The spring of the eighth year of Xiangxing has arrived, and Tanbo Pavilion is full of vitality. After the imperial lecture, Zhao Bing returned to the palace and changed into a regular dress and came to the study to review official documents. Now he has been extremely repulsive about the lectures of the imperial lectures to be acceptable, especially the "Zizhi Tongjian" taught by Hu Sansheng. This can be said to be an encyclopedia of the emperor. It not only contains the way of rise and fall, but also has experience and lessons. He has been immersed in this book for many years and has compiled and widely annotated, so the two can discuss it. Ma Tingluan once edited the "Attachment of Jingwu" and was deeply immersed in the military preparations of this era and made him systematically understand the contemporary military preparations, so he still gained something.

"Official family, please use tea!" Su Lan handed it to the tea channel.

"Sister Su, have you left the palace again to see Su Xin?" Zhao Bing raised his eyes and looked at Su Lan.

"Well, I haven't reported it yet, please atone for my sins!" Su Lan nodded and said.

"What is this a crime? Ni Liang is leading the army outside. It's okay if you go and see her. Erlang of the Ni family is almost a hundred days old, right?" Zhao Bing waved his hand and asked with a chuckling. That year, after he found out that Ni Liang and Su Xin had an encounter with him, he did not rush to give him a marriage, but was worried that he would bully Ni Liang and let her stay in the Empress Dowager Middle School to learn the rules. He only issued an order to give him a marriage three years ago, and now his sons are two.

"I am thanking the official family for Su Xin!" Su Lan said again, "But the official family is impatient, and it will take more than a month!"

"Ni Liang can still drink his son's hundred-day wine, so I will join in the fun!" Zhao Bing said after quitting.

"The official family will be crowned next year and will be married. The queen mother is busy choosing concubines for the official family!" Seeing that the little emperor had changed from a fat man to a handsome young man, and was as tall as himself, she said with a smile.

"The strong enemy has not been destroyed and the Central Plains has not been restored, so why do I become a family? The empress dowager is too impatient!" Zhao Bing waved his hands repeatedly.

"The current situation of the official family is becoming more and more beneficial to our dynasty. I believe that it will take less time for the official family to sweep the south and north of the Yangtze River and return to their hometown!" Su Lan pointed to the map hanging on the wall and said.

"I hope this is the case..." Zhao Bing also turned his head to look at the mottled map dyed with various colors and sighed, how much effort he had spent on this red patch, and how many people had sacrificed for it...

In the fifth year of Xiangxing, Zhao Bing reached an agreement with the Otu merchants. Qiongzhou no longer intercepted its merchant ships. Only twice the tariff was paid when docked in Qiongzhou ports. In return, the Otu merchants used their relationship to provide shelter to the caravans of the Affairs Bureau to ensure that they could pass through Jiangnan. In addition, they were required to use their relationship to order the border generals of the coastal states to arbitrarily send troops to encircle and suppress the quarantine areas; in addition, they were required to raise horses, copper and iron and other embargo materials for them.

Of course, Zhao Bing knew that the businessmen made profits. The agreement and promise were similar to the same thing. The most effective way was to join forces with both parties to pull them into their own business. So these Otu merchants became one of the private salt dealers, but they could not sell them in Jiangnan, and Qiongzhou salt dealers would not cross the Yangtze River. Both sides would benefit from their own interests.

In the minority, cooperation with the Otu merchants was to collude with profiteers to harm national interests, and in the majority, it was to collude with enemies. Therefore, Zhao Bing had to inform several important officials, of course he should have concealed it. However, after a fierce and friendly negotiation, he convinced everyone that salt was already a pillar industry in the dynasty, and everyone knew that with the salt production in Qiongzhou, all the soldiers and civilians could not consume salt every day, and mainly rely on exports. Now they have had a feud with the Otu merchants and cut off the wealth path of the Yuan court. If they cracked down on "private salt", they would also be trapped to death, let alone restored the country.

But at first how could these gentlemen bow for a rice dump! So Zhao Bing persuaded him again and said that he did this not just for money. One was to allow the people of Jiangnan to eat salt, the other was to destroy the enemy's Jiangnan economic system, and the third was to support the anti-yuan force through salt trafficking. This was said, everyone felt that it was acceptable, but they were still doubtful. So Zhao Bing could only explain again...

After Kublai Khan established the Yuan Dynasty, he gradually established a standardized salt management system in the Central Plains and introduced salt quotas as a management method. The corresponding unified salt sales method of commercial transportation and merchants also began to be widely piloted. Salt merchants used salt to recruit salt to the salt farm to sell it in the formulated sales area. After the north and the south were unified, the Yuan court promoted the northern salt management system to the south. For a time, salt merchants gathered in Jiangnan, and the salt price also dropped sharply.

