In the end, it is a matter of money, after the establishment of Yongxing City, the output of goods is very large, and there is no loss-making business. However, after the royal guest turned into a fate, Yongxing City lost money for a long time, and the loss was extremely heavy, and after the school was opened, it was a large piece of expenditure.

The number of cadets and apprentices of all ages has increased from more than 800 to more than 3,000 per year, and after six years, 20,000 students have graduated and are studying in six years, each of whom has free room and board, and the monthly expenses are quite large, not counting the wages of the teachers and the workers.

Speaking of the Ligong faction, it has to be said that it is a huge loss in the Central Plains, because the Black Turban Army invaded the northern part of the Liang State in the east and invaded the main hall of the Ligong faction. A large amount of equipment in the main hall of the Ligong faction between Changsun and Liang Guo could not be moved, and was finally destroyed. The huge amount of essence was burned, which can't help but make people regret.

After the Ligong faction fled into the Liang State, the war in the Liang State was tense, and they had to continue to flee eastward, wanting to take refuge in the Weiguo, because they knocked on the bamboo pole of the Weiguo in the early years, and the Weiguo proposed a refuge fee of 500,000 inches of silver, which frightened the Ligong faction away, but I was afraid that even the bones and scum would melt in the end.

So the workers sent one to return to the Liang Kingdom, one to the Yuke Headquarters and the Changsun Kingdom, and the other part to the Xian Kingdom to earn extra money. Therefore, in order to support this group of masters of the Ligong faction, Baili Yanfu did not spend less.

Leaving Zhao Xun's mansion, Bailiyan went to Dingsu's mansion to understand the situation non-stop.

After Ding Su returned from the Xihai States, he had been staying in the Xianguo through the Zhiguo, Song, and Xu countries, because the Jin State imposed heavy taxes on the Xianguo merchants, and it was difficult for the Xianguo merchants to survive in the Jin State.

After the war in the south, the Weiguo and the countries of the West Sea raised the import and export tariffs and the price of port supplies, and the goods from the West Sea were shipped back to the Xianguo, and the money was paid once at a port, and the profits were exploited very little, and the prices of foreign goods imported into the Xianguo were extremely high, and they only lost money but did not make money.

Ding Su specializes in Zhiguo, Song and Xu, and has turned to Yongxing City to purchase goods from the previous operation of Xianguo land specialties, and also got the right to sell caustic soda from Baili Yanfu.

Caustic soda has a wide range of uses, but before industrial production, the amount of alkali produced by soil is small and expensive, and even straw ash and other mineral trona are still used, which is very inefficient as a source of alkali.

Thanks to the salty domestic miscanthus nitrate, miscanthus nitrate alkali is a very ancient formula on the earth, but it is not seen at the moment, obviously most of the early chemistry comes from accident, and the process of making caustic soda from miscanthus nitrate is not simple.

With miscanthus nitrate can only be indirectly produced soda ash, in the use of soda ash to make caustic soda, caustic soda is not only the raw material for making soap, but also used in leather, metallurgy, cotton washing and other fields, the use is very wide, and the formula process has been mastered by Liu Zao and his son, due to the huge demand for caustic soda, Ding Su has made a lot of money in recent years.

In the afternoon, I went back to the house, took clothes and silver, Bailiyan took Jiang Jie on horseback and rushed to Yongxing City.

The speed of Feiyu is really amazing, when the fastest horse traveled from Lingling to Yongxing, it took more than half a day, or even a day, for the fastest horse to hurry up. Today, it takes less than half the time, and the speed is comparable to that of the current express train.

In the past few years, a large number of workshops, windmills, and waterwheels have developed outside the city, and they are thriving.

During the years when the six surnames of the Zhao family were in power, the number of workers has doubled, and the iron furnaces are now all five hundred catties, and they have also made a thousand catties of furnaces, which is very good.

The eldest grandson blackmailed King Xian, and also pointed out that he wanted Yongxing City's thousand-jin iron furnace technology, which was obviously intended to be used to cast cannons.

When it was getting dark when he entered the city, Bailiyan first went to the Zhizhi Office, met Zhao Ju and his son for details, and then visited Cheng Jiyuan, the master of the left door of the Ligong faction, overnight.

