I Am Going To Fight From West To East

"I'm going from west to east ()"

When Jiuyuan County and the northwest region were still covered in snow, the snow and ice in the Central Plains had already faded away , the trees have pulled out new branches, and the cold is fading.

The spring of the year has begun.

Most of the commoners with yellow faces and thin skins came out of their own warm houses, and started a new round of sowing with the seeds left behind by thrifty.

Children who are five, six or seven years old are already sensible and begin to help their parents with some farm work that they can do, while those children who have not yet reached the age of sensible are playing innocently and happily.

This is the happiest time in their life and the most carefree time in their life. They only need to play and sleep every day. The only thing that is lacking is that they cannot eat enough.

Compared to the civilians in other parts of the Central Plains, the civilians in the Zhili area have had a very good life. After all, they have the Imperial Court's disaster relief food.

If it weren't for the food provided by the Imperial Court, they would have starved to death in this cold winter.

Civilians in other areas are not as lucky as they are, because the forces they belong to are only concerned with their own people, and they can't even supply the families of their soldiers. There is surplus food to supply their civilians.

Only by keeping the family members of their soldiers fed and clothed can they gain the support of the soldiers. As for the civilians, they don't care so much.

After all, they only have so much food in their hands, so how about more food to save those civilians?

Zhou Hangjie was walking on the outskirts trail, and beside him were dozens of young people dressed in gorgeous clothes, these all are the children of the Aristocratic Family in Imperial Capital.

They were born with food and clothing, no need to worry about food, no need to worry about their own future.

All they need to do is to make themselves more knowledgeable, or to live happier lives.

These young people are learning from behind Zhou Hangjie, who is now hot enough to scald one's hands in their dynasty.

Especially when Your Majesty went to Chaos World to sit there, most of the affairs on Imperial Capital's side are now handed over to the Prime Minister, Zhou Hangjie.

Zhou Hangjie also did not have the high hopes of the Kung Fu Emperor, and handled the affairs of Imperial Capital in an orderly manner, and basically there were no major problems.

In other words, this link is more sophisticated than the emperor's side in handling problems. Before, because the emperor was pointing fingers, some things were not handled very well.

But now that the emperor has granted him privileges, he is a little better at dealing with things.

Walking on the crisscrossed streets, Zhou Hangjie looked at the commoners with yellow faces and thin skin. These people were very wealthy in their families six or seven years ago, but in these short six or seven years, because of the chaos in the world. Because of this, various taxes are imposed on these civilians.

The family property in their home has been almost paid out, and the heavy taxation has made these commoners unable to stand up.

This is still in the Zhili area. In other areas, he doesn't know how these civilians will survive.

Perhaps this is the reason for the chaos in the world. Since there is no food for farming, why not follow those people to rebel and grab food?

But what can the Imperial Court do, the entire Central Plains is in chaos because of the war.

Without salaries and provisions, how can the Imperial Court mobilize a large army to suppress those rebels?

If they can't suppress those rebels, the world will become more chaotic.

This is a very bad cycle, and it will continue to cycle until one day, a powerful force breaks this cycle.

For example, the army of princes in the world who are now trying to break this cycle, and the Xiliang who is glare like a tiger watching his prey on the northwestern land.

Those sect forces are not in the eyes of Zhou Hangjie. In his eyes, those sect forces are nothing to be afraid of. At most, they are just occupying one side to support a local force.

It is the princes who really fight for dominance in the world, as well as those heroes who are separated from one side, such as Li Zhen who is now in control of the Great Northern Army, and Li who is glare like a tiger watching his prey with heavy troops in the northwest. Xiang.

In the White Lotus Religion in the southwest, the insurgents in the southeast want to cause a larger uprising.

These talents are the root of the turmoil in the world and the source of the turmoil in the world.

Only by suppressing these people can the entire Eastern World be calm.

But how difficult it is to suppress all of these forces, the prince's side is fine, but the local forces are a little more difficult to suppress.

Especially in Xiliang Li Xiang in the northwest region.

Li Xiang doesn't know that now he has become a thorn in the side of the Dagan Dynasty. He was originally both sides of allies. Because of the rapid growth of Xiliang's power, the emperor felt the strong threat from the Western Union. , has begun to impose sanctions on Xiliang.

"Master Prime Minister, there is a small pavilion in front of us, we are going to move it to sit inside." Zhou Hangjie, a very handsome youth station, said softly from behind: "It's just a student, and I have a few questions. I want to ask you some advice!"

Zhou Hangjie looked at the small pavilion in front of him: "Let's all go to the front to have a rest, I'm tired after walking all morning."

The entire group came to the small pavilion, and the young man who was speaking said aloud: "According to the records of those agricultural officials, one mu of land can produce about two stones of grain. How does Xiliang produce six stones per mu? At the same time, it can also be planted in the cold winter and twelfth lunar month?

According to the information we have obtained so far, there are at least 10 million mu of land in Xiliang, and the amount of grain for harvesting rice at one time is about 60 million stone grains. It can be harvested four times, that is, there are 240 million shi of grain.

The grain that an adult man needs to eat in a year is about 3 shi, and the population of the northwest region should be about 50 million, so they eat The amount of grain lost is only 1.5 billion stone.

This is just their grain production. In addition to grain production, they also have a lot of animal husbandry, so the amount of grain they consume should be Less than this.

But why do they still charge a lot of food from the people? The food produced by their official fields is already enough for their soldiers to eat, even if they are kept in captivity, the 50 million civilians will not be a problem.”

After the rise of Xiliang, the exploration of Xiliang by all influence became more and more detailed, and the farmland of Xiliang in the northwestern land was clearly explored by them.

Farmland is related to the grain of a faction. By exploring the amount of farmland of the other party, you can roughly understand the grain output of the other party.

