I opened a tavern in Datang/Datang: My peerless talent was exposed

As for the Wu Xun family, their connections and power are all established in the military.

Well, if they have no accidents, then they will naturally inherit this tradition, so they are more eager for military merit than others.

After Cheng Chusi got the news from Yuchi Baolin, he rushed to the house immediately, dragged his father to the study, he would not yell nonsense when there were many people.

"Father, I just played ball with Baolin in the clubhouse. When he entered the palace last time, he accidentally heard the news that His Majesty was discussing with the principal about the war. Is there any chance for our family this time? Chu Moke is still a military officer besides his military rank." What a white body!"

When Cheng Yaojin was dragged into the study by his eldest son, he thought that this kid had caused trouble, but he just heard the news when he sat down.

Hearing that Cheng Chusi was worrying about his younger brother's title, Cheng Yaojin nodded with great relief. After such an education, his child has indeed not changed, even if it is already certain that he will inherit his own Duke of Lu Even though he was in the position, he didn't forget to find a future for his younger brothers.

Compared with the scenes of brothers and sisters respecting here, other families can't watch it. Many families don't look friendly when they are outside, like a bunch of flowers, but in fact they are almost as good when they return home. Beat the dog's brains out.

These bullshit things have been spread around for a long time, but no one said it in person. After all, it is a matter of other people's family, and at most it is just a spit in private.

However, looking back, the pure affection between brothers like Cheng Chusi and Cheng Chumo is even more precious.

After Cheng Yaojin sighed in his heart, he didn't say much. As a father, he had to maintain his majesty in front of his son, right?

"The war thing is true!"

Cheng Yaojin affirmed the news that Cheng Chusi had heard when he came up. In fact, Cheng Chusi had guessed this point a long time ago. His father is currently the chief of the general staff, and his main job is to be the counselor of the army. Standing No.1 in the military field.

It was strange that his father didn't know about this kind of war-related news.However, he still wanted to hear what his father had to say about it.

"Your Majesty discussed these matters with His Royal Highness King Qin. In fact, we can win against anyone. To us, those foreigners are almost like savages. It is not difficult to defeat them!"

"The most critical issue is also the issue that His Majesty and His Royal Highness are most worried about. In fact, it is what we should do after we win the battle, how to digest that place!"

"Let's go for construction. Manpower, financial resources, and material resources will all be consumed. Goryeo has completely digested it now, but Fusang has only been laid down for a long time, and the other side only understands half of it!"

"A few days ago, I also heard that there are people rebelling in Fusang. The children of the old Qin family can't stop their ruthless attacks there. The garrison is encircling and suppressing them!"

"There is a problem here in Fusang, will there be a problem if we take down other territories? If there is a problem, can the local garrison solve it?"

"Where are the garrison troops drawn from? How to arrange rotation? How to solve the military expenses? There are too many problems here, and it is impossible to discuss it in a few words!"

"In the words of His Royal Highness King Qin, it takes only three or two days to fight a war, but not three to two years to govern. It may take decades to slowly integrate that side into the Tang Dynasty! "

It can be said that Cheng Yaojin has been in the army for half his life, but from the early years when he was a pioneer in the battlefield, he only relied on bravery, and when he led troops to fight, he needed to plan and plan. The update of arms and weapons requires more knowledge and skills.

In fact, Cheng Yaojin has never let go of his studies. Speaking of which, the reason why he finally stood at the No.1 position in the military is because of his understanding of new tactics and new types of military. A character who is careless like a bandit.

In fact, he is a real wise man, his usual appearance is just a protective cover for him, Dazhi Ruoyu is talking about him.

It is precisely because of his continuous learning that he can think of these things, because today's war has long since broken away from the simple role of defeating the enemy at the beginning.

The role of war in Datang is now only one, and that is to serve politics and economy, and to find new fuel, market and manpower for the development of Datang.

Nowadays, there is a shortage of people everywhere in the Tang Dynasty, and the cost of labor is also rising. The vast majority of the earlier Korean slaves are now the people of the Tang Dynasty who can speak the official language fluently.

There are also some people in Fusang who have left slavery, so Datang needs to find the next batch of slaves as soon as possible. Datang still has a lot of railways to build and mines to dig!

