Temple Calculation (2)

Spring in Fujian came early, only in February, and it was already a group of heroes flying around, and the trees were full of purple and red. The war-burned farmland on both sides of the road is coming back to life at an unexpected rate. Early risers step barefoot into the muddy water, leveling the land with rudimentary farming tools, clearing weeds and making final preparations for the upcoming rice planting season.

If no one told you that there was a war here just two months ago, you would definitely think that it was a peaceful and prosperous time now. Busy farmers, hurried vendors, embellished with spring prosperity, and even the convoy of vans from afar carried a vitality that is difficult to see elsewhere.

More than a dozen horse-drawn carriages are driving along the country road. The boss of the car shouted at the livestock, while laughing and chatting about the stories in the plain talk, the things of the Great Yuan Dynasty everyone couldn't understand, and they didn't dare to say it, the dead Xixia Kingdom has become the best subject in the plain talk, and the object of the passerby's boredom.

But said that the party member Yuan Hao established the Great Xia Kingdom, but he couldn't read a few words, and he was angry, so he issued a holy decree to let the minister make his own Western Xia script, and the minister didn't know how to make it, so he respectfully asked the saint to make it clear that "the boss of the car gently pulled a whip flower, and made a crisp sound in the clear spring sky." "Yuan Hao said, this is easy to do, one Chinese character has eight paintings, and our party item has sixteen paintings. If there are sixteen strokes of Chinese characters, there will be thirty-two strokes of our party items, in short, they can only be more complex than Chinese characters, not simpler than Chinese characters."

"Is that still called a word", the men in the ambulance burst into laughter, and some people desperately held back their laughter and asked breathlessly, "Then do it, how many words can be written on a piece of paper."

"Then don't worry, anyway, the emperor who made the word doesn't know his Xixia characters."

There was another burst of laughter in the crowd, and everyone understood that the car boss was definitely not counting Xixia. Mongolian square characters have been promulgated throughout the country, and the Mongolian generals do not know them, and the backbone Song people disdain to learn them. Those who really know square words, except for the word maker himself, are the only ones who are cheeky and drill camps.

Su Heng, the owner of the convoy, leaned lazily on the open-top carriage, letting his subordinates mess around. Walked hundreds of miles with fear, and it was rare for everyone to relax. In such a gorgeous spring, let's make everyone happy. All over the country, there is only one place left in Shao Wu where people can laugh out loud after watching it.

Along the way, although the hurried people were still in rags, at least there was no panic in the eyes of the people who looked at them. Occasionally, there are one or two mountain songs floating in the forest, which is the unique melody of local girls picking tea. The road is freshly leveled, and the color of the new soil can be distinguished in some places. The drainage ditch on the side of the road was freshly dug out, and there were still traces of iron picks under the mud. In some places, there are still people working, and the soldiers wearing the trumpet are mixed with the local people, chattering in the local language of Hokkien and fiddling with the household goods in their hands.

Compared to other places where the Mongols have trampled with iron hooves, this is a paradise. The closer you get to Shao Wucheng, the clearer this feeling of being out of the world becomes. And all this change has just happened in just over two months.

Turning a mountain depression, the road in front of me suddenly narrowed. Several soldiers dressed in Song uniforms flashed out from behind the rocks, flashing crossbow arrows and aimed at the caravan.

"What people, password"! The colonel who led the team shouted loudly.

"Peace", Su Heng was startled by the sudden situation, and straightened up from the carriage and replied.

Hearing the other party's answer to the code, the tension on the road eased slightly, and the colonel who led the team waved his hand and asked the soldiers to press down the crossbow and no longer aim at the person. A few steps forward, he asked kindly: "Where are the guests from, who opened the way for you?"

"In the north, after the gloss, the Qinglian real person who traveled all over the world was introduced, and the glossy city was opened by Lord Zhang." Su Heng took out a road guide covered with a big seal from his arms and handed it to Xiao Xiao tentatively. Contrary to his expectations, the little school who blocked the road in his hand was actually literate, picked up the road guide and looked at it, and returned it to Su Heng, with a wave of his hand, let his subordinates get out of the way.

Su Heng didn't expect to be able to pass the customs so easily, so he put half of the "refreshment money" back in his pocket, beckoned the team to leave, and slowly walked into the boundless spring in front of him. From beginning to end, not a single soldier stepped forward to check the goods he carried, and the colonel who checked the customs did not embarrass him in the slightest.

"The shopkeeper, after so many years of traveling south and north, this time we have opened our eyes", the boss who drove the car drove for a while, and said with admiration.

