Valley Emperor

Cen Chunlin, the largest grain merchant in Huaiyuan County and even the entire northern part of Liuzhou, is said to be descended from the Tusi family, but that was more than a hundred years ago.

But even so, it still has a very close relationship with many Tusi families in Guangxi, and even has a relative relationship with the Tianzhou Cen family where Mrs. Wa Shi is located. Why, because one word can explain: Youjiang Cen family!

There are many chieftains with this surname. Otherwise, if you look at the list of chieftains in Guangxi in the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, you will find almost all Cen surnames.

Of course, they were not the same family, and their hereditary territories were different.

Moreover, these Tusi families are not really permanent hereditary. Like many traditional feudal dynasties, they will continue to be replaced. There will also be wars between Tusi and Tusi, such as annexation and splitting.

The Huaiyuan Cen family is such a Tusi family that has lost hereditary territory. Well, they claim to be. As for whether their ancestors are really a Tusi family, it is estimated that they themselves do not know.

But these are not important, the important thing is that the Huaiyuan Cen family is the largest grain merchant in northern Liuzhou, and even in the entire northern Guangxi, it can be regarded as a big grain merchant with a name!

So when this person dispatched his family's direct descendants to find Mei Pingdong, the magistrate of Huaiyuan County, and said that he was willing to provide a large amount of military rations for the King of the Tang Dynasty, even Mei Pingdong, who had swelled in recent days, put away the past. The arrogance of the local gentry businessman.

Instead, he was kind and gentle, and even showed great goodwill to negotiate with him!

Of course, this kind of negotiation involving a large amount of military rations and even more extensive cooperation is naturally not something that a small county magistrate like Mei Pingdong can call the shots.

He reported the relevant situation to Ma Wei, the prefect of Liuzhou Prefecture in Rong County as quickly as possible!

At this time, Ma Wei had just personally led a group of soldiers from the robbery camp to completely raid and exterminate a Tusi family in Rong County.

Why?

Because someone in this toast family was involved in framing him!

When Ma Wei joined Li Xuan, he had the firm goal of fighting back to Liuzhou to take revenge even if it was a rebellion, and Li Xuan had also promised him that when the Master of the Tang Dynasty entered Liuzhou, he was When he took revenge.

Now, Li Xuan has fulfilled his promise and appointed Ma Wei as the prefect of Liuzhou!

After becoming the prefect of Liuzhou in the Tang Dynasty, Ma Wei already had enough power to take revenge!

This revenge operation has already begun when he entered Huaiyuan County. Ma Wei has successively raided and exterminated three large families, all of which belonged to the people who framed him back then.

His revenge is not just revenge on one person, his revenge is to uproot the family where this person belongs, leaving no chickens and dogs, it is very bloody.

After killing another enemy family, Ma Wei, who was in a good mood, just returned to Rongxian County when he got news from Mei Pingdong, the magistrate of Huaiyuan County.

Grain merchant? To supply the army with rations, and not to collect food supplies from Liuzhou Prefecture, but to transport food from outside, this is a good thing, a great thing!

Nowadays, everything is lacking in the jurisdiction of the Tang Dynasty, and food is naturally lacking, and the gap is not small.

None of the areas currently under the control of the Tang Dynasty are important grain producing areas. Although there are grain production, they are all self-sufficient and cannot have a large amount of surplus grain shipped out like Jiangnan and other regions.

Moreover, this kind of self-sufficiency can only be said to be barely enough!

However, the food of the Master of the Tang Dynasty was much higher than that of ordinary people, and the same number of people required more food.

Today, in the Tang Dynasty, there are more than 10,000 regular troops and more than 20,000 garrison troops. Among them, the regular army's food supply is a standard supply, that is to say, three meals a day are enough, as long as you can eat it, and you can eat it every few days. With meat to eat, the nutrition provided by such a food supply can support their high-intensity physical training and form a corresponding combat effectiveness.

However, having enough food for three meals a day resulted in a regular army of no more than 10,000 people, which consumed more food than a garrison army of more than 20,000 people, not to mention meat!

Even the garrison consumes more rations than ordinary people. Although the daily rations are mainly coarse grains, they can barely eat enough, and they still have three meals a day. However, ordinary people actually only eat two meals a day. , many people even have only one meal is dry, and the other meal is just porridge.

The people of ancient times actually lived a very hard life!

Even if modern people travel to a family like a small landlord, it is estimated that they will starve to death, let alone a poor family!

Otherwise, why is the average age of ancient people only 20 or 30 years old? The low level of medical care is one thing, but the lack of food is the more important reason.

Because in ancient times, more than 99% of the people lived in a state of malnutrition for a long time!

So, don't envy the ancients, even if you are just a hard-working diaosi in modern times, but you are willing to work, even if you just pick up garbage on the street and sell it, it will be enough to make you full, and it's still white rice and white rice. bread!

