Neon Clothes and Iron Clothes

Chapter 376
The corners of Wang Wenzuo's lips turned up slightly, showing a sneer. He didn't answer, but turned his eyes to Liu Renyuan and Du Shuang. He saw tiredness and boredom on their faces. It seemed that this guy said this for the first time. Kind of stupid.

"What will happen to the recovered land?" Wang Wenzuo asked.

"Give it to those who deserve it!" Fu Yulong said loudly: "Those who are worthy of these lands by bloodline and surname!"

"You mean the original owners of these lands?" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile: "As far as I know, most of them either died or were sent to Chang'an!"

"If you want to look for it, you can always find it!" Fu Yulong said: "Wang Sima, believe me, the Baekje Kingdom has existed for more than 600 years since the ancestor King Onjo, and although the Tang Dynasty was prosperous, it was only a few decades. History! Only by using my method can this land be kept in peace for a long time!"

"Hahahaha!" Wang Wenzuo finally couldn't bear it anymore and burst out laughing.

"Wang Sima, what are you laughing at? Am I wrong?"

"Yes, it makes sense! It's just that Fuyulong, you forgot one thing. You are no longer the king of Fuyu, but the king of Tang Xiongjin, the governor of Datang Xiongjin, and this is no longer the Kingdom of Baekje, but the king of Tang Xiong. Jin Dudu Mansion. If you have forgotten this, I would be happy to remind you!" At this point, Wang Wenzuo had already pressed the handle of the knife at his waist, with a fierce look in his eyes.

"Sanlang, don't talk about it!" Liu Renyuan stopped Wang Wenzuo, and turned his gaze to Fu Yulong: "I think the county king knows his identity very well, so there is no need for you to remind him!"

"That's right!" Du Shuang also got up, standing between Wang Wenzuo and Fu Yulong: "It was just a joke, Your Highness, don't you think so?"

"Xiao Wang just made a bit of a slip of the tongue, please forgive Wang Sima!" Facing Wang Wenzuo's intimidation, Fu Yulong lowered his head weakly. On Wang Wenzuo's side, he just didn't want to tear his face and end badly.

"King of Fuyu County!" Wang Wenzuo said in a deep voice, "You have been to Chang'an, but do you know who owns the best land on both sides of the Wei River?"

Fu Yulong was stunned, he didn't know why Wang Wenzuo suddenly asked this question, so he shook his head: "I don't know!"

"At the beginning, Emperor Taizongwen raised troops from Jinyang, and 3 heroes responded. These 3 people were called Yuan Cong's people. After the tripod was established in Chang'an, the emperor distributed the best riverbanks on both sides of the Weihe River to the [-] yuan. From then on, I thought that the reward was mediocre, not my relatives, so those farm owners you saw on both sides of the Weihe River in Chang'an were all the founding heroes of the Tang Dynasty. Wang Po and the others made great contributions to quelling the Fuyu Fengzhang Rebellion. I rewarded Xun Tian in accordance with the precedent of my Tang Dynasty, you want to take away their Xun Tian, ​​is this to pry the foundation of the Great Tang Xiongjin Dudu Mansion?"

"This king has no such intentions!" Fu Yu Long said with a strong smile, "I just said that just for the long-term peace and stability of Baekje. If there is something wrong, please also ask Wang Sima Haihan!"

"That's the best!" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile: "It's rude to be an official, and please invite the county king Haihan!"

Wang Wenzuo sat back to his original place, Liu Renyuan heaved a sigh of relief when he saw this, and said with a smile: "This is good, this is good. Sanlang, you have always been very wise, how do you think this matter should be handled?"

"At the moment I don't know anything about the situation at that time, so I'd better ask Wang Yu first!" Wang Wenzuo said, "But in the final analysis, before Goguryeo was destroyed, the people of Silla didn't dare to fight us. At most, it’s just playing small tricks at the border and nibbling away. You must be armed when you write, and in my opinion, you should rectify your military affairs first, and no matter what you do next, you will not go wrong!”

"Rectify the military affairs?" Du Shuang smiled wryly after hearing the words: "Your words are good, but the problem is that all the armies are in the field, and now they only want to return to their hometowns, and they have no intention of fighting at all. Are you still in trouble?"

"That's true!" Wang Wenzuo nodded. He has been in Baekje for more than two months, and he has some understanding of the situation of the local Tang army.It is estimated that the Silla people also know the situation of the Baekje Tang Army very well, so they dare to play so many small tricks.

