No matter how chaotic the battles in the world are, the passage of time will not stop because of this, and the New Year of 555 AD will still arrive as promised.
The beginning of the New Year is supposed to be a festival for bidding farewell to the old and welcoming the new, but there is a touch of sadness permeating the entire Jiangling City. No matter what the current situation of the soldiers and people in Jiangling City is, the sense of loss of national subjugation is still lingering in their hearts, whether it is strong or weak, it is always
Lingering.
Of course, they don't know that if things develop according to the original track, then they will not have the opportunity to stay at home and remember the story. They will either have died in the offensive and defensive battle of Jiangling City, or they will be trudging to be destroyed.
On the way to Guanzhong by force.
Li Tai, who brought about all these changes, did not feel disappointed because the people did not feel grateful to him from the bottom of their hearts. He knew that the gathering of people's hearts did not happen overnight. Today, Jiangling has a new beginning and will surely
Embark on a completely different path than the original history.
Since it is still an emergency period, even if the New Year comes, no celebrations are arranged in the residential areas in the city or in the military camps outside the city. Although there are no soldiers and civilians making dumplings together, Li Tai has already ordered that the city must be protected
Supply of food and supplies inside and outside.
In addition to the military market outside the city, several markets were also franchised in Jiangling City for buying and selling transactions to meet the daily needs of residents in the city.
There are tens of thousands of residents in Jiangling City, and these are just ordinary civilians, and some dignitaries, powerful and wealthy families have many servants and slaves in their homes, and this population is more than double that of the common people.
Adding in the refugees outside the city who are completely poor and have no means of livelihood, the actual population of Jiangling City exceeds 300,000.
With such a large population gathered in Jiangling and its surrounding small area, it is understandable that the pressure on living resources is great, and the resource distribution method of Jiangling or Nanliang regime is extremely unbalanced. So the rich and powerful eat wine and meat.
The poor have no food and clothing, and sit there waiting for death.
Since there was no fierce battle in the capture of Gangneung, these populations were basically inherited by Li Tai as the occupier. With a population of hundreds of thousands in Gangneung and an army of hundreds of thousands, how to meet military needs and people's livelihood at the same time?
It was also a big test for him.
Fortunately, Jiangling's treasury savings are very rich. Although the Hou Jing Rebellion caused the livelihood of all parties in Nanliang to wither and become dilapidated, the productivity of Jiangling and its surrounding areas was not too seriously damaged, and
Jiangling is close to the Yangtze River waterway, which is also convenient for the transportation and gathering of materials.
After Jiangling was conquered, the amount of rice and grain confiscated in the treasury alone reached more than 800,000 dan.
To be honest, this number really shocked Li Tai, because in the past few years, commercial activities between Jiangling and Mianbei have been very frequent, and grain is an important trade material. It is naturally impossible for these powerful families involved in the trade to
Grain was bought and then transported to the government for storage, which must be to satisfy one's own consumption or to make a profit in the market.
Unexpectedly, Xiao Laoqi quietly accumulated so much food in the treasury. No wonder he had to move from Jiangling to Jiankang. Not to mention anything else, in terms of food alone, today's Jiankang and Sanwu
There may not be as many places as Jiangling.
As for other goods and materials, they are also very astonishing. Silk is piled up like a mountain in the warehouse, and gold, silver and jewelry are carried in carts. Due to the large variety and quantity, Li Tai even occupied the city for nearly two months.
We haven’t been able to get accurate data yet!
This is not because of the laziness of the civil servants who accompany the army. These people must first meet the needs of military supplies and people's livelihood and cataloging the citizens, and then they can allocate part of their manpower to sort out these treasury goods. The people sent here are already checking day and night.
But according to the current work efficiency and workload, it will only be late January before a rough inventory is completed.
Although the overall seizure is still to be investigated, the storage of some special materials has also been inventoried. For example, gold contains more than 15,000 kilograms!
Li Tai was a little panicked when he heard this number. Gold? More than fifteen thousand kilograms? How much gold did Gao Zhongmi have when he first arrived in Guanzhong?
Historically, because there are very few written records in the Western Wei and Northern Zhou Dynasties, the specific truth of many things cannot be traced. Even such an important military reform as the government military system, the specific evolution and operation process, a more authoritative description can be found in the Mid-Tang Dynasty's "Yehou Family Biography"
"Looking for it, naturally there is no accurate record of the specific gains from the Battle of Jiangling.
Li Tai was really surprised that so much gold was found in Jiangling's treasury. But when he thought that Xiao Jidong came, he brought with him more than ten years of accumulated gold and silver. Even if part of it was lost on the battlefield, it must be a huge loss.
Part of it was also confiscated into the Jiangling treasury.
Thinking about it this way, it’s normal for Jiangling’s inventory to be of this size. Regardless of whether it’s Lao Qi’s or Lao Ba’s, in the end it all belongs to Lao Tzu!
