While Li Daoyuan was supervising shipbuilding at Donghai Port, Zhang Duanyang and Nan Jiyun were inspecting the newly built shipyard near Laizhou Bay in Qingzhou.
Since Qingzhou was pacified, Nan Jiyun and Zhang Duanyang's army to pursue An Qingxu has stayed put in Qingzhou.
The Anqingxu rebels in the northern part of Henan Province also knew that Nan Jiyun's army in Qingzhou was not easy to deal with, so they did not attack Qingzhou.
The two sides faced off in a strange way.
Guo Ziyi established a defense line around Luoyang, and An Qingxu also slowed down his attack southward due to lack of food and grass.
The Xiangzhou rebels confronted the Luoyang defenders of the Tang Dynasty, and the imperial court ordered Shi Siming to attack An Qingxu from the direction of Fanyang Taiyuan.
But Shi Siming, an old fox, refused the court's request because the armies of Taiyuan and Fan Yang were exhausted and there was insufficient food and grass.
At the same time, Shi Siming and his son were also preparing for war and began to mobilize soldiers from the three towns to prepare for another rebellion against the Tang Dynasty.
The battle on the front line was tense, and the Tang army's morale was greatly reduced due to the defeat in Xiangzhou. Even Nan Jiyun's elite men were now unwilling to get involved in the anxious battle.
During this period of time, Zhang Duanyang, in addition to handling the civil affairs of Qingzhou, focused all his energy on the shipyard in Laizhou Bay.
Today he took Nan Jiyun to the shipyard. Looking at the wood being dried, Nan Jiyun couldn't help but ask:
"Will the Shi family father and his son really rebel against the Tang Dynasty again?"
Zhang Duanyang nodded and said: "The Shi family's father and son are ambitious. When An Lushan rebelled, Shi Siming was An Lushan's right-hand man."
"Shi Siming surrendered a while ago because he saw that Puppet Yan's strength was exhausted, so he had no choice but to do so."
"Now that An Qingxu has made such a big splash, how could Shi Siming not react?"
Now Nan Jiyun became even more depressed: "Just because An Qingxu entangled some rebels in Xiangzhou, several states were corrupted like this. If Shi Siming and his son also join the rebellion, wouldn't Luoyang be in danger?"
Nan Jiyun was so anxious that he wanted to return to Luoyang to assist Zhang Xun in guarding Luoyang, but Zhang Xun came with a military order. The Luoyang stayer followed Zhang Duanyang's suggestion and ordered Nan Jiyun to defend Qingzhou. He also followed Zhang Duanyang's suggestion and stayed in Qingzhou.
Construction of docks and shipyards.
Looking at the shipyard under construction, Nan Jiyun still had doubts about this plan for cross-sea operations.
Zhang Duanyang said: "In the early Tang Dynasty, General Su Dingfang conquered Baekje. He came from Qingzhou to build ships and crossed the sea to land on the peninsula. Back then, General Su was able to cross the sea and land on the opposite peninsula. We just detoured to Fanyang. This is much better than before.
It’s much easier for General Su.”
After studying historical data, Zhang Duanyang discovered that the shipbuilding capabilities on the Jiaodong Peninsula in the Tang Dynasty were actually no less than those in Jiangnan and Quanzhou.
Before the sea ban, a large number of merchant ships traveled between Silla, Fusang, Bohai and other countries, and the Northeast Asian trade on the Jiaodong Peninsula was once very prosperous.
However, after the war, trade was cut off. As the Jiaodong Peninsula was involved in the war, the thriving maritime trade was also cut off.
Zhang Duanyang is very sorry for this. If it can develop normally, the Jiaodong Peninsula may not be able to become the center of maritime trade in Northeast Asia.
It is a pity that the Anshi Rebellion interrupted the development of these areas. The Jiaodong area of the later Song Dynasty was on the front line and no longer had the opportunity to develop with peace of mind.
When the world welcomes the Age of Navigation, the Jiaodong Peninsula will only leave China with regrets and painful memories.
Zhang Duanyang looked at Laizhou Bay. It is rich in marine resources and a natural deep-water port. Coupled with the bustling Northeast Asian trade routes, it would be a pity not to revitalize this place!
As Nan Jiyun attacked bandits and wiped out the rebels in Qingzhou, some players also gradually entered Qingzhou officialdom under the recommendation of Zhang Duanyang. Now the order in Qingzhou has been gradually established.
Lu Dao was a player who followed Wang Chengwei to Chang'an to take the imperial examination. Lu Dao knew that policy theory was not his strong point, so he took the Ming Jing Ke examination.
After being admitted to the Ming Jing Ke, Lu Dao went to the Ministry of Civil Affairs to select officials. Originally, he was the top student in the Ming Jing Ke and could get a good position with just a little effort.
However, Lu Dao is a straight-tempered person. In real life, he resigned angrily because he was dissatisfied with the darkness of officialdom. In the game, he is naturally even more unwilling to give in and cater to those villains.
Because of his straightforward personality, Lu Dao was given a difficult position by the officials and was given the position of Prime Minister of Shouguang County, Qingzhou.
At the time of the conferment, Shouguang County in Qingzhou had already been captured by the Qingzhou bandits' rebellion. The county magistrate, county magistrate, county magistrate, and county lieutenants were all killed, and the entire Shouguang County was massacred by the bandits.
The Ministry of Civil Affairs even issued an ultimatum to Lu Dao, requiring him to rush to Shouguang County within a time limit, otherwise he would be disqualified from being elected as an official.