"Yes, from Hangzhou to Quanzhou, where you go, you don't charge everywhere, and you ask for money at the gate, but this Shao Wujun, since we entered the country, has not sent a son of filial piety money, Lord Wen, the name is well deserved!" Su Heng sighed, thinking about the words of the former owner, "It doesn't matter if this money is made or not, the key is to see the movements of Shao Wu's side clearly, and see if there is any Zhongxing in Lord Wen." If there is, this trade route is worth taking if we risk our lives, if it is still the same as when Prime Minister Jia Cheng was in power, how much real money will be given, that is, this hammer deal."

Along the way, Su Heng has been paying attention to comparing the different places controlled by Shao Wujun and Dayuan according to the instructions of the owner. The Su family is a famous family, and when King Kang crossed the river, he went to sea and settled in the chicken coop to do business. Buying and selling has been done in Mayi (Malaysia), Tianzhu. The change of dynasty in the Central Plains has a huge impact on the business of the Su family, so Su Cheng, the head of the family, has been paying attention to the situation in the Central Plains, hoping to see the final result of the competition as soon as possible.

Judging from the current results, Su Heng has a good evaluation of Wen Tianxiang's political achievements. In addition to the emotional factor that they were both Han Chinese, what the caravan saw and heard in Jianning Mansion, which was closest to Shao Wu, left a deep impression on everyone. Those officials who had recently joined the Great Yuan were still as greedy as they were in the Great Song Dynasty. The entourage below scraped the ground, and they did not relented at all because of the change of dynasty. Especially after seeing that the direction of the caravan was the junction of Shaowu and Jianning, it was even more difficult, if it weren't for Su Heng's hand to open the road guide of the Pujia family in Quanzhou, even the carriage would have to be swallowed alive by the guy who scraped the ground.

"It's a pity that the place under the jurisdiction of Lord Wen is too small, and after defeating Shao Wu, he just sent troops to attack and harass everywhere, and it seems that the pioneering heart is insufficient." The boss who was driving the car looked around and discussed with Su Heng in a low voice.

"Old Fang, don't be so discerning, look at the behavior of those soldiers just now, it looks like a guard. I'm afraid it's to recuperate, and if you don't move, it's enough, and the whole world will be shocked when you move. Just like last year, he was hidden in Baizhang Ridge, who would have expected that after a few months of hibernation, he would be able to defeat Shao Wu in one battle." Su Heng shook his head, deducing Wen Tianxiang's purpose with the mind of a businessman.

"Yes, the first battle will determine Shaowu, and then the battle will shock Tingzhou, there are more than a dozen heroes around, and none of them dare to send troops to him", the person surnamed Fang smiled, handed the whip in his hand to the real car boss, jumped into the carriage himself, and sat diagonally next to Su Heng. He saw the scene of passing the customs just now more clearly than Su Heng, Wen Tianxiang's location was loose outside and tight inside, and at least more than one secret whistle was arranged at each pass except for Minggang. If the password answered by the convoy just now was wrong or there was a slight change, most of the dozens of escort guys would have fallen in an instant.

In the dry fields on the hillside, the rape flowers have been connected into patches, golden and yellow, stretching endlessly to the horizon. The soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty leaned over the field in twos and threes, pulling the weeds seriously, as if the land under their feet was his own.

The shopkeeper surnamed Su poked the old guy with his finger, and quietly pointed to the hillside and asked, "Old Fang, you have grown so big, have you ever seen a soldier doing farm work for the common people?"

"No, I opened my eyes along the way, the old man said that the Yuejia army froze to death and did not demolish the house, starved to death and did not loot, this broken army was actually better than the Yuejia army back then. There are masters around Master Wen to guide him, this reduction of land rent, exemption from agricultural endowment, and encouragement of industry and commerce as soon as the Tao is drawn, and before the battle starts, the Mongols above the temple lose first. You came to burn, kill and loot, the army of the captives came to be diligent and love the people, and it is not obvious which way the pole in the hearts of the people is biased."

The common people have a pole in their hearts that since ancient times, for these people who have not enjoyed the blessings of royal rain and dew and only have the function of paying taxes, the "Hu" family has replaced the Zhao family, and the Yuan family has replaced the Song family, which is no different from the previous change of dynasty. Although the Mongol army killed more heavily, which dynasty and which generation did not kill people. Zhang Yuan, the general of the new annexed army, asked well, in the Song Dynasty, it was a dog for the officials, and in the Yuan Dynasty, it was a dog for the Mongols, the same dog, is there a difference?

