Shen Yang walked out of the main hall and saw Jiang Huo, Chen Ruyi and Zhang Qian all guarding under the eaves of the main hall. He bowed to Jiang Huo and Chen Ruyi before taking Zhang Qian back to Shangshu Province.
Dusk was beginning to appear, and there were still many people in the Shangshu Provincial Political Affairs Hall.
Seeing Zheng Yu and Han Daoming sitting in the public hall chatting and laughing, and seeing them walking in, he just nodded slightly. Looking at Han Daoming's expression, he was not affected by the discussion just now. Shen Yang's face sank slightly, but he I also understand that Zheng family has a request from Tangyi at this time.
Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, soldiers and horses from the Central Plains have conquered the Lingnan region. The casualties on the battlefield are still second, and the more serious casualties are the attrition caused by the epidemic.
Over the past thousands of years, almost three out of ten wars in the South were fought due to the spread of uncontrollable miasmatic plagues, forcing the troops to retreat, or even being routed and defeated by the southern barbarians.
At this time, Zheng Hui had successfully led his troops to invade Yongzhou, and it is certain that Xuzhou contributed a lot to its sufficient supply of miasma-removing wine.
Zheng Hui's generals can currently confirm that the infection rate of miasma is even lower than that of local soldiers and horses in Guizhou and Yongzhou. Even if some generals are infected with miasma or dysentery, they can be treated in time.
This is something that was unimaginable before.
It can also be confirmed that Han Daoxun, Han Qian and his son have been able to control every corner of Xuzhou so quickly in recent years, and they have contributed a lot to the elimination of miasma wine.
After the Imperial Medical Bureau obtained the anti-miasma wine, they also confirmed that it contained medicinal materials such as Artemisia annua, but they used traditional processing methods to imitate it. The medicinal wine produced had a certain preventive effect on miasma epidemics, but compared with the wine produced in Xuzhou The anti-miasma wine is still far from enough.
At present, the Zheng family is fully leading the conquest of the area occupied by Liu Yin, the Qingyuan Army Jiedushi in Lingnan. After the Chenzhou crisis, Han Qian not only handed over the Chenzhou Fanying, which was very good at hot and humid warfare, but also allowed Zheng The Zheng family sold their wine to Xuzhou and Huaixi, which destined the Zheng family to be unable to get rid of its dependence on Tangyi in a short time.
The income from the salt and iron tax goes to the Central Salt Envoy Department, while the sale of wine and tea is usually an important source of income for feudal towns and prefectures and counties.
Although everyone knows that Han Qian wanted to save food consumption in Tangyi, so he restricted local wine making. At this time, he also needed to meet the alcohol consumption in Tangyi, so Zheng or other wine merchants could only be allowed to enter the country to make profits.
Even though Tangyi would also collect part of the city's parking tax and overtax, the Zheng family had to accept Han Qian's sentiments.
Take the Gyeonggi area as an example. Although the Zheng family also has the right to sell wine in Gyeonggi, there are 19 other companies that are also qualified to make and sell wine in Jinling and other counties in Gyeonggi.
Although the per capita alcohol consumption in Huaixi and Xuzhou is a little lower than that of Gyeonggi, it is much higher than that of ordinary prefectures and counties. But the key point is that even if Tangyi’s control over private brewing is not extremely strict, the system The government and prefecture and county officials are subordinate to the yamen, and they do not directly brew alcohol for drinking and sell it. This market in Huaixi is basically exclusive to the Zheng family.
Although the scribes of the Shangshu Province estimate that the Zheng family's profit from selling wine in Xuzhou and Huaixi in the past year should be between 100,000 and 200,000 yuan, which is almost worth the Zheng family's victory over the Youlongque Army. and more than one-third of the military expenditures as an additional subsidy for Shao Hengzhou’s southern expedition.
Even though being sent to Chenzhou Fanying was considered a lost friendship, Shen Yang knew that only the two items, Ganjiu and Qumiasma Wine, determined that before Zheng Hui led his troops to pacify Lingnan, the relationship between the Zheng family and Tangyi would not Fundamental changes occur.
