The spring of the eighth year of Xiangxing arrived, and the Tampo Pavilion was already full of vitality, and after the feast, Zhao Yu returned to the pavilion to change into regular clothes and came to the study to review the official documents. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info now he has gone from being extremely reluctant to listen to the scriptures and feasts to acceptable, especially the "Zizhi Tongjian" taught by Hu Sanxing, which can be said to be an encyclopedia of the emperor. There are not only ways to rise and fall, but also lessons learned, and he has been immersed in this book for many years, and he is compiling extensive notes, and the two can also discuss it. And Ma Tingluan once edited "Jingwu Strategy", and he was deeply immersed in the military equipment and strategy of this era, which also allowed him to systematically understand the contemporary military equipment, so he still gained something.

"Official, please use tea!" Su Lan handed over the tea.

"Sister Su, are you going out of the palace to see Frangipani again?" Zhao Yu raised his eyes and looked at Su Lan Dao.

"Well, the slave and maid have not had time to report, please atone for their sins!" Su Lan nodded and saluted.

"What kind of crime is this, Ni Liang is leading the troops outside, you should go and see her. Ni Jiaerlang is almost 100 days old, right? Zhao Yu waved his hand and asked with a chuckle. After discovering that Ni Liang and Su Xin looked at each other that year, he was not in a hurry to give marriage, but was worried that he would bully Ni Liang and let her stay in the Queen Mother's Palace Middle School to learn the rules.

"The slave and maid have replaced Suxin Xie Guan's family!" Su Lan saluted again, "But the official family is in a hurry, and there will be more than a month!" ”。

"Ni Liang can still catch up with his son's 100-day wine, and I have to join in the fun!" Zhao Yu said after a while.

"The official family will wear a crown next year, and they will also get married, and the queen mother is busy choosing a concubine for the official family!" Seeing that the little emperor had changed from a chubby dun to a young man, and he was as tall as himself, he said with a smile.

"The captives have not been destroyed, the Central Plains have not been restored, how can I be home? The Queen Mother is too anxious! Zhao Yu waved his hand again and again.

"The situation of the official family is becoming more and more favorable to our dynasty, and I believe that it will not be long before the official family can sweep the south and north of the Yangtze River and return to their hometown!" Su Lan pointed to the picture hanging on the wall.

"I hope so......" Zhao Yu also turned his head to look at the mottled map dyed by various colors and sighed, how much effort he had spent for this red patch, and how many people sacrificed for it......

In the fifth year of Xiangxing, Zhao Hao reached an agreement with the merchants that Qiongzhou would no longer intercept its merchant ships, and only need to pay twice the tariff when docking at the ports of Qiongzhou. In return, the merchants used their connections to provide shelter for the bureau's caravans, guaranteeing them access to Jiangnan; In addition, they were required to take advantage of the relationship between the upper echelons to order the border generals of the coastal states not to arbitrarily send troops to encircle and suppress the quarantine area; In addition, they demanded that the merchants be allowed to raise embargoed goods such as horses, copper and iron for them.

Of course, Zhao Yu knows that businessmen are good at talking, and agreements and promises are similar to fart, and the most effective way is for the two parties to partner and pull them into their own business. As a result, these merchants also became one of the smuggler salt dealers, but they could not sell in Jiangnan, and the salt dealers in Qiongzhou would not cross the Yangtze River, and both sides would make their own profits.

Cooperating with businessmen who have escaped is at best a collusion with profiteers to harm national interests, and at worst a collaborator with the enemy. Therefore, Zhao Yu couldn't help but report to several important ministers, of course he should hide it. However, after some fierce friendly consultations, he still persuaded everyone, after all, salt is already a pillar industry in the Xing Dynasty, and everyone knows that with the salt production in Qiongzhou, all the soldiers and civilians will not be able to consume salt every day, mainly relying on export. Now that they have made enemies with the merchants and cut off the financial route of the Yuan court, if they crack down on 'private salt', then they will also have to be trapped to death, let alone restore the country.

But how could these gentlemen bend their waists for Doumi at first! So Zhao Yu persuaded him again and reasoned, saying that he was not just doing it for money, one is to let the people of Jiangnan eat salt, the other is to destroy the enemy's economic system in Jiangnan, and the third is to support the anti-Yuan forces through salt trafficking. In this way, everyone thinks it is acceptable, but they still have doubts. So Zhao Hao could only explain again......

After Kublai Khan established the Yuan Dynasty, he gradually established a set of standardized salt management system in the Central Plains, and introduced salt as a means of management. After the unification of the north and the south, the Yuan court extended the salt management system from the north to the south, and the salt merchants gathered in the south of the Yangtze River for a time, and the price of salt also dropped sharply.

