Chang Santai led the people of Dagu Village to welcome Zhou Nan and others to the village and gave them warm hospitality. Cheered by flying cars and explosive arrows, the young men of Chang Huinan and Chang Huibei were so frightened that they no longer dared to be arrogant, and instead approached the pro-army guards of Zhou Nan flatteringly, very curious about the ball monster that could fly into the air.

Although there are many people in the village, they all rely on farming, fishing, and boiling salt for a living, but here are also saline-alkali land, and there is not much grain that can be received, and half of them still rely on boiling salt and secretly trafficking it to the territory of the Great Song Dynasty to sell, which can barely make a living. However, when the investigation on the side of the Great Song Dynasty is tight, it is no longer possible to sell illicit salt.

Chang Santai invited Zhou Nan to his house for a while, and Zhou Nan saw that Chang Santai was talking with weight in Dagu Village, able to convince the public, and was suitable to discuss his own plan, so he followed.

Although Chang Santai has a high prestige in the village, the houses he lives in are similar to others, and they are also built of wood and mud, not to mention bricks and tiles, and even stones are rarely used. The people in the village also wore clothes made of linen, and they didn't even have clothes to protect them from the cold.

After sitting down, Chang Santai spoke: "There was a lot of offense just now, and the horse is strange." It's just that this place is remote, and no one in the imperial court has ever been in charge, let alone coming, unless it is to arrest people for service, or even collect miscellaneous taxes. When the people in the village saw that there were officers and soldiers, they thought that they were collecting taxes and arresting soldiers, so there was a misunderstanding. ”

"Doesn't the government not collect taxes on the two territories?" Zhou Nan had heard about the affairs of the two territories, and he had never heard of the collection of taxes, so he asked strangely.

"The horse is benevolent, and I don't know the pain below." Chang Santai said with a wry smile, "The people who come to collect tax money are all county officials or tax collectors of salt taxes. Not only the Liao people came to collect it, but there were also people in the Great Song Dynasty who came to collect it. Two territories, two don't care, but when you collect money, you take care of it! ”

Zhou Nan's eyebrows furrowed, "Now that the new Liao State is established, are there also officials and tax collectors below to forcibly levy it?" ”

"I haven't been here in the past six months." Chang Santai said truthfully, "I only heard from the people who came back that the concubines and princesses established a new Liao country in Yanjing and Pingzhou, and soldiers and horses were stationed in the border villages. It was established by a nobleman! ”

"I came to your Sancha estuary because I fancy the geographical advantage here, connecting the north-south canal, and want to build a town here, so that the merchants from the north and south can trade and sell here, and the people in the country can sell their skins, sheep, horses and other things to get some money, and the court of the other can also collect some customs here. In addition, the people in Laozhang's village can also get some benefits. I don't know if my husband is willing? ”

Zhou Nan's polite words made Chang Santai flattered, and he hurriedly said: "It's a little old man!" The saint has clouds: the whole world is not the king's land. Don't say Dagu Village, it is the entire Sancha River estuary, if the horse takes a fancy to it, only send someone to give an order, how dare the people in the village disobey? ”

Zhou Nan just didn't want to use force against these people for no reason, as for where the two territories belonged, it would not be a matter for Zhou Nan to consider, and it would be good not to seize the territory of the Great Song Dynasty. Now he wants to build a border city here in the name of these two territories, so he will try his best to make these villagers of Dagu Village willingly submit, instead of coercing or driving them away by force. If the two subjects on the ground here run out, and some people are relocated from the country, it will be the new Liao territory, not the two dependent territories.

When Chang Santai heard this, he was first overjoyed, and then said with a wry smile: "If the horse wants to build a city at the mouth of the Sancha River, this is our blessing...... It's just that this place has always been barren, and there is a shortage of materials, and I get up early and greedy every day, just eating with a mouthful, where is there still enough energy to build a city for the horses? ”

It seems that Chang Santai mistakenly thought that Zhou Nan wanted their people from Dagu Village to do hard labor, and contributed money and efforts to build the town, which was to complain about the bitter water.

Zhou Nan said with a smile: "Uncle Chang, please rest assured!" Shicai is by the river, I have already said that I want to make a deal with you in partnership, and naturally I will not ask you to pay the capital. Just to use the land here. As for the construction of the city, the court will pay for it, and if it is manpower, it will definitely pay for hiring, and will not let you contribute in vain. "If it is the usual practice of this era, the imperial court only sends officials to let the local people go to service, and the money will not be given, at most two meals a day. As for the materials, they are also taken locally, and it would be good not to pick up the houses of these people.

But not only did they not have to pay, but they even gave such generous conditions, which made Chang Santai think that he had heard the wrong thing, stared at Zhou Nan blankly, and asked again after a while: "Don't you need us to pay?" ”

Zhou Nan nodded and repeated: "You don't need to pay, if you use people to contribute, you will also pay to hire them." ”

"What's so up for business?! The little old man is a guarantee, and the Dagu village is up and down, all at the mercy of the horses! Chang Santai now patted his chest and assured Zhou Nan, for fear that Zhou Nan would regret and leave, "I wonder when the horse will start sending people to build a city here?" ”

"It's time to plow! It is also necessary to prepare materials and select people, and then the court will send people to find the old man. Zhou Nan saw Chang Santai's impatient appearance, but he felt a little more down-to-earth in his heart, at least these people in Dagu Village would definitely support him. However, the high-rise buildings on the flat ground are naturally inseparable from the three things of people, money and materials, so we must always prepare, why don't Zhou Nan want to build this city as soon as possible?

"The horse chose this feng shui treasure at a glance, what a discernment! The north and south communicate here, the river is wide, the water flow is slow, and even the sea ships of 400 materials can sail in, and they can enter the sea for 100 miles to the east, which is very convenient. I think that back then, when Song and Liao made good friends, the northern and southern cargo ships passed through here. Chang Santai boasted to Zhou Nan about the benefits here.

"Are there still cargo ships coming and going?" Zhou Nan asked with concern.

"Don't hide the horses, there were very few wars last year. When Song Liao made good friends, the border pass was relaxed, and those merchants made some silver taels and let the ship go. Even when the two countries were at war in the past, there were still cargo ships passing by, but they had to sneak over. The canal is not built, and there is also sea transportation. The merchants of the Southern Dynasty hired ships to bypass the Dengzhou naval army of the Southern Dynasty from the sea and sailed upriver from the east to reach here. "In order to promote the affairs of the border market, Chang Santai told all the things about the smuggling of merchant ships in 1510.

This is similar to what Zhou Nan expected, since the merchants on the side of the Great Song Dynasty have a way to get here, there is hope for the border market. Otherwise, it would have become a joke when he had built a town here, but he didn't wait for the imaginary merchant ships.

"Since it's a partnership, I have the conditions." Zhou Nan stared at Chang Santai, who was full of joy, and said.

(End of chapter)