In the straight hall of the state capital, Li Yunxin walked in, raised his arm and said: "Envoy, the counties and hometowns have sent their sons and villagers to Fangcheng one after another, and the final general will separate them inside and outside Fangcheng according to the order. "Trees

Li Tai took the list of the county heroes who had already led the Xiangqu to the state capital and browsed it for a while, then nodded with satisfaction, and said to Li Yunxin: "The army of the Western Expedition still needs a short time to return to the town, but there are thieves in the realm who are difficult to chase, so we need to rely on these Xiangqu righteous soldiers to guard the peace of the party." We must contact the masses with a benevolent and righteous heart, and we must provide enough food and drink, and we must not blindly intimidate the masses so that people dare not approach me. ”

After Li Yunxin heard this, he hurriedly nodded yes, now he is not an inconspicuous member of Longyou's Haoqiang, pulling Li Tai's banner to exercise the power of the governor of Fangcheng on his behalf, all the township songs called from the county are controlled by him, it can be said that he is in power, and he feels more and more that this grandfather recognizes that it is really worthwhile, and it is much more powerful than Li Xian's uncle.

But in fact, it's not just Li Xian, even if Duguxin, the real history of Qinzhou, is no more deterrent than Li Tai in today's state. Although Dugu Xin's position is high, he always needs to pay attention to the rules when doing things, and he must not be punished without guilt.

But during this period, Li Tai made people worry about whether he would get out of control and set off some bloody storm in the country. After all, the news that he wants to make a Buddhist ceremony to pray for his father is already well known, but the temple where he prepared the Buddhist ceremony was looted.

Of course, if he doesn't have the ability to match, no matter how angry he is, he will only become a laughing stock, and if he dares to expand the scope of attack to all the powerful forces in the realm, he will inevitably be resisted by the masses.

After all, Longyou has been in turmoil for many years, and the vision of the masses is more realistic, and it is difficult to deter them with a simple official title, and it must be matched with the strength of real people and horses.

However, after the news of the Liangzhou rebellion being put down spread, the deterrent power of the Qinzhou government naturally went up to a big level. In addition, Li Tai also has tricks, and there is a reason to break the rules for filial piety, and his aggressive attitude makes people feel that he may burst out of his heart at any time. tree

Hard and afraid of crossing, in this case, of course, no one wants to be a bird, rashly attract Li Tai's hostile gaze to himself. Therefore, he tried his best to meet some of his not too excessive requirements.

For example, in order to order all the powerful clans in the territory to report the accurate situation of their tribes and villages, if it is in normal times, everyone will naturally not be bird. This is the trilogy of the population of the shadow, how can it be possible to obediently hang out the family foundation for others to see.

However, in this special situation, everyone generally does not want to touch this mold, not to mention that this is not a formal household expansion organized by the government, so make a little disclosure to clear their suspicions, and save other troubles.

Of course, if all the heroes in the realm were unwilling to obey this order with a tacit understanding and unified attitude, Li Tai would not really be the enemy of the masses, laugh twice and punish himself three times, as if it was not such a thing.

But of course, this is also impossible, if these powerful people can really abandon each other's prejudices of the close group, they will be fucking kings a long time ago, and there is no need for outsiders to point fingers.

As long as someone takes the lead and sets an example, there is no such an imaginary local alliance.

Li Tai should not be too familiar with the various operations of the nostalgic situation and the rural situation, and all the people who are willing to expose their family background must be the moral and righteous people who have no ghosts in their hearts, and they are the backbone of the township to ensure the indoctrination of the customs and maintain the security of the territory. tree

Therefore, Li Taizhi took out some of the materials confiscated from the Guangming Temple and gave them to the powerful families who cooperated with the investigation, and invited them to lead the township song to help him maintain law and order in the territory.

When these township troops gather, then Li Tai is not simply intimidating, he really has the ability to destroy the order of the hometown. However, the previous orders of voluntary declaration of the ministry need to be implemented without discount. Whoever refuses to take the initiative to report, Lao Tzu will bring someone into his house to check the number in person!

These details of the township situation were difficult for Dugu Xin to grasp in the past few years after entering the town, but they were easily obtained by Li Tai. Having these underlying data is equivalent to mastering the password of the rural order, and no matter what kind of operation is carried out, it can be more targeted and more impressive.

As for the Shamen forces outside the Guangming Temple in the county, Li Tai didn't plan to continue to attack for the time being.

