There is a misunderstanding about the copper coins circulating in the market. Many people think that only Song Dynasty money circulated. In fact, this is not the case. Kaiyuan Tongbao from the Tang Dynasty is still circulating in the market, and its proportion is still quite large.
But the money circulating in the Southern Song Dynasty was almost all iron money. On the one hand, the economy of the Southern Song Dynasty was developed and the demand for money was huge. Another reason was that a large number of copper coins were looted by the Jin Dynasty.
The Jin Kingdom occupied the land of the Song Dynasty for only twenty years. It was still basically at the end of the fishing, hunting and nomadic society, and had not fully entered the agricultural society. The vast wealth plundered from the Song Dynasty was basically not used.
When the Western Army captured Daming Mansion before, the wealth they obtained was only a very small part of the wealth plundered by the Jin Kingdom. However, it has greatly improved the finances of the Yong Kingdom. They captured the Daxing Mansion in Zhongdu. The wealth stored here was 30% of the wealth plundered by the Jin Kingdom.
You can imagine the money and materials inside.
There are not only 50 million jins of copper ingots, but also millions of jins of white copper, more than one million taels of gold, seven million taels of silver, 20 million guan of copper coins, millions of pieces of cloth and silk, as well as jewelry, jade, and bronze wares.
Lacquerware, porcelain, precious wood, precious medicinal materials, etc., are piled up like mountains.
In addition, there are 500,000 dan of grain, 700,000 dans of fodder, 300,000 jins of black beans, as well as military supplies such as armor, bows, crossbows, tents, and 30,000 tents alone. Every warehouse in Cangcheng is packed to the brim.
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After reading the briefing, Chen Qing sighed: "This is only 30% of the wealth plundered in the Song Dynasty. You can imagine how wealthy the Northern Song Dynasty was."
Zhao Geng smiled and said: "Your Highness, in the past, Tokyo and Bianliang gathered half of the world's wealth. There were also other famous cities such as Luoyang, Daming, Yingtian, Taiyuan, and Jingzhao. They were almost all looted by the Jin soldiers. Not only were there
The wealth of the Song Dynasty, as well as the wealth left over from the Northern Zhou Dynasty and even the Tang Dynasty, I found that among the many precious porcelains, there are a large number of celadon, secret color porcelain and white porcelain from the Tang Dynasty, as well as other utensils, many of which came from the Tang Dynasty court."
Chen Qing nodded and smiled: "The next step is to consider how to transport it back to Jingzhao. You are the transport envoy of Hebei Road. This is your business."
"Bizhi had already considered it last night. First, he would transport the cargo to the mouth of the Juma River with a cargo ship of five thousand stones. Then, he would transfer the giant ship with tens of thousands of stones there. The fleet would take the old route of the Yellow River and go all the way west to Shaanzhou, and then transfer it to a cargo ship of three thousand stones.
It only takes two transfers to get to Jingzhao."
“This is a good plan!”
Chen Qing turned around and said to Niu Gao: "Ten thousand troops are allocated to be responsible for the transfer of this batch of wealth and materials. The expenditure needs of Yanshan Mansion will be allocated by Jingzhao Finance."
"I humbly obey orders!"
After a pause, Niu Gao asked in a low voice: "Your Highness, do you mean to let a humble official sit in Yanshan Mansion?"
Chen Qing smiled and nodded, "From now on, you will lead an army of 100,000 to serve as the envoy of Yanshan Road, with Niu Dutong in charge. Yanshan Road is not Hebei Road and Shandong Road!"
Niu Gao nodded silently, feeling that he had a heavy responsibility on his shoulders.
Chen Qing immediately came to the palace, which was the palace of the emperors of Liao and Jin. The Jin Kingdom planned to expand and move the capital, but it had not yet had time to start construction.
In preparation for expansion, all the belongings of the palace were transported to the warehouse, leaving the palace empty except for a few hundred palace maids and eunuchs.
The maids are generally very young, most of them are only in their teens. They are basically the descendants of the palace maids of the Song Dynasty in the past. They are all beautiful and smart, but the eunuchs are older, all in their thirties and forties.
They were young eunuchs in the Song Dynasty palace, and now they have become old eunuchs.
These maids and eunuchs all grew up and lived in the palace and were completely disconnected from the outside world. If they were released, they would not be able to survive.
Chen Qing thought for a while, and after the Jingzhao Palace was completed, it also needed a group of maids and eunuchs, and these maids and eunuchs were just in need.
