Guanqiu Lu didn't see Wang Que'er immediately because he went to Gaoliu Town.
When they hurried to Gaoliu Town, Wang Queer headed westward with five thousand soldiers to Wu Zhouchuan.
After secretly finding bad luck, Guan Qiulu was about to return when he discovered that there were many manors under construction on the south bank of Dunshui (Baideng River).
"Whose manor is this?" Guan Qiulu looked at it from a distance and asked.
Accompanying him here were the shogunate soldiers Cao Yu, Du Wei, and Hu Cao Yu, Jiang Tan.
Both of them were former subordinate officials of the Nanyang Kingdom. After the fall of the country, they were transferred to other places. Last year, they were selected and sent to Pingcheng, where they were in charge of the military and household affairs.
"There are more than one family, most of them are the property of Daiguo Yangzhen and the ministers." Du Wei, the military commander, said: "For example, the house that has been built belongs to the family of Zhenbei General Daxi Heruo." Duan Fan of Yangzhen said, The Yida Xi family is one of the ten surnames of Tuoba and belongs to the national clan. They also live in Dongmugen Mountain in the north. They fought with thieves several times and made great achievements. Therefore, they set up a manor here with more than 100 hectares of land and 300 slaves. The reward was given to the Daxi family."
"However, the first person to come here to build a manor was Su Zhongyi, the assistant minister. Gaoliu Town originally had a population of more than 10,000, but now has a population of nearly 20,000. They are good at managing the industry and are good at farming. When the Xianbei nobles heard about it, they rushed to buy houses here and steal houses. Master, learn from me. Confucianism, let’s take a look over there. Are there many millet fields?”
"It seems so." Guan Qiulu nodded.
"People in the Central Plains grow millet, but rarely grow rice cookers, and they have not changed it since they came here." Du Wei said: "The nobles of Xianbei set aside part of their fields and learned to grow millet, while the rest still grew rice cookers. Cao Pei Lingshi came to the field several times. The next time, he taught the noble people of Xianbei how to build orchards and vegetable gardens."
"Daxi's Manor is backed by a mountain and faces a river. The mountain behind the village is lush with vegetation. It was originally a hunting place. Now it has been converted into an orchard and transplanted apricot, pear, pear, chestnut and other trees. They were just planted this spring, not too many, but if If you persevere, it will be a good investment in the future.”
Guanqiu Lu seemed to understand something and said with a smile: "I heard that Dongmugen Mountain is a little unstable. If its nobles all buy properties in the three counties of Shannan and earn a lot of income, they will not be so easy to rebel."
Du Wei smiled and said nothing, only raised his hands and said: "This is all the result of the king."
Guanqiu Lu suddenly realized that King Liang really liked doing this.
He often took the chiefs of various tribes to hunt together, drink wine and eat meat together, and even dance when he felt like it. He was also very brave and had various styles, which was very popular with the nobles of the grassland.
If we help these people buy property privately, let them gradually escape from the hard life, and even enjoy the good life now, things will be much easier to handle.
The three-pronged approach of marrying people with kindness, luring them with practical benefits, and appeasing them with education is actually the best strategy that can be implemented when people's hearts are not attached.
A group of people stood by the river and pointed, and a large number of people came out from the direction of Gaoliu Town.
There were only a thousand soldiers left behind, but many gray-haired old men or young men aged fourteen or fifteen were also recruited to assist in the defense.
In a frontier place, there is no place for comfort. All men must practice fighting skills, and even some strong women must be able to ride horses and shoot arrows.
Among the Zhenjun who were reorganized from the original Heijin Youying camp, there are two to three thousand people who are not yet married. In the past six months, four to five hundred people have got married one after another. Most of them married Xianbei, Wuhuan, Xiongnu or other miscellaneous people. Hu woman.
Many of these women can ride horses and shoot arrows. The children they give birth to are influenced by their parents, and there will definitely be many who practice horse riding, archery, and martial arts. Over time, like the grassland tribes, all the people are soldiers, and they endure hardships and stand hard work. In fact, it is a kind of A very good source of troops.
