Chapter 21 Strength is the criterion for determining behavior
It was not only the Western Army and the Wusheng Army that benefited from the victory in Guangnan, but also the people of Bianliang City, Tokyo, who were very satisfied with the dividends brought by this victory.
The official family has been happy this year, the little prince was born, he reopened the scientific examination, rewarded the people with 50 wen per household, and now they have issued 15 wen, they only hope that the more such good things as possible.
There is good news and there will be bad news, Wuzhou's liquor tax supervisor has a very good harvest this year, it is said that Wuzhou's liquor tax exceeded the agricultural tax for the first time, this is simply a thunder, shaking not only the heart of the Son of Heaven, but also the heart of the civil and military officials who worry about the lack of treasury all day long. It's just that everyone suddenly found that the price of Da Song's wine has risen a lot.
Although the finances of the dynasties are related to the levy of the city, the prohibition of the mountains, and the salt and iron, in general. These taxes do not predominate among the taxpayers as a whole. Whether the imperial court levies labor or levies goods and money, it is mainly taken from agriculture and peasants. Therefore, the rulers of all generations have believed that the major affairs of the country are food and goods first. "Agriculture, the foundation of food." Du Youzuo, Tian Fu is the first.
Since the liquor tax is higher than the agricultural tax, there is no need to think about the agricultural tax anymore, as long as the commercial tax continues to increase, it can support the increasing expenses of the imperial court. The emperor never forgot that few people mentioned it, which made many people in Tianmu very happy, but there were also rumors from the market: "Everywhere the king and the official go, there are drunkards!" ”
This sentence is very annoying, who said that Wang Anshi is a drunkard everywhere he goes? Wuzhou is located in the land of smoke miasma, and people are not allowed to drink two more glasses of wine to remove moisture?
Yun Zheng didn't know that Wang Anshi had been promoted to become a judge because of his experiment in selling wine, and he didn't know that Wang Anshi had written ten thousand words to the emperor, and made a profound exposure to the official system, the imperial examination and the extravagant and unbridled decadence with his own experience, which was what Wen Yanbo, who recommended Wang Anshi's promotion, never expected, and Wang Anshi put forward the financial management principle of "collecting the wealth of the world for the expenses of the world" which made the ministers of the DPRK and China fall into extreme embarrassment.
He wasn't in the mood to pay attention to what was happening in Bianliang City, Tokyo. Even if he knew, it was none of his business, and the top priority was to deal with the officialdom attitude of Guangnan's indiscriminate killing, and he never expected that because of his own support, the audacity of those civilian officials was outrageous. If he continues to kill like this, it may lead to greater disasters, and now that Di Qing's attack is blocked, he will not only have to face Nong Zhigao, but even Jiaozhi and Daliguo. has sent a letter to Yun Zheng, asking him to go for reinforcements.
There was a mountain barbarian who rebelled with Nong Zhigao, and there were thousands of people, attacking the state capital, harming the people, and making a lot of noise. The general sentence Du Qi was transferred to the counterinsurgency chief. After several battles with Liang Ji, hundreds of enemies were killed, and the rest fled, so Liang Ji returned to the camp in Pennsylvania and handed over the recovered city to the place.
Du Qi ordered Zhao'an. Under the blows of officials, gold and silver, and beauties took turns, the thieves came to surrender. Du Da set up a feast, drank mandala wine, and the thieves were drunk. Du Duqi said to his subordinates: "The thieves can't beat us before they surrender, and when their wings are stiff, they have to rebel, and they can't be controlled." Grace cannot be conceived, and there is no faith to talk to them. Kill, not a single one is left! So they all killed and surrendered, and thousands of people were erected to set up a monument to the Great Song Dynasty.
Resourceful and courageous. This is the civil official of the Great Song Dynasty, and it was only at this time that Yun Zheng understood that it was not easy to be a high-ranking official in the Great Song Dynasty, as long as they were civil officials, they would dare to do anything if their own safety was not threatened. As long as one of them has made political achievements, the rest will swarm up, so Yun Zheng and Yu Jing looked at the rubbings of the seven or eight Pingman Monuments in front of them and trembled.
The Han people in Guangnan are not as many as the barbarians, and they are not as strong as the barbarians, as long as the Han people suffer in the fight, what is needed after the war is to appease, Nong Zhigao's entourage has been killed almost 100,000, such a deterrent is enough, and if you kill those barbarians, there will be no way to live, as long as Nong Zhigao ascends and shouts, Guangnan will immediately smoke everywhere.
"An Daogong, it can't be killed like this, the privy envoy is now fighting in Xipingzhou, it can be said that he is trapped in the barbarian crowd, and now Jiaozhi and Dali are also ready to move, at this time, it is better to appease the bureaucrats, and no more killing!"
After listening to Yun Zheng's words, Yu Jing threw the rubbing on the table and said: "For many years, they have been officials in Guangnan, and they have had enough of the evil spirit of the barbarian Tu clan, and now they have the Wusheng Army to rely on, and there is really no limit to the next killer, it's time to stop!" ”
Yun Zheng frowned and said: "I heard that this barbarian rebellion, in fact, is to want to exchange markets with the Great Song Dynasty, and if the requirements are not successful, they will follow Nong Zhigao to rebel, those people were originally simple-minded, and when they saw that they could not exchange markets, they had the idea of robbing, this time they should be killed in the cold, it is better to appease the people than to open a field in the Detention Prefecture, so as to increase taxes, and secondly, what's wrong with calming the people's hearts?"
