Bianzhou was called Daliang in ancient times. Since the late Northern Dynasties, it has been called Yinsheng.
In the fourth year of Emperor Wen's reign in the Sui Dynasty, "when the ancestral temple returned to Taishan, he visited Bianzhou. He hated the prosperity of the Yin Dynasty and had many treacherous knights, so he appointed (Linghu) Xi as the governor of Bianzhou."
It is unknown why Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty disliked the prosperity of Bianzhou. Perhaps it was due to the prosperity of industry and commerce, the number of corporate members, and poor public security. Perhaps he preferred an idyllic life and aspired to turn the world into a large rural area, or He simply hated the affluence of the Kanto region, so he appointed Feng Huxi to rectify it.
Linghu Xi "forbids travel and food, suppresses industry and commerce, shuts down those who open their doors to the streets, and builds settlements for ship passengers who stop in Guowaixing. Overseas Chinese are ordered to return to their hometowns, and some of them are detained in prison, and they are ordered to be sent away, and the orders are prohibited." A whole set of measures to suppress industry and commerce is actually of little use.
Later, not only Bianzhou developed, but even neighboring Songzhou became one of the top cities.
Du Fu has a poem that says: "In the past I traveled to the middle of the Song Dynasty, but Liang Xiao was the capital. It is now known as Chenliuya, and the drama is based on Weiju."
The general idea is that Songzhou (in the middle of the Song Dynasty) is second only to Bianzhou (Chenliu) and is as prosperous as Weizhou and Beizhou in Weibo.
Bian, the second state of Song Dynasty, is the essence of the Central Plains and the richest area.
However, the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion and the subsequent separatist issues of vassal towns turned the people of this prosperous and prosperous place into brave and ruthless people. Military mobilizations day after day, and battles fought every three days, injecting At the same time as martial ethics, it also caused huge damage to the local economy.
No matter who the imperial court sent to investigate the "River Robbers" identified between the Jianghuai River and Huaihe River, Bian and Songzhou would be named.
Why do the people of a well-off and prosperous land want to become thieves? They are not forced to do so!
Fortunately, Zhu Quanzhong defeated Qin Zongquan, and the Central Plains became instantly pure.
A strong order was rebuilt, people's lives became increasingly stable, and a large amount of grain and silk were continuously produced, especially silk, which provided Zhu Quanzhong with a large amount of income.
Today, Zhu Quanzhong came to Songzhou in the rain and personally encouraged farmers to cultivate mulberry trees.
He didn't look panic at all, his face was calm, and he spoke in an unhurried manner, which reassured all the worried officials.
In this day and age, good news doesn't travel that fast, but bad news definitely travels fast.
The Xia bandits raided Lingchang County, which was an extremely shocking thing. Although this county was far away from Huazhou, it didn't seem to take long if the Xia bandits turned south and headed straight to Songzhou.
Now I just hope that they will rush eastward and go to Zhu Xuan's territory, so as not to harm the Bian and Song states again.
"Li Keyong plundered Weibo wantonly. Not only Weizhou suffered, but other states also suffered losses to varying degrees." Zhu Quanzhong walked in the dense mulberry forest and sighed: "Luo Hongxin complained to me, saying that Li Keyong Many grassland feudal knights were dragged away. In order to make it easier for them to gallop, they cut down and burned the mulberry forests. I'm afraid there won't be much Qinghe silk this year."
Pei Di, who was following him, sighed inaudibly, and then asked: "Your Majesty, will the summer tax be increased?"
Zhu Quanzhong hesitated for a moment and said: "Let's add a little more first. Li Keyong is about to be defeated, and Luo Hongxin should not be unable to pay any tribute."
"Yes." Pei Di responded: "There are frequent wars and there are many places to spend money. Compared with the common people, they also understand the king's difficulties."
Zhu Quanzhong smiled and was noncommittal.
In fact, the tax was already increased once last year, but the magnitude was very small and the impact was not significant.
If Weibo significantly reduces or even stops its supply this year, it will have a greater impact on the financial plan. Especially Qinghe silk, which is of good quality and good price, is more valuable than ordinary silk.
