When Luoyang Cheng'an ~ Bei Qingming was put in a separate prison and made a painful choice, Xiao Quzhi and Li Qi, who were far away in Hebei, also received Li Tianxi's letter eagle.

The Youzhou army was defeated at the same time in two battlefields, and was forced to retreat more than 50 miles north, camped and waited for the follow-up army, and at the same time ordered all the armies to surround the soldiers and horses of the Hebei counties that raised troops to resist Youzhou, and sent a message to Shi Siming, Li Riyue, Shen Zigong, Rong Xianqin and others who stayed in Fanyang to lead their troops south to attack Changshan and Raoyang.

And the Tiance army also advanced forty miles to the north, set up camp, built fortifications, and then Xiao Qubing and Li Qi took 800 cavalry to prepare to cross the battle line of the Youzhou army, and went north to support Changshan and Raoyang, which should be attacked by the Youzhou army.

Li Qi asked: "Master, do you think that An~ Bei Qingming will accept it?" ”

Xiao Quzhi said with a smile: "Naturally, he won't accept it now, and he will definitely accept it in the end, and they will also accept it."

To be honest, after a few years, they found that they were ruled by our Datang and became a dog raised by Datang, and their lives were much better than before, maybe they would be glad in their hearts! ”

Li Qi also smiled: "Master, I found that you know the Japanese people very well, and you attach great importance to them, otherwise why don't you treat them like Zhancheng people?" ”

"Can you not understand, at my master's place, I summarized four books on the character of the Japanese people, which I have read since I was a child."

Xiao Quzhi said with a smile: "The reason why these Japanese people are treated especially is because although they have all kinds of shortcomings and inferiority that go deep into the bone marrow, gloomy and cruel, depressed and indifferent, cowardly and perverted, bullying the weak and afraid of the hard, etc., they also have many advantages, even surpassing our Tang people." ”

Li Qi was a little unconvinced: "What can they surpass us?" ”

"Xiao Qi. You have to know that there are two sides to everything, just like these Japanese people, they have lived in such an environment for a long time, which makes them inherently insecure, depressed and cowardly, but on the other hand, it also makes them have a strong endurance.

He is cowardly, bullying the weak and fearing the hard. This is of course a shortcoming, but at the same time it makes them accustomed to obeying power, obeying discipline, and obeying management. Because of this kind of servility deeply rooted in the bone marrow, the Japanese people are simply the best managed group of people in the world.

In addition, they also have various advantages, because various natural disasters often occur, and these Japanese people are very good at unity and cooperation, hard-working. Get through it together.

And they are very serious in their work, and at the same time they are the best people in the world to learn and imitate, and all of this points to one thing, they are the best simple labor workers. ”

"Simple labor workers? What is the meaning? ”

"It's some industries that require a lot of manpower, but don't have much technology, and when our technology improves, let the Fusang people in the Fusang Governor's Mansion produce white paper for the Tang Dynasty. Textiles, clothing. Shoes, toys, leather, etc.

These industries do not pose any threat to Datang, but they require a large number of workers to perform repetitive labor, which is the most suitable for them to do, as long as we send them to supervise the work. They can even do better than us Tang people, but they can pay much, much less. ”

Xiao Quzhi sighed and said with a smile: "You also know that our Duqi Dao is now a developed area, and people are getting richer and richer. The quality of life is getting higher and higher, and a worker's monthly salary of four silver coins has made them live a good life.

Now there is more and more money in Dugi Province, and everything is slowly starting to rise in price, and four silver coins can only barely make a family hungry, but there are more and more delicious and fun things in Dugi Province, and there are more and more beautiful clothes, shoes and leather bags.

Every family began to pursue a better quality of life, comparing each other with good food, good clothes, and good living utensils, and the family with an income of four silver coins could no longer live in Togi Province.

