The troops and horses have not moved, but the food and grass go first.
After Yuzhu returned to Fuya from Juzizhou, he summoned Yang Sen, a Taoist from Changbao Road.
The entire Pianyuan Province is currently divided into four Taoist jurisdictions, namely Changbao Road, Hengyongchen Road, Yuechang Road and Chenjing Road.
The status of the Tao is higher than that of the government. The chiefs of the Tao are Taoists, also called Taoists.
Roads are roughly divided into four categories, namely: patrol roads, guard roads, military preparation roads and specialized roads.
Among them, the Fenxun Road is subordinate to the Inspection Envoy, and the Fenshu Road is subordinate to the Chief Envoy. They are all in charge of prefectures, prefectures and counties.
It is worth mentioning that, except for special exceptions, the Military Preparation Road is an additional title that is divided into guarding the road or patrolling the road and taking charge of the military in the region.
As for the salt method road, grain storage road, tea horse road, river road, etc., they are all roads in the professional field and do not concern prefectures and counties.
In the early Qing Dynasty, both the Dao Shou and Dao Patrolmen were in charge of the prefect. However, their rank was the same as that of the prefect, which was somewhat embarrassing.
Changbaodao is a Fenshou Tao, subordinate to the Chief Envoy, and has jurisdiction over Changsha and Baoqing Prefectures. It is also in charge of salt law and grain storage roads.
In this era, the local fiscal and commercial taxes in Pianyuan Province were almost negligible, mainly land taxes and salt taxes.
Objectively speaking, Taoist priest Changbao is one of the most successful officials in the province.
"Taoist Changbao, Yang Sen, who is of humble rank, pays homage to Mr. Futai." After Yang Sen came in, he bowed to the ground in a polite manner and saluted.
According to the rules in the officialdom, fourth-grade Taoist priests will not have a seat when meeting the governor.
"That's all, sit down. Come here, serve tea." Yuzhu did not show off his authority. Not only did he accept the seat with a pleasant look, but he also served tea.
Yang Sen knew that Yuzhu was a third-class Yong Yihou.
However, in the officialdom, calling the governor of a province by his title is equivalent to calling him an empty knight.
In the officialdom, the issue of address is by no means a trivial matter, but a top priority.
Calling your boss by the wrong name may result in you being dismissed from your job, or in the worst case, you may lose your life.
Regarding the issue of address, in a nutshell, the superior must be addressed by the highest official position. Only when the official position is too small will the title be deliberately addressed.
If Yuzhu has an honorary title such as "Prince Shaobao", Yang Sen will not understand the rules if he calls Master Futai again, and must change his name to: Yugongbao.
Of course, the eunuchs in the palace are quite special. They call Yuzhu Yuhou, which is another set of logic to express closeness.
Yuzhu specially called Yang Sen to see him, naturally he wanted to ask about the status of the grain reserves.
"Your department is also in charge of grain storage. I wonder how much grain is stored in each place?" Yuzhu asked Yang Sen politely.
Yang Sen quickly stood up, cupped his hands and said, "Mr. Futai, due to the three consecutive years of bumper harvests, Changsha Prefecture alone has a grain reserve of 100,000 dan. If Baoqing Prefecture's grain reserve is included, I am afraid it will exceed 17,000 grains."
Wanshi."
One stone weighs ten buckets, one bucket weighs ten liters, and one liter is about one catty and eight taels.
The food crops in Hunan are mainly rice.
Yuzhu calculated in his mind that these 170,000 shi of grain amounted to approximately 30.6 million kilograms of rice.
In this era, soldiers in the Green Camp only had two meals a day during non-war times, namely breakfast and dinner, and no lunch.
When the army is out, there are three meals a day.
Due to the lack of meat and fish, soldiers generally eat a large amount of food, consuming about four kilograms of food a day.
If we send out 10,000 troops, we will need 40,000 kilograms of food per day.
However, this is only the consumption of soldiers.
