Han Qian was naturally eager to renovate the Xuefeng Mountain Post Road, otherwise he would not have asked for another piece of land to be in Huaxi Village at the east entrance of the post road, but the cost of renovating the Xuefeng Mountain Post Road was too high and too big.

Longya Mountain is only the remnant vein of Wuling Mountain, the mountain is relatively gentle, the post road is relatively easy to repair, and Xuefeng Mountain is the main mountain range that separates the two large areas of southern Hunan and southwest Hunan and the north and south of five or six hundred miles, to rebuild this ancient post road, the amount of engineering is more than ten times more than ten times more than the post road of Longya Mountain.

And the cost of renovating the Longya Mountain Post Road has been included in the military expenditure, and now if the Xuefeng Mountain Post Road is renovated in the name of Hunan Xingtai, with Shen Yang's old stubborn temper, most of them will be handed back to Xuzhou to be fully responsible.

After the reform of the land tax system in Xuzhou, plus the tax and the city parking tax, although 120,000 stone grain and nearly 50,000 yuan can be collected every year, the Fenglu and public money of the state and county officials and the maintenance expenses of the state camp are deducted from the 30,000 stone grain and 20,000 yuan handed over to the Xingtai every year, and the annual cost of squeezing out for the construction of urban roads and the construction of canals and dams is only 30,000 or 40,000 stone of grain and grain.

The key is that this money and grain cannot all be invested in the renovation of the Xuefeng Mountain Post Road, Linjiang, Zhongfang, Qianyang, Langxi, Tanyang five counties, which county does not need to allocate money and grain to build public works?

In the final analysis, Xuzhou is still sparsely populated with less land, with more than 20,000 households, not as much as the two upper counties of Tanzhou and Yuezhou, with 16.7 million mu of grain land, of which only more than 200,000 mu of irrigated land can be regarded as a bumper yield, and the proportion is still too low.

"How much grain can the state government squeeze out?" Han Qian asked his father.

"The state government has limited money and food, but now that the autumn harvest has passed, it should be able to recruit a lot of people to repair the post road before the beginning of spring. Dragon Tooth City and the Weaving Institute don't need to subsidize the supply of the Wuling Army after June, so they should be able to squeeze out a lot of money and food, right? Han Daoxun stared at Han Qian with burning eyes and asked.

"Hey, should I come back, you mention this, isn't it hurting our father-son feelings!" Han Qian scratched his head and said.

"You have to give an accurate number, so that I can tell Zheng Tong to prepare the fortifications immediately." Han Daoxun had no intention of letting Han Qian go, and insisted that he tell a specific number.

Although Han Qian was responsible for the logistics of the Western Front until the fall of Tanzhou, the recovery of Wuling, Hanshou, Shishou and other cities, the seizure and the donation of money and grain from local townsmen made up for the military expenses during this period.

After recovering Tanzhou City, Han Qian dismantled the Wuling Army at the same time, and also transferred the logistics to Shen Yang, Zhou Yuan and others to take over.

In fact, since May, Longya City and Wufeng Mountain have stopped subsidizing the Wuling Army, and even if there are military supplies to the armies, and even the four double-decker oared sailing ships built by the shipyard to supplement the state naval army, they are all calculated according to the price, and they are no longer as confused as before.

During Han Qian's "absconding" from Xuzhou, he once sent up to 60,000 stone grains and other huge sums of money and materials to Xuzhou, which were mixed into one account for unified expenditure.

Of course, it is not possible to separate the accounts.

And after May, especially when the third prince was welcomed into Tanzhou City, the third prince made it clear to Han Qian that the shipyards, plantations, ironworks, weaving institutes, and armor workshops run by the Han family in Xuzhou in recent years were all counted as the private property of the Han family.

This time, Dragon's Tooth City and the nearby 3,000 acres of land, as well as the houses, workshops, etc. attached to these lands, were directly and explicitly used as a reward for the meritorious service of his father and son.

Coupled with the dividends from the three fleets of the Yang family and the successive rewards, after deducting the daily expenses that can be said to be quite large, Dragon Tooth City still has more than 50,000 yuan to use.

This is also a huge amount of money that Han Qian has saved again, but he didn't expect that he hadn't covered the money yet, and he had already made up his mind again.

Seeing Han Qian's hesitation, Han Daoxun said: "The opening of the passage of Xuefeng Mountain is also conducive to the import of goods from Longya City to Shaoheng and Shaoheng Prefectures, and the state government's overstretched public money should not be used. No matter how short you are, you have to squeeze 30,000 yuan out of me this winter......"

Han Qian saw that the state government really couldn't squeeze out much grain, so he agreed to come down.

With 30,000 yuan and more than 3,000 strong laborers to work for a winter, it is probably possible to open up more than 20 collapsed places and particularly dangerous steep places along the Xuefeng Mountain Post Road.