If ordinary people were treated like this, they would probably have no choice but to obediently give money to the officials of the Ministry of Personnel, beg the Ministry of Personnel to be exempted from the appointment this time, and then wait for the next election of officials.
However, Lu Dao's outspoken temper also grew. He had encountered a lot of unfairness in his original unit. As a backbone of the business, he was promoted one after another by laymen. The superior leaders were in the same position as the laymen and the lay leaders were the experts. Several times, the results of his work were stolen by related parties.
Do you still have to suffer when you play a game now?
Lu Dao packed his luggage and went directly to Shouguang County to take office.
However, Lu Dao was also very lucky. Before he arrived in Shouguang County to take office, he happened to encounter Nan Jiyun and Zhang Duanyang marching into Qingzhou.
Under Zhang Duanyang's recommendation, Nan Jiyun was naturally overjoyed. Lu Daoke was a scholar with a background in the Xinke Mingjing and Zhengerbajing imperial examinations.
Nan Jiyun respected scholars the most, so he immediately assigned Lu Dao to the army and made him responsible for military supplies and logistics.
In the real world, Lu Dao was originally a grassroots government employee, dealing with messy chores, and most of the military logistics were actually messy chores.
However, Lu Dao enforced the law impartially and never treated him differently when allocating military resources. He was also merciless in reporting other colleagues in the army who had accepted bribes. Soon the Nan Jiyun Army knew that Lu Dao was a good logistics officer.
He is down-to-earth, efficient, and impartial. He is not corrupt or bribery. When Nan Jiyun fought against Qingzhou, Lu Dao never missed a beat and arranged the army's logistics well.
After Qingzhou was pacified, Lu Daoze took out the documents from the Ministry of Civil Affairs, said goodbye to Nan Jiyun, and went to Shouguang County to take up his post.
Nan Jiyun was very sorry about this. He also wanted to ask the court for merit, transfer Lu Dao to a military position, and recommend him to work under Zhang Xun who stayed in Luoyang.
When Lu Dao arrived in Shouguang County, he was also shocked by the dilapidated county town.
Before coming to Shouguang County, Lu Dao had checked information online.
Shouguang County is now one of the top 100 counties in Shandong Province and is the hometown of vegetables in the country. According to the records of the Ministry of Household Affairs in the Tang Dynasty, Shouguang County is also "all flat fields and soil, with no cliffs and steep ravines". The entire county is a fertile plain.
, this was the best area in ancient times.
Before the Anshi Rebellion, Shouguang County had always been recognized as a Zhong County, and it was also a county with a relatively good economy in the Tang Dynasty.
But I didn't expect that after the Anshi Rebellion and the later devastation of the Qingzhou bandits, the once prosperous Shouguang County would be in such a miserable state.
Nine out of ten rooms in the county town were empty, and all the officials and servants in Shouguang County's yamen were killed after the bandits invaded the county town.
Fortunately, when Lu Dao went to Shouguang County, he also took away a dozen soldiers who did not want to continue serving in the army. These were brothers in the army who had shared hardships with Lu Dao, and they followed Lu Dao to Shouguang County to take office.
With the help of these brothers, Lu Dao quickly reorganized the county government.
The county magistrate is dead. According to the system of the Tang Dynasty, Lu Dao, the county magistrate, is the top leader of Shouguang County.
Lu Dao also participated in poverty alleviation work organized by his former unit and worked in a remote rural area for two years.
After he reorganized the county government, he immediately found the remaining elderly people in Shouguang County and collected information about Shouguang County from them.
According to the words of these old people, he found twenty adult men with innocent wealth from the county and granted them the status of officials.
If all the government officials in Shouguang County had not been killed, these positions would not have fallen to these ordinary people. They were extremely grateful to Lu Dao.
Lu Dao immediately sent them out to investigate the situation in the entire Shouguang County.
After the summary, Lu Dao took a breath.
The standard set in the Kaiyuan year was that the population of Zhongxian County was 3,000 households. The Tang Dynasty was relatively loose on large families and did not require them to be divided into households. One household had an average of six people.
Estimating based on the data in the books, excluding the hidden households and black households that were prevalent in the Tang Dynasty, 3,000 households are equivalent to 18,000 people.
However, according to statistics and surveys by officials, there are now only more than 2,000 people left in Shouguang County, and a full 90% of the population has evaporated!
What does it mean that in troubled times, life is worth less than grass? Just look at the situation in Shouguang County.
The young and middle-aged people were either captured as soldiers or fell into bandits. The population was greatly reduced and a large amount of land was abandoned.
The desolation of the land resulted in greater food shortages, which led to more people turning into bandits or fleeing south to the Yangtze and Huaihe Rivers.
However, it was not easy to go south to the Jianghuai River to escape famine. I heard that in the northern part of Linhuai City, there were Qilu people who fled south. They and the local people in Linhuai competed for the little living space, and large-scale armed fights often occurred.
And these fleeing people had no money or land. Even if they crossed the Huaihe River, they could only join the local powerful and become hermits. In the Tang Dynasty, the status of being hermits was lower than that of slaves. After all, the sale of slaves also required government preparation.
, the death of a slave must also be reported to the government.
These hermit households are not listed on the imperial court's register. Even if they die, they do not need to be reported. Their situation is even more miserable than that of slaves.
Seeing the old, weak, sick and disabled in Shouguang County, Lu Dao felt an inexplicable sense of responsibility, as if he was not playing a game, but facing more than 2,000 real people.
We must make the lives of the people in Shouguang County better! Lu Dao secretly made up his mind.