Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Chapter 179 Lower Limit
Zhangye claimed to be on the south of the Yangtze River, and it was not far from Wuwei, where the Hexi Jiedu envoy was stationed. Before the Anlu Mountain Rebellion, Tubo and Uighurs did not dare to harass Zhangye.

In Zhangye at that time, the people lived and worked in peace and prosperity.

But when Li Daoyuan and his party walked into Zhangye City, crying could be heard everywhere, the original prosperity disappeared, and the whole Zhangye was extremely bleak.

There was a long queue at the door of a pawn shop, and the Hexi Jiedu Shifu started to collect mulberry donations again. The tax collectors in charge of the collection had already gone door-to-door and uttered harsh words.
The city of Zhangye was gloomy, Li Daoyuan and his party managed to find an inn to stay.

Zhou Shi was the most youthful and energetic, and said: "What kind of bird officials are these! Toss a good Zhangye like this! Commander, Zhangye is not far from Guazhou, right? Let the brothers come and kill these bird officials and occupy Zhangye !"

Li Daoyuan frowned.

Zhang Duanyang first said: "Shut up, you boy! Zhangye is not beyond the Great Wall. If you occupy Zhangye, it will be a rebellion! With the number of players, you still want to rebel?"

Li Daoyuan also said: "It is true that Zhangye is the important town of the Tang Dynasty in the Hexi Corridor. Wuwei also has the army of the Hexi Jiedushi. If there is a rebellion in Zhangye, the suppressing army will come tomorrow."

Yu Xiaoxiao looked at those people queuing up to pawn their property, and even sold their sons and daughters, and couldn't bear to say, "Should we let them go on like this?"

Li Daoyuan thought for a while and said: "The Hexi Corridor is the passage to enter the customs, and it must be occupied anyway. Zhangye also has a large number of horse farms. If they really change the horses to mulberry, Datang's horse administration will be finished. , At that time, if you want to restore it, you will spend several times the financial resources and manpower."

Yu Xiaoxiao and Zhou Shi's eyes lit up. Li Daoyuan is the backbone of the eastbound group. Since he said so, he must have thought of a way.

Li Daoyuan said: "If those involved in Hexi change their horses to sang, then our journey will be delayed for a while?"

Zhou Shi immediately said: "If you delay, you will delay. There is no deadline for our mission to deliver the letter to Fengxiang Mansion, so let the boss tell you what to do!"

Unexpectedly, Li Daoyuan gave an answer that surprised everyone: "Wait!"

Wait?
Everyone looked at each other, not understanding what Li Daoyuan meant.

However, Li Daoyuan didn't simply sit in the inn in Zhangye City and wait. He led the people to wander around Zhangye constantly, chatting with businessmen in Zhangye City when he had nothing to do.

The huge demand in the West has caused the price of silk to soar.

Food merchants poured into Datang one after another, buying silk at high prices.

But now the war near Xijing is surprising. A large amount of Jiangnan silk was transported to Fengxiang Mansion by water, and was quickly rewarded by the emperor to the soldiers.

Jiangnan experienced the Yongwang Rebellion, and the spring sericulture was also affected. It is foreseeable that there will still not be a large amount of silk on the market this summer and autumn.

Merchants are the most sensitive to news, and the price of silk will continue to rise this year, which has become the consensus of all silk merchants in Zhangye.

The more the price was raised, the less silk there was on the market. Many merchants could not receive enough silk and stayed in Zhangye City.

The price of silk in the Zhangye market rose three times a day, which also drew attention to the government's decree to change horses to mulberry.

Now that the price of silk is so high, how much money can you make if you can buy mulberry farms converted from horse farms?
Moreover, the land is something that can be passed on to the descendants, which has aroused competition among the big households in the city.

The area of ​​Zhangye's racecourse is not small, but no amount of land is enough in the eyes of these powerful families.

This is also very normal. In this era of agriculture, land is the foundation of a family. If it is not really hard to eat, no one will sell the land.

Even if there are people selling land, it is only sporadic land, which cannot be compared with the scale of this time.

Not only Zhangye's local rich and powerful family, when he was in Fengxiang Mansion, Fang Guan vigorously promoted his national policy of changing horses to mulberry in Hexi, which attracted the attention of many ministers in the Fengxiang Mansion court.

Many officials sent their own children and housekeepers to Hexi with Fang Guan, and they were also the ones who wanted to get a share of the transformation of horses into mulberry.

How much silk can be produced by a mulberry field in Hexi, and how much money can be earned.

The land in Hexi is fertile, even as fertile as Guanzhong. These people were dragged down by Fang Guan and came to invest in Hexi one after another.

This also led to the scene of hanging rails in Zhangye. On the one hand, the people sold their sons and daughters in order to make money.

On the one hand, these powerful families spent a lot of money, and today they held a big banquet at Dingxianglou, the largest restaurant in Zhangye City, to entertain local officials.

"Wu Taishou, this is the wish of the 25 great families in Zhangye, you must accept it!"

Wu Chudao, who was only fifty years old, was the prefect of Ganzhou, and Zhangye was the governor of Ganzhou. Wu Chudao, an old man with a gray beard, was the highest-ranking local official.

Wu Chudao has been a little uncomfortable recently, and the reason for his discomfort is the decree of the Hexi Jiedu envoy's mansion that the horse should be a sang.