The harvest of a Guangming Temple is too rich, and it still takes a long time to digest it thoroughly. Even if the scope of the crackdown is further expanded, it will be difficult to effectively integrate resources in the short term.

Second, Longyou's current folk customs are still worshipping Buddha as a whole, even if Li Tai sweeps away all the Shamen forces in Tianshui County, the Shamen forces in other places will try their best to infiltrate them, which will inevitably contain a lot of his energy.

The reason why Li Tai was so anxious to rectify the local forces on this side was because he knew very well that with the end of the Battle of Liangzhou, Longyou's economic function in the territory of the Western Wei Dynasty far exceeded the military function. tree

In particular, a series of changes in the Eastern Wei Dynasty brought a large number of strategic turnarounds to the Western Wei Dynasty, which made Longyou's position in the overall strategic planning of the Western Wei Dynasty plummet. Neither Tuyuhun in Qinghai nor the Turks, who were about to replace Rouran, were not strong enough to pose much of a threat to Longyou for the time being.

In addition to attacking Hanzhong and further Shuzhong, Longyou also has a certain sense of presence geographically, and it will be marginalized for a long period of time.

Of course, this does not mean that Longyou is not important, Guanlong is one, without the control of Longyou, Guanzhong will not be able to talk about a stable situation, which the monarchs and ministers of the Tang Dynasty are deeply aware of.

And with the recovery of Silk Road trade, the hematopoietic capacity brought by Longyou trade should not be underestimated. After Shuzhong and Jiangling were included in the territory of the Western Wei Dynasty, the reason why they were able to quickly integrate with the industrial environment of Guanzhong and complement each other was that the cross-regional material exchanges promoted by Longyou commerce and trade were also indispensable.

The benefits of the revival of commerce and trade are a new area of growth for all parties on this side, and there are no industry leaders who are one step ahead. In other words, everyone is in a state of fair competition in this field, and whoever can take the lead in building a business order recognized by the masses will be the new and old.

Li Tai's fundamental purpose in engaging in this series of actions is, of course, to expand his influence in Longyou, but he only destroys but does not build, and of course he cannot gain long-term and stable influence. Even if everyone respects him and fears him, but when people leave the tea, it will be cold, and it will be useless.

Therefore, after mastering a large number of local forces under the pretext of tracking down the murderers, he then put forward the next goal, which is to establish a large warehousing and logistics distribution center in Tianshui, as well as the largest commercial market in the region. tree

Of course, the specific name is certainly not like this, it is to build a huge city near Weishui in the name of welcoming the triumphant army.

Although the project was approved in the name of the state government, it was only for the next financing and operation to be more convincing, but Li Tai did not intend to involve the government too deeply in the specific procedures.

First of all, the land for this new city was owned by the Bright Temple, and the initial investment was also funded by the goods obtained by the Bright Temple, and the labor used was mainly provided by some temples in the county such as the Ten Thousand Buddha Hall. The reason why they were so obedient was because of Li Tai's noble hand, and secondly, because of the temptation of the official position of the county capital that Master Tan Jing had given up.

With the manpower and material resources in place, the project began immediately, and the progress was rapid, and soon the framework began to take shape. Li Tai also proposed a resounding name for this logistics city, called "Sifang City", which means to accept goods from all over the world and prosper.

At present, Li Tai is rich and wealthy, and even if he bears it alone, he can afford the cost of this city, but he needs the cooperation of other personnel resources in the region to establish a complete set of warehousing, logistics and business systems that can operate stably for a long time, so he needs to bring in partners.

The first batch of partners are naturally those local wealthy families who are the first to get closer to him, and they need to provide security and protection for the logistics city. Then there are the wealthy families who have interests with the Guangming Temple, and Li Tai persuaded them to convert the temple's dividend rights into shares in the Sifang City through one-on-one conversations, and obtain dividends through the daily maintenance of the Sifang City.

The government is also a force that cannot be ignored, and at the moment, Qinzhou is still their son-in-law, but it may change soon. tree

Therefore, Sifang City must find a plan to get along well with the government in order to ensure that even if Longyou changes the sky, the person who succeeds Dugu Xin can accept the existence of Sifang City, and dare not easily interfere with its operation out of interest appeals.

Li Tai's plan was for Sifang City to pay a part of the daicheng and city taxes for the past business travelers in their daily operations, so that the past business travelers could benefit and be happy to travel through the Qinzhou trade route, and the government could obtain new financial revenues without increasing administrative costs.

