Wen Yangzheng snatched the white nakedly, which made Zhang Dazhong's face green. He didn't expect that the dignified state hall would be torn off the fig leaf in public by a lower riba person. He wanted to have a seizure, but reason told him: If you can't bear it, you will make a big plan!

"General Wen, it's not that the official hides the grain! Nowadays, where are the official warehouses in Huguang and Guangzhou? To tell the truth, the grain stored in the warehouse in Benzhou is still the balance of military rations transported from all over the country by Inspector Yang the year before last! Now the official has taken it out without authorization, and he is also responsible for a lot of responsibility! In the future, if you are involved by the crows in the DPRK and China, you may end up with a knife and a beheading! Those autumn grains and silver, how dare the official move again? If there is a penny less, and the food and salary of the Zuoping thief army are mistaken, it will be light for the official to destroy the nine clans! ”

"Then I can only persuade the big families in the state." Chen Youfu thought about it, but there was only this only way out: "The Shu Wangfu can also buy some from them." It's just that the last general doesn't have much cash to bring, so he can't help it, and he asks Lord Zhang to ...... to the big households in the city."

"As long as General Chen is willing to give money to buy grain!"

The situation under the city is dangerous, and Zhang Dazhong is also a person who has seen a big scene, how can he not know. Otherwise, what would he do when he left the comfortable courtyard and ran to this Nanjin Pass in this spring season? The reason why he has been entangled repeatedly, isn't it just to wait for this sentence? So Zhang Dazhong hurriedly agreed with a joy that could not be concealed: "The cash is not enough, General Chen can write an IOU on behalf of the Shu Palace." This official is here as a guarantee! As long as the general borrows 300 of his own officers and soldiers, within five days, the official will definitely raise 10,000 stones of food for the people! ”

The road to persuasion is feasible, and Chen Youfu is also relieved. He laughed and said:

"Then I will thank Master Zhang for the people. It's just that 10,000 stones are not enough, at least 50,000 stones! If you want to be perfect, it's better to have 100,000 stones! In the end, the general can use the silver banknotes of Huitong Money Village to pay for grain, which is guaranteed by the Shu Wangfu, and there is no need for an adult guarantee! As for the soldiers, there are no generals. But three days later, the end will be there! ”

Chen Youfu proposed to use silver banknotes to buy grain, which immediately made Zhang Dazhong's eyes light up, because the exchange of silver banknotes was exactly what Zhang Dazhong and even Huguang officialdom were most concerned about a few days ago. The cause of the incident came from the Liao Domain.

During the first day, Zhu Shuyi, the king of the Liao domain, through Zhu Huakui, the king of Chu, who was in charge of the affairs of the Liao domain, asked the Huguang domain to pay the Liao domain Zonglu in silver money. The reason for this is noble: the imperial court has insufficient cash, and the Liao clan has not been able to receive the full amount of Zonglu for many years. Therefore, the Liao clan asked to pay for it with banknotes instead of silver, "to solve the difficulties of the imperial court!" ”。

The officials received the treasure money of the imperial court, all of them frowned, and changed their methods to spend it as soon as possible, and they had never heard of anyone who liked to exchange money. It wasn't until later that the lonely and unheard Huguang Domain's division suddenly realized that the silver banknotes demanded by the Liao Domain were not the treasure banknotes of the imperial court, but the silver banknotes issued by the Huitong Money Village of the Shu Domain!

This kind of silver banknote is called "Shu coin" by the people in Huguang, also known as "silver jiaozi", which can be directly exchanged for the same amount of silver by the face value. The reason why the Liao Domain asked for silver money was because on the side of the Changyang King's Mansion of the Liao Domain, there was the Jingzhou branch of Huitong Money. Liao Fan took the silver banknote, and it can be exchanged for cash without leaving the door!

In officialdom, gossip always spreads the fastest. A logic that conforms to everyone's common sense is: since everyone breaks the scalp to grab something, it must be a good thing!

