Chapter 600: Northwest Trade and Northeast Prisoner King

The civil servants were not ignorant of Fang Jie's temperament, so no one hid their secrets, and Fang Xie spent the whole afternoon in the council hall discussing with them how to govern the place. Originally, Fang Xie planned to move what he knew in his previous life, but he didn't think much about it. He just subconsciously felt that the things in his previous life represented a certain degree of advancement, but he forgot that the structure of this society was completely different from that of his previous life.

It's just that this kind of thing is divided into households, and in the previous life, it was not something that was done casually and easily.

After Dugu Wenxiu brought it up, Fang Xie immediately woke up, this kind of thing is indeed not something that can be done by rigidity. In the world we live in now, the one who dominates the trend of society, and the big households that control more than eighty percent of the wealth and resources are still the ones who only account for one or two percent, but these people cannot be overthrown in this era.

Since this road is not working, Fang Xie will not have to try.

"Dugu"

Fang Xie pondered for a while and said, "What you mean is that if you want the people to benefit the most, you will only reduce or exempt some money and grain taxes. ”

"Hmm"

Dugu Wenxiu nodded, he didn't know how a wise person like Fang Xie could come up with such an unbelievable thing just now. He couldn't even think of snatching the land from the big families and distributing it to the people. But Dugu Wenxiu also knew that if he really did this, he could indeed make the people farm more dedicatedly, after all, the fields were their own. But you must know that if Fang Xie really implements this matter, it will offend the whole world.

In that case, it will be difficult for the Black Flag Army to develop an inch.

In fact, Fang Xie has also woken up, after all, this era is different. In the previous life, the rights of the people had been greatly improved, and they no longer bent over and lived humblely. But the people of this era still have an unchangeable blind obedience to the big families and the imperial power from the heart, and most of the people dare not take it if they divide the land into the household.

The other civil servants looked at each other, not understanding how the general's thoughts were so bizarre. is not to think about how to make the big people who are more helpful to the general's career profitable, but to let those ordinary people get more. It is true that the people will support it if they believe it, but without the support of those big households, it will be difficult to move forward after all.

"General, it's better to be like this."

Dugu Wenxiu thought for a while and said, "If you want to make the people feel the love of the general as much as possible, you can issue a decree." All young men from white families can join the army, and after joining the army, they can receive a few acres of land, and these few acres of private land cannot be divided from the land of large households, but let the people go to the wasteland themselves. These acres of land are their private property, and they do not have to pay rent to large households, nor do they have to pay money and grain to the army, and the income is all their own. ”

Zhang Xi sighed and said, "I'm afraid that even if this is the case, the big families will feel very uncomfortable." Those people have gone to cultivate their own private fields, who wants to spend more energy in the fields of large households? ”

"So ......"

Dugu Wenxiu said: "For the big families in Huangyang Dao, the general should also be appeased. Now that Huangyang Dao is already under the rule of the general, the general might as well summon all the noble clans under his rule to come to Suzaku Mountain to see how the soldiers under the general's command are, and the general can also sit down and have a good talk with them, so that they can know that the general attaches great importance to them. Although it is not enough for them to support it wholeheartedly, as long as they do not collude with foreign enemies, it will be a great help. ”

Fang Xie nodded: "I have also been thinking about inviting those people to Vermilion Bird Mountain, the first is to show the might of the soldiers, the second is to let them understand whose rules Huangyang Dao has to abide by now, and the third is to appease them." I'll leave this matter to you and Zhang Xi, and start preparing tomorrow, just come to me directly if you need it. ”

Dugu Wenxiu and Zhang Xi hurriedly bowed their heads and said: "General Xie trusts, and his subordinates dare not have a heavy trust." ”

"What's more, we have a large number of recruits now, and the equipment is a little insufficient. I asked Sun Kaidao to talk to Zhong Xin, and it was not difficult to come out with some more things, but it was still not enough. I asked Sanjin Hou to collect craftsmen from all over the country, and build a few workshops on Huangyang Road, and you will be responsible for this matter separately. ”

"But ......"

