When the words landed, Chen Jiangling led Yang Qi into the lobby of the mansion.

In the lobby of the mansion, there were already two people waiting for Yang Qi.

One is Kou Zhun and the other is Chen Yao.

In addition to Chen Jiangling, who led Yang Qi, these three people can be regarded as the ministers of the humerus among Yang Qi's subordinate officials.

After Yang Qi arrived in the lobby, he unceremoniously sat down in the first seat in the lobby.

After Kou Zhun and Chen Yao gave Yang Qi a salute, they also sat down.

Chen Jiangling also sat down immediately.

After the four of them sat down, Yang Qi took the lead in speaking, "The purpose of summoning the three of you here, you should all know it, right?" ”

Kou Zhun and the three nodded.

"The war against Li Jiqian has come to an end, and there should be no large-scale war for a long time after that. Therefore, we must take advantage of this time to make the four provinces prosperous as soon as possible.

Datong Mansion is in trouble, Dongsheng and Xixia are newly entered, and these three mansions can be said to be the places where we focus on governance later. All the policies that should be tilted towards these three governments have to be tilted......"

"Ahem......"

Kou Zhun coughed dryly and said solemnly: "If you want the land of Sanfu to prosper as soon as possible, this is very difficult. At the moment, there are three issues that we must address.

First, Dongsheng Mansion is vast and sparsely populated, and there is not even a single common person in Xixia Mansion, so we must find a way to enrich the population in the two prefectures as soon as possible. Without a population, even if we have the ability to reach the sky, we will not be able to make the two provinces prosperous.

Second, the area under the rule of the Tiger Marquis has expanded dramatically, and more and more people are needed, but we don't have so many people to use. At present, the number of officials lacking in the four prefectures has reached more than 1,000. We must gather a group of manpower as soon as possible to enrich the government offices and county government offices.

Third......"

When mentioning the third, Kou Zhun paused obviously, and then looked at Yang Qi with deep resentment, "Third, I hope that Huhou will not be able to reduce taxes in various places in the future?" Did you know that by doing this, you have disrupted the order?

At present, there are four prefectures under your rule, half of the places in Datong Prefecture have been reduced and exempted from taxes by you, and Fuxing Prefecture, Dongsheng Prefecture, Xixia Prefecture, and the three prefectures do not pay taxes at all.

In other words, now, only half of the Datong Prefecture is paying taxes in the four prefectures under your rule.

Did you know that these people are already complaining, and in some places they are even resisting paying taxes.

If this goes on for a long time, Datong Mansion will inevitably be in chaos. ”

Yang Qi wanted to open his mouth to explain, but Kou Zhun didn't give him a chance to explain at all, and only listened to Kou Zhun and said: "Moreover, once the people get used to not paying taxes, when you suddenly let them pay taxes again, there will be a bigger mess." ”

Yang Qi said frankly: "In the past dynasties, there have been countless people who have been forced to a dead end by heavy taxes. ”

Kou Zhun said solemnly: "I know that you have good intentions and are unwilling to exploit the people. But now you are in charge of the land of the four provinces, and you have as many as 3,000 officials under your command, and the number of your army has been expanded to 160,000. The officials are to be paid, and the soldiers are to be paid.

In both cases, a large amount of expenditure is required each year.

In addition, Datong Academy, Fuxing Martial Arts Academy, as well as academies, private schools, and lecture halls in various prefectures and counties, are all funded by the government, and even manage the food of young students.

This is not a small start.

In addition, the construction of the four prefectures, whether it is to build cities, build bridges, pave roads, build official residences, etc., also requires money.

All of them add up, and the annual consumption is as much as 10 million taels. ”

Yang Qi frowned and said, "The commercial tax within the four mansions should be barely maintained, right?" ”

When Kou Zhun heard this, he glared and said: "Collecting the wealth of businessmen and benefiting the people, I agree with this political move." But you can't just pile up all your hopes on businessmen. It's not safe, just recently.

Datong Mansion was attacked, and many businessmen were killed. The number of merchants in the entire Datong Province is 60% less. The relative commercial tax has also decreased by 60% all of a sudden.

There is also Fengcheng, the prosperity of Fengcheng is only prospered by the trade between merchants and wild beggar tribes.

However, now that the wild beggar tribe has been beaten and almost removed, trade has immediately plummeted by 30%.

The money stored in the treasury has been almost consumed after you have lavishly bereaved and rewarded.

Not only that, but I also withdrew a lot from the Southern Money Bank.

It can be seen from this that if all the hopes are piled on the merchants, once there is any pulsation, the blow to the four mansions will be devastating. ”

Yang Qi suddenly wanted to say, I have enough ways to make the business of the four mansions prosperous.

However, when the words came to his mouth, he swallowed them.

