"I'm in Dakang's Salt Fish Life Novel" finds the latest chapter!

In the next few days, Meng Xin'er entered the treasure house and began to check and recite the nature and characteristics of the treasure on the spot.

As a result, she regretted it a little after entering because the things were increasing, and she needed to recite more and more things.

King Su was very proud of his face. Not only did the princes, but the princes donated things, but the emperor also donated several antique calligraphy and paintings he collected.

Even the emperor donated this way, so some ministers also took out their collections.

Although it is not necessarily valuable, it must be of memorial significance.

So, it took more than a hundred pieces to turn.

But now that things have come to this point, the little girl can only curse Liu Mingqi while trying to remember.

Liu Mingqi has a lot of things to do and hasn't been with her for too long.

Next month, he will accept three concubines. He has received a lot of gifts, but he is not as good as Liu Mingjing.

Liu Mingjing's official concubine has been decided.

Ye Qian, the third daughter of Ye Zhufu, the Marquis of Junting, Jiangnan, is 19 years old this year. It is said that she is also a girl who plays with knives and guns, so she didn't get married so late.

When Ye Qian was in Jiangnan, she met Liu Mingqi and Liu Mingjing. It is said that there were only a few gatherings that made Liu Mingjing particularly interested in this girl.

Then when he came back and mentioned that he wanted to take the concubine for him, Liu Mingjing thought for a long time and finally decided to choose her.

This does not mean that there are no good girls in Beijing.

There are many nobles and royal children in the capital.

In ancient times, there was no rule that cousins ​​could not get married, but generally speaking, princes and princes did not marry women in the capital as their concubines.

They usually marry the daughter of the nobles of Jiangnan.

The consideration here is a bit big.

Because princes and princes are all noble people, if they have complex in-laws in Beijing, it will be an obstacle to imperial power.

So from the beginning, Taizu gave guidance to his sons of several princes to the daughter of the nobles of Jiangnan.

From then on, this has formed a rule.

Isn’t Liu Mingqi’s mother, Princess Yu, the daughter of Jiangnan Qin Haibo?

Even when Liu Mingqi got married, the Empress Dowager chose the daughter of Su Feng, the governor of Zhejiang, Jiangnan.

Although Su Feng may become a prime minister in the future, the officials will only be in Beijing for 10 or 20 years. The forces they have cultivated are not complicated, even if Su Xiaosong is the same.

Besides, there is the face of the empress dowager in it, who dares to say it is not?

Even the emperor had no objection.

Liu Mingqi is very useful, and Su Feng and his son are also very useful.

As for the fact that they colluded to undermine the emperor, that was something that they didn't have to worry about at all.

Neither the royal family nor the court officials would agree to such a thing happen.

There is also a crucial military power, but it has nothing to do with these two families!

When I asked the girl, the girl also liked Liu Mingjing very much. She thought that he was like a man in Jiangnan and Jinzhou City, and was a strong man, so she was very willing to marry.

The marriage between Liu Mingjing and Ye Qian was settled in this way, and it was scheduled for the first month of the New Year.

Now, the car after car of betrothal gifts on the Yi Palace have already driven along the official road to Jiangnan.

In order to catch up with the time, the Ye family might not even see the betrothal gifts, so they would prepare to rush to the capital in advance.

This is a typical manifestation of inconvenience of transportation.

If the gates of hell are opened now, even in the dry winter period, as long as it is not heavy goods, it is feasible to carry people forward slightly.

Once the Grand Canal is not smooth, it will take a lot of time if you take the land route.

If the goods that Liu Mingqi bought for Li Ruxuan were left from the capital, they would probably not arrive in January.

Now he directly purchased and allocated around Dengzhou Port, and he could deliver it to Baekje in December to solve their urgent needs.

The weather in the north is particularly bad this winter.

I heard that the blizzard was more violent than in the previous years. When I went east to Shiwei, the Qiyan Plateau in the central part and the grassland in the western part, I encountered heavy snowfalls one after another, which was very painful. It is said that not only did the livestock die and the ones die, but even the herdsmen were killed and injured.

Dakang was very happy about this, and even the emperor ate an extra spicy hotpot to celebrate.

Liu Mingqi is not very optimistic about how much strength these tribes have lost.

Because their army has always suffered little losses, and the greater the losses, the more fierce they are, and there may be greater military disasters in the coming year.

