In the afternoon, Chen Ce took dozens of soldiers and documents to visit the merchants of Caojiaji door to door, telling them that the regulations of the local government on commercial taxation were absolutely not an additional burden, which greatly moved those merchants who were still trembling.

There was no scene of merchants running away behind closed doors or begging for relief as Chen Ce imagined, but in exchange for bursts of cheers and love.

If it is really levied according to such a tax rate, then it is really a good thing that fell from the sky, and the ruthless merchants who were originally exploited and oppressed by the government and the Cao family all supported the army and the king from the bottom of their hearts.

The merchants of Caojiaji hurriedly opened their shops one by one happily - the people who had received the relief money had already crowded outside the gate, holding copper coins in their hands and waiting to buy their unattainable goods, and for a while, the entire Caojiaji was a little unreal.

For a large number of former Cao family trading shops, they can only be operated by people in the cottage at first, and wait for two days to negotiate with those merchants or local small landlords to sell to them at a time. This is also a kind of thinking of Lu Shi, business, it is better to be free, and it cannot be rigid and feel that the government is in charge, which will stifle the nature of commercial freedom, and at the same time, this is a lot of income from the cottage.

There are earth-shaking changes outside, but Luochuan's parents and thousands of households are sitting in the city of sorrow, and they dare not take any measures.

A master told his parents that the thieves had taken down the Cao family set, broke through the Cao family compound, and wiped out the entire Cao family, and the parents just glanced at each other with the thousands of households, and sighed, while feeling sad that they had cut off a financial route, and also knew that the Cao family usually did too much, and also thought that the Cao family was guilty of taking the blame, and the thieves were not slaughtered every time they broke a manor, and they were also deeply shocked by the strength of the thieves, because they knew the strength of the Cao family compound. When they heard that the thieves were opening a warehouse to release grain and distribute gold and silver, the parents were even more worried.

No matter how strong a pole is, it is not terrible, but a robber who knows how to open a warehouse and release grain to buy people's hearts is not what a pole robber can do. But so what? Now there are only a dozen soldiers, and there are not a few generals, and these are all those officials and military households who have run back, and they will all be courageous, talking about combat effectiveness, morale, and thieves, that is the heaven and earth, hey--- let him go.

The matter of opening the warehouse and releasing grain was not completed until the third day, and according to statistics, a total of 150,000 Wu Qian Yushi and more than 310,000 silver coins were distributed, which also happened to be the number of people under the jurisdiction of the Chuang Army, and in addition to about 20,000 or 30,000 displaced people from other places, Chen Ce could directly govern as many as 120,000. This made Chen Ce very excited.

Because there is food, such as a family of five, then there are 600 catties of grain, if you add wild vegetables and other things, then the savings can fully support the harvest of summer grain, there is a large amount of silver money distribution, Caojiaji is also rapidly prosperous, foreign merchants have also rushed here to trade and trade, the road has also begun to have a busy atmosphere, with more real money and silver purchases, a large amount of silver money began to flow in the market, slowly, Cao Jiaji began to restore the original bustling atmosphere of 10,000 people, and the dead land that was squeezed by the Cao family began to slowly wake up, began to slowly become vivid, and everything began to develop in a good direction.

Chen Ce and Wu Tao were very busy, after opening the warehouse and releasing grain, the seized Cao family's materials and silver money were still piled up, the grain was still about tens of thousands of stones, the silver was about 1.5 million yuan, and the gold jewelry was countless, and even the third uncle who came in a hurry began to worry about so many things, not the ecstasy just now.

These things can't be stored in the Cao family set in Pingchuan, so they began to hire local people, who carried carts on their shoulders and transported them to the old camp in Huluyu. The matter of transporting materials will trouble the third uncle, but the construction and governance of this place is a top priority, and Lu Shi sent a person with a thick book of his in his busy schedule, and this person who wrote the book was Mr. Li, who was the original explorer of Yan'an Mansion.

was appreciated and recommended to Chen Che by Captain Lu, Chen Che introduced him to Zhao Xing, Zhao Xingshen was impressed by his talent and recommended it to Lu Shi, Lu Shi had a deep talk with him, and wrote this letter on the front line and asked him to bring it to Chen Ce, Chen Ce was overjoyed, and immediately arranged Mr. Li to be his deputy.

Wu Tao found his own brother after discovering talents, not directly recommended to himself but recommended to the king, so that the king of the king used the practice of greatly appreciating, the current cottage is the rise period, opportunities and crises coexist, and now the high-level personnel to join the beginning of diversification, which is the need for everyone to abandon all selfishness and small group meaning, unity and forge ahead and work together, it seems that his brother is very knowledgeable, Wu Tao is happy.

Chen Ce had no impression of the Mr. Li in front of him before, but after a deep conversation, everyone praised him, this person is not only knowledgeable but also calm, and he is a rare talent for governing the world. Therefore, the first time he arranged work, he implemented a bold plan to break into the king, that is, to take more gold, silver and jewelry to Luochuan to lobby the Luochuan County Order and the officials there.

