Because he was in a hurry, Li Tan only visited Zhao Chen and Wang Xue's pharmaceutical workshops in Jiuquan, and then met with the presidents of various federations in Jiuquan. Then he changed into a horse-drawn rail car at the Jiuquan station and went directly to Wuwei City.
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Li Mi had ridden this horse-drawn rail car before entering Shazhou City, and he was deeply impressed at that time.
This kind of vehicle can pull heavy goods and travel between cities very quickly.
Nowadays, almost all important materials in the three towns in Hexi are transported by horse-drawn rail cars.
Another important strategic role is that horse-drawn rail cars can greatly increase the mobility of the Hexi army.
It was originally necessary to deploy troops in the narrow Hexi Corridor, but now only a small number of outposts need to be left. Once a war breaks out, troops from various places can quickly go to their destinations on horse-drawn rail cars.
Li Mi looked at the young lord sitting in the carriage, and felt deeply in his heart where did Li Tan recruit these talents, and where did he come from so many wonderful ideas, so that Hexi could achieve success in just over a year.
Earth-shaking changes have occurred.
This horse-drawn rail car is something that Li Mi can understand, but the steam train from Jinkou City to Shazhou that was just opened a while ago is something that Li Mi can't understand at all.
He really didn't understand how it was possible to drive such a heavy train forward by just using coal to boil water.
Even if Lu Ban is alive, this is nothing more than this, right?
Li Mi also heard that the Jiu-Zhangwei Railway was also planning to switch to steam trains, but the Road Department was still in the demonstration stage and did not approve the plan.
The horse pulled the carriage and drove smoothly. Li Mi opened a report and handed it to Li Tan and said:
"This is the year-end settlement of Wangfu Bank. Although there were some bad debts due to the low-interest Qingmiao Loan last year, Wangfu Bank still made a profit overall."
Li Tan opened the report from Jiang Lun, the president of Wangfu Bank. Relying on the funds deposited by players in Wangfu Bank and the great development of Longyou this year, several investments made by Wangfu Bank this year have recovered their capital.
The government bonds issued on behalf of the Governor's Office have grown even more gratifyingly, and have raised a large amount of funds for the Governor's Office.
These profits offset the most money-losing Qingmiao Loan, finally making Wangfu Bank's book profits.
Li Tan briefly looked through it, handed it to Li Mi and said, "Let the Audit Office take a look."
Li Mi nodded. The Audit Office under the Governor's Mansion is now a feared department in Longyou.
Since the establishment of this department, all state governments, the Propaganda Department, and all internal and stationed departments of the Governor's Office have been audited by the Audit Department.
The results of the audit will be included in the "assessment", which also determines the level of assessment and evaluation of each department.
Audit departments are professionals who are proficient in finance, and most false accounts cannot escape their detection.
Moreover, the Audit Department could mobilize the internal guards of the Xuanjing Department to assist them in investigating cases. Since its establishment, it had deposed two magistrates, had the Governor's Office reprimand one magistrate, and dismissed countless low-level officials.
Li Mi also had to admit that this kind of institutionalized investigation and supervision was much better than the censorship system implemented in the Tang Dynasty.
Nowadays, the Yushitai of the Tang Dynasty has long been reduced to a tool for fighting in the court. All forces will use the censors they control to attack political opponents, and the entire Yushitai is full of chaos.
Many of the impeachments at the Yushitai were based on hearsay, and some even impeached ministers on charges of frame-up by the Yushitai.
In the past few years, after the situation between the DPRK and the Central Government to seize the heir, Yushitai has become a battlefield for all parties.
Then Li Mi took out another document and said: "This is the report of the staff department. It is the military parade process of this Wuwei military exercise."
Li Tan opened the report. This was his first review of the army in Hexi, and it was also the first major military exercise held by the General Staff Department. For this reason, the players in the General Staff Department also became a group of people.
Most players, including Xu Jun, support holding a military parade to demonstrate the power of Longyou's army.
The specific method is to use a neat goose-stepping phalanx and ask the King of Yue to review the Hexi Army at the Wuwei City Gate.
This plan was strongly opposed by the "weapons faction" players within the staff. They believed that the reason for the Longyou Army's invincibility was its advanced weapons and equipment, so they insisted on conducting a weapons drill to demonstrate Longyou's advanced weapons to Du Hongjian and other Shuofang Army generals.
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Professional soldiers like Xu Jun who train soldiers with modern drills are called "training faction".
He and the group of "weaponists" in the staff who admired new weapons and believed that only by developing weapons could they defeat the Tang Dynasty would quarrel with each other on the forum every day, and they would also fight endlessly in the staff office every day.
Although Xu Jun was the leader of the military training faction, this time he wanted to show Long You's strength in front of Du Hongjian, and the "artifacts" such as artillery and explosives still had to be displayed, so he submitted this plan that combined the demands of the two factions.
The military parade was held at Xinzhuang Camp. First, there was a parade of the heroic regiment with numbers, and then the new artillery was test-fired at Xinzhuang Camp to demonstrate the power of the new equipment to Du Hongjian.
Li Tan nodded and said, "According to the itinerary arranged by Chief of Staff Xu, we will not enter the city when we arrive in Wuwei, but go directly to Xinzhuang Camp."
Li Mi recorded Li Tan's order, and then said: "The news from the Uighur Xuanwei Envoy is that the Uighur royal court has welcomed the convoy of Princess Heqin, and Mou Yu Khan has invited Wu Zhu and Zoroastrian sacrifices to join him.