"Then let's organize these local Baekje tyrants into a united army!" Wang Wenzuo said: "Anyway, they have been used to fighting the Silla people for hundreds of years, so it is not difficult to change the banner and continue fighting the Silla people. !"

"This is also a way!" Liu Renyuan nodded: "Then what are you going to do, Saburo?"

"It's very simple. First organize a hunt in Sibi City, let each family bring their own people, and then enter them in the roster. This way, we will have a foundation. When something happens, just follow the roster!"

"How can this be done!" Du Shuang laughed and said, "You are doing this voluntarily, so how many soldiers can you have? No, no!"

"Of course not many people will come the first time. Anyway, the people who come will distribute food and rice according to the soldiers and horses they brought. One person and one horse will be given ten stones of corn and three horses a year. The second time will be sure." There will be more people!"

"Ten stones of corn, three bolts of cloth? There are so many, where did you distribute so much grain and rice?" Du Shuang was anxious when he heard this: "Baekje people are not fools, how could they believe it!"

"I'm just making an analogy. The exact number can be discussed!" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile: "As for the source of grain and rice cloth, it should be collected from various fields. Take an extra half piece of cloth!"

"This is a way!" Du Shuang nodded: "It's just that the officials below are all Baekje tyrants, so if they want to levy more grain and rice, they will probably have to file a lot of lawsuits!"

"This is actually not a difficult task!" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile: "The Baekje tycoons who came to participate in the hunting were assigned to the counties, and let them collect food and rice for soldiers. It was about their own pockets. be lazy!"

Hearing Wang Wenzuo's suggestion, Liu Renyuan and Du Shuang exchanged glances, Liu Renyuan whispered: "Sanlang, if you do this, I'm afraid there will be a lot of trouble, and there will be endless troubles!"

"If Mr. Liu thinks it's inappropriate, then let's hold off for now! Let the counties conscript troops and rice first!"

Seeing that Wang Wenzuo didn't insist, Liu Renyuan nodded. Maybe it was because of his official promotion. He gradually felt that Wang Wenzuo had changed after he came back from Chang'an. .He once mentioned it to Du Shuang in private, but Du Shuang advised him not to say too much, because the imperial court had granted Wang Wenzuo the official post of consolation ambassador of the Wa Kingdom, which was a post.

In terms of political terms at the time, Wang Wenzuo's consolation ambassador of the Japanese country can be described as "not related to Cao Si, but specially entrusted with the imperial edict".The normal selection and appointment of officials in the Tang Dynasty had a certain process. According to their affiliation, they were recommended, selected, approved, and finally appointed by officials at the corresponding levels of the six ministries and 24 divisions. The process was clear, and each link was screened by special officials and standards.However, Wang Wenzuo’s Japanese consolation ambassador was directly selected by high-level officials (recommended by the queen, named by the emperor), without going through the original selection and appointment process, and naturally not restricted by the original six ministries and 24 divisions. This is not destined to Cao Si.And Wang Wenzuo reported directly to the emperor and queen after finishing his work, and was not responsible to anyone else.

This kind of envoy was rare at the time. Wang Wenzuo could directly submit letters to the emperor across the three provinces. Neither the Six Departments nor the Shangshu Province actually had any restrictions on management.Later, with more and more envoys, in 723 A.D., Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty changed the name of Zhengshitang to Zhongshumenxia, ​​and set up five offices of officials, cardinals, soldiers, households, and criminal rites as its specific administrative institutions.It is equivalent to merging the Shangshu Province responsible for implementation with the original Zhengshitang, re-centralizing the power of decision-making and execution on the prime minister, and transitioning from the original system of three provinces and six ministries to the system of two governments and three divisions, so that professional talents were reintroduced into the Tang Dynasty in the government administrative system.

Therefore, although Liu Renyuan is actually the highest official of the Xiongjin Governor's Mansion, and his rank is also higher than that of Wang Wenzuo, but according to the bureaucratic system at the time, if the two sides disagree, Liu Renyuan can only write a letter to the Andong Governor's Mansion first, and then the Andong Governor's Mansion Then write a letter to the Ministry of War, and then go to the Zhongshu Province, and the Zhongshu Province will give it to the emperor; but Wang Wenzuo can directly stab the emperor's book case. If this kind of pen and ink lawsuit is fought, Liu Ren is willing to lose.As long as you are not a fool, you will naturally not make yourself unhappy.

