Han Qian left Feng Yi and Kong Xirong to have breakfast in the house, and when the sun was rising, Yang Qin, Feng Xuan and others ran over from the warehouse to ask for peace.

At this time, Gao Bao and Feng Zhang, who had been happy in the Red Mansion for a long time, also came back, with heavy bags under their eyes and frivolous steps, presumably because they didn't have a good rest last night, but they were still in good spirits, after all, they were full of energy, but the girl who served them suffered.

Walking into the courtyard, Yang Qin asked suspiciously: "There are thirty or forty people at the mouth of the alley who are equipped with swords and armor, and their eyes are not good, do you want me to transfer some people from the store?" ”

"It's nothing, at the feet of the Son of Heaven, do they really dare to draw a knife and kill people?" Han Qian smiled, ignoring the situation in the house, and just asked Yang Qin and Feng Xuan how they were unloading.

Feng Yi and Kong Xirong's hairs stood up, they didn't expect that several family soldiers did not come back, and the government also sent more people to block Lanting Lane, to see if they had to arrest him back today.

Han Qian put the last gruel in the bowl, ate the salted duck eggs, patted his belly with satisfaction, tied the straight spine knife with the blade breaking out of a grain to his waist, and said to Zhao Ting'er and Xi Ying: "Let's go and meet His Highness first!" ”

The fleet could not sail in the city, and the speed would be very slow, so Han Qian still took some people to meet the three princes first, and then rode out of the city to the cantonment military mansion.

In this way, they can rush to Taowuji in the afternoon and deal with some things; And the fleet went well, and it would not be until the afternoon to arrive at Taowuji.

Fan Dahei accompanied Yang Qin, Feng Xuan, and them to escort the boat to the waterway, and Lin Haizheng, Gao Shao, Tian Cheng, Zhao Wuji and others surrounded Han Qian and led the horse out of the courtyard.

An additional carriage was prepared for Zhao Ting'er and Xi Ying's two daughters to ride, and a bunch of things accumulated in the workshop needed Zhao Ting'er and Xi Ying to accompany Han Qian to live in the villa for a few days to deal with.

Han Qian and the others rode their horses to the mouth of the alley, but the thirty or forty people blocking the mouth of the alley did not mean to give way, and a young man about thirty years old was the leader, riding on a white horse, staring at Han Qian and the others.

"Eldest brother, Your Highness has a call, I have been to the Linjiang Marquis Mansion, if His Highness has no instructions there, I will go back to the mansion......" Feng Yi shouted with some confidence.

Han Qian saw Feng Wenlan's eldest son Feng Yu for the first time at this time, looking at his slightly narrow cheeks, he was indeed a little similar to Feng Wenlan, wearing civilian clothes and a long knife at his waist, not as yin as Feng Wenlan, and he looked more heroic and upright.

When Feng Yi was founded in the Great Chu, he was selected as a disciple of the Feng family to join the guard army, and then followed Emperor Tianyou to crusade against Dong Chang, the king of Yue.

Feng Yu has been training in the local area for several years, has been in the history of the order, the county and other positions, and has been the commander of Haitang County for more than two years, Han Qian did not expect that he was also in Jinling at this time, I don't know if he was temporarily back to Jinling to report on his work, or if he had another appointment.

Like Li Zhihe, Chai Jian and others, Feng Yi is the successor of the Feng family's key training, and whether he is serving in the guards and pro-army, or serving in the local area for many years, he does have a calm bearing that is difficult to resist.

Feng Yi ignored Feng Yi's explanation, stared at Han Qian, and asked, "What should I do so that Lord Han can bring Feng Yi and Xirong back?" ”

Han Qian sat silently on the back of the purple-maned horse, he didn't expect the Feng family to blatantly want to "ransom" from him, and he didn't want to get too involved in the matter of the succession.

Although he successfully escorted his father out of Shixuzhou, the twists and turns along the way and the danger of returning to Jinling also made more people afraid, for fear that they would have too much to do with the Linjiang Hou Mansion.

Han Qian stared at Feng Yi secretly, thinking that Feng Yi had experience in the army and in the locality, and had experienced a lot of battles, even if he took so many people to block the mouth of the alley, it was not without the meaning of Feng Fu making a show for Ning'an Palace, but it was impossible to bluff away easily.

"I just wanted to be in front of His Royal Highness, for Feng Yi and Kong Xirong to ask for the job of catching money Lingshi, Brother Feng, you are blocking the alley with people, it really makes me difficult to be a man!" Han Qian grabbed the reins and said to Feng Yi with a snort.

"The history of catching money?" Feng Yu glanced at Han Qian suspiciously, but he only pondered for a while, then nodded and said, "This errand is not difficult to do, and the two of them should be able to do it well." My grandmother hadn't seen Feng Yi and Xirong for two days, thinking about the two of them, if Lord Han had nothing else to do, then please let Feng Yi and Xirong go back with me first. ”

Only then did Han Qian take the reins, push the purple-maned horse aside, get out of the way, and call Feng Yi and Kong Xirong over.

"We should not have a negative Highness." Feng Yi and Han Qian staggered past and said in a suppressed voice.

"As long as you have this mind, I dare to guarantee that Your Highness will not fail you." Han Qian smiled and motioned for them to go back first.

"Young Master, what conditions are you talking about with the eldest brother of the Feng family?" Zhao Ting'er watched Feng Yi and Kong Xirong go with Feng Yi, but she didn't guess what Han Qian and Feng Yi's brief words meant.

Han Qian sighed lightly and explained to Zhao Ting'er through the car window what was going on with the history of catching money.

At the beginning of the previous dynasty, the war also lasted for thirty or forty years, the finances and taxes were exhausted, and all the officials and officials were nowhere to be found.