I prayed and chose a good time and auspicious day to get married."
"Zoroastrianism? These monks actually went to the Uighurs to preach? Even the Uighur Khans asked them for divination?"
Li Mi said with a smile: "Now in Longyou, many sects such as Buddhism, Taoism, and Zoroastrianism are under the leadership of monks and Taoists, and they must preach according to the rules of Longyou. Zoroastrianism cannot compete with Buddhism and Taoism, so it can only find another way.
Heading north to the Uighurs.”
"It is said that the Zoroastrian chief priest of Gaochang City personally went to the Uighur city of Han, met with Mou Yu Khan, exclaimed that Mou Yu Khan was the reincarnation of the Holy Son of Light, and ordered the Zoroastrian priests to go to the Uighurs to assist the future Great Light
king'."
Li Tan sneered and said, "Did Khan Mou Yu believe such an old trick?"
Li Mi smiled, this kind of routine of the reincarnation of the saint son and the reincarnation of the Buddha is really too old-fashioned, and the major sects in the Central Plains have stopped doing this a long time ago.
This Zoroastrian religion still uses such an old-fashioned routine, but their idea of going north to the Uighurs to compete in a misplaced position is still wise.
Since the Gaochang City Conference, all sects have been included in the unified management of the Dudu Mansion.
However, as the rebellious monks of the Great Buddha Temple thought, Li Tan did not engage in any campaign to destroy Buddhism.
The policy of the Monks and Taoists Department of the Dudu Prefecture is very simple: control temple property and the number of professional religious personnel.
For existing temples, the monks and Taoists allocate a prescribed number of temple fields according to the size of the monks, but the temples are not allowed to engage in economic activities.
Through the management system of monks' ultimatums, monks with ultimatums are given tax-free preferential treatment, but monks without ultimatums have to bear the same obligations as ordinary people.
The monks and Taoists strictly controlled the number of ultimatums and the number of monks.
In those monasteries with a large number of people, if someone comes to the monastery voluntarily to practice, the monks and Taoists will naturally not care.
But if a monk without ultimatum practices in a monastery, the monks and Taoists will ask the monastery to bear the burden of this person.
At one time, several large Buddhist temples in Gaochang City resisted and summoned lay people to lead Buddhist practices in the temples. However, tax collectors soon came to collect taxes, and the abbot was so frightened that he almost sold the Buddha statues to pay the tax.
From then on, all major monasteries in Gaochang expelled believers who did not pay ultimatum from the temples.
Although the practice of worshiping Buddha is still prevalent in Gaochang City, the kind of believers who sacrifice themselves to become monks no longer exist.
Zoroastrianism, which originally lagged behind Buddhism and Taoism in Gaochang, is having an even harder time under this series of policy suppression.
I just didn't expect that the Zoroastrian would choose to abandon Longyou, which it had been operating for a century, and go north to the grasslands to preach.
Li Tan sneered and said: "By canonizing saints privately, has this Zoroastrian religion forgotten the rules of monks and Taoists?"
There is another shackle that Longyou controls the major sects, and that is the prohibition of the physical body becoming holy and becoming a god.
In addition, the display of "miracles" and charitable donations must be reported to the monks and Taoists. If "miracles" are shown to the people privately, they will also be punished by the monks and Taoists.
In the words of a monk in Gaochang City who complains today, the Governor's Mansion of the King of Yue is "in charge of the sky, the earth, and the gods, even if the Buddha appears!"
However, with the example of the Great Buddha Temple being uprooted, the various sects in Longyou can only accept this rule obediently.
At that time, Zoroastrianism was about to canonize the King of Yue as the "Great King of Light", which was the saint who descended to earth to save the world in Zoroastrian mythology.
However, Li Tan refused the Zoroastrian canonization because "as the son of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty alone, how can he accept the canonization of foreign gods?"
Unexpectedly, in a blink of an eye, these guys made Mou Yu Khan the Holy Son again.
Li Tan thought with some evil humor that these Zoroastrian monks were quite enlightened. He was the Great Bright King, and Mou Yu Khan was the Holy Son.
If he had accepted it at that time, wouldn't he have become Mou Yu Khan's father?
He is also a brother-in-law and a father, so the hierarchy is quite confusing.
Li Mi also sneered and said: "The monks and Taoists have already been dispatched to question the Zoroastrian Church's main altar in Gaochang City."
Li Tan nodded and put down the report.
He didn't care about the spread of Zoroastrianism on the grasslands. Compared with Zoroastrianism, a sect with a long history, the Uighurs' current belief in the Immortality Heaven is really too backward.
The constant sacrifice of blood and living sacrifices is almost as barbaric as the Bon religion of Tubo.
The teachings of Zoroastrianism also encourage people to do good, which can be considered a great progress for the Uighurs.
Li Tan understands that religion is just a tool, but he needs to firmly hold this tool in his hands instead of being manipulated by it.
The rail carriage gradually began to slow down, and Zhangye was almost arriving in a blink of an eye. The carriage stopped for maintenance and supplies, and Cui Tao had already led a group of officials from Zhangye to greet him.
Li Tan was very fond of his "Conglong Yuanxun". After all the officials had finished the ceremony, Cui Tao introduced Zhang Ye's recent developments and suddenly said:
"Your Highness, Tao wants to resign from the position of Zhangye Magistrate!"