Chapter 961: Nodes

Chapter 961: Nodes

  Chapter 961

   "Then Sanlang, you have to pull out more horses and armor weapons for me, especially bows and crossbows, which consume a lot of energy." Cheng Chumo saw that Qin Lang did not support the assembly of an army to fight a big battle, so he didn't bother.

   Turning around, he was about to raise money and grain weapons.

"These can be given to you, but there are not many armors. I can give you the new iron helmets made by Foshan Military Workshop in Guangzhou. I can give you priority. You have 5,000 soldiers in the navy, 10,000 near the city, and 6,000 new ones. Wolf Barracks, I will directly pull out your 20,000 new-style iron helmets, and let the sailors who see the tiger deliver them in batches."

  Don’t even think about Mingguang armor, it’s only equipped for officers. The climate in South of the Five Ridges is hot, and the mountainous terrain on the other side of the sea is not suitable for large battles. The most important thing is that the enemy is a group of Nanman, and their armor defense is even worse.

   Basically no armor.

  So Qin Lang's way of governing the army is to use the navy, including other Lingnan armies, without having too good armor defense. He even prepares that 60% of the soldiers will not be equipped with iron armor, but only a new type of iron cloth.

  It is also a lightweight cotton armor, which is light and comfortable, and also has a certain defensive ability.

   Of the remaining 40% soldiers, about 10% are equipped with traditional iron armor, 10% are equipped with leather armor, and the remaining 20% ​​are equipped with sophisticated cotton armor.

As for the cavalry, Qin Lang also opposed the establishment of too many cavalry in the south of the Five Ridges, especially the cavalry with northern war horses. He planned to use horses from the south of the Lingnan, or Dian horses from Yunnan, or horses from the west of Sichuan. Good endurance, especially suitable for mountain biking.

After all, in places like Lingnan, in jungle and mountainous areas, large-scale cavalry charge tactics have little chance to be used. Cavalry is more responsible for outflanking and roundabouts, tactics interspersed, and even raiding grain roads, hunting and intercepting enemy scouts, and guard patrols, etc. such a task.

   In real fights, most of them were chasing routs and so on, so there was no need to transport horses from the north to build a large cavalry unit. The horses in the north may not be adapted to the climate here, nor to the terrain here.

  Mountain light cavalry is enough, and the number does not need to be too many.

   "One thousand bright light armors, two thousand cowhide armors, and five thousand cotton armors. I want the high-quality ones, not the light ones. Those things have mediocre defense." Old Cheng's unceremonious lion opened his mouth.

"Impossible, Jinglue Mansion is not limited to your Tonghai army, but I have 12 armies under my command. This expansion, the Lingnan 12th army has a total of 60,000, and there are 120,000 near the city, not to mention the troops from the states. Team training and county security guards still need to be equipped with some equipment."

   "The imperial court doesn't care about us. The Military Weapons Superintendent of Weiwei Temple can give us weapons, but they have to be bought with real money, and IOUs cannot be issued. I can't patronize your army."

   One asks for a lot of money, and the other pays back the money.

"I'll give you 800 sets of bright light armor. This thing is actually not very useful in Lingnan, especially when the rainy season comes. I will give you another 1,000 sets of iron chain armor. This thing is light and strong, suitable for fighting in jungles and mountains. .”

   "Two thousand sets of cotton armor."

   "That's all, it's useless to have more, and they have to be delivered in batches."

   "As for the bow and crossbow, it's okay. I can draw you more, but you have to remember to keep it safe. You can't give it to you when the time comes. Let the barbarians take it away and use it to attack us instead."

  Cheng Chu meditated for more points, Qin Lang waved his hand, "I'm not a vegetable market, don't bargain for me, that's all, if you want it, don't forget it."

   "Yes, yes!"

"Wait a minute, I didn't take this thing for nothing. I have to exchange it for something. The bows, crossbows, armor and arrows I gave you will all be converted into money. At that time, you can exchange them with the heads of barbarians, or It is directly exchanged with barbarian captives, of course, any other livestock, cattle, sheep, grain and fur can be exchanged."

  Cheng Chumo's old face crumpled.

   "Sanlang, why are you like this, who are we fighting for, and we still need money to buy?"

   "I don't want you for nothing, I just want you to understand that these things are hard-won. Of course, one yard is worth one yard. If you kill the enemy and make meritorious service, of course there will be other rewards."

  Qin Lang said to Gao Feng and Gao Fu, "I also ask the two supervisors to send some subordinates back to Tonghai with Cheng Dudu to supervise the military."

  Although Tonghai Mansion is now fighting every day, there is neither shortage of food nor soldiers, so Qin Lang is not too worried. Cheng Chumo thinks that he will do something big, but Qin Lang is determined not to allow it.

  The risk of fighting a big battle is too high, especially when you cross the Red River and go to the south bank, where there are almost virgin jungles, high mountains and dense forests, the risk is very high, and the transportation of grain and grass is inconvenient.

  If Tonghai’s hometown is stolen when he goes to fight in the south of the Yangtze River, it will be even more uneconomical.

  For Qin Lang, the barbarians from the south of the Yangtze River can't do anything big when they cross the river. They don't have the ability to attack cities and villages and fight tough battles, so small fights won't make a big difference. The most important thing to guard against in Tonghai is the Cuanshi and Wuman in the north.

  The strength of these people is far from comparable to those in the south, so we have to guard against them.

  Although Qin Lang got a special order to expand the Lingnan army to 60,000, and there are 120,000 barbarian soldiers, but on such a vast land, the tens of thousands of horses are actually very few.

  If soldiers and horses are gathered together, there will be no soldiers to use in other places. Regarding the uneasy situation caused by the reform of the land in Lingnan and other places, once there is a vacuum in some places, barbarians will definitely rise up and make trouble again.