Shen Yang couldn't help but think, if at this time he proposed to select a group of young generals from the bodyguards, led by Du Chongtao or Zhou Bingwu, and organize a group of troops to Ganzhou, and then join the troops from the states in the upper reaches of the Gan River to march south, What would Zheng think about opening a second battlefield from the east wing to the Qingyuan Army's Jiedu Prefecture?
Even if this can greatly alleviate the military pressure on Zheng Hui and his troops from attacking from the west flank, will Zheng think that this move is aimed at them?
Shen Yang sighed softly in his heart. Seeing that the sky had darkened, he decided to first go to Yang En, who had not been to the political hall for the past two days, to see what he thought about many things. Then he would go to the longevity king Yang Zhitang. And Zhang Chao and others are testing their attitudes.
Shen Yang got up and left the government office of Shangshu Province. Zhang Qian and Qin Wen, who was on duty at the political hall today, also got up and left.
Han Daoming, who was talking to Zheng Yu under the eaves, saw them passing by and opened his mouth to Zhang Qian. Qin Wen asked: "Today is Daochang's 60th birthday party. Prime Minister Shen is busy with everything. I'm afraid he won't have time to escape. Mr. Zhang, Mr. Qin, do you have time to come to the mansion for a glass of water and wine?"
Zhang Qian was slightly startled and said in a panic: "What a coincidence. We have made an appointment tonight. I will ask my family to send the congratulations to my house later..."
Qin Wen looked back and followed Shen Yang to the government office without saying a word.
Zhang Qian stood awkwardly in front of the threshold for a while, and finally chased him out. He saw Xue Ruogu, who had been promoted from Lishui County Magistrate to Yushitai, appeared out of nowhere and was talking to Qin Wen and Shen Yang was walking and talking in front.
He then heard Xue Ruogu asking Shen Yang:
"What does Your Majesty say about the transfer of the Left Wuxiang Army back to the capital and the recruitment of Lord Du or the newly formed Right Wuxiang Army from the Ministry of War of Zhou to move south along the Gan River to attack the Qingyuan Army?"
Hearing Xue Ruogu ask these questions, Zhang Qiancai ignored Shen Yang's secret discussion with His Majesty in Chongwen Hall just now and thought to himself that these might be Xue Ruogu's ideas on behalf of the Prime Minister, right?
"Your Majesty has not made the final decision, but it is necessary to transfer the left Wuxiang army back to the capital." Shen Yang saw Zhang Qian coming and did not avoid him. He answered Xue Ruogu's question and said, "But the new right Wuxiang army will be transferred to the capital." The matter is quite difficult. Zheng's reaction is one thing, but whether Du Shu or Zhou's Ministry of War are willing to come forward is another matter..."
Zhang Qian thought that the situation in Dachu had undergone profound changes. Even if the imperial court could resist many obstacles, seize food from the forbidden army, and raise money and food for the new Youwu Xiang Army, Du Chongtao and Zhou Bingwu might not be willing to do this at this time. Head right?
"This is easy. Du Chongtao and Zhou Bingwu have so many subordinates and nephews. Just arrange for them to serve in the Privy Council, the Ministry of War and the various guards' offices." Qin Wen said.
Zhang Qian thought to himself that Qin Wen's plan was cruel.
The Ministry of War and the Privy Council need to fill a large number of officials, not to mention the forbidden army, bodyguards and pro-army systems. They correspond to the commanders of the capitals, the princes of Yu, and the garrison. The military government also has generals of the capitals, generals of the schools, etc. in charge of the army. The government's farmland farming, military household management, training and other matters.
Maybe Du Chongtao and Zhou Bingwu wanted to retreat bravely and did not want to go into the muddy water at this time, but their subordinates, nephews and nephews were in their prime, keen on fame and wealth, eager to establish meritorious deeds, and be granted lordships. They had the opportunity to enter. The core of power wants to promote the establishment of the Youwu Xiang Army, but it is more powerful than "outsiders" like them inviting Du Chongtao or Zhou Bingwu to come forward to form the Youwu Xiang Army.
Just like last year when the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China reorganized the Zuowu Xiang Army, Huang Hua was not necessarily willing for his son Huang Lu to take the lead, but he was unable to prevent it.
Most of the time, people are always pushed forward by waves, big or small.
Shen Yang did not directly agree or deny Qin Wen's plan and continued to walk out; Qin Wen was silent for a while, then looked back at Zhang Qian and asked with a smile: "The Han Mansion should be quite lively today, Mr. Zhang really doesn't want to go drink A glass of water and wine?”
"I can't join in the excitement." Zhang Qian chuckled twice and replied.
Xue Ruogu turned a blind eye to Zhang Qian's unwillingness to turn against the Han government and continued to talk to Shen Yang:
"I sent people to Shouchun and Fengtai to see. The Shouzhou army withdrew from these two cities and failed to move the people in the city. The situation must be the same in Huoqiu. Whether it was Liang Emperor Zhu Yu Or maybe the Qiao and Ying prefectures occupied by Xu Mingzhen could no longer accommodate the 100,000 people in the three cities. But one thing is certain, Liang Chu will probably trade people with Tang Yi in this peace negotiation... …”
During the recruitment and surrender of the Luoshan garrison at the end of last year, Zhang Qian made a field trip to Huaixi and saw the speed and efficiency of Huaixi's resettlement of victims and refugees. Huaixi is a vast country with few people, and the land within it is mostly flat and fertile. If the three counties of Fengtai and Huoqiu gain a new population of 100,000, they will still only have more than 1.3 million people. Within three to five years, as long as the speed of house construction and land reclamation can keep up, they can accommodate twice as many people. population, there will be no problem at all.
At this time, Tangyi actually governed more than 1.5 million Dingkou (including Xuzhou), and already had such terrifying military mobilization potential. If it continued to receive disaster victims and people fleeing from the war on a large scale from Hehuai, its strength would still be How much will it continue to expand?
"How does Prime Minister Shen think Cishou Palace will deal with this matter?"
"Although there is a lot of fighting in the palace today, considering that Xiangbei is eager to digest the land of Liangzhou, it may be difficult to refuse the peace negotiation," Shen Yang said, "Perhaps Huaidong is the only one who will really oppose it?"
Hearing Shen Yang's words, Zhang Qian, who saw the quarrel in the palace with his own eyes, was even more deeply touched.
On their side, they must vigorously push for the transfer of Zuo Wuxiang's army back to the capital. Li Zhigao will be even less likely to refuse the peace negotiation in Liangzhou, so as to reduce the military pressure on the eastern flank of Liangzhou.
The size of Liang Jun's troops in Guanzhong is actually not large. The main reason is the shortage of food and fodder supplies. If Li Zhigao and Cishou Palace refuse the peace negotiation, Liang Jun will definitely not mind helping Zhao Mengji and Wang Xiaoxian to counterattack Liangzhou.
The situation in Guanzhong is too complicated. From the perspective of practical interests, it would not be good for Tangyi and the Han family if Li Zhigao and Cishou Palace meet again, so he would choose to be patient in this matter.
Or maybe Han Daoming had expected this a long time ago, so he just talked freely in the palace today?
As for why Huaidong strongly opposed it, it is not difficult to understand.
The situation has changed dramatically in the past two years. Don't surrender Tangyi. The strength of the Zheng family, Xiangbei family, Huang family and even the Shou Prince's Palace has been greatly enhanced. Only Huaidong did not get any benefits and was forced to return Shiliang County. It is under the jurisdiction of Chuzhou.
Once the peace treaty is formally concluded, Huaidong will lose the excuse to cross the Huaihe River and expand into the Xusi area. How could Yang Yuanyan, the king of Xin, be willing to do so?
However, Huaidong is the most alienated from the central government, and Huaidong strongly opposes it. How can it influence the court's choice?
