Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 625 Perseverance
Bianzhou was called Daliang in ancient times.Since the end of the Northern Dynasty, it has been called Yin Sheng.

In the fourth year of Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty, he "returned his temple to Taishan, and then Bianzhou. He hated its Yin and prosperity, and there were many villains, so (Linghu) Xi was appointed as the governor of Bianzhou."

It is unknown why Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty hated the prosperity of Bianzhou.Perhaps it was because of the prosperity of industry and commerce, the number of club members, and the poor law and order. Perhaps it was because he himself preferred an idyllic life, aiming to turn the world into a big rural area, or he simply hated the wealth of the Kanto region, so he took orders Hu Xi rectified.

Linghuxi "prohibited traveling and eating, and suppressed business and industry. The people have Du Zhi who opens the door to the street, and the boat passengers who stop at Guowaixing live in settlements. The overseas Chinese are ordered to return to their hometowns. Some of them are detained in prison, and they are sent. The orders are prohibited." A whole set of combined punches to suppress industry and commerce is actually useless.

Later, not only Bianzhou developed, but even the neighboring Songzhou became one of the best cities.

Du Fu wrote in a poem: "In the past when I traveled to the middle of the Song Dynasty, only Liang Xiaowang was the capital. Today's name is Chen Liuya, and the opera is Bei Wei Ju."

The general idea is that Songzhou (Songzhong) is second only to Bianzhou (Chenliu), and is as prosperous as Weizhou and Beizhou in Weibo.

Bian and Song states are the essence of the Central Plains and the most affluent areas.

However, the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion and the ensuing separatist rule of the feudal town turned the people of this wealthy and prosperous place into brave and ruthless people. The military mobilization day after day, and the battles fought every two days, are pouring into people's hearts. At the same time, it also caused great damage to the local economy.

No matter who the imperial court sent to investigate the "Jiangjiang thief" identified between Jianghuai, Bianzhou and Songzhou must be named.

Why do people in such a prosperous place become thieves?It's not forced!

Fortunately, Zhu Quanzhong flattened Qin Zongquan, and the land of the Central Plains was instantly clean.

A strong order was rebuilt, the people's lives became more and more stable, and a large amount of food and silk were continuously produced—especially silk and silk, which provided Zhu Quanzhong with a large amount of income.

Today Zhu Quanzhong came to Songzhou in the rain and personally persuaded Nongsang.

He didn't look panicked at all, his face was calm, and he spoke in a leisurely manner, which relieved the fearful officials.

In this day and age, good news doesn't travel that fast, but bad news definitely travels fast.

Xia Bandit raided and breached Lingchang County, which was extremely shocking.Although this county is far away from Huazhou, it doesn't seem like it would take long if Xia Bandit turned around and went straight to Songzhou.

Now I just hope that they will hurry east and run to Zhu Xuan's territory, so as not to harm the Bian Song states again.

"Li Keyong robbed Weibo wantonly, not only Weizhou suffered, but other states also suffered losses to varying degrees." Zhu Quanzhong walked among the dense mulberry forests and sighed: "Luo Hongxin complained to me that Li Keyong They took away a lot of prairie cavalry, they wantonly cut down and burned the mulberry forest for the convenience of galloping their horses, and I’m afraid there won’t be many silks in Qinghe River this year.”

Pei Di, who was following behind him, sighed inaudibly, and then asked, "My lord, do you want to increase the summer tax?"

Zhu Quanzhong hesitated for a moment, and said: "Let's add a little more first, Li Keyong is about to retreat, Luo Hongxin should not be able to make a confession at all."

"Of order." Pei Di responded, "There are frequent wars, and there are many places to spend money. Presumably, the common people understand your majesty's difficulties."

Zhu Quanzhong smiled, noncommittal.

In fact, the endowment has already been added once last year, but the range is very small and the impact is not great.

This year, if Wei Bo significantly reduces or even stops supplying donations, it will have a greater impact on financial planning.Especially the Qinghe silk, the quality is very good, the price is good, and it is more valuable than ordinary silk.

