Chapter 327: Twenty-five years on
By the end of the third year of Shengxi, Liu Guangshi, Yao Pingzhong and other generals had exterminated the Wang Qing forces entrenched in Huaixi, and Yue Fei and other well-known cutting-edge generals participated in dozens of battles to encircle and suppress Tianhu in Hebei.
It is worth mentioning the Shandong Liangshanbo forces.
Its leader Song Jiang was unwilling to be surrounded, and led more than 20,000 people to attack all the way, and even killed under the city of Haizhou, but was defeated by Zhang Shuye, a famous general of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
Zong Ze led 100,000 troops to Liangshanbo, and used the 800 miles of water as the acceptance site for the results of military training. In less than three months, Liangshan One Hundred and Eight will lead people to rush left and right, and they have never been able to break through the layers of encirclement set up by Zong Ze.
It is rare for the people of the Imperial City Division to make meritorious contributions. They instigated civil strife in Liangshan, and Qin Ming, Lin Chong, Guan Sheng and other leaders who were extremely dissatisfied with the core of Song Jiang were completely buried in Liangshan.
Zong Ze charged Guan Sheng and others into the army, killed a group of leaders, and escorted a group of leaders back to Bianjing. The rest of the people were handed over to Grandmaster Zhou Dong, who suddenly appeared.
Li Yifu watched Song Jiang, Tian Hu and other important leaders in Bianjing with a complicated expression on the day that Ling Chi was killed, Zhao Scar of Hedong officially surrendered to the government. Zhao Scarzi had already sent out tens of thousands of goods, and deliberately made friends with some big families close to Lu Liang, which was enough to ensure that Zhao'an went smoothly.
The "Four Great Kou" were all exterminated, the entrenched wind of the uprising that had gradually emerged in the past ten years or so was dealt a major blow, and the public order situation in all parts of the Great Zhou Dynasty rapidly improved. In particular, in the Sixth Route of Shaanxi, the hostile forces such as the Western Xia Kingdom, the Huangtou Uighurs, and the Tibetan Tribes, which had noticed that they were not good, died down, and the Western Army was able to gather elite troops on the edge of the Yellow River.
In the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, His Majesty the Great Zhou Emperor issued an edict to the world. The thief is the head, and the Haiyan River is clear, so the amnesty is granted to the world!
Also at the end of the year, Fang La, who goes by the pseudonym "Yuan Donghae", has an unstable foothold on the Goryeo Peninsula and is driven out to sea by the united Goryeo nobles. Shen Shou, dressed in disguise, came to Bianjing with his group and asked Li Yifu for medicine and weapons support.
After exchanging the spoils for a large number of weapons, medicines, and clothing produced in the core workshop of Nanshan Fort, Yuan Donghai, who completely abandoned the occupation of a large part of the continent, attacked and harassed the Dongying Islands, and two years later entered the Ryukyu Kingdom and resumed his original name. During the period of "hard work", Yuan Donghai's power completed the transformation from a big pirate to a smuggling sea trade group.
In the first year of Xuanhe, three years after Shengxi, the security situation in the Great Zhou was unprecedentedly good.
For nearly 200 years, there has never been a time when millions of landless people have devoted themselves to workshops, kilns, tea plantations, lacquer gardens, and fleets as in the past few years. The people of the Great Zhou Dynasty still regarded land as the foundation, and behind their forced entry into the industrial and commercial industry were all kinds of crimes committed by the gentry and wealthy merchants.
In any case, since the first year of Xuanhe, the industry and commerce of the Great Zhou began a new round of soaring.
The Qinling forces established by Li Yifu exchanged the goods produced by the assembly line for a large amount of real money and silver from the hands of "Yuan Donghai", and at the same time sold the antique cultural relics that had been accumulated at the expense of a large amount of silver and materials, completely solving the dilemma of insufficient income in the public middle school.
With sufficient money, Qinling Gongzhong was able to firmly control the eastern part of the Qinling Mountains, control the key villages in the central Qinling Mountains, and mine and build workshops in suitable places to reclaim the fields.
Nanshanbao and Mingyue Group formed a coalition and successfully lobbied high-ranking officials in Xunyang, Shiyan, Xiangyang and other places, and used the remaining prisoners of war to dredge the upper reaches of the Han River.
The selfish Jingnan Road officials are very willing to leave the taxes paid by Mingyueji in the local area.
After all, once the entire Han River is dredged, it will be much more convenient for Mingyueji's goods to reach Sichuan Road and Hanzhong, and it will be much more convenient to reach Guanzhong and Shaanxi. At that time, not only will commercial taxes rise sharply, but the most important thing is that it will be able to absorb a large number of landless people.
