"No, how can it be an army of 400,000, not 300,000?" Chai Shao remembered what Li Xiuning said about 400,000, and he was very puzzled.

Li Xiuning said: "The statistics everywhere look like 300,000, but in fact it must be 400,000. This emperor is ghostly, he deliberately hid an army of 100,000, and I only recently discovered it. But this is just my speculation, and although I am sure that there is no evidence, I have not told anyone. ”

"How did you find out? How did His Majesty hide these 100,000 people? Good guys, that's 100,000 people, if you say that it is impossible to hide quietly!" Chai Shao said.

"He didn't hide it, but let them appear under our noses every day. Do you remember those so-called production and construction corps?"

Chai Shao said: "A group of craftsmen and cultivators, they can't fight."

"You would be wrong, they couldn't fight in the first place, but after Li Chengzong ascended the throne, they became the most capable team in the Tang Dynasty. Both the equipment and combat effectiveness are very strong, and it is Xu Shiji who is in charge of this team, do you really think that Li Chengzong will let Xu Shiji, who is Yunwen Yunwu, be in charge of such a team that repairs houses and farms?"

"Didn't Xu Shiji get demoted because he angered His Majesty?"

Li Xiuning said in a deep voice: "It's just a play, but at that time, Li Chengzong had just ascended the throne, and everyone had too many things in their hands, and no one paid attention to them." Now that I think about it, that scene is simply full of mistakes and omissions. Xu Shiji, as Li Chengzong's confidant general, how could he contradict Li Chengzong for some trivial matter. ”

"There's no reason! Sooner or later, it will be discovered, and what's the point?"

Li Xiuning shook her head, she didn't know what the point of Li Chengzong doing this was.

"I have to ask Li Chengzong about this, who knows what kind of wind he smokes and what his idea is." Li Xiuning said.

Xu Shiji also wanted to know what Li Chengzong thought, and sent himself all the way to this place where birds don't to open up wasteland.

"Hurry the fuck, it's been a year, and the project is only one-third complete, do you really want to fucking settle down here?" It's not the first time Xu Shiji has scolded like this, he has been scolding every day for more than a year.

"Your Excellency, take a break and have a drink." Wang Kui also wanted to scold, but he was better than Xu Shiji, at least he didn't have to stay here for 365 days a year. He spent most of his time on the road, quietly transporting military supplies from Dunhuang to Songzhou, and then quietly going back. The sale of gold mines was temporarily put aside and handed over to others, and Li Chengzong personally gave the order.

Xu Shiji took a sip of the big bowl and said, "Every day against these stones and woods will drive people crazy." Why do you think Your Majesty is arranging this? Do you have to expand this Songzhou and make it higher than the city wall of Chang'an?"

The first thing Xu Shiji did when he arrived in Songzhou was to let people guard all the roads that must be taken, and those who could and could not be walked were watched. No one is allowed to enter or leave at will, and not many living people know what happened in Songzhou City.

Wang Kui said: "General Xu, you must have seen that this Songzhou is an important border town near Tibet."

"So what? There is no need to be so exaggerated, Li Chunfeng sent a picture a few days ago, and after making it, he said that it could lift a hundred catties of boulders. Saying that, Xu Shiji also compared with Wang Kui how big the hundred-catty boulder was.

"When I came, I saw that I was pulling a tree there. It's really an eye-opener, a giant tree that is thick with a few people, and when you say that you pull it up, you can pull it up, it's amazing!" Wang Kui also deliberately took a few more looks, this kind of high-tech tool is really rare.

"Speaking of this, I'm also angry, if I don't build this thing sooner, or it will be completed a long time ago, these guys are not enough." Xu Shiji roared.

Standing up, Wang Kui felt dizzy when he looked at it, it was a third higher than the city wall of Chang'an, which was not an ordinary distance. Left and right mountains, rivers and valleys, cliffs and cliffs, if you want to cross Songzhou, there is no detour, you can't find a way that people can walk around.

"The atmosphere is magnificent, if it can be completed, this Songzhou is afraid that it will be the first military city of the Tang Dynasty." Wang Kui said that it was a military city, because although it was a dangerous place, it was also the gateway of the Tang Dynasty to Tubo, but it was very unrelated to the word prosperity.

Songzhou is a famous historical city in Sichuan Province and a famous border town in history, known as the "gateway to western Sichuan", and was a place for soldiers in ancient times. The history of ancient Song Prefecture "chokes the Minling, controls the source of the river, borders Helong on the left, and reaches Kangzang on the right", "shields Tianfu, locks the yin", so since the Han and Tang dynasties. There are all customs captains here, and there are heavy soldiers.

Xu Shiji sighed: "According to the progress, these 100,000 people will be working for more than half a year." The ghost thing that Li Chunfeng brought was indeed capable, and what it took more than ten days to complete in the past is now only three or five days of effort. ”

"Congratulations to General Xu for this great achievement." said congratulations, but Wang Kui was not happy, business has become more and more difficult to do these years. There are no commodities on the exchange that you can't find, and the competition is fierce. At present, he can provide materials for such a large project, which is his most profitable business, the price is not high, but the amount is too large.

Li Chengzong is a conservative person, and he always likes to plan before doing something. Songzhou is the only way for the Tibetans to invade the Tang Dynasty, and it is the best choice to contain them here. Datang's current territory is not to the west, but to the north and east.

Staring at this territory, Li Chengzong said to be honest that in addition to distinguishing between east and west, north and south, he has no visual concept at all.

Li Jing and Li Chunfeng stood behind him.

"Li Jing!"

"The minister is here." Li Jing hurriedly stepped forward and replied.

"I followed your suggestion and almost emptied the money of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to build this Songzhou City. In case of a war, the Tubo people bypassed Songzhou, and I couldn't find a place to cry. Li Chengzong pointed to Songzhou on the map and said.

Li Jing hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, rest assured, if the Tubo people want to use force to start a war, they must attack Songzhou and enter Shu. Now His Majesty has spent millions of dollars and grain to build Songzhou, which is like Qin Shi Huang building the Great Wall to defend against the Xiongnu. ”

"The Great Wall did not withstand the iron hooves of the Huns." Li Chengzong said coldly.

"The minister is guilty." Li Jing hurriedly said.

"Alright, you're not guilty yet. What's the news from the Turks lately?"

"The strength is evenly matched, and recently, both Jieli Khan and Tuli Khan have been strictly guarded, and there has been no major movement. It seems that they don't have the strength to fight anymore, and His Majesty can take this opportunity to send troops to wipe them out in one fell swoop. ”

Li Chengzong said: "You are also a person who is familiar with the art of war, do you understand the soldiers who surrender without a fight?" You can think of a way for me to pacify the Turks without using troops. (To be continued.) )