Yang Qi had a way to make the four mansions prosperous, and even when he was alive, he could do it without levying a single penny of taxes.

However, this does not mean that his successor can do the same.

In other words, Yang Qi might not have cared about this kind of thing before.

However, since Xiao Zongwei was born, woke up and conceived a child, Yang Qi has more or less thought about his descendants.

Whether taxes were levied or not did not have much impact on Yang Qi's rule over the land of the Four Mansions.

There were feudal dynasties everywhere, and everyone was collecting taxes.

Yang Qi levied taxes, and the people would not say anything.

Yang Qi felt that this was not a big problem, and he didn't want to worry about it with Kou Zhun on this issue, so he waved his hand and said, "You are now the co-leader of the four governments, and you will be responsible for matters related to taxes."

My request is very simple, you approve a standard, and then on the basis of this standard, reduce it by half. ”

Kou Zhun stood up and bowed to Yang Qi.

Chen Yao and Chen Jiangling also stood up together to salute.

They gave it in the place of the people.

Yang Qi sat them down and said, "Let's talk about the population. I asked Da Song about 100,000 people, and Da Song had already agreed. However, people don't care how they migrate over the banks of the Yellow River, so we can only find a way.

Moving people from the banks of the Yellow River costs nothing more than some money and food.

The officials of the Great Song Dynasty slammed the door and were reluctant to go out.

Then we're out.

Chen Jiangling is responsible for this matter.

This group of people will be placed in Xixia Mansion in the future, and you will manage it. ”

Chen Jiangling looked a little surprised, recently, his hair as a bare-pole commander has turned white, and now, he finally doesn't have to be a bare-pole commander anymore.

"The minister must do his best to handle this matter well."

At this time, Kou Zhun squinted and interjected, "Brother Chen, since you want to do it, then let's just do it thoroughly." ”

"How?"

Chen Jiangling was at a loss.

Yang Qi and Chen Yao also looked at Kou Zhun with interest.

Kou Zhun said coldly: "The Yellow River is flooding this year, and there are many victims on the side of the Yellow River. Rather than let these victims be plagued by corrupt officials on the banks of the Yellow River, it is better to bring them all back.

When the time comes for you to pick up someone, let it out. Whoever is willing to come with you will be given 100 acres of fertile land to each household.

Anyway, what we have is land, and how many people they have, we can eat it. ”

"Hiss~"

Chen Jiangling and Chen Yao gasped.

Secretly sighed Kou Zhun's ruthlessness.

Yang Qi looked at Kou Zhun in amazement, he didn't expect that Kou Zhun, who really took refuge in him, would dig the wall so ruthlessly.

"That's it!"

Yang Qi immediately made a decision and made the final decision.

Chen Jiangling's face flushed and said: "Huhou and Kou Xieling, rest assured, I, Chen Jiangling, will definitely get more people back." ”

Yang Qi nodded, "In this way, the population of Xixia Mansion should be able to be enriched." However, it is not enough. In the territory of the four prefectures, the list will continue to be posted to encourage childbirth. If you have an extra child, you will be given ten taels of silver. Male or female. ”

Kou Zhun opened his mouth to object.

Throughout the dynasties there have been times when fertility was encouraged.

After all, after every change of dynasty, so many people died, and the general encouragement of fertility and the filling of the population as soon as possible.

But people like Yang Qi who directly send money don't.

Kou Zhun can imagine that once this decree is issued, there will be a blowout growth of newborns in the four prefectures.

But in the end, Kou Zhun held back.

He originally wanted to remind Yang Qi that the land of the four prefectures might not be able to accommodate the excessive growth of the population.

However, he suddenly thought of Yang Qi's ability and speed to grab territory.

He had a strange feeling in his heart, he felt that it was possible that the speed of the arrival of newborns among the people of the four mansions could not be compared to the speed at which Yang Qi grabbed the territory.

Seeing that no one objected, Yang Qi began to discuss the next item.

"This is indeed a bit difficult to deal with the problem of enriching officials......

Although Yang Qiguang established schools, academies, private schools, etc., to cultivate scholars, this cultivation process takes a long time.

At present, there are less than 300 students admitted to Datong Academy.

This is still accumulated in the past year.

Just these 300 people, all of whom were pulled out to be officials, could not plug the gap in the four prefectures.

Not to mention anything else, just the current prefect of Datong Prefecture and the prefect of Dongsheng Prefecture, the mastermind officials of the two places, are still in a vacant state.

Originally, Yang Qi still felt that he had a lot of talents under his command.

Only now did I find out that there was a great shortage of people under his command.

Yang Qi subconsciously looked at Kou Zhun, and Kou Zhun also shrugged his shoulders, saying that he couldn't do anything.

There is no way, there are enough military men in the northwest, but there are very few scholars.

