Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 845 Luoyang
Luoyang City is a new capital city. It is not the old city of Luoyang in the Han and Wei Dynasties, but a magnificent capital city newly built in the Daye Year.Although the flames of war burned to the Royal Xiyuan several times, Li Mi's soldiers and horses went to the city of Luoyang several times.

However, they never entered the city, and there was no real fierce offensive and defensive battle under Luoyang City. Before Li Mi and Wang Shichong could decide the outcome in the periphery, Luoyang City was captured by the Qin army's ingenious plan. Save Luoyang.

At least for the countless people in Luoyang City, if the Qin army arrived one day earlier, many of them would starve to death.

Before Pei Xingyan entered Luoyang City, there was no food to buy in Luoyang City. The nobles and powerful might have hoarded some food early, but ordinary people could only find their own way.When the Wei army was not besieging the city, they could go out of the city to dig some wild vegetables and the like, but when the Wei army besieged the city, they could only starve the city.

I am so hungry that I can buy two-legged sheep on the black market, and even exchange them for food.

During the period when Li Mi and Wang Shichong were competing for Luoyang, there was also a thing that Luo Cheng now looks very funny, that is, the people in the eastern capital were trapped and starved of food. Wang Shichong made a transaction request to Li Mi, which was to take money from Luoyang City The silk cloth was exchanged for the grain in Luokou warehouse in Li Mi's hand.

What's even more inconceivable is that Li Mi actually agreed to it at that time, and the two parties also carried out such transactions of exchanging money and silk for food several times.

Although Li Mi stopped trading in the end, many merchants in Dongdu still secretly traded with Wei Jun generals in exchange for food.

In the most difficult days in Luoyang City, Douliang was sold for tens of thousands of dollars, and it could only be traded in gold.

But now, things have changed a lot.

The four prime ministers and officials from Zhubu Temple who came from Fanyang quickly took over the mess in Luoyang.

And a boatload of grain is being transported from Shandong, Huainan, and Liaodong through the canal and the Yellow River.

"Your Majesty, according to His Majesty's instructions, the first batch of military rations brought from Donglai Port will be used for disaster relief first, and the registered rationing system will be implemented, and the relief will be replaced by work. The effect is excellent. Yesterday, no one died of hunger in Luoyang city. dead body."

The left servant of the Shangshu shot Du Ruhui and reported.

"Very good, food is precious, so the rationing system must be strictly enforced now, and these life-saving food must truly fall into the mouths of the people. It is strictly forbidden for anyone to collect food at a high price. From now on, private trading of food is prohibited, and businessmen are prohibited from hoarding food. Anyone who dares to sell grain in private will have all grain and their property confiscated, and they will be sentenced to exile in eastern Liaodong to farm.”

In fact, when Li Mi besieged Luoyang, Wang Shichong still had food in his hand, and there was also a granary in Luoyang City, which stored a lot of food.

In addition, many grain merchants and nobles also hoarded grain in their hands, but they would never take out their grain.

As for the black grain worth tens of thousands of dollars in the market, some of it was stolen by the granary officials, and some of it was bought by bold businessmen trading with Wei Jun outside the city. They risked smuggling. Can earn dozens of times the profit.

But now, Luo Cheng, no matter whether you are a former aristocrat or a celebrity of the gentry, it is strictly forbidden to hoard and store large amounts of grain without permission, and to sell and trade grain without permission. Violators will be directly punished with confiscation or even exile.

Merchants and nobles who have food in their hands can be allowed to keep more rations, allowing them to keep enough rations for a year, and the excess will be sold to the court.

And the imperial court's grain is not sold at will, but is rationed and sold. It has to be registered with the government first, and there is an identity certificate before there is a quota.

After the government registered them on the roster, they were issued ID cards and food stamps, which were only issued for three days at a time.With the ID card and the non-negotiable registered food stamp, go to the military granary that specializes in grain management to pick up the grain.

After receiving this relief food, they have to undertake corresponding free labor, and exchange labor for food.

