Hengdao Sixteen Kingdoms

Chapter 545 The Sea

With all this pulling and pulling, the autumn harvest is here in the blink of an eye.

A flood occurred in the three states of Cang, Qing, and Qi in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, which destroyed countless fields and houses. Zhou Jin dealt with it in time, and this year's harvest in these three states was considered wasted.

However, Huaibei still has a good harvest.

The abandoned fields ordered to be reclaimed the year before last have harvested one after another this year, especially in Youdai Zhao Sanzhou.

After this year's autumn harvest, plus last year's surplus, the treasury finally has enough money to support it for two years.

After the autumn harvest, [-] black cloud troops marched north to the grassland. When autumn is high and the horses are fat, it is the best time for hunting. Last year, due to the competition for the three counties of Taiyuan, one horse was released on the grassland. This year, we cannot miss it.

Animal husbandry is also a major pillar of Liang State.

Only when soldiers eat meat can they have the strength to go into battle and kill the enemy.

The people's nutrition must also keep up, and they must be allowed to take what the mountains, forests, hills and swamps produce.

For two months after the autumn harvest every year, the government did not do corvee work and gave them plenty of time to fish and hunt.

And the hard labor was passed on to the slaves.

There are 30 slaves registered in the Ministry of Household Affairs, nearly 150 million, most of whom are Hu people, Yi Di, and some prisoners of war.

It seems like a lot, but compared to the two Han Dynasties, it is still not enough. According to statistics from the collection of books in Yecheng, the official slaves and private slaves of the Han Dynasty combined were at least 400 million.

This can still be counted, but the hidden slaves and maids under the names of powerful nobles cannot be counted.

Wei Qing, the great general of the Han Dynasty, was both a Qin slave.

In his early years, Shi Le also sold his own people to make a living. In order to survive, he sold himself...

Even in the Tang Dynasty, there were still a large number of slaves.

However, Li Yue showed mercy outside the law and gave the slaves a little light. Their descendants could deregister themselves and become children.

Although they are still at the bottom of Daliang, there is some hope.

"Only animal husbandry is not enough. Cui Jin has built boats for so many years, and fishing has to keep up. The sea is full of treasures. It is cold in winter and can be transported to the inland." Li Yue racked his brains in order to find a bite to eat.

Looking at the mountains and eating the mountains, relying on the sea to eat the sea, Kanto has the sea to its left, so it is natural to reach out to the sea. The output of the sea is more than ten times richer than that of the grassland.

"Last month, General Ma Gu led 31 ships while trying to cross the sea to Liaodong. They were hit by a hurricane and half of them capsized. The Chancellery is discussing reducing shipbuilding expenses." Lu Qing whispered.

"Winds are common at sea. Don't stop eating because of choking. Keep building the ship and keep going to sea!"

Nothing in the world is smooth sailing, and setbacks are inevitable. Li Yue came from later generations, so he naturally knew the importance of the ocean.

The Chinese nation wants to break through its destiny, and Liang wants to get rid of the cyclical law of dynasties, either by developing technology or expanding to the sea.

It is impossible to ruin the future because of a small storm.

In Li Yue's mind, the importance of opening up the ocean is not as important as unifying China.

It's just that we didn't devote our energy to it because of the national power.

It's a pity that the best ships, best sailors, and best shipbuilders of this era are all in Jiangdong.

Li Yue also tried to ask for craftsmen from Jiangdong, but Huan Wen was on guard and refused to agree. He had no choice but to find his way first.

Development has been pretty good in the past few years. At least the Daliang navy has tried to open the sea route from Liaodong to Qingzhou.

If we hadn't encountered this hurricane, our chances of success would have been extremely high.

Once the sea route is opened, the end of the Yan Kingdom will come.

Li Yue thought. Since the ocean is so important, he might as well open a Maritime Department, bypassing the Shangshutai, and put it under the direct control of Li Yue like the School Affairs Office and the Honglu Department.

At the same time, a maritime institute was opened in Taixue to train navigation talents and shipbuilding craftsmen.Navigation is by no means as simple as building a few ships. If you want to go far, you need people who know astronomy, meteorology, and hydrology.

Nothing is unachievable.

