Zhang Shengren traveled to Liangzhou very quickly because he had to get to the capital city of Liangzhou before August 15th to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival with his core team.
There was actually no Mid-Autumn Festival in the late Tang and Five Dynasties, but at least in the Wei, Jin and even the middle and late Han Dynasties, there was already the custom of admiring the moon on August 15th, which was called the Duanzheng Month in the Tang Dynasty.
After all, with such a big, round and bright moon hanging in the sky, it is difficult not to be noticed.
When Zhang Zhou founded the country, the Mid-Autumn Festival was regarded as a festival that Zhang Yan strongly promoted. He even personally cooked a few dark mooncakes, which are dizzyingly sweet and salty salted egg yolk with big fat meat. '
Well, when talking about darkness, it is for future generations. This kind of high-oil, high-sugar, and high-salt food is simply a health killer. Most people will tremble three times just looking at it, let alone eating it.
But now, this is the supreme delicacy, even in the families of officials. Except for the top wealthy families, no one will feel tired of the large amounts of sugar, oil, and salt.
From this aspect, in terms of food, clothing, housing and transportation, ordinary people in later generations who earn several thousand yuan a month will have better food, food, housing and transportation than the high-ranking officials at this time.
Not to mention delicacies, ordinary people in future generations can still eat delicacies by spending hundreds or thousands of dollars.
But at this time, even if you are at Zhang Yan's level, you can only spend a month or so to eat big lobsters, big crabs, and big abalones by yourself at the beach.
Of course, some of the top mountain treasures can still be freed. When Zhang Xuan walked to Fengxiang Mansion, he received the bear paws presented by Li Congzhao, the Yin of Fengxiang Mansion. There was not just one bear paw, but three that had been pickled long ago.
One is steamed with honey fruit, one is braised with peppercorns, dogwood, etc., and the other is roasted with pepper, cumin, etc.
After just one bite, Zhang Yan knew why the ancients loved this stuff. It was because there was so much fat on the bear paws that it tasted like a mixture of fat and collagen.
For the ancients who lacked fat intake, this thing is indeed a great supplement. The effect of increasing fat and weight is much stronger than that of fat meat. Of course it is very tonic!
At the same time, the taste of bear paw is somewhere between beef tendons and pig trotters. It is indeed delicious when cooked properly.
But in future generations, not to mention that eating bear paws is illegal, but in terms of efficacy, which future generation will need a five-finger-thick fat meat to replenish the body!
After two bites, Zhang Yan couldn't eat any more, but Guo Rong, Zhang Fei, Pan Mei, Cao Bin, and the three little Fengjuan Yun, Zhang Xiancun, Zhang Xianyu, and Zhang Liechao beside him couldn't get enough of it, so everyone encouraged the little black bear. Zhang Liechao went to Li Congzhao and asked for a big fat sheep to roast and eat.
What a bunch of losers! Zhang Shengren was speechless.
These seven guys not only ate all the delicacies specially prepared by Li Congzhao, but also ate a very large fat sheep weighing 120 to 30 pounds.
Although the 123 kilograms is the weight of a live sheep, after killing it and removing the internal organs, bones, etc., you can still get 70 kilograms of meat.
Good guy, this is ten kilograms of meat per person, not counting the meals we had before and the one or two kilograms of wine per person.
It looked very vulgar, but Li Congzhao on the side was not embarrassed at all. Instead, he complimented Zhang Hao enviously.
"With the Xionghu generals who are comparable to Guan Zhang, the world will be unified and the Jin Ou will be intact!"
This Li Congzhao is none other than Li Maozhen's son, from the Li family of Fengxiang Prefecture.
When Zhang Gao entered Guanzhong for the first time, Li Congzhao followed his brother Li Congyan to gather 50,000 troops, and wanted to intercept Hu and teach Zhang Gao a lesson. Of course, in the end the two brothers were severely punished by Zhang Gao.
The world is so strange. If you don't give a person a good beating, he won't know that his head will be broken if he hits the south wall, and he should kill himself when he reaches Wujiang.
And when you defeat him, he accepts the status of the loser so quickly that even the winner is surprised.
This was the case for brothers Li Congzao and Li Congzhao. After being beaten and crying at the foot of Mawei slope, the two brothers fell to their knees even faster than Kang Fu.
Before Kang Fu left his post as Qinzhou Xiongwu Army's envoy, Li Congyao began to show his goodwill.
When Zhang Yan entered Guanzhong, he was planning to use Li Congyao's brothers to kill chickens to scare monkeys. However, as soon as he entered Chang'an City, the first person he saw was Li Congyao.
Before Zhang Xian could ask, Li Congyu offered up all his family property, including the gold and jade quilt belt used by his father Li Shouzhen, leaving only three to five hundred acres of land for the family to farm.
This actually made Zhang Yan feel embarrassed. After accepting the jewelry, classics, calligraphy, paintings, porcelain, etc. that Li Congyao had presented to him in the past, Li Shouzhen collected more than 50,000 pieces of property worth from the Tang court. Gave it back to Li Congzuo.
Immediately, Li Congyao beat the snake on the stick, and immediately began to regard himself as the first person to welcome the new master, and shamelessly made connections everywhere.
Don’t tell me, it’s quite useful!
After all, the Li Congsuo family had been the head of a separatist regime for decades, and many of their children were talented and learned.
It was originally unbearable because of the arrogance and arrogance of relying on Zuyin. After being beaten into the mud, as long as the mind can be changed, a few talents will really emerge.
Even Li Congzhao, who is not too young, started as a county lieutenant in Jingzhao Chang'an Prefecture. Now he has been promoted to his hometown of Fengxiang Prefecture by Zhang Gao, and has been appointed as the prefect with the title of political participation in Guanzhong Province.
The reason why Zhang Zhang promoted Li Congzhao so much and even put him in a sensitive area like Fengxiang Mansion was because Li Congzhao actually knew a lot about agriculture.
Together with Han E, the minister of the Ministry of Industry and an agronomist, and Han Cheng, Han E's son and a famous agriculturist and a field doctor of the Ministry of Industry, they built water conservancy projects in Guanzhong and promoted new intercropping methods.
In accordance with Zhang Zhang's request, fields abandoned by the war in Guanzhong were re-cultivated, and indiscriminate logging and land reclamation of rivers and lakes were prohibited, thus maintaining a certain ecological environment.
Especially in Fengxiang Prefecture, Li Congzhao understood this very well and forced a college specializing in livestock treatment and breeding into the prefectural school. Now he can even steadily export dozens of qualified veterinarians every year.
Thanks to Li Congzhao and Han E's constant supervision in Guanzhong, production in the Guanzhong area has been greatly restored.
The agricultural doctors from Guanzhong are spread all over the countryside, and their role is even greater than that of the agricultural doctors from Hexi and Longyou, making them the best in the world.
With such an ability, let alone the fact that he once stabbed Zhang Yan in the back, but ended up losing everything, even if the backstab was successful, Zhang Yan would forgive him without hesitation.
Li Congzhao said a few words to Zhang Yan, then took out the memorial he had prepared, and then looked at Zhang Yan expectantly and said.
"This is the Guanzhong household registration and land acres ordered by my minister, Chengping Zhang Cao Gong."
Zhang Yan took the memorial but did not read it. Instead, he looked at Li Congzhao and said with a smile: "Just by looking at your expression, I know there must be good news. I won't read it. You can tell me."
The smile on Li Congzhao's face became even wider, and he raised his voice slightly and said: "Since the Holy Emperor entered Guanzhong to quell the chaos, I have followed the Holy Emperor's will to rest with the people in Guanzhong Province and reward farming and weaving.
