Chapter 1132: Youxi

Pen~fun~pavilionwww.biquge.inforeadx;? Ding Leng led the trapping camp, in the rebel camp it is not clear how many in and how out, 30,000 rebels, in the end only by 800 people in this area, Ding Leng and the trapping camp can be regarded as in this battle, a battle to become famous,

At the same time that Ding Leng blocked the rebels in Yuzhen, a rebel army was also killed on the other side of the artillery position, and the 30,000 rebels who attacked from Yuzhen could only be regarded as a disguise, and the real killer weapon was the rebel army later.

This rebel army, which was all cavalry, was inserted from the left flank of the artillery position, and the rear artillery of the Zhenjun army was thrown into chaos.

The artillery in the rear was silent, and the pressure on the soldiers fighting in the front army doubled, and An Yifu really ordered the whole army to stop advancing, and immediately divided the rear army to meet the rebel cavalry who suddenly entered the artillery position, >

With the retreat of the Zhenjun army, the rebels did not continue to push back, the battle lines of the two sides gradually opened, and the fierce battlefield finally returned to calm.

After this confrontation, the rebel generals led by Tang Wanyun were all soberly aware that even if their side was in the situation of two against one and the absolute superiority of the troops, it would be difficult for them to defeat a legion of the Zhenjun Army head-on.

And the generals of the Zhenjun Army led by An Yifu realized that the rebels were not the rumored rabble, not the kind of army that was sloppy and collapsed at the first beat.

During the battle, although the rebel camp was forced to retreat by their own side, they were not chaotic, and while retreating, they could still make effective counterattacks and inflict casualties on their own soldiers.

After this confrontation, the soldiers on both sides have a new assessment of each other's combat strength, and in a head-on decisive battle, neither side wants to continue fighting, the rebels retreat to the north, and the Zhenjun army marches westward, and camps in the Sipan Mountain west of the imperial town.

Camp here, one is that the terrain is steep, easy to defend and difficult to attack, second, the west of Sipan Mountain is Huan County, and the supply of Zhenjun Army can be continuously replenished from the rear, and third, it is close to the royal town, as long as the main force of the rebels goes, the Zhenjun army can go out of Sipan Mountain and take the royal town directly.

Stationed in Sipan Mountain, you can drag the main force of the rebels in the territory of Anjun,

An Yifu's strategic intentions, Tang Wanyun could naturally see that if her two legions wanted to go south smoothly, they had to exterminate An Yifu and completely eliminate the threat of the Zhenjun army to Yuzhen.

The next day, the rebels launched a fierce attack on the Zhenjun army's garrison in Sipan Mountain, and in the head-to-head confrontation, the rebels could not defeat the Zhenjun army, and now the Zhenjun army defended with the steep terrain of Sipan Mountain, and the rebels were even more impressed.

Moreover, this time, the artillery camps of the Zhenjun Army were all set up on the halfway up the mountain or on the top of the mountain, and the rebels could not sneak attack the rear artillery of the Zhenjun Army if they wanted to.

The battle between the two sides lasted only one morning, and ended hastily with the withdrawal of the rebels on their own initiative.

While ordering the spies to keep an eye on the movements of the rebels, An Yifu asked people to send messages to the rear and deliver supplies.

At this time, Xijing, the surrounding area was almost all factories under the forging workshop, and Yan Hui introduced a large number of Western Regions slaves from Xibu Mountain, which provided a large amount of manpower for the forging factory.

It is indeed difficult for the forge to train the slaves of the Western Regions into technical experts, but it is still very good to regard the slaves of the Western Regions as simply labor, and only do heavy physical work such as transportation and construction.

It is precisely because of the large number of slave labor in the Western Regions that the factories of all sizes in the forge can work day and night for twelve hours a day, continuously producing weapons and ammunition and transporting them to the frontline battlefield.

It is hard to imagine that Zhenjun is only one county, and the huge amount of weapons, ammunition, military assets and armaments produced at that time can meet the needs of the soldiers on the two fronts of the national war battlefield and the counterinsurgency battlefield, and provide strong logistical support for the soldiers fighting on the front line.

