Chapter 304: Economic Control
Daguang 290, mid-May---
There was a civil strife in the country of Da Yue, and the eldest prince Sukha usurped the throne and killed the king and his father.
After receiving the urgent request for help from the lord of the Dayue country, Suzha and the second prince Sugrei, the Daguang Shu army sent tens of thousands of elite soldiers into the border of the Dayue country, and broke the rebels of the great prince Sukha with lightning speed, but it was still a step late, and the lord of the Dayue country was killed by Sugrei with a sword on the palace, and hundreds of guards and attendants under it were not alive.
At the end of May, the war in Da Yue was coming to an end, and the Daguang Shu army helped Da Yue to quell the war, but this rebellion, which lasted for more than two months, caused serious damage to the military system of Da Viet. The most elite Wang Thanh army of the Great Viet Kingdom was completely wiped out in the rebellion, and the garrisons formed in various places were also wiped out in the war.
Under these circumstances, the Shu army, at the request of the new lord of the Dayue Kingdom, Sugrei, left more than 20,000 elite divisions to be responsible for the defense of the Dayue King City and several major cities, and to help the Dayue Kingdom re-establish a new army.
On the first day of the sixth month, Sugrei, the new lord of the Great Yue Kingdom, finally returned to his royal city.
The long procession of Wang drove slowly into Kuicheng, and the people of Dayue did not know whether it was voluntary or forced, and they all fell down on both sides of the street, bent their knees, and silently watched the carriage of Huagai Luoling pass in front of them surrounded by guards.
For the ordinary people of Da Yue Kingdom, it doesn't seem to matter who is the head of the country, the important thing is to end this panicked day as soon as possible. In the past few months, there has been no peace in the royal city, first the former lord Suzha arrested people, then the rebels of the eldest prince Sukha entered the city to arrest people, and then the new lord Sugree began to arrest people again, sometimes people walk on the street, and they may never come back.
Sugree's Wang drove a large number of people, and the people of Dayue Kingdom knelt for half an hour before finally seeing the end of the convoy, and when the last ordinary carriage passed by, they could finally stand up, but they did not dare to complain, and hurriedly returned home with their heads down.
In the end, the curtain of the simple carriage was slightly moved, Yang Yi looked out through the gap, and saw that many people of Dayue Country were already kneeling with numb legs and feet, and they were a little staggering when they walked, so he couldn't help but sigh with a wry smile and said: "The majesty of the emperor's family, you have to let the people pay." ”
Lu Yuanliang sat opposite, while drinking and looked at Yang Yi, although he didn't know what it was called paying, but he also knew what he was thinking by looking at Yang Yi's expression, and said: "They are kneeling with Su Gree, and they are not kneeling with you, it is very simple to let them not kneel, let Tie Niu go to the front and twist Su Gree's head off, and you go to his car." ”
Yang Yi couldn't hear the sarcasm in Lu Yuanliang's words, leaned sideways against the car window, and said with a smile: "If I really do that, it's not you who are in trouble?" ”
Lu Yuanliang also smiled but did not speak, in fact, many people want Yang Yi to sit on the throne of Dayue Kingdom, let him become a real monarch, and they can also become legitimate ministers, but since then, Yang Yi will come to the cusp, whether it is Daguang or the people of Dayue, they will regard him as a greedy person.
"I don't even want to sit on the wider imperial chair in the Daguang Palace, I'm really not surprised by a throne of the Great Yue Kingdom, not to mention that it's still so hot." Yang Yi said with a smile.
In fact, as long as people with a little knowledge know very well, Yang Yi's current strength is far from enough to establish a country and become the emperor, and Yang Yi has also set himself the strategic idea of "accumulating grain and slowly becoming king", and he is full of resistance to the temptation of the throne.
From the very beginning, Yang Yi's strategic intention to agree to control the Great Yue Kingdom was very clear, that is, to open up maritime transportation. However, during the period of the Shu army's conquest of the Great Yue Kingdom, Yang Yi read a large number of national histories and books about the Great Yue Kingdom, and found that this remote country in the eyes of the light people contained countless hidden wealth.
The silk and sara, sara, colored silk, brocade, porcelain, medicinal herbs, ironware, and copper coins produced by Daguang are extremely sought after in the Dayue Kingdom and the southeastern countries, and the price is also extremely high, and basically only the royal family and nobles can use these Daguang extremely common things.
However, the rubber, spices, and peanuts produced by Da Yue are very expensive in Da Quang, because of geographical barriers and cultural differences, most of the circulation between the two countries is limited to tribute, and the quantity is very small.
What surprised Yang Yi the most was that he actually saw that there were already sweet potatoes and sweet melons in Dayue Kingdom.
Sweet potato and sweet melon, in fact, sweet potato and pumpkin, in Yang Yi's image, these two plants should be produced in the distant American continent, Yang Yi does not know whether there is an American continent in this other world, but he knows that these two agricultural products have extremely high yields, in ancient times when food was very scarce, once the area planting can be formed, it will greatly relieve the tension and a single food supply.
On the other hand, rubber and spices, which are specialties of the southeastern border, have not been widely flowed into Daguang, for the simple reason that people in this era did not know the use of these things, and only regarded them as luxury, but in fact these things can become indispensable things in daily life.
After Yang Yi learned about these things, he did not hesitate to change his strategy, originally only planned to use Dayue as a bridge springboard, so that Shuzhong could open up maritime trade, and link with the Daguang Central Plains from the side, but Yang Yi has now decided to open up the southeast market in an all-round way, pave the way with a strong military, and take Dayue as the front, so as to promote trade and culture from each other.
Therefore, when Yang Yi came to Dayue Kingdom, he was followed by a huge caravan of nearly a thousand people, and every time these merchants went to a place, it was like seeing a beautiful girl standing naked in front of him, and the look of greed made people shudder.
Dayue and Shuzhong are adjacent to each other, basically as long as the merchants in Shu know what good things are in the Dayue country, but unfortunately the relationship between the two places was not too good before, and the merchants in Shuzhong want to cross the border to do business, it is really difficult.
Now that Yang Yi has opened the door for these people, how can they not be hungry and thirsty.
"Do you really think it's okay for this group of greedy merchants to follow the army?" Lu Yuanliang naturally didn't understand Yang Yi's intentions, as a Daguang person, no matter how smart he was, he would have a sense of racial superiority, he would always sneer at these remote and barbarian things, and even more despise the naked greed of the merchants.
Yang Yi listened to the chaotic merchant convoy behind the convoy, and said with a smile: "Sometimes it is not enough to occupy a country with the army alone, and economic control is a more vicious method. If one day the weapons, food, daily necessities, and even the money they use come from our Shuzhong, then even if we withdraw all the troops, they will have no room for resistance. ”