The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 119 Yuan Yan’s Visit
Liu Tai made a decision in his mind and immediately began to make arrangements. Several counties and counties built shipyards, and the surrounding fishermen also enjoyed preferential treatment.

However, Liu Tai was ready to take good care of this fish pond. It was not the time to harvest yet. The shipyard's task was only to help the fishermen as much as possible and then edit the household registrations of the surrounding fishermen.

Of course, Liu Tai's requirements are not high. He can collect taxes within at least three years, change boats within six years, and arrange things like insurance shares for fishermen within ten years, so that the funds can flow in the direction where they can fish in the ocean. develop.

As for when distant ocean fishing will be realized, and even ocean hunting of whales will be possible, then I can let it go.

After all, we can’t let the national navy go fishing.

Not to mention that letting the navy get involved in this kind of thing can easily lead to endless troubles.

More importantly, what I want to see is a vibrant market, with people shouting: "I want to find a new world!"

Rather than a single monopoly market for the military, such a policy market has no future.

The other thing is to find a way for Xie Fei to continue to study how to increase the burning temperature of coal and how to realize blast furnace steelmaking.

I don't really want to be able to refine steel, I just want to be able to refine iron tools with high toughness and strength so that I can arm a large number of soldiers.

After all, he has experienced this era and fought on the battlefield. Liu Tai fully realized that fighting in this era does not depend on the strength of the weapons in the hands of the soldiers, but on the thickness of the armor worn by the soldiers.

Even if the warriors cannot wear more than 100 kilograms of armor and become humanoid tanks pushing all the way on the battlefield, they must wear at least fifty or sixty kilograms of fish scale armor, which is enough to ignore ordinary arrows and defend against ordinary swords. One against ten.

At the same time, after having enough steel, weapons such as spears also need to enter the elimination sequence. After all, they are the weapons of the poor.

When I was poor, I could only chop wood into soldiers and raise poles into flags. A weapon like a spear, which only needs an iron tip, is not so much used for fighting as it is more suitable for dying with others. Cannon fodder's exclusive weapon.

And he will need to face Wang Jun directly in the future. He has an elite Xianbei cavalry under his command. Even if he uses a spear to block the attack, he will still trade his life for his life. He just trades a spearman for a cavalry. He will make more money anyway. That’s all.

Therefore, in the future, the infantry direction needs a certain degree of reform. After much thought, Liu Tai still felt that if he wanted to use infantry against cavalry, the direction of the Song Dynasty was the most reliable.

Although the emperor of the Song Dynasty was not good enough and the civil servants made mistakes, there was nothing wrong with the Song Dynasty's carefully studied tactics of foot versus cavalry.

In particular, the Yue family army led by Yue Fei started with foot and cavalry, killing the Jin army with heavy infantry all the way.

He does not have the charisma of Yue Fei, but Liu Tai believes that the army he has modeled after the First Army will definitely not be worse than the Yue Family Army in terms of will and quality.

After all, his original plan was to use the elite of his soldiers to make up for his tactical audacity.

There are tactics that others dare not think about or do, but I believe that my soldiers can do them and do them well.

In other words, the elite soldiers are used to cover up the risks of tactics.

Therefore, in the future, the fighting method of riding on foot and using lances will gradually be eliminated. On the contrary, the fighting method of wearing armor and chopping the legs of horses with broadswords and axes will gradually increase.

To support such battlefield tactics, a large amount of high-quality steel is needed.

At the same time, if you want the soldiers to wear armor and hold swords and axes without being affected, you need to have further requirements for their physical fitness.

This naturally requires long-term training and abundant and rich food. This is not only cereal food, but also a large amount of fat and protein. After all, Liu Tai feels that he has a long way to go!

Just when Liu Tai was thinking every possible way to improve his skills, Yuan Yan came to Qingzhou on behalf of the imperial court.

Only this time, Yuan Yan did not directly read out the imperial edict to Liu Tai, but came over with a smile on his face.

"Rare visitors, rare visitors! Please come inside!" Liu Tai watched Yuan Yan arrive and invited him into the room and said, "Does your Majesty have any important instructions?"

"Isn't it okay for me to come here?" Yuan Yan said with a smile to Liu Tai.

When Liu Tai heard this, he wasn't too talkative. He just looked at Yuan Yan with quite suspicious eyes.

It would be strange if he suddenly came to Qingzhou, a capital official who had done a good job, and said that there was nothing wrong with him.

Maybe he was appointed as the new Qingzhou Biejia, so he came here to supervise himself.

Yuan Yan sighed: "Don't look at me like this, this matter really has nothing to do with you, it was Shi Le who brought it up.

In order to prevent him from conflicting with you and delaying the king's affairs, please ask the court to send someone to adjust your relationship with him! "

"Hoho, so you took the initiative to come over and adjust it?!" Liu Tai raised his eyebrows and looked at Yuan Yan.