Da Zhou is heavy on business. The officials of the Great Zhou Dynasty were never afraid to solve practical problems by commercial means, which had not been done in previous dynasties.
The fortunes of Nanshan Fort soared again.
With fireworks, perfumes, paper and other new goods emerging in an endless stream, Li Yifu became the richest man in Dazhou in a low-key manner.
No matter how much he hid it, it was difficult for Li Yifu to hide the large amount of currency that had been collected into the interior of the Qinling Mountains. The industrial and commercial forces in Jiangnan, the gentry in Gyeonggi Province, and the big clans in various places who were interested in Nanshan Fort joined forces to exert pressure, wanting to open the multi-layered turtle shell set up by Li Yifu to see how much there was in Nanshan Fort and Qinling.
Li Yifu's old father-in-law was excluded and suppressed, and after leaving his post, he returned to Nanshan Fort to concentrate on taking care of his big-bellied daughter.
An idle prince was pushed to the forefront, and when he wanted to explore the truth and truth in Nanshan Fort, Li Yifu faced a dilemma. At the critical moment, Chai Ningxin, a quiet princess who was made by Li Yifu to have a big belly, went to the palace to meet the queen mother and his brother who was the emperor, and Li Yifu turned the corner.
Li Yifu, who has been repeatedly bullied and is about to explode, invited Chai Ningxin to Qinling to enjoy the fun, but in fact, he gave birth in secret. He also persuaded Liu Susu, who was not good at management, to hand over the jewelry, incense powder and other industries to Her Royal Highness the Princess, who understood the psychology of noble ladies.
Li Yifu's derailment led to instability in the back house. Li Yifu, who is not good at facing Liu Susu, Liu Chengdong, and the core mountain people, can't help it.
Li Yifu felt that he continued to be a turtle in Da Zhou, and if he was not angry and rebellious, he would be psychopathic. He was furious...... got together with Duan Lintian, the princess of Dali, and promised to help solve the plight of the Dali royal family.
Word.
Under Li Yifu's order, Nanshanbao strengthened cooperation with Dali merchants and promoted more merchants to go to Dali to do business.
The number of armored neids dressed as porters, hidden in the caravan, and arrived at Jinghu South Road in batches reached 500 people, and the rest of the caravan was filled by "village soldier archers".
When Li Yifu arrived in Tanzhou City, he first visited the old residence of the Wang family, and then in the name of "buying horses for the Great Zhou", he took 200 guards with iron armor to Dali Kingdom.
The high-ranking officials on the Jinghu South Road saw that the Great Zhou had declared war on the Liao State, but they were in dire need of war horses and pack horses, so they turned a blind eye and did not stop the "fortune army" composed of all merchants, and let them rush to the Great Zhou-Dali Field located on the border.
As soon as Li Yifu arrived in Dali, he immediately showed his violent side.
The iron-clad guards and armor-clad inner dings who had been pretending to be grandsons in the Great Zhou shouted a fierce battle, directly defeated the 3,000 army that nominally belonged to Duan Lintian's two elder brothers, and broke into the hinterland of Dali Kingdom.
The caravan that followed Li Yifu into Dali included a caravan composed of Nanshanbao people, several large caravans made up by merchants in Mingyueji, and merchants and workshop owners on Sichuan Road and Jinghu Road who joined halfway. In short, they are all crazy, in addition to not killing indiscriminately, they have all done the things of forced buying and selling, looting special products, and buying and selling people, and even the Great Zhou army guarding the border has participated in the fortune carnival.
Li Yifu ignored the smoky miasma behind him. He raised the banner of "helping the king to rebel", surrendered and rebelled all the way, and approached the lair of the powerful minister Gao's family, and was bound to take advantage of the chaos to solve the major hidden dangers of the Dali royal family.
When the country of Dali was in turmoil and the people of all ethnic groups were panicking, the energetic King of Dali secretly contacted the army east of the river to cooperate with Li Yifu, and at the same time sent nearly 10,000 troops built at a great cost to the lair of the powerful minister Dong's family.
Show one’s true colors in the end!
To the east of the river, the North Gao and the South Dong quickly reached a reconciliation and made every effort to deal with the challenges related to life and death.
Li Yifu led nearly 1,000 elites, 1,000 Qinling Township soldiers, and 1,300 caravans to escort the formation, against the 24,000 men and horses that the Gao family had put together.
