Yuan Hao said: "The materials for party immigration are simple. Regardless of whether you have them or not, you can get whatever materials you want. However, the materials for the three chieftains are a little more difficult. You need to wait until the three tribes come down from the mountain before you can start."
Zhao Ran nodded and said: "I have an idea. As a Taoist disciple of the Zongsheng Hall, I want to understand the world and the people, so I entrusted the White Horse Court to publish a journal..."
"Journal?"
"Well, it is a regular newspaper. In addition to announcing the decrees of the White Horse Court, it can also publish some cases that the common people like to hear about, legends, historical stories, Taoist scriptures, anecdotes, etc."
Yuan Hao hesitated and said: "But... there are not many literate people in Hongyuan, and there are no gentry families. Last year in the Sichuan Provincial Examination, not even a single person in the entire Songhan passed the test. I was afraid that no one would see it after they came out. The abbot also knows this.
, Every time a government decree is issued in our Taoist temple, it is posted on the white wall at the entrance, and the Taoist priest from Dianzoyuan explains it on the spot."
Zhao Ran said: "So this journal must be written in vernacular. It does not require much knowledge. Anyone who has read the "Thousand-Character Classic" and the "Three-Character Classic" can understand it. Furthermore, this is also a way to cultivate me as a Hongyuan scholar.
It is a promotion. In addition to distributing it to Songfan, it can also be distributed to the whole province. If the whole province is not enough, we can even distribute it to Xingqing. As far as I know, Xixia people still like to read idle books."
"Sold to Xixia?"
"Yes, promote the prosperity and wealth of the Ming Dynasty in the legendary story!"
Yuan Hao's eyes immediately lit up: "Preach the meaning and thoughts of my Taoism!"
Zhao Ran shook his head quickly: "Don't panic about this. If you are too eager, you will be banned. Just take your time."
Yuan Hao nodded, and then pondered: "I'm afraid that we don't have enough financial resources and manpower..."
"Don't worry about this. The editor of this journal is posted in the number room. There are not many people in the number room now. The editorial department has compiled it for five fire workers. I will find a way to compile it. I will go to Tianhe Palace to compile it later.
, Our Hongyuan staff is too small. Baima Yuan is a Taoist temple and a government office, but the staff is the same as Guishouyuan in Xiaohe County, with one less person from the county government. Is this ridiculous? It must be expanded this year!"
Yuan Hao was overjoyed: "We all look up to the abbot! The abbot will do his best to solve these big things, and leave the small things to me. By the way, what should the name of this journal be? Please give it to the abbot."
"It's called "Junshan Notes - Secular Edition"."
After sending Yuan Hao out of the study, Zhao Ran picked through a pile of black materials and finally finalized a record of the Xia Army's military meeting in May of the 19th year of Jiajing. It was about the Xia Army guarding Hulu Pass discussing compensation measures for the late arrival of military rations.
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Li Guangxian, the commander-in-chief of Hulu Pass who presided over the military meeting and the inspection envoy of the Southeast Military Supervisory Department, was very distressed. The Baima Mountain camp was in a hurry to destroy the food supply, but there was not enough food in the pass. The military food that should have been delivered seven days ago had not arrived. What happened?
Dealing with it is a big problem facing Li Guangxian.
The result of the military discussion was to send a hundred sergeants, remove their military uniforms and armor, pretend to be bandits, and go to Qiqiong Village to steal food.
Zhao Ran heard that Li Guangxian successfully escaped when Hulu Pass was breached, and is still serving in the rebuilt Southeast Military Supervisory Department. This gentleman's surname is Li, and he is a member of the Tuoba family, but he obviously did not break into the royal family.
The inner core circle, otherwise it would not be just a capital.
He was very polite to Zhao Ran, his master, and when Zhao Ran returned to the Ming Dynasty, he treated him attentively and showed many smiles. Zhao Ran had a pretty good impression of him. But now, Zhao Ran can only remain silent.
I apologized to this guy.
