"Li Dutou, do you know how many kinds of people there are?"

While wandering around a market near the ferry port outside Kaifeng, Fang Youde asked Li Jiaqing beside him.

The latter is lamenting the forgetfulness of the local people in Bianzhou at the moment, which is simply incredible.

A few days ago, the tooth soldiers of the Crane Control Army killed more than 100 dozen hooligans near the pontoon bridge at the ferry. The scene was extremely bloody, with severed arms and stumps scattered everywhere. Although it is not enough to reach the level of a river of blood, it is almost at the level of a stream of blood.

However, it has not been long since that incident, and the small traders who are engaged in the market seem to have forgotten what happened. As before, I didn't seem to feel any changes.

It seems that the more than 100 hooligans who should be sold have died in vain. In fact, their "preservation fee" still has to be paid, which is more than half a cent compared to before, but it is only handed over to the Xuanwu Army.

"There are two kinds, men and women."

Li Jiaqing thought about things in his heart and replied casually.

"No, there is only a difference between the living and the dead.

There are infinite possibilities for living people, and anything can be tried to work hard.

And the dead will only be forgotten, not seen, heard, felt, and unable to do anything. ”

Fang Youde said coldly, making Li Jiaqing couldn't help but stand on end.

While he was talking, a middle-aged farmer handed Fang Youde a huge pear, and said with a flattering face: "The weather is hot, Fang Jieshuai will eat a pear to quench his thirst first." ”

Fang Youde took the pear, nodded slightly to the farmer very reservedly, and then continued to walk forward, without the consciousness of accepting things and giving money at all.

And Li Jiaqing is also accustomed to it, and even thinks that Fang Youde is very personal!

You must know that Qiu Ba's visit to the market is similar to being imprisoned, of course, there is anything to take, and you are not polite at all.

Fang Youde did not use his authority to "make a profit" in the bazaar, it was already a high festival.

As for giving money, there is naturally no such thing as Qiu Ba. As a soldier in Datang, there is no money to go out, only others give money!

"People only distinguish between life and death, why does the festival marshal say this?"

Li Jiaqing asked curiously.

"The troubled times are not far off, and you will understand what this section commander said today.

In the face of the blade, the division of the crowd now is meaningless, at that time there is only the difference between the living and the dead, and this is the real difference. ”

Fang Youde said with a sigh.

An Lushan is indeed dead, but the trend of corruption in this world has not changed at all.

The effect of the imperial court on improving people's livelihood is also minimal, and it is just cheaper for the powerful.

For example, after Chang'an Jiaozi was issued to Bianzhou, the policy was immediately out of shape. After circulating for a period of time, some businessmen found that the purchasing power of Chang'an Jiaozi in many prefectures and counties in Henan was far greater than that of Chang'an, where the issue was placed.

As a result, many "flexible" traders did nothing, directly took silk silks, went to Chang'an to "snap up" Jiaozi, and then took these Jiaozi and took advantage of the information gap to buy materials in Henan Prefectures, which greatly pushed up local prices.

When the Yuan Dynasty issued Jiaozi, in order to avoid this situation of taking advantage of the information gap to resell currency, a "leveling" agency was set up in each jurisdiction to coordinate the issuance of local banknotes.

In order to ensure that no businessman will take advantage of the information gap to earn the difference. However, the people of the Tang Dynasty did not have much experience in this, and it was easy to be exploited.

No one would have thought that the depreciation rate of Chang'an Jiaozi would be so fast! It has lost more than half of its value in a few months!

As a result, businessmen of all sizes in the Henan Economic Circle with Luoyang as the core generally boycotted Chang'an Jiaozi, so that it could not be effectively circulated at all.

So the imperial court had to open a new Jiaozi shop in Luoyang, printing the same style of "Luoyang Jiaozi" as Chang'an Jiaozi to deal with the chaotic situation of currency circulation. In other words, a "currency firewall" was established to prevent Chang'an Jiaozi from circulating in the Luoyang area.

At the same time, the imperial court also listened to Liu Yan's suggestion to cast a kind of "big money" that was beautifully manufactured, but the "face value" was 100 Wen, and the amount of copper contained in it was far less than 100 Wen Kaiyuan Tongbao, but it was to be used as 100 Wen.

In addition to this, iron coins with a denomination of "Ichiwen" were also minted. In the case of Jiaozi circulation, Liu Yan is not worried about the powerful people minting iron money, and no fool will do so.

In fact, this move is a kind of compromise, which creates obstacles to the circulation of Jiaozi and leads to economic chaos and has to be compromised.

This is also the deployment that Liu Yan made in advance in order to give up Chang'an Jiaozi.

To put it bluntly, it is to isolate the area first, then multi-channel parallelism, and finally use "surgery" to remove the tumor.

The abolition of Chang'an Jiaozi is already on the way!

The Henan businessmen who smelled the wind used various channels to exchange the Chang'an Jiaozi in their hands for Luoyang Jiaozi, or even in kind, and they could buy whatever they could, but in the end they were basically rotten in their hands, allowing them to depreciate.

As a result, a large number of small businessmen went bankrupt and suffered heavy losses. In the process of exploring the operation of banknotes, Datang paid a heavy price.

