Bianliang Palace is still under construction, and a temple has been erected in Fengqiu County to the north of Bianliang.
In recent years, temples have blossomed everywhere. The harder the attack, the more miserable the people are and the more prosperous the temples are.
Last year, Shao Xun went to Youzhou. There was a Buddhist temple called "Tanzhe" there which was built in the early years of Yongjia. The incense was very prosperous, and people from Hu and Han Dynasties came there and worshiped continuously.
However, if you think that Buddhism will not develop if the world is peaceful, you are wrong.
In fact, it may be faster. This group of mages is really quite knowledgeable. They have various ways of attracting followers and are down-to-earth. Their teachings are also very attractive. It is impossible for them not to be popular.
For example, today (mid-November), a market gathered outside this temple under the guidance of the masters.
Early in the morning, He Lunfang came out of the hotel and saw this bustling market.
The post station was originally named after Chenqiao Township, where Fengqiu County is located, and was called "Chenqiao Post Station". When Liang Gong heard about it, he ordered it to be renamed "Gongchen Post Station".
The post station has seven or eight people and fifteen or six horses. Fengqiu County has set aside three hectares of land for farming and four hectares of riverbank wasteland for grazing livestock. These seven hectares of land are called "post fields" and are under the control of the post station itself.
The Liang Kingdom had been established for more than four months, and the post system that had been destroyed by the war was slowly rebuilt.
As far as Bianliang and Yecheng are concerned, the distance between two post stations ranges from 20 to 50 to 60 miles, with an average of 30 miles per post. They are very dense, ensuring that official correspondence can be conveyed conveniently.
Gongchenyi is located more than fifty miles north of Bianliang.
The post road goes southward through Cangyuan Station and ends at Daliang Station in the north of Bianliang City.
To the north of Gongchen Station is Dongyan Station, located in Dongyan County, and further north to Wenshi Station - this station is divided into two branches, Henan and Hebei, both located near the ferry.
The post station system of this thoroughfare has been restored to this point at present, and will have to be slowly rebuilt in the future.
The accommodation conditions at the inn are not good.
His superior supervisor, Wu Bing Cao Shangshu Liu Anzhi, did not allocate much money, but asked him to be responsible for his own profits and losses.
However, he also knows that running a post station is not easy. In recent months, standards for food and accommodation for officials of different levels have been set, which are generally simple meals. If you want to eat big fish and meat, you can pay for it yourself.
The post station can provide food and accommodation to external parties to supplement expenses.
Bianliang, a post station on the Yecheng Post Road, can still make some money in normal business operations as long as it is not messed up.
He Lun has made a fortune in the past ten years, and his living standard has also become higher. He didn't like the food provided by the inn, so he not only asked the servants to bring utensils and bedding, but also paid for a sheep to kill and eat.
The inn sent someone to buy wine nearby - what he valued most was that the inn's house could provide shelter from wind and rain.
After finishing eating and drinking, he left the inn, walked and ate, and soon arrived at the market.
"I heard that the gentry manor was closed as a market and was self-sufficient. How could there be a market in Fengqiu?" He Lun looked at the farmers sitting outside the temple setting up stalls and asked.
"There are no large estates in Fengqiu anymore. A single wealthy family has few farmland branches, so it is difficult for them to close their doors and become a market." The accompanying retainer replied: "There used to be a Mao family that could be called a big family, but it declined during the Cao Wei years, and the dynasty was also ups and downs.
After the kings fought in melee, they were gradually annihilated."
When He Lun heard this, he was filled with emotion and said: "In the past, Mao Xiaoxian (Mao Jie) was an old man named Cao Gong. His strategy of 'serving the emperor's orders but not obeying his ministers' was also a strange strategy in the world, but it failed like this."
"The Mao family has an unstable foundation. They are a new and powerful family. It is normal for a generation to fall." The disciple said.
Mao Jie was originally a county official, and his family was not considered a big family in Pingqiu (Fengqiu), nor was it famous. He struggled for half his life, but in the end he failed to make any further progress and fell from his height.
It's really not that easy to leap over the dragon's gate. Mao's family was not the only one who fell while charging towards the nobles.
"In fact, now there are children of the Mao family in the General's Mansion, and Liang Guo serves as assistant officials and minor officials." The retainer added: "One part of the Yinqiang Zhongying camp was stationed in Fengqiu, and the Mao family donated more than 20 hectares of land. All of them were in troubled times.
Liang Gong praised the gains from the invasion and occupation of people's fields and selected two of his sons to serve as officials."
"It's so quick to see an opportunity." He Lun said with a smile.
The Donghai He family was actually a new lower-level noble clan in the Jin Dynasty. If the family wanted to climb up, they could only rely on Liang Gong, just like Mao Jie decisively took refuge in Cao Cao.
I just don’t know if the fate of the He family in Donghai will be as bleak as the Chenliu Mao family.
The market was noisy, selling everything, but the most conspicuous ones were livestock.
He Lun even saw a soldier in military uniform bringing a horse over and selling it in exchange for a few calves.
"After Yinqiang Zhongying's family moved here, they had a farm but no cattle, so they sold horses and cattle." The doorman explained at the side.
He Lun nodded lightly.
The arrival of more than 6,000 families of soldiers greatly prospered the market.
I heard that there is also a market over there in Cangyuan. The soldiers and their families in Longxiang Prefecture often buy and sell all kinds of things, so a market was born. The market is held once a month or once every half month, both of which are scheduled.
After all, He Lun was born into a noble family, and because of his low family status, he had contact with many low-level people. According to his observation, the more aristocratic family estates are in a place, the harder it is for such a market to appear.