Before the start of the war, Duan Lintian appeared in front of the battle as a secret weapon, and the two Gao Dong families committed seizing power, poisoning the people of Dali, and being extravagant and lascivious...... The little princess, who is loved by the people of Dali, successfully crushed the military heart of the Dong family's army with tears.
Li Yifu broke the Gao family in a battle and led his excited men to march south.
Because of the various methods used in the process of forcing Wang Liuwang and Wang Qi to surrender, Li Yifu was given the nickname of "Murder and Punishment of Li Tianwang". Behind Li Tianwang, the large and small caravans that caught up used convoys, bows and arrows, and guards to resist the stragglers, and successfully protected the lives of their families.
After the Great Zhou merchants who had tasted blood calmed down, they began to desperately crave power and status. They realized that the knives and guns in the hands of the government were not much different from the knives and guns in their hands.
When the new army of the royal family and the Dong family fell into a fierce battle, Li Yifu led 2,500 reinforcements to descend from the sky and annihilate the Dong family's army. After that, Li Yifu joined forces with the army of the royal family to resist the robbery of the Nanyue Kingdom between the mountains and valleys in the east, eliminating the resentment of the people of Dali against him.
The two princes who escaped the control of Gao Dong's two families, namely Duan Lintian's two elder brothers, appeared in Dali City and competed to win over Li Yifu, the "son-in-law of Dali".
Li Yifu has a deep consideration for the throne of Dali, and Li Mengkong, Zhang Wanli, Wang San, Fang Weiliang, Cheng Officials and others have very obscure and profound intentions for Dali.
Li Yifu did not participate in the struggle for power between the two eldest brothers, but used the months he spent in Dali to sign a few commercial agreements with the old king. At the same time, more than a dozen new-style workshops were built in Dali, and as compensation for Duan Lintian, Duan Lintian's net worth swelled rapidly.
The manpower of Qinling Gongzhong was withdrawn in batches. The Great Zhou merchants, who had obtained too many improper benefits in Dali, heard that the old king and Li Yifu had agreed on a series of cooperation agreements, and they couldn't sit still. They discussed for a while and decided to spend money to buy a long-term and take the initiative to pay taxes to the Dali government.
The old king, whose health was deteriorating day by day, took advantage of the wealth he had temporarily amassed to drive his mixed army to the border, and engaged in a protracted war with Bagan in the west and the Black Tooth Ten in the south.
Under the influence of external forces, Dali began a series of changes, and the national fortunes slipped into another track.
Li Yifu, who fought heartily and thoroughly expressed his spirit, stayed in Dali until the second half of the year, and then said goodbye to Duan Lintian and returned to Dazhou with hundreds of people. He selectively helped Dali establish dozens of weapon workshops, and left a few protégés to pull up a private army, only obeying Duan Lintian's orders.
When Li Yifu arrived at Xiangyang City by boat, the Great Zhou army, known as 200,000, also approached Youzhou City.
Ye Luming led nearly 10,000 armored Khitan soldiers and more than 1,000 armored cavalry to open the city gate and fight to the death, defeating the 200,000 Great Zhou troops who had chaotic command and no unified order.
Dozens of famous generals of the Great Zhou Dynasty, including Yang Keshi, who could not return to the sky, were killed in the Gaoliang River, nearly 70,000 Great Zhou soldiers were killed, and the accumulation of Bianjing's arsenal for decades was destroyed in one fell swoop. Wanyan Xiyin, who returned to the Jin Kingdom, was shocked, and seriously thought about everything he saw in the territory of the Great Zhou, and found that the Great Zhou was not as powerful as it appeared to be, or that the gold and jade were defeated on the outside.
Li Yifu, who heard the bad news, looked at the sky speechlessly, and used more than a month in Qinling to make a new round of changes to Qinling Gongzhong. He changed the investment of money and food, increased resources several times, and accelerated the research and development of various advanced weapons, especially firearms.
Zhou Qinzong, who was obsessed with calligraphy and painting, was upset. He gave way to Zhou Huizong, who also had a high artistic attainment, and Zhou Huizong changed his name to Yuan Jingkang......
Li Yifu's father-in-law, who was about to be transferred to the Liaozhou border after sending off the official to his reinstated post, kept repeating the word "Jingkang" in his mouth, and then spurted out a few mouthfuls of black blood and was sick in bed.
In the first year of Jingkang, the industry and commerce of the Great Zhou Dynasty advanced by leaps and bounds. The average literacy rate of Dazhou exceeded 5 percent, the fiscal revenue exceeded 10,000,000, and the population officially exceeded 10,000.
It seems that the Great Zhou is about to usher in another round of prosperity, an unprecedented prosperity......