Xu Zixian turned to Lu Wenluo again and said with a smile: "How is it, have you seen Wang Yue's house?" ”

Wang Yue is the palace servant of the imperial history, knows the affairs of Jianzhou, and in the end is a red-robed official, when Xu Zixian mentions such an official, he is generally called honorific. But when it comes to Wang Yue, he really can't respect him.

"I didn't see it." Lu Wenluo said: "After entering Jianzhou, the committee is really angry, surrounded by people from their general regiment and regimental training, as well as the box army stationed in the city and camp, hundreds of people followed, dispersed the people along the way, no crowding, no cheering. After listening to my words, he waved his hand one after another, telling me to go out of the city quickly and go to Shao Wujun to report the victory, I knew that he was embarrassed, so he withdrew, and did not make trouble in the palace. ”

Originally, Lu Wenluo planned to make a fuss in the Jianzhou Mansion and vent his evil anger, but seeing Lu Wenxian's nervous look, he still resolutely retreated.

"Lu Tongzhi is right." Xu Zixian scolded with a smile: "He is a local important minister of the country, you really dare to make trouble, killing an unqualified Lubu envoy is nothing more than evil to me, and the laws of the court are not wrong." Jianzhou has already torn his face with us, what can I do if I kill you more, it seems that Wang Yue was waiting for you to be rude, and then ordered you to be captured. ”

Lu Wenluo was also scared for a while, and said, "It's still better to know more than Lu Tongzhi." ”

Xu Zixian nodded lightly, and asked this Lubu envoy to go down and rest, and return to the team by himself.

Lu Wenxian was originally in Qizhou as the governor, Qizhou is the inferior state under the government, in later generations should be called a county-level city, after the Qizhou thieves were exterminated, the status of Qizhou plummeted, Lu Wenxian accepted Xu Zixian's suggestion, to the mansion to serve as the same knowledge.

However, although Lu Wenxian has merits, no one in the court is a big injury, and after the officials will push, they actually put Lu Wenxian in Jianzhou to serve as a Tongzhi.

After a fate, Lu Wenxian was also dumbfounded, but unfortunately unless he resigned and did not do it, he would never have a career in office, otherwise, there would be no room for negotiation at all for the commission of the ministry.

This person must be quite breathless in Jianzhou, Wang Yue has high qualifications and high rank, and he can suppress Lu Wenxian, a fellow acquaintance, this time it can be regarded as a good sale to Nan'an Hou Mansion, Xu Zixian estimated that Lu Wenxian would soon have a letter to follow.

"Hardly anything was caught today." Fu Qian said to Xu Zixian: "Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, we will salvage the repairable shipwreck, tow away the destruction that cannot be repaired, and this sea area will probably be cleared out." ”

"Well," Xu Zi nodded first, turned his head to Chen Zuocai and said, "Have you counted the items that were fished up?" ”

"More than 10,000 taels of gold, less than 40,000 taels of silver, and 500,000 or 600,000 taels of copper coins." Chen Zuocai's face was faintly excited, but it was obvious that he and the crowd around him were slightly excited, and they could no longer be compared with when Chen Yutai's treasure was raised in Qizhou.

It can be said that the first pot of gold in the Eastern Domain, the capital of the start came from Chen Yutai's accumulation of more than ten years, in addition to the ships, 15.6 million gold, silver, copper coins and articles made the development plan of the Nan'an Hou Mansion to the Eastern Domain.

And this time, there are 15.6 million gold, silver, and copper coins and items, which is of course a huge amount of money, but everyone is a little excited, looking at the piles of copper coins, bronze utensils, gold and silver, there is a feeling in their eyes that it is nothing more than that.

The salt of the Eastern Domain has an income of hundreds of thousands of yuan every month, and it is almost for nothing. Coupled with the income of Nan'an Town, Haimao also has more than 100,000 yuan of income every month, and the cotton field harvest is imminent, which is also a profit of millions of yuan, and the beans are more than one million acres, which is still more than one million yuan.

