Nowadays, artillery has really become the treasure of these generals, since the artillery on the battlefield, a series of tactical powers such as infantry and artillery coordinated operations, artillery cluster attacks, etc., have made these old generals pay more and more attention to the development of artillery, and have repeatedly asked Uncle Li to train more artillery talents, but the problem is that qualified artillery talents are not as easy to find as other soldiers, at least they are far stricter than the cadets of the cavalry department and the infantry department in all aspects of knowledge learning. The basic knowledge of mathematics, physics and chemistry should meet an excellent standard. And to get acquainted with the characteristics of artillery and mortars and the purpose of each structure, in addition, it is necessary to learn how to calculate ballistics.

As a result, no more than 300 graduates are qualified every year, and the number of naval artillery is less than 100. As for the Artillery Command Department, the number of admissions is only 30 each year, and the number of graduates is no more than 20.

But these artillery graduates are absolutely elites, elites who pile up money, every graduate student must consume at least 300 to 500 shells in the live-fire exercise, not to mention thousands of training shells, but it is precisely for this reason that the hit rate of Datang artillery is extremely high, this time, General Zhang just wants to share artillery resources equally with Uncle Li Ji, and finally made trouble with Uncle Li, and finally, Uncle Li agreed with a headache to expand the recruitment of naval artillery trainees, Strive to hand over to General Zhang Da next year with no less than 100 graduates of the naval artillery, and this time, only make up 100 artillery cadets of the naval division, and Zhang Liang, the old guy, gave up stupidly.

Xi Junmai must also know that the Tang Empire's control over artillery and mortars is strict to various degrees, and there is not a single artillery or mortar in the expeditionary force, because this is the most powerful strategic attack weapon in the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, Xi Junmai nodded very happily, saying that he would never go to the idea of the Artillery Academy.

"Brother Jun, don't worry, even if you really let me go, I don't dare to fight with those two, but other schools, you should always meet my needs, right?" Xi Junmai has been with Liu Renliang's hard old man for so many years, and he seems to have become slippery, and he knows that he is slippery when he speaks.

"Cheng, as long as it is not excessive, Jun sells his brother's request, Brother Yunsong and I naturally dare not slack off." I patted Duan Yunsong on the shoulder and glanced at this guy. Xi Jun laughed twice: "Hehe, give me all the graduates of the cavalry academy in this period, and in addition, the medical soldiers must give me at least three or five hundred." There is also ...... "Xi Jun sells it enough to be black-hearted, just open your mouth and come."

------------------------------------------------ "Stop, stop, I said Brother Jun, you're too dark, aren't you?" How many people are there in the cavalry department, you want to give me a pot to serve? There are fewer medical soldiers, and there are less than 500 people who graduate in a year. Duan Yunsong was anxious first.

Xi Junmai grinned: "Brother Yunsong, the younger brother also came out of our academy, so it depends on the face of the younger brother, let me take advantage of it, right?" Besides, little brother, I'm going, it's thousands of miles away, and it's not sure when I'll come back, so I can bring more people to let them get exercise, you say, right? Brother Jun. ”

"This ......" Xi Jun really stumped me when he said this. After thinking about it, he thought about it for a while, and clapped his hands: "I also want to respond to you, but there are too many people you take, and the younger brother can't take it, so let's go and see Your Majesty first, and see if you can be accommodating over there, if Your Majesty can let go of it, then go to the academy and ask, and see how many percent of the graduates are willing to go thousands of miles away to make contributions to my Datang, as long as they are willing to ......."

Duan Yunsong took another sip of wine and interrupted me: "Sensei, those guys, no one wants to make a contribution, let alone thousands of miles away, even if you let them go up the sword mountain and down the sea of fire, they still won't frown." ”

The next day, the three of us went to find Uncle Li together, well, Uncle Li was also very happy, and agreed to Xi Jun's request, however, Uncle Li had conditions, that is, he wanted Xi Jun to sell to ensure the smooth trade routes of my Tang Dynasty, at least in Central Asia. To the east of the Persian Protectorate, it is naturally the responsibility of the Anxi Protectorate, and it is separated by the Green Ridge, and the area west of the Green Ridge has to be taken care of by Xi Jun.

Xi Junmai naturally patted his chest and agreed, and when he got out of the palace gate, Xi Junmai still wrinkled his bitter face: "Your Majesty, isn't this embarrassing?" To ensure the smooth flow of trade routes, can the 30,000 or 40,000 people be taken care of? ”

"Brother Jun, you can't say that, Your Majesty asked you to ensure that the trade routes were smooth, and didn't let you let the soldiers go to the merchants as bodyguards, besides, if there is really any small country that dares to stretch out his hand to my Tang Dynasty merchants, is it possible that your tens of thousands of troops are not able to watch and play?" I patted Xi Jun's shoulder and smiled.

