Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Chapter 595 Tea Horse Trade
Li Tan put aside a plan submitted by a player to clean up the Bianhe River. Although this plan looks good and has the possibility of implementation, it is definitely impossible to implement this plan with the execution power of the current Tang court.

Maybe when I enter the Guanzhong, I can implement this plan to clean up the Bianhe River.

This player named Xue Tao is a water conservancy engineer. His plan to clean up the Bianhe River is very radical, that is, to cut open the Luoshui River and channel the Luoshui into the Bianhe River to scour the Bianhe River!
According to Xue Tao's plan, if a channel is dug from the mouth of Luoshui, and then the clear Luoshui is used to flush the turbid Bianhe channel, the silt and sand can be washed away and the entire Bianshui can be dredged.

In fact, the reason why the Bianhe River is often silted up is because the water of the Bianhe River is connected to the Yellow River, and there is a lot of sediment in the water of the Yellow River, which leads to the continuous improvement of the riverbed of the Bianhe River.

Compared with the turbid Yellow River, Luoshui is clearer, so Xue Tao plans to block the estuary where the Yellow River enters Bianshui, and divert Luoshui to flush Bianshui instead.

Xue Tao designed a detailed dam sluice system. According to his plan, if Luoshui can successfully guide the Bian River to scour the Bian River, the navigability of the Bian River will return to the level when it was just excavated.

However, Li Tan knew very well that with the current financial resources of the Tang court, this plan must not be implemented, but this Xue Tao is a talent, because the problem of the Yellow River has always been a serious problem for the Central Plains dynasty.

The Yellow River is the mother river of Chinese civilization, but the many geographical changes caused by the Yellow River are the dark line for the success or failure of many dynasties in the Central Plains.

In order to fight against the nomadic peoples in the north, the later Song Dynasty spent all its money to go back to the Sanyi River. As a result, the Yellow River still broke its embankment and the river course was diverted to the north, which made the Song Dynasty's defense of the Yellow River in the north fall short. In the end, it cost a lot of manpower and material resources , but still failed to prevent the northern nomads from going south.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the Yellow River also flooded many times, threatening the water transportation from the south of the Yangtze River to Dadu. Finally, the Yuan Dynasty recruited millions of people to repair the Yellow River. Wan's Red Scarf Army.

Throughout the dynasties, the problem of the Yellow River has been attached great importance to. In the early Tang Dynasty, great efforts were made to repair the Yellow River. However, since the Central Plains fell into turmoil, there was no energy to repair the Yellow River.

Now Li Tan has just annexed Lingzhou, and the biggest problem in Lingzhou is the Yellow River.

The Hetao area is surrounded by the Yellow River into a shape of a few characters. Although the Hetao area is the middle and upper reaches of the Yellow River, the Yellow River has been flooding frequently since the Hetao area. Every year when the water rises, the embankment may burst and the farmland on both sides of the river will be submerged.

The Yellow River is just like the Nile River in Egypt, and the prosperity of the Hetao area has a lot to do with the flooding of the Yellow River.

Flooded rivers will bring nutrient-rich sediment, and farming in flooded areas will surely yield a bumper harvest in the coming year.

And because of the fertile land in these flooded areas, the people of Lingzhou continued to ask for fields from the Yellow River, which made the embankments of the entire Yellow River weaker and the Yellow River became more prone to flooding.

When Guo Ziyi was in Lingzhou, he used the army to build dams to prevent the flooding of the Yellow River, but the people of Lingzhou continued to open up land near the dams, which made the Yellow River flood even worse.

It is ironic that after the Anshi Rebellion began, due to the large decrease in the population of Lingzhou, not many people ventured to open up wasteland near the Yellow River, but the Yellow River was stable for a year or two.

However, as Lingzhou is gradually stabilized now, Lingzhou has also received many refugees from Hedong, which has led to the expansion of Lingzhou's population.

Cui Tao, the new magistrate of Lingzhou, inspected the banks of the Yellow River and found that there were more pioneering activities in the Yellow River Basin, which even affected the safety of the Yellow River Dam. Officials who understand water conservancy projects inspect the Lingzhou River Dam.

This Xue Tao is a talent, so Li Tan casually sent Xue Tao a task, asking him to go to Lingzhou to inspect the river dam and assess the possibility of the Yellow River flooding this year.

After dealing with this matter, Li Tan looked at Pinglu at this time. Yuchixin had been confronting Cai Wenjing who occupied Yingzhou City for half a month. Cai Wenjing could only guard in Yingzhou City now, but Yuchixin's army also There is no way to move.

On the Yuguan side, Zhang Guangde organized several landing operations around the sea, which indeed hit Shi Chaoyi's logistics supplies.

Zhang Guangde used flexible gunboats to cooperate with the landing fleet to continuously attack Shi Chaoyi's supply line, and now he is about to cut off Shi Chaoyi's food supply.

