Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 350 Report
Li Hang arrived in Jinyang in late February.

This is not the first time he has been to Jinyang.I've run it several times over the years, but none have been as tricky as this one.

He lived in the post house in Taiyuan County, which was arranged by the Hedong shogunate, but he didn't say when he would meet the King of Longxi County.

Li Hang didn't want to wait stupidly, so he ran to Jinyang County to see how the people's livelihood was.

The commander-in-chief has a word called "war potential", which may reflect one or two things from the livelihood of the people.

"A head of Jie Yang is five hundred dollars, what a joke!" Several people who looked like merchants sat down and put their bows and knives aside, still complaining non-stop.

Li Hang just sat down and ordered Bi Luo, fish, wine and some fruits and vegetables, the price is indeed a bit expensive.Almost all of them surpassed Lingxia, but the fish was cheaper.

This area can be regarded as one of the square cities in the three cities of Jinyang.Although it is within Jinyang County, it is under the direct management of Taiyuan Prefecture, and it collects a lot of taxes.

Such a rich place in Hedong has come to such a situation after years of wars.

This may be the worst time for Hedong in the past ten years.Perhaps, it will also be the best time for Hedong in the next ten years.

Li Hang remained calm and listened silently.

"Xiazhou's sheep are only 270 yuan. A certain sheep went to Suizhou seven years ago. At that time, a sheep cost [-] yuan. The price has fallen too much over the years."

"If you give a reward to Wu Fu in a year, it will probably be 200 million heads. Wu Fu can't eat it all. If you sell it, won't the price go down?"

"Ying also robbed a lot of cattle, sheep, horses and camels, and the official shepherds couldn't keep them. They either killed them for preserved food or sold them. Alas, I always like to eat mutton. It would be great if I could go to Xiazhou."

"Speaking of looting. Last year tens of thousands of warriors attacked Xingzhou. What did they get back?"

In fact, a lot of troops were mobilized to attack Xingzhou from Hedong.

Li Ke used to sit in Zelu to defend Henan. The total number of Fan soldiers and Han people was [-] to [-].Li Hanzhi and Li Cunxiao attacked Xingzhou, and there were [-] to [-] soldiers from the Han Dynasty.The attack lasted for more than half a year, costing countless, and many people died.

"Grab a fart! Meng Fangli melted the Buddha statues in the temple to distribute money, and ransacked all the cattle, sheep, and grain. Otherwise, under the siege, can he last for six or seven months?"

"It's a loss to make this trip?"

Everyone sighed.

In the past few years, the Hedong Army fought south and north, and apart from quickly occupying the two states of Zelu and Luzhou, it was profitable, and the attack on the three states of Xing, Ming, Ci, and Datong Army was protracted and costly.The three prefectures in Hebei that have just been acquired, although they cannot be said to be a piece of white land, are also dilapidated.

Meng Fangli put almost everything into the war, and now the King of Longxi County got nothing but the three states of Hebei that had been hollowed out.Apart from the hundreds of thousands of people who have nothing, what else is there?Last year, I missed the farming work, and this society is estimated to be cannibalized.

The Zhang family sent their granddaughter to the Li family to eat, the Li family sent their son to the Wang family, and the Zhou family quietly killed a child in the middle of the night, marinated the meat and hid it...

They have seen many of these tragedies in the world, and now they can't feel sorry for them even if they want to.

People in troubled times have hearts as hard as iron.

"If the fight continues like this, I'm afraid it will not be as good as Zhu Quanzhong." Another person said.

"Sooner or later." Everyone agreed.

"Zhu Quanzhong is not as good as King Lingwu."

Li Hang felt secretly refreshed when he heard this.Even the merchants in Hedong know the name of the commander-in-chief.

But not everyone thinks that Shao Shude is better than Li Ke, and one diner couldn't help it, and sneered: "Shuofang town is half Hu and half Han, so Shao Shude is no different from Hu people, a **** girl, Gang Chang is lax, how can he look like a hero?"

