Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 1295
Pei Guanyi waited in Jinyang for many days, but there was no news of Li Keyong summoning him.

On the 27th, Wang Ke, Wang Yu and his wife came to visit together again.

Wang Ke's wife, Mrs. Li, chattered and kept asking about the saint's situation, eager to go to Peiping.

Back then, the sage entertained the couple in the Longchi Palace in Anyi and stayed with them for a period of time.Li Shi has a very good impression of the saint, and she is also the only woman who can make the saint run away in fright.

Wang Ke's face turned green when he heard this, but he didn't dare to say anything because he was under the fence.He was even more afraid of being humiliated by Wang Yao after going to Xia Kingdom. He is now the deputy envoy of Beiya Privy Council, with a high position and authority, while Wang Ke is only a junior official in Jinyang, the difference in status between the two is too far.

Pei Guan took the opportunity to ask about Li Keyong's condition.

His two daughters didn't hide anything. They said that although they could eat and sleep, they ate less and slept less than before.The medical officer said that under the intense trance, external evils took the opportunity to invade, and the accumulated internal injuries broke out all at once, which caused serious illness.

That's how Wufu ended up.Just a moment ago, he was still commanding and driving the army to conquer; or he received officials from all walks of life, scolded loudly in anger;

But their collapse is often instantaneous.If you have a hunch in advance, you can take drugs to try your best. If you don't feel it, you suddenly fall ill, and it will seriously deteriorate within a few months. You need to stay in bed and rest, and you are not far from death.

On the last day of August, seeing that there was no news, Pei Guan took a few entourages and went for a stroll on the street.

Pei Guan took a closer look, and found that [-]% was millet, [-]% was wheat, and [-]% was other miscellaneous grains.

The shopkeeper sighed, and said: "A few days ago, there were rumors that an expedition was going to take place. With this expedition, food prices will definitely skyrocket. There are many people who know about the undead apples in the Jinci Temple. They grow at the bottom of the water, and they will not die in winter. The food is very delicious. I thought about it, Pick more apples, and save a lot of money to buy food. But then there is no news, and I don’t know what happened.”

It is certainly a good strategy for the sage to befriend the Li family and treat people from the east of the river with kindness.But if you want the scheming to work, you have to cooperate with reality.The current situation in Hedong has greatly increased the power of scheming.

This strong ethos of advocating martial arts, the behavior of the people to stock up on private horses, and the mobilization ability of the separatist regimes in feudal towns may be the main reason why the Hu people cannot fight in.

Liu Fan was from Shatuo, and his wife An was born in the nine surnames of Zhaowu, and then remarried to Murong Sanlang.And this Murong Sanlang is from Tuyuhun, his hometown is in Shizhou, but he has land.

This time I saw it clearly, it turned out to be a kind of wild vegetable for livestock.In fact, there are also Kansai, the sages call it "four-leaf clover", which grows in water.In warm winter, it can be fished from the river.However, after the large-scale planting of turnips, livestock are not too short of forage in winter, and fewer people go to the river to fish for them.

He grabbed a handful with his own hands and asked, "How much is the millet price?"

Pei Guan nodded calmly. It turns out that the wheat in the east of the river is mostly produced in the valleys to the south.After many years of war, it seems that there is a bit of tension over there, and the grain production has dropped greatly.

Taibi Valley is located in Yuci County, where the jujubes are of high quality and very famous.

"Let's restore the third official horse prison first." The shopkeeper sighed: "However, there are no capable people in the east of the river. They are all a bunch of worthless people. I can't see it. In fact, there are so many mountains and countless places to raise horses, but there is no one. Can do things, hate!"

"There are tens of thousands of war horses in the army. Princes, generals, and foreign relatives are a hundred times as good at herding cattle, camels, sheep, and horses as county officials. They are all named Yinzibie by the title of the town. The generals also prepare private horses."

"There is also wheat, most of which are born between Fen and Qin, which are nearby to supply military supplies, and less exported to the north. Now except for Jinyang, almost no wheat from Fen and Qin is exported to other places, and there is almost not enough food there." The boy said: "Beginning last year, Deputy Envoy Li returned a batch of wheat from Xin and Dai, and everyone praised him."

Pei Guan was a little confused.The chaos of Li Guochang and his son?Can this be said?

There are actually a lot of livestock in Hedong.

During the Dezong Dynasty, Li Xuanyuan once wrote a poem: "In autumn, Bingzhou Road, Huangyu falls to the old pass... The tent is far away from the water, and the cattle and sheep descend from the mountain."

