Chapter 289 Long-term Strategy

What to do next, the top brass of the Weizhou army held an extraordinary meeting in Qingshui Town. The meeting decided: All the loot was transported back to Weizhou, and the battlefield was cleaned up and quickly returned to Weizhou. As for the most important trophies, Li Bao decided to turn all captured prisoners of war into Tuntian soldiers, and agreed with them that Weizhou could set them free after five years.

Regarding this decision, Hu Sanbao, Song Wentong and Yang Siqi and others all expressed their incomprehension. The prisoners of war previously captured under the city of Chang'an were all released.

Li Bao patiently explained to them that the five-year contract was just a delaying tactic, in order to leave these people to enrich the population of Weizhou and its surroundings.

These people are all young and strong laborers, once they go to work as Tuntian soldiers, although they are not regular soldiers, but they used to be soldiers, so they are all high-quality reserve soldiers. Once we need them in the future, we can offer preferential conditions to recruit them, and quickly form an army for our Weizhou army.

In addition, we told them to let them leave after five years, but after many years of settlement, they will adapt to the stable and peaceful life in Tuntian. According to my observations, the Yellow Nest Thieves have become a general trend, and it is impossible to easily calm them down in the short term.

I estimate that in the future, there will be wars and chaos in the Central Plains, and at that time, these Tuntian soldiers who have adapted to a stable life will not let go of a stable life, but they will have to live a precarious life of exile.

In addition, they are all young and unmarried, as long as we find their mother-in-law in the tuntiandi, even if it expires in the future, will they leave the family they have formed and go back to their hometown?

Li Bao looked at everyone nodding, and he continued: "At this time, the situation under Chang'an City is different, at that time, we had an army in the city, and the food in the city was limited, so we couldn't support the surplus prisoners of war. And we also need those prisoners of war to help us scare the peasant army outside the city.

Now we have left Chang'an City, Weizhou has become our foundation, but Weizhou has been weak for a long time, we must make great efforts to govern and develop, now manpower is the most critical, so we must recruit as many people as possible. ”

These words are Li Bao's conclusion after careful consideration, Hu Sanbao and Song Wentong have become independent ministers, and Li Bao must let them know the next direction of development and major policies. Only in this way can Li Bao boldly delegate power and let them act in accordance with the strategy he specified, and maintain the rapid development of the Weizhou army.

As the supreme leader of the Weizhou Army, Li Bao also needs to spare more time to think about the positioning of Weizhou and the direction of development.

The Tang Dynasty will be in a period of great chaos for the next 20 years, and it is very important for Li Bao to lead the Weizhou Army to go.

As a traverser, Li Bao really wants to be as energetic as other traversal predecessors, but the current grim reality is that the Weizhou army is still very weak, and its combat power is not top-notch.

In the few battles in which the Weizhou Army was formed, Li Bao tried to avoid a head-on confrontation between the Weizhou Army and the enemy.

First, his Weizhou army was made by his painstaking efforts, and he was reluctant to lose.

Second, gunpowder, as a powerful weapon with a generation difference, has not yet shown its due combat power, and there are still many problems with crockpot grenades.

For example, the success rate of many grenades is not particularly ideal, and there is a failure rate of 20% to 30%.

New weapons, such as artillery, still have a lot to overcome when it comes to casting.

The artillery was unsuccessful, and the muskets naturally had no hope. It's handsome to line up to be shot, but what you don't have the technology to make is either too big or can't be mass-produced.

Therefore, Li Bao had a headache for the development of firearms, but in order to improve the combat effectiveness and advanced nature of the Weizhou Army, Li Bao had to think of some other weapons.

The third is that he really can't bear to fight with the peasant army now, and Li Bao is also very disgusted with the Han people in the Central Plains being bullied by the Hu people.

Now the grassland barbarians around the Tang Dynasty are rising, and the foundation of the Dangxiang clan in the northwest has been formed, as long as the Central Plains are fighting together, they will have the opportunity to accumulate strength, and it is only a matter of time before the Northwest Dangxiang grows into the Great Xia Kingdom that divides the northwest.

In addition, the undercurrent within the Guiyi Army in the Hexi region will affect the interests of the entire Western Regions Li Bao Trade Road, and he needs to make a plan as soon as possible, so as not to fall into passivity when the Guiyi Army is in civil strife.

Compared with the slow development of the Li clan in the northwest, the undercurrent within the Guiyi Army is different, and the Khitans in the northeast have begun to emerge, and the Khitans have gradually become a decisive force in Northeast Asia.

Ten years later, the Khitans will become a powerful force that Li Keyong in Hedong and Liu Rengong in Youzhou are afraid of. Not to mention that the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms and the Central Plains of the Northern Song Dynasty have not lifted the threat of the Khitans.

In addition to the potential threats in the northwest and northeast, although the southwest Tubo has not eased up in recent decades, because of the unique geographical environment of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the Tubo people have always been an important force threatening the Central Plains.

However, the civil strife in Tibet is undecided, and there will be no mood to interfere in the Central Plains.

