Northern Dynasties Imperial Industry

No matter how chaotic the battles in the world are, the passage of time will not stop because of this, and the New Year of 555 AD will still arrive as promised.

The beginning of the New Year is supposed to be a festival for bidding farewell to the old and welcoming the new, but there is a touch of sadness permeating the entire Jiangling City. No matter what the current situation of the soldiers and people in Jiangling City, the sense of loss of national subjugation is still lingering in their hearts, whether it is strong or weak, it is always Lingering.

Of course, they don't know that if things develop according to the original track, then they will not have the opportunity to stay at home and remember the story. They will either have died in the offensive and defensive battle of Jiangling City, or they will be trudging to be destroyed. On the way to Guanzhong.

Li Tai, who brought about all these changes, did not feel disappointed because the people did not feel grateful to him from the bottom of their hearts. He knew that the gathering of people's hearts did not happen overnight. Today, Jiangling has a new beginning and will surely Embark on a completely different path than the original history.

Since it is still an extraordinary period, even if the New Year arrives, no celebrations are planned in the residential areas in the city or in the military camps outside the city. Although there were no soldiers and civilians making dumplings together, Li Tai had already ordered before that the supply of food and supplies inside and outside the city must be ensured.

In addition to the military market outside the city, several markets were also franchised in Jiangling City for buying and selling transactions to meet the daily needs of residents in the city.

There are tens of thousands of residents in Jiangling City, and these are just ordinary civilians. There are also many servants and slaves in the homes of some dignitaries, powerful and wealthy households. This part of the population is more than double the number of civilians. Adding in the completely poor and unemployed refugees outside the city, the actual population of Jiangling City exceeds 300,000.

With such a large population concentrated in Jiangling and its surrounding small area, it is understandable that the pressure on living resources is great, and the resource distribution method of Jiangling or Nanliang regime is extremely unbalanced. So the rich have wine pools and meat forests, and live in extravagance and lust, while the poor have no food and clothing and sit there waiting to die.

Since there was no fierce battle in the capture of Gangneung, these populations were basically inherited by Li Tai as the occupier. With a population of hundreds of thousands in Jiangling and an army of hundreds of thousands, how to meet military needs and people's livelihood at the same time is also a big test for him.

Fortunately, Jiangling's treasury savings are very rich. Although the Hou Jing Rebellion left people's livelihood in all parts of Nanliang withered and dilapidated, the productivity of Jiangling and its surrounding areas was not too seriously damaged. Moreover, Jiangling was close to the Yangtze River waterway, which facilitated the transportation and gathering of materials.

After Jiangling was conquered, the amount of rice and grain collected in the treasury alone reached more than 800,000 dan.

To be honest, this number really shocked Li Tai, because in the past few years, commercial activities between Jiangling and Miobei have been very frequent, and grain is an important trade material. It is naturally impossible for these powerful families involved in trade to buy grain and then transport it to the government for storage. They must do it to satisfy their own consumption or to make profits in the market.

Unexpectedly, Xiao Laoqi secretly accumulated so much food in the treasury. No wonder he had to move from Jiangling to Jiankang. Not to mention anything else, in terms of food alone, the current Jiankang and Sanwu lands may not have as much stockpiles as Jiangling.

As for other financial resources, they are also very amazing. Silk was piled up like a mountain in the warehouse, and gold, silver, and jewelry were loaded onto trucks. Due to the large number of types and quantities, Li Tai had not even been able to obtain accurate data since he had occupied the city for nearly two months!

This is not because of the laziness of the civil servants accompanying the army. These people first have to meet the needs of military supplies and people's livelihood and cataloging the citizens, and then they can allocate some manpower to sort out these treasury goods. The people sent here are already conducting inventory day and night, but according to the current work efficiency and workload, it will not be until late January that a rough inventory is completed.

Although the overall seizure is still to be investigated, the storage of some special materials has also been inventoried. For example, gold contains more than 15,000 kilograms!

Li Tai was a little panicked when he heard this number, gold? More than fifteen thousand kilograms? When he first arrived in Guanzhong, how much gold did Gao Zhongmi have in his family?

Historically, because there are very few literary records in the Western Wei and Northern Zhou Dynasties, the specific truth of many things cannot be traced. Even for such an important military reform as the Mansion Military System, a more authoritative description of its specific evolution and operation process can only be found in the Mid-Tang Dynasty's "Yehou Family Biography". Naturally, there is no accurate record of the specific gains from the Battle of Jiangling.

Li Tai was really surprised that so much gold was found in Jiangling's treasury. However, when I think about the fact that Xiao Jidong came, he brought with him more than ten years of accumulated gold and silver. Even if some were lost on the battlefield, most of them must have been confiscated into the Jiangling treasury.

Thinking about it this way, it's normal for Jiangling's inventory to be of this size. Regardless of whether it's Lao Qi's or Lao Ba's, in the end it all belongs to me!