Transportation losses on the road range from five to thirty times, depending on the distance of the road.
It is about more than 700 miles from Changsha to Zhenyucheng (Phoenix Ancient City).
Based on Yuzhu's experience in leading troops to attack in the northwest, combined with the current situation of no officials and no corruption, the transportation on the road will be at least ten times the loss.
In other words, after transporting ten shi of grain from Changsha to Zhenyucheng, the officers and soldiers could only eat one shi of grain.
Of course, Yuzhu has broken away from the superficial level of a military enthusiast and advanced to the level of an enthusiast.
"Your Majesty, if we can transport food by water and get as close as possible to Zhenyun City, it will be much easier." Yuzhu calmly made a proposition.
While in the palace, Yuzhu and Kangxi had already agreed on a battle strategy and tried their best to transport troops and food by water.
However, because the drawing technology of military maps is seriously behind the times, there is no definite answer to the direction of various water systems in Pianyuan Province.
It's understandable that Yuzhu is new here and doesn't know the details of Hunan.
Yang Sen has been an official in Hunan for more than ten years and is in charge of grain storage. He should know that transporting grain by water is the cheapest and most efficient.
During the Shunzhi Dynasty, Suhu Lake was well-established and the world was prosperous.
By the 40th year of Kangxi's reign, Huguang was well-known and the world was famous.
Today's Huguang area is already a land of plenty!
"Back to Mr. Futai, in the past, most places in this province used waterways to collect and store grain. For example, from Sangzhi Xuanwei Division to Lizhou, ships on the Lijiang River can be used to transport grain, and then through
Dongting Lake is transported to the provincial capital. As for Yuezhou and Changde, needless to say, they are on the edge of Dongting Lake, along the Xiangjiang River, and can be directly reached the provincial capital. In addition, Hengzhou Prefecture and Yongzhou Prefecture south of the provincial capital
, Guiyang Prefecture, Chenzhou and other places all have the Xiangjiang River, Weishui River and Xiaoshui River, which can transport grain by ship." Yang Sen spoke in detail, and Yuzhu listened with interest.
However, Yuzhu is also waiting for Yang Sen to say but.
Be obedient and transport food by water. This was the old practice.
"However, since the predecessor Pan Fu took office, he forcibly changed water transportation to land transportation. Alas, the food loss on the road has reached an astonishing thirty times."
Yuzhu nodded and took a deep look at Yang Sen. He indeed had real talent and knowledge, and his character was acceptable.
Even though Pan Zongluo had been arrested, Yang Sen still did not utter any harsh words, but implicitly pointed out the crux of the matter.
There was such a huge loss on the road. Alas, Pan Zongluo was really greedy. It was much worse than the "drift" caused by the Ming Dynasty when he sent grain and wages from the Jiaodong Peninsula to the Liaodong Peninsula!
However, extrapolating back, Pan Zongluo still had so much grain after scraping the ground three feet.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! It can be imagined that Huguang is well-known and the world is rich, which is definitely not an absurd reputation.
Yuzhu had read a lot of history books, and he naturally knew very well that even the Jinghu Lianglu area during the Northern Song Dynasty was still an undeveloped wilderness.
"I don't know, do you have a name for your profession?" Yuzhu deliberately revealed his intention to win over.
Yang Sen was also a sensible person. When he saw Yuzhu taking the initiative to ask for his cousin's name, he forcibly suppressed his joy and answered with his hands raised: "Return to Fu Zun, I am humble and humble, but I am cousin Mulin."
Yang Sen also changed his title, from Master Futai to the more intimate Fu Zun.
A common rule in official circles is that the more distinctive the title given to a superior, the closer the relationship.
"Oh, it turns out to be Mr. Mulin." Yuzhu called Yang Sen's cousin affectionately, which meant that the relationship with Yang Sen had taken a big step forward.
Yang Sen was so frightened that even if his courage grew hairy, he would not dare to call himself Yuzhu's brother.
