The Li family's team consisted of more than 300 people, a large force, and an elite veteran guard. They traveled from Qinggang River through Dongchuan to Dingbian, Yanzhou, a total of more than 400 miles.
Walking along the Dongchuan River, passing the Cross River upstream, crossing the majestic loess beams, leaving Gyeongju and entering the territory of Yanju, passing through the mountainous area, you will see the Mangmang Gobi Desert in Yanju.
The road from Huan County to Dingbian in Yanzhou via Dongchuan River is not easy to walk, especially before crossing the watershed, there are deep and dangerous valleys.
Fortunately, inns, beacons, and castles have been built along the east and west rivers, including the Qinggang Gorge, and are guarded by border soldiers and beacon warriors.
Duan Lun, the governor of Qingzhou, had been on the bench for several years since he was reported for treason and transferred back to Chang'an when he was in Yizhou. Now he is finally out of the governor's position again, and he is also working very hard.
After coming to Gyeongju, he ordered troops and horses, trained soldiers, sorted out equipment, stocked up on food and grass, and personally led his men through almost all of the three states under his control.
Whether you are a mountain bandit or a barbarian who occasionally does business in the mountains, no matter whether you are Han, Qiang or mountain barbarian, if you dare to rob and steal in his territory, or even occupy the mountains and become kings, or become bandits, there is only one end.
Either they died in the battle to suppress the bandits and siege the city, or they were captured as slaves after the defeat and used to build cities and roads to reclaim wasteland and farmland.
When Duan Lun was able to overwhelm the barbarians in Yizhou and Nanning in a short period of time, it was not because of his handsome appearance and sweet mouth, but because of the sharp sword in his hand. Who has not heard that the entire tribe was uprooted?
, Duan Lun did not know how many slaves were sold to the Central Plains back then, in units of tens of thousands.
Under the iron-blooded suppression of the bandits by the Commander-in-Chief Duan, the Yan Ning Qing Ling Yan Road, especially starting from Huan County, was very difficult to walk, and the road was difficult to walk, and there were too many fanhus in these hundreds of miles, and it was difficult to walk on it at every turn.
During the robbery, some people would let them pass if they gave them some goods and some money, but some were unreasonable and wanted all the people and goods, and even took the people back as slaves.
But now, after a big blow, everyone has become honest, and even many Fanhu were so frightened that they fled to Yanzhou.
Compared with the thunder of Duan Lun, the governor of Gyeongju, the one in Yanzhou is like the rain.
Divide the fields and grant land, and even give you some settling-in expenses and so on.
Even when choosing a city or something like that, they are very polite and will not allocate people randomly, let alone arrest people to build cities and build roads for service.
The border market is still very lively, the key is fairness.
Everyone calls Duan Lun Duan Yanwang and Wu Huaiyu Lord Wu.
Sir, that's what dad meant.
Being able to make those bastards call daddy directly shows that Wu Huaiyu's policies in Yanzhou are quite popular.
Although Yanzhou also suppressed bandits and killed some at first, the troops were led by the second general Su Lieniu Jianwu. Later Wu Huaiyu came forward and asked them to kill as few people as possible. Even in the end, as long as those people could repent and surrender, they would not be killed.
All are lenient,
Yanzhou is mainly engaged in economics. It is busy selling land to farm and grow grain, building dams in salt ponds to dry salt, recruiting merchants from tribes from all over the world to trade with each other, and even recruiting some merchants and craftsmen from Chang'an, Lingzhou and other places to open workshops here and start direct production.
Many handmade products, as well as some furs and medicinal materials traded by the Hu people, were directly processed in Yanzhou.
Not so murderous.
Everyone smiles when they meet.
Even the Turks who had fought with swordsmen at Guanlong in Shuofang last year and were killed with red eyes could still do business with the officials and people of the Tang Dynasty in Yanzhou with smiles on their faces.
Last summer, Yu Sheshe brought tens of thousands of men and horses to besiege Wucheng. Many of his subordinates looted and killed here. But now Yu Sheshe's close friends, the Sogdians, are driving their cattle, horses and sheep over here.
Instead of going to Lingzhou to trade, come to Yanzhou to trade.
The reason is that Yanzhou has good salt and Lingzhou has an excellent attitude.
Wu Huaiyu, the governor, told the officials and people of Yanzhou more than once that they should not be soft-hearted during a war, but now is not the time for a war, and there is no need to struggle with money.
When we open the market for trade, we have to welcome people with a smile. Anyway, the more cows, horses, alpacas, skins, and medicinal materials brought by Yu Sheshe’s neighbors to the north, the more they make. The merchants sell salt, tea, cloth, ceramics and other handmade goods.
Go and make another fortune.
The money earned was quickly turned into food reserves, into weapons and equipment, into a more complete Fengsui Fortress, into an indestructible Great Wall defense line, and into a fortress.
Now in Yanzhou, there are basically no bandits who dominate the mountains. Firstly, there are not many Yanzhou soldiers who can beat Su Lieniu Jianwu and others. Secondly, everyone has been unable to survive in the past and has no other way out.