The Western Wei Dynasty's conquest of Jiangling was actually very rough. It basically followed the method of burning, killing and looting, which was inevitably accompanied by a lot of losses. But since then, life in the Western Wei and Northern Zhou Dynasties has become better and better day by day. This shows that the fat meat in Jiangling is really delicious.

Li Tai dared to offer such generous rewards to the soldiers because the harvest from this battle was so rich.

Unlike Yu Wentai, who has to consider the overall distribution of interests, Li Tai's personnel portfolio is not big, and he is making it bigger step by step. At least there are no such people in his group, so naturally there is no need If you think too much, you can allocate the benefits completely according to your own will, and achieve an equal distribution from top to bottom. It may not be completely fair, but it can ensure that every participant can get generous returns.

In addition to the seizure of Nanliang's official treasury, another relatively lucrative income comes from the seizure of temples.

There are more than 30 large and small temples in Jiangling City, and there are more than a dozen with more than a hundred monks. Even Liang Emperor Xiao Yi was eventually captured hiding in a temple, which shows the prosperity of Buddhism in the Southern Dynasties.

Originally, in the face of such a big change, if we attacked temples and other faith-related places roughly, it would easily cause mass panic.

However, Li Tai's inspection of the temple was divided into two steps. First, he surrounded the temple and sealed up the people and goods. After taking stock of the temple property and industry, he directly transported the materials to the market to stabilize prices, and sold the goods in the temples to the people in the city at a fair price.

Therefore, except for the initial few raids on the temple that caused some commotion, the rest of the matter went very smoothly. In the end, the people in the city even took the initiative to help contain and search the monks and temple properties.

After all, Buddha and Bodhisattvas are also compassionate. How can we bear to let these good men and women who have suffered the calamity of national subjugation continue to lack food and clothing? The money, silk and materials enshrined in the peaceful years are now suitable for accumulating goods and preparing for disasters. What's more, General Li's destiny is to have more say in dealing with the world than those outside the gods and Buddhas.

The stores of the government and temples alone were more than enough for Jiangling's soldiers and civilians to get through this period of adaptation. If the big situation is stable, Li Tai will of course have more energy to pay attention to the details of personnel matters.

On New Year's Day, Li Tai specially took time to go to the inner city of Jiangling to express condolences to Jiangling civil and military officials and their families.

Most of the officials and their families in Jiangling City have been sent to Guanzhong along with Emperor Xiao Yi of Liang Dynasty. As for the rest, they either made outstanding contributions to his previous strategy of infiltrating Jiangling, or Li Tai's subsequent actions. Governance requires borrowed talent.

For example, Zong Mao, who had close exchanges with Mianbei in the past, was temporarily appointed by Li Tai as the prefect of Nanjun to work with his cousin Li Miao to handle the civil affairs of Jiangling City. Liu Guangde and Li Tai, who were more loyal and capable, were introduced to the military mansion to follow them as advisers and ask questions.

As for Wang Bao, who had made outstanding contributions to preserving the Jiangling collection of books, he no longer needed to be a domestic slave. Li Tai directly appointed him as the Xingtai Jijiu, responsible for contacting and appeasing the Nanliang scholars and serving as the writing staff of Xingtai. It is a pity that another penman, Yu Xin, went to Guanzhong as an envoy before the Western Wei Dynasty attacked Jiangling, and now he is also staying in Guanzhong.

Others include Zhou Hongzheng and others, most of whom can play a role in culture. It's not that there aren't many people who can borrow military strength, but there aren't many. Hu Changyi, the son of Hu Sengyou, who took the initiative to ask for surrender, was retained by Li Tai as the governor.

Today, when he expressed condolences to Jiangling Shiliu's family, Li Tai also made a special trip to visit Xu Shipu's family. Xu Shipu is a well-known naval general in Jiangling. In addition to his rich experience in water warfare, he is also good at building various water warfare equipment. He is also a talent that Li Tai is looking forward to conquering.

However, when the Battle of Jiangling occurred, Xu Shipu was not stationed at Jiangling, but instead stationed at Matoudu on the south bank with Ren Yue. Li Tai deliberately left Xu Shipu's family in Jiangling for proper resettlement, and arranged for his old boss Lu Fahe to go to persuade them to surrender, but there has been no news so far.

Perhaps it was the first gift of the New Year. When Li Tai left Jincheng in Jiangling, the defenders of Jiangjin in the south of the city suddenly came to report that there was a large ship on the south bank and requested to dock.

After learning about this, Li Tai quickly mounted his horse and left the city along Jinyang Gate. When he arrived at Jiangjin, a group of people were already standing here.

"The guilty general Xu Shipu has been summoned and interrogated by the king for a long time. He is stupid and does not know the grace. After getting a lesson from Master Lu, he realized that the king's kindness is as heavy as a mountain. If he resigns, his sin will be unforgivable, so he beheads the thief general Ren Yue. , led all the boat divisions to surrender to the king, and asked the king to forgive me for being late!"

When Li Tai led the crowd to come here, a stocky and strong middle-aged man quickly bowed down and took out a bloody head from behind and presented it to Li Tai.