"Why did Daddy rush back from the Yamen at this time?"

Han Qian saw that his father seemed to have something to say, so he went to the hall of the east courtyard to sit down and talk, and asked Zhao Ting'er to arrange for Mrs. Xi to come over to serve tea, and the second ancestor's life had to be enjoyed.

"Why did you kill Ji Kun in public?" Han Daoxun wanted to ask Han Qian this question last night, but after Han Qian came back yesterday, he was like a baby asleep, and he couldn't bear to wake him up.

Han Qian glanced up at Fan Xicheng, thinking that it was probably because he ran to his father's side to chew the root of his ears after he knew about it.

Han Qian didn't know how to explain to his father, the person in the Anning Palace was by no means soft-hearted, and after the death of Emperor Tianyou, the brutality and bloodshed of the minions exposed by the Anning Palace would shock everyone.

It would be absolutely foolish for them to leave some leeway for the people of the Palace of Tranquility now in order to be blessed in the future.

Han Qian has the opportunity to kill Ji Kun, he will definitely not be soft, and he will never expect to get good results in the hands of Anning Palace in the future, but why should he kill Ji Kun in public, he also has a reason, let out a long breath, and said:

"People are killed to show the four surnames, so that they will know that if my father has three long and two short in Xuzhou, I will do whatever it takes to make Xuzhou's corpses all over the field and rivers of blood without any scruples."

Xi Ying dragged the heavy iron shackles and brought the tea, listening to Han Qian's tone of voice, it made her palpitate, her hands trembled, and the tea cup almost rolled out of the tray.

Han Qian glanced up at Mrs. Xi, didn't say anything, and took the teacup.

Fan Xicheng was also shocked in his heart.

Although there is no empirical evidence, in view of the crisis they have experienced in the past few days when they entered Xuzhou, as well as the unscrupulous and ruthless behavior of the four surnames, he has to be more inclined to think that Wang Lu's "death" is very likely to be problematic.

Open guns are easy to dodge, hidden arrows are difficult to prevent, Fan Xicheng also had a headache in the future, how to guard against the dirty methods secretly performed by the four surnames, but he didn't expect that the young master would have to kill Ji Kun in public, and the intention turned out to be this.

Even if Fan Xicheng doesn't like Han Qian's thirst for killing in his heart, he has to admit that such a ruthless method has the most obvious deterrent effect, unless the four surnamed real dogs jump over the wall and take the last step, otherwise, they should be able to restrain a little, right?

"Alas,"

Han Daoxun knew that Han Qian still believed that Wang Lu's death was due to the fact that someone in the four surnames had done something, so he sighed and directly diverted the topic and asked,

"How much money did you collect the other day? Now the state government wants to set up a shipyard and a craftsman's workshop, but the state warehouse doesn't have much grain, how much are you going to give me? ”

"Huh?" Han Qian saw that his father's words were so sharp that he couldn't get used to it, and asked, "Why don't you teach me a few more words and talk about other things?" ”

"What am I teaching you to do?" Han Daoxun urged, "How much money did you scrape a few days ago?" ”

In addition to paying taxes to the imperial court, the prefectures and counties themselves have a certain amount of financial resources to establish a small treasury, whether it is collecting city taxes, allowing prisoners to atone for their sins, or operating official fields.

However, the problem is that before Han Daoxun took office, the four surnames had already emptied all the money and grain in the small treasury of the state warehouse, and then burned the account books to ashes with a fire, and Han Daoxun had no way to check it if he wanted to.

At present, what Han Daoxun can grasp is to intercept a certain proportion of the regular tax, but this amount is very limited, and it is impossible to use it to maintain the operation of the entire state capital.

The state prison was suppressed, and the four surnames withdrew the core disciples from the state camp, Han Daoxun did not have the opportunity to take over the state camp, but he did not do it, in addition to lowering the vigilance of the four surnames and leaving enough buffer room, there is also a main reason, once Xuzhou falls into a serious confrontation, he will not be able to raise enough money and food to support the state camp.

The local state soldiers are different from the forbidden camp army and the guard pro-army system directly under the imperial court, and the soldiers mainly come from recruitment.