It is under this kind of food policy that although the Qin army has not yet shipped much food, the food shortage in Luoyang has temporarily stabilized. At least everyone has porridge to drink without worrying about starving to death.

And every day, the grain transport fleet arrives at the Luoyang Canal, which makes the people feel at ease.

Although this food policy also violated the interests of many nobles and powerful people and grain merchants, Luo Chengcai would not care about them at this special time. Anyone who dared to openly resist the order would be severely punished if caught.

Stability is the first priority in everything. Only when everyone has food in their hands and can fill their stomachs can they be stable. Otherwise, people who are hungry can do anything.

On the one hand, there are countless hungry people, on the other hand, there are a few old dignitaries and powerful people. Luo Cheng knows very well which side he wants to stand on.

Everything is slowly recovering.

Several elite groups gathered in Shan County, Puban, Wuguan and other places, maintaining strong pressure on Guanzhong.

On the other hand, Luo Cheng also took many of the original soldiers and horses from Hedong, Henan, and selected some of the elite to keep them and mix them into the Qin army, and then took on the task of sweeping up local thieves and bandits.

The common people are still pale, but at least they are no longer staring blankly and numbly like walking corpses. Now everyone feels the hope of life and the rush.

The garbage in Luoyang City is also being cleaned up.

The streets are being cleaned up, and the three big markets of West Market, North Market, and Nan City have even begun to have merchants from Liaodong, Shandong, Huainan, and Hedong. They have brought all kinds of goods, although It was far less than the grand occasion of the 270th day of Dayechu, with tens of thousands of merchants, but it also restored some vitality to Luoyang City.

Local counties and townships are restoring order.

On the old site of the abandoned village, a group of newly resettled villagers ushered in. Carrying the rations they received, they dragged their families to their new homes, felling trees and collecting soil together, building new houses, and helping each other.

Although the wooden houses, thatched sheds, and bamboo fences are simple and simple, the smoke from the kitchen makes the village alive. After everyone's hard work, there are laughter and laughter, and the children also start chasing and playing with each other.

County guards, county magistrates, county magistrates, county lieutenants, township officials, village chiefs, and village chiefs.

Layers of organization are being sounded.

On the avenue, every twenty miles, a post station reopens.

And in each county, there will always be one or two military mansions, and even each county has a township militia.

There are no bandits and thieves rampant everywhere, no subordinate officials who are like wolves and tigers urging conscripts, and no local tyrants and evil gentry who take advantage of the fire to loot.

"Now Henan has experienced this catastrophe. It is poor and white, but poverty is not terrible. What is feared is chaos. As long as there is no chaos and stability, then everyone can live and work in peace and contentment. Farmers cultivate, craftsmen make utensils, and merchants sell, and they will soon prosper again. It's getting lively."

Fang Xuanling, the Minister of Zhongshu, said that there were more than 22 households in the original 300 counties of Luoyang. In addition to the Luoyang Suwei garrison and people in the court, Luoyang had a population of no less than [-] million.

But now, the entire Zhongjing Yingtianfu, Luoyang and the surrounding 20 counties together have a population of less than [-].

He suggested that the emperor should relocate local rich and powerful households from Liaoning, Andong, Hebei, Shandong, Huainan, Hedong and other roads to Luoyang to enrich the population of Zhongjing Yingtianfu.

In doing so, firstly, the population of Zhongjing can be enriched, and secondly, it can also draw wages from the bottom of the pot, reducing the strength of these powerful households that are not stable in the local area, so that the new dynasty can quickly strengthen its control in various places.

"Your Majesty, there is an urgent report from Hetao that Yun Dingxing was defeated in Jiuyuan and lost to the King Jin's troops. I hereby submit a petition to surrender."

"Oh, this is good news. It seems that Yun Dingxing has finally seen the situation clearly." Luo Cheng laughed.Jiuyuan County is the main point of the Hetao area. Taking this place will not only control the Hetao, but also pose a threat to Li Yuan in Guanzhong.

"It's just bad news!"

(End of this chapter)