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Chao Yong saw Zongze coming in, poured a cup of tea for Zongze with his own hands, and said with a smile: "This is the tea cooked by the monks of Jingshan Temple. Master Zong, please try it."
Zongze quickly took it with both hands, thanked him, took a sip, and praised: "The tea-ordering skills of Jingshan Temple are indeed well-deserved."
Chao Yong smiled and said: "You lose your morale by playing with things. It is better to use that time to deal with military and political affairs."
Literati in the Song Dynasty loved to travel, drink and talk, and recite poems and compose poems. For example, the great poet Su Shi spent more time traveling, reciting poems, and studying winemaking, cooking tea, and eating than dealing with political affairs. Su Shi was not the only one to be so dissolute. , but most scholars behave this way.
Zongze was one of the rare scholars who was diligent in government and loved the people. Hearing this, he solemnly said: "The prince is diligent and has been taught by his subordinates."
Chao Yong nodded and said: "The mountains and rivers in the south of the Yangtze River are also beautiful, and it is easy for people to fall in love with the mountains and rivers. But since you are an official, you must take political affairs as your first priority. If you want to fall in love with the mountains and rivers, then resign and become an idler. Okay, so as not to mislead others or yourself. The official atmosphere must not be damaged."
Zongze heard what Chao Yong said and "knew" why Chao Yong could invent so many things. Physics is definitely not theology, but a science. It's just that it hasn't been published yet, and the world doesn't know what physics studies. Just like the mathematics preached by the prince, it is actually just the introduction of some new numbers, symbols, and algorithms. It is essentially arithmetic, not a new knowledge. Spend all your time on a knowledge, and you will naturally gain something.
A few days after Chao Yong went to war, the mirror shop began to sell glasses, magnifying glasses and telescopes in small quantities. Each item would attract the attention of the powerful in Tokyo.
For a time, Tokyo mirrors were expensive.
A shrewd businessman bought it from Tokyo and traveled day and night to the south to sell it at a doubled or even several times higher price. Although through the Daliang Di newspaper, everyone in the world knew that it was sold by Mirror Store, but Mirror Store only opened stores in Tokyo. Moreover, the supply exceeds the demand, so many wealthy households in Jiangnan are willing to pay more to buy these things.
It can be said that before the Daliang soldiers and horses entered Jiangnan, Yinjing took the lead in entering Jiangnan.
Zongze solemnly said: "The prince's golden and kind words have given me the courage to ask the prince to leave a calligraphy treasure and hang it in the yamen, so that I can always be vigilant."
Chao Yong smiled and said: "Forget it, my handwriting is not as good as Zhao Ji, Cai Jingna and others. I won't show my shame. I invited you here because I want to talk to you about political affairs. There are refugees everywhere in the south of the Yangtze River. If you wait for the imperial court to enthrone you, It will take many days to go back and forth. So I want you to take office tomorrow. First, open Salesian homes, residential homes, Anjiyuan, and Luzeyuan in various places to help the people."
Zongze nodded and said: "The prince is kind, but he recruited 200,000 soldiers and horses before, which depleted the treasury. Now the treasury of each state is empty. The imperial court has waived the agricultural tax, and there is no hope of autumn tax. I am afraid I can only wait for the imperial court." Allocate money and food.”
In the past, every time Liang conquered a land, he would kill corrupt officials and evil gentry everywhere, and the confiscated money and grain would be enough to cover the expenses of the local government. Some state capitals would even pay excess money and grain to the court.
After the amnesty, corrupt officials and evil gentry everywhere were afraid of losing their heads. They wished they could tie themselves up and lock them up at home to prevent them from doing evil. No matter how many states and governments clean up, they can't catch many evildoers, and naturally there are even fewer people who can ransack their homes.
Chao Yong nodded and said: "When I came here, the imperial court had already decided that knights could be conferred in Jiangnan. Those who donated 100,000 yuan or 50,000 shi of food to the imperial court could be granted the title of baron. What can you do?"