If you want to further widen and straighten it, you have to build a bridge, and you can't beat it with 300,000 yuan.

Speaking of the recruitment of the family soldiers, Han Daoxun's interest faded, and he just sighed lightly and said to Han Qian: "You can decide these things!" ”

Seeing the sorrow on his father's brows, Han Qian sighed in his heart, he knew that his father's political ambition was to establish a life for the people, cut off the strong clans, make the country rich, and then make the world unified, cut down the war, and captured Tanzhou City In the past three months, his father has also written to him many times to discuss the possibility of implementing the Xintian system in eight states in Hunan by taking advantage of the victory of cutting the domain, but he did not expect that many of his father's political ideas have not surfaced to discuss, and his Han family has become a first-class strong man in Hunan at this time.

Recently, there was a case in Langxi County in which an uncle accused his nephew of adultery but was countersued by his nephew for embezzling family property.

The culprit was escorted over before dark, and after drinking alcohol, it was already dark at night, so Han Daoxun went back to the study to read the file first, so that he could go to court early tomorrow morning to interrogate the culprit.

Han Qian was also about to go back to the East Courtyard to rest, but Fan Xicheng called out to him and said:

"Cheng Zhi is now also married and has a business, and I am a lot older, if I don't move to Liangdi to find my wife and daughter, I'm afraid that half of my body will be buried in the loess, and I will never be able to walk again. The head of the house allowed me to leave in the next few days, and I will talk to the young master here. ”

Han Qian was slightly stunned, looking at Fan Xicheng's frosty hair that was more than half white, he didn't think that he still couldn't let go of his wife and daughter who were separated in the war more than ten years ago, and he insisted on going to Liang Country to find it while he still had some strength now, holding the opportunity that he knew that there was only a trace of it left.

Han Qian sighed secretly, the center of gravity of the Liang-Chu war in the lower reaches of the Huai River, the thieves were rampant, the vicissitudes of the sea, and after several changes, things have long been wrong, even if Fan Xicheng's wife and daughter are still alive in the world, they don't know where to struggle to survive, where is it possible to find it?

Han Qian wanted to persuade Fan Xicheng, but seeing that his waist was straight, revealing an unconvincing will, he secretly felt that if he insisted on blocking it, if Fan Xicheng didn't say goodbye, he would also be depressed because of the unsolvable knot, right?

Han Qian and Fan Xicheng didn't get along very happily, but Fan Xicheng was loyal to his father, and Han Qian didn't want him to die in a desolate place in his old age, and in the end, he didn't even have anyone around to see him off, and said:

"Three years, if there is no news for three years, Fan Ye will come back? After Cheng Zhi, he stayed by my side to do things, but Fan Ye always had to think of the three of them. ”

Fan Chengzhi is the child of the family soldier that Han Qian forced Fan Xicheng to adopt, and after the death of Fan Wucheng and Fan Dahei, he was Fan Xicheng's only adopted son.

Fan Chengzhi also has two younger sisters who married Fan Xicheng with their widowed mother and passed over.

Fan Chengzhi just turned eighteen this year, Fan Xicheng couldn't wait to help him say a family matter, and his two younger sisters also promised someone this year, when Han Qian was in Tanzhou, he also specially asked Zhao Ting'er to help him prepare a gift, but he didn't expect Fan Xicheng to be so anxious, mainly so that he could not have too much worry when he left.

Fan Xicheng nodded, and agreed to the three-year period that Han Qian said, thinking that he had been sleeping and wandering outside for three years, and it was estimated that he would not have the strength to run anymore.

Han Qian took off a stainless steel ring on his right hand, handed it to Fan Xicheng, and said, "Master Fan, you bring a young man of the Xi clan to serve by your side, and you also bring this ring with you." If you need any help on the way, you may be able to get some help by turning your face over when you go to a land and water thoroughfare......"

The stainless steel ring looks plain, but holding down the tiny spring on the side can open the ring face, revealing two small seals "Jinyun" on the small plate inside.

Naturally, there would not be only one token in Jinyun Tower's secret room, but the token that Han Qian used with him must be of the highest level.

"Thank you, young master." Fan Xicheng thanked him and left first.

Han Qian waved his hand and designated a young man from the Xi clan to follow Fan Xicheng away, so that he could take care of Fan Xicheng's daily life along the way - when the world enters old age as soon as he passes fifty, Fan Xicheng is already a little old even if he practices swords and bows hard, but he is already a little old at the age of sixty, and Han Qian is afraid that he will not be able to survive the three years of hardship.

"Fan Ye is a person who values love and righteousness, in the past two years, Fan Dahei has died on the battlefield, his body is a little worse than before, and he has been talking about going to find his wife and daughter, even if he goes to a foreign country, he will feel better." Han Laoshan accompanied Han Qian to the East Cross Courtyard and chattered quite sentimentally.

