"In the more than 20 years since Kueduan entered Sichuan, the population of Sichuan and Shu has dropped by tens of millions. It is so desolate."
Li Xia just returned to Hanzhong City and immediately discussed with Han Qi'an about recruiting refugees from Guanzhong.
But Han Qi'an obviously had many things to report, so he followed the topic and said: "After the water conservancy of Shanhe Weir is restored, a large amount of fertile land will be obtained. However, if no one works, the land rent cannot be collected, let alone the land tax after three years."
.The money and food will then..."
"It's really not as good as Kublai Khan's operation in the Northland for more than ten years."
"Alang, there is no need to talk about money and food in a few years." Han Qi'an said: "I have finished calculating the treasury..."
This is the difference between the two people. Li Xia leads the overall situation, cares about the long term and wants to expand the population as soon as possible; Han Qi'an has to take care of a small part and ensure that the treasury can support all Li Xia's plans.
At this time, Li Xia didn't even need to listen to the next words to know that he was out of money again.
But he still asked tentatively.
"Running out?"
"No more."
Han Qi'an added: "Alang's lavishness during this period was all due to Wang Dechen, Li Dehui, Lian Xixian, Shang Ting and others. I have to say that these people under Kublai Khan are really talented, making Hanzhong profitable.
The state has plenty of food and grass. But now the money and food are gone..."
"I know Li Dehui." Li Xia said, "I heard of him before in Kaifeng."
Li Dehui was once the Minister of Finance of Shaanxi. When Wang Dechen stationed troops in Lizhou, he arranged the food and grass.
In these years, Lizhou and Hanzhong had abundant food and grass, and this man made great contributions.
Alan Da'er captured Li Dehui when he went south to take the exam, and he also had a large number of talented people.
If not, Li Xia might not have been able to regain Hanzhong so easily.
"Li Dehui cultivated thousands of hectares of fields in Guanzhong, used banknotes and salt coupons to buy grain from the people of Shaanxi and sent it to Lizhou, and then transported salt and other materials from Lizhou to Hanzhong and Guanzhong, which kept Hanzhong's business travel going and slightly restored its vitality.
"
"Speaking of this trade route." Li Xia asked, "On the contrary, after I captured Hanzhong, the trade route with Guanzhong was cut off. Business is blocked. Does Mr. Yi Ning have any good ideas?"
Han Qi'an smiled bitterly and said: "We can't do business with Mongolia, so we can only do business with Jiangnan."
"But the merchants from the south haven't come yet."
"This is what I want to tell Alang. There is no money or food in the account..."
Li Xia asked: "What should I do if I have money and food?"
"Purchase a large amount of supplies from Jiangnan, and when the merchants see the profits, they will come."
"Is the first order important?"
"That can also be said."
Li Xia thought for a while and said: "In that case, I will write a letter to Lu Wende and ask him to send businessmen. Please make a list of Mr. Yi Ning, such as cloth, books, white silicon and other raw materials that are urgently needed in Hanzhong.
.”
"Alang, where does the money come from?"
"On credit."
"Will Lu Wende agree?"
Li Xia said: "Mr. Yi Ning still doesn't know that Lu Wende and I are like brothers."
Han Qi'an wrote down this matter and continued: "Although there is food in Lizhou and Hanzhong, most of it was used up when Meng Ge went south. After Alang regained Hanzhong, he began to reward merit without accounting..."
"It can't be said that this is a 'lavish' reward for merit." Li Xia waved his hand and said seriously: "The soldiers deserve it."
Han Qian said: "But Alang did not count carefully at that time."
"First give out the rewards that the soldiers deserve. Wouldn't it be much easier for Mr. Yi Ning to count them?"
Han Qi'an didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so he picked up the abacus and started dialing.
"I can only push back and roughly calculate that the Hanzhong treasury at that time..."
"Anyway, it's gone now?"
"good."
"Lizhou West Road, Tongchuanfu Road..."
"Alang, have you really forgotten? We supported one million shi of grain in Chengdu Prefecture and 500,000 shi in Jiading Prefecture. In addition, people in Sichuan and Sichuan need to be relocated from mountain cities, water conservancy projects need to be built, wasteland needs to be reclaimed, and residential buildings need to be built.
…”
The abacus crackled.
Li Xia thought for a while and finally said: "The imperial court still owes us money, and the military reward has not been received yet."
"I'm just afraid it will be difficult." Han Qi'an shook his head and said, "Shuai Pu has recovered the Jianmen fortress, and the military reward promised by the imperial court has not been received yet."
"I heard that after the Battle of Ezhou, the imperial court gave Lu Wende a million dollars, and up to half a million dollars. Why didn't I?"
"It's a great honor for Alang to be the commander-in-chief of Shu at this age." Han Chengxu shook his head and said: "A million dollars is not much if it is a prince."
This money is still a large amount for the personal portal, but Li Xia is obviously not doing it for the portal's personal gain.
After years of war, the imperial court has long been unable to make ends meet. It relies on the imperial court for supplies and needs to have people who can speak at the center.
But Li Xia's current situation...he not only offended Jia Sidao, but also offended Ding Daquan because he refused to recommend Ding Dang.
In addition, Wu Qian's letter inviting Li Yong to Lin'an is also being kept in Li Xia's drawer for some time...
Li Xia was silent for a long time while tapping her fingers lightly on the table.
