Yao Xishui and Ye Feiying left in a carriage. As the sound of the wheels crushing the broken stone slabs faded away, the courtyard fell into a desolate silence again.
"They seem to be very wary of us," the unkempt beggar had been standing in the darkness with other personal guards, silently paying attention to the conversation. Only then did he come out of the darkness and said, "Sir, why don't you send Emperor Liang Zhu
Tell them that Yu was hit by several arrows in the battle at Hejin, and the arrows that hit Zhu Yu were specially coated with venom?"
"Just as you said, they are very wary and don't believe it even if they say it. So what's the use of saying it?" The man in the pavilion folded his cloak and looked into the dark night and said, "Besides, the imperial doctor beside Zhu Yu is still
There are some really capable people. If Zhu Yu hadn't been running around non-stop for several months without stopping for a moment, these arrow wounds and poisonous wounds would probably have been cured long ago. And before, we didn't expect that Zhu Yu would take the road back from Tangyi.
Caizhou, it is still unknown whether he is really poisoned and seriously ill, or whether he is pretending to paralyze us..."
"Li Zhigao didn't dare to plan for Shu with Zhao Mengji and Wang Xiaoxian, and the trade routes in Tangyi would be cut off. It might really become a big trouble for us," the beggar said. "It's really surprising that a figure like Han Qian came out of nowhere.
Well, in two years' time, the bulk commodity trade and transportation in Jianghuai, Sichuan, Sichuan, Central and Nanzhao and other places will all fall under his control, right? And I'm afraid not many of the Chu monarchs can truly know Tangyi.
One place has actually secretly mastered nearly half of the money and food that can be requisitioned and dispatched by Chu State, right? However, without such a person, sir, I would probably feel very lonely, right?"
"I'm not as arrogant as you think. When it comes to political ability, I'm not as good as this son, but even so, what's the point of fear?" The man in the pavilion smiled and said, "Your father, king, and ministers and I know each other well, and we know each other well.
Everyone is suspicious of Huai Zi in the Chu State. Even though he has secretly mastered nearly half of the money and food available in the Chu State, he is so fragile. If anything goes wrong in any link, Huai Zi will be in an unsafe place. Even if
Li Zhigao did not dare to plot against Shu, but if the Chu court suddenly changed at the right time, Jianghuai was in trouble again, Huaixi was surrounded by enemies everywhere, and iron, salt and coal could no longer leave Xuzhou. What could he do in Huaixi? Thinking about Zhu
Yu is also a great man of his generation, hasn’t Weizhou been exhausted and unable to clean up the mess?”
"Sir, have you already thought of a plan to make Chu Tingsheng change?" the beggar asked.
"Although I haven't seen Lu Qingxia for more than 20 years, I am very familiar with her. No matter how many years have passed, the things in her bones will not change. I came here this time just to pick someone who can...
It is definitely just a chess piece used by Meng Wu." said the man in the pavilion.
"Which chess piece has Sir chosen?" the beggar asked.
"I still have to pick another one. After all, when the time comes, we are separated by a river. If there is a slight hesitation and the plan fails, Han Qian may be asked to seize every opportunity. You can't be careful and be cautious, and you can't be cautious and cautious.
Ah." said the man in the pavilion.
"That's true. This person really needs to be picked carefully." The beggar said with emotion.
"Let's go..." said the man in the pavilion.
"If we don't stay here for the night, Yao Xishui won't reveal our whereabouts, right?" the beggar asked.
"Don't trust anyone. Since our whereabouts are no longer top secret, we must change places in time." The man in the pavilion said.
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When the first snowfall of the year fell in Jinling, it was already early November. Li Zhigao wrote to Liangzhou, proposing peace talks between Liang and Chu, and asked for selective implementation of the New Deal in Xiangbei. If he wanted to enter the eighth year of Yanyou, he would go ahead.
In the prefectures such as Ying, Xiang and Deng, the land was cleared, and the Dingfu was spread among the acres and the summer and autumn grains were collected to solve the problem of insufficient funds to support the army.
It was already the end of the seventh year of Yanyou, and ten years had passed since Xuzhou implemented the new land tax system, and its huge benefits are obvious.
In addition to simplifying the collection of summer and autumn grains, the new land tax system of dividing land into fields can also suppress the power of local wealthy households and aristocratic clans to the maximum extent. By hiding the acres and households, evading taxes, thereby increasing the tax revenue of prefectures and counties.
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Restricting the power of local tycoons and aristocratic clans, and transferring taxes to existing farmers or tenant farmers, can improve the living conditions of the poor at the bottom, increase the local ability to resist disasters, and prevent the hungry people from flooding the fields with the slightest drought or flood.
After the tenants are allotted to the land, it is no longer necessary to run away or hide the tenants, thus enriching the number of households in the prefectures and counties; it can also limit the trade of slaves and maidservants, and at the same time, it can greatly increase the amount of money that can be requisitioned for local military service, construction, etc.
Strong young man.
In the past two years, various companies may have considered the obstruction of local forces and did not dare to push the New Deal easily, but Tangyi Zhuyu was at the forefront, and they also deeply felt the pressure brought by Tangyi. Not only Xiangbei, but also Huaidong wanted to follow suit.
In addition, Yang Zhitang, Shen Yang, even Huang Hua, Chen Fan and others are interested in implementing this policy in Jiangdong, Jiangxi and Hunan to solve the problem of the increasingly huge military expenditures of the Forbidden Army and the Guards.
Of course, the implementation of this policy in Huaidong and Xiangbei will greatly enhance the power of vassal towns. Shen Yang, Yang Zhitang, Yang En, Huang Hua and others implement this policy in Jiangdong, Jiangxi, Huaidong and other places, which will also increase the central government's annual income.
