Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 687 Majors
The spring breeze turns into rain, and the vegetation is lush.

In Wenxian Township, Mengzhou, Shao Shude was walking in the green field wearing a coir raincoat and straw sandals.

The overwintering wheat is growing gratifyingly, and after another three months, it will be almost ready for harvest.

Last year, Heyang received 40 dendrobium grains and beans, which is a bit regrettable.Because the immigration was too hasty to open up wasteland, officials, farm tools, cattle and other materials were also very scarce, and the potential of agricultural production was not fully utilized.

After a year of transportation, the amount of the above-mentioned materials has increased greatly, which has been greatly alleviated—sorry, it has not been alleviated at all. In fact, the shortage has become more serious because the population of Heyang has increased greatly.

Shao Shude was not willing to launch a large-scale war in Heyang last year, so he led people to Huainan, where he suffered the people of Guanzhong, Jinshang, Xiangyang, Tang Dengsui and other towns, and captured Shen, Guang, Shou, and An in one fell swoop.

Apart from being requisitioned by Gao Renhou to attack Guanghe, Banzhu, and Zhongli City, the people of Heyang had no other battles. They were able to reclaim wasteland and repair ditches with peace of mind, and their agricultural vitality was restored.In autumn, the winter sowing area of ​​wheat has greatly increased. Song Le predicts that this summer should be able to harvest 40 million dendrobium grains and beans.And when the wave of people who came at the end of last year and the beginning of this year are ready, the spring sowing will be carried out on a large scale. By autumn, hundreds of thousands of dendrobium should be harvested, and the total annual output will exceed 80.

Of course, Heyang is still in a tax-free state. The most important role of the 80 dendrobium grains and beans is to feed the local people-in fact, it is not enough, and a large amount of food needs to be transferred from the outside world to feed the people with work. to continue dredging the river.

For more than a year, Heyang has basically made a net investment, and has not seen any economic returns.According to Song Le's forecast, this year will not be able to achieve a balance of income and expenditure, and next year (the fourth year of Qianning) will continue to provide assistance for another year. By the time of the autumn harvest, it may be barely self-sufficient.

"In the fifth year of Qianning (898), it was almost time to collect taxes." Shao Shude walked on the ridge of the field with one foot high and one foot low, and said with a smile: "The common people say that it is not easy to raise children, and it is not easy to build a piece of land from scratch. Very difficult."

Heyang two prefectures may be the first large-scale and high-intensity resettlement development behavior of the Shuofang military and political group.

Longyou and Hexi towns, although they have been immigrating, mostly through exile of prisoners, voluntary recruitment by households, dispatch of captives, and small-scale refugee transport. It belongs to the accumulation of less.

In Mengzhou and Huaizhou, there are many actions.In less than two years, the local population has changed from tens of thousands to more than 20, close to 30. The growth rate is astonishing.The enemy’s grain and grass seized in the Battle of Heqing was exhausted, the grain and grass transported in the river were exhausted, the grain and grass supported by Shaanxi Town were exhausted, and the Guanbei Lingxia was still transporting repeatedly at high intensity. The resources invested were astonishing, far exceeding the consumption of the war.

This is still food consumption.The demand for officials and miscellaneous officials is extremely huge, and a large amount of cadre resources have also been invested in it.In addition, in Xiuwu County, Marshal Shao’s wife’s family invested heavily in the industry, and the military industry system also mobilized manpower to build the Huaizhou Metropolitan Institute. The captured Liang and Huai people were sent to Xiuwu County in waves, mining, manufacturing Bricks, logging, very busy.

This is costly!

"Your Majesty, if you want this 'baby' in Heyang to grow up strong, you need to allocate more food, grass, farm tools, and livestock." Song Le seized every opportunity to ask for supplies, and only listened to him: "The current situation is related to Guanbei. There is a large gap. The three-field system has only been pushed forward in Jiyuan and Hanoi counties. There are a lot of sheep raised by private households, but the six counties of Xiuwu, Huojia, Wude, Wuzhi, Heyang, and Wen are almost Meaning, Your Majesty..."

Shao Shude almost slipped and fell.

In the battle of Luoyang that ended before, thousands of horses were either killed or abandoned. They were all urgently drawn from the newly built pastures in Heyang, and not all of them were war horses.Qi Bizhang has already detoured to Jinshang, and will soon add a large number of war horses. The six pastures of Yinchuan, Yongqing, Xishi, Zendan, Heishui, and Dongshi are urgently allocated. At present, all fodder supply areas and fattening areas along the way have been passed by. The horse herd was occupied, and there was really not much to squeeze out for the passing sheep, and tens of thousands of them died.

"Your Majesty, no matter how difficult this matter is, you have to do it." Song Le said solemnly: "How long will Li Keyong take care of the Hebei War? Your Majesty knows it well. Once the war is over, there is no time to do anything else. The planted today Maizi and the lambs will be able to provide assistance at that time. Perhaps, sometimes the victory or defeat is on the line. Your Majesty does not want to retreat when the siege of Jinyang is exhausted, right?"

"What you said is very true." Shao Shude nodded, and said: "Then we can only suffer more..."

The people in Guanzhong are suffering endlessly!But there is no way, who made Guanzhong be in the middle of connecting the Western Regions and the northern part of the Great Wall?
This year, the family members of the Yumen Army will move to Heyang.For this matter, I have been negotiating with Suzhou Long for a long time. The main reason is that the big soldiers are willing to do work for Shao Dashuai. There are not many people who want to go back to Suzhou to eat sand, so Long has no choice but to hold his nose and agree. There are [-] households again, and the pressure is not small.

