Zheng Sui took them to the reservoir under construction: "...... In order to regulate water resources, Dawang has designed five reservoirs. Three have been repaired, and the two under construction have just been designed. ”

"After these five reservoirs are repaired, the Ningnan Plain will become a land of abundance......"

"See the people over there who are building the reservoir? It's our prisoners of war......"

"The king said that this kind of dirty work should not be done by the people of the Tang Kingdom, these captives are the most suitable, and they can be regarded as waste utilization."

POW? Many people have noticed this term. Tang is at war with other forces? Where is the battlefield?

Ancestor Jizong asked this question bluntly.

Zheng Sui smiled and said, "Let's go, let's talk over there." ”

When he came to a secluded place, he took out a map and said, "This is where Dongning Island in the Tang Kingdom is located...... Look here, there's also an island six hundred miles to the south......"

"The island is called Luzon and is eight times the size of Dongning...... There are hundreds of thousands of natives living on it, and our battlefield is here......"

"The king plans to annex the island in three to five years...... By that time, the land area of the Tang Kingdom will exceed that of Yangzhou. ”

Sure enough, everyone showed expressions of surprise, incredulity, and suspicion.

Zu Jizong asked, "Zheng Jiancheng, what you said is true?" ”

Zheng Sui said: "Have you seen Nanyu City?" Our last stop is here, if it's true or not, you can see for yourself. ”

"......Uproar" At this time, everyone had no doubt, and then they discussed it one after another.

Originally, I thought that Tang was a small island, and the upper limit of development was like that. Unexpectedly, the development potential here is much greater than imagined.

Who doesn't want to make contributions, who doesn't want to have a bigger stage to display their talents, all of this Tang Guo has.

Zu Jizong said excitedly: "Great, I'm afraid that Tang Guo will be in a corner of peace and won't be able to fight in this life, but I didn't expect it...... The king is also the hero. ”

Many people subconsciously nodded in agreement with his statement.

The displaced people have spent four years to create a huge foundation, carry out reforms and implement new policies, and the foundation is very solid. It's still expanding...... These people have been completely conquered.

They love this script so much.

Following such a monarch who has made a difference, it may not be impossible to go down in history.

Zheng Sui did not take them directly to Nanyu City, but first went back to Mengqi City to visit the military camp.

"The Tang State now has a population of 600,000 and is preparing to recruit 50,000 troops according to the plan of the Great King and the Privy Council. Veterans are on duty everywhere, and there are fifteen thousand recruits in this barracks......"

Is 50,000 soldiers less? It sounds like little, but it's actually quite a lot.

Once the person is finished, there is no edge or edge.

This is not bragging, more than 10,000 people stood together in a neat queue, and the scene was very shocking.

And this is a professional soldier, a regular army formed without affecting the normal functioning of the country.

The Yan State only had 200,000 standing troops, and the Liang and Qin States had less than 100,000 standing troops.

The army of the Jin State was numerous...... Actually, it's not a lot.

The army that Huan Wen did his best to build was only 50,000 or 60,000 elites, and the rest were temporary conscripted miscellaneous troops, and during the Northern Expedition, they often had to use the name of the imperial court to transfer troops from other places to support.

With an army of 50,000, the Tang State is already a powerful force in the world.

The key is that he sits alone overseas and watches the tiger fight, others kill and live, they rest and recuperate, and the other is under the ...... Later, they didn't dare to think about it.

Seeing the strength of the Tang army, the last bit of worry in the hearts of these people completely disappeared.

Such a promising country, or just established when it needs talent the most, what are you hesitating about?

Even those careful thoughts were shaken.

I am from a poor family and a commoner, do I need to work hard for a promise from the scholars?

Even some people from the branch of the scholar clan have become hesitant, although in the name of the scholar clan, in fact, they are not much better than the poor family.

If you can really realize your ambitions here, it is not impossible to break away from the main line and become your own.

In a word, in such troubled times, no matter how nice the words are, no real army can soothe people's hearts more.

After visiting the barracks, Zheng Suicai took them on the ship to Nanyu City, accompanied by a battalion of cavalry.

As soon as Zu Jizong heard that there was a cavalry unit with him, he was happy, and after obtaining permission, he rushed to find it.

The battalion commander of this cavalry was Wen Mu, and he was very happy to greet him when he heard that he had come: "Among the Zu Lang who have seen him in Wen Mu, Ling Zu Zu is really my Chinese hero." ”

The scholars who defected to them were all standard idle officials in the Hongwenguan school book.

Zu Jizong politely replied: "Camp Chief Wen is polite, don't blame me for taking the liberty of visiting." ”

Wenmu took him to meet his soldiers again, and everyone was very excited to hear that the grandson of the great hero Zu Ti was coming, and all kinds of questions were asked endlessly.

Zu Jizong briefly talked about what happened to his family, which caused everyone to sigh. However, he didn't want to talk about it all the time, so he shifted the conversation to mounted shooting.

Originally, the two sides were still communicating with each other, but when they were talking, it became a one-sided lecture, and even Wenmu took a small notebook and recorded it carefully.

It made the ancestors very embarrassed.

At the same time, he was also surprised that these people knew too little about cavalry, so little that the basic training was not very perfect.

I found out what was going on when I asked.

And then there's the excitement.

He wasn't stupid, and he knew very well how good the situation was for him.

Then he began to have a comprehensive understanding of the Tang cavalry, and conceived a suitable training method in his mind.

It took two days for the ship to arrive at Nanyu City, and Liu Meng and the others laughed on the spot when they heard that they had arrived:

"You came at the right time, several native tribes on the island have gathered more than 20,000 people, ready to fight us to the death, just so you can be a witness."

Zheng Sui was not afraid, but asked curiously: "Oh, isn't the island inhabited by a thousand people?" Who can gather so many people? ”

Liu Meng said: "It's just a dog jumping off the wall in a hurry......"

It turned out that after the completion of Nanyu City, Liu Mengjun began to take the initiative to attack, and advanced by land and water to clear the tribes around Nanyu City.

The army was assisted by cavalry, and the battlefield was a hundred miles away.

The navy sailed up the Zo River into Lake Bey, the largest lake in Luzon and home to nearly 20,000 people.

The arrival of the Tang Dynasty sailor was really like a tiger entering a flock.

Although the natives lived in a tribe of thousands of people, and there was no big alliance, the people living in the Bay Lake area already had this sense of convenience.

The pressure from the Tang Army was like a catalyst for them to quickly complete the alliance.

After the alliance, the natives tried to attack with a large number of people, but they were easily routed by the Tang army.

After being defeated, the natives were frightened and began to drill into the deep mountains and old forests, so that it would be troublesome for the Tang army to find them.

Lin Xingzhu thought of a tried and tested plan to lure the snake out of the hole.