Han Daochang naturally knew more about the internal situation of Huaiyang Mountain than Yuan Guowei in Wujinling. He immediately explained to Han Daoming, Qiao, Chen and other family heads:
"To the north of Baimajian and to the east of Huazhujian, Huaiyang Mountain belongs to the mountainous areas of Huozhou and Chaozhou. It is estimated that there are about 120,000 or 30,000 people hiding in Dingkou, but the specific statistics may have to wait until this summer.
Accurate figures will not be available until autumn..."
"So many Dingkou?" Qiao Chunlin was Qiao Weiyan's uncle. At this time, he served as the military commander in Xuanzhou and was the current head of the Qiao family. He was shocked when he heard Han Daochang's words. He had never expected that Huaiyang Mountain was only on the northeast slope.
, there are so many fleeing households hidden in Dongpo, and he said, "If we count the mountain residents from Huazhujian to the west to Jiuliguan, there must not be as many as 200,000?"
"It will be more, not less," Han Daochang said.
Han Daochang then went on to talk more about what he learned this time.
It was only after he walked into the Huaiyang Mountains in person that he realized that the peaks and ridges surrounding the Huaiyang Mountains were majestic, but among the high mountains and ridges, there were actually a large number of river valleys, valley plains, and large tracts of low hills.
This created the necessary conditions for a large number of households to escape the war in the Huaihe Plain and migrate to the mountains to thrive and multiply in the past hundreds of years.
Also because a large number of Dingkou households have been farming in the mountains for several generations, the overall farming level in the Huaiyang Mountains is not low, at least higher than when Han Qian first arrived in Xuzhou with his father.
Although there are no accurate figures, the cultivated land in the Huaiyang mountains east of Huazhujian and north of Baimajian is estimated to be no less than 800,000 acres.
In order to alleviate contradictions and conflicts, Han Qian took the initiative to open the gate of the village to welcome Tangyi soldiers to garrison, and reported all the villages in Dingkou and Tianmu, so his methods were not so drastic.
In addition to clearing the land and approving taxes, the wealthy families who own large amounts of land are only required to turn all the slaves under their control into servants. Unpaid employment is strictly prohibited and at least a salary that can guarantee their survival must be given.
, it is even more strictly forbidden to kill or sell off the land, and at the same time, they are required to reduce the land rent of poor tenant farmers.
Han Qian was not so polite to the stronghold that he had once defended against the entry of Tangyi soldiers. All the wealthy people who took the lead in the confrontation were taken into custody as prisoners of war.
In addition to the confiscation of 200,000 acres, which were used as ration fields and pensions for the poor and slaves at the bottom who had enlisted in the army to live and farm, there was also a large amount of saved money, grain and other family property, which were used as military supplies - Han Qian in Huaiyang
In the past two or three months, Shan mainly relied on this to support the consumption of military supplies, and the distribution of this part of the land and houses was almost completed during the tug-of-war.
However, the arable land resources in the Huaiyang Mountains have been exploited to their limit, and can even be said to be excessive.
With the current level of farming, this mountainous area can support more than 130,000 people, which is far too much.
This makes the lives of households in the mountains extremely poor, and the living conditions of the poor and slaves at the bottom are even more worrying, and they can only rely on wealthy households to survive.
In addition to establishing a new county on the south side of Wujin Ridge, Han Qian also plans to ask the court for permission to establish a new county in the middle and upper reaches of the Longtan River. He plans to include the northern part of Lujiang County, the upper reaches of the Longtan River valley on the east slope of Huaiyang Mountain, and part of the north bank of the Longtan River.
The land was allocated to strengthen control over the west coast of Chaozhou and the mountainous areas east of Huaiyang Mountain.
This area was originally the reclamation area of the Shouzhou Army. Especially in the past year, the Shouzhou Army stationed at most 30,000 soldiers and 20,000 troops in the north of Lujiang County, together with the Lujiang defense line led by Li Zhigao in the south.
More than 40,000 elite Huaixi Imperial Guards confronted each other.
The Shouzhou Army hastily withdrawn, and the Tangyi soldiers have taken over hundreds of fortifications and villages on both sides of the Longtan River, as well as tens of thousands of houses and hundreds of thousands of acres of new fields with green wheat crops. They can first
It was used to house the 20,000 soldiers and civilians captured from Anfeng Village.
