Prosperous Tang Dynasty

Chapter 337
Protector of Anton, Liaoyang City.

Li Fei did not immediately recruit the 750 captured anti-army Han soldiers, nor did he kill the more than [-] Hu people selected from among the captives by Lu Zhihai.

Li Fei first ordered to register the nearly [-] anti-army Han captives, and then taught them to win people's hearts. After about a month, he was ready to be incorporated into the Anton Iron Cavalry or the Anton Modao Army.

As for the barbarian generals who did not kill Lu Zhihai and others, the main reason is that there are also a large number of barbarians in the territory of the Anton Governor's Mansion.

Now that Pinglu Road has been captured, Li Fei has no intention of giving up.

Although the territory of Pinglu Road is much smaller than that of Andong Protectorate, because it is adjacent to Youzhou and Hebei, the combined population of 34 counties in the five prefectures is more than 150 million, which is almost the same as that of Andong Protectorate.

Adding the two places together, plus the 25 people who immigrated from Daodengzhou, Henan, the population directly controlled by Li Fei is close to 400 million!

With such a large population, Li Fei has full confidence in multiplying his strength.

For more than a month, Li Fei wantonly raised the city wall of Pingzhou City and built Shanhaiguan, preparing to turn Anton and Pinglu into an iron wall.

Due to the geographical location, Shanhaiguan does not need to build a huge city. It only needs to build a city wall with a circumference of 4000 meters according to the specifications of later generations to build the "No. [-] Grand Pass in the World" comparable to Tongguan.

Li Fei mobilized a total of [-] young men, and transported all the cement produced by the cement workshop at this stage.

After several expansions and the addition of [-] young and strong workers, today's Anton Cement Factory has been able to produce [-] tons of cement per day, and is still expanding its production. Li Fei's goal is to produce [-] tons of cement per day.

For this reason, Li Fei estimates that about [-] young adults will be required to participate in production to achieve this goal.

You know, counting the more than 370 counties in the five prefectures of Pinglu Road that he just conquered, the population directly controlled by Li Fei is only about 100 million, which means that one person is involved in cement production for every more than 50 people.If [-] young and strong workers were placed in future generations, they would be able to produce at least [-] million tons of cement a day, but Li Fei only prayed that he could produce [-] tons a day, so he would have to laugh.

To achieve the goal, the investment is extremely huge, but the effect that can be exchanged is also unparalleled.

In Li Fei's eyes, cement is the most important driving force for the development of Anton and Pinglu.

Building roads, bridges, water conservancy, city pools, etc., with cement, you can get twice the result with half the effort.

If you want to get rich, build roads first, and build bridges to make roads clear. Only when the roads are cleared can the flow of goods and economic development be stimulated.

The repair of water conservancy is the foundation of agriculture. Only when the water is connected can more good fields be continuously reclaimed and harvests ensured.

The fertile fields in Anton and Pinglu in the later generations can support over 2000 million people. Even if there are reasons such as the high crop yields of later generations, it is impossible for the era of Tang Dynasty to reach the output of modern generations, but if all the fertile land can be reclaimed, at least one There is no problem with a population of [-] million.

With [-] young adults and [-] tons of cement applied every day, an average of [-] people only need to be responsible for building a one-meter city wall, so the construction speed of Shanhaiguan is very fast.

In just over a month, the construction of the 4000-meter city wall has been basically completed. The only thing left is the construction of various facilities in the city. I believe that Shanhaiguan will be fully formed in at most another month.

At that time, with some cannons waiting on the city walls, plus thunderbolts and other defensive weapons, Li Fei has full confidence that even if the enemy army comes to attack with 50 troops, he will be able to defend Shanhaiguan and ensure that Anton's base camp will not be lost.

At the same time, after more than a month, Suzong Li Heng's imperial edict from Lingwu arrived.

"Prince of Beiping? He is also in charge of the Jiedu Envoy of Pinglu Dao?" Li Fei wondered, is this the edict sent to him by Emperor Suzong Li Heng?
It stands to reason that Suzong Li Heng wished him to die, even if he had to be promoted to the county prince in order to gather people's hearts. Bear.

However, Li Fei would never believe that it was Suzong Li Heng who was able to make the decision.

Although he had no intention of giving up Pinglu Dao, and had prepared for Suzong Li Heng to send a new Jiedu Envoy, it was unexpected for Suzong Li Heng to directly let him serve as the Pinglu Dao Jiedu Envoy. he expected.

Then Li Fei's doubts were dispelled.

Only through the personal letter sent by his father-in-law Lin Siming did Li Fei know the whole story.

"I didn't expect my father-in-law to be so open-minded and force His Majesty to let me take the post of Jiedushi of Pinglu Dao in that way." Li Fei laughed.

"Now that you are in charge of Pinglu, the king of the county, and Anton Jiedushi, your strength will soon double. With the talents of the king of the county, you can send troops to capture Youzhou City at any time, and then sweep Hebei. When Anlu Mountain is destroyed, The king of the county can make meritorious deeds and sit on the north of the Yellow River. In less than three years, the king of the county will be far stronger than before the Anlu Mountain rebellion, and the world will be at his fingertips." A Niu, the commander of Jinyiwei, said excitedly to Li Fei.

"You are thinking too simply. If the world is so good, wouldn't everyone be able to be an emperor? It is not difficult to conquer the world. In fact, An Lushan will succeed in Luoyang and Chang'an. The difficulty is to convince people, and Govern the world. An Lushan just can't convince people, let alone govern the territory it occupies, so it will become more and more declining, and sooner or later it will fall."

"Liu Bang won the throne at the age of 54. The Sima family usurped Cao Wei for three generations from Sima Yi to Sima Yan. The great talent is like the former Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty. Yang Jian also usurped the Northern Zhou Dynasty at the age of 40, and founded the Kaihuang Dynasty at the age of 60. Li Yuan, the great ancestor of the Tang Dynasty Also, I became emperor at the age of 52. I’m only 22 now, what’s the rush? Sooner or later, I’m going to make this world a smooth transition, and no one dares to disobey it!” At this time, Li Fei already had the ambition of the world, and since Maweiyi, Suzong’s jealousy and hatred , even Emperor Xuanzong must be afraid of his strength.

People who have been feared by kings since ancient times, if they can't completely suppress the king, or even overthrow the king, and become the king themselves, the final end is often extremely miserable, and it is easy to kill all the people. Not only will they die, but their family members will also die to die.

Li Fei saw it very clearly, so after he made the decision to attack Mawei Post for thousands of miles, he made a plan, aiming directly at the world and at the throne of the king.Holding the military power in his hand and knowing more than 1000 years later, he is confident that he can do it.

"My father-in-law wants to rely on my power and become a powerful minister who can overwhelm the king. At least in the last few years, I will not rebel openly. Before I am defeated, your majesty will not dare to touch my father-in-law. Let my father-in-law operate it." It’s not unavoidable, Jin Yiwei has set up a line to help father-in-law, I would like to see what step father-in-law can do.” Li Fei said with a strange light in his eyes.

"Yes, the king of the county!"
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(End of this chapter)