In the main hall of the state capital, Li Yunxin walked in with broad steps, raised his arms and reported: "Your Majesty, the hometown righteousness in all counties have sent their disciples and heroes to Fangcheng one after another. They will be separated inside and outside Fangcheng according to the order."??
Li Tai took over the list of powerful officials from the county who had led Xiangqu to the city and briefly browsed it. He nodded with satisfaction and said to Li Yunxin: "It will take a short time for the Western Expedition Army to return to town, but there are traces of thieves in the territory.
It is difficult to trace the enemy, so we need to rely on these local heroes to guard the peace of the place. We must contact the people with a heart of benevolence and righteousness, and have enough food and drink. We cannot blindly intimidate the people with threats, so that people will not dare to approach me."
After hearing this, Li Yunxin nodded quickly. Now he was no longer an inconspicuous member of Longyou's tycoons. He was holding the banner of Li Tai to exercise the power of the Governor of Fangcheng on his behalf. Fansuo County was summoned.
All the folk tunes were controlled by him, it can be said that he has great power. I feel more and more that this grandpa believes that he is really worthy, and he is much more powerful than that uncle Li Xian.
But in fact, it is not just Li Xian. Even Duguxin, the real governor of Qinzhou, is probably not more intimidating than Li Tai in today's state. Although Duguxin has a high position, he still needs to follow the rules when doing things.
Don't be punished for being innocent.
However, during this period of time, Li Tai made people worry that he would lose control and go on a rampage, causing a bloody storm in the country. After all, the news that he wanted to hold a Buddhist ceremony to pray for his father was already known to everyone, and as a result, he prepared a Buddhist ceremony for him.
However, the temple of Li was looted. In public, he was a keeper of the state capital, but in private, he was a filial son who missed his father. No matter what, he must be traced to the end!
Of course, if he does not have matching abilities, no matter how angry he is, he will only become a laughing stock. If he dares to expand his attack area to all the powerful forces in the country, he will inevitably encounter resistance from the masses.
After all, Longyou has been in chaos for many years, and the masses have become more realistic in their outlook. It is difficult to scare them with mere official titles, and they must be matched with the strength of real people and horses.
However, after the news of the quelling of the Liangzhou rebellion spread, the deterrent power of the Qinzhou government naturally increased to a higher level. In addition, Li Tai also had tricks and an aggressive attitude to break the rules for the sake of filial piety.
It makes people feel that he may burst out the anger in his heart at any time.??
Those who are tough are afraid of being aggressive. In this situation, of course no one wants to stand out and rashly attract Li Tai's hostile gaze to themselves. Therefore, they are not willing to accept some of the moderate demands he made.
Try to be as satisfying as possible.
For example, all the powerful families in the territory were ordered to report the accurate situation of their tribes and villages. In normal times, everyone would naturally not care about this. This is the tribe's population that is under cover. How could they obediently expose their family wealth to others.
However, in this special situation, everyone generally does not want to get into trouble, not to mention that this is not a formal household expansion organized by the government. A brief explanation will clear up one's suspicions and avoid causing other troubles.
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Of course, if all the powerful people in the realm have a tacit understanding and a unified attitude and refuse to obey this order, Li Tai will not really become an enemy of the masses, just laugh twice, punish himself with three cups, and just pretend that this is not the case.
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But this is of course impossible. If these powerful people could really abandon each other's prejudices and stick together closely, they would have become kings long ago, and there would be no need for outsiders to judge.
As long as someone takes the lead and sets an example, then such an imaginary rural alliance will not exist.
Li Tai should not be too familiar with the various operations of promoting rural sentiments and influence. Anyone who is willing to reveal his or her family background must be a virtuous and innocent family. They are the backbone of the countryside who protect the local customs and maintain the security of the territory.
, now that the counter-rebellion army has not yet returned to town, we must rely on these local forces to protect the security of the territory.??
Therefore, Li Taizhi took some of the materials confiscated from Guangming Temple and gave them to powerful families who cooperated with the investigation, and invited them to lead Xiangqu to help him maintain public security and order within the territory.
When these Xiangqu troops gathered, Li Tai was no longer simply intimidating. He really had the ability to destroy the Xiangqu order. Previously, everyone had to voluntarily declare the order of the Xiangqu, so they needed to not discount it.
Execution. If anyone refuses to take the initiative to report it, I will bring someone into his home to check it in person!
These details of the rural situation were difficult for Dugu Xin to grasp even after several years in the town, but Li Tai easily obtained them. Having these underlying data is equivalent to mastering the password of the order of the rural situation here. No matter what happens next,
Operations can be more targeted and achieve more impressive results.
