When Li Luo entered Su Garden, he immediately felt cool, and he was very satisfied with Wang Shanjian.

"Wang Shanjian, the widow is ready to change Hongdu Mansion to Yuzhang County and appoint you as Yuzhang Taishou, what do you think?"

When Wang Shanjian heard this, he immediately dressed down and bowed: "Weichen Wang Shanjian, thank you for your kindness!" Will be smeared with liver and brain, and serve Datang! ”

Li Luo nodded, "Get up." I have a Tang system, and I have my own law. It is different from Zhao Song, Meng Yuan, and Wu Guo. You have done this Yuzhang Taishou, you should be familiar with my Tang system, so that you can govern according to law and implement the Tang style. ”

"Wechen obeys! You must learn and use it to share your worries! Wang Shanjian said very respectfully.

Li Luo said: "When I am in charge of the military now, fighting a war is the first priority. In addition to persuading farmers and collecting taxes, the most important thing in this place is to cooperate with the soldiers to recruit and select new soldiers, cooperate with the generals to clear the countryside and suppress bandits, and transfer grain and grass for the army. ”

Wang Shanjian said: "Your Excellency can rest assured, Weichen should fulfill his duties, abide by his duties, and take the national war as the foundation." ”

After personally arranging for Li Luo to stay, Wang Shanjian said again: "The fathers and elders in the city, I am grateful for the grace of the king, and I admire the will of the king's recovery, and I plan to prepare a banquet in Kuaizai Lou to catch the wind and wash the dust for the king." Please show me below. ”

Li Luo waved his hand, "Thank you for me, the widow still has important business tonight, so let's invite them to the widow tomorrow." ”

"No!" Wang Shan saw that Li Luo would not attend tonight, and said cautiously again: "Your Majesty, this Su Garden was originally the palace of King Wu, and there are still some young women in the courtyard, can you make them bathe in incense and serve in front of the bed?" ”

Is it so interesting?

Li Luo shook his head without thinking, "That's it, there is no need to mention this matter again." Go for yourself. ”

Wang Shanjian couldn't imagine that Li Luo was so indifferent to women, and he couldn't help but be even more respectful in his heart. The Dark Dao Monarch is so young, but he is so good at restraint and kung fu, it's really not a fluke.

After Wang Shanjian retreated, a young man soon came. This person entered Su Garden, and without any notification, he was directly brought in by Yang Bai, the commander of the guards.

"Weichen Chen Rang, meet your lord! Finally see you again! When the visitors saw Li Luo, they bowed down with tears in their eyes.

It was Chen Rang, a spy who lurked beside Huang Hua and was named Prime Minister Zuo by Huang Hua.

"Get up! Well, yes, the past two years have been bitter for you. Li Luowen said. Chen Rang is not only Cui Xiuning's student, but also his student.

This person not only has the ability to be an agent, but also has strategic and political talents, and he is among the top in terms of comprehensive ability among the agents of Tang Guoda.

"You did a good job, and you didn't live up to the widow and the lady to teach you." Li Luo really admired Chen Rang.

Chen Rang not only lurked in intelligence as simple, but also operated Huang Hua to attack Jiangxi and develop his forces. It can be said that Huang Hua was able to conquer most of Jiangxi and command more than 100,000 troops, which was inseparable from Chen Rang's help.

Otherwise, where could Huang Hua be entangled with the army of Wanzhedu for half a year?

Cui Xiuning now has a lot of great students. Such as Li Yong, Li Yang, Li Jing, Li Yi, Li Xu, Qiao Bu, Li Jiao, Chen Yu, Ma Xuanli, Chen Rang, Zhou Yun, etc., as well as a group of female spies such as Li Zhi, Li Mian, and Wuxiu.

But Li Luo's favorite is Chen Rang.

"Wechen can do something for the king and his wife, it is the greatest blessing for Wechen, as long as I can see that I Tang restore the Central Plains and drive out the Tartars, Wechen will not hesitate to break his bones." Chen Rang said, pulling out a thick account book.

"Your Majesty, this is a list of things left by Huang Hua, as well as a list of Jiangxi Dingkou household books, horse farms, salt farms, porcelain factories, smelters, mines, etc. It wasn't informative, but Weichen made it clear again, please take a look. ”

Li Luo took it and took a look, slowly revealing his joy.

Sure enough.

Which province was the most underrated in later generations?

