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Chapter 324 However, you have to add money
After the autumn harvest of this year, Hebei has a bumper harvest, the people's hearts are stable, and there is a trend of revival.But there is one exception, and that is Youzhou.Because Han Lou is Ge Rong's trilogy, after Ge Rong failed, he fled to Youzhou City to defend himself, and lived by looting the surrounding area.

However, Hebei has experienced years of turmoil, and people's livelihood has long been overwhelmed.After Gao Huan promulgated a series of measures to calm the people, the few remaining farmers in Youzhou began to flee in large numbers to Fanyang and other places in the south.

In view of this, Gao Huan appointed Hu Lujin, who had recently joined him, as the governor of Youzhou and the governor of Youzhou.He led ten thousand elite cavalry from the headquarters to cross the border all the way, recruiting soldiers from various counties along the way.

When they arrived in Fanyang, they had already declared to the outside world that "20 elite soldiers and auxiliary soldiers are useless."

Han Lou didn't know why, so he dispatched his general Chen Zhou with [-] troops to confront the Hulujin Department on both sides of Shengshui (this is a river) in Liangxiang.

On the night of the confrontation, the temperature dropped sharply, and heavy snow fell in the sky.Chen Zhou thought that under such circumstances, it was impossible for Hu Lujin to play any tricks, so he relaxed his vigilance.

But what he didn't expect was that Hu Lujin ordered his vanguard, that is, the eldest son Hu Luguang, to lead the cavalry to take a detour and cross the river from a river beach that is far away from the confrontation point, but the depth of the river is the shallowest. After two hours, from the direction of Youzhou City, a surprise attack was carried out on Chen Zhou's camp!

It was bitter cold outside the Great Wall, and the elite of the Hulu Department fought in winter, and they had the endurance that ordinary Central Plains soldiers did not have.Chen Zhou, who was in a hurry to fight, was obviously not the opponent of Hulubu. During the melee, when Chen Zhou was directing the resistance, Huluguang shot him in the face with an arrow and died on the spot.

The ensuing battle turned out to be one-sided.The trilogy under Ge Rong's command has poor cohesion. After encountering a sudden attack, it quickly collapsed beyond control.

The remnants of Chen Zhou's troops fled to Youzhou City, and Han Lou, who learned of the battle, was so frightened that he abandoned Youzhou City and went to Jundu Mountain in the north of the city.

Hulu Jin's troops occupied Youzhou City without bloodshed, and then settled down in Youzhou. They did not take advantage of the victory to pursue, and Han Lou was able to escape.

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Outside Shouyang City, relying on the Huaihe River, Liu Yishou ordered Yang Min to preside over the construction of a super-large crossbow workshop, which was only responsible for the assembly of crossbows.The crossbow bodies, crossbow poles, crossbow machines, crossbow strings, etc. are all made by other workshops and sent here for assembly.

This super-large workshop operates in what Liu Yishou called an "assembly line".Each person is only responsible for assembling one part, and a production line is "quality inspected" by a mature craftsman.

After several months of busy work, this large workshop also stopped production after winter. After Liu Yishou gave the workers "holiday expenses" and "year-end bonuses" for the New Year, he sent them home ahead of time to celebrate the New Year.

On the surface, Dudu Liu showed kindness to give profits to those hard-working technicians, but the actual situation is: the organization of the assembly line leads to too fast production speed, including the workshops for parts production, which are all in short supply of raw materials and cannot be reproduced. !
The wood used to make crossbow bolts is not just a random tree.The type of tree needs to be specified, including how old it is.Of course, this problem is not difficult to solve.

After all, there are many mountains and forests around Shouyang.

The more difficult part is that the wood needs to be placed for a year before it can be used as raw materials after drying.The original wood was searched by them from warehouses in various places in Huainan, and now it is out of stock.

Iron rings for crossbows require iron materials.Iron materials need charcoal and iron ore to be smelted, and blacksmiths are also required to forge them.Blacksmiths are easy to solve, but the iron mines that are easy to mine are not in Shouyang.

In fact, it's not just this, Liu Yishou found that once the relevant production was started, except for raw materials such as charcoal and coal (coal), they were short of almost everything else!
In desperation, he had no choice but to convene all his advisers to join the army to discuss countermeasures.Before next year, everything will be shut down.

In the lobby of the government office, a thick stack of papers was placed in front of Yang Min.He tossed around in it, and finally sighed helplessly: "Master, there is a place named Tongshan in the south of Pengcheng. Since the Warring States period, it has been a place where copper and iron have been produced. Every dynasty has smelting supervision here, but Because of the war, it has been abandoned there.

As long as the mines in Tongshan can be put into operation, iron materials will naturally be fine.

As for wood...it can be realized by cutting and storing in advance in the future, but right now, far away water can't be solved near fire. "

Yang Min sighed, wood is not the same as iron, it is not a product controlled by the Liang government.But how to put it, if you get anxious, you can kill a person in a hurry.If you want to store it for a certain period of time, then you must honestly act according to the laws of the development of things.