Therefore, a few months ago, the general wage of all workshops in Toki Province rose to six silver coins, and it will definitely rise in the future. By that time, when the Fuso Governor's Office has almost stabilized, we can move some of these workshops to Fuso for two silver coins a month or less. ”

Li Qi thought for a moment and said: "But there are still many places in Datang where ordinary people can't earn two silver coins a month, so you can't open the workshop there, and the salary can still be positioned at four silver coins per person per month." ”

Xiao Quzhi nodded appreciatively: "We Datang people can do some other industries, focusing on the development of iron and steel smelting, machinery manufacturing, energy and chemical industry, building bridges, building houses and roads." Try to get the railroad and train out early! ”

"Master, is this railway difficult?"

"It's not difficult for the railway to dig tunnels at all, as long as the steelmaking technology and production are improved; The problem is that the train is difficult, there is a steam engine in it, and there is a linkage machine, which takes a lot of time and painstaking effort to develop and design, and to experiment and practice.

And at present, it seems that there is still a lack of raw materials that we Datang does not have, and we have to go far away to find it. ”

"How far?"

Xiao Quzhi thought for a while and said: "That's what Master told you, from our Datang all the way east to Fusang and then continue to walk east for thousands of miles, and then all the way to the south for more than 10,000 miles, where there will be what we need, fortunately, those three invincible ships will be completed soon."

After the rebellion in An Lushan was quelled, I organized people to set off, one fleet sailed to the northeast of Haizhou, and one fleet went southwest to Lion City and then all the way to the west, so that they could circle the earth and come back. ”

As Xiao Quai's only personal disciple, Li Qi naturally knew from Xiao Qubing that the earth is round, and there is a huge globe model in the Lanling Palace.

Not long ago, he received news from Taiyuan that the Tiance internal guard and special combat personnel had failed to assassinate Du Ganyun, and now Du Qianyun had gone to Taiyuan and officially became the envoy of Hedong Jiedu and took over the military power.

Speaking of which, it is also the lack of intelligence of Tiance Secret Guard, the main energy is focused on An Lushan's Hebei group, ignoring Yang Guozhong's side, who would have thought that although this Du Qianyun is a full straw bag, he embezzles military salaries, beats and scolds soldiers, and has no ability to command troops. Not to mention leading troops to win battles, but the ability to save lives and escape is superb.

He was able to escape in Nanzhao before, it was because of the help of the Tang Gate in Sichuan, this time he went to Taiyuan to take up his post, and also brought twelve Tang Men masters, Yang Guozhong and he were originally in Jiannan Road. has close contacts with the Tang Gate, and it is normal to ask the Tang Gate to be a bodyguard.

However, the Tiance secret guard was negligent, not only failed to kill Du Qianyun on the way, but instead lost three good fighters of the special combat team. And the important thing is that in this way, Du Qianyun has increased his vigilance, and it will be difficult to kill him again.

Hedong Town, which is close to Fanyang Town, was originally the absolute main force in counterinsurgency, and if the name Li Guangbi was to be commanded in the future, with the current situation. Maybe you don't have to wait for the Longyou Army, the Anxi Army, and the Tiance Army to come back, and you can destroy the Youzhou Army, but now that Du Qianyun has been replaced, it is completely impossible to count on.

On the other side, although the Tiance army won two major battles, Li Qi's side annihilated more than 38,000 enemies, and Cao Xueyang's side destroyed nearly 27,000 enemies.

But to be honest, the biggest credit for the two big victories is actually the Youzhou army itself, if it weren't for them being too light on the enemy. Sent to the door by himself, it is impossible for the Tiance Army to achieve such a big result. Because of the maneuver of the cavalry, you can run if you can't beat it.

Now I'm scared of the Youzhou Army, and then it's not easy to fight.

The Youzhou army is dominated by cavalry, and the Tiance army is dominated by infantry, similar to the previous positional battle when the Youzhou army attacked the Tiance army, and the Tiance army was naturally able to defeat it every time.

But now it is not possible to fight sports warfare. The cavalry wants to run, but the infantry can't catch up, and they don't dare to chase it. And Xiao Qubing didn't dare to pull these recruits out to fight in the field, so after the two big victories, the battle situation fell into a stalemate.