, making the further expansion of the bodyguard army a reality.
However, it is one thing to have the intention to do it, but another thing to have the ability to do it.
In addition to overcoming the obstruction of local forces, hundreds of millions of acres of farmland in Jiangdong, Jiangxi, Huaidong, Hunan, Jingxiang and other places must be accurately measured in just two or three years. The local government needs a large number of experts in surveying and
The subordinate staff in arithmetic must also supervise them to prevent them from being bribed by local forces to commit fraud.
Although Da Chu followed the old system, it also had the system of selecting officials through the imperial examination. However, the imperial examination held every three years was only a symbolic appointment of a few people. The vast majority of official appointments were based on local recommendations or favor selection.
After Shen Yang became Prime Minister, he tried his best to promote the development of the Imperial College, but he still could not withstand the power of traditional forces. The admission to the Imperial College still needs to be directly linked to Ziyin (that is, the official title of his father's ancestor). It is just an extension of Enyin's selection. Currently, only bureaucrats of sixth grade or above are recruited.
More than 500 disciples were enrolled in the school, and the subjects taught were limited to Confucian classics, legal studies, and arithmetic were excluded, not to mention craftsmanship, which was regarded as a low-level art in the world.
As for local government schools and state schools, it is currently out of the question.
After the New Deal has passed the court deliberation, currently we can only select individual states and counties to carry out pilot projects in a targeted manner.
Shen Yang also asked the Imperial College to add four more schools to recruit seventh-grade officials and common people's children to teach arithmetic, law and other miscellaneous subjects. He recommended Qin Wen as a doctor to offer sacrifices. After the year, he planned to recruit poor families with private education background from Gyeonggi Province.
Five hundred children of common people were recruited to cultivate talents for the future promotion of the New Deal.
Liang envoy Guo Duanduo negotiated the peace treaty and set off to return north. It was already the end of November, and the Jianghuai River was also covered in snow and covered with ice for thousands of miles.
Although during this time of year, the Mongol cavalry could roam the plains of the Hehuai and Wei Rivers unscrupulously, but in the cold winter when water turned to ice, it became even more inconvenient to attack the city.
Yongzhou and Huazhou in Guanzhong, as well as Xuru, Chen, Song and other states between the Hehuai River and Bianjing City, at least do not have to worry about being lost in this winter.
In the Yuxi River, in addition to dozens of dredgers, thousands of civilian workers continue to widen the river; the ditches extending out on both sides of the river are becoming more and more dense, and large keel water can be seen everywhere on higher terrain.
The frame is between ditches.
The harvest of irrigated land is very different from that of dry land. Although it is more laborious for two young and strong laborers to cultivate fifteen acres of irrigated land, the harvest is more than double that of dry land.
Farming techniques such as crop rotation and intercropping have become increasingly popular in Huaixi, and iron farm tools have become a must-have for ordinary farmers. Guo Duanduo looked around and saw that there were a large number of households on both sides of the Yuxi River alone, and they already had excess food and energy.
Poultry and livestock are raised; there are also many varieties of field crops.
Although the world is still mainly in the agricultural era, even if the average household grain output can be doubled, the living conditions will not become much more comfortable and easy, but they will no longer suffer from famine, will no longer be sallow and thin, and will still be able to recover from diseases.
The most basic medical treatment, or sending the children to a junior school for two years, so that they will not be illiterate. After more than ten years of hard work, it is possible to build a brick house, and to raise some poultry or one or two pigs and sheep to improve the diet structure.
It is enough to be called a prosperous age.
Han Qian was relatively busy. Accompanied by Han Jianji and Han Daochang's eldest son-in-law Hu Fe, Guo Duanduo met Han Qian in Liyang. After that, he mainly communicated with Feng Liao and Wang Che in detail about the details of subsequent relief assistance.
In order to limit the unscrupulous raids of the Mongol cavalry on the Hehuai Plain, Guo Duanduo proposed to add 3,000 fine steel crossbows to the new batch of loaned weapons before the year.
Liang Jun once had a cavalry force of 50,000 to 60,000 people, a presence that once frightened the surrounding Shu, Chu, and Jin kingdoms. However, in the past two years of war, the losses were too heavy. The number of horses dropped to 30,000, and the number of cavalry soldiers dropped to just two.
Ten thousand people, most of them are trapped in the Guanzhong.
At present, the Hehuai Liang Army only has 10,000 horses and 6,000 generals. It is already difficult to compete head-on with the Mongol cavalry outside the city fortress.
The mobility of infantry is far inferior to that of cavalry, and in close combat, the disadvantage is still too great compared to the cavalry who attack from a high position.
Emperor Zhu Yu of the Liang Dynasty wanted to avoid excessive consumption of his elite troops, so he always tried every means to increase the ratio of strong bows and crossbows in the army, so as to achieve the purpose of limiting the damage and suppressing the enemy's cavalry when they came close.
Tangyi successively set up Bingjia ordnance factories in Donghu, Huaiyang and the newly recovered Shouchun. In the next year, a new warship repair factory will be added in Shouchun. The production capacity of Bingjia war equipment and warships will be greatly improved.
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In addition, military expenditures are currently being reduced, and the number of active generals in the Huaixi Horse Infantry and Naval Forces is currently limited to about 50,000.
However, Han Qian asked the Engineering and Manufacturing Department to complete the reserve of armor and war equipment according to the standard of 100,000 elite soldiers within two years. In addition, some armor and war equipment must be supplied to the Shu Army and the Zheng Family, so that they can be freed up to reinforce the Liang Army.
The production capacity becomes limited.
After much consideration, Han Qian finally decided to transfer 2,000 large crossbows from the existing Tangyi Army reserves to the Hehuai Liang Army.
