Zhang Shi'an sold illicit salt in Datong and Xuanfu towns, and only returned to Manhan Mountain in mid-August, I heard that Fengzhou was restructured, Ma Qi and Fan Yongdou became the senators of the Great Commander's Office, and Fan Yongdou also got the beauty of the Taxation Department, and even Bi Lige was stained - Li Fugui separated the inspection office from the Commercial Market Division and upgraded it to the Inspection Department directly under the jurisdiction of the Great Commander's Office. But this official position of the Ming Dynasty is of no use at all in Fengzhou.

Zhang Shi'an found Li Fugui and complained that he was also an old man in Fengzhou, and he took the risk of selling smuggled salt for Fengzhou, and others should not be left behind when they were promoted. Li Fugui was waiting for him, and immediately asked him whether he was willing to be loyal to the imperial court or to Fengzhou? Zhang Shi'an patted his chest and cursed and swore that he would of course be loyal to Fengzhou and the commander when he ate Fengzhou's food, and the Ming Dynasty didn't even give him a fortune, so a fool was willing to be loyal to the imperial court, so Zhang Shi'an changed his body and became the chief Titang official of Fengzhou, and was awarded the title of deputy thousand households.

Zhang Shi'an's spirits were greatly boosted, and he immediately put forward a huge plan, to send a large number of Titang to the north of the Yellow River in the Guannai, the Jin State outside the Guan, Chahar and even the western Liaoning, important areas such as Jingshi, Taiyuan, Datong, Xuanhua, Jinan in the Ming Kingdom, the old capital city of Chahar, Shenyang in the Jin State, and Liaoyang to set up a Titang Office, which can startle Li Fugui, originally he just wanted to send a few people to the Guannai to do some work of ventilating and reporting information, but he didn't expect Zhang Shi'an to drum up such a large intelligence network, where did the manpower and money come from? Liu Xingzuo greatly appreciated this, and suggested that the three Tongzhi of the Great Commander's Mansion and the four praisers of the Jingyu Deputy General's Mansion summon Zhang Shi'an to listen to his ideas.

Zhang Shi'an became more and more proud, and talked eloquently to several bigwigs at the top level of Fengzhou's government affairs and military affairs: manpower is ready-made, and his old Zhang has Jinyiwei friends who can be wooed, and the gang of smuggling salt dealers under him, as well as businessmen who do smuggling business with Chahar and Jinguo, are good at spying on news and ventilating and reporting with a little training, and money is also easy to do. The opportunity for Chahar to smuggle and sell smuggling, Zhang Shi'an boasted that his method could make Fengzhou work all over the world without spending a penny of public money.

Liu Xingzuo clapped his hands, and others also felt that this was a good thing, Fengzhou could not always be blind to the situation outside, especially as soon as the commander entered the customs, he almost lost contact, this kind of thing is also fortunate to have a unique system in Fengzhou, otherwise it must be chaotic, Ortai, Li Fugui and Li Huai, the three acquaintances agreed to Zhang Shi'an's plan, and at the same time appointed Liu Xingzuo to take care of the affairs of Titang - Liu Xingzuo became Zhang Shi'an's top boss.

In the next few days, Liu Xingzuo brought Zhang Shi'an to discuss the affairs of Titang carefully, and also taught him a lot of useful strategies, Zhang Shi'an only then knew that the new Grand Commander's Mansion was an old-timer, who had been lurking beside the Great Khan of the Jin State for many years, and finally was able to retreat with his whole body, and he couldn't help but be in awe and obey Liu Xingzuo's words. Liu Xingzuo suggested that Zhang Shi'an first set out to set up a network of Titang in Beizhili, Shanxi, and Shandong, and to quickly get in touch with the commander-in-chief.

A few days later, news came from Datong that Li Yu was ordered to go to Shanxi to aid the suppression, Zhang Shi'an followed Liu Xingzuo's instructions, immediately entered the customs and went straight to Taiyuan, and by the way, he also pulled Fan Erxi - Fan Erxi also wanted to be an official in his bones, Zhang Shi'an gave him the title of the general banner, and promised him the identity of a brocade guard, Fan Erxi joined the organization with joy - Zhang Shi'an has used this hand to pull several profiteers and smugglers into the gang. After the two arrived in Taiyuan, they wanted to see Li Yu, but Zhang Shi'an suddenly saw Zhang Daojun in Li Yu's camp, he recognized this person as the commander of the Jinyi Guard, and he didn't know what was going on, Zhang Daojun had clearly been dismissed and returned to his hometown, and he might not recognize him, the little person of the Jinyi Guard, but Zhang Shi'an was scared in his heart, and he didn't find a hole to sneak in Li Yu until tonight.

