v8 Chapter 81： Billowing carriage

Time flies, and years are like shuttles, and in a blink of an eye, three years have passed.

In the spring season, the prairie wind is bright.

Zhang Changan opened the curtain and came out of the tent, and looked around. In addition to the endless white felt tents, only the general Tang Tang, who is responsible for guarding and patrolling, has few shepherds in the tribe, and apparently most of them went out to graze.

This is of course the Gesang tribe. There are now 5,000 herders in the tribe, which can be called a large tribe on the grasslands today. Different from other tribes, because of the support of Datang, the Gesang tribe not only has Tang army stationed there, but also a regional management center set up by Datang, and there are Datang officials.

The grassland war has ended for three years, and Datang's management of grasslands has made initial progress.

A hundred people tribe set up a village, five hundred people tribe set up a township, a two thousand people tribe set up a county, a ten thousand people tribe set up a state, equipped with corresponding civilian and military officials, and stationed in the state and county to cooperate with the Quanzhen Temple and the Taoist Temples and temples with no empty gate After the construction of the framework was completed, a highly effective management system for the grassland was formed.

The Gesang tribe has 5,000 herdsmen with a population of more than 20,000. Naturally, it is a state-level military and political gate. Zhang Changan is now a state government and its status is only under the thorny history.

Zhang Chang'an led the officials around the tribe, and sometimes chatted with the elderly shepherd, teased the child, and continued to laugh and laugh. His daily communication with herders is now no problem at all, and he has a good reputation in the tribe and is loved by herders.

More than 5,000 tents, and a tribe of more than 20,000 people, although not much compared to the central city of the Central Plains, are already very large settlements on the grassland. Non-aquatic plants are particularly rich, and such a large crowd will not appear.

Of course, the tribe is also very prosperous, and there are tent areas dedicated to merchants. There are a lot of goods in it. Most of the goods in the Central Plains City are here. Not only the merchants in Zhongyuan, but also grassland people.

At a certain time, businessmen will scramble to buy the cattle and sheep here, and after initial processing, sell them to the Great Wall. As long as the herdsmen are industrious grazing, they can have nothing to worry about. When the year is good, they can still have a lot of money and grain reserves. When the year is bad, they will not be hungry.

As for the strategic materials such as cowhide, beef tendons, and horses, of course, the bulk of the acquisition is the army, which is used to make armor, bowstrings, and train into horses. The army picks the rest, and merchants are eligible to buy.

During the year when the disaster is particularly severe, the court will also respond to disasters, just as the county and county will open warehouses to put grain in place when drought and floods hit the Central Plains. Nowadays, there are potatoes and corn in Datang. It is still difficult to starve to death under the condition that the government governs Qingming.

In addition to business tents, of course, the most distinctive are the Taoist temples and temples that are full of truth, and have no empty gates.

Li Yan had strict orders. Taoist temples and temples could not consume the wealth of herdsmen on the grasslands. Therefore, Taoist temples and temples were adapted to local conditions when they arrived here. They did not build civil houses and were all tents. Taoists and monks have a skill that must be able to see a doctor, so Taoism is also a medical museum.

Apart from this, the tents in the tribe are the dwellings, government officials, and garrison camps.

There are also prairie people in the official and military camps, and the number is not very much yet, because the official and military camps require Chinese to be spoken. However, this is not a problem. There are differences in the direction of struggle.

Now, Prairie County has been training excellent shepherds to learn Chinese urgently, because the selection is all young people, and the initial results are not bad, otherwise the prairie people are not visible in the government and military camps. In addition, prefectures and counties have established schoolhouses, and children on the grassland have also begun to learn Mandarin Chinese, which is expected in the future.

This is another strict order from Li Zhi, vigorously popularizing Confucianism. If the prairie people want to be officials of the Tang Dynasty or join the Tang army, they must learn to speak Chinese. And ten years later, there will be no warriors on the grassland who cannot speak Mandarin, and the original tribal army's fierce security system will be completely replaced.

In short, with Li Zhi's careful arrangement, the grassland is now making great strides in the direction of harmonious development. There is naturally a lot of investment in the early period, and the pressure on the court is not small. Fortunately, there is no shortage of food in the Tang Dynasty. As long as the prairie people have nothing to worry about, they will toss other courts.

And now the monks on the grassland—talents—have either become Taoists, monks, soldiers, officials, or have been sent to Changan to be raised as pigs, and ordinary shepherds are simply unable to make waves.

The wheels of the times rolled forward, some people were eliminated, they were stuck in their lives, and fell down; others also followed the footsteps of the carriage, thus changing their destiny, and the prestige of the people.

