The Continent of Heaven, the Heavenly Desolate Prefecture, the Aranan County, and the Southwest County Seat.

Since Chu Yi was named the county marquis a year ago and took charge of the army with one wing, there have been drastic changes in the southwest county.

At the beginning, there were only thousands of households in Southwest County, with more than 10,000 mouths, which was even more depressed and barren than Yuan County and other places close to Nanling, not to mention compared with rich places such as Chen County and Huangnan County.

Because of the rebellion in the south, the barbarian king Meng Yu attacked Huangnan with Liu Jiang's strategy, and seized the land of several counties in the southwest of Huangnan County, the barbarians were cruel and had no way, and the people such as Yuanxian began to flee to the north, Marshal Wang Ling divided his troops to protect the official road, and the people were able to enter the southwest county for temporary refuge.

Gathering a number of counties, the total population of the southwest county began to increase dramatically, and it is no less than Chen County, Huangnan and other famous counties.

The barbarian soldiers are pointing at it!

The left wing of the Southern Xinjiang Army led the envoys, General Pingnan, and Hou Chuyi, the leader of Southwest County, to order the sergeants to expand the city, and began to secretly deal with some of the heroes who were making waves.

If there is oppression of the people, forced buying and selling, driving up the price of grain, etc., the punishment will not be forgiven!

Chu Yi discussed with Xi Zhicai, bought the land bought by the nobles at a low price, and distributed it to the people for cultivation, gave cattle and farm tools, exempted from taxes for one year, and then took three out of ten.

Now the southwest county town has expanded several times, the city wall is high, the city river is deep, more than 10,000 households, nearly 100,000 people, more than 10,000 soldiers, faintly for the base camp of Chu Yi, the commander of the southern Xinjiang army.

The current county commander is Shi Zhaofeng, the deputy general under the command of General Pingnan, and Lin Xuan, the former county commander of Chen County, who are jointly in charge of the county's internal affairs, and the county lieutenant is Liao Hua, the general of the Southern Xinjiang Army, and Zhao Yu, the commander of the Southern Xinjiang Army's personal guards.

"All the cities under the jurisdiction of General Pingnan are exempt from the cost of entering the city?!"

One day, the north gate of the southwest county ushered in a middle-aged man with a slightly fat body and a full face.

"This man is from out of town."

The people who came and went included peasants in cloth clothes, merchants in silk clothes, and scholars in robes, but they all stared at the man and thought of this sentence.

It has been a long time since General Chu issued a new order, and almost everyone knows about it in the south of Changxing in southern Xinjiang.

An old entourage behind the middle-aged man was looked a little embarrassed: "Master, let's go to the city first." ”

"Oh, that's rude." The middle-aged man nodded, showed a kind smile, regained his calm posture, and entered the city with the old man and a few black-shirted entourage, his face seemed to be calm, but his heart was like a storm, and he couldn't guess Chu Yi's thoughts at all.

"What does this Chu Junyao think, although the entrance fee to the city is not much, and it can even be ignored, but with so many cities, he doesn't know the allusion that more gathers and less becomes more?"

The middle-aged man strolled into the city, saw that the eastern neighborhood of the city was very lively, and the noisy sound of arguing and shouting could be heard from afar, so he casually stopped a young man in cloth and asked, "Why is the neighborhood in the east of the city so lively and the west of the city so quiet?" I heard that Southwest County is a big county where businessmen gather in southern Xinjiang, but I didn't think it was as prosperous as other places. ”

"This gentleman is from out of town, isn't he?" The young man was stunned for a moment, and then asked.

"Naturally, in Xia Xiao Xuan, the Tianwu Prefecture clan, came here to observe business." Xiao Xuan said kindly.

"It turned out to be the old brother of Tianwu Prefecture." The young man faintly felt that this name was a little familiar, but he couldn't remember it, so he didn't pay attention to it anymore, but said very enthusiastically: "The reason why the eastern neighborhood of the city is lively and prosperous is because General Chu's future merchants and shops are all located in the eastern neighborhood of the city, and the shops that buy and sell goods in the eastern neighborhood of the city need to pay taxes, while the reason why the western neighborhood is relatively deserted and quiet is that General Chu placed the residences of the people in the city in the western neighborhood of the city, and the small merchants and vendors all trade in the western neighborhood of the city. ”

"I see, General Chu has a heart. There are rumors that General Chu does not like the Shijia Haoqiang, controls the market, and improves the status of merchants and farmers during his time in power, I wonder if it is true? Xiao Xuan asked again.

