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Volume 4 Hu Han Cang Qiong Chapter 306 The Three Sects of Daliao

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    Liao Kingdom, Liaoyang Prefecture, Tokyo.  .  .

    This city is becoming different now.

    First, the scale has expanded.  Last year, with the migration of a large number of Khitan people - especially the family members of Shangjing, the population of Liaoyang Prefecture suddenly expanded. Originally, this city was mainly composed of Bohai people and Liaodong Han people. As the upper class rulers, the Khitan people  In terms of number, they are only a minority group like the Xi people and the Goryeo people, but now the Khitans account for nearly half, and there are at least hundreds of "noble people" in their households.

    Secondly, public security has deteriorated.  This large group of "nobles" are all difficult to serve. They are used to being domineering in Beijing. When facing Tiance, they may be humble out of fear, but when faced with the Han people of Liaodong, Bohai, Korea, and women,  Although he was straight, he was still arrogant, and the Linhuang Mansion had just been destroyed. He had a bad temper due to the grief and anger of being a bereaved dog, and was also anxious about the crisis caused by the possible "subjugation of the country." He was extremely wary of other ethnic groups, especially the Han people in Liaodong.

    In the end, business prospered amid the chaos.  Tens of thousands of Khitans moved into Liaodong. They lost their homes in Mobei and Monan and had to resettle. When everything was started, the various commodities needed were naturally huge, and the gap was so big that Liao and Tianjin were released.  The goods from the southern countries are far from being able to meet the needs of the nobles.  After all, the Khitan has been a country for decades, and has accumulated ethnic groups for hundreds of years before that. Although the lower-class herdsmen of the Khitan are poor, the upper-class nobles are actually rich. If they go to the capital and the city is broken, they can¡¯t bring them pastures, homes, or cities.  Come here, but you can bring pearls and gold. If you want to rebuild your home here, you have to sell these rare and precious metals in exchange for various settlement expenses and living materials.

    Therefore, after Dazhijie arrived in Liaoyang Mansion, he received an unprecedented level of honor and welcome. Although this honor was superficial - the Khitan people still looked down on Bohai, which was destroyed by them - at least it made Dazhijie feel  He was taken seriously.

    His family is originally from Liaoyang Mansion, and he is an old resident in the city.  The mansion occupies a large area. After the Khitans moved eastward, the original city became much smaller. However, due to the chaos and inability to build it, the nobles invaded the homes of many old residents, causing great conflicts.  Dazhijie's family was originally in a state of turmoil. Fortunately, he went to sea for meritorious service and received the protection of Yelu Wuzhi, and was able to save the family business.

    I haven¡¯t been home for more than a year. Nothing else has changed at home, but there are some things called kangtou - coal. Once it is used, people cannot let go. With the development of coal and its rapid popularity in Liaodong,  .  Kangtou also appeared.  The cold climate and inconvenience of life have always been one of the reasons why the Han people have not been able to expand into the Northeast for a long time, or have repeatedly occupied and abandoned it. The emergence of thermal products such as coal stoves, kang heads, and cotton-padded clothes has greatly improved the lives of Liaodong people.  Bigness is immeasurable.  Dazhijie realized with his sensitive business intuition that if these three things could be popularized in the future, Liaodong would not necessarily lose to Shandong.

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    I have been at home for several days, and people have been coming to my door.  Some came to visit - mostly business friends and relatives; there were also some domestic slaves of nobles who hoped to buy "Tang goods" from him.

    On the third day.  Even the Prime Minister of Daliao, Han Deshu, took the time to meet with him and promised to give the treasures of the Western Regions that he collected in the Tang Dynasty to the Queen of Earth.

    Because he has extensive contacts and is able to get involved with the high-level officials of Khitan, after half a month, Dazhijie has a new understanding of the current political ecology of Liaodong.

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    Today¡¯s Liao Kingdom¡¯s political system is very different from that before the conquest of Beijing, and the power structure has also been greatly changed.  Yelu Deguang fell seriously ill after his defeat.  For a long time, he was even unable to move in Wuzhou. Later, after the situation improved slightly, he was carried on a stretcher to the boat and went down the river to Liaoyang Mansion.  But people are no longer able to govern and are just hanging out.

    The ministers then supported Yelujing as the prince to supervise the country, and the queen of the land listened to the government behind the curtain - this is the core political reality of the Liao Kingdom today.

