Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 497 Chang'an and Kaifeng

In Chang'an City, after determining the strategy of first Liao and then Shu, Zhang Zhao spread the word to the world in Chang'an, and compared Yelu Deguang's entry into Kaifeng Prefecture in Tokyo to the old days when Tubo broke Chang'an.

Call on Mengshu, Nanping, Machu, Qianyue and other countries to join forces to expel Khitan.

Even the Southern Han Dynasty, who entertained himself, sent people to hold books to preach.

It's just that among all the countries in the world, Zhang Zhao only missed Wu and Tang, because this is the only country in the world that still has a certain strength to compete with the Central Plains Dynasty.

Even in history, Wu Tang was recognized by some literati as the orthodoxy after the Later Tang.

Now Li Jing, the lord of the Wu and Tang Dynasties, is in power, destroying Fujian, suppressing Qianyue, and even preparing to destroy Ma Chu. He is in the limelight for a while. Zhang Zhao got He Ning's reminder, so he won't spread his message to Li Jing.

In fact, this message was only aimed at Shu, such as Nanping. The purpose of the message was that Nanping had a close relationship with Shu. In order to paralyze Meng Chang, Zhang Zhaocai specially passed the message to Gao Congjiao.

In the other three countries, the Ma and Chu brothers were overwhelmed by internal strife, and Qian Yue was separated from the Central Plains by Wu and Tang, so they did not have the strength to really send troops.

As for the Southern Han Dynasty, Liu Sheng, a pervert, was about to kill all his brothers, and then take all his nieces into the harem. At the same time, he also wanted to conduct human anatomy and send the navy to rob the merchants. He didn't even have time to talk to Zhang Zhao.

At the same time as preaching, Zhang Zhao formally established the government of Yong State, changed the name of Chang'an from Jingzhao Mansion, set up hundreds of officials, established etiquette, and promulgated "Dayong Criminal Law System Classification" as the basis for law enforcement.

Later, Zhang Zhao changed Weizhou in Guanzhong to Pingzhou, Yuanzhou to Yuanzhou, and Fengxiang Mansion to Qizhou to distinguish it from Weizhou and Yuanzhou in Liangguo.

He also summoned the Li Congxuan family of Fengxiang Mansion, officials of the sixteen prefectures of Ping, Zhen, Jing, Yuan, Bing, Ning, Wu, Yan, Qi, Feng, Qin, Cheng, Tong, Yao, Hua, and Long, and representatives of local clans to Chang'an. .

After the officials from the sixteen prefectures in Guanzhong were in place, Zhang Zhao re-arranged the positions according to the performance of the victims after passing through last year.

Those who took Zhang Zhao's money and food did nothing, all went to prison and ransacked their homes, and those who did a little bit of work were used after the assessment.

After getting rid of the officials in various states, Zhang Zhao announced the amnesty of Guanzhong.

At this time, due to the impact of floods and droughts in Guanzhong, thieves broke out everywhere, but most of them were people who could not survive.

Zhang Zhao issued an amnesty decree, pardoning all the thieves and fugitives in Guanzhong and the taxes they owed.

Except for the criminals who have committed many crimes for many years, they are all pardoned, and the fleeing households are encouraged to go down the mountain and resume farming.

At this time in Guanzhong, the prospects for farming are not good. After last year's natural disasters and man-made disasters, the completion rate of this year's spring plowing is only less than [-]%.

In other words, among the more than 400,000 million people in Guanzhong, at least [-] people have a food shortage.

In this regard, Zhang Zhao has no good solution, he can only order to continue to relocate the people in Guanzhong to Ling, Xia, Su and other prefectures.

On the one hand, it ordered the merchants who came from the west to bring food equal to their body weight into Guanzhong, so as to offset part of the merchant tax.

In the end, it was announced that Guanzhong will be closed. Starting from this year, all corvees in Guanzhong will be exempted.

The labor needed to build water conservancy and strengthen mountains and rivers was all hired by Zhang Zhao himself, and the hired objects were farmers who had not completed spring plowing and were unable to carry out agricultural production.

Although it is still similar to corvee service, Zhang Zhao's payment of food can save the financial pressure of governments at all levels.

The second is to provide more food, so that the main labor force of a family can have three melons and two dates to go back to support their wives and children after serving corvée.

And this amount of money is also not a small amount, although Zhang Zhao can use bank notes to offset part of it.

However, the source of food is still a big problem. Hexi and Longyou cannot provide so much food.Therefore, Zhang Zhao could only go to pit Meng Chang.

Zhang Tianwang specifically found out Wang Jiulang who was holding on to Jieli Pijia's robe in Gaochang.

This kid was thrown to the Western Regions, and he has been tempered after being sent to places such as Kirgaz and Oguz.

His mission as an envoy to Mengshu is very simple, that is, to tell Meng Chang that from now on, if Shudi wants to buy white sugar, rock sugar, spices and other products from the Western Regions in Hexi, he can only use silver notes instead of coins cast in Shuzhong. up.

Moreover, the direct exchange of silver bills with Sichuan copper and iron money was not accepted. Merchants in Shuzhong had to exchange half and half of brocade, silk, silk, silk and grain for silver bills, and then use silver bills to buy goods in Hexi.

This is a bit of hidden blackmail. Although bank notes accounted for nearly half of the current transactions between the two countries, and the Kingdom of Shu was already being sucked in blood, it still took a long time to completely ban the coins in Shu.

So Zhang Zhao recruited Wang Jiulang. Compared with old-school envoys like Wu Da'er and Wu Yuan'er, Wang Jiulang, a talent who grew up under Zhang Zhao's intervention, could better understand Zhang Zhao's intentions.

"The key point of this matter is that you have to convince Meng Chang that Guanzhong is extremely short of food, and that's why someone made such a bad move. Otherwise, the entire Shu Kingdom will not accept such a sudden change."

Wang Jiulang looked at Zhang Zhao and said confidently: "I know that the key to this matter is to arouse Meng Chang's greed.

Let him regard our act of obtaining food from Shu as a helpless act of our urgent shortage of military food.

Let him feel that anyway, he will get at least half of the pass in the near future, so that he can rest assured to provide food, so that we can leave the pass as soon as possible and fight with the Khitan people.but.. "

Wang Jiulang hesitated for a moment, "Your Majesty, if you want to transport the grain from central Shu to Guanzhong, the efficiency of transshipment is too low with the current road. I guess the Kingdom of Shu may propose to widen the plank road or dredge the water in the inclined valley to transport grain."

Zhang Zhao sneered, Wang Jiulang's worry was justified.

This is actually one of the reasons why Zhang Zhao concluded that Meng Chang would agree to transport grain, that is, the Kingdom of Shu could take the opportunity to clear the road to the pass, so that it would be convenient for them to transport troops into the pass in the future.

"Young son Meng Chang grew up in the deep palace, so you don't know that the world is dangerous.

There are no good horses in Shu, and the cavalry is not as good as that of Wu and Tang. Most of the elite soldiers of Meng and Shu came from the states of Kui (Fengjie), Wan, Qian (Qianjiang), He (Hechuan), Lu, Rong (Yibin), and Ba (Bazhong). He is the best mountain soldier, but it is a pity that he is not good at riding and fighting.

If Meng Chang dared to come, he was put into the Guanzhong Plain, and let them taste the power of Xiliang iron cavalry.

Just do it like this, you go up and write a statement, and estimate all possible situations in advance.

I will also let the imperial hospital judge Mrs. Han Qi to cooperate with you, or follow Han Baosheng's path, and after finding out Meng Chang's temper, prescribe the right medicine. "

Having said that, Zhang Zhao took a look at the army doctors from the Imperial Hospital outside the door who were making hot summer soup for the army.

Mrs. Han Qi's line is not insignificant. Her brother Han Baosheng is not only a famous doctor, but also Meng Chang's favorite
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Just when Zhang Zhao began to rectify Guanzhong, proclaimed himself King Yong, and was about to send troops to the Central Plains to fight the Khitan people.

The Lord of Khitan, Yelu Deguang, my stepbrother of King Zhang Tian, ​​also formally founded the state in Kaifeng Prefecture, Tokyo.

Of course, because Yelu Deguang fooled Zhao Yanshou and Du Chongwei in the early stage in order to make Zhao Yanshou and Du Chongwei sacrifice their lives, and promised to let them be the original emperor, it is not easy for Yelu Deguang to directly say that he will be the emperor, so he played a cautious game.

On the first day of April, Yelu Deguang accepted the congratulations of the officials in the Chongyuan Hall of Daning Palace with the guard of honor of the emperor of the Central Plains.

Among the Jiedu envoys in the world, apart from Liu Zhiyuan, the Jiedu envoy of Hedong, Hu Cile, the Jiedu envoy of Wuning Army in Xuzhou, and Jiao Jixun, the defense envoy of Xiangyang, An Shenqi, Gao Xingzhou, Fu Yanqing, etc. all went to Tokyo to worship in person.

After the three worships, Yelu Deguang suddenly proposed that there is no master in the Central Plains, and that an emperor should be established to secure the world, and let all the officials support him.

Pay attention, Brother Guang is playing tricks here. He is talking about establishing the emperor, not the emperor.

Although these two words have similar meanings, they are different at this time.

The biggest difference is that Yelu Deguang was called the emperor, but Shi Jingtang never called himself the emperor in his diplomatic contacts with Khitan, but always called himself the emperor of the Central Plains.

In this way, Yelude stood on the throne of the Chongyuan Hall and let the officials push for the emperor. Who would dare to push for Zhao Yanshou and Du Chongwei?

Don't die, right?Even Zhao Yanshou himself turned pale immediately.

Sure enough, all the ministers unanimously recommended Yelu Deguang to ascend the throne.

Yelu Deguang was overjoyed, and readily accepted the unanimous support of Hu Han officials.

Qin Tian monitored that it would be a good day in four days, so Brother Guang ordered all the officials to prepare for the enthronement ceremony.

On the fifth day of April, Yelu Deguang wore a sky crown and a crimson gauze robe, and went to the main hall of the Tokyo Imperial Palace to receive congratulations from Hu and Han officials.

Announced amnesty for the civil and military forces of the Jin State who had resisted Khitan during the Liao-Jin War, and issued an edict to change the name of the Khitan Kingdom to Daliao, and changed the eighth year of Huitong to the first year of Datong.

He also enshrined the courtiers, with Zhang Li as the peace minister, Li Song as the privy envoy, Feng Dao as the Taifu, Liu Yan as a scholar of the Imperial Academy, and Feng Yu as the prince and Taibao.

He also moved Zhongjing Linhuang Mansion to Zhenzhou, and began to regard himself as the emperor of the Central Plains.

However, Yelu Deguang, the emperor of the Central Plains, is not easy to be.

Because before he entered the Central Plains, Henan and Hebei of the Jin Kingdom had suffered two years of floods, droughts, locusts and three disasters plus man-made disasters, and the grain storage in Kaifeng Prefecture in Tokyo was less than [-] shi.

This is troublesome, not counting the surrendered Jin army, the Khitan themselves have more than [-] troops.

Moreover, according to the habits of the Khitan people, they never brought military rations or military pay when they went out to war.

Yelu Deguang originally wanted to pretend to be a benevolent monarch, but he didn't have any military rations. In addition, when he encouraged the Khitan tribes to go south this time, he promised to reward the troops with the wealth of the Central Plains.

So my brother Guang stopped pretending, and it was a showdown. My Khitan master, I came to beat you, the barbarians of the Southern Dynasty, Cao Gu.

He ordered to detain the Jiedu envoys of the towns in the later Jin Dynasty and not let them go back to the place, and sent Khitan general Hao Chief to lead troops to the states.

This is a grassland raid, a direct and indiscriminate looting, and it is more than ten times more brutal than Shi Zhonggui sending people to the states to supervise money and grain.

The prefectures in Henan and Hebei were immediately plunged into the great terror brought by the Khitans. No matter whether they were officials, gentry or ordinary people, they were all plundered and killed by the Khitans without distinction.

Even the Jiedu envoys of various towns who went to Kaifeng Prefecture in Tokyo to pay homage were unavoidable. Even "great heroes" such as Du Chongwei and Li Shouzhen were ordered to pay [-] yuan in congratulatory money.

For a time, the people of the Central Plains, from the prime ministers such as Feng Dao at the top and the commanders of the towns to the commoners at the bottom, really realized what it means to be a race that is not ours, and their hearts must be different!
(End of this chapter)