Travel to the early Tang Dynasty and become a salted fish

Chapter 504: Going militarily?

What does His Majesty the Emperor want to do?

Could it be that you already know that we have been conquered by Chu Mo?

This was the first thought of Li Junxian, Wang Dehai and Samurai Xun.

However, as soon as this idea came up, the three of them directly rejected it.

If His Majesty already knows the truth, then what is coming now may not be a decree, but the imperial army's levy.

But since His Majesty the Emperor is not doubting a few of his people, but has not stated the specific details of this conscription, what exactly does he mean by this.

Everyone who couldn't figure out the situation all looked at Chu Mo.

The moment Chu Mo finished listening to the imperial edict, he was completely confused.

His first reaction was, why did Li Er become so generous this time?Could it be that because he gave away 100 million stones of food so easily, the other party was reciprocating the favor and repaying him?

But this idea only stayed in my mind for a short breath before it was thrown directly to Java.

If Li Shimin was really grateful, he would not hide in Lingnan now.

Thinking of this, Chu Mo frowned. What on earth did the other party want to do like this?

If he really followed the imperial edict and could freely recruit all the people in the territory to resist the Japanese bandits, wouldn't Li Shimin be afraid that he would grow stronger overnight and threaten Li Tang's country?

No, no, Chu Mo suddenly came back to his senses.

The other party was obviously not afraid of growing bigger, and there was no news from Zhang San that the imperial court would dispatch troops to prevent him from plotting evil.

So, what confidence does Li Shimin have that he is not afraid of becoming stronger and bigger?

Suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, Chu Mo caught sight of two sisters, Wu Shun and Wu Xu, holding a banknote that he had previously collected for them.

In an instant, Chu Mo understood.

Li Shimin wanted to tempt him to go into military force, recruit all the strong people in the fief, and then sit back and watch as the fief slowly perished due to lack of labor.

After thinking about the key, Chu Mo said to everyone with a sarcastic look on his face:

"The imperial court must have known about the brutality of the Japanese bandits this time, which is why we must wipe them out at all costs and restore peace to the Tang Dynasty."

When Wang Dehai heard this, he immediately claimed the credit and said: "Your Excellency is wise. Indeed, the old slave's previous memorial to the Holy Emperor actually listed the atrocities committed by the Japanese bandits in detail."

When everyone heard this, they all looked at Wang Dahai. This dead eunuch didn't even want to share the good things with the others, so he just took it all to himself.

Wang Dehai didn't care at all about the disdainful looks from everyone.

Just kidding, when I was in Chang'an, didn't I get a lot of looks?You've already gotten used to it, okay?

Seeing that everyone was showing signs of paying attention to Wang Dehai, Chu Mo coughed quickly and focused everyone's attention on himself.

"Everyone, the purpose of the imperial court this time is very clear. It is to use our hands to teach those foreigners a profound lesson. If we want to gain a foothold again, we must kill the chicken to scare the monkeys and fight a beautiful turnaround. .”

Everyone looked at Chu Mo with constipated expressions.

The court doesn't know the details, how can they not know?

Not to mention that there are no Japanese bandits, even the number of Japanese bandits that can be found in the entire fiefdom can be counted with a slap.

If they really followed the imperial decree and conscripted unlimited troops, would it be possible for them to rebel after conscription?

Thinking of this, everyone had different thoughts and looked at Chu Mo with suspicion.

Facing the same gazes from everyone, Chu Mo knew what they were thinking without even thinking about it.

Sighing, these people have been following him for too short a time, and they don't know his temper yet.

"Everyone, we know what is going on in our fiefdom. Although we made up the Japanese bandits on our own, there are various beasts and bandits emerging in endlessly in the Lingnan area. You must have heard about it."

"Now that the imperial court has issued an order for us to recruit troops to suppress the bandits, in order to avoid suspicion from the imperial court, we have no choice but to comply."

"In this way, I will temporarily set the number of troops to be recruited in advance between 15000 and 20000. If these troops are enough to clear the surrounding mountains and fields, they will be jealous of the court in the future. We will only recruit this once."

"If these soldiers are insufficient in the future, I will also seek your opinion during the second recruitment to see how many more troops can be added."

As soon as these words came out, Chu Mo couldn't help feeling a little depressed when he saw that everyone was obviously frightened.

Do these people really think that they will rebel?

He sighed and continued:

"Since we have decided to recruit troops, we should make all preparations in advance."

"As the saying goes, food and grass go first before the soldiers and horses are moved. If we recruit most of the young men in the fiefdom into the army, we must consider their future life issues."

After saying that, he turned to look at the warrior Xun and said:

"Lao Wu, I will give you a task now. Weren't you born as a merchant like me? In that case, I will leave the procurement of military supplies to you. What do you think?"

Warrior Xun was originally very concerned about his identity as a merchant, but when he heard Chu Mo calling himself a merchant and leaving the most important purchasing matters to him, of course he had no objection at all.

He immediately said excitedly:

"My lord has something to do. It is my honor to serve as a subordinate. I wonder what kind of supplies your lord needs?"

Chu Mo thought for a while and said directly:

"In this case, Lao Wu, you don't need to worry about anything else. The most urgent task is to collect as much food as possible from various places."

When he heard that he had to collect food by himself, the warrior Yu had a troubled expression on his face and said:

"Sir, the frost disaster has just passed, and the price of food in various places remains high. I am afraid that harvesting food at this time will be half the result with half the effort."

Chu Mo frowned and said:

"Nowadays, food prices in the north of the Tang Dynasty are indeed high, but the impact of the frost disaster in the south is not great. Although food prices are rising, they are not unacceptable."

"Besides, why should we only focus on the Tang Dynasty?"

"As far as I know, the Nanzhao tribes, Zhenla and Linyi countries to the west of us have all had great harvests in the past two years. We can start buying food from them."

"But sir, our fiefdom does not have the Market Supervisor (mainly responsible for controlling land trade) and the Municipal Shipping Supervisor (responsible for controlling waterway trade, specially appointed by the court) established by the imperial court."

Chu Mo simply rolled his eyes: "I have the final say on my fiefdom. If not, I will get one for you directly."