After going down the mountain, Yang Anxuan did not return to the farm, but drove directly into the county army station. Zhao Tian and others received the letter in advance and waited in the camp together.
They are all heroes who can trust their lives on the battlefield. Yang Anxuan directly stated his plan without any hesitation.
"The new Governor Yin Dun will take office in April. I talked with him before Yu left the capital. Governor Yin will not interfere in military affairs." Yang Anxuan explained.
Yin Ji was a little embarrassed. He was the master on one side and his brother on the other. He was in a dilemma.
Yang Anxuan glanced at Yin Ji and said, "You don't have to be embarrassed. Brother Yu and Brother Yin are sworn brothers. You can just act as usual."
Yin Ji scratched his head and said, "Having said that, Mr. Yu feels a little uncomfortable."
Yang Anxuan smiled and said, "In that case, how about you go to Yingchuan to recruit troops?"
Zhao Tian and others all knew that Yang Anxuan was recruiting troops under the order of the King of Kuaiji. Yin Ji smiled and said, "It's settled. When the time comes, Yu will go with the lord."
Yang Anxuan shook his head and said: "On the surface, Yu wants Ding You to keep his filial piety and not show up everywhere. You are responsible for recruiting troops. Moreover, Yu intends to take advantage of Ding You's opportunity to visit Wei, Qin, Yan and other countries."
As soon as these words came out, Meng Longfu, Kuai En and others expressed their willingness to follow.
Yang Anxuan was very moved and said with a smile: "Young gentlemen, Yang is grateful for your kindness. But Runan is our foundation. If you all follow the fool and go out, what will the Runan army do?"
Zhao Tian said in a deep voice: "Where to go, we are willing to follow the master's arrangements."
Yang Anxuan had already made a plan and said: "Zhao Tian is a Sima and cannot leave. Meng Longfu and Kuai En have to train their troops and horses, so they cannot leave. You are the ones recruiting troops in Runan, Yang Anyuan is in Henan, Yang Zijing is in Xiangcheng, and Yang Zijing is in Yingchuan. Leave it to Yin Ji, and as for Ying Yang, let Yan Ke and Pei Qiang go."
Yu Fei saw that Yang Anxuan didn't think of his name and asked, "Master, did you ask your servant to follow you?"
Yang Anxuan smiled and said: "Brother Zizhuang (characterized by Yu Fei) has the greatest responsibility. I intend to let you and Chen Yu prepare to build the Runan Navy."
During the Battle of Luoyang, Liu Zhong led the navy to come to the rescue and made great achievements. Sima Shangzhi realized that the original Xunjiang camp had a strong fighting force and ordered Liu Zhong to lead the navy to return to Liyang.
After Liu Zhong returned to Liyang, he was promoted to the sixth rank of Danglu General, and Zhou You and Qian Lei were also promoted to the seventh rank of Saulu General. Sima Shangzhi asked Liu Zhong to train three thousand naval forces, imitating the Queyue Formation created by Yang Anxuan, and it was highly used.
Yang Anxuan used the Queyue Formation to defeat the Qin army's cavalry by the Yiluo River, and the navy led by Liu Zhong was an important part of it.
After the war, Yang Anxuan seriously considered that if there were rivers crisscrossing the Yangtze, Yellow, and Huai Rivers, a naval force that could quickly attack, reinforce, and transport supplies would definitely be of great use in the future.
The original plan was to make good use of the Xunjiang Camp led by Liu Zhong, but unfortunately the Xunjiang Camp was taken back by Sima Shangzhi years ago, so Yang Anxuan had to find another way.
His subordinates Yu Fei, Chen Yu and others were born in the "Lang Zhongjiao" water pirates, so it is likely that they will be able to return to their old careers happily.
When Liu Zhong returned to Liyang, Yang Anxuan asked Sima Shangzhi to keep two midships, and use these two midships as the basis to build a navy of 200 men.
Yang Anxuan smiled and said: "Zizhuang, you brought these people to clean up the bandits on the water. When you meet useful people, you will recruit water masters. The more water masters, the better."
The world was in chaos, and there were countless mountain bandits and water bandits. Yang Anxuan thought that letting these newly recruited soldiers destroy the water thieves and water bandits would be a blessing to the people of the world.
After hearing Yang Anxuan's idea, Zhao Tian said in a deep voice: "My lord, it is easy to recruit five thousand men and horses, but it is not enough to rely on the money and food promised by the court. My lord also wants to build a navy, where will the money and food come from?"