The salary that Xuzhou needs to allocate to the state battalion is calculated according to two liters of japonica rice and ten copper coins a day, and the daily salary of the four hundred soldiers in the state battalion is eight stone japonica rice and 4,000 yuan, and 3,000 stone japonica rice and 1.5 million yuan of military pay per year.

This does not include the cost of repairs to barracks, armaments, etc.

The operating income of Guantian is mainly to pay salaries to officials, and it is a fixed tax levied from tenants according to the number of acres of land, this matter was originally under the jurisdiction of Xue Ruogu, the main bookkeeper, and there are not many tricks to do, but whether it is the tax of Guantian and the rights of the city and state prison in the hands of the income at this time, it will take a certain amount of time to generate income, but Han Daoxun wants to further stabilize the situation at this time, and to do the work that can be done, he needs to raise additional money.

Not to mention the others, there are a hundred jailers and Furong Garden's family soldiers and their wives and children combined, and the basic expenses per month are more than 100,000 yuan, even if Han Daoxun sticks his official salary into it, he still lacks more than half.

"The state capital is short of money, and you can't use me as a money bag to exploit - besides, our father and son talk about money, how hurtful it is!" Han Qian said with a wry smile.

He didn't directly collect money thieves from the four surnames this time, and he asked Zhao Zhixian, a medical doctor, to come forward to organize a dinner, and the bribes he received in his hands were only two million yuan, which was equivalent to less than two hundred cakes of gold, which was really not enough to spend.

"You have a way to think of it." Han Do-hoon said.

"Of course there is a way, if it weren't for the four surnames to relax their guards, Daddy, you would allow me to lead the troops to fight a village?" Han Qian asked with a shy face.

Han Daoxun glared at Han Qian, backed down and said, "Okay, okay, how much do you scrape, and hand over half of it, right?" ”

"Okay, I can barely scrape together 500,000 dollars for you." Han Qian said reluctantly.

"Ting'er, that's really all Han Qian received in his hand?" Han Daoxun asked Zhao Ting'er.

"Ting'er doesn't dare to say it, if Ting'er says the truth, the young master will punish Ting'er." Zhao Ting'er said.

"......" Han Qian picked up the teacup and made a gesture to throw it at Zhao Ting'er, usually Bai treated her well.

"Don't be embarrassed, I'm not embarrassed for you, you come up with a million dollars first; In the future, Zuo Si Warehouse will take another three million dollars to Xuzhou every year. Han Do-hoon said.

"Our father and son must not conspire to collect more scrapes from Xuzhou, where is the reason to put the money and food in the stomach and then post it upside down?"

Han Qian cried bitterly,

"Daddy, you also know that you can't make a net profit of 10 million yuan by transporting 10 million yuan of goods from Xuzhou to Jinling and selling them for 20 million yuan. If you really want to open up the trade route from Xuzhou to Jinling, I don't know how many elites and how much money you have to put in, and it is impossible to have much surplus in the early stage. Besides, the governor of the state and county, if there is no accident, the ministry will be elected once every three years, if you are transferred out of Xuzhou by then, the capital we have invested will not be recovered! You also know that Xuzhou, a place where birds don't, really doesn't have much material production capacity to transport out, if you always serve as Runzhou, Yangzhou, and Yuezhou Thorn History, I can double the money back to you - these places are so fat. ”

"What conditions do you have to mention?" Han Do-hoon asked.

Seeing Han Daoxun and Han Qian's father and son sitting there bargaining, Fan Xicheng was also laughing.

"Okay, I want to use Yang Qin to form a boat gang in Xuzhou, and the Xuzhou tribute will be handed over to the boat gang to be responsible for transportation." Han Qian said.

The money, grain, and other in-kind tributes transported by the prefectures and counties to Jinling were all organized by the prefectures and counties themselves, and military attaches and soldiers were drawn from the prefecture camps to escort them.

However, the Xuchen Prefectures are located in a remote area, and the number of people is quite scarce, and the taxes paid directly to Jinling after deduction every year are extremely limited, and even only two or three hundredths of Runyang and other prefectures are finally converted into money and shipped to Jinling.

