A few days later, as the ships going to the Americas arrived one after another, the hundreds of thousands of people and materials gathered on the Hangzhou Bend Wharf also set sail accordingly, and after the dust settled on this major event, Li Mao was also relieved in his heart, after all, he had been in Jiangnan to supervise this matter for more than two months, and the adults in Chang'an Jingshi had long been anxious like ants on a hot pot, and the letters urging the holy driver to return to Beijing were one after another.

Seeing that he couldn't delay any longer, Li Mao could only embark on the journey home at this time, but before leaving, he still handed over the major task of disarmament here to Xiao Tiancheng to complete, because although this person is a bit bookish, he has never been confused in major matters.

So before leaving, Li Mao repeatedly admonished: "Tiancheng! I'll leave it to you here, although the military reform in Jiangnan is an experimental point of the imperial court, but this matter is not trivial, whether the number of up to two million soldiers in the country can be reduced safely, then the burden on your shoulders is very heavy! Don't have a woman's kindness! ”

"Sage, rest assured, the importance of this matter, Wechen has already known it, and Wechen also feels that this matter has to be changed at a critical juncture, and the reduction of two-thirds of the troops is in line with the national conditions of the Tang Empire...... I think that as long as those lieutenants in the army do a good job in the ideological work of the soldiers, they will also understand the good intentions of the saint! ”

"Good...... You know the key to this, so I can rest assured to return to Beijing, in addition, you must also pay attention to the economic construction of Jiangnan at any time, there are many clans here, and there are even more scholars, these people, don't look at the usual mouths of benevolence, righteousness and morality, but once the matter is related to their own net worth interests, they are more powerful than anyone else. ”

When Li Mao said this, he immediately lit a cigarette and stood on the carriage looking at Lin'an City from afar, and couldn't help but think of another economic transformation plan in Jiangnan that he called Wang Siyuan to his side to discuss before he set off, that is, he thought about the Suzhou and Hangzhou silk in later generations, and even the location of Shanghai, which is still a small fish village.

"Tiancheng, Siyuan and his people should be there soon, you can help a little more, and the surplus land will be cultivated and planted with mulberry trees, as well as the tea mountains near Lin'an City...... As for the huge benefits in this silk trade, in addition to the Wang family and the Natural Residence Chamber of Commerce taking the lead, the rest should be given out or let out...... This place has a long history of silk production, and the construction and expansion of this silk factory should not be delayed, so as to persuade the local women to get out of the house as soon as possible......"

Li Mao, as the emperor, is like an old man with a mother-in-law at the moment, and he is rambling endlessly, so Xiao Tiancheng, who listened to it, couldn't help but smile and replied, "Sage, these things will be done by the ministers who will try their best to order the people below to do it, and the general planning opinions of the central province for the economy of Jiangnan have already been issued to Jiangnan, and officials at all levels have some calculations in their hearts, as long as this spring ploughing is over, the plan will be put on the agenda......

After hearing Xiao Tiancheng's confident answer, Li Mao nodded and turned around and got into the carriage, and when he was just lying on the legs of the dog sisters, Ah Da who was in charge of driving the carriage quietly handed a note from the small window, and the big dog girl took it as usual and sent it to Li Mao very respectfully, and the little dog girl also wanted to help open it, but she didn't expect Li Mao to suddenly open her eyes, and her eyes were quite sharp at the little dog girl's body, so the girl was frightened and knelt down in the carriage on the spot.

"Saint, concubine...... The concubine ...... "Okay, get up and speak!" In the future, no one can look at the things sent by the Black Guard without my permission, understand! "The concubine body remembered!" The big dog lady was very puzzled when she saw Li Mao's strange performance, and after whispering a few words to her sister, she casually pulled the person back to the seat.

"Sage, sister, she usually messes around, you don't have to worry about him!" "The heavenly family is selfless, it's not that I want to worry about her, but that you two sisters can sort out the affairs of the family and the affairs of the court, and go to intercede for Xiao Tiancheng indiscriminately like last time, do you think it is appropriate? How much time has passed, a few guys from Yushitai are still holding on, insisting that you are in the harem to do politics, I know that you and Tiancheng are friends in trouble, and they are brothers and sisters who have formed a righteous Jinlan, if it is usual, even if Tiancheng is wrong, for the sake of your two sisters who have served me faithfully for many years, I will not worry about him, understand? In the future, you must first be my woman......"

Li Mao opened the secret letter sent by Ah Da and just glanced at it in a hurry, then tore it to pieces and threw it out of the window and scattered, and then there was a big break above that inexplicably taught the dog sisters and sisters, and the dog sisters who were sitting next to Li Mao were also a little overwhelmed by this sudden holy anger.

However, why Li Mao was so angry with the dog sisters, I am afraid that only he and Ah Da, who was still sitting in the front of the car to catch the car, knew about it. It is said that on the other side, when Wang Sizhong arrived at the inland area of the territory where "Russia" was located, that is, near the current Moscow, with more than 500,000 troops, he seemed to encounter a lot of resistance, especially the aforementioned Viga Khan and the resistance army of the Byzantine Empire, entangled the hundreds of thousands of Slavs they had occupied before, and then established a strong defensive front near the Moscow area.

Of course, the old man Viga, who has learned from the past, also understands the horror of the iron cavalry of the Tang Empire, especially now that he is facing the opponent of Li Mao, when he incorporated the cavalry of the Turkic Khanate, which he was proud of, and equipped it with armor and a tiger and wolf army, the confidence of the old man Viga is still getting less and less day by day.

But at this time, he has already had no way to retreat, and he could barely find this place where the Tear Lady lived with more than 100,000 people before, but now? Do you want to give up again and continue to flee with the new Turkic khanate, which was built with great difficulty? Not to mention that there is a powerful Byzantine Empire in front of him, even the old subordinates who are dead and wounded in front of him are probably not willing to follow him.

So Viga Khan had no choice but to bow his arrogant head and shake hands with his old opponent Byzantium, who had fought several times, but the monarch of the Byzantine Empire, who knew little about the power of the Tang Empire, seemed to be very arrogant.

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