Qinghe County is Beizhou, and the silk produced was once known as the highest quality, and the output is also very large.

This number one does not refer to high-end products, but the average quality of silk silk that every household had to pay under the fiscal and taxation system before the Anshi Rebellion.

At that time, the inspector of Taifu Temple in the imperial court divided the quality of silk silk in the whole country into eight grades. 42 prefectures in Henan and Hebei were graded, and the quality was all in the top five grades; 31 prefectures in central Sichuan were graded, and none The state enters the top five; the middle reaches of the Yangtze River (such as Xiangyang) has 7 states in the class, of which 4 states rank in the fifth class, and the rest are all in the bottom three; the Jianghuai area has 6 states in the class, of which 3 states rank in the fifth class Wait, 3 states are at the bottom and so on.

This is a quality assessment of ordinary silk that has an absolute majority of output, and reflects the average technical level of various regions.

After Chaos Chaos, many northerners moved south, bringing advanced technologies from the Central Plains with them. The farming and textile technologies in the south have been significantly improved, but there is still a big gap between Henan and Hebei.Even at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, Qinghe Juan (Beizhou) was no longer famous because of the Sanyi Huihe, but it was Jingdong Road in Henan that took over.

In the first year of Jingkang, "the gold needs 1000 million pieces of silk, and the imperial court paid them all, all of which were stored in the Yuanfeng and Daguan Treasurys, and Hebei's year-old tribute was swept away. For example, the Zhejiang silk was returned with light sparseness."

The 1000 million bolts of silk that were paid to the Jinren were mainly from Hebei. The quality of the Zhejiang silk was not good and was returned by the Jinren.

As the most affluent place in Hebei, Weibo's surrender is the thing that Zhu Quanzhong is most proud of over the years.

In particular, the most elite Leopard Army was destroyed by Zhu Zhen, which greatly affected the morale of Wei Bowu people. Otherwise, how could they be willing to confess so honestly?
"My lord—" After walking for a while, the two came out of the mulberry forest. Pei Di couldn't help but said, "We still have to get rid of the Xia thief as soon as possible. This year, the four counties of Ruyang, Zhenyang, Baoxin, and Xinxi in Caizhou were ravaged. Most of Caizhou's tribute is insufficient. If people harm Hua, Zheng, Bian, Song, and Bo states, the financial plan will be even worse."

Zhu Quanzhong just walked and didn't answer.

Not far away is the meandering Bian River, connecting Su and Si to Zheng and Bian.There are some boats on the river, which seem to be the imperial court's tank boats, but the number is decreasing every year, which seems to explain a lot of things.

"Did Yang Xingmi agree to send troops?" Zhu Quanzhong asked suddenly.

Pei Di was speechless, this matter was handled by Jing Xiang, he only vaguely knew about it, maybe not as much as Li Zhen and others.

Zhu Quanzhong also reacted quickly, and said with a smile: "Xingmi is greedy, and wants Chu, Hao, and Shou to be connected with Sizhou."

"My lord, I can't give it to you." Pei Di said in surprise, "That's all for Chuzhou, how can Shouzhou and Haozhou give it?"

He has been sorting out the taxation of several southern states recently, and he thinks it is very interesting.If Chuzhou gave it, it would be given. If Shouzhou and Haozhou gave it away, it would be really heartbreaking.

What's more, people are not satisfied.If Yang Xingmi gets the best of Chusi's life, will Xu and Su be the next step?The appetite is far from insatiable.

Zhu Quanzhong's face also darkened.

Although asking for a lot of money, you will pay back the money when you land.But Yang Xingmi's "asking price" was too disrespectful, which made Lao Zhu a little annoyed.

In fact, if Bandit Xia hadn't pushed too hard, he would have sent his troops south to take all the land in Huainan after he had pacified Erzhu and Wang Shifan.

It was the fifth year since the war with Shao thief, and he realized more and more deeply how important it is to have an undisturbed rear, and Huainan could just take on this role.

Hebei looks rich and has a large population, but the local power is strong, so it is actually not easy to fight, and it is still facing competition from Li Keyong.