Of course, if you lie down every day and don't want to move and starve to death, there's nothing you can do.

In ancient times, nothing was more important than food!

The Tang Dynasty was founded in the barren land of the southwest, and it has always attached great importance to food. During the Huangzhu Mountain period, in order to expand the source of food and keep the production area of ​​food, Li Xuan, the sage of the ancients, led the army and the people to fight many battles!

There have been countless battles against the country, such as the battle of Shuilongzhai, and the two battles of Fengjiazhuang. These are all battles for survival. For the Tang Dynasty, they have great strategic significance!

Even now, in terms of survival, the Datang Dynasty is still located in the remote eastern part of Guizhou, so what should we do if we can't support so many troops and so many people?

Expansion outside!

Fight for war!

In the three detachments of the Great Tang Wangshi going north, west, and south, they did not bring much food to the expedition. The source of their military food was basically the enemy's food. This is not only because the transportation of food is difficult because of the distance, but also It was because the Tang Dynasty simply did not have so much food to supply the front-line army.

So we can only rely on the front-line troops to find a way!

Knowing the importance of food supply to the Tang Dynasty, especially to the army going south, Ma Wei immediately sent a messenger to Huaiyuan with his handwritten letter to make early contact with the Cen family in Huaiyuan County.

At the same time, it also borrowed the expedited express report carried out by the military's military newspaper transmission channel. The two waves of messengers traveling south and north reported the relevant situation to Li Xuan who was still far away in Xingquan Mansion and Hao Bainian, who was commanding the army in Xiangzhou, south of Liuzhou!

Hao Bainian, who was on the front line, immediately ordered that one of the main persons in charge of the baggage supply of the Southbound Detachment, that is, the deputy head of the Second Transport Regiment, personally go north to Huaiyuan County to participate in the relevant discussions on behalf of the Southbound Force.

And put forward the requirements of the troops going south, two words: fast, more!

That is, the more food, the better, and the sooner it arrives, the better!

As for how to transport, how to trade, and how much the price is, it is not a matter of the troops going south, it is a matter of the Ministry of Taxation and the Ordnance Department of the Privy Council.

Of these two agencies, one is responsible for negotiating the price, or the gold owner, and the other is the specific procurement department. All the military supplies used by the military are all made by the Ordnance Department, which is responsible for listing the procurement list.

The supply of military supplies in the Tang Dynasty is more responsible. In short, the troops themselves have no power to purchase, they can only make requests, saying that they still lack any equipment or materials, and then the Ordnance Department above will be based on the various conditions of the troops. , approve or deny the troops' requests, of course, sometimes the Ordnance Division will also take the initiative to provide certain equipment to the troops.

According to the needs of each unit, the Ordnance Division will make a long list, and then start purchasing.

This kind of procurement is mainly internal procurement, and in a few cases, it is also purchased externally.

Internal purchase, this should actually be said to be internal supply, because the military does not give money, all kinds of weapons and munitions weapons from the Ministry of Industry ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ are directly supplied to the troops for free, at most in the It's just an account on the account. The Commerce Department of the Ministry of Taxation, which specializes in external procurement and sales, also provides various military supplies to the army for free.

As for external procurement, this situation is relatively rare, mainly purchasing meat and other living materials for the troops fighting abroad and stationed on the spot.

But no matter how it works here, it can't get around the Department of Commerce of the Ministry of Taxation, because in the end the money has to be paid by the Department of Commerce of the Ministry of Taxation.

And doing large-scale transactions with external businessmen has always been the responsibility of the Commerce Department of the Ministry of Taxation, including transactions with Old Man Sun.

This time, the Huaiyuan Cen family came to ask for cooperation in the supply of military rations, and the first opening was a number that made Hao Bainian have to be moved. This kind of large-scale transaction is not something that can be decided by the mere southward troops or even the Privy Council itself. It must be The Department of Commerce of the Ministry of Taxation should take the lead in hosting it.

Because of such a large-scale food supply, the money involved is also a huge number!

Moreover, the Huaiyuan Cen family did not open a shantang. Who would they sell this food to? Why would they take such a big risk to sell it to the Tang Dynasty, and they also said that they would take the initiative to help transport it to Liuzhou. But it's not just the profit of the grain trade itself.

In the negotiation between Mei Pingdong and them, they also tried to ask them what they wanted, but they faltered and said that they had other purposes, but they could only talk to those who could make the decision.

And this is also the reason why Mei Pingdong and even Ma Wei cannot decide without authorization and must report it to Li Xuan of Xingquan Mansion.

The letter delivered by the military's fast horse arrived at Xingquan Mansion faster than ordinary official documents. Only three days later, Li Xuan received a report from Liuzhou! ()

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