Zhao Tian has been following Yang Anxuan, and he followed Yang Anxuan to build the Anxuan Army, and then reorganized the Runan County Army. These soldiers and horses were said to be excellent, but their consumption was several times that of ordinary soldiers.
The capture of horses in Yingchuan and the defeat of the Qin division in Luoyang all showed the strength of the Runan army. Behind this strength was the accumulation of extensive training, abundant supplies, sophisticated equipment, etc., and it was inseparable from the large investment of money and food.
Most of the money and food investment came from Yang Anxuan personally, so it is not an exaggeration to say that the Runan County Army was Yang Anxuan's private army.
Yang Anxuan's current annual income sources mainly include: 240 taels of gold from Shulan Academy in Jingkou;
Yunjie paper is divided into thirty taels of gold, the noodle shop is divided into fifty taels, Panlongshan Yuanhe is divided into fifty taels, and the Ying family is divided into dividends of 100 taels. Including salary and other income, it is about 20 taels, and the annual income is Nearly five hundred taels of gold.
The annual income of 500 taels of gold is equivalent to the income of a large family. The Yang family owns fields, tea fields and various businesses in Baling. Excluding food, the annual income is only more than 500 taels of gold.
About one-twentieth of these five hundred taels of gold is saved by the clan, which is used for sacrifices, subsidies for orphans and widows, and raising orphans and children. About 50% of the money is paid out, and the rest is distributed to more than 400 households in the clan. .
The income of the main branches like Yang Guang, Yang Quanqi and Yang Siping is only about ten taels a year, while the income of each household in the distant branches is only several thousand yuan.
As for ordinary people, they are busy all year long and their food and clothing are not guaranteed. It would be good if they can save more than a hundred yuan.
The army of Runan County has 2,000 soldiers and 800 horses. The court supplies military rations according to the number of 3,000. On average, each person is given three shi of food per month, and the monthly payment is 9,000 shi. Other supplies are about 1,000 shi, which adds up to 10,000 shi per month.
Yang Anxuan treated the county troops kindly and kept eating meaty food. The food was converted into corn, which averaged out to five shi per person. Each war horse cost five shi, plus other supplies, which cost about 15,000 shi per month, minus the court. Given that, a monthly supplement of about five thousand dan is still needed.
The price of corn per stone is 150 taels, and five thousand dans total 750,000 taels of gold, which is 75 taels of gold. The annual requirement is 900 taels of gold.
In the past two years, Runan has accommodated refugees, encouraged land reclamation, and promoted Yangjia plow. The government has been able to obtain more than 100,000 shi of more corn every year. As the prefect of Runan, Yang Anxuan was able to use part of the money and grain from the treasury to subsidize the military, and with his own subsidies, he could barely survive.
Next, we need to recruit five thousand troops. If we want to maintain our combat strength, the gap will be more than one thousand taels of gold. The post of prefect was replaced by Yin Dun. Even though Yin Dun was his sworn brother, he could not give as much support to the county army as he did.
Before the soldiers and horses are moved, food and grass go first. If you want to compete for the world, you must have the capital to compete for the world. By relying on plunder to gather money and food, you can only dominate for a while, but will never become popular in the end.
The reason why the court can put down most rebellions is that it can mobilize most of the wealth to support the war and win the war in most cases. When the money and food are exhausted, the change of dynasty will naturally come.
Chaos has already occurred, and will become more and more chaotic until Huan Xuan usurps the throne, Liu Yu rises, and the Eastern Jin Dynasty is replaced by the Song Dynasty.
Yang Anxuan knows the direction of history, and of course he will not sit back and watch. If he wants to compete in the world, he must make plans in advance. Even without the secret order from King Kuaiji, Yang Anxuan wanted to follow Xie Xuan's recruitment of the Beifu Army and recruit a team of more than 10,000 people.
Xie Xuan had the support of the court and nobles, so he was able to recruit 80,000 Beifu troops. Since his temple was small and could not support these many people, he should first recruit 5,000 people as King Kuaiji said.
Sima Daozi promised food, fodder and baggage for five thousand soldiers and horses, but Yang Anxuan really had no hope. The court could not even provide the official's salary, so what else could he give except empty orders.
Since Wang Gong's rebellion, the Yin, Huan, and Yang families formed an alliance in Xunyang, and then Sun En and Wu rebelled, the court's binding force on the local government has become weaker and weaker, which is both a bad thing and a good thing.
For Yang Anxuan, King Kuaiji's order gave him an excuse to reach out to the five counties. If he didn't give it, he would get it himself.
