Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 1233 Fighting the rivers and lakes again
"elder brother!"

"what happened?"

Luo Cheng was cooking, braised bamboo rats in the pot, when he heard the little girl calling her, he looked back.

The kitchen is very big. This kitchen is specially built for the emperor. It is just behind the emperor's imperial study. Sometimes the emperor cooks for himself.As the emperor, Luo Cheng has someone cook whatever he wants, but he still likes to cook by himself sometimes, especially when he encounters some troublesome things, he is busy making a few side dishes, and it seems that the troubles have dissipated a lot.

But today, it's not that I have encountered troubles again, but that the younger sister has entered the palace.

In the kitchen, the younger sister, Princess Yongjia, was peeling garlic, and she burst into tears while peeling.

"Brother, it suddenly occurred to me that in that year, grandpa and brothers all went to serve, and it was only my mother, my sister-in-law, and my little six brother in the family. All the food in the family had been paid in rent, and there was no harvest in the field. There was a famine. In the end, there was no other way. My mother married off both the third and fourth sisters. She took a few buckets of millet as a gift, but she couldn’t even afford the dowry. With that bit of millet, our mothers were finally not hungry. Die. Fifth brother, you came back from digging the river and took me to the third sister’s house. The third brother-in-law hunted and caught bamboo rats and came back. Fifth brother, you cooked bamboo rats and rabbits. Remember."

Luo Cheng shoveled the bamboo rat in the pot a few times, and walked to the little girl with a smile, "Silly girl, you still remember those, but why are you still crying?"

"I didn't cry, I just got some sand in my eyes."

"Silly girl, you are now the mother of several children. Why, did Du Fuwei make you feel wronged? You tell brother, brother will make the decision for you and peel off Du Fuwei's skin."

"No." The little girl smiled, "Just thinking about the past, it always feels like a dream."

At that time, the family was very poor and there were many people. As a young girl, she always had enough food in her memory, so all kinds of wild fruits and small bugs always became small retailers to satisfy her hunger.

At that time, she was always yellow and thin, as if a gust of wind would blow her away at any time.

But now, she is the eldest princess of the royal family, her husband is also the Duke of the state, and she has a real fief of a hundred miles, and she even has a princess Tang Muyi of a hundred miles.

She lives in a luxurious mansion with villas and manors, and there are countless servants and maidservants in the house, so she doesn't have to worry about food.

"Du Lang is very kind to me, wishing to pick me the stars in the sky. I know that Du Lang sometimes messes up, but he is sincere to me. Everything is fine now, but I often think of grandpa and aunt, and think of Brothers, I came to see you in the palace today, I didn’t expect you to remember bamboo rats and even cook for me.”

Luo Cheng turned his head and shoveled the bamboo rat meat in the pot a few times. He felt that his nose was not so blocked and sore, so he turned around.

"Actually, if you want, you can stay in Luoyang forever, and you can enter the palace whenever you want."

The little girl smiled.

"But now it's not the same as before. After marrying a husband and having children, I have to revolve around them. Besides, even if I stay in Luoyang, the eldest brother, the second brother, the third brother, the fourth brother and the sixth brother are not in Beijing. The eldest sister and the second sister The third and fourth sisters are also out with their brothers-in-law, after all, the whole family can no longer be as neat and tidy as before."

Luo Cheng also sighed.

That's right, a married daughter is water that is thrown out.

When I come back now, I am already visiting relatives.

A group of brothers and sisters, although they are all said to be rich now, they are all scattered around, and it is rare to get together once or twice a year.

"In the future, I will often go back to Beijing during the Chinese New Year, so we brothers and sisters can get together."

The little girl nodded.

He got up, walked to the stove, looked at the golden bamboo rat meat that had been fried in the pot, reached out and blew a piece of it a few times before putting it in his mouth.

"Be careful!" Luo Cheng laughed.

"Brother's bamboo rat meat is still delicious, just like the first time I ate it."

"That's right, my brother has a secret to cooking."

When the bamboo rat was ready, the siblings sat there and ate, as if they were back to the beginning.

"Brother, Du Lang wants to come out and do something."

Du Fuwei had been guarding Huainan earlier, and later he was also affected by his involvement in the matter of assisting the public shrine. Later, Du Fuwei was impeached by the censor for corruption and other matters. Although the emperor did not investigate it in the end, he was still exempt Let him go to the kingdom of feudal vassal, which is actually dismissal.

After all, Du Fuwei has been idle for more than a year.

"Oh, did he say where he wants to go?" Luo Cheng picked out a few pieces of skin-on bamboo rat meat for the little girl with chopsticks. This kind of skin-on meat is the most delicious. The skin is soft and the meat is tender.

"Du Lang said that you can go wherever you want. You just want to do something, and you don't want to take up idle positions. It doesn't matter if you are high or low. Even if you are a county lieutenant, you can be a county lieutenant. If you really can't, you can also be a county lieutenant."

Luo Cheng chuckled.

The county lieutenant is in charge of commanding the army, and the county lieutenant used to be in charge of the affairs of the various waters, but now he is in charge of law and order, catching thieves and leading the township militia, which is also a military post.

It can be said that Du Fuwei, as a meritorious official of Lingyan Pavilion and one of the former Eight Great Jiedu Envoys, if he were to be a county captain, it would be unreasonable, let alone a county captain.

Speaking of which, it is more appropriate to arrange for Du Fuwei to return to Huainan, but now the area from Huainan to Xiangyang Hanzhong is guarded by the emperor's three adopted sons Kan Ling, Wang Xiongdan and Ximen Junyi. Wei's subordinates, but the emperor believed that if Du Fuwei went back, it would not help the situation in Huainan.

"How about going to Yunnan? I will appoint him as the commander of the left governor of Yunnan Dao and the prefect of Kunming County, and then transfer Gong Er to be the prefect of Lijiang County of Yunnan Dao. It happens that the fourth son has been doing a lot there recently. He said in the report that he would To start a war against the barbarians in the Erhai Lake area requires reinforcements from the imperial court, and it is estimated that there will be many wars in Yunnan in the next period of time."

In the area of ​​Yunnan, during the Northern Zhou and Sui dynasties, the biggest force was the Cuan clan. By the time of the Sui Dynasty, it had been divided into Dong Cuan and Xi Cuan. Dong Cuan was also called Wuman, and Xi Cuan was called Baiman.

Up to now, around the Erhai Lake, six powerful states have been formed.

There are three waves on the north shore of Erhai Lake, namely, Binji, Shilang, and Langqiong. These three waves are the states established by the Heman people.

On the west bank of the Erhai Lake, there are Mengyi and Mengshe, which are states established by the Ailao people.

Yuexi, to the east of the Erhai Lake, is a state established by the Mosome people.

The Heman people and the Moxie people belonged to Baiman, and the two countries established by the Ailao people belonged to Wuman.

In the six kingdoms, the Yi language called the king an imperial edict, so it was also called the six imperial edicts.

Among them, Mengshe Kingdom is in the south of Zhubu, so it is also called Nanzhao Kingdom.

From the Cuan Clan alliance in the early days to the Liuzhao that is now gradually divided into Wuman and Baiman, the situation in Yunnan is changing rapidly, and a large part of this is due to the re-entry of Central Plains forces to support the chaos.

The former Cuan family can no longer really control Yunnan, and now it has become the Liuzhao in the Erhai area, the imperial counties in the Kunming area, and the Cunxiao in the Lijiang area.

The counties and counties around Kunming are constantly building roads and cities, and the princes around Lijiang are even more proactive, and they are constantly at odds with those barbarians.

The situation is already tense and a war is inevitable.

Luo Cheng knew clearly that the fourth child was not willing to be lonely in Lijiang, but he was constantly making troubles, and the barbarians couldn't bear it anymore.

But for this, although Luo Cheng had a clear insight through Jinyiwei and Huangchengsi, he didn't intend to stop it in the slightest.

The court's attitude towards Yunnan is actually the same as that towards Lingnan. It will never be willing to let these barbarians self-government, and it is impossible to accept Jimi counties and counties.

Although both Du Fuwei and Fu Gong Er have some flaws, they are just short-sighted after all, and both of them are relatively capable fighters, and they have been partners for a long time, and they have a very tacit understanding.The wife married by Fu Gong Er is Du Fuwei's younger sister.

If there is a word, it will make the work worse than the promise.

Du Fuwei and Fu Gong Er had been neglected by the emperor for a long time, and they both panicked. Let them go to Yunnan at this time, and they will definitely work hard.

As for treason and the like, Luo Cheng believed it would not happen.

Fu Gong Er once did the opposite, but I believe he will always remember the experience of that failure.

"Are there going to be wars again? I heard that there will be a big locust plague in the Central Plains this year. Isn't it appropriate to fight in a year of big disasters?" the little girl persuaded.

"This year's drought in the Central Plains is certain, but the locust plague is not necessarily the case. Now you can see that locusts are sold everywhere in Luoyang City. They are roasted, fried, and ground. If you haven't eaten However, I suggest you try it, it tastes pretty good."

It is just a simple drought and locust plague, no matter how serious it is, under normal circumstances, as long as the government rescues effectively, there will not be any major problems. The key lies in whether the imperial court and local governments have done anything.

"The imperial court has made surveys and statistics. In places where disasters may occur, most of the people still have food in their hands. Although not everyone can last for half a year, but with the opening of warehouses by the imperial court to release grain, it is actually enough to survive the disaster. Even, not In a small number of places, only the communal warehouses and free warehouses in the county are enough to survive this crisis. As long as no victims of the disaster are famine and flow, there will be no more troubles.”

The most fearful thing is that the hungry people will turn into refugees. In the end, the refugees will roll over like locusts and eat wherever they go. In some places, the food can be used to relieve the local disaster victims, but when a large number of refugees cross the border, they often eat the fragile local disaster relief food. Overwhelmed, and finally broke the government's disaster relief plan, so that more people joined the refugee ranks, and continued to grow like a snowball, and eventually destroyed one place after another like locusts crossing the border, making the government unable to rescue them in time. .

