Valley Emperor

The time it took for military soldiers to build houses exceeded He Xihua's imagination.

When I discussed with the neighbors next door to help each other build the house, it took two or three days for this wooden house to be built. After all, although the wooden house is simple and small, it will take two or three days for a few people.

However, there are many soldiers in the military. More than 30 people have their own divisions of labor, and each of them is a very strong man, and each of them is a fierce man with several abdominal muscles.

The work is even tougher than that of a peasant who has worked in the construction site for a few years.

A log cabin was erected in no time, and the whole process took less than an hour.

Then the leading officer looked at the cabin, nodded with satisfaction, and then waved again: "Close the team!"

Immediately afterwards, the soldiers in their platoon lined up and left, leaving behind a stunned He Xihua!

Not only He Xihua, but also the neighbors around him also enjoy the treatment that the military helps build houses, which makes the new immigrants feel a little uneasy.

It's not like the military style!

Datang's army has always been relatively high.

Because the social status of the military in the Tang Dynasty is very high, those officers are all elites, and even soldiers can only be selected through thousands of choices.

He Xihua also tried to sign up for the army, but the military's requirements are too high, and they have high requirements on physical fitness, not to mention height, weight, and physical fitness.

Moreover, the requirements for the family are also high. There can be no criminals in the immediate family members, and they must be children of farmers, and do not recruit only children.

He Xihua's other conditions can be met, but his height and weight are slightly worse, so he was brushed off.

Datang's soldiers are well treated. This treatment refers not only to the treatment during service, but also to the treatment after retirement and the accompanying social status. Generally speaking, even ordinary soldiers who retire can generally take up the position of patrol police professionally. , If you can get a primary school or above during the army, you can also directly become an ordinary staff member of the government, etc. Many grass-roots officials in the Tang Dynasty, especially the staff at the village and town levels, are usually From a retired soldier.

Therefore, except for a few geniuses who can hold scholarships all the way to study, the best way out for the vast majority of farmers' children is to join the army.

No matter how bad you are after joining the army, you can still read and write. The military's literacy education is very famous and excellent and effective. Generally speaking, you can read and read after joining the army.

If you go above, you can continue to take the high school diploma.

However, there are more people who want to join the army, and the requirements of the military are getting higher and higher. It is difficult for ordinary people to get the opportunity to join the army.

The military's treatment is good. Every soldier has a high self-esteem. They even look down on civilian officials, let alone ordinary people.

To tell the truth, this kind of thing that helps the people to do their jobs has never happened once in ten or eight years.

He Xihua didn't know that, in fact, helping new immigrants to build houses, dig canals, etc. to help new immigrants, is an order issued by the Western Expedition Army Command, not only in Curry City, but the entire Haidong Province and the garrison in Xibo Province must be implement.

Naturally, what the Western Expedition Army Headquarters considers is not military-civilian harmony, but purely for the military's own interests.

reason?

The distance from the mainland is too far, the supply and transportation are troublesome, and the cost is too high.

Today, the army's troops in Central Asia have to be self-reliant, and they are constantly urging the government to relocate immigrants to reclaim the land and plant food for the military's consumption.

In the only stone and cement building in Curry City, Zhao Honglu, the new commander of the Western Expedition Army, frowned and looked at the report in his hand.

On the side, Lieutenant General Deng Yezhou, chief of staff of the Western Expedition Army, was worried: "Our food supply is too tight, and the transportation capacity of the western railway line is too tight. Now it takes a lot of transportation capacity just to transport food, and we have to allocate transportation capacity to transport ammunition. , I'm afraid our westward plan will be delayed!"

There was also someone on the side who said with an indignant expression: "What do the people behind you think, now is the critical moment of the westward advance, only when the Tartars are unheard of, we can easily break through their line of defense by killing them in large numbers. If this drags on for a year and a half, I am afraid that there will be fortresses everywhere along the Ural River!"

"Someone must have interfered and blocked our ammunition transportation!"

Listening to the noise of the crowd, Zhao Hong put down the report on the road, and then looked up at the crowd.

Zhao Hong snorted coldly on the road: "Shut up for this officer."

After everyone listened, they knew that they had said something they shouldn't have said, and they all closed their mouths.

After a pause, General Zhao Honglu continued: "If there is no difficulty in the Central Asia Westward Advance Strategy, what else do we need to do? What we need to do now is to overcome the difficulties, not just complaining and accusing!"

At this moment, Lieutenant General Deng Yezhou next to him muttered, "But they are going too far!"

