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Chapter 691 Song Chen and the Name

The 28th of the twelfth lunar month is the New Year's Day.

The first year of Xianding in the Great Song Dynasty, and the first year of the Zhongtong in Monan Mongolia will pass.

Hanzhong City is also much more lively than usual.

Although there are many people on Tianhan Street, it is still not crowded.

A group of chariots and horses slowly entered the city from the west Wangjiang Gate, headed east to the main street, and stopped in front of the gate of the commander-in-chief's mansion.

Yan Yunyun just came back from Zhenba County, which is located deep in Daba Mountain and is a place of tea production.

Carrying a few packs of tea leaves, she got out of the carriage, frowned slightly, walked through the tree-shaded path all the way, and entered the Guiyin Hall of the commander-in-chief.

I saw a group of aides had already sat down on both sides, there were more than [-] people, most of them were literati recruited by Yang Guo in recent years.

Today's discussion in the commander's mansion is nothing more than summarizing this year, arranging things for next year, giving out some rewards, and then taking a vacation for the New Year.

It's still early, and Li Xia hasn't arrived yet.

Yan Yunyun glanced into the hall, only nodded to Yuan Yan who was sitting at the bottom, and then turned to the small public room behind.

Only the father and son of the Han family were in the small public house, and there were few people, so they could discuss some official affairs.

They are Li Xia's confidantes.

"Father, brother."

"came back?"

"Yes." Yan Yunyun put the tea leaves in his hand on the case, and said, "I brought back the Xianhao tea produced in Zhenba County for you to taste."

Han Chengxu said: "It looks like a good tea, straight and even, tender and green."

"Yes, the taste is good, the aroma is sharp and long-lasting, the color of the soup is bright, and it has a sweet aftertaste."

"How about the tea shop?"

"Abandoned." Yan Yunyun said: "Only a few tea growers are still growing tea and selling it loosely."

"It's a pity." Han Chengxu sighed.

Han Qi'an said: "I remember that during Song Chengping's reign, Hanzhong bought tea, and Xihe traded horses. Hanzhong can sell 300 million catties of tea in the northwest and trade [-] horses a year."

Han Chengxu nodded and said, "That's the meaning of the so-called 'Shu tea always goes to Zhufan markets, and horses often come from thousands of miles'."

Yan Yunyun said: "Before the entry of the Mongolian army, tea was the biggest trade in Hanzhong and even the whole of Sichuan and Shu. Salt, you can’t live without it for a day’, in Alang’s words, it’s a “big pillar of Sichuan’s economy.”

She went to Zhenba County this time, and she was deeply touched...

During the Taiping period, most of the tea in Zhenba County was purchased by officials of the Tea Horse Department and transported to the tea horse farms in Lintao and Tianshui;
After crossing to the south, some of the remaining tea leaves were transported to the south of the Yangtze River;

Mongolia occupied Hanzhong, and it was abandoned for several years. Nine years ago, tea farmers resumed their livelihoods. They were purchased by tea merchants, and then transported to Liangzhou by Semu merchants, where they were sold to the Western Regions.

On the contrary, now that Hanzhong has been recovered, the original tea-horse trade has been cut off.

Coupled with the prohibition of Huizi, it is even more difficult to carry out the bulk tea trade.

Tea farmers are not doing well.

But he is not too dissatisfied, after all, the tax is light, and he can always survive by digging food in the ground.

This is the case in Zhenba County, as well as in the whole of Sichuan and Sichuan.

Tea is like this, and trade in salt, cloth, wine, medicinal materials, etc. is not prosperous.

The current situation in Sichuan and Sichuan is that there are few people, more land, light taxes and stable people's livelihood, but they are poor.

You know, tens of millions of people were slaughtered, and Sichuan and Shu were almost destroyed once.

Since Li Xia took office, what he can do to build water conservancy is to let the tillers have their fields.

This year, the people of Shu can eat, but they are only eating, and they are far from revitalization.

……

Yan Yunyun frowned even more after talking about these situations, and said: "What I often say recently is that to make Sichuan and Sichuan prosperous and strong, food alone is far from enough, and commerce and trade are also needed."

"Those merchants are unwilling to buy with copper coins, gold and silver?"