As a result, the market in Henan Prefectures, including Luoyang, was disrupted, and commercial operations were greatly disrupted.

In Bianzhou, where the canal meets the Yellow River and commerce is extremely prosperous, the turmoil caused by the currency disorder is particularly violent! Fang Youde saw all this with his own eyes, and led the Xuanwu army to maintain order, killing many desperate thugs.

He saw that the market was depressed and all industries were suspended, and he felt that the troubled times were not far away.

"Jieshuai, a certain person came from Hebei, and you were also in Hebei back then.

Now the Xuanwu Army is in Bianzhou, the land of four wars. If something happens, we have no soldiers, and we are in a very bad situation. ”

Li Jiaqing persuaded quietly, he didn't believe that Fang Youde, who was proficient in military strategy, couldn't see that for a "insider" like them, many things were in plain sight.

If Hebei is in trouble, the Xuanwu Army will bear the brunt!

"What does Li Dutou think of Hebei?"

Fang Youde asked meaningfully.

Although Li Jiaqing was in Hebei back then, he was an outsider from Hebei and came from the Bohai Kingdom, so there was no position problem and no historical baggage. You can also evaluate the problem from a more objective perspective.

"Jieshuai, the last will be your old department, and if you have something to say, you will be open to say."

Li Jiaqing looked around and found that it was actually very noisy, and no one paid attention to them at all.

So he deliberately lowered his voice and said: "In the opinion of the last general, the Hebei family has so much land. The taxes of the imperial court were so harsh that they also restricted Hebei people from entering the center. These things are not rumors for a long time. I'm afraid that once something happens, some people can't be so peaceful. ”

Even he, a Hu man from the Tatar tribe, knew that with his land, he would definitely have to fight for greater political power to ensure that his economic interests would not be harmed. And what is the attitude of the imperial court towards Hebei, it can only be said that it is abstract to the point that it is difficult to explain.

No matter who the Jiedu envoy in Hebei was, in the end, he would compromise with the local forces and embark on the road of rebellion.

If it happens to be an honest temperance envoy, he really doesn't want to make things happen; Then the local forces will make trouble for him, and try to push him down and replace him with someone who can make trouble!

When Li Jiaqing was in Bohai Kingdom, he had seen a lot of similar things. It can only be said that Datang and Bohai are both under the same sun, and there is nothing new under the sun!

The festival degree is changed every four years, and now An Lushan is gone, Hebei people will always meet the festival they "need", and if one does not work, change it again, there is always something that can be done!

If the rebellion is a small probability event, then the number of changes made by the festival is superimposed and the timeline is extended, then the rebellion will be a high probability event. Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate, in the middle of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, didn't there also a case of Liu Lian's rebellion?

Brother Ji at that time was not mediocre!

Rebel generals in border towns are a common thing in Datang. Whether or not the rebellion can be suppressed is the gold standard for testing the strength of the country.

Li Jiaqing's words can be described as hitting the nail on the head.

Hebei chaos is a matter of time, there was chaos in the Wu and Zhou periods before, and it will definitely be chaos in the future, but I don't know when it will be, and what events will cause the contradictions to break out.

He is not the only one who can see this clearly.

"This section coach has only recently figured out some things.

Defending Bianzhou can save the country for a while. A certain wish does not care about personal gains and losses. ”

Fang Youde sighed lightly, feeling all kinds of emotion in his heart, and he didn't know how to say it.

Is Datang's problem Hebei? Yes, not all.

Is Datang's problem Li Linfu, Yang Guozhong, Yang Yuhuan and others? Yes, not all.

Is Datang's problem Ji Ge? Yes, but not quite.

Is Datang's problem a conscription system? It's still the same, yes and not all.

At this moment, Fang Youde's heart is very confused, how can he save Datang? There was no answer in his mind. He has done a lot of things for Datang and changed a lot of things, but he still watched Datang slide into the abyss step by step.

Am I really doing something wrong?

Fang Youde asked himself, but no one gave him an answer.

"Jie Shuai, you seem to have something on your mind?"

Li Jiaqing asked suspiciously, he found that Fang Youde, who was inspecting the canal today, seemed to be a little absent-minded.

"It's nothing, it's just worrying about the country."

Fang Youde waved his hand and said.

"Jieshuai, when the sky falls, there is a saint on top of it, why do you bother with that heart?"

Li Jiaqing asked in confusion, he didn't understand, Fang Youde was at this age, and he still wanted to do anything about the country, isn't it obvious that he can't get along with himself.

"Saint...... Alas, saints. ”

Fang Youde shook his head and sighed, no longer speaking.

……

"There are two kinds of people, one is our friend and the other is our enemy.

In the future, before you do anything, you must find out whether the person involved is our friend or our enemy.

To friends, we must have an attitude towards friends, be fair, just and open, do not bully friends, and do not force friends into enemies.

We must take a clear-cut stand against the enemy, we must destroy them without mercy, we must not be vague about what we want to do, and we must not let our friends be confused about our own position.

You can't compromise and collude with the enemy!

You see, this section of the handsome went to Qiuzi Town, Tingzhou actually made such a big, and lost all this face!

