please make me king

Chapter 1085 "Mixed with Sand"

"Reporting to King Shun, except for the defenders of Fort Thirty-six, Yulin's mobile force is only the third battalion of Yansui in Yulin City, General Zhang's Baigan soldiers and the two thousand cavalry of the ministers." Lu Xiangsheng couldn't help reporting the truth to Zhang Shunhui.

"Excluding our people and the city guard camp, there are only more than [-] mobile troops left!" Zhang Shun couldn't help but nodded when he heard the words.

"How about this, Jiutai, you choose more than a thousand horses from them, and first make up for your 'Army Battalion'. I will make up for the three battalions of Yu Chongxiao, Zuo Guangxian, and Wang Ding respectively, so I plan to draw [-] people."

"I'm planning to keep Zhao Guangyuan's [-] people here, and then call Luo Shangwen over. I don't know what to do?"

"Then what is the general's Sichuan soldier King Shun going to do?" Lu Xiangsheng couldn't help asking when he heard the words.

Originally, Yansui Town had only a small number of soldiers, so you have recruited another [-] elite soldiers. Although Zhao Guangyuan has supplemented [-] soldiers, Luo Shangwen only has more than [-] defeated soldiers.

"That's my plan!" Zhang Shun glanced at Zhaode General Zhang Fengyi with some inquiring eyes and said, "I plan to divide two thousand soldiers from Sichuan with Na Luo Shangwen, and let him station in Yulin instead of Fengyi."

"And Fengyi led the remaining [-] people to retreat to Suide."

"Right now we are still short on food, we can't pile up soldiers and horses on the front line, and minimize the loss during transportation!"

"Success, I have no objection!" Zhang Fengyi had also heard of Luo Shangwen's name, but she still didn't know how he got to the Yijun camp.

"The Luoshang text is the garrison of Hanzhong. It was previously ordered by Fan Yiheng, a soldier in Guannan, to attack Xi'an, but it was broken by Yang Chengzu. Now there are only a thousand Sichuan soldiers under his command." Zhang Shun explained without waiting for Zhang Fengyi to ask.

"Back when Wang Pu colluded with Fan Yiheng, the military commander of Guannan, he was well aware of the key points, so he didn't get along with the Wang family."

"It just so happens that he is also from Sichuan, so he definitely won't hook up with Yulin Jiangmen!"

To put it bluntly, Zhang Shun's move was "mixing sand". He transferred away Yu Chongxiao and Zuo Guangxian, who were close to Yulin Town, and transferred Wang Ding, Xiao Si, Zhang Hu, Du Hongyu, and Jiang Yaozu together. People gathered under the command, and then filled in Lu Xiangsheng, Zhang Fengyi, Zhao Guangyuan and Luo Shangwen.

There were less than [-] defenders in Yulin City, but the rebels Lu Xiangsheng, Zhao Guangyuan, and Luo Shangwen directly controlled [-] troops, which was enough to completely control Yulin Town.

Zhang Fengyi still has the mind of husband and wife, and doesn't have too much utilitarianism, so she doesn't care about it.

Of course, if you talk about it carefully, Luo Shangwen, who was born in Sichuan soldiers, belongs to the natural "Sichuan family".

It's really hard to say whether Zhang Fengyi's entry and exit will make a profit or a loss.

"Well, Your Highness King Shun, there is something that I don't know whether to say or not." Seeing that the matter was over, Lu Xiangsheng couldn't help hesitating.

"What should I say or not?" Zhang Shun said bluntly, "The truth is, we don't have so many twists and turns in private."

"That's right, when I checked the soldiers and horses in Yulin Town, I found that the horse farm and farmland to which Yulin belonged should have been taken over by guard officers, eunuchs, and gentry!" Lu Xiangsheng couldn't help but a little bit aggrieved.

"More than [-]% of the farmland in Anbian, Jingbian, and Zhenqiang has been occupied, and [-]% of Yulinwei has been occupied. The rest of the horse farms have long since disappeared, and each of them has thousands of horses from various generals."

"If such things are brought back to the country, King Shun may save [-] shi in food and salaries!"

"Forget it!" Zhang Shun was filled with indignation when he heard what Lu Xiangsheng said, and he was also annoyed.

