Chapter 470: Wei Guo

Chapter 470: Wei Guo

  Chapter 470 Wei Guo

   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. It is said that his beatings on Feng An, Chen Longshu, Li Guangdu and other handsome men were very effective.

  As for grain, in fact, after Qin Lang went south, all places in the south of the Yangtze River and Lingnan have already begun to collect grain and transport it to the north according to his orders.

  However, transportation is not easy.

The three roads of Jiangdong, Jiangxi, Huainan are better, and 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 go through Guizhou and transshipment through Lingqu, but it is extremely difficult to transport food to Guizhou, let alone transport it to Yongzhou through Lingqu, and it is not easy 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.

   It is winter again, and the canal is also frozen.

  However, from Luoyang to Chang'an, there is a section of water transportation in Shanzhou that is difficult. It needs to disembark from the boat and go ashore, and transfer it by car and horse before entering the Yellow River and the canal to Chang'an.

   It was really difficult 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 Jiaoguangqin and other places in Lingnan. These places have more than enough food for themselves 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 been transported to Chang'an City yet.

  In fact, the best route to transport grain from Lingnan to the Central Plains is by sea. Ships transport grain from the major ports of Jiaozhou, Qinzhou, and Guangzhou, sail north along the coast, unload grain at Hangzhou or Yangzhou Port, and transfer to the canal for relay transportation.

  In this case, the grains of the three Lingnan routes can all be gathered in the coastal ports along several main streams within the route. This saves time and effort, and it is much easier than transporting it 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 will be transported to the three major ports of Jiaozhou, Qinzhou, and Guangzhou, stored in the transshipment warehouse of the seaport, and organized to dispatch ships. When the south trade wind blows, they will set sail to carry grain north to the Central Plains.

  But this year’s autumn harvest in the Central Plains was even worse than last year’s. 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.

  Just the section of Shanzhou has become a serious bottleneck, requiring a lot of manpower to transport food, but when there are more 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 of the Central Plains. Food from the south cannot come through.

  Qin Lang also didn't 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 going out of 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 100,000 soldiers and civilians go to Luoyang to eat, it will save nearly 100,000 stone grains 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 200,000. 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 place 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.

  East Turkic is over, but these Turkic herdsmen can't survive the winter on the grassland, because they have been severely affected by the disaster, and the war has 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 ones that Tuli brought back, but the hundreds of thousands of Turks captured by the Tang Dynasty are now a hot potato.

   No matter how you do it, it’s not easy to do it.

  There are more than 100,000 people, and no one dares to open their mouths to say that they are dead, or they don’t care.

  That’s not three to five hundred, it’s not three to five thousand, it’s hundreds of thousands.

  Although Li Shimin and Qin Lang were discussing this issue in their letters, they were five thousand miles apart after all, and no matter how fast the letters were, 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 Beijing to face the holy, 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 on the Great Wall line thousands of miles away.

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

  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 have a good solution 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 in a while.

   "Tomorrow is New Year's Eve, the day of family reunion on New Year's Eve, Shubao, you should go home to celebrate the New Year, get rid of the old and welcome the new."

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

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  Wuan 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 feudal 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 the feudal state.

  One is the official system of enfeoffing the country, the other is the official system of enfeoffing the noble mansion, and the third is the system of feuding the state.

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.

  Guo Ling and Da Nong are in charge of judging state affairs, Guowei is in charge of state affairs, Guocheng is in charge of Gouji, etc., and Dianwei is in charge of guarding the house.

   Each has its own responsibilities and performs its own duties.

  In addition, there is also a feudal army, such as Wu'an Prefecture, which can support three armies, each with 1,000 soldiers, and these 3,000 people belong to the state official system.

  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 are long history, Sima, counselors to join the army, record office to join the military, Liu Cao to join the military, master book, 掾, subordinates, join the military, codes, recorders, etc. A complete set of teams.

  As for the Zhang Nei Mansion and the Marriage Mansion, these two armies are under the official team of the Duke of Wei.

  Wu’an Prefecture, as a world-feuded state, also has a set of state government teams. There are governors, long histories, Sima, and six Caos participating in the military.

  Subordinates also include county magistrates.

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

  Anyway, it is actually a Yamen with three signs.

   Of course, there are 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. It was impossible for him to 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 state decree, in charge of the state officials, and command the three thousand troops of the three armies who were appointed officials. Qin Yong is the chief minister of the Duke of Wei, who leads the official team, and is also in charge of the marriage affairs and the 900 soldiers in the tent.

  Dugu Yanyun returned to Chang'an with Qin Lang.

   Ah Huang stayed temporarily, and Qin Lang gave him the title of Governor of Wu'an. He divided his 500 pro-army into 300 for him to lead, and he took only 200 with him.

  Yang Jiyuan was appointed as the Sima of Wu'an Prefecture and the magistrate of Langshan County, and Anong was also retained by Qin Lang.

  Chongniang returned to the Central Plains with Qin Lang.

  Escorted by the 200 pro-army 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 to the north, and returned to Chang'an by the same route.

  (end of this chapter)