"I don't know whether I should keep a Baekje clan and whether I am overly accommodating to the Silla people, but it is not wrong to let the soldiers loot, right?" He Bayong frowned: "Everyone came across the sea, but they all Those who have risked their lives and won battles, generals and generals, have been promoted to positions and titles, and given wives and wives. If you don't let those below get some benefits, who will work harder next time?"
"The benefits are deserved, but is it necessary to let the soldiers kill people and set fire to rob them? Baekje has been a country for hundreds of years. Although it cannot be compared with the Tang Dynasty, it is still a big country with more than 700,000 households. It cannot be used in the treasury. Do you believe that hundreds of thousands of pieces of silk cloth are rewarded to the army? Even if the treasures in the treasury cannot be moved, then it is not enough to temporarily reduce people to Baekje and impose taxes. Anyway, the household registration is ready, and each household will increase their income by adding one piece of silk cloth, even if it is just After collecting half of it, there are still hundreds of thousands of pieces of cloth, which is enough to reward the army. Why make the world angry and resentful, and how many people will get the benefits?"
Hearing Wang Wenzuo's words, He Bayong was speechless. According to the land equalization system in the Tang Dynasty, a man of twenty was granted a hundred acres of land, and each man had to pay two stones of millet to the country every year, which was called rent; Two feet, three liang of cotton, or two feet and five feet of cloth, and three pounds of hemp are called a tune. Twenty days of corvee service, plus two days in leap years, is considered regular service. If one does not serve in labor service, each ding can pay three feet of silk or three pounds of silk per day. The standard of cloth is three feet, seven inches and five cents, and the amount paid for twenty days in lieu of labor is called mediocrity.
The laws of Goguryeo, Baekje, and Silla at that time were similar to them. Considering that there was no generational difference in the productivity levels of East Asian countries at that time, their national strength was basically proportional to the number of household registrations. A big country like Baekje with 760,000 households collected millions of pieces of silk every year. At that time, the troubled times were not far away. Although copper coins were popular on the market, the quantity was limited, and cloth was still circulated as currency. , in the eyes of people at that time, those silk cloths were green dollar bills, the hardest currency. Isn't it a big joke to have such a huge cash income, but to burn, kill and loot to pay rewards to the army?
"Listen to what you said, Saburo, it makes sense, but now they are all enemies!"
"Not yet. As for what will happen in the future, who knows? If we kill those who have surrendered now because they may be enemies in the future, then will all the people in Baekje really become enemies? There are at least two to three hundred mountain cities in Baekje. If they refuse to surrender, let us attack them one by one. No matter how many lives there are, this bottomless pit will not be enough to fill it!"
At this time, He Bayong was completely convinced by Wang Wenzuo. He sighed: "It makes sense for you to think so. Anyway, I am just a messenger. How do you plan to arrange this place?"
"The hostages were brought back to Sixian City, and the property and food that could not be taken away were scattered among the poor. The original owner of Chaichuan Gate was named Miao Fu, and he was also a local rich man. He was killed by a slave after he became poor. That slave is now under my control Subordinates!" Wang Wenzuo smiled: "I plan to hand this place over to that slave!"
"What a plan!" He Bayong immediately understood: "Sanlang, you are indeed prepared. That slave is surrounded by enemies. If he wants to secure his position, he will definitely not dare to betray you!"
"You can't tell whether you can sit still or not!" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile: "How many other followers he has, it all depends on his own skills!"
"Both the left and right are in your jar, so what if you have the skills?" He Bayong's smile faded: "When are you leaving?"
"There are too many grain trucks, at least it will take a few days!" Wang Wenzuo stood up: "Those things I just said are life-related, I will not recognize them when I go out!"
He Bayong said solemnly: "I won't say too much for the sake of it!"
After sending He Ba Yong away and returning to the house, Wang Wenzuo let out a long breath. He only knew a rough idea of the history of later generations: Although the Tang Dynasty eliminated Goguryeo, its old enemy, it was still unable to gain a foothold on the Korean Peninsula. His hard work was in vain. I made wedding clothes for others. But he didn’t know the specific time when the Tang Dynasty finally withdrew from the Korean Peninsula. He only knew that it should not be later than the Anshi Rebellion. Otherwise, An Lushan, whose home base was in Fanyang (Beijing), would be stabbed in the back by King Qin’s army who returned from the Korean Peninsula. The situation of the war Nor will it develop as it did historically.
From what I saw and heard in Baekje, the economic strategy of Tang Baekje was to serve the goal of annihilating Goguryeo. Therefore, after the destruction of Baekje, Emperor Gaozong immediately set up five governor's offices in Baekje and included it in the Tang Dynasty. Jizhou system. But in fact, they did not manage it carefully, but allowed the soldiers to plunder, and did not suppress the expansion desire of their allies, the Silla people, in an attempt to induce them to send troops to help the Tang army attack Goguryeo from the north and south. But so far, the results can only be said to be unsatisfactory. The Silla people casually showed respect, but in actual actions they were mostly perfunctory and spent their main energy on encroaching on the southern territory of Baekje, while the Tang army was trapped in Baiji. The Jifuguo National Army was unable to extricate itself from the swamp.
"We must find a way to change all this, otherwise we will be trapped sooner or later!" Wang Wenzuo clenched his fists and muttered to himself. He walked to the desk, took out dozens of parts, and began to assemble them carefully. After a while, a strange machine appeared in his hand.
"I hope it can be successful this time, otherwise there will be a lot of things to do when I go back, and I'm afraid I won't have so much free time!" Wang Wenzuo stood up and came to the courtyard. He placed one end of the heavy and smooth walnut bamboo-backed long bow on the ground and used his weight to hold it down. He bent, hung the bow string on the groove of the other end of the ram's horn bow, fixed one end of the strange machine on the handle of the walnut longbow, straightened out the bow string, and then took out five arrows and filled them into the machine one by one. in the groove at the upper end. Finally, I raised the longbow with one hand, and held the handle at the end of the machine tightly with the other hand. I took a deep breath, pulled the handle hard, and pulled the slide rail down to the top. I saw that the bow string was pulled, the bow arm bent, I pulled the trigger, and the bow string With a sudden rebound, the arrow shot out and penetrated the rattan target thirty steps away. Then Wang Wenzuo fully pulled the trigger again, pulled the bowstring, and started over and over again. Finally, on the fourth time, he was exhausted. Wang Wenzuo dropped the walnut longbow and said with a bitter smile: "Those foreign outdoor houses are really beasts, they actually come up with such a thing!"
The strange machine Wang Wenzuo is testing is a continuous firing device that he saw on a video website before traveling. The video was shot by a bald uncle named Joerg Sprave. He called his invention a semi-automatic bow. , consisting of a slide rail frame and an arrow trough, it can automatically load arrows and hang strings through the action mechanism, and pull the slide rails to guide the bow and aim. There is a trigger at the end of the machine. The back hand pulls the trigger to release the bow string. After each arrow is fired, , the arrows in the quiver will fall into the arrow track.
