Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 210 Back to Shuozhou

After reading the contents of the intelligence paper, Sun Xiangfu thought for a long time. When a major encounter turned into an ambush, he actually had nothing to worry about. There were always more ways than difficulties.

"Zhang Ke, you send two people to General Li Jing's barracks, give him a pair of binoculars, and remind him to be careful on the way of marching, there may be something wrong." After thinking for a while, Sun Xiangfu took the lead and said to Zhang Ke.

Li Jing is a smart person, he just needs to be reminded. As for how to formulate strategies and tactics against Tuli, he will naturally consider it. All Sun Xiangfu, a battlefield idiot, can do is to follow his arrangements as much as possible.

Afterwards, Sun Xiangfu wrote furiously for a while before he got up and walked to the warehouse of Xingfu Village. Sun Dali understood what he meant, and even took out a key from his pocket and gave it to him.

"Everyone in the escort team has the equipment in the warehouse. When they leave the Guanzhong waters, all the weapons are immediately assembled and erected on the ship. There is no rest along the coast. Go straight to Lingnan and let Zhao Long follow my orders." After finishing speaking, Sun Xiangfu handed a letter to Zhao Qiang, meaning, let him lead the fleet to Lingnan.

The workshop in Xingfu Village was making weapons and armor long before Sun Xiangfu went to Shuozhou. After more than half a year, the inventory was already enough to equip thousands of people. Usually these things are stored in the underground secret room of the warehouse. This time, It happened to be transported to Lingnan with the fleet and assembled for Zhao Long.

While the guards were carrying weapons and equipment, Sun Xiangfu went back and wrote a letter to Feng An. There were ten water steamers equipped with long-range bed crossbows, and eight hundred well-equipped water teams. What he asked for was no longer defense. It is to take the initiative to attack and wipe out the invading enemy. However, if the encirclement is not big enough and the manpower is not enough, it will definitely not work. These actions require the cooperation of the Lingnan Navy He knew that Feng An now had dozens of new-style galleons in his hands, and the number of sailors was several thousand, so he just borrowed them.

However, these actions are preparations for the possible outbreak of armed conflicts. The real problem is the capital level.

Wang Lin has united dozens of families, big and small, and his capital strength is too huge, how can he break the situation?

In fact, as long as the problem of grain transportation in Lingnan is solved, and a little bit of gap is solved, the food crisis in Guanzhong can be resolved. After all, Li Shimin has moved 30 households out, the consumption has been reduced a lot, and there are more than one million shi The locusts and the reserves of the major Huangzhuang, those tenants of the Xungui family with more fields, in fact, they can guarantee it themselves.

To get rid of that gap, the soybeans in Huainan are very important, especially the soybean season after the autumn harvest. Therefore, after Sun Xiangfu wrote the letter to Feng An, he immediately wrote another letter to the elder Sun Wuji and the warrior Xun in Yangzhou. No matter what method they use, they must first ensure that the buttocks of the four major families in Yangzhou are sitting upright. In addition, any taxes this year must be paid in soybeans and crops. The soybeans were taken away by the family members.

When the country's main grain-producing areas were hit by locust disasters, it was inevitable that the country's food prices would rise. This was something that even the emperor could not stop. Sun Xiangfu had nothing to do about it. He only hated God. Growing those high-yielding crops on the other side of the sea has made this nation's ability to resist disasters greatly insufficient. I hope that people in areas that have not been affected by disasters will not sell all their grain reserves just because they see the price of grain in the market rising. Go, causing myself to end up without food to eat.

Therefore, the public opinion propaganda must continue, and the propaganda newspapers that let the people keep enough food for their own use will be distributed to those prefectures and counties that have not been affected by the disaster, so as to prevent the aristocratic family from having too much financial resources and causing a national monopoly.

In the end, Sun Xiangfu wrote a very long memorial to Li Shimin, in addition to saying everything he knew, and only gave him a few suggestions to kill and stop the chaos and deter those troublemakers. Necessary, in addition, when it comes to vaccinia vaccination, you must be more aggressive, scrape the oil in their stomachs, and get some money for the court.

