In September in Anton, the cool breeze blows, and the golden wheat waves dance with the wind.
Because it is located in a high latitude area, wheat in Anton is harvested one or two months later than in the Central Plains. This is a good season for harvesting.
At the same time, the corn with a larger planting area is about to be harvested, so everyone in Andong Province, including the Liaoyang County Prince's Mansion, has begun to harvest.
From the kings and princesses at the top to the officials at the bottom, as long as they are over fifteen and under sixty, all men and women have the task of harvesting wheat fields.
Murong Nobunaga wielded his sickle and cut the wheat faster than anyone else. He did not look like a prince running a domineering government at all, but like a strong farmer.
Qian was sitting on a tall stack of wheat, looking at Murong Nobunaga in the distance who was wearing only coarse linen clothes and with strong abdominal muscles appearing and disappearing. His eyes were so smiley that they turned into crescent moons. He thought about the happiness last night, and his face was filled with laughter.
I couldn't help but blush a few more times.
Qian is the daughter of Qian Hongcheng, Pingzhang of Jiangbei Province, and the niece of Qian Hongchu, the former King of Wu Yue and the current King of Lu.
The Qian family, who was originally married to Anton as a concubine as a political exchange, was very dissatisfied at first. If she hadn't dared to resist her uncle Qian Hongchu's order, she would have made a fuss long ago.
Hangzhou is so wonderful, who would be willing to travel thousands of miles to the poor Anton!
But when she got married, Qian was immediately fascinated by the thousands of miles of mountains and rivers in the North.
Different from the elegance and beauty of Jiangnan, Anton has a vast sky, towering trees, thousands of miles of fertile fields, extremely flat land, and extremely rich products.
Fishing in the Liao River, hunting in the White Mountains, and countless plump crabs and lobsters on the East China Sea all fascinated Qian from Hangzhou.
Of course, what satisfied her the most was the person in front of her.
Murong Nobunaga, the prince of Liaoyang County, has just turned thirty this year. He is in the golden age of men. He is tall and handsome and walks with the stride of a dragon and a tiger.
Although he has been fighting all year round, he is neither black nor vulgar. Instead, he is very gentle and has a very elegant temperament.
More importantly, this king held a high position, but before her, he only had one concubine and two concubines.
There was even a nun among them who was a poor person he saved on the battlefield, and the king did not find him disapproving.
The other concubine was the daughter of Kang Jinshan, who had committed a crime. When it became clear that Kang Jinshan was about to be dealt with by the emperor, the entire Liaoyang County Prince's Palace asked Murong Nobunaga to depose the concubine Kang to show their loyalty to the emperor.
Not only did Murong Nobunaga not accept it, but he was also worried that Kang Yu would be implicated in Tokyo, so he specially sent his confidants to take risks to bring her to Anton for comfort.
In the eyes of some men, this is simply not regal, but a woman's benevolence. But in the eyes of a woman like Qian, it gives her a sense of security, okay?
This kind of man who holds a high position, is handsome, has an extraordinary temperament, is physically strong, has a gentle temper, is very affectionate, and is protective of his children. He is simply what every woman dreams of, no! A perfect husband that most people would never dare to do in their dreams.
"Why are you giggling? Don't worry now, someone has already cut your wheat for you this year."
Qian was still having fun when she suddenly felt her body drifting. It turned out that Murong Nobunaga had finished cutting the wheat, and then he stretched out his arms and picked her up from the wheat stack with one arm.
The surrounding maids quickly turned their faces in other directions. Qian's face turned red, but then returned to normal.
"Your Excellency has just sent a letter, saying that he has convinced Yao Yanhong, and he has agreed to lead 60,000 Jinghai Town soldiers and their families, 150 battleships, and 300 large ships to serve the king."
"Hahaha! That's great!" Murong Nobunaga excitedly picked up Qian and spun him around twice.
What Murong Nobunaga lacks now is the ability to set out from Jiaodong and Jiangbei to directly attack the fleet on the left side of Goryeo.
