In the end, Guo Song could not wait for the special military salary from the court, so he had to solve everything by himself. First, there was three months' salary arrears from the Liangzhou Army. Guo Song used the money confiscated from the Luo family to pay the military expenditure of 110,000 guan.
, and spent another 45,000 taels of silver to appease more than 4,000 captured Tang soldiers. The imperial court no longer had their military status, so Guo Song incorporated them into the Farming Department and the Animal Husbandry Department, responsible for farming, planting grapes, and raising livestock.
Cattle and sheep.
The second batch of more than 6,000 young and strong Han men were released by the Shatuo people. At the same time, Shatuo also delivered 300,000 sheep to Tingzhou City. Guo Song released Shatuo prisoners of war and Zhu Xie Shenglu,
The two sides officially completed the prisoner exchange.
That morning, Guo Song and more than 20 officials arrived in the southern part of Ganzhou. This is a farming area. There were originally hundreds of villages, large and small. Many villages were gradually abandoned due to the migration of people. Now there are more than 10,000 people.
Will be resettled in these villages, and each family will have land.
Guo Song had carried out a large number of people resettlement in Fengzhou and had rich experience. He planned to leave this matter to Cao Wannian with full responsibility.
From Zhangye to the south, there are endless grasslands. All the way to the south of Ganzhou, close to the south bank of the Weushui River in Liangzhou, you can see large tracts of farmland and vineyards. This is the farming area of Ganzhou, and the three major farming areas in the Hexi Corridor.
One is in Liangzhou, one is in Shazhou, and the other is right here.
"Your Majesty, that's the Gaochang Vineyard!" Pan Liao pointed to the large grape plantation in the distance.
The soil, sunshine and water here are very suitable for growing grapes. After more than ten years of improvement and adaptation, Gaochang grapes have become high-quality grapes for winemaking. Coupled with the snow water of the Qilian Mountains, the quality of Zhangye wine is very good.
Chang'an occupies most of the wine market, Meishou wine only occupies the high-end market, and they have no wine source in the mid-range market, which is the largest market. Zhang Leicai is very worried.
Guo Song nodded and said: "I plan to expand the vineyard to 100,000 acres and turn some of the refugees into fruit farmers. The court refuses to replenish our military salary. I have carefully considered whether to make up for the gap in military expenditure, we should take advantage of Ganzhou's advantages.
We can make wine and sell it not only to Chang'an, but also to Luoyang, Chengdu and other prefectures and counties, so the demand should be huge."
Next to him, Cao Wannian said with a smile: "Your wish that was not realized in Fengzhou has been realized in Ganzhou."
Guo Song smiled bitterly and said: "I have no choice but to do it. I am forced to do so. The Jiedushi Commander of the Tang Dynasty sounds glamorous, but it is actually very difficult to be one. Now I understand why Shuofang's army only had 7,000 people back then, but Duan Shijun was calm at all."
There’s no rush, there’s no pressure on military spending!”
Cao Wannian nodded and said: "Now Fengzhou just can't bear the pressure of military expenses of the self-recruited army, so it has disbanded the self-recruited army and returned to the fields."
"Let's speed up and go see the village ahead!" A village appeared ahead.
Everyone speeded up their riding and rushed towards a small village ahead.
.........
Time flies, and in a blink of an eye it is January of the following year, the second year of the founding of the Tang Dynasty.
Guo Song has been quite uneasy these two days. His wife Xue Tao has shown signs of preterm labor, and his child will be born in these two days.
Being a father again in another world, Guo Song didn't know whether to be excited or sad.
But at this time, he was extremely nervous. He was pacing back and forth outside the delivery room with his hands behind his hands. Three experienced midwives were delivering the baby to his wife in the room.
Guo Song was not only worried about his children, but also about adults. Last year, he discovered that his wife's fetal position was not correct. It took him three months to slowly correct it. He didn't know what would happen to the fetus.
Guo Song heard his wife's cries of pain from time to time, and heard the midwife constantly comforting her. Half an hour had passed, why hadn't the baby been born yet?
His heart twisted into a ball, and he wanted to rush into the room.
At this moment, a cry of "Wow!" came from the house, like a spring thunder, and the whole earth became alive in an instant.
"It's happening! It's happening!"
A midwife rushed out and shouted: "Where is the hot water? Bring it in quickly."
Xiaoyu Niang and four female guards waiting outside the door quickly carried two large buckets of hot water in. The midwife was about to go back when she was caught by Guo Song, "You haven't told me yet, is my wife safe? It's Xiao Lang,
Or a little lady?"
"Don't worry, sir. My wife is fine. She's just a little girl."
The midwife dodges her eyes, not daring to meet Guo Song's eyes, for fear that he will be disappointed.
Guo Song stopped in his tracks, his nose felt sore for a while, and his eyes couldn't help but feel a little moist. In the end, God did not torture him, and finally gave him another daughter.
...........
