Now the road at the southern foot of the Green Mountain has been opened, but it is still an extremely difficult thing to cross the Green Ridge, tens of thousands of people cross the Green Ridge together, and also carry a large number of materials and equipment, such an action consumes materials very quickly, it can be said that it is a move to burn money.

The expansion of the Anxi Army in recent years has been achieved with the support of a large amount of finance. Some of this wealth was plundered during the expansion, and more was earned by the Ma family's workshop. The treasury of the Dadu Protectorate has long been empty, and it is all thanks to the business of the Ma family's workshop that it has supported the war situation in the past few years. The Majia workshop not only produced ordnance, but also produced a variety of civilian materials, such as heavy ploughs that could be drawn from horses, which became more and more popular in the west of the city, and spread to the Longyou area of Hexi. There are many other similar things, which is also an important source of profit for the Ma family's workshop.

Military products are the most profitable, but the Anxi army itself lacks financial resources, and most of the things have to be owed on credit in the end, and the wealth transported from Kufa City is the largest, but it has long been used up. Over the past year or so, the Ma family workshop has received very little wealth from the Anxi military treasury, but the supply rate of ordnance has greatly increased.

But now, the Anxi army is not short of money for the time being. The wealth brought by the collapse of the Persian Temple is worth a year's income of the Tang Dynasty, which is enough to support several years of war. The wealth owed to Gao Qianqian has also been repaid.

The wealth earned by Gao Qianqian belongs to the Ma family. In fact, he has no concept of personal wealth, and the purpose of this is because he does not want the Ma family workshop to lose its vitality after becoming a government-run institution. His goal was to make the Ma family workshop eventually become an arms giant like the later Krupp company. As a civilian company, it provided equipment for various armies of Datang. If the workshop and the governor's palace become one. Then he will be a prisoner. In that case, it can only be inherited, not developed.

The wealth obtained by the Ma family's workshop will not be provided to the Anxi army for free, and the wealth needed for the expansion of the Anxi army still needs to rely on the sword to obtain it from the enemy. The main use of the wealth of the workshop is its own development, for example, several ordnance workshops are now set up in the river. The wealth needed did not come from the treasury of the Governor's Palace, but from Gao Qianqian's pocket. crossed the green mountain together, but there was no communication in terms of wealth value.

These things may not be necessary now, but Ma Luan is looking at the future, preparing for decades or even hundreds of years from now. When the Ma family workshop is included in the system, it is easy to make rigid mistakes, and it is more vigorous to be self-contained. This is all the experience of later generations, and it can be regarded as a rainy day.

The Anxi army is naturally not short of money now, not only with the wealth of the Persian temple. There is also a large amount of wealth sent by the Buddha, even if it is not plundered. It can also support the army for several years. And this wealth was invested in the war, in fact, it was invested in the market, so that the economy of the entire Moxi and even the Tang Dynasty flowed. The influence is not only in the west of the city, but also in the distant Chang'an.

The economy is like this, and there is enough liquidity to be dynamic. At the same time that Ma Lan led the army over the Green Mountain, the army of the southern expedition to Tianzhu had already crossed the South Mountain of Khotan and arrived at the cold White Rock Beach. There are more than 30,000 Hu soldiers in the state capital, 10,000 Anxi Tang troops, and even 30,000 elite horsemen from the Wujin tribe, plus the Xiangxiong people on the plateau, so many people and horses need the governor's palace to provide grain.

The money of the Doge's palace was spent like water and fell into the pockets of the merchants, and the various people in the caravan, whether they were coachmen, guards, or bookkeepers, were to receive their own remuneration from the money. The war itself made the economy extremely active, and also attracted more people's attention to the west, especially those big merchants in the Central Plains, and the final effect would be extremely far-reaching.

The war machine of the southern expedition to Tianzhu has been running at high speed, and the mighty army has assembled in Aksai Chin, and will soon cross the mountains to the west, enter the outer Zhangxiong, and then follow the flow of the Shiquan River to the south to attack the fertile Indus River Plain, and the Luo side has also begun to absorb the remaining Qiang tribes on the plateau, preparing for the next step of southward movement.

Li Jing's rebellion has been pacified, Zhang Xun no longer has to deal with two wars at the same time, and he will no longer be stingy with money, so the wealth needed by the Qiang people's southern expedition does not need to be provided by the Governor's Mansion in the west, but by Chang'an. At this stage, the main thing is food, and the Qiang tribes who are willing to go to Luocheng to accept the incorporation will get the scarce food that can keep the tribesmen alive, and the quantity is naturally not enough, and it is impossible to give them too much with Zhang Xun's temperament, but after all, they can solve the urgent need, and more food, they need to take the tribesmen into the mud to the south and go to the Tianzhu people to loot.

