It was already late at night, but Fang Chongyong still did not sleep peacefully. Instead, he borrowed a "County Chronicle" of Zhangye County and flipped through the pages under an oil lamp.
The earliest national local chronicle in China was the "Yuanhe County Map Chronicles" compiled by Li Jifu of the Tang Dynasty in 813 AD. It summarized local chronicles with different versions and formats from all over the country and unified them into a set of books.
Although that is something that will only happen decades later, there are still books in the accounting offices of various states that record local population, geography, related history and even strange things. Zhangye City was once the "All Nations" of Emperor Yang Guangkai of the Sui Dynasty.
In a place like "Exposition", there will naturally be no shortage of such official records used to "sing praises and praise virtues".
"Lang Jun, why don't we leave Ganzhou? It doesn't matter whether we go to Liangzhou or back to Chang'an. It doesn't matter. There is really no need to accomplish nothing here."
Anaye on the side was not sleeping either, so she suggested cautiously.
She knew how big the trouble Fang Chongyong was facing, but she just couldn't do much to help.
Hexi is different from the Central Plains. If you are not careful here, it can easily lead to mutiny and popular uprising. Once something similar happens, the rebels will definitely lead the Tibetan army to take over, and the situation will be so fester that it will be impossible to deal with.
It just depends on how many heads Fang Chongyong has to chop off.
"This book is really interesting."
Fang Chongyong closed Zhangye's local chronicles and sighed deeply.
Fang Chongyong was not disappointed at all, because apart from a few of those things that could be sold at a bad price, some of them were worth mentioning. For example, the clay pots from the Han Dynasty, who would want those things?
"Your Majesty, do you still want to dig?"
Upon hearing that, Fang Chongyong hurriedly patted his chest and said, "Your Majesty is so generous! Worry, before we return to the camp, you asked us all to take off our clothes and search our bodies. Not even a single needle was hidden secretly."
"I understand, I'll do it then."
On the seventh day, the Blackwater Kingdom took Atuan, Xin Yunjing and others out of Zhangye City. Fang Xiaofu personally sent his son to Xihang Temple to become a monk. The ceremony was very grand. Of course, the Blackwater Kingdom can be present. I am sure I will be there.
, it is difficult for people to think of some strange things.
Are you kidding me? Who has the ability to fill such a big hole in the Autumn Defense Order?
Ma Yanping waved her hand in acknowledgment, not planning to go to bed yet.
"Of course you know, it will definitely happen. How can this be such a big deal?"
"Of course it's true."
"Your Majesty, that kind of thing, that kind of thing, is just a joke!"
A few days ago, a sandstorm hit Baishui City, burying everything in the sand.
"That's right."
Ever since, Ma Yanping's idea has always been to "break the situation", but to be a licking dog in Ganzhou and run for Ma Yan's political orders.
No matter how hard you struggle, it is useful!
During this period, Blackwater Kingdom has been frowning and meditating. It is easier said than done. Sometimes, the idea is very bad, but in the process of execution, it will encounter few setbacks. At that time, whether to choose to continue in depth or to be decisive
Stop loss is a test of one's wisdom.
"He should speak slowly... he's so sleepy."
Fang Chongyong persuaded without any doubts. Sometimes if Xiao Fang goes too far, it will arouse doubts.
It’s just that the envoy didn’t have any mission that time?”
Blackwater Nation waved his hands weakly and said.
"I must have found treasure here. So the tax that Brother Ji wants to increase shouldn't be increased, right?"
This rough big face is really boring to look at.
Because they were buried in the yellow sand, those things were very well preserved, but... they were all wanted by the Blackwater Kingdom.
When it comes to gold and silver, Xin Yunjing gets sleepy.
Can he do it? Since he can do it, he should do less things!
"Your Majesty, the Qiu Si people in Hexi have done many things like this. These Hu merchants often hate burying things. Before the news is leaked, we are polite and take it when it is necessary.
Blackwater Country wants to go to the old city ruins of Whitewater Country to see if there are any answers that I want.
It was very slow, one after another and not much was dug out.
"What about now?"
It can only be said that blessings and misfortunes are unpredictable, and the impact will be smaller than the autumn prevention order! The Blackwater Kingdom dares to play like that.
The same ones were sent to the Blackwater Country and placed neatly.
A soldier nearby shouted.
Heishuiguo held your shoulders and asked you to leave. He looked at you intently and said, "Hey, there are no small things about big things. He will just listen to what you have to say."
However, if you take it with empty hands, you are afraid that your brothers will feel secure if they hold it!"
If so, it is absolutely possible that in the Tang Dynasty, when technology had minimal development, the Hexi Corridor was still able to do things that it would be able to do hundreds of years later in the late Eastern Han Dynasty!
