Tang Dynasty good brother-in-law

Chapter 573
"Of course, I will repay you. Each of these 1 people has white rice to eat every day, and I will bring back [-] shi of grain for each person every year, and I will give you [-] shi of grain per person. how?"

Liu Mu's words made the patriarch unable to answer, and he said that he would go back to discuss.

After the banquet, Hayato left and left this place for Liu Mu to live in.

The banquet hall was emptied, and only Changsun Wuji, Pei Shiqing, and Liu Mu were left behind. The rest of the people could go to the surrounding area to relax. There is a good hot spring area and a scenic area by the sea.

"Pei Gong finished his drink today, his face is so red."

Liu Mu's words made Pei Shiqing's face even redder, and he quickly answered, "I drank a little too much today." Before Liu Mu could say anything else, Pei Shiqing immediately said, "I know you want to conscript the Sihanoukville Shipping Department. Some soldiers, but your price is too low, do you know how much the porters’ wages are in Chang’an?”

"do not know."

"The porters in Chang'an are among the lowest-income group. They can get about fifteen renminbi a day, and they can exchange for three and a half buckets of grain. They can get about ten shi of grain in exchange for a month." After Pei Shiqing finished speaking, Liu Mu took it. One sentence: "The price of food in Chang'an has fallen sharply."

"That's because there was a bumper harvest of grain in Bingzhou and Luoyang, and water conservancy was built in the Guanzhong area. There was a small drought at the beginning of last year. If it weren't for the criss-crossing canals, many people would have died in this drought. Although the production has been reduced a lot, it has been affected by the disaster after all. There are not many places, and there is not much food lost."

Pei Shiqing was telling Liu Mu that the golden age is coming, and the grain output of Datang is high, so the price is low.

Changsun Wuji also said: "In the workshop of Pei's family in Hedong, the craftsmen pay almost three to five hundred coins a month. I heard that your workshop in Sanyuan pays more."

"What do you mean?" Liu Mu asked the two to speak directly.

"It's just that you gave them too little. If it is doubled, they will probably agree today." Pei Shiqing gave a summary.

Liu Mu laughed: "This place is a little bigger than a palm. They said that there are nearly 120 Zhuangzi, and each of them has [-] households. According to the calculation of our Tang Dynasty, they have a population of nearly one million. This area is either sea or mountains. Why don't you two go and see what their citizens eat?"

"Go and have a look tomorrow." Changsun Wuji also thought it was a good idea to go and have a look.

At least Changsun Wuji also knows the ordinary life of the people in the poor counties around Chang'an.

In those days, Liu Mu...was regarded as the poorest in the category of poverty.

Pei Shiqing poured himself another cup: "I originally thought that you would go to the north first."

"why?"

"There is an island in the north, more than half of which are mountains, and it is quite big. According to historical records, the Han and Liaodong counties governed several islands. From the Han to the Northern Wei Dynasty, there has been providing sea giant oil for the court. According to etiquette, they are now It should be regarded as a vassal state of our Tang Dynasty, but the Tang Dynasty has never sent anyone to it."

"What?" Liu Mu really didn't expect it.

Pei Shiqing explained to Liu Mu in detail for a long time, because of the difference in geographic names and species names, it took Liu Mu a long time to understand.

It turns out that the islands that Pei Shiqing mentioned were Kuye Island, or... the Hokkaido of later generations.

The oil provided is whale oil.

"Are you sure?" Liu Mu couldn't believe it, why hadn't he seen similar records in the history books.

Changsun Wuji also said: "I have also read some documents from the previous dynasty, and this is indeed the case. The last written record was in the period of Emperor Xiaojing, and they claimed to be Ainu."

Liu Mu really didn't expect that there would be such a paragraph.

"It seems that we need to study it." Liu Mu smiled cheerfully. If it is really a vassal state of the Central Plains, then he can attack Yamato from the north to the south. This is indeed very good news.

In the next two days, Changsun Wuji and Pei Shiqing took people to look around, to see with their own eyes the lives of low-level people in Hayato, the lives of ordinary nobles, high-level... Forget it, there are no high-level nobles here, the so-called big nobles Putting it in Datang is not as good as the few soldiers under Liu Mu.

And Liu Mu accompanied Dugu Lanruo on a tour of mountains and rivers.

On the third day, a group of knights came here. They came from Kumamoto, led by a little nobleman of Hayato.

"Lang Jun, this is a letter from my general." The visitor delivered a letter from Liu Rengui.

When Liu Mu picked up the letter, the soldiers who delivered the letter and Liu Mu's guards blocked a circle around them, preventing anyone from getting close, let alone peeking at the letter.

Liu Mu opened the letter and saw that it was not Liu Rengui's, but Yuan Tiangang's.

In the letter, Yuan Tiangang looked at the sky and speculated that there would be a severe drought in the Jingzhao area this year, and then wrote some empirical evidence. The water level of the Weihe River dropped, and there was too little rain during spring plowing. There was no rain in many places. Year of drought.

There was already a small drought last year. If there is a major drought this year, there may be locust plagues.

Willow walked to a rock by the sea and sat down alone.

Liu Mu was recalling the history of the Tang Dynasty he had read. The Tang Dynasty in history was not a dynasty full of disasters, but floods, droughts, earthquakes, and locusts also occurred hundreds of times in the Tang Dynasty.

The two biggest disasters in the early years of Zhenguan, one was the severe drought in Guanzhong in the second year of Zhenguan, and the other was the flood in the lower reaches of the Yellow River and branch water systems in the fourth year of Zhenguan, probably in Hebei and Shandong.

At present, history has changed a bit, and this is the first year of Zhenguan.

But Wude has increased from nine years to ten years, so this year is the era of severe drought.

Dugu Lanruo saw Liu Mu sitting there thinking and also came over and stood beside Liu Mu.

Liu Mu said: "Brother Yuan said that there will be natural disasters, and it will be drought and locust plagues. According to his speculation, this year, Jingzhaoxi and Beibei may have no crops. It is so serious that the people need to sell their children and daughters, or even... ..."

"Changing children to eat?" Dugu Lanruo asked.

"It's not that serious, but people will definitely starve to death. There will be relief in Chang'an, but tax exemptions and public warehouse relief in various prefectures and counties may not be enough. Let me think about it, it may be a second for Senior Brother Yuan to send someone to deliver a letter." My brother may not believe that there will be a catastrophe." Liu Mu was a little confused.

It is recorded in history that Li Shimin was a top famous emperor, and it was Li Shimin who made Datang create the most complete disaster relief security system in history.

But Dugu Lanruo said: "In the first year when the second brother ascended the throne and changed his year name, there was a catastrophe. Even if he believed Brother Yuan's words, he might not be able to operate too much."

Liu Mu suddenly realized that, yes, a catastrophe occurred in the Guanzhong area in the first year of Zhenguan, which was recognized as a sign of heaven in the Tang Dynasty.It is very, very unfavorable, and it will even shake Li Shimin's throne.

　The state has been particularly bad these days, but it seems that it needs to be updated.

　　Let's do this, add two updates every week.

　　Within the next week, try to make two more updates.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)