You are reading the Volume 8 of the Officials: Chapter 76: Medicinal Materials Trade Although Yuan Guizheng had a high self-esteem, he was born in the clan and was a hereditary marquis. In addition to running behind the scenes and planning for the Liang family and the Queen Mother,
He had never had the opportunity to take charge of military affairs publicly. This time he gained Liang Chengchong's trust and took charge of Xinyang's political affairs. Yuan Guizheng cherished this opportunity very much.
In these years, Yuan returned to power and refused to rest. It was not so much that he was ambitious, but rather that he was unwilling to realize his ambitions.
With food, iron, mules and horses, armor and weapons, bows and arrows, and recruiting people and elected officials to work in the fields, build roads, build cities, and build houses, everything can be done. Nanyang soldiers and horses are no longer bereft dogs. More importantly, there is a steady stream of supplies coming from Huaihe River.
With the arrival of the eastward movement, the soldiers and civilians gradually became calmer and no longer panicked.
In addition to Liang Xianren, a younger brother of the Liang Xi clan, who led his troops to guard Xinye City in the south of Nanyang to prepare for the Changle bandits in Xiangfan, Liang Chengchong personally led the main elite to garrison Fangcheng.
Fangcheng is located at the east foot of Funiu Mountain and borders the north ridge of Tongbai Mountain to the west. The Fangcheng Pass to the north of Fangcheng is the first gateway from the Central Plains to Jinghu Lake and is also one of the famous Nine Passes of the Central Plains.
To defend Nanyang, you must defend Fangcheng. The distance between Fangcheng and Ruzhou, where Chen Zhihu led his troops, is less than 300 miles. It can be said that it is tit for tat.
In addition to the 20,000 soldiers and horses, mostly Jianyong from Yizhou, there were also about 100,000 refugees who moved south with the army from Jining, Caozhou and other places.
Nearly 100,000 people who migrated to the west had to rely on relief for a long time to survive the famine years. Huaidong recruited immigrants to help those in need and organized work camps; Huaixi also had schools and garrison troops, and the Yuan Dynasty returned to power in Nanyang
Naturally, I strongly recommend Liang Chengchong to learn this experience.
On the one hand, the camp was established to increase the supply of military supplies. On the other hand, the young refugees were organized as reserve soldiers to increase Nanyang's military strength. They could assist in defending the city fortress when the enemy army was surrounding them.
Completely grasp the situation in Nanyang and don't have to worry about the refugees causing chaos.
In addition to the soldiers and civilians who moved westward, the local clan forces in Nanyang were destroyed to a tenth or two, but there were quite a few refugees, bandits, or bandits. When the Yuan Dynasty returned to the government, they were all recruited into the Nanyang garrison. In this way, in addition to 20,000 soldiers and horses,
, Nanyang also organized 30,000 garrison soldiers, distributed in Fangcheng, Nanyang, Yiyang, Xinye and other cities.
Even though the time was a little later, under the auspices of Yuan Guizheng, a larger scale of land reclamation and planting began after entering May.
Nanyang was full of waste, and there was no time to take care of it. Naturally, there was no time to go back and forth personally to take charge of the transportation of materials from the east to the west. Yuan Jinsheng took over this matter, and he and Chen Xiaoyan ran around along the Huaihe River.
In Tongshan, to ensure smooth and smooth water and land transportation at all times - in Nanyang, no one else had much dealings with Huaidong. Yuan returned to power. Although Yuan Jinsheng and his son had been entangled with Huaidong over the years, his father and son
His position in Nanyang at this time is irreplaceable by others.
Water transportation is fast. Although it is a long way from Shanyang to Zhengyang, Huaidong mobilized 80 thousand-stone cargo ships for the transportation of these materials. One cargo transportation amounted to 80,000 stones of grain, grass, iron materials, etc. These materials were transported in Zhengyang
After unloading the materials at Huaiyuan County, a team of more than a thousand mules and horses had to transport these materials to Yiyang. They had to walk at least seven or eight times in Tongbai Mountain. Fortunately, the Tongbai Valley was short, only one-sixth or seventh of the waterway.
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It was agreed that Huaixi would deduct 20% of the materials shipped to Nanyang as escort funds, and also deliver them in Zhengyang County. The materials would be counted and transferred easily. In order to restrict Xiao Kui'an, Dong Yuan took over the materials in Xinyang.
Cai Zhen, the prefect of Xinyang, was in charge.
