The city of Tanzhou is more lively, and the merchants who come and go are more dense, and there are actually three achievements to buy sweet potatoes to burn, and then transport the wine back to various places to sell, and also make a lot of money.

Perhaps, this is the real purpose of Baili Wuji, only by allowing the people to have income and be able to support their families, can the Chu State become truly strong.

And the people of Chu are following the plan of Baili Wuji, gradually, handicraft workshops and shops began to increase, and the people slowly came out of the fields and walked into workshops and shops more and more.

Gradually, no one looked down on the vendors anymore.

Gradually, the people's families began to prosper.

Perhaps, this is by no means something that other government decrees can do, and perhaps the cause is nothing more than a decadence that has been unscrupulous.

But this does not affect the people's respect for Baili Wuji, and sweet potato roast is also respected as "Baili Yao" among the people.

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It's the end of September in the blink of an eye.

Champa rice began to be harvested, and the yield per mu was 5 to 6 stones, while the high-quality rice fields at that time were only 2 to 3 stones.

Baili Wuji ordered Xu Shiming to forcibly promote Champa rice in the territory of Chu from next year, and set the planting date at the end of March to early April every year, and after the harvest in two months, rice can be planted. And the seeds of Champa rice were distributed to the people of Chu free of charge according to each county.

The last sentence made Xu Shiming and others feel ......very painful.

The next day, information came again from the north.

The Jin civil strife began.

Shi Jingtang was worried about An Chongrong, listened to Sang Weihan's suggestion, and appointed Liu Zhiyuan as the envoy of Beijing and Hedong Jiedu, and still subordinate Liaozhou and Qinzhou to Hedong; Li De, who was left in Beijing, was transferred to Yedu.

and appointed Kaifeng Yin Zheng Wang Shi Chonggui, that is, Shi Jingtang's eldest son, to stay in Tokyo.

Prime Minister Feng Dao and Li Song repeatedly recommended the envoy of Tianping Jiedu and the deputy commander of the guards and the pro-army Ma Bu, and Du Chongwei, the secretary of Tongping Zhangshi, was able to appoint him as the commander of the capital and act as the envoy of the imperial battalion, replacing Liu Zhiyuan. Liu Zhiyuan hated the two prime ministers because of this.

Du Chongwei searched for goods everywhere he went, and many people fled. He once went out and passed through the streets and said to the people on the left and right: "People say that I have driven all the people away, why are there so many people in the market?" It seems that Du Chongwei still thinks that he has not looted enough.

Shi Jingtang set out from Daliang and arrived at Yedu to implement amnesty. Shi Jingtang sent an edict to An Chongrong and said: "As a minister, you still have an old mother at home, and you don't think of difficulties in anger, and abandon the monarch and close relatives. I won the world because of the Khitan, and you got rich because of me. I don't dare to forget the kindness of others, but you forget, what is this for? Now, I use the world, the ministers belong to the Khitan, and you want to use a town to fight the Khitan, isn't it too difficult! You should think carefully and not invite regrets, right? ”

An Chongrong was even more proud to receive this edict, and when he heard that Shannan Dongdao Jiedu made An Congjin have the heart of rebellion, he secretly sent an envoy to conspire with him.

Shi Jingtang killed the Khitan envoys because An Chongrong killed them, and was afraid that they would come to invade the border fortress, so he sent Yang Yanxun, the envoy of An Guojiedu, to envoy the Khitan. Yang Yan inquired about the Khitan camp, and the Khitan Emperor asked about the killing of the envoy, and Yang Yanxun replied: "For example, if there is an evil son in the family, and his parents can't control him, what will he do?" The anger of the Khitan Emperor dissipated.

Liu Zhiyuan sent his close general Guo Wei to persuade Bai Chengfu, the chief of Tuyuhun, to leave An Chongrong and join the Later Jin court according to the imperial edict, and promised him to be the envoy of the festival.

