Chastity Layman 2

Chapter 470
Qin Lang's southern tour, in addition to patrolling places, the most important task is to go to the south of the Yangtze River to adjust grain.

Li Shimin was not too harsh on Qin Lang. In fact, Qin Lang's performance on this southern tour was good enough. Pingshan made a riot, uncovered Guizhou Sima's conspiracy, and appeased Tan Dian and other commanders who were about to rebel. It is said that his beatings on Feng An, Chen Longshu, Li Guangdu and other handsome men were very effective.

As for the grain, in fact, after Qin Lang went south, all places in the south of the Yangtze River and the south of the Yangtze River have already begun to collect grain and transport it northward under his orders. The Changping divisions of all provinces purchase grain in an all-round way and transfer it at a high level.

However, transportation is not easy.

The three roads of Jiangdong, Jiangxi, and Huainan are better. They can use the Yangtze River and Huaihe canals to transport grain, but the three roads of Guangdong, Guangxi and Annan south of Wuling are not easy. The roads are difficult to travel over mountains and ridges. Although Guangzhou, Jiaozhou, and Qinzhou ports have mobilized A lot of food was collected, and Guizhou also raised a lot of food.

It can't be shipped.

All land routes have to pass through Guizhou and transship through Lingqu, but it is extremely difficult to transport food to Guizhou, let alone transport it to Yongzhou through Lingqu, and it is also very difficult to reach Changsha all the way.After arriving in Changsha, although the transportation capacity into the Yangtze River has greatly increased, it is a long way from Changsha to Yangzhou, and then to Bianzhou and Luoyang via the canal.

What's more, it is winter again, and the canal is also frozen.

However, there is a section from Luoyang to Chang'an and Shanzhou that is difficult to transport by water. It needs to disembark and disembark, and transfer by horses and horses before entering the Yellow River and the canal to Chang'an.

It was really hard to transport a bag of grain from Lingnan to Chang'an.

The problem now is that there is a lot of food in Jiangnan and Lingnan, especially in Jiaoguangqin and other places in Lingnan. These places are more than self-sufficient in food and can indeed support the Central Plains, but transportation is too difficult.

Even though the transportation has been organized early, but up to now, the first batch of Lingnan grain has not yet been transported to Chang'an City.

In fact, the best route to transport grain from Lingnan to the Central Plains is by sea. Ships transported grain from the major ports of Jiaozhou, Qinzhou, and Guangzhou, sailed north along the coast, unloaded grain at Hangzhou or Yangzhou ports, and transferred to riverboats for relay transportation.

In this way, the grains from the three routes in Lingnan can all be gathered in the coastal ports along several main streams within the route, which saves time and effort, and is much easier than transporting to the inland Guizhou.

But here comes the problem again. For sea transportation, with the navigation technology at this time, we must rely on the monsoon.

From south to north, rely on the summer monsoon, in May and June, take advantage of the summer south trade wind to go north.In November and February in winter, the trade wind is the north trade wind, which is blown from the mainland to the sea. At this time, the ship cannot take advantage of the wind to go north.

Qin Lang's original plan was to raise some grain and go overland, enter Yongzhou via Guizhou and Lingqu, go down the Xiangjiang River to Changsha, then enter the Yangtze River, then arrive at Yangzhou, enter Bianshui, pass through Bianzhou to Luoyang, and then enter Chang'an .

More grain was dispatched to the three major ports of Jiaozhou, Qinzhou, and Guangzhou, stored in the transshipment warehouses of the seaports, and organized to dispatch ships. When the south trade wind came together, they set sail to carry grain northward to the Central Plains.

But this year's autumn harvest in the Central Plains was even worse than last year. Coupled with the consumption of the Northern Expedition, the imperial granary was even more empty, and food from the south was more and more needed.

The grain in Lingnan cannot be transported, and the grain in Jiangnan is also limited by transportation capacity.

The section of Shanzhou alone has become a serious bottleneck, requiring a lot of people's manpower to transfer food, but when there are too many people, precious food will be consumed.

Li Shimin is actually very clear about this.

Datang owns the entire world, and the continuous frost disasters are only in the northern region. The world is a game of chess. In fact, Datang can use the grain from the southeast to support the people in the Central Plains. Food from the south cannot come through.