This was not the first time that Chao Yong used this trick. He had exchanged a lot of money and food in Xixia. He did not promote it in various places afterwards, but he did not want to make the title of Daliang worthless. Now the imperial treasury is also a little nervous, and from Tokyo
Transporting money and food took even longer. Only by quickly stabilizing the rear could Chao Yong continue to transport troops south.
After the Southern Song Dynasty was destroyed, there were three more powerful families in the original Song Dynasty territory, namely Lu Shinang, who occupied the south of Jiangnan East Road and the north of Fujian Road, Li Gong, the pacifier of Guangdong Road, and the Vietnamese Li Dynasty who stole Guangxi. To the west was Jinghu Road.
, on Kuizhou Road, some state capitals were subordinated to Daliang, and some were subordinated to the Southern Song Dynasty, but they were all nominal, and the state capitals were basically in a state of autonomy. Once Daliang wiped out the Southern Song Dynasty, Jinghu Road and Kuizhou Road would basically be
Calm down.
Li Gong, the pacifier envoy on the Guangdong Road, controlled tens of thousands of troops and horses on the Guangdong Road. Although the number of troops was not large, it was the army and horses that Chao Yong valued most. According to the system of the Song Dynasty, even the pacifier envoys along the Guangdong Road could not fully control the troops and horses on the Guangdong Road. Li Gong could.
All the soldiers and horses on Guangdong Road are still because of Liu Huasan.
Liu Huasan was also the leader of the peasant uprising, and he started his army before Fangla. Zhao Ji had set up Huashi Gang for many years, and the people in the southeast were already suffering terribly. Therefore, Liu Huasan revolted on Jiangnan West Road in the first year of Xuanhe. However, he was suppressed by the Song Dynasty.
, could only lead his troops south to Guangdong. Although Liu Huasan's uprising was not as well-prepared as Fang La's, he still had some heroes under his command, so he was able to move from Jiangnan West Road to fight on Fujian Road and Guangdong Road, making it impossible for the Song Dynasty to destroy him.
After Liu Huasan fled to Guangdong Road, Zhao Ji appointed Li Gong as the pacifier of Guangdong Road and asked him to lead his troops to annihilate Liu Huasan.
Speaking of which, Li Gong is quite a legend. He was smart, studious, and motivated since he was a child. He won honors in both the county and township examinations, but failed in all three examinations of the Ministry of Rites.
However, Li Gong did not give up because of this, and resolutely gave up literature and martial arts. In the first year of Daguan, he went to Beijing to participate in the martial arts competition and won the first prize in martial arts.
During the Daguan period, ethnic minorities rioted in Yizhou, Guangxi, and he was ordered to suppress them. Due to his meritorious service, he was able to fill his right position. Later, he also entered Nandan Prefecture, where local ethnic minority leaders paid money and joined him, and Li Gong was promoted to a martial arts master.
In the second year of Xuanhe, the peasant uprising army led by Liu Huasan grew stronger and stronger, fighting from Qianzhou and Jizhou on Jiangnan West Road to Guangdong Road. Song Huizong saw that the generals sent in front could not destroy Liu Huasan, so he hurriedly added more troops
In Jiangxi and Guangdong, military ministers were appointed to carry out some punishments and prisons, and each road was divided into one capital prisoner. Li Gong also served as the pacifier of Guangdong Road, commanding troops to annihilate Liu Huasan along the way.
Because Liu Huasan had many heroes under his command, Li Gong could not quickly destroy Liu Huasan. However, Li Gong also continued to weaken Liu Huasan's forces. It was not until July of the third year of Xuanhe that Li Gong captured Liu Huasan and completely pacified him.
Liu Huasan Rebellion.
In May, Tong Guan sent someone to contact Li Gong and asked Li Gong to join him in allegiance to the Southern Song Dynasty. Li Gong only became loyal to the Southern Song Dynasty after hearing that Zongze, Jiang You and others had become officials. However, he refused the Southern Song Dynasty's order to attack Lu.
Instead, he continued to exterminate Liu Huasan within his territory.