Xi Junmai only stayed in Chang'an for half a month, and then he went to the west with the recruited officers and soldiers of the expeditionary force and the students received from the academy. This new generation of famous generals went to the Persian capital to protect the palace, I believe that it will definitely allow the Tang Dynasty's power in Central Asia to be expanded and consolidated even more, and I really hope that in the near future, the territory of the Tang Dynasty can be expanded indefinitely.

In addition, the people of Weinan County, under our inducement, began to contact commercial money banks and prepared to make loans to facilitate the establishment of joint ventures in rural cooperatives.

Last year, Weinan County's income in commerce and trade exceeded any year, and in the spring of the twenty-third year of Zhenguan, the construction of the collective breeding and planting park in Weinan County had begun vigorously, and at this time, the Tang Dynasty sent an envoy to Tianzhu and other countries to hold accountable, through the war-torn Tubo, crossed Nepal, and arrived at the city of Qunu, declaring that he wanted to see the new Tianzhu co-lord King Alona.

Finally in Moluo City, I saw the bold king of the Dinafu Empire and the co-owner of the Tianzhu countries, Alona Shun, the co-lord of Tianzhu was very arrogant and arrogant, and also stated that my Tang envoys had many misdeeds in Tianzhu, intending to provoke Tianzhu infighting, as the new co-owner of Tianzhu, naturally could not allow this kind of thing to happen, so he sent troops to lock it, and his subordinates did not grasp the scale, so he died.

In the end, after negotiations between the two sides, and after the arguments of our Tang envoys, Alonashun reluctantly agreed to release my Tang deputy envoy and his subordinates, no, the returned deputy envoy Shi Yao had both feet disabled, and none of the remaining twenty-seven people was physically intact. And when he heard Uncle Li's will to come to Chang'an to make amends and admit his mistakes, this guy laughed, as if he had heard the funniest joke in the world, and humiliated my Tang envoy many times.

In the end, the Tang envoys were forced to hand over all their weapons and horses, and rushed to Nepal on foot with the 28 wounded who had been rescued. And through the intelligence officers of the Datang Academy in Nepal, the news was passed back.

When Uncle Li received the news from the Tang Dynasty, he was surprisingly not as angry as usual, but seemed very calm, but anyone could read the killing intent and resentment from his cold face. The 50,000 elites of the Jiannan Province of the Tang Dynasty and the 400 soldiers of the Wuben Army were already ready at all times, and the observation of the Jiannan Province made Tang Jian as early as the middle of last year, on the grounds of developing transportation, begin to order 100,000 prisoners of war laborers to build a road from Yongchang to the plain of Burma.

------------------------------------------------ Uncle Li finally read out the charges of the Tianzhu countries at the Tang Dynasty meeting, and asked the new lord of Tianzhu, Alonashun, to ask for surrender in person to my Tang Chang'an within half a year, and hand over a murderer to make sincere compensation, Datang may let him go. In addition, the Tianzhu countries, within half a year, if there is a repentance and no longer serve Alonashun as the master, the Tang Dynasty will let them live, otherwise, treat them as enemy countries.

When Uncle Li sat on the dragon couch with a gloomy face, and ordered the proclamator to read out Uncle Li's attitude and decision on this matter, many envoys from the Tibetan countries had a happy and good look, and some of the envoys almost laughed out loud, as if they felt that the Tang Empire must have no way to rebel against this Tianzhu, and could only shout fiercely in their mouths.

In fact, this year's output of the Datang Martial Arts Research Institute, in addition to the necessary Chang'an refitting and sale, all mortars, grenades, steel crossbows and a series of weapons, all priority supply and equipment of the Tang Jiannan Province soldiers, in addition, the Tang Royal Commercial Money Bank has sent a large number of people, along with the political axe officials, rushed to the southern end of Jiannan Road, began to handle insurance business for these soldiers, and made all preparations for the upcoming war.

At this time, at the end of spring, the collection of the first batch of taxes was also coming to an end, and Yuwenjie stood in front of me and summarized the collection work in detail: "The commercial tax is 35,000 yuan, the property tax is 8,000 yuan, and the agricultural tax is 23,000 yuan, a total of 69,000 yuan, and after deducting the expenditure of Weinan County last year, the total income is 51,000 yuan." Historical figures are not accurate due to changes in population and land in Weinan today, but the increase in commercial and property taxes ......"

(To be continued)