Soon, in Jingzhou, a group of people dressed more luxuriously appeared, led by a young businessman, and the women next to him also looked very young and beautiful, and full of shrewd and capable temperament. And it seems that there are more than 20 powerful bodyguards under him, and he and his group came to Jingzhou City, and then found a small inn that is not too big to live in. And these people were arrogant, and they directly took over the small inn, making the innkeeper shout at the tyrant. However, since someone is so generous, then they will not disagree, and it is not enough for the boss to take a holiday for themselves in the next few days.

Soon, the woman said; "Zhang Yushi, you are really rich, you actually directly chartered the entire inn, it seems that all of you officials are so rich?"

This woman is also the woman, and the other person is Zhang Chao, and the more than 20 powerful people under his command are those Qianniuwei. They are now pretending to be a merchant team, and then it looks like they are here to do some business. However, they must have other purposes in the future, and they will not come over so simply.

"Of course I'm not that rich, I'll just wrap it up first, and then go back to the emperor to report the account and write off the account!" Zhang Chao said.

And Miss Heroine immediately said: "Hmph, you bureaucrats don't treat the people's money as money, can you squander it casually?" ”

"Alright, my Miss Beanjuice, it's better to say a few words. I'm also here to investigate whether that Luo Yi betrayed my Datang, if he betrayed our Datang, then the people of my Datang will be miserable. The Turks are driving in, and I'm afraid we're in danger. Therefore, we take the initiative to investigate, and it will inevitably cost some. So you don't have to worry too much about it. Zhang Chao said.

But when the woman heard the word "bean juice", she immediately said angrily: "I am not bean juice, but Dou Zhi, and my name is Dou Zhi." ”

"Isn't that bean juice?" Zhang Chao said with a smile.

The heroine Dou Zhi was almost so angry that she smoked, because her name had never been a problem, but now it has become "bean juice" in Zhang Chao's mouth. This made him very depressed. And she didn't know what bean juice was, but she heard Zhang Chao say that it was a popular folk drink, but Dou Zhi thought that he had been walking the rivers and lakes for many years, but he hadn't drunk this kind of bean juice, which made him feel strange.

And every time Zhang Chao hears the name of this heroine, it is actually called Dou Zhi, Zhang Chao remembers the special snack bean juice in Beijing in the later generations, which is a very good delicacy, although Zhang Chao is a southerner. But after working in the central ministries and commissions for many years, I also know this kind of snack, and often eat it with my colleagues. But the Tang Dynasty did not have this kind of snack, so Zhang Chao has gradually forgotten about it. But this heroine is actually called Dou Zhi, which immediately evokes Zhang Chao's memories and reminds me of the famous snack bean juice in Beijing.

"Another day, if you go to Chang'an in the future, I can make some bean juice for you to taste. You said you wouldn't like it, after all, you're a northerner. Zhang Chao said.

After a few people sat down and rested for a while. Qian Feng took the initiative to ask: "Zhang Yushi, why don't we go to see Luo Yi directly?" ”

"Since we suspect that Luo Yi betrayed my Datang, if we go directly, wouldn't it be sent directly to the door to be slaughtered by others? So, we can't go, otherwise we will definitely have to go and never go back. Zhang Chao said.

But Qian Feng didn't care and said, "We have the talisman of the Tianjie Army in our hands." There is also a holy decree, how dare Luo Yi? As long as we have the talisman and the holy decree, we can completely mobilize the Tianjie Army, and then remove Luo Yi from his position, and then everything can be investigated slowly. ”

"Oh. Oh my God! Why are you so naïve? Talismans and decrees are just one thing, and it is the people who really manage the soldiers. As long as it is a human being, then there are seven emotions and six desires, and it is impossible to be completely selfish. Therefore, this talisman and holy decree are just something that strengthens our authority at a critical time, and it does not mean that we can easily clean up Luo Yi. After all, we have no evidence, we have no evidence that Luo Yi fornicated with foreign enemies. If you take him down rashly, you may jump off the wall in a hurry. Even, if we take him down without any evidence to prove that he fornicated with foreign enemies, then we will be really embarrassed! Zhang Chao said.

