Dachangmen Cui Jiu came to Longxi County, naturally not specifically to ask Yang Chuan about spending money.

"Is there going to be a war?"

Invited Cui Jiu into the Taishou Mansion, just by the pond, Yang Chuan personally made a pot of good tea for the old thief, and asked with a smile.

Cui Jiu nodded: "The Mobei War has begun, the general Wei Qing led 80,000 northern troops out of Dingxiang, and the other four armies cooperated, it is estimated that there will be more than ten days, and you will be able to fight a decisive battle with the main force of Yizhixi, and the emperor ordered you to prepare weapons and food for the Yulin army, and stand by at any time." ”

After finishing speaking, the old thief took out a map from his sleeve and threw it over: "This is the route map of the Yulin Army's march, you are familiar with the situation in the Western Regions, see what is the problem." ”

Yang Chuan unfolded the map and smiled after just looking at it.

The map of the Western Regions used by the imperial court was the one he gave to Zhang Qian, the Marquis of Bowang, and there was no problem with the big aspects, but in some details, it was slightly wrong, and it was naturally far from enough to be used as a military map.

In the original historical script, Huo Quzhi's 'First Battle of Hexi' took place in the spring of the second year of Yuanzhen, and Huo Qubing was appointed as a hussar general and led 10,000 cavalry to fight against the Xiongnu alone.

In this battle, after he led the army from Longxi County, he crossed the Wuer Mountain, crossed the Yellow River, cut down the Pu Department, quickly beheaded the King of Pu, waded through the fox slave water, fought more than 1,000 miles in six days, broke through the five kingdoms of the Xiongnu, and defeated the small kings of Hexi one after another.

It was also in this battle that Huo Quzhi's military genius was once again fully displayed, and the 'blitzkrieg' based on elements such as intersperse, division, and encirclement was brought into full play, with 10,000 iron cavalry opening and closing vertically and horizontally, interspersed at high speed, and directly stunned the Huns.

Originally, high-speed intersperse, detours, and surprise attacks were all the specialties of the Hun cavalry, but in the face of Huo Quai's whimsical fighting methods, they would not be able to......

"Uncle Cui Jiu, there is no problem with the weapons and food of the Yulin Army, as early as three months ago, I prepared enough military rations for them for five months."

Yang Chuan stretched out a finger, circled it on the map, and continued: "However, at the moment, the Yulin army is only 3,000 men and horses, and the Xiongnu Youxian Wang's troops have about 230,000 soldiers and horses in the entire Hexi Corridor;

As far as I know, the Qiang tribe in the west is also ready to move, echoing the Huns from afar, and may divide the army into two ways to make trouble. ”

Cui Jiu's brows tightened, and he seemed to be thinking about the battle situation: "The three thousand feather forest army is indeed too few. ”

"The problem is that there are only more than 8,000 soldiers in Longxi County, plus the imperial army guarding the front line of Minshan, there are only 20,000 or 30,000 horses."

"The emperor's main target is Mobei, the main force of Yi Zhixian and his Xiongnu."

"Otherwise, you can only let the soldiers of Longxi County cooperate in the battle?"

Yang Chuan shook his head directly: "Uncle Cui Jiu, the eight thousand county soldiers are not used at all, I have seen their training, they have no combat effectiveness at all, and if they cooperate with the Yulin Army to fight, they will only become a drag oil bottle, but they will become a burden to the Yulin Army." ”

Cui Jiu pondered for a long time, and suddenly asked: "You have been benefiting the Li family in Longxi all this time, are you thinking about borrowing troops?" ”

Yang Chuan shook his head: "No, no matter how difficult the Yulin Army is, it must not borrow troops; The Li clan in Longxi has more than 10,000 private soldiers, and there are dozens of hundreds of Qiang and Di tribes in their hands, and their strength should not be underestimated.

However, if one day their power goes further, it will be difficult to control.

The situation in Longxi County may be much more complicated than the imperial court expected......"

There are some words, there is no need to say them, Cui Jiu and Yang Chuan both know it in their hearts.

The Li clan in Longxi should not be allowed to take advantage of the situation.

"One of the reasons why I found a way to recover a large amount of land in their hands, gave them a lot of useless titles, and spent money to repair their mansions was to make them think that the imperial court was going to reuse them and give them the illusion of a rapid rise."

Yang Chuan continued: "Uncle Cui Jiu, the three thousand Yulin army dug through the Hexi Corridor and fought in the Western Regions, which sounds a bit unreliable, but as long as we plan well and the logistics can keep up, I believe that we can fight this battle if we get sick." ”

"What I'm most worried about at the moment is the stability of Longxi County after all."

"What if a part of the border army is sent on an expedition and the Qiang people attack? Those sheep are not good at fighting, they are afraid of the weak and the hard, but they have good brains, and they are more cunning than foxes. ”

"Once you take the opportunity to enter Longxi County, not to mention capturing the city, even if you cut off the grain route of the Yulin Army, it will be a very terrible consequence."