Among these soldiers and civilians, there were nearly 4,000 young and strong men, who either voluntarily or were forced to enter the defense line to defend against the enemy. The casualties were also the most heavy, with 1,400 people killed in battle and many more injured and disabled.
To fulfill the promise made before the war, even if they and their children cannot be allowed to return to their homes in the enemy-occupied area of Gaocheng, priority should be given to pensions and resettlement.
In addition to fields that can be cultivated and shabby houses that can shelter from the wind and rain, these people also need to be provided with clothing, farm tools and other necessities for life and production, and even a certain amount of animal power.
Otherwise, the land that a strong man can cultivate is limited, and the living conditions will still be worrying.
After this step is completed, Tangyi's left and right armies should also be expanded. A new defense line will be constructed with Chuzhou City and Chaozhou City to the east of Huaiyang Mountain. There will be a large new reclamable area south of the military buffer zone, which can be gradually
They moved part of the wealthy population in the Huaiyang Mountains there...
Naturally, these follow-up plans to further cultivate Huaixi cannot be written into the memorial. Han Daochang had to explain them one by one to everyone when he returned to Jinling.
After hearing this, Han Daoming also said with great emotion:
"At this time, a new county will be established on the west bank of Chaohu Lake. With Wujinling as the center and including the hinterland of the northeastern slope of Huaiyang Mountain, a new county should also be established, plus Chaozhou City, Chuzhou City, and the areas north of Chuzhou City.
Yongyang County, Tangyi Xingying will directly govern twelve counties in the future..."
Han Daoming didn't say the next words, but everyone in the hall could understand.
Counting the seven counties of Xuzhou and the Wuchuan County governed by Tan Yuliang, there are exactly 20 counties governed by the Marquis of Qianyang and the Han family. Simply based on the number of states and counties, the strength is not weak.
When Emperor Tianyou rose to power in Huainan, he only ruled over twenty counties.
However, the total number of soldiers and civilians in the twenty counties governed by the Marquis of Qianyang was just over 600,000. In terms of population, it was still slightly lower.
This is precisely a place where everyone can work.
Putting each family together, they could send seven to eight thousand slaves to Tangyi for resettlement.
Xuanshe and Xuanzhou, under the leadership of Feng and Han, surrendered to Shengzhou Jiedushi in their early years. Before Emperor Tianyou crossed the river, they quickly turned around, raised their flags, and defected to the Huainan Army. This was the only one in the past hundred years.
In a large-scale battle, Han Qian led the Chishan Army to attack Langxi City, beating Gu Zhilong until he howled and then quickly surrendered.
If there is no war, Dingkou will breed quickly. Not to mention the direct descendants of the clan, the slaves and maidservants raised by each family have been reproduced for four or five generations. To be honest, there are too many now, and the annexation of the fields is
There is an end.
"Perhaps you also heard the news on the way that His Majesty and the imperial court have recently planned to strengthen the relief for the victims of Huaidong. It is planned that every month the Internal Affairs Bureau and the envoys will transport 50,000 shi of grain to Huaidong," Han Daoming ignored everyone present.
He was thinking about something in his mind, and mentioned something to Han Daochang, saying, "With this money and food, Huaidong will no longer be so dependent on us."
"The victory at Wujinling was so quick that many people had no chance to hold back, but the subsequent support of Huaidong and Jingxiang to check and balance Huaixi is also the intended meaning of the title," Han Daochang said, "When I passed Chaohu, I met Feng Liao
, Guo Rong met once, and they all expected that it would be impossible to continue to directly introduce disaster-stricken refugees from Huaidong in the future, but as long as they have no excuse to cut off the trade that Chishan will open in various places, as long as the situation in Huaixi is further stabilized, there should be a steady flow of people.
There will be new landless poor people crossing the river and heading north..."
"They won't overturn the table at this time." Han Daoming said with a smile. He was not particularly worried about this. After all, the situation had changed. In the past, they had to be careful to please others and worry about the court's suspicion. Now it is other people's turn.
Be careful with them and watch their faces.
