August has arrived in the blink of an eye, and the sweet-scented osmanthus in Shuofang City is fragrant.
Although Wu Huaiyu was promoted to the governor of Xiazhou, many people felt that he was too young and lacked experience. The so-called destruction of the country and the king was just good luck.
Some people are even waiting to see Wu Huaiyu's joke. After all, the four states of Shuofang have been in the hands of Liang Shidu for ten years, and this time they were attacked and plundered by the Tang army from five directions. The situation is already a mess.
Unexpectedly, after taking office, the young Duke Yi visited the four states, recruited people to appease the people, divided the fields and granted land, and he did it in an orderly manner.
In fact, it was not difficult for Wu Huaiyu, because he had good experience in Yanzhou, so he just copied it and made some adjustments.
Liu Lancheng, Liang Luoren, and Xin Zhuer were responsible for cleaning up and rectifying the local powerful people, including the generals who had been demoted, etc., and kept those people in check. It was impossible not to accept it. After all, the Tang army was in Shuofang at the moment, and it was like Mount Tai. There was no powerful person in those places.
Can withstand it.
No one is that stupid.
Basically, they are very aware of the current affairs, pay the filial piety that needs to be paid, and pay the blood that needs to be shed.
Now a large number of righteous businessmen, good people, and philanthropic landowners have emerged in Shuofang. They drive carts of grain and carts of money and silk to donate to the yamen, patting their chests and saying that we will tide over the difficulties together.
They not only donated money to the Yamen, but also opened porridge shops and other relief projects in their hometowns.
In addition, under Liu Changshi's "suggestion", local powerful people also actively prepared to build charity warehouses and donated food to the charity warehouses.
Shuofangdongcheng, Dudufuyamen.
Wu Huaiyu took the time to meet these volunteers and gave them high praise.
"The Governor is deeply moved by your righteous deeds, and has specially asked the Governor's Mansion to create a batch of plaques for you and hang them in your homes to show your appreciation."
"Wu'erbao Town General Yang Jiren,"
Wu Huaiyu called the roll call.
A tall and burly man came forward and said, "The last general of Wu'erbao Town, Yang Jiren, paid homage to the governor."
"Yang Jiren, your family has been guarding Wu'er Fort for generations to protect the environment and the people. This time, you also took the initiative to surrender to the imperial court. This time, you donated thousands of stones of grain stored in the fort to the Governor's Mansion for disaster relief. You also took the lead in dedicating 500 stones of grain to build a charity warehouse in Wu'er Fort.
And set up a porridge shop to provide porridge to the villagers,"
Wu Huaiyu praised Yang Jiren for his kindness.
Wuerbao is located in the south of Shengzhou, and the Great Wall passes through it. The name Wuerbao also has historical meaning. After the Huns invaded the interior, they plundered a large number of Han people and brought them back. Many of them were resettled in the Shaanxi-Gansu area.
These captive Han people were called Wu'er.
Wu'erbao is a castle with deep historical roots. The Yang family has been a powerful force here for generations. When Liang Shidu established Daliang, the Yang family was also attached to Liang. Liang Shidu also specially established Linzhou in Wu'erbao, named after Yang Jiren.
His father was the governor of Linzhou and he was his general.
The Yang family is still quite strong, of course, only in the Wuerbao area.
As soon as Master Liang died, Yang Jiren and his son immediately joined him.
Liu Lancheng patrolled the border and led his troops around Wu'erbao. Especially after taking Wu Huaiyu's 300 heavy Youzhou assault cavalry to show off, the Yang family became more aware of current affairs.
Not only did he voluntarily hand over his household registration, field records, etc., he also handed over a large sum of money for food, and then made donations.
Wu Huaiyu asked someone to get paper and pen.
Then in front of a group of powerful people, he wrote four big characters with a splash of ink, "Gaoyize people!"
Yang Jiren took over the four characters Wu Huaiyu and his face flushed with joy.
