At the top of the city wall of Changsha Prefecture, Li Jia stood there admiring the scenery of Hunan.

All the officials in the city were standing there bowed, and there were many imperial guard posts inside and outside. At this time, Li Jia could go wherever he pleased, and these lands were his own.

The name Hunan comes from the Hunan Observation Envoy established by the Tang Dynasty. The Hunan Observation Envoy, also known as Hunan Road, the full name of Hunan Du Tuan Lian Shou, Observation and Disposal Envoy, was established in the second year of Tang Guangde (764 AD) from the Jiangnan West Road.

The local government office. The name "Hunan" also appeared from then on.

This is also the origin of Jiangxi Laobiao.

This city is the essence of Hunan. Changsha Prefecture governs six counties with a population of more than 100,000, accounting for more than one-fifth of Hunan. Like Lingnan, it is a small country with few people. It occupies the capital and the rest of Hunan is on the lookout.

And descend.

The wide streets are densely packed with pedestrians, with four narrow streets and eight streets, and busy traffic. It is thousands of miles all the way north from Guangzhou. Only Changsha is so prosperous and comparable to Guangzhou.

Such a prosperous scene is also thanks to Ma Yin, the founder of Ma Chu.

Just like other separatists in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, in order to enrich the country and strengthen its military, strive for world hegemony, and recruit as many people as possible, he implemented a series of plans, especially the mercantile principles, which are worth learning from.

For example, in order to attract more businessmen and allow Chu's goods to circulate, Ma Yin exempted them from tariffs; in order to develop the textile industry, people used cloth to pay taxes, promoting the development of Hunan's sericulture industry; in order to promote tea

In terms of production and trade, Ma Yin adopted a loose policy of "letting the people make their own tea" and "listening to the people to sell tea to customers from the north", allowing the people to make their own tea to attract businesses.

At the same time, Ma Yin set up a commercial warehouse (return map service) in Bianzhou, Jingzhou, Xiangzhou, Tangzhou, Yingzhou, and Fuzhou, and exchanged tea produced in Hunan for silk war horses from the Central Plains...

Of course, in order to make money, he, like other great warlords at that time, secretly minted coins, such as casting large iron coins, ten coppers for one iron. Businessmen who came to Chu State made money, but they could not take it back, so they could only purchase goods for export.

, on the contrary, it promoted the development of business.

During the decades when Ma Yin governed Chu, the impoverished land of Sanxiang became the prosperous State of Chu. This was the beginning of Hunan's prosperity. A barren and wild land was transformed into a land of prosperity no less than that of the Central Plains.

Although the warlords of the Five Dynasties divided the world to satisfy their own selfish interests, they opened up those wild lands, such as Fujian, Hunan, Jiangxi, etc., all developed at this time and caught up with the Central Plains. In another sense, these warlords

He was also the pioneer of the Han people.

It's just a pity that after Ma Yin's death, the five horses fought for the throne, and the Southern Tang Dynasty invaded. The state of Chu was not as good as before, but the skinny camel was bigger than the horse. Before Zhou Xingfeng died, no country dared to invade...

"Changsha Mansion looks as good as Guangzhou!"

"Reporting to Your Majesty, in Hunan, every household is prospering in cloth, and every family makes and sells tea. Businessmen from the Central Plains like to come here to buy cloth, silk, and tea. Therefore, although the household registration of Changsha Prefecture is lower than that of Guangzhou, it is no less wealthy!"

The person who answered Li Jia was a man in his thirties, wearing a crimson round-neck robe, wearing a futou (i.e. a soft scarf, also called a folded scarf, with his feet stretched out left and right) on his head, and leather boots.

He straightened his back, looked very energetic, and his eyes were shining.

He is the successor of Changsha Mansion, Diao Guangzhen, who took office after his predecessor Liao Jian was beheaded by Zhou Xingfeng. His ancestral home is Langzhou and he is a fellow villager of Zhou Xingfeng. In the past few months, he has gained a good reputation as an official.

Changsha is managed in an orderly manner and can also provide supplies to the imperial army. He is an official.

"Oh? That's not surprising! The land of Guangzhou is close to the South China Sea, a place where merchants from all over the world gather, and the goods from Changsha are also what the Central Plains craves!"

Li Jia nodded. The officials in Chu State were indeed much better than those in Lingnan. Since Liu Yan left, the civil servants had become corrupt and incompetent. How could the current Emperor Liu be like Zhou Xingfeng, killing officials like cutting melons.

However, emperors who were born from peasants always had a natural aversion to officials, such as Zhu Yuanzhang, and Zhou Xingfeng who had just passed away. Their behavior towards officials was harsh. Compared with my tolerant Song Dynasty, it was simply heaven and earth.

, no wonder the first two are not praised for their ability to govern the country.

After all, if you hold a knife to your neck every day, it's not fun to be an official. Why do you still praise him? I can't scold you to death. Zhou Xingfeng is even more pitiful. He doesn't even count the Ten Kingdoms. After all, he is a big country, much stronger than Nanping.

Therefore, throughout the ages, literati must be able to use it, and emperors must also learn to act, and create more cases where the emperor and the emperor are harmonious and close to the people, so that historians can easily write about it. Otherwise, if you do too much in politics, you can only write it off in one stroke. After all,

The literati don't want to know what Mudlegzi thinks.

"Changsha Prefecture governs Changsha County. There are 34,300 households and more than 125,000 people in Dingkou. The merchants alone earn 5,000 yuan every month. Now that the Forbidden Army has stationed in Changsha, the people's lives are a little better.

, Our soldiers and horses of the Tang Dynasty are really strict in obeying orders and prohibitions. On behalf of the people of Changsha, I would like to express my gratitude to Duan for recruiting envoys!"

Diao Guangzhen turned his head and instead saluted to Duan Youliang next to him. Then the latter looked confused, waved his hands in embarrassment, and said he didn't dare.

"Diao Qing's family manages the people well!" Li Jia lamented. He felt that there were very few such officials in this troubled world.

"I am ashamed. Although Changsha Prefecture is very wealthy, there are many civil lawsuits and the people are fond of them. Every day, there are countless trivial matters. The government officials in Changsha Prefecture are also the best in Hunan. There are thousands of them. Every day, minor officials are taken advantage of.

I am exhausted and miserable..."

Li Jia didn't take this matter seriously. The richer the place, the more prosperous business and trade, the people valued profits more than morality, and the more the people valued their own rights, so they loved litigation. The same was true in the areas south of the Yangtze River during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Officials

Although they like to make money, they always end up in trouble. After all, there are still lawyers.

There was nothing Li Jia could do about this matter. Those conventional measures to emphasize virtue and reward bravery would take a long time to implement.

"It's okay to emphasize business, but not too much. The people are the most important thing in everything. Why should the people be the most important thing? Farming!" Li Jia said:

"In order to govern the people, the Qing family must not only emphasize commerce, but also emphasize agriculture. In the past, there were not many people in Hunan, and the grain and grass they received were naturally enough. But now it is a time of great strife, and they must also emphasize agriculture. If they can get more grain, they can

Can solidify the foundation!"

"Nuo!" Diao Guangzhen had the duty of an official. The emperor's words must be heard.

It's no wonder that Li Jia is so anxious. Now in the entire Hunan, the inspection camps, the Forbidden Army, the Barbarian Army, plus Yang Shifan's Wuping Army, together, there are almost 50,000 soldiers and horses. If the food supply is insufficient, the army will not fight.

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