Chapter 192: People Die for Money, Birds Die for Food

"Qi Qi's father and emperor, his sons were originally unclear about General Liang's request for the Southern Zhao. That day, I just listened to General Liang's explanation of the original situation. Erchen said some words, but there are only two, the first is to attack the heart for the top, the siege for the bottom, and the second is to divide it. None of the others said, or said that it was extremely unlikely that Tubo would send troops. ”

No matter which one it is, it has nothing to do with Liang Jishou continuing to lead his troops south.

In fact, Liang Jishou did this, which made the imperial court very worried. After all, the main army mobilized by the imperial court was not much, and most of the people who used Meng Shezhao and other departments were used, but Liang Jishou commanded properly, in contrast to Meng Jian's stragglers, and won a big victory.

Liang Jishou's suggestion also seems to make sense. However, his army is small, and his lone army is far south, far away from Yaozhou, which is equivalent to far away from the base camp, which seems to be very similar to Xue Rengui's defeat in Dafeichuan. First of all, it will be very difficult to supply, or it will be to feed the war with war, and the result of that will make the various departments fall to Tibet a little faster. Also, Tubo has always been not very peaceful, and if they defeat them, they will not move, and if they are defeated, they may be able to cross over the Shenchuan chain bridge built on the Jinsha River the year before last and cut it. Not only that, Tubo also established the Rabu District in the Lijiang area, which was called the Shenchuan Governor's Mansion by the Tang Dynasty, which seemed to be faintly used as a bridgehead to the east.

In short, there are many drawbacks. Or if Liang Jishou marches and fights as magical as Li Jing, then nothing will happen.

Since it wasn't his son's idea to be happy, Li Zhi couldn't help but ponder. The main thing is that it is far away, and I feel that something is not good, and I can't notify it in time. Pulled into a straight line, thousands of miles of road, but this trip is high and far away, there are still a lot of mountain roads, seven bends and eight twists, and it is climbing mountains and mountains, converted down, more than 10,000 miles of road. It's not the road from Luoyang to Chang'an, even if you use fast horses to inform, it's good to be able to run 500 miles a day. It took at least two months to come and go, and by the time the edict of the edict to collect troops was sent to Yunnan, it was already too late.

Li Zhi looked at Yan Liben and the others.

But these Zai Fu can govern the country, and when it comes to military affairs, they are almost the same as Li Wei, they are all laymen, and they can't keep their voices silent. Unable to force it, Yan Liben had no choice but to say: "Your Majesty still issued an edict to let General Liang withdraw his troops and return." It was only a delay of some time, and General Liang's army would not go far south. ”

Li Zhi had no choice but to issue an edict.

Li Wei didn't pay much attention to this matter.

He definitely hoped for the victory of the Tang Dynasty, but he had no say in marching and fighting, arranging generals, and mobilizing materials and troops. is to have the right to speak, with the level of his half-jar vinegar, he is also blank-eyed. For example, this time Nanzhao, he hasn't figured out what is going on until now, and he can't start it if he wants to speak.

Wen Tun's character immediately forgot about it. However, when his father heard that Liang Jishou was leading his army south, he immediately called himself from Lishan to rebuke, and seemed to be still very dissatisfied with himself......

So he only pinned his hopes on another thing, and this event happened, maybe to make his father laugh.

Soon the time came to September, and this year, the people of Guanzhong finally came to the end of their hardships and endured.

If the wind and rain are smooth, the grain harvest will be good. Not only that, but many people saw and heard it, and there was no need for the court to transfer, and some learned the prince's method of planting. Large-scale cultivation is unlikely, after all, many people have few people in the land, and there is no way to implement this kind of intensive cultivation. But I also gave it a try.

Including the experimental sites in various states and counties of the imperial court, they are not as good as the yield of the land in Chang'an Huangzhuang, with insufficient fertilizer and manpower, and the land may not be good, but there are also real five stone fields. This is already very remarkable, and more people are moved. In particular, it gave the people with little land a way to live.

So after the autumn, the price of rice in Chang'an fell one by one, and the corn almost fell to four cents per bucket of rice. The difficulty is that the big families are so cheap, should they continue to hoard Juqi. What if next year is another bumper harvest, what if it falls again......

