Chapter 12 Prospects
In the room, Yu Wen Wen waited for the alcohol to subside. The meeting with Li Liaocheng of the Longzhou Province had ended, but he was still a little flirting. He didn't know how much the local homemade wine was causing the consequences.
This kind of wine didn't feel anything at all, but the stamina was very strong. Yuwen Wen drank many glasses of "small low-alcohol wine" as soon as he got up. As a result, he almost couldn't stand it as soon as he got up. It was a good thing that he had good alcohol tolerance, so he was still sober, and he started to play half-true and half-fake drunkenness.
"King, the talks have been sorted out, please check it out."
After taking the meeting record handed over by Wang Jun, Yuwen Wen said apologetically while looking: "I just drank and called you a few punches. I feel sorry."
Yuwen Wen has a noble status. What can Wang Xu say after being greeted by the other party a few times? Anyway, he didn't hurt anything, he just smiled and passed by.
"The king is straightforward after drinking, but he has to take notes. If the imperial officials read it in the future, it will always be bad. I dare to dare to ask the king not to do this in the future..."
"It's okay, it means that I am unruly and insulting the imperial court in front of the Lingnan chief!" Yuwen Wen said carelessly, "When you go to other people's places, you don't drink or eat, what's your sincerity?"
"Don't dare to drink happily, do you think the wine is not clean? Do you dare to eat food with big mouthfuls, are you afraid that the food will be poisoned? You are already disagreeing and even stinking airs, and people will be more perfunctory."
Liu Wenjing, the Xiyang Prince's Mansion Record Room and the Marshal's Record Room, was "over-used" by Yuwen Wen. Now he stayed in Fanyu to deal with many affairs, so Wang Jun, who was a civilian, became a temporary record room.
In other words, he became Yuwen Wen's interim secretary, or the kind who only worked but had no salary.
The record office is responsible for the secretary's document and declaration. One of the responsibilities is to record the words and deeds of the house owner in formal occasions, including recording the talks. This is also the source and source of dialogue between characters in historical materials.
Of course, many of the characters' dialogues that appear in history books have been polished by historians. Today, Wang Jun, as the first recorder, cannot write down the "business scriptures" that Yuwen Wen said without missing a word, but are very likely to be a few simple sentences:
The King of Xiyang summoned the Southern Barbarians in Longzhou, but he made a frivolous manner after drinking.
There is a room where you dare to use such straightforward words to record the words and deeds of the mansion, but most people will write it more tactfully to avoid angering the mansion and causing you to be unlucky. However, what Wang Jun wrote is really the above content.
Yuwen Wen read the record and had no intention of being angry at all. He handed it back to Wang Jun and asked, "Is my words and deeds very frivolous?"
"Yes, I'm afraid the court will have many complaints after learning about it." Wang Jun said this and persuaded him again: "The king's words and deeds represent the majesty of the court. Please be cautious."
"The majesty of the imperial court? The majesty of the imperial court depends on the official army and the other... Hey, I have my own sense of responsibility."
Wang Jun felt very tired. At first, he really thought Yuwen Wen was drunk, but after a while, he found that this person was not drunk enough to be unconscious. After careful consideration, he felt that Yuwen Wen was acting again and deliberately misleading outsiders.
You don’t feel tired if you pretend all day!
Although Wang Jun had a judgment in his heart, he still had to pretend to be stupid. He would not speak out stupidly to avoid backfire. Therefore, he directly used "wrong words after drinking and frivolous behavior" to summarize, fulfilling Yuwen Wen's wish.
After the court looked at the records in the future, I am afraid that some people would be as Xiyang King wished, and they really thought that he would not be able to become a great man.
"Back to the point, Lingnan, especially the Jiaoguang area, is too far from the Central Plains, and the climate is hot and humid. Even though the imperial courts of all dynasties have included it in their jurisdiction, they are actually unable to do so."
Yuwen Wen's alcohol finally dissipated, but he still talked a lot.