Before the year of Tianbao, Jiedushi did not have the power of civil affairs.

It was also because of An Lushan's many meritorious service, and the Hu people could not be promoted to the central government. In order to appease An Lushan, the prime minister at that time, Li Linfu, awarded Anlushan all the Jiedu envoys of the four towns in Hedong.

When Anlushan, who was also the envoy of the four towns, had nothing to reward, the Tang court also gave Anlushan the power of civil affairs.

But this is also for an unruly army like Hedong. Guanlong was originally the place where Li Tang made his fortune, and there are so many powerful and powerful families in the place.

In such a small place as Zhangye, there were only ten households who were granted the title of Shangzhu Kingdom.

When the former Jiedu envoy Guo Ziyi was in office, the Hexi Jiedu envoy did not manage civil affairs.

The governor of a big state like Ganzhou is also an important court official in noble purple, and he is only one step away from the prime minister.

After Fang Guan took office, he used the national policy of changing horses to sangs to call Wu Chudao around like a slave to a family.

This also made Wu Chudao very dissatisfied. You Fang Guan is just a lucky minister. Before the chaos, you were only a minister. You were lucky to rely on some credits to make your way to the top. How dare you shout and shout at an old minister like Wu Chudao?
Wu Chudao was in a bad mood, even though he received the gift, he was still not in high spirits.

Lord Inspector was in a bad mood, and he didn't enjoy drinking the wine to his fullest. After drinking, Wu Chudao's closest aide, that is, his brother-in-law Zhang Hun, helped Wu Chudao into the study.

"Brother-in-law, those big households at the banquet today said they want more mulberry fields, why shouldn't you come down? At the current price of silk, as long as silk can be spun, that's money!"

As his name suggests, Zhang Hun is not very good at reading, but he can write and count, and he is also a member of his own family, so Wu Chudao brought him to Ganzhou to take up the post.

Zhang Hun wanted money, Wu Chudao took a look at him, and knew that this guy had taken advantage of others and came to act as a lobbyist.

Wu Chudao sighed and said, "You sell the land right? Are there so many mulberry fields in Ganzhou?"

Zhang Hun was in charge of the governor's mansion's finances, and he knew a lot about the acres of land in Ganzhou, so he immediately said, "Why not, Shandan Ranch is so big, there may be a lot of mulberry fields!"

When it comes to money, Zhang Hun is even more unwilling to let the money he got slip away. The several big families established this time have spent a lot of money to bribe him. If he fails, the money will definitely be returned.

Wu Chudao opened the letter box and handed the letter inside to his worthless brother-in-law.

When Zhang Hun saw the names on these letters, his body trembled a few times.

The names here are all famous people in the world. When he saw the name of Shuofang Zuo Wufeng envoy Pu Gu Huai'en, he couldn't hold back at all.

Pugu Huai'en is a popular person around the prince today. He is brave and good at fighting and has made many military exploits. Moreover, Pugu Huai'en is from Longyou. He wrote this letter to his nephew to ask for Zhangye's Sangtian.

Seeing Zhang Hun's useless appearance, Wu Chudao said again: "Keep watching!"

Zhang Hun already wanted to return the letter to his brother-in-law, but asked him to continue reading, so Zhang Hun could only bite the bullet and read on.

After he saw the letter from King Guangping, Zhang Hun completely collapsed on the ground.

The princes of the Eastern Palace all wrote letters, saying that they wanted to ask for land for their concubine's family, and asked Wu Chudao to handle it as appropriate.

Now Zhang Hun finally understood why what his brother-in-law said was not enough.

Even if all the land in Longyou is taken out, it may not be enough!

Wu Chudao said in a depressed mood: "Go back and do the math. The land requested in these letters alone can divide the entire Ganzhou land. How can there be other places to divide?"

Zhang Hun fell to the ground limply and said: "But these big clans in the city are as close as we are, how can they refuse?"

Wu Chudao naturally understands Zhang Hun's meaning. These important people who wrote the letter cannot be offended, and he wants to be transferred back to the court immediately. up.

Not to mention that there are rich families in Longyou like Pugu Huai'en, and in the end, it is Prince Li Chu who cannot be offended.

But the big shots far away in the sky cannot be offended, and neither can the local wealthy families.

These families have long been closely connected with Wu Chudao, and their relationship can be said to be a deep collusion. If they offend these big families, Wu Chudao will have a hard time in Zhangye City in the future.

You can't offend here, and you can't offend that side, that's why Wu Chudao hates Fang Guan so much, but he didn't get the benefit of changing the horse to a mulberry, and there are a lot of troubles.

Zhang Hun rolled his eyes and said, "Brother-in-law, I think there is still land in Ganzhou."

Wu Chu laughed angrily and said, "You have been in charge of Hucao for so many years, and you still don't understand the account books? You don't know if there is still land in Ganzhou?"

Zhang Hun said with a smile: "Brother-in-law, this Ganzhou racecourse is not enough, but isn't the field not enough?"

"Tian? Every field has an owner!"

Zhang Hun grinned and said, "Brother-in-law, since the horses are converted into mulberries, growing mulberries must be more profitable than farming, right? Why don't you take this opportunity and change the farmland into mulberry fields?"

(End of this chapter)