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How Huang Jiyun persuaded the emperor, and how the emperor persuaded the courtiers, Daiyu didn't know, she only knew that since Huang Jiyun came over that day, five or six days later, the imperial court issued a decree: the household department set up a good deeds department, and the people of the world jointly donated funds voluntarily for disaster relief in the event of a disaster. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Independent account book, supervised by the Zongren Government.

After another three or four days, the imperial court issued another decree: the world's merchants are divided into five classes. A tax of one million is a first-class businessman, a tax of 500,000 is a second-class businessman, a tax of 300,000 is a third-class businessman, a tax of 100,000 is a fourth-class businessman, and a tax of less than 100,000 is a fifth-class businessman.

At the same time, the decree said: "All merchants, those who did good deeds of more than 100,000 silver in those years." In that year, the original grade was raised by one grade. ”

At the beginning, not many people cared, after all, this is not equal, isn't business going on as usual?

However, soon, the imperial court issued a statement again: first-class merchants can trade across three provinces, second-class merchants can trade across one province, third-level merchants can trade across two provinces, fourth-level merchants can trade across provinces, and fifth-level merchants can trade across their own provinces.

As soon as this order came out, the world's businessmen were shocked! You must know that it is extremely difficult to travel now, and it is quite cumbersome to handle all kinds of road guides, except for a very small number of businessmen with deep backgrounds, or official gentry families. And now, with such a rating, the world's businessmen will no longer be extravagant hopes and dreams.

Even when Daiyu learned the news, she was also shocked, she thought that the imperial court would issue some plaques or something, but it turned out to be like this......

Taking this opportunity, after discussing with Princess Hanyu, Daiyu took out all the samples of the previous spring and summer seasons, and united some merchants in the capital, of course, the imperial merchants Xue family, the Xia family and several others.

In addition to Daiyu and Han's Rongyun Nishang Pavilion, eight major businessmen, as well as some small and medium-sized businessmen, were also invited to hold a charity auction on the site of the "Yunkelai" restaurant, and all the proceeds from the auction will be donated to the Department of Good Deeds for the resettlement of the northwest refugees.

In the minds of Daiyu and others, this auction focuses on participation, in order to form a model, and there will be a routine in the future, so as to act according to the routine. The result was a great surprise to Daiyu and others, and even several sets of out-of-season samples of Rongyunni Dress Pavilion were auctioned at a higher price than new.

Of course, the clothes and ornaments of Rong Yunni Pavilion, ordinary businessmen or ordinary officials, even if they have money, they can't buy it. There were other merchants, more or less, who took out a lot of items for auction, and in the end the auction amount reached an astonishing figure of 1,370,000 taels of silver.

When the emperor and the ministers learned about it, they were shocked and relieved, a series of decrees were issued, and the preparations for the auction had been delayed for nearly a month. The 100,000 taels of silver allocated by the household department before, as well as the 100,000 taels of silver allocated by the emperor's inner treasury, have long been stretched.

With the million taels of silver obtained from this batch of auctions, the Seventh Prince was finally able to rest assured and be bold and concentrate on resettle the homeless.

On 24 July, after nearly two months, Prince Yi of the Seventh Prince gathered nearly 76,58 displaced people for an unprecedented time, including more than 48,000 young and strong men who met the requirements of the border army, and more than 22,000 women who were able to work in the pastures. There are only more than 2,000 old people, and the rest are children.

Children without parents and the elderly without children, no more than 4,000 people in total, were all sent to the capital. The remaining more than 70,000 people followed Prince Yi of the Seventh Prince and went to the northwest border city.

This is the second time that the Seventh Prince has led a "large army" to the northwest border city. When he stood outside the border city again, the mood of the Seventh Prince was completely different. Today's northwest is very different from when Prince Yi led the expedition to the west a year ago.

Rows of small courtyards of the common people were concentrated in the east, with one color of clay stone walls and one color of hay roofs. But it looks extraordinarily neat. Three rows of small courtyards for the common people, even though many houses are not yet inhabited, but they crowd Dongcheng District, close to the mansion of the general army to the south.

There was a small mutual market in the north, which was stopped by a horse rejection. A lot of temporary straw huts were erected. Xicheng District is a military camp and a medical center. The common people rarely come to the west city, and most of them live in the east and north cities.

