Two days later, in the morning, a servant entered the public room with a letter and handed it to Zhao Cheng: "The letter from the priest." The messenger was born and went without stopping. ”

When I opened it, I saw that it was sent by Bai Agarwood.

First of all, the good news, since the last time Zhao Cheng taught the dragon slayer, this short period of a few days, the letter said that the results of the Yangshan Cottage are gratifying, and about 200 people have been recruited from nearby to enter the Yangshan Village, and now, their size is close to 300 people.

The trouble is that people have to eat, and there was not much food accumulation in Yangshan Village, but now it is basically exhausted, and the letter said that it is miserable, and they have been drinking porridge since yesterday.

The second bad news is that they are not far from Wang Xiu's Lingzhi cottage, and they are also within the scope of the "ultimatum", and yesterday Wang Xiu sent people to threaten and warn.

The third is big news: Hongshan Village was attacked, and it is not clear how many people died Bai Agarwood, she estimated that nearly 100 people, including a small number of children and the elderly, died and were burned to the pulp by a fire.

"It's like the rhythm of an accident!"

Zhao Cheng hurriedly got up and went over, looking at the area map hanging in the hall to observe.

"What's going on in Hongshan, what is the situation?" After a while, Zhao Chengtie asked.

Several of the clerks in the military room looked at each other, indicating that they did not know what was going on.

No matter what, this is to blame them, but it can't be all blamed, in fact, there is no Hongshanzhai in the Great Song Administrative Region, it is just a mountain. The government did not recognize that there were people living in that place, and they did not go there to collect taxes. There were no archers stationed there.

What Wang Xiu did will not form a "big case" at the official level, and there will not even be news, at least temporarily.

After hesitating for a while, I couldn't think about it for the time being, and Zhao Cheng couldn't report this matter to the state government. Because the source is a problem.

Zhao Cheng's contact with white agarwood was Lao Pei's acquiescence, not Cai You's acquiescence. Cai You knows that it doesn't mean that he will definitely get into trouble, but because Cai You's movements are difficult to understand, he will add variables to the incident, and it will definitely be equivalent to making trouble for Lao Pei. Then Zhao Cheng's life must not be easy.

After thinking about it, he casually explained a few official matters to his subordinates, and left the county office in a hurry.

It is imperative to raise the first batch of food as soon as possible to send it to Bai Agarwood, otherwise she will not be able to do it even if she has the legendary Taizu mental method, and the hearts of the people at this juncture must not be dispersed, once they are scattered, the official army is useless, and Qin Ming is an extremely good mallet existence, then basically Chizhou is Wang Xiu's world.

If this caused further financial difficulties for the imperial court, and a general environment of chaos in many places was formed, Wang Xiu would definitely rebel in advance, and Chizhou would be in advance of the war. At that time, not to mention the little girl who sold firewood to Zhao Cheng in the city, as long as Cai You made a mistake once, Qin Ming was defeated once, and the state city could not be defended, and there would definitely be a river of blood.

At the earliest, Zhao Cheng, as an intermediary, reached a preliminary agreement with the White Agarwood Ministry and the county government: ore for grain plan.

The premise of being able to obtain such conditions is that Lao Pei is not a faint official, he wants to do something and can temporarily tolerate the White Agarwood Department. So Lao Pei accepted Zhao Cheng's theory that "this is equivalent to providing productivity for our county".

But now the white agarwood department is still in the cracks of rectification, and it cannot prevent the production of the first ore for the time being. Without this first batch of ore being brought in, it would not be possible to open the warehouse to put grain.

So this first batch of grain can only be paid for by Zhao Cheng himself.

The county government treasury is not under the management of Zhao Cheng, but is in the hands of Zhu Zhu. As for the operation in this regard, it is gray, Pei Zhixian is acquiescing, and it is impossible to issue an administrative order openly, so it is impossible to carry out flexible operations.

While thinking and walking, when passing by the tea shop, Ghost Foot Seven was listening to a book, looking like he was relishing.

Zhao Cheng shouted, "Ah Qi." ”

"Here comes the boss." Devilfoot Seven ran over.

Zhao Cheng said: "You go to the carpentry workshop now to see if the slingshot fork we ordered last time is ready." ”

Ghost Foot Seven scratched his head and said: "It's only been a few days, it shouldn't have been made yet, we can customize five hundred pairs, and the amount is not so fast." ”

"Regardless of him, you still go on a trip, make as many as you want, take the first batch, call a few coolies you know, rent three board cars, and then come to Xinfeng Grain in the south of the city to see me."

After Zhao Cheng finished the order, he hurried to Xinfeng Grain......

"Hey, Zhao Zhisi is driving, what is the reason for coming to the small shop."

It's good to have an administrative identity, at least you won't be fooled by these guys, and it's easier to talk and negotiate.

So I sat down and drank a cup of tea at the second largest grain stall in Chizhou, and by the way, I negotiated the first batch of ten stone of rice at the usual price of three per stone.

This price is basically close to their cost price.

This year's expected floods did not occur as expected, so as the closer to the time when new grains are on the market, grain prices tend to decline slightly. The imminent listing of new grain means that they need to take inventory and move the old grain of the year before and the year before for "discount promotion". In addition, Zhao Cheng has an administrative identity, so even if the quantity is small, he can get a preferential wholesale price.

In addition, if someone else buys them, they must be mixed with sand, and there is a question of how much. But Zhao Cheng will definitely not be so painful when he comes to buy them.

Almost as soon as Devilfoot Seven came with a few coolies, and by the way, he quickly loaded the hundreds of kilograms of grain into the truck.

"There are only more than ninety slingshot forks now, and I brought them all." Ghostfoot Seven patted the package on his back again.

When passing by the county office, he went in and called a team of people with knives to accompany him. Otherwise, it is difficult to ensure that you will not be harassed by mountain people or grass bandits.

Now the balance is barely there, as long as there are officials involved, they will not be harassed, even if the bandits have the advantage of strength, they will not mess around.

However, this is only temporary, and once the balance is broken, it will basically enter a state of disorder similar to that of later Africa. Once you really enter, it is difficult to twist it around, and it will require killing a lot of people, and the officers and soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty basically do not have this quality.

So this is the reason why this year will form the four major Kou uprisings with great lethality. Tong Guan used an army of 100,000 when he was square.

As for Uncle Zhang's night comparison, the three hundred chengguan taught Song Jiang how to behave.

To a certain extent, Cai You's argument at the academy at that time was not wrong. It seems cowardly to continue to adopt a loose stability maintenance policy, that is because Cai You knows what kind of urine the officials and troops under his rule are, and if he does not have the ability to suppress bandits, once he sends troops to fight, he will destroy the balance, in addition to filling the bandits' anger value, it can also make the bandits see the weakness of the government, so as to amplify their courage to plan things in advance.

This is also the key point of Cai Jing's spray and Zhao Tingzhi.

Neither side is a good thing, and both have their own reasons. As for Zhao Cheng, now he is more inclined to Cai You's point of view, don't stab if you are not sure, obscene development is the king.

Otherwise, it will definitely not be Cai You and Qin Ming who will be the worst in the chaos, nor the ministers and emperors of the imperial court, but the first to suffer is the group of little girls selling matches outside the city......