When Zhao Ran came back from Xixia, he reported to Dongfang Li that Princess Rou'an, a rear faction, had asked him for internal information on the White Horse Mountain War. Now that it is being implemented, it is natural to tell him again. Ask for instructions more often.
Report, this is definitely not wrong.
After reading the materials he was going to send, Dongfang Li replied: "It can be sent." and asked Zhao Ran whether it would become the norm in the future and how much more materials he would have to send. After getting Zhao Ran's reply, Dongfang Li asked him to send it every day.
Before sending out the materials for the first time, they must be reviewed by themselves. Zhao Ran had no doubts about this.
After sorting out the record, Zhao Ran sent it to Bai Geng in the form of a flying talisman, and told Bai Geng: "Sell the text to the owner of the Jinbo Club and ask them to exchange it for two hundred Han slaves."
Bai Geng quickly replied: "Guard Envoy, isn't it good to do this? Selling information is a serious crime."
Zhao Ran replied: "Don't worry, can I still hurt you?"
Zhao Ran didn't know how many Han slaves there were in Xixia, but he estimated that in the Battle of Baima Mountain alone, the Xixia people captured no less than 100,000 Han people, prisoners of war, etc. After the Ming army won the victory at Baima Mountain,
There was a large-scale prisoner exchange with Xixia. In that prisoner exchange alone, nearly ten thousand Ming troops were exchanged. This shows the large number of Ming people in Xixia.
By the end of August, both the western and northern lines had been completed, and the passage from Hongyuan to Yueliangdu and Chewa Valley was opened, and trucks transporting supplies could travel between the two places efficiently.
No matter where you are, the autumn harvest is the most important thing. As the autumn harvest is approaching, the western and northern line projects have been completed. The recruited people were dismissed by the White Horse Court and rushed back to the fields. They were almost ready to take care of them.
of crops.
When Zhao Ran came to Hongyuan, he also brought over the rural mutual aid cooperation group that had been well-established in Guyang County. Each group formed a mutual aid group to ensure that they could concentrate on working during busy farming periods. This measure worked very well last year.
It plays a big role in ensuring the successful completion of the autumn harvest, so farmers are very confident in this year's autumn harvest.
Because the southern route project is long and Zhao Ran deliberately did not use too many demon cultivators, only one-fifth of it has been completed so far, but it also faces the problem of labor being diverted to harvest crops.
The big and small people of the three tribes, mainly the Qionghe tribe, came to the small street at the foot of Haizi Mountain to discuss the matter of these strong laborers with Baozhong. On the one hand, they wanted to transfer the tribesmen back to the mountains to harvest crops, and on the other hand, they wanted to
They had a fierce bargaining session with Baozhong to keep their positions and continue to export labor after the autumn harvest.
Baimayuan has already figured out the existing system of the three ministries in the past few months of contact. For most of the lower-level tribesmen, although they have escaped the fate of being slaves to the party members, their lifestyles are not actually the same.
There is no fundamental improvement, and we are still slaves to the bosses.
Therefore, after receiving Baozhong's report, both Yuan Hao and Lei Shan keenly sensed that this might be an opportunity and came to see Zhao Ran together.
They devised a simple method to see if their efforts over the past few months had any effect.
Lei Shan said: "Anyway, after these tribesmen go back, the crops they harvest are not their own. Maybe as long as we raise wages, we can attract some of them to stay. In this way, maybe a rift will occur."
Yuan Hao sneered: "It's not maybe, but it has happened a long time ago. The civilians on the western and northern fronts can get ten coins a day, but they can only get half. They were not dissatisfied at the beginning. After all, it would be good if they could get it, but continuously
After more than two months, many people have complained. In the restaurants on the small streets, there are many tribesmen who drank too much and cursed their leaders. There are people scolding their mothers every day, and the leaders do not do any work.
If twelve cents can be taken away from everyone's head, no one will feel comfortable."
Lei Shan sighed: "They used to work for the party members, and later they worked for their own leaders. There was nowhere to get paid. At that time, they didn't hear any complaints. Now that they are paid, they can buy things for their homes. On the contrary,