Tang Dynasty

Chapter 164: Resurrection

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In fact, on the same night, the General’s Mansion also received news, and Zhang Junru, who was on duty, summoned Huang Chao, who had already gone to bed, from his bed. Then the freeman divided the cause and effect. Two assassinations of different targets have already occurred.

"Lao Shang wants to get close to and win over him, that's right. After all, he is responsible for sorting out financial plans for the military government,"

"I'm afraid that others have different ideas. That is really a disaster for Xiao Qiang... This is the fundamental requirement for the army to gain a foothold on Lingnan Road..."

"In any case, this kind of thing can't be allowed to happen again and again... The reorganization and reorganization in the army is at the right time, and there must be no more accidents and twists..."

"As for the left and right Xuncheng Division, don't say that there is a shortage of manpower; if you feel that there are not enough people, they are allowed to return to the newly repaired branches and continue to draw and use..."

"That's not right. Don't say whether the military leaders at the front and the right are willing or not, I'm afraid General Manager Shang has something to say... After all, all the military said that the damage was very serious and they were quite exhausted. As for the new ones, It’s not easy to make up the posts..."

"King Huang, I don't know if I have an idea next time,"

"But it's okay..."

Huang Chao waved his hand.

"In fact, there is a ready-made man in this city of Canton, and it has little connection with the frontier armies. It may be considered a relatively acceptable position; and the concern about the safety of the body is undisputed even at the head of the general manager. ."

At the same time, Zhou Huaian slept less all night. Several times he dreamed of the dancing girl Jinyun after her broken limbs. She vomited blood and vomited her skirt so that her skirt was dyed red and died at that moment, and then she was quite shameful. Hardened. Well, my own taste should not be so curious.

So, in the middle of the night, he had a convulsion in his mind and simply put the small pendant that was sleepy in the outside room into the arms of the same sleepy skeleton spirit and dragged it to his own sex to perform the duty of warming the bed; then he was at the other side. In the sound of crying and pleading, holding this "living pillow" with warm breathing and heartbeat, although it is still skinny, and contented peace of mind fell asleep.

So, when he woke up the next day, he found that he had actually squeezed three people, as if a family of three were competing for the small pendant in the middle. After he was kicked out of the bed with the large skeleton spirit who still didn't have much flesh, he slept for a while, but he was constantly awakened.

Because the ensuing greetings and gifts filled with the concierge took up most of Zhou Huai'an's morning. After he finished processing them one by one, he saw that a document was sent over, but the rebels of the General's Mansion approved him to continue the third phase. Previously, an important work he was doing was planning to increase income and reduce expenditure for the Rebels.

The work of throttling is relatively simple, which is to eliminate the old, weak, sick and disabled who are not suitable for the battlefield with relatively abundant new blood, and the diversion can be used as human resources to maintain the place and open up wasteland. Especially when it comes to the placement of the old, sick, and disabled soldiers and soldiers of the rebels, although they are all publicly playing the banner of Huang Wang Ende, they have also earned some potential word of mouth by allowing him to actually operate and show up.

To open source, it means to tap the potential of cities under the control of the Rebels, including Guangzhou City. For example, Guangzhou City itself, as a famous city that has been trading overseas since the Qin and Han dynasties, the various resources and potentials accumulated over the years are also extraordinary. Although other cities under the control of the Rebels cannot be compared with them, as long as the corresponding experience and means are matured, they also have the potential and resources accumulated over many years that can be further explored.

For example, the hundreds of thousands of Hu people who were killed, the many industries left behind in Fanfang where they lived; and the various accumulations of large households and official households that were raided, and even under the official name, except In addition to the parts needed by the army directly, the others can be used as bulk transactions and auction items, and the circulation can be converted into other materials and commodities needed by the rebels.

Starting from these neglected and disregarded "unowned resources", the so-called "warm water boiled frogs" is advancing step by step, and a little bit of cannibalization and agglomeration are comparable to the brutal means of directly copying homes or torturing them according to their plans. , Apportionment, etc., more efficient and more fruitful. It is not easy to touch the existing interests of most people under the rule of today, which will cause more rebounds and fluctuations.