Zhang Dazhong is a pro-people official and has the responsibility of local tax collection. In order to facilitate the collection of autumn grain, it is natural that he also moved the idea of silver money. In order to be sure, Zhang Dazhong specially sent his cronies and family members to try to exchange it at Jingzhou Huitong Money Bank last month to see what it was about.

The cronies' family came back and described that the money village was built in the palace of Changyang County. A gate was opened on the east wall of the county king's mansion, and after entering, there were several courtyards separated by a corner. The counter for general guests is located in the main room of one of the compounds. It is said that the reception place of the big family is different from that of ordinary guests, and it is in the courtyard guarded by the mansion next to it.

One hundred taels of silver were handed over to the counter, and it took about a stick of incense to inspect the goods, and then one hundred taels of silver bills were handed out. In less than an hour, the cronies and family members took the silver money and went to cash it. I didn't think that the guy inside didn't make it difficult for him, but just accepted the silver banknote, carefully looked at the authenticity, and soon handed out a boxy silver brick, which was forged with a clear pattern and the words "one hundred taels of weight". He found a scale and weighed it, and the weight was exactly the same as the marking.

This means that during the entire exchange process, there is no fire consumption that ordinary dumping shops have to collect!

After listening to his family's report, Zhang Dazhong immediately decided: This year's autumn grain will be taxed, all the silver money will be collected, and he will send a messenger to ask the money village in Jingzhou City to open a branch in Yiling City as soon as possible. Zhang Dazhong's wishful thinking sounded: If the autumn grain tax is paid in silver money, the cost of escort and the fire consumption of dumping will be saved this year, and these expenses and fire consumption have already been apportioned to various tax quotas, and the saved cost and fire consumption will fall into his own pocket.

But no matter how well Zhang Dazhong thinks about it, he must have silver money to hand over to the gentry. Huitong Money Bank has just opened, and God knows how many silver bills will be released?

Therefore, as soon as Chen Youfu said this, Zhang Dazhong immediately thought of a possibility: if the purchase of grain from the Shu Wangfu could be deducted, and the autumn grain would be returned to the big households after deducting the cost and fire consumption, then he Zhang Dazhong would not only get together the autumn grain and get the evaluation of a capable minister, but also the escort cost and dumping fire consumption would be saved in an instant. The money saved is your own, so wouldn't it be a good profit!

Rao is cultivation is extremely deep, and Zhang Dazhong's little heart is still pounding because of a large windfall falling from the sky. He held back the ecstasy in his heart, solemnly and slightly embarrassed agreed to Chen Youfu's suggestion, and then solemnly reiterated that the three counties of Yiling Prefecture can only buy grain of 30,000 stone at most, and any more can only buy grain from Jingzhou Mansion. After Chen Youfu nodded in agreement, Zhang Dazhong quickly changed the topic and asked Chen Youfu if he needed to recruit displaced people as soldiers.

"Recruiting displaced people as soldiers, so that Ding Zhuang can be used by the court and not threatened by traitors, this is the national policy passed down by the great grandfather!" Chen Youfu explained, "It's just that the last general has the heavy responsibility of saving the people from the world, and he doesn't dare to recruit troops privately to kill the traitors in the court!" ”

"The general doesn't recruit soldiers, where are the three hundred soldiers?"

"That's not a soldier." Wen Yangzheng added a correction: "Shizi Road, the displaced people enter Sichuan, and the road is far away. We are waiting to protect the safety of the people, and it will not be possible to transport them without human escort. So the people I waited for the recruitment were not soldiers, but Wang Zhuang Zhuangding. The prince also specially named these Zhuang Ding, and they were called 'security guards'! ”

"Well, good security! Security guards are not the beaters in the dart game. If someone attacks him like this, the official can also plead to the official! When Zhang Dazhong first heard this, he nodded up and down frequently, but in the last shot, his face was full of embarrassment: "If this official wants to raise food, he must have someone first." General Nanjin Guan Hu's soldiers and horses, this officer had to take away. But Nanjin Pass is a dangerous town, and there must be no loss. General Chen now has no soldiers, heh, security! Therefore, this official is now in a dilemma! ”

The General Hu in Zhang Dazhong's mouth is Hu Zhifang, the garrison of Nanjin Pass.

