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    ww.x.om Directly south of the Silla Palace, there was originally an open space, but now a row of simple houses has been built. Many Silla officials are working inside. This is the newly established Household Registration Office.  On the outer wall of the household registration management office, there are many windows open, and there are long queues lined up at the windows. Most of them are Jincheng people who come to register. There are also many soldiers of the Tang Dynasty who are maintaining order.

    On the tall city wall of the palace, Li Min and Jin Shengman sat side by side, quietly looking at the people of Silla below.  It's just that one is smiling, and the other is full of worry.

    The one with the smile is naturally Li Min. It has been a while since he arrived in Jincheng, and his control over Silla is steadily increasing. The recruitment plan that has been prepared for a long time has finally begun to be officially implemented. It can be said that everything is going according to his plan.  The previous plan was carried out, and after Silla was completely controlled, it was Baekje's turn.

    However, Jin Shengman was a little worried. Although she also agreed to recruit workers, she was mainly forced by the food shortage. In order to avoid large-scale starvation incidents, she had to agree to Li Min's recruitment plan, but  She still had some doubts about Li Min's character, and was worried that after these Silla people were recruited, they would be sold as slaves by Li Min like the previous slave-catching teams. After all, the guy next to her was the largest slave leader in the Tang Dynasty.

    But no matter how much Jin Shengman worried, it was useless. She could only place all her hopes on Li Min's character, so she sighed and forced her attention away from the recruitment matter. Suddenly  He opened his mouth and said, "Your Highness, is there any news about Jin Gengxin and Jin Chunqiu?" Capital Datang 320

    When the complacent Li Min heard Jin Shengman ask about this matter, his face was a little annoyed, and he said in a hateful tone: "Since they left Dingchuan City, there has been no definite news, but according to reports  As far as I know, they have gone south and are likely to flee to Baekje. The reason why there was an illusion that they were missing some time ago is mainly because most of the generals on the southern route are direct descendants of Kim Kyung-shin. These people  We worked together to help Jin Gengxin conceal his whereabouts, so we never got any news about them."

    Last time Li Min sent people to chase Jin Gengxin and Jin Chunqiu, but they were only half a step away from them and allowed them to escape into Dingchuan City. At that time, the three thousand light cavalry led by Hu Li were unable to attack the city.  They had to wait until the infantry from behind arrived, but at that time Jin Gengxin and Jin Chunqiu escaped again, and there was no news about their escape, as if the three thousand people disappeared out of thin air.

    At first, Li Min was a little surprised by this situation. After all, they were three thousand elite soldiers. How could there be no news?  It wasn't until he used Wu Meiniang's intelligence channels in Xinluobu in the past two days that he discovered that it was the generals on the way south who were causing trouble. After all, Jin Gengxin has been in charge of the military for many years, and most of the generals are his direct descendants.  These people banded together to help him hide it.  Naturally, Li Min couldn't get any news.

    Jin Shengman¡¯s face darkened when she heard the news. Although she had known that Jin Gengxin had a high prestige in the military.  But he didn't expect that there would be so many generals in his country who were willing to take risks to conceal the news for him. From this point of view, if Jin Gengxin really wanted to do something bad to him, it might not be difficult.

    Thinking of this, Jin Shengman asked in a cold voice: "Then how does His Highness plan to handle this matter?"

    Li Min thought for a while and said in a deep voice: "Kim Geng-shin's military prestige in Silla is extremely high. This situation is very unfavorable to us, because based on the current situation, Kim Geng-shin is likely to defect to Baekje. If that happens  If he leads the Baekje army to attack Silla, I am afraid that countless generals will defect, so in order to change this situation, we must act ruthlessly!"

    Jin Shengman frowned. She seemed to understand what Li Min meant, but she said hesitantly: "Although our army in Silla is not large, we still have some generals. If we replace them all, who should start from  Where to add? And now we are at war with Baekje. If we make such a big move in the army, Baekje will definitely find out, and if they take advantage of it"

    Jin Shengman did not continue. The two reasons she put forward were sufficient. Although she knew that many generals were Jin Gengxin's people, now was not a good time to touch them.

    However, Li Min laughed loudly after hearing this, because Jin Shengman didn't understand what he meant at all. He didn't want to go to the trouble of replacing all the generals of Silla, but had other plans. After he finished laughing, he suddenly  He said with a murderous face: "I have no interest in carrying out any military reforms in Silla. If Baekje has the courage to take in Jin Gengxin and Jin Chunqiu, then I will directly send troops to destroy the entire Baekje and pacify the peninsula in one fell swoop.  There¡¯s war in the world!¡±

    Li Min¡¯s wordsWhen she opened her mouth, Jin Shengman was immediately stunned, but then he suddenly understood what the gap between a big country and a small country was. Maybe in the eyes of Silla, Baekje was an extremely powerful opponent, but in the eyes of the Tang prince  From Li Min's point of view, Baekje was just a small country with a small country and a weak people. It could be pacified with a backhand. After all, in the face of such a huge power gap, Li Min was too lazy to play any more conspiracies.