On the school field that day, Wen Tianxiang said what he wanted to say in his dream. After thinking about it, I was drenched in cold sweat. As the prime minister of the Great Song Dynasty, he is the ruler of the king and the loyal king. His allegiance to the Zhao family is justified. But what about those soldiers, what benefits did they receive from the Zhao family?

When the mind of loyalty to the monarch and the country is put aside, and it rises to the perspective of protecting a nation from being conquered and a civilization from being destroyed by barbarism, all doubts are easily solved. In order not to be slaves of the Mongols, first of all, the people under his rule should not be slaves of the Song people.

Therefore, Wen Tianxiang seriously recalled the things in his dream again, and found some other things in addition to those magic weapons in Huangya Cave, which supported the magic weapon of another space-time base to survive under the siege of the Japanese invaders - before driving away the invaders, let the people see the hope of a better life first.

Step by step, trend and trend, Wen Tianxiang tried his best to move out the rescue measures in the Eighth Route Army base area in his memory in a way that was acceptable to him and the people around him, and use them as appropriate.

What I am afraid of is not learning from others, but knowing that I am wrong, but insisting on going in the wrong direction, thinking that accumulating mistakes can lead to correctness.

Therefore, after the defeat of Shao Wu, in the two months of the lunar month and the first month of the Han calendar, the broken army was not in a hurry to attack the city and plunder the land, but took the Shao Wu army as the center, infiltrated and harassed the surrounding places, and took the plundering of gold and silver resources under the rule of the Great Yuan as the main purpose.

In Wen Zhong's memory, one of the key civil affairs measures of the Eighth Route Army was to reduce rent and interest, and after Wen Tianxiang and his generals discussed, in the name of competing with the Northern Yuan for the hearts and minds of the people, he boldly changed it to rent reduction and exemption. This policy has been very well tried. Shaowu is located in the mountainous area, after the Yuan army plundered twice, the local large households have already been slaughtered, and they are willing to resist the rent reduction policy but are unable to resist, and Wen Tianxiang reduced the land rent at the same time, exempted the local agricultural tax for the whole year, reducing the burden on their heads. Before the Yuan army arrived in Shaowu, many people had fled to the mountains to avoid military disasters. Hearing that the Broken Capture Army divided the borderless land, a few bold people ran out with the intention of trying it, and really got their own land. Seeing that those who dared to go down the mountain first really received the title deed in the hands of Liu Zijun, the people on the mountain rushed to tell each other, and a large number of people ran down from Hulala, and even under the rule of the neighboring Yuan army, some people abandoned their homes and businesses to come to run.

After the number of people in the city increased, the second measure implemented by Wen Tianxiang to benefit the people was to encourage industry and commerce. Surrounded by mountains, Shaowu was an ideal place to resist the Mongol cavalry, but the local population increased, and it was inevitable that they would face the problem of lack of living resources. Moreover, at present, the funds of the broken army are looted from the gold mines and silver pits under the rule of the Yuan Dynasty, and they are not stable. Therefore, after the exemption of local land taxes, measures to encourage industry and commerce have also been introduced. Shaowu is surrounded by many mines and rich in metal and forest resources. There are more than three times the profit, enough to tempt businessmen to risk their lives. And those new gadgets and civilian equipment that have been seen in another time and space, developed out, bring more than ten times the profit to the merchants!

The biggest advantage of the Great Song Dynasty is that it is not light on business, since the southern crossing, in order to enrich the treasury, the status of merchants has gradually increased, and it is not new for scholars to do business. The implementation of mercantile measures in Shaowu was much less resistant than when the head of the Breaker Army was shaved. In order to make Shao Wu make money from trading with the outside world, they had to piece together the description of Wen Tianxiang's scales and claws, and try their best to turn it into reality.

Fortunately, after the incident of making cannons and setting off Kong Ming lanterns, everyone has become accustomed to Wen Tianxiang's whimsy, and no one doubts whether his design is feasible.

"Prime Minister, the goods brought by the merchants have been sold out, and tomorrow they will be arranged to leave one after another, do you see if there are any other arrangements", the door was gently pushed open, and Liu Zijun and Du Gui, dressed as businessmen, walked into Wen Tianxiang's study in a dusty manner.

"Zijun, Ziju, how is the harvest?" Wen Tianxiang raised his head from the pile of documents, smiled, got up and poured a cup of tea for Liu Zijun and Du Gui with his own hands, and pressed the subordinate, who was at a loss, into the chair. "I've worked hard for you these days, and I have to beware of spies getting in, and I have to not hurt their spirits."

