Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 772
Chapter [-] The money giver is here
Zhao Haoxin is 30 years old, but he looks more like an old man in his twilight years.Of course, this does not mean that Zhao Haoxin looks old, but mature.His beard, which was more than one foot long, was fluttering in the wind, and his wide sleeves made him appear graceful.

When Zhao Haoxin supported the elderly Zhao Boying and came to Miquan City with a big brass seal in his arms, he even had an illusion that this was not a city at all, but a huge sheepfold.Even the so-called city wall is three feet high, but in the whole city, not to mention houses, there is not even a thatched shed.

The three official script characters of "Miquan County" engraved on the bluestone slabs show that this is a county seat.Zhao Haoxin's face twitched unconsciously: "This is Miquan County? It's even more than one mile away from our Zhaojiabao. Dad, this is the future for you to travel thousands of miles away?"

"Bang!" Zhao Boying raised the crutch in his hand without knowing where the strength came from, and slammed it heavily on Zhao Haoxin's forehead.Zhao Boying's beard was furious, and he roared desperately: "You son, kneel down!"

Powerful landowners and aristocratic clans are two completely different classes. Aristocratic clans are also called "noble clans", "shi surnames", "jun surnames", "everyone", "famous families", "valley surnames", and so on.This is a privileged class that takes the family as the unit and family status as the standard, and occupies a special position in social, political and economic life.Politically, the nobles and nobles have a lofty status. They monopolize official careers, control the central government, and become a disguised class of nobles and nobles.In terms of economy, the powerful and noble clans merged land, sealed mountains and swamps, occupied the population, managed industries extensively, and developed a self-sufficient economy in the style of pastoral villas.In terms of social life, the powerful and noble clan is a superior social class and has a lofty social status.

However, the tyrannical landlords were a new class between the aristocratic family and the common people.Although they have the same land and wealth as the aristocrats, they do not have the privileges of exemption from military service and taxation of the aristocratic aristocrats, and they are also the key targets of suppression by the aristocratic clans.

Although Haoqiang has a lot of wealth, he suffers from lack of political power.

Human nature has always been greedy.Even the waiters in a restaurant have their own ambitions and desires. They also want to make money, marry the boss's daughter, and become the shopkeeper of the restaurant.Of course, the same is true for powerful landlords. They have astonishing wealth. They practice martial arts and literature in order to obtain a political status that matches their wealth.

Zhao Boying yelled coldly: "Do you know you're wrong?"

Zhao Haoxin was naturally unwilling to admit his mistake in confidence, but seeing Zhao Boying raised the crutch in his hand again, Zhao Haoxin murmured, "I know I was wrong!"

Zhao Boying was trembling with anger, raised his crutches and hit the ground heavily, pointing at Zhao Hao and saying, "You know what a fart!"

The main reason why Zhao Boying made up his mind to move his family to the Western Regions was because last year, Zhao Boying told Zhao Haoxin about a marriage. The other party was from the Guo family in Fenyang, and his family was Guo Pu, a famous writer in the Jin Dynasty. In the past, the most powerful official of the Guo family in Fenyang is Guo Yi, the Minister of Shangshu, who is a sixth-rank official, which is quite special.Ling Shi's status is low and is disdainful by scholars, but in any case, the Guo family in Fenyang is still a family.

Guo's marriage to Zhao Haoxin as his wife is also considered a marriage.However, as mentioned earlier, who knows, when she was about to get married, Guo's daughter married a partial younger brother of Li's in another Zhaozhou.Zhao Boying was so angry that he brought someone to the door to make a theory, but was humiliated by others. Zhao Haoxin was also too angry. He asked someone to make a theory, but who knows, he was beaten up again...

Because the Guo family in Fenyang was a noble family, they were greedy for the bride price of [-] guan from the Zhao family in Shuozhou, but Zhao Boying had nowhere to ask.According to the etiquette and law of the Tang Dynasty, the people of the world did not marry, and this marriage itself had problems. On the contrary, their Zhao family was a toad who wanted to eat swan meat.However, Zhao Boying became seriously ill with anger and was bedridden for more than three months before he recovered.

If the Zhao family is also an aristocratic family, even if the Guo family is lent three guts, they would not dare to marry one daughter twice.The key is that the Zhao family is determined to suffer from this kind of loss, and even Chen Ying can't intervene.

Zhao Boying pointed to the empty Miquan City and said, "What's wrong with Miquan? There are mountains and waters, land and fields, and we have more than 8000 cattle. We missed the farming season this year, so hurry up and build houses. If I can have a nest where I can settle down, at most this year will be more difficult, and next year will be much better. What's more, if my father takes over as the magistrate of Miquan County, we in Miquan County only need to fabricate [-] households. After that, our Zhao family in Shuozhou can be designated as the next family."

Zhao Haoxin didn't understand Zhao Boying's real intention until now.

Although Chen Ying only gave Zhao Boying a county magistrate in name only, but this county magistrate is a high-ranking official. After three generations, they can become a family. Even the lowest family is something that powerful and common people need to look up to. exist.

Zhao Haoxin lowered his head and said, "My child understands!"

Zhao Boying roared in a low voice: "If you understand, hurry up and go to work. From now on, Miquan in Xizhou will be the place where our Zhao family started. There are abundant rivers, dense water pools, and weeds are as tall as a person. There is no reason why we can't grow crops." If you manage Miquan well, you can still work as a father for a few years, and the Zhao family will be handed over to you in the future, and this Miquan decree is also yours!"

Zhao Boying knows how difficult it is to start from scratch. Since he took over the family business of his ancestors, he has been working tremblingly for decades, which even caused his old wife to die early due to overwork.The family business is inherited from generation to generation, and then generations will add bricks and tiles to become a big family. Zhao Boying firmly believes in this.At that time, the Zhao family in Shuozhou was a child guest of the Zhao family in Tianshui. Because of their diligence, they were given the surname Zhao. Then they left the town of Shuozhou with the head of the family, and stayed in Shuozhou due to injuries. After the unremitting efforts of more than ten generations in the Han Dynasty, Wei and Jin Dynasties for hundreds of years , This has thousands of fertile fields and thousands of tenants.

However, now that it's my generation, I can finally hope to break away from the shackles of the common people.

The industrious children of the Zhao family began to work intensely. Some of them dug soil to build brick kilns and prepared to burn bricks. Even women and children were not idle. They cut down the weeds that were as tall as a person, and some left them to feed cattle , feed the horses, and more is to dry first, this kind of thatch can replace tiles and make roofs.

Following the arrival of the six tyrants of Shuozhou and their tenants in Xizhou, Chen Ying drew six cities on the map, cast six Zhengxian seals, and took over the six cities.

The second great event was that the first cotton spinning mill in the Western Regions was finally put into production.As the autumn harvest of the sixth year of Wude is approaching, the cotton planting area in the Western Regions will exceed 2000 million catties of cotton production this year. However, since cotton bedding is not a consumable product that is changed every year, this year's cotton will be rich. It was not in the interests of the people of Xizhou Road, so Chen Ying decided to digest the production capacity on the spot, spinning the excess cotton into thread, and then weaving.

Once the autumn harvest really came and a large amount of cotton raw materials entered the factory, the textile factory could spin 12 bolts of cotton cloth. These cotton cloths could not only be made into military uniforms, but also sold in the market, and could also become a popular commodity in the Western Regions.

Of course, Chen Ying can sell the cotton cloth that he digested internally at the cost price plus a meager profit, and then naturally make a huge profit on the cotton cloth that is exported.

The third thing is that families of soldiers continue to move over from Guanzhong to take refuge with their sons and brothers who are soldiers in the Anxi Army.Each soldier can obtain 150 mu of fertile military land, which is incomparably attractive to farmers. All of them are moved by the whole family. One hundred acres of Dingkou field.

The Anxi Army has more than [-] soldiers and tens of thousands of land.However, for the Western Regions, the reclamation of this field is less than one-tenth of the reclamation of later generations.

As a result, the population of Xizhou Road has risen sharply, surpassing the peak period of one million people, and it is still growing steadily. In addition to the Han slaves rescued from the Tubo Plateau, it is very easy for the total population to break through the 150 million mark. .

All in all, everything is moving in a good direction. With everyone working together, it is not impossible for the Western Regions to become the West Dacang.

Chen Ying was even more excited. He led the army and marched long distances, training while marching. At the same time, he was inspecting the six counties of Populus euphratica, Hewan, Jingjue, Hongta, Miquan, and Weihu, and watched the houses stand upright. From then on, Chen Ying was overjoyed to watch the new towns change their appearance every day.

When Chen Ying inspected Miquan County, Miquan County had become bustling with people.There is a lot of rice spring water, so the grass is lush. The industrious Zhao Boying led his people to use their skillful hands to not only build a new home, but also use these worthless weeds to weave straw hats, straw sandals, straw mats, and coir raincoats. Tables, boxes, beard beds, and all kinds of work furniture, using these handicrafts, exchange sheep and leather goods with the surrounding nomadic tribes...

Chen Ying was about to enter Miquan City accompanied by Zhao Boying. At this moment, Li Daozhen came on horseback. When the galloping horse arrived within three steps of Chen Ying, Li Daozhen got off his horse and said to Chen Ying: "Chen Lang, there is a Big merchants are looking for you to buy cotton!"

Despite the spinning mills, cotton is still not consumed cleanly.At this time, there are merchants who want to buy cotton, and it is almost dozed off, and someone sends a pillow.

This was a major event, so Chen Ying naturally didn't dare to neglect it, and hurriedly led the people towards Mulan City.

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In Mulan City, in the guardhouse of the capital of the Western Regions, a woman in white with long sleeves fluttering was sitting in the living room drinking tea upright, behind him stood a few tall men in bare hands, their palms were covered with thick calluses , muscular, fierce eyes, obviously his bodyguard.

The lady in white turned her back to Chen Ying, even though she knew that Chen Ying had come to the hall, she still sat on the soft couch, motionless.

A businessman, so rude, Chen Ying felt a little displeased, if it wasn't for the generous gift she put on the table, Chen Ying would have invited her out.

"It's fragrant and refreshing. Before I drink it, my mouth and tongue are full of fluids, and I feel comfortable all over. Good tea, really good tea." After drinking a cup of tea, the woman in white reluctantly put down the teacup, clicked her mouth and said, "It's really good." I didn't expect my little cousin to be so proficient in tea ceremony, he is really a wonderful person..."

Hearing this, Chen Ying widened his eyes, looked at Yang Rong in disbelief and said, "Big cousin, why are you here?"

(End of this chapter)