But even so, Shi Chaoyi's camp camped in front of Yuguan was still extremely stable. Zhang Guangde didn't know how much food Shi Chaoyi had left, so he didn't dare to rush out of Yuguan to attack Shi Chaoyi's camp.

However, the weather has turned warm at this time, the ice floes on the sea of ​​Dahang City have melted, and the snow-white permafrost in the north has exposed black land, and it is time for spring plowing.

In the name of the Pinglu Jiedu Mission, Pang Ju continued to send troops to various counties to urge local officials to pay close attention to spring plowing.

Although Wang Xuanzhi came up in a coup, he was also a Jiedu envoy double-recognized by Datang and Hedong, and he still has prestige in Pinglu.

Under the banner of Wang Xuanzhi, Pang Ju took control of most counties in Pinglu.

At this time, on the Modong Grassland, Qin Chuan, who had been recalled from Tuyuhun, was also leading the reinforcements of the Pinglu army on a fast march.

Thanks to the implementation of the Great Detour strategy, the supply station established by the players on the grassland allows Qin Chuan to ignore everything and directly lead the army all the way east, and now he is about to see Tongliao City.

Looking at the bustling barracks, Qin Chuan never thought that the Modong Grassland would be so lively now.

Relying on these supply stations established by Tang Jun, settlements were formed on the Modong Grassland around these supply stations. These settlements lived around the supply stations, and the players even built small grassland cities unintentionally.

Originally, these supply stations were established according to the location of cities on the grasslands of later generations, and they were all plain areas where water flows converged.

Originally, these were just resting depots for a roundabout strategy, but soon merchant players discovered the usefulness of these depots and began to do business with nomads near the depots.

The composition of these nomadic peoples on the Modong Grassland is complex, unlike the Uighurs in the Moxi area who have the upper hand. Originally, these tribes had their own blood feuds, and they kept killing each other for the ranch. The Modong Grassland was often in chaos.

However, with the establishment of the Datang Military Station, many tribes saw Datang merchants doing business near the military station. Gradually, many tribes gathered near the military station and started trading with Datang.

For players, cattle, sheep and horses on the grassland are the most profitable commodities.

Even though the existing Shandan pastures in the Zhangye area have started the development of new animal husbandry, the northern nomads still had the highest breeding skills in this era.

And if you want to raise the best war horses, you need careful breeding and a vast grassland. Without a wide pasture suitable for horses to run, it is impossible to breed the best war horses.

In addition, the wool textile merchants in Longyou also needed a lot of wool, which was owned by the herdsmen in Modong.

The herdsmen also need the goods of Tang Dynasty, and the first thing is tea.

Because of the diet of nomads, they especially need tea to supplement the lack of vitamins. Since the commodity tea appeared on the grassland, it has become a necessity on the grassland.

Originally, these herdsmen in Modong were unable to go north to rob, so they could only go to the edge of the Great Wall to do business with Hedong, and bought tea from Anlu Mountain at a high price.

The reason why An Lushan was able to gather so many cavalry in the early stage of the rebellion was mainly due to the tea horse trade with the Modong tribe.

Now these nomadic tribes in Modong discovered that there was no need to go to the Great Wall to trade with Hedong. The Tang merchants in Longyou would send tea and other daily necessities to the grassland.

Moreover, these Longyou products are cheap and practical, among which the grassland herdsmen like the tea from Longyou the most.

The popular tea in the Tang Dynasty is called Tuancha, which is a kind of tea cake made by steaming. The production method of this kind of tea is complicated, but it is very popular among Tang people.

Originally, the Tuan tea was also sold on the grasslands in Hedong, but the tea merchants in Longyou changed their tea drinking habits.

Originally, there were not many tea business players, because there are many ways to learn about tea, and the types of tea in the Tang Dynasty were very rich, and not many ordinary players knew about tea.

However, the players soon discovered that people on the grasslands don't really like Tuancha, which is popular in Datang, and people on the grasslands prefer drinks with a stronger taste.

Players quickly seized the business opportunity. In order to cater to the tastes of the grassland and reduce costs, a kind of roasted tea bricks were quickly produced from the tea workshop in Longyou.

The tea leaves used in this kind of tea bricks are not particular about, but the tea leaves are crushed and fried in a large pot, and then compressed to make tea bricks.

This kind of tea, which is the cheapest in later generations, is called Gao Sui, but it was immediately welcomed by the grasslands.

Compared with the steamed Tuancha, the Gaosha that is simply fermented after frying is easier to preserve, and a tea brick is easy to carry, just knock off a piece when you need to drink it.

As for the tea foam in the mouth, the herdsmen on the grassland will chew and swallow it seriously. In the grassland where tea is precious, the herdsmen originally drink tea like this.

The Gao Sui of Longyou quickly occupied the grassland market. At this time, what Qin Chuan drank was the salty milk tea made with Gao Sui. He spit out the tea foam in his mouth, looked at the map ahead, and walked three days to arrive. Tongliao city.

(End of this chapter)