In fact, on the same night, the general's mansion also got the news, and Zhang Junru, who was on duty, called Huang Chao, who had already gone to bed, from his bed. Then the freeman explained the cause and effect, and there had been two assassinations with different targets.

"Lao Shang wants to get close to and envelop him, that's the right thing to do. After all, he is responsible for sorting out the financial plans for the military government,"

"I'm afraid that others have other ideas, and that's really a disaster. This is the fundamental point for the army to be able to gain a foothold in Lingnan Road. ”

"In any case, we can't let this happen again and again. The reorganization and reorganization of the army is at the right time, and there must be no more accidents and twists and turns. ”

"As for the left and right city patrol divisions, don't say that there are no shortage of manpower; If they feel that there are not enough people, they are allowed to continue to draw and use the few branches of the army that have been recently returned and repaired. ”

"That's not appropriate, don't say whether the military masters in the front and right are willing or not, I'm afraid that General Manager Shang has something to say. After all, all the armies said that they were very damaged and quite tired, and it was not easy to count on those newly filled posts. ”

"King Huang, I don't know if I can call it properly if I have an idea below,"

"But it doesn't hurt to say that."

Huang Chao waved his hand.

"In fact, there is a ready-made army in this Guangfu City, and it has little to do with the front-line armies, so it may be regarded as a relatively neutral position; And the matter is concerned about his own safety, even on the side of Mr. Shang, it is beyond reproach. ”

At the same time, Zhou Huai'an didn't sleep all night, and several times dreamed of the dancing girl Jinyun who was broken off her limbs, vomiting blood and vomiting so much that her skirt was dyed red and died at the moment, and then she was quite shamefully hard. Well, my tastes shouldn't be so curious.

So, in the middle of the night, he had a convulsion in his brain, and simply dragged the small pendant that slept outside into a daze outside, from the arms of the skeleton spirit, who was also sleepy-eyed, to his bed to fulfill the obligation of warming the bed; Then, in the midst of the other party's crying and pleading, he hugged this "living pillow" that although he was still thin, but had warm breathing and heartbeat, he slept with peace of mind.

So, when he woke up the next day, he found that there were three people squeezed into the bed, like a family of three competing for small pendants in the middle. When his large skeleton spirit still didn't have much flesh on his body, he kicked out of bed, and slept for a while, but he was constantly woken up again.

Because, the greetings that followed and the gifts that filled the concierge took up most of Zhou Huai'an's time. After he had finished dealing with them one by one, he saw that a document had been sent, but it was the righteous army of the Great General's Mansion who approved him to continue the third phase of his actions. Previously, one of the important tasks he was working on was to open up the source of money and reduce expenditure for the rebel army.

The work of reducing expenditure is relatively simple, that is, when there is a relatively abundant supply of new blood, those old, weak, sick and disabled who are not suitable for the battlefield will be eliminated, and the diversion will be used as human resources for maintaining the localities and cultivating wasteland and fields. Especially in the placement of the old, sick, wounded and disabled soldiers of the righteous army, although they are openly playing the banner of Huang Wang Ende, it also makes him earn some potential reputation in actual operation and appearance.

If it is open source, it is to dig deep into the potential of the cities under the control of the rebels, including the city of Guangzhou. For example, the city of Guangzhou itself, as a famous city that has been trading overseas since the Qin and Han dynasties, has accumulated various resources and potentials over the years. Although the other cities under the control of the rebels cannot be compared, as long as the corresponding experience and means are mature, there are also many years of accumulated potential and resources that can be further explored.

For example, the hundreds of thousands of Hu people who were killed, and the many industries left in the Fanfang where they lived; For example, those large households and eunuchs who have been confiscated, and even the various accumulations in the hands and possession of the official government, except for the part that is directly supplied to the army, can be taken out as bulk transactions and auction items, and the circulation can be converted into other materials and commodities needed by the rebel army.

Starting from these neglected and ignored "ownerless resources", the so-called "boiled frog style" is advancing step by step, and the means of encroaching and accumulating little by little can be much more efficient and fruitful than the means of rudely directly raiding the house or torture and apportioning according to the map. It is also not easy to touch the existing interests of the majority of people under today's rule, causing more backlash and volatility.

