Li Chengzhi explained in a persuasive manner: "This time, I will select some officials and scribes from the chaotic people to assist you in managing the government. You should try your best to treat them as favorably as possible, and of course, you must also take strict precautions..." p>
Only reading can open your mind, but if you read more books, your mind will be alive...
For every dog-slaughtering person who is righteous, there are many scholars who are unfaithful!
There is a certain truth to this sentence. I don’t think there are certain intellectuals in later generations who are not knowledgeable and knowledgeable people.
Because ordinary people simply don’t have the ability or opportunity to be public officials...
Literary men are more thoughtful, and Li Chengzhi doesn't have to doubt that if Li Song and others don't pay attention, there will probably be a few bastards who want to make meritorious deeds and atone for their sins, but they will report to the court.
"Even those refugees should not be too harsh. They must at least be clothed and fed..."
At this point, Li Chengzhi got another fierce meal.
Having enough food and clothing... These four words are so easy to say, but how difficult is it to actually do them?
When Li Song fled, he only took more than 2,000 stone grains with him. If he had not robbed the cattle and sheep of the Hu tribe, he would have been able to survive for at most two months.
Even if more than 10,000 livestock have been robbed, once the refugees arrive, the number of people will at least double, and it is impossible to kill all the sheep.
Therefore, Li Chengzhi not only has to consider how to steal people back, but also how to support them after they are snatched back?
If nothing else, at least within three years, there will be no surplus from these cultivated fields. Whether it can maintain a balance depends on whether God will give it face.
So the top priority is where the food comes from.
Li Chengzhi hesitated for a while. He felt as if he was back more than two months ago...
"I will try to transport some grain, cloth, etc. next time I come here, but this is not a long-term solution. You still have to find a way to be self-sufficient..."
Li Chengzhi pondered, "Now there are only two ways: one is to dress up as a miscreant and buy (smuggle) iron materials and other materials in batches from Dunhuang, Gaoping, and Woye Town (six towns).
The second is to pretend to be Hu merchants and directly trade with Guanzhong..."
These are the few ways Li Chengzhi can think of.
Although no matter which road it takes, it is not that far, but it is relatively safe.
Especially the latter.
In the words of some scholars, Hu merchants in this era, also known as Sogdians, are simply "global shoppers"!
From India in the south, Rome in the west, and China in the east, there is no place they cannot reach...
Later generations often talked about the Silk Road, but little did they know that from the time Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty pacified the Western Regions and opened the Silk Road until it was cut off in the Northern Song Dynasty, this road was completely monopolized by the Sogdians.
As for the Han merchants, at most they acted as transporters for the Sogdians, transporting goods from Chang'an, Luoyang and other places to Hexi, and as far as Dunhuang Town.
Then they were trafficked to Central Asia by the Sogdians who settled in Hexi and Dunhuang...
Moreover, the status of the Sogdians in each dynasty was quite high.
There have been strict orders in all dynasties, and the local government and the army must strictly protect the Hu people who are doing business in the Western Regions.
For example, the town of Dunhuang at this time was, firstly, used to defend against the Gaoche tribe in the Western Regions and the Huns in the desert, and secondly, to ensure the smooth flow of the Silk Road.
Starting from Emperor Xiaowen, every state from Luoyang in the east to Dunhuang in the west had a Sabao Prefecture, which was an official government office established specifically for Hu merchants in the Western Regions.
Just like Zhaoxuan Temple in the monk-official system, the leader of Hu Shang, also known as Sa Bao, has an official position.
In the Sui, Tang, and even the Song Dynasty, although the monk-official system disappeared, the bureaucracy of the Sabao Prefecture continued until the Mongols penetrated Asia.
During these dynasties, there were many Hu merchant leaders who were doing business and serving as high-ranking officials in the Central Plains court.
Especially in the Tang Dynasty, some officials were worshiped as Daduhu (officials specializing in the management of Xinjiang, second grade or above), and some were worshiped as governors of a state. As for being named city lords, the imperial court granted them a city-sized millet in Hexi and Xinjiang.
There are countless examples of special people.
Therefore, all dynasties are surprisingly consistent: Hu Shang was almost treated to the extreme.
In this case, collusion between government and businessmen will definitely be inevitable, and naturally there will be no things that these Hu businessmen dare not traffic.
More than once, I have used these words to describe Hu merchants: a good businessman, a profit-loving businessman, and always looking for profit...
In addition to using small and easy-to-carry jewelry, jade, copper, silver, tin and other handicrafts to collect IQ taxes from the Han people in the Central Plains, what Hu Shang likes to do most is smuggling and selling Han women and children.
Half of them come from Hu merchants who bribed state, county and county officials, or military and town generals to steal out their family members who were imprisoned for crimes or who were sent to the army for crimes.
The remaining half is deception and robbery.
If it is a prosperous place, the method used is similar to that of shooting flowers: when single or unaccompanied women and children enter Hu Shang's shop to choose goods, they will be knocked unconscious and taken away.
Not to mention the Northern Wei Dynasty, let alone the common people, even as prosperous as the Tang Dynasty, cases of officials and their families being robbed by Hu merchants occurred from time to time in Chang'an City, and the ban continued.
If it is a remote county, it will be easier.
On the way to the west, what Hu merchants loved most was to dress up as barbarians and plunder villages. They would also capture one or two county towns, burning, killing, looting and doing all kinds of evil...
In the end, all these women and children were transported to the Western Regions, West Asia, and the Middle East by Hu merchants, and sold to various Hu countries in the Western Regions to increase their population.
Children are better off, but the fate of those women is worse than working as camp prostitutes...
Therefore, Li Chengzhi didn't have any good impressions of these Hu merchants. If he hadn't been afraid of attracting the attention of the court, he would have asked Li Song to pay for passage in Biao's County.
Sooner or later, these Sogdians will be taught how to behave, but certainly not now...
The imperial court treated Hu merchants so favorably, so it was no problem for Li Song to find a way to capture a few Sogdians, or to bribe a Sogdian caravan to go to Guanzhong and sell some grain.
Or, more directly...
Li Chengzhi pondered for a moment: "You can also form a carriage and camel team, go west around to Yiwu (Hami), and directly trade with Hu merchants in the Western Regions..."
They even dare to traffic in human beings. For these Hu merchants, trafficking in food is of course a trivial matter.
As long as there is money to be made, these Hu merchants will even dare to sell their own mothers, and they will not care whether you are a Hu thief or a traitor, just like those Shanxi merchants in the late Ming Dynasty...
This is a good idea, it saves a lot of trouble. Li Song's eyes suddenly lit up: "What can I exchange for it?"
Yes, what can I exchange for it?
Li Chengzhi exhaled heavily: "Bing Jia!"
Everyone’s eyes bulged.
Soldier armor?
This is the foundation of Baijia Camp...
But think about it on the other hand, what else can be sold?
The Sogdians are most interested in jewelry, and their favorite is silk cloth.
These two things are what Li Chengzhi has most and what he lacks the most.
For Hu Shang, Li Chengzhi only had Bingjia's biggest profit left.
"But don't worry, it will definitely not fall into the hands of the Hu clan... With Hu Shang's character, 99% of the time he will sell it to the Central Plains... 80% of it will not be sold to the imperial court, but will only be sold to the family members..." Just because the Hu people only have horses, the Sogdians have no shortage of them. And if they were sold to the court, they wouldn't be able to get a good price at all...
Li Song and others' faces darkened: Is this what they are afraid of?
If nothing else happens, 90% of these clans will become a stumbling block for the husband to fight for world supremacy...