"When the prince arrived in Chang'an, he inspected the Western Market, summoned Hu merchants from various countries, and inquired about the situation of the trade routes." After the Zhengdan court meeting, Shao Shude, who was slightly drunk, sat in the Xuanzheng Hall of Ziwei City and listened to the official Qiu Silian's report on the prince's whereabouts.
"I went to Qianzhou at the end of August and stayed in the courtyard of the wealthy Qi family, and cut wheat with the villagers."
"During the Double Ninth Festival, I hosted a banquet for my elders in Pizhou."
Shao Shude didn't speak. He closed his eyes and tapped the armrest of the dragon chair with his right index finger, seeming to be thinking about something.
Kansai is the basic base and the old base area. Not to mention that we have invested a lot of resources over the years, but we really have not treated them badly.
In the selection of officials, Kansai has great benefits. Among other things, a large group of economics students who have no "university degree" and are equivalent to "TV University" or "vocational high school" are running around the world to become officials. Even in the early years of the dynasty, it was rare.
In terms of agriculture, the first batch of excellent livestock breeds cultivated by Sinong Temple were sent to Tongzhou Shayuanjian for breeding. The people living near the water in Kansai can also use them on a first-come-first-served basis.
For example, soybean sprouts were first promoted in Lantian County, Jingzhao Prefecture, and gradually expanded to other prefectures and counties. Today, soybean sprouts have become an indispensable winter vegetable on the winter tables of people in Kansai.
The same is true for Wutaicai.
Even in early spring, when the bamboo shoots emerge from the bamboo shoots, the sprouts and shredded bamboo shoots are stewed, it can become a famous local dish.
Henan, Hebei, and Hedong now also have sprouts, but the spread noodles are far less popular than those in Kansai. This is the difference.
The trade routes in Kansai were also opened up.
Although the Silk Road is gradually declining and its competitiveness is not as good as that of Shanghai Trade, it can still make money after all, and the profits are huge. This trade route, which was greatly affected by the war, has been reopened, bringing great benefits to Kansai merchants and even ordinary people. A great blessing.
Without business, local economies will slowly become stagnant.
The first-class national highways that have been continuously constructed for decades have also prospered commerce.
As the first first-class national highway to be built, the Liangjing Post Road has long gone beyond Chang'an and Luoyang and extended to distant borders.
In the direction of Kansai, this road has been built to Huizhou. Starting next year, Wulan County on the other side of the Yellow River will recruit conscripts and begin to advance in the direction of Lanzhou.
This is a huge project, but Longyou has been at peace for many years and its population has surged, making it worthy of a first-class national highway.
In addition, there are actually many benefits, which are difficult to mention one by one - even in terms of the number of places in the imperial examination, Kansai did not suffer at all, and even took advantage of it.
After seeing these benefits, we can understand the feelings of the people of Guanxi towards the Shao family dynasty.
The prince's visit to these places is purely to consolidate the prestige of the Shao family and enhance its reputation. It will make it more stable when he takes over the throne in the future.
In short, a trip to Kansai is better than a trip to Hebei three times. The local fellows speak nicely, and it feels like you are back home.
"In mid-September, the prince led the imperial army to Qingzhou to conduct exercises with Dongshan Dangxiang and Jingyuan prefectures with Tibet."
"At the end of September, I went to the Tiandu Mountain Ranch in Dongcheng City to inspect the army horses. I also trained the sergeants and rewarded hundreds of good horses."
"In mid-October, officials were summoned to the Yellow River Ferry at Huiningguan for questioning. The warehouses and shipyards were inspected and three corrupt officials were punished."
Qiu Silian continued to report.
Shao Shude continued to listen.
Gyeongju Dongsan Dangxiang has long been in decline. After forty years of fighting, too many elites were mobilized, and no less than 50,000 people were buried in a foreign land. Later, they reorganized the people into households and immigrated to Andong Prefecture. After all this effort, there was basically nothing left.
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Hengshan Dangxiang, who is as famous as Dongshan Dangxiang, is in almost the same situation. After forty years, they were originally under the management of the Lifan Yuan, but now they have been transferred to the Household Department and have become kings.
There were no repetitions in the whole process, everything seemed to fall into place naturally.
There used to be a large number of Tubo tribes in the Jingyuan prefectures. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, they took advantage of the opportunity of the Jingyuan Army to fight against Huangchao and once occupied the city. But now, only two or three big cats and kittens are left.
It's no longer the climate.
Dongshi City is a pasture established in the late Tang Dynasty. It uses the hilly pastures of Jing, Yuan and Huizhou to breed horses. Currently, there are about more than 100,000 horses. Tiandu Mountain is lush with vegetation and is its core horse breeding area.
Huiningguan Daku is the largest warehouse in the Helong area. It was originally owned by Sinong Temple, later under the Ministry of Revenue, and now under the jurisdiction of the Tax Supervisory Authority.
The main purpose of building this warehouse city was to store taxes and grain from Longyou and Hexi.
Huining Pass is also one of the most important nodes, or the starting point, for water transportation in the upper reaches of the Yellow River. Going further up is very dangerous and can only be transported by sheepskin rafts and wooden rafts.
The imperial court set up a shipyard here to make use of the rich and high-quality timber resources in the Daxue Mountain (Hasi Mountain) to build inland river ships to communicate between Guanbei and Hedong.
Hearing these familiar place names, Shao Shude couldn't help but think of the prosperous days when Longyou was swept by electricity.
