Reborn in the late Northern Wei Dynasty

Chapter 358 Lingnan (3000)

In the early morning of the next day, Gao Cheng woke up from his sleep, and moved away the plump and delicate body wrapped around him.

The person in the same bed is no longer young. The combination of the once gorgeous facial features and the plump figure after raising a son and a daughter, coupled with the mature charm given by the years, the 38-year-old Yuan Mingyue has a different charm.

Resisting the urge to continue playing, Gao Cheng put on his clothes and ran around the yard for more than ten laps. After sweating, he washed and ate under the service of his maid.

After eating breakfast, I will go to Zhongshu Province to be on duty accompanied by my trusted guards.

When he arrived at the Provincial Yamen, he sent someone to summon Cui Jishu, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, and asked him carefully about the distribution of official pay and military pay, as well as the taxation in Guanzhong.

Since the 11th year of Taichang (542), Guanlong relocated households and Xianbei relocated households have enjoyed three to five years of tax reduction and exemption. Relying on the salt profit finance to barely survive, Gao Cheng has never stepped out of the Gyeonggi area in the past five years.

After three years of tax reduction and exemption in the Guanzhong area, last year, that is, Taichang 14, it began to pay taxes in full.

Gao Cheng didn't set up two taxes in spring and autumn, but collected the annual tax in autumn, that is, autumn tax.

Of course, if a disaster occurs in a local area, it will be reduced or exempted as appropriate. At least ensure that the people have enough rations. The ancients did not pay attention to human rights awareness. This is why Gao Cheng dared to make such a large-scale immigration event within four months.

After all, his father, Gao Huan, set an example by migrating 40 households in three days. At that time, the emperor was fleeing and the Gao clan’s foundation in Henan was at a critical moment. Compared with Gaocheng’s stable ruling foundation when he immigrated , besides, Yuan Shanjian is the one who is responsible, Xiao Gaowang has always been a red face.

As for the hardships experienced by the relocated households on the way, Gao Cheng was able to detect it, but compared to the grand plan to revitalize Guanlong, he could also ignore it cruelly.

In the context of an era without human rights, it is the kindness of a ruler to be able to postpone the migration until after autumn, so that they have enough time to complete the autumn harvest, obtain rations, and ask the local government to prepare winter clothes for those who have few clothes. What's more, he also formulated a tax exemption plan for these people in the next three to five years, and prepared houses in the resettlement places in advance.

The ruler should not be soft-hearted when he should be cruel. After the Battle of Guandu, Yuan Shao’s 11 troops only fled 800 cavalry, and all those who surrendered were killed by Cao Cao. More than 8 people were killed. Surrender', so Cao Cao killed them all.

But if you think about it carefully, you know that Cao Cao faced the same dilemma as Yuwentai after the Shayuan War, and couldn't afford to support these soldiers. The difference was that Yuwentai didn't dare to kill the villagers, so he sent most of the soldiers from the Eastern Wei Dynasty back to the Kanto.

However, Cao Cao would not send Yuan Shao back to Hebei. After all, Cao Mengde was from Peiguo Qiao County (Bozhou, Anhui), so don't misidentify his fellow villagers.

In troubled times, civilians can be starved to death, or even used as food for the army, but soldiers, even if they are surrendered soldiers, cannot starve. Let them starve, and once they mutiny, it will be a big trouble.

With the collection of the Guanzhong tax into the treasury, the finances have also become more abundant, and this year is also the last year of the five-year tax reduction and exemption for the immigrants from Longyou and Xianbei, and taxes will be sent to the treasury after next autumn.

The southern expedition will be after the spring plowing in the next year.

Today is not the time in the Northern Song Dynasty. There is no ethos of not giving rewards before the war, and soldiers will not work hard. Even if the Gao family treated the Six Towns Xianbei kindly, they would not make them arrogant.

But giving rewards before the war can really boost morale, so Gao Cheng set the time for usurping the country before the southern expedition. The usurping the country must give rewards to the soldiers. Taking advantage of the high spirits of the soldiers to go south, It's also a really good time.

It is also appropriate to give some rewards after usurping the country, but in the Northern Song Dynasty, the new king had to be rewarded a lot when he succeeded to the throne, which is somewhat outrageous.

As for whether Gao Cheng's function is to usurp the country, there is no need to worry about it. The great Wei King Qi of the post-Three Kingdoms period has contributed to the Great Wei, and only the Great Wei Wu Wang Sun Shiwan of the former Three Kingdoms period can hold his own. Of course, it is just a distant look. At that time, Cao Wei had not yet established the country, but his credit cannot be wiped out.

Look at the situation when Guan Yu was powerful in China. Cao Ren and Man Chong were trapped in Fancheng to watch the sea. Hu Xiu, the governor of Jingzhou, and Fu Fang, the prefect of Nanxiang, surrendered one after another. The military deployment made in Jingzhou was almost completely disintegrated. Xu Huang was sent to Jingzhou to support him, but he could only take recruits on the road. The participation of the relocated Jingzhou gentry also indicates that everyone is no longer optimistic about the Cao family.

At this critical moment concerning the survival of the Cao family's foundation, he, the future king of Wei Wu, stood up, stabbed his ally in the back, and made a world-class feat, bah!
King Wu of the Great Wei of the former Three Kingdoms period made such extraordinary achievements, but it was far less than King Qi of the Great Wei of the Later Three Kingdoms period made contributions to the great Wei community. Therefore, King Qi is naturally qualified to usurp the throne.

