Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 454
In the second year of Dashun, there were more than 3000 households and more than 11 people in Yanzhou. The land tax was about [-] hu. The household tax was mainly on leather and camel hair. More than a thousand coins, after all, salt has nothing to do with them.

This fiscal revenue is relatively bleak among the ten states in Shuofang, and it has been "steadily ranked" second to last for many years.

But Shao Shude is quite satisfied with this.The congenital conditions are too poor, and it is a bit difficult to improve the ranking after four or five years of hard work.He mainly looks at the data, which is a [-]% increase compared to before Cheng Rui took office, which is already very good, which shows that he has put his heart into it.

In Yuzhou next door, there are more than 1 households, about [-] people, most of whom are Pingxia Dangxiang herdsmen with registered households.In recent years, he has learned half-farming and half-grazing, got a household registration, and was included in the control of the shogunate.

But the management is manageable, but there are some problems with the culture.Last month, about [-] households from central Sichuan were sent to the south. They were originally intended to be sent to Shengzhou, but later they were diverted to Yuzhou for resettlement.

Hu Feng is strong, we must hedge it.

In principle, the three prefectures of Yan, You, and Xia, which have vast grasslands, will not add new immigrants from other places. They mainly rely on encroaching on the Pingxia Dangxiang and Hengshan Dangxiang to allow them to settle down and promote the three-crop rotation system. Shepherding and half farming, slowly accumulating household registration.

The production mode of half-grazing and half-cultivating is conducive to the accumulation of soil fertility, and will not make the land barren after long-term farming, and the output is higher than that of simple grazing.The production model of half growing grain and beans and half raising livestock is also more conducive to the Tibetans to get started, and it is simply a sharp weapon to attract nomadic population to settle down.

However, each state and county also has its own measure in absorbing the Tibetans.

They adhered to the orders issued by the shogunate that can only be understood and cannot be expressed in words, "nibbling" instead of "whale swallowing".

After having lunch at Chengrui's mansion, I wanted to stay for two days, but Chengrui's two daughters appeared in front of him several times intentionally or unintentionally. Shao Shude was annoyed, so he left Chengrui's mansion and started to inspect Wuyuan. , Baichi two counties.

Cheng Rui was by his side.

"This private road is half-abandoned, right? During the crusade against Lingzhou, the iron cavalry army crossed the river through this private road and detoured to the back of Lingzhou." Standing on the side of a dirt road full of weeds, Shao Shude asked.

Guochao's post road system is very developed. In principle, you are not allowed to take trails opened by individuals.

In Jinglongzhong, Cui Shi opened a new road in Shigu, and the imperial court prohibited pedestrians and business travelers from taking the Shangshan Road, and took the new road uniformly, and paid taxes at Dachang Customs.

From Lingzhou to Suizhou, there is a [-]-li-long east-west road to the Great Post Road. If a businessman does not take this road, if he is caught by the tax police, he will be fined and cry.

Of course, that was in the past. Now the three towns of Shuofang, Binning, and Weibei have withdrawn all internal checkpoints, and only collect customs duties in the border areas.

"There are still people passing by this road." Cheng Rui replied: "Last month, Hexi Dangxiang passed through the border. Tuoba Renfu took two thousand riders and more than a thousand vassals. He passed by from then on and went south to Qingzhou."

It took a lot of work to recruit Tuoba Renfu to go east.

This guy hesitated again and again, but finally gave in, obviously out of fear of being attacked by the Chishui Army, Yumen Army, Gansu, and Liangzhou tribal armies.

However, he used the excuse that he had broken up with Li Renmei and had to stay on guard. He only brought [-] cavalry to the south, plus the newly recruited [-] cavalry soldiers, most of whom were Dangxiang, Tatar, Uyghur and other miscellaneous tribes.

Three thousand riders head east, although they are a bit of an errand, and most of them are very slippery in battle, and they don't know how to fight hard, but they have taken the first step after all.

Tuoba Renfu, hehe, good days are yet to come.

The Yinshan Fan tribe had just been mobilized a while ago. The Zhuanglang clan, the Geshu clan, the Hun clan, the Wang clan, and the Qibi clan each sent [-] troops, led by Qibizhang, with a total of [-] cavalry. One thousand riders of the clan went to Shanguo via Xiazhou.

