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There is no turning back when you draw a bow! One wrong step will lead to a wrong step at every step!
When Tang Bin and Song Zuo first positioned Zhu Biao's troops on the defensive box, there was no possibility of a quick victory in the Bingzhou battle, and both sides fell into a hysterical stage of desperate struggle.
The Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry on the side of the Bingzhou Army was afraid of fighting the wolf on both sides, fearing that they would suffer another heavy blow, and became a decoration like Zhu Biao's army.
There has been a war in the northwest for many years. The logistics and transportation lines of the two armies are unprecedentedly stable and peaceful, especially the Tang army. This just suits the hearts of the Tang and Song Dynasties.
In a real head-to-head fight, Bingzhou Army was always distracted by Xia Army, but the two of them were not afraid!
Zhu Biao also had no objection. No matter how glorious a victory was, there would be sacrifices. If he fought less, his soldiers would sacrifice less. He had no objection at all.
If anyone thinks that Zhu Biao will be dissatisfied or very dissatisfied, then he must not have clearly realized one thing: Zhu Biao has already passed the stage of decorating honors with victory. His reputation no longer needs to be decorated with honors.
He has passed the stage of a general who pursued and longed for victory, and has completely shifted to a monarch's perspective.
For the monarch, victory is not the first, but strength is the first.
Qi State, a town in Beidi County.
This was originally the hometown of the Goryeo Kingdom. After the destruction of the Goryeo Kingdom, it was placed under the jurisdiction of the Qi State. However, the Qi State had no time to take care of this place due to years of civil war.
The Qi army originally stationed in Qi hurriedly withdrew into the country as early as the year Tian Sheng was assassinated.
In the following years, the military camps were idle and the government offices gradually faded away. The local forces in Goryeo began to recover. Foreign forces such as Yeosu Kingdom continued to infiltrate and encroach into this area.
If it had not been for Zhu Biao's "emergence from the sky", it would not take long, within ten years, this place would no longer be a "land of foreigners" who did not obey the king.
But now Zhu Biao is here. He has wiped out the entire Qi State in two years. The army turned around and easily suppressed all dissatisfaction.
Daqi's prestige rose again in this area and became erect.
What was originally just a small town has become a busy trading place.
In order to better control the new server areas such as Beidi County, Zhu Biao only established trading towns and markets in the border areas to prevent merchants and people from outside the territory from entering and exiting the mainland at will. The small town was fortunate to become one of the trading ports.
The sky is clear and cloudless, and autumn is about to arrive in this small town called Lingkouli. The weather that has always been hot has become much cooler. The autumn harvest has not yet begun, and the local people who have been busy all summer are taking advantage of the gap to enjoy it without wasting it.
Have leisure time.
The population of Ximen City has increased a lot, and the market, which usually seems relaxed, has become crowded.
Although it was less than a year ago, the commercial activities in Lingkou have greatly enhanced the relationship between the seven people and the local Koreans. In addition to salt, the rice noodles produced by the rice noodle factory are clean and beautiful, and they are innocent.
No matter how much rice and flour are produced, the bran and grains are all clear, and there is no invasion or leakage. It is many times better than the small workshops in the countryside. The best part is that the payment methods are flexible and diverse, and money can naturally be used. Use rice, rice noodles, and bran.
Bran and even firewood can be used to offset processing fees. This has attracted many nearby people and grain farmers to grind rice.
The establishment of a rice noodle factory in the market has naturally added a lot of popularity to the market. People who have finished grinding rice noodles or landowners and farmers of all sizes inevitably come to the market to take a look.
People are all seeking profit. Even national hatred cannot stop people's desire for yellow and white adu to a certain extent. Moreover, the Korean people at this time are not the ones who hate the most national hatred. They are not the people of Qi.
is their first goal.
With the development of the market, a lot of land on both sides of Ximen Street has been bought by local people. More than a dozen shops are under construction. Most of these shops are opened by local big-name businesses, and there are also businesses from outside.
Customers. In addition to the business opportunities in Ximen City that make them jealous, these big business owners also rely on this to get close to Qi Ren and the government. After all, it is the Qi Ren master who is in power now.
Their "prosperity" of Ximen City can be seen to a certain extent as a result of their success, flattery and support from the Qi people.
Of course, there are also a few lucky ones. For example, Lin Xiaozhe, the first local vendor to actively do business with Qi people, started as a vegetable, chicken, duck, fish and meat vendor, and has become the largest vegetable and meat wholesaler in the town market.
business.
More than 70% of the merchants in the town market, as well as the town's inspection department, taxation agencies, etc., purchased vegetables, fruits, chicken, duck, and fish meat and placed them in Lin Xiaozhe's shop. This input alone was enough for Lin Xiaozhe in a short time.
He rose from a hawker to a very wealthy man.
And as Ximen City continues to develop in the future, as long as Lin Xiaozhe can maintain a close relationship with Qi Ren, he will have a bright future.
Now he has built a shop in Ximen City, hired a bookkeeper, and hired seven or eight assistants. Every day he goes to the countryside with his cart to buy live pigs, chickens, ducks, eggs, vegetables, and fruits. Lin Xiaozhe is already planning to do more.
In a few days, he would go back to his hometown to pick up his wife, children, parents, or build a house for his second wife in his hometown, marry a young wife and put her in the mausoleum... Such a beautiful prospect of life made him excited.
