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The third stop of Li Chengzhong's inspection tour was located in Huaiyuan Military City, which is now the location of the Huaiyue and Yuhou Joint Headquarters, and is also the headquarters of the Huaiyue Allied Forces. The Huaiyue Allied Forces are composed of Khitan, Bohai, and Xiongjin Prefectures. To put it bluntly, it is actually Yingzhou.
The formation ideas and methods of the vassal and servant army of the Chinese army are similar to those of later "NATO". The difference is that the highest commander of the Huaiyue Allied Forces, Du Yuhou, is always appointed by the Yingzhou Army. For the control of the allied forces, the Yingzhou Army
The state is stronger.
The Training Department has established a recruit training camp in Huaiyuan Military City. Now the training of recruits in all aspects is in full swing. All training subjects are exactly the same as those of Yingzhou Army recruits, including queue training, fighting training, tactical training,
Discipline cultivation, honor cultivation, etc. are all available.
The training requirements of the Yingzhou Governor's Office for the army are actually far from being as simple as three months of training for recruits. Three months is just basic training to allow the recruits to initially form an army. The training plan of the Combat Training Department starts with recruit training and runs through
During the entire process of forming an army, after three months of preliminary training, the training subjects after forming an army will still be carried out in depth. The deputy commanders of each battalion head are directly under the jurisdiction of the Operational Training Department and assist the chief officer in accordance with the training syllabus of the Operational Training Department.
Next step of training.
Of course, the training syllabus of the Waiyo Alliance Army is different from that of the Yingzhou Army. The Training Department does not have that much energy to copy the detailed and complicated recruit training methods one by one. Their training subjects are more focused on battle formation deployment and discipline development. For
There is very little training in queues, literacy, honors, etc., especially for grassroots officers. The Training Department neither recruited them to Bailang Mountain for training nor received special training. The coalition's grassroots command capabilities are still blank. But
Even so, this kind of training is very different in this era, and the soldiers are still tired and complaining.
Li Chengzhong still played his "people-friendly" style very well in the training camp. He talked with ordinary soldiers, shook hands, hugged his brothers, hugged shoulders, asked the parents about their family background, and occasionally uttered a few swear words.
The blood of these ordinary soldiers was so amused that everyone wanted to die for the governor of the Tang Dynasty! Most of the Bohai soldiers understood Tang dialect. They could understand Li Chengzhong's words, but even the Khitan soldiers and Silla (now Xiongjin Prefecture) who did not understand Li Chengzhong's words
) soldier, facing this pleasant-looking governor, he also admired him from the bottom of his heart.
Li Chengzhong delivered an impromptu speech at the Huaiyuan Allied Forces Recruit Training Camp, and included the allied army soldiers in the army of the Tang Dynasty. Amidst the loud "death" of the soldiers, he left the Huaiyuan Military City and entered the Liaodong Army.
Inspection of Liaocheng and Jian'an.
The southern part of Liaoning Province is the planned grain production base of Yingzhou. The land here is extremely fertile. In this third warmest period in East Asia, which has good weather and good weather, the grain output is very high. It has been almost a month since Wu Zhongzuo and Cheng She were ordered to serve as county magistrates.
When Li Chengzhong arrived here, they were working hard to complete two things. One was to repair the dilapidated houses in the city, and the other was to organize manpower to plow the barren farmland again. Sow the seeds and strive to complete the task of reclaiming 100,000 acres by the end of spring plowing.
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This task was quite arduous, and now it seems that only 50%, or 50,000 acres, can be completed at most. After Li Chengzhong and Feng Dao learned about the specific situation, they cut the task target of the two county magistrates in half, which made them relieved.
Fortunately, there is no fear of food shortage in Yingzhou at present. Insufficient food can still be purchased from Pingzhou. Even if Pingzhou does not buy enough, it can be supplemented with beef and mutton. What's more, Bohai is now under Li Chengzhong's control.
It is also easy to adjust food from there. Li Chengzhong increasingly realized the benefits of conquering the Bohai Kingdom, and also had a personal understanding of the sharp rise in the strength of the entire tribe after the Khitan occupied the Bohai Kingdom in the original history.
Boarding the ship from a fishing port in Jian'an Binhai, Li Chengzhong and others returned along the coastal road. After five days of sailing, they entered the inland from the mouth of the Daling River and went upstream to Jin County.
The magistrate of Jin County is Liu Shenjiao. After welcoming Li Chengzhong in Liucheng, he has returned to Jin County and is now welcoming Li Chengzhong in Jin County. Under Liu Shenjiao's care, the city wall of Jin County has been initially completed, and the city has begun to
In addition to the construction of residential buildings and government offices, it is expected to be able to accommodate 20,000 people. In addition to building the county seat, Liu Shenjiao's main tasks are to resettle newly arrived refugees, organize manpower to reclaim acres of land, and repair ditches, which can be said to be a heavy task.
But as soon as Li Chengzhong arrived in Jin County, he added another burden to Liu Shenjiao - shipbuilding!
"Building ships?" Liu Shenjiao looked bitter.
