Two days later, on November 18, the day when the Li Mansion held a full moon wine.

Although the Hou Mansion is not as bright as a decoration, the decoration outside still looks low-key, but the inner hall is full of guests. Li Suqi's mansion, which is deep, is filled with two or three hundred guests, and has a full eighty tables.

There is no way, so even if you have a table together in this era, you can only sit four people at a table. The male guests who entered four outside sat for more than sixty tables, while the female members who entered the two behind sat for more than ten tables.

Over the past month, all the new dishes that Li Su's house have been tinkering with each other every now and today they have been put together to open the eyes of the guests.

The male guest was led by Zhang Fei, and Zhuge Jin and other confidants were all in the fourth place, and Li Su was accompanying him personally. Zhang Fei finally searched and gave him less gold cakes when he was giving him a gift. Fortunately, he didn't say anything, which did not cause the others to temporarily reduce their weight. Zhuge Jin was the only insider, but he still gave him six yuan under pressure.

The female guest was headed by the princess Wu Xian, and Zhang Fei's wife Zhen Dao, Zhen Rong, who had just married Zhuge Jin, and Zhuge Zhi, the second daughter of the Zhuge family, and Zhen Mi, who was only twelve years old, all accompanied Cai Yan to have a banquet. Zhou Ying's status was a little low, and although she could sit together, she was responsible for pouring wine for Wu Xian and others.

"Boya, this soup bun with river eel skin in your house is really amazing. In the future, other meat-filled buns will taste like wax." Zhang Fei ate so much that he drank a big bowl of wine. Xiaolongbao was like responding to Wu Song's classic line: I also used thirty or twenty to make snacks. I don't need to keep my stomach special at all.

Li Su joked with Zhang Fei bluntly: "You are the least qualified to say this in this room. It's the first time that Ziyu, Ji Xiu, Gongheng, and Gongsheng, they have eaten it. Did you know anything in your mind? I specially asked your people to send it in advance, just because I was afraid that you would be too surprised today."

In order to make Zhang Fei polite, Li Su did his work in advance. Now it seems that all these work has been done in vain.

Zhang Fei wiped his mouth: "You are so kind. Which official here is better than me? What if you are rude in front of them? Ziyu, Gongheng, do you think I am ugly?"

Zhuge Jin and Huang Quan hurriedly said: "General Pingxi is open-minded and has gained the essence of the true celebrity's elegance, and is not like ours."

"Hahaha, Boya, did you hear it? Did you hear it! This is my niece full moon, I am happy, a real celebrity is so romantic!" Zhang Fei laughed, slapped the table and stomped on the jar to drink, and continued to grab the vegetables with shame.

Li Su didn't want to provoke him, but fortunately Zhang Fei was drunk and was carried down soon. Only then did Li Su's ears be more slim and chat with Zhuge Jin and the others.

After Li Su returned to Chengdu for more than a month, Zhuge Jin never bothered him with official duties. Zhuge Jin was very eye-catching and knew that there was no need to ask the leader for advice in everything he could handle.

However, Li Su has had enough rest recently and just needs to change her mind. After drinking a few drinks, she started chatting with Zhuge Jin at the table:

"Tiyu, what are the headaches in the civil affairs of Shu County recently? If I take some projects next year, will the people support me? This year, will the people be more likely to be in service or will there be more people who pay more silk and silk Shu brocade? If a large-scale construction is being carried out next year, will there be enough people to choose to be corvee?"

Zhuge Jin obviously had been holding back his resentment for a long time. After hearing Li Su's active mention, he quickly complained like a bamboo tube: "There are so many people! Many professional craftsmen trained in the past few years have been suspended this year, and some even let them go home to farm.

I had no work and couldn't keep my wages altogether. I was worried that the craftsmen would be lost, or moved to other places and were poached by other princes, so I paid them a little 20% of the wages. The Shu County finance only paid no money, and more than half of the money was taken away. Fortunately, I paid the wages to idle craftsmen and later changed to rice and grain. Last year, I collected a lot of grain, but the official granary was still full."

Li Su hasn't cared about it for a long time, but he didn't expect this question: "How come there are craftsmen who have stopped work on a large scale?"

Zhuge Jin spread his hands: "You have been withdrawing money since June, and Jin went north and paid Yuan Shao a lot of food to buy. This year, Guanzhong has relied on the silk money and brocade porcelain from our north to buy Yuan Shao? A high-priced food of millions of stones!

You originally agreed that using the "profits and profits expand reproduction" model, the profits earned this year have been all the benefits that have been saved by Guanzhong, and many of them are the ones that have paid donations from several wealthy families to destroy their families and relieve their difficulties, but they are not the money from the official business.