After these people negotiated with the caravan, they allowed them to cross the wooden bridge over the Dun River and trade on the north bank of the river.
Guan Qiulu brought more than a hundred carts of goods, of which thirty carts were pulled to Gaoliu Town, mainly sold to Zhenbing families, and by the way, they collected leathers, medicinal materials, honey, wax, bird feathers, and animal sinews. , livestock and other things.
The caravans brought mostly daily necessities from the Central Plains, which are in short supply here.
In just a short while, all the various products they brought were sold out, and the best-selling one was a Central Plains spirit called "Jiu Ying Liquor."
Jiuyang is a brewing method. Jiuyang spring wine was originally invented by Guo Zhi of Nanyang and was presented to Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty by Cao Cao.
Zhang Hua, the prime minister of the imperial dynasty, studied the brewing method - he was so idle that he looked for good raw materials everywhere and after many experiments, he improved the brewing technology of Jiu Ying Chun Liquor.
Among them, Zou comes from Xiqiang and Qu comes from Beihu.
Zhang Hua heard that the people who brewed wine in the Central Plains went to the Qiang and Hu people to learn how to make rice dumplings and koji, so he sent people to get Qiang rice dumplings (malt) and Hu koji, and brewed them with the techniques of Central Plains winemaking, and got a brand new Jiuleng wine. , the alcohol content is relatively high, and it is easy to get drunk without waking up, so it is called "Xiaochang wine". Later, I felt that it didn't sound good, so it was also called "Xiaochang wine".
Zhang Hua is quite generous. He specifically stated in the book that making rice dumplings is a technique learned from the Qiang and Hu people, and the brewing rules are his own. While making inventions, he also gave Qiang and Hu people original ideas. The respect due to the wine - this wine and Sangluo wine are also known as the two famous wines in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties.
However, the Qiang and Hu people have no written language and their food production is not high. Once the few advanced technologies are learned by the Han people, the spirits of the Han people will be dumped...
Jiuyang wine is also a famous wine among the Hu people and is very popular.
Hu Cao and Jiang Qin read it calmly, and then said: "Wang Duhu intends to set up a military market in Gaoliu Town. The city will have a member of the order to take charge of all matters. The city rent will be returned to the shogunate, but the money will not be touched. All Use it on Gaoliu Zhenjun. Zongru can open his business this year, but next year he will have to sell goods in the military market."
"Oh? Military market?" Guan Qiulu was a little surprised, but also a little confused.
Military markets existed during the Warring States Period, and existed in the Han, Wei, and Jin dynasties, but they were mostly located in frontier areas and were rarely seen in the interior. The last time a military market was established in the interior was during the reign of King Sima Xuan.
He set up a military market in Chang'an. All merchants, big and small, had to go to the military market to buy and sell. The military market lords (officials in charge of the military market) collected rents (taxes) for military supplies.
Among them, the most common ones were merchants who transported grain to Chang'an, then obtained the qualification to buy and sell goods in the military market, paid taxes with another part of the grain, and finally left with the goods.
If you really want to talk about it, it is similar to the later Ming Dynasty merchants who transported grain to the frontier fortress and then obtained salt.
The only difference is that salt was really not very profitable at this time. In fact, until the Tang Dynasty, the salt ponds in Hedong were taken by both the government and the people. Salt became really expensive in the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties period. In the Northern Song Dynasty, the price skyrocketed again, so that in Xixia
Green salt was smuggled and dumped into the Song Dynasty on a large scale, making a lot of profits.
The military market has a certain monopoly nature. Many commodities can only be bought and sold in the military market, and after being transported to the mainland, they can be sold at several times or even ten times the price. Therefore, some merchants are willing to transport grain to the military market.
Of course, military markets have many disadvantages, but in border areas, to be honest, they are quite feasible.
