Chapter 832 Longyou’s eagerness
Under Li Tai's order, the members of the General Administration Office, who had just regained control of Mianbei by planning a civil uprising, urgently recruited a group of craftsmen and rushed to Jiangling day and night.
This group of craftsmen who arrived in Gangneung were mainly printers. When they arrived, Li Tai had even had someone design and engrave the master plate for printing. What these people needed to engrave was the one named Dingding. Print of Liang Jun's merit certificate.
These military merit coupons are divided into denominations of one, ten and fifty, which can be directly exchanged for silk of the same denomination, and can also be used to purchase various supplies in the military market.
Anmin City was originally set up temporarily. As Jiangling City and surrounding strongholds were captured, the people in Anmin City were also dispersed to various places. The free fortress was just being cleaned to build a military city.
The army of the Western Wei Dynasty has never had a complete logistics system, and this time the army came south, it was clear that it wanted to take advantage of big households. Li Tai had just seized military power. In order to stabilize the morale of the army, he did not discuss issues such as food and grass consumption with the garrison generals. The supplies were still unified by the Jingzhou General Manager's Office.
But now that Jiangling has been conquered and the situation has gradually stabilized, and Li Tai has generously distributed so many rewards, of course there is no longer any obligation to support these armies. It is only right that they each take charge of raising supplies. .
The armies raised their own supplies, either by consuming the rewards they received or by plundering on the spot. Under Li Tai's military law, the latter was obviously not possible, so the rewards could only be used to purchase food and drink materials, and the role of the military market was naturally reflected.
When these printed Dingliang military merit coupons were distributed on a small scale among some troops, the soldiers were more or less doubtful. Just these small pieces of paper with complex patterns and dazzling eyes are worth hundreds of pieces of silk? Although I don’t read much, I’m not stupid!
Therefore, the first thing these soldiers who received their rewards had to do was to swarm into the military market with these military merit coupons and use these military merit coupons to make purchases.
The purchasing power of one hundred pieces of silk is still very amazing. Not to mention the joke of being able to buy one of Gao Aocao's fingers. For example, in the Eastern Wei Dynasty's conscription tradition of using silk as a substitute for military service, a soldier's annual consumption of fifteen pieces of silk for food and clothing was even slightly higher. surplus.
Although Jiangling is currently in wartime, prices are higher than usual, but profit is not the first priority when selling goods in the military market. Most of the goods are only limited to purchase, but the prices are still the usual prices.
Naturally, the first batch of soldiers who poured into the military market gave priority to redeeming silk, and most of them extracted the full amount. When they saw that the silk cloth was actually redeemed in full, they suddenly couldn't help but smile, and each called their friends and generals. These silk rewards were carried back to the camp.
But they soon discovered that the transportation and storage of these silks was a problem. It was impossible for everyone in the military camp to have a separate small tent. No matter how spacious the big shop for a dozen people was, it would definitely not be able to accommodate thousands of horses. Silk! Although the gifts are good, they really take up space, and once the army moves to camp, these gifts will immediately become a drag.
Some people returned to the military market with silk in their hands to buy some goods. However, these goods may have become smaller in size, but they also had more types and were very easy to lose. It was also a headache to store them. When they wanted to exchange the silk for military merit coupons, they were told that the military market did not accept this kind of exchange. If they wanted to store the silk, they would need to pay a certain management fee.
So the first batch of rewarded soldiers could only hold those silks and worry about their toothache every day. After all, they really didn't expect General Li to be so true to his word and really treat the pieces of paper as Come use the money and silk!
This situation lasted until the second batch of military merit coupons were issued. By this time, the embarrassment faced by the first batch of wise men had already spread among the armies, so the second batch of rewarded soldiers Naturally, he would no longer foolishly cash out all the rewards at once, but directly take the military certificates to the market to purchase the needed supplies.
The smart people who stepped in for everyone in advance felt even more depressed when they saw this scene. However, there are some really smart people among them. Since the military market does not provide the opportunity to redeem military merit coupons, the effect of redeeming them from Pao Ze is the same! As a result, the practice of exchanging military certificates privately began to appear in the military soon. The small piece of paper, which was originally looked down upon and questioned by others, soon became an important medium for exchanging what was needed.
Soon, the camp governors reported the news to Li Tai. After Li Tai learned about it, he did not order a ban. Anyway, the scenarios where the military merit certificates could be redeemed were limited to the military market outside Jiangling City, and Only soldiers from the Western Wei Dynasty with military status can enter the market to trade.
With so many restrictions, military certificates themselves do not have much room for hoarding. The only thing that needs to be noted is that if there is a dispute in the army due to private exchange, both parties involved and their superiors will be severely punished.
The issuance of military merit coupons and the opening of the military market immediately opened up the demand of these hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and their purchasing power also increased. The materials obtained from Jiangling's treasury were flowed into the armies through military market transactions, and the masses were able to get what they needed, forming a more reasonable distribution.
In addition to the materials seized from the Jiangling Treasury, as the military market continued, more products were added to the market transactions, including various products from Mianbei Workshop. But instead of transporting it here from Miobei, it is better to build a workshop directly in Jiangling and produce it on site.