In fact, I can't figure it out, doing business with barbarians should be a very lucrative deal, why would the government hesitate to agree? Could it be that there is a secret in this that I don't know? ”
Yu Jing smiled bitterly and said: "The hidden truth from there, the profit of trading with the barbarians is too low, and those bureaucrats have few other things other than mountain goods and grain that can arouse the idea of the Great Song Dynasty merchants, so no one is willing to trade with them, and even if there is, most of them are concentrated in Guangzhou, and Yongzhou does not have much advantage." ”
Yun Zheng's eyes widened and said: "An Daogong, don't you know, Shuzhong has now developed a new tea, fried tea, among which there is a flower tea that is the most popular among the people of Shuzhong, and the best flower for making zuò flower tea is produced in Yongzhou, called jasmine." Yongzhou also produces tea, as long as the local production zuò, you can have the best flower tea, even if we don't sell it to Shuzhong, sell it directly to the wealthy merchants in Guangzhou?
Also, sugar cane is a good thing, don't you know that it can squeeze frosting? If that thing is transported to Qingtang or Liaoguo, a handful of sugar can be exchanged for a sheep.
This is nothing, is there a lack of medicinal herbs in the mountains here? This time, when Wu Shengjun went home, he also took a large number of medicinal materials back to Shuzhong, such as motherwort, cassia seed, melon, Sophora radix, and Angelica dahurica.
Not to mention those dried fruits all over the mountains, have you not thought about growing spices in Yongzhou by relying on Guangzhou, a spice metropolis? As far as I know, the spices that the maritime merchants get back are actually grown on the islands casually, and if you also grow them in Yongzhou, I don't need to say much about the profits, right? ”
Yu Jing looked at Yun Zheng and said, "Are you a scholar, a general, or a businessman?" ”
Yun Zheng hurriedly sat down, what he said just now was too forgetful, and he forgot that he was still a general for a while, and accidentally exposed the merchant's philistine face.
"Your Wu Shengjun has received countless benefits in Quang Nam, boy, why don't you want to think about the Western Army? Di Qing is a person who can fight and fight, you take advantage of Quang Nam, don't forget the Western Army, the old man is old, he may not be able to be an official for a few years, but you are still young, don't take the road away.
Divide some benefits to the Western Army, it is not harmful to you, the battle is not over, you start to think about the goods, even if the old man does not understand the military strategy, he also knows that this is not right, you don't have to take care of local affairs, it is because you take care of them too well, it will give birth to the ambition and murderous intentions of these people, and the gentleman's way of forgiveness has been thrown out of the clouds, this is a sin! ”
Yu Jing's words almost made Yun Zheng embarrassed, his dark mind could not withstand scrutiny, Binyang's money and grain Wu Shengjun took at least half of it, this is something that everyone knows, it is impossible for only copper coins and grain to be seized in the pile, and the rest of the valuable goods have gone where? When Nong Zhigao passed through Hepu, Lianzhou, it is said that he swept away the pearls accumulated in the two years of the Hepu Nanzhu Supply Division, not to mention the gold and silver that disappeared, these pearls alone are a lot of money.
Yu Jingshi still helps Yun Zheng cover it up to this day, and the reason why those subordinate state and county officials will use Wu Shengjun to death is inevitably that there is no dissatisfaction in it.
The so-called means of taking people, eating people's mouths, Wu Shengjun can say that the goods he got are all from seizures, but such a statement is still unreliable, the reason why those people continue to use Wu Shengjun to help themselves eliminate dissidents and sweep up rebellions is also to collect their own benefits from Wu Shengjun. In particular, Di Qing was more like a soldier in this war, in contrast, whether in terms of character or personal moral requirements, Di Qing was more in line with the ultimate requirement of a gentleman.
Clever can only deceive others for a while, but there is no way to compare this to everyone's eyes, although the suppression of rebellion is the most important thing at this moment, but after the war is clear, what should come will always come.
Yu Jing saw that Yun Zheng didn't speak, sighed and said: "You started from scratch, and it is natural to say how many hardships and hardships you have experienced, just because the equipment of the Wusheng Army is better than that of the Western Army, it means that the money has not been put into your own pocket, which is also the reason why the old man, Liang Xi is so tolerant of you, the Great Song Dynasty needs a strong army."
Go, you are a soldier, the glory should be taken from the horse, kill Nong Zhigao, repel the ambitions of Jiaozhi and Dali, and make them dare not take the side lightly is the reason why you are famous in the world! Young heroes should not be mixed with too much scheming, selflessness can dominate the world! ”
Yun Zheng, let's go, don't be involved in the murderous trend by these people, it's not your duty here, the so-called pro is not inferior to far, you shouldn't get too close to them. ”
I thought that the old man was just a good old man, and he was an official for many years, and he saw through all the ills here at a glance, as long as Wu Shengjun went to Xipingzhou to fight, the killing wind in Quang Nam would immediately subside, after all, strength is the criterion that determines behavior.
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In the first chapter, I wish you all a happy Mid-Autumn Festival, family reunion, and worship! Alas, I can't see the bright moon here, it's raining, and I can only have a dark Mid-Autumn Festival.