The Ligong faction fled into the Xianguo branch, headed by Cheng Jiyuan, the master of the Zuomen, together with his family and two groups of envoys such as Qi Mo and his son, Zhu Ming, Shangguan Zhao, and Liu Dan in the early years, totaling more than 47,000 people.

The left door is a general branch of the Ligong faction, and the opposite is the right door, and all the branches of the left and right doors you have and I also have, the fundamental difference is that the two are in competition with each other, one eliminates the other's strengths, in order to promote the development of technology, and the head sits between the two and presides over daily affairs.

Not all of the Zuomen Ganggong faction who fled to Xianguo, only the first part of the Zuomen and their families, children, entourage, relatives and friends, etc., who fled into Xianguo, and the rest of the members stayed in Changsun and Liangguo, and continued to maintain the situation with Youmen, so as not to be wiped out by some forces.

As a small country, Xianguo can be favored by the head of the left gate of the Ligong faction, in addition to the factors of rushing to the hospital and money, more importantly, Yongxing City has an unprecedented technological vitality.

Hot air balloons, telescopes, compasses, the popularization of feng shui wheel workshops, the innovation of shipbuilding technology, and the emergence of copper movable type printing greatly stimulated the birth of a new school of the Ligong School, coupled with the good cooperative relationship with Bailiyan, as well as the origin of Master Wu Suan, there are too many reasons for the Ligong School not to ignore the small Xianguo.

Of course, this alone is useless, in the final analysis, we must have a strong national defense to deter foreign invaders and support a stable political situation.

After a long talk with Cheng Jiyuan and other masters all night, Baili Yan was still unsatisfied, and continued to talk for most of the day on the second day, until Guan Longxiang came to the door in the afternoon, and Jiang Jie came to communicate:

"Master Hou, Mr. Guan Long has arrived outside the hospital."

"That's great, I'm looking for him, ask him to wait outside, I'll go later."

"No."

After Jiang Jie withdrew, Bai Liyan and Cheng Jiyuan said:

"Cheng Zuomen, in the absence of old friends, Yan is inconvenient to stay for a long time, and I hope Cheng Zuomen will forgive me."

"Yongxing Hou is polite, please feel free."

"Then the junior will leave first."

With a slight salute, Bailiyan got up and walked out of the house. When he came to the front yard, Guan Longxiang was already waiting here:

"Mr. Guan Long, I haven't seen you for many years, don't come unharmed."

"Hehaha, my lord has been fighting in southern Xinjiang for many years, and his heroic deeds are amazing, I don't want my adult to be Gongzi Yan back then, I really didn't expect it. Today's greetings are well deserved, and congratulations. ”

"Hehe, Mr. Guan Long can also slap his beard, it's really rare."

"Let the Hou Ye see it."

After the construction of Zhongxing City, Guan Longxiang presided over the local military administration for many years, responsible for the reclamation of land and the accumulation of grain and grass in the labor battalion, and became the support base for the advance of the west and the south.

After chatting with him for a while, Bai Liyan asked:

"Mr. Guan Long, what are the existing people in Zhongxing City?"

"The city is slightly smaller than Yongxing City, and if you don't count the labor camp, it will only be 20,000 or 30,000 people. I heard that the general brought back more than 600,000 people from the south, but he wanted to settle in Zhongxing City? ”

"Yes, west of the Yongxing River, after many years of war, the population has dropped sharply, and it is urgent to fill in the population to enrich the local area, I plan to move 200,000 of the more than 600,000 people into Zhongxing and its territories, and then build a new city to the north and west of Zhongxing City.

In addition, the house should also be built, as soon as two months later, the people will have to enter the country, at that time must solve the basic food, clothing and housing, and do a good job in the cultivation and allocation of farm tools after the spring next year, a slight delay, it will hurt the country, so the camp has recently been transferred to the construction of housing, and the land opened up has also been handed over to the people. ”

"There is no problem with the allocation of land, and it is not difficult to move in 6 or 700,000 people within a radius of 3,500 miles from Zhongxing City.

