Chapter 440 Surrounding and surrendering in the Jedi

The people from the Hei Shui Governor's Office, namely the Marine tribe and the affiliated tribe, had just experienced a war of defeat to victory, and were ready to take over the Bohai Governor's Office, which secretly supported the Tang army behind them.

The battlefield was very bright, and the Tang people could not adapt to the harsh weather. Although there was a force that fought very well in the jungle, they could not withstand the coldness of the snow and their combat effectiveness was greatly reduced.

It was about to defeat more than 20,000 troops of the Tang Dynasty, but at the critical moment, the Tang Dynasty army suddenly changed its tactics, restrained it with a small group of elite troops, and then set fire everywhere.

The thick smoke from the sky not only smokes all kinds of animals, but also makes one side lose its strategic initiative.

I heard that the person who commanded the army was a nephew of Emperor Li Longji of the Tang Dynasty. He used to live a comfortable life and was not so familiar with war. I don’t know why, but his style during the war changed and became difficult to understand.

It is absolutely not possible to continue to move north. The cold will not be relieved by the changes in the seasons. In addition, the late spring cold is now, one will die if you go.

If you want to go west, the high mountains are not easy to climb. Even if you turn over, you will definitely be the fierce attacks of the Turks on your side. They will not leave a pretext for the Tang Dynasty to be overwhelmed by soldiers.

There is no need to consider the south. It is the place where the Tang Dynasty is. The only place where you can temporarily avoid the fire is in the east. Go down from the mountain and run to the coast. The fire cannot burn into the water.

After this consideration, the people from the Hei Shui Governor's Office began to carefully touch the seaside. Fortunately, the seaside we were going to now was still frozen, and the sharp ships of the Tang Dynasty could not get closer.

He threw away all the things that were in trouble and only brought clothes and food. The people of the Marine tribe led their families to head towards the beach, and no longer wanted to capture the Bohai Governor's Office, nor did they intend to destroy the Tang army.

Li Xun, who was a little closer to the south, has lived a comfortable life in the past few days. He was worried that the war would not be won, but after seeing Zhang Xiaobao's subsequent development plan, he knew what to do.

Hot air balloons on the fleet rise, avoiding the smoke coverage, and taking charge of patrol and alerting in the high sky.

"Your Highness, why do you think it's such a coincidence? Why do the people in the hot air balloons carried on the fleet come from Yizhou? If you change to the people from Shuzhou, and then fly to such a high height, you will be frozen to death even if you are not scared to death. What a coincidence."

Joining the army did not see the plan in Li Xun's hands. This was not a military aspect. There was very little military content. Most of them introduced the construction matters after the war, which involved a lot of interests. Li Xun didn't want others to understand, otherwise he would not have much advantage.

When I heard the words of joining the army, the team of people responsible for protecting Li Xun rested closely next to Li Xun, and they also had the same idea in their hearts as joining the army, that is, they had good ideas and caught up with the people in the fleet who were adapting to the cold weather.

Li Xun glanced at the army and curled his lips, "No accident? Do you think anyone is as stupid as you. When you sent the fleet here, you didn't know that it was cold? Things that were ready long ago will not be affected no matter what the situation of the battle. Now there is no need for two thousand of us to go up the mountain and catch things, roe deer, deer, and various wild game, including mushrooms and other mountain dishes. Don't miss it."

Joining the army wanted to see what Li Xun had in his hands, but he knew that His Highness would never give him a chance, so he had to take the order and make arrangements.

After the arrangements came back, he advised worriedly: "Your Highness, should we get on the boat? If the people from the Hei Water Governor's Office also come to the beach and suddenly rushed over from the north, your Highness will be in danger."

"I'm afraid they won't rush, so I'll rush over. Xiaobao and the others have not yet seen whether the newly made weapons are useful or not. They are useful on the enemy. Don't be idle for the remaining guards. Go dig a hole for me. Think about the situation under which the explosions can be avoided from the feet, try to calculate the enemy's reaction, go."

Li Xun issued another order, and the guards didn't know what the prince wanted to do, so they obeyed the orders and really went to dig a hole.