These tribes have been peaceful for too many years, and even the vendetta between the tribes has gradually disappeared.It happened to come out east to see blood and improve the combat effectiveness.

Cheng Rui also knew about the marshal's recruiting of the Fan tribe, Ma Dongchu.

He thought darkly, could this not be an act of consuming the mouths of the foreigners?Those tribal soldiers have very problematic combat effectiveness, they are free and undisciplined, and their equipment is not good. They are afraid that they will be overwhelmed by Ma Qiang when they go into battle.

But thinking about it is wrong.There are not many horses in the grasslands. After the reduction of tribal vendettas, even fewer people are willing to raise horses, and not all herdsmen can ride horses.This time, the cavalry were transferred, so at least they could live a decent life, and they were the backbone of the inter-tribal war. If these people were lost, the heads of the ministries would feel distressed to death.

Shao Shude didn't know what Chengrui was thinking, but his guess was pretty much the same.

Now we are recruiting cavalry soldiers from the grassland tribes, and we will also recruit infantry in the future.

For the grassland tribes, raising horses is extremely uneconomical, and they are generally unwilling to raise more.At its peak, the Liao Kingdom had a population of tens of millions, and a standing army of about 20 in peacetime, including 15 infantry and 1000 cavalry.During the war, there were 10 soldiers recruited from the Palace Tent Army, most of whom were infantrymen. These people were well trained, but they could be treated as regular troops. Liao Kingdom actually had only [-] cavalrymen.

There are millions of horses raised in the middle school, which is more than 76 horses in the heyday of this dynasty. They are distributed during wartime for infantry to maneuver on horseback.

In terms of the composition of the Liao State's military force, it is actually dominated by infantry. The Xi people are famous for their infantry warfare, although they are nomadic.

There is no way, most of the herdsmen are poor, and it is unrealistic to raise horses by themselves.

Shao Shude is currently forming a cavalry infantry, and he plans to recruit strong men from various tribes for training.Although they don't have horses, and most of them have average riding skills, they can ride horses after all, which saves a lot of training costs.

At the beginning of intimidating Hedong, the Yinshan Fan tribe gathered tens of thousands of herdsmen, and the leaders temporarily distributed horses and prepared their own equipment to go into battle. There is still a lot of potential to be tapped.

After visiting Wuyuan and Baichi for half a month, Shao Shude returned to Yanzhou.

Pei Tong, who was transferred to be the magistrate of the hearing department, sent news: the two towns of Weibei and Huazhou, which had finished the busy spring sowing and farming, recruited [-] masters to enter Shanzhou, and the two states of Shaanxi and Guozhou also recruited [-] masters to prepare for the war.

"Li Tangbin has a lot of soldiers." Shao Shude hesitated for a while, and finally signed the letter with his seal.

The Heyuan Army and the Jishi Army rode eastward with a total of [-] steps.

The Tianzhu, Tianxiong, and Shunyi armies that were originally stationed there still had 6000 troops.

The volunteer army has temporarily swelled to [-] people.

Zhe Silun's Fengxiang Army has returned to the town, but the 2000 guards of the Duhu Mansion are still there.

A full [-] troops!For the Shuofang military group, this is the time when the general has the most military power.Last year's war damage gap has also been filled by recruits selected by the coach of the capital, which can be said to be fully loaded.

Moreover, there are many miscellaneous names in these troops!
Heyuan Army, Jishi Army, and Shunyi Army, except for some members, most of them are the original troops of the old feudal town. They have not been reorganized, and their loyalty, morale, equipment, and combat effectiveness are not as good as those of Tianzhu and Tianxiong. .

There are tens of thousands of mountain people in the Yi Cong army, and Qingtang on the right side is not very trustworthy.

Shao Shude, a political creature, did not give anyone any possibility of rebellion, so he ordered: "Secretary Lu, write a few more letters."

"In the first one, Li Tangbin was appointed as the envoy of Heluo Jinglue, and Meizang Jieming was appointed as the deputy envoy of Jinglue. The 2 soldiers of Yi Congjun and guards were under the command of Wuzang Jieming. Marching and fighting, Zhengshi made a decision with one word. , all ministries must obey the order. If anyone disobeys the order, he will be executed without mercy."

Troops can be led by different generals, but there can only be one voice when fighting.Emphasizing this sentence is also to learn from the chairman's lesson, worrying that Wu Zang Jieming will not obey Li Tangbin's command.