Not only would the imperial court ignore Huaidong's objections, but it would also reduce the amount of relief money and food provided to Huaidong in order to strengthen Wu Xiang's army, right?
Thinking about the past seven or eight years, Xin Wang Yang Yuanyan's fortunes have been quite ups and downs.
Originally, he had great hope of seizing Jinling from the Anning Palace and succeeding to the throne. At one time, he had more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, and controlled the states on the north bank of Taihu Lake and the eastern region of Gyeonggi. However, he did not want to be forced by Han Qian to lead a Chishan Army composed of mud-legged men and slaves. It was stirred up.
Huaidong only had a population of one million people, so it would be too difficult to support the hundreds of thousands of troops and horses that had returned to the north bank.
They had no choice but to reduce their troops and horses. However, by the end of the second year of Yanyou, Huaidong managed to reduce its troops and horses to only 60,000 to 70,000 elite troops. Unexpectedly, the navy defeated Hongzepu, causing the good situation in the Jianghuai River to be eroded, and Huaidong was inevitably dragged down.
Got in.
Although the core area of Huaidong was not lost, tens of thousands of enemy cavalry penetrated into the hinterland and repeatedly harassed for several months, including Sizhou and Haizhou north of the Huaihe River. From Huaidong to the end of the spring of the third year of Yanyou, nearly 300,000 people were lost, and Chuzhou
The nearby settlement water conservancy system was destroyed.
At one time, Huaidong could not even maintain 670,000 or 70,000 soldiers and horses, but it had to maintain such a large force to cope with the military pressure from the enemy in the Xusi area to the north. It was forced to choose to transport the victims to Tangyi in exchange for Syria.
Loans from the state official money bureau supported the most basic military expenditures, and Dingkou once fell to about 800,000.
As Han Qian conquered the city in Huaixi and won successive victories, the military pressure on northeastern Huaibei was greatly reduced. Also due to the rapid rise of Tangyi, the imperial court relaxed its suppression of Huaidong. In the past three or four years, Huaidong has
With the active troops and horses reduced to about 40,000, all parties finally breathed a sigh of relief.
However, compared with the rise of Tangyi and Li Zhigao's development momentum in Xiangbei, Huaidong is really a bit lost.
"Since Han Mansion celebrated Han Daochang's birthday and sent you a message, there is nothing wrong with drinking in the past." Shen Yang said to Zhang Qian and Qin Wen at this time.
"I won't join in the fun. Even if I want to find out the news, I'd better trouble Mr. Zhang to do some hard work." Qin Wen refused simply.
Zhang Qian was born as a minor official, and his behavior was much smoother than that of Qin Wen, who was born as a scholar. But when Qin Wen said this, he didn't have the courage to respond and said with a smile: "The Han Mansion has been quite busy in the past few months.
The house is high-profile, and the house is packed with guests at every turn. If the Han government is still like this tonight, there will probably be voices supporting peace talks in the next two days..."
After leaving the imperial city, Zhang Qian went straight back to his mansion. He originally wanted to send his family to send a congratulatory gift to the Han mansion.
As ministers in the same palace, not only Zhang Qian, but also Shen Yang and Xue Ruogu, Han Daoming and Han Daochang would send juniors to send congratulations if there was a birthday celebration in the house. On the surface, they didn't have any bad feelings.
But he didn't expect that as soon as he turned around the alley in his car, he saw his eldest son Zhang Ze and Han Duan walking out of his house. They stood at the door of the house waiting for the carriage to drive over. He bowed and said: "I just heard the sound of horse hoofbeats, so I guessed it was...
Uncle Zhang has returned home - my father specially came to invite Uncle Zhang and Zhang Ze to the mansion for a drink..."
Although Han Duan only served as the head of the ministry, in the past two years, apart from the two brothers Han Daoming and Han Daochang, Han Duan was the only one who made public appearances in the court. The other children of the Han family and the in-laws of Chen Qiao and other clans all chose to go to the court.
