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Chapter Five Hundred and Thirty-Nine Shuofang Good News

After staying in Tongzhou for nearly three days, during these three days, Li Ke and Tuli discussed many issues, mainly involving the Turkish people's livelihood issues. **%%* In the past four years, after the Turks surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, they were able to receive help and supplies in the years of famine, and they lived a comfortable life. Therefore, many Turkic people wanted to give up their nomadic life and thought of farmers who worked as farmland in the hinterland of the Tang Dynasty. Tuli also felt that this was the way out for the Turks, so they wanted to discuss with Li Ke. Li Ke naturally felt that this issue did not need to be discussed and could be implemented immediately. Because in the south of the Tang Dynasty, it was the south of the Tang Dynasty.

Fang, the wastelands in many places have not been reclaimed and many places have not been developed. The Turkic nomadic peoples are good at enduring hardships, so it is better to put them in. However, Li Ke is not the only one who has the final say in the Tang Dynasty. When Li Ke was discussing with Tuli, he decided to first migrate some people to Yingzhou and Youzhou. When the war between the Tang Dynasty and Tuyuhun ended, Shuofang would be vacant to make a large-scale migration of Turks. Tuli agreed with Li Ke's suggestion.

Li Ke left Tongzhou on the third day. He continued to head north and began to go to Yingzhou. Yingzhou is now Liu Rengui's sphere of influence and the base of the Tang Dynasty's Navy. According to Li Ke's intention, the entire Yingzhou is now supplying Yingzhou Navy. The Yingzhou Shipyard is the main arm of the Navy. Therefore, Li Ke has only visited Yingzhou in the north to see the development of the navy and see if he can sail far away. Not to mention the distance, Li Ke, the island near Taiwan, which is close to Taiwan, must first be classified as the territory of the Tang Dynasty. Even if he does not migrate the people to these places, it is a one-day way to exile criminals.

Because the army had already set off, Li Ke was not in a hurry to rush forward. The winter in Mobei was beautiful. Wu Meiniang, Li Zhi, Li Ren, Li Yi and others had never been there, and they all wanted to enjoy it well. Li Ke agreed with the intention of several people and slowed down the marching speed. Even so, ten days later, Li Ke and his group entered the boundary of Yingzhou.

The governor of Yingzhou, Liu Rengui, had known that Li Ke was going to visit Yingzhou in the north, so he proposed to lead his army out to greet him. Liu Rengui is now the governor of Yingzhou, and he can also have two or three hundred personal guards around him. Seeing the 200 knights who were strong from afar, Li Ke also admired Liu Rengui's methods of training soldiers.

"Your Highness, the governor of Yingzhou, Liu Rengui, will meet with His Highness!" Liu Rengui jumped off his horse and thought Li Ke to polite him.

"Regularity, no need to be polite!" Li Ke dismounted and held Liu Rengui and smiled.

"Your Highness comes to Yingzhou from afar. The last general is responsible for his duties. He can only welcome him here. I hope you will atone for your sins!" Liu Rengui apologized again. However, Liu Rengui had already left Yingzhou City and welcomed Li Ke.

"Why do you need to say too much? Go to the city with me!" Li Ke said with a faint smile.

He knew very well what Liu Rengui was thinking. Liu Rengui felt that it was all the kindness of the Northern King Li Ke who was able to achieve today. Not only did Li Ke put him in Yingzhou and become the governor, but he also formed the navy of the Tang Dynasty and let him take charge of the shipyard. This was definitely not something that ordinary kings could do.

Li Ke introduced Li Zhi, Li Ren, Li Yi and Wu Meiniang to Liu Rengui. Liu Rengui had already heard of the people on duty, and was ready in his heart. He did not seem cramped when he saw the four people. Then, the vast group of people traveled twenty miles and entered Yingzhou.

Liu Rengui arranged Li Ke and his group in the side courtyard of the Governor's Office, which was the courtyard he had already prepared when Li Ke started his tour. The main side courtyard could accommodate more than 300 guards, which was Liu Rengui's real purpose. He knew very well that Yingzhou was not far from Goryeo, and Li Ke killed the Goryeo envoy. Even if Goryeo did not pursue the investigation, it was not certain that Goryeo would not assassinate Li Ke at such an opportunity. Besides, the Tang Dynasty and Goryeo border trade were frequent, and there were also many Goryeo people in Yingzhou who arranged the 300 Eagle Guards to the mansion in order to protect Li Ke's needs.

Li Ke did not notice this move. Because not only he could accommodate nearly one thousand eagle guards in Chang'an, but also in Taiyuan, but he thought it was normal for him to accommodate three hundred eagle guards in such a side courtyard.

Yingzhou Governor's Office belonged to Zhong Governor's Office in the Tang Dynasty.

Therefore, there were not as many officials and generals as the Grand Governor's Office in Tongzhou, and the atmosphere at the dinner was not as active as Tongzhou. But the generals here were all in Tang people, including first-class graduates from the Army Academy, mainly Zhou Qing, which made the banquet much warmer when he was in Tongzhou. Even Wu Meiniang attended the banquet. She was dressed in palace clothes and sat obediently beside Li Ke.