The difficulty is that after the recovery of Xianxi and Qiunan, the two places did not pay taxes on grain and grass, and the imperial court still had to paste more than 2.3 million stone grain and grass into it, plus more than 400,000 troops and the small resettlement of the families of the patriotic and people's army, and the grain in the treasury was already not much. ”

"The king mentioned this matter, but he didn't expect such a huge gap, it was really tricky. However, in recent years, the four counties of Beihai, Dongyuan, Suidang, and Jiangdong have successively promoted the "Law of Granting Fields", and it is said that the grain and grass should be relatively sufficient. ”

"Hi...... It's empty! ”

"Empty!" Bai Liyan was surprised: "Why is it empty?" ”

"The fields are distributed to the common people, but the farm tools and calves are government-run."

"Shhh...... The gentleman is saying that the local government colluded with the powerful to rent farm tools and calves to the people at high prices, so as to collect high rents! ”

"Exactly, so although the grain and grass of the other four counties are good, most of them have gone into the hands of local magnates, and they have sold the grain to the Jin Kingdom!"

In order to avoid inertia, the amount of subsistence land held by individuals could only ensure subsistence, so as to stimulate the enthusiasm of the peasants, so that they could lease land from the state and aristocratic landowners, and the land produced grain and grass was subject to a tiered tax, which was not higher than the tiered tax for the magnates and local officials.

However, the Land Grant Law only solves the problem of land ownership, lease and tax distribution, and loopholes are everywhere.

Farm tools, tools, and tillage are the main means of production of productivity during the farming period, so they are government-run products when it comes to productivity scheduling.

The government of Beihai, Dongyuan, Jiangdong and Suidang counties has increased the price of farm tools, due to the war and the historical trauma of the past, the common people are extremely poor and cannot afford to buy, but they can rent, and they need to pay interest other than rent, so the interest continues to rise, and the rent will never be paid off, and the longer it is, the higher it is.

In addition, the sale of calves and cultivated cattle was also controlled by the imperial court, and the villages could still pool money to buy cattle before, but now after the price soared, they could only rent calves to raise them and cultivate them.

For the calves bred by the people in various places, they even had to levy a tax on the cattle that were bred by themselves, and there were so many taxes and miscellaneous taxes that the output of the land was deducted layer by layer, so that the taxes went into the hands of the local magnates, and the lives of the common people still did not improve.

And all of this is in the name of King Xian. The cause was the fate of the royal guest, which led to a deficit in the treasury and a deficit in the production of iron tools in Yongxing City, but the treasury and Yongxing City did not receive a penny of usury payment at all, and they were completely brazen.

"These bastards, playing yin with Lao Tzu in a different way!"

Guan Longxiang didn't understand Bailiyan's incision, but he knew that it was not a good word, he said:

"If it weren't for the grain and grass supplies from Yongxing, Zhongxing, and Dujun, my army would have been finished long ago."

"In this way, now it is the three places of Dongjun, Zhongxing, Yongxing and the Baggage Battalion that are feeding one and a half counties and more than 400,000 troops!"

"Almost, at least it supports fifty or sixty percent of the financial and material resources, otherwise Zhao Shuai can't borrow money from the Hou Ye's mansion, and he really can't hold on. Also, Uncle Fang, the uncle of the crown princess, sat on the ground in Yin Yangcheng to collect grain and directly transported it back to the Jin Kingdom by ship, but it hurt us. ”

"I said, Uncle Fang actually dared to covet Da Si Nong, it turns out that there is such a stubble in it."

"If the marquis returns to the court, someone can finally fight against him, otherwise the consequences will be really unpredictable. Oh, by the way, there is a person who should go to see him immediately, this person is amazing, if you get this person, the world can be safe. ”

"Oh, who can be worthy of Mr. Guan Long's recommendation to Ben Hou like this?"

"Master Hou has ever heard of the Divine Doctor Saint?"

"Divine Doctor Saint?" Bai Liyan frowned and thought about it, without any impression, but since he was a divine doctor saint, he must be proficient in medical skills, and he could pinch and calculate, he said: "Is this person a master of governing the country who is proficient in medical skills?" ”

"Exactly, the Divine Doctor Holy Sect Botai, is a disciple of the Fatian Daoist School, after completing his studies, he will go down the mountain and walk the countries, five years ago, arranged by An Ling, he sat in Yicaotang to practice medicine, this person is amazing, Hou Ye should go to meet this person first, and take it for his own use."

Guan Longxiang said that it was so miraculous that Bailiyan was skeptical, and then came to Zhao Anling's residence in Yongxing City.