Regarding the prosperity of Guangzhou's products, the previous generation Han Yu's "Send Zheng Quan Shang Shu Nanhai" described "foreign goods are coming... the fragrance of pearls, rhino elephants, tortoise shells, and rare treasures are overflowing in China and cannot be used." During the Huichang period, Cui Guicong from the town of Lingnan also said, "The barbarians estimate the convergence. As for the treasures and medicines in Chang'an, Xianfeng is derived from the south."

And in the prosperous neighborhoods such as Fanfang, "the business of the Fans is allowed to go to the market", not only Japan and China, but also night markets appear. Zhang Ji's "Send Zheng Quan Shangshu to the South China Sea" poem goes: "The noise of the night market is loud, and the sea is moist to the platform." Take as an example the bulk commodity that has been overstocked-spices,

From the most common edible and medicinal spices such as pepper, myrrh, frankincense, cinnamon leaf, rosemary, to scented pine, suhe, pacific, turmeric, naduo, heluo, clove and other topical fumigation, Suspense, Tufu incense; from foreign agarwood, sandalwood, musk, black agarwood, white brain incense, angelica, Radix sylvestris, frankincense, Ganan incense; to Dongtu produced Sanjiao, Agastache, Ligusticum, and Galangal , Fennel, wood incense, asarum, rhubarb and other fragrant materials,

Even as raw materials and semi-finished products, camphor, dragon's blood, golden scent, scented scent, sesame oil, gardenia, rose water, stack incense, quick temporary incense, yellow ripe incense, raw incense, nutmeg, scented scent, white Cardamom, Bichengqi, Ambergris, Gallbladder, Asafoetida, Aloe Vera, Chopsticks, Nimbuchi, and Muskwood, almost all of them can be found in the corresponding samples here.

In the Tang Dynasty, the Lingnan handicraft industry has made significant progress compared with previous generations, which is mainly reflected in the increase in production departments. Mining and metallurgy, ceramics, salt making, shipbuilding, etc. occupy a position in the country; production technology has also improved and innovated, and a number of higher quality products have appeared. The products are sold locally and abroad. Among them, the ceramic industry and silk weaving industry are stimulated by overseas markets, and the products are sold abroad in large quantities.

In later generations, Zhu Yu from the Song Dynasty said in "Pingzhou Ketan": "The ship is tens of meters deep and wide, and the merchants share the storage. People have to store a few feet below, and they lie down at night. The goods are more pottery, The size is the same, and there is no space." With the expansion of mulberry, cotton, hemp, ramie, kudzu and other crops, the Lingnan textile industry in the Tang Dynasty had a great development. Wang Jian's poem "Send Zheng Quanshang Shu Nanhai": "Baiyejia weaves, red bananas are planted everywhere"

Guangzhou is also one of the famous shipbuilding centers in the south and Yangzhou, Hongzhou, and Mingzhou. In the second year of Tianbao, the pirate Wu Lingguang invaded Yongjia County (now Wenzhou, Zhejiang), and the court ordered the Lingnan interview envoy and the prefect of the South China Sea Liu Julin to lead the navy to the north to conquer. At that time, the monk Jianzhen of Dayun Temple in Yangzhou was preparing to make his second trip to Japan. He bought an army boat from Liu Julin with the money of the main furnace 80 guan. It carried 17 Chinese and Japanese monks, 18 boatmen, jade creators, painters, and sculptures. There are 85 craftsmen including Buddha, engraving, casting, embroidering, writing and engraving, etc., totaling 120 people, and a large number of food, Buddha statues, Buddhist scriptures, spices, medicines, etc. are prepared.

In the first year of Dezong Xingyuan, Du You served as the Lingnan Jiedu and supervised the building of warships in Guangzhou. There were 6 types of warships, including louvers, Mengchong, fighting ships, walking boats, yachts, and sea falcons. The number of winners is measured by meters, and one person weighs two meters and two stones. Its 楫, 棹, 篙, 橹, sail, mat, rope, sinking stone, and dispatch are different from those of a regular ship."

And there is also a popular folklore that a piece of boat originated from the Persian Gulf area, without any nails and tenon joints, introduced into the sugar palm fiber stitching wooden boat technology, Tang Dynasty poet Liu Xun said that sugar palm trees "grow Guangnan valley, branches and leaves" It is also luxuriant, and it is slightly different from jujube, betel nut and other trees. However, there are whiskers under the leaves, such as thick ponytails. It is widely used to weave towels. The whiskers are especially suitable for salt water immersion, that is, rough and tough, so people use this Tie the ship, no need to nail the thread"

People at that time also invented the method of filling the seams with "olive sugar": "Olives, ... the fat on the branches is like peach gum, which is picked by the southerners, and the skins and leaves are fried to make it like black glutinous rice, which is called olives. Sugar. Damaged by a mud boat, it will be fastened to the paint after drying, and the water will make the ears firmer."

