In March of the fifth year of Qingli in the Song Dynasty, and in March of the seventh year of Yanzuo's reign of the Xia Dynasty, Li Yuanhao was executed by the prince Li Ningling. Later, Li Ningling ascended the throne with the support of all the ministers, and the title of the year was Yansi Ning Kingdom;
At the same time, the leader of the Musang tribe who fled the capital, the former Prime Minister Musang Pang, used Yuan Hao's secret edict to announce to the world that the third prince Li Liangzuo was the legitimate heir. On this grounds, he entangled several northern tribes to establish a separate court and support Shang in his infancy.
Among them, Li Liangzuo became emperor.
Later, Empress Yeli Dulan instructed Li Ning to issue an order to attack the rebellion of the Musang tribe. Each side gathered hundreds of thousands of troops and started a confrontation at the Liangcha River south of Dingzhou. The war was about to break out.
The first fierce battle between the two sides took place at the Liangcha River at the end of April. A few days later, Wu Zangyu Pang was defeated and fled to Dingzhou. The southern imperial army pursued the victory and surrounded Dingzhou City. After three months of siege, Dingzhou City ran out of food and horses were killed in the city to satisfy hunger.
, and then began to kill and eat; seeing that the situation was over, Wu Zang Pang committed suicide and died; the southern army swept through the northern tribes, killing more than 30,000 rebels, and quelled the rebellion.
The Xia Kingdom, which was already scarred, became even weaker after experiencing this catastrophe. Even in September of the first year of the Yansi Ning Kingdom, when the grain was harvested, famine broke out in more than ten state capitals. Although the rebellion was suppressed,
The country is already in danger.
Su Jin, one of the initiators of the civil strife in Xia, took the opportunity to make a lot of money from the national crisis in Xia. He continued to dump food, cloth, tea and other daily necessities on Xia at high prices. At the same time, he plundered Xia's furs, livestock, medicinal materials, green salt, etc. at low prices.
The materials in short supply in the Song Dynasty were sold back to the country; in just half a year, they made a huge profit of tens of millions. At the same time, the Pearl City was also famous in the Song Dynasty for having goods that were prohibited from being sold in the north. Businessmen from all over the country gathered in the Pearl City like flies chasing odors.
He obtained the qualification for wholesale sales of northern goods through secret channels and suffered a bloody blow.[
The Chengzhou Iron Mine was also put into operation in June, and the iron ingots were purchased by the three companies. Except that the price was not too high for Su Jin, Zhao Zhen was not stingy this time, and the money was not in arrears; by the beginning of August, Su
The large holes of 13 million yuan that had been misappropriated by the successful Suji Silver Village were all filled up.
Su Jin also ordered people to redeem the dowries and private houses of the daughters from the capital. In addition to returning them to their original owners, they also added a lot of jewelry, which was considered as a settlement for him.
The first batch of taxes from the northwest state capitals and Pearl City have begun to be collected. According to Zhao Zhen's promise, the northwest will be self-sufficient in expenditures. How to collect taxes and the tax rate will be determined by Su Jin himself. Of course, it seems to be Zhao Zhen's generosity.
In fact, it was Zhao Zhen's skill in squeezing Su Jin. For decades, there was no time when the Northwest Fourth Road was not supported by the court, and the taxes were only symbolically collected, because the small amount of money and goods collected was not enough to be used to stuff teeth.
sewn.
But the situation has changed significantly this year, mainly because the commercial tax in Pearl City accounts for a large proportion. There are currently nearly 10,000 merchants in Pearl City, and the fourth ring road outside the third ring road has begun to take shape. Of course, Su Jin will not
For example, when Pearl City was first built, everything was paid for by the merchants themselves, and the construction of shops was all the business of the merchants. Not only that, they also had to apply to Lucang Secretary Li Zhong to purchase the land. The large areas of desolate open space have now become golden pimples, and later the merchants
People are still flocking to it, everyone wants to take advantage of the unprecedentedly prosperous qgu city of Pearl City. The first batch of merchants to settle in secretly congratulate themselves because their shops are in excellent locations and they will have priority after being exempted from rent for one year.
Even though the prices of shops are astonishingly high, merchants still spend huge sums of money to buy their shops privately without frowning.
The funds accumulated from the huge commercial operations are enough to operate the Northwest Fourth Road. Su Jin has never stopped investing in construction, and has never given up on transforming people's concepts; just after the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15th, Pearl City welcomed again
When a new thing comes, it immediately becomes a topic of conversation.
Li Chong took the lead and invited elite students from various universities to establish the first newspaper in Pearl City.
However, Su Jin is no longer easily moved by external things, and his heart has gradually calmed down. Even when the officials of all sizes greeted Yu Xicheng outside the city, Su Jin was not too excited, but just sighed a little.