Liu Chengzong reported to the four chieftains of Kangning Prefecture in Nangqian, inviting them to hold a banquet in the official village, and asked them to borrow money and food.
In fact, he is not a person who fundamentally opposes the aristocratic system. He can accept that people are divided into hierarchies in society, and what achievements they make determine what kind of background their descendants will have. It is precisely because of accepting this objective reality that he I never give toast a good look.
Because people rely on ability to stand up in the world, and family background is only a part of ability. People with different backgrounds will inevitably have different assistance and resistance in their future development. Then if two people who receive assistance and resistance respectively stand on the same In terms of status, there is no doubt that civilians must have much stronger comprehensive abilities than nobles in addition to their birth status.
On the contrary, how useless is this noble?
Of course, this is only one reason why he looks down on the nobles. The other reason is almost the same, because these nobles are not granted by him.
Nobles or chieftains are all appointed by others. It is essentially an incentive system and exchange. You perform meritorious service for me, and I will grant you land. None of the chieftains in Kangning Mansion were appointed by him, which means that these people have not done anything for him. What's the matter? They are of no value to the Marshal's Mansion.
So in essence, from Liu Chengzong's point of view, when he asked the chieftains under the Kangning Prefecture to borrow money and grain, he was not asking the chieftains, but he was giving them the opportunity to show their loyalty and make achievements.
And it's a great opportunity.
He will pay back the loan with interest, borrow ten and pay back thirteen, but compared to the ten-year repayment period, the interest is a bit low.
But in turn, he made a promise to repay the debt for ten years, which meant that this chieftain territory could survive at least ten years under the rule of the Generalissimo's Mansion.
Is there anything better than this in the world?
Anyway, for the largest chieftain in Kangning Prefecture, Chieftain Muya from Changhexi, this is the best deal in the world!
He was like crazy. When he saw Liu Chengzong's envoy, he heard that the Marshal's Mansion wanted to borrow food and money from the chieftain. He set off that day, braved the locusts flying in the sky of Kangning Mansion, and rushed to Nangqian to ask if this was true. , received an affirmative reply from Liu Chengzong himself, smiling like a fool.
Liu Chengzong didn't say much to him. After all, he knew well that Muya was a chieftain who had dealt with him and had provided him with military support in the past. Until now, the leader of Changhexi, Gas, was still working in Xie Erhu's Mongolian brigade. Where is the general?
Mu Ya will definitely support his policies.
However, he still underestimated Mu Ya's support.
Liu Chengzong summoned various chieftains and issued orders to various places. The chieftains who still existed in Kangning Prefecture did not dare to neglect, and braved the locust swarms to set out on the road to meet him. It was just that no one was as crazy as Muya.
Two days after Muya arrived in Nangqian, several chieftains and chieftains arrived one after another, and the rest were also on the way. Before everyone arrived, Liu Shizi did not talk about business, but only met with the chieftains one by one to get to know them in detail. The situation in their territory in the past two years.
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Large ones, usually the people with this official position are powerful figures, such as Yang Yinglong, the envoy of Bozhou Xuanwei, and Qin Liangyu, the envoy of Xuanwei in Shizhu.
Those little chieftains were still thinking about how much money to lend to Liu Chengzong. After all, their territories were all under Liu Chengzong's jurisdiction, and Marshal Liu was not a kind person. I really couldn't bear to lend it to Liu Chengzong.
Mu Ya was so courageous that she brought money and food on the spot, which really shocked the little chieftains.
Liu Chengzong also said to himself that Mu Ya was worthy of being a chieftain who ran a B&B. He had brains and courage. He knew that this matter was profitable, but he had already brought in the wealth before he was sure whether it was true or not.
He had already started to wonder, was Muyala bringing seventeen boxes of gold or seventeen boxes of silver? It's most likely silver, because seventeen boxes of gold is too much, and Muya probably doesn't have the financial resources.
But it turned out that he was overthinking.
"Commander, what's in the car is not money and food." Mu Ya pointed to the seventeen cars parked in the yard with a smile, and said with her fingers: "It's the account books, the Xuanwei Department's account books for the entire Changhe Xiyutong Ningyuan and other places It’s all here.”
"Ledger, ledger?" Liu Shishi was very disappointed. I wonder if you bastard came to my place to cry for poverty. He said with a certain amount of confusion: "Why did you bring the ledger to me?"
Muya was also helpless. Since Liu Chengzong's northern expedition, he had been working in Kangning to promote Wang Hua for Liu Chengzong. He asked Xiucai, a student of Dajianlu, to make up many stories, hired painters to paint everywhere, and sent hundreds of ascetic monks. He traveled among the people in Kangning Mansion and even Uzang, preaching everywhere about the merits of the Generalissimo who sent troops to eradicate evil knowledge and views, expel evil spirits and monsters, and subjugate demons and demons.
Although he is a propaganda envoy, he is located at a key trade node on the Tea Horse Road, so his living situation is not like those chieftains who are keen on fighting for territory.