On the original city wall, the soldiers and civilians of the city used the clay, grass, trees, and gravel unique to the northwest to build the city wall high. Although it is not as good as those big bluestone walls, it is much stronger than the original. At least for the Northern Barbarians who did not have large siege equipment, they could already play a good defensive role.

Outside the west gate, on the slopes of the hills on the left and right, which are not too high, at this time they are no longer temporary fortifications, but like the border city, two barracks have been built with stones and clay. It forms a corner with the border city. Except for Mo Xuan, the head town, and Zhao Bing, the chief soldier, no one knew what the people in the barracks were doing all day.

Only two or three miles outside the south city gate, there is a mountain col, which is the place where Zhao Bing pointed out Qiluo and led the people to take refuge. At this time, a large number of cattle and sheep raised there were robbed by Mo Xuan and Zhao Bing with soldiers from the Northern Barbarians a few years ago. The sheep have been shaved once before they come out of the circle in spring.

Months after the war, from the harsh winter to the warm spring flowers, and then to the scorching summer at this time, although the population of the border city has not increased, the whole city seems to be more vibrant than ever. It's no longer like what Mo Xuan saw at the beginning - like Shura Purgatory, and it is no longer the gloomy in the eyes of the Seventh Prince.

When the holy decree was sent to the northwest, Mo Xuan and Zhao Bing were training sergeants on the hillside outside Xicheng, according to Daiyu's memory, the methods of special forces in their previous lives. These sergeants are obviously very different from those in the city, not only are they physically stronger, they eat white flour steamed buns with beef and mutton soup every day, and they are all vigorous, like wolves and tigers.

When Song Shi, who was left behind in the city, sent someone to send news to Mo Xuan, the lord of the town, that when a holy decree was delivered in the capital, Mo Xuan and Zhao Bing were both surprised, after all, it was only three or four months since they received their orders here. The two have cultivated a lot of tacit understanding these days.

Zhao Bing stayed behind to continue training the sergeants, and Mo Xuan rode his horse to follow the messenger back to the city. I didn't want to, but I was surprised to find that the person who delivered the decree turned out to be the Seventh Prince of Righteousness!

Looking at Mo Xuan, who was dressed in a dusty cotton robe, his face was a little tanned, but his eyes were exceptionally bright, the Seventh Prince patted his arm and smiled: "Not bad!" It's grown a lot when you see it. After finishing speaking, he didn't say much, Song Shi helped set up the incense case, and after Mo Xuan bathed and changed his clothes, the Seventh Prince read out the will of the saint.

For a while, not to mention that Mo Xuan and Song Shi were excited, even the messengers and guards in the yamen of the headquarters town were also excited.

What is most lacking in today's border cities? Grain? Money? No! It's neither, it's people! The whole city was only forty or fifty thousand people, and there were not even fifteen thousand people, excluding the old and the young, women, and children, who could go to battle. At this time, the Seventh Prince actually brought him a population of more than 70,000, and there were nearly 50,000 young people!

Mo Xuan had a feeling of dreaming, and when he was so excited that he didn't know what to say, the Seventh Prince smiled and said, "The Holy Lord also asked this king to bring you a message." ”

Hearing what the Seventh Prince said, Mo Xuan quickly straightened his expression, and his originally upright posture stood even straighter. Seeing this, the Seventh Prince smiled and said: "Don't be so nervous, the Holy One just explains to you, so that you can do things well, and you will be rewarded in the future." ”

After speaking, the Seventh Prince paused and said, "It seems to say that there is a reward for you to prepare." I don't remember exactly, but that's pretty much what it means. ”

After listening to the fist salute, Mo Xuan raised his head to show two rows of snow-white teeth, and smiled at the Seventh Prince: "The Holy Lord has no reward, and the last general will also protect the people of the border city and defend the territory of my heaven from foreign invasion." After speaking, Feng Feng said: "The prince came this time, and really brought nearly 50,000 young people?" ”

When Mo Xuan asked this, his eyes were shining. If the Seventh Prince hadn't known that Mo Xuan was safe, he would have been frightened. But he didn't know that when Mo Xuan heard such a large number of people, he had already had other ideas in his heart.

Although the border city is not very large, it is no problem to settle these more than 70,000 people. Nearly 50,000 young and strong, Mo Xuan sent a team of soldiers and asked Song Shi to follow him to Xicheng District to settle down, and the women and girls invited Qiluo, who was quite popular in the border city, to take them to Dongcheng District.