This is the same as Sun Xiangfu's decision when he was in Luoyang. Don't fight with them in areas that you are not good at. The local government is controlled by them. If you control it, just control it!What you are tyrannical is force, why bother with them in the power struggle!
Just swing the knife, kill a pass, and solve the problem. Let's take it easy again. You can even do the thing of killing your brother and usurping the throne. Are you afraid of being scolded by others? Besides, isn't history written by the victors? After passing this level, it is not easy to charge them with a crime?
As for what is said to compete with the people for profit, who is this people?You will fight for those who have enough money, and you will not be able to fight for those who have no money, and often, those who have no money for you to fight for are the real people who occupy the majority of the population.

Of course, these Sun Xiangfu can only think about it in his heart. After reading his own suggestions, how to implement them in the end depends on what Li Shimin thinks is appropriate.

When these things are arranged properly, Sun Xiangfu must set off. He doesn't know how much power Wang Lin has in the Wang family. If Wang Xu capsizes in the gutter, he will be in trouble.

A group of intelligence team members were left to continue to monitor Wang Lin in Chang'an. After Sun Xiangfu sent Zhao Qiang and others away on the pier, he took Zhang Ke and a hundred guards and went straight to Shuozhou. It was still equipped with three horses. , It is not difficult to travel three or four hundred miles a day, but it is a bit faster than Li Jing's marching team.

"My lord, Sun Zhengming led people to Shuozhou."

Wang Lin was in a house in Chang'an, and a subordinate reported to him.

"Well, if he doesn't go back, how can I kill him! This time, my father and several patriarchs came forward to operate together. Even the third child is kept in the dark. If I can do it in one fell swoop..."

Wang Lin smiled triumphantly, did not continue, and looked at the family soldier and asked, "Can the manpower trained by the Japanese be used now?"

"In terms of song and dance performances, I have not lost to brothel artists. It's just that the martial arts are still not very good, and it will take time."

"Let them hold on tight, I will use these people by the end of this year at the latest."

No one knows what Wang Lin is doing training a group of beautiful assassins. After all, Sun Xiangfu has no hobby in this area. Of course, the people he targets may be insiders. His second brother Wang Hao lives in a brothel like Baihua Pavilion all year round. brothel.

Li Shimin in the palace was not idle either. He conducted in-depth research with several ministers on the matter of issuing national bonds proposed by Sun Xiangfu, and finally came to the conclusion that the ministers agreed that it was feasible. Only when there is something to do and earn enough to eat, will the hearts of the people in Guanzhong be stabilized.

However, whether anyone is willing to buy this national bond is uncertain in everyone's mind. After all, no one has done this before. Finally, after several ministers agreed, they decided that the amount should not be too large. It would be good to ensure the early operation, and set the annual interest rate at 20%.That is to say, if the common people buy a national bond certificate of 110 Wen, at this time in the second year, they can exchange it for [-] Wen in the government.

This interest rate is not high in this era, but it is not low. Generally, the market price is about [-]%, [-]% to [-]%, and double, but it is a small-scale private loan. This kind of large-scale borrowing by the court from the people is guaranteed.

However, to their surprise, the issuance of national bonds was only a publicity. Before the bills were officially printed and listed, some people went to the Yamen to subscribe. business.

Last year, Li Shimin used the guarantee in the name of the imperial court to let them borrow a lot of goods from the people in Datang. Now, they are very assured of the imperial court's reputation. One year is exactly the time for them to go back and forth once, and they bought the surplus from selling goods into big money. Tang's national debt not only saves the loss of transportation and storage, but also gets [-]% of the profit. Why not do it?
There was no shortage of wise men in the Zhenguan Dynasty. After Xiao Yu learned of this situation, he immediately suggested that Li Shimin increase the number of national bonds issued to 100 million, and then the court entered the busy process of issuing bills.

Once national credit is established, it is a sharp weapon against capital chaos. Li Shimin has not realized this yet, and Sun Xiangfu also inadvertently played a role in promoting it. 100 million guan, in the case of self-produced raw materials, is enough to guarantee the Guanzhong Plain. The great cause of road construction was launched. As for food reserves, after receiving the data reported by Sun Erli, Li Shimin also had some ideas in his heart.

Since the Royal Farm employs a large number of people from the Sun Xingfu Village Department to manage things, and there are people like Sun Erli who are in charge of production. Therefore, although there was a small drought in Guanzhong last spring, there was an additional season of vegetable planting in winter, and the reserves of each village were large. There are a lot of cabbage and pickled vegetables. Due to the excessive planting of drought-resistant purslane and other crops, the fish farms, chicken farms, and pig farms in various places have sufficient feed reserves. There is a lot of meat.

