Chapter 1047 Southern Expedition and Northern Expedition - Youzhou Town
"The festival is handsome, the festival is handsome, it's not good, the big thing is not good..."
When Yang Jian, who was in charge of Yanshan military affairs, ran into the White Tiger Festival Hall in a hurry, the Yanshan Road Administration and the Hailu Market Control Envoy was impatient to discuss the two taxes and group training matters in Wuqing and Jiehe counties in Wuqing and Jiehe counties.
Collecting two taxes and organizing a group training in other places should be two things. However, among the Wuqing and Jiehe counties ruled by Wuhaogu, two taxes and group training are the same thing. Because the land in the rural areas of Wuqing and Jiehe counties is different, and the two taxes are linked to the exemption money, but is linked to the military service!
In other words, in today's Wuqing, there are no small farmers who pay imperial grain in the rural areas of Jiehe County, only knights who serve in the military and landlords who run gang training. The price of occupying farmland is one, and the number of people occupied is to serve. They either act as knights, new troops, or participate in the Tianjin Prefecture gang training led by Wu Haogu.
Generally speaking, there are many knights in Jiehe County, and the so-called "Cangzhou Iron Cavalry" are mostly from Beicangzhou at that time, and on the territory of Jiehe County today. There are about 2,000 knights, just within Jiehe County, and the land occupied by as many as 3 million mu! Almost the entire land in Jiehe County is distributed to these knights.
Wuqing County has many powerful people, with hundreds of powerful villages controlling three to four million mu of land and a few strong people of 50,000 people. Only the land along the Sanggan River and along the north bank of the Bian River was taken back by Wu Haogu, and the dash knights who were ready to be allocated to him and the utility knights who were used as Wu Haogu. The land of the dash knights, utility knights and the powerful villages added together is almost the total number of arable land in Wuqing County.
In other words, there are neither small farmers nor agricultural taxes in the two counties!
Two major counties with more than 10,000 households and more than 100,000 households (only males, including Kufang households in the two counties), did not pay a penny of two taxes, and could not receive a few exemption money (the municipal tax and exemption money of Kufang households in the two counties could still be received), which made Wang Fu, the magistrate, feel very unwilling.
However, Wu Haogu also said that there are no households in Jiehe County except Kuofang. The knights are military officers, and the land they own is vocational land, so how can officials pay taxes? Wuqing County is newly attached land, so why should they be exempted from ten or eight years of taxes and labor service?
Besides, we cannot immediately implement the Song system in Wuqing County and send misleading officials. We must first manage the prefectures and counties, and local tyrants elect county officials, and then let's talk about the autonomous period for ten or eight years.
Moreover, although the powerful men in Wuqing County do not pay taxes, they are still in charge! One camp will produce ten cavalry soldiers and ten cavalry auxiliary soldiers, all of which are fully equipped! In addition, one hundred unequipped strong men will be used as infantry training.
A county has produced tens of thousands of regiments of training and one thousand light cavalry, not including the knights placed in Wuqing County.
How can such a county be worthy of the Song Dynasty's official family?
Having said that, Wang Fu, the judging, was very reluctant.
Tianjin Prefecture now has two counties and one city, one of which is the original Jiehe Commercial City, which is now changed to Tianjin City. But it has been changed to a name, and all the systems are still the same, and the commercial city is still autonomous. Wang Fu, the Tongzhe, has no control over others at all!
Although Tianjin City will hand over the taxes originally handed over to the Liao Kingdom to the Tianjin Prefecture to maintain the daily expenses of the Tianjin Prefecture and Yanshan Road Management and Pacification Envoy Department. But for Wang Fu, it would be too boring to live a "dead money" of 150,000 yuan a year?
It’s not that he wanted to embezzle, his family had money, and there were also his business in Tianjin. However, as the first magistrate of Tianjin Prefecture, he had the responsibility to control the territory of the two counties and one city of Tianjin Prefecture for the court, improve the six-court military system of Tianjin Prefecture, and firmly grasp the people and taxes of the two counties and one city.
In addition, another important responsibility is to support the literati and official groups in Tianjin Prefecture and establish a Confucian society with the imperial examination literati as the core.
Only in this way can Tianjin Prefecture be truly mastered by the court!
But now, Tianjin Prefecture is a society that is completely different from most prefectures and counties in the Song Dynasty. It is a society that is supported by the heroes and soldiers of Tianjin, Jiehe and Wuqing counties. It is very powerful, but it does not have the share of the imperial examination literati!
The ultimate mobilization capabilities of Wuqing and Jiehe counties are about 8,000 cavalry (main soldiers) plus the same number of cavalry auxiliary soldiers, as well as tens of thousands of strong infantry soldiers.
Tianjin City is even more powerful! There are tens of thousands of strong civilians in our headquarters that can be launched at any time! In addition, there are groups of mercenaries (mainly sailors) with a number of no less than 20,000 people. There are also Knight Academy, Knight Primary School, and Knight Primary School, which can train officers and knights in batches. There is also a huge military-industrial system...
In other words, the reason why Wu Haogu was able to approach Xijin Prefecture along the Sanggan River and build a Hejian camp outside Xijin Prefecture is mainly due to the military force of Tianjin Prefecture itself!
This is clearly the Tang Ji, a vassal state of the Five Dynasties!
No, the power that appears in Tianjin Prefecture is more terrifying than the vassal states of the Five Dynasties of the Tang Dynasty. Because this power can continuously draw nutrients from the ocean and from industry and commerce.