I don’t know that my second sister’s weaving workshop has an 8,000 machine, and the profit this year could have been expanded by another 3,000 machines. Now the money for the 3,000 machines is directly donated in the Shujin model to buy grain for Yuan Shao. The team of skilled craftsmen who originally expanded the production of looms and forging machines every year has more than 10,000 people. They are all technical craftsmen with high wages. Now they have no money to expand production, so why don’t they go back to farm in their spare time or do something else by themselves?

Your original plan to expand production to 100,000 looms in five years, is said to be able to complete the next year, but now it will take another year. But this is not a big deal. After this year's discount, Gongda is not here, so I have been careful to arrange these things alone:

These craftsmen have mastered the skills of making looms and spinning wheels and water wheel forging machines, which is an incredible wealth. Let them always work in their own business, and one person can create the wealth of at least four or five farmers, or three or four weavers. However, our loom expansion plan will be saturated in three years, and there will be no more mountain mulberry planting in Shu. More places suitable for overhauling water conservancy will be concentrated on the establishment of hydraulic silk workshops. When these craftsmen have finished their work, they can only go back to manage their old business. It’s a pity.”

Zhuge Jin has experienced a wave of "industrial cycle fluctuations" this year. This incident was something that civil officials had never seen before in the feudal era. He was hit by him in the first time in the world, and Xun You were not there.

Although he was dealt with by Zhuge Jin, he must have lost a lot of money, or wasted a lot of money. If he would coordinate well at the beginning, at least the "rest and settlement fee/stop subsidy" given to skilled craftsmen would be more clever and would spend less money.

Before Li Su could check the accounts, Zhuge Jin also took the opportunity to beat the side drum to let Li Su accept this reality.

Of course, Li Su could hear what Zhuge Jin was trying to be so mean, and said with a kind smile: "Tiyu doesn't have to worry about it. It's already great to be able to do this. You can recognize the value of the "industrial technical workers" class and spend money to stabilize them and not lose them. I am very pleased.

The situation will be better next year. Don’t worry that these craftsmen will have no work to do after they have built the crossbow brocade weaving machines needed in Shu. Even if three years later, the large-scale handicraft construction in Shu will come to an end for the time being, there will be more work in the world.

We can completely immigrate some skilled workers to Guanzhong, Liangzhou and Jingzhou to give them a better life. Once the gap between workers and peasants is opened, it will be impossible to stop the car. After the people are rich and the country is prosperous and the people are safe, the needs will always be slowly discovered."

Zhuge Jin thought about it and always felt a little uneasy: "Can you say it more specifically? Brother Boya, you are knowledgeable, so naturally you are not worried. I just saw this acre of three-point land, which is not down-to-earth."

Li Su patted Zhuge Jin on the shoulder, then remembered something, and called a maid over and said a few words. The maid quickly walked to the back hall and then took back a box.

Li Su opened it, and there was some cotton inside, and a small piece of cotton pad made by his maid in his house. He pointed to the cotton and introduced: "These are the harvests of the poisonous cotton boulders and the white flowers of the Western Regions that were cultivated this year? You didn't let you plant on a large scale, but only let you breed, because I know that Shu is wet and sunshine is not suitable for this kind of thing.

This thing requires a lot of sunlight but uses less water. I have long thought about it. If Liangzhou is pacified in the future, it can be promoted and planted in Xiliang. Maybe it will help our Han Dynasty to find a permanent method of pacifying the Liangzhou Rebellion.

Nowadays, craftsmen who make silk reeling brocade weaving machines can be transferred to Chang'an to build cotton looms in three years, and to Tianshui and Jincheng spinning machines, and hydraulic spinning machines. The Hexi Corridor lacks water, but it can grow drought-resistant herb crops. If the crops still like sunshine, it would be more suitable. Isn't it a gift to grow cotton in the northwest?

As soon as Li Su said this, Zhuge Jin, Huang Quan, and even Yang Hong at the next table were curious and quickly listened to the noble teachings of the provincial governor.

"Can this white stack of flowers be used to woven fabric like silk? Can you keep the cold by filling it with flowers? Is this cushion a sample? It's quite warm, but that only solves the source of some clothes and keeps the cold. How can it be said to be related to making Xiliang last forever?" Zhuge Jin curiously took the cotton cushion in Li Su's box.

This cotton pad was made by Li Su's maid Xiser this month. She completed it with one hand from spinning cotton yarn to weaving cotton cloth to mats with cotton stuffed cotton. However, because of the many processes and the tools are not handy, it took a long time to make such a small sample.

Zhuge Jin's problem is actually quite tricky, but fortunately, Li Su had to read geopolitical history in his previous life, so he really had some understanding of the economic analysis of the whole story of the Qiang Rebellion in Northwest China in history.

