Late Tang

Throughout Daxie Island, the Salmen town soldiers, mainly composed of Li Xigou's military police and the Feiying reconnaissance battalion, began to carry out a comprehensive cleansing.Li Wei and Li Xigou joined forces, each performing their duties, and more than a thousand soldiers began to search and clean from house to house.

Feng Zhang and Feng Xun are dead, and the forces he ran in Daxie Walled City for ten years will also be uprooted.

"When is it time to repay the injustice?" When Li Jing gave the order, he was holding a cup of hot tea in his hand to sober up. The first sentence made everyone feel a little worried, for fear that he would be merciful and spare the Feng family and those who were loyal to Feng for a while. Shi's people.But Li Jing's next sentence made them breathe a sigh of relief, "To cut the weeds, you must get rid of the roots!"

Li Jing has already captured Daxie Village, so he doesn't intend to let go of those who are loyal and follow Feng Zhang.Struggles are so cruel, and if you stand on the wrong team, this is often the end.Although the Feng family lives in Qingzhou, Li Jing is beyond his reach, and his temporary strength cannot really deal with the huge century-old Feng family.But right now, on the land of Daxie Village, Li Jing can still make the decision to eliminate those people.

After the last battle, Feng Zhang's power in Daxie Village was greatly shaken, and he lost all other islands except the South Island of Daxie Village.Although after the agreement was reached, Li Jing only occupied Heishan Island and a dozen surrounding small islands, and returned Turtle Island and Wuhu Island to Fengzhang, but they all became empty islands, and there are not many personal.All the people gathered on the South Island, which also made Li Jing's cleaning operation very smooth.

There are tens of thousands of people on the South Island, and the preliminary search ended soon.

Fengzhang's clansmen, wives, children, and family members on the island, as well as his confidant subordinates and family members were all identified immediately and escorted to the pier.

For these people, Li Jing directly ordered that Fengzhang's family members and those family members who refused to surrender should be headed first, and the heads should be hung on the pier for public display.The rest, nearly 3000 people, were all given to Li Lingfu by Li Jing as gifts.Their properties and houses were confiscated, although Feng Zhang lost several times in a row.However, Zhang Hong and Du Zhongwu, who came to count and register, were still amazed by the money and food stored in Daxie Village over the past ten years.

According to preliminary estimates, there are 30 shi of grain, and 80 granaries of 99 shi have been piled up. Of the 30 granaries on the island, only ten are empty.This food is enough for his original [-] troops to feed for five years.And the amount of copper coins in the money bank is quite astonishing. There was a money shortage everywhere in the late Tang Dynasty, but there were more than [-] copper coins lying in Fengzhang's money bank. The whole bank was full of yellow copper coins, and even many copper coins were piled up It has been around for so long that the ropes that string the money are all rotten, and the copper coins are scattered all over the ground.At this time, Datang had only [-] official money-making furnaces, and it could only make [-] coins a year.The money saved by Feng Zhang is almost equivalent to the amount of money minted by the imperial court for three years.

In addition to money and food, a large amount of other materials were also harvested.Among them, there are as many as 100 million pieces of silk that are used both as money and silk, and they are stacked in a long row of warehouses.As for other silk products, there are 10,000+ pieces of linen and tens of thousands of silk and grosgrain.A total of millions of dollars worth of money.

In addition to these, the seizure of military supplies is also exciting.

There are more than 2 pairs of swords, guns, spears, and bows and arrows captured on the battlefield and received in the warehouse. In particular, the three most standard equipment, spears, horizontal knives, and bows and arrows, have more than 5000 pairs. There are also as many as [-] machines, and there are more than [-] shields of various types.

More than 2 iron helmets, [-] pairs of iron armor, [-] leather armors, and millions of arrows.In addition, there are hundreds of heavy crossbow catapults of various types. This is a real treasure of weapons and equipment for an army of [-].With so many weapons, Li Jing's Samana town army almost didn't have to worry about weapons for a long time.

"This is Fengzhang's control of Dengzhou Port over the years, and privately withholding a part of the family belongings of Qingzhou Wang Jingwu and other Pinglu Army ministries. This Fengzhang is indeed powerful, withholding so much money and food. After saving so much property, it is not easy for Wang Jingwu and other leaders of the Pinglu Army to tolerate him until now. But I have to thank him for saving such property, and now we are all married to us Clothes." Li Jing couldn't help laughing while listening to Zhang Hong excitedly reporting the various gains.

Zhang Hong nodded, "Yeah, this Fengzhang's ability to accumulate property is really good. What's more amazing is that almost all of these weapons were built by Daxie Village within ten years. Fengzhang has a huge ordnance in the Walled City There are 3000 craftsmen in the workshop, making weapons day and night. In addition to his own savings, he also secretly trades a large amount of weapons with various ministries in Liaodong, Khitan, Bohai, and Silla every year. Earning a lot of money profit."

"Okay, these craftsmen are very important, let's incorporate them into our Armory Workshop." Li Jing decided to keep these craftsmen for his own use without hesitation.In troubled times, the importance of weapons and armor is self-evident.Although the current seizure of Shamen Town is enough for several years, Li Jing understands that in troubled times, there are two most profitable businesses, one is food and the other is weapons.