Zhenjun produces such a huge amount of military materials day after day, and the elites of the forge led by Qingyuan and Jin Wan'er are certainly indispensable, but it also includes the blood and sweat of the slaves of the Western Regions.

It's just that at that time, with the promulgation of the slave decree advocated by Shangguan Xiu, no one cared about the life or death of the slaves in the Western Regions, in the slave decree, the status of the slaves in the Western Regions was not as good as the working livestock, and the livestock was an important tool for people to support their families.

Under such a decree, both the high-level and low-level workers of the forge are naturally desperately forcing the slaves of the Western Regions to work and squeeze as much of their usable value as possible.

When the factory was in the most nervous hurry, there were even hundreds of slaves in the Western Regions who were tired to death every day.

If the workers are tired to death, they will receive a huge amount of pensions, they will be commended by the imperial court, their families will be exempted from taxes, etc., while the slaves in the Western Regions will die of exhaustion and will only be thrown into mass graves like garbage.

The most important thing in the Tang Ling court is the scholars, and the scholars are the most conservative and orthodox class, and the abolition of the long and the young is something they strongly oppose.

After the imperial court moved the capital to Xijing, a large number of scholars in the four eastern counties occupied by the rebels followed the imperial court and moved to Xijing with their families, the civilian literati also gradually occupied a place in the court,

Among the literati, there was naturally no shortage of enlightened people, who criticized the current slave laws of the imperial court, and from time to time gave Tang Ling a soothing, suggesting that the emperor should immediately abolish the slave laws.

Among them, the most positive is Xie Xian, Xie Xun has not yet entered the court as an official, he is already a great talent in his hometown, with a great reputation, after arriving in Xijing, even Tang Ling has personally summoned him and appointed him as the Secretary of the Interior of the Internal History Bureau, and the official worships from the second grade,

The duty of the Inner History Office is to supervise the hundred officials, and the officials of the Inner History Office are all speech officials, and after Xie Yu became the secretary of the Inner History Office, he was really conscientious, and in the matter of the impeachment of the slave law, Xie Xian can be regarded as the leader of the line.

Tang Ling still attached great importance to Xie Xun's opinion, so he specially summoned Qingyuan, the secretary of the forging workshop, to ask Qingyuan's opinion whether the current slave law was necessary to be abolished.

At present, the big user of slaves is the forge of slaves, and the number of slave workers working for the forge has exceeded 100,000.

To be enlightened, Qingyuan is definitely not inferior to Xie Xian, his reply to Tang Ling is: "If it is from a private point of view, Wei Chen suggests that the imperial court immediately abolish the slave law, if it is from the perspective of the state, Wei Chen's suggestion is that the slave law must not be abolished,"

Qingyuan's answer can be regarded as completely strengthening Tang Ling's determination, Qingyuan is not open-mouthed, he has data in his hand to check, and his data is the ledger.

When the Western Regions slaves were not used, what was the daily output and cost of the forge, and after the massive use of the Western Regions slaves, what was the daily output of the forging workshop and what was the cost, all of them were clearly remembered in the account books and at a glance.

After reading the account books provided by Qingyuan, Tang Ling's brows furrowed, what made her frown was not the slaves of the Western Regions, but the low production cost of the forging workshop, which was completely disproportionate to the price sold to the imperial court, and was sold to the imperial court after the cost was increased several times or even more than ten times.

In the past, Tang Ling also knew that the forge made a lot of money from the imperial court, but he didn't expect that the forge could make so much money.

She looked at the records in the ledger and said expressionlessly: "The firecracker, which only costs a few hundred wen, is sold to the imperial court, but it costs a few taels of silver, and the price is as much as ten times the cost."

Qingyuan muttered in his heart, it was only a few taels of silver to sell to the imperial court, and it cost dozens of taels or even hundreds of taels of silver to sell to merchants.