Cui Jiu stood up, put his hands in his sleeves, looked up at the blue sky, and didn't say anything for a long time.

Yang Chuan was not in a hurry, poured himself a bowl of tea, and drank it slowly.

In this way, one old and one young, there was silence by the pond for most of the hour.

Cui Jiu finally spoke: "Yang Chuan, I know that I hate the Qiang people, and I am also slightly dissatisfied with the Li family in Longxi, and I have a lot of suspicions, let's say, in your opinion, how should this battle be fought?" ”

"You have to convince me, and I can give the emperor an accurate answer."

The old thief added.

Yang Chuan groaned a few times and said: "Uncle Cui Jiu, in my opinion, we don't need to rush to fight the Huns in this battle, anyway, those wolves are there, just waiting for Huo Qubing to beat them down; Let's think about it from another perspective, right now, Mobei has become a pot of porridge, what is the Xiongnu Youxian King who is entrenched in the area of Monan, Hexi Corridor and the Western Regions thinking and doing?

Also, what are those Qiang people thinking and doing?

Of course, we have to think about it, what is the Li family in Longxi thinking and doing now? Are you thinking about taking advantage of the situation to grow, and you are also thinking about passing this battle to get a few Guan Nei Hou for their Li family's disciples? ”

"So, Uncle Cui Jiu, we might as well give the Li family in Longxi a chance......"

Cui Jiu listened to Yang Chuan's words, turned his head slowly, and stared at Yang Chuan with a faint gaze: "Let the Li clan in Longxi send troops to attack the Qiang tribe?" ”

Yang Chuan shook his head: "No, let them fight the Qiang tribe, it is estimated that it is the Di people and people from other tribes who will suffer, and even, the Han people in Longxi may suffer;

During this period of time, I had a lot of contact with the people of the Lao Li family, and from them, I could feel a very strong determination and confidence to make meritorious contributions.

So, let them go to their invisible allies, the Qiang tribe, and they may come up with eleven thousand ways to exchange the heads of people from other tribes for military merit. ”

Cui Jiu asked directly: "Tell the point." ”

Yang Chuan: "Let them unite with the Qiang people, go to the land of Longnan, and fight those Qiang people and Di people who do not obey discipline, and it is best to penetrate the Qinling Mountains and connect Hanzhong, Guangyuan and the Sichuan-Shu Plain." ”

Cui Jiu's eyes lit up.

Immediately, the old thief's eyes flashed with a faint faint glow, and he asked expressionlessly: "First, will the Li family in Longxi agree?" Second, through the land of Longxi, Hanzhong, Guangyuan and Sichuan and Shu, are you not afraid that they will sit big? ”

Yang Chuan shook his head and said with a smile: "Their main task at the moment is to get money for themselves to repair the mansion, enjoy food, enjoy fine wine and beautiful women. ”

Cui Jiu nodded silently.

Yang Chuan's comical operation, it seems that he is taking the money and grain of the imperial court in Hu Quan, but the emperor guessed that it should be a trap for the Li family in Longxi......

……

The 'political performance project' of the eleven counties of Longxi County is in full swing, and there are many departments and servants who carry wood and stone, and the road leading to Lintao is also rammed in many places.

The title you want the most, Benhou will find a way to get it for you.

Your favorite mansion, Benhou has allocated money and grain for you to build.

As for the roads leading to Lintao in these counties, you should always pay for and build them, right?

Dealing with smart people is so simple, boring and boring, there is no need for Yang Chuan to open his mouth at all, more than a dozen clansmen of the Li clan in Longxi just met a head, and then they decided to help Yang Chuan Taishou build roads, and before waiting for the approval of the Taishou Mansion, the big dogs around the country began to build roads.

They inquired clearly, Yang Chuan's requirements for the road are extremely high, it is said that the roadbed alone has to be treated three or five times, and some ore powder, fried salt or something must be added, anyway, it is very complicated.

So, while those people began to dig the roadbed, they sent people to Taishoufu to 'borrow'.

I haven't thought about borrowing someone yet, and the other party has borrowed someone from me first?

Yang Chuan couldn't laugh or cry after hearing this.

These guys are too anxious, aren't they? How much manpower and material resources will be spent on ramming the official road, even if it is the same process as the original, just using Sanhe sand, green salt and yellow mud to steam the soil, how much manpower and material resources will be consumed......

In desperation, he had no choice but to summon several 'small package foremen' from the infrastructure construction camp and ask them to find a way to transfer a group of 'technicians' to the Li family in Longxi first, so that they could repair the road.

So, when those technicians arrived at the construction sites and explained in detail the basic process of ramming the official road to those big dogs, those people were dumbfounded.

According to Yang Chuan's design, the ramming of ordinary official roads needs to go through excavation of roadbed, anti-leakage treatment, waterproof layer treatment, anti-turning slurry treatment, laying wool felt, and laying foundation layer......

and dozens of other processes.

Moreover, it is not enough to build roads alone.

Yang Chuan's requirements, when the official road is rammed, the surrounding environment must be considered at the same time, and the flood drainage, slope protection, etc.

