Chapter 236 Guangxi Events [China]

Ma Yu explained: "It is not that the imperial guards are so decayed, but that the local environment is not suitable. If the northerners stationed here, when they go back, five of the ten imperial guards can often return to Bianliang City. Therefore, the imperial guards are all afraid of being stationed on Guangnan West Road. They are afraid of being afraid. If they order them, they will be beheaded if they don't go! So the soldiers of the imperial guards below have a countermeasure. When they arrive in Jinghu, they are seriously ill and find a county nearby to recuperate. The imperial guards also know that they just have to just live by the matter, otherwise it will be difficult to deal with things. So after arriving at the Guangnan West Road, the imperial guards will naturally have only a few troops left."

Zhao Qian touched his chin, which was already a little short-bearded, and felt the thorn of his fingers rubbing against it. He said, "Battle of 27, I have a little more than a 200 people in the first battalion. How could there be 5,400 people? To suppress the rebellion against Anhuaman, it was just to use the local soldiers and horses of Yizhou and Rongzhou. Why is there only 5,000 people left in the imperial guards? Why is there only a thousand people guarding the land of a state now? It's so shabby!"

Ma Yu smiled bitterly and said, "Your Majesty, you don't know anything! There are 27 battalions of troops on Guangnan West Road, but there are definitely not as many as 5,400 imperial guards, at most 5,000 imperial guards. And there are many places where these 5,000 imperial guards are stationed. Prince, have you read the geography? The south of Guangnan West Road is the Kingdom of Vietnam (Vietnam) and the west is the Kingdom of Dali. These two places are important places for the imperial guards to station troops. Therefore, there are 2,700 battalions, and 22 battalions are stationed in Yanbian prefectures and counties of these two countries. In addition, they are divided into Gui, Yi, Rong, Liu, and Xiang, which are in the states where barbarians are in chaos."

After a pause, Ma Yu continued: "In fact, Rongzhou is better. With Guizhou, there are naturally more troops stationed. Yizhou, as a place of rebellion, currently only has 800 people stationed! Many places have to be stationed by local natives."

Speaking of this, Ma Yu smiled bitterly and said, "Actually, to be honest, the so-called natives are actually obedient to the tune and not the propaganda."

Zhao Jin nodded and said, "I understand that Rongzhou only has one county, but there are 4,658 households registered in the court. Rongshui County, the capital of Rongzhou, is only rated as Zhongxian! I think there are quite a large number of local natives!"

The Northern Song Dynasty divided the counties into eight levels, Chi County: in the capital, outside the capital, Wang County: more than 4,000 households, tight county: more than 3,000 households, upper county: more than 2,000 households, middle county: more than 1,000 households, middle and lower county: less than 1,000 households, lower county: less than 500 households.

Zhao Qian said just now that Rongshui County is Zhongxian, and the population is naturally a thousand households, and this population is not large. In the Song Dynasty, most of the people were about four (adult) people, and more than one thousand households actually had a population of four!

As for the number of other households, they are naturalized natives and locals in the state, but this data is not accurate.

Zhao Qian asked: "How many real troops are Anhuaman? Do you know this Matige?"

Ma Yu nodded with a serious expression and said, "This official knows, but the accurate number is not clear."

After a pause, Ma Yu continued, "Because of defeating the official army, Anhua barbarians became strong, and many uncomfortable barbarians joined. Gulao, Daixi, and Puyi have joined, and Jincheng is even more ready to move."

Feng Shanji was shocked when he heard this and couldn't help but exclaim.

Zhao Qian turned his head and looked at Feng Shanji, saying, "What's wrong with this Jincheng?"

Feng Shenji suppressed his mind and replied respectfully: "Jincheng is a key military camp, and it is the only way to escape from the sea in the southwest of Yizhou. At the same time, the land is fertile and has the reputation of a small granary in Yizhou! This is not counting. Yizhou's most famous tribute comes from here! The local Han vassal state is mixed, and relatively speaking, there are many vassal people, and it is a vassal state. However, the local magistrate has always been close to me in the Song Dynasty and received the favor of the emperor in the world. I think this news is probably untrue!"

The tribute gold is not about gold or gold sand, but about copper!

Zhao Qian ignored Feng Shanji's words and looked at Ma Yu and said, "Since there is fine copper there, I think the barbarians who come to Jincheng are quite rich!"

Ma Yu nodded and said, "That's right, and because of his pro-Song, there are a lot of iron tools there!"

Iron tools were an important means of checking and balancing the states in the Song Dynasty. On the one hand, it was to raise the price of the railway to plunder its resources, and on the other hand, it was to control its force.