After all, Muya is a businessman who invests in B&Bs. He does not rely on agricultural production to make a living. He can support an army of guards and guards just by making arrow stoves. Therefore, not only does he not covet the land of most neighbors, he also Not afraid of locusts swarming on his territory.
After all, except for the two trade nodes of Shenbian and Lengbian on the east bank of the Dadu River, the other chieftain territories are useless to him. He can't grow much food and has not much population. What's more, even if there is a population, people can eat. , it doesn’t mean much to Muya. How can the income from farming be as much as the room and board expenses at the core node of the tea-horse trade?
No, it can’t be said to be tasteless. It’s too rude to say so.
Customers, they are all customers of Dajian Lu.
But he was afraid that the locust swarms would eat up all his neighbors' food. He was very afraid because his biggest neighbor was Liu Chengzong.
This neighbor is fine everywhere, but he is afraid of going hungry and will go crazy if he is hungry.
So for Mu Ya, there was no choice at all. I heard that Liu Chengzong was hungry, so what else could he do, just give him food.
"Commander, as soon as I heard that the Marshal's Mansion wanted to borrow money and food, I asked them to collect the accounts of the entire Changhexi Xuanwei Envoy Department and collect the money and food for the local soldiers. I also asked the Marshal to read it."
Liu Chengzong was walking down the official village with Mu Ya. Hearing him say this, he was really stunned.
It's true that he wants to borrow money and food, but what are you doing with the land, population, and military accounts of Changhe West?
In a blink of an eye, he had already led Mu Ya and others out of the official village. Ajia, the Guozhuang in Changhexi, immediately came forward with the accounts and saluted. The old scholar Yang Wanchun even started the accounting mode and reported all the property in Changhexi. The bottom fell out.
First, the territory of each Xuanfu Division under the rule, then the real estate of Dajianlu, then the grain and silver deposits in Changhe West, as well as the inventory of more than two hundred years, and finally the population of the Xuanwei Division in Changhe West was reported troops.
Liu Chengzong only realized this when he realized that there seemed to be a slight discrepancy between his and Mu Ya's understanding of wealth.
In Muya's eyes, wealth is not just money and food, but also population, land, income, armor and soldiers.
Muya even planned to lend three thousand troops to Liu Chengzong.
Liu Shixin said, who wants to deprive you of your military power? The army needs food. This thing may be a rare asset in the eyes of the surrounding chieftains, but in the eyes of the surrounding chieftains,
Marshal's Mansion, it has negative equity.
But despite this, Liu Chengzong still looked at Mu Ya with a new look: "You lend me your troops and people, but Chang Hexi doesn't want them anymore?"
After all, even though Muya is the person who has met him most times among the chieftains in the southwest, it has only been a few times. This time, there is no earth-shaking change in the power of the Marshal's Mansion from before the Northern Expedition. It is just that he has conquered Hexi and has a more stable foundation. That’s all.
Even if he personally proposed to let the chieftains lend out all their money and grain, that was actually a policy for those chieftains located in Kangning Prefecture, and had nothing to do with chieftains outside Kangning Prefecture such as Changhexi and Jinchuan. Changhexi was more important to him. Like an ally, not a subordinate.
Liu Chengzong was very curious as to what made Muya so courageous and bet the inheritance of chieftains for hundreds of years on him.
But this was just Liu Chengzong's own idea. He had no idea what he meant in Mu Ya's eyes.
There are only four kinds of people in his eyes, court officials, small leaders who are dependent on others, independent leaders and their own people. Muya is the kind of relatively stable independent leader, so he is willing to cooperate with Muya.
But in Mu Ya's opinion, this is not the case at all. In Mu Ya's eyes, there are mainly two types of people in the world, one is the restless toast, and the other is the law-abiding toast. He himself is a law-abiding toast. Chieftain, and Liu Chengzong was not among these two types of people.
Doesn't count as a person.
Because the chieftain is the most feudal class-conscious group of people, if a chieftain regards himself as a human being, the subjects are not people, but small animals raised; if the subjects must be regarded as people walking on the earth, the chieftain is the one who shines on the earth. The sun that eternally emits light and heat over the territory.
Therefore, for Muya, Liu Chengzong was neither a chieftain nor a local citizen under the chieftain's leadership, and his identity was different from the common figures in the southwest for the past few hundred years - a ruthless character who competed for the world.
It's not that there are no ambitious people in the southwest, but the geographical environment is too awkward. It is difficult for the armies of the separatist forces to leave Sichuan, but it is not that difficult for the armies of the unified dynasty to enter Sichuan. The relatively closed environment will suppress people's ambitions.
Liu Chengzong and Mu Ya didn't say anything, but the little chieftains behind were shocked.
Changhexi Xuanweisi had no reservations about spreading all his family assets to the Marshal's Office for review. This chieftain's territory can be said to be extremely rich!
Only then did people understand why Muya asked someone to bring the account books, because Changhexi Xuanweisi might not be considered rich in terms of gold, silver, and food hoarding alone.