Overall, though. The situation was still favorable to the Tang army, but extremely unfavorable to the Youzhou rebels, and the Hebei counties led by Changshan Taishou Yan Gaoqing and Raoyang Taishou Lu Quancheng raised troops to crusade against the Youzhou rebels;

Soon after, the Tiance secret guard spies will also rebel against An Lushan's generals in Pinglu and Fan Yangce, the situation is now unfavorable to An Lushan, coupled with Xiao Quai's mastery of historical knowledge, the rebellion is simply a sure thing;

Then wait for the East China Sea Fleet and the Tang Army stationed in Japan to defeat the Japanese army, and then take a ship directly to Tianjin in the later generations to land, An Lushan's Youzhou rebels are an embattled end, and their destruction will only be sooner or later.

The only loophole is the Hedong Army.

Li Qi said: "Now that the Hedong Army is under the command of Du Qianyun, I am really worried that this straw bag will destroy the good battle situation, what if the Youzhou Army breaks through from Hedong?" ”

Attacking Chang'an from Youzhou, generally speaking, there are two roads, one of which is to go all the way south, cross the Yellow River from Yanjin, and then fight all the way to Chang'an through Wujiaoguan, Luoyang, and Tongguan; The second is to go west from Jingchengkou all the way to Taiyuan, and then all the way south to Fenyang, Linfen, and Yuncheng, and you can directly attack Chang'an without passing through Tongguan.

Comparing the two roads, if the road is easy to walk, the former is naturally better, but if it is the distance, the latter is much closer.

Li Qi's worry was also Xiao Qu's worry, he smiled and said, "Why don't I go to Taiyuan alone and kill Du Qianyun?" ”

Li Qi smiled bitterly: "Forget it, kill him now, Li Guangbi can't be the envoy of this Hedong Festival." ”

In Baixiang County, Zhao County, in the Youzhou Army Camp, An Lushan, who was lying on the hospital bed, was constantly lamenting and losing his temper, and Yan Zhuang on the side just sneered in his heart.

However, Tian Qianzhen was still calm: "Why should the lord be discouraged, although our army has suffered this defeat, there are still nearly 200,000 troops, and tens of thousands of soldiers and horses can be urgently recruited from Fanyang County, Beiping County, Miyun County, Yuyang County, Liucheng County, and Fuchuan County, and our army is still superior in strength, and now everyone has no way to retreat. ”

An Lushan sighed deeply and said, "What's the use of having more soldiers? Our veterans of a hundred battles can't beat the recruits who have only been trained by the Tiance Army for three months, and the soldiers are very useful! ”

Tian Qianzhen said calmly: "Haven't you figured out that the previous defeat was all because our army was too light on the enemy, thinking that these Tiance recruits must have collapsed, and I fell into the trap that the Tiance army had dug a long time ago, resulting in a fiasco."

However, the other party is still a new recruit, and he still does not dare to fight in the field of our army, otherwise why would our army not dare to press too much on the Tiance army when it retreats? The soldiers recruited by the counties of Hebei are even more rabble, and it is difficult to defend the city, let alone fight out of the city, and it cannot pose a threat to our Youzhou army in the slightest!

Our Youzhou army still has the advantage of strength and mobility, as long as it does not underestimate the enemy, deal with it carefully. You can be at ease, and patiently negotiate with the Tiance Army and the soldiers and horses of the Hebei counties, and break them one by one. ”

An Lushan was a little stunned and didn't speak, and said solemnly: "Having said that, if you can't win quickly, wait until the Tiance Army, Anxi Army, and Longyou Army who went out to fight against Nanzhao and Tubo return to the division." Will our army still be defeated? ”

Tian Qianzhen said coldly: "I heard that Li Qi has a strong personality, jealousy and hatred, and a very soft heart. As long as we storm a city and threaten to slaughter the city for three days after the city is broken, then Li Qi will definitely lead troops to rescue us, and then our army can fight an ambush with the Tiance army.

And, don't forget, we have another way to quickly advance to Chang'an. ”

An Lushan's eyes lit up all of a sudden. said loudly: "That's right, we can take the road to Hedong and quickly hit Chang'an!" ”

The main reason why the Youzhou army chose Luoyang was naturally because of the contempt for the force of the Tiance army, and the other was because Duji Dao was too rich.

