Late Tang

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Dengzhou is small, and Liaodong is bitterly cold. Although Ziqing Town is rich, it cannot be fully managed.Li Jing wants to raise soldiers, 20 to 200 soldiers, and also wants to accommodate refugees, [-] million or more refugees.

The end of the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties were the era of mass extinction in China. In the second year of the first year of Emperor Ping of the Western Han Dynasty, that is, in the second year of AD, the country had a population of nearly 6000 million.After the Yellow Turban Uprising and until the Three Kingdoms War, at the end of the Three Kingdoms period, the population of the country was only 800 million.By the time of Daye in the Sui Dynasty, the population had recovered to 600 million. However, due to the chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty, the population was only 1000 million at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty.By the time of Kaiyuan in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, the population of the whole country had recovered to 5000 million.However, after the Anshi Rebellion, until now, there are only about 3000 million people.And by the beginning of the Northern Song Dynasty, the population will decrease by at least 1000 million, leaving only 2000 million people in the early Northern Song Dynasty.

If we want to be strong, the population is the key. Throughout history, the Three Kingdoms, the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and the Five Dynasties, this is the time when the population has declined the most in history.At the end of the Three Kingdoms, there were only 800 million people. After the Rebellion of the Eight Kings in the Western Jin Dynasty and the Rebellion of the Five Husbands, the population disappeared by 80.00%. The population of Emperor Wu of Liang in the Southern Dynasty was more than 100 million. After the Hou Jing Rebellion, only 110 million people remained. .

The hundred years of war in the late Tang and Five Dynasties also reduced the population by at least 2000 million.

China has a vast land and rich resources, but the sharp drop in population will inevitably lead to the growth of foreign races, and then the Han people in the Central Plains have been bullied for a hundred years.

Li Jing tried his best to change all this, but after going through so many things, he already understood that even if he wanted to be a Zhongxing Li Tang loyal minister, the current Tang Dynasty was indeed terminally ill and hopeless.

The emperor was young and played too much, ignoring political affairs, and the eunuchs in the court controlled the government.On the local level, dozens of feudal towns have completely destroyed the prestige of the imperial court.Years of disasters and famines have left countless people with nowhere to go.The shenanigans controlled by the imperial court are corrupt, and the local feudal army is arrogant and barbaric, but the nobles of the aristocratic families are holding a flashy feast and desperately expanding.

A big change is inevitable. Although the Li Tang royal family has been sparing no effort in suppressing the elites, and even increasing the scale of the imperial examination to check and balance the elites, but in fact, after the Anshi Rebellion, Li Tang The royal family has lost control of the world, the Tang court and imperial court and the forbidden army have all fallen into the hands of the eunuchs, and almost all the local feudal towns have fallen into the hands of the scholars.

The gatekeepers who lost their checks and balances eventually led to more serious land annexations and the reduction of civilians to slavery.When the conflict between the aristocratic family and the common people reached its worst point, under the guidance of natural disasters and famine, one conflict after another was detonated, which would eventually implicate the entire Li and Tang dynasty and collapse the entire dynasty.

Under the bright flowers on the surface, no one would have thought that the building would collapse.

Everyone is drunk and I am sober. Li Jing must do something. The population has dropped by 2000 million in a century. 2000 million lives were wiped out, followed by the rise and oppression of foreign races such as Khitan and Xixia, the loss of the sixteen prefectures of Youyun, the old coins of the Song Dynasty, and the weakness of the Han people for hundreds of years.

Li Jing wanted to seize Liaodong. This was a multi-faceted consideration. Among them, there were reasons that he never told his subordinates. He wanted to seize Liaodong and curb the rise of Khitan.He wants to seize Liaodong, and resettle as many people as possible before the troubled times come, so as to prevent them from dying in the tide of feudal town attacks and peasant uprisings.

The Khitan is rising strongly, but it has not yet fully risen. He can enter Liaodong and Liaoxi now, contain and block the Khitan, give them a head-on blow, and curb their momentum.Liaodong and Liaoxi are a huge land. After hundreds of years of development by the Goguryeo people, the situation is actually good.At least, compared with Lingnan, this place is not much worse.Even, if the Northeast Plain can be developed, there will be more to do here.

Historically, the Goguryeo people rose here, the Mohe people established the Haidong Shengguo here, and the Khitan people established the Daliao Empire, followed by the Jin Kingdom, the Mongol Empire, and the Later Jin Dynasty. Since the Tang Dynasty, the Northeast has been the real center of the Central Plains. Heartache.

This place is not bitterly cold, it just needs people.

Now there are people fleeing famine everywhere, Li Jing can take in more people and go to Liaodong.However, this requires a lot of food and countless supplies.

Dengzhou and southern Liaoning are currently producing, and even the people under the jurisdiction of the town [***] cannot supply enough, let alone accept more refugees.

Li Jing's plan has always been to use a multi-pronged approach, while opening up wasteland and reclaiming land, while relying on the seaports and sea routes in Dengzhou and southern Liaoning, to carry out commodity processing, maritime trade, and exchange commodities for food.Today's world is not chaotic, and the business in the late Tang Dynasty was very prosperous, which brought huge benefits to Li Jing, but the speed still couldn't keep up with the expansion speed that Li Jing wanted.

