Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 592 Liangzhou - The Magical Chengtian Mansion
In the early morning, Zhang Zhao rubbed his sleepy eyes and forced himself to get up.

To be honest, at this moment, he was very envious of those stupid and mediocre kings in history.I really want to know how they sit in this position and still have time to be licentious every day?

Anyway, since I, Zhang Shengren, have been sitting on the throne in Qianyuan Palace, I haven't been able to relax for a few days.

No, Li Gu from Chuzhou sent a report that his land equalization work in Chuzhou had been basically completed. Chuzhou was full of joy, and the people in the fields were extremely supportive of Zhou Guo's rule in Chuzhou.

But it was not good in Haozhou and Sizhou. Although they were ceded to Zhou State, the local wealthy families, under the instigation of the Liu family in Shouzhou, kept making troubles.

At the beginning, in order to calm people's hearts, Zhao Cunyi, the investigation and disposal officer of the two prefectures of Haosi, brought only 1000 people to take office.

I thought that the local tyrants in these places would be interested, but I didn't expect that it didn't give me any face!
They took Zhao Cunyi's show of goodwill as a show of weakness.

And Li Gu, who had completed the Chuzhou Juntian, was attacked on the Bianshui outside Songzhou City on his way back to Kaifeng Mansion in Tokyo to report on his work.

After the attackers approached disguised as traders, they suddenly launched a surprise attack. Although Li Gu himself was fine, four guards died in battle.

Moreover, the attacker's timing was very accurate, and they were stuck in the gap between the team's entry into Songzhou City, the Wuning Army sent by Masha, who had just left and returned to Xuzhou, and the Songzhou Guide Army had not yet arrived.

The time is so accurate, it is hard to say that there is no internal response from the state and county management and the two towns' dental soldiers.

This incident also made Zhang Zhao extremely vigilant, because he could roughly guess why Li Gu was attacked.

Because recently a rumor has spread widely in the Central Plains, saying that Zhang Zhao is going to give all the Shangtian in the Central Plains to the guards and families of the imperial guards from Hexi.

Moreover, another 300,000 people from Hexi will move to the Central Plains in the future. At that time, they will be in the Central Plains to wait for the top farms to finish, and then it will be the turn of the Central Plains people.

Well, it seems that there is nothing wrong with this rumor, even in the eyes of ordinary people, it is very normal to do so.

Moreover, the people in the Central Plains can also share the land. Now that the Central Plains is sparsely populated, what's the rush?

But in reality, this is not the case. Although the Central Plains has a small population, its population is also highly concentrated, and almost all of them are under the control of local tyrants in the countryside.

They built Wubao, occupied fertile land, and organized private soldiers. They often used two or three major surnames mixed with other minor surnames, ranging from hundreds to thousands of people, and lived according to Wubao.

The other common people who did not receive the protection of Wubao basically died in the unlimited exploitation of officials in the later Jin Dynasty and the Khitan people raiding the valley.

The situation Zhang Zhao is facing now is that the officials under him are not very effective when they are a few miles away from the county town.

The countryside is full of rich Wubao clans. Even in Gyeonggi areas such as Yongqiu (Qi County) and Weishi near Kaifeng Prefecture in Tokyo, the number of "wild" people only accounts for less than [-]% of the county's population.

And it just so happens that good land is a precious object that needs constant maintenance, and most of it exists in the hands of the Wubao clan. It doesn't make much sense to share the rest of the wasteland.

So this rumor is very lethal, and the implicit meaning is that Zhang Zhao wants to drive out the Wubao clan in the countryside, distribute their cultivated land to his confidant Hexi soldiers, and then let them cultivate the wasteland.

If this is the case, it is actually forcing the people of the Central Plains to die.

This is probably why they were extremely afraid of Zhang Zhao's practice of equalizing the land and attacking Li Gu.

However, the local wealthy family alone should not have such courage and energy to influence the two town troops, there must be someone behind the push.

But for Zhang Zhao, it doesn't matter who is promoting it, but should he take this opportunity to clean up the local clans in the Central Plains?
Break their Wubao, distribute their production tools equally, liberate the people from the Wubao, and elect a doctor of agriculture to various places like Hexi to ensure productivity.