"It is determined that a 'Guanzipu' must be set up in Sichuan and Sichuan, otherwise copper coins, gold and silver will be transported for every transaction in the future, and the cost will be too high. They said that the 100 million catties of tea this time is just to attract jade, as long as the Guanzi is set up They can eat even 1000 million catties."

"That's 300 million guan?" Han Chengxu was shocked, and said: "This year's tax in Sichuan and Shu is far from that amount..."

Han Qi'an said instead: "From this point of view, it must be to induce us to allow the circulation of gold and silver gates."

"Dare to come, we swallowed their gold and silver."

Han Qi'an said indifferently: "Their gold and silver promises good luck, and they can go back on it at any time, but the tea leaves have to be planted for a year. If we arrange people to grow tea, and no one will harvest the tea leaves, how will you treat it?"

"I'll sell it to Tianzhu." Yan Yunyun muttered softly.

"I'm afraid not only that, according to the laws of the Song Dynasty, there are two types of tea sales in Sichuan and Shu, one is to discuss tea. , Merchants went to Sichuan to buy tea, and the government issued tea guides, one out of ten taxes.”

Han Chengxu said, pointing to Yan Yunyun, and said: "The business you are talking about this time is tea smuggling."

Yan Yunyun said: "Ask Alang to hand out tea guides."

"That involves the transfer department, the tea tax should be transferred to the imperial court."

"What if you don't transfer?"

"If the tea merchant is a member of Jia Sidao, either you smuggled it, or Alang embezzled the tea tax, the evidence is convincing."

"With Alang's current situation, he shouldn't be afraid of this little trick."

"Don't be afraid, but no matter how we respond, as long as Alang is still a Song official in name, he has no right to raise money and is subject to the Tea Horse Law and the Tea Yin Law. Jia Sidao is using these names to suppress Alang and try to drag Sichuan and Shu into the The quagmire of the Song Dynasty." Han Chengxu said: "The current incident is easy to deal with, but this is just a trial, and there must be endless tricks in the future."

Yan Yunyun thought to the end and asked: "Then Alang has to deal with it, he can only issue his own banknotes in Sichuan and Sichuan, modify the tea horse law, tea introduction law, and even the salt and iron law? And take away the power of the envoy?"

"That's right. Raising coins and revising laws are the prerogatives of princes." Han Chengxu murmured, "Jia Sidao is more decisive and ruthless than Cheng Yuanfeng. If he regains control of the center, Alang hasn't been able to find Jianya and start a mansion." I am afraid that I will be separated from Song Ting..."

"So serious?"

Han Qi'an said: "Jia Sidao's attitude is that 'Chuan Shu's departure from the coins of the Song Dynasty is equivalent to leaving the Song Dynasty'. After all, there is only one problem...the name."

"Dare he force A Lang like this?"

"I might not dare. Right now, I'm just trying to test it with merchants, but I have this meaning." Han Chengxu said: "It's hard to say now, if he regains control of the center... then we will know."

"How did Alang think about it?"

"I can't guess Alang's mind, he said, when he comes back from Chengdu..."

Yan Yunyun lowered his head and thought for a while, but couldn't figure it out for a while.

After the discussion on the [-]th day of the twelfth lunar month, Li Xia never mentioned these things.

……

The three of them discussed for a while, and seeing that it was almost time, they left the small mansion and waited in the lobby.

Han Chengxu took care of Yuan Yan the most, first he asked for warmth, and then slowly sat down at the top of the staff.

Soon, at the last hour, Li Xia came over on time.

"Master."

"Gentlemen don't need to be too polite, let's get started. In the past year, we have regained a lot of lost ground in terms of foreign invasion, and made great strides; in terms of internal cultivation, we have allowed the people under our rule to have land to grow and eat. Serve dinner, live... Then today I will set a goal for next year, stand firm and be strong. I will just say this, and I will ask you gentlemen to mention the rest, and I will distribute this year's reward later. Also, I have a baby at home recently. , I also prepared some gifts for you gentlemen..."

Jiang Di was seated at the bottom, very happy to hear the words, turned to Yuan Yan, and whispered: "I asked Qiaoer, but she didn't tell me what gift there would be."

"Everyone is different, and the ones given to Mr. Han are several hundred-year-old Polygonum multiflorum."

"How does a real person know?"

"Stop talking..."

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On that day, Yuan Yan returned to the courtyard where he lived. Behind him were several healthy women carrying many books and placing them in the hall.