"How can it be possible? There is no one in the court who is not a human being. I don't know if anyone comes to regulate you and Shi Le. Either he will be forced to death by you or Shi Le. This is a complete trap. Who would take the initiative to jump here!"

Yuan Yan sighed, but from Yuan Yan's tone, it was obvious that he was the unlucky guy.

Now, there are more or less different voices within the Xiongnu royal family because of the disagreement between Liu Tai and Shi Le.

Because of Wang Mi's death, a rift appeared between Liu Tai and the Xiongnu Han Kingdom. At the same time, Shi Le himself proved that he could kill.

If anyone is willing to go through fire and water for the Huns and Han and come to coordinate the two sides, it is very likely that the two sides will coordinate and coordinate, and then the coordinator will be gone.

After all, both Shi Le and Liu Tai belong to the type. When you suspect that these two will rebel, these two guys will really rebel and show you. If you don't want to be killed and sacrificed to the flag, it's better to be good.

Not to mention, the Xiongnu and Han Dynasty severely looted Luoyang, the capital of the Western Jin Dynasty. All kinds of wealth in Luoyang and the burial objects of some famous ministers and generals were also excavated.

These Xiongnu nobles are enjoying all kinds of luxuries looted from the capital of Luoyang, enjoying the barbaric and brilliant civilization, robbing wealthy households, and appropriating the noble ladies of noble families who were originally out of their reach.

How could they be willing to let go of this and then go to get angry between Liu Tai and Shi Le.

More importantly, he also needed to face the military power of Wang Jun, the most powerful prince after the fall of the Jin Dynasty. He did this because he was mentally ill.

It has to be said that although the Xiongnu and Han Dynasties have been greatly sinicized, they are still a small number of barbarians.

After they plundered too much wealth from Luoyang, the entire Huns and Han Kingdom began to decline at an incredible speed.

The most outstanding representative among them should be Liu Cong.

He has already taken Wu Shi Powder, enjoyed the three palaces and six courtyards, and associates with wine and sex every day. It is only a matter of time before he is hurt by wine and sex.

However, Liu Cong still knew the threat Liu Kun posed to him, so he began to organize an army to pull out Liu Kun behind him.

As for the Central Plains, they still choose to continue to let Liu Tai and Shi Le cause trouble for the time being, and have no ambition to unify the world in one go.

This is also the reason why Liu Kun did not personally take action during the confrontation with Wang Jun in Jizhou.After all, Liu Cong is the leader at this time, but if Liu Kun wants to develop, he must win Jizhou. If he cannot win, Liu Kun will be trapped and die in Jinyang sooner or later.

Therefore, the matter reported by Shi Le was treated as a ball. Seeing that the important officials in the court could not make a decision on this matter, they proposed to appoint or remove someone as the prefect of Qinghe or the prefect of Anping, and let him be the one between Liu Tai and Shi Le. A buffer between Shi Le and Liu Tai to avoid conflicts.

Because Shi Le took the initiative to find out about this matter, he naturally found someone who was good with Liu Tai, and naturally found Yuan Yan who was good with Liu Tai, and the pot fell down just like that.

All I can say is that this is not a bad idea, but the person in the past is likely to become an unlucky person.

Because not only will he become a sandwich between Liu Tai and Shi Le, but sometimes he will even have to face the edge of Wang Jun's Xianbei cavalry.

"Hahahaha!" Liu Tai couldn't help laughing when he heard this. He couldn't help but point at Yuan Yan and said:

"In the end, the ball fell on your head, so I'm going to make a good apology to you, and I won't come back until you're drunk today!"

"So before I come to take office, I want to say hello to your host to prevent your troops from attacking me!" Yuan Yan said with a bit of annoyance.

"No, no, I can even bring you a gift for Shi Le!" Liu Tai looked at Yuan Yan and said.

"Oh?!" After hearing this, Yuan Yan looked at Liu Tai with a bit of curiosity in his eyes.

"Mutual trade, in the county where you are located, I am willing to trade with Shi Le." Liu Tai couldn't help but say with a smile at this moment,

"Shi Le has the horses I want, and of course I also have the salt Shi Le wants. You can also earn a share of resources in your county-county mutual market.

Not to mention, at least with the financial resources, you can also recruit soldiers and train soldiers, which will better balance Shi Le and me.

So, is this suggestion considered for you? "

"Oh!" When Yuan Yan heard Liu Tai's words, he glanced at Liu Tai in surprise, stood up and saluted Liu Tai and said:

"Nayan would like to thank the Duke for his help, and will definitely help the Duke to appease Shi Le!"

Yuan Yan also knew that it was basically unrealistic for Liu Tai to directly trade with Shi Le, because it would shake Liu Tai's foundation.

It is undeniable that even though Liu Tai has gone through many reorganizations, there are still many legacies belonging to Wang Mi among Liu Tai's forces.