While thinking about it, Zhang Cheng, the Marquis of Youdu Yuhou of the Yushandu Infantry Army who is in charge of the security of Miyagi today and the Zhonglang of Xuanwumen, Zhang Cheng, suddenly came to ask for an audience.

Zhang Chengcheng is the elder brother of Zhang Xiaobao, who was originally called Zhang Xiaobiao. The father of the two brothers, Zhang Dalang, was originally a hunter, and he named his sons after beasts.

After Zhang Xiaobiao got rich, he felt that the name was too ugly, but the name was given by his father, and he didn't dare to change it. It was Zhang Zhao who solved it and bestowed a word Cheng.

After Zhang Cheng arrived, Zhang Liecheng also came after a while, and both of them said one thing, that is, Zhang Xiaobao wanted to go to the Shu Kingdom and lurk in the Meng Shu army.

Zhang Zhao waved the two of them to sit down, while he began to think slowly.

Zhang Xiaobao's plan should be very useful, because the conquest of Shu has always been a one-shot deal.

This is determined by the terrain in central Shu. Although the defender has nowhere to hide, the attacker actually has no way out.

If you can't beat it, the terrain in central Sichuan, even if you can retreat, you will die in the pursuit of the enemy in the mountains.

Therefore, the fight against the Southern Tang Dynasty can be done slowly. If you are trapped in a city today, you will kill more than [-] elite soldiers tomorrow. If you repeat this three or four times, you will basically lose the ability to resist.

But to fight Mengshu, you must complete all your achievements in one battle, and fight directly to Chengdu in one go.

Moreover, the terrain in central Sichuan is surrounded by natural dangers, but the essence in the middle has no danger to defend. As long as the natural dangers are broken through, the problem will not be a big problem.

At this time, if one of his own people is in the Meng Shu army, he doesn't need much influence. As long as he can release water in certain passes, the middle of Shu will be stable.

But Zhang Zhao didn't make a decision right away, but asked Zhang Cheng.

"Does your father know? It's not without danger for my younger brother to go here. Besides, he has already shed blood for the court, so he can enjoy wealth and honor elsewhere."

Zhang Cheng arched his hands, "Saints spend their days and nights working for the well-being of all people, my brother is only twenty-one, how can he enjoy wealth just like that?

When he wrote the letter to his ministers, he had already said that my family was born as a shepherd slave, and now the wealth is so high. In order to repay the kindness of the saint, he decided to go to Sichuan.The minister's father also wrote back from Xiangzhou, fully agreeing. "

Zhang Zhaozhong nodded emphatically. The Zhang family, even including Liugubu Momo, who was in a similar situation to them, had no problem with loyalty.

Without Zhang Zhao, they would almost all be slaves at the bottom. In a generation or two, they would even forget their ancestral surnames. In addition, they generally believed in Buddhism, so they would really treat Zhang Zhao as a god.

"Wang Jin, a hundred households of the Guanzhong Department of Jinyi's personal guards, also submitted a secret letter." Zhang Liecheng immediately handed over the secret report of Jinyi's personal guards.

Zhang Zhao opened it and saw that there were three parts in the content, one part was the secret report of Zhao Erlang, Qianhu of Liangchuan Division.

The content is a comprehensive analysis of Li Hao, Li Xiaofeng's father and son's status, interpersonal relationship, daily preferences and behavior style in Mengshu.

The other part is the personal report of Wang Jin, a hundred households of the Guanzhong Division. Based on his contact with Li Xiaofeng, he analyzed Li Xiaofeng's temperament and preferences.

Behind the two reports is the compilation and summary of the deputy commander Zhang Lieming.

After the analysis of experts in Jinyi's personal guards, such as instigating rebellion and spying on traitors, the result is that his father Li Haoxi is extravagant, especially values ​​family status, and is often proud of his great-grandfather Li Shen. Although he is talented and learned, his waist is not tough.

But he wouldn't let him take the initiative to betray Meng Chang, but if it was done, would he have the guts to resist Da Zhou?

For Li Xiaofeng who is on the mission this time, the evaluation is that his ability is mediocre, but he still knows loyalty, filial piety and righteousness.

