Throughout September, except for some fighting in the northern grasslands, the territory of Daxia was generally stable, and even the unrest in the Bohai Sea gradually subsided. It could be described as a scene of peace and prosperity.
On the first day of October, after the Shuowang Dynasty Meeting, Zhongshu issued an edict: the former Nanya Privy Council Deputy Privy Envoy was granted a seal of 4,300 households, and Lu Guogong Li Tangbin was appointed as Privy Envoy;
There are 2,800 households with food seals. Liang Hanyong, the official of Liyang County and the commander of the Rouzhou camp, is appointed as the deputy envoy of Nanya Privy Council.
At this point, Nanya's two privy envoys are Zhu Shuzong and Li Tangbin, and the four deputy privy envoys are Hu Zhen, Liang Hanyong, and Wang Bian. There is still one missing, leaving Qian Liu, but he has not yet made a clear response.
Yang Liang, the envoy of the Golden Sword Army, was appointed as the envoy of the Feilong Army. Xue Li, the deputy envoy of the Feilong Army, was appointed as the envoy of the Golden Sword Army.
Shao Zhi, the general of the Ma Zhi Army, was appointed as the deputy envoy of the Feilong Army, and Ye Like, the military envoy of the right wing of the Longxiang Army, was appointed as the Marquis of Yu, the capital of the Feilong Army. Li Congzhang, the former Yuhou of the Wansheng Huangtou Army, was appointed as the army of the right wing of the Longxiang Army.
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After some verification, the Luoyan Army still had more than 22,000 people. It immediately mobilized 5,000 elite infantry and cavalry soldiers to fill the ranks of Youjun. There was a large-scale exchange of personnel in various departments of the Forbidden Army in Beijing. After the exchange was completed, strict
Practice and get familiar with it as soon as possible - this is also to dilute the added troops.
There are still more than 17,000 Luoyan Army soldiers left, and more than 4,000 people have been transferred to join the Kelan Army led by Zhou Dewei. This unit originally had 8,000 people, but due to war, epidemics and other factors, there are only more than 5,000 people left.
Make up for ten thousand people.
The last remaining 13,000 men of the Luoyan Army were temporarily stationed in Dingzhou, and experienced coaches from various new military academies were transferred to help train them.
On the second day of October, news came from the south that Zhao Kuangning personally risked a stone to attack Langzhou and killed Lei Yanxiong. Lei Yangong escaped alone and escaped with his own life.
The Hunan soldiers who sent troops to rescue Langzhou retreated south after hearing that the city had fallen. The Hengye army took advantage of the situation to pursue, capture and kill more than 3,000 people, and seized more than 100,000 dendrobium of grain and beans.
The Hengye Army originally numbered 20,000 people and had been stationed in Yuezhou for more than a year. However, due to the epidemic, the number dropped to 18,000. The morale of the army was low and they repeatedly asked to return north. The Privy Council ordered them to hold on until the Chinese New Year. After the New Year, the Tielin Army will go south to replace them.
, although the sergeants complained, they did not dare to do anything for a while.
The tens of thousands of Jingnan soldiers under Zhao Kuangning's tent were separately reorganized and given the military title "Guangjie". The entire army of about 9,700 people was temporarily stationed in Lang and Lizhou to guard against Ma Yin.
Finally, Shao Mianren, the governor of Zhangzhou, asked him to allocate 3,000 Youzhou residents to the counties of Zhangzhou to build villages and reclaim wasteland.
He has been the governor of Zhangzhou for more than two years. To be honest, since the state was promoted to Zhengzhou, turmoil has continued, and most of the two years have been spent in quelling the rebellion. Fortunately, the scale is not very large, and it has been suppressed one after another, but
He didn't have a good impression of the Zangzhou barbarians, so he asked the court to give him some Youzhou households.
The people of Yan are capable of fighting. If they live together as a group, it will not be a problem to deal with small-scale barbarian unrest. The only hidden danger is that they may follow the barbarians to rebel, but it is only a possibility and it is worth trying.
