Seeing the expressions of Zhang Wei and Ximen Junsui, Li Ye roughly guessed.

Sure enough, as soon as they saw him, Zhang Xiong and Li Rang asked if they could go to Northeast Saiwai to do business with those foreigners.

Li Ye naturally will not object to this, as long as he does not sell contraband, he is not opposed to doing business with these Cypriots.

As a result, Lulong in the ninth year of Qianning was very lively, and the most obvious thing was that there were more business trips from the Central Plains to Saiwai through Youzhou and other places.

He Dong, Zhang Xiong, and Li Rang had the most business trips under the three imperial merchants, and their destinations were no longer limited to Dongxi, but also expanded to places such as Heichezimurowei, Bohai and Khitan.

There are also many other small business trips, but the scale of a single is not as good as the caravan under the three imperial merchants.

In terms of the number of local business travelers in Lulong, it has the most geographical advantages.

It's just that the scale of small business travel is small, and the ability to resist risks is small, so the territory of Dongxi is relatively stable. The Khitan and Bohai places were a bit chaotic, and there were many horse bandits on the way to these places, and the losses were somewhat heavy.

However, to Li Ye's surprise, this was the achievement of maritime trade.

At this time, the only port city in the northern region located on the seaside, Chi Dengzhou, became the biggest beneficiary, and the small business travelers on the land side could not sell their goods to the Bohai Sea, so they simply took the sea route and directly crossed the sea to reach Liaodong.

For a time, the business travelers on the Dengzhou side gathered, which not only expanded the maritime trade, but also stimulated the development of the shipbuilding industry in Dengzhou and other places.

After learning about the current situation in Dengzhou from Li Zhenzuo's compromise, Li Ye ordered the establishment of a city shipping department in Dengzhou, which was responsible for inspecting the import and export of ships, requisition, extraction, trade, and diplomatic relations.

The Municipal Shipping Department has one municipal envoy and two deputy envoys, of which the eunuch is the envoy of the city, and the two deputy envoys are each assigned one person from the Ministry of Household and the Ministry of Rites.

At the same time, the city was nominally under the jurisdiction of Taifu Temple, and the actual appointment power was in the hands of the emperor, but the tax revenue was collected from the treasury.

The establishment of the Shibo Division will undoubtedly greatly increase the income of the imperial court, and the trade with Balhae and Silla alone is not a small amount.

Moreover, the establishment of the Shibo Division also made it easier for the imperial court to control the sale of some contraband, especially weapons and iron tools, so as not to invest in the enemy.

Of course, because there are taxes to be collected when going to sea, there must be people who are unwilling to pay taxes and go to sea or go ashore from other small ports, which is also the responsibility of the city shipping department to combat smuggling.

And the first city envoy of Dengzhou City was Zhang Chengye!

The City Ship Division is not a new thing in Datang, after all, in the early days of Datang, the City Ship Division was established in Guangzhou, which is also the same function.

It's just that the Dengzhou City Shipping Division established by Li Ye now should be more perfect, including various tax rates, qualifications for maritime trade, and so on.

The nine years of Qianning passed very quickly, and there were no major wars north of the Yangtze River, but some major events still occurred throughout the year.

The Yiwu Army Jiedu made the king dead, and his son Wang Gao succeeded him as the Yiwu Army Jiedu envoy, and the court recognized it;

Under the leadership of Liu Jianfeng, Ma Yin and others, the remnants of Sun Ru fought in Xuanzhou, Jiangxi and other places, and the force not only did not decrease, but expanded to more than 100,000 people, and entered Hunan in the ninth year of Qianning.

The imperial court immediately ordered Li Maozhen to be used as a solicitor, leading the Youlongwu Army, the Yangtze River Naval Division and the local army of Hunan to pacify the rebels.

Who would have thought that the rebels would seem to be huge, but they would not be fought at all.

Although the war in Hunan lasted for seven months, it was finally put down, and the rebels were killed by more than 50,000 people, most of whom surrendered, and some fled.

The rebel general Zhang Ji was killed in battle, and the rebel commander Liu Jianfeng was beheaded by his subordinate Ma Yin, who then surrendered to the imperial court with 30,000 rebels.

The rebellion in Hunan was then put down.

However, in this war, Deng Zune was broken by the rebels because he did not check for a while, and was killed. For Deng Zhune, the imperial court immediately gave a posthumous gift, and at the same time ordered the Youlongwu army to be stationed in Tanzhou to stabilize the situation in Hunan.

In addition to the Hunan side of the war, the war in the south is also the Jiangnan side.

Yang Xingmi and Qian Biao still did it.

In the first half of the year, Yang Xingmi captured Suzhou and captured Qian Di's general, Suzhou Assassin Shi Chengji; In the second half of the year, Qian Biao led his troops to attack Suzhou, defeated Zhou Ben, a general under Yang Xingmi, and recaptured Suzhou.