Regarding the richness of Guangzhou's products, the former Han Yu's "Sending Zheng Quan Shangshu to the South China Sea" described "foreign goods to ...... Pearls, rhinos, tortoiseshells, and treasures of the world are overflowing in China and cannot be used." During the Huichang period, Cui Gui also said from Zhenlingnan, "Yi estimates the radiation, as for the treasure goods and medicine store in Chang'an, Xianfeng is the thing in the south", "the treasure of the male domain, the prosperity of Wu Yue." ”

In the bustling neighborhoods such as Fanfang, "let the merchants run the market", not only the day and the middle of the market, but also the night market. Zhang Ji's poem "Sending Zheng Quan Shangshu to the South China Sea": "The night market is noisy, and the sea is moist and the stage is run." Take spices, a backlog of commodities, as an example,

From the most common edible and medicinal spices such as pepper, myrrh, frankincense, laurel leaf, rosemary, etc., to the incense of external use such as jatamansi, suhe, rest, tulip, tuoduo, and luo, cloves, etc.; From foreign agarwood, sandalwood, musk, black agarwood, white brain incense, angelica, lovage, frankincense, canaan incense; To the three persimmons, Huoxiang, Herbaceous, Galangal, Fennel, Wood, Asarium, Rhubarb and other incense materials produced in the East Soil,

Even as raw materials and semi-finished products such as camphor, blood exhaustion, golden incense, tuk incense, suhe sesame oil, gardenia, rose water, stack incense, quick temporary incense, yellow ripe incense, raw incense, nutmeg, true incense, white cardamom, bicheng eggplant, ambergris, gallic seed, aferulum, aloe vera, navel umbilicus, bird man, musca, almost all the corresponding samples can be found here.

The Lingnan handicraft industry in the Tang Dynasty made significant progress compared with its predecessors, mainly reflected in the increase in the production sector, and the mining and metallurgy, ceramics, salt making, and shipbuilding occupied a position in the country; The production technology has also been improved and innovated, and a number of high-quality products have appeared, which sell well locally and abroad, among which the ceramic industry and silk weaving industry are stimulated by overseas markets, and a large number of products are sold abroad.

In later generations, Zhu Yu, a Song dynasty man, said in "Pingzhou Can Talk": "The ship is dozens of zhang deep and wide, and the merchant occupies the storage of goods, and the person has to be a few feet, and the storage is under it, and the night lies on it." There are many pottery, large and small, no gaps"; With the expansion of mulberry, cotton, hemp, ramie, kudzu and other crops, the textile industry in Lingnan in the Tang Dynasty has developed greatly. Wang Jian's poem "Sending Zheng Quan Shangshu to the South China Sea": "White trees are woven at home, and red bananas are planted everywhere"

Guangzhou is also one of the famous shipbuilding centers in the south, along with Yangzhou, Hongzhou and Mingzhou. In the second year of Tianbao, the pirate Wu Lingguang committed Yongjia County (now Wenzhou, Zhejiang), and the imperial court ordered Liu Julin, the Lingnan interview envoy and the Taishou of the South China Sea, to lead the sailors to the north to conquer. When Yangzhou Dayun Temple monk Jianzhen prepared to travel east to Japan for the second time, with the furnace 80 yuan to Liu Julin to buy a military boat, carrying 17 Chinese and Japanese monks, 18 boat people, jade people, painters, carving Buddha, carving, casting and writing, embroiderers, repairs, engraved tablets and other 85 workers, a total of 120 people, prepared a large number of food, Buddha statues, Buddhist scriptures, spices, medicines, etc.

In the first year of Dezong Xing, Du You was the envoy of the Lingnan Festival, supervised the construction of warships in Guangzhou, there were 6 kinds of building boats, Mengchong, fighting ships, boats, yachts, and sea falcons, "wide and narrow, long and short, with the size of the use, how many people are victorious, all take the rice as the rate, and one person weighs two stones." Its poles, trees, pennies, oars, sails, seats, ropes, sinking stones, and dispatching are not different from those of regular ships."