"Fu Zun is too flattering. How can I bear such a great blessing in my humble position? If you go beyond your duty, Mr. Fu Zun, why don't you call me Yang Mulin in your humble position?" Yang Sen's answer was very appropriate.
He not only kept his duty as a subordinate, but also did not embarrass Yuzhu.
Zhou Quan on the side could not help but secretly nod. Even if this Yang Daotai could not reach the level of eight-faced exquisiteness, he was at least seven-faced exquisite, right?
After the relationship becomes closer, it becomes easier for us to talk about ourselves.
After Yuzhu asked clearly about the directions of various water systems in Pianyuan Province, he left Yang Sen in Fuya and had lunch with him.
During the banquet, there were eight rounds of wine and twenty dishes.
When everyone was chatting, it went without saying that Yuzhu was a well-known number one scholar. Zhou Quan, who was accompanying the guests, also said frankly that he had been dismissed.
Under Zhou Quan's repeated invitations to drink, Yang Sen was half drunk, slightly smoked, and his palms began to sweat, but his mind was still very clear.
"To be honest with you, Fu Zun, I was born as a Jinshi in the imperial examination in the 28th year of Kangxi's reign. Alas, I was not qualified to enter the common office. I was distributed to the province. I started from the county magistrate. After more than 20 years, I finally became the official.
If you have achieved something small, you can comfort your strict father and loving mother." Yang Sen was full of emotion.
On the surface, Yang Sen said he was quite satisfied.
In fact, I spent twenty-two years in the officialdom before I became a fourth-level Taoist priest.
Basically, if there is no big backer in the court to support him, Yang Sen's official career will stop here and it will be impossible to move up to the next level.
How can I put it, the unspoken rules of the Kangxi Dynasty were that for officials of the fourth rank and below, children from poor families could still manage to climb up by relying on talent and hard work.
Similar to the Chief Envoy and the Inspector-General, provincial officials, except for special cases, must first check their family background.
Let’s first talk about whether they are in the banner. Among them, the Manchu banner people have the highest priority, the Mongolian banner people are second, and the Han army banner people are third.
Among the Han ministers, those from Zhili were given priority, and those from Jiangnan were ranked last.
In a word, there is a clear dividing line, which is the time when the ancestors took refuge in the Qing Dynasty. It was earlier in the north and later in the south, and the degree of trust of the Qing court was also very different.
Yuzhu estimated that Yang Sen was already 70% drunk, so he asked him calmly: "If you are marching on the food route, can you be sure that the army will not go hungry?"
When the army is out on an expedition, food supply is a top priority.
Chinese history spans thousands of years.
The wine table has always been the main battlefield for discussing business matters.
Things that cannot be done officially can be done at the banquet table. As long as the sincerity is satisfactory enough, there will be nothing that bureaucrats dare not do.
"Fu Zun, if I get things done, can I get a big reward?" Yang Sen also came to test Yu Zhu's sincerity with the help of his drunkenness.
After all, the army is on an expedition, and if food cannot be provided, the consequences will be extremely serious.
Hey, by that time, the officials in charge of food will be the easiest to take the blame.
To put it bluntly, losing one's head is a trivial matter, but one's wife and daughter may also be sold into squalor.
The most obvious example is that Cao A'hao borrowed the head of an innocent grain official to appease the hungry army.
Yuzhu has always been very clear in his heart that his real overall situation lies only in the capital.
The Old Fourteenth in history had more than 100,000 elite troops in the northwest who were good at fighting, but they did not dare to raise an army to rebel against the Fourteenth.
It can be seen that the central military power is the key.
"Well, if you can handle this matter well, I will recommend you to the emperor as a minister, or even a vassal, and you will never fail to say so."
Yuzhu wants political achievements, Yang Sen wants promotion.
When the fundamental interests of two people are consistent, the relationship is even closer than that of a husband and wife.
How could we not hit it off immediately?
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