However, that is a matter for the future. Now that I am in urgent need of money, I must first find a profitable business to meet my urgent needs.
Back at his residence in the city, Yang Anxuan meditated alone in his study.
He once asked Mr. Qi Yuan about what kind of business could make money. Qi Yuan told him that there were a few things that were very profitable in business dealings with Qin, Yan, Wei and even the Western Regions.
The first is silk, cloth and other items, the second is porcelain, lacquerware and other utensils, the third is tea, medicinal materials, paper and other items, and the fourth is gold and silver jewelry. Of course, smuggling iron, grain and other items is more profitable.
Yang Anxuan was able to go to the Qi family and exchange Sutie Dao (cutting knife) for horses from Yan State. I am afraid this business will no longer be possible.
The refined iron produced by the steel-filling method can be exchanged for a lot of money, but due to the limited production scale, Yang Anxuan does not want to leak out a large amount of refined iron, which may cause trouble for himself in the future.
Among the few things Qi Yuan mentioned, Yang Anxuan really found a way to make money, and that was porcelain.
The best porcelain nowadays is made from Yue Kiln
The glaze color of celadon is mainly light blue, the shape tends to be simple, there are few patterns, and it looks simple and elegant.
As an archaeologist in his previous life, Yang Anxuan was very familiar with porcelain and liked Jin celadon very much.
When Bichun Tea was launched, the Yin family gave him three sets of celadon tea sets. Yin Xi told him that these tea sets were made of two pieces of porcelain and two pieces of gold, so they might not be available yet.
Celadon is priced at two pieces of porcelain and two gold pieces, so how much gold can colored porcelain be exchanged for?
Yang Anxuan knew that the earliest colored porcelain, Tang Sancai, actually came from the Sui Dynasty and flourished in the mid-Tang Dynasty.
This kind of low-temperature glazed pottery uses fine white clay as the tire material and lead-containing oxides as flux. During the firing process, metal oxides containing copper, iron, cobalt and other elements are used as colorants to melt the lead. In the glaze, glaze colors of yellow, green, blue, white, purple, brown and other colors are formed, with yellow, green and white as the main colors, which are called "Tang Sancai" by later generations.
Yang Anxuan remembers the manufacturing process of Tang Sancai: the white clay processed by pounding, washing, etc. is kneaded into shape, dried in the kiln, and fired at thousands of degrees. After cooling, it is glazed and colored, and then fired in a kiln to 800 degrees to get the finished product.
Nowadays, the technology of refining and molding is available, but no one knows how to apply glazes, paint, and then bake them in kilns. Yang Anxuan recalled the glazes in his head: feldspar, quartz, clay... After grinding them into a slurry, they were dipped, sprayed, Pouring and other techniques are applied to the surface of the body... (don't go into detail)
He excitedly slapped Hu's table, and the tea cup on the table bounced up. Zhang Feng, who was dozing next to him, was startled. He opened his eyes in confusion and asked, "Master, do you want to change the tea?"
Yang Anxuan waved his hand, took out the paper, dipped his pen in ink, and wrote down the manufacturing process and required materials on several pieces of paper. The process, materials, glaze melting, furnace temperature, etc. are divided into several parts because Yang Anxuan does not want to control the technology in the hands of one company.
Colored porcelain is an inexhaustible gold mine. You can imagine how amazing the wealth it brought after its introduction was so great that one family could not swallow up this business.
Yang Anxuan carefully put the paper into the secret box and locked it. He wanted to use the porcelain business to win over as many allies as possible. The more allies, the better it would be for him. Common interests will make allies work together, while a large number of people will restrain each other, making it easier for him to control.
In his previous life, Yang Anxuan did archeology in Henan. Anyang kiln, Gongxian kiln, and Mixian kiln were all in Henan. Anyang was occupied by Qianyan, Gongxian was in the east of Yanshi, and Mixian was in Xingyang County.
He rescued Yanshi twice and forged a close relationship with the Pei and Yan families. Both Pei and Yan families had porcelain kilns, so Yang Jin decided to set up the porcelain kiln in Yanshi.
There are more than 30,000 households in Yanshi. Last year, the Qin army attacked Yanshi, and tens of thousands of people helped defend the city and Wubao. After experiencing the war, Yang Anxuan asked Yin Ji to recruit more than 1,200 people, all of whom were elites.
Yang Anxuan's eyes flashed. Yanshi was a treasured land for him. Once a war broke out, he could easily recruit more than ten thousand troops. In time, even if the Wei, Qin, and Yan countries came again, they could compete with them on the battlefield.