Although Duke Yi's calligraphy is good, what is even more precious is the acceptance of Governor Wu that these four words brought him.
In addition to conferring on Yang Jiren the title of Gaoyizeren, Wu Huaiyu also formally conferred on Yang Jiren the post of General of Wu'erbao Town, reorganizing the Yang family's private armed forces into the imperial border guard army. Yang Jiren's father, Mr. Yang, Wu Huaiyu also specially awarded him the title of Sima of Shengzhou
position.
Yang Jiren is very grateful.
Wu Huaiyu also named Zhe Dezhong and wrote four words of "righteousness, wind and Jimei" to him.
Zhe Dezhong was also a powerful man in Shengzhou. He was located north of Wu'erbao, on the edge of the Yellow River, around the Later Shifu Valley area, and was also a famous local powerful man.
Previously, Liang Shidu also established a special prefecture, conferring the title of governor of the prefecture on Zhe Dezhong's father and granting him the post of general.
The Zhe family was also very aware of current affairs this time, donating thousands of kilograms of food, setting up charity warehouses, etc.
Wu Huaiyu gave him the post of General of Fugu Town, and also gave his father the title of Shengzhou Governor.
Under the leadership of the Wu'erbao Yang family and the Fugu Zhe family, all the powerful people in Shuofang, including those Shanhu, Dangxiang Qiang, etc., are now obedient to the Xiazhou Governor's Mansion.
Each family also contributes money and food.
Although there are several rounds of armed patrols by Wu Huaiyu, Liu Lancheng, Su Lie, Liang Luoren and others to deter them, Liu Lancheng, Su Lie and others also thundered around and suppressed those who were ignorant of current affairs.
Gao Yize is a man of righteousness and beauty, his merits are even better than those of Zheng Qu, his virtues and virtues are both good and graceful...
Write each word one by one and send it out.
The powerful people who got the word were all happy and finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Although this was obtained in exchange for hundreds or even thousands of stones of grain, having this word also meant that they were finally accepted by the court and could still maintain their previous status.
Some big tycoons also received official positions such as long history, joining the army, town general, school lieutenant, etc. Some smaller tycoons also got official positions such as joining the military, county captain, secretary, etc.
For Wu Huaiyu, when Shuo Fang newly regains the four states, these powerful men will definitely have to suppress a group of them, but they cannot be completely opposed to each other, and they still have to win over a group of them.
Win over the majority and suppress the minority.
In calling them here this time, in addition to commending them for their righteous deeds and giving them plaques, we also wanted to bring them over and have a good talk.
The first is to talk about maintaining local tranquility, restoring production, etc., and the second is to talk about how to open the Shuofang Silk Road as soon as possible. Along the Shuofang Great Wall, it is a grassland Silk Road. It not only connects Lingzhou and Hedong, but also directly leads to the current Turkic people under the Yinshan Mountain.
Khan Court.
These people are all powerful, and Wu Huaiyu hopes that everyone will cooperate and make money together.
The prospects are still very good for smoothing the Silk Road, restoring border markets, and even opening salt farms and developing copper, iron, charcoal and other minerals.
On that day, Wu Huaiyu also specially held a banquet to entertain these powerful people, and the guests and hosts enjoyed themselves.
These people who knew the current affairs maintained their previous status, and the imperial court also received the support of these local powerful people and recognized each other.
Of course, this is also the result of the current strength of the Tang army. Otherwise, these people would not easily hand over their military power, castles, etc., let alone obey the court's arrangements so honestly.
Those who were disobedient have already followed Master Liang.
Shuofang is gradually recovering and is on the right track.
Wu Huaiyu is very busy and very fulfilled.
Fan Wuniang and others from Yanzhou were also brought back, and they also brought a lot of corn and potatoes. The harvest of the summer corn grown in Yanzhou by Huaiyu was not bad, although the yield was indeed a bit low, but it was more than a hundred kilograms per acre.
The potato harvest is larger.
"Just in time to plant another crop of potatoes."