In the four prefectures, all those who have a little ability and can be officials have now been recruited and transferred to the government by Kou Zhun.

Even so, it wasn't enough.

"Can you find a way to get some from Da Song?"

Yang Qi proposed.

Kou Zhun frowned and said, "If you can get it, you can get it, but you also know that eighty percent of the people who came in were planted by others." Once there are more of these people, it will be difficult to manage the land of the four mansions. ”

Yang Qi pondered for a moment and said, "Give it a try, and go to Dongsheng Mansion and Xixia Mansion in one go." No matter what they think in their passbook, they will use it to death. Squeeze out their use value, and when our manpower cultivates them, we will kick them out. ”

Kou Zhun took the initiative to take over the matter, "Leave this matter to me." ”

After the political affairs of the four governments were dealt with, Yang Qi began to talk about some military affairs.

"I am ready to re-establish the Jin army, numbering 50,000, and stationed in Dongsheng Mansion."

When there is a war, people always feel that they are not enough.

Therefore, Yang Qi was ready to expand the number of troops again.

As soon as this proposal was spoken, Kou Zhun immediately objected, "No, the population in Dongsheng and Xixia was originally newly settled, and the land was vast and sparsely populated, and there was not enough cultivation, let alone conscription."

After two wars, the youth of Fuxing and Datong have also been consumed.

If the army is conscripted again, the young and strong people in the two provinces will be emptied. ”

Chen Yao suddenly said on the side: "It's not impossible, you can follow the Tang Dynasty's government soldier system." In wartime, he is a soldier, and in his spare time, he is a farmer. In this way, in the event of a big war, a large army can be easily summoned; When there is no war, there is no need to worry about farming. ”

"Inappropriate, inappropriate......"

Kou Zhun didn't speak, and Chen Jiangling was the first to speak.

"The new military service system established by the Tiger Marquis is far more stable than the government military system. This is the real hiding of troops from the people, it only takes five years, and once the big war approaches, we can gather double the number of troops.

There are currently 160,000 soldiers and horses under the command of Huhou, that is to say, in five years, every time there is a big war, about 300,000 troops can be gathered. ”

Yang Qi said solemnly: "Dongsheng Mansion must be guarded. I don't want anything like the Datong Mansion to happen again. ”

Kou Zhun asked rhetorically, "Can't the Iron Cavalry take care of both?" ”

Yang Qi shook his head, "The Iron Cavalry is the elite I have carefully built, and their existence is to deal with strong enemies. ”

Chen Yao spoke again and said, "It's better to share the government military system and the new military service system, what do you think?" ”

Yang Qi was stunned, nodded and said, "Then let's use them together." ”

After finalizing all the government affairs in the four prefectures, the four of them got together to discuss the details of other things.

Before leaving, Yang Qi patted Chen Yao on the shoulder and said, "The Fuxing Mansion temporarily allocated by Fengcheng will be the prefect of Fuxing Mansion in the future." All the government affairs of Fuxing Province, under Kou Zhun's governance, are on the right track, and they are not as busy as the other three provinces. Just right for you. ”

Chen Yao said excitedly: "Thank you, sir." ”

Yang Qi said to Kou Zhun again: "You assist in the four mansions, and by the way, take care of the Dongsheng Mansion." ”

Kou Zhun nodded, "Understood." ”

Yang Qi finally said to Chen Jiangling: "You won't stop here. ”

Compared with the promotions of Kou Zhun and Chen Yao, Yang Qi gave Chen Jiangling a promise.

Although there are no substantial benefits.

But with Yang Qi's status today, his promise is not an exaggeration to say that it is worth ten thousand gold.

And Chen Jiangling wants Yang Qi's promise.

With his current status under Yang Qi, he has moved back and forth, at most he is a prefect, and it is difficult to go further.

He knew very well in his heart that it was impossible for him to replace Kou Zhun in Yang Qi's heart.

So, he needs a future.

Yang Qi also gave him a future.

After saying goodbye to Kou Zhun and the others, Yang Qi stepped on the moonlight and returned to the mansion.

It's already the third watch.

All the people in the house fell asleep.

Yang Qi didn't bother Cao Lin and Chu Xing, he asked people to prepare a futon for him, and he slept in the study.

……

The next day, early in the morning.

After Yang Qi got up, he simply ate some breakfast.

When I got to the study to deal with some government affairs, I heard Rumeng say that Chen Yao asked to see him.

Yang Qi looked puzzled and asked people to bring Chen Yao in.

Last night, I had already talked to Chen Yao about government affairs.

Chen Yao entered the house early this morning, is it because of what happened last night, what are the problems?

Chen Yao, led by Rumeng, entered Yang Qi's study.

Noticeably, he was holding a black lacquer box in his hand.