Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

And these things flowed into the hands of ordinary soldiers and their families in large quantities, but it was not enough to have money, but also to be able to buy things. As the Southern Tang Dynasty was forced to open up trade, prices in Qin State also began to drop.

Many Jiangnan merchants came to Daliang to do business and sell things along the waterway, and merchants in Daliang and nearby also went south to Jiangnan for business along the Bian River, Huaihe River and other waters.

In just two months, some key daily necessities in Daliang had a slight price reduction trend, and the lives of the people were much better than before. This is one of the benefits of the war.

The result of this is that the common people are more supportive of the imperial court, and the soldiers are also looking forward to the next battle to make a fortune. Many people also rushed to Daliang to join the army, hoping to make a fortune.

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, Shi Congyun took his sixth younger sister, dressed in red and black dragon robes, to the tower of Xuandemen. Below them were the people of Daliang, looking curiously at the head of the king's city, shouting long live the official family.

For a while, the city of Daliang was decorated with lights and festoons, the lights dimmed and traffic was busy, and Daliang, which had been in chaos for more than a hundred years, gradually became prosperous and peaceful. Looking at the many excited subjects and the mountains and rivers under their feet, my heart was also full of excitement.

The Hanlin scholars also discussed the results, and took the black dragon out of the water, soaring into the auspiciousness of the sky, changing it to Yuan Tenglong and announcing it in front of many people, telling the world.

In fact, Shi Congyun wanted to use "Shenlong" at the beginning, because it sounded more attractive...  

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After a night of celebration, however, trouble soon followed.

In August, Hedong reported that Li Yun had rejected Qin's conferment on him, and all the envoys except him agreed.

Shi Congyun didn't act immediately, but after thinking about it, he sent an envoy to Liaozhou to seal him.

While sending out the envoy, he has also started to make military preparations.

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In mid-August, Shi Congyun tested the improved second version of the stone-shooting cannon with many craftsmen of the Confidential Department in the test camp by the Bian River.

The overall changes in this version are not big, mainly to improve some processes, making the barrel longer and stronger, and improving the range and accuracy.

Shi Congyun was very satisfied after firing dozens of cannonballs one after another. The skills of the craftsmen exceeded his expectations.

In fact, ancient Chinese metallurgical technology has been very leading in the world since the Han Dynasty.

He remembered that there was a period of time in later generations when people kept bragging about the Roman metallurgical technology, the reason being that there were a lot of surface iron ore reserves in Rome.They also pretend to be objective and say that the Han Dynasty was so powerful, but the smelting technology is not as good as that of Rome, etc...

It is true that the study of history relies on imagination, and does not look at physical archaeology at all.

In fact, there is no need to imagine nonsense at all. There are a lot of standard weapons left by the Han Dynasty. There are very few real ones in Rome at the same time, but it is not impossible. It is not difficult to do scientific component analysis.

Moreover, some scholars have done this kind of experiment for a long time, and after analyzing the composition, they found that the ring head knife in the middle and late Han Dynasty has reached the level of high carbon steel!At the same time, Rome couldn't keep up with flattery.

This kind of technological advantage is an important reason why the Han Dynasty has always maintained a huge military advantage over the surrounding nations. This advantage has been preserved until the Tang Dynasty, the end of the Tang Dynasty, and even now the craftsmen's attainments in metallurgy are indeed beyond his expectations.

The body of this stone-shooting gun was stronger than he had imagined.

Feng Jisheng and other craftsmen, after a lot of financial support and continuous experiments over the past few months, scrapped several extremely valuable gun barrels and made some changes, such as using softer copper at the bottom of the barrel to effectively extend the length of the gun. Longer service life, less chance of bombing.

Slightly reducing the diameter of the gun barrel from the original basis can increase the range and power.

All kinds of progress made Shi Congyun very happy, and he added a huge sum of [-] yuan to the confidentiality department. He had no choice but to finish the battle of Shu. The rich and powerful are rich!

The last time he went to Shu, he was not able to hit a few shots due to geographical reasons, and he was very upset.

This time Feng Jisheng assured him that by next year, at least 20 stone-shooting cannons would be built, and more than [-] old ones would be modified to enhance their performance.