The second aspect is easy to say. On the first aspect, as far as Zhao Qian knows, it makes people deeply feel that his huge profits are. A pound of iron can actually be exchanged for ten kilograms of copper ore! Ten kilograms of copper ore can be at least two kilograms of copper! One kilogram of copper is near Guangzhou, worth 150 cents of copper! It is even more expensive to go to the north. In the first year of Baoyuan, in order to collect military wages and food, Xia Shu asked the court for permission to redeem his sins. To put it bluntly, he would give money to make up for his sins. The price given was one kilogram of copper or five dou of millet.

The price of grain in Shaanxi is relatively expensive, with a minimum of fifty cents per pound of millet! In other words, the price of one pound of copper reaches a high price of at least 250 cents per pound. And what about iron? Guangnan West Road is a bit expensive, fifty cents per pound! Discard the firewood, labor and other costs, and just this transaction, there is less than five times the profit! Moreover, copper can not only be sold, but also used to cast copper coins, with a guaranteed price.

Zhao Qian looked at Wang Ranbo and asked, "The deputy envoy of Transportation should know how much Rongzhou tribute is traded every year, right?"

Although Wang Ranbo had Zhang Shixun's hint that he wanted to pull Zhao Feng's back, pulling the back is also a technical job. It is impossible to pull it all at any time, which is too obvious. Therefore, Wang Ranbo did not make any small moves on this small question and answered honestly. "The barbarians are behind, so there are not too many copper ores, but there are also many, only 10,000 kilograms of copper ores per year!"

Zhao Qian calculated in his mind that this ten thousand kilograms of copper ore is also a lot. Moreover, the copper ore in Jinchengzhou is of high quality, so you can produce 40% of copper no matter how you do it. This is 4,000 kilograms of copper!

This can also be used to mint coins by yourself. There are many private coins in the Northern Song Dynasty. This is also related to the large amount of copper content of copper coins in the Song Dynasty. A copper coin contains 70% of copper. Zhang Fangping, a minister of the Song Shenzong era, said this to Song Shenzong. If you sell ten coins, you will get one or two liang of fine copper, and make objects, you may benefit five times more!

From here, we can see that ten copper coins are just one or two copper coins! According to the government's minting specifications, you can get 640 stakes of money, which is not too much. What do you think about Wang Ranbo, Feng Shenji and the others so nervous? Forget it, this place is a military tyrant, so you have to pay attention to it no matter what!

"I need to send someone to comfort me!" Zhao Qian opened his mouth and ordered.

Ma Yu smiled bitterly and said, "Reply to the prince's words! I have sent officials to Jinchengzhou before, but the envoy sent back to report that the governor of Jinchengzhou is ambiguous, and I am afraid that it is a good player to be a good player!"

Zhao Qian frowned slightly when he heard this, and tapped the case with his fingers a few times, saying, "Let's put this matter down for the time being! As the saying goes, the three armies will go first before they move their food and grass, how about this food and grass?"

At this time, Zhao Chen was not watching Ma Yu, but Wang Ranbo, deputy envoy of Transportation. The former Transportation Instructor Cao Keming was in a state of great trouble because of the murder of Zhang Huaizhi in the army and horses, and basically all government affairs were handed over to Wang Ranbo to manage. Therefore, although Wang Ranbo was the second-in-command, he was the actual person in charge of the Guangnan West Road Transportation Department in the past few months. Naturally, no one was more in the situation than him in the current situation of grain transportation on Guangnan West Road.

Wang Ranbo looked around and said, "The major issues of food and supplies must be kept secret!"

Zhao Qian then realized that there were too many people in the White Tiger Hall! He nodded and said, "What the deputy envoy of Transformation said is that I have missed the attention for a while!"

Zhao Qin put down this question for the time being, asked the situation in various places, and then asked the others to leave. He only left a few powerful figures, Wang Ranbo, deputy envoy of the Transportation and the governor of Guangnan West Road, Ma Yu, and Mazhai, who took over Yan Wenying, Counselor Feng Shenji, Chen Guangying, commander of the Imperial Army stationed in Guizhou, Yang Wenguang, commander of the Imperial Army Battalion of Guangnan West Road, and Li Shouzhong, commander of the II Battalion. In addition, Zhao Jin, there were only eight people, and they sat down according to their positions and ranks.

"Deputy Transportation Envoy, now let me tell you how much rice and grain are in stock? How much money and silver are there?" Zhao Qian looked at Wang Ranbo and asked calmly.

Wang Ranbo hated Zhao Jin, the title of deputy envoy for transportation. Although he is indeed the deputy envoy for transportation, you don’t have to hold the sub-word at all times! As he spoke, he was inevitably a little dissatisfied. "Your Majesty, the grain is easy to say. Although the autumn grain was sent to the court last year, the summer harvest is here this year, and you can buy it if it is not enough! The price of grain on Guangnan West Road is low, and a bucket of rice costs only ten cents!"

Zhao Qian couldn't help but secretly smacked his tongue when he heard this. Although he had known that Guangnan West Road was cheap for a long time, he could not have thought that a bucket of rice was only ten coins! A stone of rice was only one hundred coins! In Bianliang City, a stone of rice had reached more than four hundred cents! The price difference was more than four times!