    The Khitan was only officially established during the Abaoji era, and its Chinese culture was not yet deep, and the concept of imperial power and the inviolability of the royal family had not yet taken root in the hearts of the people. It was somewhat unfair for Yelu Deguang, the son, to succeed to the throne. It was not considered a time when the overall national power of the Khitan was on the rise.  Now, not only has the land been lost, but also the city has been defeated. After losing the ability to govern, even if there is a legal heir, the Liao Kingdom is still in a major crisis of disintegration.

    Thanks to the Queen of Earth's skill and protection of her grandson, she finally managed to unite the Liao Kingdom, which could fall apart at any time. However, if the internal unity is to reach the level of the Khitan Kingdom, there is no need to think about it.  In the Liao Dynasty, large and small factions were seriously divided. Among them, each faction was clearly divided into three factions based on their attitudes towards Han civilization.

    The first faction is the Sinicization faction, which is called "Han slaves" by its opponents.

      This group of people has the vast majority of senior officials in Daliao who have deep contact with Han civilization, as well as most of the Han officials. In the past year or so, they have managed the Han people in Liaodong, stabilized the situation in Liaodong, saved the finances of the Liao State, and won over the people of Liaodong.  It's all them.

    Economically, the Sinicization faction controls 870,000 registered Han people, 400,000 registered Bohai people, and hundreds of thousands of Koreans. These are the precious agricultural population of the Northeast. In the foreseeable future, the population controlled by this class can be  Produced food to feed two million people, and built a sea trade port (Liaojin) in just one year, bringing various urgently needed materials to the Liao Kingdom, which had just established a foothold in Liaodong.  Deliver endless business profits.  It is no exaggeration to say that the Sinicization faction now controls more than 90% of the economic resources of the Liao Kingdom, and this absolute monopoly position is still in urgent need of strengthening.

    ??And militarily, the Sinicization faction is not weak either.  The two troops that returned from Yanyun - Yelu Shuogu's main force of more than 20,000 Yanjing troops and Xiao Juli's nearly 10,000 Yunzhou partial troops were the Khitan legions that remained basically intact after the defeat of Shangjing City. Except for this  In addition to the Khitan troops of more than 30,000 people, the Sinicization faction also controls the Han army of more than 50,000 people, the Bohai Navy of more than 30,000 people, as well as the miscellaneous troops of about 10,000 people, mainly Korean, and is responsible for  It is located in Yuzhou, one of the two most important border gates between the Liao Kingdom and the Tang Dynasty.

    Politically speaking, as the prime minister of the Liao Kingdom, Han Yanhui had the highest political status among the Sinicization faction, at least on paper. Of course, as a Han Chinese.  In fact, he only has the power to make decisions and is influential but has no substantial decision-making power.  However, there are two other important ministers in the Sinicization faction. Xiao Miansi, who is the Privy Council of the North Court, and Yelu Wuzhi, who is the Deputy Privy Envoy of the South Court, do indeed occupy important political positions within the Khitan. They said it  If so, even the Queen of Earth would not be able to dismiss it casually.  As for Yelu Shuogu.  As the top leader of the Sinicization Army, he has a faint tendency to become the number one boss in the Liao Dynasty. Although he rarely interferes in political affairs, the Queen of the Earth must consult him when encountering any major matters.

    This is already a powerful group that integrates military, political, financial and civilian forces. If you advance, you can control the center and influence the situation of the government. If you retreat, you can defend your base. Although in the eyes of the Khitan ultra-purists, this group of people will "sooner or later become slaves of the Han family."  , but even the purebred Khitans who hate the Han people the most have to rely on the taxes provided by the Sinicization faction and have to eat the grains provided by the Sinicization faction.

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    Opposing the "Sinicization Sect" is the orthodox sect that claims to be Khitan orthodoxy.  This group of people is centered on Yeluchache.  The core military members were the Khitan Pishi who fled from Mobei to the Huntong River Basin. They rejected Sinicization, hated Han civilization, and insisted on continuing their nomadic life in the Huntong River Basin, although they still had to cover their ears and use the imported or built products of the Sinicization faction.  Iron pots, baking coal stoves "gifted" by Zhang Mai to the Liao people, wearing cotton-padded clothes imported by maritime merchants, and eating grains provided by the Sinicization Party.  The senior officials would also curse while drinking the tea re-exported from Liaojin, but everyone hated everything related to Han civilization.  Not even allowed to speak Chinese vocabulary.