Once a gangster, he will always be a gangster. The government will not give him a chance to start a new life, he can only work his way up to the dark side.
But now, there are many opportunities here. More importantly, Governor Wu gave them a chance to start a new life. As long as they go down the mountain to accept recruitment and hand over their weapons, those who want to farm can be divided into fields, those who want to herd can be divided into pastures, and those who want to do business can
Those who sell salt also support it.
Register households and people, and wipe out the past.
In fact, not many people are willing to miss such a good thing.
They didn't have a choice before, but now they have a choice.
Some people are stubborn and stubborn, but the end is not good. The village is broken down and their heads are hung in the border market of Baicheng. Who dares to do those business without capital? If they come out to rob in the morning, their heads will be hung in the border market of Baicheng at night.
On top of the city.
Su Lie, these killers, didn't even give them a chance overnight.
The cost of being a thief is so high that no one dares to do it.
Su Lie and others are so good because Wu Huaiyu, the governor, gave them sophisticated equipment, generous rewards, and even accurate intelligence information.
Guarding the four major salt ponds and guarding such a large border market, as long as Wu Huaiyu is willing to give them a share of the pie, they can make a living, and there is no need to take risks with their heads high.
In the past, neither Master Liang nor Li Daozong took these people seriously, and would never give them a share of the pie. They did not even treat them as human beings. Many bandits were originally just tribesmen who were just herding and farming.
Later, he was robbed and captured as a thief by both sides and taken into slavery. He had no choice but to become a thief.
But Master Wu was able to proactively send them a message to recruit them, and to destroy them if possible. He did not do so when he captured them. Instead, he gave them the option of starting over, farming, grazing, collecting salt, selling salt, selling horses, etc.
So now not only many Tibetan Han people from Xiazhou came to seek refuge, but also many mountain barbarians and Qianghu people from Qingzhou, Lingzhou, and even some poor Han people from the border areas came to seek refuge.
Mr. Wu's reputation became more and more famous, and the border markets in Yanzhou became more and more prosperous.
Livestock, salt, grain, silk cloth and other goods were not stopped on all roads.
The border city of Baicheng now only draws points to collect taxes, but the warrior Kai is too soft.
Li Sanniang and her entourage arrived in Yanzhou and near the Great Wall Line, and were deeply touched. When they were in Qingzhou, they also felt the chill. Although the road was safe, they always felt uneasy.
But when I got here, I could feel a different kind of relaxation, as if I had arrived in the mainland of Guanzhong.
"Is this actually Yanzhou, which Wude Chao has never really controlled since the founding of the Tang Dynasty?" The Li family guards could not help but marvel.
"I came here to fight before, but it was not like this at that time. I often didn't even see a ghost. Why is it so lively now?"
Li Sanniang also rode a horse and dressed up in men's clothing outside, looking very heroic.
"There are four major salt ponds here. The best salt in the Guanlong area is produced here. The output is large and of high quality. Now that there is no threat of war, the border market will be revived and things will be different immediately."
"But the salt pond has always been there, but it wasn't so prosperous before."
Although there were four major salt ponds in Yanzhou in the past, there were no border markets in Yanzhou. The salt in Yanzhou was even smuggled and transported to Lingzhou for distribution. The salt in Yanzhou actually helped Lingzhou’s prosperity in recent years.
Wedding dress, although Lingzhou has many other advantages, such as geographical transportation, water transportation on the Yellow River, and its military power, etc.
But although Yanzhou had salt before, it was completely attached to Lingzhou.
But now, Wu Huaiyu has revitalized the salt in Yanzhou, and even directly opened a border market here to attract business with salt. Salt from Lingzhou, livestock from Hetao, and even slave smuggling from Shuofang are now distributed directly here.
The effect of this is huge.
In the past, this was just Yanzhou, with no market and just some resources. But now these resources have brought out the market, and it is completely different.
"Wu Shouyang is really capable. He is so young and yet so talented."
Many people in the Li family also admired this young man, and even felt a bit proud. After all, Wu Shouyang was powerful and was also a disciple of their family leader.
Si Qin saw that Li Sanniang was in a daze again, and sighed, "I really envy Si Qi. How could he follow Duke Shouyang at a glance?"
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Yanzhou City, Wuyuan City.
Wu Huaiyu just returned from the border city of Baicheng and held a meeting with the officials from the state government to deal with many accumulated affairs.
"More and more people have come to surrender recently. Now not only many Fan Hus from Xiazhou have come to surrender, but also many Han people. There are even people from Qingzhou and Lingzhou coming to submit. Not only Fan Hus, but also Han people.
There are few, and some are even good people who are still making courses.”
Wu Huaiyu is not surprised. People go to higher places and water flows to lower places. The environment in the border areas is relatively poor. Although the land is vast and sparsely populated, most of the arable land is actually concentrated in the hands of a few people. Those who missed the first or second wave of the founding of the People's Republic of China are
After the land is divided and allocated, it becomes increasingly difficult for those behind to get the land.
But as soon as you enter the household registration system, regardless of whether the court allocates land to you, as long as you become a young man, you have to pay rent and be transferred to the mediocre, and the middle-aged man has already started to serve as a Zayao.