Shao Shude agreed to his son's request.
He did not have the conditions that other dynasties had when they were first established, that is, they experienced brutal wars, and there were only tens of thousands of people left in every place, and the resources per capita were abundant.
The various rebel armies and warlords at the end of the Tang Dynasty were so ineffective that Huang Chao invaded the capital, but in the north, his scope of activities was severely restricted. Qin Zongquan was so ruthless that he could not even march eastward to Bianzhou
, was severely beaten back. To put it bluntly, they can only move within the scope where the imperial court has strong control. The vassal towns that are not controlled by the imperial court are like wolves and tigers, guarding the borders, which greatly restricts their movement - not
If you don’t want to be a bandit, you don’t have the ability.
This caused a problem, too much population. In the feudal era, this would affect the lifespan of the dynasty.
We have no choice but to expand outward.
Zhangzhou once served as Zhengzhou and was later abolished as Jizhou. It can be seen that it went through a lot of iterations during the Tianbao period. Perhaps because of the pressure from Nanzhao, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty did not want internal turmoil to go too far and lead them to collude with foreign enemies. At the same time, he needed to concentrate on
To deal with Tubo, they acquiesced in their autonomy - at that time, they had successive victories against Tubo on the battlefield, and the situation was indeed very good. Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty may have wanted to beat the dog in the water, and wanted to abolish Tubo once and for all, so he did not want to give Nanzhao a chance.
But Shao Shude drew his sword and looked around
, and found that there was no capable opponent around.
It has been seventy or eighty years since the collapse of Tubo.
More than thirty years ago, Song Wei, Gao Pian and others repeatedly defeated Nanzhao, regained the lost territory of Annan and Jiannan, and forced Nanzhao to conscript all men over the age of fifteen.
A series of failures made Nanzhao dissatisfied. Zheng Maisi took the opportunity to usurp the throne, killed more than 800 members of the Nanzhao royal family, and established the Dachanghe Kingdom.
However, the idea of usurping the throne and killing the previous royal family was ultimately very unpopular, and Nanzhao was in constant civil unrest. A few years ago, in order to win people's hearts, Zheng Maisi built Puming Temple to commemorate the Nanzhao royal family. This year, ten thousand iron Buddhas were cast.
, praying for the Nanzhao royal family - it is hard to say how useful these crocodile tears are. Tubo and Nanzhao were not to be feared, the Khitan was also killed, and the Uighur empire of the grassland collapsed earlier than the Tang Dynasty.
Shao Shude found that his external situation was actually better than that in the early Ming Dynasty. After all, there was a Northern Yuan Dynasty during Zhu Yuanzhang's time, and he also severely damaged Xu Da's Northern Expedition army on the grassland. The impact of this battle was far-reaching, and it directly changed the national policy of the Ming Dynasty. It can be seen that
The losses are very great.
His only opponent who can be called the Northern Yuan is probably the Gaochang Uighurs. They are the remnants of the Uighur Empire. Because of the usurpation of the throne, they were split into two parts, one in the east of Congling and the other in the west of Congling.
Fight.
There's really no threat anymore.
So Shao Shude agreed to his son's request, focusing on clearing out the barbarians in Zangzhou, slowly reorganizing the people into households, and at the same time relocating the people of Hebei to settle down and changing their customs.
Of course, he did not forget Bozhou. Luo Taiwang became the governor and still commanded his barbarian village, but it was impossible for the tribes under Yang Duan to be handed over to him. Even if there were recurrences, he would resolutely suppress them and organize the people into households.
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With the national power of the imperial court, it would not be a big problem to conquer two states at once.
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On the fifth day of October, Shao Shude came to a factory on the outskirts of Jixian County again and took a horse-drawn carriage for a circuit.
Yes, the convertible wagon is finished.
Honestly, it feels very good.
Compared with two-wheeled carriages, the advantages of four-wheeled carriages are very obvious.
First of all, the payload is very large, and it can lift heavier and more cargo at a faster speed.