However, the imperial court saw that the rice was cheap, and purchased a batch in time to supplement the granaries of Chang'an and Luoyang. In recent years, the granary has also been emptied.

Not only that, but cotton is equally tempting. This time, Wu Zetian tried to plant a lot of Guanzhuang and Huangzhuang, not many, mainly scattered, one in the east and one in the west. For everyone to see. If you have the guts, you can also ask carefully. The yield is not as my son said, but it is available in the Western Regions, and it is easier to plant. Even if there is no such output, it is not a waste, and I am not afraid of people. In the end, Wu Zetian was very surprised.

Then it was made into cloth or quilts, and the officials did not compete with the people for profit, and it was not easy for the court to sell. It just so happened that Guanzhong was hit by a disaster last year, and many families have not been relieved until now, and some families are very pitiful. So he gave these cotton clothes and quilts to these poor people, orphans, widows, and old people.

If you can't see it, you can see it, and even touch it with your own hands, and many people's eyes will be hot. The elders of the prefectures and counties begged the officials for seeds, and the officials asked the imperial court for the seeds. After getting the benefits, he was embarrassed to scold, and Wu Zetian's goal was achieved. In fact, Wu Zetian's reputation among the people is acceptable, but the people are dissatisfied with a woman's family meddling in government affairs. Especially this woman's family, the means are also decisive, and they have killed many people......

Of course, if you want the entire grain harvest of the Tang Dynasty, it is still very far away. Cotton is even more distant, and although the weaving cart was introduced from Dashi, it is still very backward.

But not only these, the places where cotton is planted are not only Guanzhong, Henan, Hebei, Jianghuai, but also many places in the Western Regions, which are more suitable for planting. Li Wei's method can increase the yield of cotton in Henan in Guanzhong, and it can also increase the yield in the Western Regions. Some large families are already aware of this problem.

With the problems one after another, the land is the problem, the Western Regions is vast, the land is vast and sparsely populated, but there are Turkic people, and even the Tubo people have expanded their power in the past, and there are still people's problems, not to mention the trouble of planting, it is more troublesome to pick, and then spinning out the cloth is more troublesome than picking. Where did this person come from?

But Li Wei didn't feel that a big change was about to begin, but his eyes were fixed on the east.

When I got up in the morning, I trotted a little, although my body was warm, but I sweated a little, Bi'er was afraid that Li Wei would catch a cold, so she hurriedly brought a piece of clothing to put on for Li Wei.

Li Wei took Bi'er's hand and said, "Hold the hand of the son, grow old with the son." ”

"Your Highness, the concubine is so daring."

"Why don't you dare, my father is so picky, and he is very satisfied with you, without him, you are the best to do."

"Your Highness, can you allow the concubine to say a word?"

"Why not?"

"Your Royal Highness, parents all over the world want their children to be good, the emperor only has a temporary misunderstanding with you, and the weather will be sunny after the rain. They are parents again......"

"You stupid girl, Lone doesn't have a grudge against his father, but he just doesn't understand why his attitude towards Lone has changed. Do you think you don't work hard to fix it? ”

Fathers are good for their children, about yes. Mother, it's hard to say. But what made him cry and laugh was that his father looked at him horizontally, vertically, and didn't know what he had done to make him so angry. Mother, I'm starting to look a little bit like a mother to myself. Let's get by, if we can find out the reason why my father is angry, my mother is so easy to be satisfied, and she can change her own way and let her get a satisfactory thing a year, it may not be impossible. As long as it drags on for more than ten years, even if it is a few years......

This is to think, and to know in my heart, that it is not that simple!

But this sentence, even if Bi'er is so close, can't say it.

At this time, Liu Qun came in to report and said, "Yangzhou's letter." ”

In a very low voice, there are Liang Jinzhu and Earth Horses in Yangzhou, and it is not good that the prince has too close contact with businessmen, and it turns out that the prince is going to Yangzhou, and the emperor is furious.

"Take it," Li Wei also whispered.

It's like doing underground intelligence.

I opened the letter and looked at it, and it said a lot of things.