The next day, Li Ke and Liu Rengui asked about the development of the navy and the scale of the shipyard, and also asked about Chai Zhewei and his shops in Yingzhou and the situation of their longevity cream for Goryeo. Liu Rengui answered one by one, which gave Li Ke a clear idea. Li Ke was not in a hurry to go to Youzhou. He wanted to stay in Yingzhou for a while and go to the shipyard and the navy base to take a look.

In this way, Li Ke lived in Yingzhou with great peace of mind.

During the day, he would go to the shipyard to see the warships built by the craftsmen. He would ask the craftsmen where he didn't understand, and he would give suggestions for modification if he was not satisfied. At night, he would write and draw on the drawings of the warships, modify the drawings of the craftsmen's not satisfied with, or draw the drawings of Zheng He in the Ming Dynasty based on his own memory.

In this way, time passed quickly, and half a month passed.

At this time, it was already mid-November, and ice began to appear in Yingzhou Naval Base. The naval warships could not go out to sea and could only be parked at the base. Li Ke also came to the naval base with Liu Rengui. To be honest, the naval base in Yingzhou was not very good. It took four years to form the naval commander not as fierce and huge as Li Ke thought. However, Li Ke was already very satisfied with the scale of this. After all, it took only four years. The naval commander was not Lu.

The army is willing to spend time and before, and can take effect in a short time. The navy is a sea defense force that requires long-term accumulation and a lot of money to slowly form. Moreover, the Tang Dynasty did not pay much attention to the navy in the past, so Li Ke suddenly asked Liu Rengui to form a navy and build a base. The scale of which was also due to Liu Rengui's outstanding ability. Zhou Qing did not disappoint Li Ke's expectations for him. Under Liu Rengui's adjustment, he had become his deputy general, which helped Liu Rengui's training in the navy.

Through the visit, Li Ke was basically satisfied with the current development and scale of the navy. He felt that with his current conditions and abilities, it would be good to do this! However, according to his thoughts, such a navy cannot be said to be a navy, ten main warships, twenty small warships, and thirty warships. What a weak sea defense force!

Therefore, when Li Ke returned to Yingzhou, he put forward many suggestions and opinions to Liu Rengui, and Liu Rengui also expressed that he would take five years to fulfill Li Ke's requirements.

Just as Li Ke and Liu Rengui were talking in the study, Wang Zhongchang hurried to the study.

"Your Highness, Shuofang's good news!" Wang Zhongchang said to Li Ke excitedly.

"Isn't it just Li Jili's army won the battle? It's so happy!" Li Ke cursed with a smile.

"Your Highness, it's not Li Ji, but General Chen. The Black Cavalry's 50,000 iron cavalry annihilated the 30,000 vanguard army of Tuyuhun!" Wang Zhongchang said happily.

"What? Chen Qi won a victory?" Li Ke was also very happy. He felt that the Tang Dynasty would definitely win in the battle between the Tang Dynasty and the Turks, but he did not expect that the first particularly critical victory was the Black Cavalry and Chen Qi who took the lead.

"Chen Qi has not disappointed my expectations!" Li Ke said to Liu Rengui with a faint smile.

"Yes, General Chen has been with His Highness for a long time, and he has benefited a lot!" Liu Rengui also smiled.

"So, Chen Qi was assigned to Pang Xiaotai?" Li Ke asked Wang Zhongchang.

Since he was not prepared to participate in the war in Heshuofang, Li Ke was too lazy to ask about all military affairs in Shuofang, so he had this question.

"Your Highness, Pang Xiaotai, the vanguard general of the Shuofang army, and the deputy general is General Chen. The 50,000 iron cavalry of the Black Cavalry in the Northern Palace are all under the command of Pang Xiaotai!" Wang Zhongchanghui reported, "As for Xue Li from Tongzhou, the three Turkic cavalry and the 20,000 Iron Cavalry of Youzhou in Yuwenguo of Youzhou, were all subscribed to Li Ji's central army."

Li Ke smiled faintly. He knew very well what Li Ji wanted to do with this arrangement. Chen Qi was his confidant general, so he was naturally not very easy to command Chen Qi, so he threw Chen Qi to Pang Xiaotai. Xue Rengui and Yuwen Guo had no marching qualifications and were low-level generals, which was conducive to his command, so Li Ji made such arrangements.

"Well, a good sign! With the victory of the first battle, the victory of the Tang Dynasty against Tuyuhun is not far away!" Li Ke said with a smile, "Wang Zhongchang, go and prepare, we will go to Youzhou tomorrow!"

"No" Wang Zhongchang left.

"Your Highness, are you leaving now?" Liu Rengui asked.

"About the rules, I will leave the navy to you. I am very relieved! I estimate that the war between the Tang Dynasty and Tuyuhun will not last too long and may end before the New Year. In this case, I must return to Taiyuan." Li Ke said to Liu Rengui.

Liu Rengui could understand Li Ke's words, that was, the war between the Tang Dynasty and Tutuyuhun was over, and he was rewarded with meritorious officials. Although Li Ke did not produce any generals in this battle, there were many generals leading, such as Chen Qi, Xue Chong, Xue Rengui and Yuwen Guo. Therefore, when rewarding meritorious officials, Li Ke had to plan for several people in Taiyuan.

"Since that's the case, the last general will not try to keep His Highness! The last general will see His Highness off tomorrow!" Liu Rengui said.
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