Chapter 253 Hou Junji, who has accumulated wealth

It's a pity that Hou Junji will only be greedy, but it's a pity that he won't hide it - what's more, he can't hide such a big thing.

So this matter quickly reached Li Shimin's ears, which made Li Shimin angry, okay, after a big victory, you, the main general, have more things than me, the emperor, have you not smashed the defense in your eyes. So before the victorious army returned to Chang'an, Li Shimin had already written the holy decree of reprimand, and later received Wei Zheng's admonition, in order to avoid hitting morale, this was not issued, otherwise Hou Junji's face would be lost.

However, the holy decree of reprimand was not issued, but for Hou Junji's efforts to destroy the country, Li Shimin still chose to treat it coldly, and the holy decree praised him for being out of the blue, but he only praised it verbally, and there was no actual reward at all, let alone a promotion and knighthood, not even a decent silk, gold and silver, and even in private Li Shimin reprimanded him and took back all his greedy wealth, Hou Junji complained about Li Shimin.

If it is changed to history, this incident may become the inducement of Hou Junji's rebellion in the future. Fortunately, this is a world corrected by a traverser, Li Zhen did not give Li Chengqian a chance to rebel, and Hou Junji naturally would not be killed because of the rebellion.

was reprimanded by Li Shimin, and because of the Tuyuhun incident, Li Shimin did not let him have the opportunity to lead the troops alone for several years, which also caused Hou Junji to be very honest for a long time, making Li Shimin mistakenly think that he had repented, so this time Li Zhen attacked Nanyang, and there was a lack of a town guard general, so Li Shimin resent Hou Junji out.

At that time, it was the time when Li Chengqian was deposed, Hou Junji was a princeling before, Li Chengqian was deposed, for his own future, after coming to Nanyang, he immediately expressed his goodwill to Li Zhen, and in later generations he performed quite well, which can be said to be conscientious.

Therefore, after observing Hou Junji for a period of time, Li Shimin and Li Zhen both recognized Hou Junji and gave him the task of guarding Nanyang with great confidence.

However, Li Shimin and Li Zhen have forgotten that there is a word called - death does not change......

At the very beginning, because Li Shimin was watching, and Hou Junji had the heart to show favor to Li Zhen, he was very honest and could be said to be conscientious, but his conscientiousness only lasted less than three months, and then he relapsed.

Nanyang looks barren, and the treasury of various countries has been looted by the Tang army, but there are also a lot of hidden treasures among the people, and there are countless resources of all kinds, which gives Hou Junji, the nominally strongest person in power in Nanyang, the opportunity to collect money.

You must know that there are also many precious resources in Nanyang, all kinds of minerals, and more rare wood in the Central Plains, which can be said to be everywhere.

It is said that since the opening up of Nanyang, there will often be a variety of cherished timber in the markets of major cities in the Central Plains, and every time it appears, it will inevitably be robbed - in the cherished timber market, there will never be a buyer's market, and there is no need to worry about too much timber causing the price to drop, because those rich and noble people are eager to make their homes from houses to mausoleums are made of cherished wood, so that they can live comfortably, and those who die are at ease.

It's a pity that before Nanyang was beaten down by the Tang Dynasty, the cherished wood was more monopolized by the nobles, who used this wood to build their own palaces and tombs, and they didn't have enough for themselves, how could it end up in the market? Even if a little bit of it occasionally falls out, it is quickly snatched away, and if you react a little slowly, you can't even get a single bark.

Nowadays, even if Nanyang is conquered by the Tang Dynasty, a large number of cherished timber has been mined, but in the face of such a large domestic market, if you want to meet here, you can't do it in a short period of time, not to mention that the general growth time of cherished timber is slow, once the cherished timber of Nanyang is mined for a year, then the price of cherished timber in China will usher in another skyrocket.

Hou Junji, as the most powerful general in Nanyang, wants to make some money on timber, it is not too easy - you must know that in order to protect the ecology of Nanyang and avoid the occurrence of indiscriminate logging, the imperial court has issued an order, only merchants who specialize in opening timber mining certificates (that is, wood introduction) in the imperial court can carry out timber trade, and can mine timber in Nanyang, and there are restrictions on the quantity.

And this undoubtedly gave Hou Junji the opportunity to drill Confucius.

In Nanyang, there are two kinds of people who can mine timber, the first is a merchant with a certificate, and the other is the army - you must know that wood is also a strategic material in ancient times, from encampment to rolling wood antlers to storming chariotts and other siege equipment, etc., all require a large amount of wood to make.

This gave Hou Junji the opportunity - I made the gate out of rosewood wood, no problem, right? I built an arrow tower with black acid wood branches, and no one can say anything, right? I made a barracks out of golden silk nanmu wood, which is very reasonable...... It's all perfectly fine.

After those big businessmen came, Hou Junji demolished the camp again, and sold all the rolling wood and carts - the climate in Nanyang was humid, the camp was not durable, and it had just been built and not used for a few days, and it had all rotted out, becoming a complete tofu scum project, I can't let my soldiers live in such a rotten barracks, right? I can't let my soldiers fight with siege engines made of rotten wood, can I? Isn't that a joke on the lives of my soldiers? Now that there are big businessmen who are willing to pay a high price to buy my pile of rotten wood, of course I have to sell it, is there anything unreasonable about this? It's really too reasonable, even if Wei Zheng, the old horseman, comes, the general has something to say.

In addition to cherishing resources, Hou Junji's other big income was the slave trade.

Although the slave trade is nominally under the control of the subordinate division, in fact, the subordinate division does have the right and responsibility to buy and sell slaves and regulate the order of the slave market, but the capture of slaves is not under the control of the subordinate division.

Although the Liyu Division does have its own slave catching team, but in fact this is just an ornament, the number is not very large, and with the rapid construction of the Tang Dynasty, the demand for slaves is also increasing, a large number of civilian slave catching teams and military prisoners of war slaves poured into the market, so the slave catching team of the Liyu Division has changed from a professional slave catching team to an organization for the purchase of slaves - plus the imperial court is not willing to let Wang Tingchu a eunuch control too much military power, so soon the establishment of the slave catching team completely disappeared from the Liyu Division, became a slave guard, from a free slave catcher to a slave escort (or protector), and his status has changed completely.

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