"The second part, the cavalry of various ministries is used collectively, a total of more than [-] cavalry, led by Bai Gui, the Youyi envoy of the righteous army, and appointed him as the Heluo Youyi envoy."

After saying this, Shao Shude asked people to find Mrs. Bai.

Bai Shi is one of the maids Shao Shude brought to Xingde Palace to take care of her daily life, and she has been by her side all the time.

Bai Shi came soon, she looked a little scared, thinking that she had done something wrong.

"Write a letter to your brother." Shao Shude took her into his arms, stroked her gently, and said gently.

Although Mrs. Bai had been in bed several times, she still blushed in front of her own soldiers and Lu Siye.

"I can't read." Bai's voice trembled.

"Secretary Lu will help you write, and you can dictate." Shao Shude shouted: "Pick out a few interesting things from childhood, and have fun with your brother."

Of course Lu Siye knew how to write, the old secretary wrote it with absolute sincerity, which made people feel a sense of affection in their hearts after reading it.Apart from family love, there are naturally other things that Bai Shi doesn't know, but Bai Gui definitely understands.

"The third copy is for the Shaanxi-Guo Army to go east with ten thousand people, and Li Fan personally took it as a guest army."

For the other armies, Shao Shude did not specify who would go east to fight and who would stay behind, but he made it clear for the Shaanxi Army: go to war.

"In the fourth copy, Wang Bian of Huazhou led the army out of Tongguan, cleared all the passes, and divided the troops to stay behind."

"Fifth, appoint Zhu Liang as grain envoy, and Xiashi Mou as Zhaizha envoy."

Most of the grain and grass on the front line are stationed in Shanzhou, especially Xiashi.

"The sixth part is for the military envoy to allocate grain, grass, and equipment in Lingzhou, transport them with water boats, and go down the river, and store them first in Yanzhou and Danzhou. Weibei Jiedu envoy Ren Yuji sent people to negotiate with Wang Chongying. It is said that we need to borrow some ferry crossings in the river, and wait for his reply."

"The seventh copy, Zhao Guangyin entered the Zouyuan, visited the Nanya Beisi, and said that he needed to borrow some ships from the Shanzhou Transshipment Academy."

In the early years of the Guo Dynasty, Emperor Taizong defeated Wang Shichong by transporting grain from Tongguan to the vicinity of Luoyang, so as to support his army's expedition.But Zhu Quanzhong had a navy. When Liang and Jin were fighting for hegemony, this navy played a key role repeatedly when the big river was not frozen, so that Li Cunxu waited until the river was frozen in winter and the Bian Army navy was useless. Then he went south in a large scale.

Navigation in this section of the river is relatively dangerous, and there is also the threat of the Bianjun navy. It is really hard to say how effective it will be.Anyway, use it first, as a supplement to the logistics line.

Without water transportation, fighting is too uncomfortable.

The imperial court used to transport grain from Yangzhou to Heyang, and it cost thirty dollars to fight rice.

How much would it cost for Lingxia to transport grain south to Guanzhong by land?
There is an example in the later Tang Dynasty.

Yao Yanchou, the Jiedu envoy of Binning, brought [-] infantry from the Central Plains, and joined the [-] infantry and [-] cavalry from Guanzhong to escort An Congjin to serve as the Jiedu envoy of the Dingnan Army. Gathered [-] party infantry and [-] cavalry, but they were defeated in a row, and the troops were disbanded. Finally, they fought back the army of the later Tang Dynasty by defending the strong city of Xiazhou.

The main reason for the retreat was that a bucket of millet was transported from Guanzhong to Xiazhou, "it cost thousands of dollars."The distance to transport grain across Hengshan is not long, but the cost is more than [-] times that of Henan water transport.

The cost of transporting grain from Tongguan to Luoyang by land can go to the sky, and Zhu Quanzhong can transport grain and troops by water.

In the long-term stalemate, I really don't know who will lose.

After Lu Siye finished writing, Shao Shude saw that there was no problem, signed and stamped it, and sent it to the Duyu Housi to go through the process.

Wang Yu, the envoy of the Dingyuan Army, has also led [-] paces south to Jinshang.

The "war season" started in full swing, and it really didn't stop for a year.

(End of this chapter)