Just south of the Silla Palace, there used to be an empty field, but now a row of simple houses has been erected, and many Silla officials are working, which is the newly established family registration office. On the outer wall of the house in the household registration management office, there are many windows, and there are long queues at the windows, most of them are Jincheng people who have come to register, and there are also many soldiers from the Tang Dynasty who are maintaining order.

On top of the tall walls of the palace, Li Su and Kim Seung-man sat side by side, quietly looking at the people of Silla below. It's just that one is smiling, the other is full of worry.

With a smile on his face, it was naturally Li Su, he had been in Jinseong for a while, and his control over Silla was steadily increasing, and the recruitment plan that had been prepared for a long time had finally begun to be officially implemented, so it can be said that everything was going according to his previous plan, and then after Silla was completely mastered, it would be Baekje's turn.

However, Jin Shengman was a little worried, although she also agreed to the recruitment, but she was mainly forced by this food shortage, in order to avoid a large-scale starvation incident, she had to agree to Li Su's recruitment plan, but she was still a little suspicious of Li Su's character, worried that after these Silla people were recruited, they would be sold as slaves by Li Su like those slave hunting teams before, after all, this guy next to him was the biggest slave leader in Datang.

However, no matter how worried Jin Shengman was, it was useless, she could only pin all her hopes on Li Su's character, so I saw her sigh, forcing her attention to leave the matter of recruitment, and suddenly said: "Your Highness, Jin Gengxin and Jin Chunqiu have any news?" ”

Li Su, who was full of ambition, heard Jin Shengman ask about it. There was also a little annoyance on his face, and he said in a hateful tone: "Since they left Dingchuan City. There has been no definite information, but as far as I know. They have already gone south and are likely to flee to Baekje, and the reason why they have disappeared some time ago is mainly because most of the generals at the checkpoints along the southern road are descendants of Kim Geng-shin, and these people have united to help Kim Geng-shin conceal his whereabouts, which makes us never get news of them. ”

Last time, Li Su sent people to chase and kill Jin Gengxin and Jin Chunqiu, but he was only half a step away from letting the other party escape into Dingchuan City. At that time, the three thousand light cavalry led by Hu Li could not attack the city at all, so they had to wait for the infantry behind to arrive, but at that time, Jin Gengxin and Jin Chunqiu fled again, and there was no news of this escape, as if the three thousand people disappeared out of thin air.

At first, Li Su was a little strange about this situation, after all, it was three thousand elite soldiers, how could there be no news? It wasn't until the past two days that he used Wu Meiniang's intelligence channels under Xinluobu that he found out that it was the checkpoint generals who went south to make trouble, and Jin Gengxin had been in charge of the military department for many years after all. Most of the generals were his descendants, and these people united to help him hide it, so naturally Li Su couldn't get any news.

Jin Shengman's face sank when she heard the news, although she knew that Jin Gengxin's prestige in the military was very high. But he didn't expect that there were so many generals in his country who were willing to take the risk of hiding the news for him, so it seems. If Jin Gengxin really wants to do something bad for himself, I'm afraid it's really not a difficult thing.

Come to think of it. Jin Shengman asked in a cold voice, "Then how does His Highness plan to deal with this matter?" ”

Li Su thought for a while and said in a deep voice: "Jin Gengxin's military prestige in Silla is extremely high. This situation is very unfavorable to us, because with the current situation, Kim Gengshin is likely to defect to Baekje, and if he leads the Baekje army to attack Silla at that time, I am afraid that countless generals will defect, so in order to change this situation, we must be ruthless! ”

Jin Shengman frowned, she seemed to understand what Li Su meant, but she said with some hesitation: "Although we don't have many troops in Silla, we still have some generals, if we replace them all, where should we replenish them?" And now that we are at war with Baekje, if we make such a big move in the army, Baekje will definitely find out, and if they take advantage of it......"

Jin Shengman didn't continue, the two reasons she put forward were already very sufficient, although she knew that there were many generals who were Jin Gengxin's people, but now was not a good time to move them.

However, Li Su laughed out loud after hearing this, because Kim Seungman didn't understand what he meant at all, he didn't want to replace all the generals of Silla so troublesomely, but had other plans, I saw that after he finished laughing, he suddenly said with a murderous face: "I'm not interested in any military reform in Silla, if Baekje has the courage to take in Kim Gengxin and Kim Chunqiu, then King Ben will directly send troops to destroy the entire Baekje and pacify the war on the peninsula in one fell swoop!" ”

As soon as Li Su's words came out, Jin Shengman was immediately stunned, but then she suddenly understood what the gap between a big country and a small country is, maybe in the eyes of their Silla, Baekje is an extremely powerful opponent, but in the eyes of Li Su, the prince of the Tang Dynasty, Baekje is just a small country with a small country and a weak people, and it can be calmed down between backhands, after all, in the face of such a huge difference in strength, Li Su is simply too lazy to play any more conspiracy.