Two days later, all the holes that should be dug were dug out, each of which was not deep, about half a foot. At this time, Li Xun asked someone to utter the flags of the fleet parked on the sea. The fleet immediately put down the boats and came over. When they arrived, the guards saw things like iron discus.

The person who sent the iron discus to move was very careful, just as if that thing could take away a person's life at any time.

After joining the army for a while, he couldn't figure out what the iron disc could do. He asked Li Xun for advice, "Your Highness, can that thing kill the enemy?"

Li Xun had already left the boat for a distance, and watched worriedly as the iron discs were put into the dug pit, and then covered them up, nodded, and introduced: "That thing is called a landmine. Do you know the cannon? The things fired by the gunboat are used to actively attack, and the landmine is used to passive defense."

"So it's the same as the shells, and it will kill people with a bang?" The army also began to retreat. He knew the power of the shells.

"That's natural. After stepping on it, you can explode as long as you raise your foot, and there will be tripping mines, and you can also explode with the edge. The psychological deterrence is far greater than that of shells. Be careful. Don't go there after burying it, otherwise you won't die if you have a few lives."

Li Xun just knew about this kind of weapon and had never seen any specific situation, but when he introduced it to others, he seemed to know it very well.

Joining the army did not doubt Li Xun's words, nor did he doubt whether the weapons sent by Zhang and Wang's family were authentic or not. He pulled Li Xun back and hid back, afraid of accidentally stepping on them, even though he knew that the place where the mine was buried was still far away from him.

A guard stood in front of Li Xun, his body faintly blocked that direction, and asked curiously: "Young Master, I wonder what you asked them to catch all kinds of wild beasts and collect mountain vegetables?"

"Of course it's to make money. In this mountain, Xiaobao's letter said that there are many kinds of resources, especially minerals. We will not be able to occupy them at that time, but other resources will be fine. Animals can run away. No matter how big the wildfire is, it will start burning from one direction.

Most animals will run away, some will run further west, and some will run around us. Xiaobao and the others will not be able to continue paying for it, otherwise the court will think that they want to reach out, but the stretching of their hands is too long, which will sometimes make people think about it."

Li Xun has been with Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan for a long time, and with the guidance at home, he understands that what the Zhang and Wang families need to do now is not to build each place, but to retreat to avoid causing others' unhappiness. This others refer to their own uncle.

The guard nodded and admitted, "That's right, the Zhang and Wang families have made enough money now and have a lot of power. If they still want to occupy a piece of the area in various places, they are ungrateful, but how can they make money by catching animals?"

Other guards also had this idea. Nowadays, there are no people in Gyeonggi Province who don’t know the Zhang and Wang families. Members of the royal family who went to various places even knew the sphere of influence of the Zhang and Wang families. If the other provincial governors who were in charge of one side did not know the Zhang and Wang families, it would be a real ghost.

The Zhang and Wang families have become popular enough, and it is time to hide.

Li Xun understood that his imperial uncle could not live without the Zhang and Wang family. As long as the two families started to do things from now on, they could still maintain balance.

Especially the things explained in Xiaobao's letter, if they expand outward and occupy territory in the future, the Zhang and Wang families will not participate and let others go. In this way, more people will have too much power to cover up the Zhang and Wang families.

More people took over the Heishui Governor's Office and the Bohai Governor's Office. The emperor always had to find a way to balance it. Compared with the Zhang and Wang families who were easier to master, the newly occupied land of the Tang Dynasty would be a problem in the future.

There was a lack of worry in my heart, and Li Xun's expression was even more natural. He said to the person who still couldn't think of why he wanted to catch a large number of wild animals and collect wild vegetables:

"Can the beasts here be seen in the south of the Yellow River? I thought it was impossible, so we caught a few live ones and sent them to the capital to raise them, killed the others, and made them into canned food here and then sold them to other places. A braised canned roe deer meat was sold for ten cents of money, and someone rushed to buy them."

"Why is this?" The military officer did not react for a while.