The young man listened and said with a smile: "This time you are asking the right person, my friend's aunt's son has a relative, who is working in the Southern Xinjiang Chamber of Commerce of Lord Mi Zhu, if today Huangzhou has lifted the ban on merchants and farmers not being allowed to wear silk, do you say it will be improved?" ”

"Thank you, little brother." Xiao Xuan hugged his fists and saluted, and the young man saw that Xiao Xuan was imposing on his own, and he knew that he was not a mortal, but he didn't ask too much, and left with a chuckle.

Xiao Xuan asked several people in a row, all of them were very similar to the original one, and finally a fine light flashed in his eyes, thinking carefully about something, and slowly came to the west block of the city with his entourage.

Seeing that the neighborhood in the west of the city was full of people and noisy, it was obviously overcrowded, Xiao Xuan reluctantly squeezed into the street, glanced at the name of a shop, and Xiao Xuan hurried in.

As soon as Xiao Xuan entered the shop, the shopkeeper smiled slightly, and ordered his subordinates to close the door and take Xiao Xuan into the inner room.

"Sixth uncle, what do you think?" Xiao Xuan frowned and asked.

"The head of the family, I think it can be considered, although on the surface, it seems that General Chu did not give the scholars a chance at all, but only promoted the common people and merchants, which violated the politics of the Dayong Dynasty, but I heard that the decree on Guixing's side was much more relaxed, and it was obvious that General Chu also understood the hidden dangers.

Now General Chu has spent a lot of money to rectify the education area, obviously doing his best, but within ten years, General Chu still has to use the children of the scholar clan, otherwise there is a huge Tianzhou, how can those children of the poor family be able to score? The head of the family didn't feel that General Chu's attitude towards the Shi family had begun to change somewhat. The old man who had been following Xiao Xuan thought for a while, and then said with a solemn expression: "Abolish the city gate tax, the reality of the people self-farming, it is really a good strategy, it seems to have suffered a loss, but in fact, it is not, this not only makes the city prosperous, just with this prosperous east block, the tax revenue is not much more than before, with a buffer, as soon as the year passes, these decrees can be on the right track." ”

"The world will be chaotic, General Chu is not more than ten years old, but he is a person with great ambitions and kindness to the people, he knows the people as the basis, governs the place with benevolence and righteousness, and gathers the help of Xi Zhicai, Zhao Yun and other national scholars, which is really the choice of the master. What I am worried about, I am afraid that General Chu has rectified the scholar clan and developed the Chamber of Commerce in the past few years, and I am afraid that there is no shortage of money. Xiao Xuan's brows furrowed.

"The head of the family didn't know that General Chu had a little wealth at the beginning, but more than 200,000 soldiers in southern Xinjiang under his command ate horses, asked for military salaries, and asked for pensions, and he ordered Dong Ju to build a lot of construction in Huangnan, build schools, repair roads, and order Liu Jiang to strengthen the city wall of Yuan County, don't you need money?" Xiao Liu said with a smile.

"The sixth uncle's words are reasonable, but for the sake of the future of more than a thousand people in my clan, it is better to choose carefully." Xiao Xuan thought about it for a moment before he said.

"Does the head of the family want to see who wins and who loses in the end?" Xiao Liu asked.

Seeing Xiao Xuan hesitating, Xiao Liu said with some hatred: "It's easy to add icing on the cake, it's difficult to send carbon in the snow, and Yuan Benchu will definitely be defeated, and the coalition forces of the counties are just some rabble." ”

"What the sixth uncle said is very true, I will personally go to Changxing tomorrow to ask to see Chu Yi, I don't want Tianyong to say goodbye to him back then, and he actually did such a big thing!" Xiao Xuan suddenly woke up and said decisively.

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Changxing County, south of Xinjiang.

"Zilong deserves the name of my first place in southern Xinjiang!"

After learning the news of Zhao Yun's defeat of Lu Deng, Chu Yi was overjoyed, and gathered Xi Zhicai, Wang Meng, Lin Chong, Gao Shun, Hua Rong, Hu Che'er, Shanying and others to discuss the matter.

When the generals heard this, they were all delighted.

"Lord, now Yuan Shao is shrinking in the village and no longer fighting, and Lu Deng is also guarding Changxing, which is to deceive our army and not continue to eat." Xi Zhicai's body has become more and more tough.

"It is better for the lord to order a general to take Cheng'an County in the west, and Zhu Xiumu to take Huangdong County in the east, move the main force to the west or east, and attack the Heavenly Desolate City, if the city is broken at that time, the enemy's rear will be lost, and it will inevitably collapse." Wang Meng thought about it for a while, and then offered a plan.