As we all know, the Qiang Rebellion in the Hexi Corridor was very serious in the Han Dynasty. During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, it was just that the Northern Dynasties were also Hu people, and they often killed each other, so even if they didn't stop, they were not conspicuous. However, it was still a bit troublesome in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Although there were Dangxiang people after the Song Dynasty, the Dangxiang people mainly ruled in Ningxia, and the Hexi Corridor gradually lost a powerful regime that could make trouble.

This is related to the truth revealed by a monograph "The Choice of the Nomads" that Li Su saw when he was reading the history of geopolitical: the development of productivity led to the Western Qiang-style nomadism and Mongolian-style nomadism, and the soldiers eventually gradually became Chinese.

Li Su was quite serious in his previous life to study for graduate school. Now he can show off to Zhuge Jin and Huang Quan: "I ask you, do you think there is a difference between the Qiang people and the Xianbei people and the Xiongnu people in terms of life and production methods?"

The three of them immediately replied: "Aren't they all nomadic? If you raise cattle and sheep, you can eat meat, drink milk and wear skin. If you suffer from disaster, you can grab it."

Li Su stretched out a finger and shook: "You are too intricate to look at the problem. These are completely different things. The Qiang people live in the Hexi Corridor, which is on the edge of the plateau. How can they be the same as those of the Xiongnu Xianbei on the vast grassland?

I ask you, since the Huns, there was a great Shanyu, who unified the entire grassland. However, after reading "Records of the Grand Historian" and "Book of Han", the Western Qiang was known for its "no king". Even when Duan Jin, Zhang Huan, and Huangfu Song were pacified, they were rebelling in several tribes and some small barbarian kings.

Moreover, the Qiang people were trying to harm each other. When the imperial army went to the expedition and suppression, there were often tribes with hatred to help the imperial court fight the rebels. After a long time, it was hard to distinguish between us. Are these characteristics, did the Huns and Xianbei?"

Zhuge Jin and the others fell into deep thought. They had all read history books and knew that the characteristic of Wujunchang in the Western Qiang was indeed written in history books, but they had never asked "why".

Zhuge Jin sighed, "Then why is this? Could it be that General Right always reads history with such a quest for the heavens and man? Do you understand why?"

Li Su smiled proudly: "I dare not say that I can figure it out, I can only say one person's words. I call this difference 'geographic determinism' - to form a large tribal alliance, the key is to facilitate the exchange of existence and whether there is or not, and the strong conquer the weak.

But have you seen it in the Hexi Corridor? The land suitable for farming and growing grass there are all river valley plains in the folded mountainous areas of the Linqiang Plateau. The Yellow River flows along the lowest mountainous area of ​​the Hexi Corridor, flowing from the south to the tributaries of the Yellow River, flowing down from the snow-capped plateau, and engaging into the Yellow River.

The valley plain between each tributary is towering with snow-capped mountains on both sides. It is very inconvenient to go from one of the south bank tributary basins of the Yellow River to another south bank tributary basins. Unless you first enter the Yellow River northward, then go upstream along the Yellow River to the previous estuary, and then flow back along the tributary. Otherwise, even if the valley plains of the two Qiang tribes are only fifty miles in a straight line, they cannot travel directly, unless you climb the snowy mountain.

Therefore, the Western Qiang Wujun Chang was based on the inconvenience of each of their river valley tribes and another river valley tribes. "There are different winds in ten miles, and the customs in hundreds of miles". This made them unable to go to the next door like the Huns on the open grasslands. Whoever was affected by the disaster would immediately go to the next door, and the road to the next door was too far away.

If you go, it is not to grab something like the Huns, but to completely destroy the neighbors and completely occupy the pastures and farmlands in the neighbors' valley, and they will never come back after going. Because they lack pastures that can take turns to nomads, they can only 'grasses but not travel'. Because of the competition for pastures, neighbors often live to the death, and have formed enemies for hundreds of years. In the end, the two neighbor tribes may not die."

The "involved" of the Western Qiang people is much more serious than that of the Xiongnu and Xianbei, and there is no place to travel for them. But this also leads to the Western Qiang people in addition to grazing, and they will also engage in part of agriculture, because the unit of land production of agriculture is definitely much higher than grazing. Forty acres of land as grassland sheep can only feed sheep that can live in one person, but they can feed at least the whole family.

Therefore, the Qiang tribes often have no wars all year round, and their population has grown a lot. They are stuck in a river valley on the southern bank of the Yellow River and cannot get out, so they start farming, turning the fertile land on both sides of the river from pasture to farmland.

Unless one day the tribes fought with their neighbors, and most of the population was massacred, the Malthus population explosion crisis fell, and the per capita land possession increased again, and by killing people, they would regain their lazy grazing and not farming lifestyle.

