In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 154 The hero Peng Yibin

When they left the warehouse, Yang Miaozhen and Li Fen were blindfolded again. After being sent out, they got into the carriage.

"What does Si Niang say? Is the surname Yan reliable?" Li Fen asked angrily.

Zhao Yurui said that he didn't trust Li Quan, but Li Fen was still very upset, thinking in his heart, someday, you will fall into Lao Tzu's hands, so I won't kill you.

"It shouldn't be a problem. He has a good saying. There is a difference between a full meal and a full meal." Yang Miaozhen thought that the shopkeeper Yan's words were quite interesting.

"Our business wants to be long-term, bigger and stronger, and both parties must trust each other."

"Why does he need so many people? Even the elderly and children?" Li Fen couldn't figure it out.

Now the north is full of wars, and the leaders of the various armies don't want other populations except those who can serve as soldiers. The less the better.

Otherwise, it will be impossible to support them, and the logistical pressure will be great.

Like Li, all his subordinates are strong and strong, and they farm and eat by themselves.

Because these people were originally local farmers, there is nothing they can't do.

"Didn't he say that he needs labor to plant sugar cane and make sugar? Whatever he does, he will give it to him." Yang Miaozhen's wonderful eyes flickered a few times, and finally lowered her voice: "When the time comes, send some people over, pretend to be ordinary people, and first check end."

"Check his lair." Li Fen said grimly.
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"Kill." Accompanied by shouts of killing, a large number of soldiers and horses rushed into the west gate of Dezhou.

The men and horses of Mongolia Hebei West Road in Dezhou City broke through the north gate one after another and fled to the north.

At this time, Wuxian, the deputy marshal of the Bingmadu on the West Road of Hebei Province in Mongolia, was Wuxian, who led the main force to station in Zhending, which was only more than 300 miles away from Dezhou. inside.

But Peng Yibin suddenly moved eastward and caught Dezhou by surprise. The local garrison fled in a hurry, and Dezhou was occupied by Peng Yibin.

It was Peng Yibin's heyday at this time, and he had hundreds of thousands of soldiers. Of course, the leaders of the northern armies were the same as the peasant army in the late Ming Dynasty.

At this time in the original history, Mu Huali was leading the Mongolian army back to Monan, and Hebei was empty, and Peng Yibin was going to continue going north, taking the opportunity to go north to recover other counties.

But just as Peng Yibin set off with his troops, he received a letter from the shopkeeper Ding Haiyan.

Before, Peng Yibin was also overjoyed when people from Dinghai Sihai Trading came to discuss cooperation with him.

He claims to have hundreds of thousands of people under his command, most of them are old and weak, women and children, but he has to bring them with him.

He devoted himself to the Northern Expedition, regained the Han land, and took good care of the Han people. So many oil bottles followed, which were obviously useless, but he dared not throw them away, because he knew that there were wars everywhere. If he didn't take care of them, these people would either starve to death or die. He was looted elsewhere and became a slave.

Shopkeeper Yan sent someone to come to trade. Peng Yibin thought at first that he was here to trade people as slaves, but after talking with him, he found out that it was not.

The other party promised that it would be used to grow sugar and grain, and that there would be good arrangements, and he was willing to send someone to check it frequently.

Peng Yibin saw that the other party was very sincere. If the other party was really just buying and selling people for profit, he could stop at any time later, so he readily agreed.

But at that time, where the two parties traded became a difficult point.

Not long after, shopkeeper Yan sent someone again, asking him to capture Dezhou as a trading point, and at the same time brought a letter.

In the letter, shopkeeper Yan said something, which seemed very sincere, almost earnest.

Shopkeeper Yan said, why did you let you take down Texas?
Because Dezhou can pass through the Yiwei River, go to the Fuhe River, and then go directly to the sea. As long as there is a navy in hand, it is a good transportation and even a strategic retreat route.

Although Peng Yibin has a strong army now, you are surrounded by powerful enemies, Jin Guomeng, Li Quan and others. Once you fail in the Northern Expedition, you may be trapped in a tight siege and cannot escape.

So be sure to keep the back road open.

Occupying Texas, you can attack if you advance, and you can enter the sea when you retreat.

I heard that in ancient times, those who have achieved great things have their own foundations.

Liu Bei won Jingchuan, reassuring the hearts of the people, and divided the world into three parts.

Liu Bang occupied Guanzhong, garrisoned fields to train troops, and won the dispute between Chu and Han.

My Song Dynasty relies on the wealth of the south of the Yangtze River, the natural dangers of the waterways, and the state of Yanjin.

Peng Yibin, you are indomitable, the whole army went to the north, if there is no foundation, how will you make a comeback?
Shopkeeper Yan’s advice to him is that you can go to the Northern Expedition, keep your cronies and trustworthy ministers, manage Dezhou, Linqing, and Enzhou well, make each other a special role, train troops in the field, and build a navy.

I support you with [-] catties of iron and [-] shi of grain every year, and then replace them with population.

Every time you capture a place, select some single and strong soldiers as soldiers, and send the rest to Jintang Island in households.

This will not only reduce the pressure on you to support the population, but also increase the combat effectiveness of your troops.

For Peng Yibin, it would be most suitable for him to only raise some elite young adults.

And as long as he doesn't lose the battle, he has a source of strength.

When a war is fought in the north, whoever wins the war will often have surrendered soldiers to be used by the winner.

Therefore, ordinary people from one household to another are dispensable to them.

If you change it to another place, the common people can farm and work, but the north is now rotten, and there is good land that cannot be cultivated. Today Mongols came, tomorrow the Kingdom of Jin came, the day after tomorrow the Song Army came again, and the day after tomorrow Li Quan and other major army leaders here we go again.