Mo Xuan personally took the Seventh Prince Yi around the city, and it was not until after lunch that Mo Xuan smiled mysteriously at the Seventh Prince: "Now the border city is like this, if you want to get something else, I am afraid that the imperial court will need to allocate a lot of money and send people from the Ministry of Industry to come." ”

Hearing Mo Xuan say this, the Seventh Prince also nodded with a smile on his face and said, "In a few months, you can do this, which is greatly beyond my expectations." ”

Mo Xuan smiled and said, "I'm afraid that I will take you to see a place later, and you will be even more surprised." ”

When the Seventh Prince heard this, he became interested and said with a smile: "Then what are you waiting for a while?" Why don't you go now? "In the Seventh Prince's mind, Mo Xuan was afraid that he should take himself to see what the temporary ranch looked like now.

Who knew that Mo Xuan smiled and said: "Don't worry, wait later, let's go over again, and we can take a clear look." ”

The Seventh Prince looked at the sky outside, and didn't quite understand what Mo Xuan meant by taking a clear look, but since Mo Xuan had already said this, the Seventh Prince was not reluctant, it just so happened that he was in a hurry for days, and when he arrived in the border city, he also checked around non-stop, and now he was also a little tired, so he slept well in the official residence of the main town.

When the Seventh Prince woke up, the sun had set, and the sky and the earth were rendered crimson. After washing, he came to the front hall and learned that Mo Xuan had already prepared the horses.

Mo Xuan led the Seven Princes and his party, got on the horse and headed to the West Gate. The Seventh Prince couldn't help frowning and said, "If the Northern Barbarians attack, the outside of the West Gate is not as safe as outside the East Gate." ”

Mo Xuan smiled back when he heard this, but he didn't explain. Seeing this, the Seventh Prince had to shake his head and sigh: In the end, he was young and had less experience. It seems that we still have to give him again and arrange for two staff members to come over.

While speaking, Mo Xuan had already led the Seven Princes and his entourage, and took the lead to the bottom of the mountain in the south outside the West City Gate, and before he went up the mountain, the Seventh Princes were stunned. It was originally a temporary fortification built by his own people, but now it has become a military camp.

At the foot of the mountain, not only are the antlers of the horse rejected, all the way up the mountain, the Seven Princes even saw a lot of wind chimes hanging on the branches of the trees, which if you are not familiar with it, you will inevitably encounter a few. Even if I am not sure, I will be able to avoid them all.

At this time, the Seven Princes understood that they were going to see what pastures, and they were actually coming to see the military camp. Thinking that there was something special about coming to this military camp, Mo Xuan specially brought himself over.

The place on the top of the mountain is not big, and there are not many soldiers, Prince Yi took a rough look, about six or seven hundred people, one by one, they looked at the dragon and the tiger, at this time each person was carrying three throwing guns, hanging bows and crossbows, carrying standard horse chopping knives, one after another, in the middle of the square, running and jumping on the strange terrain.

The Seventh Prince raised his eyebrows and looked at Mo Xuan, and said with a smile: "This is what you asked this king to see?" Mo Xuan nodded, pointed to the strange terrain in the middle, and explained: "Here, all kinds of terrain on the grassland are basically there, and the last general is the imitation of the king of Wujun...... Mo Xuan paused and said: "These soldiers need to run here every day for training, this is the most basic physical training, and there will also be shooting training." After all, against the cavalry, it is the cavalry that can be the most effective. ”

Seeing Mo Xuan's serious expression, the Seventh Prince couldn't help frowning and carefully observing the soldiers in the field, and after looking at it for a while, the Seventh Prince asked, "Don't you practice the battle formation?" Mo Xuan looked up at the Seventh Prince and said, "The Northern Barbarians will not give the last general a chance to form a battle formation at all, and their cavalry will blow over as if a gust of wind is blowing. ”

Seeing the appearance of the Seventh Prince's frown, Mo Xuan smiled: "It's not that I don't practice at all, but once a melee happens, there is no small combination of large battle formations." The Seventh Prince raised his eyebrows, observed carefully, and found that the soldiers who were being trained in the field were all in a team of seven, and in those places where they couldn't climb and jump, they were all seven people cooperating with each other to advance, and couldn't help but nod secretly.

