No matter how chaotic the human strife may be, the passage of time does not stop there, and the New Year of 555 C.E. still arrives as promised.

The first day of the new year is a festival to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, but there is a faint sadness in the whole Gangneung City, no matter what the current situation of the sergeants and people of Gangneung City, the sense of loss of the country also lingers in their hearts, whether strong or light, and always lingers.

Of course, they didn't know that if things went according to the original track, then they would not have the opportunity to stay in front of their homes to remember the story, and they would either have died in the attack and defense of Gangneung City, or they were trudging on the way to Guanzhong.

Lee Tae, who brought about all these changes, did not feel lost because the people were not sincerely grateful to him, and he knew that the gathering of people's hearts was not an overnight effort, and now Gangneung has a new beginning, and will embark on a completely different path from the original history.

Since these are still extraordinary times, even when the New Year comes, there are no celebrations scheduled in the residential areas of the city or in the military camps outside the city. Although there were no soldiers and civilians making dumplings together, Li Tai had already ordered that the supply of food and beverages inside and outside the city must be guaranteed.

In addition to the military market outside the city, Gangneung Seongjo also opened several markets for buying and selling to meet the living needs of the city's residents.

There are tens of thousands of residents in Gangneung City, and this is just ordinary civilians, and some high-ranking officials, nobles, and wealthy families have many soldiers and slaves in their homes, and this part of the population is more than twice as large as the common people, plus those who are completely destitute outside the city and have no livelihood to earn a living, the actual population of Gangneung City exceeds 300,000.

With such a large number of people concentrated in and around Gangneung, the pressure on living resources can be imagined, and the distribution of resources in Gangneung, or the Southern Liang regime, was extremely uneven. So the rich and noble have wine and meat forests, and the poor are extremely luxurious, and the poor have no food and clothing, and sit and wait to die.

Since there were no fierce battles in the capture of Gangneung, these populations were basically inherited by Yi Tae as the occupier. With a population of hundreds of thousands and an army of tens of thousands, how to meet both military needs and people's livelihood is also a big test for him.

Thankfully, Gangneung's treasury is very well saved. Although the Hou Jing Rebellion caused the livelihood of all parties in Nanliang to wither and dilapidate, the productivity of Gangneung and its surrounding areas was not too seriously damaged, and Jiangling's proximity to the Yangtze River waterway also facilitated the transportation and gathering of materials.

After the capture of Gangneung, the amount of grain and grain collected in the treasury alone reached more than 800,000 stones.

To be honest, this figure really scared Li Tai, because in the past few years, there have been frequent commercial activities between Gangneung and Chubei, and grain is an important trade material. Naturally, it was impossible for these powerful clans involved in trade to buy grain and then send it to the government for storage, so they must have it to meet their own consumption or enter the market for profit.

Unexpectedly, Xiao Laoqi quietly accumulated so much food in the treasury, and he had to be willing to move from Jiangling to Jiankang. Not to mention anything else, food alone, today's Jiankang and Sanwu land may not have so much accumulated here in Jiangling.

As for the other goods and goods, they are also very amazing. The silk silk is piled up in the warehouse, and the gold, silver and jewelry are even more truckloaded, because the types and quantities are very large, Li Tai has not even been able to obtain an accurate data since he occupied the city for nearly two months!

This is not because of the slackness of the military clerks, who first have to meet the needs of the military and the people, and the people of the catalog, and then they can allocate a part of the manpower to sort out the treasury goods. The people who were sent here have been checking day and night, but according to the current work efficiency and workload, it will be late January to get a rough inventory.

Although the overall seizure is still to be investigated, some special materials have also been inventoried, such as gold, which has more than 15,000 catties!

Li Tai was also a little flustered when he heard this number, gold? More than 15,000 pounds? When he first arrived in Guanzhong, how much gold did Gao Zhongmi's family have?

Historically, due to the very few records of the Western Wei Dynasty and the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the specific truth of many things has become impossible to trace

。 Even such an important military reform as the government military system, how it evolved and how it operated, and the more authoritative description of it were all found in the "Biography of the Marquis of Ye" in the Tang Dynasty, and the specific harvest of the Battle of Jiangling naturally did not have an accurate record.

The fact that so much gold was found in the treasury of Gangneung Mansion really surprised Li Tai. However, when I thought of the eighth Xiao Jidong, he was carrying the gold and silver accumulated for more than ten years, even if some of it was lost on the battlefield, most of it must have been confiscated into the treasury of Jiangling Mansion.

Thinking about it this way, it's normal for the Jiangling Treasury to have this scale, anyway, don't care if the seventh is still the eighth, in the end, it's all Lao Tzu!

The Western Wei Dynasty's conquest of Jiangling was actually very rude, and basically pursued burning, killing and looting, which was inevitably accompanied by a lot of loss. But since then, the days of the Western Wei Dynasty and the Northern Zhou Dynasty have also been better than the day, which shows that the fat meat of Jiangling is really fragrant.