In addition, sugarcane, tea plantations, mulberry, hydro-textile, water-powered oil extraction, as well as iron ore and coal mines, blast furnace ironmaking, iron and cotton cloth, tea, sugar, will be the main products, the future of the Eastern Domain is promising, and this million yuan is really a pile of dead money.

To say that the biggest harvest of this war is of course, it is still the forty-seven warships, which add up to millions of dollars, and the money is still second, the most important thing is to save the process and time of building ships, and more sailors and soldiers, including those on active duty and those who will be recruited, will directly board the ship and start training early, and the Nan'an Sailor will grow up rapidly in a faster time.

That's the biggest takeaway!

Kong He is of course the happiest one, recently for the war against pirates, the salt works and all the factories and farmland have been stopped, tens of thousands of people have been requisitioned and used, money and grain flow out like flowing water, and the soldiers of the government army have suffered heavy casualties, and a large amount of money is also needed for pensions.

Resuming production, compensating the dead and wounded, and rewarding meritorious soldiers and the people's strong will all require a lot of money.

Originally, Kong He was still a little stretched, but of course there was no need to worry about it at this time.

"The lower officials will hand it over to the household as soon as possible." Chen Zuocai quite understood Kong He's difficulties, and immediately hugged Kong He's fist, and said with a smile: "I know that Brother Kong must be in a hurry." ”

Kong He glared and said: "With such money piled up on the ground, if I can't eat it, I'm about to die a long time ago." ”

Everyone burst out laughing.

Xu Zixian smiled and said to Qin Dongyang: "Tell Wu Weisan to ask him to go back to Nan'an and preside over the recruitment of miners in Nan'an Shuikou Gukou, especially Jianzhou." ”

Qin Dongyang nodded and said with a smile: "Speaking of miners, there is a man named Cai You with dozens of men, as well as their families, who hired a boat to rush over, saying that he would rather lead the horse for the good man than be the ancestor of Lai Hanzi." They can't stay in Jianzhou, and they don't want to go back to their hometowns in Jinghu, Quzhou and other places to be a farmer, and they want to be a soldier here to eat food. I saw that they were all serious miners, all of them with big shoulders and round waists, and strong martial arts, so I first called the Military Training Department to take over. ”

Xu Zixian nodded and said, "Previously, we recruited people on the list, and most of them were official households and ordinary people near Nan'an. The miners have never been recruited, Wang Yue is doing nonsense in Jianzhou, which is a great favor for us, Jianzhou is now a powder keg, and there will be an accident one day, recruitment, don't wait for the end of the year, take advantage of the fact that the hand is getting more and more relaxed, and quickly recruit the expected battalion, and use more Jianzhou miners! ”

In addition to the locals of Jianzhou, Quzhou people, Mingzhou people, Tanzhou people, Changsha people, and even people from Guangnan West Road, people from Guangnan East Road, such as Shaoguan people, hundreds of thousands of miners, from dozens of prefectures and counties in the nearby roads, will have a greater impact on the composition of the government army of Nan'anhou Mansion.

Xu Zixian also hoped to promote a group of useful generals from among the miners to dilute the status quo of the Fujian Road origin of the generals of the government army.

Qin Dongyang was overjoyed when he heard this, and the military bosses certainly hoped that the army could quickly withdraw and regain strength. At that moment, he said to Xu Zixian: "According to the original plan, we plan to recruit another twenty battalions of soldiers at the end of the year, and now we want to ask the prince to show us, is it according to the original plan?" ”

"Forty battalions first." Xu Zixian said categorically: "The opportunity must not be lost, the time will not come again, if the money and wealth come together, fifty or sixty battalions can also be used." ”

Qin Dongyang was overjoyed and hugged his fists, Nan'anhou Mansion is now four battalions of the naval division, one battalion of cavalry, twelve battalions of infantry, and a total of seventeen battalions of government troops. This is equivalent to several times the expansion, and with the quality, body, and organization of the miners in Jianzhou, with a little training, it will be a strong army in a few months.