There were not many people serving in Tangyi or Xuzhou, which highlighted the importance of Han Duan.
Pinyi aside, Han Duan was waiting in his house before the banquet started. Zhang Qian had no reason to shirk, so he hurried back home and changed into casual clothes, then took his son Zhang Ze and followed Han Duan to the brightly lit restaurant full of guests and friends.
Han Mansion.
When entering the Han Mansion, Zhang Qian happened to meet Han Daoming and Zheng Yu, who were driving hand in hand. They walked into the mansion together and saw that Liang envoy Guo Duanduo, accompanied (supervised) by officials from Honglu Temple, also rushed to the Han Mansion.
feast.
Han Daochang's status in the Han government was second only to Han Daoming's. In the past two years, he had been serving as a doctor in the Salt and Iron Transport Department, and he had been content to serve as a doctor. He did not think about transferring. He seemed not to be among the ministers in terms of character, but he was assigned with real power in Dachu.
The Dachu salt business is divided into four links: cooking, collection, transportation and marketing. The Salt and Iron Transport Envoy Department does not have a minister. Zhang Qian is the governor of political participation and the Minister of Household Affairs. He is responsible for the salt and iron transport envoys. There are also four Langzhongguan, each responsible for cooking, collection and sales.
All three matters were controlled by Zhang Chao's direct descendants, and Han Daochang was in charge of transportation between the salt field and the prefecture and county salt and iron institute supervisors.
In the past two years, Han Daochang served in the Salt and Iron Transport Department. He withstood the pressure, exploited the advantages and eliminated the disadvantages. He eliminated all the previous salt transportation fleets and entrusted the salt transportation to Chishanhui. Only the salt supervisors were arranged to supervise the supervision.
This alone saved the court 40,000 to 50,000 yuan every year, and no one dared to say that the Han family would be enriching themselves by handing over the salt transportation to Chishan.
The large warehouse ships owned by the Chishan Club travel along the Yangtze River and the tributaries of Hunan, Ruan, Han, and Jiangxi. They have large transport capacity, fast speed, and great advantages. Many states and counties along Taihu Lake, Poyang Lake, and Dongting Lake have entrusted grain transportation to
Chishan Club.
Although the Central Committee has always wanted to avoid this situation, the shipbuilding industry in Jinling and Jiangdong was completely destroyed before and after the Jinling Incident, and it has never recovered its strength.
Although there are two government-run shipbuilding yards in Yueyang and Tanzhou, they lack sufficient funds. The ships they build are provided to prefectures, counties and localities, but they are always rejected as too expensive and too slow.
Other local shipbuilding industries, such as those in Xuzhou and the recent rise, are suppressed by the high-quality and low-priced Donghu ships. They have no competitiveness in medium and large ships, and are completely out of date. They can only build some small fishing boats and awning boats.
If you mess around, your development will not be as good as in the middle and late dynasties of the previous dynasty.
In addition to long-distance transportation, the shipping gangs and merchant gangs that ran short- and medium-distance water transportation mostly had good relations with Xuzhou and Tangyi.
On the one hand, they want to buy ships from Tangyi.
On the other hand, with the support of Han Qian, the Chishan Society has risen in the rivers and seas, and has a semi-official status. At this time, it will no longer succumb to the difficulties of local forces; while it was previously squeezed to the bottom, in the official office
The boat gang, which has little status in front of the officials and aristocratic clans, will now often ask the Chishan Society to mediate if they encounter local disputes.
Zhang Qian followed Shen Yang and had a deep understanding of Tangyi and the Han government. He knew the affairs of the Chishan Society. They were currently divided into two parts. One was secretly spying to collect intelligence on the states and counties in the Chu region. These matters as well as armed escorts, etc.
Guo Xiao and Lin Jiang were responsible for the matter. Both of them were upright and eight-class military attachés of the sixth rank, and were placed in front of the military intelligence staff department of Zhizhifu.