Jiangxi.

You must know that Jiangxi was the most populous area during the Song and Yuan dynasties. Even in this era, Jiangxi still has a registered population of nearly 15 million. (1290 Historical Sources)

Just a registered taxpayer population!

Then the real population is at least 16 million or more. You must know that Jiangxi in later generations has a population of less than 50 million.

If you don't accept it, you can't.

There are millions more than Zhejiang, which is famous for its wealth. However, the Raozhou Road, which belonged to Jiangxi in later generations, is currently assigned to Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. Raozhou Road is not only the most populous road in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but also the most populous road in the Yuan Dynasty.

But even if Raozhou Road is not counted, nor Guangdong Road, the population in the central and northern parts of Guangxi Jiangxi Province is still as high as 10 million. It can be seen that the density of the population exceeds that of Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

So much so that at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Hongwu had to move a large number of Jiangxi's population out of the country and fill other provinces.

Not only that, Jiangxi was also the most technologically developed area in the Yuan Dynasty. The Yuan Dynasty relocated tens of thousands of skilled craftsmen to the area around Poyang Lake, unified management, convenient control, and formed a huge scale of porcelain kiln factory, shipyard, paper mill, gunpowder workshop, ordnance miscellaneous manufacturing bureau and so on.

The world-famous Yuan blue and white flowers were created in the technology belt around Poyang Lake. The reason why Huang Hua was able to arm an army of more than 100,000 people and fight with Wanzhedu for half a year also relied on the support of the technology belt around Poyang Lake.

Such a place is going to be surnamed Li, can Li Luo be unhappy?

In particular, Jiangxi is different from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and there is even a Xinyu Racecourse! (now Xinyu County).

Although it is not a big horse farm like Luzhou Horse Farm, it also raises 5,000 horses!

Jiangxi is really a land of kings, and it has been underestimated by later generations.

However, because hundreds of thousands of people in the Yuan Army, the Wu Army, and the Red Turban Army fought for half a year, and fought a scorched earth, many people abandoned their homes and businesses to become displaced people in order to escape the war and military disasters, and a large number of fertile fields were barren, and this year's autumn grain farming time could not catch up.

According to the intelligence of the Special Investigation Bureau, Cui Xiuning estimated that several million people in Jiangxi Province will go hungry, and it will continue until at least next summer's harvest.

This means that if Li Luo wants to swallow most of Jiangxi, he must take out tens of millions of stone of grain for relief, unless he watches a large number of people starve to death.

Why did the population drop sharply when there was a war in history? The main thing is the famine and plague caused by the war, and the real death from the edge is far less than the starvation.

Population is the first resource, and of course Li Luo will not do the stupid thing of asking for food and not people. Therefore, to take Jiangxi, it is necessary to help the people. In the seventh year of Qianlong, there was a famine in northern Jiangsu, and the hypocritical man named Hongli took out eight million disaster relief at one time, is Li Luo not even as good as him?

However, all the grain reserves of the Tang Kingdom were only 15 million. We have to provide relief to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and we have to help Jiangxi, and we have to bear military rations and horse rations, so we can't last until next summer's harvest.

Unafraid.

Isn't there a big dog family?

Eat him.

Millions of stones, it can still be dug up.

Jiangxi's population and resources certainly made Li Luo happy, but what Huang Hua left behind also made this man happy.

There was no food, it was eaten. There is not much gold and silver, and it is all used to recruit troops and horses. But brass, but there are as many as millions of catties!

You know, Jiangxi is a major copper production area, as early as the Shang Dynasty began to produce copper, Ruichang copper mine later discovered the Shang Dynasty copper mine site, even used wooden block machinery and equipment for copper mining.

Copper is the metal that Tang Guo is currently most lacking.

Although there was copper in Haidong in later generations, not much was found, and it was a deep mine, and the ghost knows where. Cui Xiuning finally found a small copper mine, and after less than 300,000 catties, it was sold out.

There are also copper mines in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, especially Tongling County on Chizhou Road, which has been rich in brass since ancient times. However, because it was developed too early and mined in large quantities, the old mine was exhausted. The large copper ore of the later generations was newly discovered later.

Now to go to Tongling County to mine copper, it will take a lot of time to find a new mine, and it will not be urgent.

The batch of copper left by Huang Hua was ready-made, which was originally used to mint Wu State copper coins, and there was no need to refine them, which could be regarded as solving the demand for copper in the Tang Kingdom.