In any case, although the sweet period with Prince Shou's Mansion and Huaidong was much shorter than expected, during this period, in addition to directly introducing more than 80,000 Dingkou to Tangyi, the Chishan Society had already acquired Jiangdong, Jiangxi, Hunan,
The main prefectures and counties of Huaidong and Jingxiang are equivalent to official certificates in the nature of market access certificates.
In addition to these, Han Daoming also contributed to two things in the DPRK later this year.
The first thing is to officially include cotton cloth in the summer grain and autumn harvest.
The court officials bargained for a long time and finally decided to collect the goods in kind. One piece of cotton cloth could only be converted into two pieces of linen cloth, which was a little lower than they expected.
However, since the grain and cloth levies in various places are at a fixed ratio, and even the ratio of household mulberry fields and grain fields is relatively fixed, this makes local grain and cloth prices directly linked to floating prices.
This prompted local clan clans that owned a large amount of land and small towns to have great motivation to exchange grain and taxes from Chishan Society in exchange for Qianyang cloth, no matter how much they opposed Han Qian's granting of benevolence to men of virtue, which would shake the foundation of the clan clans.
The second thing is that the confiscated Qianyang cloth will first be used to replace the uniforms of the guards.
The victory at Wujinling was beyond everyone's expectation, but no matter how he was not optimistic about Tangyi's surprise attack before, Han Qian was able to lead his soldiers to fight across long distances in such a severe cold weather. He was mainly made of cotton cloth and cotton wool.
The superiority of cold clothes for generals cannot be denied by anyone with open eyes.
It is really necessary to have steps to change the cold clothes of the bodyguards and generals of the imperial army; the middle and lower-level generals are also very eager to change their cold clothes.
This is also a key reason why cotton cloth can be included in the tax in kind.
When the imperial court needed supplies, it was always customary to "collect" them instead of "purchase" them.
Although the hundreds of thousands of guards, pro-guards, and generals in the Forbidden Army all used cotton cloth and cotton batting for their cold clothes, and only a fraction of what was produced in Xuzhou and Tangyi, the two events promoted and demonstrated the cotton cloth in Dachu territory more than the Chishan Meeting
It's much stronger to shout everywhere at the top of your lungs.
Xuzhou's cotton weaving industry will go to Jiangdong, Huaidong, Jiangxi, Hunan, Jingxiang and other places via Chishan later this year, with a stable monthly output of 300,000 pieces of Qianyang cloth and one million jins of lint, equivalent to more than 25% of the money and grain.
Thousands of dollars, plus the transportation to Sichuan, Sichuan, Guizhou and other places, the huge output of Xuzhou's cotton industry can almost be digested normally.
If the follow-up continues to deepen, it will mainly be to digest the new output of Tangyi cotton textile industry.
Although most of the income returns to cotton farmers and weaving households, in addition to the normal collection of cotton cloth tax, plus part of the surplus from the Weaving Institute under the Bureau of Industry and Manufacturing and the Chishan Association, the Xuzhou cotton weaving industry can provide up to 100% of the monthly income.
Money, food, and military resources of 80,000 yuan.
In addition to deducting the necessary local financial expenses, Xuzhou can also provide Tangyi with additional military supplies every month, equivalent to more than 120,000 yuan in money and food.
Before this, or other than everyone sitting in the hall, who could have imagined that a small southwestern state that is still plagued by miasma, is located in a remote place, and has wild folk customs in the eyes of most people can make such an additional contribution.
A huge amount of money and food?
Han Qian expanded the left and right armies of Tangyi, planning to have 15,000 regular soldiers each and 10,000 auxiliary troops or garrison troops.
The auxiliary troops of the baggage camp are mainly made up of prisoners of war, with 20,000 soldiers. The monthly food and clothing supplies, camp and many equipment repairs require 60,000 yuan in money and food. The main soldiers of the left and right armies, in addition to the normal monthly expenses of 60,000 yuan,
An additional 60,000 yuan will be paid as military pay.
Of course, if the imperial court can finally admit that Tangyi expands the left and right armies, it will only need to allocate 60,000 to 70,000 yuan of food every month, and the gap in the daily expenses of Tangyi's army can be filled.
