The price of rice in Chang'an City has risen a bit outrageously.
Originally, the price of doumi had been reduced to 50 wen, but in the blink of an eye, it had been less than half a month since the news of the Jianghuai rebellion and the southern invasion of the Turks spread, and the japonica rice had already broken through 100 wen per bucket and directly doubled.
The market prices, which were originally stable, have become disorderly and turbulent.
This is not only a disaster for the people in Chang'an City who need to buy food to eat, but also a nasty thing for Zhang Chao, who is doing business.
Prices are volatile, people are uneasy, and this business is not easy to do.
Fortunately, Zhang Chao had expected this round of grain price increases, and had arranged for someone to buy grain.
Before the price of grain doubled, the Zhang family had already bought a lot of grain and hoarded at least 3,000 stone of grain.
There are more than 100 people in Zhang's mansion, and these 3,000 stone grains are enough for the Zhang family to eat for four or five years.
Several workshops of the Zhang family have also purchased a lot of grain in advance, and they have stored food for almost half a year.
At least, it can last until the summer harvest.
With these grains, Zhang Chao was not too panicked.
Now Chang'an City often closes the warehouse and does not release grain for a long time, and the grain stores only sell half a day's grain every morning, and then close early.
They all want to wait for the price of grain to rise all the way, and many grain merchants are waiting for the previous ones to earn back.
If the Zhang family and several workshops did not quickly rush to buy a batch of grain, the total number of major workshops would be four or five thousand, and if there was no food, they would have to take a holiday and stop production.
The winery also has a batch of previously purchased grain, in addition to sorghum, rice and wheat also have thousands of stones.
Zhang Chao ordered the grain to be sealed as soon as possible, and the winery no longer used other grains to make wine except for sorghum wine.
Sun Fujia came back from Chang'an and brought back bad news.
"Tuyuhun invaded my border and attacked Fangzhou, Fangzhou assassinated Shifang Dangshu and fled to Songzhou, and Tuyuhun army attacked Tao and Luo Erzhou again."
When Zhang Chao heard the news, he couldn't help frowning.
Tuyuhun was originally a branch of the Xianbei Murong Department in Liaodong, from the Western Jin Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, has been established for more than 300 years, and is located in the Qilian Mountains and the upper valley of the Yellow River.
Roughly the territory is mainly in the Qinghai area.
He ruled over the Qiang and Di tribes in present-day Qinghai, Gannan and northwest Sichuan.
At the time of the Sui Dynasty, Yang Guang later sent troops to destroy Tuyuhun, and once placed the land of Tuyuhun in four counties and included it in the territory of Sui.
However, after the Sui Rebellion, Tuyuhun restored the country and restored its old land.
Tuyuhun's Khan Ting Fu Qi City is on the shore of Qinghai Lake.
During the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties in the Central Plains, Tuyuhun was also once strong, occupying Jincheng, Longxi, Shazhou, and several large cities in Qingshuichuan and other places.
At that time, whether it was the Northern Dynasty or the Southern Dynasty, they had to be sealed to win over Tuyuhun.
By the time of the Sui Dynasty, the Sui Dynasty had twice made a large-scale conquest of Tuyuhun, and set up four counties in the Tuyuhun area: Heyuan, Xihai, Shanshan, and the end of the country.
At the end of the Sui Dynasty, Tuyuhun gradually returned to its hometown.
At this time, Tuyuhun Khan was Fu Yun, and Fu Yuan was the son of Kualu and the younger brother of Shifu.
At that time, Shi Fu once married Princess Guanghua of the Sui Dynasty as his wife, and later Fu Yun succeeded to the throne, according to custom, he still took Princess Guanghua as his wife.
Perhaps because he was the son-in-law of the Sui Dynasty like the Turkic Khan, Tuyuhun had always been unable to get along with the Tang Dynasty.
Every year, I always come to fight the autumn wind of the Tang Dynasty and grab some people, cattle and sheep.
But this time, instead of a small fight, they made big news.
Taking advantage of the civil strife in the Tang Jianghuai and the internal and external troubles of the Turks in the north, Fu Yun listened to his wife's persuasion, gathered tribal soldiers and horses, and robbed three states of Datang in a row.
Fangzhou is on the Qiangshui River, and was later renamed Diezhou.