However, due to the influence of his grandmother, father and family background, he actually only regards Meng Shu as a separate regime in his heart.

Like his father, he yearned for a unified dynasty, and yearned for the scene where his fifth ancestor Li Shen was the prime minister of the dynasty.

And there is another point worth noting is that Li Xiaofeng's qualifications are mediocre, and after he got a position in the matter, there is no further improvement.

On the contrary, his 15-year-old younger brother Li Xiaolian is extremely outstanding, beautiful and talented, and is liked by his father Li Hao. Even Shu Lord Meng Chang likes Li Xiaolian very much, and often says that he is willing to choose him as his son-in-law.

As the eldest son, Li Xiaofeng is under great pressure from his younger brother's excellence, and every time he wants to do something to impress his father.

Seeing this, Zhang Zhao chuckled. When a person with mediocre qualifications is unwilling to do nothing and wants to do something, the opportunity to take advantage of the loopholes comes.

This is like engaging in pyramid schemes and micro-businesses. They have already recognized their own abilities, and they cannot deceive people who are lying down.Smart people will not be fooled by them.

Only those who look smart, but are actually mediocre, and are not willing to be mediocre for a lifetime, are their goals.

What's more, it is Zhang Shengren's strength to be a corporal and make full use of the great unification and the appeal of the Central Plains Dynasty!
But now there is one last question left, that is whether Li Xiaofeng's uncle Li Dalang and aunt Li Hanshi are willing to cooperate, is it reliable?

Zhang Liecheng looked at Zhang Zhao, a little hesitant, wanting to say something, but he didn't seem to dare to say it.

Zhang Zhao gave him a hard look, and then asked in a cold voice, "You don't mean to speak ill of Liu Zaisheng here, do you?"

Zhang Liecheng shook his head quickly, and said with a sneer: "I still know everyone's character, so I don't dare to have the idea of ​​slander.

I just feel that Lord Hotan was a little too unsympathetic this time, and the hundreds of households sent by my ministers are still beaten so hard that they can't get out of bed. "

Zhang Zhao snorted coldly. Jinyi's personal guards had actually received Wang Jin's report long ago. In order to make the report more perfect, Zhang Liecheng sent a hundred households to the military camp in Zhangwu Town, Xiangzhou to investigate. Li Dalang.

As a result, he was caught by the Jiedushi of Shannan Dongdao, the chief soldier of Zhangwu Town, and Liu Zaisheng, the Lord of Hetian County.

It's possible that Zhang Liecheng's thinking was too simple, but it was more likely to be a temptation by this kid.

Jinyi's personal guards have always wanted to set up a personal guards operation department in the army. This time, they probably wanted to take the opportunity to see the opinions of the commanders of the guards and the commanders of the towns, so Liu Zaisheng gave him a hard time.

Zhang Zhao actually supported Zhang Liecheng's idea at first, but after he recalled it, he immediately extinguished this idea.

Because the captain of the transportation team, No.11 Marshal Chang Gong, has already set a very bright example. He made Zhang Zhao clearly see the consequences of setting up a secret service in the army.

"When I first arrived at the place of my uncle, the Son of Heaven, Liu Zaisheng was the commander of the Palace Guard Army. In terms of seniority, he was your senior, and in terms of seniority, he belonged to your uncle's generation.

You sent someone to the army without saying hello, which is already a way to save face. If he encountered a stallion in Zhangye County who killed a talent, he would dare to follow the military law directly.

The focus of Jinyi's personal guards should be on Taiyuan, Youzhou and even the Khitan grassland.

The rich and powerful families in the Central Plains also need to be monitored. For example, the attack on Li Gu this time is an important target for Jinyi's personal guards to investigate in the next step. "

Zhang Liecheng sighed and hurriedly accepted his orders, not daring to say much on the surface, but regretful in his heart.

Zhang Zhao also sighed in his heart. Once a powerful and violent department is born, there will be countless vested interests who will promote this powerful department and continue to grab more power.

Zhang Liecheng may not be aware of it, or it may be said that he has enjoyed it, but Zhang Zhao, as the founder and controller of this country, must regulate their behavior.

Not long after Zhang Liecheng left, Guo Tiance came in. After Liu Zaisheng drove away the Jin Yiwei who went straight into the barracks, he sent a secret letter to Zhang Zhao to tell the story and admit his mistakes.