A Xiao Qin gold coin, probably from the Han Dynasty. Of course, that is very unusual, because outside the Baishui Kingdom ruins is the capital of the Dayue clan. As a chokepoint under the Silk Road, anything dug out there is rare.
, because they may all be traded goods under the Silk Road.
The location of the Baishui Kingdom ruins is a secret in the local area, and not many people want to try their luck there by digging around to see what rare things they can get.
Fang Zhongyong exclaimed in a high voice.
The yamen from Chang'an was really terrifying!
"That book contains a very boring story. I think he wants to hear it?"
"dig."
The sudden appearance of a small amount of hard currency such as gold and silver will only slightly push down the market price of local goods in the short term, and then the price of everything will rise.
"Go to the old site of Baishui Country and dig. Tell your brothers that the things you dig out must be handed over. When the time comes, you will take everything and share it all with us.
Guo Ziyi sent Fang Chongyong to help the Blackwater Kingdom, and I personally directed the others to build a regiment training camp. It was rebuilt on the basis of the original Zhang Ye Shou Capture Camp. It was really a success.
"You go back to Zhangye City first and continue digging tomorrow. Let's divide the things we have today among our brothers."
The Blackwater Kingdom asked Fang Chongyong to bend over and whisper to me for a long time. When I finished speaking, Fang Chongyong looked horrified and his hands were trembling slightly!
There are eight necessary conditions for smelting. The first is that the iron ore is too far away; the seventh is that the water source is far away from the smelting workshop and cannot be heated at any time; and the eighth is a stable fuel supply.
In the distance, that fuel was mostly charcoal in feudal times.
Blackwater Kingdom pondered for a moment and felt that now was the time to release some news to "show sincerity".
Xin Yunjing was interested in those fantasy stories and asked casually.
Because once the hole for increasing taxes is opened, the imperial court will not have any burden to increase taxes in the past.
Therefore, if the local officials on the Hexi side follow the leader's approach to "fill the holes", they have not chosen the wrong path. The more accurate the implementation, the less. Blackwater Kingdom understands this!
As soon as they met, Fang Chongyong got on his horse, came over and spoke to Heishui Kingdom in a high voice: "Those are veterans of the Baiting Army, trustworthy brothers. We all doubt that Fang Shijun will make a fortune with his old brothers.
Heishuiguo looked at Xin Yunjing and asked.
Blackwater Kingdom nodded slightly, thinking to himself: It is indeed a treasure, but it is not the kind of treasure he thought.
Xin Yunjing asked curiously.
As a result, when the Blackwater Kingdom's group came to the city, they saw Fang Chongyong and seventy Tang Army cavalry ready to go. They had not yet dragged their heavy ox carts with them, and they had not been waiting for a long time.
"But this has nothing to do with you."
What Ganzhou wants is not to mobilize manpower and material resources. No matter how much gold and silver is dug out, it is possible to change the basic resources of Hexi in a short period of time. What the Blackwater Kingdom wants is basically that effect.
"Really?"
"The digging needs to stop."
That story was recorded on the outside of that booklet, and of course, it was also copied from the Buddhist scriptures."
How different is it from opening a blind box!
For example, Han Dynasty-style pottery pots, Han Dynasty bronze mirrors, and even very few stone tools that were often seen after the feudal era.
This man Xian Bao specially held the gold coins dug out in his hands and handed them to Fang Chongyong.
There are few stories about Buddhism, and they often put gold on their faces. It is worse than saying that the sun rose before you raised your hand, or saying that it was only because you raised your hand that the sun will rise.
Fang Chongyong also knows that it is important to be careful when dealing with small matters.
However, in the Tang Dynasty, the smelting in the Hexi Corridor was completely abolished! All armaments relied on internal imports!
Ma Yanping made up a lie that hurt Xiaoya.
From that perspective, the difficulty I faced was actually smaller than that of an abnormal governor of Ma Yan. The purpose determines the means, and my purpose is "out of the ordinary", which means that it is possible to follow conventional methods.
I have watched documentaries in later generations, and it turns out that outsiders cannot dig out what I want, it just takes a little bit of luck!
Fang Chongyong glanced at Heishui Kingdom helplessly, then sighed and said: "That place has been visited by a few people a long time ago, and all the valuable and bad things have been taken away."
Fang Zhongyong didn't know what he was doing, and he knew how much he weighed. Ganzhou's appetite was too small, so he really had to wait for him!
It's just that there is a way to say those words to Xin Yunjing, who knows everything except medical skills and idioms.
Whitewater City naturally wants to look for it, but Blackwater Country is not looking for the gold and silver treasures, but to verify an idea in his mind.
This does not mean that there are absolutely no stable smelting workshops in the Liangzhou area.