If you can be allocated a hundred acres of land, the burden of rent adjustment is actually not heavy. But if you don't have land, or if you don't allocate enough, then the tax will remain unchanged, and the burden will be very heavy.
Now that Yanzhou is very popular and the policies are good, many people simply abandon their residence and flee, and want to come to Yanzhou to open new accounts.
In fact, in the past, when most common people lost their land for whatever reason, most of them had to flee their registration, either to work in illegal households in the city, or to join powerful landlords and become landlords.
them.
Of course, if given the opportunity, they would actually not be willing to become a gangster, because it is difficult for a gangster to get ahead, and it is just a temporary act of harshness.
"We still follow the old rules. Regardless of their past, as long as they come to seek refuge, they will be accepted and resettled as refugees."
Although this may cause dissatisfaction among friends and may even lead to a lawsuit, after all, the registered population is a very important resource. If you take in someone else's family, others may flee from the household, which will affect political performance and even lead to punishment.
"Your Majesty, we have been recruiting people so quickly recently that we no longer have enough fields and pastures in Yanzhou."
Previously, Wu Huaiyu sold a lot of land, and set aside a lot of land to make military villages, government farms, job fields, school fields, etc. Some of them were also used as official villages and attracted businessmen to farm them.
The remaining land is on a first-come, first-served basis, one hundred acres.
This is indeed a great benefit to those who came first. No matter whether they were from Yanzhou before, as long as they come here, one adult can get one hundred acres.
But land is limited after all.
Yanzhou is a borderland, mostly dry land and only has about 50,000 hectares of land. Such a carve-up is almost complete.
Even the pastures and woodlands have almost been allocated.
Taking advantage of Liang Shidu's forced relocation, Wu Huaiyu took the opportunity to carry out a wave of redistribution after regaining Yanzhou, but the redistribution was completed.
"Is it all done so quickly?"
"We have little land in Yanzhou." Wuyuan County Magistrate Zhang Chengde said. In fact, the main reason is that Huaiyu sold a lot of land. He sold more than 50,000 hectares of land at one time, and he sold 10,000 hectares at a time. The nobles and powerful people rushed to buy it.
, one thousand acres is just one thousand plots of land.
In addition, the Gongshetian Army and other troops occupied a lot of the land, so there really wasn't much left.
"In this case, we will not allocate land to people who have registered residence in Lingqing and other prefectures for the time being. We can accept them as customers and become tenants or salt workers, traders, workers, etc. here, but the land cannot be allocated to them.
But as long as they have a legitimate business here, they can register as customers here, and after obtaining customer registration, they can also purchase homesteads..."
"As for other people, each Han refugee who comes to vote will be allocated twenty acres of permanent property. If there are more than three people in the family but only one person, they can be allocated another twenty acres of land.
It's still the same old rule, first come first served, first come first served, first served.
Those who have not been allocated land can also settle down voluntarily or register as customers."
Wen Fu came up to report.
"Our two thousand Han united troops in Yanzhou have been fully ordered, and the other two thousand Fanhu City have also been fully ordered."
"They're all filled up so quickly?"
"If you click on it, you will be given priority in allocating fields and pastures, and you will also get some benefits such as settlement allowance. Everyone is vying to sign up. Now the spots are full, and many people even want to join."
Huaiyu waved his hand, "Since we are full, forget it. Our Yanzhou is only so big. Now we have a thousand state soldiers, a thousand town soldiers, two thousand local soldiers, and two thousand city soldiers. It is enough. No more."
We can't afford it either."
"These newly recruited local militiamen must first undergo a month of training before going home. Later, they will be trained in batches when they have free time. Although they are local militia, they must also have a certain degree of combat effectiveness and cannot be just empty-handed.
Decoration, we are a border state, and although the situation is good now, a war may break out at any time, so we must be prepared."
Wu Huaiyu slapped the board with a few words.
Even if the first wave of great welfare in Yanzhou has passed, those who come first will be allocated fields and pastures, while those who come later will have no chance and can only become manor employees or tenants of landlords' families, or salt workers in salt fields, or employees of businesses.
Dude.
This is opportunity, it is fleeting.
Of course, those who seize this wave of opportunities to obtain the means of production, fields and pastures, will surely have many who will slowly lose their fields and pastures due to various reasons and be annexed by powerful landlords. This is inevitable.
historical laws.
When this kind of annexation passes for two to three hundred years, it will reach a limit, and then the entire society will collapse. A new dynasty will replace the old dynasty, make a new big distribution on the ruins, and move on.
For those who came later, this may be unfair, but they still have another chance at the moment, which is the overthrow of Xia Suiyin's Liang Shidu puppet regime.
After the pseudo-liang is destroyed, there will be a major redistribution.
Then we can only wait for the imperial court to defeat the Turks and regain Fengzhou Shengzhou in Hetao. Then it can be allocated again. After that, it can only be the Western Regions or Liaodong and other places.
Opportunities for such redistribution are becoming increasingly rare.
After the meeting, Li Dejiao came over and said, "Erlang, Sanniang has come to Yanzhou, come and sit with me."
