"How's the inspection of your station?"

After talking about the matter of the Zhang County Order, Xiao Shougui remembered the military station at his feet, which was the largest military station within a radius of 100 miles, according to the documents of the Imperial Military Department, 850 soldiers should be stationed here, of which at least 250 soldiers must be equipped with chain crossbows, 150 soldiers with muskets, and at least five ballistas.

The reason why the imperial court set up a military station in such a deserted place is because it wants to control the surrounding area, and it has also owned the Western Regions before, but it is only a superficial phenomenon, and secretly people don't listen to you at all, just because we don't have many troops in this area.

So when he occupied this area again, Li Xiang was already going to take new measures, first of all, the huge influence of the Tang Dynasty, so that all people did not dare to oppose it openly.

Secondly, we need to set up a large number of military stations in this area, don't look at the number of people in each of their military stations, but if a war breaks out, we can definitely quickly gather tens of thousands of troops, whether it is a local rebellion, or the people of the Arab Empire kill it, it can give us a chance to win a buffer.

"The training is quite good, they have been here for a month and a half, and there are still many places to get used to, but there is no problem with military training every day, according to the regulations of the imperial court, a year and a half of rotation, I feel that the cost is a bit too much."

Cheng Chuliang said with some distress that every year and a half, the army from the mainland will come to replace them, and they will only serve here once in five years.

Although this can maintain the vitality of the soldiers, and can also maintain combat effectiveness, but from the hinterland, the nearest trip to this side will take nearly a month, if you come from the Jiangnan area, even if you take our newly repaired road, it will take nearly two months, a total of only eighteen months of service, the road will be delayed for two months, plus all kinds of huge expenses, I really don't know if the imperial court can stand it.

"You don't have to worry about spending money, the imperial court is only responsible for half of the military expenses, and the other part of the household yamen has already issued documents, let us figure it out ourselves in the Western Regions."

After Xiao Shougui said this, the eyes of the two generals immediately lit up, if they raised money locally, then there was nothing to worry about, but what was the poverty of this place outside, how could they come up with half of the military expenses? Didn't the above not allow us to do the looting?

According to the policy of the Tang Dynasty, after the end of the war, in order to plug our financial holes, it was possible to loot all over the country at that time, and it didn't matter if we did a little too much for this purpose, after all, the financial holes had a great impact on the entire country.

But when this area is returned to obedience for half a year, the imperial court will not allow you to rob in this area, we want to implement a long-term development strategy, unless the people in these tribes make mistakes, or their private property must also be guaranteed, if the troops are robbed at will, from soldiers to generals, they may be taken away by the people of the military justice department.

"Has the court opened an opening for us? Do you sweep it regularly? ”

Cheng Chumo said happily, if the imperial court really opens this opening for us, then the military expenditure is really not a thing, although there are not many people around, but after the last search, we also know that the tribes are actually quite rich, don't look at how much gold and silver they have in their hands, but they have a lot of livestock in their hands, as long as some merchants come from Chang'an City and bring all these animals back, then our military salary will also be settled.

"What do you want? The imperial court system has an order, how can there be two ways to execute it in a country, and even if there is, it is for other special reasons, obviously we do not have special reasons here, since the last big search, the imperial court has banned the army's behavior in this regard. ”

After listening to Xiao Shougui's words, the two generals Cheng and Li Chengyi both wondered, not only do we have to settle part of the military salary by ourselves, but we can't go out and rob casually, should we go out to play in the sand? It is said that there is gold in the sand, but no matter how much we dig it, it is impossible to make up enough money for the army, not to mention that we don't know how to find the gold in the sand.

Seeing the puzzled eyes of these people, Xiao Shougui didn't sell it, and he expected these big bosses to guess, I'm afraid he would never guess.

"His Royal Highness's Zhidao Bao has arrived in this area, ready to promote the trade between the two places, and provide us with military salaries in the fair, there are many special products in all parts of the Western Regions, and the things in the Central Plains are also very popular in this area, as long as we can do this trade, are we still afraid of running out of money? Not to mention half of the military salary, the entire military salary is possible. ”

When Xiao Shougui said this, he was still a little uncomfortable in his heart, originally the trade between the Western Regions and the Central Plains was basically monopolized by a few big businessmen, and they also belonged to the big families, but when Li Xiang's manufacturing treasure came, both the official and the private people had to suppress these big businessmen, including their Lanling Xiao family, there would be a lack of money next year.

Li Xiang This is not a small merchant who competes with the people for profit, and the annual trade volume is less than 2,000 yuan, how should you do business or how to do it? The Imperial Court will not put any trade barriers on your part, and will even help you with transportation and provide some protection along the way.

But for the monopoly business houses of the major families, the imperial court must crack down, you people will hoard money after they make money, and it will not play any role in the whole society, and after making money, it will also play a role in the sons and daughters of the big families, so that they can spend a lot of money everywhere.

Small merchants can pull the progress of the whole society, and you are a kind of regression, so under the blow of the imperial court, the caravans of the major families will slowly withdraw from this area, and the void they leave will be filled by those who hold on to the treasure.

Of course, there are many people in the court who are dissatisfied, they think that Li Xiang is bullying the weak, but Li Xiang's ability is now in full swing, not to mention that this money is not in his own pocket, but to help the court raise tens of thousands of troops in the Western Regions, which is also approved by Li Shimin, what can you do in a hurry?