An hour later, the banner on the herald platform changed, and the soldiers all gathered in front of the herald, and soon nearly a hundred people walked out of the six or seven hundred rooms, came to the herald, and pulled out something from a wooden barrel, and the seventh prince looked sideways at Mo Xuan and raised his eyebrows.

Mo Xuan said with a smile: "Tomorrow's confrontation, the soldiers present will be randomly grouped." There are few people here, and once there is a war, especially after the melee begins, there is no guarantee who your comrades-in-arms will be, but the last general will ask them to be in groups of seven, and they must not be separated at any time. So every other day, we will have a lottery combination. ”

After Mo Xuan finished speaking, he pointed to the opposite hill and said, "It's the same over there, and then we will mix and draw groups on both sides every four days, and we will have an offensive and defensive confrontation every ten days." ”

The Seventh Prince raised his eyebrows and said, "Right here?" ”

Mo Xuan smiled and pointed to the border city not far from the bottom of the mountain, and said with a smile: "Outside the East City, where the people took refuge last time, where the cattle and sheep we snatched back are raised, there are so many cattle and sheep, so many people eat, some people can eat meat, and some people can only drink soup." ”

Speaking of this, Mo Xuan sighed and said: "If it weren't for the fact that when the sheep were out of the circle in the spring, he sold some wool to Sister Yu'er, in exchange for rice noodles and little piglets, and followed her advice to raise the cows and sheep that can produce milk alone, I am afraid that our cattle and sheep will also be eaten up at this time." ”

When the Seventh Prince heard this, he couldn't help but think of Daiyu's Northwest Ranch, and was about to say something, but Mo Xuan smiled and said: "But those cows that don't produce milk can be eaten, but it's a pity that the little piglets haven't grown up yet." ”

After Mo Xuan finished speaking, he looked at the Seventh Prince with a smile and said, "The meat that the soldiers on this mountain eat every day is all snatched back by themselves. ”

Hearing Mo Xuan say this, the Seventh Prince was stunned, and couldn't help asking, "Where did you rob it from the Northern Barbarians?" ”

Mo Xuan laughed and said: "When the Northern Barbarians help us raise all the cattle and sheep, let's go and grab them back, but what we eat now is snatched back years ago." ”

Saying that, Mo Xuan sent the soldiers of the two hills, every ten days, to attack and defend in the col where cattle and sheep were raised, if the attacker failed to grab the cattle and sheep, the defender could get two cows, and three buckets of milk a day, and the attacker had nothing. When the attacker grabs the cattle and sheep, the cattle and sheep obtained belong to the attacker.

The Seventh Prince was dumbfounded when he heard this, and couldn't help asking, "Then how many cattle and sheep do you have left now?" Mo Xuan thought about it for a while, showed a mouthful of white teeth and said with a smile: "The last general doesn't know, those things in the col are all taken care of by Zhao Bing's daughter-in-law." ”

After speaking, Mo Xuan added: "But it won't be too little, two months ago, the last general and Zhao Bing returned to the northwest from the capital, so we went around from the south and got some lambs and calves back." ”

When the Seventh Prince heard this, he frowned and said, "You guys are going to provoke the Northern Barbarians again?" Mo Xuan just smiled but didn't answer, this is also a helpless thing, the court doesn't give silver, but not only the officers and soldiers in the border city have to eat and drink, but there are so many people who have to survive......

Seeing Mo Xuan like this, the Seventh Prince couldn't help frowning and said, "This king remembers that when you came over, the Holy Lord gave you a salary. Mo Xuan nodded and frowned: "But in this northwest, not only has silver, but also has to have something." Did the prince see the mutual market in the city? It hasn't been open for months. ”

After Mo Xuan finished speaking, he saw that the Seventh Prince was silent, only staring at himself tightly, and couldn't help lowering his head and whispering, "Let's use that money to buy weapons." ”

After speaking, Mo Xuan pointed to the soldiers in the field and said: "Look, Lord Wang, the armor worn by the soldiers is made by us for the people in the city to use cowhide to help us, fortunately, there will be a little bit in the Song Dynasty, otherwise I am afraid that there will be no armor at this time." ”

The Seventh Prince looked at the soldiers who had already drawn lots in the field and were scattered everywhere, and then looked at Mo Xuan, who was standing beside him, who seemed to have grown a lot taller, and couldn't help but show appreciation in his eyes. (To be continued.) )