However, Kim Seungman thought of another question, and asked again: "Your Highness, it is a cold winter, and it is really not a good time to go to war, and although Baekje's national strength is worse than our Silla, after all, there are tens of thousands of troops, if it is only the Tang army brought by His Highness, I am afraid it is still a little tight, and if our Silla army is used, it may be rebelled by Kim Gengxin, so is it too early to destroy the plan of Baekje?" ”

Jin Shengman obviously didn't know enough about Li Su, since he said that he wanted to destroy Baekje, he naturally had already thought of a plan, so he smiled and said after hearing this: "The cold winter is indeed not conducive to the use of troops, but now it is almost November, and this winter is not long, as for the troops, it is not a problem, I can borrow tens of thousands of troops from Pyongyang at any time, and I still have a strong reinforcement that has not yet arrived, and the calculation time is almost the same, and when they arrive, it will be the time when Baekje will be destroyed." ”

The strong reinforcement that Li Su said naturally refers to the batch of cadets in the military academy, don't look at the fact that there are not many students who have come to train this time, but it is what Li Su needs the most, because the 15,000 people he brought from Dengzhou are all from the slave hunting team, and after the training of Huli and Zhou Long, they can barely become qualified Tang Army, but this army has a huge shortcoming, that is, there is a serious lack of qualified low-level officers, after all, soldiers can be trained in a short time, but officers cannot be trained in a short time. Therefore, the combat effectiveness of this army is not very strong, and after the group of people from the military academy come, Li Su will organize these people into his army as officers, and then he will definitely raise the combat effectiveness of the army to a higher level.

In order to earn a living ration for the children in their families, many Silla men first registered their household registration, and then applied for jobs from the Tang Dynasty merchants who recruited workers. There are a lot of Datang businessmen who come to Jincheng to recruit workers, and they have all kinds of work, but the work is different, and the remuneration earned is naturally different, and some jobs also have strict requirements, such as age, surname, and physical strength, so even if you want to do some jobs, people may not necessarily accept them.

And once they were admitted by the Tang Dynasty merchants, the recruited Silla people had to live in the accommodation arranged for them by the Tang merchants immediately, and these Tang merchants would also give a lot of grain to the workers' families in advance, and the reason why they immediately gave food was to make the recruited Silla people feel at ease, but they were afraid that these people would run away after receiving the grain, so as long as the food was sent out, these people would temporarily rob their personal freedom, and when they had made up enough money, they would immediately go on the road.

After seeing that the recruitment of Geumseong was so smooth, Lee Cho and Kim Seungman finally extended this recruitment method to the entire territory of Silla, after all, since the war with Baekje for a year, the whole country of Silla was in a state of food shortage, and even Geumseong, as the capital, had no food to buy, let alone other places.

It is also through this food shortage that the merchants of the Tang Dynasty waved grain bags and began to recruit workers on a large scale in Silla unscrupulously, and this kind of recruitment is not limited to men, even young women are also recruited, which is mainly for the domestic textile factories of the Tang Dynasty, but it is a pity that because the Tang Dynasty captured Silla women as Silla maids in the past, the Silla people were very wary of the Tang people, and the men were just men, the big deal was to buy and buy strength, and it would be too dangerous for women to work in the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, very few of those who recruit female workers sign up.

Seeing this, shrewd businessmen immediately made a change, they no longer recruited female workers, but set up food processing factories, leather processing factories and wool textile factories in Silla, mainly because almost all of the territory of Andong Metropolitan Protectorate, which was immediately adjacent to Silla, was a large farm and pasture, producing a large amount of livestock meat and furs, which used to be loaded on ships across the Bohai Bay to Dengju for processing, which cost a lot of freight.

In addition, the manpower of Silla was also very cheap, because of the war, Silla men suffered great casualties, and there was even a phenomenon of widow villages in some places, so it was not easy to recruit middle-aged laborers when recruiting workers. However, the men are gone, but the women are still there, and they also need to support their families, so when the merchants of the Tang Dynasty recruited people with food as a payment, many Silla women who were about to starve to death immediately signed up.

It is precisely because of the entry of these Tang Dynasty merchants that the food shortage in Silla has been greatly alleviated, of course, there must have been starvation, but at least there was no large-scale starvation incident, which is undoubtedly great news for Jin Shengman. (To be continued.) )