Chapter 848 The Real Target

After Cheng Chusi got the accurate information from his father, he also began to ponder, how should he think of ways to benefit his brother and himself?

The family rules of the old Cheng's family are very simple. If there is any benefit, it must be reaped, especially this kind of opportunity for brothers to reap the benefits together is too rare, so we must find a way.

Cheng Yaojin looked at Cheng Chusi's frowning silently thinking about it, and he was naturally proud of it in his heart, but his majesty as a father still made him slap Cheng Chusi on the head,

"Think about it, your father is not dead yet, what do you have to think about, little major? Can you get involved in this kind of thing? With your father here, can you lose to the two of you brothers?"

Cheng Chusi stroked his hot scalp and smiled, and nodded silently without answering, obviously he was very familiar with his father's way of getting along.

But since the old man knew the news long ago but didn't tell him, he probably had his own considerations. It seems that he and Chu Mo don't have to worry about not being able to go to the front line this time.

However, there is no need to worry about military merits. As a soldier, there are other things that make him curious. One of the most important questions is,

"Father, where are we going?"

Cheng Yaojin looked at Cheng Chusi's curious look, he had habitually planned to do it again, but somehow he endured it, and he suddenly found out that his child was already a major in the army , there are thousands of people under his command, and several warships.

Thinking of this, Cheng Yaojin sighed silently in his heart, and then slowly explained,

"Your Highness means that the areas of Chenla and Linyi are all destroyed! His Highness doesn't like the rumored Buddhism there, and the rice is grown three times a year there. With that piece of land, as long as it is well managed, we will There is no food crisis in the Tang Dynasty, and the entire Tang Dynasty will not be short of food!"

Cheng Chusi nodded silently. With the popularization of new education and the expansion of the navy's exploration, Datang's understanding of this world is getting deeper and deeper.

Nowadays, even in the natural science textbooks of primary schools, there are introductions to continents and oceans and simple descriptions of neighboring countries.

Then, as an officer who is always ready to go to the battlefield, he is even more sensitive to these things. They don't know how many times they have simulated attack plans against other countries in the barracks.

Obviously, Linyi and Zhenla who were hiding beside Datang were already in their expectation.

As middle and low-level military officers, they don't need to think about those major national affairs. They just need to find the enemy, find the enemy, and destroy the enemy. , It's like something a person of his father's level is thinking about.

Let them, as long as they fight a good fight.

However, Cheng Chusi frowned a little when he thought about the information about Chenla and Linyi in the information, that place seemed difficult to fight.

As an air force officer, he is actually a special operations officer to put it bluntly. He has received jungle combat training. At that time, the airship directly threw them into the mountains and forests in the south of Lingnan, and while learning various knowledge, he wiped out those who were never included in the Tang Dynasty. tribe.

He almost collapsed inside at that time, and it was also at that time that he deeply understood why the military academy attached so much importance to jungle warfare.

Without enough knowledge and logistics, it is almost impossible to move an inch in the jungle. All kinds of poisonous insects, beasts, plants, as well as hot climate and unpredictable weather, almost every minute and every second is fighting.

You are not fighting the enemy, but fighting nature and everything around you.

Thinking of that kind of experience now, Cheng Chusi's scalp feels numb!

At that time, Zhang Nuo repeatedly emphasized very seriously that jungle warfare is the biggest test for the Air Force Special Forces, because this era is full of secluded forests, and in these places, those native tribes who are like savages are more adaptable to this kind of warfare than they are. place.

Although they don't have that kind of knowledge, their ancestors have lived here for generations, and the lessons they have exchanged for various lives have been passed down through word of mouth, which makes them understand this place better than others.

In the eyes of Cheng Chusi and others, the green desert is in their eyes fertile fields, pastures and their own backyard!

Since that time, jungle warfare training has become the scariest training program in the Air Force, even scarier than training at sea.

Originally, everyone in the air force felt that the wind and waves on the sea were scary enough. After all, not everyone could bear the feeling of shaking wildly in the wind and waves.

But compared to the tense state in the jungle where you have to be cautious when you are about to be poisoned if you are not careful, and you have to be careful when you are bitten and drink saliva, the sea is extraordinarily peaceful.

As an air force officer, Cheng Chusi knew very well that Zhang Nuo asked them to start training in this area, in fact, for places like Linyi and Chenla.

