Datang: Li Shimin begged me to rebel

After coming out of the warehouse, Li Ke asked someone to arrange it. Datang actually had similar warehouses before, but those warehouses were definitely not good at preventing rats, so Li Ke asked someone to build a grain warehouse again.

For example, if a large amount of grain is piled up, the temperature in the grain center will become higher, especially in hot summer, so the construction of the granary is also very particular. Fortunately, Li Ke has books here, and the earliest granary in China was certainly not built. It may be as advanced as a modern granary, and it must be done step by step.

The initial granary storage warehouse cannot be as big as a modern granary, and it needs to be built smaller. In this way, it is easier to solve problems in grain storage. For example, the temperature and humidity are too high, so find a way to avoid germination and mildew. Change, etc., these are very complicated.

Fortunately, he has a set of procedures here, and combined with the actual storage experience of Datang, the ancients also had quite a lot of experience in this area, and these experiences are not completely useless, because it is impossible for modern people to think of what kind of storage under ancient conditions. The method is the best.

A combination of the two is best.

At present, there are several storage granaries near Datang, and few of them have been built. Li Ke simply explained to Tian Meng, asking him to arrange a vacant warehouse first, saying that he will store high-quality grain seeds in this warehouse in the future. Let people protect it first.

After finishing all this, Li Ke entered the palace to greet Fang Xuanling again. The promotion of this matter still needs the cooperation of the Ministry of Agriculture, or the Ministry of Land and Resources.

Originally, the original name was the Ministry of Land and Resources, and Gao Jifu, who was originally from Zhongshushe, served as the secretary, but later Li Shimin changed the name to the Ministry of Agriculture, because agriculture was very important in the Tang Dynasty, and Li Ke didn't care, anyway. That's all there is to it.

As for some tasks of the Ministry of Land and Resources, there are indeed not so many jobs in this era, and then the Ministry of Land and Resources listed them separately, and Gao Jifu was concurrently in charge.

To put it bluntly, this department does not have so much work now, and it can be done together with the Ministry of Agriculture, but it may be useful in the future, so the department was established first.

The delivery of these grains is not so fast, and it is estimated that it will take Li Ke about a month to deliver them one after another.

While Li Ke was making these preparations, Xizhou.

Li Daozong and An Xinggui received news of the use of troops in the Western Regions almost at the same time.

Seeing the order in his hand, An Xinggui took a deep breath. As expected of His Highness the King of Qin, this pattern is big, either do not move or move, it is aimed at the entire 36 countries in the Western Regions.

A complete set of military maps was sent with the order.

The map derived from the improvement and re-editing of modern maps is actually considered an artifact in this era.

For more than 1000 years, big rivers have not changed much. For example, major large mountain ranges, let alone 1000 years, it is estimated that the change after adding a zero is not that big.Of course, it cannot be said that there is no change at all, but this change is reflected on the map, which is actually equivalent to no change.

The maps of this era... how should I put it, people like Li Ke who are not road idiots need a certain level of knowledge to understand the maps of this era, mainly because they are too abstract, although the concept of scale already existed in Datang.

The earliest scale was from Pei Xiu of the Pei family in Hedong during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. It is said that he was the ancestor of Pei Xingjian.

However, although people in the Tang Dynasty drew maps with the concept of scale, they drew a house at the location of the village, and a mountain peak at the location of the mountain, which did not reflect the terrain and other aspects.

Unlike modern maps that have contour lines and so on, the maps drawn by Li Ke naturally also have contour lines, which are completely similar to modern topographic maps.

Of course, it is also marked that there may be some discrepancies.

But after using the whole map... it is actually much more accurate than the map of the Tang Dynasty!

It has a large error in small things, but its accuracy in general directions is absolutely unsurpassed.

The reason for this is naturally the changes that have taken place over the past 1000 years.

Just take one thing as an example, the area of ​​Qinghai Lake in Datang is more than double the area of ​​Qinghai Lake in later generations, although the approximate radius of Qinghai Lake does not seem to increase much from a high mountain, But the area has increased a lot.

The reason for such a large gap is naturally because the number of rivers flowing into Qinghai Lake is different.The current Qinghai Lake is much larger than that of the later generations. The rapeseed fields by the Qinghai Lake of the later generations are all under the water now.

After reading the entire map, An Xinggui knew it well, but he didn't act immediately, but waited for Li Daozong to contact him first.

According to the order in the edict, Li Daozong must have received the order before him. After all, Xizhou is closer, and the connection between Xizhou and Longyou Dao is actually increasing.

In the last year alone, the caravan trade between the two has increased hundreds of times compared to before. All kinds of goods are entering the Longyou Road through Xizhou, especially in the direction of Dunhuang County. .

Some of the goods returned to the interior of Longyou Road through Dunhuang County, and some of them went to the Western Regions.In addition, it reaches Jincheng through the Yellow River, and then stretches to various parts of Longyou Road through Jincheng.

So An Xinggui is very clear that Xizhou is much richer than their Longyou Dao now, not to mention that it is a place arranged by His Royal Highness King Qin?

And in this order, the most important thing is to let the army dispatched this time be mainly the army of Xizhou, supplemented by the army of Longyou Dao.

why?Naturally, there is a difference in quality.

With the reform of the military system in the Tang Dynasty, Longyou Dao naturally also carried out reforms. The entire Longyou Dao currently has only 3 soldiers, but basically all of them are elite.Some of the older ones retired and returned to the localities to become officials of the Datang Public Security Department.

Coupled with the special location relationship of Longyou Dao, the total number of Fubing in Longyou Dao before was about 5, but now there are only 3 Fubing, but the number of officials in the local security department has increased to 5.

The extra 5 officials just made the more than 3 government soldiers no longer responsible for the security work of the town, and only kept a small number of city defense troops, and then most of them could be sent to the border.On the contrary, it strengthened Longyou Dao's strength.

You must know that of the 2 government soldiers in Longyou Dao in the past, only 1 could be concentrated in border areas such as Dunhuang, about 2 in the northern border, and the remaining [-] were distributed in various locations in Longyou Dao.

Although the configuration is similar now, it seems that the more than 2 government soldiers concentrated on the western border are not distributed in various towns, but concentrated in the army camp, and the ability to deal with emergencies has naturally improved.