If 60 battalions can be raised, plus the original soldiers and horses, the army controlled by Nan'an Hou Mansion will have nearly 80 battalions and more than 40,000 people. This is not 40,000 Xiang Army, if the armor and weapons also keep up, this will be an invincible existence on the sea, on land, and on Fujian Road, which is enough to crush the existing 100,000 Xiang Army and more than 10,000 forbidden troops on Fujian Road.

The civil officials around them all nodded slightly, their interests may be damaged by the extreme expansion of the army, but everyone knows quite well in their hearts that when the troubled times come, which side has the stronger force in the future, can hold the real power. In the Nan'an Hou Mansion, the interests of Wen and Wu are the same and connected to each other, so there is no need to suppress the military generals to expand the army.

Xu Zixian was as excited as Qin Dongyang, 40,000 troops, 10,000 were rationed to the naval division, mostly using Fujian people, and at least 30,000 people were supplemented to infantry battalions and cavalry battalions, and the cavalry battalions could be expanded to three or four battalions to form a cavalry army. The infantry could then be expanded to five battalions as an army, each of which had the ability to fight alone in the state capitals on the Fujian Road.

In the short term, the generals still used the original generals to break up the miners and organize them into various battalions, and did not form independent battalions, and mixed with the original soldiers. These miners come from all walks of life in the vicinity, and they should understand the dialect of the Min people, so they will not have difficulty communicating with each other. The next step is to accept each other, there may be some disputes and twists and turns, but it should be forced to do it.

If by the end of the year, the financial situation is benign, Xu Zixian will recruit about 40 battalions in Jianzhou and expand the army to 60,000 people.

It's not that he's too anxious, a large number of scattered miners are treasures, and some miners may not want to be soldiers to eat food, which is also very good, and the blast furnace of the Eastern Domain will soon need a large number of manpower, just take the opportunity to eat the miners of Jianzhou.

A large number of miners, including the ordinary people of Jianzhou, can join the Nan'an Army, which will make the strength of the Nan'an Army increase dramatically, if in the eyes of outsiders, Xu Zixian is too stupid to throw millions of dollars a year into the army and ships, unless he has the ambition to rebel, but with tens of thousands of Nan'an Army, in the face of hundreds of thousands of elite forbidden troops in the north, how can he have a chance of winning?

Others don't know, but Xu Zixian understands in his heart that a few years later, when Donghu Tieqi goes south, whether he has made sufficient preparations is a very important matter related to his family's life.

……

In the evening, Chen Zhengzhi, who was patrolling all over the cotton fields, returned to the dock, and after seeing the piles of gold, silver and copper coins, the prince of the Marquis of Changwen Mansion did not have too many surprised expressions, but only made a few teasers.

Chen Dujing spent a lot of private money on the Eastern Domain, but the family assets left to his son were at least two or three million yuan, and with the identity of the future Changwen Marquis, Chen Zhengzhi certainly would not be tempted by the money left by a bunch of pirates.

However, Chen Zhengzhi praised Xu Zixian's kindness to the pearl divers, and complained: "Emperor Renzong hung a benevolent character, and there are several stories, such as the story of the pig farmer beating the drum, which makes people think that the Son of Heaven really cares about a pig in Tian Sheweng." In fact, it's just a fight for fame. When Renzong, he ordered me to pay tribute to the pearls in Fujian, and sent the edict to Fujian Road, reprimanding the local officials for their incompetence, and collecting more than 3,000 pearl divers to go to the sea to dive pearls in a few days. In a few days, he collected enough tribute pearls for Emperor Renzong's concubines to enjoy, and of course the Son of Heaven was happy, but he ignored the fact that more than 600 of my Fujian pearl divers died, but it was only a few days. If you were really benevolent, you would be able to do such a thing? ”

"This is the Emperor." Xu Zixian smiled and said: "The so-called benevolence is nothing more than the above and the bottom, it is mercy, it is for his own reputation, the emperor regards the world as his own private property, when he sees it as greater than his reputation, the so-called benevolence can of course be put aside and ignored for the sake of it." Besides, the benevolence of Renzong is not to the common people, but to the scholars. ”

"Well, that's exactly what Mingda said." Chen Zhengzhi laughed and said: "This kind of coaxing thing, when I was a child, the old scholar was afraid that he had never understood it all his life, and when it came to Renzong, he was still full of praise." ”

"Murder kills people, and the literati's pen is sometimes more terrible than a knife."