It's just that these people are still needed now, so we can't "let the horse run and not let the horse eat grass"?

The [-]-household house that Lu Xiangsheng said was actually a frontier land directly under the jurisdiction of Yulin Township. If it were carefully cleaned up, there might not be tens of thousands of hectares of farmland.

It's just that at the end of the Ming Dynasty, it was in the "little ice river" period, and the climate suddenly became dry, and even places to the south such as Suide and Yan'an were plagued by famines.

To the north of Yulin City is the famous Mu Us Desert. When the wind and sand were severe, the soldiers of Yulin City and the Thirty-Six Fort had to go out of the city to clean up the sand to prevent the city walls from being destroyed by the wind and sand.

But judging from these two items, Zhang Shun is really doubtful about how much of the ten thousand hectares of farmland is left and how much output is left.

Instead of this, it is better to "reward" the Yulin officer for pulling him down, and we will make a fuss about it in the future.

The most urgent task is to get more than [-] hectares of farmland in Qingyang, Yan'an and Suide first.

Thinking of this, Zhang Shun couldn't help but specifically said: "Jiutai, at this time we have to think long-term."

"Our vision should not be limited to Yulin, but also Qingyang and Yan'an; Ningxia and Gansu; the whole of Shaanxi, and the whole world!"

"With a gun in one hand and a purse in the other, the world can be settled!"

Lu Xiangsheng was born as the governor of Yunyang, and he has a deep understanding of the shortage of "money bags". Hearing the words, he couldn't help but nodded and said: "What King Shun said is true, if Qingyang and Yan'an can clear up [-] hectares of farmland , then next year it only needs to subsidize more than [-] stones to meet Yulin's requirements, which is not a bad idea."

"You can understand!"

The formulation of policies must be communicated from the top to the bottom, and all the heart and energy should be directed to one place.

Seeing that Lu Xiangsheng understood what he meant, Zhang Shun felt relieved.

"There is one more thing, although it is not the responsibility of the minister, but it involves border affairs, the minister has to say!" Seeing that Zhang Shunzhi was not young, Lu Xiangsheng couldn't help but said again.

"The large and small salt ponds in Shaanxi, Huamachi, Zhangxian, Xihe and other places all produce table salt. The Ming court established the Lingzhou Salt Division in Lingzhou Qianhu Office to specialize in salt."

"A total of [-] taels of salt are calculated each year, and the silver for each class is three cents and five cents. The license for salt is six shi, and the total silver is [-] taels, which is used as a special aid for military officers on all sides Use it."

"Now that the towns in Yansui are short of horses and salaries, I ask King Shun to revive the law of accepting silver and salt, so as to restore the prosperity of the past."

Zhang Shun was taken aback when he heard the words, and immediately realized, isn't this the "salt and iron monopoly" in the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty? I am familiar with this.

He couldn't help asking: "Where did these restaurants sell the salt in the past?"

"Approximately in Qingyang, Pingliang, Yan'an, Xi'an, Fengxiang and Hanzhong." Lu Xiangsheng pondered for a while and reported.

Oh?These are the main population agglomerations in Shaanxi!

Zhang Shun couldn't help pondering: "I don't know how much salt each person eats? Is [-] yuan of salt more or less?"

"A big mouth is twelve catties of salt, and a small mouth is half!" Lu Xiangsheng couldn't help saying.

"Nine catties of salt per capita?" Zhang Shun was taken aback when he heard the words, and couldn't help but calculate, "The annual release of salt is [-] jin, and every [-] jin of salt..."

"King Shun, every six stones of salt in Shaanxi is [-] catties!" Lu Xiangsheng quickly explained, "This is the old system of Yang Yiqing, a famous official in the past, when he governed Shaanxi."

"Yang Yiqing resigned, and Shaanxi changed it to [-] catties per quotation. The merchants had no profit, and the salt law broke down."

"Okay, then let's calculate it at [-] catties for the time being, a total of [-] million catties." Zhang Shun couldn't help but muttered, "Nine catties of salt per person per year is enough for five million people."

"That's not right, there are only [-] households in Shaanxi, with a population of [-] million. Can this salt be sold?"

(End of this chapter)