As for the Samana forces outside the Guangming Temple in the county, Li Tai does not plan to continue taking action for the time being.
The harvest from Guangming Temple is so rich that it will still take a long time to fully digest it. Even if the scope of the attack is further expanded, it will be difficult to effectively integrate resources in the short term, and it will be too much to bite off.
Secondly, the people of Longyou are still worshiping Buddhism as a whole. Even if Li Tai wipes out all the Samana forces in Tianshui County, the Samana forces from other places will find ways to infiltrate, which will inevitably restrict a lot of his energy.
The reason why Li Tai was so eager to rectify the local forces here was because he knew very well that with the end of the Liangzhou War, Longyou's economic function far exceeded its military function in the territory of the Western Wei Dynasty.??
In particular, a series of changes in the Eastern Wei Dynasty brought a lot of strategic changes to the Western Wei Dynasty, which caused Longyou's status in the overall strategic planning of the Western Wei Dynasty to plummet. Neither Tuyuhun in Qinghai nor the Turks who were about to replace Rouran had yet to do so.
Powerful enough to pose a huge threat to Longyou.
Except when conquering Hanzhong and further Shuzhong, Longyou still had a certain sense of geographical presence, and it was marginalized for a long period of time.
Of course, this does not mean that Longyou is unimportant. Guanlong and Guanzhong are essentially one, and without the control of Longyou, the situation in Guanzhong cannot be said to be stable. The emperors and ministers of the Mid-Tang Dynasty were well aware of this.
And with the recovery of Silk Road trade, the hematopoietic ability brought by Longyou's trade cannot be underestimated. The reason why Shuzhong and Jiangling were able to quickly integrate with the industrial environment of Guanzhong after being included in the territory of the Western Wei Dynasty, and each other
Complementary to each other, the cross-regional material exchange promoted by Longyou commerce is also indispensable.
The benefits brought by the revitalization of business are a new growth area for all forces here, and there are no industry leaders who are the first to take the lead. In other words, everyone is in a state of fair competition in this field. Who can
If we can take the lead in establishing a business order recognized by the masses, then who will be the new big boss.
The fundamental purpose of Li Tai's series of actions was of course to expand his power in Longyou. However, if he only destroyed without building, he would not be able to gain long-term stable influence. Even if everyone tried hard, they would respect him and fear him.
He, but the tea will get cold as soon as the person leaves, which is of no use.
So after he used the excuse of tracking down the murderer to gain control of a large number of local forces, he then proposed the next goal, which is to build a large warehousing and logistics distribution center in Tianshui, as well as the largest trade market in the region.??
Of course, the specific name is definitely not this. It is to build a very large city near the Wei River in the name of welcoming the triumphant army.
Although the project was approved in the name of the state government, it was only to make the subsequent financing and operation more convincing, but Li Tai did not intend to let the government get involved too deeply in the specific procedures.
First of all, the land for this new city belongs to Guangming Temple. The initial investment also came from the goods obtained by Guangming Temple. The labor used was mainly raised and provided by some temples in the county such as Wanfotang. The reason why they are so obedient is that Li
Tai's arrogance, and the second was the temptation of the official position of the county capital Wei Na given by Master Tan Jing.
With manpower and material resources in place, the project started immediately and progressed rapidly. The framework soon began to take shape. Li Tai also gave the logistics city a resounding name, called "Sifang City", which means that it can receive goods from all directions and prosper.
Prosperous.
At present, Li Tai is very wealthy and can afford the cost of this city even if he is alone. However, he needs the cooperation of other personnel resources in the region to establish a complete set of warehousing, logistics and trade systems that can operate stably in the long term.
Need to bring in partners.
The first batch of partners were naturally the local wealthy families who were the first to surrender to him. They needed to provide security for the logistics city. Then there were the wealthy families who had interests in Guangming Temple. Li Tai persuaded them through one-on-one conversations.
They converted the temple's dividend rights into shares in Sifang City and obtained dividends through daily maintenance of Sifang City.
The government is also a force that cannot be ignored. At the moment, their son-in-law has the final say in Qinzhou, but things may change soon.??
Therefore, Sifang City must find a plan to get along harmoniously with the government to ensure that even if things change in Longyou, the person who succeeds Duguxin can accept the existence of Sifang City and dare not easily interfere with it out of interests.
Operation.
The plan conceived by Li Tai is for Sifang City to pay part of the journey and city tax for passing business travelers in daily operations. In this way, passing business travelers can get benefits and be happy to travel through Qinzhou's trade route, and the government does not need to increase
Administrative costs can also be reduced and new fiscal revenue can be obtained.