That is to say, this year, everyone has suffered a loss of both sides. They are short of clothing and food and dare not fight against Dakang's city, because it means more time to siege and more precious food is consumed under the city.

Of course, Dakang did not neglect. The border troops had quickly replenished 500,000 people, and are now training in cities, fortresses and acropolis on the border defense line.

In a relatively warm city, they have enough bran porridge and pancakes to eat every day, and warm honeycomb coal to help keep warm. This winter is not very sad.

Their days have actually declined compared to the past few years.

The victims were eating bran bran cakes and bran porridge in the past two years, and most of the soldiers still ate rice and wheat cakes.

Because eating bran makes things, I really don’t have the energy to fight!

What's the use of an army without strength?

But now Dakang is in a mess and is in short supply of food everywhere. During this period of hard work in winter, he can only feel aggrieved by millions of border soldiers.

After spring, the proportion of rice and wheat grains must be increased.

The entire 500,000 border troops were recruited in just one month, and the scale and speed were absolutely amazing.

This is not a forced recruitment, but a willingness to join the Dakang Border Army, and the quotas are all based on grabbing.

Dakang has a large population, even in border areas, the population is always several million.

Not to mention that there are many herders from the grasslands who fled to disaster, serfs, etc.

They came to Dakang, even the black householders who had no status were very happy.

Because by working hard, you can make money and support your family.

After all, the trade on the border is very developed. As guards and coolies, they follow them to the grassland to do business. They can get two or three taels of silver at a time.

Or use his own strengths to breed cattle, sheep and horses in Dakang. Many grassland people were recruited to the official horse farm and use their old skills to develop their own strengths.

These people exerted unimaginable combat power during the invasion of the Western Qiang and Uighurs.

Even though they were just refugees hiding in the city, they all rushed up one by one in the crisis, and killed their former tribe members on the top of the city without any mercy.

People in the grassland are not afraid of death, they are only afraid of poverty, they are afraid that their parents, wives and children cannot even eat, so they will starve to death.

They knew that Dakang's reward for the soldiers who died in the battle bravely was so desperate after receiving the guarantees of the city guard officials and military generals.

Of course, their sacrifice was not in vain. After the war was over and the officials sent by the court counted, they all paid according to the formal pensions of the border soldiers, and their wives and children were also considered military families and became their own members of the border soldiers.

In addition to salary and subsidies, border troops all have their own land. Anyway, there are few people in border areas.

They have always been very united, and there is no surprise for the widows of the brothers who died in battle to take care of whom? Maybe you will be the one who died in battle tomorrow, so taking care of them is also to lay the groundwork for themselves in the future.

If anyone dares to make things difficult for these orphans and widows, the border troops will deal with them themselves. The generals will not only not stop them but will help them, otherwise you will not expect to get their support and will not know how to die on the battlefield.

Seeing this result, do you think the remaining grassland people are willing to join the Dakang army?

Similarly, are the poor people in the border towns of Dakang willing to join?

Before, it was because there were enough soldiers, so they could not join.

Now after the war, Dakang has suffered numerous casualties and wounded. In order to prevent possible attacks next year, he simply made a special move, recruiting 500,000 people in one go. Therefore, people ran around and told each other and joined the border army happily.

That is, it tastes national food.

Don't think that 500,000 is a lot.

From northwest to northeast to northeast to Jiangnan, there are hundreds of cities, fortresses and acropolis, and how many people will be added to each city?

Of course, this sudden increase of 500,000 people is also a huge burden on Dakang's finances in the short term.

I don’t know how many warehouses have been emptied, how much grain has been transported to border towns in various places, and how much materials and weapons have been transported in a step-by-step manner.

All of these require a lot of manpower, material resources and financial resources.

That's why the emperor owed the salaries of the officials in Beijing so much.

That's why the Spring Festival is almost overwhelming.

What supports the officials of the court is not that the empress dowager increases the reward this year, and will give officials in Beijing a one-year salary as a reward, but sweet potatoes.

You read that right.

It's sweet potato.

At the suggestion of Nangong Ji, when the emperor harvested sweet potatoes on a large scale, at least hundreds of officials were allowed to check and supervise on the spot in each imperial farm.

When they came out, those who were frowning were immediately energetic and smiled happily.

Why?
To be continued...