Lord of the House

Although Yuan Guizheng has a high self-esteem, he was born in a clan and a hereditary marquis. Apart from planning behind the scenes for the Liang family and the Queen Mother, he never had the opportunity to openly take charge of the military and politics. This time, Liang Chengchong trusted Liang Chengchong and took charge of the political affairs of Xinyang. Yuan Guizheng cherished this opportunity very much.

Over the years, Yuan Guizheng has not stopped, not so much because of his ambitions, but because he is not willing to show his ambitions.

There is food, iron, mules, horses, armour, weapons, bows and arrows, recruiting elected officials to settle fields, build roads, build cities and build houses. More importantly, a steady stream of supplies has been shipped from Huaidong, and the hearts of the military and civilians have gradually settled down, and they are no longer anxious.

In addition to Liang Xianren, the younger brother of the Liang Xi family, who led his troops to guard Xinye City in the south of Nanyang to prepare for the Changle bandits from Xiangfan, Liang Chengchong personally led the main elite to guard Fangcheng.

Fangcheng is located at the foot of Mt. Funiu Mountain, adjacent to the north ridge of Tongbai Mountain in the west, and the Fangcheng Pass in the north of Fangcheng.

To defend Nanyang, Fangcheng must be defended. Fangcheng's pass is less than 300 miles away from Ruzhou, where Chen Zhihu led his troops.

In addition to the 20,000 soldiers and horses in Yizhou who were mostly brave and brave, there were also about 100,000 refugees who moved south with the army from Jining, Caozhou and other places.

Nearly 100,000 people migrated westward, and for a long time, they had to rely on relief to survive the famine. Huaidong is difficult to recruit and care for, and weaving camps; Huaixi also has a similar school, which is composed of soldiers. Yuanguizheng in Nanyang naturally strongly recommends Liang Chengchong to learn this experience.

On the one hand, the camps are widely used to increase the supply of military resources. On the other hand, Ding Zhuang, the refugee, is organized as a reserve soldier to increase the military strength of Nanyang. When the enemy army is surrounded, he can assist in defending the fortress. Completely grasp the situation in Nanyang, and don't have to worry about the refugees.

In addition to the soldiers and civilians who moved westward, the local clan forces in Nanyang were destroyed, but there were quite a few refugees or bandits or bandits. In this way, in addition to the 20,000 soldiers and horses, Nanyang also compiled 30,000 soldiers, which were distributed in Fangcheng, Nanyang, Yiyang, Xinye and other cities.

Even if the time is a little later, under the auspices of Yuan Guizheng, the larger-scale reclamation and planting of wasteland will begin after entering May.

Nanyang is in a state of waste and waiting to be rebuilt, and there is no time to return to politics. Naturally, there is no time to run back and forth in person, and be responsible for the westward transportation of goods in Huaidong. Yuan Jinsheng took over this matter and ran with Chen Xiaoyan on the banks of the Huai River and Baitong Mountain to ensure smooth and smooth water and land transportation at all times. On the Nanyang side, no one else had much dealings with Huaidong. Yuan Although Guizheng and Yuan Jinsheng have been entangled in grievances and grievances with Huaidong over the years, their positions in Nanyang at this time cannot be replaced by others.

The waterway transportation is fast. Although it is a long distance from Shanyang to Zhengyang, Huaidong has mobilized 80 thousand-stone cargo ships for the transportation of these materials, and a single shipment of goods can reach 80,000 shi of grain, grass, iron, etc. These materials were unloaded in Huaiyuan, Zhengyang County. A mule and horse team of more than 1,000 people had to travel at least seven or eight times in Tongbai Mountain to transport these materials to Yiyang. Fortunately, the Tongbai Valley is short, and there are only waterways. One in six or seven.

It was agreed that the materials to be transported to Nanyang, Huaixi deducted 20% of the materials for the protection, and also delivered in Zhengyang County. The inventory and transfer of materials are also convenient. In order to restrict Xiao Kuian, Dong Yuan took over the materials in Xinyang, and Xinyang took over the materials. Cai Ying, the prefect, is in charge.