Everyone laughed when they heard this.

"Xiong lord...the Doumi cost a hundred dollars under the rule of the lord, but only [-] dollars in Xiazhou, go and tell the people."

"I bought cloth from Hezhong Mansion and brought it back to Taiyuan. I went to Lanzhou to collect the tax, and then collected it when I arrived in Shizhou. I also collected it when I entered Taiyuan Mansion! When I arrived in Fangshi, all kinds of money were plentiful. The hero will exploit it. Anyway, I am not You will lose money, you bought my cloth back and spent more money, whose fault is this?"

"I hate people like you. I sold a batch of jujubes the year before last, but the sergeant snatched them halfway. If I hadn't seen the opportunity, I would have lost my life. The king of Longxi County and the king of Lingwu County are brothers. If the business of Hedong... "

"Did you get dizzy from drinking too much? You didn't lock the door?" A mature and prudent businessman slapped the table and scolded.

Everyone stopped talking.

"Businessmen value profit and disrespect morality! I don't know what courtesy is. Talking to you is just playing the piano to cattle. How can the people of Shuofang rule the famous town in Hedong?" The diners got up angrily and left.

Li Hang glanced at him.Judging by the appearance of his body covered in silk, he should have no worries about food and clothing, and live a prosperous life.

This kind of person can stand and talk without back pain.Small people in Shengdou, if they can buy rice for [-] kuai, they don't want to spend [-] kuai, let alone [-] kuai?

When the king of Lingwu County first arrived in Suizhou, the price of food was [-] yuan. Now it has been almost ten years, and the number of people has increased several times every year. The price of food can still be kept at this price. fell.Such a virtuous person is naturally loved by the people.

It seems that more merchants from Hedong can come to Lingxia to do business in the future.With them here, the reputation of the commander-in-chief will surely spread throughout the seven prefectures.If soldiers enter Hedong in the future, they may be able to reduce a lot of resistance.

After eating leisurely, Li Hang left the restaurant and went to the market again.

"Shopkeeper, your cakes are delicious, so the business should be good, right?"

"Ah. Five years ago, there were seven bakeries, five Biluo restaurants, and four wine shops on this street, but now there are a few fewer. People in the city buy noodles and cook at home, and few go to bakeries to buy cakes. gone."

"Shop, butcher..."

"Bran line..."

Li Hang spent a whole day wandering around the market, inquiring about the prices of various commodities through conversation, and comparing them with the previous ones to see how they fluctuated.

Price fluctuations are often directly related to supply and transportation.Li Hang has been studying with the Secretary for a while, and he knows the truth of it.

After returning to the posthouse, he closed the door and wrote the report directly.

"... Years of wars, people's goods are depleted, and the market is bleak. The people are left behind by soldiers and robbers, and the price of rice is high. Between Xin and Dai, Shatuo copied and plundered his own prefectures and counties, and the people's beggars belonged to the road. Ze and Lufu prefectures , in the town of Li Han, a rat is worth seven thousand... Only Taiyuan and its neighboring counties and counties are relatively safe, but the exhaustion of the inner east of the river can be seen..."

"...Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, Tang horses have been the most prosperous, and there are herdsmen in Hedong. However, when people buy horses, they pay [-] yuan for each horse, or [-] or [-] pieces of silk. If you don't come here, you don't know that the price of horses in Hedong is so expensive. From this point of view, the corruption of the horse government is almost the same as that of Youzhou, and it is far worse than the success of virtue. If the access to the grassland is cut off, there may be great benefits."

"...Cows are the foundation of farming and crops. Officials and private horses and cattle are important for their use. A cow in Hedong is worth [-] yuan, and a cow in Lingxia is worth [-] yuan. The private households in Taiyuan Prefecture are shared by three or two families. Yi Niu, so troubled, there is no cure?"

"...The common people below the middle level, meat is not easy to eat, but the family has etiquette, buying sheep for killing. There is a sheep dealer in Taiyuan Prefecture, who said that the sheep (gǔ) are worth 250 yuan, the lamb is [-] yuan, and the lamb is [-] yuan. In such a situation, Can people in their seventies eat meat?"