It not only repelled the possible interference of Jinyi's personal guards with the army, but also controlled the matter to a very small range.

After much consideration, Zhang Zhao chose to let Liu Zaisheng write a document to the Privy Council in the form of an official document.

It was necessary to give the world the impression that he, Zhang Zhao, did not agree with Jinyi's personal guards joining the army.

However, for Li Dalang from Zhangwu Town to cooperate with the imperial court, this matter still needs to be handled professionally by Jinyi's personal guards.

So now the only option is for the Privy Council to secretly write to Jinyi's personal guards and transfer Li Dalang's matter to Jinyi's personal guards. Guo Tiance came here for this matter.

. . . .

When Zhang Zhao began to carefully plan Zhang Xiaobao's idea, Zhang Xiaobao didn't expect his proposal to cause such a storm, because he was in a great shock.

Looking back now, Zhang Xiaobao found that Lanzhou was the same as he was familiar with. The fields intersected, cattle and sheep blocked the road, young men rode strong horses and drew strong bows, waiting for the emperor's call at any time. He didn't ask whether the enemy was strong, but where the enemy was.

Zhang Xiaobao thought that Liangzhou must be the same, but the actual situation almost blinded him.

Because the people and officials of Liangzhou, in addition to possessing the characteristics of Lanzhou people, also added some culture.

And this kind of elegance is not the kind of elegance emanating from the bones, but a kind of elegance that is stronger than their own body.

It feels like a butcher holding a butcher knife is slaughtering pigs and sheep, but what comes out of his mouth is Zhihu, too.

It is extremely inconsistent with the personality of Liangzhou people.

As the first batch of pro-army and forbidden soldiers who returned to Liangzhou, Zhang Xiaobao received a grand welcome.

Zhang Huaiqing, who stayed behind in Xijing, even came forward in person and organized a banquet to welcome them.

And this banquet was different from the Hexi-style banquet organized by Jia Yanchang, the governor of Lanzhou.

Everyone was wearing Taoist robes, with net scarves tied on their heads, and they looked like scholars.

During the banquet, there was also a little less bravery and boldness, and a little more specious but not elegant.

Rather than saying that they are elegant scholars, it is better to say that they are more like a pack of wolves in sheep's clothing.

And the most important entertainment during the banquet was actually poetry!
For example, Zhang Huaiqing, who stayed behind in Xijing, wrote a song "The bright moon shines in the sky, and the beauty on the ground arrives."If it is covered by dark clouds, who knows if it is pretty? '

Uh.!how to say?Kinda rhymes!
After Zhang Huaiqing finished writing the poem, everyone looked at Zhang Xiaobao in unison.

Zhang Xiaobao pointed to his nose in horror, "You don't want me to write poems, do you?"

"Don't you know? You have been to the Central Plains for so long, and you have stayed in Chang'an and Luoyang. Don't you know how to write poems? Didn't you get any literary spirit?"

An old man from the Yin family asked Zhang Xiaobao with his nose and eyes raised.

Zhang Xiaobao was dumbfounded for a moment, carefully recalling what he did in the Central Plains.

It seems that many people have been killed, many rewards have been received, and the rank of officials has been promoted, but they have never learned to compose poetry!
The old man from the Yin family trembled immediately when he saw Zhang Xiaobao's tongue-tied expression.

But this annoyed Zhang Xiaobao's cousin, the old man who had been a shepherd all his life but suddenly became rich, had two reverse scales.

The first is to never allow anyone to say anything bad about Zhang Zhao.

The second is naturally to protect the next generation of descendants who joined the army to kill the enemy and supported the entire Zhang family's family business.

Seeing the expression of the old man of the Yin family, the old man Zhang immediately exploded. He jumped out all of a sudden, and with his hands like sticks, he hit the old man of the Yin family directly on the chest.

The old man of the Yin family was caught off guard and was knocked to the ground immediately, but got up immediately, and the two of them fought into a ball in the banquet hall.

And these people around have long been impatient to pretend to be gentle, except for Zhang Huaiqing who yelled "disgrace the gentleness, insult the gentleness!" 'Besides wanting to maintain the feeling of being a cultural person, everyone started booing.

