Liyangcang in Hebei Province is a military warehouse under the management of the Ministry of War. The grain from the army's farms in various places and part of the grain from Longyou and Fengzhou are directly allocated to the army and transported to Liyangcang for storage.
The relief of plague refugees and Luoyang refugees was mainly undertaken by Guanzhong Guangtong Warehouse, and the food supplies of Liyang Warehouse were basically untouched.
At present, Liyangcang has 1.5 million stones of grain in stock and a large amount of armor, crossbows, kerosene and other supplies.
At this time, the Yellow River was still more than half a month away from completely freezing, and time was tight. More than four hundred large ships with a capacity of 3,000 stone gathered in Liyangcang. They would transport 500,000 stone of grain, 100,000 sets of armor, and a large number of other military equipment.
Materials.
The official name of Li Yangcang was Zhang Xiu, the eldest son of Prime Minister Zhang Qianyi. According to the court regulations, high-ranking officials of third rank or above had one child's Yin official quota, but Li Mi and Yan Zhenqing were a little special, each received two Yin official quotas.
Zhang Xiu joined the company eight years ago. He first served as secretary-general of Shaofu Temple for two years, and then served as Cangcheng of Zuozangku for five years. Last year, he was promoted to the rank of seventh-grade official and became the supervisor of Liyangcang.
He is down-to-earth and conscientious, and has never made any mistakes. He is deeply appreciated by Zhang Qiu'an, the Minister of War.
Zhang Xiu was under great pressure in the past two days. He knew that the Yellow River would start to freeze in at most twenty days, but it would take ten days to load three hundred large ships with grain, and there would be no time to transport it to Dengzhou, which made him extremely anxious.
Zhang Xiu took several of his men on horseback to check the situation. Zhang Xiu soon discovered a problem. There were enough people to carry food, but they could only carry food to two large ships at the same time. Only two to three hundred people were enough. The other seven
Hundreds of civilians were idle aside.
"Why don't more ships come over?" Zhang Xiu asked one of the shipowners, Da Dao.
The boat boss laughed and said, "Just go to Caohe and have a look and you will know!"
Zhang Xiu turned his horse and ran out of the city. After running for a mile along the Cao River, Zhang Xiu understood that the fundamental reason was that the Cao River in Liyangcang was not wide enough to accommodate two large ships of three thousand stone in parallel. He had to wait for two ships.
After the big ship was loaded with grain, it sailed out of Caohe River before two more big ships could enter.
After discovering the problem, Zhang Xiu immediately thought of a solution. He immediately ordered, "Gather all the ships to transport grain!"
Thousands of small boats moved together, and Zhang Xiu recruited tens of thousands of civilians nearby. The small boats shuttled around the Cao River day and night, laden with food like a colony of ants. Dozens of civilians were assigned to each of the four hundred large ships. Once there were
When the small boat full of grain approached the big ship, the boatmen got off the boat and carried the bags of grain onto the big ship. They first used a wooden plank to ride the small boat ashore, and then walked onto another plank from the shore to board the big ship.
This method was changed from a key breakthrough to a widespread one, and the efficiency increased tenfold. Three days later, 500,000 shi of grain and a large amount of materials were transported on the big ship. The big ship set sail and sailed down the river towards the mouth of the Yellow River.
The weather was getting colder day by day, and the Yellow River finally began to freeze. That morning, Guo Song also received news from Dengzhou via eagle letter. Three hundred large ships loaded with 500,000 shi of grain and countless military supplies had arrived successfully.
Dengzhou Port, this made him breathe a long sigh of relief.
The political hall had unanimously passed a resolution five days ago, agreeing to King Jin's plan to attack Silla as punishment for the regent of Silla for plotting to assassinate King Jin.
Three days ago, "Tianxia Xinbo" and "Kyoto Express" published a major news on the front page at the same time. The regent of Silla sent an assassin to break into the Jin palace at night and assassinate His Highness Jin Wang. Unfortunately, Jin Wang's coachman died, and Jin Wang escaped by chance.
assassination.
This news caused a huge uproar in Chang'an. Both the government and the public denounced Silla Kingdom's ungratefulness, despicability and shamelessness. Countless imperial students flocked to Silla Academy to vent their inner anger against Silla students.
However, nearly a hundred international students from Silla had been transferred in advance and placed under house arrest. The reason for house arrest was that they were worried about leaking information. Not only them, but also the special envoy Park Eun-taek who had just arrived in Dengzhou was placed under house arrest by the Dengzhou government.
After the aftermath of the assassination, at the strong request of the officials of the imperial court, the Zhengshitang made a new decision to re-establish the three guards, personal guards, Xun guards, and Yi guards, and recruit 2,000 people from the officials and officials of Chang'an to form the Xun Guards.
Guard, continue to maintain the existing personal guard, and select two thousand elites from the inner guard to form the Yi Guard.
These three guards are responsible for protecting the personal safety of King Jin and his family.
Guo Song also officially decided to move to the Daming Palace in the beginning of spring. The Daming Palace established an internal chamberlain bureau for this purpose. Zhang Anping, an old eunuch from the Jin Palace, served as the chief chamberlain, managing 300 eunuchs and 500 maids.
"Tianxia Xinbao" and "Kingto Express" continued to guide public opinion and elaborated on the legitimacy and inevitability of King Jin's ascension from all aspects. Of course, they were not just preaching, but described the corruption of the Tang court from all aspects and the extravagance of the descendants of the Li Tang clan.