"The lower officials don't dare, the adults coordinate the overall situation, and they work harder than us." Du Ziju replied movingly, put down the teacup, and took out an account book from the pocket in his sleeve. "Xia Guan found someone to make a rough count, this time to recruit merchants, plus taxes and venue rent, we have earned a total of more than 300 taels of silver, deducting refreshments and drinks, three days down, there are still 150 taels of silver left, more than 30 copper coins."

In the era of war, no one was willing to use the Jiaozi of the Great Song Dynasty and the paper money of Mongolia, and the trade was either real money or barter. Shao Wujun took such a big risk to hold a trade fair, and the profit of one hundred and fifty taels of silver was too small, but considering the promotion role of the novelty products brought to various places by the merchants, Du Gui was quite satisfied with this result, paused, and continued to report: "The prime minister arranged for people to make those instruments and farm tools, and the merchants were very interested, and the barter went a lot. In particular, the cotton ginning churn and the Li people's pedal three-bloom loom were demonstrated on the spot by Yaxing (a professional broker in the Song Dynasty, mainly engaged in the trading of needles and threads for merchants and human trafficking), and sold a lot of them, in exchange for a lot of necessary materials in the army. But the biggest merchant who came this time, I don't dare to decide what he wants to buy, please decide."

He was originally a small merchant, but when he went to the south of the Yangtze River, he met the Mongol soldiers, all his servants died, all his belongings were lost, he was stabbed by a spear, and he swore revenge after crawling out of the pile of dead people. I learned that Master Wen was back in the rivers and lakes, and he went all the way to invest in it. was entrusted by Wen Tianxiang with the important task of calculating the expenditure in the army, walking on thin ice, and making careful calculations every day. He knew best in his heart the overstretched financial situation of the Broken Army, and he wanted to let it slip away when he saw a deal that could make a lot of money, and his words were somewhat unwilling.

"What does he want to buy, is there something he is more interested in besides the loom?" Wen Tianxiang frowned and asked suspiciously. Based on Wen Tianxiang's own life experience, the textile industry in the two Zhejiang regions of the Great Song Dynasty is developed, and the cotton planting area is huge, but the technology is backward, the labor is hard, and the product quality is poor. The officials usually wear tribute from the Li people in Hainan. In private transactions, Douluo cotton, pancloth, Jibei, Li Dan, Li cotton, saddle tie, etc., are best-selling goods all over the country, and can even be used as currency. (This book was first published and read together with the original network, please keep it for reprinting.) )

The cotton ginning, spinning, weaving machinery and the entire textile process invented by the Li people and later improved by Huang Daopo should not have spread at this time. Therefore, Wen Tianxiang asked Xiao Zi and others to hurry up according to the style in his memory, except for these magic weapons at the bottom of the box. Who would have thought that the Su family's appetite was huge, and their eyes were not on these money-making machinery.

"He wants to buy our broken crossbow, and exchange it for the best saltpeter produced in the chicken coop, three hundred catties of saltpeter or sulfur for a crossbow, and this time he brought a total of five trucks of saltpeter and five trucks of sulfur." Liu Zijun looked at Wen Tianxiang's face, and gently put the account book and a piece of jade pendant on the table.

The jade pendant is a token of Chen Zijing, the deputy commander of the scout, and only someone who he thinks is extremely important will risk his life to personally hand over the token to this person. Wen Tianxiang picked up the jade pendant, shook it under the lamp, and looked at Liu Zijun with puzzled eyes.

"The Su family is said to be the descendants of the three Sus, when the disaster of Jingkang, the family moved overseas to avoid the disaster, settled in the chicken coop, is a famous maritime businessman, the strength is not under the Pu family in Quanzhou. And the guard surnamed Fang is Fang Kui, the third master of the Dongfang family of the sea giant thief mountain, nicknamed Langli Leopard. The Pu family colluded with the Mongols in an attempt to monopolize maritime trade, forcing the Fang family and the Su family to change posts and become brothers", Liu Zijun is worthy of the position of supervising the army, and during the period of taking charge of the trade fair for a few days, he has inquired about the origins of the guests one by one.

"The Su and Fang families have joined forces, it's rare for them to sneak in this time, don't the Pu family know?" Wen Tianxiang asked cautiously, this is another special situation, the situation is too chaotic, and any force will add a lot of variables to the ending.

"The three of them haven't directly torn their faces, this time they knew that the Su and Fang families might secretly come to Shaowu, and Pu Shoucheng also opened the way for them", Liu Zijun clearly reported the information that Wen Tianxiang wanted to know. The profits of the Great Song Dynasty's maritime trade were huge, and the business had reached as far as Kurumus (Red Sea), Pu, Su, and Fang, and it was possible to fight for interests, and it was also possible to join forces for interests.

