Li Siye had already hatched a plan in his mind, no, it should be multiple plans, because there were too many ideas in his head, he had to find a note to write them down, lest these thoughts disappear like meteors.

When he returned to the house, he also asked the servant to boil hot water, and then took a bath. met with Li Twelve Niang and Li Mei'er and had an afternoon meal together, which can be regarded as a grand family dinner.

After eating, he returned to the study alone under the pretext of being tired, and won a little free time with Twelve Niang and Li Meier.

He lit an oil lamp, spread out the paper, dipped the finest pen in ink, and began to write on the paper the problems encountered during the inspection and the solutions to them, which were nothing more than insufficient logistical supply capacity, poor equipment capacity, and insufficient medical system in the army.

The lack of logistics is reflected in the lack of food, which is not sufficient only for barley and rice, but at least wheat and flour. The Tang army also actively cultivated fields in the west of the town, and only one town in Shule was tuned seven tuns, each with 50 hectares of tun, which solved most of the grain supply, and a small amount needed to be supplied from Hexi. But there is only barley in the fields, and the animal husbandry in Shule Town is not bad, but many soldiers do not eat a meal of meat a year......

In terms of military rations, the area of military cantonments has been expanded, and more wheat from Hexi has been introduced to complement highland barley. In the Shule army, a round-bottomed iron pot was built to fry noodles, mixed with salt and mutton fat to make compressed biscuits and expanded to the whole army, and more mutton was marinated, and a salt ratio suitable for long-term storage was found, which was required to be stored for more than a year in a well-ventilated environment. These two types of military food have the characteristics of long shelf life and easy to carry, and it is recommended that a special department be set up to manufacture and distribute them in the future.

Veterinary stations were set up in Shule City and various prefecture cities, and people with experience in medical horses were hired from the private sector. There are many bare rocks on the Gobi Desert in the Shule area, for fear of cutting the horse's hooves, and the horseshoe should also appear at this time, not only to appear, but also to be promoted to the whole army, so that every horse is nailed to the horse's shoe.

The establishment of medical training courses, in which medical officers from the Anxi army were invited to give lectures, and the trainees were recruited from among the soldiers, and the soldiers who could receive medical training were rewarded with 10% more than other soldiers, which was an encouragement to study.

There is another measure, which will have to spend a lot of money, in the form of subsidies to encourage soldiers to buy private horses. The final standard requirement is that each soldier in each city must have one horse, and the elite of the jumping battalion, the battle front team, the city defense battalion and other elite troops need two horses to meet the characteristics of the rapid reaction force, and the only two regiments of cavalry must reach three horses per person.

The purpose of owning a horse is to provide the soldiers with the food to fight independently in the field. Soldiers on foot, horses and camels, dry food, and fresh water allow soldiers to have the ability to fight independently for two to three months without the need for supply lines, which is the most basic requirement.

This does cost a lot of money, and it is unrealistic to let the soldiers pay for it, although the price of horses in this period fell to the lowest point in history, and the price of a horse in the Western Regions was 9,000 yuan. There are 6,000 Tang troops in the entire territory of Shule, and there are 2,000 local people in the Tibetan army, if you do a survey, it is estimated that nearly half of them do not have horses, even if they let Shule and the soldiers bear half of each, it will take about 30 million yuan, which is more than 30,000 taels when converted into silver, and more than 4,000 taels when converted into gold.

In the final analysis, it comes down to the money.

He also hid a box of gold given by Mansur in the Green Ridge, which was originally carried into the grass hall by several big men, and it was estimated that it was five or six hundred catties. At the beginning, a little of it was spent in order to open up the cotton fields in the Green Ridge, and once it is used this time, I am afraid it will cost half of it.

Of course, before it was necessary to take it, most of Shule's annual commercial tax and financial revenue, except for a part of it that was handed over to the Metropolitan Protectorate, was retained as the salary and office expenses of the local officials of Shule, and part of it was used for the military salary and equipment replacement of the Shule army. He needed to discuss the matter with Pei Guoliang, after all, the other party was the nominal highest official in Shule Town.

Let's estimate how much it will cost to add a recruit, which is something that must be considered. The daily necessities of the soldiers should also be regularized, and it is better to put them up and solve them from the beginning.

The personal belongings required by a Tang army were two pieces of sheep felt, two feet five inches wide and six feet long, with a thickness of no more than five cents, and a value of about forty yuan.

The cowhide bladder is worth sixty yuan, the dry food bag is less than ten yuan, the bag is twenty yuan, and the knife, gravel, Qibi Zhen, the syringe, the flint, etc. are worth nearly 100 yuan, of course, these things do not need to be paid by Shule Town, what is the salary of more than 900 yuan to you every month for?

