After reading the secret decree, after a long time, Xue Ruogu, Li Tang, and Qin Wen stood up and bowed to Han Daoxun: "I don't know how loyal the adults are, and there have been many offensive words in the past, please see the sin." ”

Han Daoxun laughed and said: "If Ruogu is a mediocre person, he only knows flattering words, Daoxun and I will really be disappointed, but I failed to control the situation in the past, and I was worried that the four surnames would not be involved, so I kept it a secret, and I didn't inform Ruogu, and I want to ask Ruogu not to blame my father and son." ”

"How dare you!" Xue Ruogu was embarrassed and said, "The Lord and Han Sima are the emperor's Dongliang, Ruogu has no bad plan for the Lord and Han Sima, it is already a fluke." ”

"At this time, it is already autumn, and the imperial court will send additional troops and horses to Ezhou at any time, and Xuzhou must also prepare to send troops from Yuanshui to the north as soon as possible," Han Daoxun said, "We have discussed with Lord Zhang, before the imperial court decree reaches Xuzhou, we also ask Ruogu to temporarily act as the chief historian, and invite Lord Li and Lord Qin to go to Langxi and Tanyang to preside over the county government!" ”

The Feng clan has disintegrated, and Xiang Jianlong, Yang Zaili, and Xixunqiao led the surrender, which means that the military and political power in Xuzhou has been completely stripped from the hands of the four native surnames.

The forces of the Xiang family, the Yang family, and the Xuzhou Xi family are mainly distributed in the southern part of Tanyang County and Langxi County, so that Li Tang and Qin Wen can serve as the commanders of Tanyang and Langxi counties, and they can promote the new policies such as the field tax reform and the Tuke nationality in these two counties in the fastest time, and raise military supplies and more soldiers for the troops in Xuzhou in winter.

Governor Shi is responsible for assisting Zhu Cao in governing civil affairs, and it is also the key to pushing the new policy deeper and in-depth governance of Xuzhou.

Xue Ruogu was the head of the state government before, and he also assisted Han Daoxun in handling state politics for a time, and he was competent in this regard.

Although Xue Ruogu, Li Tang, and Qin Wen have been watching from the sidelines for most of the past half a year, they are aware of many new policies, but they did not expect that the Han family father and son would implement the new policies to do their best to dig deep into the military potential of Xuzhou for the next war against Tanzhou.

The banquet is cold, but the hearts of the people are hot.

Xiang Jianlong, Yang Zaili, and Xi Xunqiao were willing to take the initiative to cooperate, and Han Qian thought about first moving more than 2,000 people from these three families and close relatives to Qianyang, Zhongfang, and Linjiang counties for resettlement.

In order to reassure them, Han Qian will take out more than 30,000 mu of grain fields in the Chinese side and Linjiang Xinken in the past two months to replace their farms and houses in Tanyang and Langxi.

"In order to avoid the three surnames becoming a hidden danger again, are we considering splitting the more than 2,000 people with the three surnames of Xiang, Yang, and Xi into clans and households, and dividing these farms and houses equally?" Han Qian said.

The local township tycoons are extremely powerful, and they have a close relationship with the patriarchal tradition of inheritance by the son-in-law, the inheritance of the eldest son by the eldest son, and the inheritance of property.

The implementation of this policy in Xuzhou has an urgent practical need.

On the one hand, if Han Qian wants to grasp the situation in Xuzhou as soon as possible and prepare for the winter war, he needs to cooperate closely with Jianlong, Yang Zaili, and Xixunqiao, and he needs to compromise with them to a certain extent, so as to resolve the hostility of the native Fanhu as soon as possible, and at the same time, he must prevent the resources from being concentrated in the hands of the three families as before, and once again become a hidden danger affecting the stability of Xuzhou.

Xiang Jianlong, Yang Zaili, and Xixunqiao were the three descendants, and in the end they would get more farmland, but each farmhouse was only about 1,000 acres, and they could only be medium-sized landlords in Jianghuai.

As further compensation for the three families of Xiang Jianlong, Yang Zaili, and Xixunqiao, Han Qian suggested that the more than 20 thousand-stone sailing ships controlled by Qianyang City should be controlled by the three families, and the trade and other affairs with Fanzhai in the upper reaches of the Yuan River would also be carried out by the three families.

The native surnames of Jingzhou and Chenzhou are full of vigilance against Xuzhou, and they have blocked the trade of Xuzhou and banned merchant ships from entering and leaving Xuzhou, and these native surnames have limited loyalty to Dachu, and the secret decree in Han Qian's hand has no effect on them.

Han Qian even suspected that after the imperial court used troops against Tanzhou, it was very likely that the native forces in Chenzhou would gather to support Tanzhou.

Now that they are implementing new policies such as the land tax reform system and the merger of Turks and guests in Xuzhou, the native surnames in Chenzhou are extremely nervous, and they are already secretly recruiting troops, but the development of the situation in Xuzhou is too fast, and Han Qian did not give the Chenzhou surnames a chance to do it, and Xiang Jianlong, Yang Zaili, and Xixunqiao were forced to surrender.

And once the war against Tanzhou officially starts after winter, the relationship between them and the forces in the upper reaches of the Yuanjiang River will inevitably become more tense.

At present, Han Qian can only hope that after the three families of Xiang, Yang, and Xi take the lead, they can resume trade with these regions.

Not to mention other supplies, Xuzhou has begun to run out of salt.

The passage downstream of Yuanzhou has been blocked, and it is urgent to transport the rock salt from Shu through Jingzhou.

There is also a lot of backlog of tea, medicine, cloth and other materials produced in Xuzhou, and it is also necessary to exchange for cattle and horses and other scarce materials from the upper reaches of Yuanshui; They even needed to bring in more copper money in order to buy military supplies from the people of Xuzhou.