Therefore, on the side of the Royal Farm, not only the gaps owed before have been smoothed out, but there is also a lot of surplus for the emperor to dispatch. In addition to the reserves of millions of rock locust powder in Xingfu Village, as long as the grain from Lingnan and soybeans from Huainan continue to increase When transported to Guanzhong, it will be as Sun Xiangfu expected. The food of the people in Guanzhong basically does not need support from other places.

This will directly lead to the failure of Wang Lin's monopoly plan. Once Guanzhong does not purchase grain from the surrounding areas at all, they will buy grain aggressively and raise the price. The final result may be that a large amount of grain will be thrown into their own hands.

Moreover, when Li Shimin saw the words "stop chaos by killing" on Sun Xiangfu's memorial, he was also moved. After he became the emperor, his temper calmed down a lot, but he was the emperor after all, and no one who killed him personally knew it. How could Fanji resist killing people?Especially those who kill the country and the people. Therefore, since those aristocratic families are dishonest, it is not impossible to kill chickens to make an example of monkeys.

With Li Shimin taking an overview of the overall situation in Chang'an, and even brainstorming to break the family's plan, Sun Xiangfu is quite at ease in Guanzhong.

On the contrary, what can't make him feel at ease is Shuozhou. When the horse team entered the Shuozhou plain, he didn't see the people in the wild. You must know that due to the imperial court's relocation policy, the current residential density of Shuozhou is no less than that of Guanzhong. , In other words, Tuli is already close to Shuozhou, which has entered a state of war.

With the help of binoculars, the horse team did not encounter any obstacles along the way. Seeing that the crops in the rice fields were fairly neat, Sun Xiangfu roughly guessed that Tuli's troops had not rushed to the city of Mayi. After all, Shanyang New City was ahead. , with dozens of villages and fortresses as fetters, and Tuli with only 2 horses, if he fights hard, he may not be able to reach Mayi in a year or so, and he may even wipe out his own army directly. The reason why he is worried about Ma Yicheng, because he has the strategic analysis that Li Jing gave him.

After entering the city, Sun Xiangfu was not in a hurry to go back to the mansion, and arrived at the official office immediately. Tang Fengyi is now in charge here, but Sun Xiangfu saw Wang Xu unexpectedly.

"You didn't handle your affairs well, so here comes the trouble." Wang Xu looked at Sun Xiangfu with a reproachful face.

"I don't want to either. I knocked your elder brother unconscious and put him in a burlap bag and sank into the canal. I didn't expect him to still be alive. God never dies."

Sun Xiangfu deliberately said "Heaven will not perish him", and Wang Xu's complexion changed slightly. At this time, Sun Xiangfu had already looked at Tang Fengyi, who was sitting in the yamen hall with the old god. This guy was originally a running dog of the family. Look, get along very well with Wang Xu!
"Old Tang, what's the situation now?"

"Wang Lin should have given Xue Yantuo and Huihe a lot of benefits, letting them sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight. Tuli's march is very fast, and the troops are less than a hundred miles away from Mr. Wang Xu's spice field. The infantry battalion went to Shanyang to strengthen the defense, isn't this old man planning to summon the civilians to strengthen the defense of Mayi?"

Hearing that Tuli's troops were still outside the boundary of Shanyang, Sun Xiangfu felt relieved a lot, and asked again, "Where is Mr. Xi buying?"

"Uh, after he received the news of Tuli's attack, he took the third battalion of cavalry out. Otherwise, Colonel Guo wouldn't have sent his troops to Shanyang. Presumably he would have fought with Tuli."

Well, Sun Xiangfu is not in Shuozhou, the management here is indeed a mess, the chief general has no binding force on the deputy general, and the person entrusted to be in power seems to be sitting on someone else's butt, which is not a good situation.

"You rely on guesses about the military situation? Then who, Zhang Ke, take someone to copy Lao Tang's house first, don't leave him a penny, and in addition, find the gentleman who is in charge of the house, and take the two Yuezhou The yamen's accounts are checked, and if there are mistakes or omissions, they will be interrogated, and he is not afraid of pain, just hit him."

"The old man is your staff now, do you want to do this!" Tang Fengyi jumped up from the stool and pointed at Sun Xiangfu.At this moment, he no longer looked like the old god was there just now, because he knew that when Sun Xiangfu said to fight, his guards would really strike.

"Corrupt officials like you, want it, want it."

(End of this chapter)