"Thank you guys."

"Mr. Yuan is polite..."

Yuan Yan thanked her, looked around, and turned to Zhang Wenjing's room, where she was dressing in front of the mirror.

"Huh? You won't have dinner with me at night again?"

Zhang Wenjing turned her head, smiled with her eyes bent, and said, "Liu Yan'er and Feng'er accompany Sister Yuan for dinner."

She is very beautiful these days.

No wonder, after waiting for five years, finally reunited with my lover day by day, I am very happy.

Yuan Yan was afraid that when Zhang Wenjing's excitement passed, she would regret not finding an ordinary family... This "ordinary" is compared to Li Xia.

"The commander-in-chief gave him a gift today, did you choose it for him?"

Zhang Wenjing turned around and said with a smile: "He personally picks out the presents of every staff member, is that what you like?"

"You haven't passed the door yet, and you are trying to win people's hearts for him."

"Well, I picked some of them." Zhang Wenjing admitted, "When we talked about what to give you, I told him that Mr. Yishan likes to collect books. When Jin died, the army was in chaos, and he hid the books between the walls. However, the house is occupied by the Marquis of Shanxi, so I give you these books."

"I said, these books are all from my father's collection of books back then."

"Then you work hard in Li Jieshuai's shogunate, and I will give you dozens of books every year. In 30 years, Li Jieshuai can give away the thousand books."

"You girl."

Although Yuan Yan is a female crown, he couldn't help being angry when he heard this.

Zhang Wenjing just laughed, and said: "But there are no rare books, these are all published, and Li Jieshuai is quite poor."

"You have money, a box full of treasures."

"That's my dowry."

"Really thick-skinned."

"Is there? It's been a bit too much recently." Zhang Wenjing covered her face, her face was a little red.

Yuan Yan asked again: "Have you met Mrs. Gao today?"

"Ah."

"how?"

"She's so beautiful." Zhang Wenjing said: "I thought she'd just given birth, so she'd be haggard. I shouldn't dress too beautifully to see her, but I almost got compared to her. Fortunately..."

"Fortunately what?"

"You asked me to say, fortunately, I am naturally beautiful."

"Cut it off, seriously, what the hell is going on?"

"Gentleness is really gentle, but she has more confidence than I imagined. I think so. Her elder brother has regained Dali and is completely loyal to Li Xia. Although there are many elder brothers in my family, they are all compared to each other."

Zhang Wenjing puffed up her cheeks, and said again: "Everyone has their eyes above the top, they look down on people, and they hold back."

Yuan Yan took a look and found that Zhang Wenjing looked more girlish than the previous two years.

"It seems that you think Mrs. Gao's family members are the only ones who are better than you?"

"Hey, don't tell me if you see through it." Zhang Wenjing smiled and said, "I made an agreement with her, we can't let Li Xia be restless, a man who helps the world, if the house is restless, what will it look like?"

"You are so handsome."

"I told Li Xia that this is your evaluation, and he said, 'it's nothing special, it's just agreed in advance', um...he said he was very carefree when he proposed to marry Sister Mingyue, and he told me the same Marry if you can afford to serve a husband together. If a woman only wants to find someone wholeheartedly, he will not force it."

Yuan Yan was flustered and said in surprise: "How can you tell him these things..."

"Ok?"

"As a staff member, I say some private things behind my back, how can I tell the proprietor."

"It's okay, he's very generous. By the way, after the New Year's Eve, I'll go with him to Chengdu, but there are still many things to do about the wedding. Can elder sister Yuan help me?"

Yuan Yan had no choice but to respond, "Understood."

She didn't know how long it would take for Zhang Wenjing to slowly put on the rouge, so she shook her head and went out, only to arrive at the front yard, where she saw Yan Yunyun and Yan'er sitting at the stone table talking.

"Mr. Yuan." Yan Yunyun got up and bowed, not Wanfu, but arched his hands, and said with a smile, "I'll invite Mr. Yuan to have a New Year's Eve dinner at home the next day."

There was a faint sound of firecrackers in the distance, this year is really about to pass...

　This is Chapter 6 on June 4th, and there are still three updates for the leader. I originally wanted to add a chapter today, but it seems that I will postpone it for a day before starting to add updates~~
　　
　
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