And now driving the carriage of this era is Emperor Tang of the Tang Dynasty.

At the end of today's inspection, Zhang Chang'an was planning to go back and saw a group of Taoists lead the horse. After one more glance, he found that the head was

It was not dusty, then went to see Li with a smile, "Why did the Taoist come to me today?"

In the past two years after the war, his identity has soared, and he is now the leader of several Taoists on the Mobe steppe. Preaching and preaching everywhere on weekdays, he was so busy that his reputation became more and more famous. Zhang Changan had not seen him for more than half a year.

"Poor Dao came here today to meet his old friends." Fuchen smiled in return.

After a while, the two sat opposite each other in the felt. Zhang Changan greeted him and drank a bowl of ghee tea. He laughed and quipped, "Within a thousand miles, the Taoist is a famous master, and there are countless disciples. Rong Chang'an can't compare. It's hard to see you all the time. It's less and less time to sit and drink tea together. "

Once fought and lived side by side with each other. Although the two were different in age, they did not cross each other. They talked casually. Zhang Chang'an is not like Chu Yan. He has a lively temperament. He always talks to Buchen.

Dust does not have a nap with Zhang Changan as usual. If it were a weekday, clean talk was even more unobtrusive than Zhang Changan. In his own words, pretending to be a **** in front of his disciples all day was very tired, and when he encountered Zhang Changan, he could relax and relax.

"This return is in fact a resignation from you. The imperial court has issued a decree to allow the poor to bring their outstanding disciples and rush to Chang'an to report on work today. Later, there will be new arrangements, it is estimated that it will be difficult to return to the grassland. Road.

Zhang Changan's eyes lighted up, "Is it because I want to send you to the Western Regions? I heard that Tianshen's first full-year view of the truth, no time to release the door to go west to Yangguan, rushed to the Western Regions or even a big food, but that's magnificent! "

"A mighty fart!" Blargingly swearing, squinting at Zhang Chang'an without disdain, "Although there are many gatekeepers out of the Yangguan Pass to the west, their whereabouts are hidden, mostly following the caravan, one after another. Yes. Do you think the army is fighting? "

Zhang Chang'an was quite hesitant to receive the unsightly white eyes. "Then you talk about it, now that there has been such a big action in the first year of Tianshou, how can you call you back now?"

Dustless eyes gloomy: "For what else can the past people behave rather unsuccessfully.

"Now, the Black Khan State and the Great Eclipse Country are the worlds of Crescent religion. They are different from us. They pursue a policy of integrating politics and religion. They have never allowed a second voice in the state. There has always been only one to deal with heretics. One way is to kill! "

Hearing this, Zhang Changan looked startled.

At that time, the whole truth, and no time to release the door to enter the Khitan state, was able to gain momentum, on the one hand, because the grassland people themselves do not have much belief, blank paper is better to write, on the other hand, Yeluabaoji does not suppress this Instead, they thought it was part of the Han and Tang culture.

At the time of the full truth and the release of the gate from the air without affecting the war, Khitan has always adopted an attitude of acceptance towards the gate and the gate.

But in the Western Regions, the situation is clearly different.

"Doesn't that mean that all of you who passed by before are dead? No wonder now you have to gather believers from the grassland!" Zhang Changan's face changed.

He gave him a spotless look, and said badly: "You ca n’t do it when we are all pigs? If others want to kill us, we will stretch our necks and wait for the knife? We have countermeasures! And before we set out, Your Majesty said Crescent teaching is not gentle, and everyone is mentally prepared. "

Zhang Changan stared darkly, "Can you finish it all at once?"

Watching Zhang Chang'an eating maggots was quite happy, and he smiled: "Most of the people who were in the past are now lurking. Few preachers preach, mostly cooperating with the Tsing Yi yamen, doing fine work. After all, they are all monks. There is strength, and it is more convenient to act. Now the court ordered us to convene, but in fact we went to translate the scriptures. "

"Translation?"

"Know yourselves and know yourselves, and you will not be able to fight a hundred battles. The sword of the army can only kill people from the front and destroy the enemy's body; and our errand is to find the flaws in the enemy's scriptures, refute their theories, and destroy their spirit and belief. It's good for a positive battle. "

Zhang Changan suddenly realized: "That's the case, this is an academic contest!"

He then clenched his fists in the direction of Chang'an. "Your Majesty is really a hero!"

Dust also clenched his fists to show respect, and then said, "We have now collected a lot of information, and know that the number of monks in the Black Khan State and the Great Food State is very large, far exceeding what was previously expected, and the court felt the pressure. So we This time, it ’s really when the war begins, and we are going to the battlefield. "

Zhang Chang'an looked at the dust without worry, "This way you are dangerous."