The Yuan government monopolized the production of salt and controlled millions of salt every year. Except for a very small part of the salt, which was supplied to the royal family, army, and craftsmen, was mostly used to enter the process of circulation and exchange for currency, as an important source of national fiscal revenue. However, the good times did not last long. With the rise of the Qiongzhou naval army, the coastal salt farms were greatly damaged. And with the start of production of Qiongzhou salt farms, a large amount of private salt began to pour into the Jiangnan market, which led to the beginning of unsalable sales and the salt price dropped sharply.

Everyone here knows that salt production is monopolized by the state, and it is profit except for the production cost. The state also controls the price of salt through pricing power. Apart from the production cost, the difference is profit. That is to say, the higher the price, the higher the profit, but the premise is that the salt must be sold. The method of selling salt in previous dynasties: one is sold by merchants, that is, merchant transportation and merchant sales; the other is sold directly by the state, that is, official sales. The basic procedure is that the government forcibly allocates the salt amount according to the population or number of households, and collects the salt price according to the amount, also called pile distribution.

At first, the Yuan court only implemented official sales in a few places, but with the continued war and the impact of private salt, it would inevitably lead to insufficient income. As an important fiscal revenue, they had to put their ideas on this. Under the auspices of Ahama, they began to promote the "Salt Method" and implemented official sales. Under the salt method, the state directly and nakedly plundered the general public. Purchasing salt became an obligation that every household must bear. Even babies in the cradle were not allowed to face. When sharing the salt amount, regardless of whether the household registration was reduced or not, they were only distributed according to the original amount. The salt amount of the fleeing households fell on the neighbors' accounts.

For the general public, the circulation of salt means the continuous increase in salt classes. They suffered huge losses for the growth of prices, and the government obtained a lot of income from it. This made their lives more difficult and thus exacerbated the conflicts with the state. At the same time, the state's control over the production and sales process of salt will inevitably lead to the prevalence of private salt sales and the emergence of salt disciples, which will further complicate social contradictions.

On the other hand, in order to ensure salt production, the Yuan court strengthened its control over salt households. After entering the Yuan Dynasty, the conquerors implemented the "all-color household plan" system for serving the whole people according to the old grassland system: all residents were classified as civilian households, military households, station households, craftsmen, salt households, Confucian households, medical households, music households, etc. Once the occupation was designated, it was not allowed to be easier, inherited from generation to generation, and they were responsible for corresponding taxes and service.

The obligations of salt households are mainly two aspects. On the one hand, as producers of specific official handicraft departments, they have to pay the production and salt to the state; on the other hand, they are all registered households in feudal countries, so they must also bear the same burden of taxes, grains and even labor services as households. In order to increase the income from salt households, the state continuously increases the amount of salt paid by each salt department. When many salt households are forced to flee due to difficulties in life, the government will spread the amount of salt they left onto existing households, which will increase the taxes and become increasingly poor.

The Yuan government's fiscal revenue often does not cover expenditures, so it uses the indiscriminate issuance of paper money as a means to make up for the shortfall, resulting in continuous depreciation of paper money, rising prices, and salt prices are no exception. However, the high official salt prices are generally unaffordable for people to eat, so they will inevitably try to buy low-priced salt. Poor salt households also need to sell some salt privately to maintain a low standard of living.

The result is that the country does not give up its salt income, and it will be necessary to exploit salt households and the people, and private salt cannot be exterminated. At the same time, the bureaucratic system must have the innate attribute of corruption and corruption, and it has turned all preventive measures to its own opposite. Officials and soldiers rely on their power to engage in private salt sales, thus providing conditions and possibilities for larger-scale and widespread private salt trading. For poor salt households, the result of engaging in salt production is that their lives are becoming increasingly poor, which cannot but arouse their resistance and struggle, and these can be used by the court...

Shortly after reaching a consensus, things really developed towards Zhao Bing's expectations. When using the Yuan army to clear Chen Diao's eyes, Mrs. Xu's troops, with the support of Xingchao, stood at the periphery of the mountainous areas adjacent to Tingzhou and Fujian in Jiangxi Province. They had more than 40,000 troops, and were given the military name "Huai'en", controlling the 400-mile radius of territory. He accepted the imperial edict from the court and accepted the adaptation.

Just when Zhao Bing was suffering from no leadership, he happened to find Xie Fangde, the former Jiangdong commander who was living in Jianning. He was admitted to the Jinshi with Wen Tianxiang. In Lizong's reign, the Mongolian army attacked Song dynasties in large numbers. Xie Fangde was appointed by the court as the Ministry of Rites and War, responsible for recruiting militias, raising military funds, defending Rao, Xin and pacifying the three prefectures. Later, the Yuan army attacked the Jiangdong area of ​​the Song Dynasty. Xie Fangde personally led his troops to fight a bloody battle with the Yuan army, but eventually failed because he was alone and had no help.

