Chapter 368 The old meaning of Dunhuang

Chapter 368 The old meaning of Dunhuang

For some things, as long as one link is smoothed out, subsequent relationships will become smoother.

After being accepted by Li Tai, Liang Shiyan was in a very excited mood. He recounted the previous situation in the mansion in the state capital, not to show how much he maintained the majestic image of Master Lang in front of others, but to remind Li I'm afraid Tai won't be able to recruit suitable talents like this.

Li Tai has also noticed this problem in recent days. The recruitment situation of talents is not very ideal. Although the public responded enthusiastically, the level of performance was not as good as expected. Regardless of his skills as a horse archer or his knowledge and talent, he rarely meets the kind of person who makes his eyes shine.

It is certainly wrong to say that Longyou's talent level is low. In terms of cultural inheritance, Longyou is not inferior to Guanzhong. In other words, they are evenly matched. No one is more cultural than the other. And when it comes to martial arts and individual force, Longyou is actually slightly stronger than Guanzhong.

Li Tai was also thinking about what part was wrong, whether it was those wealthy families who hid all their first-rate talents from him, but after hearing Liang Shiyan's explanation, he realized that it was the mentality of these people. wrong.

The vast majority of the Longyou descendants who came to the state capital to participate in the war still regarded this as a private exchange between the government and the wealthy family for the distribution of interests in the village, but did not regard this as a way to show themselves and realize their life ambitions. Opportunity.

The most basic subjective initiative is lacking. Even if you have nine points of ability, you may not be able to exert five points. It would be strange if you can still perform brilliantly.

For example, the scraps of the soldiers who were abandoned in the six towns by the Northern Wei Dynasty, once they started to start their own business, they immediately burst out with amazing energy, killing people and killing Buddhas, they can be said to be shining stars.

Although Li Tai would have noticed this situation soon, Li Tai was pleased that Liang Shiyan was able to discover it in advance and even come up with some ideas to solve the problem.

Although he has the advantage of being a prophet and has a flexible mind, it does not mean that he has no plan left. There are many situations where he becomes extremely happy and sad due to miscalculation, so he also hopes that someone among his subordinates can check for his legacy. Fix leaks.

Liang Shiyan's military strength is not low, and he is very intelligent. He is indeed a rare talent. In addition, he was not a local in Qinzhou, and there were no locals or cliques here, so Li Tai felt free to let him participate in the selection of Fu Zuo.

When he learned that Li Tai was going to open a mansion soon, not to select staff for the state capital, but to select subordinates for himself, Liang Shiyan was even more excited. He felt more and more that he had a keen eye and had chosen a good lord with a bright future. Therefore, he was extremely dedicated to everything arranged by Li Tai.

In addition to selecting outstanding talents among the warriors from various villages, Li Tai also wanted to form a team of troops to follow him back to Guanzhong and join the formation and combat order of the government troops.

After Dugu Xin experienced this incident of having his house stolen, he also felt deeply that the concentration of power in Longyou was not reliable enough. He was happy to see Li Tai lead some of the forces away to divert them, so there was no restriction on this, as long as Li Tai could organize it. If he gets up and can bear the cost of maintaining a man-horse pair, let him do his best.

However, Li Tai did not intend to select troops directly from the state army, but from among the local songs.

The Zhou Army was founded by Dugu Xin. His personal color was too strong, and he had been out of touch with Longyou's hometown for a long time, making it difficult to represent the current order of hometown.

Li Tai didn't mind having Dugu Xin's tribe in the team, but it wasn't like there was no room to recruit a new team, so there was no need to forcefully recruit under Dugu Xin.

The Longyou army he wanted to form must not only be brave and strong, but also fully represent Longyou's hometown. The soldiers have made great achievements under his command, and he has always maintained aloofness in Longyou through this relationship. status and extraordinary influence.

This was not a difficult matter for Li Tai. Before Duguxin returned to town, he had already fully mobilized the local forces on the border. More than half of the powerful families and Di, Qiang, and Hu chiefs obeyed his orders. Scheduling, at one time controlled nearly 20,000 Xiangqu soldiers.

On this basis, Li Tai invited the heads of large families and the powerful chiefs of the Hu tribe one by one, and expressed his intention to form a new army and bring it into Guanzhong to make contributions. These people also responded to varying degrees.

Although not everyone has a positive attitude, as long as Li Tai speaks, they will give some feedback. This can be regarded as a manifestation of Li Tai's prestige in Qinzhou during this period. According to preliminary statistics, there are nearly 6,000 troops!