At present, Jiangling is still under military control. Of course, it is impossible to attract investment like Mianbei, so it can only build official workshops. Fortunately, the staff of the general manager's office were already familiar with this set of procedures, and they soon began to prepare in an orderly manner. Many Gangneung food refugees were recruited to work in workshops, providing work in exchange for relief, which also promoted the recovery of people's livelihood in Gangneung.
There are frequent exchanges of materials between Jiangling and Miobei, and there are also some locals in Jiangling who want to copy the industrial model of Miobei locally to build workshops. However, after several years of preparation and development, the scale of the industry in Mianbei is far from comparable to that of Jiangling. The products are dumped all the way, and even with the cost of transportation, they are cheaper than local products. There is not enough room for profit, so Naturally, there is no opportunity to develop industries.
But now that the Jingzhou General Administration has come forward to operate these industries, there are naturally no previous restrictions. Therefore, these workshops were quickly established, and a set of processes ran smoothly from raw material processing to final product output. In addition to previous experience, Jiangling is also close to the Yangtze River. Low and convenient logistics costs have accelerated the development of these handicraft industries.
The extremely poor local proletarians in Gangneung were recruited to work in the workshops in exchange for food to survive, and the products produced were sent to the nearby military market.
The officers and soldiers of the Western Wei Dynasty purchased goods in the military market through the military merit coupons they were awarded. However, because the army was out on the field, their needs were not as diverse as their home life. In addition to food and clothing consumption, most of the other goods were actually There is not much demand.
They don't have relevant needs, but other Jiangling people do. Since Jiangling was under military control, some private business activities and material circulation basically came to a standstill. These Jiangling citizens had nowhere to purchase and replenish their supplies after consuming their home stores. The only active trading place was the military market outside the city, and the military market only supplied goods to the soldiers of the Western Wei Dynasty.
Where there's a demand, there's a market, so soon there was a desire to trade goods from the military. For example, some commodities that are completely unavailable in the military market are indispensable materials for the lives of residents in the city. Most of the goods in the military market are cheap. As long as they leave the military market and enter the normal market circulation, there will be huge profit margins.
Therefore, under the influence of this supply and demand relationship, the purchasing power of military certificates increased significantly with the support of various transactions, which also benefited many soldiers of the Western Wei Dynasty.
Of course, this is also a kind of exploitation and plunder, but it is gentler than direct burning, killing and looting. It can maintain military discipline while stabilizing people's livelihood, and at the same time strengthen the control over the hearts of Jiangling soldiers and people. Whether it was the army, the refugees, or the people with permanent property in the city, they all found their place in this temporary order, and each settled in his place, forming the latest post-war social scene in Gangneung.
Wang Lin and other people around her actually wanted to see the continued chaos in Jiangling. People's livelihood has not been restored for a long time, and the burning, killing and looting cannot last long. The continuous chaos not only makes the occupiers unpopular, but also increases their The burden and pressure of continuing to station the army will reduce the difficulty of the army's counterattack to recapture Jiangling.
But just as they did not expect Jiangling City to be captured so quickly, the subsequent rapid restoration of order in Jiangling was beyond their imagination. Obviously such a big thing happened, but not only did Jiangling City and its surroundings not have any sustained riots, the situation was actually more stable than when Emperor Liang Xiao Yi was in power!
Li Tai has rich experience in fighting chaos. From the time he first entered Guanzhong, when the human and land resources in Guanzhong had been divided up by those who were the first movers, he had already learned to break out from the edges and work in areas that others could not notice. Work hard and eventually achieve an overpowering effect.
Therefore, Wang Lin and other remnants of Nanliang expected him to make mistakes in the process of fighting the chaos in Jiangling. It was better to hope that some sudden changes would disturb him, such as someone's sudden death.
In the Shayuan camp far away in Guanzhong, several galloping horses galloped into the camp. The knights on the horses were already weathered and haggard. When they turned over and dismounted, they even fell directly to the ground. But when the surrounding sergeants saw this and wanted to come forward to help them, they were repelled by their hoarse roars: "Don't come near, report to King Yuwen quickly, Longyou is in a hurry!"
Soon, several sergeants were led staggeringly to Yuwentai in the big tent. At this time, the leader took out a secret letter with intact paint from his arms, held it in front of Yuwentai with both hands, and had tears in his eyes. He said sadly: "Your Majesty, my husband, my husband..."
At this moment, Yu Wentai felt that something was wrong. He hurriedly grabbed the secret letter, broke it open and started reading. Immediately, his whole body froze there, and even his breathing stopped.
"Uncle..."
After Yuchigang saw this, he stepped forward and asked Yuwentai in a low voice what was wrong, but was unable to respond. When he stepped forward again and touched Yuwentai's shoulder with his finger, Yuwentai suddenly let out a mournful cry and lay down on his back on the table. .
Although it's a bit inappropriate to say this, there's really something going on today. I will try my best to write a more exciting follow-up tomorrow. . .