By next year, his Qin State will really be able to form a large-scale artillery force, which is cool to think about!

Chapter 310: Love the people like sons Shi Congyun

By August, Shi Congyun had been paying close attention to the situation in Hedong.

Li Yun's original name was Li Rong, but when the official ascended the throne, he changed his name to Li Yun to avoid taboos. He also read a lot of resumes, so it is not without reason that he can be so arrogant.

He has old qualifications and has been a veteran of several dynasties. He was first a general in the Later Tang Dynasty.

Later Tang, Later Han, Later Zhou, and even the present Qin Dynasty, he was a general, but Feihuang Tengda followed Taizu Guo Wei to attack Daliang, and defeated Murong Yanzhao, who was still a general of Later Han.

Afterwards, he also defeated the Northern Han Dynasty several times and seized Liaozhou and other places. He is not a mediocre person, at least he is capable in fighting.

So Shi Congyun didn't dare to take it lightly, or in other words, all the Jiedu envoys who were about to move were capable.

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In September of the golden autumn, Shi Congyun went out of the palace in a carriage to Wei Wangfu.

Of course, he didn't come here after Empress Fu. Although the Empress Dowager was indeed stalwart and broad-minded, he, Emperor Shi, cared about the world, worried about the country and the people, and took care of everything. He was not someone who just thought about digging holes every day.

After getting out of the car, he was already familiar with the nurse inside the door, so he knelt down and went to inform him.

Shi Congyun stopped him, and went straight in, but no one dared to stop him, with Xiao Huanghua and a few guards by his side.

When he arrived at the inner courtyard, Shi Congyun asked the guards to wait outside and went to the backyard by himself.

But before entering the door, I heard someone talking in the yard.

"Eldest sister, he bullied you in the palace, I saw it all in the side hall, that bastard..."

Shi Congyun coughed twice, and walked in. The two women at the stone table in the backyard were startled, and hurriedly said: "I've seen the official!"

He even took Queen Mother Fu's little hand and asked them to get up.

One of these two is Empress Fu, and the other is Second Sister Fu. There is not much difference in age between the two, and there is not much difference in appearance. It is probably because of the same mother. The difference between the sixth sister and her two older sisters is more Yes, they are all about ten years old.

Seeing him sitting down, Second Sister Fu subconsciously moved back a little.

Empress Dowager Fu's glamorous and dignified cheeks were a little red, and she said: "The government is taking care of everything, worrying about the country and the people. It must be something to do when you come to Wei Palace in broad daylight."

This little woman is very smart, and she wanted to block him when she opened her mouth.

Shi Congyun laughed, is he that serious?It's true...

Sometimes Shi Congyun even wanted to give Empress Dowager Fu an official position and let her stay in the Chuigong Palace, so that he could handle things by himself, and he could ask her when reviewing the memorials. He was completely inexperienced in many things now.

In fact, there were precedents for female officials to participate in politics in the past, but because of Wu Zetian's influence, at the end of Tang Dynasty and after that, they became more and more wary of female officials.

He solemnly asked Fu Ermei to go down, saying that he and the queen mother had something serious to discuss, but when he looked up, he found Fu Er's eyes flickering, as if he didn't believe what he said.

Who does this take him for!

Shi Congyun was very upset, the conscience of heaven and earth, he was just talking about business!

Then he really basked in the sun while talking about serious business with Empress Dowager Fu, and sat down beside Empress Dowager Fu while he was talking, and put his arms around her slender waist dishonestly. Get in the way, don't get in the way of doing business.

In fact, after autumn, a lot of messy things happened, which made Shi Congyun's head a little dizzy.

Now that he was emperor, he had to deal with more than just military issues.

With so many complicated matters, he always wanted to ask Empress Dowager Fu for her opinion, nothing else, they were all serious thoughts, Empress Dowager Fu was a regent, and the prime minister was a country, so she was familiar with many things.

Among them, there are two things that he attaches the most importance to. One is water transportation. After the autumn harvest and before the winter, many things from all over the country have to be transported to the capital. , densely populated.

It is definitely not enough to rely on local production capacity alone. Whether it is the support of the royal family, the salaries of hundreds of officials, or the supplies of the army, etc., they all need to be transported from all over the world.