And the folk also spread a kind of from the Persian Gulf region, without any nails and mortise and tenon joint boats, introduced into the nut fiber stitching wooden boat technology, Tang Dynasty poet Liu Sui said, the nut tree "born in the Guangnan Valley, branches and leaves, and jujube, betel nut and other trees are very different." However, there are whiskers under the leaves, like thick horsetails. Widely picked it to weave a scarf. It must be especially impregnated in salty water, that is, thick and tough, so people use it to bind the ship, without nailing the line"

For this reason, the people of the time also invented the method of filling the seams of ships with "olive sugar": "olive,...... The raw fat paste on the branch node is like peach gum, and the southerners pick it, and its skin and leaves are fried, and the tone is like black glutton, which is called olive sugar. Damaged with mud boats, after drying, it is firmly glued to the paint, and the water is good for the ears"

Other than that

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, a unified monetary system was implemented, using copper coins and cloth and corn millet, but because of the long-term foreign trade in Lingnan, it still maintained the custom of using gold and silver since the two Jin Dynasty, and used copper coins together. Therefore, the circulation and accumulation of gold and silver among the people is also a large amount.

According to the number of county government offices (yamen office expenses) recorded in the "Tianbao Dizhi Fragment" found in Dunhuang in later generations, there are 65 counties in Lingnan, 18 counties use copper coins, 33 counties use silver, and the others are mixed.

On the one hand, this situation will be formed because gold and silver are the more recognized currency measurement standards in the domestic world; With the export of a large number of special products such as silk porcelain tea paper, and the inflow of overseas gold and silver currency. Gold coins were widely used by Arab, Persian and other countries that traded with the Tang Dynasty, and foreign merchants brought Persian coins and Arabic gold coins into Guangzhou in an endless stream, providing a steady stream of gold and silver currency sources for the Lingnan market.

The gold and silver imported into Lingnan are called "Nanjin". Quan Deyu's "Du Gong (You) Huainan Monument and Preface" cloud: "Its town is also in the South China Sea, the southern golden ivory, and the navigation trade moves." Quan's "Xu Gong (Shen) Epitaph" says: "In addition to the rise, the giant merchant has ten thousand ships, and the rhino south is gold, and it is full of money." Wang Jian's poem "Sending Zheng Quan Shangshu to the South China Sea" said: "The city is noisy and the thieves are broken, and the gold cheap sea ships are coming." The arrival of ships and the purchase of Chinese products by foreign merchants in gold and silver led to an increase in gold and silver and a long-term decline in the price of gold.

On the other hand, it is because Lingnan was an important gold and silver producing area in the Tang Dynasty. In the Geographical Chronicles of Volume 43 of the Book of the New Tang Dynasty, there are 73 states and 68 states of Tugong gold and silver, and 39 and 47 states of Lingnan respectively, accounting for 61.9% and 69.12% of the country's total, respectively.

Tang Dynasty Liu Sui said: "Wuling in Fuzhou, Pennsylvania, Chengzhou rivers and streams are all produced gold, close to the people, to the wood pan for gold as a business." Xu Hun's "Four Songs of Xiashan Temple in the Twilight of the Year from Guangjiang to Xinxing Reciprocating": "The cave is full of stones, and the barbarian girl is half panning for gold." And note: "Duanzhou Stone, Tuya County Gold Rush for Business". There is also a record that there is a golden pond in Xunhuan County, Guangzhou, "there are people living in it, and there are geese and ducks suddenly, and they often see bran gold flakes in the feces." So I raised more, collected, and got one or two or half taels a day, so I got rich."

After the Tang Dynasty, silver mining was banned many times in China, but Lingnan did not prohibit it, let it be natural, and did not intervene. For example, in June of the third year of Yuan He: "There must be copper mines in the mountains of silver in the world, and those who are copper can be cast by drums, and those who are silver are not beneficial to others; The weight of the weight, so that the affairs of the single-minded. Its world from the north of the five mountains to see the silver mining pit, and should be forbidden." "To the north of Wuling, one or two silver is mined, and it flows to other states, and the officials are guilty."

Therefore, this Lingnan Road is also the largest and most important source of precious metals in the Tang Dynasty, and there is no one; Although there was still trade imports from the Silk Road in the Western Regions in the northwest region, the scale of commercial activities sustained by camels and horse caravans was still not comparable to the efficiency of thousands of miles of shipping on the sea route.

And because after the late Tang Dynasty, Anxi, Beiting, and even large areas of Hexi and Longyou fell one after another, and the trade of the Northwest Silk Road was also greatly affected.

Therefore, the proportion of the imperial court's dependence on Lingnan sea trade was actually much greater than that of the early Tang and middle Tang dynasties.

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