Chapter 552: Stockpiling Materials and Preparing Armor
For Liaodong, the Wang family is very concerned about them. Even more than the Huns and Xianbei back then.
In the past, the Xiongnu did develop the Xiongnu Empire, but as a nomadic people, their roots were far weaker than those of the Central Plains. The threat to the Central Plains is not too great, but Liaodong is different.
Liaodong is a semi-nomadic and semi-agricultural country, and it absorbed the craftsmen, nobles, officials, etc. who were defeated and scattered in Jizi Joseon, and later took advantage of the collapse of the Great Qian, plundered, and finally annexed Lelang County in the Liu and Song dynasties.
After getting a large number of craftsmen, officials, and nobles, Liaodong combined its own habits and fused a Liaodong culture.
The Central Plains culture first started from Yanhuang, as far as it was too far away, and then passed through the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, until the Zhou Dynasty, through the feudal system, many princes continued to develop, so that the Zhuxia civilization continued to grow and develop in this land.
In addition to expanding the territory, the more important thing is the expansion of the Zhuxia civilization. Now that the Liaodong Kingdom began to threaten the northeast of the Sui Dynasty, it had become a threat to the Zhuxia civilization.
For this situation, it is natural to exterminate it, but the Great Sui is caught in the dispute between the princes, and there is no energy to attack and destroy the Liaodong Kingdom in a short time.
"Liaodong Kingdom is now full-fledged, and it is not easy to solve it in a short time, so it depends on how Yang Guang behaves below."
"The world seems to be prosperous, but in fact it is internal and external." Wang Xuanze shook his head and said.
"If the family wants to participate in the Dragon Court, then prepare in advance, as the saying goes, the soldiers and horses have not moved, the grain and grass go first, let the family accumulate all kinds of materials first, and the world will be in chaos in the future, if there is a suitable Mandate of Heaven True Dragon, it will be directly supported when the time comes."
Although Wang's has a strong foundation and capital overseas, those foundations and capital are the foundation of Wang's foothold and cannot be easily used, after all, Wang's needs to maintain a vast overseas field.
It can only support some money, food, equipment, and some soldiers.
Of course, it is some, but when it is really calculated, food alone will be enough for 200,000 people to eat for three years. Millions of stone grains were all collected by the Wang family from warehouses all over the country.
The Wang family occupies a lot of places overseas, all of which are good places for grain production, including Borneo, Champa and the Lancang River Valley. It can be said that in some places, the land is fertile, and as long as you sow some seeds, you can harvest it in the coming year.
At that time, Wang's eyes were red when he learned that there was such fertile land. If there is such fertile soil, how can the brilliant and brilliant great cadres collapse?
What's more, although this land also has a hot climate, it is easy to develop because of the flat land and convenient water transportation. So the Wang family migrated most of the accumulation and population of the Lingnan Wang clan here.
The Wang family vigorously developed this area, and as for the local natives, they were disposed of according to the royal naturalization during the Zhuxia Pioneer Period.
These natives, who have almost not even formed a decent civilization, are naturally willing to accept the Zhuxia culture, and those who are unwilling to accept it are naturally barbarians. When the time comes, just drive these barbarians away, or kill them.
In two hundred years, the Lancang River has become a big granary. The Wang clan built this into Tiannan City, another overseas base of the Wang clan.
The distance between Tiannan City on the Lancang River and Lingnan is thousands of miles, and if you go by land, this road is full of mountains and mountains, which is extremely difficult to walk, and can be called isolated from the world. In the mountains between Tiannan City and Lingnan, there are many scattered indigenous tribes.
The Wang clan spent a hundred years cleaning up the native tribes around Tiannan City, growing and occupying this fertile plain.
There are hundreds of descendants of the Wang family living here, tens of thousands of people from the side clans, and some cadres who follow the Wang family, adding up to about 150,000.
It is also the largest city controlled by the Wang clan except for Guanhai City.
Tiannan City is located here, within a radius of hundreds of miles, Tiannan City is the king of this land, and all the surrounding native tribes are subjugated to Tiannan City.
Just like the tributary system of dividing the feudal foreign domains of the Great Cadres back then. The tribes around Tiannan City come here every year to pay tribute and trade.
The Wang clan was superior to all the natives in technology, agriculture, education, medicine, handicrafts, military and many other aspects.
The indigenous tribes here can only buy good cloth, salt, sugar, iron farming tools, ceramics, tea, fine wine, and even weapons from Tiannan City.
Those natives here are still slash-and-burn, and even the bronze tools are pitiful, how can they be the opponents of the Wang family, and the rattan armor of the Wang family is unexpectedly easy to use here.
The iron armor is easy to rust here, and because of the hot weather, you will sweat after wearing it for a while, and if it is exposed to direct sunlight, the iron armor can spread eggs. So the lightweight and breathable rattan armor is better used here.
Although the land transportation is inconvenient, the water transportation is very convenient, and the millions of stone grain are easily raised for the Wang family.
You must know that the Great Ryukyu Island alone can produce three or four million stone of grain a year, and the output of Nancheng will be even more on this day.
The Wang family's mobilization of various resources from overseas was not shipped all at once, after all, the Great Sui Imperial Court had somewhat weak jurisdiction over the localities, but it was not blind.
There are still a large number of materials and equipment transferred to this million stone grain, and the movement caused will definitely alarm the imperial court, so the Wang family can only take his time.
After deciding on the Fulong Garden, the Wang family began to set up some small warehouses in various places, which did not need too much, and could store the materials used by hundreds of people.
At the same time, he began to select some people who fell into the grass to control.
There are not many private soldiers in the Huainan Wang family, although there are private soldiers in the family of the gate lords in the world, but they are all low-key.
This time, the Wang family planned to use the people who fell into the grass as a cover to train some soldiers. As for why not transfer troops from overseas, because it would be easy to expose Wang's power overseas.
The Great Sui Imperial Court forbade the private collection of armor, but almost all the family members and noble families hid armor, and not one or two sets, but hundreds of sets.
Especially the Guanlong nobles, if these Guanlong nobles lead the troops into battle, the personal soldiers are at least two hundred starts, and these two hundred personal soldiers are the generals' private soldiers, all of whom are elite with armor and have been trained for a long time.
On the battlefield, it is possible to follow the main general to charge and kill the enemy and protect the main general. The family gate valves in Jiangnan and Kanto are much weaker, but there are still guards of one or two hundred people.
These are the unspoken rules between the imperial court and the family gatekeepers.
If the Wang clan wants to prepare more soldiers, it can only be with the help of the thieves who fall into the grass. In fact, it was not the Wang family who did this, but other noble and wealthy families, and the family gate valve also did this.
(End of chapter)