Shamen Town can't use so many weapons for the time being, but it can continue to expand the ordnance workshop and process and manufacture weapons, which will be an important source of finance for Shamen Town in the future.This not only guarantees Shamen Town's own weapons production capacity, but also ensures a steady stream of income.

Great harvest, no wonder later heroes like Huang Chao never set up bases, they only know how to roam around the world.A large part of the reason is that they do not have a strong foundation like those aristocratic families and generals who rebelled against the separatist regime.Without craftsmen and materials, it is difficult to operate a base area.Making a knife and gun requires craftsmen and materials. Compared with robbery, the difference is really too big.

Li Jing himself had already repaid the sweetness of the capture. The ordnance workshop in Shamen Town was rushing to work day and night, but even after a whole year, the ordnance produced by thousands of craftsmen would not be able to arm nearly [-] horses in Shamen Town.

"There is also a horse farm in Daxie village. There are three thousand mules, five thousand donkeys, one thousand draft horses, and five hundred war horses. Fengzhang this dog thief not only has hundreds of warships, but also has so many horses. Horses and donkeys, his soldiers and horses are completely equipped with ships at sea, horses on land, and extremely maneuverable logistics, which are completely prepared according to the standard soldiers and horses in the prosperous Tang Dynasty." Zhang Hong lamented, awarding a frontier soldier guarding the island The garrison general not only raised nearly [-] soldiers and horses, but also built so many warships and weapons, and even equipped so many donkeys and horses.This guy has a lot of ambitions. If it hadn't been for the sudden rise of Shamen Town, and with time, this guy might have the same ambition as Li Zhengji back then.

As expected of Ziqing Town, which was once known as the most powerful vassal in the world, it is indeed the wealthiest place in the north.Back then, Li Zheng had crossed the ocean from western Liaoning to Shandong, and within a short period of time he had gathered [-] troops, making him a powerful feudal vassal under heaven.Now that a small military envoy of Daxie Village can accumulate such strength in ten years, this land is indeed rich.

"What about the merchants and people on the South Island?" Zhang Hong asked.

"After the thunder, rain and dew have to be imposed, and the combination of grace and power is the kingly way!" Li Jing pondered for a moment, and said: "The ones that should be killed, the ones that should be dealt with, the remaining people and merchants, as long as they are not too close to Feng Zhang Don’t go into too much detail about big ties. Everything follows the rules of Shamen Town. People register and issue ID cards. Merchants also have to register and issue business licenses. It won’t embarrass them.”

Li Jing frowned suddenly, and Zhang Hong asked puzzledly: "General, we captured the Daxie village and gained countless harvests, hundreds of thousands of shi grains, more than 80 guan coins, millions of guan silk and cloth, and more. Why is the general not very interested with that full warehouse of ordnance, and even those thousands of donkeys and horses?"

Li Jing smiled bitterly: "Of course I'm happy with such a harvest, but it's also because it's a big harvest, so do you think we can eat these things?"

"What does the general mean?" Zhang Hong's face changed, and he asked anxiously.

"Daxie Village is not an ordinary garrison town. This is a fat and oily site that controls Dengzhou Port. Even the Dengzhou Navy and Dengzhou are not as close to the water as Daxie Village. Who doesn't like this kind of site? Jealous? Didn't you see that Song Xi came with two thousand soldiers earlier, and you thought he was really just here to reinforce us? Didn't he intend to take the opportunity to occupy Daxie Village? Although we took the lead, But right now the dust is still undecided, it is still a question of whether we can eat this Daxie village."

"Whether we can even win Daxie Village is still unknown. Do you think that we can swallow these huge trophies in one gulp. I don't know how many people are staring at us right now. Those who eat alone will not Good results."

"Does the general want to hand over these trophies?" Zhang Hong tremblingly said, "General, this is a trophies worth millions. Maybe such a good thing will never happen again in the future. Even if the whole If Dengzhou City is defeated, it is estimated that there will not be as many belongings as Feng Zhang."

"A snake can swallow an elephant, but if it swallows several elephants, then the snake may die. If we don't want the children to trap wolves, if we don't want to part with these trophies, then we won't even be able to defend Daxie Village It is." Li Jing sighed, "Of course, we won't give in for nothing, we will take the initiative to give it away. Later, we will study carefully how to give it away. We must let everyone get a share, stop everyone's mouths, and let everyone have a share." They are happy and satisfied. They have to find a way to not really spit out all the meat that reaches their mouths."

Zhang Hong drooped his head, the few wrinkles on his forehead were deeply wrinkled, and with a mournful face like a dead parent, he sighed: "The distribution of spoils must satisfy all parties, but also not cause us too much loss, General, you This is causing me a big problem.”

"You are the steward, this is your duty." Li Jing smiled wryly, "By the way, remember to discuss with Zhang Jianjun, the emperor's share must not be lost, not only cannot be lost, but also a share The one that gets the most."

(To be continued)