"Scarce things are expensive. What is identity? You can wear clothes that others cannot wear and food that others cannot eat. This is called identity. I think it is cheap for ten cents of money. I must sell it at a higher price. Anyone who entertains guests at home can't get a few cans of roe deer meat, that is embarrassing."

Li Xun felt that he suddenly became smart, and everyone else was fool. No matter whether others were really stupid or pretending, at least he felt comfortable.

"So many kinds of animals here can be turned into a lot of money?" The military officer thought about it and was very excited. He was thinking about whether to catch a few more before leaving, return to the south of the Yellow River, or even show it out when he was further south, even if he gave it to his family to taste it. This is a treasure. Many animals have never seen them, let alone eaten.

Li Xun nodded and said, "This money earned is used to recruit people from other places. Don't look at the huge forest being burned by fire. As long as the ash is kept for a year, you can grow grain. Flip it, plough it, and plough it. After Xiaobao and the others send new grain, it will be specially used to cultivate seeds."

"Seeds? New, can there be still food you haven't seen before?" The army tried hard to guess what the new seeds looked like.

"Of course, Xiaobao said that he had it, and the yield would be very high. Even if people don't like it, it would be fine to feed more livestock. It can also be made into wine and burned as firewood after purification."

Li Xun once again put the future on himself, feeling that he had participated and was also the organizer. Even if no one gave him credit, he himself thought that the credit could be divided.

Now the people around him didn't say anything, thinking about how he would look in the future, whether it would be as His Highness said.

In Jili Prefecture, Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan no longer bothered to consider the battle situation of the Hei Shui Governor's Office. Their energy was more focused on technology. Now they have written down various ideas and passed them to craftsmen summoned from all over the country.

It includes all aspects. Some aspects are relatively thorough in understanding, and the development is faster. If you don’t understand them much, just tell me the general situation and let the craftsmen think about it themselves.

After meeting Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan, the craftsman who had never had a high status improved significantly. In addition to being granted official positions, his treatment was also incomparable before.

According to their respective abilities, the higher the level, the more salary you can get per month, and you can get up to 200 stalemates in one month.

Under the temptation of money and the promotion of official positions, craftsmen work very hard. If they are interested in a certain aspect, they will study it and will not give up until they have any results.

The leaders in charge of various fields must gather together every ten days according to the requirements of Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan, and discuss their respective achievements and some things they don’t understand so as to get inspiration from other people’s fields and cooperate with each other.

More Taoist priests were also found. They only refine elixirs when they had nothing to do. Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan did not take their pills, but they appreciated their persistent spirit and personally refined several elixirs for them. After using all the fire law and water law, the Taoist priests saw a new world.

On this day, after watching the report on the progress of the Industrial Revolution, Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan stayed in the room to discuss new things.

"There are still many Taoist priests across the country who have not come here and find ways to trick them into it. People like them are very useful to make good use of them. They have already mastered a lot of knowledge, but they lack a guide. They cannot continue to pretend to be a ghost and bring them all into scientific research."

Zhang Xiaobao has lost weight these days. While he is busy with money house affairs, he also has to take charge of the family's accounts. He also has to learn physics and chemistry from Wang Juan, and guide other craftsmen. In addition, his younger brothers and sisters cannot lose their homework, and his work and rest are not very regular, and he has lost a few pounds.

Wang Juan is also not easy. She needs to teach craftsmen various theories. If one of them comes out, it needs more theories to support them and also has to reason.

The calculation equations of chemistry and physics alone caused her a headache. It was not that she could not do it, but that the craftsmen had a bad foundation. They started with various symbols, which involved a very important issue.

That is the way of heaven. Many craftsmen are rigid and insist on saying that the sky is round and the place is round. In fact, someone has measured the meridian. Although it is not so accurate, it means that people have realized that the world is not round and the place.

When Wang Juan thought of this, he was very helpless. When he heard Zhang Xiaobao say that he would recruit a large number of Taoist priests to come, he said with concern: "If all Taoist people come, the local people will lose a spiritual pillar and will inevitably believe in Buddhism.

