A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 289

"This is the best second fur, the white lamb on the salt flats, about 30 days old, the fur obtained after slaughter, the best light fur!"

Yanzhou, outside Baicheng, Yanchi County.

Wubai Salt Pond began to produce salt again, and the salt roads leading to Lingzhou and Gyeongju became unobstructed again. As Yanzhou gradually recovered, barbarians also began to come to trade.

They drove cattle and sheep, carried furs, felt blankets, medicinal materials, and even chained slaves, and came to exchange salt, food, cloth, pots, bowls, tea and wine from the Tang people.

An old Dangxiang Qiang man with a shaved head was holding a piece of fur in his hand, showing it to Han merchants in the market.

The second fur is as thin as thick paper, tough in texture, yet soft and plump, and very light. What is even more valuable is the lustrous and crystal-clear ear of the second fur, which presents a unique curved and folded shape, like undulating waves.

Xin Zhao picked up a piece and looked at it carefully, and said to Huaiyu, "This is a high-quality two-fur fur, known as Jiu Dao Ben. You can see the pure white hair ears when you lift the leather board upside down. It's like an ice cone colliding and falling, if it shakes lightly, it's more like a jade scorpion falling, pear blossoms flying, light and moving."

"The leather clothes made of this fur are comfortable to wear and extremely warm. They can also be used to make trims for high-end clothes, which are elegant and elegant."

Huaiyu also picked up a piece and looked at it, shaking it off.

"Your mouth is as sharp as ever, and Chang'an and the two cities have not forgotten the ability to make teeth."

"It's been more than 20 years since I played in elementary school. How can I forget it so easily." Xin Zhao smiled, and then asked the old man, "Your fur is pretty good, what's the price?"

The old man was wearing a sheepskin jacket, and his eyes were shrewd.

After the Tang army occupied Yanzhou, the Qianghu who came in the first wave were quite courageous. Before the Liang division forced to relocate the people of Yanzhou, they also moved those Qianghu.

But these Qiang Hus were unwilling. After being moved to Xiazhou by Liang Jun, they soon found that life was difficult. Those who herded cattle and sheep found that there was not enough pasture, and those who cultivated land had no land to grow. After arriving in Xiazhou, many people were reduced to Refugees, no one cares.

Ever since, those Qiang Hus were the first to sneak around.

Anyway, they are nomadic.

The Yamen of Yanzhou put up bills everywhere and sent people to announce it to appease the people.

Qianghu first ran back in small groups to test, and found that the governor of Yanzhou had a good attitude, so he slowly started to run back with a large force, and even brought Qianghu from Xiazhou, who was originally there, to sneak over .

"Two horses for training." The old man gestured with two fingers.

"It's expensive," Xin Zhao said bluntly, although in Chang'an City, such a top-grade second fur is very valuable, but this is Yanzhou, this old man is not a first-hand owner, at most second-hand.

Now a piece of silk costs at least [-] yuan, and two pieces of silk cost [-] yuan, which is too expensive in Yanzhou.

Xin Zhao held up a finger, "A big Lian, I'll take as much as you have."

The old man Dangxiang Qiang shook his head quickly, "This is a high-quality second-fur fur, not ordinary fur. Even better ordinary wool requires two horses for training."

Zhao Xin said, "I buy a Dun horse here, and I only have [-] big ones. If I buy grass horses, it is even cheaper. You need two for one piece of wool. How can there be such a thing."

The two bargained and refused to give in to each other.

Wu Huaiyu watched with great interest. After the opening of the Baicheng border city, people came to trade one after another, but now there are not many merchants, so Wu Huaiyu is not in a hurry. After all, salt is the source of salt. New salt farms start construction every day, and there are many salt The merchant brought people.

They need to eat and drink, and also need daily commodities, which can promote consumption.

What's more, these Qiang people and mountain beards are coming here one after another, and most of their daily necessities are bought from the Tang people. Their tribe does not have much manual manufacturing ability.

In the current market, Qianghu is still more dependent on the Tang people. Cows and sheep fur are not very valuable. A pony can be bought as cheap as a thousand dollars.

In the Baicheng Market, the Han merchants’ goods are mainly salt, then cloth and grain, then porcelain and pottery, pots and pans, ropes, needlework, etc., medicinal materials, etc., and tea.

Tea has now become a necessity for herdsmen, and they are gradually inseparable.

The war caused these fanhus to urgently need the daily necessities of the Tang Dynasty, but they only had cattle and sheep fur in their hands, and they had accumulated a lot, so they were eager to exchange things, so the prices would naturally be lowered.