Life describes the incompetence of Emperor Li and Tang, which led to the mutiny in Jingyuan and the dictatorship of eunuchs. It also describes the simple life of the King of Jin, and even lists a diet list, which is no different from that of ordinary wealthy families.
"Kyoto Express" even tells the story of Prince Jin's experience of being a husband to the lower class people in Anjufang, and also tells the story of Princess Jin's concern for orphans and elderly people. Various sharp contrasts, detailed data, and true descriptions subtly make readers recognize
The legitimacy of the Jin Dynasty replacing the Tang Dynasty.
Having mastered the power of public opinion also occupied the propaganda position. Just this morning, the vote organized by the Ministry of Personnel and the court officials on the King of Jin to ascend to the throne as the emperor officially kicked off.
Guo Song took a journal from the table. This journal was called "Kyoto Life", and there was another journal called "Kyoto World". It was a thread-bound version, and the size was like a later book. In fact, it was just a thin book.
book.
Guo Song flipped through two pages and saw "Jubao Pavilion Talking about Jade No. 4". The author is the owner of Pinyuxuan, which is the pen name of his wife Xue Tao.
'A gentleman is like jade. The warmth of jade is just like the gentleness of a gentleman. It is polite and courteous, and it is done calmly and unhurriedly. The light is restrained and contains oil. It is like a gentleman's talent, which is hidden but not exposed, and the beauty is hidden in his belly.'
The content is not much, only two pages, front and back, about 500 words. Guo Song greatly appreciated it. His wife's understanding of Khotan Yu far exceeded his own. Although he brought her in, she was better than her predecessors.
In fact, Guo Song was reading the journal to cover up his inner nervousness. He knew that at this time, the court officials were voting on whether he should ascend the throne. The military voting organized by the Ministry of War the day before yesterday had ended, and the military statistics of Hebei and Jianghuai in the Central Plains were not yet available.
However, hundreds of generals above the brigade commander level in Chang'an almost unanimously supported his ascension to the throne.
Today, more than 500 civil servants of the imperial court voted, which is a bit like a referendum.
Rulers of all dynasties attach great importance to the legality and rationality of changing dynasties. Didn't Cao Cao want to be the emperor? Of course he wanted to, but he couldn't find a legal reason to replace the Han Dynasty's state. In the end, he could only let his son usurp the throne.
But it only lasted for a few decades, and was replaced by the Sima family. In the final analysis, the world's aristocratic families did not recognize Cao Wei's replacement of the Han Dynasty, and the Cao family made a wedding dress for the Sima family in vain.
Now Guo Song has a reasonable excuse, that is, the Tang Dynasty has been extinct, and the Tang Dynasty can no longer continue. But this is only reasonable, and the legality is still lacking. If the Li Tang family is extinct, why should you let Guo Song come?
Ascend to the throne?
Therefore, as long as the world's officials and the military vote to approve it, the legitimacy of his ascension to the throne will be beyond doubt.
In the official room of the Yushitai, Bai Juyi, who had just been promoted to the supervisory censor, opened his vote and carefully checked the "Agree" column.
Bai Juyi had married Shi Hongxiu six months ago. After Shi Hongxiu was adopted as an adopted daughter by Princess Xue Tao, she changed her name to Shi Rou. Guo Ping came to propose marriage. Bai Juyi's long-cherished wish came true and he married his beloved woman.
Shi Rou was very virtuous after getting married, and she and her husband were very loving. Although Bai Juyi's mother was not very satisfied with the marriage, she gradually recognized Shi Rou because of her daughter-in-law's filial piety to her.
Marrying the adopted daughter of Princess Jin was not without its benefits. Three months later, Bai Juyi was promoted from the upper-eighth rank of Cheng Feng Lang to the upper-eighth rank of Serving Minister. Although his official position was not high, it was very powerful.
The supervisory censor was mainly responsible for supervising the imperial examinations.
More than a dozen colleagues also sat in their seats and filled out their votes.
"Letian, what did you choose?" Wang Zun, another supervisory censor, asked in a low voice.
"Of course I choose yes. Without His Highness King Jin, we might still be Zhu Si's ministers! What do you choose?"
"Same as you, in fact everyone voted for it and expected King Jin to ascend the throne and give us more salary!" Wang Zun chuckled.
"Will the salary be increased?"
Bai Juyi also became concerned. He had resigned from the newspaper office, and his monthly salary plus various subsidies was only eight guan. There were three maids at home, and he had to pay nearly five guan every month, although his wife's dowry could subsidize three guan every month.
Money, but his family is still not well-off. He now hopes that he will go to the local government to supervise the imperial examination as soon as possible. In that case, he will still have a supervision subsidy of two hundred yuan a day.
So when he heard that his salary would be increased, his ears immediately pricked up.
"Maybe! I heard what Li Zhongcheng said, saying that everyone supports King Jin's ascension to the throne, and King Jin will definitely not treat everyone badly. Not treating people badly means increasing their salary."
Bai Juyi felt excited at the thought of increasing his salary. He solemnly signed his official position and name under the ballot, then folded the ballot and put it in an envelope.
The Ministry of Civil Affairs stipulates that you can vote with your real name or secretly. You can choose according to your choice. Bai Juyi voted openly and of course he had to sign his real name.