After a ten-day break, Huaiyu returned to the border city of Baicheng.
He, the governor of Lingzhou and the governor of Yanzhou, is not permanently stationed in Wuyuan, the city. He patrols the three sides, four ponds, eighteen forts and thirty-six villages in the two counties of Yanzhou. He spends most of his time in Baicheng.
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At this stage, his main work is the trade between Wubai Salt Lake and Baicheng Border Market.
The Fan sisters also didn't want to stay in Wuyuan City. They came all the way here, not to continue to guard an empty house alone, nor to stay in those simple villages and farm.
When he woke up in the morning, Wu Huaiyu yawned and felt a little sleepy.
It is said that there is no damaged land, only exhausted cows. The old saying is indeed true. When the second concubine and the concubine arrived, they immediately divided up the time of Huaiyu, ten days and ten days, and gave him the day off.
Take a vacation and spend the rest of the time alone for three days.
Even if something happens, they still have sword maids to take their place.
These few people did not give any time or opportunity to the other maids and concubines in the palace. The reason was that these were given by others and they were not reliable. One of the maids given by King Rencheng had assassinated Huaiyu.
What.
Fortunately, I heard that the wretched maid had died from her injuries, which gave her an advantage.
"Alang will go to the market to buy slaves later. We are going too." Wu Niang Chu Ying said. She used to be in charge of the house, but now that she has come, she has naturally become the head of the house. Eleven Niang Fan Nizi and Gao Yanzhi,
He is her assistant.
These days, they go to the border markets almost every day. The monk maid Fan Wuniang is quite talented in financial management. Although there are village heads in each village, there are too few hired workers and not enough slaves, so they can only buy slaves here.
"Alang, you are too impatient when buying slaves, and you don't bargain with the price,"
Fan Shiyi also thinks that Huaiyu is too casual. She is also very particular about buying people. You can't just choose young and strong ones. You also have to look at whether they are tame and whether they have any skills. It is best to buy someone from a family. This
Buy the seeds together for the whole family, both young and old. Selling them in packages is relatively cheaper, and it is easier to manage and less likely to run away.
Gao Yanzhi served Huaiyu oat porridge, another bowl of mutton soup, and two horse meat roasted buns. Together with shredded radish and kelp shreds on the table, which were sour and delicious pickles, the breakfast was quite rich.
"There are more and more slaves in the border market recently. We have to carefully select them before buying them. Don't just buy them casually."
Wu Niang sat at the table and mentioned something, "I think the maids, singers, dancers, and slaves in our house can be sent back to Chang'an. It would be good to sell them in the capital. We can keep them for future delivery."
People can do it, but I still feel uneasy staying here."
There were many maids and concubines in the Huaiyu Mansion. Li Daozong sent thirty-six of them, a few dead and wounded, and others. These were considered to be the best among the maids, but since I heard about this
After there was an assassin among the maids, Wu Niang and others sent them all to the village outside Baicheng.
But we can't keep so many people in vain, and it's not cost-effective to sell them here. We might as well send them back to Chang'an to sell them, or give them as favors as gifts.
Wu Huaiyu drank nutritious oatmeal and had no objection to their proposal.
There are a lot of concubines given by others, but to be honest, since encountering Helian Jinzhu's assassination, Wu Huaiyu was too brave to believe these concubines easily, and he was very busy all the time, so he really didn't care
Go to these people.
Although Li Wujie has also reported that he has been closely monitoring these Dounu Ji and concubines, he has not found any abnormalities. Helian Jinzhu may really be an accident.
But Huaiyu didn't go to contact him. The monk and the maidservant said that he would be sent back to Chang'an, so he nodded.
"Those Dou slaves, some of them fought against the assassins when they were assassinated that day. I have released them as my subordinates. These few will serve as my followers from now on. The rest of the Dou slaves can be dealt with as you wish."
This is not because Huaiyu is cold-blooded, but it is just like this in this era. Once you become a slave, no one will treat you as a human being anymore, especially a foreign slave.
"Then I will make arrangements later. It would be a waste if those fighting slaves stay in Zhuangzi to farm the land. They used to be tribal warriors and have been specially trained in the fighting slave field. Now they are still fighting, and they are still very tired.
What is valuable is wasted by farming.”
An ordinary slave in Baicheng now only costs more than 10,000 yuan, but a fighting slave in good condition can be worth at least 50,000 yuan. If it is a famous one, it may be worth more than 100,000 yuan.
The concubines given to Huaiyu by others are not ordinary maidservants. Generally, maidservants are only worth seven or eight thousand yuan, but these are good-looking and young, and many of them can play the flute, flute, sheng, pipa or can sing.
Dancers are several times or even ten times more expensive than ordinary ones.
"Don't feel bad, Erlang. After selling those, we will choose some young and reliable people to serve Erlang."
Gao Yanzhi has now weighed over 100, and has become very fat and plump. She is no longer as skinny and sallow as when she first left the palace, but she is still very shy. She just stays with her when she sits there and doesn't speak much.
Maybe he feels a little inferior in front of the two Fan sisters.
While eating breakfast, they chatted for a while. After breakfast, a few people simply packed up and went out.
Huaiyu first went to the front hall to have a simple morning meeting with officials and family members.
He now has a private team like a government official, which is equivalent to his full-time secretaries. Each one handles the affairs of a certain person in the yamen. Similar to his office, they will handle the various official affairs of Lingfu, Yanzhou yamen and the state and town army first.
, and then organize reports and even handle general affairs for him.
This makes Huaiyu's work easier.
