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Every victory of the Tiance Tang Army was able to stimulate the development of industry and commerce in the territory.

This Beiting victory, from the second month of winter to the third month of spring, in five months collected from Xiaogushan to Erji, a vast area spanning 8,000 miles, although the place where the war took place was not an important industrial and commercial town, but it is rich in products, the oasis at the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, the place where the two rivers of Yili and Xiaye flow are also rich places in the Western Regions, everyone knows that as long as the Tang army can stabilize the situation, these lands will be a cornucopia in the future - these are only counting the agricultural and pastoral harvests, if you count other products, It is still unknown how much potential this territory that the Tang army has just conquered.

Of course, at this stage, the main burden brought by the Beiting and Lingxi river basins is still the burden. The weather in Beiting was bad last year, and there was no snow in winter, and then it became a disaster with heavy snow, which caused the garrison to lose a lot of sheep. Fortunately, the battle was won, Yang Yi immediately ordered to recuperate after Zhang stepped out, and he calculated that Mobei would not dare or have the power to invade the west in the near future, so in addition to staying behind to guard the necessary troops, he ordered most of the other troops to be idle, so that they could graze to nourish their bodies and minds. Most of the soldiers and civilians who were unable to produce were sent to Gaochang, Qiuci, and Shazhou for food.

In the past few years, the successive wars have caused Beiting to lose a large number of people, and the already vast Beiting Basin has become more and more sparsely populated, so the soldiers and civilians stationed in the Tang Army can choose the most fertile oasis to be stationed and grazing, and there are also farmers who come here to plant some easy-to-ripen crops. In the spring and summer, Beiting still had to transfer about 200,000 people's grain from Qiuzi, Yanqi, Gaochang, Yizhou, and Shazhou, and this number had to be doubled with the consumption on the road.

The Beiting War in the second year of Tiance has looted the official warehouses and military warehouses in the five places of Gui, Yan, Gao, Yi and Sha at the southern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, and the harvest in these five places in the second year of Tiance is not good, and the cost is too high to transport grain from Lianglan.

Great riches come from famine!

In fact, although the official warehouses and military warehouses at the southern foot of the Tianshan Mountains are all exhausted, there is still a lot of grain in the people - because after the Tiance army conquered these places, these places immediately entered a stable state, for example, Qiuci and Yanqi have not been at war for four or five years, and Gaochang Shazhou has also been without war for three or four years, compared with the previous rulers, the Tiance regime is actually very tolerant, and the people can easily save the surplus of rations in the stable dìng for several years in a row, and in terms of the current productivity of Ganlong, the farmers have two to three ordinary years. You will be able to save the next year's food ration in addition to paying the food tax. If there is a good harvest, the surplus grain of one year can almost prepare for a year's shortage. With a surplus, in addition to preparing for the famine at home, it may be sold to grain merchants for profit.

Ganlong is located on the Silk Road, there are many merchants, caravans travel thousands of miles, of course, it is impossible to prepare rations along the way from the beginning of entry, and must spend money to consume along the way, so there are grain merchants all over the Silk Road, and their business is very stable.

In the past two years, due to the need to prepare for war, the treasury of the official family on Ganlong Road has often been tightened, and the private reserves of the people, especially the big grain merchants, have become more and more, and these businessmen are very discerning, and they have seen that the Tang army of Tiance wants to use soldiers, and if they want to use soldiers, they must use grain, and when the official grain is exhausted, they have to take blood from the people, and as soon as the blood of the people is drawn, the whole market will go up! That is, they have been hoarding grain for three or four years, and now it's the season to sell!

As early as February, when Zheng Wei received the documents sent back by Luo Fu from Gaochang, the whole brow was furrowed, Guo Fen was already in good health at this time, very energetic, not at all like a woman who had just given birth to a child for a month, she had to spend half a day with the child every day, and the rest of the time she took care of government affairs.

"The price of grain in Shazhou has risen to twice as much as usual, three and a half times that in Yizhou, four times that in Gaochang, three times as much as Qiuzi, and three and a half times as much as in Yanqi." Zheng Wei said: "Grain merchants have very few shots, and they limit each person and household to buy only once a day. ”

"It seems that they don't have a lot of food in their hands." Guo Fen comes from the bottom and knows a lot about people's livelihood, but he is not good enough for business.

