Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Chapter 568 The Suffering of Qingzhou
While Li Daoyuan was supervising shipbuilding at Donghai Port, near Laizhou Bay in Qingzhou, Zhang Duanyang and Nan Jiyun were inspecting the newly built shipyard together.

Ever since Qingzhou was pacified, Nan Jiyun and Zhang Duanyang's army that pursued An Qingxu stayed put in Qingzhou.

The An Qingxu rebel army in the northern part of the South River Road also knew that Qingzhou's Nan Jiyun army was not easy to mess with, so they did not attack Qingzhou.

The two sides confronted each other strangely.

Guo Ziyi established a defensive line around Luoyang, and An Qingxu also slowed down his southward attack because of insufficient food and grass.

The Xiangzhou rebels confronted the Luoyang defenders of the Tang Dynasty, and the imperial court ordered Shi Siming to attack An Qingxu from the direction of Fanyang Taiyuan.

But Shi Siming, an old fox, rejected the imperial court's request because the Taiyuan and Fanyang troops were exhausted and food and grass were insufficient.

At the same time, Shi Siming and his son are also preparing for the army and mobilizing soldiers from the three towns, preparing to rebel against Datang again.

The battle on the front line is intense, and the morale of the Tang army has been greatly reduced because of Xiangzhou's defeat. Even the elite of Nan Jiyun's men are unwilling to fall into the intense battle now.

During this period of time, apart from dealing with the civil affairs of Qingzhou, Zhang Duanyang put all his energy on the shipyard in Laizhou Bay.

Today he brought Nan Jiyun to the shipyard, looking at the wood being dried, Nan Jiyun couldn't help asking:

"Will the Shi family and his son really betray Tang again?"

Zhang Duanyang nodded and said: "The Shi family's father and son are wolves with ambitions. When An Lushan rebelled, Shi Siming was An Lushan's right-hand man."

"A while ago, Shi Siming surrendered because he saw that the puppet Yan was exhausted, so he had no choice but to do so."

"Now that An Qingxu is making such a big noise again, how can Shi Siming not respond?"

Now Nan Jiyun was even more depressed: "It's just that An Qingxu entangled some rebels in Xiangzhou, and let several states become corrupted like this. If Shi Siming and his son also join the rebellion, wouldn't Luoyang be in danger?"

Nan Jiyun was very anxious. He wanted to return to Luoyang to assist Zhang Xun to guard Luoyang, but Zhang Xun came with a military order. The Luoyang guard followed Zhang Duanyang's suggestion and ordered Nan Jiyun to stick to Qingzhou. Build a dock shipyard.

Seeing the dock under construction in full swing, Nan Jiyun still had doubts about this plan for cross-sea warfare.

Zhang Duanyang said: "General Su Dingfang conquered Baekje in the early Tang Dynasty. He built a ship from Laizhou, Qingzhou, and crossed the sea to land on the peninsula. When General Su was able to cross the sea and land on the opposite peninsula, we just detoured Fanyang. It's much easier for the General."

After studying historical materials, Zhang Duanyang found that the shipbuilding capacity on the Jiaodong Peninsula in the Tang Dynasty was no less than that of Jiangnan and Quanzhou.

Before the sea ban, a large number of merchant ships traveled between Silla, Fusang, Bohai and other countries, and the trade in Northeast Asia on the Jiaodong Peninsula was once very prosperous.

However, after the war, the trade was cut off, and as the Jiaodong Peninsula was involved in the war, the thriving sea trade was also cut off.

It is a pity for Zhang Duanyang. If it can develop normally, the Jiaodong Peninsula might not be able to become the center of maritime trade in Northeast Asia.

It is a pity that the development of these areas was interrupted by the Anshi Rebellion, and the Jiaodong area of ​​​​the later Song Dynasty was at the front again, and there was no opportunity for peace of mind to develop.

When the world ushers in the era of sailing, the Jiaodong Peninsula will leave China with only regrets and painful memories.

Zhang Duanyang looked at Laizhou Bay, which is rich in marine resources and a natural deep-water port. In addition to the prosperous Northeast Asian trade routes, it would be a pity if this place cannot be revitalized!

And as Nan Jiyun fought bandits and wiped out the rebels in Qingzhou, some players gradually entered Qingzhou officialdom under the recommendation of Zhang Duanyang, and now the order in Qingzhou has gradually been established.

Lu Dao was a player who followed Wang Chengwei into Chang'an to take part in the imperial examination. Lu Dao himself knew that strategy theory was not his forte, so he took the Ming Jing Ke exam.

After being admitted to Ming Jing Ke, Lu Dao went to the Ministry of Officials to select officials. Originally, he was a senior member of Ming Jing Ke, and he only needed a little work to get a good position.

However, Lu Dao is a straightforward person. In real life, he resigned angrily because he was dissatisfied with the darkness of the officialdom. In the game, he was naturally even more unwilling to give in to those villains.

Because of his straightforward personality, Lu Dao was made things difficult by the officials, and he was given the post of prime minister in Shouguang County, Qingzhou.

When the official was appointed, Shouguang County of Qingzhou had already been breached in the rebellion of Qingzhou bandits. All the county magistrates, county magistrates, and county lieutenants were all killed, and the entire Shouguang County was slaughtered by bandits.

The Ministry of Officials actually gave Lu Dao an ultimatum, requiring him to rush to Shouguang County within a time limit, otherwise he would be disqualified from being elected as an official.

