Chapter 101 Liaodong City

"Abaoji, what is this?" Li Cunhuan raised the parchment in his hand that he couldn't read.

Yelu Abaoji smiled and said: "This is requested by the Khan of Hindejin, one of the letters of alliance is written in Chinese and the other is written in Turkic. We will preserve the Chinese characters, and they will preserve the Turkic texts. ”

"Oh! Then why did you even bring this document to me? Li Cunhuan raised the parchment in Turkic in his hand, looked at the lower right corner, and said, "The name of the alliance book is also signed, why did it get to you?" ”

Yelu Abaoji shrugged, pointed to himself and said: "He feels that I am not qualified enough, the most important thing is that the Khitan has already passed the information that the lord you defeated Li Ke at that time. So those old men want you to sign and stamp it yourself. ”

Li Cunhuan thought for a while and said, "Okay, but you will be careless if you don't write it clearly on the boundaries, you have to write it clearly." Come and bring the big map of Hebei! ”

It's a really big map, and the two soldiers seem to be carrying a scroll of a small ram to the living room. Ah, Yelu Abaoji's eyes were full of surprise, and several pro-soldiers who had already prepared put several wooden tables together. The soldier carefully spread out the scroll, and as the scroll rolled, a map three meters long and two meters wide appeared in front of everyone.

Yelu Abaoji walked over, stroked the edge of the map, and said, "It's too big! What is this paper made of? It's so thick. ”

Li Cunhuan walked over, shrugged his shoulders indifferently and said, "It is said to be made of cloth and rice paper." Yingzhou ......"

Li Cunhuan's eyes suddenly widened, looking at the place of Yingzhou, "Liaodong City!" Anyway, you have to get Liaodong City! ”

Yelu Abaoji glanced at the place that made Li Cunhuan excited, and said: "Although I don't know why you like to get this land so much, I want you to understand one thing, it is the lower reaches of Liaoshui, and it is fertile land. It is one of the most fertile pastures in the grasslands. ”

"How many more troops do we have that we can mobilize?" Li Cunhuan looked at the eldest grandson Chengliang on the side and asked, the fanaticism in Li Cunhuan's eyes now made the eldest grandson Chengliang feel afraid.

Eldest Sun Chengliang took a deep breath and said, "My lord, I hope you understand that now you can only mobilize 5,000 soldiers and horses to fight!" If there are more, then I am afraid that those conspiracies lurking in Lu Long will be like grass after the spring rain, popping up like crazy. You'll need a strong army to deter those little ones. ”

Yelu Abaoji looked at the land and said tactfully: "Actually, my lord, why do you need so much pasture!" Now the pastures in the area of Yingzhou can provide you with nearly 1,000 war horses every year, and the war horses provided by various places in the north of Lulong are also very considerable, reaching 2,000 every year. This is enough to maintain a cavalry of 100,000 men, and the need to replace the old and weak horses every year. ”

Li Cunhuan's fingertips lightly touched the place named Liaodong City on the map, shook his head, and said, "Do you know what Lu Long lacks the most? ”

The eldest grandson Chengliang said with some hesitation: "Population? ”

Li Cunhuan shook his head and said: "Although there have been many wars over the years, since the third year of Tang Dazhong (849 AD), although the festival has been changed frequently, Lulong has not suffered much war, which is very different from the Central Plains chaos. Don't look at the population written in Lu Long's book now, but only 1.5 million. If the tenants and slaves on those large lands are liberated, I am afraid that the population of Lulong will exceed the 3 million mark. ”

Although Li Cunhuan was very plain when he said this, and his face was even calmer, as if there was no wave of the lake, the eldest grandson Chengliang seemed to feel the madness in Li Cunhuan's heart to kill Lu Long's big family.

In fact, Li Cunhuan is not as crazy as the eldest grandson Chengliang thinks, but Li Cunhuan secretly made up his mind in his heart that he must solve this problem of disparity between the rich and the poor. Li Cunhuan, who knows the trend of history, knows that the class level of a country is not a pyramid class, nor is it a Datong world. Rather, it is a circular class. That is, the number of poor people is about the same as the number of rich people. The largest number of people is the middle class, which is several times the rich and the poor, and such a social class is the most realistic and perfect at present.

"Soldiers?" Yelu Abaoji hesitated for a moment and asked, he was thinking about whether Li Cunhuan was preparing to recruit a large number of soldiers into the army.

In the Tang Dynasty before the Anshi Rebellion, this approach was not a big deal. Not to mention recruiting Hu people as soldiers, even if Hu people become prime ministers, that is the scandalous An Lushan. But these were all before the Anshi Rebellion, and after the Anshi Rebellion, except that Li Keyong seemed to be from a Hu background. The other Jiedu envoys were very cautious in recruiting soldiers, and compared with the promotion of the Hu people to officers, they were even more cautious in the midst of prudence.

But the Hu people, because of their special surname, they can become a barely qualified cavalryman after a few days of training. If it takes two or three months of training, they are completely an elite cavalry. So Yelu Abaoji is now thinking about whether his father-in-law is thinking about how to expand the army. After all, before he came, he had heard a lot of news about Li Cunhuan's army expansion on the way, and the loyal and filial army even expanded again and again.

Li Cunhuan shook his head and said, "No! There are enough soldiers now, and if we don't need to use it anymore, our money bags will already crush us. ”

"Iron!" Chen Changfeng, who had not spoken, suddenly interjected.

Li Cunhuan glanced at Chen Changfeng, nodded and said: "What Changfeng said is not wrong, don't look at the fact that we have weapons workshops in many places now, but in fact, the cost of our weapons is very expensive, and there are many iron ore impurities, and ...... here" Li Cunhuan pointed to Liaodong City and said: "That mountain like a saddle, he is the largest iron ore producing area in the world (domestic)!" ”

"Shhh There was a simultaneous gasp in the hall.

"This? Is this true? The eldest grandson Chengliang felt as if his tongue was knotted, and he couldn't speak very flexibly.

In all the industries in ancient times, it was not gold and silver mines that were the most profitable, although what they dug out was money, but in fact it was salt and iron, and you could do without gold and silver, but you could not do without salt and iron. If it is really as Li Cunhuan said, the export income of this iron ore is already comparable to Lulong's tax.

"I'm afraid it's not going to be good to get!" Yelu Abaoji understood the difficulties of Liaodong City better than everyone present.

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