Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 1363 Mansion Soldiers and Black Land
Shenzhou Lisuo Shenyang County was newly established from scratch, and it is near Shenyang in later generations.

For this reason, even Xiaoliao River (Hunhe River) has restored its ancient name: Shenshui.

There are seven counties in Shenzhou.In addition to Shenyang, there are:

Gaimu County, Gaimu Prefecture in the former Tang Dynasty, is now Tashan Mountain City, Chenxiangtun Town, Sujiatun District, Shenyang.

Baiwang County, formerly Baiwang City of Khitan, is now Sandaogangzi Town of Xinmin City.

Fushun County, Xincheng Prefecture in the former Tang Dynasty, is now Fushun Gaoershan City.

Liaoyang County, Liaoyang County in the former Tang Dynasty, now Liaoyang.

Xingliao County, now Anshan.

Wangping County, Han Wangping County, now Ximu Town, Haicheng City.

In these seven counties, except for Baiwang County, which has a large population, and Liaoyang and Fushun Counties, which have a small population, the other four counties are basically empty.

No one, it sounds troublesome, but everything must be viewed dialectically.There are advantages and disadvantages. We all know the disadvantages. The advantage is that there is a lot of virgin land to divide.

Before Anton Mansion, there were about 7000 soldiers queuing up to divide the land equally, but now all of them have been transferred to Shenzhou.But they are not all the government soldiers in Shenzhou, and more than [-] people will be dispersed to various parts of Shenzhou.

The north wind was blowing, and the chill was overwhelming.

Outside the city of Shenzhou, where the foundation had just been laid, Shi Junli, Li Congke, and Li Congzhang sat and drank together.

Wansheng Huangtoujun returned south with the saint, and now he has to make a choice.

"Can it be reversed?" Li Congke laughed angrily, "I just don't want to be reconciled."

"So what if you are not willing?" Li Congzhang glanced at him, and said with a sneer, "Uncle sent someone to bring a message, don't make trouble, and enjoy the wealth."

"Your Excellency, he still doesn't understand it yet..." Li Congke held the butcher knife and cut the venison resentfully, said angrily.

"Don't be angry." Li Congzhang still respected his uncle Li Siyuan, and knocked on the table to remind him.

"Forget it, why am I so angry!" Li Congke picked up a piece of meat, threw it into his mouth and chewed, and said vaguely: "No matter what, I have made great achievements this time, and I don't worry about being rich. What I worry about is There are more than 7000 soldiers in the Wansheng Yellow-headed Army."

Yes, the people the imperial court intends to stay as soldiers are the remaining soldiers of the Wansheng Yellow-headed Army.

After the Fuyu Mansion was overthrown, people from the Political Affairs Hall and the Privy Council had checked the army and asked how many people were willing to stay as soldiers.

Because the Wansheng Yellow-headed Army played well this time, the court was still polite.Those who are willing to stay in Shenzhou as soldiers, follow the story of Andong Mansion, the transition period is five years, and within five years they are still counted as recruits and continue to receive rewards.Five years later, they were basically assigned to the land, and they stayed in the counties with peace of mind, took root in Shenzhou, and became the main military presence of the imperial court in Liaodong Road.

In the early Tang Dynasty, almost half of the Zhechong Mansion where the soldiers were located was located in Kansai, accounting for 49%.Hedong, where Li Tang started, accounted for 25%, Henan accounted for 11%, Hebei accounted for less than 8%, Sanchuan, which can be regarded as the hinterland of Li Tang, accounted for 4%, Huainan, Jiangnan, and Lingnan each accounted for about 1%.

From the distribution of the soldiers in the government, it can be seen that in Tang Ting's eyes, how far and near are close.

However, the policy of "raising the soldiers in Guanzhong to face the Quartet" was also reasonable, because there was almost no standing army in the country at that time, and the government soldiers were the main military force.Can you sleep without placing the main military force near the capital?
Great Xia has entered the era of recruiting soldiers.The Forbidden Army is the main military force, mostly distributed around Luoyang, the eastern capital.

With the backing of the most powerful field army in the world, Xia Ting has enough confidence to set up government soldiers and town soldiers on the frontier, and does not need to guard against other places like Li Tang did. Li Shimin fought Goguryeo back then, and won consecutive battles and victories, but after the victory, It is impossible for the government soldiers to stay in the local area for a long time, so they had to relocate the Goguryeo people, evacuate Liaodong, set up Jimi Prefecture in the local area, slowly recruited Long March athletes, and tried to reconstruct the local armed forces. military system.

Fu soldiers have "roots". After the battle, they will eventually return to their hometown, farm, and Buqu.

Of course, if Tang Ting is determined to emigrate on a large scale in Liaodong and set up more government soldiers, it will be another matter.But it is obvious that this violates the fundamental policy of "raise the soldiers in Guanzhong to face the Quartet", and it cannot be implemented after all.