After Wang Wenzuo finished the discussion, he returned to his residence and immediately called Sancho: "You go to Wang Gao's place yourself, find out the situation there, and then come back and report to me!"

"As ordered!"

"Black Tooth Changzhi!"

"exist!"

"How many troops can you muster now?"

Hei Chi Changzhi thought for a while: "There are about 500 people in the Buqu clan!"

"Very good, you gather your troops immediately! Rush to Wang Po's place, thinking of solidarity! lest the Silla people take the lead!"

"As ordered!"

After the distribution was completed, Wang Wenzuo was relieved. In his opinion, this incident is actually a rare opportunity. No matter what he wants to do next, the land of Baekje is the foundation, but the problem is that the resources on hand are too large. Few, many well-thought-out plans can only be shelved.The external threat from the Silla people gave him an opportunity to flex his muscles.But when the opportunity comes, how to do it next and where to do it will be very learned.

Although there are many kinds of resources in Baekje, roughly speaking, they are human resources and material resources. Human resources are simply soldiers and labor, and material resources are simply taxes and exclusive purchases and sales.For Wang Wenzuo, the enlistment of soldiers was simple. Whether it was the captured Japanese or the new Baekje landlords who had previously established a master-slave relationship with him, they could provide a considerable number of soldiers, plus the 2000 soldiers brought from Chang'an and Among the former Tang troops stationed in Baekje, there are quite a number of township parties who are willing to follow them.But in order for these troops to have sufficient combat effectiveness, a considerable amount of remuneration must be given. This remuneration can come in many forms: money, food and cloth, and even land.If done well, a positive feedback process will be formed—recruit people—defeat the enemy—get rewarded and become stronger—next time more people will join, and so on.This begs the question, who will pay for it?
The easiest way is to let the enemy pay the bill - loot, enemy property, land, even the enemy himself, his wife and children, and distribute these fairly to the soldiers as rewards. As long as you can continue to win, this road can continue Go down until all enemies within sight are vanquished.But Wang Wenzuo can't take this road now, because the Silla people are still vassals of the Tang Dynasty, and Silla and Baekje are still close allies in name. There can only be small-scale friction between the two sides, and it is impossible to break out a large-scale war. , such a small-scale battle is unlikely to get enough spoils to pay the army.

Then there is only one other way - to collect temporary military taxes from Baekje, and then use these military taxes to supply the army.According to Wang Wenzuo's vision, he also planned to establish an organization to collect military taxes, select officials from those Baekje landlords loyal to him, and let them collect military taxes to support him.This actually forms a military government parallel to the original grassroots government. As long as there is enough time, this shadow government will replace the original government and become the actual controller of Baekje grassroots.Of course, there will be fierce conflicts between the two parallel governments in this process, but Wang Wenzuo doesn't care. After all, most of the current Baekje grassroots are in the hands of the original Baekje tyrants. Don is also advantageous.Liu Renyuan also saw the dangerous consequences of doing so, so he objected, and Wang Wenzuo had to take a step back for the time being, waiting for an opportunity to speak. Anyway, as long as the army is formed, they will definitely find food for themselves with knives in their hands.

"Ming Gong!"

Wang Wenzuo turned around and saw Cao Wenzong standing respectfully at the door, he nodded: "You are back, okay, come in and talk!"

"Thank you Minggong!" Cao Wenzong bowed to Wang Wenzuo, then walked into the door, stood with hands down, and waited for Wang Wenzuo's order.

"Come on, sit down and talk!" Wang Wenzuo pointed to the cushion beside him: "I asked you to follow Shen Faseng these days, but are you doing well?"

"Good! Lieutenant Shen takes good care of the villain!" Cao Wenzong bowed and said, "Let the villain and his apprentices teach the soldiers' bows, spears, round cards, and long cards. The villain has benefited a lot!"

"Hahaha! Shen Faseng, you kid!" Wang Wenzuo laughed, "It's a shame that you are allowed to teach soldiers with your martial arts skills. Next time, I will talk about him!"

"No, no!" Cao Wenzong quickly waved his hands: "I have never been in the army before, even if I let a villain be a fire chief."

"Huochang?" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile: "I also think you are not that material, I think you should stay by my side! If you have nothing to do, accompany me to throw pots, play chess, and beat drums. What do you think?"

Cao Wenzong's eyes lit up: "A villain can't even play chess or drums. I'm afraid he will be despised by Minggong for being stupid and unbearable!"

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(End of this chapter)