Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 1563
The production area of ​​Tonghua cloth is in the Nujiang Valley, but the sales market is not here.

In the past, Tonghua cloth was mainly consumed in Dali, Shanchan and Yongchang.Since Yunnan belonged to Daxia and turned into a king's land, a bigger market has opened up.

Since March, one after another, merchants have returned from the Nujiang area to the north, relying on mules and horses to transport large quantities of Tonghua cloth to Dali.

Zhuge Xing has been sitting in Dali for a long time.

As a member of the Zhuge family in Hanzhong, he is now working for his uncle Zhuge Zhongbao. He travels around Dali and Kunzhou all year round to buy various commodities, and then passes through Jiannan and transports them out of Sichuan by water to enter the vast Central Plains market.

As for the profit, it can only be said to be okay.

Taking Tong Huabu as an example, the main focus is a novelty, aimed at people with spare money.

Zhuge Trading Company even asked literati to write a lot of articles, starting from the origin of Tonghuabu, and entering the Central Plains during the Han Dynasty, and then making up a few short stories, some poignant and touching, or inspirational, and slowly adding these things Gave a halo.

But the market is still not very big, and it is enough to sell [-] horses a year, and it is still relatively narrow and short.

What yellow rattan sticks and red rattan sticks are also operated in the same way, even Bai Juyi is moved out, and the workmanship is more exquisite, the main target is the middle and high-end market, and it looks like they sell more than a thousand sticks a year.

Let's just make do with it, anyway, after all kinds of expenses are eliminated, and you can still make some money, that's enough...

It was a pleasant afternoon, Zhuge Xing woke up after taking a nap, brought a teapot, moved a rattan chair, sat under a big tree, and watched the crowds coming and going on the post road across the river.

It's his favorite thing to do.

The post road on the other side of the river was extremely busy, and there was an endless stream of people of all kinds.There are warriors, officials, merchants, monks, immigrants, and prisoners.

Seeing their busyness, running around, and the various emotions revealed all over their bodies made him feel very refreshed.

What is contrast?This is the contrast.

I sit comfortably under the big tree drinking tea and resting, but you are running around every day. Seeing you like this, I feel that it is not in vain.

A large number of horse-drawn carriages rumbled up from the opposite side, and it was impossible to see the end at a glance.

The drowsy Zhuge Xing raised his eyelids and became interested when he saw the person lying in the car.

Look at the guards beside the carriage, oh, the warrior of General Tu!Which tribe is this conquest coming back?
He widened his eyes and carefully watched every car passing by.

Some cars had the sick and wounded lying on them, some cars were loaded with goods, and still others were loaded with women and children.

Pooh!This gang of killers robbed and played a game again, right?
General Tu arrived last year to replace the Youguo Army who had gone back to rest.The entire army has 5000 people, mainly stationed in Dali, Yaozhou, and Kunzhou. Tengzhou also sent 3000 people to suppress these four prefectures that the imperial court valued the most.

Beginning last autumn, General Tu suddenly sent nearly 8000 people north to Quzhou, and united with [-] members of the Golden Spear Army, which went south to replace the Dragon and Tiger Army, to suppress the chieftains and cave masters who suddenly rebelled.

This dozen is several months.At the end of September, even Li Tangbin went there in person, and I don't know what the fuss was about.

Inspired by it, the barbarians in Tonghai Dudu's Mansion also rebelled.

King Shao Mingyi of Yan personally led 6000 guards in Kunzhou and [-] Golden Spears to suppress them, causing many casualties.

In short, it was a mess, even more intense than the war when the Changhe Zheng family was destroyed.

Why is this happening?

Zhuge Xing was not a member of the court, so he didn't know the reason.But according to his own analysis, it probably has something to do with what the imperial court did in Quzhou and Tonghai.

For some reason, the imperial court suddenly wanted to renovate the Shimen Road in Rongzhou as the second post road leading to Yunnan.Now we are doing preparatory work, that is, setting up a county in Quzhou, clearing the household registration, and dispatching Liuguan.

This immediately stabbed a hornet's nest.

The barbarians in Quzhou had a feud with Wang Shi, and fought for a long time when the Dragon and Tiger Army crossed the border.Later, Zheng Renmin lost too quickly, so he quickly changed his face and surrendered to the court.

But this is only temporary.Everyone can see that the barbarians in Quzhou value their own interests the most. As long as you don't ask them for anything, then of course you will be hello, me, hello, everyone, but now the imperial court asks them for land, and they have to clear up their household registrations and register them as Qimin , how can this work?So rebellion was inevitable.

In this matter, it is really impossible to say who is right and who is wrong.

Perhaps many things in history are like this.Behind the glamor on the surface, there are unknown blood and tears.These blood and tears were still debated at the beginning, but after the time dimension stretched to decades or even hundreds of years, everything disappeared, leaving only fait accomplis, such as——

Who does Yunnan belong to?
"Uncle Seven, we are here." Four or five young men rushed over.

Zhuge Xing withdrew his gaze, looked at the younger generations of the family, and said, "Are you all ready?"

"Ready." The leader Zhuge Shisan said: "All the goods have been counted, and there is no shortage."

Zhuge Xing nodded, and asked again: "Is the house settled?"

