201: Grain prices, salt stamps, party items

October Xiaoyangchun.

The weather was unusually hot and sultry, and after the Qin army won Fengxiang, the main force no longer went out and rested on the spot.

After more than a month of fighting, the army needs a certain amount of time to recuperate and recuperate.

Second, the combat attrition requires the reorganization of the troops.

Sanlai Fengxiang Mansion is one of the five capitals of the former dynasty, with a large jurisdiction, a total of eleven counties, and it takes a certain amount of time to recover.

Fourth, Dasan Pass and Xiao Pass have been captured, Guanzhong is a plain, there is no danger to defend, you can fight if you want to, the initiative is firmly in your own hands, and now, the delay method can make the Song army aggravate internal friction, and even lose fighting spirit.

Qin Yue also finally entered Fengxiang City, as one of the original five capitals, Fengxiang's festival made the yamen extremely magnificent, just in time.

The people of Fengxiang are very happy.

The reason for the happiness is not because the Qin army is disciplined and does not commit any crimes in the autumn, nor because the emperor has a face, but as soon as the Qin army arrives, the people's bank will be opened, and the four southeast and north cities will open four in one go, and then a very pleasant surprise happened.

The people were surprised and delighted, this is more than half cheaper at once, a question, but it is the price of Zhongyuan Tongbao, only Song Yuan Tongbao what to do, fifty Wen and one bucket, there are good things to remind, go to the people's bank for change, there are three for two, a bucket of rice to save five copper coins.

Because the exchange rate between Zhongyuan Tongbao and Song Yuan Tongbao had already been fried to one to two, some smart people saw the business opportunity, pushed a wheelbarrow, ran to the countryside, went to a neighboring county, and exchanged Song Yuan Tongbao in a whole sack.

After buying grain, the common people inevitably muttered in their stomachs, change the emperor, why is this grain merchant so easy to speak?

But I don't know that the means of the Western Qin court are simple and direct, and I am reluctant to reduce the price, right, now there are eighty Wen and one bucket on the market, and the exchange rate of one to two is forty Wen, and the ten Wen price difference, the court will make up for it, provided that you open the granary, I will look at it first, and make up for how many tuns you have.

If it doesn't work, then the sword will serve, and if you want money, you have to choose your own life.

As a result, the price of grain was lowered without much subsidy, because the newly appointed bank president Wu Xingde was born as a businessman, and he knew the urine nature of businessmen best, and no one would show his family background all the things, and it would be good if a family could open the door of one or two warehouses.

Besides, in the middle of the Yuan Tongbao settlement, although the price of thirty Wen, there is still some money, although it is less money, but can sleep peacefully, in this day and moon for a new day and a big shift, thank God.

In order to curb prices, there are only two kinds of materials, and in addition to grain, there is salt, and the salt merchants are unlucky, there is no subsidy, and they also lose blood.

Because there are many salt wells in Shuzhong, Fengzhou has bags of fine salt as white as snow in the early days, and I don't know how to do the salt in Shu.

If it is sold in Liangjing, one hundred yuan a catty, those rich and noble families will rush to buy it, but unfortunately no one is qualified to sell it, because the imperial court directly controls it, and if you want to buy this salt, you must use the salt ticket.

The so-called salt ticket, is one inch wide, two inches long cardboard made, pink background, ink but a little green, the front is the word salt ticket, there are as thin as a hair of complex patterns entangled, I don't know how the word mold is carved out, the payment for the Daqin Salt Iron Division, in short, very beautiful, just this piece of paper, are worth five cents.

On the reverse side is a long lattice, but it is reserved for crosswords.

There are regulations on this ticket, it must be received by the patriarch or Li Zheng of each village and fort, how many households in the village, how many people are in each household, men and women must be counted, after registration, and then draw a symbol on the salt ticket, fill in the name of the head of the household, and then according to the number of people, distribute salt tickets, ranging from three to five, and there is also registration when buying salt, so you can only buy one catty at a time.

The countrymen do not have time and ability to enter the city, so they send salt to the countryside, and in addition to the first purchase at the consignment point, the subsequent replenishment must be exchanged for salt tickets of the same value.

The salt stamp law introduced in conjunction with the salt ticket is more bloody, and those who dare to corrupt their hands and feet on the salt ticket, no matter how much, is a killing word.

Zeng Wu admired Qin Yue's trick very much, although at present, every catty of salt in the imperial court has to be upside down with five yuan, but the census has been completed unconsciously, and it can be done very accurately.

Unless people are willing to pay a high price for the bitter taste of green salt.

As soon as the price of grain and salt drops, other prices are no longer a thing, and the day after the price of grain drops, there are grocers who will reduce the price, of course, there are also those who remain on the sidelines, but these don't have to worry about the court, because at most two months, Shu merchants will come to hear the wind and have the opportunity to grab the land, which will let it go.

After Qin Yue arrived in Fengxiang, he still rarely interfered in military affairs, but spent more time at the tea party, and the squires, merchants, people, and craftsmen who came in response to the edict were dialed one after another, and everyone was frightened when they entered, and they were all radiant when they came out.

Including those salt merchants who cried a few days ago and grabbed the land, the imperial court did not forget it, saying that the loss in the embankment is made up for outside the embankment, and you should not eat salt rice, as soon as the Fengxiang Economic Development Zone is established, as long as you settle in, no matter what industry you do, you can enjoy two more years of tax exemption than others.

These changes are in the eyes of the party.