Seeing that Tang Ling's face was not good, he cleared his throat and said, "Your Majesty, Weichen is only responsible for research and production, as for pricing, it is the responsibility of His Highness, not Weichen,"

has pushed Shangguan Xiu out in advance, and Qingyuan can be regarded as knowing the way to protect himself.

When Tang Ling heard this, she almost laughed angrily, and was just about to speak, when she suddenly felt a churning of her internal organs, and a burst of nausea attacked, she hurriedly covered her mouth, stood up, and walked down the steps of the main hall,

Qingyuan was startled, hurriedly took two steps forward, supported Tang Ling, who was a little staggering, and asked with concern, "Your Majesty, ...... this?"

Tang Ling was speechless at this time, walked quickly to the corner of the hall, bent down, and vomited, Qingyuan was startled, standing aside, at a loss, the surrounding palace maids hurriedly stepped forward, someone brought a clean bucket to catch Tang Ling's vomit,

After a long while, Tang Ling's vomiting stopped, his little face was pale, and there was a layer of sweat on his forehead, Qingyuan woke up like a dream, and said urgently: "Find the imperial doctor,"

Without his command, there were already female officials who hurriedly went to ask for the imperial doctor, after Tang Ling rinsed his mouth, he was supported by two palace maids, and slowly sat back on the dragon chair, and at the same time as she sat back on the chair, the vomit in the hall had been wiped clean by the palace maids.

Qingyuan asked with concern: "Your Majesty is all right," the name Junchen is actually a family, Tang Ling is the daughter-in-law of the Shangguan family, of course, it must also be recorded in the genealogy of the Shangguan family.

Tang Ling smiled weakly, waved his hand at him and said, "I'm fine, I may have just arrived in Zhenjun, and I am a little unaccustomed to the water and soil,"

Qingyuan breathed a sigh of relief, and said: "If you don't adapt to the water and soil, don't be careless, if it's serious, you may still die,"

As soon as these words came out, the female officials, palace maids, and even the guards outside the hall all cast cold eyes on Qingyuan.

He continued: "If Your Majesty has three long and two short, when Ah Xiu returns triumphantly, I don't know how to explain to Ah Xiu, there is Dr. Tia in the forge shop, and His Majesty can summon him into the palace to heal His Majesty,"

Qingyuan may not be a person who is too good at talking, but Tang Ling can feel that his concern for him is out of sincerity.

She smiled disapprovingly and said, "What is the difference between Doctor Tia and my Doctor Gale, when the imperial doctor comes over and takes the decoction, I will be fine, Qingyuan doesn't have to worry,"

Tang Ling was reluctant to let Dr. Tia diagnose and treat, and Qingyuan couldn't force it, he took the account book that Tang Ling asked the palace maid to send back, and stood quietly aside,

The words that should have been said have been said, and it stands to reason that he, the courtier, should take the initiative to retire, but Qingyuan did not move, and stood silently in the main hall.

Knowing that he was not at ease and was waiting for the imperial doctor to come and diagnose his condition, Tang Ling smiled lightly and went with him.

It didn't take long for the imperial doctor to be led into the main hall by the female official, and after the imperial doctor knelt on the ground to give a salute, he walked up to Tang Ling, took out a thin silk scarf, covered her wrist, and took her pulse at the back.

Qingyuan watched intently, and saw that the imperial doctor was frowning deeper and deeper when he took Tang Ling's pulse, and after taking the pulse, he rechecked it uncertainly, Qingyuan was anxious like an ant on a hot pot, and wanted to ask out loud several times, but he was afraid of affecting the imperial doctor's diagnosis, so he couldn't help but rub his hands again and again, and his face was full of anxiety,

Not to mention that Qingyuan was in a hurry, under the repeated diagnosis of the imperial doctor, even Tang Ling was anxious, and asked in a deep voice: "Imperial Doctor Li, what disease do I have, but it doesn't hurt you to say it,"

When the imperial doctor heard this, his body shook, and he knelt on the ground with a pop, and said in a trembling voice: "Congratulations to Your Majesty, Your Majesty...... Your Majesty is overjoyed,"