You don't have to worry about every detail, so you can free up more time and just make decisions about the big things.
"The leader of the Dangxiang Qianglerang tribe, Yuwu, led one hundred and ninety-three members of the tribe to submit to him and paid tribute with seven horses."
"The leader of Shanhu, Wolang, came with forty-six men,"
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Wei Siren, the chief minister, reported to Huaiyu that a total of 1,190 people had recently come to Yanzhou to surrender, including Qiang people, mountain barbarians, some Turks, some Han people, and more than a thousand cattle, horses and miscellaneous animals.
Plant the plane trees and the phoenix will come naturally.
When the Tang Dynasty restored Yanzhou, the policies implemented here were hugely different from those in Xiazhou where Liang Shidu was located. They suffered from cold injuries there and had to build cities and forts. More importantly, they could not be seen there.
hope.
But it is obviously different here. Not only are the salt ponds flourishing again, but the fields are even being allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.
When the Qiang and Hus come, they can also divide the pasture.
This attracted many people to flee here. At first they came to invest in small stocks, but later they found out that it was indeed as good as the rumors, so more and more people came.
In just a few days, nearly 1,200 people came to vote.
Some small tribes with dozens or hundreds of people also come as whole tribes.
"We welcome them, send people to greet them, give them a cleansing and a good meal, and then arrange them properly, allocate land and pasture, and register them all."
Wu Huaiyu is not afraid of the large number of people coming to vote.
People are the most precious resource. The nobles and landowners all know how to buy slaves desperately, and even secretly accept fugitives as tenants. Naturally, the tribes and the imperial government also hope to have a large population under their rule.
Only those who have everything have everything.
One of the most important performance evaluation criteria for local officials is population growth.
Every local official is thinking of ways to increase the population under his rule. For example, for those who are not yet married when they reach the age, the government will help them work as matchmakers, and some local officials will even help provide some money for marriages.
In some cases, you can be granted land after you become a adult, but some places require you to get married before you can be granted land, trying to stimulate people to get married and have children earlier.
Whether it's paying taxes or serving in the military, it all has to be sent to people.
Even the output of food taxes is not all produced by people.
"Qiang, Hu, Mountain Barbarians or Turks should be carefully resettled. Han and Hu people must not live together. They must not be allowed to form separate areas. In the salt flat grasslands of Yanchi County outside the Great Wall, these Qiang, Hu, Mountain Barbarians, Turks, etc.
, intermittent resettlement, and some will be resettled within the Great Wall and in the mountainous area of Baiyu Mountain in the south of Yanzhou,"
For a Qianghu tribe settlement site, a group of Han people must be placed next door, and then a Shanhu settlement site must be placed next door, and then a Han people settlement site must be placed next door.
Cross-relocation to prevent one family from becoming dominant.
Only by restricting each other can we be safer.
"Remember to tell them that rights and obligations are equal. When they come to join us in the Tang Dynasty, we will grant them land and register them as naturalized citizens. From now on, they will have to pay taxes and serve in the army.
This year's taxes are exempted, but in this group of soldiers, all those who meet the conditions must participate in the selection, and those who are selected must bear the responsibility, and they are not allowed to evade, otherwise we have the right to take back the fields and pastures given to them, and even expel them."
"Of course, we must also tell them that being selected as a united soldier is not all about responsibility, but also has benefits. Unity soldiers can be exempted from regular service, and they will have rations of pickles during their service. If they go on a mission, there will be subsidies. If
If you perform meritorious service, you will also be rewarded."
Soldier Cao Du Wen reported, "Yesterday, Su Sima led his troops to inspect the Yanxiayou border and encountered a group of Qiang and Hu horse thieves. They pursued them all the way to their lair in the desert, beheaded 110 people, captured 34 people, and 2,000 sheep and cattle. They also captured
We bought a lot of horses, weapons, tents, money and food, etc.”
Wu Huaiyu was not surprised when he heard this. Seeing that Wu Ke was not interested in staying in the city, Su Dingfang and Niu arranged for state and town troops to allocate military camps and build forts. At the same time, they inspected beacons and trade routes, and sent people everywhere to collect information.
As long as there are mountain bandits and horse bandits, they will lead their troops to encircle and suppress them. They are very busy. Under these two murderers and the elite soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, those mountain bandits and horse bandits often come to plunder.
Who among the small tribe of Fanhu can withstand such a blow?
There were more people in this group this time. Wu Huaiyu estimated that it was some small tribe of Fanhu who was grazing cattle and doing some business without capital, but this time the disaster came.
It was eaten in one pot.
Huaiyu took a sip of tea, read the report, and then made an evaluation, "The number of people killed was a bit too much. There were less than 150 people in total. They killed 110 people, and the remaining 30 to 40 people were probably all killed."
Are they old, weak, women and children?
I would like to remind Su Sima and Niu Tongjun to not be so ruthless and try to capture as many prisoners as possible. We are short of people in the salt field, and the military camps in various places are also short of land for farming. They are also in need of people to build cities and forts. It would be a pity to kill them."
"Meritorious, send someone over to check the records."
Hucao joined the army and then reported on the trade situation in the border market, as well as the exchange of salt for grain and other matters.
The morning meeting was not long, and soon the reports from Chang Shi and Liu Cao to the Army were completed, and Wu Huaiyu's Fu Zuo and staff also made brief reports.
Huaiyu made arrangements, ended the morning meeting, and then went directly to the border market in the south of the city without staying at the Yamen. The Fan sisters were still waiting for him over there. Today's task was to continue buying people.
