Li Feihu pulled 20,000 horses of silk (loot) and 30,000 stone salt, and left satisfied.

This kind of goods is nothing to Li Feihu now - when he came, he sent Xu Shiyang materials worth 80,000 yuan.

What's more, these things were not given to him for free, next time he came, Li Feihu needed to exchange the silk and salt for the materials Xu Shiyang needed, and he could only earn a little profit from it.

However, Li Feihu was still very happy, after all, from Xu Shiyang, the invisible wealth he got was priceless.

Not to mention anything else, if he can successfully recruit An, all the materials he gave Xu Shiyang will be earned back in a year.

Maybe they discussed it, as soon as Li Feihu left on the front foot, Li Feifeng came on the back foot.

This time, the attitude of the pirate cabinet was very low, and Xu Shiyang did not mean to be unforgiving, and the two sides quickly reached an acceptable agreement:

The Li family paid Qi Province 2 million yuan worth of materials, understanding the previous dispute, if Xu Shiyang can make the Li family recruit again, the Li family will pay another 3 million guan.

The aid, which was previously counted as a loan, is now cancelled, and all the supplies that have been shipped are counted as free aid.

If the Xu family is in need, the Li family's fleet should provide a certain degree of help to the Xu family, and the Xu family will give the Li family a certain degree of economic compensation depending on the situation.

The chief shopkeeper of the Li family pirate group was replaced by Li Feihu, and Luo Haitao of Qi Province was absorbed as the new chief shopkeeper.

A series of agreements have been negotiated, and it can almost be said that the Li Pirate Group has fully bowed to Qi Province, but in order to recruit the great cause, whether it is Li Feilong or Li Feifeng, they must accept it.

"I will definitely deliver the materials that General Xu wants as soon as possible."

After everything was negotiated, Li Feifeng breathed a sigh of relief, what he was most afraid of was that the Xu family would not even talk to him, although it would cost millions of yuan now, but for the Li family, which has a big business, the problem that can be solved with money is not a problem at all.

It's just that there are still some minor problems here......

"It's just that there is too much grain in the materials specified by General Xu, and the price of grain in Jiangnan is not good-looking now."

Jiangnan is also fighting, not to mention fighting in the heart of the imperial court.

No matter how stupid the civilian officials are, they still know the truth that the soldiers and horses go first before the grain and grass are moved, and the price of grain, a strategic material, has almost tripled compared with a year ago, and it seems that it is not a good idea to buy rice from Jiangnan.

"I still have to train and fight wars here, and the more food the better, but the price is really not beautiful." Xu Shiyang asked, "Is there any solution for Shopkeeper Li?" ”

Li Feifeng replied: "There is rice in Nanyang. ”

"Nanyang?"

"That's right." Afraid that Xu Shiyang would not know the situation, Li Feifeng explained: "The Nanyang countries, such as Jiaozhi, Champong, Zhenla, Siam, and Srivijaya, although the country is small and the people are poor, the water and soil are abundant, and the rice can be ripened seven times in two years, and there is a lot of grain there. ”

It seems paradoxical that the country is small and the people are poor in places where water and soil are abundant and there is a lot of food. But the reality is that the people there can grow seven crops of rice in two years, which does not mean that they can accumulate enough wealth.

There is also the issue of wealth disparity.

Well, there's also the level of industriousness of people and so on.

Of course, that has nothing to do with Xu Shiyang, just know that there is food over there.

"I don't care where you buy the food from, as long as you can give me the food on time and in good quality."

Xu Shiyang has no idea of protecting the agriculture in the south of the Yangtze River, where the grain can't be eaten, no matter where it comes from and what it does.

Li Feifeng breathed a sigh of relief.

The price of grain in Nanyang is extremely low, but in order to recruit An, the grain needed by the Li family was basically purchased from the landlords in Jiangnan at a high price, which is also a kind of benefit transfer.

Now it seems that Xu Shiyang doesn't seem to care much about the interests of the Jiangnan gentry.

"Then it's no problem, I can send at least one million stone of rice to the general every year, and offset the aid at the usual price of two stones."

"That's it."

……

After defeating the all-out offensive of the Tartars, Qi Province entered a rare period of strategic recuperation.

Except for the navy to intercept Li Feibao once, and the army to take the brigade as a unit to rotate into the mountains to suppress bandits, the people of Qi Province no longer have to worry about the harassment of war.

According to the data obtained by Xu Shiyang from the Governor's Office, this year's household Qimin's land has a total of 8.9 million mu, and the total grain tax is 26 million catties.

This figure was much less than the income of the previous Dock Castle Owners combined, for the simple reason that the Dock Castle Owners earned was to take all the harvest of the serfs and return them to the serfs with rations.

After the households were all assembled, the average tax revenue of the Governor's Mansion was almost equivalent to the level of two buckets per mu.

It was only about one-fifth of the number of forced conscriptions by the former dock fort lords.

The peasants received a large amount of surplus value from their labor, and the Governor's Office paid salaries for both soldiers and laborers, and even ordinary Qi Provincial people had their incomes several times higher this year.

Although there is nothing to see now, Xu Shiyang estimates that if this situation continues, after three years, there will be no one in this world who can destroy the local power of the Governor's Mansion and let the people of Qi Province live their original life.

Xu Shiyang has begun to look forward to the scene of everyone under his rule enthusiastically defending their families and the country through various means.

At that time, it will be the time for him to dominate the world.

The grain tax set by the Governor's Office was not high, so it was much easier to collect it.

By the beginning of November, the fixed grain tax of 26 million catties had been put into storage for more than 20 million catties, and the storage ratio reached 77%, a figure that could probably make any feudal regime jealous.

The high proportion of taxes in the treasury and the low cost of tax collection made the new Metropolitan Government much more economically prosperous.

Even if calculated according to 20 million catties of grain, it is almost enough for 50,000 agricultural workers (newly appointed officials, local civil servants, soldiers of the new army, sailors, factory workers, etc.) in Qi Province to achieve food self-sufficiency.

Of course, the factory still has to be expanded, the army has to be expanded, and the new displaced people have to give some relief, and the 20 million catties alone are still not enough.

But it doesn't matter, there is still foreign aid in Qi Province.

The 300,000 horses of silk obtained by the interception and pro-ship fleets are now almost sold out.

Except for some stallions exchanged with the Pars, most of the others were handed over to Li Feihu and Li Feihuang to exchange for urgently needed supplies.

Among them, there are 30 million catties (200,000 stones) of grain alone.

The canal and the sea, intercepting the New Year's currency twice, were searched from the ship, and the grain smuggled by the Jiangnan gentry to Liaodong was almost 15 million catties.

Among the aid directly given to Xu Shiyang by Li Feihu and Li Feihuang, there were 9 million catties of grain.

The aid quietly brought by the main battle faction in Jiangnan also had more than 3 million catties.

All this grain adds up to 77 million catties, which is even a huge amount of grain income for a small regime with a total registered population of only one million and a population of just over 50,000 who have been separated from agricultural production.