The Nanzhao Kingdom in the southwest of the Central Plains Dynasty was constantly moving, and this place gradually grew into the future Dali Kingdom because of the turmoil in the Central Plains.

The Annam (Vietnam) region next to the Nanzhao Kingdom, the place where the Central Plains Dynasty had always been kingly, gradually broke away from the indoctrination of the Central Plains Dynasty in the turmoil, and gradually evolved into a remote state attached to the Central Plains Dynasty.

Throughout Chinese history, the attitude of the wealthy and arrogant Central Plains Dynasty towards remote states has always been dispensable, and the rulers and bureaucracy of the Central Plains Dynasty did not take the gains and losses of remote states very seriously.

As a result, the Hu spheres of influence such as the Tibetans and Uighurs expanded dramatically, eventually threatening the ruling base of the Tang Dynasty.

However, Li Bao as a person in the future has a very strong sense of territory, although the natural conditions of these remote places are harsh, but compared to the energy development of later generations, he must accumulate energy and living space for future generations.

In addition, Li Bao has another layer of consideration, that is: the emperor of the Tang Dynasty is still in Shuzhong, and there are still many feudal towns that are nominally loyal to the Tang Dynasty.

If Li Baoruo took the Weizhou army to join the road of fighting for hegemony in the feudal town, first, he would be used by people with intentions, such as Tian Lingzi, a high-ranking eunuch who controlled the emperor. Once they issued an edict, Li Bao would be in a dilemma when the authority of the Tang Dynasty was still in power.

At this time, the Tang Dynasty was in danger, and there were many ambitious people, not to mention that these feudal towns that participated in Fengxiang's "Yellow Alliance" this time were careerists.

If you rush into the game, it will only become the target of public criticism, and the new group of the Weizhou Army will only fall into the dilemma of "ants bite and kill elephants".

It is better to wait for a corner to accumulate strength, and wait for the miracle to come out and crush the heroes is the way for the traverser to survive and dominate.

Moreover, from Li Bao's operation in Chang'an for so many years, coupled with the battle of Chang'an and the battle of the "Yellow Alliance", Li Bao has accumulated enough political capital and authority.

These capitals are enough to ensure that the Weizhou Army will be in a kind of aura for a long time to come, and this aura is dazzling and dazzling enough to scare off most careerists.

Li Bao made a decision after considering it all and going back to Weizhou as soon as possible to develop silently. First take down the surrounding territory, and then control the Shannan West Road, the hub of the Central Plains into Shu.

Then vigorously develop commerce and trade, and use the capital power of commerce and trade to infiltrate human nature, and then influence the struggle at the political level. Such a method of struggle is efficient and secretive, and it is not easy to be detected.

No matter how people's hearts change, the nature of human greed will not change, as long as Li Bao can pay the starting price, no one will not be unmoved.

So Li Bao continued to say to everyone: "Our strength is still very weak now, so our future strategy is to do everything for business, not for hegemony." ”

Li Bao's words are very abrupt and resolute, although a few of you are high-level people in Weizhou, but they can't represent all of Weizhou, Li Bao said at this time that it was just to blow the wind. Let his subordinates understand their minds as early as possible.

After arriving in Weizhou, he will hold a high-level meeting of all Weizhou, at which time Li Baohui will make special interpretations and unify his thinking.

When it comes to the things to be done now, Li Bao has already ordered them, and Hu Sanbao and the others only need to complete them according to the instructions.

After Li Bao waved his hand and dismissed the meeting, Song Wentong, Yang Siqi and others left one after another, and Hu Sanbao stayed.

"What is Lang Jun going to do with Shang Rang and the others, they haven't woken up yet, does Meng Kai really want to let them go?"

"Meng Kai is going to let go, this person is a villain, with him, we can have a good grasp of the dynamics of the Yellow Nest Thief Army. And he can also help us get rid of some people, like Zhu Wen and the like. ”

Hu Sanbao nodded and agreed, but he had doubts in his heart, for Lang Jun has always been concerned about Zhu Wen's house? still bent on getting rid of him, I don't know how this Zhu Wen offended Lang Jun, thinking of the miserable scene of Li Fei trying to deal with a person made Hu Sanbao's heart really chill.

Li Bao thought for a while, and then said to Hu Sanbao: "Come here with your ears." ”

So Li Bao whispered to the audience, and after Hu Sanbao listened, he said happily: "Delat!" ”

Two days later, in the middle of the night, the night was low, and it was the darkest time before dawn, and the Weizhou army, which had been tired for a long time, had already rested.

Qingshui Town and the surrounding military camps were silent, but the silence of the night was broken by a dense shouting in the silence of the night.

"Someone has escaped, call someone to chase after them!" Beat gongs and drums to make a big noise, just to "gift" two high-ranking officials of the Great Qi State, as well as a small team of soldiers.

After these people disappeared into the night, Hu Sanbao took away a little weird smile from his white face in the night, and everyone present shuddered a little.

After another two days, the belated Fengxiang Festival made Zheng Zhen and the other heads of the feudal towns finally come to Qingshui Town, and a new battle will begin again.