This is actually a change from paying taxes in kind to paying taxes in money.

In this way, the local government does not need to worry about the affairs of the program.

The four surnames repeated their promises to organize a fleet to transport goods and trade with Zuosi Warehouse, and Han Qian suggested that it be simplified into complicated, hoping that his father would pay the taxes of Xuzhou to Jinling, from paying taxes in currency, to reverting to paying taxes in kind such as grain, silk cloth and local specialties, which seemed to have become complicated, but his most fundamental purpose was that he planned to form a boat gang headed by Yang Qin to undertake the transportation of Xuzhou, so that he could put on a semi-official identity.

In this way, the boat gang formed by Yang Qin can legally possess armor and weapons, legally become an armed fleet, walk on the Yuanshui and the Yangtze River, and provide escort for other merchant fleets "by the way".

And when he encountered a bandit attack on the way, Yang Qin could directly organize a counterattack in an open and honest manner, and even take the initiative to attack when he heard the wind.

Otherwise, the secret Cao Zuo Si is not the Fang Si officially recognized by the imperial court, Yang Qin, Tian Cheng, and Gao Shao are engaged in an armed fleet outside, and once their whereabouts are exposed, they will be suppressed by the local prefectures and counties as river thieves and water bandits, who will he cry to?

"What else?" Han Do-hoon asked.

He knew that if there was no armed escort, or send elite scouts to keep an eye on the line, his relatives Xu and Anning Palace would contact Jiang bandits and Shui Kou at any time, focusing on attacking the merchant ships from Xuzhou to Jinling, and cutting off the material exchanges between Xuzhou and Jinling.

If that's the case, even if the four surnames promise too much at this time, as long as the fleet has one or two heavy losses between Jiang and Hubei, and then there is more pressure on his side, it will be impossible for the four surnames to cooperate with them.

Of course, ensuring the safety of merchant ships from Xuzhou to Jinling was something that Han Daoxun was also extremely concerned about, and he did not believe that Han Qian only had such a condition.

"In addition, if there may be an influx of foreigners into Syria in the near future, my father should give them an identity and not drive them away as an outcast." Han Qian said.

"How can there be a large number of displaced people in Xuzhou? What kind of idea do you have to fight? Han Daoxun raised his eyebrows and asked in confusion.

Although there are four or five thousand Hakka households in Xuzhou, accounting for forty percent of the total population, they are mainly displaced people who fled from Jingxiang and other places to escape war and famine and went south.

Now, the situation in Yuetan and other places is calm, and the area around Dongting Lake is more suitable for people to inhabit and reproduce. And if there is only this point of foreigners moving in every year, Han Daoxun is full of food and support, and he wants to treat them as refugees to stop them from entering the country?

However, when Han Daoxun saw Han Qian solemnly saying this, he should have decided that a large number of outsiders might pour into Xuzhou in a short period of time, he didn't know why Han Qian had such a judgment, or maybe Han Qian had other arrangements for this?

"I don't have any ideas," Han Qian said with a smile, "I just asked Zuo Si to sneak into various places and release news similar to saying that a large amount of gold sand was found in the riverbed in the upper reaches of Jingyun Creek and Tiepi Creek, and many people became rich overnight!" ”

Hearing Han Qian say this, Han Daoxun couldn't help but slap his head and said: "You are making rumors, but regardless of how serious the consequences are, don't you know that it is impossible for Xuzhou to accommodate too many displaced people in a short period of time?" ”

He knows that the reason why Xuzhou is not taken seriously, in addition to its remote location, is that it is sparsely populated, with a total of only more than 12,000 households.

And if any region wants to have sufficient economic and military potential, the most directly related is the population.

However, the problem is that if Xuzhou wants to carry more population, it needs to have a gradual process, and thousands of people will flock to it all of a sudden, which will have a great impact on the traditional social structure of Xuzhou, and many contradictions will be catalyzed, intensified, and even out of control.

It also means famine, fights, and even uncontrolled casualties!

Moreover, how many of them must have been fierce among those who could listen to this?