In April and May, the resources collected by Xinyang to protect the troops totaled nearly 30,000 shi of rice and grain, more than 10,000 jins of iron materials, mules and horses, ordnance, arrows, and armor. The sufficient supplies allowed the Huaixi Army Commander to
There is no need to invest any additional supplies in Xinyang for two months, and such good days can last until autumn.
As the prefect of Xinyang, Cai Zhen was riding on a big green horse, looking at the dense forest of sails and masts on the water of the Huaihe River, thinking that it had been many years since he had seen so many ships on the Huaihe River.
Since the Huaisi Rebellion in the ninth year of Chongguan, there have been no traces of merchant ships above the middle reaches of the Huaihe River. The occasional ships are small warships that ventured into the Huaihe River for fishing or rogues, and large sailing ships with the capacity of thousands of stones. Even before the ninth year of Chongguan,
Not very common either.
"I heard that there is a large ship built in Huaidong that can carry twenty thousand stones of rice. I wonder what it is like to see it in front of me?" Meng Zhixiang, wearing armor, rode beside Meng Jin, looking forward to Huaidong.
In his early years, when he was traveling abroad, he saw large warehouse ships on the Yangtze River transporting rice from the east of Sichuan to the east, with a carrying capacity of about 5,000 stone. Such large ships were already amazing, but he did not expect that there would be more ships from Huaidong.
Several times larger.
"It sounds good that Huaixi supplies supplies to Xinyang, but at the end of the day, a layer of meat is scraped from Huaidong and Nanyang," Jiang Bao, the magistrate of Zhengyang County and Zhengyang Defense Envoy, said in a subtle way, "Now Liang Chengchong is like a lost dog, he can do everything.
He pinches his nose to recognize it, but when he gets a firm foothold in Nanyang, will he pinch his nose and suffer the loss?"
The Jiang family is also a big family in Xinyang, and most of the soldiers in Zhengyang Township are soldiers of the Jiang family. They have suffered enough over the years. Dong Yuan's foundation in Huaixi is not strong. Jiang Bao will inevitably look down on him, especially if he will be at odds with Nanyang in the future.
Zhengyang was the first to bear the brunt, so no wonder Jiang Bao was complaining at this time.
"Don't say more like this. Even if there are problems in the future, Huaixi will take the responsibility..." Cai Jin said in a deep voice. If he complained too much, if it reached Dong Yuan's ears, he would be suspicious. Xinyang Beilin
Yanlu and the Liugong bandits in the south are in an extremely serious situation. Without the support of Huaixi, their big clans simply do not dare to come down the mountain. Cai Jin also understands what Jiang Bao means. Huaixi supports Nanyang with supplies from Huaidong.
Scraping off 20% of the meat from the inside, in addition to adding insult to injury and increasing hatred, it also seemed that Huaixi was too petty, indicating that the situation in Huaixi was not optimistic. If Jiang Bao wanted to send people directly to Huaidong for rescue, maybe the Xinyang Sect could also
Like Liang Chengchong did in Nanyang, there is no need to look at Huaixi's face in everything, but the power of the Xinyang clans is too weak, how can Huaidong take notice of it? Even with Huaidong's support, if the relationship with Dong Yuan is bad, Xinyang
How can the five or six thousand rural soldiers gathered by the Zhuzong family gain a foothold in Xinyang?
"Chen Xiaoyan, Yuan Jinsheng and the others are coming..." Meng Zhixiang said as he rode back two steps.
Chen Xiaoyan represented Huaidong, and Yuan Jinsheng was the son of Yongchang Hou, with a high status. Cai Jin dismounted from his horse, greeted him, bowed and said, "Young Master and Mr. Chen have worked hard on this journey..."
"Not that Mr. Cai has been working hard day and night..." Chen Xiaoyan and Yuan Jinsheng replied. Chen Xiaoyan asked Cai Jin again, "How many medicinal materials have been prepared in Xinyang?"
The best bookstore w Huaixi withheld 20% of the supplies as overtax. The letter was sent to Xuzhou. Lin Fu discussed with everyone and agreed to accept it temporarily. At least until the ice is lifted next year, Huaidong, Huaixi, and Nanyang must maintain harmony.
Due to the relationship between the two, we must guard against any loopholes in the Huai defense line, so as not to disrupt Huai Dong's southern expedition after the Autumn Period.
In addition, Lin Fu asked Chen Xiaoyan to purchase medicinal materials in Xinyang, so as to avoid Dong Yuan and Liu Tingzhou and directly contact the Xinyang rich families.