As for Sifang City, part of the operating profits are used in exchange for living space. If the Qinzhou government wants to take action on Sifang City in the future, it will need to consider alternatives to this part of the fiscal revenue and the impact on the overall business environment.
At the same time, the fees and municipal taxes paid are produced in daily operations, so a mature, reliable, professional and standardized management team is needed to maintain operations.
Li Tai had proposed many reforms when he was in the Taiwan government before, and his own manor has been cultivating relevant talents in the past few years. Whether it is to recruit personnel from Guanzhong or train them locally in Longyou, this will
This will allow the management rights of Sifang City to be firmly controlled by Li Tai.
Of course, it will take a long time for Sifang City to truly play its irreplaceable role in commerce. One of the key factors is to allow the masses to adapt to the existence of Sifang City at the beginning of the revival of trade routes, and then become a
A commonplace existence, a natural choice.
So not long after the construction of Sifang City started, Li Tai began to promote it. He used various reasons to give warehouses of different sizes to people in the state with different lengths of free use.??
Through the people's competitive spirit, they gradually gained a sense of topic, and from the beginning, they subconsciously ruled out the option of building their own warehouses. Anyway, they would not use it for free. When the operation of Sifang City matures, no matter the scale,
The efficiency is enough to crush potential competitors.
After mastering a large amount of timely and effective logistics and warehousing information, various financial businesses such as lending and pledging can be carried out accordingly, reducing the financing cost and difficulty for Silk Road merchants.
In the future, we can further counterattack the Longyou Temple through this series of financial actions. When you encounter difficulties, praying to God and worshiping Buddha may not be effective, but Sifangcheng can really help you.
It was certainly difficult to carry out large-scale financial and capital operations in the Middle Ages, but it was not without room for maneuver. The ancient business of loan sharking was not just a way for temples to make money, even the prosperous Tang Empire
They regard it as an important means to supplement government administrative expenditures.
As an important passage of the Silk Road, Longyou has such a tradition and such demand. Now it has sufficient objective conditions. Li Tai certainly does not want to miss this new opportunity.
His qualifications and foundation are undoubtedly far inferior to those of the North Town warriors led by Yu Wentai, but as long as he can seize some big opportunities in the future, Lu's great cause is expected to succeed! At least the new blood-forming Longyou in front of him
Point, he has made up his mind.
Li Tai is not boasting. In the few months since he came to Longyou, the situation he has created and the personnel foundation he has laid have exceeded what Dugu Xin has accomplished in the past few years.??
Of course, this is not to look down on my father-in-law. After all, without the support given by Dugu Xin and the success of quelling the Liangzhou rebellion, Li Tai's idea would not have been implemented no matter how good it was.
His achievements are based on Duguxin's previous years of operation. Just like the Wuchuan Group came to Kansai under the leadership of He Batayue, it was under the leadership of Yuwentai that it truly gained the strength to carry the title.
.The causes and consequences are profound.
Just when everything was proceeding in an orderly manner under Li Tai's plan, an unexpected piece of information suddenly tightened Li Tai's heartstrings.
"Signs of a large number of people and horses were found in the northern border? How many people and horses are there? Where did they come from?"
Li Tai looked at Heland, the governor of Lueyang County, who went to the state capital to report the matter in person, and asked in surprise.
After hearing this, Heland said: "It was accidentally discovered by a shepherd in the county. I went to investigate in person because of my humble position. I saw about three thousand soldiers on foot and cavalry, coming south via the Wating River. It seems to be a country.
"Zhongjiawu, and there are no signs of bandits plundering the counties, but there are no envoys to inform the counties. The northern counties are not adequately armed, so they rush to inform the envoys, please take precautions in advance."
After Li Tai heard this, he felt strange in his heart. More than 3,000 horses were already a very impressive force. Now that the army is heading west, Qinzhou, which is empty inside, is definitely an armed force capable of plundering counties.
strength.??
Such a group of people suddenly appeared in the territory and came from the Wating River in the north. They most likely came from Yuanzhou. However, Li Tai did not receive any notification at all, which is a bit confusing.
Is it possible that someone might learn from his previous operation and send troops to sneak into Qinzhou to stir up trouble?
No matter whether the opponent is an enemy or a friend, it is always right to be careful. If the army had just left the country and the country was empty of military force, Li Tai would have no choice but to be blind in the face of this situation. But after his previous operation, he was in the state again.
Around the city, nearly 20,000 people from all walks of life and strong men gathered to fight. With soldiers in hand, I naturally did not panic.