After the Yuan army occupied Lin'an general Song Gongzong, Empress Dowager Quan, and Empress Dowager Xie captured the captives of the Yuan Dynasty. Xie Fangde refused to surrender to the Yuan Dynasty. In May, Emperor Jingyan of the Southern Song Dynasty ascended the throne, and Xie Fangde was appointed as the commander of Jiangdong. So he recruited Yi troops again and continued the fight against the Yuan Dynasty, but eventually failed because he was outnumbered. Due to the pursuit of the Yuan army, he was forced to hide his identity and lived in exile between the poor mountains and ridges in the Jianyang area for a long time, and lived in extremely poor life. He wore lavenders every day and cried to the east to mourn his deceased homeland.

After discovering Xie Fangde, the spies from the Bureau of Affairs sent him back to the court. When he learned that the court wanted to use Mrs. Xu's troops to establish a Fujian-Jiangxi base, he volunteered to go to Kaifu. Zhao Bing thought that his loyalty was not to be said, and he had the experience of leading the rebel army. After a long talk, he agreed to the request and appointed him as the Fujian-Jiangxi Pacification Envoy and the title of Minister of War. He also selected a group of officials from the court to escort him to Tingzhou to preside over the overall situation. Shortly after he took office, Du Wanyi of Xikang, Jiangxi used the White Lotus Society to organize an uprising, and there were tens of thousands of people. He called the saint of the society, "Wan Cheng" of Jianyuan, and called himself the Heavenly King, with Tan Tianlin as the deputy Heavenly King, and the monk of Xishan Temple in Duchang as the national teacher.

The restructuring of the Yuan Dynasty was a crime of usurpation. Xie Fangde asked the court to send troops to suppress it. Zhao Bing was also strange. These people had just started to develop the matter and wanted to become emperor just after they captured a county town. And that emperor was not so easy to be accused of the Tartars, and he would not let him go. He issued an order to go and seek pacification. If it fails, he will wipe out it out again. So Xie Fangde sent someone to contact Du Wanyi to hope that he could accept the court's amnesty and plan to restore the country together, but was rejected by him.

Xie Fangde led his army to fight in an attempt, but the general secretary of the Jiangxi province of the Mongolian Yuan, Jia Juzhen, and the general secretary of the Jianghuai province of the Mongolian Yuan, wanted to join forces to suppress the troops. They disguised as rural merchants and hid in a small boat to quietly approach their camp. Du Wanyi was not prepared for defense and was captured and killed by accident with the pseudo-counse. Xie Fangde led his army to attack behind the chaos, defeated the Yuan army and occupied the rest of the troops, occupying Xikang. Then he sent troops to attack the enemy post road, strengthened the walls and cleared the fields, and sent small teams of soldiers to continue to harass them. With the arrival of the rainy season, the Yuan army had to withdraw from Xikang.

The following year, Chen Diaoyan, who was entrenched in Zhao'an area, led 15 camps in a row with the cooperation of Wanzhedu and Gao Xing and Huang Hua surrendered troops, forcing him to retreat to Qianbidong. Chen Diaoyan persisted for two years under the siege of heavy troops, but was already in a state of difficulty without replenishment. Then he failed repeatedly and accepted the negotiation proposals proposed by Gao Xing in internal and external troubles. However, he did not know that there was a fraud, and was captured by Gao Xing while he was unprepared and arrested and taken to Zhangzhou to behead.

As soon as Chen Diaoyan died, his father Wen Gui, uncle Guilong and brother Man'an led the crowd to surrender, and more than 100,000 people were about to collapse. Zhao Bing, who had been coveting for a long time, personally led the front guards, the First Division, the Second Division, and the First Artillery Brigade, who had just been replaced, suddenly landed in Yunxiao, defeated the Yuan army in a row, killed the enemy's deputy commander, and annihilated more than 30,000 enemies.

The rest of the army led the remaining troops to retreat into Zhangzhou. Huang Hua knew he was defeated and retreated towards Jianning Mansion. He was intercepted by Mrs. Xu. At this time, the spies lurking in Huanghua's army took the opportunity to lead the crowd to mutiny. In shock, he was confiscated and fled at night, and the remaining troops surrendered to the court. Next, Zhao Bing led his army to conquer several counties including Zhangpu, Pinghe, Nanping, and other cities, and established a 500-mile Minguangbian base between Chaozhou and Zhangzhou.

The army could not stay for a long time, so Zhao Bing ordered the three armies to leave a regiment as the basic cadre, select young and strong troops from the rebel army to form a new army, and grant the military name "Weisheng", and use Xie Ao as the pacification envoy to open the prefecture in Zhao'an. Then he left behind the armored equipment of the First Division and the Second Division, and returned to Qiongzhou with the recruited 20,000 young and strong troops. The two armies immediately replenished officers and recruits and then replaced the firearms.
Chapter completed!