When you become a householder, you have to worry about daily necessities and daily necessities.
"Alang, why don't you ask Mr. Xiling?" Han Qi'an said, "Mr. Xiling is better at handling affairs in the DPRK than me."
"I'll think about it."
Li Xia nodded. As the commander-in-chief of Shu, he must have the ability to ask for money and food from the court.
Han Qi'an added: "I have to remind Alang that future plans must be planned slowly, otherwise once the money and food are exhausted, haste makes waste. Please work with me to sort out the accounts for these three months as a basis."
Planning..." Gu Sui
"All right."
The plan was discussed late at night, and Gao Mingyue and Han Qiaoer came over holding hands. No matter how much official work they had to do, they had to be put off until the next day.
"Brother Li, as you said, sleep is very important."
"Okay, Mr. Yi Ning, please go back to your house and rest...Qiao'er, you really remember everything."
Han Qi'an looked at this scene and remembered that there was something he had not told Li Xia.
But Hanzhong is full of waste, and it is a busy time, so we have to wait a little longer...
~~
It was not until two days later that Li Xia was able to make plans to absorb the refugees from Guanzhong.
And Yang Guo has also arrived from Zhaotong.
"Alang has been waiting for a long time. Because everything in Zhaotong City needs to be settled, it has been delayed for a lot of time..."
Yang Guo talked about Zhaotong's situation and sighed: "I haven't seen him for a year, and Alang actually did this."
He is not loyal to Mongolia.
He interacted with people like Yuan Haowen who did not serve in Mongolia, and wrote a large number of mourning poems, "Every family weeps during the cold food and Qingming Dynasties, and when I ask, they are all deceased people", which fully shows this.
But Yang Guo also had no good impressions of Song Ting.
Therefore, he didn't have much feelings about the Song army killing Meng Ge and repelling the Mongolian army. What he cared about was Li Xia's power.
The four words "to this point" mentioned at this time refer to Li Xia's victory in Hanzhong, rather than how much contribution he made.
Li Xia understood Yang Guo and said, "Mr. Yang misunderstood the 'six hundred miles of mountains and rivers' mentioned at that time. Now with these 3,600 miles of mountains and rivers, can Mr. Yang trust me?"
Yang Guo stroked his beard and smiled, saying: "Three thousand six hundred miles of rivers and mountains, but unfortunately the population is too small."
"I am planning to ask Princess Yang to take care of this matter."
Li Xia then talked about the policy of exempting Hanzhong from taxation and the war in Guanzhong...
Yang Guo is different from Han Qi'an in that he is much more popular as a scholar.
In other words, idealism, romantic feelings are more...
He would not consider how much food this matter would cost or whether it would arouse the suspicion of the Song Dynasty. He became excited after hearing this.
"May I ask how determined Alang is?"
"No matter how many people can be relocated, my determination is strong enough to tolerate them."
"The rent of one stone field is too high." Yang Guo stood up, took two steps forward, and asked, "Is it okay to pay the rent of five tons of land per acre per year?"
Li Xia could already see Han Qi'an shaking his head and said: "This matter cannot be changed overnight. But I guarantee that whether they are from Guanzhong or Shanxi, they will be treated equally with the people of Hanzhong."
Yang Guo asked again: "Alang is not afraid that there will be Mongolian soldiers mixed in?"
"Don't be afraid." Li Xia said: "Of course, we should also have many preventive measures, such as strict household registration system and confiscating weapons."
"What if the Song Dynasty negotiates peace with Mongolia and starts the discussion of 'southern people return to the south and northerners return to the north'?"
This is a rather serious problem.
The Song Dynasty must want to negotiate peace with Mongolia, it just depends on whether Mongolia wants it or not.
Once Li Xia can hold Hanzhong, Mongolia will be able to negotiate with Song Ting.
Then, those who block the peace negotiation, including the condition that "Northerners return to the North", will inevitably become sacrifices.
Yue Fei and Han Yuzhou are examples of this.
Therefore, Yang Guo asked Li Xia how determined he was.
"I promise that any Northerner who has wielded a hoe under my rule will never be sent back again..."
~~
Weinan.
"Whoosh."
A sharp arrow shot a panicked fleeing farmer to the ground.
Some Mongolian cavalry laughed loudly, rode their horses over the corpses on the ground, and rushed into the farmer's house...
Soon, the entire Haojiagou was turned into a ghost village.
This is the vanguard sent by Asotai, the second son of Mengge Khan, who is eyeing Chang'an City.
Ever since he was severely punished by Meng Ge for hunting people in Guanzhong, Asotai had hated Kublai Khan who practiced Han law and indulged Han nobles.
He could see that Kublai Khan had alienated himself from the Great Mongolia.
Therefore, after learning that Meng Ge died in the Song Dynasty, Asotai rushed to the southern expedition army without hesitation and persuaded many Mongolian generals to support Alibu Ge.
They wanted to reduce Guanzhong to ruins and severely weaken Kublai Khan's strength.
This is the turmoil of the Mongolian Khanship struggle, and all living beings in the world are just ants in this storm.
…
More than ten miles south of Haojiagou, there are still a few small ants trying to escape.
"Dad...where are we going?"
"Chang'an... we have to escape into Chang'an..."
The man who spoke could no longer tell which side was Chang'an. It was the first time in his life that he had left his hometown. He could only keep walking in the direction where the Mongolian troops were least...