The war on this side, Ma Lan is not worried, the Xiangxiong people-based army has 10,000 Anxi elite soldiers, naturally there is no problem, the Longyou Army led by Wang is also an elite soldier, and recently purchased a large amount of gunpowder and fire thunder arrows and other things from the Anxi Army, and the strength has also increased greatly - Chang'an's ordnance workshop has been established, but there are problems with the quality and output of the supervising side, and Zhang Xun attached great importance to this southern expedition, so he simply purchased directly from Anxi, but he didn't really pay the money, all of them were on credit- Wang is rare in the heart of a young man, it is when he is young and vigorous, he has no intention of sparing people's lives, he has already communicated with Ma Luan, and will personally lead the main force of the Longyou Army to the south with the Qiang people. He is not Ma Lan's subordinate, Ma Lan can't control him, Zhang Xun's side is also full support for Wang Yuan, so there will be more than 50,000 Longyou elite soldiers among the other people.

Of course, this will increase the possible casualties of the Han family, but it also ensures the smooth operation of the war. What Ma Lan could do here was to send a group of combat staff officers to Wang Yuan, which was the only thing he could do for the Longyou Army.

Don't worry about the southern expedition, the elephant soldiers of the Tianzhu people are just a joke, everything is extremely smooth, so Ma Lu's mood is also unprecedentedly relaxed.

Soon after arriving at Shule, the army entered the vast green mountains, and when they arrived at the green mountains, they rested for a day at the green mountains, and then went directly along the valley to the southwest.

At this time, the green ridge is still in winter, or when the snow covers the mountain, but this road has been continuously repaired for several years, even in the coldest time, the carriages and horses on the road have not been broken.

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Along the way, the post station was everywhere, which was originally extremely desolate mountains, and there were beacon horse shops of the Anxi Army everywhere.

The vast green mountains, known as the Pamir Plateau in later generations, are not a mountain range, but mountains that spread for hundreds of miles, and this moat is extremely difficult to overcome even in later generations. In Ma Lu's previous life, the land of Bapa, which was basically lost to China in later generations, was the most important passage, and the Wakhan Corridor, the main road from Anxi to the Turan Plain, was also handed over to poor Afghanistan by later generations of China, just because Afghanistan was a brother of the Third World at that time. The loss of this important passage is a very serious loss for China.

Of course, history has changed, and such a thing of giving away land will probably not happen again. The first thing that the young people in the two schools in Anxi have to learn is the concept of not letting people do not give an inch of land. Anything can be allowed, even the slightest bit of the land must not be allowed, ours is ours, yours can also be ours, if you are not convinced, just fight.

The Wakhan Corridor is subordinate to the Bird Fei Governor's Mansion, which is the subject state of the Tang Dynasty, and the small countries at the southern foot of the Green Mountains are extremely loyal to the Tang Dynasty, so these small countries still exist and have not been erased by the Tang Dynasty. This is the case with the Protector Country, and the same is true for the upper and lower Tocharo, of course, with the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty now, there is no possibility for them to betray the Tang Dynasty. It turned out that they were sandwiched between Datang, Tubo and Dashi, and they could have a choice, but now that two of the three powerhouses have been destroyed, Datang is the only powerhouse, and they actually have no choice.

These vassal countries often go to Chang'an for Hajj, and when Princess Jincheng wants to escape from Tibet, these vassal countries are ready to help, and they are also loyal and available, plus these small countries are scarce and not enough to become a disaster for the Tang Dynasty, so Ma Ling just ordered them to guard their own places, and did not intend to wipe them out directly.

It has been April of the third year of Zhide when he walked out of the vast mountains and set foot on the land west of the green mountains again.

After arriving here, the army turned north, first to the vicinity of Sa Mojian.

The Ma family workshop in this place has been basically established. The dense water is still extremely abundant in the vicinity of the sassy building, and the workshop is built along the river, occupying a large area on both sides, and a number of waterwheels have been erected.

It is an important town on the middle road of the Silk Road, and its geographical location is extremely important. This place is regarded as the rear of the Eighth Army in the river, and it is inevitable to set up a Majia workshop here. The establishment of the armory workshop cannot be completely deployed close to the enemy, and the rear must also be there.

After arriving here, under the arrangement of Gao Qianqian and Li Xiu, the thousands of craftsmen belonging to the Ma family workshop who came over left more than 2,000 people, and joined the craftsmen who had arrived here in advance, preparing to officially start manufacturing ordnance here.

The rest of the craftsmen continued to follow Ma Lu's army, and went downstream along the Nami water, and soon arrived at the original capital of Anguo to catch and drink, which was later known as Bukhara.

Catching and drinking was the real center of the Anxi Army west of the Green Ridge, and it was here that Fang Wenwen and the others mainly dealt with various things. The Majia workshop here has also completed the initial construction, and it is also distributed on both sides of the dense water, and there are more craftsmen who have come here in the early stage, and some things have already begun to be produced.

After the craftsmen brought here this time, they didn't go any further. All the remaining equipment is also left here. Things have to be taken step by step, and for the time being, we will prepare to set up these two ordnance workshops west of the Green Mountain, and as for the further places, it will have to wait until this time all the Persian homeland is in the bag.

Master Li Xiu also stayed here, responsible for the capture of the Chengma family's workshop. The cannons needed by the Anxi Navy were to be officially cast here. (To be continued......)