Chapter 479: What I Saw and Heard on the Road
In the blink of an eye, the Liu brothers have been on set off for sixty-five days, and they have now arrived in Liaodong, and they can also feel the cold here, but these people are still very energetic, and everyone is not idle along the way, and they are getting to know each other.
"This is Goguryeo's territory, but it's a pity that you are late, and the land in Jiangbei has nothing to do with us, all of them have been bought by His Royal Highness Taisun, do you see the people who are farming over there? These people are the slaves of His Highness. ”
After getting out of the pass, the plain area here is too big, and the land they have lived in Guanzhong for a long time is a small piece, basically two or three hundred acres of land is considered a big landowner, but after arriving in Liaodong, two or three hundred acres of land is really nothing, of course, the land here can only be ripe once a year, even if the special seeds of Li Xiang are used, it can only be guaranteed to be three ripe in two years.
If you want to grow twice a year, you have to continue to go south, and the weather problem is not something that ordinary people can solve.
After listening to the coachman's words, these people were envious one by one, not to mention that His Highness is about the same age as us, how can people have such great achievements? From the place where we stand, you can't see the edge at a glance in the past, how much land does this have to be?
"If you want to say that our Highness is really bold, he actually sentenced all the people of Goguryeo to slavery."
Just in time for the carriage to rest, a coachman next to him also brought water over, they coachmen traveled from south to north, they knew more news, these people who went to Goguryeo to farm like to listen to the coachman chat.
"Didn't the people of Goguryeo resist? It is said that there are many ordinary people in Goguryeo, and they are worthy of more than a dozen state capitals in our country. ”
Liu Laosan said a little strangely, he knew that the life of slaves was not easy, in the past, he followed his brother to work in the landlord's house for a short time, their life was okay, at least not the same as those slaves, it is said that those slaves have to use their fingers to sleep every day, and most of the time they have to work in the field.
"Resist a fart, do you think it's still the same Goguryeo as it used to be? Their hundreds of thousands of troops have been defeated by us, and now the rest of the army in the country has long been gone, except for some returnees, including those who ran into the mountains, they have also been pulled out by us. ”
The coachman said very proudly, as if he did this thing, but the situation in Goguryeo is similar to what he said, at present, millions of people in the country are already working in the field, in such a short period of time, so many people can get on the track, Li Xiang really worked hard during this time, not to say that it is over to bring down a country, you have to let this country generate wealth for you, otherwise if you knock down this country, then you will have to carry a heavy burden.
"With so much more grain, wouldn't our Datang's grain be cheaper again?"
Another young man thought about this, the family is still drinking porridge, because they can't afford to buy food, if the price of food falls, then the family can eat dry food like us.
"Isn't it a good thing to be cheap? His Royal Highness said that in addition to leaving a part of this batch of grain, that is, so that they can have some food, as long as they don't starve to death, all the rest of the grain will be transported back to Datang to improve the living conditions of the people of Datang, and there will definitely be no starvation in Datang at that time. ”
The coachman thought of something he had heard before, it was a law promulgated by Li Xiang in Goguryeo, and there were still many people who didn't believe it at that time, thinking that His Highness might be fooling me, but now those who don't believe it have shut up, just look at these fertile fields along the way, isn't there enough food in these fields to eat?
"Your Highness is really powerful, you have single-handedly changed the status quo of our Tang Dynasty, this time you have to offer it to Your Highness, it is more important than Guanyin Bodhisattva to us."
"Who said no, if we don't have this policy, we don't know what to do at home, our family is only eight acres of land anyway, if my brother gets married and takes it as a dowry, our two brothers should starve to death."
Other people sang the praises of Li Xiang's merits, and the coachman had not yet said a word, that is, there was such a status quo in Liaodong, and it took a lot of effort, of course, it was not us who lost, but these Goguryeo people.
Take this field not far away, for example, when they came here last time, there was only half of the field, and the other part was some wasteland, but now it has been reclaimed, although there are ploughing cattle here, but the daily labor hours are also very long, if your body can't withstand it, it is estimated that it will become fertilizer in this field.
The two coachmen once heard from a government official here that the total number of people who have cleared the wasteland here is more than 7,000 people, and this trip back and forth to Chang'an, at most, is five months of work, and there are already more than 6,000 people left, and the other more than 1,000 people have been exhausted to death.
There is nothing to pity for the two of them in such a thing, you Goguryeo people have been defeated, since His Royal Highness has labeled you and said that you people are all slaves, then who will care about the life and death of slaves?
What's more, they also heard from the people in the army that the total population of Goguryeo is too much, and they are also wasting food, so it is better to let them burn their own lives, and then do whatever they want, so as to save the distress of eating our food for nothing in the future.
"Let's go, you all hurry up and get in the car, we're going to the Yalu River today."
The leaders in front have already begun to greet them, these people have only heard of a Datong River here, and they have never heard of a Yalu River here, but they heard that this is the name changed by His Royal Highness, and these people don't care about the Datong River.
After another ten days, the men finally arrived at their destination, and the head of the coachman in the distance had already begun to negotiate with the officer, and the heads were handed over according to the list of heads.
These coachmen have also survived, and they have to hurry to the army to get money, and then transport back what should be brought back, and bring people back from the capital again.
The money they earn on this line is more than they can earn in their lifetime, so they have to take advantage of the opportunity to pull a few more times, and there will be no chance in the future, and there is no place to make money.