Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Chapter 178 Who Retreats Who Advances?

Wugong City is less than a hundred miles away from Chang'an. This city is the gateway to Xijing, and it was once a prosperous city.

But today's Wugong City is dilapidated everywhere, and there is still a large burnt mark on the city gate.

The prosperous city has already suffered several rounds of military disasters. The young and middle-aged people in the city either fled or were captured by the rebels as strong men. Now only the old, weak, sick and disabled are left in the city.

Wugong City has been plundered many times. Just last month, Tang Jun finally regained Wugong, but the people of Wugong City did not usher in a good day.

The officials kept coming to the door to catch people, as long as they were able to walk, old people up to 70 years old, and children down to ten years old, they had to provide logistics for the army.

Every family has to carry a bundle of firewood to the military camp every day, and also accept other corvee duties arranged by the general.

This day is even worse than being robbed by the An Lushan rebels!
The generals of the Tang army once tentatively attacked Xijing, but the city of Xijing was high and strong, and the Tang army advanced as far as Baqiao in the west at most, but they were all beaten back by An Qingxu's army.

An Qingxu also recently accepted Yan Zhuang's advice, stopped indulging in drinking and having fun, and personally led troops to fight several victories.

Tang Jun could only retreat to martial arts, waiting for the 15 troops of Crown Prince Li Chu and Guo Ziyi.

The Tang army is full of confidence. As soon as the crown prince's 15 troops arrive, the security thieves will fall apart.

At this time, the crown prince Li Chu was also proud of his spring breeze. He was the prince of the East Palace appointed by his father, and he was also the marshal of the world's soldiers and horses. He held 15 elites of the Tang Dynasty. Much more comfortable.

But nothing is perfect in this world, and now Li Chu is most worried about his two younger brothers.

Before the second year of Zhide, Li Chu's confidant was Li Yan, the king of Jianning.

Li Yan was outstanding in both literature and martial arts. His father liked this son very much when he was the prince, and personally invited Guo Ziyi to be Li Yan's teacher to teach him the art of war and martial arts.

On the way to Lingwu's ascension to the throne, Li Yan performed outstandingly. He escorted his father to Lingwu, and used his status as Guo Ziyi's disciple to subdue Shuofang's unruly general. He was once named the deputy marshal of the world's soldiers and horses. .

Li Chu naturally felt the threat, but fortunately, the court ministers, especially the important ministers headed by Li Mi, the secretary supervisor, advised his father not to easily change the crown prince in troubled times, and King Jianning was dispatched to Longyou by his father.

The threat of King Jianning had just been eliminated, and Li Chu welcomed a new younger brother.

Empress Zhang's son Li Tong was born, this is the youngest son of the father, and it was born by the empress Zhang on the way to escape, which also made the father love this son very much.

This Empress Zhang was originally her father's favorite concubine, she was very scheming, when she fled Lingwu, she deliberately left all the delicious food for the emperor to eat, and she ate rough bran even when she was pregnant.

Three days after giving birth to her son Li Tong, Empress Zhang got up to sew clothes for the soldiers, and was favored by her father, who was officially canonized as empress.

And Queen Zhang made friends with the eunuch Li Fuguo, and completely controlled the harem.

Now there are rumors in the ruling and opposition parties that the emperor loves his youngest son and wants to confer title on this newborn son.

Thinking of this, Li Chu felt even more uncomfortable.

It is not an easy task for the prince of the Tang Dynasty to be crowned king. Empress Zhang's son was crowned king before he was a year old. Empress Zhang also favored the harem, and colluded with eunuchs in power like Li Fuguo. Emperor's suspicion.

Li Chu sighed, even if King Jianning was already in Longyou, Li Chu was not at ease.

In this bloody battle for the throne, only the dead are truly out.

Li Chu also used his strength secretly when Prime Minister Fang Guan asked for the release of Hexi Jiedu Envoy.

When Fang Guan went to Hexi, he would inevitably have conflicts with the "good brother" in charge of Longyou. As long as they fought, Li Yan would lose.

Li Chu really knows this father very well, in short, it is his father who is most afraid of trouble.

Maybe it's because of being the prince under the eyes of the emperor's grandfather. Since his father was established as the prince, he has been very careful in dealing with people.

Even when Yang Guozhong forced him to a corner, he didn't dare to do anything out of the ordinary.

Under such pressure, Li Heng, the emperor's character, likes to escape very much.

Li Heng is jealous and hates trouble and risk. If any prince makes trouble, the emperor will not like this prince.

Li Chu thought with a smile, as long as his younger brother had conflicts with Fang Guan, then his father would definitely dislike Li Yan.

The father is also a very face-saving emperor. Fang Guan suffered such a big defeat, and Li Heng didn't deal with him immediately.

This is not because Li Heng thought about his old love with Fang Guan. Yongwang Li Lin was raised by the emperor alone, and when he ordered the pacification of Yongwang, the emperor didn't have a trace of old love.