The largest proportion of these were the monk soldiers and temple slaves that Li Tai obtained from Guangming Temple. After a selection, there were thousands of them. Then, Li Yunxin, the eldest grandson, gathered his disciples and tribes from the Li clan in Longxi, which also amounted to more than a thousand people.

The other Han and Hu families were added together, plus a group of veterans assigned by Dugu Xin from the state army, and they formed a team of five to six thousand people.

However, the consumption of such a team is also huge. Although Li Tai squeezed a lot of property and materials from Guangming Temple, a considerable part of them was invested in the construction of Sifang City. Plus other planning expenses, the rest Although the amount is still considerable, the expenses also need to be carefully calculated.

Soldiers value elites rather than numbers. The combat effectiveness of an elite soldier is far greater than that of a ragtag army that is several times more powerful.

Li Tai had neither the more military tactics nor the sufficient family background, so he carried out a series of selection and elimination, and finally controlled the size of this army to just over 3,000 people. And he made full use of the regional characteristics of Longyou, and all these 3,000 people were organized into cavalry.

It was not difficult to select 3,000 elite soldiers who were skilled in archery and horse riding in Longyou, and they were carefully selected from more than a dozen powerful clans here.

Li Tai couldn't help drooling when he saw the strong and vigorous appearance of these soldiers every time he reviewed them in the parade ground. In terms of the quality of the soldiers alone, they were definitely the best in the world, and they could fight bravely as soon as they were pulled onto the battlefield.

The armor, swords, war horses and other weapons needed by these people and horses were borne by the state government, and each family provided a part.

Li Tai certainly would not let the families here contribute their manpower to his business. After all, everyone was not a fool, and to stimulate their enthusiasm, they needed to give enough incentives.

So he took out the Sifang City, which was about to be completed, for share distribution. Each family was given a part of the Sifang City area according to the amount of manpower and effort they contributed. They could operate it themselves or rent it out to make a profit.

In this way, Li Tai had a common interest with these Longyou families and shared weal and woe. These three thousand soldiers followed him to fight in the south and the north and made achievements. In the Longyou countryside, there was also the Sifang City, a community of interests, to maintain the relationship between them.

In the future, even if Yuwen Dao replaced Dugu Xin to sit in Longyou, he would not be able to seize the control of Sifang City. Even if he started a logistics city from scratch, he would be strongly resisted by the local forces.

While Li Tai was forming the army, the personnel affairs here did not stagnate.

Dugu Xin has been busy compiling the Liangzhou merit book recently. Although his dream of being arbitrary in Longyou has been shattered, he still hopes to have more initiative in his heart, especially in the past period of time, Li Tai directly investigated the bottom of the local sentiment order here, which also greatly strengthened Dugu Xin's operating space.

Before the Taifu further interfered with the situation in Longyou, at least to deeply integrate the situation in Qinzhou, the official and the civilian, was also a natural choice to consolidate its own power. Therefore, Dugu Xin also spent a lot of effort on the compilation of the merit book, so as to benefit all aspects.

Yang Kuan, the governor of Hezhou, was relatively lonely. After returning to the town, he handed over the military and political affairs of the state to Wang De. After leaving office, he came to Shangfeng City to stay temporarily, waiting to return to the capital with the team that would report the victory later.

But Yang Kuan himself did not seem to be very disappointed. Perhaps he was not very happy to be the governor of this border state. Now that he was leaving office, he had nothing to do. During the time he stayed in Qinzhou, he even introduced several people from Longyou that he admired to Li Tai with interest.

In late June, more than 5,000 households from Liangzhou who moved to Guanzhong also entered Qinzhou in a mighty manner. After a short rest here, the 3,000 troops reorganized by Li Tai could be introduced into Guanzhong.

Li Tai was about to leave the town, but there were still many things to be done, and he was very busy. Fortunately, the recruited officials also arrived one after another, sharing his work to a great extent, so that he would not be overwhelmed and confused.

The only thing he needed to do personally was some interpersonal interactions. There were so many guests visiting every day that Dugu Xin felt a little jealous and drove him out of the prefecture to stop him from having banquets and drinking every day to interfere with the administration of the prefecture.

On this day, Li Tai had just sent off several countrymen who discussed the subsequent management of Sifang City with him. After returning to the living room to rest for a while, Zhao Yan, a military officer who had decided to follow him back to Guanzhong, hurried into the room and handed over a visiting card.

The material and shape of this visiting card were extremely gorgeous, and it was made of gold and jade, but the signature was even more special. It was neither an official title nor a hometown or county, but "Old Hexi, Old Dunhuang, Linghu Yanbao".