Chapter 191 The person waiting for the peach picking

In the Wude Hall of Tai Chi Palace, a man in black suddenly appeared in front of the Panlong Pillar, which was originally empty. Li Yuan was no longer surprised by this. The man in black was nothing but Yu Yanzhang, the guard of the left supervisor.

Yu Yan knelt in front of Li Yuan on one knee and bowed and said, "Your Majesty, I will reply!"

Li Yuan took the secret report from Yu Yanzhang and opened it. Li Yuan said coldly with a deep face as if he was cold: "The news is indeed? The King of Qin has nothing to do with the Hebei Rebellion?"

Yu Yanzhang lowered his head and said firmly: "Your Majesty, I specially transferred a secret spy with Xuanzi!"

At this moment, the man in black, who was wearing a hat and wearing a black hat, slowly entered the hall.

The man in black bowed to Li Yuan and bowed to him and said, "I, pay homage to Your Majesty!"

Li Yuan looked at the Xuanzi secret agent and said, "How much do you know about the King of Qin?"

The man in black thought for a while and said, "Nothing is all detailed!"

Li Yuan pondered and said slowly: "Things in Hebei..."

The man in black said, "I followed His Highness the King of Qin and arrived in Hedong. I really knew nothing about the matter between Hebei and His Highness the King of Qin.

Li Yuan sighed and sighed, "I also know that Erlang would not have such a scheming..."

The man in black looked up quietly, looked at Li Yuan with a complicated expression, and then quickly lowered his head. At this moment, we saw clearly the face of the man in black, and it was Hou Junji.

Li Yuan turned to Hou Junji and said, "What about the Turkic troops?"

Hou Junji thought for a while and said, "Your Majesty, according to the Hundred Cavalry Office under the King of Qin, Liu Heita was defeated and killed. His brother Liu Shishan fled to the Turks and was sheltered by Jie Li Khan in the Turkic tent. This time, Liu Shishan returned from the Turkic cavalry and received the support of more than 10,000 elite Turkic cavalry. Without the help of the Turkic army, Liu Shishan could not have occupied Mingzhou so quickly and swallowed Hebei..."

Li Yuan thought for a while, waved his hand and said, "Okay, go back and look at King Qin carefully."

Hou Junji bowed and quickly left the hall.

I'm afraid at this moment, Li Shimin didn't understand that the general Hou Junji, whom he relied on, was actually a secret spy named Xuan, the left guard of Li Yuan. In fact, since Li Yuan ascended the throne, the left guard of the left guard was transferred from the military commanding organization that originally commanded the imperial guards to our spy organization, Li Yuan has planted generals around the generals everywhere.

Li Yuan learned of the secret report from the left-level guard, proving that the Qin King Li Shimin had nothing to do with the Hebei Rebellion. The scene of Li Jiancheng asking him for an order to go to Hebei involuntarily emerged in his mind.

Li Jiancheng bowed and said at that time: "Father, I beg my father to abolish the position of crown prince and make His Highness the King of Qin the crown prince. The son is willing to lead troops to Hebei. I also ask my father to be kind."

Li Yuan put away his thoughts, turned to look at Yu Yanzhang and said, "Since the matter in Hebei has nothing to do with the King of Qin, does it have anything to do with the prince?"

Yu Yanzhang bowed and said, "Report to Your Majesty, according to the secret spy of the "Tian" type, the prince has nothing to do with Hebei. According to the secret spy of the "Di", there have been abnormal movements in the Western Regions recently!"

"Chen Ying?" Li Yuan said in surprise: "His hand stretched out so long, and he actually arrived in Hebei?"

Yu Yanzhang shook his head and said, "It's not about Hebei, but about the Western Regions!"

As he said that, Yu Yanzhang handed a thick secret report to Li Yuan.

As he grew older, Li Yuan's vision began to decline. He could no longer see the fly-headed small calligraphy on the secret report. He pondered: "What happened to the Western Regions?"

Yu Yanzhang opened the secret report and recited according to the numbers above: "My name is a secret spy with a font size of "Huang". This year, the rain in the Western Regions has not rained for two months from June to August of the sixth year of Wude. Fortunately, Chen Daduhu actively drilled wells and repaired canals in the past two years, and farmland irrigation was strongly guaranteed. In addition, sufficient fertilizers were sufficient, a bumper harvest was achieved. This year, the Western Regions harvested a total of 6.2 million stones of wheat, 1.8 million stones of chestnuts, 800,000 stones of grapes, 37 million stones of melons and fruits, 50,000 stones of beets, 160,000 and 7,600 stones of rapeseeds, 270,000 stones of cotton..."