Today, Guanzhong Province has 370,000 households, 2,047,000 people, and more than 1,170 acres of arable land. "
At this time, Zhang Zhou's Guanzhong Province was not equal to the later Shaanxi Province. Compared with the later Shaanxi, the Guanzhong Province in southern Shaanxi only had Shangluo Prefecture, which is Shangluo City, the rest of Hanzhong was in Sichuan, and Ankang was in Hubei.
Half of northern Shaanxi belongs to Ningxia Province, and the remaining half belongs to Shuofang Province. Guanzhong Province has only one or two counties or even towns.
Of course, there are also some additions. In later generations, Pingliang and Qingyang cities belonged to Gansu Province, and Guyuan City belonged to Ningxia, which belonged to Guanzhong Province.
Zhang Hao breathed a long sigh of relief. Judging from the data, the average person in Guanzhong has a little more than five acres, and the people in Guanzhong can finally support themselves.
You must know that in a family, even if there are six people, there will only be about three children and elderly people. They cannot eat all the output of more than five acres of land, not to mention hunting, fishing and breeding.
Not to mention that Guanzhong Province is basically located in Guanzhong. As long as the water conservancy facilities here can keep up, it is not the kind of frontier wasteland where little food can be harvested.
With an average of five acres of land per person, even now, a family can live a good life.
Of course, it is impossible for all these lands to be allocated equally. Some families may have hundreds of acres, and some families may not have enough land per person.
But correspondingly, not everyone is a purely agricultural population.
In any case, Guanzhong's food self-sufficiency problem is guaranteed for the time being.
This is very good news for Zhang Yan.
Because he established the world under the banner of reviving the Tang Dynasty, and before taking over the Central Plains, he also showed kindness to Guanzhong many times, which made the people of Guanzhong very fond of Zhang Yan.
What's more, Zhang Yichao, Zhang Yi's great-grandfather, lived in Chang'an for more than ten years and was finally buried in Xianyang.
Therefore, many people in Guanzhong directly believe that Zhang Yan's origin should follow his great-grandfather, and he is an authentic Guanzhong child.
Anyway, no matter what others say, people in Guanzhong think that Zhang Shengren is from Guanzhong.
With such a public opinion foundation, Guanzhong is actually Zhang Gao's lower limit.
With a solid Guanzhong, plus the basic base of Hexi and Longyou, even if there is a big problem, Zhang Zhou can still appear as a larger version of Qin.
Even if he died suddenly and young like Guo Rong, Cao Yanxi could still keep Zhang Xianjing and retreat to Guanzhong to avoid disaster.
Even if the pattern is bigger, Murong Nobunaga or Zhang Xiancun can be directly succeeded to the throne, and then continue to use Guanzhong, Hexi, and Longyou as the basic base, the country will not be destroyed immediately.
"This is all your great contribution!" Zhang Hao admired sincerely.
When he entered the Central Plains, there were actually less than 1.3 million people left in Guanzhong, and only three to four million acres of cultivated land.
In just three or four years, such great changes have taken place in Guanzhong. Although the increase in population is due to the return flow and the resettlement of heroes from Hexi by Zhang Yan, the cultivated land has increased by six to seven million acres, which is a real contribution.
Of course, the increase in acres of land was so terrifying because a large part of it was re-cultivation or confiscation of acres that had been lost to wealthy families.
But for another person, not to mention re-cultivation, which still requires a lot of energy, even digging up the hidden property of the rich, ordinary people can't do it.
In addition to the construction of supporting water conservancy facilities, it is unimaginable how much effort Cao Yuanzhong, Li Congzhao, Han E, Han Cheng and others have put in.
Suddenly, Zhang Gao suddenly thought of who should be given the last spot among Zhang Xiancun's first and second concubines.
Now Zhang Xiancun has Li Siyuan's young daughter Princess Yong'an to help him win over the unsuccessful Daibei and Hedong warriors to pacify the Dali Kingdom.