Therefore, as long as the victims are not allowed to move, the rescue will be much easier.

The imperial court is now basically convinced that although the severe drought cannot be changed this time, a large locust plague will hardly occur. There may be locust plagues in some counties, but the disaster will be much smaller, let alone sweep the Central Plains.

All granaries in various places have been inspected. Although some embezzled hamsters have been found, they are not serious. Grains have been replenished in a timely manner. The large transshipment warehouses and storage warehouses are all ready for battle. Even the emperor has issued a strict order. In the event of a disaster, all localities can directly open warehouses to release grain without asking for instructions.

"Du Da wants to do something, let him go to Yunnan, and you stay in Luoyang. As for Fu San, let him go to Yunnan with Du Da."

"I really miss Little Sixth Brother. I heard that he went to the extreme north, where is it frozen all the year round?"

"Well, thousands of miles away in the north, there is a world of ice and snow, and Xiao Liu is liking the North Country more and more."

"Will Brother Six come back for the Chinese New Year?"

"You didn't catch up with the Chinese New Year this year. When I returned to Beijing six years ago, I brought back many rare things from the North Kingdom, all kinds of precious furs. It's a pity that he left Beijing before you came. Wait for the Chinese New Year. He will definitely come to Beijing during the Chinese New Year. Then ask him to give you more furs."

The fourth child, Cunxiao, is in Lijiang, Yunnan, planning to take action against the Erhai Lake, while the younger Liu Shixin is busy leading the adventure fleet to find the barbarian tribes in the ice and snow in the north, proclaiming the might of the Great Qin Dynasty to them, and doing business.

Luo Cheng was in Luoyang, and he and his younger sister were having a great time frying bamboo rats in the emperor's private kitchen behind the imperial study.

"Last time, Shixin sent some husky long-haired dogs. I gave one to grandpa, but the house was demolished all day long. Grandpa was so annoying. If you don't mind, I'll send someone to your house later. If not You don't like it either, tell me, one day I'll kill it, and we brothers and sisters will eat it in a stew pot."

The little girl looked helpless.

"Brother, you are now the emperor, the emperor of hundreds of millions of people."

"Emperor is also a human being, and it's not that he doesn't need to eat human fireworks. Let me tell you, this husky from the north has the blood of wolves. If it is stewed in a pot, it will be absolutely delicious."

"Brother, have you already eaten?"

Luo Cheng nodded and admitted, "I used to raise a husky sent by Shi Xin, but this dead dog actually ate several of my memorials. How could I spare it? Of course it was stewed in a pot. It tastes really good. Even Your sister-in-law even agreed after eating it."

The little girl couldn't help but burst out laughing.

"I'll tell Brother Six later that you ate the gift he gave you."

"It's okay to tell. I sent a letter to Shixin a few days ago, saying that next time when I go to Beijing during the Chinese New Year, I will bring a few more of these huskies. They are delicious. Also, there are white-haired huskies in Beiguo. Polar bears have the best fur, and the meat is said to be of the highest quality. I asked him to bring a few back. If he is honest, he will raise them in the Luoyang Royal Zoo that is under construction. If he is dishonest, he will kill them to try something new. "

Last year, Shixin opened up a lot of new trading points, and many new tribes concluded trading relationships. A large number of northern furs traveled along the sea and arrived in Qingdao, Penglai, and Guangling ports on merchant ships. Ferret fur, beaver skin, and seal The arrival of many precious furs, such as skins and even whale skins, made him crazy about the aristocratic families in the whole of Daqin.

Although silk can also be made into all kinds of expensive clothes and crowns, how can those furs be more attractive? It's not that the clothes and crowns made of fur are better and warmer, but rare things are more expensive.

For those aristocratic and wealthy families, especially those noble ladies, silk and satin are too common, and fur from the north is the most popular, and no one is willing to be inferior.

As for Luo Cheng and Shi Xin brothers, Shi Xin transported these furs and made a lot of money, and Luo Cheng also made a lot of money.

Shibo tax and he also bought most of them through the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and then processed them into various luxurious furs for sale, which became popular in Chang'an and Luoyang, earning a lot of money.

When Shi Xin left last time, Luo Cheng sent him a lot of urgently needed merchant goods from the royal system, and even sent a merchant fleet to follow Shi Xin to the north.

Luo Cheng partnered with Shi Xin to start the northern fur trade. Other merchants hadn't noticed the huge business opportunities here, but the emperor immediately took the lead to seize the opportunity.

Every time he brings back a piece of ferret fur from the Northland, he can arm one more soldier, and every time he brings back a boat of fur, he can arm a new regiment. Money is not everything, but even a powerful Empire, also inseparable from money.

Money can be turned into weapons and equipment, can train soldiers, and can expand territories!
Every ferret coat and every beaver hat purchased by the ladies of Luoyang has made an outstanding contribution to Daqin!
(End of this chapter)