The yellow-branded secret spy was also assimilated by Chen Ying. His report was written in the Western Regions format and was written in a very simple and clear manner in statistical reports. Yu Yanzhang just read it accordingly.

At the beginning, Li Yuan was still stunned, but he soon realized that every time Yu Yanzhang reported a number, Li Yuan would take a breath of air conditioning, and finally Li Yuan's mouth was twitching.

He thought that the Western Regions were a plump pasture, but he could not imagine that Chen Ying was actually in the Western Regions, and the two items of grain and fruits and vegetables alone exceeded the total output of Guanzhong.

In ancient times, farmers worked very hard. They often had to harvest three consecutive years to save surplus grain for one year. Once they encountered floods, droughts, locusts, hail, and food production was reduced in large quantities, famine would occur. However, how many people were there in the Western Regions? I am afraid that even the slaves were included, there were only one and a half million people, barely exceeding one-third of Guanzhong.

Now that he heard that the distant Western Regions had harvested so much food, could he be unhappy? But while he was happy, he had hidden worries. What if Chen Yingwan proclaimed himself king?

Yu Yanzhang was also excited by these exaggerated numbers, and his voice unknowingly increased a lot: "This year, the Western Regions should pay as much as 300,000 stones of grain tax, and the tax amount was 115,000 stag..."

Li Yuan covered his chest, and he felt his heart couldn't stand it anymore.

It's so scary!

However, the fright was not over yet. Yu Yanzhang continued to recite: "The third blast furnace of 500,000 jin in Huaergou was put into production in February of the sixth year of Wude. At this time, the Western Regions could produce 30 million jin of steel every month..."

Hearing this, Li Yuan was like a thunderbolt.

He accepted Chen Ying's steel workshop in Qinglin, and had the ability to produce 16 million kilograms of steel a year, plus 10 million kilograms of steel in Lingzhou, as well as the weapons supervisor, and the workshop's steel production capacity. The Tang Dynasty can produce 30 million kilograms of steel every year, but in less than ten years, the people of the Tang Dynasty can say goodbye to wooden farm tools.

The output of 30 million kilograms of steel per month is naturally great news for the people, but for Li Yuan it is no less than a catastrophe.

It is a well-known fact that with steel, weapons and armor can be built. 30 million pounds per month. Such a giant can even kill people with steel. Who can compete for this giant? Even if Li Tang Guanzhong, Hedong, Hebei, Bashu, and Jianghuai are all united, they will only be beaten!

Li Yuan hurriedly grabbed the secret report and took it to his eyes to view. The data on the report is very good, and Li Yuan can easily know it through the strings of numbers.

In the past two years, the Western Regions have built at least 4,000 miles of asphalt roads, connecting the nineteen states of Xizhou Road. This asphalt road network will lead to various states of Xizhou Road with Gaochang City as the center. Now, when riding a four-wheeled carriage, walking on this asphalt road and riding a carriage, they can reach any state of Xizhou Road within five days. It is several times faster than before.

The bone meal factory in Mulan City has been put into production, producing 100,000 stones of bone meal every month, which is enough to supply crop cultivation in fifteen counties of Xizhou Road.

In addition, the Anxi Army established a breeding base for the Anxi Army Zhechong Prefecture. Each Zhechong Prefecture now has more than 10,000 cattle and horses and only tens of thousands of sheep. Such a large-scale animal husbandry industry can not only bring great convenience to the Anxi Army's mules and horse marching, but also greatly improve the physical fitness of General Anxi.

Nowadays, the soldiers of the Anxi Army did not know the taste of meat for three months. Although meat cannot be supplied in an open quantity, each soldier can obtain a supply of no less than four taels of meat every day. The key is that the various manure provided by the Anxi Army poultry and livestock farms are enough to meet the fertilizer needs in various parts of the Western Regions. In other words, the people no longer need to worry about the lack of fertilizer.

What surprised Li Yuan the most was that Chen Ying actually used precious steel to build the storm. This storm consumed a large steel owner. On average, 240,000 kilograms per kilometer of storm were used. Of course, this was just the consumption on the flat ground. However, the Western Regions were not a smooth road. There were countless mountains and canyons. Not only did tunnels be dug, but bridges were also needed. These bridges were also giant steel beasts, especially on the banks of the Populus River. The bridge spanning 500 steps, which actually used 12 million kilograms of steel.

At this time, Li Yuan didn't know what to say.

