Prosperous Tang Dynasty

Chapter 347
When Shi Siming heard of An Lushan's death, he no longer tolerated Cui Qianyou's commander. After a big fight with Cui Qianyou, he led nearly [-] anti-army elites under his command to leave and returned to Changshan, Hebei.

It seems that because of his departure, Cui Qianyou, Cai Xide, Tian Chengsi and others were defeated by Guo Ziyi.But in fact, the anti-army and Guo Ziyi's army are not the same. When the news of An Lushan's death came, the morale of the anti-army was already in chaos. Guo Ziyi would not let go of such an opportunity. Guo Ziyi, it's just that they may not have lost so badly.

As another hero after An Lushan, Shi Siming could still suppress him before An Lushan died. After An Lushan died, he might not have his own ambitions and plans. Hebei Changshan, which allowed him to completely preserve his own strength.

No, after the disastrous defeat of Cui Qianyou, Cai Xide, Tian Chengsi, etc., of all the rebels north of the Yellow River, Shi Siming is the most powerful. Nearly [-] elites who have been eliminated from the battle in Hedong are his capital. The other rebels had to rely on him, Shi Siming, and gathered under his banner. His orders from Shi Siming were more effective than those of Luoyang An Qingxu.

Shi Siming had a very strategic vision. The other anti-army generals in Hebei did not dare to offend Li Fei because of some refugees and cause Li Fei to attack, but Shi Siming didn't see it that way.

Those refugees are all the original population of Hebei. What is the war fighting for? Apart from the territory, it is the population. Only with the population can there be a continuous source of soldiers. If the people of Hebei are allowed to flow to Andong, then the population of Hebei will definitely continue A lot of reduction, when they "Da Yan" will occupy such a large area, the population will not be much left, so what's the use?

Shi Siming went north from Changshan, Chen Bing in Boling, sent people to contact Niu Tingjie in Youzhou, and other rebels in other states to jointly send troops to prevent Hebei refugees from continuing to flow to Andong.

With Shi Siming aware of his strength, the other anti-army generals were not fools, and they sent troops to cooperate with each other, pressing against Lutai, Pingzhou and other Anton Iron Cavalry and Anton Mo Dao Army.

Li Fei stationed 20 Mo Dao troops in Lutai, [-] Anton cavalry in Pingzhou, and cruised in front of Lutai. Although there are [-] elites in total, the Hebei counter-army has a total of [-]. Li Fei was still quite apprehensive.

In particular, the nearly [-] elite that Shi Siming brought back from Hedong were not weak in combat effectiveness. Even if Li Fei could win the battle, the loss would definitely be huge.

Li Fei's goal is only the population, and he has not conquered the heart of Hebei yet, so after Li Fei accepted the last batch of refugees, he ordered the Modao Army to withdraw from Lutai and retreat to Pingzhou City.

The land route was basically cut off, but the sea route from Dengzhou, Dao, Henan was not interrupted, and a large number of refugees still crossed the sea every day.

Although there is still a gap between Li Fei's final goal of a total population of 1000 million, there are now more than 660 million people, which is more than three times the total population of Anton at the beginning, which is enough for Li Fei to expand the development scale given by Anton.

In the past, there was only Anton Protectorate's Mansion, with a total population of less than 200 million. Although Li Fei had established a large number of industries, it was basically just a small shelf there, and it was far from reaching the large scale that Li Fei wanted. Requirements for large-scale production.

Now that Pinglu Road has been captured, coupled with the influx of refugees, the population that Li Fei can use is more than three times that of before.

Li Fei has really started to build large-scale production bases one by one, and every industry is expanding.

In the past, the scale was limited and the output was limited, so Li Fei only continued the title of "workshop". With the continuous expansion of the scale, Li Fei moved the title of "factory" to Datang for the first time.

Iron mines, coal mines, ironworks, steelworks, ironworks, steelworks, garment factories, cement factories, shipyards, porcelain factories, textile factories——
The meaning of the industrial revolution lies in a large amount of output, high efficiency, and low-cost output, and then dumping to earn capital.

Although without mechanical assistance such as steam engines, internal combustion engines, electric motors, etc., it would not be considered an industrial revolution in the true sense anyway, but Li Fei was able to achieve a semi-industrial revolution.

Among the refugees, every technical talent has been reasonably arranged, and many of them have directly become engineers in the factory, with high salaries that they never dared to imagine in their entire lives.

Li Fei completely managed the Anton Governor's Mansion within Shanhaiguan and a part of Pinglu as a separate country.

Although Li Fei's large-scale flow production operation, from the perspective of later generations, the production efficiency is still pitifully low.

But we also have to look at what era it is now. Production in the feudal era was not efficient at all. Even if Li Fei only brought some theories from later generations, and simply used and modified them, the production efficiency would be ten times, dozens of times improved. .

For example, mining operations, iron ore, and coal mines used to be picked out of the mountains one by one by pure manpower, and then loaded on a horse-drawn cart to be transported out.And Li Fei directly moved the rails out, using the slope to accelerate, and directly transported the carloads of ore from the inside of the mountain to the outside of the mountain at an extremely fast speed. This alone, the cost of the only steel produced was four times lower than before. become.

Not to mention the clothing factories with tailoring machines, the cost of a piece of clothing is directly reduced by dozens of times after saving a lot of manpower, and it is truly mass-produced clothing.

Through land and sea transportation, Li Fei transported the products produced to Khitan, Xi, Huihe, Bohai, Shiwei gradually, Jiangnan, Xinluo, Wa, Southeast Asia, and even further to Tianzhu, etc. A large amount of gold and silver, grain, or other special products were returned, which further enhanced the prosperity of the Andong market.

Just saying that it is in full swing is not enough to describe Anton's development, it is like riding a rocket.

After several years of precipitation, with the influx of refugees, many craftsmen with experience in shipbuilding, or young workers, have been added. The Anton Shipyard in Haizhou has been able to build ships such as Jiangnan Datang's most advanced ships. The shipyard is like a big ship too.

"Hehe, our Suzong Majesty actually ordered me to attack Youzhou City and Hebei." Li Fei smiled and threw Suzong Li Heng's imperial decree on the table, but he didn't take it seriously at all.

"Just put on a show, Wu Sheng, take [-] Anton cavalry to the city of Youzhou, and wander around some places in Hebei." Now Li Fei doesn't plan to pay attention to the war between Datang and the rebels, although he If you go all out to join the battle, you will have the confidence to sweep Hebei, cooperate with Guo Ziyi to recover Chang'an and Luoyang in the future, and completely wipe out the rebels.

But Li Fei would not do that, because based on his relationship with Suzong Li Heng, Li Fuguo, Yu Chaoen, etc., if the rebel army is completely wiped out, then Suzong Li Heng's sword should be pointed at him.He will not gamble with the lives of himself and his wife and children.

What's more, he has even greater ambitions. After the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty was in a state of being muddy and unable to hang on the wall. Zhao Guo can also swallow up a large area of ​​Tang Dynasty in the future, and the chaotic warlords in the later feudal towns, five dynasties and ten kingdoms, and more than 200 years of chaos, it is better for Li Fei to find a way to replace Datang, maybe he can create another situation.
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