While pretending to be decadent in the palace, Anton Hua easily found all the nails in the palace, and used some shady means to control people. From then on, he didn't have to act in the palace anymore, and he didn't have to worry about any news being given by his opponent. He asked the nails to send some news back, and the nails only had to obediently do it, and they didn't dare to disobey.

On this day, he had another secret talk with his staff, discussing the matter of recruiting troops and seizing military power. Although he is a prince, he doesn't even have an army in his hands, and the garrison in Jiaozhou doesn't listen to his orders at all.

The Zheng family is a big family in Jiaozhou, entrenched in Jiaozhou for many years, controlling the officialdom and military of Jiaozhou, and almost becoming the emperor of Jiaozhou! The emperor didn't want the Zheng family to grow, so he once sent the prefect over, but the Zheng family was powerful, where would he allow a foreign prefect to ride on his head? So the prefects who came for several terms finally died in vain, either from bandits or women, which made the emperor hate it so much, but he couldn't find the head of the Zheng family.

In addition, there were many mobs in Jiaozhou, and there were rebellions from time to time, and the emperor had no choice but to let Zheng Xiye, the eldest son of the Zheng family, become the prefect of Jiaozhou, which was regarded as making Jiaozhou, a chaotic place, completely fall under the control of the Zheng family.

Jiaozhou is far away from the capital, mountainous and bandits, it has never been a good place, it is a pity for the emperor to abandon the tasteless food, but as the emperor, he really wants him to give up such a place, cheapen the Zheng family in vain, and let the Zheng family become the emperor of Jiaozhou, he is extremely unwilling.

As a result, there was the post-deposed crown prince Antonhua as the king of Jiaozhou. Send him to Jiaozhou. On the surface, it seems that the emperor is disgusted with Anton Hua, but in fact, it is the emperor who gave Anton Hua a test. He wanted to know this son he had always admired. Can you beat the Zheng family!

The emperor's hand is not clever, but he suffered Anton Hua, and in order to survive, he can only fight with the Zheng family desperately!

The matter of military power is not urgent for the time being, and Anton Hua can at most let his subordinates blend into the garrison of Jiaozhou, and more means cannot be used even if he wants to. The rest can only climb up by their own efforts.

If it weren't for the silver provided by Shang Jinxiu, Anton Hua's life would have been even worse, and he would have to recruit troops. If you want to win over people, which one doesn't want silver?

In fact, Anton Hua has secretly bought a lot of lives, all of them are young and strong selected from the ravines, the people are very strong, and the means are ruthless enough, the key is that the price is cheap! Ten stones of grain can buy a human life. Jiaozhou was short of grain, and the Zheng family monopolized the grain trade and sold grain from other places at low prices. When you get to Jiaozhou, you can sell it at a high price.

The Zheng family also occupies a large area of fertile land, and can produce a lot of grain every year, which is also sold at a high price, and the tenants have worked hard for a year. But I can't even eat enough during the New Year.

A stone of rice outside sells for one or two silver, and when it arrives in Jiaozhou, it has to be doubled, which is still indica rice. The price of japonica rice is even more expensive. The Zheng family made a lot of money with the fertile land and grain shops in their hands, but they suffered the people of Jiaozhou. Food prices are too expensive. Ordinary people only eat two meals a day, and they can only boil rice soup and dig wild vegetables to drink.

Shang Jinxiu's shop. can only earn the silver of those squires and nobles, and the people at the bottom can't afford to spend it at all.

The grain that Anton Hua used to recruit troops and horses was smuggled in from other places. Although Shang Jinxiu said that she bought some granges and now began to produce, she was too cautious at first and only bought a few granges, most of which were used to grow vegetables and fruits.

It was only later that the shop made money, and she began to spend money to buy land again.

Originally, the Zheng family saw that she had made a lot of money, and they were worried that An Donghua would play some tricks after he had the silver, but as soon as the 'loose away' thing came out, Shang Jinxiu began to spend money to buy land, and almost spent all the money he 'earned'!

Almost all the fertile fields in Jiaozhou are in the hands of nobles and squires, and what Shang Jinxiu can buy, except for some nobles or squires who are in a hurry to sell them secretly, is not so good medium fields, and it takes a lot of effort to take care of them.

Medium fields are not as fertile as high-quality fields, and the output is not much, Shang Jinxiu doesn't care, it's a big deal to find someone to make organic fertilizers, anyway, the materials are very rich. 'Yipinxian' and 'Yangshengtang' produce a large amount of waste residue every day, which is used to make organic fertilizer.

She also bought a lot of wasteland that no one wanted, and it was overgrown with weeds, thorns, and worthless miscellaneous trees. Seeing that in autumn, the weeds and trees have withered and yellowed, Shang Jinxiu found someone to empty the place, and those dry grass and branches were directly used as firewood to burn, and the burned grass and wood ashes were sprinkled directly on the ground, which was directly fertilizer.