"Humph! It's not that they don't have food, but they're still waiting for food prices to continue to rise! Zheng Wei sneered and said: "Qiuci, Yanqi, Gaochang, Yizhou, Shazhou, and most of the surplus grain produced in the five places flows into commerce and trade, and most of them are concentrated in Qiuci and Gaochang -- the two major towns in the middle of the Silk Road in our territory at this time, and the grain merchants in these two places, I estimate, should have enough grain for 500,000 to 600,000 people to eat for half a year. ”

Guo Fen had an extremely frightened look on his face: "There are so many! ”

Zhang Yi also felt a little unbelievable on the side: "It's not so much." ”

"Yes. I've been staring at them for the past few years, and they just spit out some business in normal years, and in good harvest years, they just bring in new grain and old grain out, and in terms of the total number, it can almost be said that there is in and out! Years add up to that number - and maybe more! ”

Zheng Wei can know this inside story, in fact, there is another reason - his Zheng family is a big grain storer! In that warehouse in Gaochang, there is enough storage for 50,000 or 60,000 people for half a year! Zheng Wei once heard Zheng Ji mention it every day, saying that his family accounted for about 10% of the share of the middle section of the Silk Road in the territory of grain and rice, so he didn't have to find someone to investigate and secretly visit, and directly estimated that in addition to this number. But he didn't reveal this.

When Zhang Yi heard this, he said angrily: "These profiteers! If they are willing to express the plight of the country, then our predicament will not be a predicament! ”

Guo Fen also said: "Gaochang and Qiuci are the two cities closest to Beiting at the southern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, and most of our soldiers from Beiting eat in these two places this time, if these merchants can understand the righteousness and open a warehouse to stabilize the price of grain......

Zheng Wei smiled bitterly when he heard this: "Madam, they have been waiting for three or four years, and what they are waiting for is today, such a large grain storage, three or four years of transportation, replacing old with new, barn insect and fire prevention, the manpower and material resources used are enough to double the cost of each bucket of grain." Now is the time to strike! After this year, there will definitely be a surplus of grain in Beiting in the coming year, and then the price of grain will be lower, and if there is another bumper harvest in Gaochang, Qiuzi and other places, these people will have to go bankrupt! This is the life of the family, how can it be possible to open a position to stabilize food prices for the sake of justice? ”

Yang Dingguo curled his beard when he heard this, and said: "Aren't they making a fortune in the country!" ”

"Yes." Yang Yidao: "Usually rice is cheap and expensive, so they collect rice at a low price, but now that rice is expensive and cheap, it is time for them to collect gold." ”

Yang Dingguo said: "I also understand this truth, but there must be a degree to make money, and now the country is in difficulty, they still do such things, and when this country is their own country?" Zheng Changshi, you will issue an order, give them a fair price, and let them open a warehouse to sell grain at this fair price. ”

Zheng Wei was stunned and ordered the merchant to sell grain at the price in the order? This kind of "method" can only be imagined by martial artists, and Zheng Wei never thought that he could do so. In fact, this is not going to work at all.

"They won't drive." Zheng Wei smiled bitterly: "If we really gave the order to go over, they must have said that there is no food." ”

"They don't open? Hmph," Yang Dingguo said: "I'll bring a government soldier over now, and I'll open their granaries to see how they are!" With so much food, they can't hide it! ”

Zheng Wei was taken aback, if he wanted to say that he sent troops to forcibly open a position, why did he have to go to Yang Dingguo in person? You can just send a lieutenant to go around Gaochang or Qiuzi and sweep away, but in this way, the credibility of the Tiance regime among the merchants will be completely destroyed!

Although Guo Fen was angry at the businessman's unrighteousness, he also knew that it was inappropriate to do so, and asked, "What did we do in the past?" ”

Zheng Wei said: "In the past, we used business to guide business. We have a large amount of grain in our hands as a level storage, and if there is an emergency, we will release the grain to guide the price of grain. But now our granaries in Gaochang and Qiuzi are all empty, not to mention the leveling storage, even the sergeants who came back from Beiting, we can only send money, and we can't send them food. We have no food in our hands, and we send documents empty, and the documents are just a piece of waste paper when they reach the merchants. ”

"Wait!" Yang Dingguo intercepted him and said, "You just said that the soldiers we came back from Beiting to eat were also paid but not paid?" ”

"Yes."

Yang Dingguo was anxious when he heard this: "In this way, after our sons and daughters get the money, they may suffer and starve because they can't buy enough food?" ”

Zheng Wei was a little embarrassed, and he couldn't say yes for a while, because he was also responsible for this matter, but he had no choice - the so-called Qiao daughter-in-law was difficult to cook without rice, because he had no materials in his hands (referring to no materials in the Gaochang Qiuzi area), so he could only send money. Even if it was, it was borrowed from merchants.