When many people advised him to go south to Guanzhong, he marched westward, regained the lost land in Helong, and gained great prestige. At that time, going south to Guanzhong was feasible militarily but not politically feasible. This was the main reason.
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It later proved that the disorganized Tibetans had long been unable to occupy these territories. After capturing Helong, the Shuofang military regime established by Shao Shude was already in the heyday of the Western Xia Dynasty in history. It took the lead in the struggle for hegemony in the world.
"It's been forty years in the blink of an eye. I can't even remember the details of the recapture of Lanzhou." Shao Shude sighed: "I just remember that Tian Xing was hit by an arrow and fought hard without retreating. I didn't want to let the Tubo know that the general was injured and damage my morale.
And Yang Liang fought bravely and defeated the enemy, taking the lead, killing the Tubo people and forcing them to flee in panic. It's a pity..."
It is a pity that Yang Liang died in battle, Tian Xing died of illness, and the two early heroes and generals have disappeared in the wind.
Qiu Silian stopped.
"Go on." Shao Shude continued to sleep with his eyes closed, not wanting to consume more energy.
"At the end of November, the prince went to Lanzhou to inspect the silver mines and harvest winter vegetables with the people."
"In December, I summoned officials from Hezhou, Wei, Min, Tao, Wu, Die, and Danzhou in Hezhou. In the same month, I led a few personal followers to Wuzhou to inspect the soap workshop."
"In the first month of the year, we arrived in the Qingtang Dynasty and summoned the chiefs of various tribes for an alliance."
There is indeed a silver mine in Lanzhou, and it can even be said that it was the first silver mine that Shao Shude obtained in his early years. Nowadays, the output is gradually increasing, with an annual output of several thousand kilograms of silver and several thousand kilograms of copper, but it has almost reached its peak.
Further down, although there are still huge veins of minerals, they cannot be mined with the current technology.
The soap workshop has also been established for several years.
Today, the soap industry in Daxia is divided into two major structures: one in the south and one in the north. The south is in Baping City, which is the territory of the Dian Kingdom, and the north is in Wuzhou, using the local rich olive resources for production and manufacturing.
Not surprisingly, the sales of toilet soap are very good. It suddenly replaced the traditional soap soap and became popular all over the river, north and south of the Yangtze River. The Ministry of Internal Affairs is making a lot of money from this thing, and now even the wool spinning workshop can be closed.
It's almost done, focus on emerging industries such as carriages, furs, printing, inks, soaps, etc.
There will always be people who appreciate good things.
In places such as Taozhou, Diezhou, and Tangzhou in Longyou Road, there were many Tubo people and more Qiang people. The imperial court relied on peaceful means to conquer these places. Because of this, the local people's sentiments were complicated and the relationships were intertwined.
The fact that the prince can summon the officials and chiefs from these places to question and comfort him shows that he is awake, able to grasp the key points, and knows what he should do. This is enough.
Qiu Silian thought about this and did not continue.
This will be the first month of the year, and the news will be lost here.
After hearing this, Shao Shude opened his eyes and said: "I didn't just take a quick look, but settled down to understand the people's livelihood in various states. It's very good, very good."
When inspecting a place, some people only care about the scenery, eat, drink and have fun, and flirt with beautiful women. Some people carefully observe the local customs, people's lives, the quality of official governance, etc.
Shao Chengjie punished two corrupt officials in the grain depot and a corrupt official in the shipyard at Huining Pass. In fact, the crimes he committed were not big and could not be seen without careful inspection. However, his attitude was more serious, or more sincere, and he caught these people.
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In addition, he mows wheat during the autumn harvest and harvests sprouts in the winter. Even if it is a performance, it is not easy to actually do it.
Treating village elders to banquets, meeting with chiefs, training sergeants, etc. are all political behaviors.
In fact, the journey to the west itself was a big political act, and this big act was composed of such small political acts. The prince knew what he was going to do in the westward journey, and he was very serious about it, which made Shao Shude very satisfied.
This son has also been "on standby" for many years. Going on patrol for the emperor is an act that is closer to the emperor. He must be very happy, right?
He also thought of the Kansai elders.
The wars in the Western Regions in recent years have been a bit hard on them. The most annoying thing is not taxation, but corvee service.
In ancient times, corvee was definitely more ferocious than tax, and it was more devastating to people's families.
The five-year war with Persia has placed a greater burden on the people of Kansai. However, overall, they are still relatively happy.
During the reign of Emperor Xizong of the Tang Dynasty, the entire world was at the height of war intensity, and Kansai had generally achieved peace.
They experienced peace more than ten years earlier than Henan, twenty years earlier than Hebei, and twenty or thirty years earlier than Jiangnan and Hedong.
To be honest, it is not too much to encounter such a large-scale war only after so many years.
The prince stepped forward to comfort him and calm his heart, and that was almost enough.
"After the Spring Society Festival, I will take the prince north to Ganzhou, and then turn eastward. There is no need to go to Su, Sha and Guazhou." Shao Shude ordered: "I feel a little bit——"
Something is wrong.
But he would not say this to others. The prince was his child, and the world was also his child, and he was reluctant to give up.
He quickly left the Xuanzheng Hall and climbed to a high tower, overlooking Luoyang.
The construction concept of this city is originally related to the astrology.
Ziwei is the cardinal, and Yishui is the star man. Looking at it at this time, the lights of thousands of families in Luoyang City are like the stars in the sky.
The brilliance of Xinghan, if you look at it, it will be magnificent! How beautiful!
Take a few more glances. This year, he will leave this city.