Ma Yanping said with an expression on her face.
Yes, yes, it's the opposite of good and bad. That person's subordinates will definitely think that since I can't do the work of ten people in a day, I must not be qualified to do the workload of seventeen people in a day, right?
And now Guo Ziyi is also waiting for me to be fed, waiting for the Blackwater Kingdom to send me the soldiers of the separatist army. But so far, the Blackwater Kingdom has not sent even one person.
Now that I am no longer the governor, I still know that I will do little things.
Of course, Blackwater Nation feels that its own model of "knowing the answer and seeking the process" is still more effective than the special head method.
That principle is worse than if someone finished the work of ten people yesterday, will my subordinates sympathize with my hard work and give me seven days off?
Besides, after all, Xiao Tang is from our yamen!
The water shortage in Suzhou, Guazhou and Shazhou is insane, and it is something that needs to be considered.
It doesn't matter if the city sends troops to save face, or if the people tighten their belts and provide money and food, it's all useful. Even if you get through that time, it will be even worse in the future. Will it be bad or just rebel now?
At least it would be a more uncomfortable death.
That is the empire that belongs to Ganzhou!
Ma Yanping sighed heavily, and the other party Chongyong said: "Brother, I went to recruit some people to dig. I said that we will share the things we dig. I doubt anyone will try their luck there."
Blackwater Nation said solemnly.
Liangzhou has superior geographical conditions and has been greatly affected by wars. It has basically maintained the regulatory structure since the Han Dynasty. But Ma Yanping asked, Liangzhou has always been a small-scale iron smelting company, and Wuwei City has expanded to a city.
I saw no small iron smelting workshops outside.
Fang Yanei is really good at playing, but he is too timid. He brought his gang of Qiu Si behind me, which is quite impressive!
One day in the Sui Dynasty, a lowly monk came to Baishui City and shouted peaches and pears to everyone he met. He ran wildly among the crowd, and then disappeared again.
In today's Hexi Corridor, there are no small-scale smelting workshops that can provide equipment for the army! And do they have the ability to maintain them?
"What article?"
Fang Chongyong nodded casually, "My dear, that Fang Yanei is really capable of anything. If others dare to do something, I dare to do it!"
Blackwater Nation said proudly.
After being exhausted on official duties in Ganzhou, Heishui Kingdom will definitely exhaust itself to death! I guess the local officials in Hexi have very different ideas than mine.
"Tomorrow, you go to this place to look for it together. You got a rough idea of the location. It's just a ruin. Not half of the buildings are outside the sand. You go look for this city. There are gold and silver treasures hidden outside.
"
But Brother Ji is a mystery, and there is probably no secret about Dong Zhuo's rampage in the northwest.
Hearing that, Ma Yanping could only smile bitterly and shake her head.
Later, after joining the army in the state capital, Ma Yanping dared to donate "health medicine" to the emperor.
I was filled with frustration.
Why did the digging come?
It's just that sometimes those stories will have traces of history behind them, telling certain historical events from the side.
When the sun slowly set, there were all kinds of things dug out, and there was nothing of any kind. There were only some coins that were broken or missing, and even the coins that we recognized as Fang Chongyong's.
Everyone in Bai Ting's army understood the old rules of dividing spoils, and they were all true. But Fang Chongyong also didn't expect that the Blackwater Kingdom would be so generous.
But if anyone dares to hide it privately, don’t blame you for being polite."
Ma Yanping said with a smile.
Xin Yunjing yawned and replied weakly.
"Speaking of the white water, it has a long history. Many years later, there was no lake formed by white water in the southwest of Zhangye City. There was no white water country next to that lake. At this time, even the Emperor Zhou had one
without."
Fang Chongyong came over and asked loudly.
"found it!"
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Liangzhou Army led by Dong Zhuo was powerful in all directions, which had a minimal impact on the political structure of the Eastern Han Dynasty and prompted the Eastern Han Dynasty to collapse and retreat into the slow lane. Judging from the historical conditions at the time, the Liangzhou Army's armaments were not self-sufficient.
of.
"But before that, the Baishui Kingdom was destroyed. A long time ago, the Han army conquered Zhangye and built a new city on the lake at the head of the Baishui Kingdom. That city lasted until the later dynasties
Sui Dynasty.
The group of people, led by the guide, headed towards the Baishui Kingdom ruins.
But since he was going to dig for treasures, but he took everything, could it be just for the fun of it?
…
That wait is not a day.
The Baishui Kingdom ruins are located more than 70 meters northwest of Zhangye City. Traces of the surrounding lakes seem to be vaguely discernible, but they have not all turned into long stretches of yellow sand yet. A Han Dynasty-style tower stands at a certain location.
Only half of his head was exposed, and it seemed to be over eight meters tall.