In this case, water transportation is very important.

Transportation is enough to change the fate of a country and a nation, and even usher in a new era.

Just like the only northern expedition in Chinese history, Zhu Yuanzhang’s Northern Expedition, when some people summed up the reasons, they either said that the economic center of gravity moved south, or that the Yuan Dynasty was mostly empty, or that the main force of the Yuan army was trapped in Shaanxi and so on.

There may be all of these, but the most important reason is the convenience of transportation. Canals were built in every dynasty, but the canals in the Yuan Dynasty directly connected Jiangnan and Beijing, and ran through the north and south, completely changing the geographical structure of China.

If Kang Zhu Yuanzhang's army marched along the route, he would fight all the way to Beijing along the canal.

In this way, the biggest problem of logistical supply is not a problem.There is no need for a 40-strong army to go north with more than 50 logistics support personnel as it is now; nor is there a need for a [-]-strong army to go out of Mobei and more than [-] logistics supply corps like Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

In order to obtain the wealth in the south, the Yuan Dynasty dug their own graves and laid them all in, so they didn't need someone to fill them.

It can be seen that the reform of transportation can determine the fate of a country, so Shi Congyun also attaches great importance to the issue of water transportation.

Water transportation needs to recruit people to dredge the river every year, and there are many people along the way, sometimes 10 people, which is a huge burden.

In ancient times, it was an obligation for the people to help the country dredge the river, and it was a compulsory obligation. The people had to bring their own food, clothes, shoes and bedding to help the country.

This situation has always been the same in Qin, Han, and Tang.

It was not until Zhao Kuangyin ascended the throne that he ordered all the people who worked for the country to be provided with food, lodging, clothing and shoes by the state, and the people only used them for work. No wonder why the common people like Lao Zhao so much and made up many stories about him.

Shi Congyun felt that he shot Lao Zhao to death on the beach after all, and he couldn't turn back the wheel of history, this matter had to be realized by him.

This is one, and the other is that you have money in your pocket right now!

And there is good news from Hebei this year. Hebei has another bumper harvest year. This is the third bumper harvest year after last year and the year before last.

But the bumper harvest also caused a very bad impact, that is, the price of grain in Hebei is very low, and the so-called cheap grain hurts farmers.

This kind of food price is a huge blow to Hebei. Shi Congyun thought that he had just collected so much money from Shu, Jiangnan and Wuyue collected a lot of tribute, and used the money to buy people's grain at a low price, and then hoarded some, and some It can be used to support the people who work in the country.

This was a grand idea he had been thinking about for two days. Li Gu and other prime ministers asked him, everyone thought he was a genius, and he himself thought so.

But Li Gu and the others could solve the operational problems for him, but it was another matter to actually issue orders and issue appropriate government orders, so he came to find the Empress Dowager Fu.

In principle, officials such as Chengzhi of the Imperial Academy wrote the will for him, but most of the officials of the Imperial Academy were scholars, and their main function was to decorate with rhetoric and write various documents.

The decree that came out of the emperor's mouth at first was still different, because it was a big matter that required careful consideration, so he thought of asking the Queen Mother Fu.

Empress Dowager Fu couldn't help opening her mouth after listening to him hear all the ins and outs, and then said: "The official family cares about the people of the world, and it is the blessing of all people."

"Ah! There's no other way. Who told me to love the people like a son? Ever since I ascended the throne, I have been lamenting day and night. There have been hundreds of years of disputes and endless wars. The people are suffering too much!

Since I ascended the throne, I haven't slept well, and I think about the people of the world every day..." Shi Congyun was very happy when he heard this, and habitually pretended to be aggressive.

Empress Dowager Fu blushed, if someone hadn't slept like a dead pig beside her, she might have believed it.

But she didn't bother arguing with him. Since getting along these days, she already knew how thick-skinned the officials are, and she didn't dare to delay in major matters. She began to think about how she would issue various government orders if she was regent.

While thinking and talking, the official listened carefully, nodding or asking her questions from time to time.

As he was talking, Shi Congyun had unknowingly hugged Empress Dowager Fu on his lap. He had no choice but to be like this. He couldn't sleep at night without hugging something, at least he had to hug a pillow.