Later, the military system of the government collapsed, and Tang Ting entered the era of recruiting soldiers. Most of the country's military forces were in the border Jiedushi jurisdiction, which led to turmoil, which also confirmed from the side that Tang Ting's initial worries were not without purpose.

Evacuating Liaodong and relocating Goguryeo people inland, so that Khitan, Mohe, and Silla gained room for expansion. It seems strange, but in fact there are profound reasons behind it.

Da Xia doesn't need to be so troublesome.

There are already twelve Zhechong prefectures in the eight counties of Andong prefecture, commanding 5000 prefectural soldiers.In the seven counties of Shenzhou, twelve Zhechong mansions will be set up in the future, with [-] mansion soldiers.Now [-] people have settled down, and there are [-] left.

"I went down and asked, and most people are still willing." After drinking half a bowl of wine, Shi Junli felt a little annoyed, and only heard him say: "It's okay not to be a soldier, but the Wansheng Yellow-headed Army will be merged into other In the army, continue to fight in the south and north. Wufu, it is common sense to use money to sell our lives. If the court pays us a day, we have to sell our lives for a day. There is nothing to say. But how many people before we go out? A total of [-] After fighting for half a year, nearly [-] people were lost. A while ago, there was a major epidemic, and another [-] people died, and now it is only over [-]. Hey, [-] soldiers, come back next year to fight in the Bohai Sea, or go south to fight in hot places, and fight a few more You are not stupid, you won the five-year military reward for nothing, and you don’t have to fight. In the future, you will have a foundation that will be passed on to future generations. There is nothing dissatisfied."

Li Congke remained silent.

Although Liaodong is poor and white, it is not as good as the Central Plains.But as Shi Junli said, if you eat a bowl of food like a martial artist, you have to work hard.Going to fight in the south of the Yangtze River, one epidemic may kill many people, is it worth it?In three to five years, who would dare to pat their chests and guarantee that they would survive?
Instead of that, it's better to stay and be a soldier.Grab Bohai, Xiren, Khitan, and Goguryeo to come over as part of the trilogy, cultivate 150 acres of land, raise a lot of cattle and sheep, ask for a concubine, and have a lot of children. Isn’t it exciting these days?
To put it bluntly, some soldiers of the imperial army are tempted. If they want to fight, you may not be able to fight.limited spots!
Of course, there is actually another way, and that is to rebel.However, there is a high probability that they will not be able to enter Linyu Pass, and they may end up completely wiped out in the end.

If it were a weaker emperor, they might really do it.But Shao Sheng is too cruel, a pure warrior.

Zhang Wanjin, Shi Shaoyong and others, alas!It seems that none of the Luzhou soldiers survived, and some people said that they didn't all die. They built the palace city in Beiping Prefecture, but how is that different from being dead?

"Will there be government soldiers in Xianzhou?" Li Congzhang stood up, poured a bowl of wine for Shi Junli and Li Congke, and asked.

"I heard it's the Tiancheng Army." Shi Junli said.

Tian Cheng's army didn't fight much along the way.When guarding the granary, they may have exchanged hands with the Khitan people several times, but the losses were slight, and they are still distributed in various villages, with two to 3000 people per unit, covering the grain road.

The sage has just transported a large amount of tussah silk cloth from the Bohai Sea to give out rewards. It is heard that each person will be rewarded with one piece of money, two pieces of cloth, one pig, and two sheep. They will be kept until May next year.

This is the news that Shi Junli heard, but he didn't say much, only briefly introduced it.

"That's all." Li Congke raised her head and finished her drink, then sighed, "You guys are going to abandon me."

"Haven't you killed enough?" Li Congzhang glanced at him and scolded with a smile: "One day when the sergeant makes a noise and cuts off your head, you will know how powerful it is. Shi Shaoyong may wish that his subordinates will become government soldiers. .”

As soon as these words came out, Shi Junli and Li Congke were all happy.

Shi Shaoyong is unlucky!Zhang Wanjin really rebelled, Shi Shaoyong really didn't want to rebel, but the ending was the same.

******
When Shao Shude was hunting in the countryside of Shenyang, Han Congyun, the governor of Xianzhou, had just arrived at Miansheng.

Han Congyun is the son of Han Jian. He has successively served as the Deputy Envoy of Canzhou Tuanlian, Governor of Rouzhou, and Biejia of Weizhou.From the perspective of resume, he is either a military officer or an official of the state and county. This time he serves as the governor of Xianzhou and the commander of the state army, which can be regarded as a leap in his career.

Sikong Bing, governor of Shenzhou, was also at the side.

"There are four counties in Xianzhou, and none of them used to be summer lands. Han Qing has to spend more time." Shao Shude said while skillfully disemboweling the hare.

"I obey the order." Han Congyun replied respectfully.

