Under Li Tai's order, the members of the General Administration Office, who had just regained control of Mianbei by planning a civil uprising, urgently recruited a group of craftsmen and rushed to Jiangling day and night.
This group of craftsmen who arrived in Jiangling were mainly printing workers. When they arrived, Li Tai had even had someone design and engrave the master plate for printing. What these people needed to engrave was the one named Dingding.
Printed version of Liang Jun's merit certificate.
These military merit coupons are divided into denominations of one, ten and fifty, which can be directly exchanged for silk of the same denomination, and can also be used to purchase various supplies in the military market.
Anmin City was originally set up temporarily. After Jiangling City and surrounding strongholds were conquered, the people in Anmin City were also dispersed to various places. The free city fortress was cleaned and built to build a military city.
The army of the Western Wei Dynasty has never had a complete logistics system, and this time the army came south, it was clear that it wanted to take advantage of big households. Li Tai had just seized military power before, and in order to stabilize the morale of the army, he did not discuss issues such as food and grass consumption with the garrison generals.
, is still uniformly supplied by the Jingzhou General Administration Office.
But now that Jiangling has been conquered and the situation has gradually stabilized, and Li Tai has generously distributed so many rewards, of course there is no longer any obligation to support these armies. It is only right that they each raise their own supplies.
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The armies raise their own supplies, either by consuming the rewards they have obtained, or by plundering on the spot. Under Li Tai's military law, the latter is obviously not possible, so the rewards can only be used to buy food and drink materials, and the military market
The effect is naturally reflected.
When these printed Dingliang military merit coupons were distributed on a small scale among some troops, the soldiers were more or less doubtful. Just these small pieces of paper with complicated patterns and dazzling colors are worth hundreds of pieces of silk?
Although I don’t read much, I’m not stupid!
Therefore, the first thing these soldiers who received their rewards had to do was to swarm into the military market with these military merit coupons and use these military merit coupons to make purchases.
The purchasing power of one hundred pieces of silk is still very amazing. Not to mention the joke of being able to buy one of Gao Aocao's fingers. For example, in the Eastern Wei Dynasty's conscription tradition of using silk as a substitute for military service, a soldier's annual consumption of fifteen pieces of silk for food and clothing was even slightly higher.
surplus.
Although Gangneung is currently in wartime, prices are higher than usual, but profit is not the first priority when selling goods in the military market. Most of the goods are only subject to purchase restrictions, but the prices are still the usual prices.
Naturally, the first batch of soldiers who poured into the military market gave priority to exchange for silk, and most of them extracted the full amount. When they saw that the silk cloth was actually exchanged for the full amount, they suddenly couldn't help but smile, and each called their friends and generals.
These silk rewards were carried back to the camp.
But they soon discovered that the transportation and storage of these silks was a problem. It was impossible for everyone in the military camp to have a separate small tent. No matter how spacious a large shop for a dozen people was, it would never be able to accommodate thousands of horses.
Silk! Although the gifts are good, they really take up space, and once the army moves to camp, these gifts will immediately become a drag.
Some people went back to the military market to buy some goods with silk in their hands. However, these goods may have become smaller in size, but they have more types and are very easy to lose. It is also a headache to store them. And when they want to return the silk to
When I exchanged it for military merit coupons, I was told that the military market did not accept this kind of exchange. If they wanted to store the silk, they would need to pay a certain management fee.
So the first batch of rewarded soldiers could only hold those silks and worry about their toothache every day. After all, they really didn't expect General Li to be so true to his word and really treat pieces of paper as
Come use the money and silk!
This situation lasted until the second batch of military merit coupons were issued. By this time, the embarrassment faced by the first batch of wise men had already spread among the armies, so the second batch of rewarded soldiers
Naturally, he would no longer foolishly cash out all the rewards at once, but would directly take the military certificates to the market to purchase the needed supplies.
Those smart people who stepped in for everyone in advance were even more depressed when they saw this scene. However, there are also some really smart people among them. Since the military market does not provide the opportunity to redeem military merit coupons, then they can redeem them from Pao Ze.
The effect was the same! Soon, the practice of privately exchanging military certificates appeared in the military. The small piece of paper, which was originally looked down upon and questioned by others, soon became an important medium for exchanging what was needed.
Soon the camp governors reported the news to Li Tai. After learning about the incident, Li Tai did not order a ban. Anyway, the scenarios where the military certificates could be redeemed were limited to the military market outside Jiangling City, and
Only soldiers from the Western Wei Dynasty with military status can enter the market to trade.
With so many restrictions, military merit coupons themselves do not have much room for hoarding. The only thing that needs to be noted is that if a dispute occurs in the military due to private redemption, both parties involved and their superiors must strictly enforce
punish.
The issuance of military merit coupons and the opening of the military market immediately opened up the demand of these hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and their purchasing power also increased. The materials obtained from the Jiangling Treasury were flowed into the armies through military market transactions.
The masses can get what they need and form a more reasonable distribution.
In addition to the materials seized from the Jiangling Treasury, as the military market continued, more commodities were added to the market transactions, including various products from the Miobei workshop. But instead of transporting here from Miobei,
It would be better to build a workshop directly in Gangneung and produce on site.
At present, Jiangling is still under military control. Of course, it is impossible to attract investment like Mianbei. It can only build official workshops. Fortunately, the staff of the General Manager's Office are already familiar with this set of procedures and soon began to prepare in an orderly manner.
A large number of Gangneung food refugees were recruited to work in workshops, and the work was used as relief, which also promoted the recovery of people's livelihood in Gangneung.
There are frequent exchanges of materials between Jiangling and Miobei, and there are some locals in Jiangling who want to copy Miobei's industrial model and build workshops locally. However, the scale of the industry in Miobei has been developed after several years of preparation, and it is far from being a small business in Jiangling.
It's just a small matter. The products are being dumped all the way. Even if the cost of transportation is included, they are cheaper than local products. If there is not enough room for profit, there will naturally be no opportunity to develop the industry.
But now that the Jingzhou General Administration has come forward to operate these industries, there are naturally no previous restrictions. Therefore, these workshops were quickly established. From raw material processing to final product output, a set of processes operates smoothly. In addition to the previous
This is based on experience, and because Jiangling is close to the Yangtze River, the low and convenient logistics costs have accelerated the development of these handicraft industries.
The extremely poor local proletarians in Gangneung were recruited to work in the workshops in exchange for food to survive, and the products produced were sent to the nearby military market.
The officers and soldiers of the Western Wei Dynasty purchased goods in the military market through the military merit coupons they were awarded. However, because the army was on the field, their needs were not as diverse as their home life. In addition to food and clothing consumption, most of the other goods were actually
There isn't much demand.
They did not have relevant needs, but other Jiangling citizens did. Since Jiangling was under military control, some private commercial activities and material circulation had basically stagnated. These Jiangling citizens had nowhere to purchase and replenish their supplies after consuming their home stores.
The only active trading place was the military market outside the city, and the military market only supplied goods to the soldiers of the Western Wei Dynasty.
As long as there is demand, there will be a market, so soon some people hope to trade goods from the army. For example, some goods that are completely unknown in the military market are indispensable materials for the lives of residents in the city. In the military market
Most of the goods are cheap, and as long as they leave the military market and enter the normal market circulation, there will be huge profit margins.
Therefore, under the influence of this supply and demand relationship, the purchasing power of military certificates increased significantly with the support of various transactions, which also benefited many soldiers of the Western Wei Dynasty.
Of course, this is also a kind of exploitation and plunder, but it is gentler than direct burning, killing and looting. It maintains military discipline while stabilizing people's livelihood, and at the same time strengthens the control over the hearts of Jiangling's people. Whether it is the army, refugees, or permanent property in the city
Scholars and people all found their own place in this temporary order, and each settled in his own place, forming the latest post-war social scene in Gangneung.
Wang Lin and other people around her actually wanted to see the continued chaos in Jiangling. People's livelihood has not been restored for a long time, and the burning, killing and looting cannot last long. The continuous chaos not only makes the occupiers unpopular, but also increases their
The burden and pressure of continuing to station the army will reduce the difficulty of the army's counterattack to recapture Jiangling.
But just as they did not expect that Jiangling City would be captured so quickly, they also did not expect that Jiangling's order would be quickly restored. Although such a big thing had happened, not only did there not be any sustained riots in Jiangling City and its surroundings
, it seems that this posture is more stable than when Emperor Liang Xiao Yi was in power!
Li Tai has rich experience in fighting chaos. From the time he first entered Guanzhong, when the human and land resources in Guanzhong had been divided up by those who were the first movers, he had already learned to break out from the edges and work in areas that others could not notice.
Work hard and eventually achieve an overpowering effect.
Therefore, Wang Lin and other remnants of the Southern Liang Dynasty expected him to make mistakes in the process of fighting the chaos in Jiangling. It was better to hope that some sudden changes would disturb him, such as someone's sudden death.
In the Shayuan camp far away in Guanzhong, several galloping horses galloped into the camp. The knights on the horses were already weathered and haggard. When they turned over and dismounted, they even fell to the ground. But
When the surrounding sergeants saw this and wanted to come forward to help them, they were repelled by their hoarse roars: "Don't come near, report to King Yuwen quickly, Longyou is in a hurry!"
Soon, several sergeants were led staggeringly to Yuwentai in the big tent. At this time, the leader took out a secret letter with intact paint from his arms, held it in front of Yuwentai with both hands, and had tears in his eyes.
He said sadly: "Your Majesty, my husband, my husband..."
At this moment, Yu Wentai felt something bad in his heart. He hurriedly grabbed the secret letter, broke it open and started reading. Immediately, his whole body froze there, and even his breathing stopped.
"Uncle..."
Upon seeing this, Yuchigang stepped forward and asked Yuwentai in a low voice what was wrong, but was unable to respond. When he stepped forward again and touched Yuwentai's shoulder with his finger, Yuwentai suddenly let out a mournful cry and lay on his back on the mat.
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Although it’s a bit inappropriate to say this here, something really happened today. I’ll try to write a more exciting follow-up tomorrow...