Zhuge Shisan was a little moved, and said, "Seventh Uncle, you've settled down too."

Zhuge Shisan is the fourth generation of the Zhuge family. He is 27 years old this year and defected to Hanzhong from Qingzhou.

But he was active by nature. When he was in Hanzhong, relying on his identity as a member of the Zhuge tribe, he was brave and fierce all day long, and his reputation was so bad that he didn't even have a wife.

Later, when the Zhuge clan fell, Thirteen Lang felt that it was not an option to keep going on like this, so he followed Zhuge Xing to Yunnan.Unexpectedly, times turned and she married a lady from an official family in Dali—to be precise, a widow from an official family.

But this widow was good-looking and had little wealth, so even with a son and a daughter and two oil bottles, Zhuge Shisan was still very happy and married him as his wife.Now that his daughter-in-law is pregnant again, Zhuge Xing worried that he would miss his family, so he secretly reminded him.

"After you settle down, let's go." Seeing that his nephew had nothing to say, Zhuge Xing stood up and said, "Uncle Qi is also very pleased to see you are so motivated."

Zheng Renmin can be regarded as a major sinner in the history of the Nanzhao family.I took the sergeant, Ding Zhuang, and the master to Jiannan, and there were 10,000+ people in a mighty force, but basically none of them came back.During the Dali offensive and defensive battle, more than [-] people were lost.

How big is Nanzhao?A one-time reimbursement of more than a dozen or 20 men, the country will not collapse, okay?Moreover, most of these more than [-] people came from elite areas such as Dali and Shanchan.

As a last resort, a large number of young adults such as the second and third sons were recruited from the Central Plains to immigrate to Yunnan to fill the vacancies in the labor force.Zhuge Shisan and others settled in Dali under this background.

"Is there anything I need to take along?" Zhuge Shisan asked respectfully.

"No more, let's do things well." Zhuge Xing said: "The Zhuge family's business is so big that it all depends on the sage to take care of it. Now the family is fully supporting the Western Expedition, transshipping materials at any cost, and there are many places to spend money. Do your best. My own business is enough. Every time I earn a copper coin for the family, I am contributing to the Western Expedition. After this period, everything will clear up after the rain. The saint is nostalgic for the old days. It's behind."

"Yes." Zhuge Shisan bowed in response.

At the end, he said with emotion: "I, a ranger who hates dogs, can marry an official lady one day. I never dared to think about it before. If there is no saint, how can such a good thing happen?"

"It's good that you can understand this." Zhuge Xing smiled and said, "Go and come back quickly, and try to come back before the Double Ninth Festival. Let's climb high and drink together."

"Okay!" Zhuge Shisan was full of ambition, and led the people away.

Zhuge Xing smiled.He also took a Wuman and a Baiman woman as his concubine, both of whom were widows, their small figure and appearance made people feel itchy.

In fact, there are many people like him.

In Yunnan, a large number of officials, businessmen, craftsmen, and warriors from the Central Plains poured in. Those who lived in Dali, Kunzhou, and Yaozhou did not benefit?Houses, fields, women, cattle and sheep are all ready-made.

I heard that many soldiers of the Dragon and Tiger Army who returned to Liaodong to serve as government soldiers brought their newly married Wuman and Baiman wives on the road.

Many bachelors who came to Yunnan to station in the Golden Spear Army this time also married brides. Now that they are allowed to stay as state soldiers, the resistance is not so great-Yunnan has not yet ended the military control period, and the state soldier system is serious. It's been built since last year.

Zhuge Xing reckoned that the five prefectures and one prefecture needed at least [-] prefectural soldiers, and the neighboring Yi prefecture also needed them. At most one-third of the Golden Spear Army's unmarried people were still a big gap.

In the second half of this year, Guangjie and other troops are expected to come for rotation. Let's see if there are enough people.

In short, this is not a bad thing, even a good thing.Not only can the court's rule in Yunnan be stabilized, but the warriors themselves can also get women and property for free, which can be described as a win-win situation.

Of course, there are also disadvantages, that is, to bear the strange and even hateful eyes of the Nanman.

People are not fools.You are here to steal money, food and girls, don't think we can't see it!
But so what?
Hatred can be dispelled and diluted.The final right of interpretation rests with the Great Xia court. With the continuous deepening of enlightenment, when this generation dies slowly, after decades or hundreds of years, who will remember these things?
Even if I remembered, I am afraid that there is not much resentment.At most, after drinking too much at the wine table, blushing and talking thickly about how it was back then, but who would really care?Just laugh it off.

Life has to pass, people have to look forward.When everyone blends together, works together, goes to school together, does business together, and goes to battle to kill the enemy together, the blood and tears of the previous generation will eventually be buried and forgotten, and the common memory of the new generation will gradually become the mainstream.

The history of Huaxia has come step by step like this. Do you really think that people in the past were so tender and affectionate?
"Good mountain, good water, good place." Zhuge Xing stretched his waist, grabbed the teapot and went back.

After seeing the two concubines approaching, he smiled brightly and had to build a living shrine for the saint.

It is best for a saint to stay healthy forever. Every day he is an old man, he will benefit everyone.

(End of this chapter)