Jiang Feng is becoming more and more aware that this world is different from the historical world in his original time and space.

It is not only the changes brought about by the fluttering of the wings of its own butterflies, but also because its own history is the inevitable collision of countless accidents.

Although at the end of the Tang Dynasty, there were also the Anshi Rebellion, the Huangchao Uprising, and the division of feudal towns, but the Tang Dynasty was not destroyed by Zhu Wen, but kept the land of Guanzhong to survive, which is the biggest difference.

Zhu Wen only established a large independent kingdom in the Central Plains, and Li Keyong of Hedong was not able to defeat the Great Liang to unify the Central Plains, but it was still the most powerful vassal state in the north.

The situation is the same in the south, the various feudal lords should have been annihilated in the process of attacking each other, and the big fish eating the small fish, but until a few years ago, when this alternative appeared of their own, except for Yang Xingmi's Wu State and Qian Di's Yue State still existed, other small feudal lords in Shannan, Jiangnan, Liangchuan, Lingnan and other places lived the same life, which was not the original historical trend at all.

However, in Jiang Feng's view, although some specific and subtle trends have deviated a little, the general trend has not changed.

The power of the Hu people is still expanding, the only difference is that the Shatuo people and the miscellaneous Hu tribes behind them, who should have fallen a long time ago, are still strong, and even faintly suppress the Khitan people who should have risen and the party members who are recovering their strength, but in Jiang Feng's opinion, the situation may be even worse.

The Liaoxia and Xia Hus in the original time and space relied on the blood sucking from the Northern Song Dynasty regime in the south to grow stronger, and then competed for hegemony in the Central Plains, and now it has become the Sanhu scrambling to the south to grab benefits, once this scramble evolves into some kind of tacit understanding, it will be a great disaster for the Han people in the south.

In Jiang Feng's view, there are now some signs of this tacit understanding, such as the indulgence of the Shatuo people to the Dangxiang people, such as the Khitan people turning a blind eye to the Shatuo people going south, and even deliberately taking advantage of the fire to rob.

If it is not destroyed and disrupted in time, and the tacit understanding becomes a fixed situation, it will be really difficult to reverse.

"The county duke, avoiding is unavoidable, the Shatuo people have always regarded themselves as maintaining the royal family, they are very invisible, if the county prince avoids it, these words will inevitably be transmitted back to the imperial court, which is not good for us. Cui Shang shook his head, picked up the teacup, took a sip of tea, and tasted it carefully: "This kind of tea that the county prince respects is really different from the past, and the aroma is fragrant, which makes people feel fragrant."

Jiang Feng was not accustomed to the original way of drinking tea cakes, and he proposed that the method of roasting tea should be promoted and the group cake tea should be abolished to improve the tea-making process and enhance the level of tea taste.

This suggestion was met with resistance at first, but at the insistence of Jiang Feng, Huoshan County in Huzhou took the lead in promoting the improvement process of roasted tea and making loose tea, and achieved good results.

This kind of tea fried by a special method is not only bright in color, but also has a better aroma and taste, which greatly enriches the taste of tea tasters, so it has been greatly welcomed, and Jiang Feng has promoted it in Huaiyou, and soon formed a trend in Huaiyou.

Now Huoshan and Shengtang counties in Huzhou have become the most important tea-producing bases in the whole Huaiyou, especially in the hilly areas close to Dabie Mountain and Huoshan (Tianzhu Mountain), which are completely changed to tea planting.

Due to the soil quality and climate reasons in this area, the tea produced is in excellent condition, and the income far exceeds the grain, especially in Shouzhou, Luzhou, Haozhou, this piece of Huainan granary land into Huaiyou, the demand for grain is not as urgent as it used to be for Huaiyou, so tea, which can bring more real benefits, has quickly become a major specialty of Huzhou.

It's just that now the tea-making industry in Huzhou is firmly controlled by the local clans such as Tan, Huang, and Xu in Huzhou, even the Persian Hu merchants and Sogdian merchants have not been touched, but with the rapid expansion of the tea planting area in the hilly areas of the three counties of Shengtang, Huoshan and Yincheng, the Hu merchants have also seen the opportunity to prepare to enter, and it has also greatly promoted the rapid reclamation of areas that are not suitable for grain production in the hilly areas of Huzhou, mainly with the support of the capital of the Hu merchants.

It can be said that Jiang Feng's efforts to form some distinctive development highlights within his jurisdiction are also being realized, such as the iron smelting industry in Xuzhou, the tea industry in Huzhou, the ceramic industry and grain industry in Shouzhou, and the grain and silk weaving industry in Luzhou and Haozhou.

In this era, there are not so many rigid industries in modern society, grain, oil (sesame), hemp and cotton are the three major types of planting just needs, mainly for food and clothing, and the others are used for production and life, such as tea, salt, iron smelting (including all kinds of iron manufacturing), tanning (a total of all kinds of needs), medicinal materials, ceramics, silk weaving, wood processing and quarrying (including car building, shipbuilding, building houses) and other industries are considered the most mainstream rigid demand industries.