Li Gong also wrote a letter stating that Liu Huasan was a serious threat no less than Lu Shinang. He spent a lot of effort to surround Liu Huasan. Once Liu Huasan was allowed to escape, he would soon make a comeback. But still
The emperor and ministers of the Southern Song Dynasty were very suspicious of him.
Just after Li Gong wiped out Liu Huasan, the Vietnamese Li Dynasty invaded Guangxi. Tong Guan's order to Li Gong was to guard Guangdong Road, but Li Gong did not resist the order this time, and actively rectified his troops and deployed Guangdong defense.
As for the Vietnamese Li Chao who stole Guangxi, he was also an old acquaintance of the Central Plains.
Since the establishment of the Li Dynasty, it has continuously harassed the borders of the Song Dynasty and plundered people and property.
Li Qiande was the fourth emperor of Vietnam's Li Dynasty, who had just ascended the throne. The Li Dynasty sent troops to invade the Song Dynasty and conquered the three states of Yong, Qin and Lian. After breaking Yongzhou, he killed more than 50,000 people in the city. After that, the Song Dynasty sent troops to defeat the Li Dynasty and They invaded the territory of the Li Dynasty and captured several state capitals of the Li Dynasty. However, after the two countries reached a peace agreement, the Song Dynasty returned the captured state capitals to the Li Dynasty.
After the peace agreement was reached, the two countries generally maintained peace.
Unable to defeat the Song Dynasty, Li Qiande turned his attention to the Champa State in the south, sent troops to defeat the Champa State, and made the Champa State worship every year. He also promoted Confucianism in the country and opened the imperial examination. According to the law, under Li Qiande's governance, the Li Dynasty The national power was getting stronger day by day. Li Qiande's period was also the era when the Li Dynasty in Vietnam had the strongest national power. The Niuhou barbarians (Tai people) in Masadong in the Tuojiang River Basin in China rebelled several times. They were all annihilated by Li Qiande himself. In the first year of Xuanhe, Qidong was even captured. Chang Wei Pang and hundreds of others caused great damage to Mashadong.
It wasn't until June that the Li Dynasty learned that Liangshan had captured Tokyo. Li Qiande immediately gathered 100,000 troops. Waiting for accurate information, he immediately sent troops to Guangnan West Road on the pretext of rescuing the Song Dynasty.
The Thirty-Sixth Man from Yongzhou heard about the change of dynasty in the Central Plains, and followed the Li Dynasty to cause rebellion. Within a few days, they defeated Yongzhou, and then headed east, hoping to capture the Guangdong Road.
Only with Li Gong leading troops to resist, Li Chao's offensive was contained.
Li Qiande sent people to recruit Li Gong to surrender. Li Gong, the number one military scholar in the Central Plains, naturally would not seek refuge in a small barbarian country, let alone not being at a disadvantage.
The southern troops have always had low combat effectiveness, but the troops under Li Gong fought against Liu Huasan for more than a year, and their combat effectiveness is quite strong. Therefore, although their military strength is not as good as that of the coalition forces of the Li Dynasty and the Thirty-Sixth Dongman of Yongzhou, Relying on the favorable geographical location, he could also resist the Li Dynasty.
Li Qiande could not attack the Guangdong Road, so he had to return to attack the entire territory of Guangxi.
By September, the Li Dynasty had captured the entire territory of Guangxi. From time to time, they sent troops to plunder Kuizhou Road and Jinghu South Road, but they always looted and then returned to the entire territory of Guangxi, and did not steal any more cities. Apparently they knew this. The Li Dynasty was not able to absorb more land, and the news came that Daliang was sending troops to Jiangnan, so it wanted to wait until the time came.
Li Gong needed to guard against Li Chao in Guangxi and Lu Shinang in the north, but the soldiers and horses in Guangdong could not move anywhere.
When Zhao Zicheng and Tong Guan asked for surrender, Chao Yong asked them to order Li Gong to surrender to Daliang. However, it took only five days for Tong Guan and Tong Guan to send the message. It would take a month for the messenger to bypass Lu Shinang's power.
Of course, regardless of whether Li Gong surrendered or not, Chao Yong would lead his troops to attack Lu Shinang.