During the Yuanhe period, due to the defeat of Wang Chengzong, there were only [-] infantry and [-] cavalry left in Hedong.

"There were not many before, but now there are many." The storekeeper said nonchalantly: "In a few more years, the common people will be recruited, and the generals and merchants will be recruited. Most of our horse markets will not be able to open."

During the Zhenyuan period, Xitongzi Temple in Jinyang planted grapes, which were known far and wide for their high quality and were listed as tributes.The Changming Gate of the Daming Palace (built by Gao Huan) in Jinyang, the northern capital, leads to the vineyards. This fruit is very common in Hedong, alongside pears.

From such a comparison, we know that Li Ke's use of this person to govern politics is really a mess, and he doesn't know what he is thinking.

During the Zhenguan period, the Eastern Turks perished, and a large number of Turks surrendered and were resettled in the Taiyuan area.From these Turkic people, the imperial court paid to buy back the population of the Central Plains who had been confiscated into the Turks at the end of the Sui Dynasty. "More than [-] men and women" were all resettled near Jinyang.

Among livestock, horses are the most numerous.

During the reign of Emperor Suzong, Wang Sili served as the deputy envoy of Hedong Jiedu, and Taiyuan accumulated millions of millet.

The Uighurs, Turks, and Khitans may not be that weak.It's just that the "Hu Feng" in the Central Plains was too prosperous and suppressed others.

"Why Undead Apple?" Pei Guan asked again.

Pei Guan looked at the horse market for a long time, and when he came to a store, he asked, "Why don't you see a tall and healthy horse?"

The shopkeeper didn't speak, the servant boy looked at the sergeant who was following Pei Guan, and said, "Dou millet is sixty dollars."

Hearing what the shopkeeper said, those Jin soldiers who were eating pears finally reacted, but instead of blaming the shopkeeper, they sighed together.

The imperial court also set up Loufan, Tianchi and Xuanchi prisons in Hedong to raise official horses.

The common people living in this land, Han, Shatuo, Sogdian, Tuyuhun, Uighur, Tatar, etc., were all exhausted and destitute by the war.

"Why don't you grow wheat?" Pei Guanqi asked.

"Another ten catties of grapes." Pei Guan waved his hand and said.

But from another point of view, the three parts of Shatuo did not eat hard-core crops, but were self-sufficient, which may not be a bad thing.Another point may also be related to the strong martial arts in the north at this time.The Shatuo people, the Sogdians, the Tuyuhun people, the Uyghurs, etc., don't have the heart to give special treatment, and they are afraid of being beaten back to Daibei again.

It's just that he didn't expect that the people in Jinyang were still fishing for this kind of thing, and it was for people to eat, so there was no way to say it.

"Where did the horses go?" Pei Guan asked.

The shopkeeper hesitated.

According to his knowledge, millet and wheat are grown in Kansai and Henan together.Generally speaking, the sown area of ​​wheat is slowly increasing every year, while that of millet is decreasing day by day.Millet is still the mainstream in Hedong, just like 30 years ago, it seems that it has not developed at all.

He remembered that in the fourth year of Zhenguan (630), there was a good harvest in Bingzhou, and three coins for fighting millet.But that is an abnormal price, and it may also be related to the money shortage, because the imperial court was also short of copper coins at that time.In the market, the price of copper is extremely expensive, while everything is cheap, and the price of a piece of silk is only one-tenth of the current price.

"Is there a solution?" Pei Guan continued to ask.

When Deng Jingshan was the Yin of Taiyuan, "the only guests to be treated are porpoise and fish, and those who take the granary millet and red rot will eat it and give it to his subordinates."

"Immortal apples are picked at Jinci Temple." The storekeeper said.

Wang Han, a native of Taiyuan, said, "His mother, the Jin family, is a native of the Hu family. She is good at bowing horses, and is known for her boldness. She often gallops on a strong horse, with her arms bowed and her waist arrowed, and goes into the deep mountains to take bears, deer, foxes and rabbits. She kills a lot. "

The shopkeepers selling jujubes also had a happy face. It was not easy to do business, and it was not easy to meet a customer.

"The shogunate often recruits private horses?" Pei Guan asked in a low voice.

In addition, Hedong has always been an important area for grain production.

Hedong is originally a treasure land, with salt, iron, grain, horses, and a large number of rough martial arts. The young men who have been trained by the Tutuan villagers for many years, and the generals who are familiar with the war, why are they mixed up to this point? ?
Li Keyong's poor governance is only part of the reason, and the deeper factor is that the wars are too frequent, which slowly depletes the originally extremely wealthy family.