The prosperity of the market is actually the result of the decline of the manor economy. As far as Fengqiu County is concerned, the manor system is declining every year. Perhaps this is what Liang Gong wants to see.
He Lun looked at the farmers and small businessmen shouting at the market.
Someone used a straw rope to string up a few "Jishui fresh fish" - it is really not easy to fish in the river in the cold weather.
A young man who looked like a servant of a wealthy family was tying up several chickens with their feet tied up, and they were quarreling with each other in a hurry - the local Tu tribe sent their servants to sell chickens and ducks, so they were obviously not a wealthy tribe.
Someone brought a load of millet and beans over to exchange for salt and cheese. He Lun was speechless when he saw it. Liang Gong took good care of the ten counties of Liang State and levied very little tax, so that the people could exchange grain for salt and cheese.
, but repeatedly oppressed wealthy families outside ten counties, aren't you afraid of arousing public anger?
There are also people carrying burdens, which are full of juicy winter vegetables. As soon as they appear, they are surrounded by people, competing to increase their prices and bid for them. In winter, for those who have a lot of money at home, meat may not be difficult to get.
Come, winter vegetables must be in urgent demand.
In addition, there are straw sandals, coir raincoats, bamboo hats, baskets, dustpans and other items woven by farmers in their spare time.
There are also people who cut firewood and burn charcoal for sale.
Some people use medicinal herbs to make various kinds of ointments specially designed to treat bruises, headaches and brain fever.
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It was an eye-opener for He Lun. This place and Fangtou were really two different worlds.
In the area of ​​Fangtou, apart from the military city and Wubao, scattered villages are almost invisible. The people would rather run out of daily necessities than go out to exchange, for fear of something happening, which is not comparable to Chenliu.
But then again, Liang is not like this everywhere.
If Wubao Manor had not been turned into a village, there would not have been such a prosperous market. Mr. Liang still had to demolish Wubao, and he might not even be able to finish it in his lifetime.
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When He Lun and his party arrived in Bianliang, many county officials had already arrived.
The twelfth lunar month is approaching, and all ten counties in the Liang Kingdom will send county and county officials to Beijing with local specialties to prepare gifts for the New Year.
Yes, after the establishment of the Liang Kingdom, there were already two people in the Jin Dynasty who could accept congratulations from the officials on Zhengdan.
Jin Emperor Sima Chi had hundreds of officials congratulate him.
Liang Gong Shaoxun also had hundreds of officials congratulate him.
What if everyone wants to split the country and seal the territory?
Otherwise, why would the canonization edict require Shao Xun to "forever remember the martyr Huan Wen"?
This is true feudalism. If we shift to the Spring and Autumn Period, today we are the "Emperor of Jin", and Shao Xun is still "Mr. Liang" no matter what, and he is highly respected.
He Lun stayed in the Wang family's manor in Junyi, and the carriages and horses were pulled into the yard.
As a military general from a foreign town, He Lun went to Beijing to report on his duties, bringing several carts of white linen with him.
This is a local specialty from Chaoge County. It was escorted by the county magistrate and entered Bianliang together with He Lun who was on the way. For the sake of safety on the road.
After staying at the manor for three days, he found that the Wang family was very busy. On two of the three days, there was a lot of noise. The Tiancao Assistant came with a large group of officials to check the Wang family's fields.
No one from the Wang family was an official, and according to the laws of the Jin Dynasty, they were not allowed to occupy so much land.
According to the law, the highest-ranking officials of the Jin Dynasty could only possess fifty hectares of land. However, in practice, many ninth-rank tycoons who did not even have official positions owned far more than fifty hectares of land.
Regulations are regulations, reality is reality, and there is a huge difference between the two.
Even in the early days of the founding of the Jin Dynasty, this law was a joke and was never seriously implemented - the Jin Dynasty itself had difficulty in enforcing this law.
He Lun watched with cold eyes and discovered that the Wang family of Junyi, as a local tycoon, had piecemeal possessions of more than 700 hectares of farmland in the four counties of Junyi, Kaifeng, Xiaohuang and Fengqiu. Most of them were occupied twenty years ago.
The Tiancao officials of the principality seemed to be quite polite and only asked the Wang family to return the land they had occupied since the first year of Yongjia (307). Yongjia did not mention it before.
How should I put it? This makes the Wang family feel a little sad, but it is not unacceptable. In short, it is very confusing.
He Lun felt that Mr. Liang was playing with fire...
But if you think about it from another perspective, it doesn't seem to be a big deal that the land at the foot of the capital is occupied by wealthy families.
I heard that Duke Liang wanted to move the Silver Spear Army here one after another, and also set up additional soldiers to guard Bianliang, which would definitely require a lot of land.
After the begging army left, they gave up a large number of people.
Let the wealthy people spit out some more and get another batch.
From then on, there were no particularly big wealthy families around Bianliang City. The fields were divided very fragmentedly, and each household was relatively evenly distributed. As for whether they will be annexed in the future, that is a matter for the future. You can still control it after a hundred years.
Sick?
"What a world!" He Lun sighed.
He is a little worried now.
If Liang Gong does this in the ten counties of Liang Kingdom, he may be able to stabilize the situation, but if he gets carried away and tries to do it all over the world, it will be dangerous.
In fact, even if he only clears the land within the Liang Kingdom, Liang Gong's prestige among the scholars will be damaged, and it will only win the hearts of warriors.
Liang Gong also relied on the support of the warrior community to maintain a fragile balance with the powerful nobles.
Governing this world is really like walking on thin ice. You can't make a wrong step, and you have to grasp the speed very well.
Chapter completed!