However, when Han Qian managed the army, the standards for the generals' armor and war equipment rationing, as well as medical care and so on, were much higher than those for the bodyguards and imperial troops. This aspect would incur a large amount of additional military expenditures.
This gap needs to be filled in another way.
Fortunately, the compensation for the casualties of generals mainly consisted of granting land, and what Tangyi currently lacked the most was land, so there was no additional military expenditure for the time being.
Listening to Han Daochang explain the details one by one, for the Qiao, Chen and other parties involved in the confidential discussion for the first time, they may have a deeper and more intuitive understanding of why the Tangyi soldiers' combat effectiveness and combat resilience are so strong.
This is all a result of money and food.
The Tangyi soldiers' military expenditure per general was almost three times that of the bodyguards and imperial guards. It is no wonder that they were able to maintain resilience and morale beyond the imagination of the world in the cruel and fierce tug-of-war.
Of course, compared to last year, money and food were flowing into the bottomless pit of Tangyi like running water. After the expansion of Tangyi's left and right armies, it is expected that there will be a gap of 30,000 to 50,000 yuan of money and food to fill every month.
Everyone, our minds are no longer as uneasy and unprepared as before.
In other words, the great victory at Wujinling gave everyone a strong sense of confidence, and they no longer had to worry about unrewarding efforts.
Besides, the Han family used to desperately fill in the money and food, and they had to fill in 60,000 to 70,000 yuan of food every month. Now, more than a dozen of them have joined together, and they can't fill the gap of 30,000 to 50,000 yuan of money and food every month?
As for Han Qian's various actions that will shake the foundation of the family clan, it will not have much negative impact on the Han family, Chen family, and Qiao family at this time.
The slaves were turned into servants, and their daily luxurious life was not fundamentally affected.
A large number of fields and houses were resold, and some were exchanged for Tangyi. The workshops and mines in Xuzhou could be regarded as grain fields, slaves, and livestock that continuously produced energy.
In the past, the Feng and Han families were very good at selling goods, and the aristocratic clans in Xuan and She states would not reject this.
The other part is used as a loan to be paid to the Xuzhou Official Money Bureau to make up for the gap caused by Tangyi's construction and military resources, and a certain amount of interest will also be calculated.
When they were in Wujinling, Han Qian and Wang Jun anticipated that the Han Mansion would be full of guests today. Han Qian was busy preparing for defense, and Wang Jun was responsible for many things. It was Wang Jun who asked Han Daochang to return to Jinling City with specific requirements to meet with everyone.
Family talk.
The first point is to require each family to fill in the Xuzhou Official Money Bureau as a loan or deposit in the next two years, and the amount of food and grain should not be less than 100,000 yuan per month. Even if they sell their land and houses, they must make up this amount.
, Han Qian agreed to take the shares of the Xuzhou Official Money Bureau, convert the money and interest, and pay it to each company.
The second point is that each family should take the initiative to release slaves and redeem their good status, and encourage slaves to move to Tangyi to work, or to purchase land and houses to settle down.
For those who purchase land and houses, Tangyi will help them settle down in Tangyi at very low prices, as they did in Huaidong before. Even if these slaves have no savings and come to work in Tangyi, they will be provided with simple houses.
First, borrow money from the Official Money Bureau to purchase land and houses.
This practice needs to be promoted by each family in Xuan and She.
The third point is that if each family wants its young children to be recommended by the Han family to enter the court or to be appointed as officials in Tangyi or Xuzhou, they must first send them to Liyang Academy to enroll, and then recommend the best.
The fourth point is to require each family to actively open various workshops and mines in Tangyi or Xuzhou, and plantations are temporarily limited to limited categories such as sugar cane, cotton, tung oil trees, and medicinal materials.
Especially the planting of medicinal materials. Although there have been precedents of artificial cultivation of medicinal materials in monasteries and Taoist temples for hundreds of years, it was not large-scale at that time. All major drug stores mainly purchased wild medicinal materials.
The types of medicinal materials are extremely complicated. In Xuzhou, Han Qian only called Du Qiniang and others to try to grow Artemisia annua, which is effective in treating malaria, and several types of medicinal materials that stop bleeding and reduce inflammation. The scale was very limited, let alone planned by the system.
