In fact, just that night, the general's mansion also received news, and Zhang Junru, the on-duty officer, called Huang Chao who had already been sleeping from his bed. Then the free man explained the causes and consequences, and two assassinations of different targets had occurred one after another.

"It is a matter of course that Lao Shang wants to get close to and win over him... After all, he is responsible for sorting out financial plans for the military government,"

"I'm afraid that others have other people's ideas, that's really a disaster. This is the fundamental reason why the army can gain a foothold in Lingnan Road."

"In any case, we can't let such things go over and over again. The reorganization and reorganization of the army are at the right time, and there must be no accidents or twists and turns."

"As for the left and right city patrols, don't say that there is no shortage of manpower; if you feel that there is not enough people, please allow them to continue to draw and use the newly restored branches."

"It's inappropriate. Don't talk about whether the military leaders from the right two leaders were willing or not, I'm afraid that there would be something on the other side of General Manager Shang... After all, all the troops said that the damage was very serious and quite exhausted, and as for those newly added posts, it's hard to count on."

"King Huang, I have an idea below. I don't know if it's appropriate,"

“But it’s okay to say it…”

Huang Chao waved his hand.

"In fact, there is a ready-made man in this Guangzhou city, and it has little to do with the frontier army. Perhaps it is still a relatively reasonable position; and it is also related to personal safety, even on the other side of General Manager Shang, it is beyond reproach."

At the same time, Zhou Huaian was sleeping less overnight. He dreamed of the dancer Jinyun who had been broken several times. He vomited blood and turned red on his skirt and died at the moment, and then he became very shamelessly hard. Well, his taste should not be so curious.

So, in the middle of the night, he simply pulled the small pendant that was sleeping in the room from the arms of the same sleepy skeleton spirit and pulled it to his bed to fulfill his obligation to warm the quilt; then, amid the other party's crying and begging, he hugged this "living pillow" that was still scattered but had warm breathing and heartbeat, and fell asleep with satisfaction.

So, when he woke up the next day, he found that there were three people crowding on his bed, like a family of three, fighting for small pendants in the middle. When his large skeleton spirit, who was still not much flesh, was kicked off the bed, and he slept for a while, but he was constantly awakened by the noise.

Because the greetings and gifts filled with the doorman took up most of Zhou Huaian's morning. After he had finished processing one by one, he saw a document being sent, but the rebels of the General's Mansion approved him to continue to carry out the third stage of the work. An important task he was carrying out before was to plan to increase revenue and reduce expenditure for the rebels.

The work of reducing expenses is relatively simple. With relatively abundant new blood supplements, the elderly, weak, sick and disabled who are not suitable for going to the battlefield will be eliminated, and diverted as human resources to maintain local and open up land and farmland. Especially in the placement of old, sick, disabled soldiers of the rebel army, although the publicly used the banner of Huang Wang Ende, he also made some potential reputations that he had gained when he actually operated and came forward.

If you open source, you will explore the potential of cities under the control of the rebel army, including Guangzhou City. For example, Guangzhou City itself, as a famous city that has been traded overseas since the Qin and Han Dynasties, has accumulated resources and potential over the years. Although other cities under the control of the rebel army cannot be compared with them, as long as the corresponding experience and means are mature, there will also be the potential and resources accumulated over many years, which can be further explored.

For example, the more than 100,000 Hu people who were killed were left in the fringes where they lived; the various accumulations controlled and owned by the large households and officials who were seized, and even the government's names, except for the parts needed to directly supply the army, can be used as bulk transactions and auction items, and the circulation will be reduced to other materials and commodities needed by the rebel army.

Starting from these ignored and ignored "own-free resources", as the saying goes, "boiled frogs in warm water" is progressing step by step, and the means of eroding and accumulating a little bit can be more efficient and fruitful than the means of rudely chasing homes or coercing according to the map, levying, etc. It is not easy to touch the existing interests of most people under the rule of today, and cause more rebounds and fluctuations.

Regarding the Fuhua products in Guangzhou, the previous Han Yu's "Send Zheng Quan's Nanhai" described "Foreign goods arrive at the sun... pearl fragrance, rhino elephant, tortoise turtle, and treasures of the world are overflowing in China and cannot be used." During the Huichang period, Cui Gui also said from Zhen Lingnan, "The barbarians estimate the relationship, as for the treasures and medicine shops in Chang'an, Xianfeng's products are derived from the south", "the treasures of the strong vassals are the highest in the prosperity of Wu and Yue."