The income of soldiers has increased, and can be supplemented by private transportation of grain (most of which is still local farming). It is the lesser of two evils, so military markets should not be established in the interior, but frontier fortresses are feasible.
"If Zongru doesn't want to come to the military market, he can go to Pingcheng East City. There will also be a military market in Wuzhou Town. Merchants from far and near can only buy and sell in these three cities. Anyone who violates the order will have their goods confiscated and a hundred rods will be imposed."
Jiang Tan said: "This is also impossible. We are in a bitter cold place and are impoverished. Otherwise, we cannot inspire the morale of the army."
"After the military market rises, the life of the sergeants in Gao Liu and Wu Tuesday Town will be much easier." Guanqiu Lu smiled and said: "How can I harm the state affairs for a few people? Don't worry, the goods under my name will be divided into three parts.
They are sold in Gaoliu, Pingcheng, and Wuzhou to meet military needs."
Jiang Tan bowed and said: "Zongru has a profound understanding of righteousness, which is admirable."
"Bah ah..." A large group of sheep were driven across the wooden bridge.
The caravan members immediately stepped forward to gather him.
This was the "payment" they received, and it was very cheap. On average, each sheep only cost the equivalent of thirty or forty yuan. In the Central Plains, such a fat sheep could be sold for more than two hundred yuan.
For merchants, the mutual market actually means making two waves, that is, selling goods from the Central Plains at high prices and then purchasing grassland goods at low prices.
"Why didn't those people buy it?" Guan Qiulu suddenly pointed at a group of Hu chiefs wearing furs and seemed to be preparing to go hunting, and asked.
Jiang Tan looked at it and said: "There are always some people who resist good times. Ignore them. As time goes by, they will change."
These people he was talking about were obviously Xianbei nobles who adhered to tradition.
Needless to say, the Xianbei people are widely distributed and have a large population. They have also established their own country and have their own culture. Their values, aesthetics, ways of thinking about problems, behavioral customs, etc. are different from those of the Han people. After a long period of precipitation, they often
It is deeply rooted in the soul and forms a subconscious existence - to use a noble vocabulary to describe it is "national character".
For them, the Central Plains culture is a foreign culture that is different from their native culture.
Although this heterogeneous culture is advanced and attracts many people's yearning, when it impacts the local culture, it will cause a subconscious rebound.
Some people can overcome this mentality, while others cannot.
I think back then, Tuoba Desert Khan had been a hostage in the Central Plains for many years, and he had been greatly sinicized. As a result, after he returned, he was disliked by many nomadic tribesmen. In addition, they were bribed by Wei Guan, so they attacked in groups.
He killed Desert Khan with Wei's acquiescence.
Why did they dislike Desert Khan? In addition to Tuoba Liwei's other heirs fighting for power and Wei Guan's bribery, the trigger was that Desert Khan was too "Han" and was incompatible with them.
Today, the Tuoba Dai Kingdom, with Pingcheng as its capital, appears to be respectful on the surface, but there are actually undercurrents surging inside, and it is not very stable.
In a country dominated by new sects, there are still many old sects, such as the tribal nobles who graze their cattle in the Dongmugen Mountain area.
Even among the new sects, perhaps not everyone is willing to completely sinicize and completely abandon their own culture. From this, it can be seen that the later emperor Wei Xiaowen’s sinicization move was really a matter of great determination, perseverance, and courage, and the backlash was certainly not small.
Guanqiu Lu didn't expect it to be so deep, but he had a more or less vague understanding. After walking around Daiguo this time, he felt even deeper.
In the past, Pu Gu heard about the "seizing of houses" by the Jin State, and later in the resistance behavior of the Hu chieftains outside Gaoliu Town, which already illustrates the problem.
But if we think about it differently, modern countries are actually moving in the direction of integrating Chinese culture, provided that this process cannot be interrupted.
If possible, Helan Aitou and Tuoba Yihuai's uncle and nephew in Shengle must be eliminated as soon as possible, because they are powerful people who insist on the Xianbei tradition.
Their existence itself is a problem.
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