An Shuqian's daughter came to drive An Shuqian and others to raise funds for him in the Central Plains financial market.
Now as long as he marries Li Congzhao's young daughter, he can immediately recruit a large number of agricultural talents who know how to farm and the veterinarians who are most lacking in the southwest.
Well, in fact, veterinarians can also treat people's illnesses, which is much more reliable than taking care of the people and asking wizards to perform magic tricks.
With the blessings of the military, finance, and agriculture, as well as the wealth that his mother's aunt Li Ruoliu had saved for him for more than ten years, and the retired generals that the Khotan Li family could recruit from the army, Zhang Xiang believed that Zhang Xiancun could Crush Duan's Dali Kingdom from all aspects.
Moreover, Zhang Yan's request for Zhang Xiancun was not to simply become the king of Dali.
He should shoulder the important task of bringing the advanced productivity and culture of the Central Plains to the Yunnan-Guizhou region where Dali is located.
Zhang Xiancun should be the third big figure to play a key role in the development of the Yunnan-Guizhou region after Chu general Zhuang Qi entered Yunnan and Zhuge Wuhou of the Ji Han Dynasty ran Nanzhong.
After understanding the responsibilities that Zhang Xiancun should shoulder, Zhang Xi became more confirmed in his decision to let Zhang Xiancun marry Li Congzhao's youngest daughter.
However, it is impossible for him as a father to personally act as a matchmaker for his son.
So Zhang Zhi sent someone to summon Li Congyao, and said to Li Congzhao with a smile: "You have meritorious service, and I will not treat you badly."
Zhang Yan also knew what Li Congzhao, who looked at him with hopeful eyes, wanted. He wanted a hereditary and irreplaceable title.
For a family like Li Congzhao, although they dare not ask for the return of his father Li Shouzhen's royal title, it is a shame for their family that no title has been passed down.
However, although Li Congzhao's contribution is not small, he cannot be given a title just because of this.
Well, it's not that it can't be given. The kind of title that only has a little annuity and has to be reduced can be given, but Li Congzhao obviously doesn't want it.
The two chatted for a while, and then Li Congyao hurried over.
Zhang Yan was not as kind to Li Congzhao as he was to Li Congzhao.
The scene in Guanzhong that almost caused the fledgling Zhang Gao to overturn happened not long ago. Zhang Gao almost held his last breath before he persisted.
Of course, the biggest reason is that Li Congsuo is very old and has no other talents except eating, drinking and having fun. He is also mediocre and has no value at all for me, Zhang Shengren, to take advantage of.
Li Congyao ran out of breath, and he had to thank Zhang Yan, because historically he was no longer there, and he was rushed to death.
At that time, the Central Plains was in turmoil and he had no time to look west. Meng Chang sent Sun Hanshao to attack the pass and surrounded Fengxiang from all sides. Li Congzuo yelled at Tiantian for no response and the earth and the earth were ineffective. He was so angry that he died of cerebral hemorrhage in the palace of the so-called Prince of Qin.
But in this time and space, Li Congyao, who was completely powerless, was eating well and sleeping well. He should have died two years ago, but he became more energetic.
After he found out from the Ministry of Internal Affairs Dong Shaojian why Zhang Shengren summoned him, he immediately realized that this was the best opportunity for the Li family to turn around.
Unfortunately, because his father Li Maozhen was a heavyweight who could compete with Zhu Quanzhong in the late Tang Dynasty to see who was worse to the court.
Li Congyao, who was here under the banner of reviving the Tang Dynasty, had to use all his strength and shamelessness to avoid the disaster of killing Zhang Zhou.
Now that there is such a good opportunity, why not hurry up!
Li Congyao even asked Shaojian Dong without hesitation whether he could marry his daughter as a concubine according to the ancient Zhou rites.
This shamelessness embarrassed Mr. Dong, who originally thought he was very thick-skinned.
(End of chapter)