Han Qian nodded, he was deeply touched by Fan Dahei's death, and he also knew that it had changed Fan Xicheng greatly, after all, Fan Chengzhi was forced into Fan Xicheng's knees, and Fan Wucheng and Fan Dahei were the ones who really made Fan Xicheng pour his heart and soul.

The real cause of Fan Wucheng's death, Han Qian has not mentioned it to anyone so far, and there is no need to mention it at this time, so he thought that when he returned to Qianyang City this time, he would have to find an opportunity to pay respects at Fan Dahei's tomb.

Han Qian remembered one thing and said to Han Laoshan: "Han Dong is very hard at working in Huaxi Village, renovating the post road, recruiting craftsmen on both sides, and doing it in multiple places at the same time, the progress is fast enough, and I will recommend him to Gongcao to learn from Zheng Tong after the New Year - you can inherit Han Dong to your knees and provide for you and Aunt Zhou." ”

Han Laoshan and his wife have no children, Han Dongnai is their nephew, but as a domestic slave before, he has been serving by the side of Han Daoxun and Han Jun father and son - during Han Qian's "absconding", the Han people were forced to disband the family soldiers, and also disbanded some domestic slaves.

Sometimes the relationship within the Han ethnic group is not something that Han Qian said can be cut clean.

Han Laoshan and his wife have no children, and they have long wanted to pass their nephew Han Dong to their knees, and they also want to have someone to support their old age, but they didn't understand the thoughts of the young master Han Qian, and they didn't dare to mention it, they just left Han Dong by their side to help.

Over the years, Han Laoshan has no merit and hard work, and Han Qian can't afford to deal with them for this little thing, so he simply clarified this matter for them.

Seeing that the young master not only allowed them to pass Han Dong to his knees, but also said that he would let Han Dong be the official after the year, Han Laoshan suddenly smiled, and watched Han Qian walk into the East Cross Courtyard.

Han Qian strode into the bedroom, and saw that Zhao Ting'er and Xi Ying's two daughters were there, and Zhao Ting'er's face was full of anxiety, and asked Zhao Ting'er strangely: "I haven't come back for such a long time, why are you still unhappy if you don't go to accompany your father?" ”

"Zhao Laoqi looks very honest, but he thinks that the Han family is now a big family, and he doesn't expect his daughter to be the main family, but he hopes that his grandson can be the eldest grandson of the Han family," Xi Ying sat aside and said with a smile, "And now don't talk about hugging your grandson, seeing that your daughter's temples have not changed, how can you bear not to count a few words?" ”

"How can it be so unbearable as you say?" Zhao Ting'er said angrily.

"Yes, yes, it's that I can't be embarrassed," Xi Ying said with a yawn, "I'm too sleepy, maybe I can't really hear it, I heard it, I went to sleep in the outhouse, you can wait for the adults to wash up......"

Seeing that Xi Ying was leaving, Zhao Ting'er hurriedly caught her.

Han Qian thought that when he returned to Jinling after the Jingxiang War, Zhao Laoqi had taught Ting'er to seduce him, and smiled in his heart, but he didn't expect that two years had passed in a blink of an eye, and staring at Zhao Ting'er saw that she was no longer the beautiful girl she was back then, but a little more plump and beautiful.

In the past, Han Qian did not include Zhao Ting'er in the room, in addition to the fact that giving birth to a girl who had not grown up in the world was a ghost gate, another reason was that in the past few years, he always thought that one day he would die in the world, and he did not want to worry.

didn't expect Zhao Ting'er to bear so much extra pressure for this.

Thinking that Fan Xicheng has been concerned about his separated wife and children all these years, Han Qian thought that it shouldn't be a bad thing to have someone to worry about, right?

Han Qian looked at Zhao Ting'er's stunningly beautiful face and the intoxicating dodging eyes, and asked, "Don't you feel wronged yourself?" ”

"There is nothing to be wronged about being a slave and a slave by your side?" Zhao Ting'er almost buried her head in her chest, let go of Xi Ying's hand, and muttered.

"Think I'm in the way now?" Xi Ying laughed.

Zhao Ting'er raised her hand to hit Xi Ying, and Xi Ying jumped to dodge.

Han Qian stretched out his hand to catch Xi Ying.

"What do you want to do?" Xi Ying was startled, stared at Han Qian and asked.

"Where do you want to go?" Seeing Xi Ying's fierce glare, Han Qian smiled and said, "Although I can't give Ting'er the title of the main room, I can't lack the etiquette of my parents." In this matter, I have to ask you to help Ting'er Zhang Luo - Fan Ye wants to leave Qianyang to find his wife and daughter, so I have to invite Fan Ye to drink the wedding wine between me and Ting'er, and then let Fan Ye leave. ”

Xi Ying smiled inexplicably, didn't say anything, and took Zhao Ting'er's hand and walked out.