Every time you change a power, you have to change the tax collection. The people are miserable. In the same place, if you pass three groups of powers in a year, you can make them pay taxes three times. So the people would rather not plow the fields and run away.

After reading the letter, Peng Yibin thought that although shopkeeper Yan had never met him, he was really thinking of him.

He immediately decided to return to the army to capture Texas.

Then the next day, troops were sent to capture Jingzhou.

So far, the two main channels of the Wei River and the Fu River are already within his sphere of influence.

The next step is to collect ships, prepare for transportation, train the navy, and maintain waterways.

Because shopkeeper Yan said very clearly in the letter that you must have a navy, and there are many rivers in the north. It will be easy to transport supplies and troops with navy ships, let alone go to the south.

In history, Li Quan prepared for a long time to build warships and train water troops to attack the Southern Song Dynasty.

Not long after Peng Yibin captured Dezhou and Jingzhou, he organized 300 households and took more than [-] boats. He collected almost all the available boats in Dezhou, Linqing, and Jingzhou to transport people to Jintang Island.

At this time, Linqing had not yet become an important water transportation center in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, but because of the well-developed waterways, there were many passing ships, so it was well used by Peng Yibin.

In the past, merchant ships traveling to and from Linqing all departed from Lianghuai.

But at this time, the Huaihe River and the Huaihe River were war zones, and all kinds of ships sailed along the Wei River or the Fu River, then entered the sea, and then went to the Jiangnan area.

For the ship owner, it is a drop in the road.

In addition to using his own ship, Peng Yibin adopted a policy of helping other merchant ships to transport people there and returning them tax-free, and the merchants were very happy.

Because most of the merchants transport goods from Jiangnan to sell, and then go back with empty ships, it is better to bring a whole ship of people back, and they can be tax-free.

Compared to Li Quan who was plucking wild geese at this time, and had to collect half of the goods when passing by a ship, Peng Yibin's here is simply a paradise on earth, but it is a pity that Linqing is not yet a major commercial town at this time, and the number of ships coming and going is far less than that of Jin Kingdom in the north .
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December of the 16th year of Jiading (1223).

As the New Year approached, the Dinghai County Office was crowded with people, and it was extremely lively.

Many people came to the Production Department today, most of whom were Zhao Yurui's confidantes.

Qin Zhuo, Wei Jinsi, Zhou Lai, Gu Tian, ​​Gu Chengzhi, Chang An, Chang Gang, Chen Feng, Chen Xiaodao, Shi Gouer, Yan Ying, Qin Yue, Qian Wu, Liu Xin, Li Pingxia, Li Pingbao, Li Pingshan, Chen Tao, etc. .

These people are the people in charge and managers of Zhao and Rui's two important bases, Kim Yong Island and Jeju Island.

Zhao Yurui asked them to wait in the hall and greeted them in turn. Some of them had secret talks with him alone, and some were in groups of two or three.

The first ones to meet are people from Jintang Island.

Jintang Island is now divided into two divisions, the military and the civilian. The military aspects include guarding the island, keeping secrets and patrolling the surrounding areas. Zhou Lai, Chen Feng and Chang Gang are in charge.

Among them, Chang Gang is the son of Chang An. He followed his father to run business at sea since he was a child, and he is proficient in HNA.

Zhao Yurui has promised to help him, Gu Tian and his son, Liu Xin and others buy an official together next year and place them in the navy.

They don't need to go to sea to fight, and they don't need to travel long distances, they just need to guard near Jintang Island.

There are two medium-sized sea falcon warships on the island, three medium-sized multi-oared boats, twenty lark fishing boats, and more than 500 new recruits (all were later recruited by Zhao Yurui in the name of recruiting workers on Jintang Island and nearby) and the original nine The Baidinghai Navy has a total of about [-].

The family members of these people help with sugar production on the island, and the strong and strong families come out to serve as the navy. Usually, more than 500 people patrol outside every day to familiarize themselves with the warships.

More than 500 new recruits have no external establishment and are not included in the Dinghai navy, but they train with the navy and receive exactly the same treatment.

Zhao Yurui arranged for their family members, and each strong and strong soldier paid three guan a month. The family members were engaged in sugar production, fishing, or farming, and the households were paid another two guan, with food and lodging included. The treatment was better than that of the regular imperial guards of the Song court. willing.

At this moment, Zhou Lai, Gu Tian, ​​and Chang An are reporting to Zhao Yurui.

"As of December, the two islands (Jintang and Peng Island) had more than 900 sailors (actually 670), and the population of the two islands totaled 700 households, with more than [-] people."

"The area of ​​sugarcane is [-] mu, and the area of ​​grain field is [-] mu (of which Zhao and Rui belonged. After Zhao and Rui immigrated, they cultivated [-] mu)"

"There are still 2 mu of arable land on the island. Because there are more sand fields, next year we plan to plant sugar cane entirely, and there will probably be about [-] people who can be resettled."

There are only more than 4 people on the island in later generations, and more than 100 million tourists come and go every year.

In fact, adding up Jintang Island and Peng Island, it is no problem to resettle 6 or [-] people.

But Zhao and Rui's center of gravity is in Jeju, so most of the follow-up population will go to Jeju.

"How much grain is produced every year?" Zhao Yurui asked at this time: "How about the income and expenditure?"

There are four kinds of fields on Jintang Island, one is owned by big households, such as He Changan, and there are a small number of common people’s own, the most are Zhao and Rui immigrants, newly cultivated, and the last one is the help of family members of the navy. Those who live in farmland (this type includes food and lodging, so all the food belongs to Zhao and Rui.)
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