Don't you know what place Tingzhou is? That is the rear of our expeditionary force, and if we go west from Tingzhou, there will be no big city to replenish the baggage!

Rabbits don't eat the grass next to the nest? I issued military tickets to the Qiu Ba, did I ask them to buy and sell in Tingzhou? Are you really not afraid that after the expeditionary force sets out, the people here in Tingzhou will make a civil revolt and cut off our grain? When the time comes, starve to death you unhearted!

All the Hexi Jiaozi who lost this time will be deducted from the wealth of the three armies in the future, and no individual will be punished separately. When a handful of people make mistakes, everyone is responsible! ”

In the hall of the government office in the inner city of Tingzhou, Fang Chongyong held a thin wooden stick, pointed to the "three major disciplines, eight points of attention" written on the whiteboard, and sprayed at the generals present.

"Jieshuai, the last general went all the way to Qiuzi Town with you, and he was not in Tingzhou at all, so he will be punished?"

He Changqi complained with a look of grievance.

"Stupid! Stupid! You idiot! ”

Not far away, the five-colored parrot fluttered and screamed, trying to fly, but because it could not fly with iron rings on its feet, it had to return to the wooden stick where it had been standing.

"Well, who's that, take this beast to the backyard."

The corners of Fang Chongyong's eyes twitched, and he helplessly pointed to a general who looked a little raw, and suddenly couldn't remember what his name was.

The man saluted with his hands crossed, stifled a laugh and led the five-colored parrot out of the hall of the palace.

"This time, no one in the Silver Spear Filial Piety Army forcibly bought and sold, so they were not punished. However, all other armies are treated equally, and as long as one member of the army makes a mistake, it is regarded as a mistake of all of them. ”

Fang Chongyong said righteously.

"The marshal, dealing with the errant soldier who made a mistake is naturally blameless. But those who didn't make mistakes should also be punished, which is a bit unkind. ”

Duan Xiushi continued to persuade: "What's more, the army is about to go out, so ......"

"In this way, it is even more necessary to let those lawless Qiu Ba know what it means to order and prohibit, and what it means that the army is collective!

If someone makes a mistake, but his robe does not stand up to stop them, and he does not report them to the chief officer afterwards, this is a cover-up, and he is guilty of the same crime as the offender!

Let them have a long memory this time, and the next time you see a colleague as a traitor, don't think that you can stay out of it by pretending not to see it! ”

Fang Chongyong slammed back mercilessly.

This next paragraph Xiushi didn't live to say. The same reward and punishment are nothing new, but a military law that has long been common to all armies that can fight.

At this moment, Guan Chongsi walked into the lobby with a few people, and the two of them carried a large basket, a whole few large baskets, all of which were melons and fruits called "cantaloupe" in Fang Chongyong's previous life, which were special products of Xizhou, Tingzhou, Yizhou and other places.

There is no shortage of sunshine and water in Tingzhou, and it is not uncommon to have cantaloupe. However, at this time, the cantaloupe was named "Royal Melon" by Brother Ji, and the name was huge. These melons are almost ten times the price of the local price, and if they are sent to Chang'an, the price will more than ten times.

"It's ......"

Fang Chongyong looked at Guan Chongsi with a puzzled expression, he didn't seem to have ordered the purchase of cantaloupe. Why did you send these melons to the government in a grand manner?

"Ambassador Fang, after you came to Tingzhou, you set things right and straightened up military discipline, and personally came to the door one by one to apologize and compensate for the losses.

These are all a little bit of the hearts of the people of Tingzhou, send some imperial melons to you and the officials of the Anxi Expeditionary Force to quench your thirst. ”

An old man in a brocade robe said with a heavy salute.

"I can't do it, the people's hearts have been received by this ambassador, and the gift is absolutely unacceptable. In this way, it is troublesome to move back and forth in hot weather, so the ambassador took the initiative to buy it. ”

Fang Chongyong hurriedly took out a ten-length Hexi Jiaozi from his arms, handed it to the old man and said, "You must give money to buy things, otherwise you will become a bandit." Dare to ask the old man's surname, who is his name? ”

"The old decay is the official learning and teaching of Tingzhou, Fang De!"

The old man saluted respectfully.

Ha?

The eight Qiu people present looked at each other, one word is missing, they can be the father of the ambassador, this old man will not come over on purpose to ride his face and output.

Fang Chongyong was also a little embarrassed, but now was not the time to be entangled. He forced Jiaozi into the other party's hands, and by the way, the people who sent melons were politely invited out of the yamen, and when he came back, he asked He Changqi: "Where did the handsome man just say?" ”

"Uh, speaking of ...... Eat melons, yes, just talked about eating melons!

It's so hot! Jieshuai, let's open these melons now! ”

He Changqi smiled and pointed to a few large baskets in the middle of the lobby and said. This thing sells very expensive in Chang'an, and now it can be eaten openly, so it's not cool!

"Eat a ball of melon! Lao Tzu just wanted to talk about the incident of your fight with the Han Navy! This one has to be recovered! ”

Fang Chongyong pointed at He Changqi and scolded.

(End of chapter)