No dust

With a smile, he said, "No matter how dangerous it is, it will be more dangerous than it was at the military camp in Huarong Qidan?"

Zhang Changan thumbs up.

At the end, he shook his head and said, "Unfortunately, I can't go with you this time."

He waved his hands cleanly: "Now that the prosperous age is coming, there are more than one battlefield in the dynasty. The grassland is also very important here. The bows of war horse leather armor are the key to the strength of the army. Your burden is not lighter than mine.

Zhang Changan nodded.

Desperately in charge of the emperor's life, he did not dare to delay more, and only stayed in the tribe for two hours before leaving Zhang Changan. He did make a special detour to Zhang Chang'an. This time, the two did not know if they had a chance to meet.

After being sent away, Zhang Changan was silent for a long time watching the other party go away at the camp gate. Seeing the other person's figure disappearing in the wilderness, Zhang Changan was about to return to his account, and in the corner of his eyes, a glimpse of a Tang army rider appeared on the horizon, rushing towards this side.

Depending on the number of opponents, there are no less than three thousand rides.

Such a large-scale transfer of cavalry troops appeared in his own jurisdiction, and Zhang Changan naturally got the news in advance. He was so happy that he turned back and ordered a few words and waited before the knock.

The cavalry approached quickly and slowly slowed down. The general, headed by a black robe and black armor, was extraordinary in martial arts. After holding the stables and stopping the war horse, he jumped up from the horse's back and landed in front of Zhang Chang'an.

Without saying a word, the man banged directly on Zhang Changan's chest with a punch, and Zhang Changan banged on the opponent's breastplate with a punch. Two chirps sounded at the same time, a circle of aura wave swelled, and the two did not move under their feet, but both looked red, apparently no one took advantage.

"Nice boy, I thought you had been enjoying the blessings in the grassland in the past two years, and drunk lying on the knees of the beauty, you will pull yourself down!" Chu Yan looked at Zhang Changan up and down with a smile.

Zhang Chang'an rolled his eyes. "I haven't gotten married until now. I heard that you've married Misao. It's you who can't move?"

After a long time of reunion, the two laughed at each other, laughed three times, and went into the barracks side by side.

"I have all the things I want?" Chu Yan asked with a wink as he walked.

"Thirty thousand good war horses, and the same number of good leather armors, are all kept in the camp ......... I'm curious, why do you say in the document that you should not let me saddle war horses? And leather armor is not suitable for fine riding, right? "Zhang Changan wondered.

"You don't know? Right now, I'm not afraid to tell you, tell you, my brother and I have been ordered by officers and officers to train elite riders in the grasslands, but that's a good idea!"

Chu Yan looked proud and contented, and when he saw Zhang Changan's skepticism, he calmly said, "Do you think my brother and I are training ordinary cavalry? If you think so, then you are totally wrong! This cavalry under your brother, But it never happened! "

Zhang Chang'an can't help frowning slightly, which can make Chu Yun who has always been calm and calm, something so exciting and exciting must not be ordinary.

When he arrived in the military tent, Chu Yan drank butter tea and moistened his throat. Then he told Zhang Changan the truth.

It turned out that in the past few years, the masters have supervised those great masters and ghosts, not only developed many large-scale lethal weapons, updated Tang Jun's armaments, but also opened a branch called Xianyaofang. Specially studied how to improve the physique of warhorses through various elixir and turn ordinary warhorses into fierce beasts.

Nowadays, the number of monks in the army is increasing day by day, and various types of magical instruments have become popular. In the past, only the martial arts soldiers equipped by the generals had been destroyed. In this case, the physique of the warhorse seemed too weak to adapt to the needs of the army, which greatly limited the combat effectiveness of the Tang army.

After studying in depth with the demons, especially after communicating with the white wolves, Li Xun felt that before the fairy was in the demons territory, the method of turning ordinary beasts into ferocious beasts was very suitable for war horses.

Although the immortals cultivated ferocious beasts in the demon territory, it took millennia as a unit of time, but Li Zhi did not intend to let the war horses have the strength of real life and fairyland, as long as it can meet the needs of the monk army.

As a result, there is the existence of Xian Yao Fang as a craftsman.

To this day, Xianyaofang has achieved results. The refined elixir has passed the preliminary test stage and will now be used in the army on a large scale.

At present, the grassland, which is the backyard of Datang, is the largest horse farm in Datang, and many cavalry training is carried out in the grassland. The first batch of elixir to improve the physique of warhorses was, of course, allocated to Shangguan Qingcheng, and Shangguan Qingcheng let Chu Kun to carry out this matter, conduct large-scale inspections on the ground, and judge the effect.