In April and May, Xinyang collected nearly 30,000 shi of rice, more than 10,000 catties of iron, mules, horses, weapons, arrows, and armour. Sufficient supplies made it unnecessary for the Huaixi Army leader to invest any additional supplies in Xinyang in the past two months, and such a good day could last until the fall.

As the prefect of Xinyang, Cai Yong rode on a big green horse and looked at the densely packed sail masts on the Huai River. He thought that he hadn't seen so many boats on the Huai River for many years.

Since the chaos in Huai Si in the ninth year of Chongguan, the merchant ships above the middle reaches of the Huai River disappeared. Occasionally, there were ships, small military ships that ventured into Huai for fishing or robbers, and large sailing ships with a capacity of thousands of stones. Not too often.

"I heard that Huaidong built a large sea boat that can carry 20,000 shi of rice grains, but I don't know what the situation is like?" Meng Zhixiang, who was wearing armor, rode his horse beside Meng Yong, quite yearning for Huaidong. sea ​​ship. In his early years, he traveled abroad, and he saw a large warehouse ship on the Yangtze River that transported rice from eastern Sichuan to the east, with a capacity of about 5,000 stone. Such a large ship was already amazing, but I did not expect that the ship in Huaidong was several times larger . /

"It sounds good to me that Huaixi supplies Xinyang/materials, and when it comes to the end, a layer of meat is scraped off the heads of Huaidong and Nanyang," Jiang Bao, the magistrate of Zhengyang and the defense envoy of Zhengyang, said with a little remark, "Now Liang Chengchong is like a lost dog, what is it? He will recognize it by pinching his nose, but when he gains a firm foothold in Nanyang, he will still be pinching his nose to eat this loss?"

The Jiang clan is also a big family in Xinyang, and most of the soldiers in Zhengyang township are Jiang clan soldiers. They have suffered enough over the years. Dong Yuan’s foundation in Huaixi is not strong, and Jiang Bao will inevitably look down on him, especially in the future. Zhengyang was the first to bear the brunt, no wonder Jiang Bao complained at this time.

"Don't say more like this, even if there is a problem in the future, Huaixi will take the responsibility..." Cai Yan said in a deep voice, too much complaining, if it reaches Dong Yuan's ears, it will be suspicious. Xinyang is bordered by Yanluo in the north and rogues in the south. The situation is extremely severe. Without the support of Huaixi, these big clans would not dare to go down the mountain. Cai Yan also understood what Jiang Bao meant. Huaixi scraped 20% of the supplies from Huaidong to support Nanyang. In addition to being a little down on the ground and increasing hatred, it also seemed that Huaixi was too petty, indicating that the situation in Huaixi was not optimistic. . Jiang Bao was thinking about sending people directly to Huaidong for rescue. Maybe the Xinyang clan could be like Liang Chengchong in Nanyang. He didn't have to look at Huaixi's face in everything, but the power of the Xinyang clans was too weak. see? Even with the support of Huaidong and a bad relationship with Dong Yuan, how could the five or six thousand township soldiers assembled by the Xinyang clans get a firm foothold in Xinyang?

"Chen Xiaoyan, Yuan Jinsheng and the others are here..." Meng Zhixiang took two steps back on his horse and said.

Chen Xiaoyan represented Huaidong, Yuan Jinsheng was the son of Marquis Yongchang, and his status was not low. Cai Yong got off his horse, went up to meet him, and said, "Young Marquis and Lord Chen have worked **** this journey..."

"Why does Master Cai work day and night..." Chen Xiaoyan and Yuan Jinsheng returned their salutes, and Chen Xiaoyan asked Cai Yan again, "How much Xinyang medicinal materials have been prepared?"

Huaixi withheld 20% of the goods and thought it was taxed, and the letter was sent to Xuzhou. Lin Fu discussed with everyone, but also temporarily recognized it. At least before the ice break next year, Huaidong, Huaixi, and Nanyang must maintain a harmonious relationship, and they must guard against any loopholes in the Huai defense line, so as not to disrupt the Huaidong Southern Expedition after the autumn.

In addition, Lin Fu asked Chen Xiaoyan to purchase medicinal materials in Xinyang, in order to avoid Dong Yuan and Liu Tingzhou, and directly contact the Xinyang clan.

