Chang'an City, after confirming the strategy of first Liao and then Shu, Zhang Zhao spread the word to all countries in Chang'an and compared Yelv Deguang's entry into Kaifeng Mansion in Tokyo to the Tubo invasion of Chang'an in the past.
Call on Meng Shu, Nanping, Ma Chu, Qian Yue and other countries to jointly raise troops to expel the Khitan.
Even the Southern Han Dynasty, who was enjoying himself, sent people with books to spread the message.
But among all the countries in the world, Zhang Zhao only missed Wu and Tang, because this was the only country in the world that still had some strength to compete with the Central Plains dynasty.
Even in history, Wu and Tang were recognized by some scholars as the orthodoxy after the Later Tang Dynasty.
Now that the leader of the Wu and Tang Dynasties, Li Jing, is in office, he has destroyed the Min Kingdom, suppressed Qian Yue, and is even preparing to destroy Ma Chu. He is in the limelight for a while, and Zhang Zhao will not spread the word with Li Jing until He Ning reminds him.
In fact, this memorandum was only aimed at Shu, such as Nanping. The purpose of the memorandum was that Nanping had a close relationship with Shu. In order to paralyze Meng Chang, Zhang Zhaocai specially conveyed the memorandum to Gao Congjie.
In the remaining three kingdoms, the Ma Chu brothers had too much time to take care of themselves due to civil strife, and Qian Yue was separated from the Central Plains by Wu and Tang, so he did not have the strength to actually send troops.
As for the Southern Han Dynasty, Liu Sheng, a pervert, wanted to kill all his brothers immediately, and then take all his nieces into the harem. At the same time, he also conducted human dissections and sent the navy to rob maritime merchants. He had no time to deal with Zhang Zhao.
While conveying the message, Zhang Zhao formally established the political system of Yong State, changed the name of Chang'an back from Jingzhao Prefecture, appointed hundreds of officials, established etiquette, and promulgated the "Dayong Criminal Code" as the basis for law enforcement.
Later, Zhang Zhao changed Weizhou in Guanzhong to Pingzhou, Yuanzhou to Yuanzhou, and Fengxiang Prefecture to Qizhou to distinguish it from Weizhou and Yuanzhou in the original Liang Kingdom.
He also summoned the Li Congsuo family of Fengxiang Prefecture, as well as officials from the Ping, Zhen, Jing, Yuan, Pi, Ning, Wu, Yan, Qi, Feng, Qin, Cheng, Tong, Yao, Hua, Long sixteen prefectures, and representatives of local wealthy families to Chang'an.
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After the officials of the Sixteen Prefectures of Guanzhong were in place, Zhang Zhao rearranged the positions based on the performance of last year's disaster victims.
Those who did nothing with Zhang Zhao's money and food were all sent to prison and their homes were ransacked. Those who barely worked a little were evaluated and used again. Those who did well were awarded official positions along with the officials.
After getting rid of the officials in various states, Zhang Zhao announced an amnesty for Guanzhong.
At this time, due to the impact of floods and droughts in Guanzhong, thieves were everywhere, but most of them were people who could not survive. There were even wealthy families who went into the mountains to avoid the disaster and became black households.
Zhang Zhao issued an amnesty order to pardon all thieves and runaways in Guanzhong and the taxes they owed.
Except for long-standing evil thieves and those who had committed numerous crimes, they were all pardoned and those who had fled were encouraged to go down the mountains and resume farming.
At this time, the prospects for farming in Guanzhong are not good. After last year's natural and man-made disasters, the completion rate of spring plowing this year is less than 70%.
In other words, among the more than 1.3 million people in Guanzhong, at least 400,000 are short of food.
In this regard, Zhang Zhao had no good solution. He could only order the people in Guanzhong to continue to be relocated to Ling, Xia, Su and other states.
On the one hand, it was ordered that merchants coming from the west must each carry their own weight in grain into Guanzhong, so as to offset part of the commercial tax.
Finally, a major holiday was announced in Guanzhong. Starting from this year, all corvee services in Guanzhong will be exempted.
All the labor needed to build water conservancy projects and strengthen mountains and rivers was hired by Zhang Zhao personally, and the people employed were farmers who had not completed spring plowing and were unable to engage in agricultural production.
Although it is still similar to doing corvee service, if Zhang Zhao provides food, firstly, it will save the financial pressure of governments at all levels.
Second, the food supply should be more generous, so that after the main labor force of the family has served as a corvee, they can still have three melons and two dates to go back to support their wives, children, and children.
And this amount of money is also not a small amount, although Zhang Zhao can pay part of it with banknotes.
But the source of food is still a big problem. Hexi and Longyou cannot provide so much food. Therefore, Zhang Zhao could only go to trick Meng Chang.
King Zhang Tian specially found out Wang Jiulang who had grabbed Jie Li Pijia's robe in Gaochang.
This kid was thrown to the Western Regions, and after serving as an envoy to places such as Xijias and Ogus, he has been trained.
His mission as an envoy to Meng Shu was very simple, that is, to tell Meng Chang that from now on, if Shu wanted to buy white sugar, rock sugar, spices and other commodities from the Western Regions in Hexi, they could only use silver notes, not coins minted in Shu.
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Moreover, the direct exchange of silver notes with Shuzhong copper and iron money is not accepted. Shuzhong merchants must exchange half and half brocade, silk, silk, gauze and grain for silver notes, and then use the silver notes to purchase Hexi goods.
This is a more subtle form of blackmail. Although banknotes already account for nearly half of the current transactions between the two countries, and Shu is already sucking blood, there is still a long way to go to completely ban coins in Shu.
So Zhang Zhao found Wang Jiulang. Compared with old-school envoys like Wu Da'er and Wu Yuan'er, Wang Jiulang, who had grown up under Zhang Zhao's intervention, could better understand Zhang Zhao's intentions.
"The key point in this matter is that you have to make Meng Chang believe that Guanzhong is extremely short of food, so he took this drastic step. Otherwise, the whole country of Shu will not accept such a sudden change."
Wang Jiulang looked at Zhang Zhao and said with confidence: "I know that the key to this matter is to arouse Meng Chang's greed.
Let him regard our act of obtaining food from Shu as a helpless act because we are in urgent need of military rations.
It makes him feel that he will be able to get at least half of Guanzhong soon anyway, so that he can safely provide food so that we can get out of Guanzhong and fight the Khitan people as soon as possible. But..."
Wang Jiulang hesitated for a moment, "Your Majesty, if we want to transport grain from Shuzhong to Guanzhong, the efficiency of transportation is too low with the current road. I guess the Shu Kingdom may propose widening the plank road or dredging the inclined valley water to transport grain."
Zhang Zhao sneered, Wang Jiulang's worry was justified.
This is actually one of the reasons why Zhang Zhao concluded that Meng Chang would agree to transport grain, that is, Shu could take the opportunity to clear the road into Guanzhong, which would facilitate their transportation of troops into Guanzhong in the future.
"Meng Chang's son grew up in a deep palace, so he didn't know that things in the world are dangerous.
There are no good horses in Shu, and the cavalry is not as good as that of Wu, Tang, and Meng Shu. Most of the elite troops of Shu come from the states of Kui (Fengjie), Wan, Qian (Qianjiang), He (Hechuan), Lu, Rong (Yibin), and Bazhong (Bazhong).
He is the best mountain soldier, but it is a pity that he is not good at riding on horseback.
If Meng Chang dares to come, put him into the Guanzhong Plain and let them taste the power of the Xiliang cavalry.
Just do it this way, go ahead and write a statement and estimate all possible situations in advance.
I will also ask the Taiyuan Hospital to judge Mrs. Han Qi to cooperate with you, or to follow Han Baosheng's path, find out Meng Chang's temper, and prescribe the right medicine."
Having said this, Zhang Zhao glanced at the army doctors outside the door who were preparing decoction to relieve summer heat for the army.
Lady Han Qi’s role is quite important. Her brother Han Baosheng is not only a famous doctor, but also Meng Chang’s favorite.
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Just when Zhang Zhao began to rectify Guanzhong, proclaimed himself King Yong, and prepared to send troops to the Central Plains to fight the Khitan people.
Yelu Deguang, the leader of the Khitan Kingdom and my sworn brother to King Zhang Tian, also formally established the kingdom in Kaifeng Prefecture, Tokyo.