Zhang Xiaobao was just outside the crowd, watching them make a fuss in the banquet hall. In the end, the old man of the Yin family and the old man of the Zhang family found two sets of armor from nowhere.

The two were wearing cowhide armor, holding a black-painted wooden stick in one hand, and a shield in the other, and they fought in the banquet hall with full armor.

If Zhang Zhao were here, he would have opened his mouth and yelled very familiarly, 'Isn't this fucking full-armor fighting? '

at last!

Zhang Xiaobao wiped the cold sweat off his forehead. After the two elders fought together, he finally felt that the temperament that belonged to Liangzhou had returned.

He finally felt relieved, Liangzhou seemed to be the same Liangzhou.

So the banquet that day ended in various fights and frolics, Zhang Xiaobao didn't even know when he would go home, because he was already too drunk.

. . . . .

The sound of birds chirping in the morning woke Zhang Xiaobao up again, but this time there was no soft and fiery body around him, only a few half-grown nephews banging on his door outside.

It turned out that today was the day when Zhang Xiaobao made an appointment with them to go back to Baima Village together.

After simply washing up and eating two cakes, Zhang Xiaobao was urged by his nephews to ride out of Liangzhou City. It seemed that they didn't like the weirdness of Liangzhou City too much.

After leaving the city full of strange Zhihu people and disguised by robes, Zhang Xiaobao could clearly feel that even greater changes had taken place in this city before he left Liangzhou City.

There seemed to be more merchants going west and east. People of all kinds had already broken through the city walls of Liangzhou, and they formed a large gathering area next to the city walls outside the city.

And due to the prosperity of Liangzhou City, Liangzhou's agricultural products can always be sold at a good price, so in the countryside, the average land of the government soldiers is extremely valuable.

However, there is a problem that at least [-]% to [-]% of the land here is not well cultivated and planted.

With such an advantage, there is still land that has not been carefully cultivated, which can only explain one problem.

The middle-aged labor force who stayed around Liangzhou, or Liangzhou Yicong who was cited by the sage as his confidant, has lost a lot in the recent period.

In fact, this can be seen from Zhang Xiaobao's family. Originally, including their father, elder brother, and a younger brother, as well as their mother, sister-in-law, etc., the average land alone was as much as [-] mu.

But how many people in their family are tending these fields now?

The answer is none, his elder brother is already the Marquis of Youdu in the infantry of Shashandu, and his father is the battalion commander in Wuwei Town.

17 years old's younger brother, Yunwen Yunwu, has been admitted to the newly established Longtao Academy by the sage, and passed the Mingjing examination last year.

It is said that the sage admired him so much that he intended to be promoted to serve as a scholar of Hanlin.

So now, their family can't even get a man who is farming, and with their current status and the rewards they have obtained, they are rich.

The more than [-] mu of land in Liangzhou, more than [-] miles away, is really a bit tasteless.

So when Zhang Xiaobao came back this time, there was actually one more thing to do, which was to find a way to see if he could lease out the [-] mu of land that could not be transferred.

The annual output is not expected to be too much, but if it can increase the income by tens of thousands of dollars, that is not bad.

But when he arrived in Xiabaima Village, Zhang Xiaobao soon discovered that this idea would not work at all.

Because Xiabaima Village used to have a family of over a hundred men, but now there are only more than [-] men left.

Among them, there are at least ten people who retired due to injuries. Because of their disabilities, they cannot plant much land.

The rest of these people also have at least four to five hundred acres of land. After they have finished their work, they really have no ability to rent and plant other land.

Moreover, Zhang Xiaobao knew that if the battle in the Central Plains became urgent again and the saint wanted to transfer troops from Hexi, it is estimated that many of the remaining twenty or so people would be transferred away as righteous cavalry or united archers.

This was something Zhang Xiaobao had never thought about before. He stood at the gate of this familiar yet unfamiliar Xiabaima Village, thinking about it for a long time.

I can't figure it out, the land that was originally regarded as a treasure will lose its value in Liangzhou.

This Liangzhou seems to be different.

　There is an update of [-] words in the evening, making up for the update that I didn't have time for yesterday's business trip.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)