Wang Ranbo: "It's just that the tax revenue is not very good. Because Guangnan West Road is short of money, especially those barbarians, they basically barter, so the money collected has to be reduced. In previous years, the annual tax revenue was about 80,000 guan! This year, when the Anhua Barbarian Rebellion was affected, it was probably only 70,000 guan, or even less! The summer harvest is a little less than the autumn harvest, and I'm afraid it's less than 30,000 guan!"

Zhao Qian couldn't help but frown slightly, less than 30,000 yuan? Zhao Qian, who had been Jingdong East Road, knew the situation on Jingdong East Road at that time. In Qingzhou, the tax revenue per year was already 20,000 yuan! Because of the sea trade in Dengzhou, there were 6,000 yuan in commercial tax alone!

No wonder Feng Shenji was so nervous when he heard something happened in Jinchengzhou! Although Zhao Qian followed their words, he just felt that Jinchengzhou was a strategic location! Now it seems that Jinchengzhou accounts for a certain proportion of Guangnan West Road tax revenue.

After gently tapping the fingers and fingers, Zhao Qian asked: "What is the situation in the granary? I want to be detailed!"

Wang Ranbo was not vague about this matter. "The grain and grass stored in most prefectures and counties on Guangnan West Road have been transported to Guizhou, with about 10,000 stones! It is enough to support the army of 10,000 in the past month! At the same time, the summer harvest has begun, and grain from all over the country will be delivered to Guizhou in a steady stream, and the war will be started for a year!"

Zhao Chen ignored Wang Ranbo's part of the words, which were very misleading.

Zhao Chen had fought a war and didn't know what the army consumed? That's right, because a soldier had to consume almost one stone of food a month. Ten thousand stones of food was indeed enough for ten thousand soldiers to need a month, but that was just theoretical! The people who still needed to transport grain in the middle of the journey would consume it, and there would inevitably be losses. Moreover, this 10,000 stones of food could not be used all of them, so there would be some way out. If a profitable businessman raised the price of grain, Zhao Chen would have the opportunity to suppress it. After the defeat, he would have the capital to make a comeback.

"How many troops can be mobilized in Guizhou now!" Zhao Qian looked at Ma Yu and said.

Before Ma Yu could speak, Chen Guangying, the commander of the Imperial Army stationed in Guizhou, was already busy and said, "Prince, our troops have only 200 people. Moreover, they are from northern China. They are not familiar with local language and have poor coordination. This battle was sent to our troops, which is probably delaying the prince's affairs!"

Zhao Qian didn't know how many times it was today. He had already cursed his mother in his heart, suppressing his anger and said, "Let's let go of whether your troops want to send troops!"

Chen Guangying is not a ungrateful person. Although Zhao Jin did not agree, he was afraid that Zhao Jin would cause trouble. He immediately responded to his promise and sat back honestly. If he didn't look carefully, he would be afraid that he would just say that this guy was a wax figure!

Ma Yu looked at Zhao Feng and smiled bitterly, as if saying: Prince, you saw it! They are all a group of arrogant soldiers and powerful generals, and it is difficult to lead the team!

"Matige, let's go on with the question just now!" Zhao Qian said with a dark face and hard.

Knowing that Zhao Qian's anger was not coming to him, Ma Yu didn't feel anything, so he nodded and said, "According to the statistics of the officials, there are two battalions of soldiers who can be mobilized, both of them are Yangshuo soldiers, and there are about 600 soldiers in fact! In addition, there are more than 300 soldiers in the vassal states that can be mobilized, but the prince needs to beware of the vassal states' defeat! The reason why Zhang Huaimin was defeated by the vassal states was quite related to the vassal states' turn against him!"

After hearing this, Zhao Qian felt aroused his heart and asked, "Although Zhang Huaimin has been killed in battle for half a year, I only know that he was led into the mountains by An Huaman and ambushed and killed in battle. The details are not clear. Matishi, what is going on?"

Ma Yu shook his head and said, "Cao Zhuanyun did not send his subordinates to participate in that battle. The subordinates were in Xiangzhou at that time, and what they knew was heard, and it was not entirely true. If the prince wanted to know the details, the subordinates would come and tell the prince in detail the situation at that time!"

Zhao Jin nodded and said, "That's good! But where is that person now?"

Ma Yu replied: "It's not far away. It's one of the people in the White Tiger Hall just now. I think I'm just resting in the military camp in the city. It's not far away. It's about a quarter of an hour!"

Zhao Qian said, "Well, I don't waste much time, so I'll trouble you!"

Ma Yu accused him of guilt and stood up and left.

Zhao Qian did not waste this time, but briefly discussed with others that if he wanted to attack Anhuaman, at least how many troops should be sent, which one should be attacked Anhuaman, etc.
Chapter completed!