Liu Xu led a group of scribes and yamen servants to inspect the simple bazaar. The goods that entered the market had to be registered, and taxes would be collected according to the transaction points, and the merchants in the market also had to pay taxes. .

There are mainly two types of taxation and residence tax. The taxation method is relatively simple, and the tax rate is not high.

Basically, the tax rate is one out of twenty.

The transaction is basically barter, and these fanhus don't have any copper coins or silk cloth in their hands, and they can exchange animals or furs for anything they like.

It can also be sold to the warehouse, and then bought for money, but generally these fanhus find this troublesome and barter.

"There are more people and goods today than yesterday," Liu Xu, who joined the army, told Huaiyu.

"As long as they are willing to come, more and more people will come in the future. However, one thing to note is that since this is an exchange market, we must maintain the fairness and justice of market transactions. There must be no deception or fraud. If you are short of catties and short of two, you are short of size or inch, and you are not allowed to shoddy.

Trade freely, but trade must be fair. Anyone who dares to break this rule must not tolerate politeness. "

Like the two cities in Chang'an, Wu Huaiyu also has a city order here, and related management personnel are not only responsible for tax collection, but also responsible for maintaining order, such as evaluating prices, and even some expensive and large-scale transactions. A government deed must be established to avoid disputes.

If there is a dispute, there are also special personnel responsible for trial and mediation.

Now the livestock and medicinal materials of the fanhus here are relatively cheap. Horses are divided into dun horses, grass horses, and baby horses. Each of them is priced in three grades. The ones waiting right now are only about [-].

This is less than half, or even only a third of the horse price in Chang'an, which is very different, but considering the long-distance horse trade, the cost is not low.

As for sheep, the best Yanzhou Tan sheep, also called white sheep, cost only a few hundred dollars each.

As for fur, the price is also relatively low. The price of horse hide, cattle, sheep, and sheep skin also ranges from one to two hundred to three to four hundred, which is really several times different from the price in Chang'an.

Engaging in this kind of trade these days, especially being able to trade directly from the source, is indeed very profitable.

There are only two or three cows here, and only a dozen or so camels.

A camel can be exchanged for two or three horses, a horse can be exchanged for two cows, and a cow can be exchanged for five or six sheep.

But the handmade goods shipped from the mainland are not cheap.

Two tea bricks can be exchanged for a sheep, and a horse can be exchanged for about 20 yuan of tea bricks.

As for gadgets such as needles and threads, they are also very expensive, and pots are even more expensive.

As for weapons, such as knives, guns, bows and arrows, they are forbidden to be sold, let alone armor, shields and crossbows.

Even the extremely expensive iron pot was cast with a special process. The iron in this kind of iron pot cannot be re-melted to make weapons and armor.

The defense is that they collect iron to make weapons.

Generally speaking, Wu Huaiyu felt that Shuofang was affected by the war, and supplies were relatively scarce, especially the handmade goods made by Datang, and the fur of their livestock was seriously overpriced and depreciated.

But the status quo is like this. The commercial goods they need can basically only be supplied by the Tang Dynasty, but their livestock fur, etc., Datang has many trading partners.

The market went around, it was very lively, and there were still many shops in the process of construction and decoration. In fact, the mutual market was not open every day, but Wu Huaiyu ignored the old-fashioned, but turned this market outside Baicheng into a regular one. The city is open for business every day, and there are fixed street shops inside.

He intends to turn this place into an industrial and commercial town outside the Great Wall of Yanzhou, a goods distribution center, rather than a big market that only happens once every ten days and a half.

The Wu family has already opened a store here, Qianjintang medicine store, Changshengtang pawnshop, Baoyutang's salt store, and grocery stores will open one after another.

"How is Fanfang repairing?"

"We're still recruiting people. The wages we offer are half a month, which is equivalent to one and a half buckets of millet per day."

This is a short-term job, for half a month at a time, the wages are millet, not money, one and a half buckets a day, for half a month, there are more than two stones.

It can be said that the wages are not low.

Liu Xu told Huaiyu that the price set was actually the price paid by Lingzhou to hire someone to serve as a substitute for Shangfeng.Lingzhou is located in a border area, and there are many beacon castles. The imperial court always recruits local people to serve as soldiers, and the turn is [-] days.

Because Shoufeng is relatively hard work, those with better conditions are generally reluctant to work, so they pay someone to do it for them, and the price is one and a half buckets of millet a day.

Although the price of food varies from high to low, it has always remained the same.

According to the price of grain in Lingzhou, a bucket of millet is now worth about fifty or sixty yuan, so a bucket and a half can be converted to about eighty yuan.

Of course, this was a time when grain prices were high. During the Kaihuang period of the Sui Dynasty, a bucket of millet in Lingzhou cost about [-] to [-] yuan, and the daily wage was equivalent to [-] yuan.