If ordinary people were treated in this way, I am afraid that they can only obediently give money to the officials of the Ministry of Officials, begging the Ministry of Officials to remove them this time, and then wait for the next re-election.

However, Lu Dao's straightforward temper also came up. He encountered a lot of unfairness in his original unit. As the backbone of the business, he was climbed up one after another by laymen.

Playing a game now, do you still have to be angry?

Lu Dao packed his luggage and went directly to Shouguang County to take office.

However, Lu Dao's luck is also good, he has not rushed to Shouguang County to take up his post, just in time to meet Nan Jiyun and Zhang Duanyang marching into Qingzhou.

Under the recommendation of Zhang Duanyang, Nan Jiyun was naturally overjoyed, and Lu Dao was a scholar who was born in the Xinke Mingjing and was born in the imperial examination of the Eight Classics.

Nan Jiyun respected scholars most, so he immediately assigned Lu Dao to the army and asked him to be in charge of military supplies and logistics.

Lu Dao was originally a grassroots government employee in the real world, and he dealt with messy chores. In fact, most of the army's logistics were also messy chores.

And Lu Dao enforced the law impartially, and never treated them differently when distributing military funds, and he was merciless in reporting other colleagues in the army who accepted bribes. Soon Nan Jiyun's army knew that Lu Dao was a good logistics officer.

He is down-to-earth, efficient, and able to act impartially, without corruption or bribery. When Nan Jiyun fought against Qingzhou, Lu Dao never lost the chain and arranged the logistics of the army well.

After pacifying Qingzhou, Lu Dao took out the documents from the Ministry of Officials, bid farewell to Nan Jiyun and went to Shouguang County to take up his post.

Nan Jiyun regretted this very much. He still wanted to ask the imperial court for credit for turning Lu Dao into a military post, and recommended him to stay in Luoyang to work under Zhang Xun's command.

When Lu Dao arrived in Shouguang County, he was also taken aback by the dilapidated county town.

Before coming to Shouguang County, Lu Dao had checked information on the Internet.

Shouguang County is now one of the top [-] counties in Shandong Province and the hometown of vegetables in the country.According to the records of the Ministry of Household Affairs in the Tang Dynasty, Shouguang County is also "all flat fields and resting soil, without the view of cliffs and steep valleys." The entire county is full of fertile plains, which was the best area in ancient times.

Before the Anshi Rebellion, Shouguang County had always been recognized as a middle county, and it was also a county with a relatively good economy in the Tang Dynasty.

But I didn't expect that after the Anshi Rebellion and the devastation of Qingzhou bandits in the later period, the once wealthy Shouguang County would be in such a miserable state.

There are ten rooms and nine empty spaces in the county, and all the officials and servants in the yamen of Shouguang County were killed after the bandits broke through the county.

Fortunately, when Lu Dao went to Shouguang County, he also took away more than a dozen soldiers who did not want to continue to join the army.

With the help of these brothers, Lu Dao quickly reorganized the county government.

The county magistrate is dead. According to the system of the Tang Dynasty, Lu Dao, the county magistrate, is the number one in Shouguang County.

Lu Dao also participated in the poverty alleviation work organized by his former unit, and worked as a village worker in a remote village for two years.

After reorganizing the county government, he immediately found the remaining old people in Shouguang County and collected information about Shouguang County from them.

From the mouths of these old people, he found [-] innocent adult men from the county seat and granted them the status of officials.

If all the officials of the Shouguang County Government had not been killed, these positions would not have fallen to these ordinary people, and they were so grateful to Lu Dao.

Lu Dao immediately sent them out to investigate the situation in the entire Shouguang County.

After the summary, Lu Dao took a deep breath.

According to the standard set in the first year of Kaiyuan, the population of Zhongxian County was [-] households. The Tang Dynasty was relatively lenient for large families and did not enforce household division. An average household had six people.

Based on the data on the books, 8000 households means [-] people, excluding the hidden and black households that were prevalent in the Tang Dynasty.

However, after statistics and investigations by officials, there are only more than 2000 people left in Shouguang County, and the population has evaporated by [-]%!

What is life in troubled times is not as good as grass, just look at the situation in Shouguang County.

Young and middle-aged people were either captured as soldiers, or turned into bandits, the population was greatly reduced, and a large amount of land was abandoned.

The waste of land caused a greater food shortage, and more people fell into the grass and became bandits, or went south to the Jianghuai to flee.

However, the life of going south to Jianghuai to flee famine was not easy. I heard that in the north of Linhuai City, there were Qilu people fleeing southward. They competed with the local people in Linhuai for the little living space, and large-scale fighting often occurred.

And these fleeing people have no money or land. Even if they cross the Huaihe River, they can only join the local tycoons as hermits. The status of being a hermit in the Tang Dynasty is lower than that of slaves. Anyway, slaves need to be registered by the government. The death of slaves and maidservants should also be reported to the government.

These hermits are not listed in the court register, and they don't need to report even if they die. Their situation is even more miserable than that of slaves.

Seeing the old, weak, sick and disabled in Shouguang County, Lu Dao inexplicably felt a sense of responsibility, as if he was not playing a game, but facing more than 2000 real people.

We must make life better for the people in Shouguang County!Lu Dao secretly made up his mind.

(End of this chapter)