Materials such as grain and iron in Huaidong can still be used, but medicinal materials are in short supply. Especially after the troops of the She family entered Jiangxi, Huaidong lost a source of medicinal materials. Although Yizhou Island has medicinal resources that can be developed, Yizhou Island has medicinal materials that can be developed.
The types of medicinal materials in China are somewhat different from those in the Central Plains. Furthermore, it will take a long time to fully develop them and cannot be achieved overnight.
At present, you can repurchase some from Nanyang and Xinyang first.
Tongbai Mountain and Huaishan Mountain stretch for nearly two thousand miles. They are the most important medicine-producing areas in the Central Plains. They have sufficient medicinal material resources. They are probably the most important materials that Nanyang and Xinyang can exchange with the outside world at this time; the Cai family and the Jiang family are all
He was once a big medicinal material merchant in Xinyang. In the old days, there were thousands of medicinal people living near Tongbai Mountain who made a living by collecting medicinal herbs.
It's just that Huaixi was hit by massacres, and trade routes were completely cut off for several years. There are not many medicinal materials stored in Wuzhai and the city. However, experienced medicinal people basically still control the Cai, Jiang and other tribes.
So now we can only purchase medicinal materials from Xinyang. Without skilled herbalists in Nanyang, it will be difficult to produce much.
In mid-April, after the Huaidong ship docked at Zhengyang, Xinyang organized people to go to the relatively safe Tongbai Mountain to pick medicinal materials and process them. Only then did they reserve the next batch.
Dong Yuan could not prevent the wealthy families in Xinyang from trading medicinal materials with Huaidong. Farming did not yield results in a short time. Xinyang could exchange medicinal materials with Huaidong for grain and iron, which would also relieve two or three points of pressure. Dong Yuan wanted to stop him.
, will only arouse the resentment of the Xinyang clan and directly push the local forces in Xinyang into the arms of Huaidong. However, the Xinyang clan has many contacts with Huaidong, which is also a very unstable factor.
In any case, Dong Yuan can't control that much at the moment. Unless Weiyang's merchant ship can carry grain and iron to Xinyang to exchange for medicinal materials, Huaidong's influence and penetration in Xinyang can be weakened. However, in terms of purchase price, he cannot compete with Huaidong.
Weiyang's medicinal merchants were simply willing to travel all the way to Xinyang.
Dong Yuan could not even collect taxes from the trade of medicinal materials like scraping Nanyang meat.
Over the years, even if there are strongholds for the Xinyang clan to defend, their lives have been extremely difficult, and their savings over the years have been almost exhausted. It is not easy to re-cultivate the land that has been abandoned for many years, and it is not easy to use farm tools to make crude swords and guns.
, and iron materials were in short supply. After finally seeing Huaidong open a trade route, naturally he could not refuse to sell medicinal materials to Huaidong in exchange for grain and iron cloth because he was worried about Dong Yuan's ideas.
After hearing Chen Xiaoyan's concern about the medicinal materials, Cai Jin replied: "For the list listed by Huaidong, people from Xinyang went into the mountains to prepare it. The season was not in time, and the preparation was in a hurry. Each prepared a few hundred to several thousand kilograms."
, a total of more than three hundred stones, and there will be a little more next month..."
"The more medicinal materials, the better. I would also like to thank Mr. Cai for solving Huaidong's urgent need," Chen Xiaoyan said.
Cai Jin smiled bitterly. No matter how urgently Huaidong was in need of medicinal materials, it was far less urgent than Xinyang was in need of food and iron. Fortunately, Huaidong did not put forward any additional requirements beyond the trade of medicinal materials. Otherwise, it would be difficult to explain to Dong Yuan.
Naturally, Huaidong will not be harsh on the price of medicinal materials, and will exchange them according to the price comparison of food and medicine before the war. Of course, the total amount will be controlled, but with the input of nearly 10,000 stones of rice and tens of thousands of kilograms of iron materials every month,
It can make the lives of the local forces in Xinyang much easier than before.
The main crops in Xinyang are wheat, with an average yield of less than one stone per mu. The input of 10,000 tons of rice grain per month is almost equivalent to the reclamation of more than 100,000 acres of land, which can barely support 30,000 to 40,000 adults.
The remaining people in Xinyang are only about 100,000.
Cai Jin also knew that Dong Yuan was most jealous of Huaidong, but as for the medicinal material trade, Xinyang officials and local wealthy people were increasingly speaking good about Huaidong. This situation was not something that could be controlled even if he wanted to.