Counting the ornaments and utensils used by the clan women, the wealth is only three thousand taels of gold and more than 80,000 taels of silver; the food is only more than 120,000 dan. This is certainly not poor, but it cannot support the Changhexi Xuanwei Division. Such a big shelf is because Muya spends a lot of money.
In order to deal with the Dongbu Han Hu Xuanwei Division in the north and the feuding Shenbian and Lengbian, Changhexi had to support four thousand native soldiers for a long time and spent a lot of money. The money and food put into the treasury was naturally very little... In fact, in recent years, it has been able to spend a lot of money on food. The reason why he accumulated so much wealth was because Liu Chengzong took away a thousand Changhexi native soldiers under Gas's command.
Most of the property in Changhexi consists of real estate and living animals, including thirteen Guozhuang houses, two cable bridges, 13,000 hectares of cultivated land, more than 10,000 livestock, more than 400 shops, and even two coarse salt wells.
Not all of these properties belong to Mu Ya, but the people who own them belong to Mu Ya, so in Mu Ya's heart, these things are all things that he can lend to Liu Chengzong.
This kind of wealth and power, if Mu Ya were to be given another place, such as the counties of Kangning Prefecture before Liu Chengzong's southern expedition, he could completely dominate and dominate. The core strength of King Baili Dunyue Duoji was not as large as Mu Ya's.
Of course, Muya would not have been able to amass so much wealth in another place.
"Chang Hexi... Commander, to be honest, Chang Hexi is too safe."
In the past two years, Mu Ya has found that raising troops is of no use. Raising troops has always accounted for the largest part of his expenditure. In the past, there were threats everywhere, but now he finds that as long as he protects Liu Chengzong, the security of Changhe West will have no worries. .
Because Changhexi has been surrounded.
Thanks to the self-protection plan of three 500 hectares leased to the Marshal's Mansion, the west of Changhe River is Luhuo County of Kangning Mansion, with 500 hectares each in the north, east and south.
This land was leased to the Marshal's Mansion. Now living on these 150,000 acres is the Songpan Guard Banner Army. They have basically separated all enemies in the west of Changhe River.
These banner armies have a strong sense of expansion. They recruited the Sichuan banner army to fight a Thirty-Six Guards in the southwest. Muya's own territory has no conflict with them. On the contrary, they have established a long-term trade cooperation relationship, so now the west of Changhe River is safe. outrageous.
Anyone who wants to deal with him will either have to fight with the high-spirited Songpan Banner Army, or they will have to fight Liu Chengzong twice, once with troops sent out and once with troops withdrawn.
Liu Chengzong's territory is famous for its large area. Muya still doesn't know who the neighbors are on the other side of Liu Chengzong's territory. There may be people in this world who can cross the Marshal's Mansion to attack Changhe West, but there must be no people who can cross the Marshal's Mansion to attack Changhe West. Those who went through the Marshal's Mansion to attack Changhexi and came back alive.
As for Liu Chengzong attacking him, there is no need to think about it.
There are many people in the world who are more powerful than Mu Ya, but Mu Ya has never heard of anyone who can stop Liu Chengzong's offensive.
Since you can't stop him, you can give him whatever you want. If you have a better attitude, at least Liu Shizi is still talking about borrowing.
Mu Ya immediately put it aside and said with a smile: "Commander, I have calculated the accounts. Now I can lend 60,000 taels of silver and 80,000 stones of grain to the Marshal's Mansion. If you transfer the 3,000 native soldiers to the Marshal's Army, If you take them away, I can lend 70,000 taels of silver and 110,000 stones of grain and grass to the commander's office. I can recruit more local soldiers. The interest that the commander's office gives me every year is enough to support a small army of 500 people. , enough to look after homes and homes.”
Liu Shizi thought to himself that this is a good calculation of yours. It turns out that the annual interest alone is more than 2,000 taels of silver and more than 3,000 shi of food. It will be more than enough to raise a general army. The next ten years will belong to the Marshal's Mansion. Timuya raised troops.
But he has no intention of going back on his word. As long as he survives the locust plague next year and gives Kangning Mansion a chance to breathe, the tax revenue from the developed cultivated land can completely cover this part of the interest. As for whether there will be a locust plague or drought later, it doesn't matter.
He had to get over the calamity in front of him first.
Liu Chengzong smiled and said: "You want me to raise troops for you. It's easy to handle. The army west of Changhe belongs to me, and you just sit in the arrow furnace, but I need you to draft a memorandum next year."
With that said, Liu Chengzong patted Mu Ya on the shoulder and led him towards the bank of the Zaqu River.
Muya's eyes widened: "Who are you crusading against? The commander-in-chief wants me to declare war with the Ming Emperor, right?"
"No, you don't need to write the message to the emperor. Changhexi and Shenbian Lengbian have declared war. You don't have to worry about anything. The marshal's army will fight across the Dadu River. After the event is completed, the money and food will belong to me, and the land will belong to you."
