Northern Dynasties Imperial Industry

If a political power wants to develop and grow, it needs to acquire as much territory and population as possible. But the key to its survival lies in whether it can effectively obtain resources from these lands and populations.

Since the Six Towns Mutiny, the northern land has been turbulent. There are many powerful military leaders who can separate one side or even take control of the center, but there are only a few who can maintain their power for a long time. Gao Huan and Yu Wentai are the best among them.

The reason why the two of them stood out was not because they had the most people, but because they made full use of their own historical opportunities and seized the opportunity to transform the power they controlled from destroyers into defenders of order, rather than blindly Burning, killing, looting, depleting the lake for fishing.

Although Yu Wentai is a powerful official in the hegemony, he cannot break some rules arbitrarily, because breaking the rules will shake the foundation of his rule.

Therefore, even though he was trapped by money and food, he also knew that the wealthy people in Kansai must have a large amount of food and supplies in their hands for many years, but he did not dare to directly raise troops to plunder. Especially now that Guanlong's powerful tribes are in large numbers among the Chinese and foreign armies. Recruiting their troops to snatch their food is tantamount to playing with fire.

Not long after the Battle of Mangshan in the ninth year of Datong, Yuwentai used a reward to collect the manpower and material resources controlled by the powerful people in Kansai.

At that time, he was indeed in a desperate situation and needed to replenish his strength, and the powerful Kansai heroes had no other choice. There are rarely complete eggs when the nest is overturned. If he is defeated and destroyed by Gao Huan, then these powerful people in Kansai will generally suffer.

Therefore, at that time, everyone had a strong awareness and atmosphere of sharing the same hatred and overcoming the difficulties together, and the situation was quickly brought back from the precarious state.

But now, with the victory of the Battle of Yubi, it means that the past few years of hard work and courage have paid off a very considerable reward. Although this result is gratifying, it also involves the redistribution of some rights and interests.

Under such circumstances, Yuwentai must be more careful in his administration, and try to avoid making these Guanlong powerful men feel the sense of deprivation and loss.

Therefore, although Li Tai's strategy is good, how to implement it is the key. It is necessary to ensure that the masses will not be resentful and to quickly amass a considerable amount of supplies in a short period of time. These three purposes are indispensable.

Of course, Wang Zizhi couldn't answer this question in Daxingtai. Before leaving, Li Tai just explained this idea to them and ordered them to sort out the relevant county documents and documents as a reference for the next step.

In other words, the matter itself was still unclear, so they did not report it. But seeing Da Xingtai's irritable and unkind attitude, Wang Zizhi had no choice but to speak out and deal with the cross-examination in front of him.

Now that Yu Wentai knew this plan, he became more and more eager to find out how feasible it was. When the relevant documents of Xizhi Hall were sent here, he immediately ordered his subordinate officials to join in to help and take stock. Let’s take a look at how much surplus materials can be sold and how many mountains and rivers can be rented in the Guan Neizhou states.

These matters are trivial and complicated, but fortunately, during Su Chuo's lifetime, the Taiwan government had established a fairly strict and comprehensive management system for books and archives, which also greatly reduced the energy expended by the officials in collecting relevant information. with time.

Naturally, Yu Wentai did not need to bury his head in the papers. He first finished dealing with several other things on his desk, and then ordered Li Tai to be summoned back to the house immediately the next morning. Then he went to the inner room of the straight hall to rest on the couch.

As the morning bell rings, a new day arrives. After yesterday's martial arts awards and bonfire barbecue, the military camp was filled with a relaxed and joyful atmosphere today.

But relaxation does not mean indulgence. As the drums sounded from the Chinese army's tent, all the soldiers walked out of their tents and lined up neatly between the camps to go to the school field. They first did some morning exercises in the military formation and waited until three o'clock in the morning. Then dismissed for dinner.

Although many mid-level and senior generals were absent from today's drill, order was still maintained in the military camp today, and no disturbances occurred.

This particularly satisfied Li Tai. The reason why he delayed taking the next step until today was to see how irreplaceable those governors and generals were in the army.

If the business would be in a mess without the orders and dispatches of the generals, then he would have to hold his nose and invite people in even if he felt unhappy. But now it seems that if there is no butcher Zhang and we will not eat mixed pigs, then what the hell are we afraid of.

Of course, the well-trained performance of these battalions has little to do with these supervisors. In the past, the Bafu Sixth Army was mainly composed of a group of generals such as Li Bi and Shuo Hui who were responsible for training and drills. Today's Chinese and foreign military establishments were only gradually formed in the second half of last year. These generals who entered the Zhili rear army were at most no more than Li Tai. A few months early.

The conflict between Han and Hu in the Western Wei Dynasty may not be as obvious and irreconcilable as that in the Eastern Wei Dynasty, but few of these Xianbei generals will be kind to the new army, which is mainly composed of Guanxi disciples. They are often more intimidating than kind. Therefore, although they joined the army a few months earlier than Li Tai, they did not build a strong and close relationship.