Moreover, although the Qian family and the Hu family could provide Murong Nobunaga with 20,000 naval troops, these naval forces were not given to him. They were recruited by the Qian family and the Hu family, but they belonged to the imperial army.
What Murong Nobunaga could really get was the original Jinghai envoy of the Southern Tang Dynasty, that is, the family members of the Yao Yanhong tribe and his soldiers who fled to Wuyue during the Huainan Battle of Zhang Yan's first attack on the Southern Tang Dynasty.
The Yao family jumped between the Southern Tang Dynasty and Wu Yue, and they had already offended both sides. Now that the Great Zhou Dynasty was unified, Yao Yanhong and Jinghai Zhizhiyuan existed in the same form as a vassal town, and naturally they could not get along with each other.
After Wu Wang Li Jing and Lu Wang Qian Hongchu got Zhang Yan's tacit approval, they both tried hard to deal with Yao Yanhong, so they had no choice but to follow Murong Nobunaga.
These are hundreds of large ships, with at least 15,000 capable old sailors, and about 10,000 half-year-olds who are about to grow into capable sailors.
The Japanese country is an island country, and they will become an extremely important part of Murong Nobunaga's command.
Mrs. Qian also smiled very happily, because Yao Yanhong and others were the most valuable dowry she brought.
With this dowry, he would be able to gain a very high status next to Murong Nobunaga and in the court of the future King of Yan.
"Sister Hu also wrote a letter. Wang Sheng of Huzhou and more than a hundred generals of the Wuyue Navy have been persuaded by her brother Hu Zhao. They will follow the two thousand powerful sons of Dongfu to Daxie Island in Dengzhou, Jiaodong to build warships.
, will also follow the king."
The sister Hu mentioned by Qian was the granddaughter of Hu Jinsi and the noble daughter of Wu Yue who was to be the concubine of Murong Nobunaga.
Wang Sheng of Huzhou was the only Wu Yue Ya soldier who followed Shen Huzi to the end when Zhang Gao swept across the desert. He was a fierce man who could swim in chain mail. After Murong Nobunaga heard about it, he always wanted to recruit him for him.
Become a navy general.
Daxie Island in Dengzhou was located in the Miaodao Islands area in Penglai District, Yantai City, Shandong Province in later generations. In the Tang Dynasty, there was a naval base here specifically for attacking the peninsula, so it was suitable to use it.
There was a rapid sound of horse hoofbeats, and Qian quickly took the maid and walked away from Murong Nobunaga.
As soon as the horse stopped, Wang Pu jumped off the horse and said excitedly to Murong Nobunaga: "I am very happy for you! The saint has agreed to Duke Cao's request to combine the land of old Silla and Baekje.
And I gave it to the king as a reward."
The so-called old Silla and Baekje were almost the area of South Korea in later generations. From this point on, after hundreds of years of development, this area was the richest among the Japanese kingdom and the peninsula.
After Murong Nobunaga's uncle Cao Yanlu arrived in Anton, the first thing he did was to request Zhang Gao to seal this place to Murong Nobunaga.
This is not entirely because Cao Yanlu feels sorry for his nephew, but because he has practical considerations.
Because no one expected that after two or three years of development by Khitan and management by Murong Nobunaga, Anton would already be full of vitality and everything would flourish.
In the Northeast, the terrain is originally flat and conducive to collective farming, and the rivers are crisscrossed and conducive to irrigation. Although the climate is cold, at most it means planting late and harvesting late, it is still guaranteed all year round.
The location is close to the grassland, and although there is a shortage of cattle, there is no shortage of horses. Horses can also be used to plow the land. Although they are not as good as cattle, they are much better than people.
The biggest advantage is that the climate is relatively cool, so this place is not like Lingnan, which is full of mosquitoes and plagues. Only 23 people die from it, but most people can survive.
Moreover, the emperor also arranged for the Yutian Han family to govern Daze in western Liaoning, and has now achieved considerable results.
The absence of a large number of mosquitoes and almost no malaria parasites made the treatment of Daze in western Liaoning relatively fast and effective. The only large-scale expenditure was just to mobilize grain and grass.
But there is no need to worry. You must know that in order to govern Daze in western Liaoning, Zhang Yan did not use troops in Hedong and Hebei provinces for more than a year.
The taxes of these two provinces were all used to manage the vast swamps in western Liaoning. Even the salaries of officials in the two provinces were borrowed from the Bankers Association under the leadership of the Ministry of Household Affairs of the imperial court.
In order not to bring down the finances of these two provinces in the future, Zhang Yan was responsible for repaying the interest on the loan, and the central finance department of the imperial court was responsible for repaying the principal.
With the emperor's full support, Han Kuangsi and others dug large swamps into lakes in western Liaoning, and dug channels out of small swamps to divert water into the Liao River.
At the same time, the Liaohe River channel was widened and embankments were built on both sides to prevent flooding during the flood season.
Up to now, the Han brothers have commanded a labor force of more than 300,000 people and have divided Daze in western Liaoning into more than a dozen swamps that cannot be connected to each other. They have also built a road about two to three miles wide and more than 700 miles long.
Barely able to walk through the passage between humans and horses.
The yellow rice introduced from Jiangxi and suitable for growing in swamps has also been sown, and it is said that the growth is quite gratifying.
From next year onwards, at least 30,000 to 40,000 of the more than 300,000 people in Daze, western Liaoning will be able to be self-sufficient.
It is expected that the entire Daze in western Liaoning will be basically managed in six or seven years at most, and the further you go, the smaller the consumption will be.
In addition to western Liaoning, after the development of Goguryeo, Bohai and Khitan, especially Murong Nobunaga's good policies in recent years to build water conservancy projects, reduce taxes, and recruit Bohai farmers who were persecuted by Khitan to go down to the mountains to divide their fields, the entire Liaodong area
Mature for two consecutive years.
There were mountains of wheat and corn in the official warehouses, and great progress was made in textiles, iron smelting, etc.
Among them, it cannot be said that all the credit is due to Murong Nobunaga, but it must account for at least 60-70%.
Therefore, in these years, the Jurchens, Shiwei and Bohai people of Anton called Murong Nobunaga Ksitigarbha Buddha King, thinking that he was another reincarnation of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva in the northeast after Prince Jin Qiaojue of Silla.
The Han people in Anton even simply called Murong Nobunaga the king. Anyone who said that the king would forever control Anton would be cheered immediately. Anyone who said that the king would be recalled would definitely be scolded.
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Under such circumstances, the civil and military officials at the Prince's Palace in Liaoyang all hoped that Murong Nobunaga could occupy the land of Andong and serve as the hereditary vassal king of the imperial court here.
There are even very extreme people who believe that since the king has changed his surname, he has the right to inherit the throne.
So when Cao Yanlu saw this situation, he was extremely anxious.
I felt sorry for my nephew who managed Anton so well but could only go to the barren land of Japan. I was also afraid that in a few years, Murong Nobunaga would be persuaded by the ambitious men under his command and have thoughts that he shouldn't have.
Whether it was his brother-in-law, the emperor, who was injured, or his nephew, Murong Nobunaga, who was unlucky, he didn't want to see it!
So Cao Yanlu, who was anxious to turn his hair gray, thought that this was the only way to delay it, so he took the initiative to fight for the old territories of Silla and Baekje for Murong Nobunaga.
After hearing Wang Pu's report, Murong Nobunaga felt very happy. Of course he would be happy to have such a relatively wealthy land without destroying his father's perfect fortune.
"Uncle still feels sorry for So-and-so! He's also afraid that So-and-so has taken the wrong path." Murong Nobunaga smiled at first, but then he frowned.
"I've been searching over and over again, but I can't find out who praised a certain person so highly? Who is this person who can make everyone believe that a certain family is the reincarnation of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva?"
Wang Pu glanced at Murong Nobunaga, and after thinking for a moment, he said directly, "The king already knows it, but I just can't guess the purpose of what he did."
Murong Nobunaga was silent for a moment after hearing this, then looked to the west and said leisurely: "Yes! I just can't figure it out, why does the Master want to harm me?"