Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Chapter 69
"This Shazhou City is really prosperous!" Sun Jianguo couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

Compared with the busy Shazhou City, Guazhou is a small rural place. No wonder those big food merchants will not continue to move forward when they arrive in Shazhou.

However, although the city is big, the entire Shazhou City is a bit messy, with bustling noises everywhere, soldiers with weapons patrolling the streets, and the common people run away when they see these soldiers.

"Let's stay here first, and then do the task." Cui Tao said to Cui Ruoyun and Sun Jianguo.

Sun Jianguo nodded and said, "I'm going to contact my business friends in Shazhou City to find out about the situation in Shazhou."

When they first entered the city, the soldiers guarding the city gate told the three that foreign merchants who came to Shazhou City could only stay in a few hotels in Jucaifang. Following the caravan of foreign merchants, the three came to Jucaifang.

The squares in Datang are equivalent to the current communities, but the squares in big cities like Shazhou all have their own low walls, and each square is equivalent to a small city within the big city.

Nowadays, Shazhou also implements a curfew policy. Every day at night, the entrances and exits of each workshop will be closed.

The security chief in the square will start patrolling with the bad guys. At this time, anyone who does not have a night pass will be arrested and sent to the prison of the Governor's Mansion.

It was already afternoon when the three of them entered the city, and they soon stayed at the hotel in Jucaifang.

"The price of this hotel is really expensive!" Cui Tao complained.

Sun Jianguo said: "I heard that the hotels here are all run by officers of the Doulu Army, so the prices are naturally not cheap."

"This Doulu Army is really lawless in Shazhou City!"

"Isn't it? Now in Shazhou City, Dou Lujun must nod for all affairs, big or small, otherwise nothing can be done."

When the three of them were staying in the hotel, five generals in civilian clothes were having a meeting in the barracks of the Doulu Army outside Shazhou City.

None of them wore armor, but gorgeous robes of silk.

Sha, Wang, Wu, Kang, and Shi, five school lieutenants, are the five highest officers in the Doulu Army.

Since five years ago, Jia Sishun no longer set up Doulu Army Jiedu judges. These five people are of the same rank, and Jia Sishun provoked them to fight each other, maintaining the balance of the Doulu Army.

But this kind of balancing technique also comes at a price. The fifth school lieutenant fought among himself, and the result was that the Doulu army became more and more domineering, and the fifth school lieutenant became more and more powerful in the army.

After the autumn defense last year, Jia Sishun refused to pay the Doulu Army rewards, which completely offended the Doulu Army.

The five school lieutenants finally understood that it was Jia Sishun who was balancing their fights all these years.

The fifth captain decided to join forces and ask Jia Sishun for a reward.

As soon as these five people joined forces, they made Jia Sishun, governor of Shazhou and Jiedu envoy of Shazhou evacuated, and now the matter of the Doulu army was discussed and resolved by the five school lieutenants.

Among the five school lieutenants, Sha Xiaowei is the oldest, and the Sha family is also a prominent family in Shazhou City, a family of martial arts who held the position of school lieutenant at that time.

Colonel Sha said: "A few days ago, I managed to convince Jia Qi that dude, but I didn't expect this guy to be imprisoned by Jia Sishun!"

Colonel Sha called the Jiedushi by his name without any respect in his words.

Xiaowei Wang is a round-faced black fat man, he nodded and said: "This Jia Qi is really a waste, even if he asks his old father for an official position, it will not work."

The remaining three school lieutenants agreed one after another.

Winning over Jia Qi was originally arranged by the Fifth Captain, but Jia Qi didn't work, and everyone lost interest in discussing it.

Colonel Sha said again: "A few days ago, I heard that the emperor appointed King Jianning as the general manager of Longyou Dao to control the troops of the military houses of Longyou Dao. This King Jianning is now in Guazhou City. I heard that Mo Li's army has already It is under the control of King Jianning."

Kang Xiaowei's family has a caravan, and the most informed person said: "King Jianning's battle in Guazhou was quite big. In Guazhou Dasuo Maungyue, a lot of land was cleared, and the three gentry of Guazhou City were all killed. eradicated."

Captain Shi was the youngest, but the most courageous, he asked worriedly, "Will King Jianning come to Shazhou?"

Captain Wu was the most unruly, he said proudly, "So what? I heard that King Jianning only has five hundred Mo Li troops and one or two hundred personal guards. If he is willing to pay rewards, our Dou Lu Army will confess. If he didn't give out the reward, then the general manager Longyou Bingma is a joke."

After Captain Wu finished speaking, the other captains all laughed.

The emperor dispatched elite soldiers and horses from Longyou Road to support Guanzhong, but they were all buried in the battle of Tongguan.

Since then, the court's prestige in Longyou Dao has been greatly lost.

Coupled with the apportionment of taxes in the Spring and Autumn Period last year, the governors of various states exploited the people very heavily, which also made the entire Longyou Dao hate the imperial court even more.

Originally, Longyou Dao was going to suffer from Uyghur and Tubo's invasion, but now Longyou's army is empty and bandits are rampant, and those officers and soldiers loyal to the Tang Dynasty have all died. Yang obeys and Yin violates.

Obedience and defiance are all considered good. Several Shouzhuo mansions in the north simply cut off the autumn tax paid last year, and recruited troops to defend against the Uighur invasion in spring.

The five school lieutenants looked at each other and smiled, obviously they were not too impressed with King Jianning, the governor of Longyou who was appointed by the imperial court.

Now the Tang court doesn't know where it is floating, let alone a mere county king, even if the emperor comes, he can't get reward money and military rations, and no one will give him his life.

Captain Sha said again: "Captain Kang, you have to keep an eye on the salt field over there at Yanchi, it's our cash cow."

Kang Xiaowei's family was in business, and after taking over the Yanchi saltworks, Wu Xiaowei handed over the saltworks to him for management.

Colonel Sha smiled and said: "A battalion is guarding the salt pond, but the bandits in Sanwei Mountain dare not attack the salt field where our officers and soldiers are stationed."

"However, during this period of time, the consumption of salt is a bit too much, and the production is always unable to increase."

The unruly Captain Wu immediately said: "These mud-legged people must be lazy! If you ask me to say that Xiao Xiaowei is too kind! Next time you don't have enough salt, I will chop off the heads of these mud-legged people! "

Xiaowei Sha comforted him and said: "It is also a technical job to burn salt and cook salt. If the salt is cut down, the salt field will be abandoned. I think that if there are more people working in the salt pond, the output will be higher." It went up naturally."

Colonel Sha said decisively: "This method is good, let Zhang Lvshuai in the salt field do it."

Now came the last topic, Colonel Sha said first: "Now that we have surrounded the Governor's Mansion, there are many voices in the army to kill Jia Governor, what do you think?"

Now everyone was silent. After all, Datang hadn't completely collapsed, and openly discussing the killing of Shangguan was a serious crime of treason.

Colonel Sha coughed: "My opinion, don't kill him. Mr. Jia is too old to take care of things, and his family is weak and incompetent. As long as you keep an eye on him, Shazhou City will belong to our Doulu Army. If Mr. Jia dies , the imperial court will inevitably appoint a new governor of Shazhou, and it may be even more uncomfortable at that time."

The remaining four captains nodded repeatedly.

Colonel Sha said: "Then maintain the old style, block and control the governor's mansion, and everything will remain the same."

(End of this chapter)