Xiliang also has a particularly magical crop, cold rice, which can be planted all year round and can be harvested every two months, which makes Xiliang no problem due to grain. .

Li Xiang, the king of Xiliang, announced the abolition of agricultural tax a few years ago, that is to say, for the commoners in Xiliang, the food they grow belongs to the commoners. The King of Xiliang will not charge any more grain tax.

This is a very shocking news for the common people in the world, and for the Aristocratic Family and the Imperial Court, this is deviant.

The grain tax is something that has been handed down since ancient times, but was abandoned like that by Xiliang.

But at first they are not very optimistic about this policy on the Xiliang side, because after the abolition of the grain tax, where will the cold food come from?

Without food, Xiliang may not be able to defeat itself.

So they were very resistant to the Southwest's purchase of grain from other places at first, and they wanted to see, although what kind of solution should be used to solve the food crisis at this time.

Then they saw the unique official fields of the Xiliang army, which can also be called military fields, because these fields were cultivated by the personnel of the Xiliang headquarters.

The food used by the soldiers of Xiliang was also produced from these military fields.

The number of military fields is very large, several times more than the farmland in the hands of civilians. The food drawn from the military fields is enough to feed the entire army of Xiliang, and even the people in the entire northwestern land.

Of course, this was only discovered after they explored it later, especially the cold rice seeds.

The rise of Xiliang is largely due to the emergence of cold rice, but unfortunately they do not have the skills to germinate these grains, even if the Great Grandmaster expert personally catalyzes it, it is at most in the process of catalysis So a few.

It is impossible to catalyze the germination of these seeds on a large scale like that of the headquarter of Xiliang, which also makes them can only see this kind of seed from a distance!

The headquarter of Xiliang was originally They have a lot of grain, but why do they still buy a lot of that grain from the people?

This makes people of all influence very curious. They can't find the answer from the series, so they can ask people who have had contact with Xiliang and know about Xiliang.

In Imperial Capital's relationship with Xiliang, the most cordial is the Prime Minister Zhou Hangjie.

No one would have thought that the most unknown dísciple under their prime minister's hands would actually become one of the people who stirred the world, the unknown name of Zhang Qingyun.

In this short period of six or seven years, he has become one of the truly influential figures in the world, although he himself has nothing to stand out about, and everyone does not even know what kind of talent this person has.

But just because he is the most trusted subordinate of the King of Xiliang, he is called the Chief Manager of Xiliang. He controls almost all the politics of Xiliang, and all the officials of Xiliang belong to him.

It can be regarded as one of the most powerful figures in Xiliang.

Because of the strength of the southwest side, Zhang Qingyun's status also follows as the tide rises, the boat floats. After becoming famous, Zhang Qingyun's background is also well known.

Since then everyone has known that the Chief Manager of King Xiliang was actually the dísciple of the Prime Minister Zhou Hangjie, although the two have long since broken the grace of master and disciple due to some things.

But everyone knows that the relationship between the two of them has been broken on the surface, but when Zhou Hangjie has something to ask Zhang Qingyun to help, Zhang Qingyun will definitely help.

Because Zhou Hangjie has life-saving grace, graciousness of raising, and education to Zhang Qingyun, so many kindnesses are not broken.

Zhou Hangjie glanced at the young man and said with a smile, "How did the old man know about this?"

"Perhaps it's just that Xiliang feels that there will be bigger problems in the future. In war, we need to reserve more grain, and we don’t want these grains to go out, so we buy our own grains!” Zhou Hengjie said, leading the topic to another policy of Xiliang: “Don’t you pay attention to it? Has the monetary policy of Xinlian changed? They no longer use gold and silver, but a banknote called Mercury World in Chaos World, which they started to use before Chaos World came out One way.

All forces trading in Xiliang need to use paper money. If there is no paper money, you can go to the bank in Xiliang to exchange paper money.

This The policy can be said to be the most ruthless policy on the Xiliang side, because Li Xiang, the king of Xiliang, can use this policy to collect all the gold and silver in Jiuyuan County and the northwest region, and the civilian soldiers under his command , most of the things they get are paper money.

The paper money is valuable because he can buy a lot of goods in Jiuyuan County in the northwest region, and it is said that he has no value because He is just a piece of paper, a piece of paper made of special materials.

It may cost some to produce, but it is definitely not as valuable as the remaining gold and silver.

There is one more thing you should pay attention to, that is, if you want to buy goods from the western world, you must use the banknotes introduced by Xiliang, and currencies such as silver and gold must be correct, and you can only buy them after changing them into banknotes. "

Zhou Hangjie has noticed this policy of Xiliang a long time ago, but a long time ago, the circulation in Xiliang was only in a small area, and did not rush this policy to the entire nine Won-gun and Northwest Territories.

But just during the Chinese New Year this year, after Xiliang occupied Liang Province, they began to implement their monetary policy.

This is a policy that can destabilize the rule of their Dagan dynasty, and they have to deal with it.

Otherwise, in the future, the entire world will be in circulation with the currency of Xiliang, and the production value of these banknotes will not be worth mentioning to the southwest.

They can produce as much as they want. There is no way for them to contact or resist foreign forces.

The students present fell silent when they heard Zhou Hangjie's words. They also knew something about this news, but they didn't take it seriously.

Because the currencies used for bulk cargo transactions in Xiliang are still silver and gold, they don't think this will affect many people.

After all, those banknotes on the Xiliang side can only be used on the Xiliang side.

But thinking about it now, it seems to be a little different, because Xiliang has now become one of the economic centers of the world. They have never been to the Xiliang area, but they can tell from the words of those businessmen. , how prosperous the business development in Xiliang is.

What is the biggest purpose of those businessmen going to the Northwest Territories? Isn't it just buying goods from the western world?