That place, in his opinion, will be smashed by all parties sooner or later.If it is done for decades, with tens of millions of households, maybe only half of them will be left, and more than 500 million people will be lost.

Li Ke can cut down mulberry forests, what can't he do?Will the Yellow River be dug in the next step?
Uh, a flash of light flashed in Zhu Quanzhong's mind, but then it was buried deeply in his heart.

Some things cannot be done, and the consequences of doing them are very serious. Not only will the enemy fight with you forever, but even your own people will probably look down on you.

Things are not there yet.

"Since two groups of troops have been sent south, there is no hesitation." Zhu Quanzhong said suddenly.

It seemed to be telling Pei Di, and it seemed to be convincing himself.

"If the troops are withdrawn at this time, the bandits will become more powerful and people's hearts will be more chaotic." Zhu Quanzhong continued: "Now is the critical moment for me and Shao bandits to compete for will. Shao bandits got a lot of people in Huainan, does he feel good? ?The Xiangyang prefectures and the Shenguang prefectures, which one is not poor? The ten counties in Songzhou can produce more than 100 million pieces of silk this year. Which of those prefectures can do it? Even if they do, the quality is not as good. Shao A thief can persevere, how can I not persevere?"

Pei Di thought for a while, and it seemed that this was the only way to go.

Those places in the south of Shanxi are indeed poor, and there are still a lot of land burning and farming, and the agricultural technology is very backward.

The same goes for the silk industry.

"In the silkworm room of the southerners, they are forced by blazing fire, hoping that they will grow old early and save food", resulting in "slim and weak silk, which cannot be caught in the north."

Huainan is considered to have better sericulture technology in the south, but in the first year of Emperor Dezong’s reign, “the art of mulberry was fresh but the silk was sparse”. As far as children are concerned, they like brightly colored ones, but as far as ordinary people are concerned, they prefer dense and uniform ones.

Even Yang Xingmi, when he sent people to Bianzhou to sell salt and tea, had to purchase Xianwen Ling and silk cloth from Henan to make official and military uniforms.At the end of the Kaiyuan period, the quality of silk cloth in Song and Bo prefectures had risen to the first class, and the silk cloth in Zheng, Bian, Cao, and Huai prefectures had also risen to the second class, which was a great source of income for Henan.

"The word Xia's intrusion into Huazhou is very important." Zhu Quanzhong said again: "I have already ordered that the officials of the prefectures and counties are not allowed to discuss this matter openly. Everything will be discussed after Pang Shigu and Shi Shucong defeat Shao's thief."

Pei Di nodded silently.

In fact, he was skeptical about whether Pang Shigu and Shi Shucong could win.Shao thief, although many people ridiculed him for fighting like an old man, he is really stable in using troops, and he is very good at planning, using power to overwhelm others.

As a commander-in-chief, isn't strategic layout and winning by force the most advanced art of war?Liang Bing is not brave, and Liang Jiang is not ignorant of soldiers, but the reason for fighting like this is probably not on the battlefield, but outside the battlefield.

As long as Shao thief doesn't come to a shocking defeat and continues to win steadily like this, Bianzhou is very likely to fail.

Oh, the world!Is Henan going to be smashed again?
The soldiers brought the horse, and Zhu Quanzhong turned over and rode on it. Before leaving, he glanced at Pei Di and said, "Li Keyong will withdraw his troops soon. If you don't leave, something will happen to Youzhou. At that time, I can use it There will be a lot of soldiers, and the Shao thief will not be arrogant for a few days. What you need to do now is to persevere. If I am the same, you will be the same. Mr. Pei, please worry about money and food. This year, the two taxes in summer and autumn, you can do it according to your discretion .First suffer the common people, after defeating the Shao bandits, all problems will be solved, and everything will be better."

"I will do my best, Your Majesty can relax." Pei Di replied with a bow.

Zhu Quanzhong flicked his whip and left, while Pei Di stood still for a long time.

There is a lot going on in the Central Plains!The people are suffering, suffering!
(End of this chapter)