If Lu Shinang is wiped out and Li Gong has not surrendered, Chao Yong will lead his troops to wipe out Li Gong, and then attack the Li Dynasty soldiers and horses in Guangxi, and then attack the Li Dynasty.
It can be said that Chao Yong's task in going south is very heavy. Although these forces combined are not as good as Xixia, the journey is much longer. And the further south, the hotter the weather, the greater the possibility of the soldiers contracting the plague. So Chao Yong Before the expedition, the miraculous doctor An Daoquan and ten imperial doctors were prepared, as well as a large amount of medicine to prevent and treat the plague.
The biggest enemy in the Southern Expedition is the weather, not the opponent's troops and horses. The elephant soldiers of the Yue and Li Dynasties look powerful, but they are a joke in fighting. They can be defeated by long knives and powerful crossbows. This has been verified by the Song Dynasty. And it is huge.
After the elephant is in pain, it will often turn around and run away, disrupting its own camp. There are fire and thunder in the beam, and it is not difficult to kill the elephant, let alone frighten the elephant.
Thirty-six Cave Barbarians are superstitious about ghosts and gods, so Chao Yong brought Hou Jian and the spaceship with him when he went south. The main purpose was to deal with Dong Barbarians.
Zongze nodded and said: "There are many wealthy merchants in the south of the Yangtze River. One hundred thousand gu is just a drop in the bucket for them. If they can sell their title, it can be exchanged for a lot of money. Fifty thousand gu of grain is not much for the big families. The land in the south of the Yangtze River is better than that in the north.
The land has a large yield, and one acre can yield three or four dan. Fifty thousand dan is probably the rent of 500 hectares of land for a large household in one season. There are many large households in Jiangnan with thousands of hectares of fertile land. If it were not for Jiangnan, even
After two years of drought and constant wars, the price of food in Jiangnan will not be so high. One hundred thousand guan or fifty thousand shi of food is not too much for them, but they are not fools. The title of Daliang basically does not have any privileges. In the past, maybe they
In order to please the court, they would also pay for a title, but after Liang's amnesty, they don't have to worry about their past sins, so I'm afraid there won't be many people who are willing to buy a title."
During the Song Dynasty, the status of merchants had been greatly improved. Many high-ranking officials in the court were from merchant families. In addition, the Song Dynasty had a proliferation of clans. Many merchants paid to marry clan girls, making themselves royal relatives, and at the same time receiving some benefits.
False official.
Businessmen are accustomed to spending money to buy status, but in the Song Dynasty, it only cost a few thousand guan to marry a clan head and a county head. Those with higher status only cost tens of thousands guan. In the eyes of businessmen who can put a price on anything, a baron in Daliang worth 100,000 guan is undoubtedly more expensive.
A little higher.
Every change of dynasty is a redistribution of wealth. Although the world's wealth cannot be distributed equally to everyone, it can make most of the rich households of the previous dynasty bankrupt and be replaced by the powerful and powerful people of the new dynasty. Otherwise, the rich households will continue to accumulate. It will be very difficult.
It is possible to possess wealth that rivals that of other countries, and interference will inevitably arise at that time.
In the past, commerce was underdeveloped, and there were no big rich men in the Central Plains, but there were wealthy families with big surnames, and their wealth consisted of a large amount of land and clan members. Therefore, the Tang Dynasty vigorously suppressed the big families and separated them. After the suppression of the Tang Dynasty, in the past, only local people
The wealthy and famous families whose hands covered the sky have disappeared.
However, new unstable factors arose in the Song Dynasty. They were wealthy businessmen, whose wealth easily amounted to hundreds of thousands or millions of guan. There were also many landowners with thousands of hectares of fertile land. Moreover, due to the introduction of Champa rice, the yield per mu increased.
The annual rent can easily reach hundreds of thousands of dollars. From the same land, the Song Dynasty's harvest can be more than twice that of the Tang Dynasty. In terms of wealth alone, ordinary landowners in the Song Dynasty are not inferior to the wealthy families with surnames that have been passed down for hundreds of years in the Tang Dynasty.