"Yes, build ships, build sea ships! The future of Yingzhou cannot be walked on one leg. Land is one of them, and sea is the second leg! Only with support from both legs can Yingzhou run." Li Chengzhong started again.
Liu Shen's speech was so vain that he had to file a lawsuit.
"Money? Craftsmen? Time?" Liu Shenjiao lamented. He knew that this year's affairs would be more arduous, so he began to put forward conditions.
"You need money, and so do craftsmen. If not, I'll give it to you from the Bohai Sea. Time - one year is enough. One year later, there will be a port and a shipyard on the coast of Jin County. Three years later, I will
If you want to see a large ship, it will be as big as the Gao family ship I took this time, which can accommodate two hundred people!"
Encouraging, making wishes, and comforting, this is Li Chengzhong's current style of leadership. After describing the big deal in his heart, he patted his butt and walked away from Jin County, leaving Liu Shenjiao with a splitting headache to continue his work.
Li Chengzhong inspected the local area for nearly a month, explaining and assigning many tasks, causing the local area to panic and complain, and then returned to Liucheng in style.
On the ninth day of June, visitors from all over Liucheng gathered. Businessmen from Youzhou, Jizhou, Pingzhou, Yingzhou and Bohai Kingdom gathered here to participate in the "Tendering Conference" of Yingzhou Governor Shifu. Yingzhou Governor Shifu has spent the past two years
Money flowed like water, which greatly stimulated the interest of merchants from all over the country. As soon as they heard that a new good business was about to be sold, merchants rushed to Liucheng one after another. For a time, all the inns in Liucheng were full.
The lobby on the first floor of Furu Inn in Liucheng has been reserved by the Changshi Mansion Business Department and turned into the venue for the conference. In fact, because Furu Inn is close to Changshi Mansion, it has been occupied by Changshi Mansion many times in the past year.
The government contracted the lobby to serve as a place for various government announcements and gatherings of merchants and merchants.
There were more than fifty merchants waiting in the lobby, each of them paid a "deposit" of 100 guan. Only after paying the "deposit" could they have the opportunity to participate in the auction. This was established by the Commercial and Trade Section of the Yingzhou Governor's Office
of rules.
This time, the business offered by the Commerce and Commerce Section was different from others. What they offered was "right of way." After preliminary negotiations with the merchants, the first-hand information obtained by the Commerce and Commerce Division showed that the merchants were not interested in charging "tolls."
"I am quite interested, so I plan to build all the official roads in Yingzhou according to the method of selling "road rights".
The first official road to be auctioned is the road from Huaiyuan Military City to Liaocheng. The bidding price is the "toll". That is to say, the merchants bidding, whoever charges the lowest single toll per vehicle will bear it.
The construction cost of this official road will be borne by the merchant. Of course, the merchant will also enjoy the income from this road. The income will be the fifteen-year toll of this official road. The charging standard is the fee agreement reached through the bidding.
.The bidding toll is calculated on a "per vehicle" basis, and each vehicle is equivalent to four people. If the quoted toll for a bicycle is one hundred cents, the toll fee per person will be twenty-five cents.
With the sound of a drumstick from a clerk in the Commerce and Trade Department, the bidding began.
"Li Ji offered a price of 100 yuan per car. Is there any price lower than this?"
"Eighty cents! Zhang Ji bids eighty cents! Very good, is there anything lower..."
"Sixty Wen! Zhou Ji bids 60 Wen... Are there any more?" Seeing the merchants whispering, the clerk immediately began to incite the bidding atmosphere: "You can do the math, it is one hundred and ten miles from Huaiyuan Military City to Liaocheng.
, it is required to be a hard-earth official road for two carriages to travel in parallel. The total cost of construction is about 20,000 guan. If the toll is 60 guan per vehicle, and based on the number of 100 vehicles passing daily, six guan can be collected, which is more than 2,000 guan a year.
Guan. Fifteen years is more than 30,000 Guan. After deducting various expenses, it is enough to earn ten thousand Guan! If the daily traffic reaches 200 vehicles, the profit can be doubled!"
"Sixty coins, are there any more?...Fifty coins! Very good, Li Ji offered fifty coins!...Fifty coins once!...Fifty coins twice!...Three times! Now someone announced that the Huaiyuan Army
The official road rights from the city to Liaocheng were obtained by Li Ji!"
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"The auction below is for the official road from Liaocheng to Xijing of the Bohai Kingdom. As you all know, the Bohai Kingdom is a rich country. Since the governor's eastward expedition to the Bohai Sea, the trade route has been reopened. The benefits are, haha, I won't say more.
.This section of the official road is 240 miles long. Because it is long, it will be divided into two sections for auction. The upper section is from Liaocheng to Zhengzhou, Bohai State. The bidding starts now..."
As soon as he finished speaking, Li Ji, who had just taken the last official sentence, shouted: "Fifty Wen!"
Zhou Ji responded: "Forty articles!"