After inspecting the spring plowing in Wen County, Shao Shude rushed to Xiuwu County to inspect the farmland and the local smelting and iron workshops that are constantly expanding their production scale.While on the road, he received news that Xin'an County was close to surrender.

……

What is close to surrender?This is actually a very interesting thing.

In short, Hu Zhen's persuasion to surrender still played a role. Although it failed to make the Liang people open the city, it hurt their morale. The whole atmosphere was no longer the desperate struggle before, but became a little sad and depressed.

In the past few days, there has been an endless stream of people leaving the city.

Duan Ning, who joined the army as the new Secretary of Henan Province, led people to gather outside the city. In just half a month, nearly a thousand people were gathered, and all of them were sent to Luoyang. They were asked to clean up the ruins, sort out materials, and build houses.

Originally there were more than [-] defenders, but a thousand people left at once, and the rest of them were even less inclined to carry it.

On the first day of March, Hu Zhen went directly into the city and found Xu Huaiyu.

"Does Xu Erlang know, what was the reason for our uprising?" Hu Zhen asked, sitting directly opposite Xu Huaiyu in a calm manner.

"Strive for wealth and honor." Xu Huaiyu sighed with a much older complexion.

Well, the answer is correct!

The peasant uprising troops are not all unable to survive.At least the generation of Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao are very rich and powerful, they have many people under their command, and their equipment is no worse than that of the officers and soldiers.The core thugs after they started were not farmers, but scattered Pang Xun soldiers hiding in the rivers, lakes, mountains and forests.

This group of rebellious soldiers were originally serious warriors. When Pang Xun went to Xuzhou to raise an incident, he focused on recruiting the defeated soldiers of Yindaodu, which greatly increased their combat effectiveness.

Hu Zhen and Xu Huaiyu's family backgrounds are very good, and they joined the rebel army for the purpose of fighting for wealth.They always thought that after the boss was recruited as Jiedushi, they could also have a family background.

"If you are rich, you may not be expensive." Hu Zhen nodded and said: "This summer, Wang Rende does not want to cause more harm. Xin'an is like this, can you still keep it? Once you die, Erlang, how long can the family's wealth be maintained? After the death of Qi Fengguo , what wealth and honor will be passed on to the descendants?"

What Hu Zhen said was on point.Zhu Quanzhong is somewhat absent in the matter of taking care of his old brother.Moreover, Xu Huaiyu's family members are all in Xin'an City. If they really refuse to surrender, they will drag the whole family to die together, let alone wealth.

Some people may ask, why didn't Zhu Quanzhong detain all the family members of the generals in Bianzhou?In fact, not only Zhu Quanzhong, but most of the feudal towns are like this, and they can't do it.

In history, when Ge Congzhou left the town of Yanzhou, he brought his family there.Zhu Zhen went out to take his family to the army. Zhu Quanzhong was just suspicious, but he couldn't stop it by breaking the rules.Wang Yanzhang was ordered to be stationed in Chanzhou to monitor Wei Bo, and he also brought his family there.

As the commander-in-chief of a town, he can only focus on the big and let go of the small, and let the generals who command heavy troops or guard key positions leave their families behind by hinting.But if people really want to pick up their family members, it's really not easy to stop them. It's just that the relationship between the upper and lower levels will definitely not be harmonious. How to do it depends on how each person chooses.

Hu Zhen had no choice, and his family stayed in Bianzhou.Zhang Quanyi had a choice and took away his wife, concubine and children.At Xu Huaiyu's level, Zhu Quanzhong would not stop him.

"Hu Dalang, you are really..." Xu Huaiyu smiled wryly.

It's all over, what else can he do?King Xia knows how to employ people, and it really helped that Hu Zhen, a veteran in the Xuanwu Group, persuaded him to surrender.

"Why is Erlang hesitating?" Hu Zhen said with a smile, "King Xia promised you the position of the prefecture and county. If you hand over Xin'an, you won't be a town general. Wouldn't it be beautiful to be an envoy and enjoy wealth and honor?"

"King Xia wants to give me the governorship of Hezhou?" Xu Huaiyu asked after a long silence.

"The envoy of the king of Danzhou just died of illness. Xu Erlang went to Heyang to meet Queen Xia, and he can take office." Hu Zhen said.

After Xu Huaiyu heard the word "Danzhou", she understood it in her heart.This state is located in Hengshan, and there are many Dangxiang tribes within its jurisdiction, all of which are vassals of the Yeli clan.When you go to that place to be the governor, people are really not afraid that you will play tricks, work in peace and stability for a few years, and then move to another place.

In fact, there is nothing to transfer. It is estimated that the position of the governor of each state will be rotated. He will work here for a few years, and there for a few more years, until he is old enough to be an official.

After working hard for most of his life, it seems that it is not a loss to change to the position of governor.At least under Zhu Quanzhong's hands, there has not been such a good thing.However, the mood is still very complicated. When I get old and change my employer, all previous accumulations will be invalidated, and I can only start from scratch.

But in this troubled world, there are not many warriors who can end well. This ending is actually not bad, isn't it?

"Come on!" Xu Huaiyu shouted after making up his mind.

"What is the order of the town envoy?" A relative came forward and asked.

"Go find a sheep." Xu Huaiyu's voice was low, and he couldn't stop sighing while speaking.

"Obey." The pro will leave soon.

Hu Zhen twisted his beard and smiled.It is an ancient ritual to lead the sheep out with the meat bare.

After being consulted by the king's mansion to join the army, King Xia rewarded the two beautiful girls. It is said that they are the daughters of officials in Chang'an City who were implicated by the Ximen family.

I finally made my first contribution today, and there may be opportunities to continue to make contributions in the future.There is indeed no one more suitable and professional than him to persuade Liang Guan to surrender.

(End of this chapter)