As for winning the country and going south, there is no need to worry about whether there will be chaos in the rear.

After these years of being manipulated by inappropriate people, Yuan Shanjian's reputation among the people has long been infamous, and Xiao Gao Wang is the living Bodhisattva, the kind of longevity tablet for every family.

The father and son Gao Huan and Gao Cheng have been in power for so many years. No matter the local or central government, they are all controlled by their cronies and party members.

It has been 15 years since the Kanto region went from chaos to rule, especially in Hebei. Since the Battle of Han Ling in early 532, there has been no natural or man-made disasters. The population born in the first year of Taichang has also reached the age of dividing land.

Wang Gongyun was one of them. When he took the imperial examination for the first time, he stopped in the state examination. After three years of hard work, he finally passed the Sizhou examination in the second imperial examination, but he stopped in the Beijing examination.

After the spring of this year, when he turned 15, he also applied to the Xin'an County Government for the allocation of acres. Jinshi qualification, his father Wang Ajing also supported him, so he studied hard in Sizhou Prefecture School in Luoyang.

As for the [-] mu of open fields and [-] mu of mulberry fields allocated to Wang Gongyun by the Xin'an County Government, all of them were subleased to others for cultivation. It's just that the contract must be established once a year.

The Gao family’s rule in Kanto has come to its 15th year. It is estimated that the next two years will be the peak population growth of the first wave of baby boomers, enough to fill the lost labor force in the Kanto region due to emigration. Two waves of migration resulted in the loss of 130 million Dingkou and 130 million women and children.

In ancient times, a sufficient number of acres of land was allocated to a sufficient population. To meet this condition, only one spring plowing and one autumn harvest were needed to restore productivity.

Many dynasties had to go through more than ten years of recuperation at the beginning of the founding of the country before they could resume production. In fact, the war caused a large decrease in the population, and it was necessary to wait for the baby boomers after the chaos to rule to become adults and engage in agricultural production. After all, people are not crops in the field. One crop a year, or even two or three crops.

You can't let an eight or nine-year-old half-child take responsibility for production independently.

The Kanto area will resume its production capacity before the Western Expedition in the next one or two years. It seems that the time is short, but behind it is the Kanto area, especially Henan and Hebei, which have not suffered large-scale riots for more than ten years.

Gao Cheng and Cui Jishu checked all kinds of accounts carefully, and ordered someone to summon She Digan, the commander of the navy, to inquire about the training situation of the navy.

As She Digan, he naturally knew Gao Cheng's expected time for the southern expedition. Not only did he strictly control the training of the navy, but he also humbly asked for advice from the generals under his command, Fu Meng and Guo Yuanjian, who were proficient in water warfare. After five years, he has gained a lot. At least as far as the water battle is concerned, he is no longer a layman.

On the twelfth day of the first lunar month in the 15th year of Taichang (546), when the King of the North was preparing for the Southern Expedition two years later, in the far south of Lingnan, Chen Baxian was also fighting for his own future.

In 544 AD, Chen Baxian defeated the rebels who besieged Guangzhou City in one fell swoop, and was appreciated by Xiao Yan.

In the winter of the same year, Xiao Ying, the benefactor of Guangzhou, died of illness. Chen Baxian wanted to send Xiao Ying's coffin back to Jiankang, but he was appointed by Xiao Yan on the way, making him the Sima of Jiaozhou and the prefect of Wuping (Yong'an, Vietnam).

At this time, both Jiaozhou and Dezhou were separated by the rebel general Li Ben. He founded the country in the northern part of Vietnam, and the name of the country was Wanchun.

Chen Baxian immediately returned to Guangzhou, gathered troops and prepared military resources, and sent troops to suppress the rebellion in December with Yang Qian, the governor of Jiaozhou, and Xiao Bo, the governor of Dingzhou (Guiping, Guangxi).

Halfway through the journey, Dingzhou Inspector Xiao Bo and others were afraid to move forward. Chen Baxian said how he could put down the rebellion with this group of insects, so he led the army and beat the drums alone.

After all, the former Xinzhou (Guangdong Xinxing) governor Lu Zixiong and Gaozhou (Guangxi Yangxi) governor Sun Jiong who had retired before were both slandered by Xiao Zijin and given to death.

In June 545 A.D., the counter-insurgency army arrived in Jiaozhou. The rebel general Li Ben led tens of thousands of troops and set up a fence at the mouth of the Suli River to defend against the enemy.

Li Ben fled to Dianche Lake, when the lake water rose sharply, the Liang army did not dare to enter the army, and Chen Ba first led the army to attack while the water was rising, completely defeated Li Ben's army, Li Ben took refuge in Qu Liao's tribe, was defeated Killed by Liaoren, passed on to Jiankang.

Jiaozhou and Dezhou were restored, but Li Tianbao, brother of Li Ben, fled to Jiuzhen County (central Vietnam), gathered the remaining [-] troops, and entered Aizhou (Thanh Hoa, Vietnam). General Feng Zhenyuan, governor of Xijiang, prefect Gaoyao, and military governors of the seven counties.

When Gao Cheng was 21 years old and began to control the power of the Yuan and Wei Dynasties and the entire north, the 43-year-old Chen Baxian finally had a small territory in the Lingnan area, and he also trained an elite army in the flames of war.

　There are a lot of things to do today, first update a chapter of 3000, there will be a chapter of 4000 before twelve o'clock in the evening, and we will catch up with 3000 in the early morning.
　　
　
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