Chapter 168: Stratagem 9
There are ups and downs in the capital, and Star City is also in full swing.
The climate in the north is cold, and spring comes later than in the south, but as soon as the Qingming Festival passes, a little spring begins to emerge.
March and April are also busy with all kinds of farming in the Northland.
Last year, some wounded soldiers were left in Montenegro in the Battle of Montenegro, and as soon as the battle was over, He Niu Shiling took people into the Montenegro Mountains to build city defenses and access roads in the open space behind the fire.
As soon as spring begins, ripe farmers come and open up a level of land to grow wheat on the fertile land behind the fire.
By the way, I also teach the people sent by the Jinren to study.
And Star City has not been idle all winter, and the people who stayed behind have been doing various water conservancy constructions.
Shangguanya developed a new method of dealing with frozen soil (using Gu Xinyue's farm tools), coupled with a new waterway that Chen Rong explored.
When Gu Xinyue and the three of them arrived, a large area of fertile land had been reclaimed around, not to mention, rape flowers and early spring plants had also been planted in a large area.
The eagle vulture flew over the field that was gradually turning golden and landed in the courtyard of the col.
Qin Qi jumped down with Gu Xinyue in his arms, and said to Shan Yu: "Go and call He Niu and them, we don't have much time, we will leave after two days." ”
Shanyu answered, got on the horse and ran into Star City.
"Why are you in such a hurry?" Takamatsu asked.
Qin Qi smiled, put down Gu Xinyue and let her run inside, and said, "Has the ship in the port already gone down?" ”
"Let's go, as soon as your letter came, Monk Gao took someone to the port, and it was estimated that it had been half a month." Takamatsudo.
Qin Qi nodded.
When they returned to Qinzhou from Yinqi, Qin Fu came to report in a hurry, saying that when they handed over those equipment to Qin Dazhu, they found a small box hidden in the corner.
The small box had the seal of the Qin family on it, and there was a lock that could not be opened.
The lock can only be opened with a jade coin.
When I opened it, I saw that there were some title deeds of the Qin family, as well as the oath.
There was also a letter with blurred ink inside.
It was a letter written by the head of the Qin family to the son born to the concubine a hundred years ago before he set out on an expedition.
It was mentioned that the situation of that expedition was very critical, so the little young master was left as the only seedling, but the little young master was uncertain, and he had a deep love for the woman of the Chu family, so he was afraid that he would intermarry with the royal family regardless of the ancestral order, and once the little young master intermarried with the princess of the Chu family, then let the concubine's son take over the Qin family's iron horse and keep the oath.
There are also some ancestral properties of the Qin family.
Seeing the letter and the oath, he was silent for a long time, and asked Qin Mohan to postpone raising the banner for a few days, and first arranged for someone to do the scene in the capital.
Subsequently, the three of them went to Ganzhou, and after meeting and talking with Xie Shaofeng in detail, they watched the army in Ganzhou replace the banner of the Qin family and return to Qinzhou.
took Fu Qianxia to Qinzhou City, and then picked up Wei Zhao and those frustrated envoys who went out to travel.
After arranging things, he returned to Mobei City.
The affairs of Mobei were arranged, and then he went to Star City again.
Now that the overall situation in the north has been decided, all that remains is to go to Jiangnan.
According to Gu Xinyue, not only to absorb the sun, but also to collect a batch of supplies and come back.
The actions of Wei Zhao and the Ning family who could make them half dead were framed by them, and those copper ingots were actually sucked away by Gu Xinyue.
(Of course they will never say it)
Gu Xinyue said that after the god upgraded, there were still copper ingots left, plus the copper (refining) that the superbrain already had, in the past few months, tens of millions of copper coins had been forged.
Some of the money was placed in Ganzhou, part of it was placed in Qinzhou to prepare for military salaries and the purchase of grain, and some of it was left in Mobei City.
Star City is also going to put some here for those people's usual trading.
Not only copper coins, Gu Xinyue also left a large amount of silver in Ganzhou and Qinzhou, as well as Mobei City.
(When they were passing by the silver, Gu Xinyue sucked a silver mountain)
Not to mention military salaries, all money is enough.
Moreover, the copper coin is still being forged.
According to Gu Xinyue, there is no need to be in vain, it just so happens that June in Jiangnan is the time when various summer crops are ripe, and it is also the time when silk cloth is more productive.
When he was in Qinzhou, he asked Red Eagle to send a letter and asked Monk Gao to take the Han family to Jiangnan.
By the way, I got in touch with those secret nails who stayed in Jiangnan (such as Longmen Wang Han and others).
Go to various places to collect the supplies first, just wait for them to pass, and let Gu Xinyue pay to suck them up.
Gao Song glanced at Qin Mohan, who swept directly behind Gu Xinyue from the back of the big eagle vulture, and said, "General, are you going with the general?" ”
Both heads are gone, what happens to the capital, how to do it?
"As soon as our Qin family raised the banner, the imperial court gave a reply of recognition, and at the same time said that they are not responsible for our armaments and food." Qin Qi smiled faintly and said, "So, during this time, the capital will not care about us, and will only continue to fight for power and profit." ”
"Those bastards!" Just thinking about it, Takamatsu only felt cold sweat break out.
If it weren't for the girl, if it weren't for the Star City and the additional fields opened up in Ganzhou......
Qin Qi smiled and said, "It's just right, Gao Song, if your legs are convenient, take some people to Jingdong Road with Shanyu." ”
Takamatsu's eyebrows furrowed.
"I heard that Jingdong Road has a severe spring drought this year, but the Jizhou prefect is still leviing and expropriating, and I am afraid that there will be a civil uprising." Qin Qi threw a piece of meat to the Great Eagle Vulture and let the Great Eagle Eagle Eagle Play by himself, and walked quickly inside.
"Civil unrest?" Takamatsu hurried to follow.
"Hmm." Qin Qi snorted.
Chu Yu spent so much money to find a master, and now that Qin Mohan is not dead, although he is not under his control, but the voice of the prince in the court is gone, he will naturally want to think about getting money.
In terms of taxes, not only do they not reduce or reduce taxes, but they also want to increase them.
And those officials, busy occupying positions and forming gangs, are that some people propose that the taxes are too heavy, and since the border army no longer has to bear the burden of the court, the taxes should be reduced, and not many people respond.
Therefore, it was only the end of March, and officials in various places began to collect spring taxes.
And Jingdong Road has a severe spring drought this year, seeing that the harvest will be very bad, and there is nothing to eat, where is the money to pay taxes?
Plus some of his little moves last year.
"So, who were we?" Gao Song had a smile on his face, but he still followed suit.
"Those are all people who can't survive, how can they fight those fierce government soldiers, you go over to help and point out, don't let those governors and government soldiers bully them." Qin Qi smiled faintly.
"Got it!" Gao Song laughed loudly, and said in a deep voice: "Then what if the imperial court sends troops to suppress the bandits?" ”
The state and county government soldiers are easy to deal with, but the regular army is not so easy to deal with.
"Don't worry." Qin Qi smiled.
I remembered Su Cen's reply.
Long before going to Yinqi, he sent someone to deliver a letter to Su Cen.
Tell Chu Yu what he wants to do.
It's just that Su Cen's reply didn't arrive until after Wei Zhaodu arrived.
The letter is very simple, just two sentences: I'll play in the capital first, and we'll see you in Jizhou when the time comes.
At that time, he didn't quite understand what Su Cen meant, but when he received the news of the large-scale spring drought on Jingdong Road, he suddenly understood what Su Cen meant.
That guy!