Jiang Feng became more and more aware that this world is different from the historical world in his original time and space.

It is not just the changes brought about by the flapping of the wings of one's butterfly, but more because history itself is an inevitable result of countless accidental collisions.

Although there were the Anshi Rebellion, the Huang Chao Uprising, and the separatist rule of the vassal states, the Tang Dynasty was not destroyed by Zhu Wen, and the Guanzhong area was survived. This is the biggest difference.

Zhu Wen only established a dominant independent kingdom in the Central Plains. Li Keyong from Hedong was unable to defeat Daliang and unify the Central Plains, but he was still the most powerful vassal state in the north. Similarly, the three towns of Heshuo, even the Pinglu Army, Tuyuhun and other Hu tribes that should have perished long ago still existed. These subtle or critical changes have formed such a chaotic world today.

The same is true in the south. The various vassals should have long been rising and falling in the attacks between each other, and the big fish eat small fish are destroyed. However, until a few years ago, this alternative appeared, except for Yang Xingmi's Wu Kingdom and Qian Liu's Yue Kingdom, other small vassals in Shannan, Jiangnan, Liangchuan, Lingnan and other places lived happily, which was no longer the original historical trend.

However, in Jiang Feng's view, although some specific and subtle trends have deviated a little, the general trend has not changed.

The power of the Hu people is still expanding. The only difference is that the Shatu people who should have fallen long ago and the tribes behind them are still strong, and even faintly suppressed the Khitans who should have risen and the Dangxiang people who are enduring and accumulating their strength. However, in Jiang Feng's opinion, this situation may be worse.

It turned out that the Liao and Xia Hu in time and space continued to grow by sucking blood from the Southern Northern Song regime, and then fought for hegemony of the Central Plains. Now it became the three Hus who rushed south to seize profits. Once this rush to become a tacit understanding, it would be a great disaster for the Han people in the south.

In Jiang Feng's view, there are some signs of this tacit understanding now, such as the Shatu people's indulgence towards the Dangxiang people, the Khitans' turning a blind eye to the Shatu people's going south, and even intending to take advantage of the situation to rob.

If tacit understanding becomes a precarious situation without timely destruction and disruption, it will be really difficult to reverse.

"The Duke of the County is not to avoid it. The Shatu people have always regarded themselves as protecting the royal family, and they are not seen outside. If the Duke of the County avoids it, these words will inevitably be passed back to the court, which is not good for us." Cui Shang shook his head, picked up the teacup, took a sip of the tea, and savored it carefully: "The tea that the Duke of the County has advocated is really different from the past. It has a rich aroma and leaves a fragrance."

It turned out that the way of drinking tea cakes made Jiang Feng very uncomfortable. He proposed that tea stir-frying method and abolishing the pancake tea should be promoted to improve the tea making process and improve the level of tea taste.

This suggestion was boycotted at the beginning, but under Jiang Feng's insistence, Huoshan County in Wenzhou took the lead in promoting the improvement process of tea stir-frying and making loose tea, achieving good benefits.

This kind of tea made by a special method not only has a bright color, but also has a better aroma and rich aroma, which greatly enriches the taste of tea tasters, so it was greatly welcomed. With Jiang Feng's strong promotion in Huaiyou, a trend soon formed in Huaiyou.

Now, Huoshan and the prosperous and Tang dynasties in Xizhou have become the most important tea production bases in Huaiyou, especially the hilly areas adjacent to the Dabie Mountains and Huoshan (Tianzhu Mountain), which have been completely changed to tea cultivation.

Due to soil and climate reasons, the tea produced in this area is of excellent quality and the income is far greater than that of grain. Especially after Shouzhou, Luzhou and Haozhou, the Huainan granary area, was included in Huaiyou, the demand for grain was no longer as urgent as before, so tea, a commodity that can bring real benefits, quickly became a major specialty in Huaizhou.

However, the tea-making industry in Xuzhou is now firmly controlled by local tribes such as Tan, Huang, Xu, etc. Even Persian Hu merchants and Sogdian merchants were unable to get involved. However, with the prosperous Tang Dynasty, the tea planting area in the hilly areas of Huoshan and Yincheng, the three counties of Huoshan and Yincheng, the Hu merchants have seized the opportunity to prepare for entry, and it has greatly promoted the rapid reclamation of wasteland in the hilly areas of Xuzhou that are not suitable for grain production, mainly because of the capital of Hu merchants.

It can be said that Jiang Feng's efforts to form some distinctive development highlights within his jurisdiction are also realizing, such as Xuzhou's iron smelting industry, Xuzhou's tea making industry, Shouzhou's ceramics and grain, Luzhou and Haozhou's grain and silk weaving industry, have already become faintly immersive.

In this era, there were not as many industries in modern society that were so urgently needed. Grain, oil (seeds), and cotton were the basic needs of the three major planting categories, mainly for food and clothing. Others were for production and life needs, such as tea making, salt making, iron smelting (including various iron making), leather making (all kinds of needs), medicinal materials, ceramics, silk weaving, wood processing and quarrying (including car making, ship building, and house building) and other industries are considered the most mainstream industries in urgently needed.