The essence of the Qiang Rebellion is that the population has reproduction and limited resources. There are snow-capped mountains on both sides and there is no place to develop. The court also collects capita taxes. With more people, there are more taxes, but there are not many means of production. There is no place to borrow and reuse to release pressure, so the Qiang Rebellion in the Eastern Han Dynasty cannot be stopped for more than a hundred years. As long as the population is reproductive and the tax system is not reformed, it will be chaotic.

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"I didn't expect that the Qiang Rebellion and the Xiongnu Xianbei Rebellion had such a deep difference. We have always regarded the Hu as one. The Dukes of Gun Gun, who were in charge of the Great Master Lu in the court, also had such knowledge. It really ruined the country for decades." After hearing Li Su's analysis, Zhuge Jin couldn't help but admire him from the bottom of his heart.

Huang Quan was even more outrageous, and flattered to this extent: "Oh, if the Right General had been born decades earlier and the imperial court would have appointed you as the Great Honglu decades earlier, how could the Han Dynasty be dragged to this point by the Qiang Rebellion? Think about the three ministers in the court suggested giving up Xiliang or even giving up the Three Dukes. The prime ministers in the court were not as good as the Right General."

Yang Hong also bowed and said, "No wonder the right general was only eighteen years old, and was able to be recognized by the former Yan King, and promoted to the chief of the Wuhuan School Captain and the Chief Secretary of the Jiejie. The next year, he was transferred to the General of the Huns. He was in charge of the affairs of various Hus. The right general was illuminated by the other Hus. He did not directly make you the Grand Grand Lu, which was the loss of the late emperor. However, since the right general knew that the Western Qiang was different from the Xiongnu Xianbei, how should he manage it? What is the relationship between the white stacked flowers and cotton cloth mentioned just now and the quenching of the Qiang rebellion?"

Li Su continued to brainwash them: "I didn't understand this? Then let me ask you, what is the difference between the people of the Western Qiang and the Han people of Longxi County and Tianshui County today? For example, many Han people in Shui today are actually planned by the Western Qiang. The area they live in is not suitable for nomadic people, and can only pasture but not travel. According to natural development, as the population grows, they will naturally be completely Chineseized, abandon the herdsmen's lifestyle, and become the Han farmers' lifestyle.

But why can't they completely give up on the lifestyle of herders? In the final analysis, it's just one word, cold! The place where they live is more stable than Tianshui. The northwest is, the colder it is. And after dryness, the temperature difference between day and night is greater. You are from the south, and you don't know the bitter cold there before you have never been to the Hexi Corridor. There is snow in the sky and August, let alone they live in the snow-capped mountains and valleys on the edge of the Linqiang Plateau.

They also want to farm like the Han people. Even if they can't afford expensive silk, they still wear cheap kudzu. However, kudzu is too cold. They must wear fur coats to avoid freezing to death in winter. So even if they want to completely Chinese farming and survive, they still have to make sure to grazle a certain number of sheep and get sheepskin to make fur coats. If you go to inspect the lifestyle of the Qiang people, you will know that eating mutton is just a plus for them. The diet can grow grain and vegetables and do not rely on mutton. Lamb is just a by-product of getting fur coats.

After the white velvet flower, long velvet spinning cotton cloth, short velvet high yield filling cotton wool, and the climate is suitable for planting in the scorching sun and arid areas in the northwest, and the water consumption is still small. A set of sheepskin coats were produced in twenty acres of grassland. After planting white velvet flower, fifteen sets of cotton jackets could be made on the same area. After wearing cotton jackets, the Qiang people gradually became completely Chinese into Han people.

Then we will supplement the tax reform to guide the Qiang people to organize migration when there is insufficient arable land. In addition, after their nomadic lifestyle is changed, their living habits that can survive by plunder will gradually calm down and they will obey controls. Why worry about the chaos in the Qiang people?"

Zhuge Jin was excited when he heard this. He suddenly felt that he had been crazy about the expansion of silk reeling and brocade looms in recent years, and had cultivated more and more craftsmen. He was not to provide convenience for the enjoyment of the meat eaters, but to lay the foundation for the long-term stability of the Han Dynasty.

"It turns out that these technical accumulations and craftsmen can also develop cotton yarn and cotton cloth and pacify the Qiang rebellion for a long time. It is really a great merit. Since the two emperors of Zhanghe, all the imperial court have only thought about killing and pacifying the Qiang. The right general actually wanted to cure the situation by giving people fishing. It was not easy."

Zhuge Jin decided to continue to expand his career in training the technical workers, and no longer worried about the workers' unemployment after all the things they should have been built in the future.
Chapter completed!