The two of them ran to Yangzhou and tried it, saying that the test was also very troublesome, Li Wei said it was very simple, but it couldn't be so simple in reality, so they had to try it repeatedly, but after trying it twice, they already had a number in their hearts. So buying land, or renting land, this is Li Wei's idea. In any case, the land by the sea is either a useless beach, or a swamp, or a cliff, and it is necessary to prevent the backflow of the sea and the flooding of the river. Therefore they are all very desolate.

You don't even have to give money for these lands, you just need to give some bribes to the officials, and you can take them. Therefore, a lot of groundland suitable for drying salt was purchased. But something happened in the middle, this time someone began to pay attention to them, and after peeping, they also took it, and actually raised the land price slightly, and also snatched a lot of flat beaches suitable for salt from them.

Li Wei said this point when he was leaving, don't think about the imperial court, buy as much land as you can. Lu Liang and the others were puzzled at first. Li Wei explained that it was too late for the court to react, this was fighting for himself for the time being, but in fact it was fighting for the court in the future.

or forced to the point of escaping, what kind of gods of the court, he will not consider it.

In general, the land was taken down very smoothly, followed by manpower. It's not that you can dry it into salt if you have a beach, you have to make it into a salt pan. That is, after tidying up, the dried salt brine should be led to the salt brine pool to evaporate again, and some treatment will be done.

Li Wei was very skeptical about whether this kind of salt could be eaten. So I asked about other kinds of salt now, boiling salt is about better, but the nature is similar to dried salt, as for the lake well, Ze salt and well salt, the current process is also a problem, and even sometimes some of the later industrial salt of the salt lake is eaten as table salt. It can only be said that the stomach is good now. Or like cottonseed oil, it is said that cottonseed oil affects fertility, but in Li Wei's childhood, many families ate it, and China's population is still rising.

Technology dictates that there is no way around.

Not only does the salt pan need manpower, but in autumn, the cane sugar in Lingnan and Jiangnan will also have to reopen. Li Wei took back a lot of money, and the capital was less. And there are not enough people, I want to ask a few trustworthy friends in the capital, mainly businessmen with reliable moral character, such as the merchant Chu Xiaosheng, who sells condiments, that is, the seller of soy sauce, rice vinegar and spices, Li Wei also saw when Hu Ying invited guests that day. Ask Li Wei if it's okay.

By the way, Yang Xu's second daughter, everything is fine in Yangzhou, they sent people to protect them, and secretly notified some good friends to take care of them on their behalf. Please Li Wei don't worry about it, and report a peace.

After Li Wei read it, he immediately burned the letter, and then asked Liu Qun to bring a message, saying, you can do it yourself, but you are involved in it, and you must not let more people know.

The message was taken away, but Li Zhi called him to Daming Palace again.

It's still Liang Jishou's business.

Liang Jishou wrote another newspaper, saying that the army was advancing southward all the way to the south, without stopping, and at a very fast speed, and all the tribes were frightened and convinced, and some tribes had already sent envoys to Chang'an to pay tribute.

At first glance, it seems to be a good thing, if Li Wei came to the Tang Dynasty, he would definitely say: "Congratulations to my father." ”

But this is not the case, the Tang Dynasty only operated in the area of Queensland and Erhai, the first is a large population, the second is a familiar bureaucracy, and the degree of sinicization is high. Further south are the bureaucrats, who are savage by nature, and the place is poor, and they are not even as good as chicken ribs. Therefore, the imperial court has not been interested.

This is only secondary.

Liang Jishou's situation is exactly what the imperial court is worried about, after all, the army he led is small, the advance is too fast, the supply difficulties are not mentioned, and he is far away from Yaozhou, which always makes people feel uneasy.

"What do you think?"

"I don't know."

"The Battle of Dafeichuan, aren't you talking about it?"

If you have to force Li Wei to say, Li Wei had no choice but to say: "The imperial court has issued an edict, even if General Liang advances quickly, I think it should be fine in just one or two months." The Southern Zhao bureaucrats rebelled and surrendered, and they also had to give some warnings......"

Suddenly, his eyes widened, and he said hesitantly: "Could it be, is it ......?"

"Could it be what?"

