Chapter 0230: Four Years
Since Su Nancheng has this thought, he will not ask the head of the Wei family to run in vain.
Get the road through first, he has his own arrangements.
Nothing else, sugar is a good thing.
Nowadays, sugar is also a scarce thing in Dayuan, and it can be used by large households, but not by everyone.
There is naturally no shortage of Hou Mansion, although the treatment of Sunan Cheng is average, but the dim sum eaten is also sweet.
Whether it's honey or sugar, he eats it all.
But it is rarely eaten by the people.
Probably because this thing was not a rarity between the nobility and the royal family, no one thought of using it for business.
It is also that the sugarcane sugar production process is not developed nowadays, so this business is basically not done.
But consumables, it's a good thing.
In fact, it can also be made to make wine, but today's sake is undistilled fermented wine and is not pure.
But now that the whole country is short of food, Sunan Cheng does not plan to make wine for the time being. More on that later.
Cheng Ming is now in Jiangnan, and he has already set up the manor, so he simply wrote a letter and asked him to make sugar according to the method.
It will definitely not be possible to make snow-white frosted sugar in later generations, but it doesn't matter, just sweet.
Arrange a caravan, Su Nancheng can do it without effort.
After saying the day of departure, the head of the Wei family returned to Wanzhou with satisfaction, just waiting for the goods to be sorted out and set off.
As for the guards who followed, Sunan Cheng sent someone to send a message to Xinyang's people to follow some of them.
Negotiations between the DPRK and China and Jinju also began in earnest.
Jinzhou was afraid of the army sweeping, and the imperial court was afraid that Jinzhou would send troops.
Each has its own scruples, but the harvest has not been good in recent years, and Jinzhou is also short of grain, so there is no stamina for war.
So the negotiations were quite peaceful and smooth.
Yun Zhishen agreed to send his eldest son to the capital to study. At the same time, the imperial court sent officials to Jinzhou to take over the day-to-day government affairs. The imperial court issued an official document and canonized Yun Zhishen as the king of the northwest.
The king of the northwest had the right to make decisions on general affairs, but he had to consult with local officials and report to the court for approval.
In addition, the king of the northwest is not allowed to recruit troops and horses, and if there is a violation, he will be punished for rebellion.
Jinzhou did not have to pay taxes to the imperial court, but the imperial court would not give the king of the northwest grain and grass to feed his army.
At the moment, the imperial court must have taken more than one step back. This is equivalent to acquiescing in the existence of the Jinzhou Army. Jinzhou does not have to pay taxes, and the king of the northwest can still control everything in the local area.
It is said that it is to ask the court to approve, but the emperor is far away, and the court can't control many things.
The local officials sent life and death were in the mind of the king of the northwest, how many people dared to stick their heads against the king of the northwest?
However, in the long run, it is actually advantageous.
The king of the northwest is not allowed to recruit soldiers, so his 70,000 people will always grow old one day. In another ten or twenty years, he will not have the strength to fight again.
At that time, Jinzhou was weak, and the imperial court could easily take it back.
It's a pity, it's a pity. That's what happens when a country is on its way to becoming stronger.
Now, the truth is that truth, but who is reasoning with you? Jinzhou just wants to take a break, where does it take ten or twenty years? It only takes two good years for them to continue to raise troops.
The imperial court, like Jinzhou, is just to breathe a sigh of relief.
At the end of July, Yun Zhishen's eldest son was sent to the capital, and at the same time, the soldiers and horses of Ganyang Mansion were also scattered, and some of them returned to their original places. Some of them went north and camped at Xiongshan Pass and Jinshan Pass.
General Xiang still has to go south, but he can't take all his soldiers and horses with him.
Some of the soldiers who were not originally from the South remained. General Zuo, the defender of Xiongshan Pass, has been killed in battle, and now he is replaced by Fei Jiu, who recommended to the general.
Many people in the DPRK and China oppose it, and it is not an exaggeration for them to say that they have a grudge against Fei Jiu.
But someone protects him, and the Su family doesn't know how to protect him, and he secretly contributes. What's more, Fei Jiu himself is qualified enough.
There are also a lot of contributions over the years, such as the suppression of bandits or the extermination of the Peacock God Cult, as well as the suppression of the southern mob.
He was a general in the First World War in Tingzhou more than 20 years ago, and his qualifications were taken out, and he was very capable of bluffing.
The opponents of him in the court were mainly because he brought back the emperor with his military advice, which caused many ministers' families to suffer heavy losses and even death.
They wanted to tell the truth, but they didn't dare.
In fact, it can be said that Fei Jiu was the one who directly caused the death of the first emperor. But that's not easy to say.
First, if the first emperor ran to the south, the capital would be gone. Now most of the Great Yuan is gone.
Besides, the first emperor is dead, but now that he has ascended the throne, what do you mean by saying so much? Don't like the current emperor?
As an official in the court, do you dare to say?
The Su family pinched this point, and the snake hit seven inches.
Cheng Kanghou also has quite a few followers, and in the past few months, there have been many fresh faces in the court. The dead courtiers need to be replaced, right?
Not only did they not hate Fei Jiu, but they also had to be grateful to him. Isn't he where he is today?
So the emperor naturally agreed, mainly because there are not many good generals now.
As for Jinshan Pass, General Nie passed away, but General Nie Xiao made outstanding achievements this time.
So it was logical to take over the mantle of his old father. Gather the remnants and re-garrison Jinshan Pass.
Of course, it's not that simple, most of the soldiers in Jinshan Pass are now transferred. There were also generals who followed.
There was a fight.
As for General Xu, he was transferred back to his place from Ganyang Mansion. As for whether he has any ambitions in the past few years, it doesn't matter.
Anyway, if he didn't rebel after receiving the holy decree, it was nothing.
As a result, the tax revenue of Ganyang Prefecture, Liaocheng and other places returned to the imperial court.
It seems that everything is fine, but unfortunately there are many hidden worries inside.
The Beiyi people temporarily retreated, and the people made a lot of money.
Jinzhou is temporarily stable, and people's minds are active.
This year, the severe drought in the north continues, and there have been few rains so far. The crops have dried up, and the imperial court has tried its best to provide relief, but unfortunately many people still died.
It's just that the north has been dispatching troops this year, and many places have been killed by the Beiyi people, so they haven't been able to make trouble.
However, the weather in the south is good this year, and the levees have not burst due to flooding.
After several months of reorganization, Sunan Cheng has controlled the entire city defense battalion.
Although he is young, he is a ruthless man, Miao has never been able to resist Wang Taoluo, and he has not taken advantage of Sunan Cheng.
It can only be dormant.
The following people are either dead or disabled, and the newly promoted people are all people who can be trusted and used by Sunan.
Naturally obey him.
Except for some children of big families, most of the soldiers in the city defense battalion live a tight life. There is no chance of promotion. The vast majority of them are small soldiers all their lives and will never get ahead.
Now that Sunan Cheng has given them a chance, who is not impressed?
From the age of fourteen to the beginning of officialdom, to this year, Yuanlong is thirty-two years, and there are four years. From the useless petty official of the ninth grade to today, he finally has the power to control the commander of the third rank of the city defense battalion, and it took four years.
Four years, how many people have not been allowed to advance in an official position for forty years.