Thinking of this, Cheng Chusi began to have a headache again. This kind of battle is not easy to fight. The best way is to attract all the enemies to the city, and then solve them all in one battle.

If it takes a long time for the enemies to disperse into the jungle, they can only be dispatched to encircle and arrest them one by one, and then it will be a hard job.

Thinking of this, Cheng Chusi seemed to think of his hard life of being forced to eat bugs in the jungle, and shivered all over his body.

Turning around, he thought that he had to go back to train soldiers. Although he wasn't sure if he would be the first batch to play, he would definitely be sent there. If he trains well at this time, he might be able to save a few more soldiers in the future. personal life.

He clearly realized the importance of what His Royal Highness King Qin usually said about "sweat more in peacetime and bleed less in wartime". If he didn't force those bastards under him to memorize the jungle illustrated book and related information backwards, maybe At that time, a frightening number will appear in non-combat attrition.

Cheng Yaojin was very pleased to see Cheng Chusi frowning in thought. He knew that Cheng Chusi would be thrown into the jungle as the first batch of troops.

As a father, he naturally didn't want his children to fall into such a difficult situation, but as a soldier, he also hoped that his children could shine on that difficult battlefield in the future.

Just let the kid think about it. As a leader of the army, it is better to think about it before the battle than to think about it during the war.After all, places like Linyi and Chenla are really not so easy to fight!

Chapter 849 News of the War

Zhang Nuo naturally didn't know about the conversation between father and son in Cheng Yaojin's family. Now he feels a little detached, that is, he has his part in everything, but he seems to be hiding behind the scenes, like a Bystanders generally stand outside the feeling.

Regarding the war, he had actually discussed it with Li Shimin for some time. After such a long time, Datang has slowly digested part of the previous war dividends.

Goryeo is now a "sacred and inseparable part" of the Tang Dynasty.At the same time, in Koryo, the garrison who was idle in the barracks and had nothing to do, and stayed in the barracks, when they "went out to hunt" several times, they inadvertently killed all the nearby Baishan, Heishui, Mohe and other tribes. Suppressed.

In other words, unknowingly, the border of Datang has expanded from the original Liaodong region to the Siberian ice sheet, and even Vladivostok is now the territory of Datang.

Those survivors who were unable to surrender and were captured naturally became slaves, but fortunately, Datang already has a complete set of mature methods for dealing with this kind of slaves. There is food and housing, as long as you concentrate on your work.

After working honestly for a few years, you can use the money you have accumulated in the past few years to redeem the slavery and buy it back. At that time, you will be able to get a serious household registration and call yourself a Datang person.

Datang actually didn't have much desire for these places. After all, in the eyes of the Tang court and the people, farming and grazing in this poor place was useless, so why would you want it?

Only Zhang Nuo knew in his heart that this place was really just so-so, but who would have thought that a place that could kill people in winter could become a country's granary by planting a crop in summer.

Moreover, this vast expanse of plains will be the most suitable place to practice after Datang develops agricultural mechanization in the next few decades.

If Tang Dynasty is not so eager for the land that can be planted because of the large number of new territories, then go further up, that cold plain and frozen soil, but there are all kinds of minerals with amazing reserves. .

These things are useful to Datang!

The people of Datang are good people, hard-working, hardworking and brave, and the court of Datang is also very good at present, at least at present, the government of Datang is harmonious and the efficiency of the government is quite high.

But there is one disadvantage of Datang, that is, there are too few minerals in the original territory of Datang.

If it was still the previous farming society, it would be fine, it was nothing more than making knives, armor and some odds and ends, and it would not consume much minerals every year.

However, Datang had an extra variable like Zhang Nuo. He single-handedly promoted the rapid development of Datang, kicking Datang from an agricultural society to an industrial society.

One of the biggest characteristics of industrial society is the rapid consumption of resources, or to put it another way, since the beginning of industrial society, people have learned to use resources seriously.

Maybe this will cause a lot of irreversible damage to the environment, but Zhang Nuo is not one of those environmental protection saints who are full and support themselves.

In his view, only after the society has developed to a certain stage and has enough energy can we think about those things. It is hypocritical to gossip without eating enough.