Chen Youfu smiled and said, "It's okay. Lord Zhang is very important to raise food, and Nanjin Pass will be guarded by the end. There will be no soldiers at the end, but there will be a few more! Besides, the food raised by Master Zhang must have a safe place to store it. There are many houses in this Nanjin Pass, and it is the most suitable to store grain. ”

"Then we will replace wine with tea, in a word! Five days later, the official raised 10,000 stones, and as for the remaining 20,000 stones, the official gathered them within half a month! If it is still not enough, the official will quickly travel to Jingzhou, and ask Li Fu to decide! ”

"Good! Deal! Chen Youfu and Wen Yangzheng stood up together with the teacup. At that moment, their waists were extremely straight!

……

The sunset is obliquely shining, and the sky is full of red clouds. Chen Youfu and Wen Yangzheng climbed the city tower of Nanjin Pass. In their eyes, only the endless mountains and valleys of their hometown are left. The two of them retracted their gaze, and the city wall under their feet was covered with fresh green grass, like a long green carpet. At the bottom of the mountain, there is still a black and oppressive human head. The voices of the people were filtered through the space, leaving only a slight noise, which was caught in the wind and sent into the building.

"'Guarding the danger is not guarding', Nanjin Pass is more important than Yiling City! Thousands of calculations, I can't count that this dog official actually took Nanjin Pass to give it away! Okay, we'll take this gift. It's in our pockets, and the government and the thieves don't want to take it anymore! Lao Wen, sometimes I really can't understand why those dog officials have so much knowledge in their stomachs, why are they always deceived by us country grass labels? ”

"He's thinking about the money in my waist and the black hat on his head! This man, when he has the thought of non-part, he will become stupid! I took over the position of Lao Tan in Yazhou, and some big families sent female babies to labor the army from time to time. It's a fart, it's clear that you want to seduce me, a bachelor, to! They are trying to corrupt me and make me speak for them. Squad leader, you think that you are fighting local thugs in Bazhou and Guang'an, and what a lot of money is a military order! The letter of the prince of the world is thorough, and the benefit they give you is that the cannon wrapped in honey will make you die sooner or later......"

Lao Wen's words made Chen Youfu laugh. This old writer used to know a basket of big characters, and he couldn't make a stuffy fart with three mallets, but now he also knows that he is motivated. He used his military salary to hire a gentleman from Yazhou, who not only taught him to read and write, but also taught him the "Arabic numerals". The big families in Yazhou all fell in love with this diamond king with red roots, and rushed to marry their daughter to him, or the kind born by the eldest wife. Somehow, this old man just refused to accept the offer. Luo Jingyun revealed to Chen Youfu that the prince and his sister were considering the marriage of an older officer, and it was estimated that a standard would be formulated. Which officers can get married and which cannot.

"He Huan has already posted a notice for the people and the news of the conscription, and the conscription will start early tomorrow morning. First enlist a full regiment. Chen Youfu smiled and got back to business.

Li Mingshi is the deputy head of the Jingchu Task Force Cadre Regiment, and He Huan is the chief of staff. After Li Mingshi left, Jiang Lu straightened things up sooner or later; And He Huan stepped down, and half of the double walls of the General Staff Operations Department were missing. These cadres are reluctant, but they can't help it. The army has expanded greatly, and officers with combat experience are treasures.