Huaiyu was very happy when he looked at the corn, potatoes and sweet potatoes that he had brought. Fan Wuniang said that only some of them had been brought. “The rest will be kept in Yanzhou and will continue to be planted next year, but now many people come to us to buy corn, potatoes and other crops.”
, I didn’t make the decision without permission, I just listened to Erlang’s arrangements.”
"Take half of it and sell it to others for planting,"
Nowadays, the harvest of corn and potatoes has caught the attention of many people, and they all want to plant it. Many of them are relatives and friends of the Wu family, and it is difficult to refuse.
"Then what price should I order?"
"You just have to figure it out."
"Okay, I will arrange it." Corn is still a rare item, so the imperial court and the martial arts family have planted some, but the quantity is not large. If you want the seeds now, you have to have a good relationship. The monks and maids have no intention of selling them cheaply, after all.
This is good stuff.
She calculated a seed price. If calculated based on this price, the corn they planted in Yanzhou this year would make a lot of money per acre, which is more cost-effective than growing wheat in Guanzhong.
"If we sell seeds every year from now on, we can make a lot of money."
Huaiyu smiled.
This is just a small amount of money you can make at the beginning, but when you make more money later, it won't be too expensive even if you sell the seeds.
He bought a lot of land in Shuofang, and planned to plant potatoes on all of it, so that they can be harvested next spring. The climate and soil quality here are actually quite suitable for growing potatoes.
The land in Xia Suizhou is said to be much better than that in Yanzhou.
The Wuding River Basin is very fertile.
The monk's maid was like a housekeeper. She was very excited when she heard that Huaiyu had acquired a lot of land.
"Are there so many people farming?"
"slave."
Cheng Yaojin took office as the governor of Luzhou this year, and he showed off his skills in fighting the barbarians. He took tens of thousands of captives. Old Cheng was very tough, but no matter who of you participated or not, he swept away a large area, uprooted them, and sent them all back to the Central Plains.
slave.
All the five hundred houses ordered by the Wu family have been delivered, and most of them have been resold in Chang'an, Luoyang and other places, and the rest have been arranged for farming in the Wu family's farms in various places.
Nowadays, the Wu family has a lot of land in Shuofang Lingwu, but they are short of people, so they have hired slaves to farm the land.
"When will Alang return to Chang'an?"
Fan Wuniang wanted to go back to Chang'an to see Xuanfu's child. Now in August, in Chang'an, not only Fan Xuanfu gave birth to Huaiyu's eldest son, but Gao Hui'an, Chen Runniang, Fan Jiuniang, and Irina also gave birth to four children.
Gao Hui'an and Chen Runniang both have sons, and Jiuniang and Irina have a daughter.
Wu Huaiyu now has five children.
"Duan Wan is also pregnant." When Wu Niang said this, she felt a little envious in her heart. She, Eleven Niang and Gao Yanzhi came to Saishang. They had been serving her for more than half a year, but now her stomach
There was no movement, and Duan Wan and Wu Huaiyu became pregnant not long after they stayed together.
"I won't be able to leave for Chang'an until at least late October. I also want to go back to Chang'an, but I can't get away for the time being."
At the end of October, I went to Beijing to attend the meeting and could stay until February.
"Why don't you go back to Chang'an first?"
Fan Wuniang hesitated, she also wanted to go back early, but there was no movement in her belly, and she was unwilling to go back like this. She bit her lip and said, "I'd better stay here with A Lang, and we'll go back together at the end of October."
"Alang, why do you think my stomach doesn't react at all?"
Huaiyu looked at her aggrieved look and smiled, "How about we work hard tonight?"
"Okay, okay, Alang means what he says, but he can't go to Cao's or Gao's room when the time comes."
After Fan Wuniang left, Huaiyu made a special trip to see Duan Wan.
"You didn't tell me that you were pregnant. If I had known, I wouldn't have asked you to come to Xiazhou anymore and just stayed in Yanzhou to have the baby."
Duan Wan said, "I only found out about my concubine on the way."