Hedong is poor, the mountain roads are not easy to walk, and there are more than 50,000 people in the Hedong army, and many factors add up. Naturally, the first choice is Luoyang.

But now the Tiance Army has shown such a strong combat effectiveness, compared to it. The Hedong Army is relatively weak, and now the Hedong Army has no leader, and Taiyuan Yin Wang Chengye is not only mediocre and incompetent, but the road of Hedong has become the choice of the Youzhou Army again.

Tian Qianzhen nodded and said: "What the lord said is right, that Taiyuan Yin Wang Chengye is an incompetent villain, but he is very greedy for credit. This time we were defeated, Wang Chengye will definitely despise us because of this.

And our army can take advantage of Wang Chengye's psychology to deliberately show weakness, and the lord can order Gao Xiuyan's army besieging Yanmen Pass to feign defeat and retreat, and he will order the defenders to pursue. You can turn around and defeat it;

On the other hand, our army also set up an ambush outside the Jingcheng Pass, as long as the Hedong Army came out of the Jingcheng Pass, our army would take the opportunity to seize the Jingcheng Pass, and then our infantry held the Jingcheng Pass, and the cavalry rushed all the way to Chang'an.

In this way, the victory is decided, and the Tiance Army will also be mobilized by our army, and it is just in time to find an opportunity to annihilate it! ”

An Lushan sat up happily and said loudly: "Ah Hao, only you can unravel my heart, don't worry about it today!" ”

An Lushan turned his worries into joy, actively responded, and when he dispatched troops, Li Longji, who was in Chang'an Daming Palace, held a fast horse secret report in his hand, but he couldn't be happy in his heart.

The news of the Tiance Army's victory over the Youzhou Army in the two battlefields at the same time was transmitted to Luoyang by Xinying at the first time, and Yuan Siyi, the deputy commander of the internal guard and the envoy of the supervising army, also wrote the secret fold as soon as possible, and urgently reported the news to Li Longji, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty.

To tell the truth, the 270,000 rebels of the Youzhou Army rebelled, the Hedong Army was too busy to take care of itself, and the other armies had to resist the Hui rebels, and there were only 10,000 Tiance veterans and 300,000 Tiance soldiers who had trained Tiance soldiers for three months on the Hebei battlefield, and the peasant soldiers were competing with them.

But he never thought that these days the soldiers and peasant soldiers would be able to defeat the same number of veterans of the Youzhou Army!

After receiving this news, his heart was not joyful, but deeply afraid!

I didn't expect this Tiance recruit, who had only been trained for three months, to have such combat effectiveness, and their number was 300,000! Given time, wouldn't these thirty days of the army be able to compete with all the other armies of the Tang Dynasty?

He Li Qi actually has such a strong strength, and the Sihai Trading Company is so rich, because most of the powerful families in Datang have to rely on the Sihai Trading Company to make more money, so Li Qi has almost won the support and support of the Datang ownership family.

And according to Yuan Siyi's secret fold before, this Li Qi has been a civil affairs official in Dugi Province all these years, and he is deeply loved by all the people in Dugi Province; Even many people in Gyeonggi Province are very grateful to him.

There is no other reason, last year's drought in Guanzhong, Yang Guozhong, the waste, did not go to the disaster relief, and in the end, Li Qi took the Four Seas Trading Company to bring grain from the South China Sea and work for relief, making every one of the affected people in Gyeonggi Province hungry.

It's too dangerous! This Li Qi is too much of a threat to himself!

He dared to disobey me before, and he couldn't wait to act for me, and the current situation has such strength and prestige, in case Li Qi wants to replace me, I will ignore the government for a long time, and I will not be able to control him at all!

Thinking of this, Li Longji squeezed his tightly folded hand, and couldn't help but tremble slightly, and at this moment, Gao Lishidao walked in quickly and said, "Ah Lang, Yang Xiang has arrived." (To be continued.) )