"I estimate that there are more than 10,000 strong people among the displaced people below, is one regiment too few? Wei Chen said that Kuizhou has been in chaos for more than ten years, with a small population and few soldiers, so it is better for us to recruit some for him. Let him send an officer to accept it, and send the people to Kuizhou by the way. According to my thoughts, taking advantage of the people's entry into Sichuan this time, we stationed troops in the passes of several prefectures and counties along the Yangtze River in Guizhou (Note 1), Badong, and Xingshan, and squeezed out those useless officers and soldiers! The reason, it's still 'security'! And our Aunt Lin, don't we prepare a bride price for him to marry a daughter-in-law? At least one battalion! Where the prince of Chu is, our Shu Wangfu has lost some face! ”

Chen Youfu laughed and said: "I can't imagine that you, an old man, are becoming more and more clever like Tan Sigui!" It doesn't matter, as soon as the prince Chrysostom opens, it doesn't matter if he levies 120,000! What we lack now is not a source of soldiers, but cadres and food! I plan to put two battalions here in Nanjin Pass first, one battalion in Wuchang in the future, one battalion in Jingzhou, and one battalion in Qizhou. That's five battalions. Lizhou in the south is a large place, and you can put a regiment. Jiuxiwei and a few thousand households can also put some troops, just like our dry law in Yazhou......"

"Squad leader, you have to discuss these matters with the deputy head of the regiment and the chief of staff. The deputy regiment commander is the commander of the Shizi Guard Battalion, and the chief of staff is the Jiangmen Huzi, the senior staff member of the Shizi's side. As for me, I'm the head of the big guy! ”

"Lao Wen, don't look down on the logistics stall! The Protector Army wants to eat, and the people want to eat even more! So the most important thing now is your food! We are alone behind enemy lines, and there is only one big river in the logistics line. In the future, if it is cut off by thieves and the river is cut off, the attempt of the Protector Army to hold on to Huguang will be completely over. Therefore, the prince especially emphasized to me that it is necessary to raise the army with the army and organize cultivation on the spot. The eyes can only look forward, and must not be placed on Sichuan behind them! ”

Speaking of this, Chen Youfu pointed to the Guangwo Plain in the east with a hard finger and said: "You see, Huguang is not a small place, the water and soil are fertile, as long as we stand firm, we will definitely be able to grow food and achieve self-sufficiency!" ”

Chen Youfu was full of confidence, but Lao Wen began to complain: "Squad leader, if you want food, you must have land first!" If you don't have a field, you can't turn my old text into food! Didn't you say on the way that our deputy supervisor was a relative of the prince, and he got us a large paddy field in Lizhou? By the way, there is also a Huayang Kingdom in Lizhou, which is also a relative of the Shu Domain, why didn't I see it alone? ”

"I have sent someone to deliver the letter, and it is estimated that I will arrive in Yiling ...... soon."

While the two were talking, they saw four people cross the cordon at the bottom of the mountain and climb up the stone steps in the mountain. Judging from the clothes and figure, the leader in front was He Huan, chief of staff of the cadre regiment. There are two behind him, the one on the left is not tall, wearing an official uniform with large sleeves in a green coat, and a crown on his head; The one on the right is tall, dressed in a Yanju-style black robe, with a big black and gray hat, and his face is not clear. The one who dragged behind, dressed as a scholar, had an oil umbrella in his hand and a burden on his shoulder. Not far from the four of them, there was a group of people, about a dozen, all dressed up. The leader was carrying a large knife wrapped in red silk. At the head of the ring of the broadsword, there is a cluster of red cherry blossoms.

"I know the big knife." Chen Youfu walked as he spoke, and went down to the staircase: "Wei Chen, his father, Wei Gan, told me a joke on the way north to Xinzheng Dam." On the way to Renshou, what their group of people called Huazi were most afraid of was not Mr. Li, but Lu San's nine-ring big knife! ”

Note 1: Due to the Three Gorges Project, Zigui County has been relocated. The old county seat of Zigui in the Ming Dynasty is in the old town of Zigui, which is not far from the new town of Guizhou.