Li Yue didn't believe that he would never see the Daliang navy rampaging across the world.

Even if they can’t see it themselves, the second and third generations must continue to implement it unswervingly.

With this in mind, Li Yue planned to make a "Huang Liang Ancestor Instructions" to set rules for future generations and also point out the direction for them.

With Li Yue's intervention, the Shangshutai stopped discussing and continued to allocate money to the east.

Chang Wei was a little reluctant. Traditional scholars focused their attention on land. However, the ocean in this era was indeed too risky and the benefits would not be seen in the short term. Li Yue did not blame him.

This is originally the responsibility of the Chancellor, and it would not be a good thing if the emperor acted arbitrarily.

In the Qin and Han Dynasties, the imperial power and the power of the prime minister restrained each other. Emperor Ai of the Han Dynasty wanted to make his favorite Dong Xian a marquis, but the prime minister Wang Jia resolutely rejected it and would rather die than surrender. Even in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the provinces were set up to refute the emperor's edict.

Although the Maritime Department was established, it was difficult to find talents who were proficient in maritime affairs.

Most of the people who were proficient in maritime affairs were in Jiangdong, and most of them were local nobles in Jiangdong. During Sun Quan's time, there were Jiangdong ships touring the Southeast Asian countries.

Decades later, Lu Dun and Sun En's Five Dou Mi Dao Rebellion was actually a great pirate uprising. It started from the Zhoushan Islands and fought back to the east coast of the Yangtze River. The fleet went north to block the Yangtze River Estuary and went south to attack Guangzhou...

It is worth mentioning that behind Lu Dunsun En, there was the support of the Wu Xing Shen family and other Jiangdong noble families.

The Northern Kingdom has been harmed by stone tigers for so many years. It would be great to be able to eat now, and talents in this field are even more difficult to find.

Li Yue simply issued an edict to open an enke next year, telling the world that anyone who is proficient in maritime affairs, regardless of origin or race, can participate, and the imperial court will be responsible for travel expenses.

The edict was also disseminated to Jiangdong by Honglusi.

Anyway, Jiangdong is also the subordinate country and nephew country of Daliang, and sooner or later they will also be part of the same family...

This move was also to test the attitude of the local scholars and people in Jiangdong towards Liang Guo.

Li Yue quietly waited for news from the south.

The focus of Honglusi in the past two years has been Jiangdong, and flies will not bite seamless eggs.

Most of the people in Guanzhong are Qiang and Hu. It is possible to encourage them to rebel, but there is little hope of inciting them to defect to Daliang. Fu Jian governed the country with benevolence and was very popular among the people, so Honglusi focused on Jiangdong.

When the first snowflakes fell, the results came.

"Your Majesty, the Shen family of Wuxing, the Zhou family of Yixing, and the He family of Kuaiji have selected their most capable children to go north!" Lu Qing reported in surprise.

The Shen family of Wuxing followed Wang Dun and rebelled, and was never reused by the Jiangdong court.

The Kuaiji He family, that is, the branch of the famous Soochow general He Qi, has been marginalized since his clothes moved south.

The most valuable of these families is the Yixing Zhou family. Starting from Zhou Yi, the two generations of Zhou Chu and Zhou Qi were tricked to death by the Sima family. After the fourth generation Zhou Xie rebelled, this family gradually declined in Jiangdong. .

"They are the ones I have been waiting for. They should have come long ago!" Li Yue said with a smile.

The enemy of the enemy is the friend.

The northern gentry dominated the power of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and the local gentry in Jiangdong were marginalized. Now that Li Yue was defeating Jiangdong's legitimacy step by step, these people naturally came to rely on him.

The prisoners and hostages released last year can be regarded as a wave of favor among the local nobles in Jiangdong.

"The person who takes the lead, His Majesty, has had a relationship with him once, Wu Xing and Shen Jin."

"Oh?" Li Yue recalled something, vaguely remembering that during the Hefei War, he indeed captured such a man. He refused to surrender and did not kill him. He was thrown into the Shangwu Hall for reform. Last year, he was released back to Jiangdong. Unexpectedly, now Back again.

The legitimacy of Daliang is gaining popularity among the people.

(End of this chapter)