Check out the pharmacopoeia.
Han Qian and Wang Jun both felt deeply regretful when they mentioned this matter.
Now in Xuzhou, Tangyi needs to cultivate in more refined aspects. Tangyi has rich and fertile hills, dry and paddy field resources, and as the scale of the war that Tangyi directly participated in expanded, the cost of wound medicine was extremely high. Wang
Jun specifically told Han Daochang to give priority to promoting the artificial cultivation of medicinal materials in Tangyi and Huaiyang Mountain.
The planting of cotton fields, sugarcane fields and tung oil trees are all being done vigorously in Xuzhou and Tangyi, and they are all on a considerable scale, so there is no need for everyone to get involved too urgently.
The population of Dingkou in Dachu is estimated to be between 15 million and 18 million. Most households are still quite poor. The cotton weaving industry, sugar industry and even soap industry have all lost their markets in a short period of time.
It cannot be expanded without limit.
At this time, it is even more necessary to expand the types of commodities that can be exported in large quantities to the outside world, rather than unlimitedly expanding the planting of cotton fields and sugarcane fields to avoid serious surpluses.
Xuanshe and Xuanzhou are backed by Fuyu Mountain and Yishan Mountain, and almost every family has a medicinal shop, so there are convenient conditions for promoting this matter.
The discussion continued until early in the morning, and everyone left the Han Mansion with satisfactory answers and promises.
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The Queen Mother worshiped the Buddha and the Tao, and would go to the Chongfu Temple every now and then to offer incense and offerings to the gods.
As a royal Taoist temple within the imperial city, the status of Chongfu Temple has also increased, and Yun Puzi was even awarded the title of envoy of Chongfu Temple.
On this day, the Queen Mother went to the Chongfu Temple to offer incense, offer sacrifices to the gods, and take a nap in the temple. Yun Puzi accompanied her and talked about some ancient and modern affairs to relieve the Queen Mother's boredom.
At dusk, the Empress Dowager and her palace attendants took the toddler Second Prince and drove back to the palace.
"The Queen Mother left the second prince behind her, now she still has to make the second prince her heir?" Yun Puzi respectfully walked outside the gate. Seeing the Queen Mother Wang Chaner holding the second prince and boarding the phoenix chariot, she asked Yao Xishui with emotion.
One sentence.
"Your Majesty is still young and vigorous, so it may not be too early to propose a direct heir, right?" Yao Xishui glanced at Yun Puzi and said calmly, "Empress Li has a heart disease. Why don't you trust her to take care of you?"
Prince, the Queen Mother brought the second prince to Cishou Palace."
"That's right." Yun Puzi said.
"What does Taoist Master Yun think of the battle at Wujin Ridge?"
"Old Taoist is in the imperial city, and he is also a Xianyun Yehe. What do you think of the victory at Wujinling? Old Taoist heard that Han Marquis wrote a letter asking the court to transfer the Zuo Longque Army out of Shuzhou, but I don't know, Miss Yao, what do you think?
A great victory at Wujinling?" Yunpuzi asked Yao Xishui in turn.
The corner of Yao Xishui's mouth twitched twice. No matter how she looked at it, she wanted to pull Yang Zhitang, Yang Yuanyuan, and Wang Wenqian one by one to her and ask them what they thought. Is it a good feeling to compete with a tiger to steal its skin?
She could not wait to pull Xu Mingzhen to her and ask her what kind of demeanor the famous general of Chu was, who was as famous as Li Yu. The situation was so good, and he had many elite soldiers and horses several times that of the enemy. In the inner line where supplies and men were easier to mobilize, how could he be defeated?
Han Qian was beaten like a dog?
Until now, the secret scouts sent out by the Weaving Bureau have not found out many details of the Wujinling battle. It seems that Han Qian really had divine help in Huaiyang Mountain. He borrowed the rainy mountain torrents overnight and routed the enemy camp...
The battle at Wujinling will change the situation in Dachu too much. She has also heard reports that the Han residence has been full of guests and friends, playing music and playing flute every night.
Especially after Han Daochang returned to Jinling yesterday, Fu Mo, who had been silent for a long time, went to the Han Mansion to "please apologize" before noon today, but was refused entry to the Han Mansion...