There's just no way to fix it, okay.

Just when everyone was at a loss, Yang Chuan passed down the word that he had already played the imperial court and would open a 'branch' of Tai College in Longxi County——

【Shouyang Academy】

As long as they are at least seven years old, both men and women, they can enter Shouyang Academy to study, and the college provides students with food and food subsidies every month, but the premise is that they must pass an entrance exam.

The exam questions are personally proposed by Yang Chuan, and after the exam, an interview will be added.

As for this interviewer, it is natural that he can only be served by Taishou Yang Chuan himself.

After all, the exam is just a threshold, and its main purpose is to keep the 'threshold' of Shouyang Academy from being too low, so as not to make those big dogs suspicious, which will ruin Yang Chuan's big business.

Originally, according to Yang Chuan's meaning, this Shouyang Academy was to become the first 'vocational and technical college' in the Han Empire that provided free benefits, but between this free and not free, it was very particular.

It is human nature to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages.

Sometimes, if you don't set a mysterious and operable threshold, those who eat a free lunch will not only not be grateful to you, but will be contemptuous, thinking that something so easy to get hold can be a valuable item?

In Yang Chuan's words, this is the human heart.

Even for the sake of the reputation of Shouyang Academy, Yang Chuan had to ruthlessly brush off a large number of children surnamed Li, which made those family heads so anxious that they were about to cry.

Naturally, some people will be tempted to find a way, and they want their children to go to Shouyang Academy wholeheartedly.

And so.

The reputation of Shouyang Academy quickly rose in Longxi County.

As for those children surnamed Li who were 'dissuaded' by exams and interviews, under the 'money ability' of their family heads, they will definitely not be able to enter Shouyang Academy to study.

Of course, if you really want to enter Shouyang Academy, it's not that you can't negotiate.

Gotta add money.

Moreover, it's not enough to just add money, you have to honestly go to the academy next to Shouyang Academy, and wait for a 'preparatory class'......

In addition, in order to improve the specifications and grades of Shouyang Academy, Yang Chuan made it clear that studying in Shouyang Academy is treated the same as studying in Tai Academy.

That is to say, as long as you can enter Shouyang Academy and pass the grades, you can directly enter the officialdom like a student of Taiyang Academy when you reach a certain age......

At this moment, the entire Longxi County was sensationalized.

The new Taishou Yang Chuan, this person can deal with it!

It's good, he really fishes it for everyone.

As a result, in just three or five days, more than 1,000 'school-age children' were sent to Lintao, and they were all placed on the construction site of the 'Shouyang Academy' by Yang Chuan.

Yang Chuan roughly calculated that among the more than 1,000 'school-age children', there were more than 900 surnamed Li, and two-thirds of them were over 16 or 7 years old.

The people of Lao Li's family are really good at sewing and inserting needles.

But it doesn't matter, this is part of Yang Chuan's 'package'.

In the next few days, after 'repeated discussions' with the imperial court, Yang Chuan finally finalized and set up a 'architecture' in the 'Shouyang Academy'.

Don't everyone like to build mansions and roads?

All right.

Ben Hou met your needs, and directly gathered all the departments, servants and people in the eleven counties who were going to build roads, and divided them into categories, so that the infrastructure construction battalions began to teach 'engineering technology', like what repairs bridges and roads, it is called bridge science, like what is digging mountains and burrowings, it is called tunneling, and like what is building houses and laying foundations, it is called architecture.

And so on and so forth.

Yang Chuan relied on the school-running mode and discipline division of the 'Northwest University of Science and Technology' in his memory, supplemented by the actual situation of the Han Empire, and finally established the first 'Comprehensive University of Science and Technology'.

For a time, Lintao New Town was overcrowded.

At the beginning, everyone looked at the newly built city in Yangchuan and felt that it was too big, the road was too wide, and the four residential areas in the east, west, north and south were empty......

Now it seems that it can only be said to be a little too small.

Longxi County is only 350,000 households with a full population, so Yang Chuan is so tossed, just the students in Lintao City, there are enough seven or eight thousand people, and the most terrible thing is that these people are all so-called 'school-age children', the younger ones are seven or eight years old, and the older ones are seventeen or eighteen years old.

Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, once said, 'All the talents in the world are in the hub'.

Today's Yang Chuan really has such thoughts.

What is the most direct way to completely change a family?

Naturally, it starts with the doll.

Yang Chuan, who has been a man for two generations, understands the cause and effect too well, so when he learned that he was going to be sent to Longxi County to serve as a taishou, he began to plan and calculate, and he thought about doing a big job.

The Li family in Longxi wants to improve the overall strength of the family as soon as possible, and the thirst for titles, official positions and fame has become their weakness and hard wounds......

Ahem, create opportunities for them, so why should they be too guarded?

It's better to go back to Zhuyuantou Village, play cards with Liu Man, Zhiniang, Naren Tuoya and a few other little women, give birth to babies, and wait for death for the rest of your life.

(End of chapter)