"Great Commander, the salt pond in Jiezhou has been made a mess by the stupid officials of the salt transportation envoy department, our private salt has become a hot commodity, and the salt dealers in Shanxi are willing to be our titang, as long as they give them salt, it won't be long before the Titang in Taiyuan can be built." Zhang Shi'an's eyebrows fluttered and he boasted of his merits.

"Our Titang can't just use illegal salt dealers, I also looked for several people, there is a sauce factory that wants to do our business the most, no, the most want to do our Titang, they also promised to open a branch in Fengzhou, the commander, we can drink vinegar in Fengzhou in the future." Fan Erxi hurriedly objected.

"No, the people you are looking for are either opening a sauce factory or making stinky tofu, these businessmen can't do big things, it's better to be a smuggler of salt, all of them are local snakes, and they are not afraid of death, they are the most suitable for the work of Titang." Zhang Shi'an retorted disdainfully.

"But opening a sauce factory and a tofu factory is also an important matter, and it is more affordable to use them as a titang, commander, what do you say." Fan Erxi insisted on his opinion.

Li Yu couldn't laugh or cry when he heard it, and quickly changed the topic and asked, "How is the situation in Fengzhou?" Tell me about this year's autumn grain harvest and the restructuring of the Great Commander's Office. ”

Zhang Shi'an blushed and said: "The subordinates are all pouring private salt in the Guan, and the affairs of Fengzhou are really not clear, Liu Yishi said, do our business, the more you know about other people's affairs, the better, and the less you know about your own affairs, the better." ”

Fan Erxi also shirked and said: "I don't know much, when we left, the Commander's Mansion was about to convene everyone to discuss the restructuring, or the Commander wrote a letter to ask, we have several Titangs in Shanxi, and it is convenient to send a letter." ”

"Forget it, it's better that I don't interfere in government affairs." Li Yu waved his hand, these two people are addicted to making money, and they can't stay in Fengzhou for a few days a year, so it's useless to ask them.

"When you came, you didn't meet Chaolu and Chen Erzhu, I already sent them to Fengzhou." Li Yu asked again, Zhang Shi'an and Fan Erxi glanced at each other and shook their heads together, obviously they missed it, it was time to send these two people away, Li Yu waved his hand and said to the two of them: "You do your own thing, I will go to kill the thieves in a few days, and you are not needed to fight." ”

Zhang Shi'an thought of the high-ranking official of the Jinyi Guard who often appeared in the camp, his heart was empty, he couldn't wait to leave, and hurriedly agreed: "Liu Yishi wants me to go to Beizhili and Shandong, and my subordinates will go first, Fan Erxi is still in Shanxi, and the commander can only send him if he has something." ”

In mid-October, Liang Guo, the general army of Shanxi stationed in Ningwuguan, urgently reported to Song Tongyin, the governor of Shanxi, that the cold weather had come early this year, and the Yellow River was very likely to be frozen in advance, and his troops were insufficient to block the Qianli River, and asked for reinforcements to strengthen the river defense. Song Tongyin was most afraid of the thieves entering Shanxi, Zhang Daojun also thought that the northwest erosion had no food to eat, and the governor of the three sides, Yang He, was ineffective in soothing the thieves, so he had to let the governor of Yansui, Hong Chengchou, and Du Wenhuan, who supervised the two towns of Yansui and Guyuan, try their best to kill them, and the thieves could not gain a foothold in the northwest, and they were very likely to take advantage of the opportunity of the Yellow River to freeze eastward, and the officers and troops should strictly guard the banks of the Yellow River, and Li Yu's Fengzhou iron cavalry should also quickly enter the pass and patrol along the river, so as not to move east and erode Shanxi. Song Tongyin immediately made a decision, ordered the Shanxi general army Wang Guoliang and the officials of the state along the river to strictly guard the river defense, and at the same time ordered Li Yu to go to the river meander to summon the Fengzhou iron cavalry to pass into the border wall from the side, and the iron cavalry immediately drove to the Fenzhou Mansion to garrison after entering the pass, considering that the Shanxi army and the Fengzhou iron cavalry were not subordinate to each other, Song Tongyin asked Zhang Daojun to accompany the army to assist in military affairs and manage food and salary, Zhang Daojun happily accepted the order.