    Although they are absolutely economically weak, the army controlled by this faction has very strong combat effectiveness, including 15,000 Khitans - and they are the most barbaric group of Khitans, including Shi Wei, Nv Zhi, etc.  The barbaric tribes in the Northeast, as well as some of the tribes such as Dilie and Wugu who hated the Han people, also followed his orders.  When needed, Yelvcha was able to mobilize an army of 50,000 troops - although in terms of numbers, it seemed to be less than half of the Sinicization army.  But if there is a real conflict, the odds of winning or losing are probably 50-50.

    Yelucha was in Huanglong City on the Huntong River. After the Liao capital moved eastward, he believed that Tokyo had been "polluted" by the Han people and never set foot in Liaoyang Prefecture.  It has almost no substantive impact on the daily government affairs of the center of the Liao Kingdom, but Yelu Chaca's father, Abaoji's younger brother Yelu Anduan, is honored because of his son's existence. The old guy is currently named Dongdan.  king.  The Queen of Earth was extremely wary of her uncle, who had rebelled since the Abaoji era, but she still had to maintain a superficial respect.

    Because of the geographical relationship, the Sinicization sect is also called the Southern sect, and the Orthodox sect is also called the Northern sect. Sandwiched between the North and the South is the Harmonization sect headed by the Queen of the Earth.

    The people of the conciliation faction are called centrists by the southern faction, while they are called "harmonious" by the northern faction.  Economically they must rely on the southern faction, but militarily they hope to unify the north and the south and deal with the outside world in unison.  But in fact, the powerful figures in both the northern and southern factions now tend to listen to orders rather than propaganda. What the Queen of Di can really control is the twenty or thirty thousand people who escaped from Linhuang Mansion. However, after being released by Zhang Mai,  Xiao Han, who was the same prime minister as Han Yanhui, and the two commander-in-chiefs Sagou and Keli who were defeated in succession were not good enough to convince the people and weak enough to control the army. Therefore, those who pursued enjoyment often moved closer to the southern faction and were hated.  Those who were full of ambitions defected to the Northern faction, including the fierce generals of Daliao.The so-called Lala brothers also went to Hun Tongjiang.

    Therefore, as time goes by, both the North and the South factions are getting stronger and stronger, but the conciliation faction, which has the nominal highest ruling power, is shrinking.

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    After Dazhijie understood all this in depth, he was even less willing to stay in Liaoyang Mansion.  On the surface, this city looks peaceful and prosperous, but in fact, there are hidden rapids and dangers everywhere. It is said that on several occasions, Yelu Chage led his troops south to "remonstrate"!  If Rang hated Sinicization, what would be the end for those of them who had a close relationship with Tang?

    After the beginning of spring, the Dazhi Festival arranged for two distinguished guests to inspect the trees, while he hurriedly raised funds in Liaoyang Mansion. Due to last year's success, countless nobles in Liaoyang Mansion were full of expectations for his upcoming trip to Tianjin.  Although this time Dazhijie kept claiming that the profit from going to Tianjin would definitely not be as big as last year, and in the end it would probably only be tripled, and there would also be the danger of sea storms, but everyone seemed to be blinded by the huge profit.  He desperately stuffed his slaves and goods into the caravan at the Great Wisdom Festival.

    When the Dazhi Festival was raising funds, they also discovered a very interesting thing: it was not only the southerners and centrists who stuffed domestic slaves and goods.  There is even a Northern faction that claims to be incompatible with the Han people!

    "This group of people are clamoring to reject anything related to the Han family, saying that they want to keep their pure Khitan heart, but as long as they can make money, they don't even want to give up their Khitan heart."

    When Dazhi Festival was planning to go out to sea again, the young man from the Liu family and the shopkeeper Murong also entered the mountains and forests respectively.  Go and find a palace suitable for building ships and a palace suitable for building houses.

    The deep mountains and old forests in the Northeast stretch for thousands of miles, with Changbai Mountain on the left and Dajin Mountain (Daxingan Mountains) on the right. Good timber is everywhere in the mountains. In this era, logging is not prohibited, so transportation issues are mainly considered.

    Timber is a bulk commodity trade. According to the previous agreement between Dazhi Festival and Tianjin merchants and Dengzhou merchants, they will be able to exchange for many bulk commodities that affect the national economy and people's livelihood. It can be said that this is also a national event for Daliao.  Therefore, the Queen of the Earth must support this big deal. Han Yanhui had already petitioned for this big deal, and the Queen of the Earth also spoke out to support it. When the matter went to the end, political forces from various factions continued to infiltrate, and Dazhijie became the smallest shareholder. He did not  Realizing his interest, he took advantage of the situation and retreated.  Just keep some dry stocks that can make money.

    For this big deal, it was last winter.  The Empress of the Earth specially sent troops to cross the border to the Goryeo Grass Valley and captured 10,000 to 20,000 Goryeo people who went up to the mountains to cut trees.  After the wood was chopped, it was thrown into the Yalu River, tied into rafts, flowed down the river into the sea, and then part of it was dragged directly to Dengzhou.  The other part was first towed all the way to Liaojin and then to Tianjin.

    The lumber shipped to Dengzhou arrived in May, and the lumber shipped to Tianjin was delivered before autumn. These lumber were exchanged for a large number of cotton-padded clothes, iron pots, iron needles and tea leaves as scheduled.  Even sea vessels.  One of the reasons for the strong rise of the Khitans is that they have been able to forge iron, so Zhang Mai did not prohibit the import of iron daily utensils into the Khitans - this is meaningless.  The Liao Kingdom was in great need of pots, needles and other daily necessities. Whether iron could be used to forge weapons was one thing, but whether iron daily necessities were developed was another.

    Due to the large-scale import of wood from Liaodong, the development of the coastal shipbuilding industry has been greatly accelerated, and the construction of Yanjing New City and Tianjin New City has also been greatly accelerated.

    Tianjin New Town has already taken shape. The administrative district governments have begun to work, the construction of two commercial streets is nearing completion, and the first batch of houses in residential areas have also been put into use.  The scale of Yanjing New City is too large, and the foundation and infrastructure have not yet been completed. The administrative industry and commerce are still operating in Youzhou Old City, but everyone is eagerly looking forward to the completion of the new city, and people run to the new city every day.  Moreover, with the opening of the timber route, the largest source of timber for the two new cities actually came from Daliao.

    ??If you look at it from the perspective of the northern faction of the Liao Kingdom, it is equivalent to the Queen of the Liao Dynasty using military means to help Tiance transport wood to build the capital of the Tang Dynasty. This is really an extremely ironic thing.

    In May of the ninth year of Tiance, he came to Dengzhou during the Dazhi Festival. While not delaying his own business, he also presided over the delivery of the timber business. In July of the ninth year of Tiance, he carried out the same event in Tianjin and then returned to Liaoning by boat.  Tianjin, the first batch of goods of the year was delivered. At this time, the scale of Liaojin and Tianjin was very different from last winter.  At this time of Dazhi Festival, not only did his net worth double again, but his demeanor also became completely different without even realizing it!

    As a large businessman who can mediate in the business circles of various countries and may influence the timber trade, he has become the leading figure in the Liao business circle. Even Yelu Housezhi did not dare to boss him around like last year when he saw him, but wanted to  He was politely called "big boss".

    At this moment, Dazhijie heard from the eldest son:??There was an uproar in Liaoyang Mansion. It seemed that the Northern Faction was trying to force the Queen of Earth to have a palace due to some incident, and then the Southern Faction frequently took actions to suppress the Northern Faction. The two sides even broke out in bloody conflicts in Tokyo City!  Even Yelu Wuzhi, who was originally in Xuanfu, Liaojin, had to run back to help put out the fire.

    Dazhijie felt wary and was unwilling to go back to Tokyo. He found Yelu Wuzhi before he set off and said that he wanted to go to Tianjin again and might spend the winter in Tianjin this year.  After Yelu Wuzhi pondered for a while, he agreed.

    So Dazhijie collected another batch of goods, packed them into six sea ships, left his eldest son in Liaojin to take care of the warehouse inventory, and slipped back to Tianjin.

    By this time, the first batch of houses in Tianjin¡¯s residential areas had been completed, and these houses were divided into two categories.

    The first category is dense housing, which consists of rows of houses divided into small, well-equipped suites. They are suitable for middle-class families to purchase, and can also be transformed into small hotels.

    The second type is villa style.  There is a courtyard and a garden, and the area is not large. Except for the courtyard and garden, there are usually three to five rooms, and the format is similar, with one household next to another.  Only separated by a small path, non-rich people cannot afford to buy this batch of houses. The government allocated land, handed it over to the construction agency for construction, and then resold it. The Tang government made a huge sum of money from just this batch of houses.  , all the proceeds were directly transferred to the Dongshu treasury.

    Dazhi Festival - Oh, I should call him Boss Dai - I ordered a set here. Don't you see "Dai's House" on the door number of the mansion?

    Here, a Shandong boss has identified a Xiaojiabiyu from Cangzhou for him.  Although she was from a small family, she was an orthodox Han girl. Boss Dai took it seriously and treated her as a real wife. After marrying, she loved her like a treasure. Throughout the winter, the couple had a good time and went shopping during the day.  Enjoy the scenery, sleep on the warm kang at night and do errands, and the bride will be happy before the New Year!  Boss Dai touched his wife's belly that was not yet swollen.  He seemed overjoyed and said to his wife: "You will take good care of your health. If you give birth to a boy in the future, he will be the eldest son of our Dai family. All my family property in Tianjin will belong to him."

    His wife was dissatisfied and said, "What's the point of this family business? Now the school in Tianjin has opened. In the future, my son will go to school and become an official when he grows up. That is the true glory of the ancestors!"

    Boss Dai said: "II am a foreigner after all. Although I may lose my nationality in the future, can my son also enter the school and become an official of the Tang Dynasty?"

    "Why not! My uncle has already asked for help. Based on our family's situation, as long as the surname is Han, it can be registered as Chinese in the future household registration, and then it can go to school like other children. When they grow up, if they can  If you pass the imperial examination, you can become an official and become a scholar. It is no different from the Zhang family next door to the left and the Fu family next door to the right."

    Boss Dai asked in a trembling voice: "Are you a scholar and entering the official system, rather than the kind of official position set up for the border vassals and barbarians?"

    During this period, he was very sensitive to the changes in the political system of the New Tang Dynasty, and knew that there were currently three systems in the Tang Dynasty: the first was called the old official system, which contained officials who had just surrendered. In order to accommodate them, their previous official positions were temporarily used.  , for example, this situation still exists in some prefectures and counties in northern Jingbei, Guanzhong and southern Shandong; the second type is called fanguan, which targets the surrenders of the border areas and gives them official titles and titles according to local conditions and customs.  The third type is called official officials. Young people have to attend newly established schools. Talented adults have to pass the imperial examination and obtain selection qualifications. Then they start from the grassroots and enter the entire official official system step by step.

    From Boss Dai's vision and IQ, it can be seen that the first two types of officials have little future. One is temporary and the other is appeasement. The former is not long-term and the latter cannot gain the true trust of the central government. There is no such thing as Jingbei and Guanzhong.  , Lunan's old official systems are all overcrowded. Would you rather downgrade or enter a new product?  But if you can enter the Liuguan system, it will be different!

    With Boss Dai's current status, it is not impossible to get a high-ranking official, but what's the point? It's just a name. He can neither get real honor nor protect the family's wealth.  He still has his money hanging on his waist and his life hanging on someone else's hand.  In this world, being rich without power is not a good thing, but a source of trouble.

    "Of course he's not a fan official! He's a serious scholar-official."

    After hearing this, Boss Dai rubbed his hands in excitement and said, "We need to ask more about this matter! We need to ask more to make sure!"

    He touched his wife's belly and said: "Take good care of yourself, but don't worry. I'm not old yet, and you are still young. If this thing breaks down, if we try harder, we can make it one day! I have no hope."  , but if our son can go to school and become an official, then this family fortune is nothing! Not to mention the family fortune in Tianjin, as long as our son can become a scholar in the Central Plains, then the family fortune in the Northeast will also be struggling.  , we have to help him make progress!"

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    The ninth year of Tiance was a truly peaceful year. There was no war in the eastern countries. In Daliao, although the three major factions had bloody conflicts, they generally maintained a delicate balance. Within the Tang State, Zhang, who had always been famous for his strength, maintained a delicate balance.  Mai, actually allowed the two important military towns of Taiyuan and Chang'an to be divided by An Chongrong and Liu Zhiyuan respectively.

    ?According to Zhang Mai¡¯s public statement, he was unwilling to use war within the Han family and did not want any more Han Miao descendants to die in the civil war, so he preferred to use more gentle political methods to persuade.

    Under this political strategy, Dongshu even issued a "three-year no-war order" that was not officially recognized by the government. It is said that Zhang Mai, in order to rest with the people, prepared not to launch a war within three years - regardless of internal affairs.  Or externally.

    Although this "three-year no-war order" has not been officially recognized, judging from the situation in the past year or so, Tiance does not have any plans to conduct military operations.