"At most, we can effectively control the East. Xihengzhou and Guangzhou. Most of the other prefectures and counties have appointed local chiefs and the cave owner is the local official, which means that these people are nominally obeyed. In fact, the local leaders have the final say in the affairs of the prefecture and county."
"So, these leaders actually have no objection to which court they care about. What they care most is whether the new court will damage their interests."
"You also said in Tiao Chenli that the chief of the Liliao of Lingnan and the master of the cave have been occupied by their own places for generations, but there is actually no unified leader. The Feng Xian family of Gaoliang, the Chen family of the Chen family of the Longzhou, and the Ning family of Anzhou, these three great families have just stood out with their reputations for generations. At best, they are leaders, and the leaders of various places still do their own things."
"If some of these three families want to be kings, other comrades will obey, and if the court sends troops to suppress the rebellion, other comrades will not resist stubbornly, anyway, they will follow the trend."
"So what the imperial court has to guard against is the Feng Xian family of Gaoliang, the Chen family of Longzhou, and the Ning family of Anzhou. To prevent them from joining together to take the lead in separatist forces, how should we defend against it? It is useless to rely solely on the garrison."
"There are too many soldiers, and the burden is heavy. Even after a long time, the court will suspect that the generals will be in power; if the soldiers are too few, they will not be intimidated by these three families."
"Or, you can buy it, spend money every year, and give benefits to buy two of these three companies, so as not to unite and undermine the government. However, if you do this, you also say that it is to put out the fire with fire, which will only make the other party's appetite grow bigger and more confident."
"So what we really want to buy is the leaders of various places. As long as they can gain benefits from cooperation with the government, they will not really rebel with those three families, or increase the price of those three families buying the hearts of the people in Lingnan."
"Shimi's profits are amazing. The leaders from all over the country can exchange for many daily necessities through the Shimi trade. If Feng Xian, Chen and Ning want to secede Lingnan, they must first consider how to make up for everyone's losses in order to rebel with confidence."
"Otherwise, when the rebellion-fighting official troops arrive, some people want to lead the way for the official troops and destroy them and replace them. I think the patriarchs of the three families will figure out the key points and retreat before they can take action."
Yuwen Wen described a wonderful prospect, which was also what he mentioned when he chatted with Wang before, but Wang Wang decided to pour cold water on it: "King, this matter must be implemented for more than a few years before it can achieve results, but I am afraid that the distance will not quench the near thirst."
"You can't go a thousand miles without taking a single step. Besides, Lady Xian is sincerely willing to cooperate with the court. With her in charge, and the government troops stationed in Guangzhou should not make big mistakes, so you don't dare to do anything randomly."
Wang Yun didn't know why Yuwen Wen was so confident in Lady Xian. Because he had just joined the Yuwen Wen shogunate and was a temporary record room, it was not convenient to ask too many questions. Moreover, even if he asked, the other party might not be able to say it.
However, he could see that Yuwen Wen was very confident, especially providing iron tools to local governments who were willing to cooperate with. This was indeed a risk. However, as long as he could ensure that the other party was only used to open up land and farm and grow sugarcane, it was indeed a good measure.
To improve people's livelihood, by farming, you can live a good life by planting sugarcane. Who has nothing to do to rebel?
"My king, I would like to ask you, can Shimi really buy fifteen jin per pound in Chang'an?"
After hearing Wang Jun’s question, Yuwen Wen was a little surprised: “Have you never bought it?”
"Ah, I'm ashamed, because I'm short of money, I've never bought it."
"A stone honey of fifteen jin per pound is a bit expensive. Not any kind of stone honey can be sold at this price. However, merchants in Huangzhou can do it." Yuwen Wen said this and smiled in confusion.
"White white sugar like frost and rock sugar like ice cubes will make the wealthy families in Chang'an, Luoyang, Yecheng, and Jinyang obsessed with it, and gradually it will make the rich people in the Central Plains accustomed to it."
Chapter completed!