Anton.

The autumn is crisp and the sun is shining, and the residents of Andong all over the country are taking advantage of this good weather to grab the crops in the field, and this year is another bumper year.

As soon as the rice was laid, people from the government came to buy it, and this year's grain purchase price was much higher than in previous years. The purchase price of one stone of rice is 50 yuan, which is already much higher than in previous years, and I heard that the imperial court of the Central Plains has also raised the purchase price of grain a lot this year.

As soon as the newly harvested rice was dried here, there were officials over there who helped pack it into bags and then transport it away through the scales, and the silver coins, copper coins, and silk cloth were paid directly.

By the way, he also helped them transport the land rent and grain to be paid this year to the official warehouse, and they did not need to contribute by themselves.

"This year's harvest is good!" An old man holds an abacus in his hand, and he is responsible for helping the people calculate and check. Many of the tun people are illiterate and can't count, so they pay so much food, and how much money they pay in the end, all of which depend on this old man.

The originally golden fields outside Tunzi have all been harvested in just ten days, and now only patches of bare land remain, as well as the rice stubble left behind, and the handfuls of straw that are tied up and dried.

"The imperial court is still sympathetic to the people, and after paying the land tax and rent, there is still a lot of grain left in addition to the unified purchase of grain, in addition to leaving enough rations for the family, there can also be some free grain left."

A tall man stood next to the old man, holding a chain flail in his hand, looking at the piles of grain bags on the drying field.

"Well, the imperial court has done a very good job in this regard, this year it has raised the price of unified purchase grain, and it still leaves a lot of free grain for the people."

Although the unified purchase of grain is different from the land rent of the imperial grain, the imperial grain is the land tax in the two taxes, including the field rent, the grain of the righteous warehouse, and some miscellaneous expenses such as some substitute money spread into the acre, which is levied on a per mu, and the more the mu of the field, the more the imperial grain, as long as there is no disaster and no harm, the imperial grain cannot be discounted, and you will not be given money.

But the unified purchase of grain is different, this grain is actually sold by the people to the imperial court, but it is a compulsory unified price purchase by the imperial court, and the people can't sell it, but fortunately, the unified purchase of grain collected by the imperial court is actually collected according to the actual land owned by the people, and the fixed quantity is not much, so that after the people pay the imperial grain and sell the unified purchase grain, they can still keep enough rations, and even about 20% of the free grain produced can be left.

"The price of free food should be higher this year, right?"

"Well, the unified grain purchase has not been completed, and the private grain merchants have not dared to come down, but I heard that the price of free grain this year has reached sixty yuan a stone, and I estimate that it can be higher."

The unified purchase of grain is a strategic reserve of the unified planning of the state, and there is a specified amount every year to ensure that the grain produced in various places is mainly in the hands of the state.

Of course, there is still grain left for free trading in the market, but the share is smaller, generally two or three percent.

These free grains can only go to the countryside to buy grain when the grain purchased from the whole country is harvested, and their grain prices will naturally be higher. Among them, the most powerful grain merchant is naturally the royal grain number of the inner servant.

"I really can't imagine that we, the long-term people who are exiled in the frontier, can live a more down-to-earth and comfortable life than the Central Plains!" The young man with the shackle in his hand laughed.

"It's good to be self-sufficient, and in a few good years, you can renovate the house." The old man said hehehe.

"Uncle, have you ever thought about going back to the Central Plains?"

The old man fell into deep thought, "Actually, it's not bad to think about it here, it's quite down-to-earth." ”

"I want to go back to the Central Plains, although it is not bad here, but our family is in the Central Plains, and the ancestral grave is in the Central Plains. Uncle, the above has been notified, the militia of each tun is about to gather in autumn, I guess it is going to war, I heard that the Central Plains has sent a new army over, and a lot of military funds have been drawn, it is estimated that it is time to counterattack. ”

"I hope to be able to make meritorious contributions, and maybe I will be able to return to the Central Plains at that time." The young man said to the old man, "I heard that Zhang Shigui made great contributions in the Battle of Qiuzi in the Western Regions, and now he has not only been removed from the status of Changliu, but also awarded the title of Lieutenant of Wensu County, Gumo County. ”

Of course, the old man knew Zhang Shigui, and he and Zhang Shigui were also ministers in the same hall.

"You're still young, and you don't want to waste your life here, I can understand that, but you have to be more careful. And you also have to be mentally prepared, no matter what, our Yuwen family is no better than Zhang Shigui and others, and the imperial court has a deeper distrust of us, maybe you put in ten times the effort, but you are not as good as others, understand? ”

"Uncle, I know, that is, after I leave home, you and your aunt will help take care of the mother-in-law and baby in my house." When it comes to the Goguryeo mother-in-law and the young child in the house, Yuwen Cheng is a little helpless, he was thrown under Dou Jiande at the beginning, but in the end, he was defeated and captured by Li Xuanba in the battle with the Qin army, and finally he was Changliu Anton.

After coming here, he reluctantly accepted the Goguryeo woman assigned by the government as his wife.

I used to think that this life would be like this, in this border wilderness, having children with a woman of different races who I don't look down on, just like this for a lifetime, but who would have thought that now I would have the opportunity to return to the Central Plains.

Uncle Yu Wenshi and seemed to be willing to stay here with Princess Nanyang like this, content to be a teacher and a small village pavilion chief, but he was still young, and he didn't want to stay here forever.

But as the son of a monarch killer, the future is very confused.

Anton Yamen has already issued an order for the militia to gather in autumn, and Yuwen Chengdu still wants to give it a try.

A few days later.

After the autumn harvest was completed, the tun people also handed over the dried imperial grain and the unified purchase grain, and the remaining grain was kept in the cellar granary, and the rest was sold to the grain merchants.

In the joyful atmosphere of this autumn harvest, Yuwen Chengdu rode on a horse, took the thirty flail militia of Lin'antun, and rode on the road to the county town of Qiuji with the flail.

Behind him, the Goguryeo wife with a pair of young children, like the other Tunli people, stood at the door to see off her husband and brothers.

Obibang-gun, Seoul.

Xu Shiji moved to Seoul again, and there were 12,000 newly moved government soldiers.

In the Taishou Mansion, Xu Shiji was deploying on the map.

"This time we are strong and strong, and the grain and grass are sufficient, now the autumn is high and the horses are fat, it is a good time to attack, a plan to divide the troops into nine roads, and with the assistance of the militia of Tunzhuang in various places, stabbed Baekje a few times, we attack this time, not to attack the city and seize the land as the goal, we are to rob, loot the countryside. This year, we have to harvest early, and most of Baekje has just started the autumn harvest, so most of Baekje's autumn grain is still in the fields and villages, so let's grab the grain and people first. ”

The elite soldiers of the Great Qin Mansion with the fierce militia did not go to fight the Baekje city, but to rob the countryside, and a group of officers stood there, thinking that they were killing chickens with cattle knives, which made it clear that they wanted to bully the Baekje people.

"This is the will of the saint, let's fight, we have to fight the battle to make money, don't look at the saint to pull out tens of millions for us, but this is just the capital, not for us to spend, we have to earn more back. The sage said, destroying Baekje is not an overnight thing, and everyone should not think about destroying the country in a war like Cheng Biting Jin, let's take our time, stab him a few times today, and cut him a few pieces of meat tomorrow, and then we will eat meat and eat fat, but Baekje will lose blood and weaken, and in the end, he will fall to death with a gentle push. ”

"Draw up a battle plan for me, be quick!" Xu Shiji said to the group of generals, "You have to be careful and thorough." ”

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