But in the current Datang, the demand for resources is actually good, at least for the time being, it can still withstand it. The biggest problem now is actually manpower.

Manpower represents too many things, not only can work, farm, road repair, bridge laying, mining, grazing, etc. The key is that manpower also represents the market.

To put it bluntly, the high-speed operation of the Datang train burned not only minerals, but also the lives of slaves.

Otherwise, if Datang's own people were to be used to build roads, pave bridges and dig mines, not to mention the money spent, the loss of human life alone would probably cause Li Shimin and the big bosses in the court to die of headaches.

It's not that people are deliberately sent to death, but under the current technical conditions, in some places and certain types of work, they are basically risking their lives, and the protection of a few fewer deaths is considered very good.

I haven't seen Yang Guang's various infrastructure projects back then. The number of people who died was tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands. The key is not just once, but several times. If it weren't for this situation, he wouldn't be defeated so quickly family property.

Therefore, Zhang Nuo and Li Shimin immediately set their sights on the map when they discovered that the development of Datang had slowed down due to lack of manpower.

For the two brothers, this has become a conditioned reflex.

Datang is short of people?Go find it in other countries!

Datang is short of resources?Go find it in other countries!

Datang is short of market?Go find it in other countries!

Datang...

This is the basic mentality of an empire ruler with extremely developed national power and military power. My house is short of something, but I don’t bother to say hello to you. Anyway, those troops are idle, so I just go to your house to get it.

However, even if the military power of the Tang Dynasty is at its peak, they will not relax their minds when facing wars. You must know that including Li Shimin, among the top leaders in the Tang Dynasty, which one has not experienced a few times to win more with less, A battle where the weak defeat the strong?

They don't want things like capsizing in the gutter to happen to them!

Therefore, this time, the preparations for the battle of Linyi and Chenla, that is, the battle of Indochina Peninsula, were extremely long.

First of all, in terms of military strength, in order to ensure the victory of this battle, after discussing with Li Shimin, Zhang Nuo directly transferred a division from the Chang'an Military Region to the Yunnan-Guizhou Military Region.

The military region system was established after Li Shimin's military reform. The commanders of the military region will be changed every few years. The soldiers in the jurisdiction actually come from all corners of the country. But this kind of military region system has an advantage, that is, the time for stationing and training in this military region is long. , then it will be more adaptable to the local climate and terrain.

That's what Zhang Nuo specially prepared this time. He organized five divisions in the entire Yunnan-Guizhou Military Region and started a half-year special training in the jungle.

For this reason, a large number of senior veterans and officers were transferred from the Air Force to serve as instructors in the past, in order to ensure that these sergeants will not be reduced due to non-combat reasons during combat in the future.

In addition to adaptive training, Zhang Nuo is also contributing to the Medical Research Institute to see if he can produce some insect repellent powder.

For the large army in the jungle, it’s okay to face wild beasts or something, it’s just an extra meal, but it’s a headache when they face insects. There are a lot of them and they are very poisonous, so they can’t be underestimated.

Chapter 850 The struggle between Li Shimin and the courtiers

For Zhang Nuo, the Indochina Peninsula has always been a "sacred and inseparable part" of the Tang Dynasty.

In fact, it was indeed infiltrated by the Central Plains civilization during the Qin and Han Dynasties. If you want to say that, it is really an inseparable part of the sacred.

This is to prepare for public opinion. Although it is a bit self-deceiving, it is better to be self-deceiving than to rob with confidence.

Sometimes it is like this, setting a bottom line for yourself is much better than having no bottom line and being unscrupulous.

Zhang Nuo quite likes our own ethnicity. Although there are various minor problems, compared with foreign countries, I always feel that our side is more comfortable.

It is precisely because of this that Zhang Nuo spared no effort to make Datang develop more rapidly and stably, but on the other hand, he hoped that Datang could maintain its current style.

Sometimes when Zhang Nuo heard someone talking about someone who promises a lot of money and takes care of friends' wives and children in obscurity for many years, he always feels that it is a pity to lose this kind of character.

How precious is this kind of credit system established purely on the basis of personal moral cultivation.

Zhang Nuo loves this simple reputation system to death. He knows that with the development of society, this system may gradually dissipate, but at least let this kind of folk customs and this system be maintained as long as possible.