Li Yu got the order, immediately prepared to pull out the camp and set off, Chen Erzhu happened to run back from Fengzhou at this time, and reported to Li Yu that the Great Commander's Mansion had gathered six battalions of men and horses, and was ready to listen to the orders of the Great Commander, Chen Erzhu also brought a letter from the Great Commander's Mansion and Mrs. Wulan, Li Yu read the letter, couldn't help frowning, and after a moment of silence, he quickly wrote a reply, and then asked Chen Erzhu to work hard again, seeing Chen Erzhu go away, Li Yu rubbed his eyes and waved his hand to order to go.

The situation in Fengzhou is very bad, there is no war and plague in Fengzhou this year, and the drought and flooding are far from hurting the muscles and bones, but the development of agriculture and animal husbandry is still weak - only 30,000 stone millets have been harvested from cultivating more than 40,000 acres of land, and the number of livestock is also growing slowly, while the population is increasing, and the pressure of survival has forced the officials of Fengzhou to move forward hard.

Yun Rong came back from inspecting the 1,000 households, and told everyone a frightened news, several hundreds of households reported that the yield of potatoes and corn planted in the fields and on the slopes of the mountains had been significantly reduced, and experienced crops said that this was a deterioration of the seeds, and that it was necessary to immediately start selecting and breeding good seeds, otherwise it might spread to the whole of Toyozhou, Yun Rong believed that potatoes and corn were drought-tolerant and had large yields, and they were already the living food of the people of Toyosu to replace grains, and this situation must arouse vigilance and take immediate measures.

After a brief discussion with Ortai and Li Huai, Li Fugui immediately decided to set up an agricultural and animal husbandry office in the craftsman camp, and transferred Yang Dazhi, a thousand households in Dongjiao, to serve as the director, specializing in studying the good methods of farming and animal husbandry, and the first task was to select and breed potatoes and corn varieties, and the required expenses were preferentially allocated. Li Fugui shouted to the officials of the Great Commander's Mansion that there should be no longer any further delay, and that a new system must be implemented in Fengzhou next year, otherwise everyone will wait for defeat.

The Great Commander's Mansion was again in a tense and busy situation, Ortai, Li Fugui and Li Huai, three fellow intellectuals, with a group of officials, political and senators, discussed the revision of the charter of the restructuring all night, everyone was tired, they couldn't help but scold Li Yu who was hiding in the pass, Ortai laughed at himself that he and Li Fugui would die of exhaustion sooner or later, Li Huai could live a few more years when he was young, and he would take Batu and Yunrong to assist Li Yu as the shopkeeper in the future.

In mid-September, Fengzhou's officials, respected elders and business representatives gathered in Manhan Mountain to jointly discuss the restructuring matters, some Fengzhou people felt that this was a big deal, and they also brought their own rations to come to listen, there were too many people coming, and the courtyard of the Great Commander's Mansion was crowded - Fengzhou encountered major events and public discussions were common, everyone took it for granted, and the Commander's Office was helpless about it, Fengzhou was too poor to support the government and officials, and if there was no sincere support and active cooperation of the people, any government decree could not be implemented. In addition, Li Yu did not know anything about the official system and advocated going with the flow, and the common people also developed a bad habit of participating in and discussing politics.

The Erji Lama was also invited to attend the meeting, and Ortai reluctantly explained to him: "Yuzi spoiled the common people, and when he saw people, he said that Fengzhou was not his, but all Fengzhou people, and now even the new defectors think that Fengzhou has his share, and we will discuss the rules of iron together when we encounter major events here." ”

The Qierji Lama couldn't help but smile bitterly, the Mongolian tribe has the custom of gathering people to discuss matters, but that is the right of the nobles such as Taiji and Nuoyan, but it's a pity that the guy Chahar Khan is messing around and killing people, and now there are no nobles in Tumut, only a bunch of poor people left, plus there is Li Yu, a stupid boy, as the boss, Fengzhou is no longer the Tumut of the past!

The two ladies of Wulan and Wu Langha came, and when Wulan appeared in front of everyone with Xiao Li Jin in his arms, the audience erupted in enthusiastic cheers, and some people even knelt down to Xiao Li Jin to salute, as if Xiao Li Jin was the little master of Fengzhou, which made Wu Langha, who was holding Xiao Li Meng, very depressed.

Li Huai, the secretary of the Great Commander's Office, presided over the meeting, and the highly respected Lama Erji spoke first, he was invited by Ortai to support him, and naturally wanted to speak for the Great Commander's Palace, the old lama solemnly reaffirmed that Li Yu was the reincarnation of Altan Khan confirmed by him and many virtuous lamas, and Altan Khan was the reincarnation of Kublai Khan, the emperor of the Great Yuan Dynasty, so Li Yu had the supreme right in this grassland, and his Great Command Office intended to reform, which was not only to uphold the Dharma to purify all sentient beings, but also to inherit the law of the Emperor of the Great Yuan DynastyThis is in line with the will of heaven and the people's will, all the people of my Tumut River should obey it, do not have selfish thoughts to harm this good deed, the Buddha's heart is merciful and compassionate, and will bless all the people of Tumut River.