Zhang Chao knew that things were not so simple, because although they had military talismans and holy decrees, they could theoretically mobilize the Tianjie Army under Luo Yi. However, in fact, the military talisman and the holy decree are nothing more than a "dead thing", and the person who really manages the army is still an officer, not a military talisman. And Luo Yi has controlled the Tianjie Army for a long time, so Luo Yi has already mastered the Tianjie Army. And if Luo Yi gives any order, the vast majority of the officers and soldiers under him will carry it out as usual. Most of the soldiers in this era are uneducated, and their low level of education naturally means that they are easy to blindly obey. They have no thoughts of their own, no loyal and patriotic thoughts. There are several reasons why they want to join the army, either they want to fight in the army to become an official and be a wife and a son, and then get enough merit to get a knighthood. However, the second is to come to eat together, hoping to be able to eat in troubled times, as for whether it will die, everyone doesn't care, anyway, those who don't eat will starve to death, and it's better to die early than late. As for the last one, they were all forced to be arrested as soldiers.

In any case, these three kinds of people do not have much education, and their low level of education makes them easy to blindly obey the orders of their superiors and will not have their own ability to distinguish between right and wrong. So once Luo Yi deceives them a little, they may hate them so much that they will be deceived, and then betray Datang. This is a defect of the ancient army, if it is an officer of later generations, it is impossible to mobilize soldiers to rebel at will, because soldiers understand culture, they are able to understand orders, and can distinguish between right and wrong.

"Luo Yi has been controlling the Tianjie Army all year round, and we don't know how many of his cronies are in the army. If we rush to mobilize them with military talismans, I'm afraid it will easily cause them to be arrested, and even many problems. So we must investigate clearly who really followed Luo Yi to betray Datang, and who are still deceived by Datang. Let's find out the ones who are blinded, and then unite them to clean up Luo Yi, I believe. There are not many people who are really willing to follow Luo Yi to rebel, because now that the world is too peaceful, no one wants to fight. Everyone is at ease, so even if Luo Yi wants to rebel, he can only deceive everyone, as long as everyone can understand Luo Yi's attitude. That means they can help us clean up Luo Yi. Zhang Chao said.

And Qian Feng then asked: "Those Turks before, did Luo Yi let them come over and kill us?" ”

"I don't know, but I guess it's seventy percent." Zhang Chao said.

"Seventy percent? It's pretty high. But why didn't he kill us in Jingzhou, and wouldn't he kill us until we arrived in Jingzhou to deliver the decree? Isn't that safer? Moreover, Jingzhou is his territory, if he wants to kill us in Jingzhou, then we will be easily killed, and there is no escape. Qian Feng asked.

Zhang Chao immediately replied: "No, if you kill us in Jingzhou." We are the imperial history of the imperial court, equivalent to the minister of the Qincha, and if we die on Luo Yi's territory, he will not be able to escape the blame. At that time, the imperial court will inevitably send a steady stream of messengers to investigate, and at that time, he may not be able to hide the secret at all. So, he won't be so stupid, he will definitely intercept us before we reach Jingzhou. Do you remember that we are still twenty miles away from Jingzhou. I offered to get out of the car and then you walked in front. And then I told you that if you encounter an ambush, you will retreat as soon as possible, and then set up an ambush in the rear? I suspect that they may be able to strike very close to Jingzhou, so that they can also be relieved of their responsibilities. ”

"If he starts outside Jingzhou, then he can avoid the responsibility of poor protection, and he can pretend not to know about the arrival of the Qin mission when the time comes. And we died somewhere else, and the responsibility was borne by other local governments. That way they don't have to be held responsible. But they can't attack too far from Jingzhou, because once they are too far away from Jingzhou, those Turkic cavalry will penetrate into our hinterland in the same way. After all, our hinterland is not so easy to stay in, and once their more than 20 cavalry are caught in the encirclement and interception of our Tang officers and soldiers, they will all complete the task. So he will inevitably start when we are about to arrive in Jingzhou. In this way, not only can he get rid of the responsibility as much as possible, but then he can push 625, and it can be said that he doesn't know that there is a decree from the imperial court. At best, he will be held accountable for not being strict with the guards, and then allowing the Turks to break through the defensive line. This crime is not too big, it is countless times smaller than the interception and killing of Qincha.

"You officials, it's such a trouble. It's so troublesome to kill anyone, if I just take out my sword to kill, so happy to take revenge. Unlike me, in order to avenge my master, I went directly to the hinterland of the Turks to kill and kill, anyway, I was not happy. Dou Zhi said.

"Okay, let's go out on the street! Look at what the hell is wrong here, there is definitely a problem in this Jingzhou. I want to see how Luo Yi manages Jingzhou, and how it is. Zhang Chao said.