Xuzhou incorporated all miscellaneous donations into the field tax, and the tung oil, timber, and other materials needed for the war needed to be bought with money, instead of being directly collected under the name of the past, and the demand for currency increased greatly.

On the side of the state capital, in addition to the greatly increased land tax, it is also necessary to greatly increase the commercial tax and the income of self-operated workshops, so that it is possible to maintain the operation of the state capital itself, and maintain the elite armament of three or four thousand people in addition to continuing to reclaim and build canals and roads.

In the future, it seems that the land tax of the prefecture and county is expected to increase to 1780,000 stone grain and more than 30,000 yuan, which is already quite a considerable amount, but because after the abolition of forced labor, if the prefecture and county want to repair cities, roads, and dams in the future, it will be necessary for the yamen to take out money and grain to hire manpower, and the salaries and public funds of the county officials in California will eat up almost half of the land tax.

There is no way to implement the military system in Xuzhou, abolish conscription, and abolish the traditional compulsory military system, and the conscription system is currently the only feasible strategy.

Prefectures and counties have to maintain a security force of almost 1,000 people, and in addition, they also have to prepare 3,000 elite armaments, food, armor, weapons, warships, and barracks, and so on, and the basic expenses may cost 40,000 or 50,000 yuan a year, not to mention the huge expenses that will skyrocket during the war.

Although Han Qian hoped that Ma Yin, Ma Xun's father and son would withdraw their own feudal domains under the tremendous pressure exerted by the imperial court, this was unlikely, who would want to be reduced from a prince to a subordinate prisoner who could be imprisoned for the rest of his life?

In addition to the follow-up training of soldiers, Xuzhou also needs to raise a batch of materials as reserves.

In the second half of the night, Han Qian brought Yang Zaili, Xi Xunqiao, and Xiang Jianlong from prison.

In addition to the reform of the field tax system, the joint registration of local and Hakka people, the internal relocation of clansmen, the splitting of clans and households, and full-time commercial affairs, Han Qian also demanded that the three families hand over 60,000 stone grain and 20,000 yuan as the autumn grain that should be levied last year, in addition, they handed over the soldiers and their dependents to which each family belonged, as well as the privately stored armor.

The dependents moved to Linjiang County for resettlement, and more than 1,200 soldiers were recruited into the Xuzhou camp.

Although the conditions were harsh, the three families still retained a considerable part of the family property, a small number of slaves and maids, and the privilege of being in charge of commercial affairs.

What better choice could there be than Xiang Jianlong, Yang Zaili, and Xixunqiao, who had already put their lives in the hands of the Han family's father and son when they surrendered to the mountain?

It wasn't until the dawn of dawn that many things were completely negotiated, and Xiang Jianlong, Xi Xunqiao, and Yang Zaili were not imprisoned in the state prison again, but found a courtyard in the Hibiscus Garden and temporarily put them under house arrest.

And in order to get Gao Shao and Lin Haizheng out of the army, help him command the army, and prepare for a war that will break out at any time, they previously held the two positions of state judicial and state secretary to join the army.

And Han Qian himself in addition to the Linjiang County Order, the affairs of the state government will also be pushed off, and then he will go to Longya City to concentrate on preparing for war; Zhang Ping, as the envoy of the supervising army, will also go to Dragon's Tooth City.

"Even if it is to confuse Tanzhou for one more day, it is good, and then I will ask Lord Xue, Lord Li, and Lord Qin to pretend to be people who have been attached to the flames for a period of time; In the future, I will ask Lord Xue to help my father manage the affairs of the state government. Han Qian stood up and smiled.

"Compared to Lord Han and Han Sima's forbearance and humiliation, what is our little grievance?" Xue Ruogu saw that Han Qian was going back to the East Courtyard to rest, so he stood up to see him off.

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"The arrow wound on your shoulder should be better, right?" Han Qian stretched his waist and walked towards the east courtyard and said to Xi Ying, "Should we discuss the debt you owe me?" ”

"The young master must force the people's daughter, it is useless for Xi Ying to struggle no matter how much he struggles, even if he can still call Zhao Ting'er to save me?" Xi Ying said resentfully.

"You can help me pinch my shoulder first, and then I will collect some profit." Han Qian didn't dare to use Zhao Ting'er as a shield, thinking that he would trick her into the bedroom first so that he could do something, but it was a big deal to leave the bedroom and not recognize it.

Walking into the courtyard where he lived, Han Qian found that several guards were guarding the courtyard, not going back to the room to rest, and saw Feng Yu sitting alone in the small hall waiting for him to come.

Han Qian walked into the small hall with a calm face, stared at Feng Yu and asked, "You won't wait for me here for the night after the night banquet, right?" ”

"Your father and son have no intention of separating Xuzhou, everything is to help Emperor Tianyou plan Tanzhou?" Feng Yi met Han Qian's sharp eyes and asked.

"Oh, when did you guess?" Han Qian sat down and asked with interest.

"Lord Han does not mean to be the master, he always cares more about people's livelihood everywhere; And I heard before that someone with the four surnames secretly contacted Zhang Ping, the envoy of the prison army, and also reminded you to pay attention, but after the four surnames contacted the envoy Zhang Ping, they were easily fooled and attacked the Chinese city, so I suspected that Zhang Ping was secretly conspiring with you," Feng Yu directly said the doubts in his heart these days, "And after the banquet last night, your father and son left Xue Ruogu and the three of them behind, and others thought that your father and son would kill Xue Ruogu and clean the state government, but even if you put Xue Ruogu and the three of them back to Jinling, it is far better than killing the three of them." I pondered for a long time, and there was no better explanation than the possibility I had just mentioned. ”