Qinghe County is Beizhou. The silk produced in Qinghe County was once known as the best in quality and the output was also large.
This number one does not refer to high-end products, but to the average quality when every household had to pay silk under the fiscal and taxation system before the Anshi Rebellion.
At that time, the inspector of Taifu Temple in the imperial court divided the quality of silk fabrics in the country into eight grades. There were 42 states in Henan and Hebei classified, all of which were in the top five grades; 31 states in Sichuan were classified, none of them were classified.
The states in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River (such as Xiangyang) have 7 states in the classification, 4 of them are in the fifth class, and the rest are in the bottom three; there are 6 states in the Jianghuai area, and 3 of them are in the fifth.
Wait, 3 states are ranked last.
This is a quality assessment of ordinary silk, which accounts for the absolute majority of production, and reflects the average technical level of various places.
After the Chao Rebellion, many northerners moved south, bringing with them advanced technology from the Central Plains. The farming and textile technology in the south had been significantly improved, but there was still a big gap between Henan and Hebei. In the late Northern Song Dynasty, Qinghe
Juan (Beizhou) is no longer famous because of Sanyi Huihe, but it is Jingdong Road in Henan that takes over.
In the first year of Jingkang, "Ten million pieces of silk were needed for gold, and the imperial court met them in full. They all contained Yuanfeng and the Grand View Treasury. Hebei Province accumulated tribute and paid them away. Just like silk from Zhejiang Province, it was returned lightly."
The 10 million pieces of silk paid to the Jin people as compensation were mainly from Hebei. The Zhejiang silk was of poor quality and was returned by the Jin people.
As the richest place in Hebei, Weibo's surrender was the most proud thing for Zhu Quanzhong in so many years.
In particular, the most elite Leopard Army was destroyed by Zhu Zhen, which greatly damaged the morale of Wei Bo's warriors. Otherwise, how could they be willing to offer sacrifices so honestly?
"Your Majesty——" After walking for a while, the two came out of the mulberry forest. Pei Di couldn't help but said: "We still have to drive away the Xia thieves as soon as possible. This year, the four counties of Ruyang, Zhenyang, Baoxin, and Xinxi in Caizhou were ravaged.
Most of Caizhou's tribute is insufficient. If people are allowed to harm the Hua, Zheng, Bian, Song, and Bo states, the financial situation will be even worse."
Zhu Quanzhong walked but did not answer.
Not far away is the meandering Bianhe River, which connects Su and Si, and goes directly to Zheng and Bian. There are some boats on the river, which seem to be the imperial canoe boats, but the number is decreasing every year, which seems to explain a lot of things.
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"Did Yang Xingmi agree to send troops?" Zhu Quanzhong asked suddenly.
Pei Di was speechless. Jingxiang was handling this matter, and he only vaguely knew about it. He might not know as much as Li Zhen and others.
Zhu Quanzhong also reacted quickly and said with a smile: "Xingmi is greedy and wants the three states of Chu, Hao and Shou to be connected with Sizhou."
"Your Majesty, I can't give it to you." Pei Di was surprised: "It's just Chuzhou. How can I give it to Haozhou and Shou?"
He has been sorting out the finance and taxation of several southern states recently, and he feels that it is very interesting. If Chuzhou gives it, it will be given, Shou, and if Haozhou is given out, it will be really heartbreaking.
What's more, people are not satisfied. If Yang Xingmi gets as long as Chu Sihao, will Xu stay next? His appetite is far from being satisfied.
Zhu Quanzhong's face also darkened.
Although the asking price was high and the money was paid on the ground, Yang Xingmi's "asking price" was too disrespectful, which made Lao Zhu a little annoyed.
In fact, if the Xia thieves hadn't pressed too hard, he would have sent his troops south to seize all the land in Huainan after pacifying Erzhu and Wang Shifan.
The war with Shao Thief was in its fifth year, and he realized more and more deeply how important it was to have an undisturbed rear area, and Huainan could exactly take on this role.
Hebei looks prosperous and has a large population, but the local power is strong, so it is actually not easy to fight, and it also faces competition from Li Keyong.