There are so many poor people in Jiaozhou who can't afford to eat, and Shang Jinxiu doesn't have to worry about running out of manpower at all. Anton Hua wanted to recruit troops and buy horses, and the ones he bought were all young and strong, and the rest were old and weak women and children, who could just settle in Shang Jinxiu's farm and grange.

These people are not suitable for the work of licking blood from the knife edge, but they can be trained to farm and graze, but they are all good hands, and they can also contain each other. With them staying in the grange and farm as hostages, where would those young men who gave their lives to Antonhua dare to betray?

What's more, all those who will sell their lives can't live their lives, and they sell their lives to Antonhua, in order to exchange food for their families to live and not starve to death. Shang Jinxiu let these old and weak women and children stay in the grange and farm to work, which simply gave these people a chance to live!

The young men who work hard are not to mention betrayal, only more loyal. Even, since Shang Jinxiu bought the land and mentioned this matter to Anton Hua, Anton Hua's henchmen don't even have to bring food when they go out to recruit troops and buy horses, as long as this condition is said, these people will drag their families and follow them.

As long as they arrive at the place and provide some materials, they will build a house by themselves, and then give some food every day, and they don't need too much, coarse grain cakes and wild vegetable soup can make them grateful, and if they are given white flour steamed buns, these people can be so grateful that they kneel on the ground and keep kowtowing to you.

When Shang Jinxiu bought the land, the nobles led by the Zheng family were all snickering. They always had an account book in their hearts, and they knew very well how much money Shang Jinxiu could earn every month. What these people are most afraid of is how much silver An Donghua has in his hands, and Shang Jinxiu spent a 'fine light' of the silver in order to buy land, which is in their hands!

Even if Shang Jinxiu can make money, what if he can make money? The speed of spending money is too fast! Even if An Donghua is a prince, he can't even take out some silver in his hand, how can he fight with them?

These people didn't find out that Anton Hua was secretly recruiting troops and horses, even if there were many fresh faces living in Shang Jinxiu's grange and farm, but these people were yellow and thin, and they arrived in batches, scattered before and after, where would the nobles care?

The last thing that Jiaozhou lacks is the poor and refugees! Countless people starve to death every year!

Don't look at these mountain people, all of them have yellow faces and thin muscles, all of them are not full of food! After a good life, after a period of time, the flesh on the body will gradually increase. The young men are used to living a hard life, in the past, in order to survive, they fought with the beasts in the mountains and forests, don't look like refugees, they are fierce and abnormal, as long as they are trained, they can be cultivated into a terrifying iron-blooded army!

Antonhua's henchmen found a deserted valley and hid all the people in it. Outside the valley, surrounded by mountains, the mountains are full of wild beasts and poisonous insects, and the mist fills the whole day, which is suitable for Tibetans. If you are careful, no one will know about it even if you are careful about it.

With such a wonderful stronghold, Anton Hua secretly cultivated his own private army. Shang Jinxiu opened a dyeing workshop and a ready-to-wear shop, and all the clothes of the private army were made to order in her shop. The shop is full of Shang Jinxiu's people, and the ones who work are the families of those soldiers, and they are not afraid that someone will betray them and be known by others.

Shang Jinxiu's business has become bigger and bigger, and this is the result of the aristocracy's unsparing efforts. The nobles who got the benefits naturally wanted to get more benefits, and the nobles who had rejected Shang Jinxiu took the initiative to surround them like flies that smelled blood, and they couldn't get rid of them.

With these people sparing no effort to help, her business naturally became bigger and bigger. Not only did he open a fat powder shop, but he also opened a dyeing workshop and a garment shop. The things in the fat powder shop are more delicate than those of 'National Color Tianxiang', and the types are more varied, and many bottles in it are directly made of glass, which is very exquisite.

The patterns and colors dyed in the dyeing workshop are many and bright, and the tailoring in the ready-to-wear shop is unique and exquisite, and it has gradually become bigger.

However, Jiaozhou is too poor after all, although the business is bigger, but the business is not very good, and it is average, adding up to the daily income is eye-catching.

However, as soon as he made money, Shang Jinxiu would use it to buy land, and the nobles only felt funny in their eyes, and gradually regarded Shang Jinxiu as a money-making machine. Even the Zheng family made up their minds, and after getting rid of An Donghua, they would secretly control Shang Jinxiu as a money-making machine in their hands.

These nobles were triumphant, but they didn't know that their backyard was about to catch fire.

In these years, anyone with a little identity and ability has at least a few concubines and concubines. These concubines and concubines have a low status in the family, and if the housewife is powerful, they will be tortured to death before they even live to adulthood.

Even if he is an adult, he is a tool used by the family, and he has no status at all. Not to mention the concubine, when you become an adult, find someone to marry, and you can still have a place to stay. The concubines are even more miserable, the housewife is more powerful, and they will be swept away if they can't even share a little property.

Once there are more people, there will be more thoughts, and there will always be some people who are unwilling to be treated like this and want to fight for themselves. (To be continued......)