It is impossible to make a qualified product by rushing ducks to the shelves.

"Actually, I feel that we can go to the feudal lords from all over the world to buy wood, iron and other necessary raw materials. They should actually have a lot of stock in their hands."

Cui Xian, who doesn't talk much on weekdays, suggested thoughtfully.

Liu Yishou's eyes lit up, it was true that he had never thought of buying timber from feudal lords from all over the place.Since the Western Han Dynasty, wood and other materials that can be used to make crossbow arrows have been the strategic resources of various regimes.No matter whether you have the ability to make crossbow bolts or not, it doesn't take much effort to cut a piece of wood for storage.

The number of crossbows in the treasuries of the powerful princes and kings in the Western Han Dynasty started from [-].You said that the government and the feudal princes and kings in various parts of the Liang State did not have timber stocks?Simply unimaginable.

"Our relationship with these people is extremely bad. They would rather take the wood to burn than sell it to us."

Liu Yishou waved his hand, and said something disappointing.Traditional crossbows are not good enough, and they can't take the route of modern machinery industry these days. It is estimated that hot weapons will peak when gunpowder is reached, which is really one head and two big.

"My lord's words are very true, but these problems are not caused by us. Who would have thought that Xiao Yan's sons are such waste?"

Yang Min said with emotion.

Not to mention Xiao Yi, who has the most episodes and the most powerful under his command, he directly participated in the assassination of Liu Yishou.Xiao Gang's small coin was kept by the crown prince under Xiao Yan's watchful eye.

Xiao Lun and Xiao Xu wanted Liu Yishou to die soon, so how could they help?
"My lord, didn't you always tell us before that only seven or eight-year-old children can tell right from wrong, adults like us should pay attention to gain and loss, don't we?"

Cui Xian said calmly, using what Liu Yishou said to prove what he was going to say next.

"So what are you trying to say?"

Liu Yishou felt that since Cui's younger sister became pregnant, Cui Siam's enthusiasm for doing things became much higher.Sure enough, human beings are animals of interest, and feelings alone cannot win over people's hearts.

"The subordinate wants to say that we can sell the finished crossbows to those vassal kings, and then buy other necessary raw materials from them. Especially, we can start with the descendants of Xiao Tong in Jingxiang, such as Xiao People like Huan and Xiao Xi."

Why does this routine of buying raw materials and then exporting finished products sound so familiar?Liu Yishou fell into deep thought, and found that Cui Xian's idea didn't seem impossible, but there was still a problem.

"The craftsman's workshop is a must. Why don't they produce it themselves and buy ours?"

Liu Yishou asked a little puzzled.

Hearing this, Yang Min sneered and said, "Those vassals cannot afford the cost of making crossbows. They need to open workshops, hire craftsmen, and go all in one. These are all money. And the quality of production is also very high." It's hard to guarantee.

These vassal kings actually took the raw materials and asked the craftsmen and supervisors of the government near the fiefdom to make them, and they just waited for the goods to be received.

But these lords often use the name of Xiao Yan to waste their wages, so the government workshop is also very perfunctory, often hacking some of their raw materials and delivering some inferior products.

These princes themselves are not familiar with military affairs, and now they are not fighting, so they go down layer by layer..."

Yang Min gave Liu Yishou a "you understand" look.

Liu Yishou fully understands that there are policies at the top and countermeasures at the bottom, and no one will work in vain.

"Well, send someone to contact Xiao Xie. This guy is very courageous. Ask him if he wants a single-man crossbow machine equipped with standard equipment. If he wants it, he can exchange it for raw materials, and give it unlimited! Wood, iron, whatever you have ,all I want!"

Liu Yishou made a decision immediately, war is the logistics of fighting.This guy Xiao Xi is extremely dissatisfied with Xiao Yan's eccentricity, wouldn't he develop armaments in secret?
"Xiao Yi is the strongest guy, so I won't tell him. As for Xiao Lun and Xiao Xu, we can send someone to contact them. When they grow stronger, they will naturally think that Xiao Yan's position is only for us to win over. They will definitely not be our enemies. At least before the chaos in Liang Guo."

Liu Yishou's way of doing things is to be bold, unrestrained, daring to do things, and to make a plan twice.

But "exporting" crossbow machines does not mean exporting crossbow bolts.As for arrows, Liu Yishou strictly controls them, only selling "guns" and not "bullets", which is the routine of old coins.

"By the way, one of the craftsmen from Luoyang has improved the production process of featherless arrows. This person will reward you a lot, and this type of arrow will also be popularized in the army. In addition, Jia Sixie, you need to send someone to put fish fry in the lake on the other side of Shaopi. , Expand breeding, raise ducks and geese in the surrounding area.