In bustling blocks such as Fanfang, "the foreign merchants are listed in the market and the market" not only is the city in the middle of the day, but also a night market appears. Zhang Ji's poem "Sending Zheng Quan to the South China Sea" says: "The night market is loud and the sea is moist." Taking the bulk commodity that has been accumulated, as an example,

From the most common edible pepper, myrrh, frankincense, basil leaves, rosemary, etc., medicinal spices, to the external flaming, scented, sacred, tulip, sausage, sausage, lilac, etc., to the external flaming, hanging and sausage fragrance; from the outside world, sandalwood, musk, black agarwood, white brain fragrance, white angelica, duhuo, frankincense, and Ganan fragrance produced in Dongtu, to the fragrant materials such as Sanqi, agarwood, agarwood, kale ginger, fennel, wood fragrance, asarum, rhubarb, etc.,

Even as raw materials and semi-finished products, camphor, blood fertilization, golden aroma, Dunuo aroma, Suhe sesame oil, gardenia, rose water, stack fragrance, quick-temperature fragrance, yellow ripe aroma, raw fragrance, nutmeg, true fragrance, white cardamom, Bicheng eggplant, ambergris, galli, asafoetida, aloe, inner navel, bird vegetation, musk wood, almost all corresponding samples can be found here.

The Lingnan handicraft industry in the Tang Dynasty has made significant progress compared with previous generations, mainly reflected in the increase in production departments, including mining, ceramics, salt making, shipbuilding, etc., which have a large number of high-quality products, which are sold well in the local and foreign countries. Among them, the ceramics and silk weaving industries are stimulated by overseas markets and have largely been sold abroad.

Later generations of Zhu Yu, a native of the Song Dynasty, said: "The ships and ships are tens of feet deep and wide. Merchants share the storage of goods. People get about a few feet to store them. They lie on top of them at night. There are many pottery goods, and they are connected in size and have no gaps." With the expansion of crops such as mulberry, cotton, linen, rhubarb, and urchin, the textile industry in Lingnan in the Tang Dynasty developed greatly. Wang Jian's poem "Sending Zheng Quan to the South China Sea" says: "White white cypresses are weaving, and red bananas are planted everywhere."

Guangzhou is also one of the famous shipbuilding centers known as the south, Yangzhou, Hongzhou and Mingzhou. In the second year of Tianbao, the pirate Wu Lingguang invaded Yongjia County (now Wenzhou, Zhejiang). The imperial court ordered the Lingnan interview envoy and the prefect of the South China Sea, Liu Julin, led the navy to the north to fight. At that time, Jian Zhen, a monk from Dayun Temple in Yangzhou, was preparing to travel east to Japan for the second time. He bought a military boat from Liu Julin with 80 jin of money for the furnace, carrying 17 Chinese and Japanese monks, 18 boatmen, jade masters, painters, carving Buddhas, carvings, castings, embroidery masters, writings, engravings, steles, etc., with a total of 120 people, preparing a large number of food, Buddha statues, Buddhist scriptures, spices, medicines, etc.

In the first year of Xingyuan, Du You was the governor of Lingnan and supervised the construction of warships in Guangzhou. There were six types of tower ships, Mengchong, fighting ships, boats, yachts, and sea falcons. "There are wide, narrow, long and short, and the size of the people, and the number of people they win, all of which are based on rice. One person weighs two stones of rice. The oars, oars, oars, sails, mats, ropes, sinking stones, and dispatches are not different from the usual boats."

There is also a technique of combining boats originating from the Persian Gulf region without any nails and mortise and tenon. It introduced the technique of sewing wooden boats with carnate fibers. Tang Dynasty poet Liu Xun said that carnate trees "grown in Guangnan Valley, with lush branches and leaves, and are slightly different from trees such as dates and betel nuts. However, there are beards under the leaves, like thick horsetails. Guangren pick them and weave towels. The beards are especially suitable for soaking in salt water, which means they are rough and swelling and tough. Therefore, people use this to bind the ship without nailing the threads."

