Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Chapter 157 "The Village Sage"

Jiuquan City is the administrative seat of Suzhou in Longyou Road, and the Governor's Mansion of Suzhou is located in Jiuquan City.

Liu Chenbi, the prefect of Suzhou, is also a veteran of the officialdom for a long time. He originally served as the prefect here in Longyou. Now that the Tang Dynasty has lost even two capitals, Liu Chenbi can only stay in Suzhou as the prefect.

Since he could only stay in Suzhou, then Liu Chenbi would be completely ruined. Every day he recruited his staff to drink and have fun, or go out to hunt in the city, but life was good.

Liu Chenbi handed over all the affairs of the Governor's Mansion to his chief Shi Dou Hao to manage.

The Tang court's most important assessment for the governor of a state is naturally the tax that was released.

However, the taxation of the Tang Dynasty is relatively complicated. In addition to the grain paid by Zuyongtiao, in a special state like Suzhou, there is also a government horse farm, so Suzhou also needs to pay tribute to the imperial court.

But now the horse farms in Suzhou have long been disused, and there is no one to manage them. How to make up for these horses has become the biggest problem for the Governor of Suzhou.

The horse farms in Suzhou were originally raised by the local garrison. The emperor dispatched troops from Longyou and transferred all the cavalry in Suzhou into the pass. Even the horse herdsmen were transferred away.

Without people who know how to herd horses and raise horses, the horse farms are naturally gradually abandoned. The Governor of Suzhou has thought of many ways to revive the horse farms, but they need technology without technology, money and food, but they can only let these horse farms fall into disuse.

Chief Shi Douhao thought of many ways, but in order to make up for the war horses of the Shangjie court, he had to send people to buy horses from Uighurs.

However, the merchants sent to Uighur recently sent back news that Uighur and King Jianning signed a tea-horse trade treaty, and Uighur tightened up their war horses, making it even more difficult to buy horses.

Dou Hao convened a meeting of Uyghur merchants in the Governor's Mansion, and the result was one-you can buy a horse, but you have to pay more!

Dou Hao is extremely troubled. Now the horse donation has been increased to the extreme. If the tax continues to increase, I am afraid that no one will do business in the entire city of Jiuquan.

Now you want to add money, where will the money come from?

Not only do they want to add money, these Uighur merchants also put forward a condition that they also need to add Guazhou iron products to the delivery goods.

Guazhou iron has now become a good iron that is familiar to the entire Longyou Road.

Guazhou iron is strong and durable, not easy to rust, and the price is not high due to its large output.

This kind of ironware quickly defeated other competitors and took the lead in the ironware market in Longyou.

The Uighurs also discussed with Shangbo that they wanted to buy Guazhou ironware at the tea-horse market, but this request was naturally rejected by all the players in the Jianning King Bafu.

The grassland lacks iron tools, and there is even less iron smelting industry. If Guazhou iron is exported to the Uighurs, they can turn farm tools and kitchen utensils into murderous weapons with a little modification, which is tantamount to funding the enemy for a small profit.

Therefore, the players of the merchant stream and the players of the official stream discussed for a long time and made a list of prohibited exports.

Guazhou iron, medicinal materials, weapons and armor, textile machines and printing machines, books on the art of war and various advanced equipment are strictly prohibited from being sold to the Uighurs.

On the Tang side, tea, ceramics, lacquerware, jewelry, silk, spices and other luxuries were prepared for the Uighurs, and Uighurs’ war horses and food were purchased.

The Uighur side naturally expressed dissatisfaction, especially the demand for ironware in the grasslands is huge, so they strongly demanded that ironware be added to the trade list.

Here, Shangbo is still negotiating with the Uighurs. Prince Yidijian is not a fool. Since he can’t buy it from King Huijianning, he can buy it from other places in Datang!

So Jiuquan's Suzhou Governor's Mansion, in turn, became the party squeezed by the Uighurs.

Dou Hao only felt that his scalp was numb, and there was nothing that happened in Jiuquan City that made people worry.

Dou Hao came from a big family. He failed the imperial examination and chose to become an official in the frontier fortress. He wanted to make a military exploit and return to the two capitals, but he was also trapped in Suzhou with Liu Chenbi, the governor of Suzhou.

Just when Dou Hao was in a state of desperation, the leaders of several big clans in the city joined hands to find Dou Hao.

Dou Hao received these big clan leaders in the side hall of the governor's mansion. As a Confucian official, Dou Hao was very close to these local sages. After all, he was also from a wealthy family. These village sages can always share the worries of the governor's mansion.

After all the "village sages" were seated, Dou Hao asked his servants to serve tea, and said with a smile: "If it weren't for the great support of all the sages, the war horses that the imperial court wanted last time would not have been assembled so quickly, so let me replace wine with tea. A toast to everyone."

The patriarchs of all the great clans raised their teacups one after another, and the side hall was full of joy and harmony.

At this time, the oldest and most prestigious patriarch of the Huang clan stood up and said: "Changshi Dou, we are here this time to take the initiative to share the worries of the governor's mansion."

Dou Hao had an expression of surprise on his face, and he quickly said: "You sages can take the initiative to share the country's worries. I, Suzhou, deserve to be the first city of goodness in Longyou!"

Patriarch Huang said with a smile: "This time, we have already negotiated to make up for the lack of horse purchases for the governor's mansion! We will make up for the lack of money!"

Dou Hao was so moved that he was about to cry, what is a good person!This is called a good person!
As expected of a big family in Suzhou, they were able to sacrifice their lives for the imperial court!

However, the chief of the Huang family changed the subject and said: "But the Uighurs still need Guazhou Iron, so we have nothing to do with Dousheng Xiaomin."

Dou Hao said heartily: "We, the governor's office, will come to find a way. At worst, we will send people to Guazhou to buy iron, and then we will change it to the name of Suzhou Iron and sell it to these Uighurs."

The problem of buying horses has been solved, and Dou Hao is in a good mood.

At this time, the several patriarchs exchanged glances, and Patriarch Huang still said: "But this time we passed the test, what will we do next time? Dou Changshi, we are here this time to offer advice to the Governor's Mansion."

Dou Hao was in a good mood, and immediately said: "If you have any plans, please submit them quickly, and I will submit them to Governor Liu face to face."

Patriarch Huang said: "Now the Suzhou horse farm is deserted. The waste of this great land is really distressing. We want to rent the horse farm from the Governor's Mansion to grow mulberry seedlings."

Dou Hao was stunned. As the governor who actually controlled Suzhou, Dou Hao understood that the price of silk was rising three times a day.

It's just that Hexi has never been a silk producing area, and the biggest profits have been made by merchants in the pass.

Seeing that such a large piece of cake has been made by the silk merchants in the pass, the local rich families naturally want to share a piece of the pie.

Although Hexi also raises silkworms and grows mulberry, there are only sporadic ones, not as large as Jianghuai.

But Hexi can also grow mulberry trees, and it can also raise silkworms and spin silk. It seems feasible to rent a horse farm to plant mulberry trees?
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