After the old lama finished speaking, he sat down with confidence, he thought that with his words, everything would go well, and the common people knew something, and they didn't have to listen to the government, but he thought wrongly, and what followed was endless debate day after day.

At the beginning everything went smoothly, everyone had no opinion on the issuance of silver banknotes by the Commander's Mansion for trading and the physical and silver banknotes could pay taxes, silver must be loved by everyone, but the people of Fengzhou were used to being poor, almost never seen silver, let alone silver, the Han people who defected to the customs also told them that the Ming Kingdom folded the color and levied silver to kill people, and the profiteers and the government will calculate you, and the price of grain will fall when it comes to paying taxes, and the weight of silver, fineness and fire consumption The government has the final say, and you can pit you if you want to, the people are afraid, since the silver pits people, It was better to use a paper banknote that anyone could understand, but everyone insisted on printing the head of the commander on the silver banknote, so that everyone felt relieved, and Wulan and Wu Langha also agreed for the sake of two thousand taels of silver.

The Great Commander's Office intends to count one household as a household, and the land and farm tools, livestock and animal husbandry tools of each thousand and hundred households will be distributed to the Ding households, which will be operated by the Ding households themselves, and the harvest will be returned to them after paying taxes, and at the same time reduce forced labor to encourage reclamation, and the newly reclaimed land will be taxed in half, and the officials, craftsmen, and battalion soldiers of Fengzhou will be paid money, and the cultivators who want to cultivate can allocate land in lieu of pay, and the Ding households can also go out to work and do business to increase their income. Birth, old age, sickness and death have to rely on the guard, if everyone takes care of their own affairs, who will take care of the affairs of the guard, the old man of the hundred households of the board said bluntly that this will disintegrate the guard, this year the sedum disaster and man-made disasters continue, everyone can not live if they do not hold a group, the old man Duhan from Chahar also made an analogy, this is like a tribe occupies a piece of grassland, if everyone only cares about their own livestock, can not be twisted, it will definitely be robbed of the grassland by other tribes, craftsmen and battalion soldiers also said that they only need to pay for the land, unless they do not levy taxes. Li Huai still wanted to argue a few words, but Ortai pulled him and whispered, we are not better than Guannei here, there is too much land and it is worthless, you don't have to give it away, so don't fight first.

Li Huai held back his anger and talked about the tax system, the audience quarreled even more, the Great Commander's Office planned to levy tithes on agriculture, animal husbandry and commerce, and pay taxes according to one percent of income, the Mongols first disagreed, they did not have the custom of paying taxes, and they were still military households, they had to bring their own horses and weapons, and they were the ones who died the most in the war, and they couldn't afford to pay so many taxes, and the Han people who were promoted also complained that the taxes were too heavy, Altan Khan had set up rules, no matter how much the Han people planted, they only paid a bag of grain and a few bundles of grass, and now they are too much to collect, Besides, who will determine the income of each family, you can't say how much it is, businessmen have more opinions on tithes, Ma Qi and Fan Yongdou are both officials now, they are not easy to speak, but their accomplices will not be silent, especially Ma Qi's partner Fang Zhikun and Fan Yongdou's partner Wang Dengku jumped the highest and threatened to throw off the stall and quit.

When talking about the military system, Bai Xianzhi also shouted, the governor of Datong heard that Fengzhou planned to pay military salaries, and immediately a big son did not give him him, and asked him to go to Fengzhou to ask for it, but the Grand Commander's Office only agreed to give him a salary of 200 people, but he collected more than 1,000 people, these people are also willing to be loyal to Fengzhou, the Great Commander's Mansion can't ignore it, Manzhu and Hou Shijie also complained, they are all brave and ruthless soldiers, and they will not work on the farmland, and if they don't give them military salaries, they will cut off their way of life.

The Fengzhou restructuring meeting was held for three or four days without a single result, and a group of ordinary people came to each of the 1,000 and 100 households, who claimed to be representing the villagers and elders to reflect the public opinion, and brought their own rations and tents, and would never take advantage of the public, so the representatives of the public opinion relied on the Manhan Mountain, and continued to bargain with the Great Commander's Office with their officials.

"What's going on with these guys? Last time, they unanimously agreed to the restructuring, but this time they sang against us almost everywhere, and they must have discussed it in advance. Li Huai couldn't help but complain.