At this time, the palace maids and eunuchs were staying in their respective dormitories. Everyone was terrified, fearing that the disaster of war would fall on them. They had lived in the palace for many years, and everyone was extremely timid.
At this time, a female official in the palace was brought to Chen Qing. The female official was about thirty years old. She was a maid from the Bianliang Palace in the past. She was good-looking and very smart and capable. She was promoted to a palace official. There were two female officials in the palace.
One is the emperor's concubines, and the other is the leader of the palace maids. This female official belongs to the latter.
She was brought to Chen Qing, knelt down and performed the Wanfu Ceremony, "Mr. Liang of the Palace, attend His Highness King Yong!"
"Are you from Bianliang?"
"Yes! The Nu family is from Bianliang, Tokyo, and has been in the Northland for twenty years."
Chen Qing waved her hand and asked her to come forward. The female officer came forward on her knees. Chen Qing raised her face and saw that she had a pretty face, fair skin, and plump body. She was just the type he liked and could temporarily solve his needs.
"how old are you?"
The female officer timidly lowered her head and said, "I am already thirty-two."
Chen Qing nodded. Seeing that it was getting late, he smiled gently and said, "I want to take a bath. Come and serve me!"
That night, Chen Qing stayed in the palace. Liang also knew that she was too old to become King Yong's concubine, but she had to consider the rest of her life. To continue to retain her position, she had to do everything possible to please Yong.
King Yong, she also worked extremely hard in serving King Yong. The clouds and rain came several times during the night, which completely released the desires that Chen Qing had accumulated in her heart.
After serving King Yong wholeheartedly for two days, Liang was once again named the steward of King Yong's palace by Chen Qing. She took hundreds of palace maids and eunuchs and set off by boat. Together with the first batch of property, they headed to Jingzhao to start their new life.
Life.
Chen Qing also led his army to leave Daxing City and continued eastward to inspect Pingzhou, while Niu Gao stayed in Daxing City to stabilize the situation.
Yanshan Road includes Yanshan Prefecture, Yuzhou, Yizhou, Zhuozhou, Tanzhou, Jingzhou, Jizhou, Pingzhou and Guihua Prefecture.
After the entire Jin army was destroyed and the Western Army captured Yanshan Mansion, the entire Yanshan Road was under military control. Western troops were stationed in every state and county, ranging from a thousand to five hundred people.
Most of the officials abandoned their posts and went into seclusion, unwilling to serve Chen Qing. This was completely opposite to other places in the Central Plains.
This is also the reality of Yanshan Road. It has been separated from the Central Plains Dynasty for more than a hundred years. The Liao Kingdom also tried its best to win over the Han people and gave them land and slaves, making them also vested interests. Then they turned their allegiance to the Liao Kingdom, and this continued from generation to generation.
, their descendants no longer recognize the Central Plains Dynasty at all, and the Jin Kingdom is just a continuation of the Liao Kingdom to them, with little difference.
At the end of the Liao Dynasty, the Song Dynasty briefly occupied Yanshan Prefecture, but because it could not get the support of the local gentry, Tong Guan's 200,000-strong army was defeated by Yelu Dashi and Xiao Qian's 20,000 old and weak army, and the gold was also planted.
The seeds of the country’s demise in the Northern Song Dynasty.
Chen Qing had also arranged for intelligence spies to lurk in Yanshan Mansion before. They had collected intelligence for several years and had a relatively deep understanding of the people's sentiments in Yanshan Mansion.
The Han people are more emotionally inclined to the Liao and Jin Dynasties in terms of emotion and sense of belonging, and will not easily recognize the Western Army. However, the attitude of the Han people at the bottom towards the Central Plains Army is relatively neutral. They are neither hostile nor supportive. The key is to look at interests and treat them.
If it is profitable, they will support it; if it harms their interests, they will firmly oppose it.
On the contrary, the Khitans and Xi people who lived on Yanshan Road were more supportive of the Western Army. They had a hatred of the Jin State for the destruction of the country, and were cruelly squeezed by the Jin State. Almost all the young and strong men were sent to the battlefields of the Central Plains by the Jin State, and almost all of them were killed.
Therefore, when Chen Qing's tens of thousands of troops marched to the west, they did not see the Han people at the bottom kneeling down to welcome the king's army. The Han people working in the farmland looked at the Western army marching on the official road indifferently. On the contrary, they often
Some Khitans and Xi people bowed their hands and saluted on the roadside to express their gratitude to the Western Army.