"Father, can you show the map of your son?"

"Give it to the prince."

"Ah," the eunuch replied, pulling out a map. The map is not clear, only the terrain around Queensland and Erhai is roughly accurate, and further south it is not accurate, and even marked to the country of Pi, all the way to the Indian Ocean. But don't take it seriously, it's wrong to have more than half of the terrain from Zhuge Liang City to the south.

According to the Di newspaper, Li Wei guessed Liang Jishou's marching route, and then recalled the route that the three of Jimo said, and slowly matched it in his mind.

He said, "Father, please summon the three of them immediately. ”

If Jimo returned home, it would be too late to interrogate him in Luzhou, but Yu Dashao and Ye Yi, a businessman who sold meat, lived in Chang'an.

"Why did you summon them?"

Li Wei told the story of the elephant tomb, and then said: "Erchen did not support them at that time, and they were negligent. Now that Erchen thinks about it, it must be that these three people chased General Liang and didn't know what means they used to bewitch General Liang, so after the big victory, they didn't stop, and the army continued to the south. ”

"Is there such a thing?" Li Zhi's face was still very calm, in fact, he had known it for a long time, but like Li Wei, he quickly left it behind. But the prime ministers heard about it for the first time, and asked in surprise one by one.

This is true, but the elephant's instinct and the elephant tomb are all places that are difficult for the world to reach. Otherwise, for thousands of years, who has seen elephants grow old and leave the herd, but who has ever seen an elephant cemetery? Now Erchen is even more worried. There are countless ivory, and there are treasures left behind by a certain large clan, and General Liang will be tempted by a great victory...... Even if they are all the way, wherever they go, there will be many bad luck. The three of them were able to escape, it was a pure fluke, and some areas in the south were not accessible to humans. ”

Li Wei was a little irritable, and his father only walked around Henan and Guanzhong, not far away. Even in the north, the so-called earthly realm refers to winter, and it can still be reached in summer, and no matter how far it is, there can be tens of thousands of miles away, staying in Kamchatka? But I don't know how terrible some of the mountains and rivers on the border between Yunnan and North Myanmar are now.

Li Zhi just groaned, not only Li Zhi, but also Dai Zhide, they were all thinking.

Don't think that gentlemen don't talk about profits, now the treasury is a little empty, Li Zhi is anxious, and the prime ministers are also anxious.

This treasure is real, and it is still possible to use some troops. It is not considered to disturb the people, even if it is to sacrifice some soldiers, the first is to raise the prestige of the various departments of the Southern Zhao, and the second is to have this wealth, which can also alleviate the crisis of the imperial court. Don't want hundreds of thousands of ivory, even tens of thousands of ivory, plus some gold and silver, it is also a lot of wealth.

Others say it is true, it may not be credible, but Li Wei is serious, but Li Zhi believes it, the same thing is made, this son is still okay with "learning", especially miscellaneous studies, the poems are also good, the words are okay, but the articles are slightly worse.

I was calculating how much money I had......

Li Wei is really anxious, the so-called people die for money, birds die for food, and I don't deceive me. Seeing that his Lao Tzu was the emperor, he seemed to be quite moved, and he said: "Father, look for these three people." If this matter is true, immediately issue an edict, how fast, how fast the poster needs, and urgently edict Liang Jishou to come back. ”

I don't know if this mountain range is the later mountain range, if it's really a savage mountain range, then you have won the jackpot. The future generations are so terrifying, and it is now sparsely populated, and it is possible that there are still some indigenous people in the local area, who are not civilized, just like savages, with the agility of apes and the strength of tigers and wolves, and later generations will not be able to deal with them with guns. And that harsh environment. Later, it was developed, and it was also developed when there were more people and science was further developed, and it was just like that, and no human beings dared to enter some areas of Savage Mountain. God knows where the elephant tomb mentioned by the three people of Jimo is?

Don't want wealth, send an army of 340,000 people in, it is possible to turn around, what wealth can not be seen, can bring out 5,000 people, it is good.

Li Zhi still didn't say anything.