However, the food earned is generally used as rations, and the price does not matter much, after all, they have been eaten without cash.

Building cities and roads is actually similar to Shoufeng, both of which are very hard work.

If you do ordinary work, you may only have half or even a third of the money and food.

Earn some rations to support the family.

The Fan Fang that Huaiyu wants to build is to build another area on the edge of Baicheng Town for Fans to live together, so as to facilitate the unified management of Fan Hus. If you open a shop or something here, you can also live in Fanfang.

Even in the future, if some Fan Hus are called to serve as soldiers near the city, their families can also live in it.

Separate management is necessary.

Wu Huaiyu's ambition is not small. The planning and layout of the border city of Baicheng is far away. The border city is next to Baichi, next to Baicheng, the county seat of Yanchi, and not far to the north are Wucheng and Wuchi.

This Yanzhou border city is in the middle of these two pools and two cities, and to the south is the border fort of Changcheng Town.

Although the border city is just surrounded by simple fences and some grass sheds, it will be upgraded little by little soon. The wooden fences will be upgraded to rammed earth walls, and the grass sheds will also be replaced with shops with rammed earth walls.
Streets, city halls, warehouses, etc. will all have them.

There will even be workshop districts, fanfang districts, commercial and residential districts, where various commodities such as salt, horses, slaves, grain, and cloth are distributed and traded. At that time, this will be a golden nest to raise golden chickens, and there will be a steady stream of golden eggs .

"My lord, now some of the original Han people are coming back one after another," Liu Xu told Huaiyu. Although many of these people are poor, there are also some who used to be farmers or landlords. What should I do with the fields, pastures, woodlands, and house lands that have been taken over by the government?

After all, many of them have been directly sold or designated as military farmland.

"There is nothing to worry about. We welcome them back and tell them that because Liang Shuo destroyed their homes inhumanely, now that they come back, we will help them rebuild their homes.

Resettle them and re-allocate their land. As long as they come back, even if they were landless Han people before, we will grant him a hundred acres of land every day.
As for those who had land before, how much land they had, we will resettle them in another place to replenish their fields. "

"There is no shortage of land in Yanzhou now, what is lacking is people. As long as they can come back, we will give them an equal amount of land. Remember to tell them that the family of Duoding is welcome. They can apply for the Yanzhou Unity Army. As long as they can be selected, they will be given priority. Give them fields."

Families elected as united soldiers can give priority to land on the basis of [-] mu per Ding, and if ordinary people return to the common people, each household will first be granted [-] mu of land. If there are families with more than [-] Ding, it will be considered according to the situation, such as a family of [-] Ding [-] mu of Yongye first, plus [-] mu of land, and [-] Ding of [-] mu of Yongye first, plus [-] mu of land... When the land is abundant, then a hundred acres per Ding Mu fill up. "

"Tell them, first come, first to teach, until the end of the grant."

There are more than 5 hectares of land in Yanzhou. Ten thousand hectares were sold before, and then thousands of hectares were sold. There are also tens of thousands of hectares of land in military and official settlements. The yamen actually has a lot of land now, but the high-quality land has decreased a lot. .

One village is one hundred acres, and ten thousand acres is only ten thousand hectares. It is not easy for a border area like Yanzhou to receive ten thousand households in a short period of time.

"Those fanhus, as long as they come to vote, as long as they are willing to register and register, we will also grant them grassland and forest land, and demarcate them for grazing.
Still the same sentence, whoever accepts the registration of Qimin first, the Yamen will first grant land and demarcation to which tribe. "

Liu Xu admired Wu Huaiyu's policy.

At present, there are only a few scattered Han people who have relocated and come back, but once this policy is introduced, I believe it will attract more people.

Especially for many poor frontier residents, how can they miss the opportunity to distribute land and grant land?
In Liang Shidu's place, he didn't care about their well-being, he only thought about how to squeeze them and pay for his emperor's dream.

Master Liang has been separatist from Shuofang for these years, and it can be said that Shuofang has completely collapsed. With such a large population, they have to maintain a hundred thousand troops and fight every now and then. Where can they get the money and food to support them?

When even the soldiers are hungry and the soldiers are not full, how can ordinary people, even those tenant slaves have enough to eat?

"It is estimated that there will be many refugees coming from Xiazhou soon."

"That's not to be afraid. We have money and food on hand now. We directly use work as relief, and take them to Yanchi to produce salt, or to farm in the farm. They have food and can earn wages and rations. Stabilize this wave. , when the time comes to divide the land and lease them the cattle seeds, they will be able to settle down."

(End of this chapter)