In his opinion, that place will be destroyed sooner or later by all parties. If it takes decades and tens of millions of registered residents, only half of it will be left, and more than five million people will be lost.
Li Keyong can cut down mulberry forests, but what can't he do? Will he dig the Yellow River next?
Well, an idea flashed in Zhu Quanzhong's mind, but then it was buried deep in his heart.
There are some things that you cannot do. If you do them, the consequences will be very serious. Not only will your enemies fight you to death, but even your own people will probably look down on you.
Things haven't reached that point yet.
"Since we have sent two groups of troops southward, we cannot hesitate." Zhu Quanzhong said suddenly.
It seemed that he was telling Pei Di, but also seemed to be convincing himself.
"If we withdraw our troops at this time, the thieves will become more powerful and people's hearts will become more chaotic." Zhu Quanzhong continued: "Now is the critical moment for me and Shao thieves to compete with each other. Shao thieves has gathered a lot of troops in Huainan, will he feel better?
?Which of the Xiangyang prefectures and Shenguang prefectures is not extremely poor? The ten counties of Song Prefecture can produce more than one million pieces of silk this year. Which of these prefectures can do it? Even if it can, the quality is not as good.
Shao Thief can persist, so why can’t I?”
Pei Di thought for a while, and it seemed that this was all he could do.
Those places in Shannan are indeed poor, and many of them are still burning wasteland for farming, and their agricultural technology is very backward.
The silk industry is similar.
“In the silk-rearing houses of the South, they burnt them with blazing fire in order to make them grow old prematurely and save food.” This caused the silkworms to be “thin and weak and could not be caught in the North.”
Huainan is considered to have better sericulture technology in the south, but during the Zhenyuan period of Dezong, "the mulberry art was fresh and the silk silk was sparse." In short, the southern silk was bright in color, but not meticulous enough, and the silk was uneven in thickness. For some princely families,
Children, they like bright colors, but ordinary people prefer dense and uniform ones.
Even when Yang Xingmi sent people to Bianzhou to sell salt and tea, he had to purchase Xianwen silk and cloth from Henan to make official and military uniforms. At the end of Kaiyuan, the quality of silk cloth in Song and Bozhou had risen to
The first-class silk cloth from Zheng, Bian, Cao, and Huaizhou has also been promoted to the second class, which is a great source of wealth for Henan.
"It's important to keep your mouth shut about the Xia thieves' intrusion into Huazhou." Zhu Quanzhong said again: "I have ordered that officials in all states and counties are not allowed to talk about this matter openly. We will wait until Pang Shigu and his uncle Cong defeat the Shao thieves and return to the army."
Pei Di nodded silently.
In fact, he was skeptical about whether Pang Shigu and Shishu Cong could win. Although many people laughed at Shao Thief for fighting like an old man, he was really stable in using troops, and he was very good at planning and using his strength to overwhelm others.
As a commander-in-chief, isn't strategic planning and winning by force the most advanced art of war? Liang's soldiers are not brave, and Liang's generals are not ignorant of soldiers, but the reason why the battle is like this is probably not on the battlefield, but outside the battlefield.
As long as Shao Thief doesn't suffer a shocking defeat and continues to win steadily, Bianzhou is very likely to fail.
Alas, what a world! Is Henan going to be destroyed again?
The soldiers brought the horse, and Zhu Quanzhong immediately turned over and rode on it. Before leaving, he glanced at Pei Di and said, "Li Keyong will withdraw his troops soon. If he doesn't leave, something will happen to Youzhou. By then, I can use it."
There will be many soldiers, and the Shao thieves can only be arrogant for a few days. What needs to be done now is to persist. As I do, so do you. Mr. Pei, please worry more about money and food. You can consider the two taxes this summer and autumn.
.I will suffer for the common people first, and after defeating the Shao thieves, all the problems will be solved and everything will get better."
"I will try my best, Your Majesty, please relax." Pei Di bowed and bowed before replying.
Zhu Quanzhong whipped his horse whip and left, while Pei Di stood still for a long time.
The Central Plains is full of troubles! The people are suffering, suffering, suffering!