Guo Wei came back and said to Liu Zhiyuan: "Hu Lu only likes things that are good for himself, and An Chongrong just bribes him with robes and the like; Now, we have to pull him over, it is better to use heavy bribes to get him over. ”

Liu Zhiyuan listened to his suggestion, and asked the envoy to tell Bai Chengfu: "The imperial court has divided you into Khitans, you should divide and govern your own tribes, and now you have come south to help An Chongrong be a rebel, An Chongrong has been spurned by the world, and sooner or later he will be defeated, you must be obedient and naturalized as soon as possible, don't wait until the army is added to you, so that the south and the north are at a loss, and it will be too late to regret at that time." ”

Bai Chengfu was afraid, and in October, he led his soldiers to attach themselves to Liu Zhiyuan. Liu Zhiyuan placed them between Dongshan in Taiyuan and Lanzhou and Shizhou, and asked Bai Chengfu to receive the envoy of Datong Jiedu and collect his elite cavalry under his command.

At the beginning, An Chongrong sent a message to Zhudao, saying that he would raise troops together with Tuyuhun, Data, and Qi, but soon, Bai Chengfu surrendered to Liu Zhiyuan, and Da Tatar and Qixin did not participate in the army, and An Chongrong's strength was greatly depressed.

When Shi Jingtang set off from Daliang to tour the east, He Ning asked for instructions: "Your Majesty has already traveled after getting out of the car, if An Congjin rebels at this time, how can he guard against him?" ”

Shi Jingtang asked, "What is your opinion?" ”

He Ning requested that more than ten copies of the proclamation and edict with empty names be secretly left behind, and delivered to Zheng Wangshi Zhonggui, who was left behind in Tokyo, and when he heard the change, he wrote the names of the generals and sent them to attack An Congjin.

Shi Jingtang complied with him.

In November, An Cong marched to attack Dengzhou, and Tang Prefecture assassinated Shi Wu Yanhan to report to the imperial court.

Zheng Wangshi sent Zhang Congen, the envoy of the Southern Court of Xuanhui, Jiao Jixun, the envoy of Wude, Guo Jinhai, the commander of the Protector of the Holy Capital, and Chen Sirang, the envoy of the workshop, to lead the soldiers of the Great Liang to Yexian County to join the soldiers of Li Jianchong, the assassin of Zhongzhou, to conquer him. Guo Jinhai was originally a Turkic, and Chen Sirang was a native of Youzhou.

Shi Chonggui used an empty proclamation and edict to appoint Gao Xingzhou, who stayed in Xijing, as the former capital of the southern army, and Song Yanyun, the former envoy of Tongzhou Jiedu, as his deputy, and Zhang Congen as the supervising army.

He also appointed Guo Jinhai as the vanguard envoy, and Chen Sirang as his supervisor.

When Shi Jingtang heard about it, he appointed Li De to stay in Yedu to temporarily act as the guard in Tokyo, and summoned Zheng Wangshi Chonggui to Yedu.

An Cong attacked Dengzhou, and Weisheng Jiedu made An Xianhui resist him according to Yacheng, and An Congjin could not conquer and retreated.

An Congjin arrived at Huashan, met Zhang Congen's soldiers, did not expect him to come so fast, engaged, defeated, Zhang Congen captured An Congjin's son Yanei commanded An Hongyi, An Congjin ran back to Xiangzhou with dozens of cavalry, and surrounded the city by himself.

After that, Shi Jingtang transferred Zheng Wang Shi Chonggui to be the king of Qi, and Chongye stayed behind; Li De was appointed to stay in the eastern capital. Gao Xingzhou was appointed to preside over the affairs of Xiangzhou.

The edict ordered the state of Chu to jointly crusade against An Congjin, who was defending Xiangzhou. The king of Chu didn't even read the edict for a hundred miles, and threw it directly.

An Chongrong heard that An Cong's army was against the Jin Dynasty, so he also decided to rebel, and collected the hungry people in the territory on a large scale, with tens of thousands of people, and went south to Yedu, claiming to enter the court.

At first, An Chongrong and Zhao Yanzhi were both commanders and got along very well with each other. When An Chongrong was in Chengde, Zhao Yanzhi came from Guanxi to attach to him, and An Chongrong treated him very well, allowing Zhao Yanzhi to recruit the party; However, he was actually suspicious of him in his heart, and when he raised troops to rebel, he just used him as a platoon envoy, so Zhao Yanzhi held a grudge.