If you want to talk about this Buddha, Buddhism is still very useful. It involves a philosophy, which is similar to our Confucianism, Legalism, etc., which can strengthen people's hearts, encourage people to be kind, and can also have an effect on psychological illness.

However, I am very opposed to this Buddhism. Apart from accumulating money, I have not seen any other effect. Not all Buddhists are kind people, and the monks in the temple are not all compassionate. I am worried that Buddhist churches everywhere will rise again."

Zhang Xiaobao frowned. He was really afraid that what Wang Juan said would happen. Once religion was formed, people would naturally improve it. As long as there were philosophical thoughts, it would be impossible to completely eliminate it.

Not to mention the ignorance of people today, even in the era where he and Wang Juan were. Many corrupt officials took out a lot of money and sent it to the temple, thinking that what they did could be protected by the Buddha.

People's temples are really taken in, and they never ask where they are, and they become professions.

There are also all kinds of unscrupulous businessmen who would rather spend tens of millions of yuan to devote to the temple to seek stability than spend millions of money to do something practical.

Of course, the same is true for Taoism. There are various sects from abroad. I have never seen any leader who really has no selfish intentions.

"Hey~! I'm so worried, it's hard to suppress it. Although it's not easy to become a monk now, it requires various assessments, but what if you pass the assessment? Buddhism has been introduced from India. It is actually the Chinese who are truly perfect. That kind of sophistry is very helpless. I have experienced it more than once."

The more Zhang Xiaobao thought about it, the more depressed he became, and he complained with his hands on his temples.

"Then let's gather Li Longji to destroy the Buddha again and return to the secular world." Wang Juan gave an idea.

"It's useless. It was so powerful to destroy the four olds at the time, but what was the result? The Buddha is in the heart of the people. As long as someone wants to use it and as long as someone still believes it, it will never be destroyed.

In fact, the most important thing is human spiritual sustenance. If everyone only trusts themselves and does not look for other spirits, then it will be simple, but this thing is impossible, right?"

Zhang Xiaobao can ensure that his original intention is unchanging, but he cannot let everyone in the world think like him.

Wang Juan also understood that "the reason why I don't believe in myself is because many people cannot summarize a systematic theory, which is related to the spiritual aspect. If you think of some solutions, you must ***, try your best to suppress it, and leave a part of it, and use it as a tourist holy place in the future.

In fact, many of the temples at that time made money not all the money they made by the temples themselves. Our party still has a lot of ways, just like *** has been constantly. If you really want to fight, you can get rid of it in one go. What money can you use to assist taxes? I decided to write a letter to Li Longji and ask him to deal with Buddhism."

"Okay, we don't kill people, we just try our best to ***. For example, Buddhism must pay taxes, for example, land belonging to various temples must pay rent, and if we can recite a few scriptures, can we just want to live a comfortable life?

Of course, what should be supported should continue to support, such as letting them not forget to add imperial power when promoting doctrine. If a religion cannot serve the ruler, there is no need to exist, and the ruler is too failure."

Zhang Xiaobao also made up his mind to slap a sweet date. Not only Buddhism, but also all other sects that emerged in the Tang Dynasty should treat them like this. The Tubo side would not allow them to believe it at all, otherwise it would be a problem in the future.

When Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan were busy, Xiaobei and his group of little guys were not relaxed. They were already officials in Jian'an County, but they had never taken office.

It’s not that they don’t want it, but that they don’t.

I usually stay with my brothers and sisters, and although I learned a lot, I was blind when I really wanted to apply it.

When they were clamoring to take office, Zhang Xiaobao did not stop him. He just asked them to take out a plan and according to their respective official positions, he took out a corresponding plan.

Xiao Beijiu was stunned. He usually saw that his brother and sister didn't come up with any plan when he was acting. It seemed that the two of them had a solution after muttering. It was already his turn, so they actually wanted the plan.

So Xiaobei and others decided to learn again, not from their elder brothers and sisters, and realized that it was too big and unrealistic.

The schoolbag behind him was carrying the spring holiday homework, and Xiaobei and others formed a team to set out towards Yiying County.
To be continued...