Chen Ce told Mr. Li the strategy mentioned in King Chuang's letter, and then said; "Mr. Li, King Chuang's letter said that we can't improve our thinking before the military formation, and we need you and me to perfect it in the implementation, which is a necessary prerequisite for the development of this large area centered on Caojiaji, and it is also a buffer in time when we are fully strong. So there is only trouble for Mr. Li to improvise. ”

Mr. Li bowed and saluted; "The political officer is polite, in the future, follow the rules of the cottage, just call me Brother Li."

Chen Ce and Wu Tao smiled, and they changed their words habitually.

"This thing is indeed the king of the king to think of the predecessors dare not think, this is in the court and the government is still strong, we break the army to go the best chess, if can be successfully in accordance with the policy of the king of the development of the king, it can indeed play a role in twice the effect with half the effort, once the world is in chaos in the future, when the pole is unveiled in various places, we have already accumulated strength, so look at Guanzhongshan, where is there still our opponent? By that time hahaha. ”

Imagining the scene at that time, the three of them laughed happily.

After laughing for a while, Wu Tao told again.

"Don't worry, the matter of making a negotiation pole with the government will be handed over to your subordinates, no matter what, I still have the title of Apocalypse Jinshi, it is still easy to do things in the government."

"Yes, brother, I really don't know Taishan, I don't know if Mr. Li is still a Jinshi master, disrespectful and disrespectful." Chen Ce and Wu Tao hurriedly put away their big hearts and got up to salute, no matter what time it was, their sincere admiration for the literati was the same.

"Administrative officer, the military advisor is laughing, now I'd rather be a pawn in our army than a bullshit jinshi in the Ming Dynasty."

"Good, good spirit." Wu Tao couldn't help but admire; "With Brother Li, the master of Jinshi, the king of Chuang, asked for all the original Caojiatian land to be under the name of a local gentry to avoid the eyes and ears of the court, it will be better solved, God helps us to copycat, hahaha."

"Then I'll be the gentry of this bandit?" Mr. Li laughed teasingly.

"Yes, when you come back to this bandit gentry master, in fact, those gentry masters are not even as good as bandits, so they have tarnished Brother Li's clean reputation."

"It's worth the stigma of the cottage." Mr. Li said solemnly, and said goodbye, Chen Ce, Wu Tao took a few subordinates to pretend to be small servants, and went to Naluochuan with a large amount of gold and silver.

Wu Tao also freed up his body and began to rectify the original Xiangyong team.

The Xiangyong Brigade was mainly prepared for guarding against the county's Qianhu Guard Station and the surrounding unsightly poles, and the soldiers who had been able to break into the army were selected as squad leaders, and after the victory of the anti-encirclement and suppression in the base area, Lu Shi was transferred to the people who had made meritorious contributions in this battle to serve as the captain and military commander.

For the original more than 1,000 villagers, after eliminating the old, weak, sick and disabled, and having no labor, the volunteers left behind formed a team of 500, and the food treatment was the same as that of the army, but the training was also the same as that of the army.

After handing over the government affairs to Chen Ce to take care of, Wu Tao took them to inspect a radius of 100 miles while training, and they had been included in the sphere of influence of the intruding army, and began to arm and persuade those small landlords and small fortresses that could still exist under the high pressure of the Cao family to reduce rent and interest and pay protection fees.

The work of reducing rent and interest and paying protection fees is surprisingly smooth, not to mention that under the high pressure of the Cao family, there is no strong landlord in this radius of 100 miles, even those who are left are also having a hard time, although they have increased the rent, but the Cao family will use various means to forcibly seize the rent income they have worked hard to get, and they will always be afraid that the Cao family will find an excuse to let their family be ruined when they are unhappy, not even a bone left, and they live in trembling all day long. But the fight is not to fight the wealthy Cao family, only to swallow the silence to live.

It's okay now, the thief wiped out the Cao family at once, but everyone moved away from the big stone that pressed on him, and it was too late to be happy, not to mention that they had already heard about the benevolence and righteousness of the army, and the policies implemented by the army were beneficial to the people and themselves, so where could they oppose it? Exempt some land rent for your tenants, and pay about 10% of the protection fee, then you can clean your hands 40%, which is much more than when the Cao family was in the time, of course I am willing. Therefore, Wu Tao led the team to be warmly welcomed.

After the armed forces visited the landlords, Wu Tao led the team to visit the poles around the sphere of influence.

Originally, there was no pole within the Cao family's sphere of influence, not that the Cao family governed the place in a good way, but that the Cao family was too powerful, and the poles were simply untenable within the scope of the Cao family, even if they could stand on their feet, they could not survive, the Cao family was too strong, and the local people were too poor to be exploited by the Cao family, so they could not rob it, and in the end, they were not as good as beggars, so they had to develop outside.

However, Wu Tao believed that the base areas would become more and more prosperous and developed, and the poles in the surrounding areas of the base areas would sooner or later be jealous of themselves, so he still followed the original rules and gave them some benefits so as not to be overwhelmed in the future.

Wu Tao arrived at a cottage more than ten miles away from his own forces, and was about to send someone up the mountain to shout, but he didn't want the door of the cottage to open widely, and a team of minions poured out from inside. ”

Wu Tao wondered, how did they know that I was Wu Tao, why did they break into the army? Where does this start? But the people had already been polite to themselves, and they were busy coming forward to greet them; "It's Wu Tao, but I don't know who this king is."