There are also cooking utensils for eating, which must be solved, how can the dough be used as a cooking bowl? Now there are only ten porcelain bowls on the market, and black pottery is cheaper, six wen. But these ceramics are fragile, and obviously not suitable for changing back and forth to guard against the marching soldiers, and the soldiers would rather use a hood than a ceramic because of this. However, for the sake of the personal hygiene of the vast number of soldiers, it is also necessary to come up with substitutes.

What? Enamel? Stainless steel? Ironwork? The first two are just a joke, iron products can be completely done according to the current level of craftsmanship, but shouldn't the cost be considered? Buying a bowl for a price close to a horizontal knife? Whether it is forced to let the soldiers buy it themselves, or Shule Town collectively purchases it, it can't afford it, okay?

He lifted the brush and ticked off the line of cooking utensils, and wrote below it to be resolved.

Next is the real big head, the part that makes him a headache for a half-baked keyboard economist, two thousand pieces of iron and iron, the most inferior fine-scale iron armor, Shule Town purchased from the Tang government, and the price given by the Shaofu Temple Ordnance Supervisor was 20,000 yuan. The Turkic Dun horse is 9,000 yuan, and the price of the saddle stirrup and long whip is close to 10,000.

Special types of cavalry will use horse lances, rifles, these two things are sky-high prices are not included in the calculation, even if the standard equipment, ordinary soldiers are generally three, namely knives, guns, bows or crossbows, which makes everyone's strike kill range from seventy steps to count. The cost of guns and crossbows also cost nearly three thousand dollars.

He pulled it with his fingers and calculated it, excluding the personal belongings of the soldiers, and then excluding the special troops, the basic configuration of a Tang army is 35,000 yuan, even if the 10,000 yuan of horses is removed and let them prepare to buy horses by themselves, it will also cost 25,000 yuan, and the salary for recruiting soldiers is 900, which is really expensive. It is no wonder that the Anxi Protectorate, which is located in the Western Regions for more than 5,000 miles and is in charge of the three trade routes and taxes, can only maintain an army of 25,000 people, and even if a good family is willing to join the army, they cannot afford to hire it.

The most fundamental reason is that the Western Regions are barren and cannot fully afford the military expenses and food consumption of the Anxi Army, and the population density is not enough to support recruitment. In the future, he will be based here, even if he is lucky, he can be like An Lushan, and he can get the envoys of the two towns of Beiting and Hexi from the emperor, and the total army of the three towns does not exceed 130,000. It is said that in the nineteenth year of Tianbao, when An Lushan rebelled, he gathered 150,000 soldiers and horses to go south.

Therefore, if he wants to make a difference, he must change the status quo in the western part of the country, develop agriculture and commerce, attract immigrants from the interior, and make the grain production able to support an army of more than 60,000 people, so that when the Anshi Rebellion occurs, he can also raise an army that can independently compete with the An Lushan rebels.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, and from today on, he will take the slightly barren Shule in the four towns of Anxi as a pilot to start his big plan.

This daydream was beautiful, but unfortunately it was already night. I looked at the paper under my hand and wrote a lot in a daze. Unexpectedly, this thinking began to diverge, and he couldn't stop, if he thought of tomorrow morning, it is estimated that the policy and strategy for taking down the entire earth will be there.

Li Siye rubbed his eyes and stood up, a figure flashed in outside, but it was Li Mei'er who came to the study with a tea cup.

"I know that my brother hasn't slept yet, and drinking my bowl of fatigue tea can eliminate fatigue."

Li Siye picked up the tea bowl, looked out of the lattice window at the door, there seemed to be a figure shaking, and asked casually, "Is there anyone outside the door?" ”

Mei'er squeezed her eyes and nodded: "Brother is right, I went to the Buddhist temple in Shule today to ask for incense, and I met a Taoist who was proficient in Zhou Yi's divination outside the door, so I specially invited him back." ”

"The Taoist at the gate of the Buddhist temple? Did he go to the gym? He teased casually and asked, "Why do you invite someone at home?" ”

Li Mei'er gave Li Siye a look while talking, suggesting that his Twelve Niang was also hiding outside the door and eavesdropping, telling him to pay attention to what he said.

"Today, my sister-in-law and I went to the Buddhist temple to burn incense, and I met this Taoist, and I wanted to invite him to come to my home, and use Kanyu to see where it is suitable to be a cave house, how to place it to make feng shui good, and more importantly, to choose a suitable day for marriage. If my brother doesn't object, I'll invite him in. ”

"Oh yes, please come in." He absolutely cannot object to this matter, after all, it was promised personally.