Taozhou and Luozhou are both north of Fangzhou, located on the Taoshui River.
Tuyuhun soldiers and horses to the north, is Lanzhou, to the east is Weizhou Longxi, and then to the east is Qinzhou, where is the important gateway to the west of Guanzhong, the Great Earthquake Pass, when the Three Kingdoms, this is the place where Wei and Shu confronted each other, Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi confronted each other.
During the Tang Dynasty, Tibet rose, and the Tang army also used this place as an important place to defend Tibet.
The Tubo people connected the three prefectures of Fang, Tao and Luo, which can be said to be a great threat to Guanzhong.
If Tuyuhun is allowed to go north to capture Lanzhou, then the Tang Dynasty's states in Longyou will be cut off, and then there will be Liang Shidu in Shuofang in the northwest, Tuyuhun in the southwest, and Longyouliang, Gan, Su and other states in the imperial court will be blocked.
"These Tuguhun people are robbing while the fire is burning," Zhang Chao sighed.
Tai Chi Palace.
Li Yuan's face sank like water, and he kept pacing in the hall with his hands behind his back.
"Why hasn't King Qin come yet, go and urge again" Li Shimin strode to arrive.
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Li Yuan breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Li Shimin, "Erlang, Tuyuhun took advantage of the fire to rob and seize the three states of Longyou, and now the military situation is like fire, and the situation in Longyou is critical." ” This time, in order to deal with the Turks and Jianghuai rebels, the elite of Guanzhong was withdrawn, and even a large number of civilians were recruited for recruitment.
Now the whole of Chang'an is extremely empty.
Even most of Longyou's soldiers were transferred to Luo Yi and asked him to defend Liang Shidu.
It is precisely because of this that the Tuyuhun people suddenly killed, and Sanzhou had no power to resist.
What Li Yuan is most worried about now is that the Tuyuhun people and the Huiliang Shidu and the Turks will join forces, in case they join forces and break through Lanzhou, even if they don't attack Xiaoguan at that time, the Liang, Gan, and Su prefectures will also be in danger.
And in case they go west, the court doesn't have many soldiers to adjust.
"Your Majesty, Tuyuhun wolf is ambitious, taking advantage of the fire to rob, and the son of the minister asks the order to lead the troops to refuse Tuyuhun to invade" "Chang'an only has 20,000 soldiers, and there are no soldiers to adjust."
Li Yuan was helpless, these 20,000 soldiers were the last strength, in case Li Shimin didn't win the battle, then the level would be really empty.
Pei Lin played.
"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the war between the north and the south is going on now, and it is not appropriate to fight Tuyuhun at this time.
The third-line use of troops, the imperial court is unable to deal with it.
It is better to send an envoy to temporarily appease Tuyuhun, and you can give them some money to make them withdraw their troops. ” Li Shimin objected, "Tuyuhun is taking advantage of the fire to rob, and if we seek peace at this time, it will only make them think that we are easy to bully, and their appetite will only be greater." ” "You might as well promise Fu Yun, Datang is willing to send a princess and relatives" Li Shimin was furious, "This is a humiliation and a humiliation of power and a humiliation of the country" "Bear the burden of humiliation for a while, that is for the sake of the overall situation.
At present, there are no soldiers in Guanzhong, how to fight with Tuyuhun.
If you lose, when the pass is empty, how to guard the Jingshi.
Once there is danger in the pass, the northern army will inevitably be unstable at that time, and how to resist His Majesty the Turks, there is no chaos at the moment, and the world will be in chaos if there is chaos."
Li Shimin gritted his teeth and knelt in front of Li Yuan all of a sudden.
"Father, the son is willing to make a military order, and he will definitely be able to repel Tuyuhun and keep Gyeonggi safe."
"Erlang, you are really sure of victory" "As long as Your Majesty gives me 20,000 soldiers and horses, I will definitely be able to repel Tuyuhun and pledge my life."
Li Yuan shook his head.
"Chang'an only needs 20,000 soldiers and horses, I can't give you all of them, I can only give you 10,000 at most" "The minister asked for recruitment, and those who are willing to join the army will take them with them."
Pei Lin and other ministers were all trying to persuade Li Yuan and not to believe in King Qin, it was too dangerous to gamble like this.