The Western Wei Dynasty's conquest of Jiangling was actually very rough. It basically followed the method of burning, killing and looting, which was inevitably accompanied by a lot of losses. But since then, the days of the Western Wei Dynasty and the Northern Zhou Dynasty have been getting better and better day by day. This shows that Jiangling is a fat man.
It's really fragrant.
Li Tai dared to offer such generous rewards to the soldiers because the harvest from this battle was so rich.
Unlike Yu Wentai, who has to consider the overall distribution of interests, Li Tai's personnel portfolio is not big, and he is making it bigger step by step. At least there are no such people in his group, so naturally there is no need
If you think too much, you can allocate the benefits completely according to your own will, so that everyone can get equal benefits from top to bottom. It may not be completely fair, but it can ensure that every participant can get generous returns.
In addition to the seizure of Nanliang's official treasury, another relatively lucrative income comes from the seizure of temples.
There are more than 30 large and small temples in Jiangling City, and more than a dozen of them have more than a hundred monks. Even Liang Emperor Xiao Yi was eventually captured hiding in a temple, which shows the prosperity of Buddhism in the Southern Dynasties.
Originally, in the face of such a big change, if we attacked temples and other faith-related places harshly, it would easily cause mass panic.
However, Li Tai's inspection of the temples was divided into two steps. First, he surrounded the temples, sealed up the people and goods, took stock of the temple property, and then directly transported the materials to the market to stabilize prices, and sold the goods in the temples to the people in the city at a fair price.
Therefore, except for the initial few raids on the temple, which caused some commotion, everything else went very smoothly. In the end, the people in the city even took the initiative to help contain and search the monks and temple properties.
After all, Buddhas and Bodhisattvas are also compassionate. How can they bear to let these good men and women who have suffered the catastrophe of national subjugation continue to lack food and clothing? The money, silk and supplies that were enshrined in the peaceful years are now being used to accumulate goods and prepare for disasters. What’s more, General Li’s destiny is
Of course, the Qing Dynasty has more say in dealing with the human world than those outside the gods and Buddhas.
The storage of the government and temples alone was more than enough for Jiangling's soldiers and civilians to get through this period of adaptation. If the overall situation was stable, Li Tai would of course have more energy to pay attention to the details of personnel matters.
On New Year's Day, Li Tai specially took time to go to the inner city of Jiangling to express condolences to Jiangling civil and military officials and their families.
Most of the officials and their families in Jiangling City have been sent to Guanzhong along with Emperor Xiao Yi of Liang Dynasty. As for the rest, they either made outstanding contributions to his previous strategy of infiltrating Jiangling, or Li Tai's subsequent plans.
Governance requires borrowed talent.
For example, Zong Mao, who had close exchanges with Mianbei before, was temporarily appointed by Li Tai as the governor of Nanjun to work with his cousin Li Miao to handle the civil affairs of Jiangling City. Liu Guangde and Li Tai, who were more loyal and capable, were introduced to the military government to follow him.
Ask your own advisers.
As for Wang Bao, who had made outstanding contributions to preserving the Jiangling collection, he no longer needed to be a slave. Li Tai directly appointed him as the Xingtai Jijiu, responsible for contacting and appeasing the Nanliang scholars and serving as the writing staff of Xingtai. It was a pity that another writing staff
Yu Xin, who went to Guanzhong as an envoy before the Western Wei Dynasty attacked Jiangling, is now staying in Guanzhong.
There are others such as Zhou Hongzheng, most of whom can play a role in culture. It is not that there are none who can borrow military strength, but there are not many. Hu Changyi, the son of Hu Sengyou, who took the initiative to ask for surrender, was killed by Li Tai.
He remained under his command as the governor.
When visiting the family of Gangneung Si-ryu today, Li Tai also made a special trip to visit the family of Seo Se-bo. Seo Se-bo is a well-known naval general in Gangneung. In addition to having rich experience in water battles, he is also good at creating various water battles.
Instruments is also a talent that Li Tai is looking forward to conquering.
However, when the Battle of Jiangling occurred, Xu Shipu was not stationed in Jiangling. Instead, he and Ren Yue were stationed at Matoudu on the south bank. Li Tai deliberately left Xu Shipu's family in Jiangling for proper settlement, and arranged for his old boss to
Lu Fahe went to persuade the people to surrender, but there has been no news so far.
Perhaps it was the first gift of the New Year. When Li Tai left Jincheng in Jiangling, the defenders of Jiangjin in the south of the city suddenly came to report that there was a large ship on the south bank and requested to dock.
After learning about this, Li Tai quickly mounted his horse and left the city along Jinyang Gate. When he arrived at Jiangjin, a group of people were already standing here.
"The guilty general Xu Shipu has been summoned and interrogated by the king for a long time. He is dull and does not know the grace. After being taught by Master Lu, he realizes that the king's kindness is as heavy as a mountain. If he resigns, his sin will be unforgivable, so he beheads the thief general Ren Yue.
, led all the boat divisions to surrender to the king, please forgive me for being late!"
When Li Tai led the crowd to this place, a stocky and strong middle-aged man quickly bowed down and bowed down, and took out a bloody head from behind and presented it to Li Tai.