The rain was getting lighter, and the leaves hit by the rain seemed particularly crisp. A few birds flew over from somewhere, landed on the canopy, chirping, and their little heads looked around.

Hao Ren set up a small table under the eaves, made a few dishes, and sat opposite Tao Wei Zi.

"Boss, what's the place in Chang'an is a bit unauthentic!" Daddy Tao picked up the cup and drank it all. "From the beginning to the end, I never asked you whether you would like it or not. This is what you can eat! In their hands, can you say anything else besides going?"

Hao Ren smiled slightly, "What's wrong? You can't go back to that Fuwowan in Chang'an, you feel uncomfortable? If you really don't want to go, don't go. Don't forget that you are also a general. When you return to Chang'an, you will not be treated less. I will do all this for you."

Dark Tao slapped the wine glass heavily on the table: "What are you saying, brother? When I followed you, I was only a teenager. It's been decades. Do you want to drive me away?"

Hao Ren nodded and reached out to pat his shoulder.

"With our age, I'm afraid I can only die somewhere! Those who can return to Chang'an are only bones, don't you regret it?"

Dark Tao shook his head: "What do I have to regret? I am alone, and where is death not death!"

Hao Ren laughed, "Okay, with your words, our brothers will go out and make a try again. Blind, don't worry, when you and I are dead, the bones will return to Chang'an, and my son will wear mourning for you. In the future, they will have more children and adopt one and inherit the Tao family's incense. How about it?"

The smile on Daddy Tao's face suddenly subsided, but his eyes turned red for a while.

He grabbed the wine pot, raised his neck and poured his breath into his mouth. It was not until Hao Ren grabbed the wine pot from his hand that he smiled and said, "Brother, you are so calculating. You want to get rid of the little possessions I have saved in the past few years?"

"Since the youngest has given you a mourning dress, can you fly elsewhere with your belongings?"

The two looked at each other, but they both laughed loudly.

In the past two years, Hao Ren has been in charge of the front office of the Palace and holds the power of life and death. As the number one strong general under his command, the two of them are eager to get money, and there is no psychological burden.

In their opinion, if they hug the money away, Zhu Youzhen would hug him less. If Zhu Youzhen had no money, it would prompt Yizhou to fail earlier. Therefore, their various illegal acts are another unified form.

"How do you send the money back to Chang'an to your youngest son?" Daddy Tao was a little embarrassed: "The amount is a bit large, not very convenient."

"This time, we won't send him away, we will take him to make the capital!" Hao Ren filled the cups of the two of them with wine and said, "This time we went to Bagan, we first fought and defeated the barbarians, then gained a foothold, and then developed, which all requires capital. In the future, Bagan will belong to us brothers. Without capital, how can we grow bigger?"

Dark Tao agreed deeply: "To make a lot of money, of course you have to make a lot of investment. That's it. Let's use this money to gamble in Bagan, and we may have a profit of dozens or hundreds of times in the future. At that time, my son will be the richest man in the Tang Dynasty."

The two of them laughed and raised their glasses to drink.

Both of them have a strong gambling nature and don’t think there is anything wrong with this. If you want to make a big profit, you naturally have to invest a lot, and of course there are big risks.

"Blind, go back and go to the front station first and bring a thousand sharp soldiers. I don't care or attack or forcefully. In short, when I bring Sun and the others, I have to have a place to settle down." Hao Ren said.

"OK!"

"This time, Chang'an will kill two birds with one stone. When we are completely over, the next step is to deal with Nanzhao." Hao Ren said: "Vice Chairman Gao's work is always so amazing."

"Didn't Nanzhao surrender?"

"It was surrender, but the current situation was not what the court wanted." Hao Ren shook his head and said, "What the court wanted was to change the land and return to the current, and what was wanted was that the king's law went deep into every corner of Nanzhao. Did Nanzhao do this? So, this time they opened a hole and let us go, and in the future they would become the ironclad evidence of the court's crimes. They could not take off the hat of colluding with traitors."

Dark Tao couldn't help laughing and shook his head, "Boss, compared to the methods of the imperial government's work, the things we did when we were in Chang'an are really too pediatric."

"This is what the ancients said about the quasi-nation country, and the quasi-nation hook is killed. Come on, drink, drink, and now we are also considered quasi-nation country, hahaha!"

A few days later, Yizhou launched a great campaign, and King Liang personally led a large army to Hanzhong. Behind the hustle and bustle, the general Tao Xiazi, the hall chief, led a thousand soldiers, and ran contrary to the direction of Zhu Youzhen's expedition, heading straight towards Nanzhao.