Li Tai dared to give such a generous reward to the soldiers, also because the harvest of this battle was too rich.

Unlike Yuwentai, who also has to consider the overall distribution of interests, Li Tai's personnel plate is not big, and he is also growing step by step, at least there is no such thing as a peer within his group, so naturally he doesn't need to think too much, he can distribute benefits completely according to his own will, so that the rain and dew are evenly stained from top to bottom, which may not be completely fair, but it can ensure that every participant can get rich returns.

In addition to the seizure of the official treasury of the Southern Liang, there is also a relatively lucrative income that is the seizure of the temple.

There are more than 30 large and small temples in Jiangling City, and there are more than a dozen monks with more than 100 people alone, and even Emperor Xiao Yi of Liang was finally captured by hiding in the temple, which can be seen in the prosperity of Buddhism in the Southern Dynasty.

Originally, in the face of such a drastic change, it is easy to cause mass panic if you violently attack temples and other places related to faith.

However, Li Tai's raid of the temple was divided into two steps, the first was to surround the temple, seal the people and goods, take stock of the temple industry and then directly transport the materials into the market to stabilize prices, and sell the goods in those temples to the city soldiers and people at a low price.

Therefore, except for the first few raids on the temple and some disturbances, the rest of the things went very smoothly, and in the end, the city sergeants and people even took the initiative to help surround and search the monks and temple property.

After all, the Buddha and Bodhisattva are also compassionate, how can they bear to let these good men and women who have suffered the catastrophe of the country lack food and clothing? The money and silk materials that were offered in the peaceful years are now being used to stock up for disaster preparedness. What's more, General Li has the destiny of heaven, and the disposal of the world's Qing is of course more powerful than those gods and Buddhas outside the world.

The storage of the government and the temple alone was more than enough for the soldiers and civilians of Gangneung to survive this period of adaptation. If the overall situation is stable, Li Tai will certainly have more energy to pay attention to the details of personnel.

On New Year's Day, Li Tai deliberately took time out to go to the inner city of Gangneung to express his condolences to those Jiangling civil and military officials and their families.

Most of the officials and their dependents in Jiangling City have been sent to Guanzhong along with Emperor Xiao Yi of Liang, and as for the rest, they are either those who have made outstanding contributions to his previous strategy to infiltrate Jiangling, or they are the talents that Li Tai needs to borrow for the next governance.

For example, Zong Yi, who had a close relationship with the north of the city, was temporarily appointed by Li Tai as the Taishou of Nanjun to handle the civil affairs of Gangneung City together with his cousin Li Quan. And Liu Guangde, who was more loyal and powerful, Li Tai was introduced into the military government to follow him and ask staff officers.

As for Wang Bao, who made outstanding contributions to the preservation of the Jiangling book collection, there was no need to be a slave of any family, and Li Tai directly appointed him as the Xingtai sacrificial wine, responsible for contacting and pacifying the Southern Liang scholars and serving as the pen of the Xingtai. It's a pity that Yu Xin, another pen, sent an envoy to Guanzhong before the Western Wei Dynasty attacked Jiangling, and now he is also left in Guanzhong.

There are also Zhou Hongzheng and the like, most of whom can play a role in culture. It is not for nothing that they can borrow from the military, but there are not many. Hu Changyi, the son of Hu Seng You, who took the initiative to open the door and ask for surrender, was retained by Li Tai as the governor.

When visiting the Jiangling Shiliu family today, Li Tai also went to visit Xu Shipu's family. Xu Shipu is a relatively famous naval general in Jiangling, in addition to his rich experience in water warfare, he is also good at building various water warfare equipment

, is also a talent that Li Tai is very much looking forward to subduing.

It's just that when the Battle of Jiangling occurred, Xu Shipu was not stationed in Jiangling, but stationed with Ren Yue at Matoudu on the south bank. Li Tai deliberately left Xu Shipu's family in Jiangling to settle properly, and arranged for his old boss Lu Fahe to persuade him to surrender, but there has been no news so far.

Perhaps the first gift of the New Year, when Li Tai left Gangneung Jinseong, the defenders of Gangjin in the south of the city suddenly came to tell a large ship on the south bank and asked to dock.

After learning of this, Li Tai hurriedly got on his horse and went out of the city along the Jinyang Gate, and when he came to Jiangjin, there was already a group of people standing here.

"The sin will be Xu Shipu, a long time to inherit the king's inspiration and caress questioning, dull and ignorant of grace, only after getting the lesson of the Lu master to know that the king's grace is as heavy as a mountain, if a certain resign, the sin is unforgivable, so the thief will be appointed to the head of the covenant, and lead the army of the boat division to vote for the king, please forgive the king for the crime of being late!"

When Li Tai led the crowd here, a stocky and strong middle-aged man hurriedly bowed down and took out a bloody head from behind him and offered it to Li Tai.

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