Although Li Yuan was afraid of the 30 million kilograms of steel a month, Chen Ying used precious steel to improve farm tools and build bridges and pave roads, which made Li Yuan feel that he didn't feel distressed when he sold his son's land.

Li Yuan didn't know that Chen Ying wanted to show the preciousness of the Western Regions to the world. The Chinese nation had an almost obsessive obsession with territories that could grow food or possess valuable resources.

The son emperor sold the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, and the Northern Song Dynasty was obsessed with it all the time. In fact, even in the late Northern Song Dynasty, the national strategic goal of regaining Yanyun was unwavering.

In a desolate Western Regions, naturally no one cares.

But I dare not lose an inch of land in fertile land.

Today, regardless of the foundation and initial scale of agriculture in the Western Regions, military and civilian fields have been reclaimed more than 10 million mu. In fact, even one percent of the arable land in the Western Regions has not been used yet.

With the support of policies, the Western Regions have built more than 40 new factories this year with more than 200 people. In addition, the number of factories in the Western Regions has reached an astonishing 500, and it is still showing a strong growth momentum.

The inevitable result of the booming agriculture and industry is that the population in the surrounding areas is flooding in. In just the first half of the year, from Hexi, Qin Liang, and especially with Liu Shishan's rebellion in Hebei, the entire Hebei became a war area. These Hebei people took their families and crossed the Taihang Mountains, followed Hetao, and headed westward.

In Hebei alone, the population applying for household registration in Xizhoudao reached an astonishing 60,000, and the number of people who came to work was not included. The population in the Western Regions has reached 1.54 million, a triple increase from three years ago.

A large population means a huge market, and the prospects for the Western Regions are promising.

Using collective farms and military farming, Chen Ying was busy building infrastructure after he obtained his first pot of gold. Of course, in order to retain the soldiers and their families who came to the Western Regions from Guanzhong to work or stationed in the Western Regions, Chen Ying established 19 prefecture schools in the capital of 19 prefectures of Xizhou Road, and 117 county schools in 117 counties (plus newly established counties). Any children of garrison soldiers or children of the people of Xizhou Road must enter the school.

In order to stimulate the enthusiasm of the people to let their children go to school, Chen Ying also studied in various states and county schools established a free breakfast system. Each child's breakfast is free of charge for one liter of fresh milk, two eggs, steamed buns or meat buns.

Lunch also adopts the standard of three dishes and one soup for General Anxi.

Education funds are paid by merchants and even local gentry. First, they want to please Chen Ying, and second, they naturally hope that these schools can really provide them with a large number of talents as Chen Ying said, so that their careers will grow bigger and bigger.

After all, in this era, scholars are very noble. Even if you can understand a few books and be able to write and calculate, any shopkeeper can earn more than a hundred trump cards a year. Even a hundred men cannot earn money from a shopkeeper. However, it is difficult for the shopkeeper to hire a shopkeeper. Without enough talents, their business cannot be expanded. You cannot let an illiterate man act as a shopkeeper. In this way, you will lose all the money you have.

Li Xiuning is already immune to Chen Ying's big moves.

Chen Ying was so energetic that he was so proud that he provided tens of thousands of people with the opportunity to receive education. What a great cause he did. He was so proud!

Especially the soldiers of the Anxi Army, they burst into tears when they learned about Chen Ying's actions.

Who doesn’t want their children to make a name for themselves? They have suffered enough and never studied. Now that their children meet noble people, they don’t have to be illiterate for the rest of their lives like them!

Because an ordinary soldier is illiterate, even if they fight bravely to the enemy and make meritorious service, they can reach the level of the team or the level of the vice-campus. No matter how high it is, it is impossible. After all, the army also has too many orders and clauses, and it is impossible to become a general if you stare at the blind.

There are many generals who are illiterate in history, such as Wang Ping, the first general of the Wudang Flying Army during the Three Kingdoms period, and the Party Promotion during the Northern Song Dynasty. However, there are very few such people and require a very great opportunity to meet a boss who tolerate their illiteracy shortcomings.

Chen Ying drew a grand blueprint in the Western Regions, turning the Western Regions into the granary of the Tang Dynasty and the heavy industrial base of the Tang Dynasty. In this way, no matter when the Tang Dynasty court or emperor would never allow the Western Regions to be lost.

Even if you encounter an enemy attack, you will spare no effort to grab it back.

Of course, once the status of the Western Regions is important, once the results are produced, there will definitely be people who pick peaches. Chen Yingcha is the least afraid of such a person, he is afraid that the Western Regions will be shelved or forgotten.
Chapter completed!