Chapter 426 The Awakening of Capitalism
On the way back to Beijing, Qin Hao was a little embarrassed.
The reason why it is embarrassing is entirely because Li Xin is pregnant again.
Departing from Chang'an to Mount Tai, I walked slowly along the way for half a year, and I was so pregnant. I thought of Qin Hao getting into Li Xin's car without moving, and everyone looked at him with something wrong.
Brother, Fengchan, are you so anxious? No wonder you are assassinated, you deserve it!
Li Xin was completely embarrassed to come out to meet people, and hid in the carriage along the way, letting her say anything outside to be unable to hear.
Qin Hao was also very excited. This was his first child in the true sense of this world, and Qin Xiaohao didn't count it.
Speaking of Qin Xiaohao, this guy has been crazy these two days. He plays with Li Zhixiaowu during the day and is busy with his messy affairs at night. He is not a little older and tired day by day. Especially this assassination incident of the Demon Cult seems to have stirred up Qin Xiaohao's liver fire. This guy actually wants to experiment with making oxygen cylinders.
No matter what, Qin Hao was quite pleased. Although this oxygen bottle could not be made in almost 100, because oxygen was easy to make, it was basically a fantasy to create a bottle that could hold oxygen with the metallurgical process of the Tang Dynasty. However, at least this filial piety still made him very useful.
When he received news from his home that a wet nurse died at home, Qin Hao knew that Qin Xiaohao had taken action, but he didn't care much. He now has a bit of an ostrich mentality. As long as Qin Xiaohao doesn't let him catch the handle, he will just pretend that he doesn't know anything.
In this way, I left for another half a year. When I returned to Chang'an, Li Xin's belly had been more than five months old, and she once again became a mother-in-law.
Everything seems to be back on track.
Xue Wanche and Pei Xingjian went back to Liaodong first, and he needed to stay in Chang'an for a while, because a lot of things happened in the past six months, and they all had something to do with him. Besides, Li Xin's belly is getting bigger day by day, so he doesn't want to make trouble anymore.
First of all, there were Tubo and Nanzhao. In just half a year, the other small countries in Nanzhao had no power to resist and were swept by Xu Jie. When the news came, Qin Hao was also stunned. Are the soldiers of Jiangnan Palace so powerful? The soldiers of Guanzhong Palace did not have such efficiency either!
After receiving the detailed report, Qin Hao smiled bitterly and couldn't speak anymore. Xu Jie's total force was actually more than 300,000, which was not the case with the Dangxiang people sent by the Anxi Protectorate to help.
This number is so scary. Not to mention Qin Hao, Li Shimin was completely Sparta. He immediately sent someone to transfer Xu Jie back, and is now on the way.
I think Xu Jie is just a small general of the Central Army, and even his relationship is under the Yangzhou Governor's Office. How could He De fight such a battle of 300,000 troops and destroy more than ten countries in a row? Besides, there are only 100,000 soldiers in the entire Jiangnan, and the remaining 200,000 were transformed into magic?
Among the civil and military officials in the court, most of them did not understand how this battle was fought, but Qin Hao understood that in this battle, Xu Jie was probably pushed up as a flag. The real winner behind the scenes was the Hongmen.
I underestimated this civil group.
The Hongmen group is a bit like a private business alliance, with an extremely loose structure and not even a banner owner. Except for fighting against the infiltration of the Qing Gang, there is no big difference between this organization and no other time. Who would have thought that they could do such a big thing?
In fact, it is not particularly complicated to say. When Xu Jie first sent troops, there were only 20,000 regular troops. Later, when he heard that the captured prisoners could be sold as slaves, he followed many people to join in the fun, which was less than 100,000.
As a result, people later found that the Nanzhao monkey seemed to be easier to fight than expected, and the Tang Dynasty quietly emerged as a huanghuali coffin. A whole piece of huanghuali was made into a coffin and transported to Luoyang, which could almost be exchanged for a weight of gold.
Now, merchants suddenly saw business opportunities. As the saying goes, first come first serve, first come first come first serve, first come first come not just to sell two more trees, but more importantly, they can monopolize the wood in the area where they are located.
So, all the people in the Hongmen came up in a mess. Although they had no soldiers, they could hire them without soldiers. The stubborn customs of the early Tang Dynasty were so outrageous. I guess any aunt would be weaker than the soldiers of the Northern Song Dynasty with a hoe. What's more, those serious soldiers who were idle at home farming, who wouldn't want to make some extra money?
So Xu Jie found that he could command more and more. At first, he came to steal wood. Later, the Hongmen didn't know what happened. It seemed that he regarded this national war as a meeting of the fragrant masters from all over their country. There were more and more people. I didn't know whether they were here to fight or join in the fun. Even female soldiers could make up more than 10,000 yuan.
It was also thanks to the densely packed mountains and forests in Nanzhao, and the large troops could not carry out their formations. They were all small groups in the city fighting on their own, and the Nanzhao countries did not recover them in a unified manner. Such a mob actually won magically.
What a fuck, at this point, the battle was no longer under Xu Jie, a general in charge. After this guy reached the mid-term, he actually did nothing except a name, so the battle was over.
Thanks to Qin Xiaohao's backup in Hongmen and Xu Jie had some corresponding experience in the Qing Gang for some time, otherwise these merchant soldiers might have done something in Erhai Lake, even if they burned this place in a fire.
The key point is that the court still has a little confused about how to start this matter.
It is logical that it should be a happy thing to win the war, but who can be happy in such a war? The war is confused about the survival of the country. When the center does not know anything, the 300,000 army destroyed the other country. What a good news came back, or a terrible demonstration?
Of course, there are also reasons why the imperial court team went to Mount Tai to communicate smoothly, but such a major event had nothing to do with the center, which was so terrible.
What’s even more terrifying is that this incident seems to be a spontaneous act of the people. The Hongmen does not even have a formal and decent leader. Even if the court wants to find someone to vent his anger, who can I find? Xu Jie?
After all, they are generals who have won the battle, and they have nothing to do with the Hongmen. He was not recruited by those Hongmen. The court also had to say something about his conscience. Besides, if someone is punished for victory, will Han Buhan be the hearts of military generals in the world?
This time, the Jiangnan Prefecture soldiers were the main force. The Jiangnan people and Guanzhong people have always had regional discrimination. If this is not handled well, it will be no new for mutiny in Jiangnan.
But reward? Li Shimin could swallow this and remain indifferent to such bad things? For a moment, even Li Er, who wrote the Emperor's Model, and Fang Xuanling, who has been good at eternal prime minister, were confused. Why did such a thing happen? I have never heard of it before.
Perhaps only Qin Hao and his son could understand this. In fact, it was very simple. The capitalism of the Tang Dynasty was about to awaken...
Chapter completed!