Liquor, perfume, weapons, etc. have extremely high profits, but the cost is not small.The brewing of baijiu requires a lot of food, even if many fruit wines are developed now, they still need food.

Li Jing still had a good eye for commodities. When he learned that a glass mirror that wasn't too big could actually sell for thousands of dollars, he immediately realized that this was a huge opportunity to make money.Unlike liquor and perfume, the cost of glass is not high. To put it bluntly, it is just sand. The real core is technology, and then labor costs.But these costs are nothing compared to the high price of glass.

Li Jing originally thought that making glass mirrors is actually more artistic, but relatively speaking, the requirements for all kinds of glass products are higher. On the contrary, directly manufacturing glass mirrors is simple and equally expensive.

After these days of busy work, Li Jing successfully manufactured a floor-to-ceiling coat mirror, and fired some small glass vessels and several pieces of colored glaze.

In the Heavenly Wolf Festival Hall, when Li Jing lifted the silk from the five-foot-high, one-foot-two-wide gold-rimmed floor-to-ceiling coat mirror, countless exclamations resounded in the festival hall.The huge glass mirror left everyone dumbfounded.Compared with the bronze mirror, this glazed mirror shows the details of people.What is even more precious is the size of the mirror, which is one foot tall and two feet wide, like a door.

Especially those giant businessmen, their legs were a little weak from the shock.Such a precious mirror is priceless, a real priceless treasure.

Everyone believed that such a treasure was not owned by the mortal world at all, it was rewarded by the Dragon King to Marshal Li from the Crystal Palace.

Some merchants secretly valued this treasure in their hearts, but no one could give a price.No matter the price for such a treasure, it would be a blasphemy.

"How much do you guys think should be sold for such a glazed mirror?" Li Jing took everyone's expressions into his eyes, and became more and more happy in his heart.

Mrs. Han, the head of the Xiao family, leaned on a red sandalwood walking stick, her face was also full of wonder, and she slowly said: "This thing should only exist in the sky, and how often do you hear it in the world? It is a priceless treasure."

"No matter how precious it is, it's just a thing. I think you all know that I am planning to buy all the grain on the ships in the port, but there is not enough money in Xiangzhong. Therefore, I decided to sell this treasure mirror, only the one with the highest price Got it."

Governor Shi Han Anmin was shocked, "Master, how can you sell such a treasure at will."

Li Jing shook his head, "Treasures are valuable, but food is even more precious. If this treasure is exchanged for more food, more refugees can be accommodated and rescued, then this treasure mirror is even more valuable."

When everyone in the hall heard that Li Jing was going to sell the mirror to buy food, no one shook their heads in amazement. It was a pity that such a treasure could be sold so easily.

Some people also got up excitedly when they heard that this precious mirror was going to be sold, "Marshal, I wonder how much this precious mirror is going to sell for?"

Li Jing smiled, "How much do you think this treasure is worth?"

The giant businessman blushed and thought for a long time, and finally shook his head: "This is a priceless treasure, a rare treasure!" After finishing speaking, he said a little unwillingly: "I am not prepared today, and I don't have enough money on me. Can I send someone to raise money?"

"Of course you can. Although this treasure mirror is going to be sold, you can't sell it in a hurry. I mean, today is just for everyone to watch this treasure. The real sale will be in ten days. After ten days, everyone will come again. When the time comes Everyone bid together, and the highest bidder wins." Li Jing said with a smile, of course such a treasure cannot be sold casually.If you want to sell it, you have to sell it at a high price.Today, it can only be regarded as a product launch event. The real sale requires an auction. The notice in advance is to gather these potential buyers, let them see the mirror first, and then give them ten days. Let them prepare money, and after ten days, many rich people will bid together.

Li Jing believed that such a routine would definitely stimulate the desire of these rich people to fight for wealth. At that time, everyone would compete to bid, and he would be the one who made a fortune.

Of course, what money can be made by selling just a mirror, Li Jing is planning to make the glass manufacturing industry the most promising business plan in the future.

After exhibiting the precious mirror, Li Jing asked the guards to present many glass products.Show everyone one by one, there are glass water glasses, glass bottles, glass jugs, glass teapots, glass beads, and glass ornaments.In addition, there are all kinds of fine wines in glass bottles, especially fruit wines in glass bottles. The colorful wines in transparent glass bottles immediately make the wine a lot more high-end.There are also various perfumes in glass bottles, and the beautiful glass perfume bottles are even more magnificent.In addition, there are many glass-fired paperweights, statues, etc., and a few colored glass products made by adding aerobic minerals, which are even more beautiful.

After one glass product after another was displayed, Li Jing announced that the auction of these products would take place in ten days.Of these glass products, more than a dozen large-scale glass products such as floor-to-ceiling coat mirrors, only one was photographed.There will be many other small pieces of glazed products for sale. (To be continued.)