Yang Dingguo knew that the answer was yes when he saw his expression, and couldn't help but say angrily: "Zheng Changshi, do you know what the consequences of doing this are!" The sons and daughters worked desperately on the front line, but when they returned to the rear, they found that a bunch of unconscionable people were making a fortune in the country, and the little subsidy they got couldn't even buy a bucket of rice, what would they think in their hearts! Once their state of mind changes, will they still sacrifice their lives to fight when they go to war in the future? This is a major event that shakes the foundation of the country! How can you handle it so ridiculously! ”

was scolded by Yang Dingguo one after another, although Yang Dingguo is an elder, Zheng Wei is not a person without temper, and snorted: "Elder Yang Guo, according to you, what should I do?" ”

Yang Dingguo was stunned for a moment, and said, "Hurry up and transfer grain from Liangzhou!" ”

"Liangzhou still has grain in stock. But for Gao Chang, this is far water, where can the near fire be saved! Zheng Wei said: "This is not to transport some goods, but to transport rations for hundreds of thousands of people!" Grain from here to Gaochang, at least more than a month, this month, the food consumed on the road, need to prepare twice as much materials, we are now in debt to operate, where can we afford to afford the waste on the way? If we enter the market at cost, we will still not be able to solve the problem of grain prices in Gaochang, and if we enter the market at a loss, the state treasury will not be able to withstand the toss. This battle in Beiting has exhausted our army and people, the treasury is empty, and we are very strong with a false shell to the outside world, but we will tell the truth ourselves behind closed doors - in fact, there are many internal problems, and this food price problem thousands of miles away affects the whole body, if it is so easy to solve, why should I worry here! ”

He said such a long thing, but Yang Dingguo was suppressed, he was okay to fight, and he had also done it as an assistant in government affairs -- but it was a small place with a population of several thousand like Xinshaye City, and Yang Dingguo was not good at such a big policy with a population of more than 10,000 miles and a population of millions, involving extremely complex issues such as military, diplomacy, commerce, industry and agriculture, and transportation.

Guo Fen also knows that it has not been easy for Zheng Wei to be entrusted over the years, Zhang Mai is full of pride, and he decides the general direction of action with a pat of his hand, but if he really wants to do things well, there are thousands of meticulous work involved, and these detailed military aspects are handled by Yang Yi, Guo Shiyong and others, and logistics and people's livelihood depend on Zheng Wei. This is the head of the internal affairs of the Tiance Tang Army, and there are no new stories for the monks to sing in the variations in various places, but in fact, he is the pillar that supports the military victory and diplomatic victory of the Tiance Tang Army! Not to mention anything else, just let the Tiance Army make the people's livelihood in the territory better than most of the surrounding countries under the successive foreign wars, this credit is enough to make Zheng Wei and the generals who opened up the territory and deserve it.

"Zheng Changshi," Guo Fen softened his voice and said in a consultative tone, "Things are naturally difficult, but with your ingenuity, there must be a way." ”

Zheng Wei heard Guo Fen speak in this tone, and then he had no choice but to think of a way, and sighed: "To cook and stir-fry, you have to have rice first, we are not in trouble with the dish now, but there is no rice in the pot." The current difficulty lies in the fact that we must first find money and food. When you have money and food in your hands, things are easy to do. ”

Guo Fen said: "So can you borrow a little more from the merchants?" ”

"It's not that hard." Zheng Wei said: "But such a large amount of money ...... Last winter, we were already borrowing money to fight, and most of the merchants who were close to our army had already taken out all that they could, and now we have not said anything about the interest, and if we want to go down again, we will have to move their principal -- I am afraid it will be difficult. For businessmen, capital is life, and it is impossible to ask most people to do this. ”

Guo Fen lowered his head and said, "Zheng Changshi is right, this matter is really difficult. But it's hard to return, everyone works together, and we have to get along with each other. We have even passed such difficulties as the Battle of the North Court, could it be that we are stuck here after the victory? "Because he was commanded to go down, all the whole house brought out all the gold, silver, jewelry, and valuables. After Fu'an heard about it, he also sent the dowry.

Guo Fen said: "How can this be. ”

Fu'an said: "My sister said this, because my sister is an outsider!" ”

Guo Fen asked him to accept it, and when Xue Shanya heard about it, she also packed up all the belongings other than those needed for life and sent them together.

Zhang Mai's life is relatively simple, his status in the kingdoms is respected by the emperor, but there are only more than 20 servants in the inner government of Tiance to help take care of life, looking at the current world, not to mention Yelu Deguang, Li Congke, Neser II and others, that is, the Central Plains' Jiedu envoys, except for Shi Jingjiao, I am afraid that there is no one simpler than him, so most of the property of the whole mansion is actually not much, even if the dowry of Fu'an and Xue Shanya is added, compared to the needs of Gaochang and Beiting, compared to the debt of the current Cangsi, it is still a drop in the bucket.

However, she made such a gesture, and all walks of life in Liangzhou could not help but be moved by this.

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