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While the auction of various road sections in Yingzhou was in full swing in the lobby of Furu Inn, Li Chengzhong was in Zhongnanhai meeting with two Taoist priests recruited from Xuanying Temple in Youzhou. The two Taoist priests were immortal and in good spirits. One held a fly whisk and the other
Holding a Taoist scroll.
"What the Governor said is my Taoist method of 'subduing fire', which is used to subdue the medicinal properties in the golden elixir so that it can be used by the body. The Governor also knows that the medicinal properties of the golden elixir are too strong and the mortal body cannot bear it, so the medicinal properties must be reduced...
..." Taoist priest Sun Siyu, holding a fly whisk in his hand, narrated eloquently.
"Well, what I want is this method of quenching fire. I heard that this kind of medicine is also used in firecrackers?" Li Chengzhong said.
"Exactly, this is gunpowder, so there is a sound of thunder. It is the fire of the Taoist sect that seduces the thunder to drop the golden elixir..." Sun Siyu continued to show off his mystery.
"Yes, it's gunpowder. I want a lot of it. I wonder if the two Taoist priests can prepare it for me."
"Well... Gunpowder is a small way, and the foundation for longevity is still in the golden elixir. Governor, don't take the small way instead of the high road." Another Taoist priest, Zhang Jun'en, couldn't help it and gave Li Chengzhong some advice.
"Forget about golden elixirs and the like, I just want this kind of gunpowder, it will be of great use to me."
Sun Siyu and Zhang Junen looked at each other, and both of them were very unhappy. They came here to teach the governor of Yingzhou how to live forever, and they could not tolerate the other's lack of attention to longevity, so they were quite disappointed.
The two of them were thinking about how to make Li Chengzhong change his mind, but they might as well listen to what Li Chengzhong added: "I am planning to build a Taoist temple for the two Taoist priests in Liucheng. As long as the two Taoist priests can provide me with a large amount of gunpowder, I will worship three thousand guns every year!"
The two people couldn't help but gasp, and couldn't help but gasp. They looked at each other again and said in unison: "In this case, I will follow what the governor said."
"Very good, let's talk about the formula of gunpowder. Just now, Daozhang Sun said that you are a descendant of Sun Simiao. I wonder what the formula passed down by Sun Simiao is? Don't worry, I have no intention of stealing it.
The formula, no matter what, must be presided over by the two of you. I remember that there is a recipe for mononitrate, disulfide, and charcoal, but I think it can be improved..."
When Li Chengzhong talked about this, the two Taoist priests looked surprised, and Sun Siyu said: "I didn't expect that the governor also studied this Tao intensively."
Li Chengzhong smiled and continued: "Sixty percent of saltpeter, thirty percent of sulfur, and one percent of charcoal, but I'm afraid it's not that simple. Maybe we can continue to experiment a few times. For example, increase the saltpeter to sixty-two percent and reduce the sulfur. Of course, the specific amount will still be determined.
The two Taoist priests are here to discuss the details. After mixing the three medicinal powders, add them with green batter and grind them into granules, as big as rice grains - this is the key. The two Taoist priests, please try to make some, and then we can add more.
Some coal powder... uh, black stone powder... But I would like to ask the two Taoist priests to be careful when making it, otherwise the medicine will be quite powerful..."
Li Chengzhong's brief introduction to gunpowder stunned the two Taoist priests. Only then did they realize that the governor in front of them turned out to be an expert! Now that they understood each other's background, the two Taoist priests no longer kept secrets.
, and began to discuss the method of making gunpowder with Li Chengzhong.
For gunpowder, soil saltpeter is the main ingredient, but Li Chengzhong knew that the soil saltpeter was actually very impure. What really worked was the purified potassium nitrate, so the three of them immersed themselves together and began to discuss the steps and methods of purification.
Of course, Li Chengzhong did not have the time or interest to do chemical experiments with them, so after roughly sharing what he knew, he left this topic for the two Taoist priests to continue studying.
He did what he said, and immediately allocated a thousand dollars to start building a Taoist temple outside Liucheng. This Taoist temple adopts a masonry structure. Except for the necessary beams and columns, no wood is used. This is of course for safety reasons.
In Li Chengzhong's eyes, this was not a Taoist temple, it was clearly a chemical laboratory. For this reason, he personally named this Taoist temple - "Scientific Research Temple". If it were not to suit the identity of the Taoist temple, he would even want to name it directly "
Research Institute".
The construction of the "Scientific Research Temple" was an urgent matter. Li Chengzhong requested that it be completed within two months. To this end, Zhang Laojiang personally led 300 craftsmen to supervise the construction of the Taoist temple day and night, and finally allowed the two Taoist priests to move in fifty days later.
After arriving at the temple, thirty newly recruited young "Taoist priests" also moved in with them.
Li Chengzhong breathed a sigh of relief and began to pay attention to other government affairs. At this moment, Zhang Maoan, whom he had met in Youzhou and had had a "joint fight" friendship, returned from Hedong. Zhang Maoan went straight to Liucheng, holding Lu
A letter from Zhang Juhan, the envoy of the Long Supervisory Army, asking to see Li Chengzhong.