Of course, since Yelu Deguang had deceived Zhao Yanshou and Du Chongwei in the early stage in order to make them work hard, and promised to make them the former emperor, Yelu Deguang could not directly say that he was the one, so he played a small trick.
On the first day of April, Yelu Deguang accepted the congratulations from the ministers in the Chongyuan Hall of Daning Palace with the ceremonial guard of the Emperor of the Central Plains.
Among the military governors in the world, except Liu Zhiyuan, the governor of Hedong, Hu Cile, the military governor of Wuning in Xuzhou, and Jiao Jixun, the defense commander of Xiangyang, even An Shenqi, Gao Xingzhou, Fu Yanqing, etc. all went to Tokyo to worship in person.
After the three worships, Yelu Deguang suddenly proposed that the Central Plains had no owner and that he should establish an emperor to stabilize the world, so that all ministers would support him.
Note that Brother Guang is playing a trick here. He is talking about establishing an emperor, not an emperor.
Although these two words have similar meanings, they are different at this time.
The biggest difference is that Yelu Deguang called himself emperor, but Shi Jingtang never called himself emperor in his diplomatic dealings with Khitan, but always called himself emperor of the Central Plains.
In this way, Yelu Deguang stood on the throne of Chongyuan Hall and allowed the ministers to praise the emperor. Who would dare to praise Zhao Yanshou and Du Chongwei?
You don't want to die, right? Even Zhao Yanshou himself suddenly turned pale.
Sure enough, all the ministers unanimously recommended Yelu Deguang to ascend the throne of emperor.
Yelu Deguang was overjoyed and readily accepted the unanimous support of Hu and Han officials.
Qin Tian monitored that it would be an auspicious day in four days, so Guang Ge ordered the officials to prepare for the enthronement ceremony.
On the fifth day of April, Yelu Deguang, wearing a heavenly crown and a crimson gauze robe, went to the main hall of the Tokyo Palace to receive congratulations from officials from Hu and Han Dynasties.
Announced an amnesty for the civil and military forces of the Jin state that had resisted the Khitan during the Liao-Jin War, and issued an edict to change the name of the Khitan state to Daliao, and the eighth year of Huitong to the first year of Datong.
Together with the ministers, Zhang Li was appointed as Pingzhangshi, Li Song was appointed as the privy envoy, Feng Dao was appointed as Taifu, Liu Yu was appointed as Hanlin scholar, and Feng Yu was appointed as Taibao of the crown prince.
He also moved Linhuang Mansion in Zhongjing to Zhenzhou and began to regard himself as the emperor of the Central Plains.
However, Yelu Deguang was not easy to be the emperor of the Central Plains.
Because before he entered the Central Plains, Jin State's Henan and Hebei had already suffered from floods, droughts, locusts, and man-made disasters for two years. The food stock in Kaifeng Prefecture in Tokyo was less than 10,000 shi.
This is troublesome. Not counting the surrendered Jin army, the Khitans themselves have more than 70,000 troops.
Moreover, according to the Khitan people's habits, they never bring military rations or military pay when they go on an expedition.
Yelu Deguang originally wanted to pretend to be a benevolent king, but he did not have military rations. In addition, when he encouraged the Khitan tribes to go south this time, he promised to reward the troops with the wealth of the Central Plains. If he did not fulfill it, he might not be able to suppress it.
So I, Brother Guang, stopped pretending and showed my cards. I, Master Khitan, am here to beat you, the barbarians of the Southern Dynasties, Caogu.
He ordered to detain the governors of the towns of the Later Jin Dynasty and not let them return to their places, and sent Khitan generals, powerful chiefs and troops to various states.
This was plundering grains, a direct and indiscriminate robbery. Compared to Shi Chonggui who sent people to various states to supervise money and food, it was more than ten times more brutal.
The states in Henan and Hebei suddenly fell into the great terror brought by the Khitans. No matter whether they were officials, gentry or ordinary people, they were plundered and killed by the Khitans without distinction.
Even the Jiedu envoys from various towns who came to Kaifeng Prefecture in Tokyo to worship were unavoidable. Even "great heroes" such as Du Chongwei and Li Shouzhen were ordered to pay 10,000 gu in tribute money.
For a time, the people of the Central Plains, from the top prime ministers such as Feng Dao and the commanders of various towns to the lowest common people, truly saw what it means that people who are not of our race must have different hearts!