"Mingda, your reputation in the future should not be bad......" Chen Zhengzhi said with a smile: "After a while, the universities, primary and secondary schools will open, this is this dynasty, no, a grand event in the history of China." If it weren't for the fact that the Son of Heaven and the two governments were in a hurry, I was afraid that they would have to proclaim it to the world and publicize it widely, and after publicizing it, it would become the virtue and politics of the Son of Heaven and the two governments. ”

"It's still a lot." Xu Zixian smiled: "But it's too much, don't ask people to lean on Wang Mang." ”

When Wang Mang usurped the Han Dynasty, he was already famous all over the world, famous for benevolence, virtue and filial piety, even so, it was still a great Xing Taixue, and there were tens of thousands of students in the late Western Han Dynasty, all of whom were funded by the imperial court. In fact, it was also very successful, the new dynasty was established, if it weren't for Wang Mang's inexplicable retro play to death, the new dynasty Han would have succeeded.

Chen Zhengzhi knew that Xu Zixian didn't say these words for no reason, so he immediately said: "Mingda rest assured, if someone on Fujian Road dares to spread such shameless words, our Changwen Marquis Mansion will be the first to not let him go." ”

Xu Zixian nodded and smiled, and did not continue the topic.

The tree is a big wind, and the ancients did not deceive me. Since the great victory over the pirates, the prestige of Nan'an Houfu and Xu Zixian himself in Fujian Road has of course reached a new height, and while all the people support it, there will naturally be people who are red and jealous, so they make up all kinds of rumors and rumors to try to slander them.

This is normal, such villains have been in the past dynasties, even hundreds of years later.

As long as there is a means to cure them.

It will definitely not be possible to call the government army to arrest people, but you can use the civil officials and gentry of the Changwen Marquis Mansion to reprimand and warn, but it really can't be done, and the Military Intelligence Department can intimidate or assassinate them.

Rumors are not to be feared, but what is fearful is that everyone is willing to believe it, Xu Zixian is too dazzling and dazzling now, if there are similar rumors spreading, people can know that it is a rumor, but most people will still choose to believe it, because even if Xu Zixian has no objection, he also has the qualifications and capital to rebel and stand on his own.

This is the most terrifying place, and now the Eastern Domain and the Nan'an Marquis Mansion are actually just getting started, and they are far from being able to tolerate such rumors.

"I'm going to get back before it gets dark." Chen Zhengzhi said: "I looked at thousands of acres of cotton fields and explained the past to my father and uncles. It can be determined that most of the cotton fields can be high-yielding, Mingda, taking advantage of the big victory, morale is high, hurry up to harvest. If there is a typhoon in the next few days, it will be a lot of fun. ”

Xu Zixian nodded very calmly and said, "Cotton, beans, harvest together, day and night, and it will start tomorrow." ”

"Courageous." Chen Zhengzhi gave a thumbs up and said with a smile: "My sister was also unswerving when she was seriously ill, and there were temptations in the family, so she scolded several times. Mingda, you can rest assured. ”

Xu Zixian's face was moved, and there was also a complicated look in his eyes.

The entanglement with Chen Wenjun in his past life and this life, it seems that there will finally be a more perfect result in this life.

"I'm relieved." Chen Zhengzhi joked: "After wandering around the island for two days, I finally know why Uncle Nine is full of praise for you, I dare not say whether Nan'anhou Mansion will be rich in the future, at least Pu Shougao and others are far from comparable." ”

"Is Pu Shougao still quiet?"