"This is the tea produced in Huoshan. The day before yesterday, Mr. Tan from Huoshan came to a certain place and served a few kilograms. Although it was not new tea, it also tasted great and I really liked it."

Jiang Feng smiled and said that he was happy to lead this trend and even promote the development of the trend. Now he spared no effort in Huaibei and Yanyunyi prefectures, just to let these trends in his territory drive the development of the tea-making industry.

"If we were given more than a few years to Huaiyou, the tea produced in Wenzhou and Shuzhou would be able to be sold in Central Plains, Hebei and even Guanzhong." Jiang Feng was also full of confidence in this.

"The Duke of the County is so worried about the situation in the north?" Everyone here couldn't help but feel sank when they heard Jiang Feng's unintentional words, even Wang Miao, who was the most vigilant, was like this.

"Hehe, aren't we just sitting here just to discuss this issue?" Jiang Feng refused to comment, but his tone was pessimistic. "We all hope that Daliang can last for a few more years, but how likely is this? Judging from the performance of Daliang now, it may be possible to withstand this year. It depends on whether Daliang's ties and ties can be done, and whether Nanyang and Caizhou will be less short-sighted. But I think that the possibility of Daliang to withstand next year is very small. Once the Khitans join in, the possibility will be completely gone."

"What should we do? Watch the Hu people's swords and guns on our necks?" Yang Kan asked with a gloomy face.

Wang Miao lowered his head and said nothing, but Mei Kuang's eyes flashed. Cui Shang wanted to speak but stopped. The atmosphere in the hall became a little depressed and deep.

"Good question, what should we do?" Jiang Feng nodded with a smile. "Originally, we were discussing the issues of Yunzhou and Haizhou, but our Privy Councilors of the Privy Council are here. You might as well extend it and see if the situation develops as we imagined, or even worse, what should we do?"

"Support the beam to continue to be beaten?" Mei Kuang asked tentatively: "But I'm afraid that the beam will be broken in its bones. If we support them, they can't maintain it."

"And we are not rich, and we are in a mess. Where can we get the support?" Cui Shang didn't agree with this.

"Daliang is still some strength, and there are still many of its troops that can fight, but it depends on whether it can be used in the right position." Wang Miao pondered: "What I am most worried about is not to have the advantage in the confrontation between Hedong and Daliang. Even if Hedong has the advantage, the lean camel is bigger than the horse, and the Shatuo people are not so easy to defeat Daliang at once. But if other forces stabbed him behind the Daliang, it would be dangerous."

Wang Miao's words aroused everyone's contemplation, and other forces were nothing more than Nanyang and Caizhou.

Caizhou seems to be still working hard to include Yingbo and Bo into the system, but because the Yuan clan and its allies laid a solid foundation in Caizhou, the digestion and promotion of Yingbo and Bo prefectures is very strong.

This even caused the Wuwentang to worry. It was suggested that the Yuan family should be strengthened to destroy and harass the two prefectures of Yingbo and Bo, and to hold Yuan's back. This suggestion was also approved by the Shumitang, and began to secretly plan a rebellion in the southern part of Yingzhou and some counties in Bozhou, which is now being promoted.

Nanyang is even more worrying.

Although Nanyang performed poorly in the war two years ago, Nanyang kept a low profile in the past two years, especially in the comfort and integration of the two states of Wei'an and Mianzhou was very successful.

Liu Xuan's second son Liu Kuigang married the daughter of the Hao clan of Anlu, while the two noble families of Anzhou, one and two Hao, Xu, and Hao are in-laws.

The Xu family was Xu Shao, Xu Zhiren, and Xu Master and his son. Xu Shao and Emperor Gaozu Li Yuan were classmates, while Xu Master was once the left prime minister of Emperor Gaozong of Tang, and his granddaughter Xu Xuan later married Li Bai.

The Hao clan is as extraordinary. In the early Tang Dynasty, the clan leader Hao Chujun was appointed as the Secretary of the Central Secretariat. Even Wu Zetian, who was powerful at the time, was very afraid of the world, and did not dare to attack him. This shows that.

Liu Kui married the daughter of the Hao clan, which made the influence of the Liu family in Nanyang suddenly stabilized. The unstable situation was originally stirred by the Huang and Du family in the Hubei and Huang family suddenly reversed. Even the two An and Mian provinces could provide Liu Xuan with sufficient military resources. The two An and Mian provinces also became Liu Xuan's strong backing, and even posed a great threat to the Huang and Du family in the Hubei and Huang family.

These actions in Nanyang were quickly passed on by Wuwentang back to Huaiyou. Both Jiang Feng and Cui Shang thought this was a very dangerous sign.

Now the Du family in E Huang is simply unable to fight against the Liu family in Nanyang. As long as the Liu family no longer continues to press on, the Du family will want Amitabha Buddha.

The biggest threat to Nanyang, Xiangyang Xiao family also changed a few times, and its ability to restrain Nanyang was greatly weakened, especially the daughter of Liu Tong married the eldest son of the Gao family in Jiangling as the wife, which made Jiangling and Nanyang quickly tighten the relationship between Jiangling and Nanyang, posing a great threat to Xiangyang. Now Xiangyang needs to be more careful about the Gao family, which is ready to move, and is unable to restrain Nanyang at all.
Chapter completed!