Collect goose feathers to make arrow feathers and equip them for the newly established Luodiao.This unit will specialize in sniping and killing enemy generals on the battlefield in the future, and all bows and arrows will be used exclusively. "

It turned out that the layout was so early!Yang Min and the others sighed in their hearts, Liu Yishou is indeed a person who does great things.They quickly agreed, thanked them and left.

After everyone had left, Liu Yishou lay down on the table like a salted fish and sighed from exhaustion.

Going uphill is very tiring, the kind of thing that can wake up and take over the world after a little messing around in a woman's bed, and the wind and rain can only exist in imagination.

Focusing on the big and letting go of the small in everything, and doing the big things by yourself are the secrets of success behind those people who have a good face.

"It's not enough. Now we need to spread the farming, and we still lack a key infrastructure."

Liu Yishou's hometown in his previous life was Xuzhou, not far from here.To the south of Anfengtang, there seems to be an artificial canal and weir pond, which is a large grain-producing area.But now it seems that there is wasteland over there, and it has not been cultivated.

After all, there are too many fertile fields around Shaopi, and the wasteland without water, farmers are not interested in developing it.

This kind of thing can only be done by the people who govern Shouyang to mobilize the masses to develop the place.

"And you have to do something with high added value, or you'll run out of money."

Liu Yishou was lying on the table, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he thought of another good idea.

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At the beginning of winter, Duguxin and Zhao Gui under Liu Yishou's command led the troops respectively, with [-] troops each from the headquarters, and joined forces to attack Xiapi County, which was almost in a state of no resistance.Gao Huan's team had just arrived in Ren Ren less than a month ago, and they were taken over without even sitting on their buttocks.

After taking Xiapi City, Duguxin was ordered to defend Xiapi County by Liu Yishou, while Zhao Gui led troops to continue to attack the neighboring Donghai County.He was noticed by the patrolling soldiers on the other side of the river in Beihai County, Liang State, and urgently notified the local prefect.

The local prefect didn't dare to delay, and it was three days later that the matter was written into a document and sent to Jiankang through the post station.

It wasn't until this time that the court center of the Liang Kingdom knew that Liu Yishou's so-called "birthday gift" to Xiao Yan in Leyou Garden was actually genuine!
When they checked the map, they were surprised to find that since then, Liang Guo's front in Qingxu has been advancing at the same time, and there are no obvious flaws!It seems that Lanling County can really be taken down in the next step!
Just as Zhu Yi and the others were discussing in private and came up with a plan before reporting it to Xiao Yan, Liu Yishou used Liang Guo's post system to invent a document to inform the central court of Jiankang that he had sent troops to take down Xiapi County and Donghai County , Since then, the Qingxu line of defense has been impregnable.

Ask the imperial court to send civil officials to take over the government affairs of these two counties, and give instructions on how to proceed next.

As soon as this article was published, it was like dropping a drop of water into a boiling oil pan. The entire upper echelons of Jiankang, especially the Xiao clan and those children of the aristocratic family who were idle at home, couldn't help it anymore!

The pot was too big, and Zhu Yi couldn't bear it anymore.No matter how he decides, while satisfying one group of people, he will offend another group of people.There was no other way, so Zhu Yi had no choice but to take the official document and went to the Dafo Pavilion of Tongtai Temple to ask Xiao Yan for countermeasures.

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"My son-in-law is very trustworthy, hahahahaha!"

Xiao Yan laughed heartily and said, after reading the official document written by Liu Yishou sent by the station system, a smile appeared on his usually calm face, and he seemed to be in a good mood.

"Uh, Prince Consort Liu was responsible for this matter before, but now, it has nothing to do with him."

Zhu Yi said with a bitter face.

The meaning of Liu Yishou's official document is very clear. I have already taken down the two counties. I will throw the fat to you, and you can divide it yourself. Don't keep beeping me behind your back.

He's all right now, but Zhu Yi suffers from all kinds of fatigue bombardment every day.Do these two counties need two prefects?Is there a corresponding series of official positions?

This is a piece of meat, but it is not a big fat meat.

The biggest fat is what Liu Yishou said, waiting for the imperial order.

The court's order must be to let him stick to his place!If he is allowed to take down Lanling County and the ancestral land of the clan, where will the face of the Xiao clan be placed?There is no doubt about this!
Liu Yishou actually hinted at this point: It is not impossible for me not to fight Lanling County, but I have to pay more!
"Praise the son-in-law, and the official position will not be used, and more money and food will be given. The weapons in the treasury will be given if they are not needed. The son-in-law still has the heart to do things for the country."

Xiao Yan said with emotion.

This is what it should have meant. After taking advantage of it, Liu Yishou will be able to throw off his arms and not be restrained.

Zhu Yi nodded slightly, and said with some embarrassment: "Your Majesty's words are very true, there is nothing wrong with Concubine Liu, but Lanling County... all the princes want to take command of the expedition, who should go?"

(End of this chapter)