There is another matter, which is relatively pure shipping and the economic livelihood of the congregation. The current people in charge are Guo Quan and Zhou Zhu, the old military attachés of the Chishan Army, who are also direct descendants of Han Qian.
However, in the past year, Guo Quan and Zhou Zhu frequently visited the Han Mansion in Jinling. Zhang Qian suspected that Han Qian had secretly handed over the affairs of the Chishan Society to Han Daochang.
In recent years, the Chishan Society's focus has been on bulk cargo shipping along the Yangtze River. In addition to Xuzhou, Huaixi, coal, iron, and cotton, Jinling and Zhuzhou counties have the largest scale of grain and salt transportation, even larger than Xuzhou,
The bulk cargo output from Huaixi is much larger, with the transportation scale reaching six to seven million shi per year.
Although there is no accurate statistics on the total annual investment made by prefectures, counties and subway transshipment departments in the transportation of grain and salt, the recruitment of porters, boatmen and sailors, ships, and the dispatch of escort officers, etc., there is no accurate statistics, but it will definitely not be low.
At two million yuan.
It's not because of the Yangtze River waterway that can pass through it. Transporting grain to Heluo and Chang'an areas will be even more expensive.
These are all destined to make Han Daochang a very important figure in Jinling. What's more, his sixtieth birthday is a very important moment in life, and any decent family will take care of it.
Zhang Chao saw that not only the Salt and Iron Transfer Envoy, Zhang Chao, the Minister of Household Affairs, Han Daochang's colleagues in the Academy, and Han Daoming invited Zheng Yu, Liang Envoy Guo Duanze and others to come to the banquet, but the Shou Prince's Palace also sent people to send congratulations.
Passing through the hanging flower hall and looking inside the mansion, there were four to five hundred people in-laws and friends gathered in the Han mansion today. Zhang Qian thought to himself that the garden of the Han mansion, which had been reduced by nearly half in the most difficult two years, was still big enough.
I didn’t invite so many people to the banquet, so I thought it would be too crowded.
Although Zhang Qian has not yet become a minister, he is still important enough in the court.
Han Duan had to be busy today, so he had to arrange for a special nephew of the Han family to accompany him. Even if Zhang Qian wanted to appear a little forced and cold, there were only a limited number of people of his level among the guests and friends he entertained.
, finally they came to talk to Han Daoming, Zhang Chao, Zheng Yu and Liang Shi Guo Duanduo, and finally the seats were arranged together.
The Liang-Chu peace talks have naturally been the focus of attention from both the government and the public recently, and those attending the banquet at Han Mansion tonight will not shy away from discussing this issue.
Guo Duanduo came on behalf of Emperor Zhu Yu of the Liang Dynasty, and he also knew that by seeking the support of the Chu officials, Liang Chu could reach a formal peace agreement faster. Some topics were not taboo to talk about, and it could be said that it was necessary to let the news out on this occasion.
Although Emperor Zhu Yu of the Liang Dynasty won a great victory in Xinzheng, he gathered troops from the southern part of the Liang State based on Xinzheng City and planned to capture the entire territory of Xingzhou in the next stage, and then attack Heluo and Hangu Pass with the Liang Army in Guanzhong from both sides to completely clear Guanzhong and He
However, the Mongol people responded very quickly. After the Battle of Xinzheng, they stationed troops in Huaizhou and Weizhou quickly crossed the Yellow River and entered the area near the Yellow River in the central and northern part of Yingzhou to contain Liang Jun's troops.
Front.
Unlike the Weizhou rebels who had low morale and shaken hearts, the Mongol soldiers and horses had extremely strong combat effectiveness and fighting will. Between Xinzheng and Xingyang, Liang Emperor Zhu Yu led his troops to tentatively cross the Yellow River several times, but all failed.
Was intercepted and returned without success.
Although I didn't suffer any loss, I didn't take advantage either.
Once the battle cannot be won quickly, Liang Jun's biggest shortcoming will be exposed, that is, the logistical supplies such as food, soldiers, armor, and weapons are seriously unable to keep up.