The mother could not see the wind. There was only a small door separating the confinement room from the delivery room. The midwives were cleaning up the delivery room, and Xue Tao had been sent to the next room to rest and recuperate.
Guo Song walked into the room and saw his wife lying on the bed, covered with a thick quilt and a big pillow on her back. Aqiu was feeding her freshly cooked frog white rice porridge. Her face was very pale, without a trace of blood.
, her hair was messy, the sweat stains on her forehead were still there, and there was a small swaddle beside her.
"Husband, you are such a little lady."
Xue Tao didn't know why her husband had been reluctant to name the child Xiaolang. Now she realized that this was her husband's obsession. He wanted to have a daughter.
Guo Song gently held his wife's hand, sat down next to her, and smiled softly: "What makes me most happy is that you and your daughter are safe. Nothing else matters."
"My daughter's face is like yours, her nose is like yours, and her eyebrows are like yours, so I would say she looks exactly like you." Xue Tao looked at his daughter with infinite affection.
"She will definitely be a little beauty again when she grows up."
Guo Song wanted to hold the child, but Xue Tao quickly said: "Be careful, her neck is very soft."
"I will hold you, don't worry!"
Guo Song gently picked up the child and held her head with his arms. There were wrinkles on the child's pink face, her eyes were closed, and her head was covered with soft lanugo hair, which was still a little wet.
"It's so similar!"
The child in front of him was exactly the same as his daughter in his previous life. Tears finally burst out of Guo Song's eyes. Could it be that his daughter also came to the Tang Dynasty?
Xue Tao looked at her husband quietly. She could feel her husband's strong emotion of crying with joy. She didn't understand the source of this emotion, and she didn't want to understand. As long as her husband truly loved her daughter, it was enough.
The child's nose moved twice, and suddenly he started crying softly. Guo Song immediately understood that the little guy was hungry.
He quickly and carefully handed the swaddling clothes to his wife. Xue Tao hugged the child and pulled up his coat. The child took the breast milk in his mouth and suddenly became quiet, sucking it sweetly with his little mouth.
Xue Tao looked happily at her daughter's little face. She raised her head and said to her husband: "Husband, you go and do your work first! There are many people here."
Guo Song nodded, "You have a good rest and I will come see you later."
He slowly exited the room and came to the atrium. Butler Wang stepped forward to welcome him, clasping his fists and smiling: "Congratulations on your daughter's happiness!"
"Thank you very much!"
Guo Song smiled again and asked, "Are everything ready?"
"Everything is ready. Let's send someone to distribute it."
Guo Song prepared three thousand gifts, including two red eggs, a cake, and a hundred copper coins, which were distributed to the neighbors.
In addition, he will reward each of his servants and soldiers five taels of silver, and each officer of the Hexi Army will be rewarded five hundred coins, so that everyone can share his joy.
Butler Wang remembered something again and said quickly: "Mr. Zhang, your adviser, came here just now. I told him about the situation in the mansion, and he went back to the government office. It seems like something happened."
"I see!"
Guo Song gave a few more instructions to the housekeeper before going out to the government office opposite.
At this time, Hexi is completely a snowy world. Several heavy snowfalls have completely covered Hexi, and traffic has been cut off. Everyone usually hides in their homes to warm themselves by the fire and spend the winter lazily.
Today is the eighth day of the first lunar month, just a few days after the New Year. There are still door charms on the door, poles on the walls of the yard, and children are wearing new clothes, having snowball fights, running and playing on the street.
Guo Song walked into the official gate and met Shi Cui Wenjing, the governor of Hexi Festival. Cui Wenjing is the nephew of Prime Minister Cui Youfu. He is about forty years old. He was originally the Shaoqing of Dali Temple. He came to Hexi to take office in October last year and took up the post of Hexi Festival.
Du Shi was the chief historian, and he also served as the chief historian of the Suzhou Governor's Office.
Cui Wenjing is a pretty good person. He was born in the Cui family of Qinghe. He is upright and quite capable. However, he has a stubborn personality and it is difficult to convince him of some things.
"I heard that Guo Shijun is blessed with a thousand pieces of gold. Congratulations! Congratulations!"
"Thank you very much!"
Guo Song smiled and cupped his hands, "I finally became a father. It feels good."
"Keep up the good work and strive to have a son next."
"Let me work hard! Where is Cui Changshi going?"
Cui Wenjing smiled and said: "I'll go to the state school to take a look to prevent students from being lazy and not studying."
Zhouxue was founded in August last year. The school is Luo Yu's residence. Currently, there are more than 300 students from Gansu, Liang, and Suzhou. There are seven or eight professors. Meng Jiao and others all teach in Zhouxue. Huai
Su has not returned to the capital for the time being, and is teaching calligraphy to students in Zhouxue. Cui Wenjing is currently serving as the principal of Zhouxue. He is very enthusiastic about running schools.
Cui Wenjing got on the carriage and left. Guo Song came to the official room. Zhang Qianyi stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, there is the latest news from Dunhuang!"