No one cares about the departure of these people. After all, everyone is used to attacking such a small-scale army. They must have rebelled and rioted, and rushed to suppress them.

Lang Sang Mansion is built on a high platform, and teams of soldiers are training on the school ground.

The actions of these soldiers were very unfamiliar. When they saw them, they knew that they were just a bunch of new recruits, which was completely different from Teng Jian's headquarters.

These people were newly recruited by Teng Jian in Lang Son Mansion, and they were completely locals. The main body was the mountainous area in the northern part of Lang Son.

Teng Jian was in charge of Lang Sang Mansion. Because the rich areas in the south were directly exposed to the threat of Liu Xinda's headquarters in the Shenglong Mansion, he did not care about the richer south at all. He regarded the south as his food and grass raising place and military pay collection. The southern area was particularly severely exploited.

On the other hand, he was extremely generous to the indigenous people in the northern mountainous areas. Not only did the taxes be extremely low, but he was also exempted from taxes as long as he was willing to join the army.

This set completely applies to the Tang Dynasty's conscription strategy.

At this time, Annan basically had no concept of country or nation. Having milk is the most basic creed for everyone to survive. In their eyes, Tengjian, an outsider, is much more magnanimous than the big men they rode on them. As for the people in the south, people in the mountains in the north don’t care.

In the past, people from the southern plains looked down on people from the northern mountainous areas, but now, they have completely turned the other way around.

It was under such circumstances that within a very short time that Tengjian established a high prestige in the northern mountainous areas and the recruitment was extremely smooth.

This is already the third group, with a total of 3,000 people.

The first two groups have successfully completed the training and were assigned to their own troops by Tengjian. This group is also expected to officially enter the military sequence in three months.

The training is very harsh. The instructors hold thorns in their hands. If they make a mistake, the thorns in their hands can be whipped vigorously.

The beaten people gritted their teeth and could not cry at all, otherwise they would definitely be more violent whipping or even dragged down to beat military sticks.

Some of these instructors, even natives recruited from the local area in the first period, have now grown into military officers.

If you want to have stronger combat power, the army must be localized, which is Tengjian's most basic understanding. Compared with him, Liu Xinda also recruited local people as soldiers, but in terms of treatment, there is a big difference from his soldiers in his headquarters. Feeding them is Liu Xinda's method. Everyone uses a knife or a spear, which is considered a weapon.

But in Tengjian, the approach is completely the same. As long as the training is qualified, the treatment and equipment are assigned to the army.

Teach them to speak Tang language and write Tang characters, Teng Jian spared no effort to do these things.

assimilation!

He remembered firmly what Gao Xiangsheng had talked to him when he was separated.

When Di Yi enters our China, then China will be the same.

When China enters Diyi, then Diyi will do it.

We must not only effectively win over local indigenous people to stabilize their rule, but also not let themselves lose their roots in this foreign country. If we want to do this, we must work hard to turn these places into an environment that they are originally familiar with.

"These people are hard-working, even more so our soldiers!" A general said happily: "And these people have unique advantages in fighting in the mountains. General, I heard that the Tang Dynasty has built a special mountain special combat force, and I think we can do it too."

Teng Jian smiled and said, "When we get rich, we will definitely build such a unit, but it won't work now. We don't have money. I know the mountain special combat troops you mentioned in the Tang Dynasty, that is, they are piled up with money. Raising such a mountain special forces, we can raise dozens of such soldiers."

"Don't you have money right away?" the general lowered his voice.

"There are money, and everything will be available." Teng Jian said: "Is there no news from Liu Buwu?"

"Not yet. If he doesn't come, what else can we do?"

"Why don't you do it?" Teng Jian sneered: "It's just because they are stronger than us now. If we eat this bite, Liu Xinda will definitely deal with us. No matter what, there are still many confidants in the army now. When we really reach this point, we will suffer a great loss."

"After this group of locals fully integrate into the army, we can deprive those people of military power step by step and exclude them from the core." The general said: "And, Liu Xinda is afraid that he won't live long. Can that boy Liu Buwu be your opponent of General?"

As he was talking, a fast horse rushed in like flying from outside.

"Report to General, news just came that General Liu Buwu led 5,000 troops and had entered Lang Sang Mansion."

Teng Jian and the generals looked at each other and smiled.
Chapter completed!