Secondly, it is also very friendly to draft horses. The shaft of a two-wheeled carriage is placed on the horses, which is a heavy burden. The horses tire easily and their lifespan is shorter.
Third, when parking or changing horses, if the horse is gone, you have to put something under the shaft of the carriage, and the carriage cannot stop there naturally. In short, once you sit in a four-wheeled carriage, you will not like the two-wheeled carriage very much.
The four-wheeled carriage project jointly promoted by the Shaofu and the Ministry of Internal Affairs produced two vehicles in total, with different models.
From a structural point of view, the first one was made by Shaofu according to Shao Shude's previous request. The gears were put on and the speed of the wheels on both sides was artificially adjusted to ensure that it could turn.
He tried it, and it was indeed possible to turn normally, and the speed was not slow. It felt very good.
Of course, he just took a trip around, and he didn't know how long the service life of this hand-made gear and sliding bearing was. Maybe it would wear out in a few days?
The second car is a completely different design idea. It was independently completed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs did not have as rich craftsman resources as the Shaofu, and the level was not good, so it took a different approach and proposed a brand-new idea: two front wheels are mounted on one frame, and two rear wheels are mounted on another frame.
The rear frame is installed above the front frame and connected by axles in the middle.
To put it bluntly, this is like two two-wheeled carriages stacked on top of each other, which is a very clever idea - the four-wheeled carriages in Europe in the early years had this shape.
After Shao Shude thought about it, he decided on the second car. The cost is always the cost.
He doesn't like anything specially made by skilled craftsmen. After all, there are a lot of craftsmen of this level. The cost of asking them to make things is very high, their energy is also very limited, and the output will be very low.
If something cannot be produced in large quantities and at low cost, it cannot be promoted and its significance will be greatly reduced.
Like the second type of four-wheeled carriage, to be honest, the craftsmen in Shiwei, the black carriage, can make it after some research, which is equivalent to
In an instant, there are a large number of craftsmen who can make four-wheeled carriages, and the cost can be reduced to a very low level, low enough to be accepted by ordinary people, and low enough to be popularized.
Things that cannot be popularized will eventually disappear and be reduced to museum exhibits and talk topics for future generations, but they will not be able to make their own contribution to production and life.
"The four-wheeled carriage, I like this one made by the Ministry of Internal Affairs." Shao Shude bent down, looked at the structure carefully, and said, "Perhaps, we can recruit craftsmen to set up a separate workshop?"
Zhao Zhi, the young supervisor of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, immediately responded: "Your Majesty, do you want to build cars and sell them?"
Because of the saint's various requirements, the Ministry of Internal Affairs is really very sensitive to making money now. Every time a new thing comes out, the first thing is to think about whether it can make money and how much money it can make. "Why don't you just sell it and watch it for fun?" Shao Shude laughed.
He said: "The Ministry of Internal Affairs will specialize in this car for ten years. Within ten years, only the Ministry of Internal Affairs can build it. If anyone builds it secretly, I will send him to central Guizhou. After ten years, it will be fully liberalized and anyone can build it."
"I obey the decree." Zhao Zhi responded.
He could see that the use of this kind of car was relatively narrow and could only be used on first-class national highways, which greatly limited the demand.
In the past ten years, it was most likely mainly built for the Privy Council and the Ministry of War. The market for military supplies and logistics was very good. In addition, the needs of the Tianjia and the government were also great.
Ten years from now, the mileage of first-class national highways will be even more amazing, and even the conditions of post roads that are not first-class national highways will be greatly improved, and the market will be even bigger. Even if they will not have the monopoly by then, they will have a first-mover advantage and can still continue.
Make money. When you really have no money to make, it’s time to quit this business.
"It seems you have guessed it..." Shao Shude stood up and said with a smile: "This thing is closely related to the first-class national highway. Let's go, get in the car, and you and I will go for a walk on the first-class national highway.
First-class national highways were originally only available in Henan, but a short section between Beiping Prefecture and Changping County happened to be built, and it was just in time for trial operation.