"Peach, plum, apricot, nai..."

Li Hang wrote while reminiscing, and after finishing writing, he was severely baptized by the thought of "loving the town".

People are afraid of comparison.Comparing Shuofang Shao Dashuai with Hedong Li Dashuai, they are so virtuous.

But to be honest, Hedong is actually so-so now.After all, Li Keyong has only been in power for seven years, and there is not enough time for corruption.If he waited until his son's generation, the people in Hedong might not be adults.A large town with a population of one million can't be reduced by more than half (historically, it dropped by more than [-]% during the later Han Dynasty, and the rate of decline was higher than that of Henan, Hebei, and Guanzhong).

"Li Keyong should be unable to deal with threats from the east and the west at the same time." Li Hang didn't write this sentence, for fear of disturbing the commander-in-chief's judgment, but he believed that the commander-in-chief was so intelligent and heroic that he could read between the lines. figure it out.

This is not just for Li Ke to play his temper. Wealth, money and food will not be created out of thin air.

Shuofang Town is on the rise, but Hedong Town is going downhill.As long as the commander-in-chief fights steadily, does not take risks, and does not rush forward, Li Keyong will be powerless to fight back after another ten or eight years of tossing around.

Wealth, goods, money and food are already dwindling day by day, and enemies are being made everywhere, and wars are fought on multiple fronts. This is the way to die.

Unless - when Li Ke was about to be defeated, he took a risky gamble and achieved a military victory that he himself could not believe, and defeated the commander-in-chief or Zhu Quanzhong by luck.

But how can people pin their hopes on such unreasonable things?

"Is Li Biejia in Xiazhou in the hall?" There was a questioning voice outside the door.

"Don't rest in the hall, dare to ask the general?" Li Hang's entourage asked.

"A certain Li Cunjin, the envoy of Yi'er Army, has come to invite the envoy of Xiazhou to go to Yangqu."

Li Hang's heart skipped a beat.

The commander-in-chief did not set up a righteous army, but in every town in the world, it can be said that the righteous army can be found everywhere, and they are usually the cronies of the commander-in-chief.Sending Li Cun in to invite him in shows that Li Keyong still attaches great importance to it, and also gives the commander in chief face.

Li Hang put away the paperwork, then straightened his robes, strode out of the room, and said, "This is Li Hang. The King of Longxi County is in Yangqu?"

"Exactly." Li Cunjin replied: "The commander-in-chief was reviewing the army in Yangqu, and he summoned the envoys to ask about it."

Rewards will be given out during the military parade.Hedong is already like this, and Li Keyong still wants to play like this. It is not an exaggeration to say that he is militaristic!

In addition, Li Hang also keenly noticed the place name Yangqu.

This county is seventy miles north of Jinyang and is the northern gate of Taiyuan Prefecture.At the end of Qianfu, Shao Dashuai led Tielin to station in Yangqu when he conquered Hedong and encircled and suppressed Li Guochang and his son.

Seventy miles north of Yangqu, there are Shiling Town and Shiling Pass, which are important military sites in Hedong. Kang Chuangui once served as the general of Shiling Town.

Keep this pass well, and Taiyuan will have no worries, because the terrain of the pass is dangerous, and only bicycles can pass through it.

Hedong is really a good place. There are so many dangerous passes in the north, and there are only two Yanmen Passes, which block all roads to death.So the south was a little empty, so it was very convenient for Zhu Quanzhong to attack.

"I don't know why the King of Longxi County paraded the troops in Yangqu?" Li Hang asked again after getting into the carriage sent by Hedong.

Li Cunjin rode his horse and followed beside the driver without answering.

Li Hang frowned.The Jin division's northern expedition usually gathers soldiers and horses in Yangqu, and then goes northward in batches to Xin and Dai.

What does Li Ke use this for?
(End of this chapter)