"This is the tea produced by Huoshan, the day before yesterday, Huoshan Tan Gong came here, and offered a few catties, although it is not a new tea, but it also tastes good, and I like it very much. ”

Jiang Feng smiled, he is tired of leading this trend and even promoting the development of the trend, and now in Huaibei and Yanyun Yi Prefectures, he is also sparing no effort, that is, to let these trends in his territory drive the development of the tea industry.

"If we give Huaiyou a few more years, the tea produced in Huzhou and Shuzhou will definitely be able to be marketed in the Central Plains, Hebei and even Guanzhong. Jiang Feng is also full of confidence in this.

"The county prince is so worried about the situation in the north?" everyone present couldn't help but sink in their hearts when they heard Jiang Feng's unintentional words, even the most vigilant Wang Miao.

"Hehe, aren't we sitting here just to discuss this issue?" Jiang Feng was noncommittal, but his tone was very pessimistic, "We all hope that the beam can carry it for a few more years, but how likely is this? Judging from the performance of the current beam, it may be able to carry it this year, and it depends on whether the combination of the beam can be in place, and it also depends on whether Nanyang and Caizhou will be less short-sighted, but I think that the possibility of the beam to carry it next year is very small, once the Khitan people join in, then the possibility is completely gone." ”

"Then what should we do? Seeing the Hu people's knives and guns on our necks?" Yang Kan asked with a gloomy face.

Wang Miao lowered his head and said nothing, but Mei's eyes flashed, Cui Shang wanted to speak and stopped, and the atmosphere in the hall became a little depressed and low.

"That's a good question, what should we do?" Jiang Feng nodded with a smile, "Originally, we were discussing the issue of Yunzhou and Haizhou, but the privy envoys of our privy council are here, so we might as well extend it and see if the situation develops as we imagined, or even worse, what should we do?"

"Support Daliang to fight?" Mei asked tentatively: "But I'm afraid that Daliang is rotten in his bones, and we support them, and they can't sustain it." ”

"And we ourselves are not redundant, we are waiting to be rebuilt, where is the strength to support?" Cui Shang also disagreed.

"Daliang still has some strength, and there are still many in its army that can fight, but it depends on whether it can be used in the right position. Wang Miao groaned: "What I'm most worried about is not that Hedong has an advantage in the confrontation with Daliang, even if Hedong has an advantage, but the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and the Shatuo people are not so easy to defeat Daliang at once, but if there are other forces in the back of Daliang, it will be dangerous." ”

Wang Miao's words caused everyone to ponder, and the other forces were nothing more than Nanyang and Caizhou.

Caizhou seems to be still trying to incorporate Yingbo Erzhou into the system, but because the Yuan family and its allies have laid a very solid foundation in Caizhou, the digestion of Yingbo Erzhou is very strong.

This even caused Wuwentang to worry, and suggested that it should increase efforts to sabotage and harass the Yuan clan in Yingbo and Bozhou, and drag the Yuan clan back, this suggestion was also approved by the Privy Council, and began to secretly plot a rebellion of the gentry in the southern part of Yingzhou and some counties in Bozhou, which is now being promoted.

Nanyang is even more worrisome.

Although Nanyang did not perform well in the war the year before last, Nanyang was obscure in the past two years, especially in the pacification and integration of Anzhou and Chuzhou.

Liu Xuanyan's second son, Liu Kuigang, married the daughter of the Hao family of the Anlu Wang clan, and the two Wang clans in Anzhou, one Xu and two Hao, Xu and Hao are each other's in-laws.

The Xu family is the family of Xu Shao, Xu Zhiren, and Xu Yu's master's son, Xu Shao and Tang Gaozu Li Yuan were classmates, and Xu Yushi was the left minister of Tang Gaozong, and his granddaughter Xu Xuan later married Li Bai.

The Hao family is also extraordinary, and its patriarch Hao Chujun in the early Tang Dynasty served as the Zhongshu Order, and even Wu Zetian, who was powerful in the world at that time, was very jealous and did not dare to do anything to it, which can be seen.

Liu Kui married the daughter of the Hao family, which made the influence of the Nanyang Liu family in Anchu Erzhou suddenly stabilized, and the unstable situation that was originally still under the teasing of the Huang Du family suddenly reversed, and even the Ancha Erzhou also provided Liu Xuan with quite sufficient troops, and the Anchun Erzhou also became Liu Xuan's strong backing, and even posed a great threat to the Huang Du family.

Nanyang's actions were quickly passed back to Huaiyou by Wuwentang, and both Jiang Feng and Cui Shang thought it was a very dangerous sign.

Now the Du family of Hubei is powerless to fight against the Liu family in Nanyang, as long as the Liu family does not continue to press, the Du family will have Amitabha.

The original biggest threat to Nanyang, the Xiangyang Xiao family, has also undergone some changes, and the ability to restrain Nanyang has been greatly weakened, especially when Liu Tong's daughter married the son of the Jiangling Gao family as the main wife, which made the relationship between Jiangling and Nanyang also tense rapidly, posing a great threat to Xiangyang.

This is probably an important reason why Nanyang dared to send troops to Gwangju without fear.