As for Sifang City, it is to exchange a part of the operating profits for living space, and if the Qinzhou Prefecture wants to attack Sifang City in the future, it needs to consider the alternative of this part of the fiscal revenue and the overall impact on the business environment.

At the same time, the payment of dai and municipal tax is produced in daily operation, so it requires a mature, reliable and professional management team to maintain the operation.

Li Tai had proposed many reforms in this regard when he was in Taiwan, and his own estate has been cultivating relevant talents for several years. At that time, whether it is to transfer people from Guanzhong or cultivate them on the spot in Longyou, this can make the management of Sifang City firmly controlled by Li Tai.

Of course, if you want Sifang City to truly play an irreplaceable role in commerce, it takes a very long time. One of the key factors is to make the masses adapt to the existence of Sifang City at the beginning of the revival of the trade route, and then become a commonplace existence and a natural choice.

Therefore, not long after the construction of Sifang City began, Li Tai began to promote it, and he gave warehouses of different sizes and free use periods of different lengths to people in the state for various reasons. tree

Through the comparison of the masses to gradually gain a sense of topic existence, and from the very beginning, they subconsciously ruled out the option of building their own warehouse, anyway, the free ones are not in vain. And when the operation of Sifang City matures, both the scale and efficiency are enough to crush potential competitors.

After mastering a large amount of timely and effective logistics and warehousing information, various financial businesses such as lending and pledge can be carried out accordingly, so as to reduce the financing cost and difficulty of Silk Road merchants.

In the future, you can further counter the Longyou Temple through this series of financial behaviors, when you encounter difficulties, praying to God and worshiping Buddha may not be effective, but Sifang City can really help you.

If you want to carry out various financial and capital scale operations in this medieval period, of course, there is difficulty, but it is not completely impossible to operate. The ancient practice of usury was not only a trick for the temple to make money, but even the Tang Empire, which was at its peak, used it as an important means of supplementing government administrative expenses.

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As an important passage of the Silk Road, Longyou has both such a tradition and such a demand, and now it has sufficient objective conditions, and Li Tai certainly does not want to miss this new opportunity.

His qualifications and roots are undoubtedly far inferior to those of the Beizhen warriors led by Yu Wentai, but as long as he can seize some big opportunities in the future, Lu Daye will be successful! At least the new hematopoietic point in front of Longyou in front of him, he has decided.

Li Tai is not boasting, in the few months since he came to Longyou, the situation he has created and the personnel foundation he has laid have surpassed Duguxin's achievements in the past few years. tree

Of course, it is not to look down on the old man, after all, without the support given by Dugu Xin and the successful suppression of the Liangzhou rebellion, Li Tai's vision is no longer possible.

His achievements are based on Duguxin's past few years of operation, just like Wuchuan Group, although it came to Kansai under the leadership of He Bayue, it was under the leadership of Yuwentai that it really gained the strength of the leading party. The cause and effect have deep roots.

Just when everything was going on in an orderly manner under Li Tai's planning, an unexpected piece of information made Li Tai's heartstrings tense suddenly.

"Signs of a large number of people in the north? How many centaurs are there, exactly? Where did it come from? ”

Li Tai looked at Heland, the Shou Heland of Luoyang County, who had gone to the state capital in person to report the matter, and asked in surprise.

When Helander heard this, he said: "It was discovered by the shepherd of the county, and he went to investigate it himself, and saw that there were about 3,000 soldiers on foot, and they came south of the Wating River. It seems to be a first-class soldier in the country, and there is no trace of its plundering of the county, but there is no envoy to inform the county. The northern counties did not have sufficient armaments, so they hurried to tell the envoy that he should take precautions as soon as possible. ”

After Li Tai heard this, he also felt strange in his heart, more than 3,000 people and horses were already a very considerable force, and in Qinzhou, where the army was going west and the interior was empty, it was definitely an armed force that was enough to plunder the counties. tree

In this way, people and horses suddenly appeared in the realm, and they came from the Wating River in the north, most likely from Wonju. But Li Tai didn't receive any notice here, which is a bit confusing.

Could it be that someone also learned from his previous operation and sent people to sneak into Qinzhou to stir up the wind and rain?

Whether the other side is friend or foe, it's always a good idea to be careful. If the army had just left the country, the force in the realm was empty, and in the face of this situation, Li Tai would have to be blind, but he had to operate before, and gathered nearly 20,000 people from all walks of life around the state city, and he had soldiers in his hands, so he naturally did not panic.