In addition,

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, a unified currency system was promoted, using copper coins as well as cloth and corn millets. However, because of long-term foreign trade through the sea, Lingnan still maintained the custom of using gold and silver since the Jin and Jin Dynasties, and miscellaneous use of copper coins. Therefore, the circulation and stock of private gold and silver is also a very large amount.

According to the cost of each county's public office (Yamen office expenses) recorded in the "Tianbao Dizhi Fragments" discovered in Dunhuang later, there are 65 counties in Lingnan, 18 of which use copper money for public capital and 33 counties for silver. Others are mixed use.

This situation will occur, on the one hand, because gold and silver is a relatively recognized currency measurement standard in the world; and with the export of a large number of special products such as silk, porcelain, tea and paper, overseas gold and silver currencies have flowed in. Countries such as Arabia and Persia, which traded with the Tang Dynasty, widely used gold coins. Foreign merchants brought Persian coins and Arab gold coins into Guangzhou endlessly, providing a steady source of gold and silver currency for the Lingnan market.

These gold and silver imported into Lingnan are called "Nanjin". Quan Deyu's "Preface to Du Gong (you) Huainan's legacy of love monument" said: "The town of Nanhai is also the southern golden elephant tooth, and the maritime trade is relocated." Quan's "Xugong (Shen) Epitaph" said: "Besides the rise, the giant merchant Wanjian will pass through the Nanjin, and fill the stubbornness." Wang Jian's poem "Send Zheng Quanshang Shu Nanhai": "The city is noisy and the thieves break, and the Jinjian ships come." When the sea ship arrived, foreign merchants used gold and silver to buy Chinese products, which led to an increase in gold and silver and a long-term fall in gold prices.

On the other hand, it is because Lingnan was an important gold and silver producing area in the Tang Dynasty. "Xintangshu" Volume 43, "Geography" records 73 states and 68 states for tribute gold and silver, 39 and 47 states in Lingnan, each accounting for 61.9% and 69.12% of the country. According to historical data, Most of them are concentrated in the states along the Xijiang River.

Liu Xun, a native of Tang Dynasty, said: "Gold is produced in the rivers and streams of Fuzhou, Binzhou, and Chengzhou in the Five Ridges, and people live close to them, and they use wooden knives to pan for gold." The third of Xu Hun's "Four Poems from Guangjiang to Xinxing Xiashan Temple": "The caves are many stones, and the barbarians are half gold panning." And note: "Duanzhou Shishi, Tuya County gold panning for business" . There is also a record that there is a golden pond in Xunchen County, Guangzhou. "People live in Bizhong, and they raise geese and ducks, and they often see bran gold pieces in their excrement. Get rich"

After the Mid-Tang Dynasty, the country banned silver mining many times, but Lingnan couldn't help but let it go without interference. Such as Yuanhe 3rd and June edict: "If there is a mountain of silver in the world, there must be copper mines. The copper can be made with drums, and the silver is not beneficial to people; power and weight make the business monopolized. The world is seen from the north of Wuling. Silver mining pits should be forbidden." "North of Wuling, silver mining or two, Liuta prefecture, officials discuss crimes."

Therefore, Lingnan Road is also the largest and most important source of precious metals in the Tang Dynasty, and it is not one of them. Although in the northwest region, there is a trade import from the Western Silk Road, but it relies on camels and horse teams to maintain the business. From the beginning to the end, the scale of the activity is still not comparable to the shipping efficiency of the entire ship and fleet of thousands of miles on the sea.

Moreover, after the late Tang Dynasty, large areas of Anxi, Beiting, and even Hexi and Longyou were successively occupied, and the trade of the Northwest Silk Road was also greatly affected. Even if Tubo was destroyed 30 years ago, and the Guiyi army regained Helong. The imperial court was re-attached, but the severed trade route still could not be restored;

Therefore, the imperial court's reliance on Lingnan Sea Road trade was actually much greater than that of the Early Tang and the Middle Tang. (End of this chapter)