What is even more terrifying is that after Wu Haogu revives Xijin Prefecture, it is possible to transform Xijin Prefecture into a second Tianjin Prefecture. It is possible to even include all the powerful people in Yan land under its own territory.
By then, Wu Haogu will become the real governor of Youzhou!
Even though Wu Haogu had no intention of rebelling, how could such a force that could subvert the world existed in Youzhou, a territory that had been very restless since the Tang Dynasty, so why didn't people worry?
Just when Wang Fu wanted to argue with his civil servant character and Wu Haogu, who was about to become a warlord, but he couldn't make up his mind yet, Yang Jian rushed in with a frightening news.
"Jingshou, the Gang fleet sent to Daming Prefecture to transport military funds to Daming Prefecture to send people to report. They saw countless Liao soldiers advancing south on the official road near the Yellow River channel in Hengshui County, Jizhou and Jing'an County, Shenzhou!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Ma Zheng, the general army of Yanshan Road, also quickly walked into the Wuhao Gu Baihu Festival Hall, bowed and reported: "The general army led by the Liao emperor is heading south along the Yellow River. The general army room estimated that their target was Linhe County in Kaide Prefecture."
"What?" Before Wu Haogu could speak, Wang Fu shouted first, "Didn't he reach the gate of Kaifeng Prefecture? Crossing the river from Baimajin, you can reach Kaifeng Prefecture in a blink of an eye! What should I do?"
"I really underestimate Yelu Yanxi!" Wu Haogu shook his head and his face became solemn.
He originally thought that Yelu Yanxi would return to the north after hearing the news that "Emperor Genghis" was going to lead the imperial commander to personally seek expedition to Xijin Prefecture.
But unexpectedly, Yelu Yanxi actually wanted to go all the way to the dark!
Isn't it really scared Zhao Ji away from Kaifeng Prefecture? Zhao Ji seemed to have run away from Chongzheng Palace because of the memorials of Ji Yi and Xu General.
This time, Yelu Yanxi really wants to cross the Yellow River, and the troops are coming to Kaifeng Prefecture... This "Emperor Genghis" will not run away to Suzhou and Hangzhou like when facing the Jin soldiers in history, right?
"Jingshou... might as well please make peace?" Yang Jian looked at Wu Haogu and whispered, "If the Liao people really cross the Yellow River, you and I will be punished!"
It was you who could not escape the blame! Wang Fuxin, who was beside him, said: You are a confused eunuch, really don’t know how to supervise the army? The ancient capital of Wuhao is almost becoming Wulushan, how can you punish him? Let the people from the Censorate go to Youzhou Town to arrest Wulushan? Who dares to come?
"Are you going to Kaifeng Mansion soon?" Wu Haogu was not panicked at all. "He has a new army and 2,000 elite cavalry, and he should have brought them back to Kaifeng Mansion, right? There is still a model new army of 18,000 people in Kaifeng Mansion, with a total of 25,000 elite soldiers. What are you afraid of?
Moreover, we just transported the Daming Prefecture a spear, Tianjin crossbow, leather shield, leather helmet and paper armor to Daming Prefecture. The weapons we trained for the Xiangzhou Prefecture were shipped out ten days ago. When it was cold and cold, the Xiangzhou Army and Daming Army should also get up. Then we entered Kaifeng Prefecture together, are you still afraid that we could not defend it?"
Of course Wu Haogu is fooling people. As long as Yelu Yanxi's determination is great enough, Kaifeng Prefecture will not be able to defend at all!
Zhao Da and Zhao Er chose such a scam-making place to build the capital. What can future generations do? Yelu Yanxi only needs to cross the river during the frozen season of the Yellow River, and then choose a location close to Kaifeng Prefecture to wait. When the embankment on the south bank of the Yellow River is dug in the spring and summer next year, the flood will flood Kaifeng Prefecture!
If Yelu Yanxi could not bear to commit too much murder because he believed in the Buddha, then there was another way. Just cut off the Bian River waterway! Without the supply of 6 million stones of southeastern food a year, Kaifeng Prefecture, with a population of more than one million, was starved to death, and it was still a big deal?
"If you are not at ease," Wu Haogu probably found out with conscience. He thought about it and said, "We can suggest that the government move the capital."
"Move the capital!?"
“Where to move?”
Now Yang Jian and Wang Fu were both dumbfounded.
"If you have a little insurance, go to Haizhou." Wu Haogu said, "Haizhou is close to the East China Sea and Huainan, which not only provides the convenience of shipping, but also the benefits of Huai grain. The nearby Xuzhou is also a major military-industrial town. With a little rectification, it can produce countless excellent weapons. As the capital, it is much more suitable than Kaifeng Prefecture!
If you think Haizhou is too far away, you might as well go to Xiangzhou on Southwest Road. Xiangyang is convenient for the Han River transportation. Near Jinghu and Sichuan are rich in rice. Shaanxi, a major military camp, is also near Xiangyang, and can continuously get support from the Western Army.
Official Yang, Judge Wang Tong, how about we jointly draft the memorial?"
"Jing Zheng! How can a country's capital be said to be relocated? Moreover, the solidity of the mountains and rivers lies in virtue, not in danger!"
"Yes, Jishou, you can't get such a memorial... Otherwise, you will be an enemy of those who are ambitious in the world!"
Of course, Yang Jian and Wang Fu refused to agree with Wu Haogu. Moving the capital was a big political mistake. Whoever dared to mention it was just a joke about their political life!
Chapter completed!