She also likes to hug something when she is sitting. Empress Dowager Fu's ears turned red, but she didn't resist and still told him about things.

Shi Congyun memorized for a while, and then asked Fu Ermei to send a pen and ink to write down some things that he couldn't remember.

Seeing how shameless he was, Second Sister Fu held her elder sister in her arms in broad daylight, her hands were dishonest, she looked upset, but she didn't dare to say anything.

While listening to her, Shi Congyun asked her to write it down for him.

Hearing that she spoke in an orderly and sophisticated way, Shi Congyun said with emotion: "Li Yun didn't accept my reward, and nine times out of ten, there will be trouble.

The Northern Han Dynasty, Southern Tang Dynasty, Southern Han Dynasty, Wuyue, and Liao Kingdoms are all present. In the future, the wars will not stop, even if these are annexed or surrendered, there will be Jingnan Army, Dangxiang people, Qiang people...... "

A little unhappy and helpless said: "I can't be the Emperor of Taiping."

"Officials..." Empress Dowager Fu hesitated to speak.

"So I thought, if I was outside, it would be a great thing to have someone like you as a regency in the court, so I wouldn't have to worry so much..." Shi Congyun was quite annoyed. After seeing the emperor doing whatever he wanted, However, he was most upset that he was not the Taiping Emperor.

It would be great if the world was peaceful, just like the Empress Dowager Fu, he can play for several years, the wives at home are all charming, and then he can also collect beautiful women from all over the world.

There is no need to be frugal in life, thinking about where the military expenses come from, and what to do if the people are not full. He can also enjoy delicacies from mountains and seas, wine ponds and meat forests, and he can travel around the world and see other people's wives. Anyway, he is the emperor, and no one dares to say , That is the life he longs for!

It's a pity that there is no such condition at all now. The more I think about it, the more angry I get, and finally I am so angry that I can't wait to throw away the ashes of the separatist forces in the world and the Liao Kingdom in the north within three days.

Hearing what he said, Empress Dowager Fu continued: "I don't have that kind of ability, please stop talking about it."

Shi Congyun stopped talking, he was afraid that Empress Dowager Fu would be too worried.

After a busy day, seeing that the world was getting darker, he said, "Oh, it's getting dark, and the way back to the palace is long, I'm going to stay here." In fact, Wei Wangfu is on the street opposite Daxiangguo Temple, a little far from the imperial city. Not far, but he is the emperor, if he says far, it is far.

How could the Empress Dowager Fu not know the meaning behind the words, besides, she had hugged her for a long time, even though it was cold to keep her warm, it was hot now.

Fu Er's face was even worse, but he was the emperor, so he didn't dare to say anything, he gritted his teeth and stomped his feet to back out.

Shi Congyun hugged the empress dowager who had been like soft mud for a long time, "Later, you will use your strength yourself, I will take care of all kinds of situations every day, and you will be tired from working on state affairs all day."

Empress Dowager Fu did not speak, but buried her face tightly on his shoulder.

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In autumn, Shi Congyun, the son of Qin, issued two important edicts successively.

One is that three consecutive years of bumper harvests in Hebei have led to a sharp drop in grain prices. The imperial court will allow local governments to buy grain from the people at the price of previous years, and sell it to the government if it cannot be sold.

Shi Congyun attached great importance to this matter, so he directly sent the young Wang Pu and the army to escort the imperial court to allocate funds to Hebei to supervise the implementation of this matter, and directly sent a prime minister to sit in town.

The second is the corvee reform. In the past dynasties, the people dredged rivers and built canals for the court, and they all needed the people to bring their own clothes, shoes and food to work for the court.

Now it is changed that all the people who build rivers for the imperial court will provide their clothes and shoes, and their meals will be provided by the imperial court. Of course, they will not be paid.

As soon as the two decrees came out, the world shook for a moment, and the people cheered and shouted that today's emperor is a holy king!

Especially the people near the canals and Bianshui in Hebei and Daliang are even more joyful.

In other years, when the canal was about to be dredged, many people were sad, and some even tried to find a way to escape from their hometown and go to other places to avoid disaster.