Got up.
What makes him a little unhappy is that the autumn harvest is approaching and the wages of long-term workers are going to increase again.
This is the law of the market. In the past, when it was still the Goryeo Kingdom, unless they were hired for many years, those short-term workers, long-term workers, and helpers, when the summer harvest, autumn harvest, and spring sowing came, their wages would be increased, and they would have to eat better.
Lin Xiaozhe is in the vegetable, meat and meat business, and even the scraps every day are full of meat and meat. The food his workers eat is definitely the best in Ximen City. Except for the elders in the Yamen, they are just ordinary people.
The shops are not as good as others.
But wages still have to go up!
With the opening of the border market, the influx of Qi people recruited a large number of people near Lingkouli, and they recruited short-term workers from surrounding villages and towns. The domestic labor market was unprecedentedly tight, and the price of the entire labor market naturally increased a lot.
Then, the market developed very well, and wages kept rising again and again!
Money made the nearby Korean people less resistant and fearful of the Qi people, which also contributed to the assimilation project in the North.
As the market prospered, the security problems that came with it also began to become prominent. Busy places always attracted people from all walks of life. In addition to overt or covert prostitutes, gambling stalls appeared, and then pickpockets.
and thieves, and then beggars. All kinds of rivers and lakes are showing up here one after another.
The most serious problem is of course theft. Every day, a few unlucky people have their money and goods stolen. In the end, even Qi Ren’s store is no longer safe, and something is stolen from time to time. The inspection department uses more force
Shock, one hundred infantry, fifty cavalry, and fifty crossbows are used to guard against border conflicts and bandits, not petty theft.
And even if they start to be busy catching thieves, they are not professionals after all. The local Koreans all look similar to them, so they are basically working in vain. It is rare to catch a few people, and compare the number of the entire group of thieves.
It was also a drop in the bucket. Then, another group fight occurred in Ximen City due to a gambling quarrel.
Shortly afterwards, the first murder case since the opening of the market in Lingkou occurred. Several Mohe people started fighting with Korean people who were buying rice. Although the scene in the market was far from a war, it could only be described as a street fight.
But in this era, there was no so-called official system of weapons. Everyone in Mohe had a sword and a bow, and the sticks used by Koreans to carry burdens and carry baskets were all as thin as a child's arm.
The fight broke out, and blood was seen for a moment, and then the bustling market became a chaotic mess with cries and shouts. Soon, there was a fire on a bamboo canopy stall nearby. When the inspection department arrived,
The crowd had dispersed, leaving behind five corpses and devastation - more than a dozen stalls were burned down.
The inspector's tone was crooked, the tax envoy yelled, and then a question had to be raised. Should we set up police officers in border cities?
These border cities, on the other hand, are ports for the exchange of goods and services, which are to appease the various ethnic groups outside the region. This is because whether it is the Lieshui Kingdom, the Mohe people, and the Heishui Yi people, the civilization level of these foreign forces is much worse than that of the Koryo Kingdom.
In the past, they did not have much contact with Qi State because the closer Koryo Kingdom came to trade. But now that Koryo Kingdom has been destroyed, 70% to 80% of the best places have been assigned to Qi State and Lu State. Lu State is determined not to follow these
Barbarians from outside the territory come and go, licking their own wounds, and recovering with all their strength.
If Qi State does not communicate with them, a small conflict in the county over there will be imminent.
Zhu Biao is not afraid of them, but once the war breaks out, the development and recovery of Qi will be greatly affected.
Therefore, so many border markets have been opened. And these border markets are the specimens displayed by Qi State to the outside world. Now the specimen in Lingkou has become like this. Although the loss is not big, what happened in the market
Fighting to death will damage the reputation of the market and Qi people no matter what. And the most embarrassing thing is that the inspection department has been investigating for a long time, not to mention the murderer, and even the cause and effect are not clear. From this point of view, it is not possible to send a special six-door
The catcher can't figure it out.
Border markets are rich in copper and iron, and commercial taxes are not high. Not only is the market in Lingkouli developing rapidly, but border markets in other locations are also growing rapidly. Coupled with the intermediary goods transshipment, the eighteen border markets have revitalized the territory of Qi State.
Thousands of miles of new land also brought about commercial ties between the new land and the old land.
The accumulated business tax accumulated from a small amount to a large amount, and Zhu Biao accumulated more than three million taels of silver in the first half of the year after entering the Central Plains.
Such a high amount even made the Lu State jealous. And the Qi State was full of joy. This was just the beginning. If it develops completely in the future, the tax revenue of tens of millions taels for the whole year is not an extravagant expectation. And such a high tax
Silver is comparable to the total tax of a state in the entire territory, and is much higher!
Coupled with the "throwing aside" of the land in the four southern states, the investigation of land acres in the other twelve states, the discovery of a large number of new taxes on hidden land, and the sudden reduction of the royal family's expenses, it seems that the "redundant officials" problem of Zhu Biao's regime is not a big deal. Big problems that are difficult to solve.
In short, in the six months since Zhu Biao left Qidi, everything in Qidi has been in order and without any chaos. It seems that it has embarked on the correct development path, accelerating forward on a flat road - (To be continued, please search Gone with the Wind Astronomy and novels are better and updated faster!