Huaidong grain and iron and other materials can still be applied, but medicinal materials are in short supply, especially after the extravagant army and horses entered Jiangxi, Huaidong's medicinal materials lacked a source. Although Yizhou Island has medicinal resources that can be developed, the types of medicinal materials in Yizhou are somewhat different from those in the Central Plains. Furthermore, it will take a long time to fully develop it, and it cannot be achieved overnight.

At present, you can buy some from Nanyang and Xinyang first.

Tongbai Mountain and Huaishan Mountain stretch for nearly 2,000 miles. They are the most important medicinal production areas in the Central Plains. With abundant medicinal materials, they are probably the most important materials that Nanyang and Xinyang can exchange with the outside world at this time. He used to be a big herbal medicine dealer in Xinyang. In the old days, there were thousands of herbalists around Tongbai Mountain.

It's just that Huaixi has been slaughtered by the disaster, and the trade routes have been completely cut off for several years. There are not many medicinal materials stored in the docks and cities. However, the experienced herbalists basically still control the hands of Cai, Jiang and other clans, so they can only purchase herbs from Xinyang first. If there are no skilled herbalists in Nanyang, it will be difficult to produce much.

In mid-April, after the Huaidong ship docked in Zhengyang, Xinyang organized people to enter the relatively safe Tongbai Mountain to pick medicinal materials and concocted them, and only then would the next batch be stored.

Dong Yuan couldn't stop Xinyang's big clan from trading medicinal materials with Huaidong. The effect of planting the fields was not achieved in a short time. Xinyang's ability to exchange medicinal materials for grain and iron with Huaidong could also relieve the pressure of two or three points. If Dong Yuan wanted to block, it would only arouse the resentment of the Xinyang clan, and directly push the local forces in Xinyang into Huaidong's arms, but the Xinyang clan had more contact with Huaidong, which was also a very unstable factor.

In any case, Dong Yuan can’t control that much at the moment. Unless Weiyang’s merchant ships can carry grain and iron to Xinyang to exchange medicinal materials, they can weaken Huaidong’s influence and penetration in Xinyang. Weiyang's medicinal herbs merchants are simply willing to rush to Xinyang.

Dong Yuan can't even scrape Nanyang meat, UU read www. uukanshu.com has collected taxes from the trade in medicinal materials.

Over the years, even the Xinyang clan, who had a dock to defend, had a very hard life, and their reserves for many years were almost exhausted. It is not easy to re-cultivate the land that has been abandoned for many years, and the farm tools are too large to be smelted into poor knives and guns, and iron materials are even more scarce. After finally seeing Huaidong open up a trade route, naturally he couldn't sell the medicinal materials to Huaidong for grain and iron cloth because he was worried about Dong Yuan's ideas.

Hearing that Chen Xiaoyan was concerned about the medicinal materials, Cai Ying replied, "For the list listed in Huaidong, Xinyang will send people into the mountains to prepare. , there are more than 300 stones in total, and there will be a little more next month..."

"The more medicinal materials the better, I would like to thank Mr. Cai for solving Huaidong's urgent needs." Chen Xiaoyan said.

Cai Yong smiled bitterly. No matter how urgently Huaidong was in need of medicinal materials, it was far less than Xinyang's desire for grain and iron. Fortunately, Huaidong did not put forward any additional requirements outside the medicinal materials trade, otherwise it would be really difficult to explain in front of Dong Yuan.

In terms of the price of medicinal materials, Huaidong would naturally not be harsh, and he also exchanged for the price of food and medicine before the war. Of course, the total amount will also be controlled, but the monthly input of nearly 10,000 stone of rice and tens of thousands of catties of iron will make the life of the local forces in Xinyang much better than before.

The crops in Xinyang are mainly wheat, with an average yield of less than one stone per mu. The input of 10,000 stone of rice grains every month is almost equivalent to reclaiming more than 100,000 mu of land, which can barely feed 30,000 to 40,000 adults.

There are only about 100,000 people left in Xinyang today.

Cai Ying also knew that Dong Yuan hated Huaidong the most, but when it comes to the transaction of medicinal materials, Xinyang officials and local clans are also increasingly saying good things about Huaidong. This situation can not be controlled if you want to control it. My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter