On May 20th, outside Yulin Palace, it was very hot.
Shao Shude was in Dongshoujiang City on the other side of the river, inspecting the local farming and animal husbandry conditions.
When I passed by last time, I didn't take a good look because I was busy with military affairs. Now that I'm a teacher, I should take a look.
The former Shanyu Protectorate of Zhenwu Army has been abolished, and the county under its jurisdiction, Jinhe County, was merged into Shengzhou. The population of the state is also quite large, with more than 70,000 people, of which 40,000 are Liugu Tubo who moved from Liangzhou.
Surrender.
The northern tour has ended, and the released masters have begun to rush for seeds in full swing.
"Deputy Envoy Song, Shengzhou is a good place. Do we need to build two more counties?" Shao Shude felt extremely comfortable looking at the tidy fields.
Fortunately, it didn't delay the farming season too much, otherwise the people would have to drink from the northwest wind.
Qiantao Plain has now slowly begun to implement the three-crop rotation system. In this matter, the Hexi tribes, Qing, Tang and Tubo made great contributions and contributed too many large livestock.
In Lingzhou, the grain output has increased significantly in recent years, but the sown area of millet and wheat has only limited growth. This is despite the migration of a large number of people, and each household is granted 60 acres of farmland. The reason is to grow pasture.
, there are more and more fallow lands growing beans, and out of the 60 acres, only 20 acres are used to grow staple crops.
There are more and more families keeping more than ten large livestock. The cattle, horses, camels and other large livestock captured in the Western Expeditions are sold to the people in batches for ten years. They only need to pay 200 yuan a year, or corn and wheat of the same value.
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Cattle farms run by grassland ministries also continue to rent cattle, which forms the foundation for Lingzhou's agricultural development.
Not only is the production of grains increasing, but more importantly the production of meat, milk, leather, horns, and tendons is also increasing day by day.
In fact, it’s not time to enjoy the fruits yet.
Because the implementation period is still too short, less than ten years, the number of cattle in households has not yet reached saturation. After another five to ten years, there will be a large number of old cattle waiting to be slaughtered on the market, and the price of beef will inevitably decrease year by year.
Now the price of cheese has been declining for several years, and it has gradually become an important food for people in Lingzhou.
Settle down, plant high-yielding pastures, and raise livestock are the biggest killers against nomadic tribes in areas suitable for husbandry and farming. Anyone who settles down will be slowly assimilated. This is an objective law, unless the Shuofang shogunate falls and the process is interrupted.
Shao Shude plans to slowly copy the successful experience of Xitao Plain to Qiantao Plain.
Jinhe County (Hohhot), Dongshoujiang City (Tuoketuo), Zhongshoujiang City (near Baotou), and Yulin County (near Junggar Banner) are the top priorities.
"Commander, the number of registered residents in Dongcheng and Zhongcheng is increasing day by day. It's time to establish a county." Song Le looks much older, but he is in good spirits. In an era when people cannibalize people, there can be a pure land of pastoral pastoral, which is very good for people in troubled times.
Precious.
In recent years, Song Le also wrote some agricultural poems, such as "A Gift to the Farmer from the East City of Shengzhou", "The Farmer Meets in Mid-Spring", "A Walk in the Good Fields", "Songs on the River Embankment", "An Old Farmhouse in the Field", etc.
Shao Shude read it and thought it was good. The Feng sisters also thought it was good. The rhetoric is not gorgeous, which may be related to Song Le's character, but the feelings are sincere and there are many details of farming activities, which shows that it is a practical style.
"How many counties can be established in Sanshoujiang City and Tiande Military City?" Shao Shude asked.
Xishou surrendered to the city, which used to be the Tiande Military Council. Shao Shude's hometown still has a few thousand people.
Tiande Military City was built later and had a very large population, more than 30,000 people, almost all of whom were family members of sergeants, which was much more than Fengzhou City.
The two cities in the middle and east have a small population. They originally had three to four thousand people each. In recent years, they have absorbed some Hebei Dangxiang tribes, and the number of households has exceeded 1,500. At the beginning of the year, they were divided into 500 and 500.
Hushu people can indeed establish counties.
"Any county can be established," Song Le said.
"In that case..." Shao Shude pondered for a while and then said: "Xicheng is located in Da'an County, Tiande Army is located in Tiande County, and Zhongcheng..."
Marshal Shao still has a limited level of education and can't think of a good name at the moment.
The name "Da'an" in Xicheng comes from the Tiande Army, because when the army was first established, Xuanzong gave it the name "Da'an Army", which was later changed to Tiande Army.
If we were to surrender the city in the middle, should we use the allusion that Li Yideng had when he surrendered the city in the third place and said he "conscripted all the people in one night and looked at their hometowns"? No, this would be too depressing and bad for the morale of the army.
"Zhongcheng is called Anbei County." Shao Shude clapped his hands and thought of it.
In the second year of Kaiyuan, Zhongcheng became the administrative center of the Anbei Protectorate.
"The east city is called Yunzhong County."
"In this way, Shengzhou will take over the five counties of Anbei, Yunzhong, Jinhe, Yulin, and Hebin, Fengzhou will take over the four counties of Jiuyuan, Yongfeng, Tiande, and Da'an, and Linzhou will take over Xinqin, Liangu, and Yin counties.
All the three counties in the city will be paid to you."
Of the three major plains in Hetao, Xitao is already under development, while Qiantao has just begun.
In the past, I was afraid that excessive construction here would be in vain. But after such a mobilization, more than 100,000 troops marched eastward to Yunzhou. Marshal Shao felt that he could do it again, and Shengzhou seemed to be able to enter a state of key development.
Let’s start with the Han people in the southern Shu region, the Tibetan descendants who were reorganized into households, and the Hebei party items that are slowly being digested.
During the Xixia era, most of Shengzhou was in the hands of the Liao Kingdom, and Fengzhou was the front line. These two plains were not developed, and only Lingzhou became the core money and grain base of Xixia.
For now, Fengzhou will ignore him, and Shengzhou can be established. In the future, if something happens to Hedong, Shengzhou can also become a forward base to supply grain, beans, pasture, cattle and sheep.
"If Feng wins the two states, the people can be encouraged to raise horses. I remember that during the Xuanzong Dynasty, the court had a decree that households raising horses and cattle would not be included in the tax. Feng wins the two states and it seems that this can be done? Well, this matter
You make up your mind." Shao Shude said again.
To put it simply, in order to encourage people to raise horses and cattle, Xuanzong introduced a policy that these large livestock are not included in the total wealth of the people and are not taxed. If you raise them, they are all yours, and you don’t have to worry about being crushed by exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes.
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At the height of the dynasty, the 48 government-run livestock supervisors raised a total of more than 760,000 horses. After the implementation of various policies, the number of private horses reached 300,000 to 400,000. Each post station vigorously purchased horses from private households, and the people really gained a lot.
If there are no benefits, this is not compulsory to raise horses, and the people will definitely have no interest in doing so.
"The commander-in-chief has an order, how dare you disobey it?" Song Le said with a smile.
"Let's take on the post of Deputy Protector of the Zhenbei Protectorate. There are many Tibetan people in the three prefectures of Feng, Sheng, and Lin, so we must take good care of them." Shao Shude also said with a smile.
The various positions in the Zhenbei Protectorate are actually equivalent to the northern officials of the Liao Kingdom.
Some places are inherently unsuitable for farming. It is not impossible to forcefully develop the land for farming, but this is too rough and will damage the environment sooner or later. It is better to continue grazing.
Rule the tribes according to tribal laws, fully take care of their people's sentiments and customs, and give them the opportunity to get ahead within the system, which will make them more stable.
"Does the Palace Accounting Department recommend a suitable candidate?"
"Commander..." Song Le also just read the draft system of the Zhenbei Protectorate. He hesitated for a while, and then said after a long time: "Yang Yao (yuè) seems to be qualified for this position."
Yang Yao is the head of the Yang family in Linzhou.
Yang is now quickly moving closer to Shao Shude and is very trusted. Otherwise, he would not have been temporarily appointed as the patrol envoy for the Shenglin and Linzhou river cruises this time.
The Yang family has been rooted in Linzhou for a long time. There are many vassal party tribes under the family, and they are very familiar with the affairs of the Tibetan tribe.
The Zhe family, which had been suppressing them, had begun to move to Fengxiang Mansion, but Shao Shude still did not dare to hand over the local position of governor of Linzhou to the Yang family.
If a local wealthy family becomes governor, wouldn't they become a semi-independent force?
However, the position of judge of the Palace Accounts Department was very suitable for Yang Yao, because it was a secret position and he needed to be an official in Lingzhou, so he could use it to win over the Yang family.
The current main job of the Palace Accounting Department is to help Shao Shude take care of his private property.
If we look at the situation of the Liao Kingdom in later generations, the three major tribes directly under the Liao Dynasty will be regarded as "Han Ruduo".
"Hanruduo" is a Turkic language, which means palace account. It has jurisdiction over states, counties, divisions, Shilie (county), and Mali (township). It has management agencies, herdsmen, slaves, and the army.
"Calculation" means confidant.
The directly subordinate tribes are definitely more trusted by the general than ordinary tribes. The 1,500 personal troops that the Zhenbei Protectorate’s Military Division will soon have will come from these three tribes.
The three thousand households of Tatar, Tuyuhun, and Uighur herdsmen who moved to Yulin Palace are also directly subordinate tribes and will also send people to join the pro-army in the future.
In fact, it was a means to weaken the strength of various tribes. The emperor of Liao used various means to reduce the number of small tribes in large tribes. These small tribes were incorporated into his direct subordinate "Hanruduo" and grazed near the palace.
The emperor would stay in the palace from time to time to strengthen his prestige among the directly subordinate Hanruduo. This was a centralization method, which is what the history of the Liao Dynasty said: "cut off the members of the household to strengthen the weak branches."
After the death of the old emperor, the direct subordinate Han Ruduo was led by the new emperor, just like the succession of the leader on the grassland, which was completely in line with the values of the herdsmen.
The successors will often practice the palace and continue to do this.
In the Liao Dynasty, a total of twelve palaces were built, including Hongyi, Changning, Yongxing, Jiqing, and Yanchang, plus a palace for Prince Wenzhong, that is, twelve palaces and one palace.
Take the Hongyi Palace built by Abaoji as an example. The palace has direct jurisdiction over "16,000 official soldiers, 14,000 Tibetan and Han soldiers, and 6,000 cavalry troops."
The army formed by drawing soldiers from each palace is called the "Palace Guards", which is the capital of the emperor.
These palaces and palaces are being reduced day by day, each tribe is in misery, and the power of the central government has greatly increased. Otherwise, do you think the Khitan people who started from the grassland can establish a country for more than two hundred years?
In the Shenhexing and Yanchi area, Shao Shude had already discussed with Song Le and planned to build a Woyang Palace, located in the ancient city of Woyang in the Han Dynasty and in the area of Shenhe County in the Northern Wei Dynasty. The Yanchi tribe grazed their cattle there.
No, there will be no Yanchi tribe in the future. They will all be called the Woyang Palace tribe, and the leader will be Shao Shude. After his death, he will be succeeded by his eldest son.
Woyang, the second palace of Yulin, the civil affairs are temporarily managed by the Palace Accounts Department, and the military affairs are temporarily under the jurisdiction of the Pro-Army Division. The strong men of the tribe train in their spare time, and are recruited into the Pro-Army to fight in wartime.
As for the Tuoba tribe in Haixi and the Shao family in Liugu, Shao Shude hasn't figured out how to deal with it yet. We'll talk about it later.
Of course Song Le understands the importance of this position. This is a position close to his confidant!
If Yang Yao takes care of Woyang and Yulin's second palace in an orderly manner, and the cattle and sheep are wild, it will be easy for him to prosper in the future.
In order to rule the grassland, the commander-in-chief really uses all kinds of tricks!
"Yang Yao?" Shao Shude laughed when he heard this and said: "The Yang family starts from him, and the heads of the family are all scholars. Although they have not become officials, it is not an exaggeration to say that they come from a scholarly family. He is the only one of his generation who practices martial arts diligently.
, is skilled in bow and horse, and has great prestige among the Dangxiang people. He is indeed the most suitable candidate, and he is the one. I was about to lead the army south and when I passed Linzhou, I summoned him to ask."
The generals of the Yang family sound like a family of generals. But as you can imagine, Yang Yao's father, Yang Anzhen, was still a scholar who had no ability to restrain a chicken. His father, Yang Anzhen, had some martial arts skills. Yang Anzhen's son, Yang Hongwang, is now the Flying Bear Military Envoy.
In the great era, the Yang family has also transformed from a traditional farming and studying family to a local power. Like the Zhe family, the clan rules the family and has strong cohesion. Now the martial arts style is also very strong, and they have actively intervened in the affairs of the Tibetan tribe and vassalized some
In the eyes of many aristocratic families in the Han Dynasty, the Dangxiang tribe is half Hu and half Han, and some later scholars even directly said that they were Dangxiang people.
But the wealthy families on the border would have been wiped out long ago if you didn’t act stupid.
"It is Yang's blessing to be able to take care of the palace tents for the commander-in-chief." Song Le said with a smile.
"In the future, I will have to go to the palace more often." Shao Shude sighed, "It's a hard life."
The dualist system of political power, nationalities, and customs are so different that we have to be careful, otherwise there will be wars in the rear and people will rebel every day, and there will be no fight in the world.
However, Shao Shude is not very sure. If one day he takes over the Central Plains, for example, becomes emperor in Luoyang, will he slowly lose control of these palaces?
My heir cannot just live in the city, he must patrol everywhere, and he must implement it no matter how strong the resistance is. The palace was built, not to let it eat ashes. If anyone in the future cannot bear the pain, then he is not qualified to be the heir.