Return to the Tang Dynasty to be a villain

Chapter 29: Li Siye, the Modao General
"Hey, this is the villa of the Licheng County Lord, don't trespass."

Before Qin Zhong finished his words, a figure rushed in from outside the yard.

"who?"

Qin Lie stood up suddenly, his eyes wide open, tightly gripping the cane in his hand, looking intimidating without even getting angry.

Gao Sheji also picked up the Hu stool under him and stood in front of Qin Yi.

Even Gao Xianzhi, who was short and not even as tall as Qin Yi's chest, rushed out of the kitchen grabbing a piece of firewood.

When the man entered the yard, he did not do anything wrong. Instead, he knelt down in the middle of the yard with a "thump" and began to kowtow continuously.

"My lord, my lord, please let me stay. I don't want monthly wages, I just want food to eat."

"Young Master," Qin Lie said nervously, staring intently at the kneeling man. "You have to be careful. He is not from Caodianzi Village."

"Oh?" Qin Lie's words immediately made Qin Yi alert.

You have to know that the goods he is planning to produce are products that are beyond this era.

Qin Yi knew that once these things were launched on the market in the future, they would definitely attract a lot of people's covetousness.

So he chose the Qin Mansion Villa, far away from Chang'an, as the location for his workshop.

But what he couldn't understand was that the things he asked Hongwei and Luqi to make had not yet been released.

The decision to open a workshop in Caodianzi Village was made only yesterday.

But why are there people of unknown origin coming to join us as soon as we start recruiting workers today?

After thinking for a long time, Qin Yi finally came to the conclusion that the appearance of this person in front of him was probably a coincidence.

Perhaps he heard some people in the village talking about the treatment in his workshop, so he wanted to become his disciple for the sake of the lucrative income.

"Raise your head," Qin Yi made up his mind and said to the man lying on the ground.

"What's your name, where are you from, how did you know my workshop is hiring, and why do you want to apply here?"

Qin Yi asked a series of questions, he wanted to find out the other party's background.

However, just when that person raised his head and said his name.

Qin Yi felt as if he had been electrocuted. His whole body was trembling and breathing became difficult.

"Tell me, what's your name?"

He looked at the man in disbelief and asked incredulously.

"My name is Li Siye, and I am from Gaoling, Jingzhao (today's Sanyuan County, Shaanxi Province). Because I don't have enough to eat at home, I want to go to Chang'an to join the army."

"When I got here last night, it was too dark to walk, so I camped on the riverbank outside the village."

"I was woken up by a commotion early this morning. When I found someone to ask, I learned that it was you who was recruiting here."

"Those people were upset because they weren't recruited, so they gathered there and made a commotion."

"I heard from them that you have three meals a day and two strings of cash a month for your salary, so I decided to give it a try and broke into your yard."

Li Siye

In fact, Qin Yi didn't hear a word of what Li Siye said later.

At this moment, he was standing there like a fool, murmuring the other person's name.

Qin Yi couldn't believe it. Could it be that he was really God's biological son and had such incredible luck?
If he could be said to have met the young form of Gao Xianzhi last night, it was already considered extremely lucky.

The man standing in front of him today, Li Siye, who is almost in his complete form, is truly blessed with great fortune.

The Battle of Xiangji Temple, known as the pinnacle of the world's cold weapon battles, was the one that extended the life of the Tang Dynasty for hundreds of years.

The 150,000 Tang troops fought against the 200,000 An Lushan rebels. In just four hours, both sides suffered 130,000 casualties.

During this battle, there were no military strategies or scheming.

Both sides went all out, with hundreds of thousands of people lining up to confront each other, hoping to destroy the other side in one fell swoop and secure victory.

After that day, the water of the Fengshui River, east of the Fengshui River south of Chang'an City, was littered with corpses, and the river was completely dyed red with blood.

The one who truly brought the dawn of victory to the Tang army was the man in front of Qin Yi, the Tang Dynasty's Modao general, Li Siye.

During the Battle of Xiangji Temple, the Tang army and An Lushan's rebels confronted each other on the north side of Xiangji Temple.

The Tang army was led by Li Siye, deputy envoy of the Hexi Jiedushi, in the vanguard, Guo Ziyi in the center, and Wang Sili (a Korean) in the Heyuan Army was in charge of the rear.

The total strength of the Tang army reached 150,000, claiming to be 200,000, including 4,000 Uighur cavalry and some foreign troops such as the Arabs and the Nanman.

An Qingxu sent generals An Shouzhong and Li Guiren to lead a large army to fight.

Li Guiren led the vanguard to launch the first attack. The Tang army fought bravely and successfully repelled Li Guiren's vanguard troops and approached the main force of the rebels.

The rebels gathered their forces to counterattack, and the Tang army's vanguard retreated for a time, causing chaos on the front line and heavy losses of supplies.

While the rebels were busy seizing supplies, Li Siye, the general of the Tang vanguard, quickly reorganized his troops.

He took off his armor, stood bare-chested with a sword in hand in front of the battle line, and personally killed dozens of enemy soldiers.