This is the progress of the times and the result of the development of productive forces. The improvement of people's living standards is not necessarily the result of the imperial court, but the progress of mankind as a whole. If compared horizontally with other countries, the improvement will be greater, which can prove the credit of the imperial court.
Just a vertical comparison, if we look back on old scores, no nation is standing still.
Most of the big households in the north were liquidated, but the rich households in the south of the Yangtze River were amnesty, and there were more rich households in the south of the Yangtze River than in the north. Naturally, Daliang would not let these large households expand without limit, otherwise it would not take a few generations for these wealthy households to expand.
The household is really going to be as rich as the country.
Land auctions have begun in the north, but before Chao Yong went on the expedition, the court decided not to sell the land in the south for the time being. The land in Jiangnan should be reserved and slowly distributed to retired soldiers. Otherwise, it is very likely that the land in a county will belong to the same family.
This is unacceptable to Daliang.
It is not that everyone in the court has not considered this issue. In the past, officials and nobles could be exempted from labor and taxes, but Daliang has exempted all labor and taxes. The only tax left is commercial tax, but it cannot be reduced or reduced. Political privileges cannot be given, and neither wants to
Giving him special privileges and wanting to sell his title really stumped everyone in the court, but it was Chao Yong who finally came up with the idea.
Chao Yong smiled and said: "Tokyo will open a nobility academy. Only those with titles can enroll. I am the academy leader."
When Zongze heard this, his eyes lit up and he said, "The prince teaches knowledge?"
Chao Yong nodded and said: "I will personally formulate all the courses at Noble Academy, including classics and meaning, physics, mathematics, riding and archery, etc. I will teach from time to time. My children will also study at Noble Academy in the future."
In fact, Chao Yong had the idea of planning a curriculum for his children very early on. He knew what the world was like, so naturally he would not let his children only learn poetry, books and classics.
Once the world is unified, the number of his children will definitely increase explosively, and his children alone may be able to form an academy. Once the lectures begin, Brother Liangshan will definitely be tempted, and it is difficult for him to establish a royal academy and refuse
Brother Liangshan, let’s just turn it into a noble college. Anyway, Brother Liangshan will not be without a title.
Zongze smiled and said: "Okay, this benefit alone will make the rich in the world flock to it. Even if they don't want it themselves, they will definitely buy a baron for their children."
As he spoke, he shook his head and said: "As soon as this news came out, the wealthy families in the world became restless."
Chao Yong also knew this problem. Rich families had many wives and concubines, so not only the battles between legitimate sons and concubines, but also the battles between biological brothers were fierce.
The status of a baron is not valuable, but the opportunity to enter a noble college is very rare. Whether it is the curriculum formulated by the prince himself or the opportunity to get to know the high-ranking nobles in the college, it is very rare.
It is completely conceivable that in order to grab this quota, the families of wealthy families will be very upset.
Chao Yong smiled and said: "I can't control this. The concubine of the old brother Liangshan may not be able to get a title in the future. Maybe there is a rich man who sends all his children to the aristocratic academy in one go."
Zongze nodded and said: "Maybe it is true. If I had money, I would definitely send all my grandchildren to aristocratic colleges."
Chao Yong smiled and said: "With Lord Zong's talents, you will be able to manage Jiangnan in an orderly manner. The court will be indispensable for your title. However, this conferment is also of great significance to the court. If you sell ten barons, I will give them to you."
If you ask for a baron, if you ask for a hundred, I will ask you a viscount; if you ask for a thousand, I will ask you a count."
Zongze smiled and said: "A hundred should be no problem. If you only let Zhejiang Lu be knighted, there should be hope for a thousand."
"One hundred is ten million. The emperor granted pardon to the world and exempted them from their sins. Now it would not be bad to use a virtual prince to take out all their money."
"With the prince thinking about it, it's difficult for them not to pay for it. The mirror shop's products are also generously donated by the world's richest people. I'm afraid the prince will make new things in the future to make money from the rich people."
ps: (Thanks to the book friend "◇﹎Arctic づ蜜蓝" for the reward)