However, Li Yuan finally chose to believe in Li Shimin, and the second son rarely lost on the battlefield.
At this time, he was also worried that Tuyuhun would not agree to the peace at all.
"Proposed decree, add the king of Qin as the marshal of the Longyou Road march, and lead the army to conquer Tuyuhun" "Erlang, you must be cautious, don't ask you to defeat Tuyuhun, as long as you can block Tuyuhun's offensive" "Erchen will live up to his mission," Li Shimin said excitedly.
Finally, he still got the opportunity to lead the army, and finally didn't have to stay in Chang'an City to be moldy and rotten.
However, with only 10,000 soldiers and horses, how to defeat Tuyuhun, especially his original generals, almost all of them were transferred to the prince's command.
Now those who can use it are only Hou Junji, Zhang Liang, Zhang Gongjin, Liu Shili, Gongsun Wuda and a group of low-level generals at the level of chariot generals.
Back at the Qin Palace, Li Shimin immediately summoned Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, Changsun Wuji and others to start dispatching troops.
"Immediately post a recruitment list, those who are willing to join the army, regardless of identity, whether they are industrial and commercial children, or slaves and maids, as long as they are willing to join the army and are young and strong, they can.
Those who are recorded will be rewarded with 5,000 yuan each."
Li Shimin also went out and recruited a soldier for Wuguan.
"How much to raise" "We only recruit for three days, and we can recruit as many as we can, and after three days, we will lead our troops out of Beijing."
"In three days, I'm afraid I won't be able to recruit many people."
"I can't care so much about it.
By the way, send someone to bring Zhang Jiagou and Zhang San, and in his workshops, there are at least four or five thousand workers, and three thousand people are selected to bring them. ” Fang Xuanling frowned, "Your Highness, Zhang Sanlang is the prince's person, and most of the workers in his workshop are teenagers."
"The national disaster is at hand, the war is imminent, there are no princes, people from King Qin, they are all people from the Tang Dynasty.
Zhang Wenyuan is an official of the Tang Dynasty, and he has the obligation to go out with the king and serve the country.
As for the teenagers in his workshop, I know that they are all apprentices, but many of them are over the age of sixteen.
Over sixteen years old, he is already a sturdy guy.
In this special period, they also have to serve the country. ” "Junji, you take the king's sword, if Zhang Chao refuses to come, he will bring his head" Li Shimin said fiercely.
"Obey" Hou Junji took Li Shimin's sword and left the house.
Zhangjiagou.
Zhang Chao was accompanying a guest in the living room, Zhao Siniang.
Zhao Siniang was wearing a veil, but she couldn't hide the fact that half of her face was swollen.
It turned out that now that the price of grain has risen sharply, the father and son of the Zhao family feel that they have lost money by selling grain to Zhang Chao before.
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If they don't sell it now, it has doubled now, and it can continue to rise, maybe they can make back what they lost before.
If the grain was still in hand, just these days, their grain would have appreciated by thousands of yuan.
Zhao Siniang's brother forced her to come to Zhang Chao and asked Zhang Chao to return the grain to them, or make up the difference.
He offered 5,000 yuan, but Zhao Siniang refused, so his brother beat her.
"You are coming now, do you plan to ask me to return that batch of grain to the Zhao family, or let me supply you with five thousand yuan" Zhang Chao asked Zhao Siniang calmly.
"San Lang, you misunderstood me, I just can't stay in that house anymore.
When you collected the grain, you were helping the Zhao family, which everyone knows, I will never do anything that will make you make up the money, there is no such deal.
I just can't stay there anymore, and I don't have anywhere else to go, and I want to borrow it for a while. ” "Of course there is no problem, Qiuyue, go and invite Thirteen Niang, say that Fourth Niang is here."
"Siniang, you can rest assured to live here, you can live as long as you want, if your brother dares to come to me to sprinkle, I will teach him a lesson."
Zhang Chao comforted Zhao Siniang and said.
He really didn't expect that there would be such a strange thing as Zhao Dalang in the world.
Hou Junji suddenly broke in.
"Zhang Sanlang, Suqin Wang Jiao" Zhang Chao looked at the familiar Hou Junji, but he couldn't understand his words a little.
Li Shimin sent Hou Junji to Zhangjiagou to preach the Qin Wangjiao, which is Mao t1706231537: