nanming man

Chapter 701

After the discussion in the Yizheng Hall was over, Wei Guo's new policy was soon implemented.

The territory of the Western Wei Kingdom was in full swing.In Sichuan and Shu, Liang Yizhang used to be the magistrate and had experience in managing a place. After being placed in Sichuan, he was very good at Sichuan's government affairs. With the help of Ji Guofeng, Sichuan was even more important than Guanzhong. Wealthy, so as soon as the policy came out, it had results quickly.

The feudal government first allocated 70 silver dollars to support the reconstruction of Sichuan, which was used by the government to purchase farm tools and livestock, and loaned to the common people to rebuild their homes.

Many people in Sichuan and Shu who hid in the mountains to escape the war heard the news, packed up their bags, left the village, returned to their hometowns, and began to rebuild their damaged hometowns.

For a time, on the Chengdu Plain, the fields were full of plowing cattle and newly built shacks.

After Zhang Xianzhong entered Sichuan, he destroyed the king of Shu, killed wealthy households, and completely destroyed the original social structure of Sichuan. Later, the battle between the Western Army and the Guanning Army caused the displacement of ordinary people, who fled the plains and built villages in the mountains.

This caused the feudal government to own a large number of unowned properties, which provided prerequisites for recruiting people.

The feudal government allocated land, provided seeds and agricultural tools, and attracted some people who longed for peace to come back, not only resuming production, but also reducing banditry.

The people who went down the mountain and returned to their hometowns, after receiving the land, seeds and livestock distributed by the government, were naturally grateful to the Western Wei regime. Abandon the poor.

Compared with Sichuan, the problems faced in restoring Guanzhong are much greater, and the most important one is the lack of population.

Years of wars have caused heavy population losses in Guanzhong, and the land is relatively barren, making recovery several times more difficult than in Sichuan.

In fact, the population not only affected the recovery of Guanzhong, but also affected the morale of the Wei army.

Because the vassal government lacked money, land was used instead of money for rewards. Soldiers were requisitioned to share land, meritorious service was still divided, and pensions after the death of the war were also divided.

However, due to the vast land and sparse population, many soldiers were assigned to military fields. Especially after the generals owned a large area of ​​land, they lacked tenants to cultivate it, which caused a serious depreciation of the land price and affected morale.

For this reason, the Western Wei Dynasty could only reduce the allocation of unowned land to the people and tighten the supply of land to stabilize land prices. However, the shortage of labor is a problem that cannot be solved for the time being.

Considering that the situation in Daoguanzhong is different from that in Sichuan, in addition to planting intensively cultivated wheat in the Weihe River system, other lands that lack water sources promote the planting of drought-tolerant crops such as cotton, corn, and sweet potatoes, and adopt the large-scale farming method of the Tunzhuang style. Planting, to alleviate the defect of underpopulation.

In this way, the land in Guanzhong can rely on cash crops, exchange cattle, sheep, and furs from the grasslands, and resell them to Huguang, Sichuan, and even Jiangnan for money, and then buy grain in the south to supplement the shortage of rice grain.

When Guanzhong and Sichuan began to recover, the tea horse trade between the Western Wei Dynasty and the Mongolian tribes and Tibetans in Longyou was also in full swing.

After Lin Danhan was wiped out by the Qing army, a vacuum of power appeared in the Qinghai area. A part of Heshuote Mongolia, under the pressure of the Jungar tribe in the north, took advantage of the gap a few years ago and occupied the Qinghai area.

At this time, the Heshuote Mongolian Khanate controlled the entire Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and in the eighth year of Chongzhen, that is, in 1635, it had already surrendered to the Qing Dynasty.

Of course, this kind of surrender is only in name, in order to find a backer to resist the increasingly powerful Zhungeer.

Now that the Heshuot Mongolian Khanate occupies the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the threat of the Jungar Mongolia is no longer there, and the connection with the Qing Dynasty is less.

However, the Heshuote Khanate, after all, surrendered to the Manchu Qing in name, was always a threat to the Western Wei Dynasty.

After the Western Wei State incorporated the Guanning Army, the number of war horses increased to more than 6, which required a large area of ​​land for the horses to gallop, and consumed a lot of forage and beans. under enormous pressure.

Therefore, after occupying Guanzhong, the Western Wei State began to look for its own horse herding land, and finally took a fancy to the Longyou area as a matter of course.

Although the Heshuote Khanate controlled the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, there were only more than 2 tribal fighters. The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau was sparsely populated and became the target of the Western Wei Dynasty.

Since last year, the Western Wei State has sent caravans into the Qinghai area. While trading, they have contacted some small tribes and Tibetans. They have pushed their forces to the east of Qinghai Lake, and set up a border market here to sell grain, tea, Cloth, and a small amount of iron.

In the Central Plains, an iron pot costs only one or two renminbi of silver, but it is no problem to sell it on the grassland for a few sheep.

There is no alternative, the smelting technology of the nomads is backward, and they have nothing but cattle and sheep, and they have to eat rice and boil tea, so they can only exchange high prices for ironware of the Han people.

However, although ironware was hugely profitable, the Western Wei Dynasty controlled it very tightly and only exported a very small part to prevent the Mongols from melting ironware to make weapons. The main goods were tea, cloth and porcelain.

Since the opening of the market in the Western Wei Dynasty, Mongolians have come to trade one after another, and the merchants in Guanzhong often get several times or even more than ten times the huge profits. Gao Yihuan ordered the border to strengthen control, inspect goods, and collect business taxes.

He also ordered the soldiers to strictly investigate the smuggling. Once seized, all the money and goods were confiscated. The tax revenue of the feudal mansion of the Western Wei Dynasty also increased rapidly.

In the fourth year of Jianzhang, after spring plowing, Gao Yihuan set off from Xi'an and went west to Qinghai.

After everyone passed Qinzhou, they began to discover that many Tibetans and Mongolians began to appear in the areas where Han people lived, and many lands were gradually abandoned.

After passing Xining Mansion, tents began to appear, cattle and sheep everywhere, Tibetan men on horses grazing, and women in long sleeves with dark skin and two plain red faces.

"Your Majesty, the tribes gathered here are mainly Tibetans who believe in the Red Sect, and some Mongolian tribes brought by Lin Dan Khan back then. There are about 2 people." Said.

Gao Yihuan only knew a little about the complicated situation in Qinghai. He reined in his horse and stood on a hill, looking down at the surroundings. pain.

"Go, go down and have a look, tell me about the situation here in detail on the way!" Gao Yihuan suddenly raised his horsewhip and said loudly.

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