"It's a good plan, but it's too slow." Chu Yi said calmly.

"What does the lord want?" Xi Zhicai was also a little curious, he thought all day long, and he was just attacking the counties like Wang Meng.

"Haha, just a Yuan Benchu, why do you need to be like this, you will see it in three days." Chu Yi chuckled, but regardless of the strategy: "You can guard Dazhai carefully, and you will be surprised by all the monarchs in three days." ”

"Lord, there is Xiao Xuan, a great Confucian of Tianwu, who wants to see him outside the village." A personal guard reported in the account.

"Biography...... No, wait for me to greet you personally. "Chu Yi was overjoyed in his heart, I haven't looked for you yet, you came to the door by yourself.

Chu Yi's face was proud, and then he asked Xi Zhicai: "Hao Jun cut off my salary, and the military advisor is worried, and now there is still a shortage of food?"

"There has never been a shortage." Xi Zhicai caught up with Chu Yi's footsteps and said with a straight face.

"Hahaha......" Chu Yi and Xi Zhicai both laughed a few times, walked towards the gate of the village, and after a while, they saw Xiao Xuan from afar.

"Master Xiao Xuan is fine."

"General Chu, don't come unharmed."

The two saluted each other.

"Please."

"Tianyong said goodbye, but in a few months, General Chu did a few big things that shocked the world, forced the barbarians to retreat, issued a new order, and entered the southern Xinjiang, Xiao Xuan admired and admired." Xiao Xuan entered the Chu Yi military camp full of murderous aura, and saw the majestic tiger guards lined up on both sides, and couldn't help but say.

"Hehe, don't dare to be, if it weren't for His Majesty's magnanimity today, Chu would have died long ago." Chu Yi and Xiao Xuan walked in sync, and when they heard Xiao Xuan speak, they were also humble and polite.

"The general entered the southern frontier, attacked the wilderness, and was famous, if he didn't dare to be, who else would dare to be? I heard that the general has the help of the Lin family in the court, I don't know if it is true? Xiao Xuan said again.

Chu Yijian's eyebrows raised slightly: "Naturally." ”

Everyone sat down, and Hu Che'er Mountain Eagle was on both sides.

"Master Xiao Xuan has come from afar, I don't know what to see?" Chu Yi went straight to the point.

"General Wen Chu and his general Zhao Yunwei Yuan Shao are here, but they have not broken it repeatedly, but they want to move the center of gravity outside, Xiao Mou dares to ask the general, is there a shortage of food in the army?" Xiao Xuan's expression was solemn.

"Master rest assured, there is still three months of surplus grain, and Chu wants to order Zhu Huandong to attack Huangdong County and use the grain of the Changxing Shi clan." Chu Yi is not shy about Xiao Xuan, but if Xiao Xuan can't come up with one, two, or three today, then even if he risks offending the Tianwu Xiao family, he will not let him out of the village.

"It's still March?!" Xiao Xuan asked with a smile.

"One month left!" Chu Yi said.

"One month left?!" Xiao Xuan asked again.

"Although there is only half a month left, Zhu Huan in the east and Dong Ju in the south have begun to raise grain and grass to transport from the north, so there is no need to worry." Chu Yiyun said lightly.

"General Zhu Huan is in the east, Dong Ju has a long history in the south, I don't know how much grain and grass can be obtained?" Xiao Xuan no longer asked, 'There is still half a moon?' ’。

"You can get half a year's food." Chu Yi said: "It is enough to defeat Yuan Shao's army!" ”

"General Chu, my Xiao family is willing to give 200,000 people a year's food and salary, and subsidize 100,000 gold to help the general's army!"

"Really?!" Chu Yi's eyes are cold, if so, he will have no worries!

"Lord!" Xiao Xuan bowed and said, "The Xiao family will move to the southwest in a few days, and I hope that the lord will take it in." ”

"Chu Yi, thank you, Master. The Xiao family will not give up, and when Chu Yi becomes a dragon, the Xiao family will be the minister of the dragon! Chu Yi helped Xiao Xuan up, and he was overjoyed that this was the rhythm of the family.

"It's not a secret, our army's surplus food has been less than ten days, even if Dong Ju comes to raise food, it will be difficult to confront each other for a long time, and I hope that the master will prepare as soon as possible."

"My subordinates know." Xiao Xuan was also a little excited in his heart, Jackie Chan? Retainer of the Dragon?

Chu Yi's plan is not small!