Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 199 Declaring Sovereignty
Although running the army is the most important thing, it is an easy thing to do. After all, the Tang Dynasty has a complete military system, and everything can be traced.However, development is the most cumbersome and confusing link.

Now Lingzhou has more than 4000 Turkic people who surrendered and more than 15 Turkic prisoners of war. Among the Turkic people who surrendered, the young and strong were all transferred into the army by Chen Ying, so as to prevent them from causing chaos in the local area.As for the prisoners of war, under the management of Chen Yingyi Hu Zhihu, they are also very stable.However, with 15 people settling down in Lingzhou, plus the current population of Lingzhou, the population of Lingzhou exceeded [-], approaching the [-] mark.How to solve the problem of nearly [-] mouths to eat is an urgent problem.

More than [-]% of the population of more than [-] are women, but in this era, Chen Ying only wants to treat women as men and men as livestock.But these people, apart from the tattered clothes on their bodies, have nothing else to do.It is simply not feasible to let them go directly to reclamation and land reclamation.

The only way is to learn from Cao Cao to garrison the land. Chen Ying naturally knew that Cao Wei's demise was the usurpation of the Sima family, rather it was the collapse of the garrison system.At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, wars continued year after year, social productivity was greatly damaged, the land was barren, the population dropped sharply, and food shortages formed serious social problems.After Cao Cao occupied Qingzhou, there were millions of homeless refugees in Qingzhou at that time.At this time, Cao Cao established the system of farming, that is, with 60 people as a village, the government provided farming tools and seeds, the common people provided manpower, and the income from farming, the government provided six farmers and four.

In the later period of Cao Wei, the amount of exploitation of farmland became more and more serious, and the distribution ratio reached the level of eight officials and two people, which caused the fleeing and resistance of the villagers.The tuntian land was continuously invaded by powerful families, so the tuntian system was gradually destroyed.But right now, Chen Ying has no choice but to adopt the farming system.

Because these are the alternatives.Of course, Chen Ying did not directly copy Cao Cao's farming system, but built collective farms on the basis of the Baojia system, with the fort as a unit.The government provides seeds, tools, and livestock for collective creation.Where Chen should improve, this collective farm is not permanent, but has a certain time limit.

All seeds, farm tools, and animals are discounted, and the interest calculation method is [-]% per annum. According to the voluntary principle of the people who signed the contract, these seeds, farm tools, and animals will be repaid in three or five years.If a farmer receives ten guan in financial support and pays off in five years, he needs to repay [-] guan.If the interest rate is high, even Chen Ying is speechless, because in this era, even the most conscientious landlords borrow [-]% interest as the minimum.Passing will return compound interest, which is already the most conscientious interest.

Even if Chen Ying still has more than [-] Turkic prisoners of war who can provide human resources in mining coal mines, iron ore, and manufacturing blast furnace steel, but building farms and farming, accumulating fertile fields, buying animal power, making farm tools, building water conservancy facilities, and roads The construction of buildings and villages and towns in gathering places all require long-term continuous investment.

In the next period of time, in addition to increasing investment in Lingzhou and reclaiming wasteland with the formation of collective farms for farming, the most important type of investment is the construction of various factories.

In the early stage, it is inevitable to invest in resettling refugees, building village forts, town forts, and surrounding buildings.After all, Lingzhou is directly under the cover of the Turkic soldiers. If the Turkic people take risks and break through the Dingyuan Army's defense line, it will cause devastating losses.For this reason, Chen Ying had to delay the construction of the blast furnace and give priority to burning bricks with the coal mined by the Turkic prisoners of war.

Yang Ze, the governor of Lingzhou, discussed with Chen Ying and Xu Jingzong many times in a row. After careful calculation, he finally came to the conclusion that if he wanted to complete the construction of 180 village forts in the eighteen towns, the investment in bricks and tiles alone would be as many as six Seventy thousand guan, but Chen Ying has so little money in his hands.

In the Battle of Lingzhou, Chen Ying did capture a lot. However, apart from paying [-]% of the battle results to the court and cashing in the rewards for meritorious soldiers, Chen Ying can spend no more than [-] guan, of course, this does not include nearly [-] yuan. Expenses of famous soldiers.

The weather is gradually getting warmer, and the people are in full swing to reclaim wasteland.However, the treasury that was about to bottom out made Chen Ying helpless.Although Yang Ze asked the imperial court for support, Chen Ying knew that the landlords in Chang'an did not have much surplus food, and it was the imperial court's best effort to allocate [-] shi of grain to Lingzhou.

Seeing that Chen Ying was at a loss, Xu Jingzong proposed a bad idea to Chen Ying: "Choose a few big families at random, frame them as collaborators, and then confiscate (meaning copy the house) their property!"

Chen Ying refused almost without thinking.

What a joke.

Not putting all eggs in one basket is the habit of a large family for generations. It is a big proposition to pass on the family forever. It's no surprise.

Take the Zheng family in Xingyang as an example, Zheng Guanyin married Li Jian as his wife, but Zheng Jibo, the main family of the Zheng family in Xingyang, supported Wang Shichong in the first house, while Zheng Shanguo in the other house supported Li Mi.When the situation in the world is unclear, no matter whether Li Mi, Li Yuan or Wang Shichong wins the world, the Zheng family can flourish.

Each is a good fig leaf for its own master.Even if one brother kills another brother, isn't there still one brother who is alive and well?The family can survive for a few more years.It's an ancient piece of wisdom, and while it doesn't seem all that heroic, surviving is better than nothing.

If Chen Ying really dared to pierce this fig leaf, it would be a hole in the sky.Chen Ying will become the public enemy of the world's elites. I am afraid that Chen Ying just ransacked someone else's house, and Li Yuan will then raid Chen Ying's house.

However, Xu Jingzong finally pointed out a way for Chen Ying.

In terms of the fastest way to get rich, it's not stocks or real estate, but blatant robbery.Chen Ying himself fell into a misunderstanding. Although he has no money, he has [-] troops. If he releases the [-] troops, he can gain a lot.

Thinking of this, Chen Ying immediately had an idea: "Mr. Xu is really talented, and he hit the nail on the head!"

Hearing this, Xu Jingzong was a little baffled.

Chen Ying did not explain, but immediately recruited Yu Guni, Ashina Simo and Chen Jinyong.When the three returned from the training ground in a hurry, Chen Ying asked straight to the point: "Where is the border line currently being patrolled by the army's scouts?"

Ashina Simo looked at Chen Ying in surprise and said, "According to the general's original order, go west to the foot of Helan Mountain, east to the Great Wall, and north to Huaiyuan!"

Chen Ying shook his head and said, "Huaiyuan is our territory of the Tang Dynasty. Now that the weather is getting warmer, the Turkic people can no longer hold back. Send someone through Ashina Tulifer to let him leave Huaiyuan, or you will bear the consequences!"

Hearing that Chen Ying was about to beat up the Turks, Yu Guni excitedly shouted: "My master, your loyal servant will do it right away!"

Chen Ying waved his hand and said: "Huaiyuan, don't be in a hurry for now, Lian County (now the Nuanquan Farm area of ​​Pingluo County, Ningxia) has been our Chinese territory since ancient times. In recent years, Han cavalry has not arrived in Lian County. Now we want to declare to Lian County sovereignty!"

(End of this chapter)