Of course, there must be those generals of the generals in the army today. After Li Tai showed his favor yesterday, he was ready to kill chickens and scare monkeys to establish his prestige. However, those generals are pretty smart, and no one Dare to be the one who disrupts order in the camp.

After visiting the school grounds to watch the morning exercises, Li Taizheng planned to go to the Taifu to file a complaint after breakfast. However, when he returned his account, he was told that the messenger from the Taifu had arrived outside the gate as early as dawn.

When he heard this, he couldn't help being a little dumbfounded. While ordering the envoys from the Taifu to come in quickly, he asked: "Why don't you bring people in first?"

"These Taiwanese emissaries don't know the passwords!"

Hearing this questioning voice, the soldier commander guarding the camp gate immediately replied plausibly.

After hearing this, Li Tai was speechless. He patted the captain's shoulder as a reward, then turned around and whispered to Zhang Shinu to never assign this guy to be responsible for guarding the gate and greeting him.

Zhang Shinu was a little speechless when he heard this. It was clearly the Master Lang himself who asked for a person with strong principles and abiding by orders. Why is it that he is now using an inhumane person?

Not to mention their own plans, the Taifu envoy who had been blocked outside the camp gate for more than an hour was already sweating profusely and was finally let go. He took three steps and two steps straight towards the camp. He rushed in from the camp, and when he entered the tent and saw Li Tai who was about to have a meal, he hurriedly said: "Li Kaifu, please hold off on eating. There is a summons from Daxingtai. Please return to the city and see Daxing as soon as possible." tower!"

Seeing the anxious look and tone of the envoy, Li Tai did not dare to neglect, hurriedly put down his cup and chopsticks, got up and put in his account to change his robes. Of course, he also did not forget to bring the items confiscated from the Rear Army Governor's Mansion yesterday. Those soldiers, under the repeated urging of the messenger, mounted their horses and left the camp, heading straight for Huazhou City.

As Li Tai rode out of the camp, Yu Wenhu had already arranged for the nearby eyes and ears to rush to the military city to report.

When Yu Wenhu learned of Li Tai's whereabouts, his face suddenly sank, and his tone became low and angry: "Although I was rude yesterday, it was because I didn't know. I will stay here all night and won't leave. After showing his sincerity in apologizing, Li Boshan did not come to see me, but went straight into the city. It seems that he has no intention of being kind! "

When the governors and generals who accompanied Yu Wenhu and were guarding here heard this, their expressions fell again, and they said with concern: "Mr. Zhongshan, are Governor Li going to the Tai Mansion to accuse us..."

Yu Wenhu was in an extremely bad mood at the moment, and he didn't bother to appease everyone. He only scolded Li Fugui and others and exchanged glances, and then said: "No matter where Li Boshan goes, things can't continue to be like this. I will Return to the mansion and report to the Lord first. If you don’t distinguish between right and wrong in the matter, the Lord is skilled in controlling people. He will never listen to the words of Li Boshan and ignore the confessions of other generals!"

Yu Wenhu felt that his indignation was unbearable. From the beginning to the end, he never wanted to get too serious with Li Tai. Even when Li Tai hosted a banquet for his colleagues on the day he took office, it was just a harmless little joke in his opinion, but now Li Tai Even though he had gained a lot of glory and lost some face, he still refused to give up.

Recalling what brother Yuchijiong said about Li Tai before, I didn't take it seriously at the time, and I felt more and more angry. In this case, let's not be incompatible with each other in the Rear Army Governor's Mansion!

With this anger plan in his heart, Yu Wenhu gave Chi Liefu Turtle another look, indicating that he would stay here to appease and unite the hearts of the people. As long as they can speak in unison, right and wrong no longer matter.

So Yu Wenhu followed Li Tai and led a group of his followers to leave the military city and return to Tai Mansion.

After Li Tai arrived in front of the mansion, he was ushered into the mansion by his subordinates who had been waiting here. While on the way, he briefly explained what happened in Taifu yesterday.

Li Tai was surprised when he heard that it turned out that it was Qian Huang who was making trouble, and he secretly breathed a sigh of relief. On the way back to the city, the envoy from the Tai government was vague. Li Tai thought that Yu Wentai knew about the conflict between him and Yu Wenhu and wanted to mediate. But since he has a business to rely on, he will naturally have no psychological burden when filing a complaint later.

He wasn't worried about whether doing so would leave a patronizing and arrogant impression. At least he was really serious about his work.

On the contrary, Yu Wenhu, a guy who came to power through the back door, started colluding to shake his prestige in the rear army when he first took office. Even if Yu Wentai asked him to do this, he really didn't know how to keep a low profile and acted too hastily.

With this calculation in his mind, Li Tai strode towards the straight hall. He didn't think much about how to respond to the internal affairs issues that Yu Wentai was going to ask about next. Anyway, as long as this policy could be passed and implemented, he would be the main one to invest in it.