People at that time also invented the method of filling the seams with "olive sugar": "Olives,...the fat on the branches and joints are like peach gum. The southerners picked it and fry it with their skin and leaves, and mixed it like black oats, which is called olive sugar. Use mud boats to damage it, and then dry it and put it in the glue paint, which makes the ears stronger."

in addition,

In the early Tang Dynasty, a unified monetary system was implemented, using copper coins and using cloth, grain and millet. However, due to the long-term overseas trade, Lingnan still maintained the custom of using gold and silver since the Jin Dynasty, and used copper coins in mixed use. Therefore, the circulation and accumulation of gold and silver among the people was also a large number.

According to the number of funds for the government offices (public spending of the yamen office) in the "Tianbao Dizhi Scroll" discovered in Dunhuang in later generations, there are 65 counties in Lingnan, 18 counties that use copper coins for public offices, 33 counties that use silver, and others are mixed.

This situation will be formed, on the one hand, because gold and silver are relatively recognized currency measurement standards in the world. With the export of a large number of specialty products such as silk porcelain and tea paper, overseas gold and silver currencies are inflowing. Arab, Persia and other countries that traded with the Tang Dynasty widely used gold and silver coins, and foreign investors brought Persian coins and Arabian gold coins into Guangzhou continuously, providing a continuous source of gold and silver currency for the Lingnan market.

These gold and silver imported into Lingnan are called "Southern Jin". Quan Deyu's "Du Gong (You) Huainan Relics of Love Stele" says: "It is the southern sea where the south is like a golden elephant, and the sea trade is moved." Quan's "Epitaph of Xu Gong (Shen)" says: "In addition to the rise, huge merchants have tens of ships, and the south gold is connected to the south gold, and the wall is filled with the sky." Wang Jian's poem "Sending Zheng Quan's Shangshu of the South Sea" says: "The city is noisy, and the mountains are broken, and the gold is low, and the sea ships are coming." When sea ships arrive on the shore, foreign merchants purchase Chinese products with gold and silver, resulting in an increase in gold and silver and a long-term decline in gold prices.

On the other hand, it is because Lingnan was an important gold and silver producing area in the Tang Dynasty. Volume 43 of the "New Book of Tang" recorded that there were 73 states, 68 states and 39 and 47 states in Lingnan, respectively, each accounting for 61.9% and 69.12% of the country. According to historical materials, most of them are concentrated in the states along the Xijiang River.

Liu Xun, a Tang Dynasty man, said: "Fuzhou, Pennzhou, and Chengzhou rivers all produce gold in the five ridges. People who live near each other use wooden slivers to make their own gold." Xu Hun's "Four Poems from Guangjiang to Xinxing" says: "There are many stones in the cave, and the barbarians are half-slimming gold." And note: "Duanzhou stones, Tuya County are half-slimming gold." There are also records that there is a gold pool in Guangwu County, Guangzhou. "The people living there suddenly raise goose and ducks, and they often see gold pieces in the shit. So they raise more, collect shit and wash them, and get one or half taels a day, so they get rich."

After the mid-Tang Dynasty, silver mining was banned many times, but Lingnan could not resist and let it be natural without intervention. For example, in the third year of Yuanhe, the imperial edict: "If there is silver in the world, there must be copper mine. If there is copper, copper can be used to cast it with drums, and silver will not be beneficial to people; if the power is severity, the task will be dedicated. If the world is found in silver mining pits from the north of the Five Ridges, it is also suitable to be banned." "If there is one or two silver mining areas north of the Five Ridges, it will flow into other states and officials will discuss the crime."

Therefore, Lingnan Road is also the largest and most important source of precious metals in the Tang Dynasty, and there is no doubt about it. Although there are trade imports from the Silk Road in the Western Regions in the northwest region, the scale of commercial activities maintained by camels and horse teams is still not comparable to the efficiency of thousands of miles of shipping on the sea route from beginning to end.

Moreover, because large areas of Anxi, Beiting and even Hexi, Longyou fell one after another after the late Tang Dynasty, and trade on the Northwest Silk Road was greatly affected. Even if Tubo was destroyed thirty years ago and Guiyi Army regained Helong and attached the court again, the cut off trade routes still could not be restored;

Therefore, the proportion of the court's dependence on Lingnan sea route trade was actually much larger than that of the early and middle Tang Dynasties.
Chapter completed!