Qin Lang also did not expect that the disaster situation in the north would be more serious this year, and the hunger situation in Chang'an was beyond expectation.

In the secret memorial to the emperor in Lingnan, he once again mentioned eating after leaving the customs, and asked the emperor to bring all the officials and Chang'an soldiers and civilians to Luoyang for eating.

At least the grain from Jiangnan is much closer to Luoyang, and it will not be blocked by the bottleneck of Shanzhou for most of the transportation capacity. From Chang'an to Luoyang, it takes a few hundred miles, which reduces the transportation distance by hundreds of miles, and solves the key a bottleneck.

If [-] soldiers and civilians went to Luoyang to eat, it would save nearly [-] stones of grain to Chang'an in one month.At the same time, the cattle, sheep and other livestock obtained during the Northern Expedition from Saibei were either directly driven south, or slaughtered on the spot, and then divided and transported to Hebei Shuofang and other places in the Guannei River. Rely entirely on grain shipments from the south.

Li Jing's Northern Expedition was an unprecedented victory. The Turkic population captured was no less than 20. In addition, after the Turks were attached, there were tens of thousands of people.

Tang Jun obtained millions of cattle, sheep and offal.

But there is one more problem.

How to arrange these Turkic captives and descendants.

Some people suggested that it should be the same as the resettlement method for Turkic and Zahu such as Yu Shebu last time, but some people opposed it. In this case, the imperial court would not be able to resettle them.

Because an important reason for the defeat of Jieli this year is that the disaster situation in the north is much more serious than that in the Central Plains. Now that Jieli has lost, Tuli has surrendered.

The Eastern Turks were over, but these Turkic herdsmen couldn't survive the winter on the grasslands, because they were already severely affected by the disaster, and the war caused them a lot of losses.

The imperial court would either throw these people on the grassland regardless of life or death, and fend for themselves, but if they did this, it would not conform to the status of the Tang Dynasty, and there would be great hidden dangers in doing so. If you don't go down, there is only one possibility, and that is to run to the south to rob.

There is no Jieli Tuli, but who knows which tribe's Qijin and Teqin will stand up and pull the flag?

Not to mention that the Turkic people on the grassland would go south to rob when they were hungry, even the meek peasants in the Central Plains would also raise their banners to rebel and become bandits during the famine.

Some people say that it can only appease them, or even help them, let them go further south, or even spend the winter inside the Great Wall.

This creates more problems.

First of all, the millions of cattle and sheep seized before are actually the property of these herdsmen. They even fell into the hands of the Tang army with their livestock. them?

But Datang also needs these livestock.

Not to mention the 10,000+ Turkic people captured by Datang, not to mention those who were brought by Tuli, they are now a hot potato.

No matter how you do it, it won't work.

With 10,000+ people, no one dares to say that the game is dead, or that it doesn't matter.

That's not three to five hundred, it's not three to five thousand, it's 10,000+.

Although Li Shimin and Qin Lang were also discussing this issue in their correspondence, they were five thousand miles apart after all. No matter how fast the correspondence was, it would take at least a month to go back and forth.

Now Li Jing and other generals in Saibei can only take the captured Turkic people and their cattle and sheep to the northern foot of the Great Wall, and temporarily set up a camp to guard them.

After Tuli was attached, I went to the capital to meet the saint, and my tribe's troops still stayed in the grassland.However, the disaster was severe, and many small tribes that could not hold on had moved directly to the south of the Great Wall.

So many people gathered along the thousands of miles of the Great Wall.

The cattle and sheep have no grass to eat, and the herdsmen have no fuel, so they can only reluctantly slaughter the cattle and sheep one by one in advance, freeze them in the snow, sleep in the tent with the wind blowing in the ice and snow, eat frozen meat, and last a day.

But a wave of emotions among the Turkic people is brewing. If the current situation cannot be changed, something will happen on the Great Wall Line.

"It would be great if Sanlang was in Beijing. He can always find some good solutions for many things." Li Shimin sighed, although Qin Lang had already told him to leave, but it was five thousand miles away, and he would not be able to fly back for a while.

"Tomorrow is New Year's Eve. It's the day of family reunion on New Year's Eve. Shubao, you should go home to celebrate the new year."