In addition, there are more than 30,000 craftsmen of all colors, who were caught by Huang Hua from the technical belt around Poyang Lake to Hongdu City, and took advantage of the large area of Hongdu City to establish many military workshops.

Why is the armor rate of Huang Huayi's army so high? Also well-equipped? It was because of the capture of more than 30,000 craftsmen.

You know, even Haidong and Jiangsu and Zhejiang don't add up to so many skilled craftsmen. Nearly half of the good craftsmen in the south are around Poyang Lake, which is basically the artisan area set up by the Yuan court in the south, and the Yuan court also set up a special institution to manage this artisan area and send troops to guard it.

After Huang Hua raised his army, under the advice of Chen Rang, he defeated the defenders of the Poyang Lake Artisan Area, and in the name of rescuing, he captured all the more than 30,000 craftsmen in Hongdu City, and concentrated on them, allowing them to make things and call them the craftsman camp.

The book submitted by Chen Rang contains information about the craftsman's camp. Li Luo saw that there were thousands of blacksmiths alone.

In addition, there are dozens of kinds of armor craftsmen, porcelain workers, bow makers, paper makers, shipwrights, pharmacists, jade craftsmen, gunpowder makers, carpenters, coppersmiths, lacquer craftsmen, leather craftsmen, etc. From building a house to building a house, to building a lock and a pen, you name it.

Moreover, they are all good craftsmen who are registered in the Ministry of Industry of the Yuan Court!

The Yuan court was very strict with the management of craftsmen, and after entering the Central Plains, all the official craftsmen and folk craftsmen of the Jin and Song dynasties were listed as artisan households, setting a precedent for craftsmen, restricting their freedom, and squeezing the fruits of their labor. According to historical records, the Yuan Dynasty destroyed the Song Dynasty, and collected and issued 100,000 craftsmen!

Historical records record the craftsmen of the Yuan Dynasty: "Enter the game every day, and disperse at night." did not provide food and clothing, and even sold children and girls. ”

Not only that, but he was also oppressed by officials: "Clever name, chasing wind and shadows, and encroaching on artisan households." ”

If you are willing to give money, then that's it.

However, the Yuan court... Not.

Give money, you think too much.

It is the craftsman himself who supports three buckets of rice per month, two and a half buckets for adult family members, and one and a half buckets for children.

And then half a pound of salt.

And then... And then there will be no more, Dayuan will give you a few buckets of rice per month, aren't you grateful?

Later generations said that the Yuan Dynasty attached importance to craftsmen, either without brains or without heart.

The Yuan Dynasty valued the fruits of the craftsmen's labor, not the craftsmen themselves. What is a craftsman in the eyes of Da Yuan? It's just a slave, a worker slave. It's like they value cattle and sheep, not because they love them, but because of their meat.

Since then, I Dayuan invented the craftsman household, and strictly controlled the craftsman household, which is very obedient, and the technical level of the Central Plains is not as good as day by day.

Do you still need to think about it? You are a slave, are you willing to study technology, invent and create, and contribute your wisdom and wisdom to the master who treats you as a slave?

Isn't that sick? How many people would do that?

Technology does not regress, there is no natural reason.

Now that these good craftsmen have returned to the Tang Kingdom, it will be different.

"Your Majesty, Wan Zhedu plans to take back tens of thousands of craftsmen after destroying Huang Hua. It can be seen that the Yuan court still cares about these craftsmen very much. Chen Rang said with a smile, "With these craftsmen here, my Tang will be like a tiger." ”

Li Luo was in a happy mood, tens of thousands of skilled craftsmen, and now all of them are cheap Tang Kingdom.

"You are responsible for transporting these craftsmen and brass to Lin'an and handing them over to Madame, and she will place them properly." Li Luo handed over this task to Chen Rang.

Chen Rang had already prepared, "Don't worry, Weichen has already arranged for the spies inside to do publicity, and they are very willing to work for me Tang." ”

Li Luo nodded and muttered, "Don't do it yourself in the future." The widow intends to change the north of Shaoguan in Jiangxi Province to Ganzhou, and appoint you as the pastor of Ganzhou to manage the civil affairs of Jiangxi. ”

Chen Rang is the person who is most familiar with Jiangxi, and he has been the prime minister of the grass platform team for half a year, plus he already has political talent, and he is almost a feudal official

Who said that Li Luo didn't have the right talent.

Chen Rang bowed again: "Thank you for your grace." However, does the monarch also want to revert to Fuzhou in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and other provinces? ”

Li Luo stood up and looked at the map that had just been hung up with his hands behind his back, "In the future, if Datang must restore the three-province system, the provinces will be nondescript and must be abolished." Jiangsu and Zhejiang originally belonged to Yangzhou, but the ancient Yangzhou was too big, and Yangzhou City was still in the hands of the Jiangbei Yuan Court. You can speak freely of what you think. ”

Chen Rang really has political talent, Kan Kan said: "Weichen thinks that the ancients are clever, and they do not divide the state with the Guanhe River as the boundary, and they are weak and separatized. For example, Yangzhou, most of which are in the south of the Yangtze River, is in the north of the Yangtze River. Hanzhong belonged to Yizhou, but it was assigned to Yongzhou. ”

Li Luo was very satisfied, because Chen Rang knew the meaning of the string song and understood his words.

Chen Rang observed his words and was encouraged to continue: "Although I only have Jiangsu, Zhejiang and a Hongdu city in the Tang Dynasty, I can follow the example of the Wei, Jin, and Southern Dynasties and lead a certain state from afar. Now Guanzhong is not in the hands of my Tang, but isn't the eldest prince leading the Yongzhou pastor? ”

"The king can directly issue an order to directly change the area in the belly of the Yuan court to Jizhou, Yanzhou, Qingzhou, and Bingzhou. Yangzhou is too big, it can be divided into two Zhejiang provinces for Yuezhou, Fujian for Minzhou, Jiangnan East Road and Jiangbei Yangzhou Road for Yangzhou. In this way, ancient Yangzhou was divided into Yuezhou, Minzhou, Yangzhou, and Ganzhou. ”

Li Luo felt that what Chen Rang said was similar to what he thought, but this matter was not in a hurry, there was no need to talk about it at this time, he was just comparing Chen Rang just now.

"The widow will order the recovery of the prefectures and counties north of Shaoguan tomorrow, and your state pastor yamen will be set up in Hongdu, so that Wang Shanjian can assist you. You don't have to worry about the war, you only have to worry about the civil affairs such as almsgiving, persuading farmers, paying taxes, indoctrination, and checking the population and acres. Well, the power of supervision will also be handed over to you for the time being, if there are generals and officials who are lawless, the small ones will act cheaply, and the big ones will be punished by the widows. ”

Chen Rang commanded: "Obey the order." It's just that the state pastor is a feudal official, and there are many subordinates, how to configure this subordinate and how to determine the grade, but it needs to be decided by the king himself. ”

Li Luo had already made up his mind, "My Tang is only a principality now, and the Taiwei Shangqing is only a third grade, and the state pastor is tentatively designated as a fourth grade, which is above the county guard." set up a person from Sipinzhou to assist in the management of government affairs; set up a state historian to be in charge of the canonical laws; Set up a state Sima to be in charge of public security. The above two people are all positive five products. ”

"Now that the organization needs to be streamlined, and there are not enough talents, there are only four people in the state pastoral yamen for the time being, and they will be added slowly in the future. Ganzhou is newly established, after the war, all kinds of waste are waiting to be revived, you take office and do things directly! According to the Tang system, you can do it according to the regulations. ”

This is actually full decentralization.

"No!" Chen Rang received the order, "There is one more thing, the king will change Jiangxi to Ganzhou, then Ganzhou will not be used anymore, and please change the name of the king." ”

Li Luo thought for a while, "Ganzhou will be changed to Gannan County, and Jizhou will be changed to Ji'an County." You draw up a statement, and all the names of places called states are changed to counties. From now on, the state must be above the county. ”

The two discussed for a while, and Chen Rang, who was full of excitement, bid farewell to Li Luo and planned to build the state pastor yamen overnight.

The first state pastor in the true sense of the Tang Kingdom was born.

In fact, Li Luo's state pastor is very different from the previous state pastor. The state pastor set up by Li Luo is actually the political envoy of later generations, and he doesn't even have the power of the governor, let alone compare with the previous state pastor.

This is because there is only civil power, but no military power, and even the power of supervision is given temporarily in wartime and will be withdrawn at any time.

The power is the political envoy of the Ming Dynasty, but it is just good to be called a state pastor.

………………

On the second day of Li Luo's stay in the East Lake Su Garden, he made the decision to occupy most of Jiangxi and implement the policy of clearing the countryside.

He divided most of Jiangxi into three. Du Lie was appointed as the envoy of the northern Jiangxi Festival, responsible for the Qingxiang of northern Jiangxi; Appointed Utu as the envoy of the southern part of the Gannan festival and cleared the township of southern Gansu. Jiang Tu was appointed as the envoy of the Jiangzhong Festival, responsible for the middle of the Ganzhong.

Du Lie and Utu are the elders, and they are the first old people to follow him, and they have a lot of credit, and they can't be said to be brigade commanders like a group of young people.

And although the two are Jurchens, they are loyal enough and completely trustworthy.

As for Jiang Tu, he is also old, has rich qualifications, and is loyal enough, and it is enough to be a festival envoy.

Like Yang Xu, Zhu Jie, Wu Yan and others, although they have all become generals, they are not qualified enough, they are young and young, and they have no problem charging into battle, but it is difficult to serve as a festival envoy.

However, the Tang army now only took one Hongdu City, and all the other states and counties were in the hands of the Yuan army. Although the big battle is over, the small war will continue to be fought.

On the same day, the 25,000 Wu army officially changed its banner and replaced it with the battle flag of the Tang Army, both in terms of military system and military position, all of which were changed to the Tang system.

Li Luo ordered that the families of the soldiers killed in the war be compensated and properly buried, and that the 25,000 Wu soldiers who were returned to the Tang Dynasty be rewarded with wine and meat, and that the summer military salary should be repaid.

Then he ordered to bury Huang Hua with the gift of a prince, and personally gave him the nickname "Wu Zhuang".

The nickname of Wu Zhuang, compared to Zhongwu, Wu Mu is too bad. But it's still a good thing for a general.

Based on what Huang Hua did, giving him the nickname of "Wu Zhuang" is really too much, and it is completely Li Luo who had to pinch his nose and give this nickname in order to win the hearts of Wu Junjun.

However, according to the law, the nickname of Zhuang has the meaning of "martial arts but not failure, death in the wilderness", and it is appropriate to give Huang Hua.

In this way, the military heart of the Tang and Wu armies was all taken over by Li Luo.

Li Luo took the opportunity to order the reorganization of the Wu army into five brigades, and dispatched supervisors at all levels to set up a member organization.

After a bit of operation, the Wu army was firmly in his hands.

By the afternoon, all the captures of the battle had finally been counted.

13,000 intact horses, 32,000 working iron armor, 43,000 lunge bows, 46,000 swords and guns... Enough to arm tens of thousands of troops.

There are also many dead horses, which are also urgently disposed of and used as meat.

In this battle, not only did he kill the main force of the Jiangxi Yuan Army, but he also made a fortune.

On the third day, the Tang army, which had been simply repaired, was sent 60,000 people, led by three jiedu envoys, to northern Jiangxi, southern Jiangxi, and central Jiangxi, and recovered nearly 100 prefectures and counties in Jiangxi Province except for the Guangdong Road.

The newly recruited more than 25,000 people all set out for the expedition.

According to intelligence, these states and counties were stationed with Yuan Ting Han troops, as many as seven or eight hundred, and as few as one or two hundred. As the hinterland of the south, Jiangxi has a great influence among the gentry clans, entrenched in the local area, and most of them support the Yuan court.

Only by eliminating these Yuan court garrisons, abolishing the Yuan court prefecture and county governments, and suppressing the stubborn gentry can Jiangxi be recovered.

With the Tang army, it was the "requisition and depositors" from Haidong, who would serve as state and county officials and control the localities.

As a result, after Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the Qingxiang Movement, which made the gentry clan outrageous, began vigorously again in Jiangxi.

The land of the Ganjiang River will set off a new round of bloody storms.

And Tang Duke Li Luo led less than 20,000 soldiers and horses with Mrs. Xu to sit in Hongdu.

One after another, military orders and government orders flew out of Hongdu City and flew to Lin'an and Jiangning.

Everyone in the Don Army knew that a new big war was coming soon.

At the same time, Wan Zhedu was defeated and died, and the news that the Tang army had entered Hongdu was like a thunderbolt, and the wealthy gentry near Hongdu panicked.

Li Luo, the traitor who is said to have poisoned the gentry in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, is here.

That man, he's coming!

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