Under Li Siye's Mo Dao, the rebels were "all killed in pieces", and the morale of the Tang army suddenly soared, while the rebels were terrified in front of this killing god.

Afterwards, Li Siye personally led a 2,000-man Modao detachment as a death squad. They formed a formation like a steel wall and approached the rebels with Modao in hand.

Under the leadership of Li Siye, the morale of all the Tang troops was suddenly boosted, and they followed the Modao team and fought bravely against the enemy.

Under the relentless pressure of the Modao troops, the rebels finally collapsed and fled in all directions.

In this battle, 60,000 rebels were beheaded, and 20,000 were injured or captured. The elite troops of An Lushan's rebels were all lost, and the Tang army finally recaptured Chang'an after two years.

Before traveling through time, Qin Yi had systematically studied the entire Battle of Xiangji Temple.

He admired the Tang army's desperate battle, especially Li Siye, who led the troops and turned the tide.

At this moment, Li Siye was standing right in front of him. Qin Yi felt like he was dreaming, and the excitement in his heart could not be calmed for a long time.

Seeing Qin Yi standing there like a fool, Qin Lie thought that it was because Qin Zhong had let someone into the villa without permission that made him unhappy.

Qin Lie stared at Qin Zhong and snorted coldly, saying dissatisfiedly.

"Little kid, what else can you do if you can't even guard the door? Why don't you kick them out?"

Qin Zhong was also a little nervous at this moment.

When Li Siye begged him at the door before, Qin Zhong felt sorry for him and did not really try to stop him.

Otherwise, with Qin Zhong's skills, although he might not be able to defeat Li Siye in a head-on battle, if he tried his best, Li Siye might not be able to break into the villa without him.

Because he saw Qin Yi accept Gao Sheji and his son last night, Qin Zhong hoped that Qin Yi would be soft-hearted and keep this desperate man, so he showed mercy.

However, after hearing Qin Lie's scolding, Qin Zhong had no choice but to harden his heart and stepped forward to grab Li Siye and drag him out of the villa.

"Wait a minute."

Suddenly, Qin Yi's low shout came to his ears, and Qin Zhong quickly let go of his hand and stepped aside.

"Li Siye," Qin Yi calmed down his excitement and said to Li Siye who was kneeling on the ground.

"I can keep you here, but in addition to the workshop work, you will also have to help me serve Qin Lie and his father on weekdays. Are you willing to agree to this?"

When Li Siye heard Qin Yi's words, he was overjoyed and agreed repeatedly.

"Thank you very much, sir. I will take good care of the old man, and I don't need your monthly salary."

"That's not necessary," Qin Yi waved his hand, "You get the same as everyone else, two strings of cash a month."

Qin Yi knew that the thing that is most likely to cause conflict in this world is not the lack of resources but the injustice.

Although Li Siye was now desperate, he was willing to give up his monthly salary in order to have a place to settle down.

But after a long time, when you see others using monthly wages to improve their lives, you can't help but feel resentful.

For just two strings of cash a month, Qin Yi didn't want Li Siye to bear a grudge against him.

After agreeing to accept Li Siye, Qin Yi asked Qin Zhong to call in all the people who were waiting outside the yard.

After the second selection, he divided the thirty-five people into two groups.

Among them, the ten strongest men were organized into a guard team by Qin Yi, and the captain of the guard team was naturally Li Siye.

The remaining twenty-five people are from the production team, and they are all managed by Gao Sheji.

After dividing the groups, Qin Yi asked Qin Zhong to select five women who were nimble and strong from the families of these people.

These five women will be the cooks of his workshop in the future, responsible for everyone's meals every day.

Qin Yi was also very generous to these cooks.

Not only did they eat the same meals as everyone else in the workshop, but they also received a monthly salary of 800 coins.

Don't underestimate eight hundred coins. During that period, they could buy thirty or forty dan of grain.

This amount of food is enough to feed a family of five for a year.

After arranging the personnel matters, Qin Yi assigned tasks to everyone.

The first step was to let Gao Sheji lead the strong laborers to burn bricks nearby and build a kiln for burning glass.

Li Siye and others were also not idle. Qin Yi sent them to chop firewood and then burn it into charcoal.

By the time all the preparations were completed, it was already three days later.

Gao Sheji led his men to dig sand from the riverside and used it as raw material. Under the guidance of Qin Yi, after two days, they finally produced the first batch of glass.

Due to lack of experience, the quality of this batch of glass was very poor and contained a lot of impurities.

But at least during this process, Qin Yi guided the craftsmen to carry out a complete glass firing process based on his memories before the time travel.

The workers involved in the firing were also very excited. They only now knew that the originally valuable colored glaze was actually produced in this way.

Qin Yi knew that as long as he let these craftsmen conduct repeated experiments, they would be able to produce products that meet his requirements in the future.

Then he called Gao Sheji and Li Siye to his presence and gave them some instructions, mainly to remind them to keep the secret strictly to prevent these craftsmen from leaking the method of making glass.

He gave Gao Sheji some instructions and asked him to hurry up and produce the glass products he needed. After counting the days, five days had passed, so Qin Yi planned to return to Chang'an.

(End of this chapter)