"Your Majesty, there is New Year's Eve every year, and every year we remove the old and usher in the new. This year, I will stand guard here for His Majesty." Qin Qiong still insisted.

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Wu'an Prefecture, Taiping City.

Qin Lang had only been in Taiping City for three days before leaving again.He didn't get to know his fief very well yet, so he just walked around in a hurry, made a simple plan, and then entrusted Wu'an Prefecture to Qin Yong and others.

Qin Yong was awarded the national decree.

These two positions are actually state officials of the Principality of Wei. The Shifeng system was newly established, and many systems are not perfect. Now it is imitating the system of the Sui Dynasty. It is preliminarily determined that there are three sets of official systems in Shifeng Prefecture.

The first is the official system of feuding the country, the second is the official system of feuding the noble mansion, and the third is the system of secular feudal state officials.

The state official system is that Qin Lang is the Duke of Wei, and he was granted the title of Wu'an Prefecture, so there is a feudal state of the Duke of Wei in Wu'an Prefecture, and there is a set of officials of the Duke of Wei, which is exactly the meaning of the Han and Wei Dynasties. .

According to the system of the Sui Dynasty, state officials consisted of state decrees, two big farmers, two captains, one prime minister, and one recorder, and under them were the chief shepherd of the stable, the chief of the school, the chief of the food, the chief of the Dianfu, the sheren, and the Dian. Wei, Shi, Fu and a complete set of teams.

The state decree and the big farmer are in charge of judging the state affairs, the state captain is in charge of the state affairs, the state minister is in charge of the Gouji, etc., and the Dianwei is in charge of guarding the house.

Each has its own responsibilities and performs its duties.

In addition, there is also a feudal army, such as Wu'an Prefecture, which can support three armies, each with a thousand soldiers, and these 3000 people belong to the system of state officials.

In addition to the state official team, there is also the government official team.

This mansion is Kaifu, the shogunate of Duke Wei.

This set of teams is also very complete, for example, there is a whole set of teams such as Changshi, Sima, Consultant Joining the Army, Recording Office Joining the Military, Liu Cao Joining the Military, Master Book, Shu, Subordinates, Joining the Military, Code Signing, and Recording.

As for the Zhang Nei Mansion and the Marriage Mansion, these two armies are subordinate to the official team of Duke Wei's mansion.

And Wu'an Prefecture, as a feudal state, also has a state government team, including a governor, a long history, a Sima, and six Caos participating in the military.

There are also county magistrates under him.

Tutuan Xiangyong in Wu'an Prefecture is subordinate to the state government.

Anyway, it is actually a Yamen with three signs.

Of course, there are also some differences.For example, wherever the state is sealed off, the state officials are naturally there, but the officials are not necessarily in the state. Qin Lang has the Duke of Wei's mansion in Chang'an, so the officials of the Duke of Wei also follow Qin Lang and follow the state of Wei. Office of the government.

As for the state officials, they naturally work as officials in the state.

Qin Lang wanted to return to Chang'an, so it was impossible to just let go of this stall in Wu'an Prefecture, he had to be taken care of by someone he trusted. Although Li Daliang would help take care of it, he was the governor of Jiaozhou after all, so he couldn't control too much.

Qin Lang had no choice but to let Qin Yong and the others stay.

Let Qin Yong be the national decree, responsible for the state officials, and command the 3000 troops of the three armed forces who were appointed officials.Qin Yong is the governor of Wei Guogong, who leads the official team, and is also in charge of the marriage affairs and the 900 soldiers in the two groups.

Dugu Yanyun returns to Chang'an with Qin Lang.

Ah Huang stayed for the time being, Qin Lang gave him the post of Governor of Wu'an, divided his 200 relatives into [-] for him to lead, and he took only [-] people to leave.

Yang Jiyuan was appointed Sima of Wu'an Prefecture and the magistrate of Langshan County, while Anong was also retained by Qin Lang, and she was awarded Wu'an Prefecture Brigade Cao Canjun and Men County Tutuan Captain.

Chong Niang returned to the Central Plains with Qin Lang.

Under the escort of the [-] pro-armies of Yin'an Tieludu and Fulilangweidu, Qin Lang left the fief Wu'an Prefecture Taiping City Wharf on the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, took a boat northward, and returned to Chang'an by the same route.

(End of this chapter)