Zhang Xi thought for a while and said: "The Central Plains lacks horses, cattle and sheep, and no skins, even if you build a workshop and hire craftsmen, it is difficult to make leather armor if you don't have raw materials." ”

"I've sent someone to do this."

Fang Xie smiled and said: "Now the northern barbarians on the grassland have skins in their hands, and after these barbarians arrived in the grassland, they wantonly killed and ate war horses, cattle and sheep, but the population is not large, and most of the skins are wasted." I have sent someone to the grassland to meet the Northern Barbarian King, and we can exchange these things for tea, cloth, and brocade. ”

"But if you want to trade with the barbarians on the grassland, you have to pass through the territory of Jin Shixiong in the northwest."

Dugu Wenxiu said worriedly: "The caravan is coming, I'm afraid he will intercept it." ”

"So, let's make a deal with Kim Se-woong first."

Fang Xie glanced at Dugu Wenxiu and said, "Your mother will arrive in a few days, I said that I would give you ten days to accompany her old man." After the old man is settled, there is an important errand for you. Now I can tell you what this errand is, and you should be more prepared. ”

Fang Xie stood up and said while pacing: "If we want to exchange cloth brocade for leather with the barbarians, we have to cross Jin Shixiong's territory, so first of all, Jin Shixiong will not make trouble with us, then we can only benefit him." Dugu, what do you say Jin Shixiong lacks most now? ”

"Food!"

Dugu Wenxiu immediately said: "Jin Shixiong doesn't have many soldiers and horses in his hands, and the northwest is exhausted to the point where he can't raise soldiers, but Jin Shixiong has nowhere to go." To the east, he was going to start a war with the king of Gao Kaitai. To the south, the general naturally did not agree. It was as if he was trapped in the northwest, and he was afraid that he would not be able to survive anymore. Most of the people in the northwest have fled to other places after years of war, Mo said that he has no troops to replenish the troops, and no one cultivates the thin fields in the northwest, where does Jin Shixiong collect grain and grass? ”

"Could it be that the general wants to send food to Jin Shixiong?"

Zhang Xi was surprised.

"Nature doesn't just give him food."

Fang Xie smiled and said, "What do we lack now?" ”

Zhang Xi said: "Weapons and armor!" ”

"Right"

Fang Xie nodded: "Have you all forgotten that although Jin Shixiong lacks food and soldiers, he is the only one who lacks ......."

Dugu Wenxiu's eyes lit up: "Iron ore!" Kim Se-woong has an iron ore mine in his hand! One of the reasons why Li Yuanshan dared to rebel was that he discovered a huge iron mine. It took ten years to mine and create a large number of weapons and armor! ”

"Hmm"

Fang Xie snorted: "Jin Shixiong has an iron mine, but he lacks soldiers and major generals in his hands, and there are no people under his rule, so even if he wants to open a mine, there is no point." If you want him not to disrupt our trade with the Northern Barbarians, it is definitely not enough to just send him food. He has gained the benefit but has no restraint, and will only snatch our supplies more unscrupulously. ”

Zhang Xi was overjoyed: "General, in this way, the three parties make up for the shortcomings with reality, and neither side can stir up trouble first, wonderful!" ”

Dugu Wenxiu said: "What the barbarians have in their hands is leather, but what they want is things like Shu brocade cotton cloth and tea and salt in the Central Plains, and they will be very happy to exchange these things with them." And Jin Shixiong has iron ore in his hand but no grain, so we can exchange grain for iron ore with him. Jin Shixiong wants food, so he doesn't dare to make up his mind about our caravan! ”

Fang Xie smiled: "You might do this well?" ”

"Yes!"