He already understood that the Fuyu Prefecture of Bohai State originally had Buyeo, Qiangshi, Xin'an, Yugu, Budo, Xianyi, and Quechuan seven counties. , namely: Fuyu County (now Nong'an, Changchun), Qiangshi County (now four towns in the northwest of Changtu County, Tieling City), Yugu County (now west of Xifeng County, Tieling City) and Xianyi County (the former site of Xianyi has not been tested, and it is now in the Changchun area)——Xianzhou was originally ruled by Fuyu, and now it has changed to show its meaning.

Quechuan and Xin'an were merged into Qiangshi County, and Budo was merged into Fuyu County.

At present, there are only less than 3 households and 7 people left in the prefecture. Recently, [-] households from Khitan and Xi were added.

In fact, this population is still far from enough. It is not even old or young to be a part of the government soldiers, so we have to continue to work hard (catch) (people).

"Don't think that Xianzhou is a place of bitter cold." Shao Shude pointed to the land next to him, and said, "One liang of soil and two liang of oil have been rarely cultivated for thousands of years, and the soil is fertile. If you plant wheat and beans, you can harvest [-] liang per mu." , Erhu is not a problem."

Shao Shude paid more attention to Xianzhou.

Historically, it was an important agricultural area of ​​the Liao Kingdom.Because Abaoji saw Huanglong flying in the sky (I don't know if it's true or not...), he changed Fuyu Mansion to Huanglong Mansion.

He is not interested in whether there are dragons, but he knows that this is an important distribution center for Chinese soybeans in later generations.

In the [-]th century, Zhang Zuolin, king of Northeast China, prospered mainly because of soybeans.At that time, the Germans invented the hydrogenation technology of vegetable oil and created a magical thing called "margarine".

The low price of margarine made it affordable for the poor working class in Europe, instantly creating a huge market.As the only production area in the world that grows soybeans on a large scale, the Northeast began to export soybeans to Europe in large quantities.In order to get rid of the exploitation of Dalian Port controlled by the Manchurian Railway Company, Zhang Zuolin even spent huge sums of money to build a new Yingkou Port to export soybeans. This is also one of the important reasons why he was later killed by the Japanese bombing—blocking people’s money.

Soybeans don't have much value at this time, and they are more suitable for feeding horses when they are overstretched.Compared with other miscellaneous grains, there is no significant advantage.

Guanbei grows a lot of beans, which are rotated with wheat, mainly for the purpose of fertilizing the fields.But soybeans are not the only thing in fertile fields, and legume grasses are the same.Shao Shude does not have vegetable oil hydrogenation technology, and the people in the Central Plains do not like to eat butter, which is a pity.

But it doesn't matter whether you grow soybeans or not, you can get a bumper harvest if you grow grain here.Moreover, the vast land is sparsely populated, which is suitable for farming and animal husbandry rotation, so that the nutrients in the black soil will not be consumed excessively.

"This land is really good." Han Congyun also smiled, and said: "If Jiazun sees it, he will definitely say that there is such a good land, why bother to rebel."

Shao Shude laughed.

Virgin land, the gift of nature for thousands of years, can it be bad?
He remembered that when the later Portuguese colonists first arrived in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and described the appearance of the virgin land, they mentioned that when people stood on the land, their feet sank slightly until they reached their ankles.

Those are the undecomposed and fixed plant branches and leaves, which are the nutrients for the growth of crops.

But everything obeys the law of conservation of energy.Crops germinate from a small seed, grow to maturity, bloom and set ears, can they not consume the nutrients in the soil?

Perhaps, Han land was originally virgin land, but it has been reclaimed a lot, and it has become more and more barren.When the barrenness reaches a certain level, it is necessary to fallow to restore soil fertility, or to artificially supplement nutrients.

As far as the black land of Liaodong is concerned, the gift of nature cannot be exhausted in more than a hundred years.As long as there is no extreme climate, even if only one season of grain is planted a year, high yields can be obtained continuously. The Russians grow potatoes on the black soil of the Far East without chemical fertilizers at all. After many years of planting, the yield is still high.

The Khitan people vigorously developed the planting industry in Liaodong. This approach is actually the right one. If they continue to do so, the national strength will definitely be greatly enhanced.

"I'll be leaving after a while. You have to take good care of the four counties of Xianzhou." After speaking, Shao Shude looked at Sikong Bing again, and said, "The seven counties of Shenzhou can't relax anymore."

"The minister obeys the order." The two responded together.

"The Tiancheng Army is stationed in Qishengzhou and Shenzhou, and the Luoyan Army is all locals. They are stationed in Hujiefu and Suzhou. You don't have to trust them completely, but there is no need to suspect that they will rebel." Shao Shude said: "I am here today. In the Northern Expedition at the age of [-], there were successive battles and victories, and no one dared to rebel in a short period of time. When the spring comes, I will come again, and the situation in Liaodong will definitely be more stable. Please worry about it."

"Observe the order." Han Congyun and Sikong Bing knew it well.

The saint's attitude towards Liaodong seems to be very firm.Then there is nothing to say, just work hard.

(End of this chapter)