Chapter 1047: Southern Expedition and Northern Expedition - Youzhou Town
"Festival handsome, festival handsome, no, big things are not good......"
When Yang Jian, who was in charge of Yanshan military affairs, was anxious and ran into the White Tiger Festival Hall, the Great Song Dynasty Yanshan Road was slightly pacified by the envoy, the Hailu City Ship System Envoy, sentenced the Tianjin Prefecture affairs, the Youzhou Jiedu Envoy, and Wu Haogu, the founding prince of Wuqing County, was discussing the two taxes and regimental training matters of Wuqing and Jiehe counties with Wang Huang, the general judge of Tianjin Prefecture.
Collecting two taxes and running a group practice elsewhere should be two different things. However, in the two counties of Wuqing and Jiehe, which were ruled by Wu Haogu, the two taxes and regimental training were one thing. Because the land in the rural areas of Wuqing and Jiehe counties is not the same, the two taxes are linked to the exemption money, but to the military service!
That is to say, in the rural areas of Wuqing and Jiehe counties today, there are no small farmers who pay the emperor's grain, only knights who serve in the military and landlords who run regimental training. The price of possession of farmland is one, and the service is paid according to the amount of possession. or act as a knight, a new army, or participate in the Tianjin Prefecture regimental training led by Wu Haogu.
Roughly speaking, there are many knights in Jiehe County, and most of the so-called "Cangzhou Iron Cavalry" came from Northern Cangzhou at that time, and now it is on the territory of Jiehe County. There are about 2,000 knights' land, and they occupy as much as 3 million acres of land in Jiehe County! Almost the entire land of Jiehe County was given to these knights.
In Wuqing County, there are many powerful people, and hundreds of powerful villages control three or four million mu of land and no less than 50,000 strong people. Only the land along the Sanggan River and along the north bank of the Jiehe River was recovered by Wu Haogu, who was ready to assign it to his false knights and the utility knights who served Wu Haogu. And the sum of the land of the Dummy Knight, the Utility Knight and the Haoqiang Lianzhai is almost the total amount of arable land in Wuqing County.
In other words, there are no small farmers in the two counties, and there is no possibility of collecting agricultural taxes!
The two large counties with more than 10,000 households and more than 100,000 people (only counting men, including the Kuofang households in the two counties) actually did not pay a penny of two taxes, nor could they receive a few exemption money (the city tax and exemption money of the two counties of Kuofang households could still be received), which made Wang Hao feel very unwilling to be sentenced to this sentence.
However, Wu Haogu also said that there are no households in Jiehe County except for Kuofang. The knight is a military attachΓ©, and the land he owns is a professional field, how can he make the official's professional land pay taxes? And Wuqing County is newly attached land, so why should it be exempted from taxes and forced labor for ten years and eight years?
Besides, you can't immediately implement the Song system in Wuqing County and send officials. We must first govern according to the methods of the county in the prefecture, and the local heroes will elect county officials, and they will be autonomous for ten or eight years.
Moreover, although the heroes of Wuqing County do not pay taxes, they are out of the woods! A company has ten cavalry regulars and ten cavalry auxiliaries, all fully equipped! In addition, a hundred unequipped strong men were added to train the infantry.
In one county, tens of thousands of regiments of soldiers and 1,000 light cavalry were produced, not including the knights placed in Wuqing County.
How can such a county be worthy of the Great Song Dynasty officials, right?
Having said that, Wang Huang's general sentence was very reluctant.
Tianjin is now two counties and one city, one of which is the original Jiehe Commercial City, which is now changed to Tianjin. But the name was changed, and all the systems remained the same, and the commercial city was still autonomous. Wang Hao's general sentence can't control others at all!
Although Tianjin will hand over the tax package that was originally handed over to the Liao State to the Tianjin Prefecture in order to maintain the daily expenses of the Tianjin Mansion and the Yanshan Road Passage to appease the envoys. But for Wang Hao, it's too boring to keep 150,000 yuan of "dead money" a year, right?
It's not that he wants to embezzle, his family has money, and there are also his family's business in Tianjin. However, as the first general judge of Tianjin Prefecture, he had the responsibility to control the territory of the two counties and one city of Tianjin Prefecture for the imperial court, improve the system of six Cao joining the army in Tianjin Prefecture, and firmly control the people and taxes of the two counties and one city.
In addition, there is also an important responsibility, which is to support the Tianjin Prefecture scholar group. Establish a Confucian society with imperial examination scholars and doctors as the core.
Only in this way can Tianjin Mansion be truly mastered by the imperial court!
But now, Tianjin is a very different society from most of the prefectures and counties of the Great Song Dynasty. It is a society based on the wealthy merchants of Tianjin and the warriors of Jiehe and Wuqing counties. It's very powerful, but it's not as good as a doctor!
The maximum mobilization capacity of Wuqing and Jiehe counties is about 8,000 cavalry (regular soldiers) plus the same number of cavalry auxiliaries, as well as tens of thousands of elite infantry.
Tianjin is even more powerful! There are tens of thousands of strong citizen soldiers in the headquarters that can be launched at any time! In addition, there are groups of mercenaries (mainly sailors) numbering no less than 20,000. There are also knight academies and knight elementary schools that can train officers and knights in batches. There is also a huge military-industrial complex......
In other words, the reason why Wu Haogu was able to approach the city of Xijin Mansion step by step along the Sanggan River, and also built a large camp between the rivers outside the city of Xijin Province, mainly relied on the force of Tianjin Mansion itself!
This is clearly the domain town of Tang Ji and the Five Dynasties!
No, the power that appeared in Tianjin Mansion now was more terrifying than the feudal towns of the Tang Dynasty and the Fifth Dynasty. Because this force can draw nutrients from the ocean, from industry and commerce.
And the more terrifying thing is still to come, that is, after Wu Haoguke restores the Jinfu, it is also possible to transform the Xijin Mansion into a second Tianjin Mansion. It is even possible to incorporate all the Haoqiang of the entire Yandi into its own banner.
When the time comes, Wu Hao Gu Ke will become a real envoy of the Youzhou Festival!
Even if Wu Haogu didn't have the intention of rebelling, how could such a force that was enough to subvert the world exist in Youzhou, a territory that had been very restless since the Tang Dynasty, how could it not be worrying?
Just when Wang Hao wanted to fight with his civil official style and Wu Haogu, who was about to become a big warlord, but he couldn't make up his mind for a long time, Yang Jian rushed in with a terrifying news.
"Jie Shuai, the Gang Boat Fleet sent to transport military supplies to the Daimyo Mansion sent people to ride fast horses to report, they saw countless Liao soldiers on the official road near the Yellow River in Hengshui County, Jizhou and Jing'an County, Shenzhou, and they were marching south!"
His words fell, and Ma Zheng, the chief military machine of Yanshan Road, also walked quickly into the Wuhao Ancient White Tiger Festival Hall, and reported after a salute: "Jie Shuai, the soldiers led by the Liao lord are heading south along the Yellow River, and the general army machine room estimates that their target is Linhe County in Kaide Prefecture. β
"What?" Before Wu Haogu could speak, Wang Hao shouted first, "Isn't that at the gate of Kaifeng Mansion?" Cross the river from Baimajin, and you can reach Kaifeng Mansion in a blink of an eye! How good is that? β
"I really underestimated Yelu Yanxi!" Wu Haogu shook his head, and his face became solemn.
He originally thought that Yelu Yanxi would hear the news that "Emperor Genghis" was going to take a personal expedition to Xijin Mansion, and he would definitely return to the north.
But I didn't expect Yelu Yanxi to go all the way to the dark!
It won't really scare Zhao Ji away from Kaifeng Mansion, right? Zhao Ji seemed to have run away from the Chongzheng Hall a while ago because of Ji Yi and Xu Jiang's recitals.
This time, Yelu Yanxi really wants to cross the Yellow River and come to Kaifeng Mansion...... This "Emperor Genghis" will not run away to Suzhou and Hangzhou as he did in history when he faced the Jin soldiers going south, right?
"Jie Shuai...... Why don't you please make peace? Yang Jian looked at Wu Haogu and said in a low voice, "If you really let the Liao people cross the Yellow River, you and I will be guilty!" β
You are the one who will not escape the blame! Wang Huangxin on the side said: You are a foolish eunuch who really doesn't know how to supervise the army? The ancient capital of Wuhao is about to become Wulu Mountain, how can you punish the crime? Let the people of Yushitai go to Youzhou Town to catch Wulu Mountain? Who would dare to come?
"Isn't Taiwei Gao about to arrive at Kaifeng Mansion?" Wu Haogu didn't panic at all, "He has a new army and 2,000 elite cavalry, they should all be brought back to Kaifeng Mansion, right?" Kaifeng Mansion still has a model new army of 18,000 people, with a total of 25,000 elite soldiers, what are you afraid of the Liao people?
Moreover, we have just shipped enough spears, Tianjin crossbows, leather shields, leather helmets and paper armor to the Daimyo's Mansion to arm 50,000 regiments. The weapons for the Xiangzhou regiment were shipped out ten days ago. When the weather is cold, it is time for the Xiangzhou army and the daimyo army to rise. When the time comes, let's go to Kaifeng Mansion together, are you still afraid that you won't be able to hold it? β
Of course, Wu Haogu is fooling people, as long as Yelu Yanxi's determination is big enough, Kaifeng Mansion will not be able to hold it at all!
Zhao Da and Zhao Er chose such a place to build the capital back then, what can future generations do? Yelu Yanxi only needs to cross the Yellow River during the frozen season, and then choose a location close to Kaifeng Mansion to wait. Wait until the spring and summer of the following year to dig the embankment on the south bank of the Yellow River, and the flood will flood Kaifeng Mansion!
If Yelu Yanxi couldn't bear to do too much killing because he believed in the Buddha, then there was another way. Just cut off the waterway of the Bianhe River! Without the supply of 6 million Shidongnan grain a year, Kaifeng Mansion with a population of more than one million people is starving to death.
"If you don't worry, big official," Wu Haogu should have found out his conscience, he thought about it and said, "We can suggest that the official family move the capital." β
"Move the capital!?"
"Where to move?"
At this time, Yang Jian and Wang Hao were all dumbfounded.
"Let's go to Haizhou if it's safe." Wu Haogu said, "Haizhou is close to the East China Sea and Huainan, not only the convenience of shipping, but also the benefit of Huai grain. The nearby Xuzhou is also an important military industrial town, and with a little rectification, it can produce countless sophisticated weapons. As the capital, it is much more suitable than Kaifeng Mansion!
If you feel that Haizhou is too biased, you might as well go to Xiangzhou on Jingnan Road. Xiangyang has the convenience of water transportation on the Han River, and the nearby Jinghu Lake and Sichuan are rich in rice. Shaanxi, an important military town, is also near Xiangyang, which can receive a steady stream of support from the Western Army.
Yang Daguan, Wang Tongju, how about our joint last concert? β
"Jie Shuai! How can the capital of a country be said to be accommodating? And the solidity of mountains and rivers is not in danger in Germany! β
"Yes, Jie Shuai, you can't play such a concerto...... Otherwise, you will be the enemy of people with lofty ideals in the world! β
Of course, Yang Jian and Wang Hao refused to go along with Wu Haogu, the matter of moving the capital was a big political mistake, and whoever dared to mention it was joking with his political life!
Wu Haogu pursed his mouth, "Since this is the case, then there is no need to panic, the official family only needs to sit in Kaifeng Mansion, and the commander has his own good strategy to retreat from the enemy!" β