Li Wei continued: "Father, a gentleman loves money and takes it in a good way. Even if it is true, after the three of them go back, they may not be able to find it again, and even if they can find it, they don't know how many soldiers' lives will be used to pile it up. It's not worth it. You are a benevolent emperor, and if you can't think about wealth, you won't think about your people. Speaking of wealth, the grain harvest is getting better and better, and there are no six stone fields in various places, but the good news of three stones, four stones, and five stone fields continues to fly to the capital. There is also the queen mother's cotton. What is wealth, the common people live and work in peace and contentment, have food to eat, clothes to wear, this is your greatest wealth. ”

"That's it...... Reasonable," Li Zhi replied after a deep sigh.

But it is impossible not to be tempted, and later the price of an ivory is often hundreds of thousands and twenty thousand, and it is still very expensive in this era, with more than 100 yuan for good, and close to 50 yuan for the poor, and it is still in short supply. Hundreds of thousands of tusks, an astronomical number.

Therefore, Li Zhi replied reluctantly.

began to issue an edict and sent people to find Yu Nuo and Ye Yi. It is very convenient for the emperor to find someone in Chang'an, and he immediately found out, the grandfather of the Yu family is a Hu man, who once served as a general of the Tang Dynasty, and followed Li Shimin to conquer Goryeo, and also made military exploits. Yunuo is young and old at home, and he is very pampered. Ye Yi is a big butcher in the East Market, of course, in Li Zhi's eyes, no matter how big the butcher is, there is no difference between being a pork seller.

But both of them left home, and when it comes to the south, it is possible that they will not be back for more than a year.

Li Wei scolded angrily: "These three fools! ”

"What did you just say?"

forgot that he couldn't scold in front of his father and the prime ministers, so he immediately said: "Father, the son is just anxious, and the army of thousands may be destroyed because of these three people." Liang Jishou is defeated, and the good situation of Nanzhao may be destroyed. ”

"Why are you so sure?"

Li Wei was speechless for a while, he could not say that there was an expeditionary force in the future, and it was precisely because he entered this mountain and turned around that the army of 220,000 armed guns and ammunition disappeared 150,000. It is impossible to say what happened in the south, and it can only be explained by hearsay, but there is no strong evidence to explain it like that. But I was very dizzy, how could my father become a money fan?

It's just a few million dollars, and if you change it to Li Wei himself, you won't wear it from later generations, and you will also be tempted.

After Li Zhi finished asking, he lowered his head, stared at the map, looked at it for a long time and said: "Spread the holy decree, Zhongshu Shilang, Tongzhongshu Menxia Sanpin, Daoguo Gong Dai Zhidejia and Hubu Shangshu, Huangmen Shilang, Tongzhongshu Menxia Sanpin Zhang Wenqian inspected the school Dali Qing, Huangmen Shilang, Yongshan County Gong, Tongzhongshu Menxia Sanpin Hao Chujun is Zhongshu Shilang, and is also the school official department Shilang, Tongzhongshu Menxia Sanpin Li Jingxuan is the servant of the Ministry of Officials, and is still the same Zhongshu Menxia Sanpin. The prince's left concubine, Liu Renliang, was the same as the third rank of the Zhongshu Sect, and immediately returned to the capital to take up his post. ”

That is, the reward.

Yan Li was originally the truth, and it was not good to seal it again, but several other people, in the past few years, have suffered a lot of disasters and suffered a lot, and this reward is reasonable. But the last appointment is very evocative. Liu Renliang is the prime minister, and there is also credit. Tubo has no will to fight, and it is not very suitable to put Liu Renliang in Longzhou. Transferred back, it was also Silla Goryeo was not peaceful, and he shifted his attention to the northeast at any time. But the order after this file is ......

Li Wei said: "Father, no. ”

It's really a savage mountain, don't want Liu Renliang, even Pei Xingjian, or go to Qinling, it's all an end. Xue Rengui of the Tang Dynasty was defeated, Liu Renliang went on a business trip again, and in the end, only Pei Xingjian was left, and he couldn't sing two people. I knew this was the case, why didn't I say that this treasure was fake just now, but I couldn't say that what if Liang Jishou also found it?

After finishing speaking, he looked at his father with a sad face. If my father has made up his mind, he can't say no?

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