"Oh, that's it", Wen Tianxiang lightly tapped his forehead with his fingers, carefully weighing the pros and cons. Pu Shoucheng is Pu Shougeng's elder brother, as the eldest son, he gave up the family business to his younger brother, served as a military advisor for the family, and his strategies and articles are very famous, and he is even more famous for his ruthlessness. Pu Shou Geng was based on the imperial court at sea, embraced Quanzhou and descended to the Yuan, slaughtered more than 3,000 residents surnamed Zhao in the city, and all kinds of evil deeds were secretly planned by Pu Shoucheng. When the boss of the Pu family saw the caravan of the Su and Fang families landing, it was impossible not to suspect that they would go to Shao Wu. Knowing the opponent's purpose but not hindering it, what is Pu Shoucheng thinking?

Shao Wu's army was surrounded by mountains, and several local powerful factions around him who were controlled by the Northern Yuan Dynasty had their own thoughts. Since the Broken Capture Army walked out of Baizhangling and settled Shaowu in the First World War, there has been an endless stream of people who have come to send grain and money to ask the Ministry of Culture and Culture to raise their noble hands, those who ask to divide the border and defend one side, and those who are trying to win over and try to be lobbyists for the Northern Yuan court. Harmony and vertical and horizontal are not things that Wen Tianxiang is good at, but he has to shoulder these burdens and predict the movements of his opponent from the clues.

His noble character is incompatible with these people who are forgetting their righteousness and throwing themselves into the enemy. But the situation forced him to be cautious and deal with all kinds of evil guys. After all, the Broken Army does not yet have the strength to start a war with all the new annexes in the surrounding area at the same time, and the short-term peace in front of them is also a rare good time to accumulate strength.

"What would Wen Zhong do if his army encountered me in this situation", a strange thought suddenly flashed into Wen Tianxiang's mind, "If it is the Eighth Route Army, at the moment of national danger, all the forces that can be united will be united", a clear answer sounded in his ears.

"Zijun, you can reply, I promised to sell the crossbow to him, ask them to stay in Shao Wujun for a few days, and let Xiao Zi alone create a batch of models suitable for shooting on the ship, Ziju, see if you can sign a long-term contract (contract)." Wen Tianxiang quickly made a decision, "You make an appointment with Shopkeeper Su and say that I want to meet him and ask about the situation at sea."

"Prime Minister"? Liu Zijun hesitated. The Fang and Su families can become partners, but the Pu family, which fights openly and secretly with the Fang and Su families, and colludes with each other from time to time, is a danger close at hand. The steel crossbow was in the hands of the Fang and Su families, and it was inevitable that some of them would be intercepted by the Pu family before going to sea. That way, the next time the enemy is in his hands, it will be possible to use the same sharp weapons as the Breakers.

Wen Tianxiang knew what Liu Zijun was worried about, smiled, and patted him on the shoulder, "Zijing handed over the token to the Su family, which has already shown his attitude towards this deal. In order for Zijing and his scouts to survive in various places, we also have to give the Su family this face. Besides, the Pu brothers can sell the Great Song Dynasty and sell the Great Yuan, but it just depends on who gives them the highest price and whose arm is hard. ”

"This is also true, those big cannibals of the Pu family have always been mothers who give milk" Liu Zijun responded, but his footsteps stopped in place and did not move, "Can we have our current strength, where is the milk to feed this wolf cub"?

"Come and see", Wen Tianxiang took Liu Zijun's hand and walked towards the map hanging on the wall, "Shao Wu is surrounded by new annexed troops. Li Ying of Southern Jianzhou heard that there were few of us, and he wanted to make a contribution to pacifying Shao Wu for the Tartars. According to the analysis of the information reports from all over the country, he can't wait anymore, and he will lead his troops to attack in the near future. Yang Yichen of Jianning Mansion is a coward, whoever forces him tighter, he follows whom. Wu Zhong of Jianwu Army is our "friend", but he has betrayed his "friend" more than once. Farther afield, Chen Yan in Huaixi is cracking down on local tyrants, allocating land to displaced people and fighting for the hearts and minds of the people in Jiangnan. In this case, we can only adapt to the situation, and if we can temporarily let whoever is not our enemy be with him. If someone doesn't know what to do like this, and thinks that we are weak and can be bullied, let's give him a hard time, so that he will always remember the pain! ”

"As for these steel crossbows, the Pu family has not moved its mind, and if it moves, I promise to make him pay an unexpected price." Wen Tianxiang waved his hand confidently and drew a circle in the direction of Quanzhou.

Killing, sometimes not necessarily with a knife. Competition, not just on the battlefield.

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