For a time, Suzhou became the front line of the Huainan and Zhen Navy, and the two sides launched two major wars around Suzhou within a year, each with its own victory or defeat.

For the war between Yang Xingmi and Qian Biao, the imperial court did not intervene too much, but just played a big board each, and then it was over.

On the side of the Qinghai Governor's Mansion, the nine years of Qianning were not peaceful.

Although Shanzhou Tubo suffered two major defeats in the eighth year of Qianning and suffered a great loss of vitality, in the ninth year of Qianning, he united with Kuozhou Tubo and dispatched 70,000 foot cavalry with the intention of defeating the Tang army.

The Tubo people did not expect that Liu Kui directly dispatched 30,000 cavalry of the forbidden army, and also recruited more than 30,000 cavalry from various tribes in Liangzhou, Lanzhou, Hezhou and other places, plus more than 10,000 cavalry from the Qinghai Governor's Mansion itself, a total of 80,000 Tang troops.

In the end, more than 100,000 troops on both sides fought in Shancheng County, and the Tubo coalition army was defeated and more than 40,000 people were killed. The rest of the army, except for a small number of escapes, all chose to surrender.

After this battle, the strength of Qinghai Tubo was greatly reduced.

Liu Kui led the Tang army to directly occupy the area east of Qinghai Lake, including the entire Shanzhou, Kuozhou, and Dafeichuan. And the captives built a city in Dafeichuan as the forefront of the Qinghai Governor's Palace, and then left 3,000 cavalry to garrison Dafeichuan.

From Li Ye's ascension to the ninth year of Qianning, although there were constant wars, the development of Sichuan Province, Shannan West Province, Guannei Province and Hedong Province was very fast.

Sichuan Province has increased from 700,000 households in the first year of Qianning to 770,000 households, with a population of about 5.7 million;

Shannan West Road increased from 400,000 households in the first year of Qianning to 450,000 households, with a population of about 3.2 million;

The number of households in Kannai Province increased from 280,000 in the first year of Kanning to 310,000, with a population of about 1.9 million.

The number of households in Jingzhao Province increased from 210,000 in the first year of Qianning to 250,000, with a population of about 1.7 million. Among them, the number of households in Chang'an City has increased from 130,000 to 150,000, or about 800,000 people.

There are now 380,000 households in Hedong Province, about 2.1 million people;

In the ninth year of Qianning, Henan Province, there were 560,000 households and a population of 2 million. There is no way to do this, the territory of Henan Province, since Li Ye ascended the throne, was first plagued by Qin Zongquan, and then Zhu Wen began to control it, and then Zhu Wen rebelled, which caused the population of Henan Province to decrease sharply. The number of households seems to be large, but in fact the population is very small.

Hebei Province has 360,000 households and a population of about 1.5 million;

Qilu Road has 530,000 households and a population of about 2.7 million;

230,000 households in Jianghuai Province, with a population of about 1 million;

Jingnan has 370,000 households and a population of about 2.3 million;

Hubei Province has about 320,000 households and a population of about 1.6 million;

Hunan Province has about 150,000 households and a population of about 700,000;

About 2.6 million people in about 400,000 households in Qianzhou, Lingnan Dongdao, Annan, Anxi, and Anbei.

In the ninth year of Qianning, the registered population of the area under the actual control of the imperial court was about 4.89 million households, totaling more than 29 million people.

Jiangxi, Fujian, Lingxi Sanguan, Zhenjun, Zhendongjun, Xuanzhou, Huainan, Yiwu, Lulong and Zhenwu should have 1.8 million households with a population of about 11 million to 13 million.

In this way, the population of Datang at this time should be more than 6 million households, with a total of more than 40 million people.

But that's just the population, and there are millions more who are not registered.

However, the population is still not as large as it was in the years before the outbreak of the Yellow Nest Rebellion.

In fact, looking at the above figures, it can be seen that Henan Province, Hubei Province, Hebei Province, Qilu Province and Jianghuai Province have suffered a serious population decline due to war.

Just like Henan Province, the average household is less than 4 people, so you can imagine how big the impact of the war was.

The two provinces of Shudi, Jiaguan Neidao and Jingzhao Mansion, account for nearly half of the population.

This figure was counted by the household department in the tenth year of Qianning, and seeing this number, Li Ye's mood was really heavy.

With this population, it is not as good as any province in the previous life.

Fortunately, the tax figures counted by the household department made him feel a little better.

In the entire nine years of Qianning, the various revenues of the state treasury were converted into about 48 million yuan, which was higher than the taxes in previous decades.

Even the city, which was established less than half a year ago, brought in more than one million yuan in tax revenue.

Thinking of this, Li Ye thought, if the city department can be added in Hangzhou, Mingzhou, Fuzhou, Quanzhou, and Guangzhou, will the income of the imperial court still increase?

Although the population has not yet recovered, the army is strong and the treasury is full.

Datang, who has been recuperating for two years, in his opinion, should also have some activities from the tenth year of Qianning, otherwise this fist and foot will be rusty.