The Yuan government monopolized the production of salt, and every year it held millions of salts, and most of this large amount of salt, except for a very small part of it was supplied to the royal family, the army, and craftsmen, was used in the circulation process in exchange for currency as an important source of state revenue. But the good times did not last long, and with the rise of the Qiongzhou naval army, the coastal salt works were greatly damaged. And with the commissioning of the Qiongzhou salt farm, a large amount of private salt began to pour into the Jiangnan market, which led to the unsalable salt and the sharp drop in salt prices.

Everyone here knows that the production of salt is monopolized by the state, and it is all profit except for the cost of production. And the state also controls the price of salt through pricing power, and in addition to the cost of production, the difference in price is profit. In other words, the higher the price, the higher the profit, but only if the salt is sold. The way of selling salt in previous dynasties: one is sold by merchants, that is, merchants and merchants; The other is direct sales by the state, that is, official transportation and official sales, and the basic procedure is that the government forcibly apportion the amount of salt according to the number of residents or households, and levy the price of salt according to the amount, also known as pile distribution.

At first, the Yuan court only implemented official transportation and official sales in a few places, but with the continuation of the war and the impact of private salt, it will inevitably lead to a shortage of income, and salt, as an important financial revenue, they cannot help but put their minds on it. Under the auspices of Ahamma, the 'salt law' began to be promoted, and the official transportation and official sales were implemented. Under the salt law, it is the state to carry out direct and naked plundering of the common people, and the purchase of salt has become an obligation that every household must bear, even the infant baby is not allowed to face, regardless of whether the household has reduced the consumption of salt when apportioning the amount of salt, only according to the original amount, and the amount of salt from the fugitive and dead households will fall to the accounts of the neighbors.

For the common people, the circulation of salt means that the salt tax is constantly increasing, and they suffer huge losses for the increase in prices, and the government receives a lot of income from it. As a result, their lives are made more difficult, and thus the contradictions with the state are exacerbated. At the same time, the state's control over the process of salt production and marketing will inevitably lead to the prevalence of illegal salt trafficking and the emergence of a large number of salt criminals, further complicating social contradictions.

On the other hand, in order to ensure salt production, the Yuan court strengthened its control over salt households. After entering the Yuan Dynasty, the conquerors implemented the "Zhushi Household Scheme" system according to the old system of the grassland: all residents were divided into civilian households, military households, station households, artisan households, salt households, Confucian households, medical households, music households, etc., once the occupation was demarcated, it was not allowed to be changed, passed on from generation to generation, and undertook the corresponding service.

The obligations of salt households are mainly twofold: on the one hand, as producers of specific official handicraft sectors, they have to pay the state for their products, salt; On the other hand, they are the household members of the feudal state, so they must also bear the same taxes, taxes, grains, and even miscellaneous labor as the households. In order to increase the income of the salt tax, the state continued to increase the amount of salt paid by the salt divisions, and when many salt households were forced to flee due to hardship, the government increased the amount of salt they left behind to the existing households, which made the tax increase day by day, and the salt households became more and more impoverished.

The Yuan government's fiscal revenue often exceeded its expenditure, so it used the indiscriminate issuance of paper money as a means to make up for the shortfall, resulting in the continuous depreciation of paper money and the rise in prices, and the price of salt was no exception. However, the high price of official salt and the unaffordable consumption of ordinary people inevitably try to buy low-priced salt, and poor salt farmers also need to sell some salt privately to maintain a low standard of living.

As a result, if the state does not give up the income from the salt tax, it will have to refrain from exploiting the salt households and the people, and the illegal salt will not be extinct. At the same time, the bureaucracy inevitably has the innate nature of corruption and corruption, which makes the various preventive measures turn against itself, and officials and soldiers rely on their power to engage in illicit salt trafficking, thus providing conditions and possibilities for a larger-scale and extensive illegal salt trade. For the poor salt households, the result of their salt production was the increasing impoverishment of their lives, which could not but provoke their revolt, which was very useful to the court......

Soon after reaching a consensus, things were really developing in the direction that Zhao Hao expected. When the Yuan army was used to clear Chen Hangyan's department, Mrs. Xu's department, with the support of the Xing Dynasty, gained a foothold in the surrounding mountainous areas of Tingzhou, Jiangxi and Fujian, with more than 40,000 troops, and was given the military name 'Huai'en', controlling the territory within a radius of 400 miles. He accepted the edict of the imperial court and accepted the adaptation.

Just when Zhao Yu was suffering from no one to lead, he happened to find Xie Fangde, the former Jiangdong system envoy who was living in Jianning. He and Wen Tianxiang in the same scientific examination to obtain Jinshi, Li Zongnian Mongolian army attacked the Song Dynasty, Xie Fangde was appointed by the imperial court as the Ministry of Rites and Soldiers, responsible for recruiting militia, raising military salaries, and defending Rao, Xin, and Fu Prefectures. The Later Yuan army attacked the Jiangdong region of the Song Dynasty. Xie Fangde personally led his troops to start a bloody battle with the Yuan army, but finally failed because he was alone.

After the Yuan army occupied Lin'an and captured Song Gongzong, the Empress Dowager Quan, and the Empress Dowager Xie to the capital of the Yuan Dynasty, Xie Fang refused to surrender to the Yuan. In May, Emperor Jingyan of the Southern Song Dynasty ascended the throne, and Xie Fangde was appointed as the envoy of Jiangdong. So, he recruited volunteers again and continued the struggle against the Yuan, but finally failed because he was outnumbered. Due to the pursuit of the Yuan army, he was forced to live incognito and lived in exile for a long time among the poor mountains and mountains in the Jianyang area, living in extreme poverty. Every day, he wore sackcloth and straw sandals and wept bitterly facing the east, in order to mourn the death of his homeland.

When the spies of the Secretariat found Xie Fangde and sent him back to Xingchao, he volunteered to go to Kaifu when he learned that the imperial court wanted to use Madame Xu's department to establish a base in Fujian and Jiangxi. Zhao Yu thought that he was loyal to himself, and that he had the experience of commanding the rebel army, and after a long talk, he agreed to the request, appointed him as the squire of the Fujian and Jiangxi pacification envoys, and selected a group of officials from the court to escort him to Tingzhou to preside over the overall situation. And not long after he took office, Du Wanyi of Xikang, Jiangxi Province, used the White Lotus Society to organize an uprising, which numbered in the tens of thousands. The saint of the Horn Society, Jianyuan "Wancheng", called himself the king of heaven, with Tan Tianlin as the deputy king, and the monk of Duchang Xishan Temple as the national teacher.

The reform of the Jianyuan system was a crime of trespassing, and Xie Fang had to ask the imperial court to send troops to suppress it. Zhao Yu is also surprised, these people just started and didn't know how to bury their heads in development, and they just wanted to be the emperor when they captured a county town, and how could the emperor be so good, and he wouldn't let him go. He ordered him to go to appease, and if he didn't succeed, he would be exterminated. So Xie Fang had to send someone to contact Du Wanyi, hoping that he could accept the court's invitation and conspire to restore the country, but he refused.

Xie Fang led the army to conquer when he failed to recruit An, but Jia Juzhen, the governor of Jiangxi Province of Mengyuan, and Shi Cong, the governor of Jianghuai Province, had already wanted to join forces to suppress it, and they disguised themselves as farmers and merchants with 1,000 soldiers, and quietly approached their camp in a small boat. Du Wanyi was negligent and was captured and killed by mistake. Xie Fangde led the army to attack from behind while in the chaos, routed the Yuan army and captured the rest of the army, occupying Xikang. Then send troops to attack the enemy's post road, clear the field, send a small team of soldiers to constantly harass, with the arrival of the rainy season, the Yuan army had to withdraw from Xikang.

In the following year, Chen Hangyan, who was entrenched in the Zhao'an area, with the cooperation of the complete and happy and Huang Hua's army, took fifteen villages in a row, forcing him to retreat to Qianbi Cave. Chen Hangyan held out under the siege of heavy troops for two years, and was already embarrassed without replenishment, and then failed again and again, and accepted the negotiation proposal put forward by Xing Xing in the face of internal and external difficulties. But he didn't know that there was a fraud in it, and he was happy to take advantage of his unpreparedness to overturn and arrest him, and he was taken to Zhangzhou to be beheaded.

As soon as Chen Hangyan died, his father Wen Gui, Shu Guilong, and Di Man'an led the crowd to surrender, and more than 100,000 people were about to collapse. On the side, Zhao Yu, who had coveted it for a long time, personally led the Imperial Front Guard, the First Division, the Second Division, and the First Artillery Brigade that had just completed the redressing, and suddenly landed from the clouds, defeated the Yuan army in a row, killed the enemy's deputy marshal Zhengman, and annihilated more than 30,000 enemies.

Huang Hua knew that he was invincible and retreated in the direction of Jianning Mansion, and was intercepted by Mrs. Xu's army. Next, Zhao Yu led the army to link several county towns such as Zhangpu, Pinghe, and Nanjing, and established a Fujian-Guangzhou border base area within a radius of 500 miles between Chaozhou and Zhangzhou.

The army could not stay for a long time, Zhao Yu ordered each of the three armies to leave a regiment as the backbone of the army, selected young and strong people from the righteous army to form a new army, awarded the military name 'Weisheng', and opened a mansion in Zhao'an with Xie Ao as a pacification envoy. After that, he left behind the armor equipment of the first and second divisions, and returned to Qiongzhou with the 20,000 young men recruited, and the two armies immediately replenished officers and recruits and replaced them with firearms.

After the establishment of the two base areas, the north and south echoed, and there was the support of the Qiongzhou army, and the southern Yuan army attacked the city and conquered the Japanese a lot, and for a time did not dare to look sideways, so they could only strictly defend the city and report to the imperial court......