He is now an idler, he since the surrender of Qin followed the iron battle Zhang Dong and others out of the valley, straight to Fengxiang to see the driver, although the Emperor of Western Qin as Zhang Tong said, showed the most sincere welcome to its arrival, and awarded him the general of the right guard, but he refused Qin Yue's kindness with injuries, only to give a house to recuperate.

Qin Yue said that the mood is understandable, there is no need to recuperate from injuries, it is okay to be a military staff officer first.

Dangjin couldn't refuse anymore, so he had to let it go, so he was by Qin Yue's side for the past few days, but what he saw and heard made him confused.

The king of a country peeled peanuts with mud legs and ate them, discussed financial plans with profiteers, and discussed with the squires about teaching assistants, but he had never seen him discuss military affairs, and he had never approved a few books.

Why did this emperor do everything he couldn't do?

asked Zhang Tong in private, asked Xiang Xun, and the answer was roughly the same, saying that that one was like this, even if he saw him cooking, it was not unusual.

How did such an emperor manage the country in an orderly manner?

The military power and the regime said that they would let it go, and the right minister of the army had never seen him come to ask for instructions a few times, and the power in the hands of Xiang Xun was so big that except for the two thousand tiger guards in the hands of Shi Tingjing, the rest of the departments were transferred casually, and they didn't need to ask Qin Yue for instructions, and he didn't even have a supervising army, if this was placed in the Song army, how dare you think.

"Renjin, where did Your Majesty's courage come from?"

Zhang Tong said with a smile: "Because the officers and soldiers of the three armies are loyal to him and the country, because the civil and military officials all believe in him and trust him." Uncle Dang, you have been here for a short time, and you will know it after a long time, Your Majesty's talent, the past and the present, his mind is as wide as the sea, and he is a Ming Jun who is truly worth following. ”

"Why are the soldiers loyal only to him?"

"The first is that the military salary is never deducted, and it is directly distributed by the quartermaster department without going through the hands of the commander-in-chief, and the second is that the branch is delegated to the battalion."

"What is a branch?"

"That's Your Majesty's words, and I don't know the source, the biggest feature of our army is that the main generals and generals, the Marquis of Yu is in charge, this Marquis Yu is very different from the previous dynasty, and the main focus is on internal affairs and the political ideology of the soldiers."

"Political ideology?"

Seeing that Dang Jin was even more confused, Zhang Tong smiled and said: "It just so happens that there is a bonfire party in our department tonight, and it is to socialize with the Tie Da Department, and Uncle Dang will come to have a fun together." ”

“……”

Anle Prefecture, located on the east bank of the Yellow River, where the terrain is flat, the water and grass are abundant, it is a very ideal grazing place, and the ethnic groups on horseback are yearning.

Historically, as long as the Central Plains was slightly weaker, the nomads would rise up and occupy it, and the Xiongnu, Qianren, Di and Qiang had occupied this piece of heavenly pasture for a long time.

Anle Prefecture is the old name of the former Tang Dynasty, which was originally set up by the Tang Dynasty to settle the Tuyuhun tribe attached to it, and then, the Turks came to attack, and the Tang Dynasty finally drove the Turks away, and the Tiele Hun Department came to surrender, so the department was placed in this Anle Prefecture again, and the Tubo came to attack again, fighting and grabbing, fighting and killing, and as a result, the Tang Dynasty perished, and this piece of fertile land did not come back.

Therefore, this area is mixed, people of all ethnic groups have it, and those who have no ability can not stand on their feet, and there is no way to distinguish ethnic groups in detail, in addition to a few large ethnic groups such as Tuyuhun and Dangxiang, there are also emerging ethnic groups such as the cattle killing tribe and the wild ass tribe.

Although the Central Plains Dynasty used to divide this area into the Tibetan Division, in fact, Tubo has long since declined, and the civil war is non-stop like the Central Plains.

If you want to clarify which department is the strongest, it is undoubtedly the party members, because they are numerous and united.

If you have strength, you can annex or assimilate others.

The warriors of the Dangxiang clan walk with three points of arrogance.

Some people may ask, isn't the Dangxiang clan in Xiazhou?

It was the territory of the Tuoba clan, one of the eight major departments of the party.

At the end of the Tang Dynasty, when the Huangchao uprising, the party Xiang clan Tuoba Sigong sent troops to the king, meritorious to the country, Tang Xizong gave Tuoba Sigong as the "difficult military festival envoy", named the prince of Xia, and gave the surname Li.

At this point, the Dangxiang Tuoba clan has an officially recognized territory, and since then, the Tuoba clan has been dominant among the eight departments.

But there are gains and losses, because Xiazhou is an enclave, hundreds of miles away from the gathering place of other party members, and there is a Lingzhou in the middle, and there is Shuo Fang Jiedu inserted in the middle like the tip of a spear, so no matter how chaotic the Central Plains is, the party has not been able to sit down.

Historically, it was the operation of the monarchs and ministers of the Great Song Dynasty that sent the Li family to the throne of the Ninth Five-Year Plan.

However, this time, history was bloodily rewritten.

The disaster of the Yeli Department of Anle Prefecture suddenly came when the East was about to enlighten.

A Han army of nearly 20,000 people quietly appeared outside the gate of the Yeli Department, and the sound of rolling thunder blew open the gate of the village, blowing away the unwary party warriors, and the Han army with wolf eyes surging into the village.

Kill, kill, kill......