Dubu Wenxiu leaned over and said, "Don't worry, general, your subordinates will definitely talk to Jin Shixiong." ”

"In this case, then the matter of summoning the local big families to Zhuque Mountain, I will hand it over to Zhang Xi and a few of you to do it first, I originally planned to let you go north to negotiate with Jin Shixiong in a few days, but since the topic is here today, let's settle it first. Remember, when talking to Kim Se-woong, you have to master a degree...... That is the initiative, and it cannot be held back by him. ”

Fang Xie thought for a while and said: "If he wants food, he can send iron ore first, if he wants food first, he will never do it!" You just have to remember that he is more anxious than us, and as soon as you talk about it, he immediately becomes impatient, because you are going to give them a way to live. ”

"Subordinates remember!"

Dugu Wenxiu hugged his fists.

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Northeast of the Great Sui

Jijin Road

Jiming County, Jixi County

Although it is not the northeasternmost place of the Great Sui, it is also six or seven thousand miles away from Gyeonggi Province, and more than a thousand miles to the east is the Chu State, which is commonly known as the Eastern Chu of the Great Sui people. More than 700 miles to the north is the northern frontier, and beyond the national border is the endless Baitou Mountain.

The people of Jiming County, Jixi County are quite rich, because it is not very far from Dongchu, the merchants of Dongchu will pour in a large number every year to purchase medicinal materials such as wild ginseng, bear gall and tiger bones, the people here are fierce, the people are mostly hunters, they can farm and hunt on the mountain, and the men are rough and heroic.

Although it is located in a remote area, there are Eastern Chu merchants who have traveled all over the world, so the news is not closed, in comparison, the people of the Northeast Zhudao are more well-informed than the people of Gyeonggi Province, at least they already know that the world of the Great Sui is in chaos.

There is a green wood village in Jiming County, which is heavily guarded all year round, and outsiders are not allowed to enter and exit casually.

Because there is a big man who is still nominally the Prince of the Great Sui is imprisoned here.

At the beginning, the first emperor was critically ill, and the sons took the heir, and this big man also had a great hope of inheriting the throne and becoming the supreme of the Central Plains. It's a pity that he hated it for the rest of his life because of a wrong move. He is the eldest prince, the proud son of heaven who was ordered to lead the army to suppress the Jiangnan rebellion and inspect the eastern frontier. Among the seven sons who were once known as the first emperor, the one who was the best at leading troops into battle.

At the beginning, he competed for the throne with the second prince, when he led the troops outside, and learned that the emperor was seriously ill, he immediately led the army back to Chang'an City, but the second prince asked Yang Yin, who was still the fourth prince at the time, to stop him, and Yang Yin woke up halfway, and did not stop the eldest prince but led the troops back to the capital. The second prince was furious when he found out, and ordered to block the gates of Chang'an City, and it was the seventh prince Yang Qi who took hundreds of slaves to guard a city gate to welcome Yang Yin to lead the army into the city, which led to the later Emperor Tianyou.

After Yang Yin ascended the throne, he gave the second prince to death under the pretext of death.

Yang Yin did not dare to kill this prestigious prince in the army, so he just reprimanded him severely for the crime of returning to Chang'an without authorization with the prince's troops, and then named Prince Zhuang and was confined in Jiming County, and more than ten years have passed now.

This Prince Zhuang seems to have accepted his fate, and he has not taken a step in Cuimuzhuang for more than ten years. Every day, he just reads and fishes in the Zhuangzi, and because of this, the emperor hesitated to kill him several times in the past ten years.

But there are always people who don't believe that a prince who was once very likely to ascend the throne and become the emperor will really accept his fate, and will he really have no resentment?

Therefore, a carriage stopped outside Cuimu Village, followed by hundreds of men in strong suits.

A man who looked like a steward got out of the carriage, looked at the guards outside the Cuimu Village, and snorted coldly.

"Tell them, get out of the way or die."

He pointed to the guards guarding the door, and instructed the attendants who came with him, "Forget it...... Just kill them all, you don't have to waste time with nonsense. ”