It's just that Fang Guan's worship of the prime minister is dominated by the emperor Li Heng. If the prime minister he promoted himself is dismissed because of incompetence, it will lose the emperor's face, so Li Heng has been looking for Fang Guan's other problems, trying to pass other reasons Move down the house.

If it wasn't for Fang Guan's request to be released, Fang Guan's aspect would have been lost.

The next thing to look forward to is the fight between Fang Guan and Li Yan, thinking of this, Li Chu finally became happy.

After solving one younger brother, another younger brother remains.

For Crown Prince Li Chu, the upcoming war to recover Xijing was not important. His father's health was getting worse and worse. The most important thing at this time was to keep the crown prince's position.

But even when Li Chu was scheming and scheming, Li Yan looked at the moon in the distance in the Governor's Mansion in Shazhou City, and felt a little emotional in his heart.

With the help of the players, it can be said that Li Yan's development was difficult. It took several months to occupy the land of the three states. Neither Beiting nor Anxi could control it, and only one of the four counties in Hexi was occupied.

Li Yan opened the player forum. The hot topic of discussion among the players recently is naturally what happened in the north and the east.

To the north is the Uighur war to destroy Ge Luolu. Now the player's military advisory group has already taken the seals of Bafu and Beiting Duhufu and went north to find various Ge Luolu tribes.

The Ge Luolu tribe is composed of small tribes, who are scattered on the grassland and live in grassland on weekdays.

The player's military advisory group is to lead these tribes to avoid the Uyghur army, and lead these tribes to play hide-and-seek on the grassland!
As long as the Uyghurs are kept without spoils, the Uyghurs will lose this war.

And Dongmian's change of horse to mulberry also suffered unanimous criticism from players on the player forum.

Regardless of the policy of changing horses to mulberry, some corruption problems will be caused when it is implemented, just selling off the imperial court's horse farm will cause serious consequences.

First of all, the horse is not an ordinary commodity, but a strategic material.

Strategic materials mean that these things cannot be bought at market prices at any time.

Now that Uighur and Datang have a good relationship, they can naturally buy horses from Uighurs.

But once Datang and Uyghur turned against each other, the supply of Uyghur horses would be cut off immediately.

Therefore, this kind of strategic material must be self-sufficient, just like the food of later generations. If the food cannot be self-sufficient, then if there is any disturbance in the world food market, it will not escape being harvested by capital.

Later generations will be harvested by capital. If Datang has no war horses in this era, it will be harvested by wolves from all over the world.

The second problem of changing horses to mulberry is to sell the horse farms that originally belonged to the imperial court, which will lead to the decline of the government's control, so the formation of aristocratic families is more difficult to restrain.

Although the Hexi Qunmujian was subordinate to the Taipu Siqing, he was also controlled by the Hexi Jiedu Envoy.

Although the Hexi Jiedu Mansion could not sell military horses casually, the Hexi Jiedu Mansion could dispose of the meat and fur of dead horses, and this was still a large source of income for the Jiedu Mansion.

Relying on this financial source, the Jiedu Mission's government can have money for food and disaster relief, as well as money for office and school.

Without this public financial revenue, the power of the entire Hexi government will decline.

If there is no money for disaster relief, there will be refugees everywhere. If there is no money to run schools, private schools will flourish.

A player gave a vivid analogy to this. Changing a horse into a mulberry means selling state-owned assets at a low price. It seems that the country is retreating and the people are advancing, and the people seem to have no loss.

In fact, the concentration and merger of wealth was intensified. The government sold the imperial property that originally belonged to the whole people, and in the end it was the ordinary people at the bottom who really paid for it.

Li Yan nodded as well. He knew the urgency of these powerful families best, and they all seemed to be dignified. If there was really a need to help the victims, these guys would be quicker to push the blame than anyone else.

For example, those old nobles in Gaochang City have thousands of servants at every turn, but what contribution do they have to the people of Gaochang?It is good not to oppress the people.

These powerful families also have various ways to avoid taxes, and the taxes they evade will eventually be borne by the common people.

Sure enough, after the new herd supervisor Dou Shen took office, the first order he gave to various places was to change horse donations to mulberry donations.

However, the horse donation has already been handed in once. The so-called changing the horse donation to the sang donation is actually searching for the people again.

The yamen of Zhangye City acted quickly. This time the mulberry donation was more than the last horse donation. The money was said to be collected by the Jiedu envoy's government to purchase mulberry seedlings and organize the mulberry fields.

Even the most cunning subordinates gasped when they saw the amount donated by Sang.

This Jiedu envoy's mansion is also searched too hard!
Now that May has not yet arrived, and the summer grain has not yet matured, this mulberry donation can only be made up by the common people selling their children and daughters!
However, the prefect of the governor's mansion asked the tax collectors to carry it out without compromise, and to collect the mulberry donation again according to the tax payment list of the last horse donation.

When the four members of the Eastbound Group entered Zhangye City, it could be said that every family was crying, and there were people pawning their wealth everywhere.

(End of this chapter)