But those Jin soldiers were eating pears and didn't care.Well, maybe they heard it, but what the store said is true, is it necessary to gag them?King Jin himself may have laughed it off when he heard it.

Jinyang is the capital, it is Beijing in the former Tang Dynasty, and it is a metropolis. Seeing that there is a shortage of supplies, one can imagine what other places are like.

That's the way it is, normal.

Pei Guan sorted out his thoughts.

"Does it need to be said?" The storekeeper smiled and said: "When fighting with the Xia people, how many horses will be killed once in the battle? When the battle is urgent, how many horses have to be killed and wasted in order to quickly reinforce? More horses are not enough.”

During the Kaiyuan period, Emperor Xuanzong visited the northern capital and saw "Lianli Gantang" on Jinyang South Street.Jinyang streets and alleys, from Fenyangfang to Shangdangfang, from Jinyang Palace to Shuimen, the street trees on both sides of the street, five or six out of ten are Gantang pear trees.

But that's not how it works.Are you willing to endure hardship, as a soldier?Later Deng Jingshan was beaten to death.

The largest of these should be the Grain Shop.

Tongzisi grapes, Nanjie Gantang, Taibigu jujube and other local unique fruits are dazzling——

The Jinjun Xiaoxiao who accompanied him out shopping didn't have the slightest intention to stop him, which made Pei Guan a little surprised. Can this be said?
After leaving the grain store, Pei Guan was not in a hurry to go back, and got into the fruit and vegetable store again.

After sighing, Pei Guan continued to wander, to the market where livestock and poultry were sold.

The most outrageous thing is that the three parts of Shatuo and the nine surnames of Zhaowu, who are the basic disks of Li Ke, are not doing well.

"What do children eat?" Pei Guan's eyes were sharp, and he saw the children in the store picking up lunch, and the bowl seemed to be half wild vegetables and half porridge.

After Li Keyong took power in Hedong, the local economy went from bad to worse.In the middle, the team left by Zheng Congxuan helped take care of it, but it only slowed down the speed of decline, and there was not much change in essence.

At the end of the Tang Dynasty, only one of the three official and animal husbandry prisons remained, and the official horses were ruined, but private horse breeding was on the rise.

It's actually not too outrageous.During the war, food was in short supply, and Jinyang was a big city that relied solely on imports from other places, so it was normal to have this price.

One more thing, Deng Jingshan did not deliberately humiliate the soldiers.Because there are too many grains stored in Taiyuan, some stale grains are wasted if not eaten. He also eats "cang millet red rotten" and does not give special treatment.

The location of He's house is Fenyangfang, where the generals of the military academy live together, and the market is relatively prosperous.

People in Hedong also like to hunt on horseback.

Pei Guan bought some casually and handed them to his followers and soldiers to share, and everyone immediately thanked him.

"They're all in the army." Xu Shi didn't have any business, so the shopkeeper replied angrily, and then saw the martial arts man behind Pei Guan, and immediately changed his attitude, saying: "The guests don't know. Since the chaos between Li Guochang and his son, Lou Fan The prison was corrupted, and the official horses in Hedong were gone. Later, when the King of Jin was rebuilt, it didn’t work well, so he had to recruit private horses. The private horses of generals and schools dare not be recruited, but can’t ordinary people’s be recruited?”

"The child is growing up, can eating apples fill him up?" Pei Guan asked.

The entourage immediately picks the fruit and pays, all in one go.

The shopkeeper yelled, and his wife showed Pei Guan a handful.

This is another breaking news!
Pei Guan glanced out of the corner of his eye, the Jin soldiers who accompanied him were only eating the fruit, and didn't care what the store said at all.

This is the majestic avenue of the sage, the supreme art of war, and the way of combining righteousness and strangeness to disintegrate the morale of the soldiers and people in Hedong.

When he became sworn brothers with Li Keyong, the sage probably didn't expect so much.But he is very good at eating more than one fish, and will continue to tap the potential of everything. It is not wrong for Li Keyong to fall into his hands.

"Seeing Weizhi's work, I know the affairs of Bingzhou." Pei Guan sighed with emotion, left Fangshi, and returned to He's house.

When I entered, I got a servant to report: Jin Wang held a banquet on the day of the Double Ninth Festival, and Pei Shaoqing was invited to the meeting.

(End of this chapter)