Not to mention, hundreds of thousands of native soldiers and more unity are actually a pile of unstable firewood. These young and strong people drawn from the barbarians are placed under the management of various military towns of the Tang Army, which is a bottom line. plan.

   But once a big battle breaks out, so many barbarians may become powder kegs again.

   Before completely taming these barbarians, Qin Lang was not willing to fight any big battle easily.

  The idea of ​​pinning hopes on a battle is not suitable for the current situation in Lingnan. What Lingnan needs now is deterrence and guarding, and slowing down.

  Only when the entire tribe is killed like last time in Jucho, this is the time for a big battle.

  The two senior supervisors sat there, listening to Qin Lang's words to Cheng Chumo, the governor of Tonghai, each thinking. The relationship between these two people is undoubtedly very good, Cheng Chumo almost obeys Qin Lang's advice.

   "Please ask Secretary Liu Zhang to draft the official document for me."

  Liu Rengui swiped his pen and wrote Qin Lang's resolution on the spot. After Qin Lang read it, he signed it with a pen and stamped it, and handed it to the two supervisors.

  According to the system, the major decisions of Qin Lang, the coach, actually have to be approved by the two supervisors, and the military orders will only be effective after they are signed.

  Even in the past when some supervising troops accompanied the army, the supervising troops were often above the chief generals, and they were always asked for instructions.

  Qin Lang's personal prestige is there, so he didn't ask the two for instructions when he made a decision, and directly asked the secretary in charge to issue an order, and he signed and sealed it before giving it to the two.

   This is no longer a chance for the two to refute.

  Eunuch Gao Fu happily signed his name and stamped his seal with a pen, without any hesitation.

Gao Jifu hesitated for a moment. He wanted to say that this was inconsistent with the military supervision system, but considering that he was new here, there was no need to bother about such a trivial matter. After all, Qin Lang's decision was not a major one, so he decided to accept it. The signature is printed.

   "The envoy of Zhidu, the envoy of Yingtian, the envoy of transshipment, and the envoy of salt and iron!"

  Qin Lang called the roll call.

  So the four scarlet-robed civil servants all stood up and bowed with crossed hands and obeyed.

These four are now Li Shimin's newly established officials for Lingnan, each responsible for a specific area of ​​affairs, Zhidushi is responsible for the taxation of the three provinces of Lingnan, Guangxi and nine prefectures, and Yingtianshi is responsible for the military, civilian, and commercial villages, as well as grain. All belong to his unified management and scheduling. The transfer envoy is responsible for the transfer and dispatch of money, food and materials in the entire Lingnan area.

  Salt and iron envoys are responsible for the management of salt fields and iron mines and taxation, etc., except for one-third of the income from official operations and taxation, which is turned over to the imperial court, and the remaining two-thirds are managed by the salt and iron envoys for military and civilian use.

  In the final analysis, this is to integrate the Lingnan area, especially to ensure that Lingnan can really support the Twelfth Army by itself and maintain the logistics, money and food guarantee of combat effectiveness.

  These four envoys are all deputy of Qin Lang, the economic envoy, and they all obey his orders to assist him, managing money and food supply and other matters for him.

  What about Qin Lang, just concentrate on managing the soldiers.

  As for the local civil affairs, there are officials from the four departments of the Observation Envoy, the Inspection Envoy, the Changping Envoy, and the Commanding Envoy.

  But there is always one person who obeys orders.

  The envoys set up by the Economic and Strategic Mansion allow the Economic and Strategic Mansion to take over all the military, political and financial power in Lingnan. Although there are two supervisory military academies that are independent from the outside, they only exercise the power of supervising the military and do not divide other powers.

Originally, Li Shimin even wanted to let Qin Lang, the economic envoy, take over the functions of farming, branching, transshipment, salt and iron, but Wei Zheng resolutely opposed it, thinking that the power was too great, and it was more powerful than the previous Daxingtai Shangshuling. The power to return is great, so four envoys were set up in the end.

  Originally Wei Zheng said that these four envoys should also set up their own yamen, and they should not be subordinate to Jinglue. Li Shimin said that this is unnecessary. The three provinces of Lingnan and Guangxi are doing their own thing, isn’t it all right?

   What is needed is an officer who can coordinate the overall situation and guard Lingnan, who can dispose of power everywhere, but also constrains everywhere. The current situation has lost its due authority and role.

Qin Lang was in charge of Lingnan Jinglue, and concurrently served as the governor of the two major governors of Guangzhou and Zhennan. Xuanfu interviewed and dealt with the envoy, so he had all the military, administrative, and supervisory powers in his hands.

  Especially concurrently serving as the governor of Guangzhou and the governor of Zhennan, as well as the positions of governor of Guangzhou and governor of Jiaozhou, which made it impossible for him to be emptied, and the most critical power was held in his hands.

  If the emperor wants to completely control Lingnan and tame and naturalize Lingnan, he must completely delegate power to capable officials. This is Li Shimin's grandeur.

   is also required by the situation.

  If the imperial court made decisions everywhere, then the situation in Lingnan would be impossible to change in a short time.

   "Everyone, I just came back from Chang'an, and I would like to reiterate our mission."

   "Training troops and fighting wars is just a means, not an end."

"Our goal is to make Lingnan completely naturalized in the Tang Dynasty, make Lingnan stable and prosperous from now on, let the Han and barbarian families, regardless of each other, share the peace and prosperity of the Tang Dynasty, solve the problem of food and clothing, and have land for the tiller. No house is worth living in, and you are the pillars of the country, please work together with me to bring peace and prosperity to Lingnan!"

  Gao Jifu looked at the ambitious young Wei Guogong, and couldn't help but admire him, he should be an official like Qin Sanlang!

  (end of this chapter)