Low bungalows, deserted streets, few pedestrians, Yang Cong saw everything in front of him, it was hard to imagine that this was Xuanhua Mansion City, which was even worse than Hui'an County, and it was far worse.

The walls of Xuanhua Mansion are quite tall, but the inside of this city is too deserted, just like a ghost town.

After five days of slow marching, Yang Cong and his entourage finally arrived in Xuanhua Mansion City, Li Fengming arranged his soldiers and the elite of the Shenji Battalion to go to the military camp for repair, and then took Yang Cong and others to the General Military Mansion in the city, according to his meaning, he invited Yang Cong and Zhu Xizhong to live in the east and west wings of the backyard of the General Military Mansion, and he went to live in the military camp by himself, but Yang Cong politely refused.

Yang Cong's trip is not just to command the border army to fight against the Tartars, but more importantly, to establish the logistics system of the border army and equip the elite of the border army, that is to say, he must establish a logistics base in Xuanfu, and it is not enough to have such a place in the General Military Mansion.

He rested for a while in the General Military Mansion, and then left Lu Ling'er and Zhang Zhen in the Welcome Building of the General Military Mansion for a while, and left a group of guards to protect him, and then took the Jinyi Guard and a group of accompanying officials to inspect the Xuanhua Mansion City with Li Fengming.

Although this Xuanhua Mansion City is deserted, the area is still quite large, its east-west and north-south width are eight miles, and it is not a problem to live two or three hundred thousand people, but at this time there are no other people in the city except for the border army guards and the families of the border army, according to Li Fengming's understanding, there are 10,000 elite border troops in the city at this time, and the total population is less than 50,000.

No way, since the Tartars entered Kouxuan Mansion, the population here is becoming more and more scarce, business can not be done, many merchants have no choice but to move away, this merchant left, many living materials can not be bought, and other residents in the city can only find a way to move away, so under the vicious circle, the population of Xuanhua Mansion is naturally getting smaller and smaller.

This person has the advantage of having fewer people, it is convenient to toss, Yang Cong made a general inspection, and he had a plan in his heart, and after returning to the General Military Mansion, he pulled Li Fengming to his study to discuss.

In fact, there are a lot of office study rooms in this general military mansion, and Li Fengming's meaning was that he originally wanted to give him the largest study room, but he also politely refused, because he didn't want to work in the general army at all.

After the two of them sat down in the study, Yang Cong said a little impatiently: "General Li, you should know that the emperor sent me mainly to command the army to fight against the Tartars, but more importantly, to equip the elite of the border army with firearms and chariots, and these need to be made up." I've just seen it, and there are basically no people in the north of the city, so let's see if we can vacate the entire north of the city as soon as possible, so that the craftsmen can move in as soon as possible and produce firearms and chariots. ”

This guy, is he crazy, the entire north of the city, what a big place it is, Xuanhua Mansion covers an area of more than 20,000 acres, and the entire north of the city is nearly 6,000 acres!

Although there are not many households in the north of the city, it is not that no one lives, and even if people hide somewhere else, that land, that house, is still someone else's, you can't rob it, right?

Li Fengming was stunned for a long time, and then said embarrassedly: "My lord, although there are no people living in the north of this city, the houses and land are owned by the owner, and it may be difficult to vacate them all." Otherwise, the last general ordered all the garrison households to move to other places, so that the north of the city would be nearly sixty percent empty, do you see enough space? ”

Just kidding, it's not just a matter of lack of space, the production of firearms can't be stolen by the Tartars, and the other residents of the arsenal are not safe, what if the Tartars sneak in and make trouble.

Yang Cong shook his head slowly and said: "This is not a question of whether the place is enough, the entire north of the city must be vacated, so let's do it, I will pay all the money to buy the houses and land of the original residents, and I will compensate ten taels of silver for the relocation of each Tunwei military household, in short, in a word, it is best to complete the relocation within five days." Also, do you remember to inform all the military craftsmen in Xuanfu Town to gather in Xuanhua Mansion City five days later, and take a good look at the north of the city, and the craftsmen on the other side of the capital will be able to come over in six or seven days. ”

Dizzy, this kid, I'm afraid I don't know how many households there are in the north of the city, it's a good way to pay for people to move, the question is that you can afford this money?

Li Fengming couldn't help but remind: "My lord, there are more than 2,000 households in the north of the city, and there are also many courtyards and gentry mansions of ordinary people, so it will cost at least 40,000 taels of silver to free up the entire north of the city." ”

Forty or fifty thousand taels?

Is it a lot?

If it is changed to the future generations, forty or fifty thousand taels of silver can buy a good villa in a city government like Xuanhua, and if you buy an urban area, you don't have to think about it at all!

Yang Cong said lightly: "Forty or fifty thousand taels of silver is a trivial matter, you don't have to worry about this, you just have to let people move it quickly." ”

No matter how this silver can be done, if the promised silver is not given, there will definitely be people who will make trouble at that time, and the court will do a lot of this kind of thing.

Li Fengming said cautiously: "This, my lord, if the last general is let people move, will the imperial court really give people silver?" ”

Yang Cong said inexplicably: "The imperial court? Why did the imperial court give people silver? ”

, I don't admit what I just said!

You're shameless, aren't you?

Li Fengming could only spread his hands helplessly and said: "If you don't have money, this thing is really difficult to do." ”

Yang Cong finally understood, this guy thought that the relocated silver was from the imperial court.

There was a fart of silver in the imperial court, but Jiajing didn't allocate a single or two pieces of silver to him.

However, Jiajing has already issued an order, starting this year, the salt introduction of the three towns of Xuanfu, Datong, and Taiyuan will become 500 catties of salt per citation, so that the income of the Yang family and the Lu family will skyrocket by eighty percent.

Of course, this salt is not given in vain, and the Yang family and the Lu family must bear all the costs of building equipment for the elite border army of Xuanfu, Datong, and Taiyuan.

In fact, this can be regarded as a kind of reward for Yang Cong in disguise by Jiajing, because Yang Cong's promise is only to equip the elite of the 10,000 border troops in Xuanfu Town with firearms and chariots this year, and the two towns of Datong and Taiyuan will have to wait for next year at the earliest.

Jiajing's gift is not small, because the Yang family has already saved the example money to be paid when quoting salt from Nanjing households and the example money to be paid when exchanging salt from the Lianghuai Salt Administration, and the Yang family has saved more than 1.2 million taels of silver for these two items alone.

At this time, the governor of Shanxi has been replaced by Zeng Milling, who has two sleeves and a clean breeze, and the Xuanfu patrol has also been replaced by Yang Cong himself, and Datong Town believes that he does not dare to embarrass the Yang family, that is to say, the Yang family does not need to pay the example money when exchanging salt from the border town, which saves more than 600,000 taels.

If you add this extra eighty percent of the salt, the Yang family can earn nearly two million taels even if they sell salt at half price in the past this year!

can earn nearly two million taels a year, will Yang Cong care about these fifty thousand taels?

The gold and silver he brought to Xuanfu this time were calculated to be more than 100,000 taels, and he could also transfer silver from the capital, Baoding Mansion and Taiyuan Mansion at any time, and these 50,000 taels were nothing to him at all.

He said without hesitation: "I can give you the silver later, and this relocation must be as soon as possible." ”

Yes!

When Li Fengming heard this, he couldn't help but be dumbfounded.

This patrol lord, forty or fifty thousand taels of silver was thrown out without blinking his eyes, is it really fake?

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