Zhang Chao soon came to the outside of Jingzhou City, and then began to make an unannounced visit to Jingzhou. His target this time is to investigate Luo Yi openly, so he must hide his identity. After all, this is Luo Yi's territory, if you rashly expose your identity, you will either not be able to find anything, you can only see what Luo Yi shows them, and you can't see the key things. On the other hand, if you rashly expose your identity, you may be killed by Luo Yi, and the gains outweigh the losses. So naturally they can't easily reveal their identities so that they can be safe and investigate enough things that are needed.

"This Jingzhou is really orderly, and it looks like a big military camp." Qian Feng said.

Zhang Chao nodded and said, "Yes, Jingzhou is actually a large military camp, they are the first line against the Turks here, and there are 80,000 Tianjie troops stationed here. In other words, Jingzhou is actually a place where the number of soldiers and civilians is almost the same, or even more. In Jingzhou, they are all managed by military orders and military law, which is stricter than Chang'an in this regard, so of course they are orderly here. However, in the orderly process, it will also seem a little lifeless. ”

"And what can we see here?" Qian Feng asked.

Zhang Chao replied: "Look slowly, you have to learn to use data to reason, you can reason through a lot of data to come up with a lot of questions." ”

Zhang Chao is not good at anything else, but he is still very good at data reasoning. When he was appointed by the National Development and Reform Commission, the National Development and Reform Commission was a macroeconomic regulation and control department and was responsible for the macroeconomic regulation and control of the national economy, so he naturally had a heavy responsibility. NDRC officials often have access to a variety of data. All kinds of industrial economic data and so on, and then their responsibility is to remove the "moisture" from these seemingly disorganized data, and then deduce the level of local development, and then let the senior leaders make decisions, and then let them decide whether it is in line with the regulation. So over the years, Zhang Chao has also learned how to analyze various situations through some statistical data, and then he can make accurate judgments. If you don't even have the ability to do this. How is it possible to govern effectively?

Soon, Zhang Chao immediately walked around the street, and then those soldiers saw Zhang Chao and their faces, and they all asked for a while. However, because Zhang Chao has a perfect guide, they didn't embarrass them. And this road guide was specially asked by Zhang Chao for Song Chen, the county lieutenant of Wannian County, and asked him to issue a road guide as a county lieutenant of Wannian County as a preparation for himself, and now he can use it. In ancient times, free movement was not allowed, and you wanted to leave a certain distance. It must be led by the government and then used as the basis for the investigation of other officials, if there is no road guide, it is like going out to the field in the future without an ID card, it must be a very troublesome thing. And in ancient times, there was no network, which aggravated this trouble.

"How many soldiers have we encountered?" Zhang Chao asked.

Miss Dou Zhi said immediately; "It's been six batches."

"Do you see any difference between those soldiers and soldiers elsewhere?" Zhang Chao asked.

"What's the difference?" Dou Zhi immediately asked.

And Qian Feng also thought about it for a while, and immediately asked: "I didn't find any difference, what is the difference?" ”

"The leather armor on their bodies, their leather armor is different!" Zhang Chao said.

"Leather armor? What difference can it make? Qian Feng didn't think of anything for a while.

Zhang Chao immediately said: "Qian Feng is ready." Have you been away from the grassroots army for so long that you haven't even noticed this problem? Look at them. The armor rate is actually 7 out of 10, do you know what that means? ”

"That's right! How did I not think of it? Qian Feng suddenly exclaimed.

Zhang Chao saw that Qian Feng understood, and immediately continued; "Only two-tenths of the other armies are armoured, but seven-tenths of the soldiers here are armoured, which is very scary. Armor is very important and expensive, even if it is not cheap. It's good that other armies can have two-tenths of armor. And less than half of the people in armor are in armor, and a large part of them are cloth armor, and the soldiers here are all in leather armor, can't it be explained? ”

"Leather armor requires wealth, and the price of making a suit of armor is not cheap. Moreover. Where do their raw materials come from? The raw material they need for their leather armor is animal skin, and ordinary animals are not enough. Pigskin is definitely not good, but at least cowhide. However, our Central Plains cattle are all farmer's treasures for cultivating the fields, and even the imperial court prohibits the random killing of cattle, and the killing of a cow must be approved by the government, where did Luo Yi get so many cowhides to make leather armor? Even if you kill all the cattle nearby, you won't be able to get together so much leather armor! At most, a cow can make a pair of leather armor, or even not. If we all follow the proportion of 70% of the armor of the Tianjie Army, it means that more than 50,000 people are using cowhide leather armor, so where do we have so many cattle to make leather armor? Could it be that these leather armors were blown by the wind? Zhang Chao asked.

"Yes! So much leather armor must not have been blown by a strong wind, where did it come from? Qian Feng also thought about it.

Just such a leather armor can explain the problem, Luo Yi can actually have so many leather armor for soldiers to use, which can be said to greatly increase the combat effectiveness of soldiers. You must know that in ancient times, knives were not absolutely forbidden weapons, for example, some daily knives could be used by the people themselves, and there would not be too many prohibitions. Even some long knives to protect themselves will not be banned, and the real absolute prohibition is only armor, spears, bows and crossbows.

The bow and crossbow are forbidden weapons, and this is inevitable. Many people think that ancient warfare was actually hand-to-hand combat, but in fact this is not the case, the army of the Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty, the main weapon of combat is actually the bow and crossbow. The enemies encountered by the Tang and Song dynasties were mainly nomads from the north, so the bow and crossbow were an important weapon to restrain the cavalry. The tactics of the Tang Dynasty army are generally the "three-plate axe", first shoot with a bow and crossbow, then use a Mo knife or some long weapons to block the enemy's cavalry, and finally block the cavalry, and then order their cavalry to detour behind the opponent to attack on both sides.

And the regular army in armor in ancient wars, the reason why they can defeat ordinary miscellaneous armies is actually that they have armor and bows. Ordinary armies without bows and crossbows are actually very weak in combat effectiveness, while armies without armor are easily killed. As long as one-tenth of the soldiers can be equipped with armor, it is possible to increase the comprehensive combat effectiveness of the ancient army by fifty percent. The role of armor is unparalleled, so in ancient times, the imperial court strictly controlled armor and forbade the people to have armor. Armor was an important weapon for the regular army of the imperial court to suppress the rebellion of ordinary people, and any dynasty hoped to increase the armor rate of soldiers. The more armor a soldier is equipped with, the higher the proportion, the stronger the combat power.

But now the proportion of the country's army is wearing armor is less than 20%, and this Luo Yi can actually make seventy percent of his soldiers wear armor, this Jedi is a powerful army. In other armies in the Tang Dynasty, many soldiers in a pair of armor are ancestral, and the armor is enough to become an ancestral heirloom. But Luo Yi was able to make seventy percent of his soldiers wear armor, how rich this is! What's more, this leather armor is not the leather shoes of later generations, anyone can wear it, and anyone can afford to wear it. In ancient times, armor was expensive to make, especially animal skins were rare. In later generations, beef cattle were bred in large quantities, so natural cowhide was not a problem. However, in ancient times, there was no such condition, and the government had to approve the killing of cattle, so it is conceivable that cattle were scarce. With such a high proportion of armor, I'm afraid Luo Yi didn't know where to get this animal cowhide, and then made leather armor for his soldiers to use.

"Qian Feng prepares, have you seen it, why is business so depressed in this Jingzhou?" Zhang Chao said.

Zhang Chao felt obviously a little abnormal, because this was Jingzhou, which was the first line in the face of the Turks. It is very close to the border, and it should be very rich in border trade. At the borders of many countries, especially the borders of northern China, there is a lot of foreign trade transactions. This situation also occurred during the Tang Dynasty, and although the Tang Dynasty had enmity with the Northern Turks, it did not prohibit the common people from trading with the Turks. Because in fact, even if it is an enemy country, it will not choose to prohibit merchants from intermingling, except in times of war. But this Jingzhou is too strange, there are not many businessmen coming? During the Tang Dynasty, the merchants of the northern nomads were not too prohibited, and no system was formed.

If it was the Song Dynasty, there would have been a system dedicated to managing the trade of the northern nomads, but in the Tang Dynasty there was no system. Therefore, except for a few absolutely forbidden materials, everything else can be traded with the Turks themselves, and will not be easily banned. Unless it is contraband, it is not forbidden to confiscate. But it's strange that there are no merchants trading here. Because of the trade with the steppe nomads, it can be said that there is a lot to be done, and you can make money and communicate with each other. But this place is so desolate, which surprised Zhang Chao. Aren't businessmen all a swarm of flies, where there is a fishy smell? Why don't you eat meat now, but look at such a piece of fat and don't move?

"I just know how to fight, I don't know much about business." Qian Feng said.

"I don't know anything business." Miss Dou Zhi said.

"Tell you about business economy, that's playing the piano to the cow!" Zhang Chao snorted lightly and said, obviously these two people are "rough people" and don't understand economic problems, so they still have to rely on themselves to figure out a way. (To be continued......)