    In this context, farmers have been able to recuperate and recuperate, and the economy of the entire Central Plains has been activated as never before in the ninth year of Tiance, and it can be expected that this vitality will continue to heat up in the tenth year of Tiance.

    Not only were the people happy, but Li Shouzhen of Xuzhou, An Chongrong of Taiyuan and the Gao family of Jiangling breathed a sigh of relief.  These three companies are all located in commercial hubs but cannot withstand the thunderous attack of Tiance's army.

    For this reason, Taiyuan, Xuzhou and Jiangling's attitude toward Zhang Mai became even more humble. Although the Taiyuan army was still unwilling to accept reorganization, Taiyuan's trade routes had been liberalized. What An Chongrong seemed to be striving for now was just to be like Li Shouzhen.  general autonomy.

    As for Meng Shu and Li Qi, they relaxed their tense nerves after hearing this rumor. Especially in Jiangnan, the separatist regime has been divided by rivers for decades. The Central Plains war horses have never crossed the Yangtze River. Maybe this situation will also happen.  Keep it up.

    But things were strange over in Chang'an. Liu Zhiyuan used the Wei River as a boundary to the north and the Qinling Mountains as a barrier to the south. He built a defense line stretching for hundreds of miles from east to west, enclosing himself. He controlled tens of thousands of troops and hundreds of thousands of civilians.  , destroyed markets, closed temple fairs, everything was based on agriculture, sergeants worked on the fields, and the people were also managed militarically, and they actually lived a self-sufficient life. They neither resisted nor responded to Zhang Mai's advice and orders.

    " Such a situation, all knowledgeable people believe that it cannot last forever, but neither Guo Wei in the west nor Murong Chunhua in the north can do anything to him.

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    In Yedu, Zhang Mai, who moved his tent here, listened to the reports of Li Fang and Wang Pu.

    Now that both Fan Zhi and Wei Renpu have become useful, Li Fang and Wang Pu have become Zhang Mai's secretaries. Their positions are somewhat similar to those of Fan Zhi and Wei Renpu at the beginning - the two young men are extremely excited about this, and there is continuity in politics.  Yes, many times it is just a coincidence at first, but when the coincidence becomes a habit, when the habit becomes a routine, it may eventually become a system!

    Li Fang and Wang Pu are not yet high-ranking, but the scholars are full of expectations for them, and they are vaguely regarded as the successors of Wei Renpu.

    "Under the rule of Dongshu this year, the five states of Qi, Cang, Ji, Xiang, and Yan all had a good harvest. The harvest in the fields in Yanjing is also very good. The four states of Ru, Tang, Deng, and Lai have small shortages, and the rest are normal years."  Wang Pu said: "Laizhou is close to the sea. You can rely on Dengzhou Seaport to import grain from Wuyue. There is no big problem. On the Jingbei side, you may need to transport grain from Kaifeng. However, I heard that Jiangling Prefecture also has a good harvest. If we impose  With coercion, we may be able to get them to sell grain to Jingbei without touching the Kaifeng inventory."

    Zhang Mai nodded and said, "Let Wei Renpu take charge of this matter."

    Wei Renpu drafted an order in accordance with his words, and then handed it to Zhang Mai to sign. Li Fang, who was next to him, suddenly said: "Liaodong has also had a good harvest. The land cultivated for thousands of years has gradually matured, and the farmers have gradually become familiar with the climate, water and soil there. In the past two years, the law has been stated  I trusted Han Yanhui, and the Khitan did light corvee and little tax, and their agricultural power was raised very quickly. Now they have completely recovered. According to the intelligence sent by our General Cao, the Khitan had a surplus of grain from last autumn's harvest, and with this year's autumn harvest, Liaoyang Mansion's inventory,  In addition to the reservation fee, there are already 600,000 people with a year's savings."

    Zhang Mai raised his eyebrows and said: "This is a good thing, a good thing!" Then he asked: "What's wrong with Monan?"

    Li Fang sighed and said: "Liaodong has had a good harvest, but there is an animal epidemic in Monan. The herdsmen are afraid that this winter will be miserable!"

    Zhang Mai said "oh" and lowered his head. The two young secretaries didn't know what he was thinking. After a while, they heard Zhang Mai say something that surprised them: "Waiting for Xiaohuang in Jingbei."  After the placement is complete, inform all parties to prepare, I will patrol the west."

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