In the middle and later periods of the previous dynasty, the capital of the public party was merged into the standing liquidation, and the permanent liquidation and officials were set up in the prefectures and counties and the important places of the thoroughfares, buying and selling the world's goods at a low price, and at the same time leveling the prices, it also made a profit.

Emperor Tianyou founded the Chu State, all systems imitated the previous dynasty, and also set up a Changping Courtyard under the salt and iron transshipment envoys, and at the same time, in order to make up for the lack of maintenance of the armies, he also ordered to allow the armies of the North and South to set up Changping warehousing in the garrison to sell the world's goods.

The Changping Courtyard set up by the Salt and Iron Transit Envoy has a somewhat leveling of prices and the role of whether there is a cargo colony, and it is also the main body of the Salt and Iron Transit Envoy to accept salt profits and collect commercial taxes such as tea, iron, lacquer and horse - therefore, the Salt and Iron Transit Envoy is a department with much greater power and scale than the Ministry of Household and the Ministry of Expenditure.

However, where do the Southern Ya Forbidden Army and the Northern Ya Guards have the energy to do this? The armies more often directly handed over the principal to the people who served as the warehouse commanders and court supervisors, and then stipulated how much profit they would hand over each year, which was actually closer to the role of the money capture order set up in the early years of the previous dynasty.

This is also the military business with the characteristics of Dachu.

Emperor Tianyou issued an edict to agree to the establishment of a standing liquidation order for all armies, the purpose of which was to circle money to reduce the pressure on the imperial court to raise the army, so each army could set up eight to ten standing liquidation orders, regardless of the origin and identity of the incumbents, and as long as the annual profit money can meet the standard, low-level medals will also be awarded.

This is also an important way to obtain the official position of lord in Dachu in addition to Enyin, Chaju, and scientific research.

However, because Feng Yi and Kong Xirong were already seven-rank commanders at this time, they just didn't get the actual vacant official positions at present, and in order to prevent the number of officers from being too widespread, it was impossible to obtain middle and senior officers by giving money and food to the army, so it was meaningless for Feng Yi and Kong Xirong to serve as the regular liquidation order of the Dragon Bird Army.

Han Qian said in front of Feng Yi that he would recommend Feng Yi and Kong Xirong to serve as the history of the Dragon Bird Army's money-catching order, Feng Yi thought that as long as the Feng family contributed a sum of money every year, Feng Yi and Kong Xirong would not be too deeply involved in the affairs of the Dragon Bird Army and the Linjiang Marquis Mansion, but Han Qian would not be satisfied because of this.

Han Qian sent someone to call Fan Dahei over and instructed: "You will arrange for someone to send the eight hundred taels of Xuzhou tea that you unloaded into the warehouse yesterday to send it to Feng Mansion, and say that this is the four million yuan principal of Feng Yi and Kong Xirong as the Dragon Bird Army's money capture history!" ”

Salt, iron, tea, cloth, rice, medicine, wood, lacquer, etc., are the few bulk trading goods in the world.

Xuzhou has a long history of growing tea because of the secession of feudal towns in the past 100 years, and the southern Hunan and Guizhou regions have become more and more isolated, and it is difficult for tea merchants to reach them, so that the tea production has also been seriously suppressed.

You must know that in the early period of the former dynasty, the tea transported into the Central Plains from southern Hunan and Guizhou was as high as more than 100,000 or 200,000 quintals every year.

In the past, Xuzhou sold almost 10,000 or 20,000 quintals of tea every year, but after hundreds of years of suppression, even if Wang Lu vigorously implemented it after his arrival, Xuzhou has been able to export about two or three thousand quintals of tea every year in recent years.

Xuzhou is unemployed and needs to be reorganized, and Han Qian can only start from the simplest aspects.

Han Qian received 800 taels of Xuzhou from Xuzhou, 3,000 yuan per load, but when he went to Jinling, he used 5,000 yuan per load as the price to pay the Feng family as the principal, and he couldn't count his heart as black.

Han Qian was not satisfied with the Feng family's annual handover of one or two million yuan, he still wanted to use the Feng family's warehouses and shops all over Jinling and surrounding prefectures and counties as a major export for marketing Xuzhou's products.

Han Qian didn't know what the situation in Jinling would be two or three years later, and it was impossible to spend a lot of time to build large and small warehouses in and around Jinling City and surrounding states and counties, let alone directly operate shops; It is also impossible to disperse the limited manpower to deal with hundreds or thousands of small and medium-sized medicine merchants and tea merchants.

Han Qian's plan, on the one hand, was to borrow the Feng family, and on the other hand, to attract small and medium-sized pharmacists and tea merchants to come over and engage in wholesale at a low enough price.

After arranging these, Han Qian still rushed to the Linjiang Marquis Mansion first as originally planned to meet the three princes.

After hearing what Feng Yi led people to intercept, Chai Jian and Li Chong were naturally angry.

Han Qian looked at the three princes Yang Yuanpu and Li Zhihe with gloomy faces, and said: "Preparing for the establishment of the Dragon Bird Army is not enough for His Royal Highness to gain much prestige in the court. ”

"You said we were going to fight for the opportunity to send troops this time?" Li Zhihe asked Han Qiandao.

Han Qian nodded, with the age of the third prince Yang Yuanpu at this time, the best way to build prestige is military merit.

With the Feng family's cautious reaction, if the Dragon Bird Army continued to stay in Jinling, the role it could play would become more and more limited; And as long as there is an opportunity to go out to the border to help, even if there is no big military merit to fight for, they can do a lot of things locally if they lead the Dragon Bird Army all the way north from the western front.