General Zhao Hong on the road pressed his hand and signaled him not to continue: "Everyone is an imperial soldier, and even an elite of the army. It is not necessary to say these irrelevant words. The iron capacity of the western line is tight, and the transportation cost is too high. It's what we expected!"

"That's why we have to be self-reliant, and we also need to settle down with immigrants. Otherwise, it would be impossible to rely on the Central Plains to transport food all the time!"

To be honest, Zhao Honglu now regrets taking Curry City as a base camp. If it is placed at the back, the logistics supply will not be so tight.

Today, there are not many people in Central Asia, and naturally there is no food output. All the supplies needed by the troops stationed in various parts of Central Asia now need to be transferred from the Central Plains and even the Jiangnan region.

In fact, the ammunition and so on are all good. There are large arsenals in Gansu and Shaanxi. In addition, a new ammunition factory has been built in Tumi Province, which can supply ammunition nearby.

But there is really no way to do this with food. There are few immigrants in Central Asia, and land development has just begun. They don't have enough food for themselves, and it is impossible to have enough food to supply the military.

The same is true in Tumi Province, which basically does not have much food to supply the front-line troops.

The only better ones are Gansu and Shaanxi provinces, which can supply some, but not much.

More still have to rely on the Central Plains region.

These grains have come to Curry City after such a long journey. Even if it is transported by rail, the cost is quite high.

This made the Army feel quite uncomfortable, so the Army has always supported the settlement of immigrants in these areas.

The army not only reclaimed and cultivated food by itself, but also asked the government to organize a large number of immigrants to come to reclaim the land, in order to solve the food problem on the spot.

Of course, another very important reason is that the top army officials want to slow down the war on the Western Front.

The pressure on military spending is too great!

The Battle of the Western Expedition began when it entered the Western Regions that year. It has been fought for many years until now, and it has cost the army a huge amount of military expenses every year.

Although it is said that the military expenditure of the Datang Army is a very large number, it can be considered that there is no shortage of money, but the scale of the army is also large. These two years are just at the time of changing the rifled rifle. This military expenditure is rushing. go out.

More importantly, the damned cabinet is unwilling to pay for the temporary war money, at most, it pays millions of equipment replacement costs. Several active military bosses in the army want to directly draw their swords and anger the cabinet. .

But the reason why they wanted to do it but didn't do it was because they knew that the cabinet really couldn't come up with more money.

Thirty-five years after Xuanping, the central fiscal revenue of the Datang Empire is expected to reach a new high, and it is the first time that it has exceeded 300 million yuan, reaching 316 million yuan.

However, the fiscal revenue is high, and the expenditure is also high. The fiscal expenditure budget for this year is 300 million yuan.

In order to fully popularize basic education, Datang has built primary schools all over the country in recent years, and primary schools have been popularized in towns. The resulting education funding has also skyrocketed. This year's education funding has reached 30 million yuan, occupying a large amount of financial resources. ten percent of the expenditure.

Then there is the huge number of industrial and commercial expenditures. In order to develop industry and commerce, infrastructure must be established first. Therefore, subsidies for railway construction and road construction are also required.

As for military spending, although it has also increased year by year, its proportion is still gradually small. This year's total military spending is 75 million yuan, accounting for 25 percent of fiscal expenditure.

This number is not low.

After all, Datang changed the pure recruitment system into a conscript system many years ago. The soldiers did not receive wages, but only a small amount of subsidies. Of course, their food and clothing troops were also all-inclusive.

But even so, the military's military expenditure pressure is very heavy, because the Datang Empire has not stopped wars, big or small, for so many years.

Although most of the time they are fighting against the enemy, and except for a relatively strong enemy such as the Tatars, the others are vulnerable natives, but even armed parades are quite expensive.

The army's westward expedition has lasted for so many years. Although the financial side has given several temporary war expenses, in fact, most of the time they rely on the army to prepare military expenses.

Previously, the army held a sigh of relief and fought hard to hit the Caspian Sea, which was to capture the entire Central Asia.

Now that they have won Central Asia and drove the Tatars to the west of the Ural Mountains, the army naturally wants to slow down.

The heavy pressure of military spending forced the army to suspend the Central Asian offensive, but this way, the front-line generals also had a lot of complaints.

But there is no way to complain, and without food or ammunition in hand, it is naturally impossible to fight.

However, large-scale battles could not be fought, but they were not placed on the Western Expedition Army to do things in other directions.

After all, if there is no trouble, there will be no battle, without battle, there will be no victory, and without victory, there will be no military merit!

If there is no military merit, what are they doing here after running so far?

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