Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 1258 Autumn Hunt
Anton.

The autumn is crisp and the sun is shining brightly. Villagers from all over Andong are taking advantage of the good weather to rush to harvest the crops in the field. This year is another bumper year.

People from the government came to buy the newly planted rice immediately. This year's unified grain purchase price is much higher than in previous years.The purchase price of a stone of rice is [-] Wen, which is much higher than in previous years. I heard that the imperial court caused by the severe drought in the Central Plains this year has also raised the purchase price of grain a lot.

The newly harvested rice has just been dried here, and officials help to bag it and weigh it away. The silver coins, copper coins and silk cloth are paid directly.

By the way, I also helped them transport the land rent to be paid this year to the official warehouse, without their own efforts.

"This year's harvest is good!" An old man held an abacus in his hand, and he was responsible for helping the villagers to calculate and check.Many villagers are illiterate and do not know how to count, so the amount of food they pay depends on this old man.

The original golden field outside the village has been harvested in just ten days, and now there are only patches of bare land, the leftover rice stubble, and the handfuls tied up to dry in the sun. straw.

"The imperial court is still sympathetic to the people. After paying the land tax and land rent, there is still a lot of food left besides the food purchased by the central government. In addition to leaving enough food for the family, there is still some free food left."

A tall man stood beside the old man, holding a flail in his hand, looking at the piles of grain bags on the drying ground.

"Well, the imperial court has done a very good job on this point. This year, it raised the price of the unified purchase of grain, and still left a lot of free grain for the people."

Although the unified purchase of grain is different from the land rent of the imperial grain, the imperial grain is the land tax of the two taxes, which includes various miscellaneous expenses such as land rent, free warehouse grain, and some commission money allocated to the field mu. Many, as long as there is no disaster or harm, the imperial grain cannot be discounted and will not give you money.

But the unified purchase of grain is different. This grain is actually sold to the imperial court by the common people, but it is purchased at a uniform price forcibly by the imperial court. In this way, after the common people pay the imperial grain and sell the unified grain, they can still keep enough rations, and even about [-]% of the free grain output is left.

"The price of free food should be higher this year, right?"

"Well, the unified purchase of grain has not been confiscated, and private grain merchants have not dared to come down, but I heard that this year's free grain price has reached [-] yuan a stone, and I guess it can be even higher."

The unified purchase of grain is a strategic reserve planned by the country. There is a specified amount every year to ensure that the grain produced in various places is mainly in the hands of the state. This year, the Central Plains suffered a catastrophe. Live the situation.

Of course, there is still some grain left for free trade in the market, but the share is smaller, usually [-]-[-]%.

These free grains can only go to the countryside to buy grains after the harvest of the centrally purchased grains, and their grain prices will naturally be higher.Among them, the most powerful grain merchant is naturally the Royal Grain Company under the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

"Unexpectedly, those of us long-time exiles living in the frontier can live a more stable and comfortable life than in the Central Plains!" The young man with the shackles in his hands laughed.

"It's good to be self-sufficient. In a few more good years, the house can be rebuilt." The old man said hehe.

"Uncle, have you thought about going back to the Central Plains?"

The old man fell into deep thought, "Actually, it's not bad to think about it here, it's quite solid."

"I want to go back to the Central Plains. Although this place is not bad, our family is in the Central Plains, and our ancestral graves are in the Central Plains. Uncle, the higher-ups have notified that the militiamen in various villages will have an autumn gathering soon. I guess there will be a war. An army came over, and a lot of military expenses were spent, so it is probably time to counterattack."

"I hope that I can make meritorious service, and maybe I can return to the Central Plains." The young man said to the old man, "I heard that Zhang Shigui made great contributions in the battle of Kucha in the Western Regions, and now he is not only exempted from his Changliu status, but also banned Conferred the title of Wensu County Captain of Gumo County."

Of course the old man knew Zhang Shigui, he and Zhang Shigui were ministers in the same palace.

"You are still young, and you don't want to waste your life here in the future. I can understand, but you have to be more careful. And you have to be mentally prepared. Anyway, our Yuwen family is no better than Zhang Shigui and others. The court treats us with respect. The distrust is deeper, maybe you put in ten times the effort, but you are not as good as others, understand?"

"Uncle, I understand. After I leave home, you and your aunt will help take care of the woman and baby in my house." When it comes to the Goguryeo woman and the young child in the house, how much does Yu Wencheng have? Very helpless, at the beginning he was cast under Dou Jiande's command, but in the end he was defeated by Li Xuanba during the battle with the Qin army, and finally he was captured alive by Changliu Anton.

After coming here, he reluctantly accepted the Goguryeo woman assigned by the government as his wife.

I used to think that this would be the end of my life. In this barren land, I would have children with a woman of a different race whom I despised, and this would be the end of my life. But who would have thought that there would be a chance to return to the Central Plains now.

Uncle Yuwen Shiji seems to be willing to stay in Anton with Princess Nanyang like this, content to be a schoolteacher and a village head, but he is still young and he doesn't want to stay here forever.

But as the son of a kingslayer, the future is very uncertain.

The Andong Yamen has issued an order for the autumn gathering of the militia, and Yuwen Chengdu still wants to give it a try.

a few days later.

After the autumn harvest, the villagers also handed in the sun-dried imperial grain and the unified purchase grain. The remaining grain was stored in the cellar and granary, and the rest was sold to the grain merchants.

In the joyful atmosphere of the autumn harvest, Yuwen Chengdu rode on his horse, and took thirty flail militiamen from Lin'an Tun, and set foot on the road to the autumn market in the county city with their flails on their horses.

Behind him, the Goguryeo wife with a pair of young children, like other villagers, stood at the door to see off her husband and brothers.

Daifang County, Seoul.

Xu Shiji moved to Seoul again, and there were [-] newly moved soldiers.

In the prefect's mansion, Xu Shiji was making arrangements against the map.

"This time our soldiers are strong and horses are strong, and we have enough food and grass. Now that autumn is high and horses are fat, it is a good time to attack. A certain plan plans to divide the troops into nine groups, and with the assistance of militiamen from various villages, they will stab Baekje several times. The goal of our attack this time is not to capture cities and land, but to rob and plunder villages. This year we have to harvest early, and most of Baekje has just started autumn harvest, so most of Baekje’s autumn grains are still in the fields and in the villages , so let’s grab food and people first.”

The elite Daqin soldiers led the hustling militiamen, instead of attacking the Baekje city, they wanted to rob the village. A group of officers stood there, thinking that they were killing chickens with a sledgehammer, and it was obvious that they wanted to bully the Baekje people.

"This is the will of the sage. When we fight, we have to fight to make money. Don't look at the sage who pulled out tens of millions of dollars for us, but this is just capital, not for us to spend. We have to earn more back. The sage said, destroy Baekje is not something that happens overnight, and everyone should not think about destroying the country in one battle like Cheng Yaojin. Let's take it easy, stab him a few times today, and cut him a few pieces tomorrow. The meat became fat, but Baekje lost blood and became weak, and in the end, he collapsed and died with a light push."

"Give me a battle plan, hurry up!" Xu Shiji said to the generals, "Be careful and thorough."

(End of this chapter)