who are more obedient and trade at fixed points, and under the supervision of designated points and relevant officers.

Then it is through silk and tea, on the one hand, it is a reward, on the other hand, it is to take what each other needs to exchange horses, so as to control the grassland, but these are all things that only the Tang Dynasty can get, how to use the things that the grassland has, to control the grassland?

'Don't underestimate the wool, I want to put an end to the nomads of the north. Li Chen pointed to the woolen sweater on the table and said. This sentence thundered everyone, even the Hanlin Bachelor, who was in charge of the record, tightened his hand, and the pen in his hand paused heavily, and suddenly messed up the originally neat meeting minutes a little.

But they also know that Li Chen is not empty words, and the emperor of the Tang Dynasty is not like dramas and movies, he opens his mouth and closes his mouth, and often says that I, the I in those edicts, are all beautified. But when Li Chen said me, it means that this matter is very serious and must be taken very seriously.

Li Chen thought for a while, organized the language, he didn't sell much, "If this wool is widely used in the Central Plains, like silk and satin, or linen, what will happen?" For a long time, I, Datang, actually didn't want anything from the grassland, what if it was the other way around? ’

'For a long time, I used what I have in the Tang Dynasty and what the grassland does not have to control the grassland. In fact, for them, they can't buy it, they can use it to rob it. Originally, life on the grassland was difficult, and they cultivated a barbaric and martial atmosphere. For those barbarians, robbing is the fastest, robbing each other, and robbing me of the Tang Dynasty when they can't buy Tang goods. For them, they are accustomed to it. ’

'The frontier mutual market, for a long time, has been unilateral, the grassland needs me Datang, if the other way around, one day, Datang needs their goods? ’

Can they use this to control Datang? Wrong, in fact, my Datang and the grassland, no one can control anyone, Datang does not necessarily need their cattle and horses, I Datang can raise them by myself, they don't have tea, cloth, ironware, and they haven't lived like this for thousands of years. If you lack it for a short time, you won't die, and you can come and grab it when the time comes. ’

If you want to strangle a person with a rope today, the rope must be thick enough, not thick enough, it will only make people feel sad, and when he breaks free, he will strangle you in turn. ’

It's the same with the mutual market. If you want to use the mutual market to control the grassland and keep the grassland safe, then the rope must be thick enough, and the rope should be thick, which can work in both directions, so that they need Tang goods, and Datang also needs their goods. ’

'This wool? After listening to it for a long time, Li Deyu somewhat understood, it turned out that he wanted to use wool. If the use of wool is spread in the Central Plains, the price of wool is high, and the grassland will be raised in large quantities.

Raised in large quantities, it can only be sold to the Tang people, first, the Tang people need it, and second, only the Tang people can spin these wool. When the time comes, whoever is disrespectful to Datang will not buy their wool. Datang can live well without wool, but the livelihood of those nomads will be greatly affected.

'Those aliens outside the Cypriots, at best, are all soldiers. Anyone can ride a fast horse and shoot arrows with a bow. However, to put it mildly, in fact, they did not have any standing troops, and they often had to invade the Central Plains and recruit tribal people. ’

"Increase the dependence of the two sides on each other, even if the Khan wants to invade my Datang, the people must also consider whether it is possible to lose their lives, and then they have to rob a lot of things at once, most of which are taken away by the Khan, or they will trade with my Datang every year, and the income will be their own." ’

Miaoa, several prime ministers clapped their hands and admired, unexpectedly, the little wool has this effect, indeed, to overturn a wall, one side is not enough to pull, if someone on the other side pushes, it is double the power. Can this wool be clamped on the Tang Dynasty?

No, Datang has not had wool for so many years, and winter is still coming. But for those herdsmen, the wool could not be eaten by hunger and could not be worn by cold, so it had to be sold to the Tang people before it could be woven into cloth. Since then, there has been another means of restraint on the grassland.

Li Chen took advantage of the excitement to tell another story, when the king of Qi wanted to attack the Lu country, Guan Zi offered him a clever plan. The king of Qi began to like to wear purple clothes, the purple clothes of the Lu country. As a result, if something is good at the top, it will be effective at the bottom. The entire Qi country has become popular to wear purple clothes from Lu country.

The people of Lu also think that making this clothes is easier to make than farming, and everyone is crazy to do related industries, dyes and weaving. Earned a lot of money from the people of Qi State. As a result, Guan Zi saw that the time was ripe, and ordered to ban Lu Guode's purple clothes, and even the King of Qi did not wear them.

This is miserable, no one wants Lu Guo's clothes all of a sudden, and his livelihood is immediately in trouble. But they didn't even plant any more fields, and soon they ran out of food.

Li Chen told this economic story to several prime ministers. He had heard this story for a long time, even when he was a child, and he was very impressed, because this story was the first economic story he came into contact with. However, he was not sure if such a thing had happened between Qi and Lu.

It doesn't matter if you tell the children, he also told a few children to let them understand that the economy is also a very powerful means. It's just that if you say something to the prime minister, you should not be smiling and generous. In the story, Qi and Lu were all concealed by him, and only A and B were used instead, but the effect is still the same, thought-provoking.

After talking for a long time, his stomach was also hungry, Li Chen took a break and asked people to bring some snacks. And then proceed to the problem of just dealing with the soldiers of the Three Towns. I just seriously digressed, but to put it bluntly, no one even pulled it back.

Li Chen wants to develop the wool textile industry, which is a new industry, wool cloth for those nomads, is definitely a winter cold product, one can control the grassland, the other is equivalent to let those nomads make money for themselves, the spun cloth, and sell back to the grassland, it can really be profitable.

Emerging industries can accommodate many soldiers who are unable or unwilling to accept the transformation of the new army. Then, if there are still people who don't accept it, or can't learn it. Then go to farming, Longxi needs people, now Longxi is in the stage of large-scale development, it needs a lot of manpower, for example, there are rail carriages, which have gradually rushed to Longxi, and are currently in need of manpower.

In short, none of these soldiers from the three towns remained, did not accept the transformation of the new army, and were unwilling to be resettled in this way, so they were all killed. Li Chen is murderous, the three towns of Hebei are the source, and they will be driven out at every turn, and they will even evolve into local autonomy, and the source of confrontation with the imperial court must be erased, even if the blood is flowing, it will not hesitate.