Yao Xishui and Ye Feiying left in a carriage, and with the sound of ruts crushing the broken stone slabs, the remnants fell into silence again.

"They seem to be very wary of us, too," the unkempt beggar had been standing in the dark with the other personal guards silently following the conversation just now, and he came out of the darkness and said, "Why didn't you tell them that Emperor Zhu Yu of Liang had several arrows in the first battle of Hejin, and that the arrows that shot Zhu Yu were specially smeared with venom?" ”

"As you said, they are very guarded, and they don't believe what they say, so what's the good in saying it?" The people in the pavilion put on their cloaks, looked at the dark night, and said, "Besides, the imperial doctor around Zhu Yu is still a little really capable, if Zhu Yu hadn't been running around for the past few months and not stopping for a moment, I am afraid that these arrow wounds would have been cured long ago." And before, since we didn't expect Zhu Yu to return to Caizhou by the way of Tangyi, it is still unknown whether he is really poisoned and terminally ill, or whether he pretends to paralyze us......"

"Li Zhihe didn't dare to seek Shu with Zhao Mengji and Wang Xiaoxian, and Tangyi's trade routes will continue to cut, and it may really become a big trouble for us," the beggar said, "Han Qian's character was born out of nowhere, it's really surprising, in two years, the bulk trade and transportation of commercial goods in Jianghuai, Sichuan, Shu, Guizhou, Zhongnanzhao and other places will fall under his control, right?" And I'm afraid that few people in the monarchs and ministers of the Chu State can really understand Tangyi, and they have actually secretly mastered nearly half of the money and grain that the Chu State can requisition and dispatch, right? However, if there is no such character, Mr. will probably feel very lonely, right? ”

"I'm not as conceited as you think, and when it comes to the talent of governing the world, I'm not as good as this, but even so, what's there to fear?" The people in the pavilion said with a smile, "I know and get along with your father, Wang and Junchen, but everyone is suspicious of this son in Chu State." At present, even if he has secretly mastered nearly half of the money and grain available in Chu State, he is so fragile that if any link goes wrong, Huaizi will be out of danger and can defend. Even if Li Zhihe didn't dare to seek Shu, as long as Chu Ting suddenly changed at the right time, Jianghuai regenerated and became chaotic, Huaixi was surrounded by enemies, and Butie salt and coal could no longer go out of Xuzhou and Huaixi, what could he do? I think Zhu Yu is also a masterpiece of a generation, isn't it that Weizhou is exhausted and difficult to clean up the mess? ”

"Sir has already thought of a plan to make Chu Tingsheng change?" The beggar asked.

"Although I haven't seen Lu Qingxia for more than 20 years, I know her too well, and no matter how many years have passed, the things in her bones will not change. I'm just going to pick a piece that can be used by the Muguls at that time. The pavilion man said.

"Which piece has you already hit?" The beggar asked.

"I have to pick again, after all, when the time comes, the river is separated, but if there is a trace of hesitation, it is possible to ask Han Qian to seize every opportunity, you can't be careless and careful, you can't be cautious and cautious." The pavilion man said.

"It's true, this person really has to pick it well." The beggar said with emotion.

"Let's go......" said the man in the pavilion.

"If we don't stay here overnight, Yao Xishui won't leak our whereabouts, right?" The beggar asked.

"Don't trust anyone, since our whereabouts are no longer top secret, we need to change places in time." The pavilion man said.

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When the first snow fell in Jinling this year, it was already the beginning of November, Li Zhihe wrote in Liangzhou, suggesting that Liang Chu discuss the matter of peace, and asked Xiangbei to selectively implement the new policy, and if he wanted to enter the eight years of Yanyou, he first cleared the acres of land in Suiying, Xiangdeng and other prefectures, and spread Ding Fu into the acres of fields and collected summer and autumn grain, so as to solve the problem of insufficient funds for raising the army.

At this time, it has been the end of the seventh year, and it has been ten years since the implementation of the new land tax system in Xuzhou, and its huge benefits are also obvious.

In addition to simplifying the collection of summer and autumn grain, the new system of land tax can also suppress the power of local township tyrants and clan lords to the greatest extent, and evade taxes by concealing acres of land and households, thereby increasing the tax revenue of prefectures and counties.

Restricting the power of local tycoons and clansmen and tyrannists, and transferring taxes to those who already yeoman farmers or tenant farmers, can improve the living conditions of the poor at the bottom, increase the ability of local governments to resist disasters, and no longer starve the people in the wilderness at the slightest drought or flood.

After the land is spread into the mu, it is no longer necessary to flee and hide the Dingkou, so as to enrich the households in the state and county; It can also restrict the trade of slaves and maids, and at the same time, it can greatly increase the number of young and strong men who can be requisitioned for local military service and construction.

In the first two years, each family may have considered the obstruction of local forces, and did not dare to easily force the new policy, but Tangyi Zhuyu was in front, and also deeply felt the pressure brought by Tangyi, not only Xiangbei and Huaidong wanted to follow suit, Yang Zhitang, Shen Yang, and even Huanghua, Chen Fan and others were interested in implementing this policy in Jiangdong, Jiangxi, and Hunan, so as to solve the problem of the increasingly huge military expenditure of the forbidden army and the pro-army guards.

Of course, the implementation of this policy in Huaidong and Xiangbei will greatly enhance the power of the feudal towns, and Shen Yang, Yang Zhitang, Yang En, Huang Hua and others will implement this policy in Jiangdong, Jiangxi, Huaidong and other places, and will also increase the revenue of the central state and make the further expansion of the guards and pro-army a fact.