"It's been a lot more gone." Chen Zhengzhi sighed: "In the past two years, Pu Shougao has changed from a hot wealthy businessman on Fujian Road to an ordinary wealthy businessman who is dormant in the mansion and does not see anyone. crossed the Pu family, drove away the envoys, suppressed Chen Yutai, and pressed King Zhao and Lin Douyao out of breath. If someone had told me a few years ago that you could get to where you are now, I would have laughed and thrown him out like a madman......"

Xu Zixian also smiled, and only after Chen Zhengzhi finished speaking, did he say: "When we were in Qizhou back then, I didn't like you, eldest brother, who was full of smugness, and now I know that I was still shallow at the beginning." ”

The two looked at each other and smiled, and Chen Zhengzhi muttered: "In two years, I don't know what the situation is?" ”

Xu Zixian smiled and said, "It won't be as good as you think, but it won't be worse." ”

……

After dark at night, Xu Zixian turned back to the other courtyard under the escort of Lin Shaozong and others.

Xiuniang, Xiaomei and others had already been waiting in front of the mansion, and only after seeing Xu Zi jump down from the war horse did the two women and the servants of the family come up.

"Iced sweet rice wine," entered the inner house, Xiuniang smiled: "Dry fried sea fish, crab jelly, fish balls, ginger duck, and noodles with oysters and egg stalls." ”

"Good, great." Xu Zixian smiled: "It's all my favorite food." ”

The little sister pursed her lips and smiled: "Big brother, I remember that you were a picky eater when you were a child, but now you are really taboo, I haven't seen you have anything to eat, if you haven't been by my side, I suspect that you have changed someone." ”

"Maybe you're a different person when you fall asleep one day." Xu Zi first snorted and sat down on the table, because he saw that the ginger duck was golden in color and fragrant, and the rest of the fried fish and fish balls were also sprinkled with shallots, which were full of color, flavor and flavor. Of course, there is no MSG in this era, but the seafood is originally full of umami, and the soy sauce made by the old method is also quite sweet, which is good enough for cooking.

The crab jelly is because Xu Zixian runs around every day and is too bitter in summer, so Xiuniang and Xiaomei put the crab in the ice room after steaming, and the soup and crab are frozen and sweet after solidifying, which is one of Xu Zixian's favorite snacks.

In the dining room where Xu Zixian dined, the lights were bright, and through the candle flames, you could see the armor soldiers standing solemnly with horizontal knives outside the window, and occasionally you could hear the clanging of iron armor, which was the armor soldiers patrolling outside the wing.

On the arrow tower and corner tower of the other courtyard, there are also armored soldiers standing with a bow, and there are even gods with arms and bows holding bows to guard.

Chen Zuocai, Lin Shaozong and others even wanted to install a few bed crossbows in the corner tower, which of course Xu Zixian categorically refused.

If it's not safe on the island, what's the use of a few bed crossbows?

If there is a government army, it is enough to be on guard a little.

Recently, the security has been much stricter than usual, the reason is, of course, because the political situation was unstable when Xu Zixian was seriously ill, and after Xu Zixian recovered, Chen Zuocai, Chen Daojian, and Lin Shaozong did not lower the security level, so the security level of such specifications continued.

Now there is a whole city of guards, commanded by Si Congcao and Lin Shaozong and others, and the armor soldiers are all selected from the old army, not only strong in martial arts, but also particularly loyal and reliable.

The attendants will rotate a batch every three months or so, and as long as the characters are passed, they will directly enter the martial arts hall and become the reserve of military attachés.

Due to their status as close attendants, these military attachés can easily be promoted in the future expanded government army, obtaining higher official positions and more generous salaries.

Every attendant was quite vigilant, even when a confidant like Jin Jian entered the other courtyard, he was removed from the barrier to enter, but he was not searched.

In fact, with Xu Zixian's own force, there are ten or eight like Jin Jian, and he may not be able to succeed in assassination with weapons, but it is just a gesture, civil and military officials, all of them can enter the other courtyard without a knife.

When Jin Jian came in, Xu Zixian was reading the official documents submitted by Li Yi and other cardinals.