Under such circumstances, if Liu Tai directly trades with Shi Le, Wang Sang, Cao Yi and others may immediately have objections. Even if they will not rebel, it will inevitably shake Liu Tai's basic market.

But with Yuan Yan as an excuse, at least on the surface, he can give his own forces a suitable explanation, which will naturally become a choice that all three parties are willing to accept. To a certain extent, it can be regarded as a win-win-win situation.

After all, Shi Le's sphere of influence is really short of salt, and Liu Tai is really short of horses. Liu Tai may even miss horses as much as Da Zi misses Yanyun Sixteen States.

"Between you and me, it is a courtesy to help each other in these troubled times!" Liu Taize smiled at Yuan Yan and said,

"After all, with the passing of my uncle, the power of the Han people in the Xiongnu Han Kingdom was inevitably suppressed.

We can help each other if we can, not to mention that you and I have some friendship on the battlefield, so how can we not help! "

"Thank you, Lord Donglai!" After hearing Liu Tai's words, Yuan Yan saluted Liu Tai solemnly.

To be honest, Liu Tai is still willing to help Yuan Yan. The simple reason is that he is a Han!
Although Yuan Yan looks harmless now, he and Beigong Chun are the only two people in the entire Western Jin Dynasty, who pose the greatest threat to the Xiongnu and Han armies.

And Yuan Yan himself is the kind of ruthless person who becomes calmer when in danger and is more willing to fight. He has not forgotten the fact that this guy hung the sword around his neck.

Under normal circumstances, this kind of person should not be supported, because this kind of person is too dangerous and can easily escape.

Liu Tai knew very well that if the Huns and the Han people did not part ways in the future, he would still be willing to be an obedient subject of the Huns and Han countries as long as they did not press too hard.

But Question 300: The Huns have invaded China for [-] years. Although I don’t know the historical details of this period, I still know that the reforms of Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty solved the problem of the path that the Hu people should take to take over China.

Before that, the conflicts that broke out between Hu and Han must have ended. As the first ethnic minority to occupy the Central Plains, the Huns and Han had no previous experience at all. It was impossible for the conflicts between the two ethnic groups not to explode!

In Liu Tai's view, even if the conflict between Hu and Han did not explode when it was in Liu Cong's hands, it would probably explode when it was passed on to Liu Cong's son Liu Can, and he was only so young that he could afford to wait.

When the time comes, he will take advantage of the situation and raise his troops, and it will depend on whether Yuan Yan is willing to follow him.

To be honest, by that time, unless Yuan Yan no longer intends to become a Han, otherwise the general trend is that he will have no choice but to mix with himself.

Moreover, between himself and Shi Le, unless he dies or Shi Le dies, Yuan Yan may be able to gain a false prosperity due to the mutual trade between himself and Shi Le, but the upper limit of his development has been tacitly agreed upon by both parties. .

Therefore, Liu Tai planned to trade with Yuan Yan, especially his own salt tickets. He could also take advantage of the mutual trade opportunity to trade with Shi Le, and invisibly obtain the wealth belonging to Shi Le.

Liu Tai entertained Yuan Yan well and sent Yuan Yan away, and soon summoned Zhang Song, Cao Yi and Xi to join the army.

At this time, Chu Hui was on the front line assisting Wang Sang to appease the people, while Yang Man went to publicize prescriptions for treating the plague.

However, Xi Jian and Liu Tai liked it very much, so he asked him to serve as the supervisor by his side and be responsible for the minutes of this meeting to record this meeting.

And Liu Tai said, "Shi Le asked the court to send Yuan Yan as a lobbyist, so that the previous affairs between the two of us could be wiped out!"

"Shi Le is going too far!" When Cao Yi heard this, he couldn't help but stood up and said angrily, "Could it be that we have no one to count on!"

"Of course I sternly refused!" Liu Tai said seriously to everyone,

"However, everyone knows about the friendship between Yuan Yan and me, especially the one sent by the imperial court. I can't help but face this.

So I forced Shi Le to make Yuan Yan the prefect of Anguo County, standing between my power and his, so that we would not interfere with each other to show our sincerity! "

These people couldn't help but nodded when they heard this, thinking that Liu Tai's behavior was quite polite.

Liu Tai continued, "However, I'm afraid Yuan Yan won't be able to stand in Anping County.

So we plan to trade with Anping to appropriately increase Yuan Yan's strength so that he can better fight against Shi Le. What do you think? "

"The general is careful, there is no point in waiting for us!" After hearing that Liu Tai had made a decision, everyone shook their heads.

Liu Tai nodded and asked, "So, what do you think our Qingzhou has to offer and what do you think we need to purchase, so that we can hand it over to Yuan Yan so that he can be prepared to trade with us? Tell us all. "

　Eleven chapters left.

　　
　
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