It's just that having the heart to do it is one thing, and whether you have the ability to do it is another.

In addition to overcoming the obstruction of local forces, in just two or three years, it is necessary to accurately measure hundreds of millions of mu of farmland in Jiangdong, Jiangxi, Huaidong, Hunan, Jingxiang, and other places.

Although the Great Chu followed the old system, there was also a system of taking scholars through the imperial examination, but the imperial examination once every three years was only a symbolic recruitment of a few people, and the vast majority of official appointments were local nominations or favors and selections.

After Shen Yang became prime minister, he tried his best to promote the development of Guozijian, but he still couldn't resist the strength of traditional forces, and Guozijian's admission still needed to be directly linked to Ziyin (that is, his father's ancestor and official lord), which was only an extension of Enyin's selection of materials, and currently only recruited more than 500 bureaucratic children above the sixth grade, and the subjects taught were limited to Confucian classics, and law and arithmetic were excluded, not to mention the craftsmen who were regarded as cheap arts by the world.

And the local government and state schools are not able to talk about it for the time being.

After the new policy is passed by the court, at present, we can only select individual prefectures and counties to carry out pilot projects first.

Shen Yang also asked for the establishment of four pavilions in Guozijian, specially recruiting seven-grade officials and children of the common people to teach arithmetic, law and other miscellaneous subjects, and recommended Qin Wen to serve as a doctor to sacrifice wine, and planned to recruit 500 children of the poor people with private education from Gyeonggi after the year, so as to cultivate talents for the promotion of the new policy in the future.

Liang made Guo Duanduo negotiate the matter of peace and set off to return to the north, it was already the end of November, and Jianghuai was also covered in silver

, thousands of miles of ice.

Although at such a time, the cavalry of the Mughal people could unscrupulously gallop on the Hehuai and Weiping plains, but the cold winter of dripping water turned into ice, and the siege became more inconvenient.

Yongzhou, Huazhou, Xu Ru, Chen Song and other prefectures between Hehuai and Bianjing, at least not worry about falling in this winter.

In the Yuxi River, in addition to more than a dozen dredging and dredging boats, thousands of people continue to widen the river; The ditches extending from both sides are also becoming more and more dense, and on higher ground, large keel waterwheels can be seen everywhere between the ditches.

The difference between the harvest of irrigated land and dry land is very large, and two young and strong laborers ploughing 15 acres of irrigated land will be more than twice as hard as that of dry land.

Huaixi's crop rotation, intercropping and other farming techniques are also becoming more and more popular, iron farming tools have also become a must-have for ordinary farmers, Guo Duanduo looked all the way to the past, there are a large number of households on both sides of the Yuxi River alone, there are already excess grain and energy to raise poultry and livestock; The variety of field crops is also abundant.

Although the main people in the world are still in the era of farming, even if the average household grain output can be doubled, the living conditions of ordinary households can not become more prosperous and easy, but they are no longer suffering from famine, no longer have yellow faces and thin muscles, and still have the conditions for the most basic treatment when they are sick, or send their children to study in a two-year primary school, so that they will not be illiterate in big words, and it is possible to build a brick house after more than ten years of hard work, and they can also raise some poultry or one or two pigs and sheep to improve their dietary structure, which is enough to be called a prosperous age.

Han Qian was busy, Guo Duanduo, accompanied by Han Jianji and Han Daochang's eldest son-in-law Hu Ji, met Han Qian in Liyang, and then mainly communicated with Feng Yi and Wang Zhe about the details of the follow-up delay.

In order to restrain the unscrupulous raids of the Mengwu cavalry on the Hehuai Plain, Guo Duanduo proposed that 3,000 stainless steel crossbows should be added to the new batch of borrowed ordnance before the year.

The Liang army once had a cavalry force of 50,000 or 60,000 people, which was the existence that had terrified the surrounding Shu, Chu and Jin kingdoms, but in the past two years of war, the losses were too heavy, the number of war horses dropped to 30,000, the cavalry generals dropped to 20,000, and most of them were trapped in Guanzhong.

At present, the Hehuai Liang army has only 10,000 horses and 6,000 generals, and it is difficult to compete with the Mengwu cavalry head-on outside the city fortress.

The mobility of the infantry is far from being comparable to the mobility of the cavalry, and the hand-to-hand combat is still too inferior compared with the condescending cavalry.

Emperor Zhu Yu of Liang wanted to avoid excessive consumption of the elite in his hands, and had always done everything possible to increase the ratio of strong bows and crossbows in the army, so as to achieve the purpose of limited killing and suppression when the enemy cavalry was close.

Tangyi successively set up armor and ordnance workshops in Donghu, Huaiyang and the newly recovered Shouchun, and a new warship repair workshop will be added in Shouchun after the year, and the production capacity of armor and warships is greatly improved.

In addition, at present, military expenditures have been reduced, and the active duty generals of the Huaixi Mabu Army and the Navy Army are currently controlled at about 50,000.

However, Han Qian asked the Ministry of Engineering and Manufacturing to complete the reserve of armor and weapons according to the standard of 100,000 elite soldiers within two years, plus to supply some armor and weapons to the Shu army and the Zheng family, and the production capacity that could be freed up to reinforce the Liang army became limited.

After pondering repeatedly, Han Qian finally decided to transfer 2,000 crossbows from the existing Tangyi army reserves to the Hehuai Liang army.