    However, Jin Shengman thought of another question and asked again: "Your Highness, it is winter now, which is really not a good time to start a war. Moreover, although Baekje's national power is worse than our Silla, after all, it still has tens of thousands of troops.  , if we only rely on the Tang army brought by His Highness, I am afraid it will still be a bit tight, and if we use our Silla army, we may be instigated by Jin Gengxin to rebel, so is the plan to destroy Baekje too early?"

    Jin Shengman obviously didn't know enough about Li Min. Since he said he wanted to destroy Baekje, he had already thought of a plan, so he smiled and said after hearing this: "The cold winter is indeed not conducive to using troops, but now it is  It's almost November, and this winter doesn't last long. As for the strength of troops, it's not a problem. I can borrow tens of thousands of troops from Pyongyang at any time, and I still have a strong reinforcement that has not yet arrived. Calculated, the time is about the same.  Once they arrive, Baekje will be destroyed."

    The strong support Li Min refers to naturally refers to the group of students from the military academy. Even though there are not many students coming to practice this time, it is what Li Min needs most because he brought 15,000 people from Dengzhou.  , all of them were from the slave-catching team. After being trained by Hu Li and Zhou Long, they could barely become a qualified Tang army. However, this army had a huge shortcoming, that is, there was a serious lack of qualified low-level officers. After all, soldiers could  The training is completed in a short time, but it is impossible to train officers in a short time, so the combat effectiveness of this army is not very strong. After the group of people from the military academy arrives, Li Min will organize these people into his own army.  Serving as an officer in the army will definitely increase the army's combat effectiveness to a higher level.

    The recruitment in Jincheng went very smoothly. In order to earn a living ration for the family, many Silla men first registered their household registration, and then applied for jobs with Datang merchants who were recruiting workers.  There are many Datang merchants who come to Jincheng to recruit workers, and they can do any kind of work. However, the work they do is different, and the remuneration they earn is naturally different, and some jobs also have strict requirements, such as age, gender, and physical strength.  They all have different requirements, so even if you want to do some jobs, they may not accept you.

    Once admitted by Tang merchants, the recruited Silla people had to immediately live in the accommodation arranged for them by Tang merchants, and these Tang merchants would also give a lot of food to the workers' families in advance.  Providing food is to make the recruited Silla people feel at ease, but they are afraid that these people will escape after collecting the food, so as soon as the food is sent out, these people will temporarily rob their personal freedom, and after collecting enough amounts, they will immediately go on the road  .

    After seeing how smoothly the recruitment of workers in Jincheng was, Li Min and Jin Shengman finally extended this recruitment method to the entire Silla. After all, Silla was in a state of food shortage since the war with Baekje for a year.  In the middle of the country, even Jincheng, the capital, had no food to buy, let alone other places.

    It was precisely because of this food shortage that the merchants of the Tang Dynasty waved their food bags and began to recruit workers on a large scale in Silla unscrupulously. Moreover, this recruitment was not limited to men, but also young women.  This was mainly to recruit people for the textile factories in the Tang Dynasty, but unfortunately, because the Tang Dynasty captured Silla women as Silla maids in the past, the Silla people were extremely wary of the Tang people, and the men  That's all, the worst thing is to buy strength. It would be too dangerous for women to work in Datang, so few people signed up for those recruiting female workers.

    Seeing this situation, some shrewd businessmen immediately made changes. They no longer recruited female workers, but established food processing plants, leather processing plants and wool textile factories in Silla. This was mainly because of the crisis that followed Silla.  The territory of Andong Protectorate is almost all large-scale farms and ranches, which produce a large amount of livestock meat and furs. In the past, they had to be shipped across the Bohai Bay to Dengzhou for processing, which cost a lot of freight. In comparison,  Silla is still close, so you can save a lot of money on shipping costs alone.

    In addition, manpower in Silla is also very cheap. Due to the war, Silla men suffered a lot of casualties, and even widow villages appeared in some places. Therefore, when recruiting workers, it was not easy to recruit prime-age labor.  However, the men are gone, but the women are still there. They also need to support their families, so when Tang Dynasty merchants recruited people in exchange for food, many Silla women who were about to starve to death immediately signed up.  Capital Datang 320

    It was precisely because of the entry of these Tang Dynasty merchants that the food shortage in Silla was greatly alleviated. Of course, starvation must have occurred, but at least there was no large-scale starvation. This was very important to Jin Sheng.  For Man, this is undoubtedly great news.??.

    wxs.o
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