11. Weibo Port opened
"This time, it is the first battle since the new emperor's reign. It is also the first battle planned by the Zaitang, the Cardinal and the three departments." Du Huangshang then looked around the other three prime ministers, his voice firmly and lowly. "We must achieve a great victory and give the world a clear result, which is related to the success or failure of the Zhenyuan New Deal."
The three ranks and all the people in the Secretariat bowed their hands in a terrifying manner, saying that they would never slack off.
Then Du Huangshang held his hands and his expression became more serious. "As for Jiannan, it is indeed suspicious to have 350,000 ounces of copper coins to cast cannons, but Zaitang seems to have no criticism from Wei Gao. This matter should be waited for Heshuo to get good news and then resolved accordingly and try to control it within the operation of the court."
Both Lu Zhi and Zheng Zhi agreed with this.
In mid-June, Wei Bo Jinzhaoyuan came to the town's envoy, and then went to the Daming Palace Guest Province, waiting for the summons of the Xinhuang and the Zhongshu. Later, the Xinhuang accepted the envoys in the Zichen Palace to attend the meeting. "Princess Jiacheng is my aunt, how could he not accept Tian Shaoqing's reform?" After Wei Bo's envoy apologized, Li Song was very tolerant and generous in picking up the snow in Wei Bo Town.
Immediately afterwards, the subordinates of the Secretariat also stated that the six prefectures in Weibo Town remained unchanged, and Tian Ji'an opened Fangtou, Ye, Licao, and Weizhou Daming Prefecture to seek capital. Weibo submitted a letter to express his respect for the court and his apology for the previous besieging Mingzhou. The court also agreed to upgrade Tian Ji'an to the Tianxiong Army and his official position to be promoted to the Censor-in-Chief.
As for Wang Wujun's embarrassment and retreating back to Zhending Mansion, he still occupied Xingzhou and tried to bargain with the court.
Zai Tang quickly sent a letter to the hall to reprimand Wang Wujun's rebellion, and asked the two armies of Yiwu and Lulong to fight against him. They also said that they would expand the Sanggan River from the east of the river, personally go out to fight against Wang Wujun from the north and south.
Liu Ji, the governor of Lulong of Youyan, immediately expressed his opinion enthusiastically, and then lit up 30,000 troops, claiming to be 70,000. He said that if he didn't work hard in the court, I would capture Wang Wujun and his son. Those who had a feud with Chengde Army (see the previous article, Chengde Army and Lulong Army had been constantly rubbing blood and feces since Li Baochen and Zhu Xicai's era) Youyan united his children and all enthusiastically supported Liu Ji, and brought their own weapons, military horses and food, and gathered in the military palace like clouds.
Then Zhang Maozhao, the Yiwu Army, could not be deficient, and hurriedly gathered 20,000 troops and horses to attack Wang Wujun. In addition, Henghai Town (the core prefecture and county were Cangzhou), separated from Chengde, was also quite interested in responding to the imperial edicts.
In this way, Gao Yue sat upright in Bian Song, south of the river, and watched Wang Wujun happily "resisting" Lu Long, Yiwu and Henghai Sanfang Towns.
Previously, a large number of ships from Huaiyang arrived in Bianzhou from Tongji Canal, entered the Yellow River at Heyinyuan, and turned to the northeast. From the prime minister Weizhou and then entered the Yongji Canal, heading straight to the port of Damingfu in Weizhou. From it, not only did a large number of Huaiyang goods and southern goods be unloaded, but also sent the 200,000 stag of money that Gao Yue had promised to Tian before.
When this batch of money was placed under the military palace ring, Tian Ji'an went to visit in person and said happily to Hu Shang beside him: "The Gaogong Shi is really a gentleman who promises a thousand gold. He is like drinking sweet cheese. How can it be compared with Wang Wujun and Li Shigu's group of fickle little disciples?" With this money, Tian Ji'an paid the pension for the fallen soldiers, repaired Linyuan for Princess Jiacheng, and received the support of Hu Shang Group again. It can be said that he won three goals in one fell swoop and was relaxed.
Shi Zhouluo also organized the Zhaowu Hu merchants to set up tax sites in Tangyin, Ye, Fangtou, Licaokou, Daming, Qinghe and other important places, and began to withdraw "travel money" by passing merchants and reduce taxes from farmers in the six prefectures of Weibo, claiming to "promote merchants to benefit the military and civilians."
The farmers of Weibo were happy. They no longer had to pay so much grain and cloth to Daming Mansion. When farmers had surplus products, trade and transactions naturally developed. So farmers were excited to develop mulberry fields. Because Weibo was the hometown of "Mao Shi" and the textile center of Hebei Road. Now the restoration of this industry is just to pick up ancient memories. At the same time, Weibo's Gaotang, Liaocheng, Qinghe and other cities that were originally rich in commercial colors, merchants also looked up. After seeing that Tian Ji'an had abandoned the policy of valuing agriculture of his ancestors, they regained their ambitions and began to purchase raw silk and cloth in Man Town, selling it to Hengji, Henghai, Youyan and other northern places, and then selling it to the colder north. More brave merchants directly crossed the Taihang Mountains and expanded their business to Shangdang, Taiyuan and even the Uighurs.
Wei Bo's soldiers were also very happy. The cloth from Huaiyang and Jiangdong came, and the local cloth industry also recovered. The price of cloth became more and more abundant and cheap. So they were not satisfied with the military pay for the previous distribution of rations and clothes, so they began to ask for copper coins and silver treasures. Tian Ji'an also agreed, "After that, the military funds of Wei Bo Town were half a coin and half a physical item, and the physical items were divided into cloth, cotton, salt, tea, and evil." As a result, the soldiers were all happy!
Under the shade of the tree in front of the Digong Temple in Daming Prefecture (sacrificing to Di Renjie), dozens of Hu Shangshang (Sogdian) and local Han merchants were respectfully standing in front of Wang Si of Dafa Shang and Aunt Yu, who were coming with the ship, as if looking at the man and woman of the God of Wealth.
"Wei Bo's silk and silk are definitely not inferior to Huaiyang and Suhang." Aunt Yu held a piece of cloth and exclaimed.
Wei Bo's businessmen looked at each other with complacent look and were very happy with Aunt Yu's praise.
"It would be a pity if you don't sell such good silk to Silla and Japan." Wang Si's uncle said, then raised four fingers and said to the Weibo merchants, "As long as you go out to sea, you will have four times the profit."
Dozens of Weibo merchants opposite each other stretched their necks and made dense sounds of swallowing saliva.
"We have seas, and we have seas, and we have seas, and we have seas. We buy your silk at a high price and sell them to Haidong with large ships. You have no chance of going to sea, but you can get a share of the pie. How about?" Wang Si's uncle crossed his hands and suggested sincerely.
"Don't Huaiyang have enough silk?" someone asked.
Aunt Yu said generously: "There are so many, but the trade volume in Haidong is too large. We will soon develop trade to the South and West Seas. Where can the production of Huaiyang and Jiangdong alone be achieved?"
No wonder they took a fancy to Wei Bo's silk industry.
"But mulberry fields and wheat fields cannot coexist. Our Wei Mansion is located between the Dahe River and the Zhang River. It is already a clear place. Once there is more silk, the grain will be produced less."
Chapter completed!