Several flowers bloom, one for each flower. Let's say that on that day, Zhao Shu asked Hu Di to gather the five large families in the city together in the Zhizhou Yamen,

Zhao Shu was the principal, Zhao Shu sat on the table in the Yamen Court, and behind him stood Ling Feng and Caozhou Zhizhou Hu Di respectively.

On both sides of the hall sat five relatively wealthy families in Caozhou. In Caozhou, these people can be described as wealthy.

According to Hu Di's request, after coming to the yamen of the state capital in a daze, everyone had a look of confusion on their faces - who was the person sitting in front of the case? is bigger than Lord Zhizhou's shelf, and he actually let Lord Zhizhou stand behind him, especially his age, which makes the people here even more puzzled, but since Lord Zhizhou is willing to stand behind him, then this person must have a great background. It's better to wait and see what happens.

"I wonder what this lord called me and the grass people to come?" Not all of them had that thought, and a thin old man among the five stood up curiously and said.

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone present looked at Zhao Shu in full view, making Zhao Shu uncomfortable.

Blushing inexplicably, Zhao Shu cleared his throat, at least the temperament of the county king and the minister of the Qin Mission, so he said: "This king summoned everyone today, not for anything else, but for the defense of Caozhou!" ”

Zhao Shu's words are even more misty for those people, Caozhou Defense? Even if we have money, we are just ordinary people, and city defense is a matter of officials, what does it have to do with us ordinary people?

If you don't understand, someone will always ask, but it's still the thin old man, he stood up and asked, "I don't know which prince you are in this official family?" ”

There was an urge to shoot this old man to death, and I thought that what he was going to ask was the focus of the topic, but I didn't expect it to be this painless question.

Of course, Zhao Shu didn't mind, he had the confidence, and replied sonorously: "I am Zhao Shu, the king of Jian'an County!" ”

After speaking, in order to prevent these people from becoming suspicious, Zhao Shu revealed his identity certificate. Only then did everyone admire, it turned out to be the prince, no wonder the shelf was bigger than Lord Zhizhou. It's just that they still don't know that Zhao Shu is the identity of the Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Without waiting for those people to continue to ask, Zhao Shu went directly into the topic and said: "Recently, Zhongshu Province has issued an official document to Caozhou, and the Yan Fang thief Kou has broken Yangzhou, and it will be in the near future, and Caozhou has been the target of the public. However, everyone may have heard that the Caozhou Forbidden Army has been sent to Liangshan by Gao Taiwei to suppress bandits, and Caozhou is now actually a city without defense, and there is no defense without soldiers! However, the Caozhou government has no food and salary, and the Privy Council has not issued an official document on conscription, so Caozhou is now without soldiers and cannot recruit soldiers. If this situation continues until the arrival of Fang La's army, then Caozhou will be ruined, and the defeat of your family will be dispersed day and night! ”

did not say his intentions, and explained the stakes clearly, since these people can make so much money, they must not be very stupid, and they should be able to understand Zhao Shu's intentions.

"But my lord, maybe what you said is right, you yourself said that the imperial court does not have a conscription official document, and the government is not allowed to recruit soldiers at will. Even if we pay for it, the government can't recruit soldiers, and the government can't do anything, so what can I do with the grass people? A short, stocky middle-aged man stood up and said.

"Yes! Prince, you are the emperor's son, you tell the emperor about the situation in Caozhou, and ask the emperor to send troops to defend Caozhou, wouldn't it be better! ”

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Everyone, you and I said it word by word. Zhao Shu's ears are about to become calloused, if the Great Song Dynasty can send troops, can Fang La still be so arrogant now.

Now Zhao Shu's plan still depends on these people, although their words have made Zhao Shu very impatient, Zhao Shu has to patiently explain: "The current situation in the country must have heard of it, it is extremely critical!" Xixia Koubian, Daliao Tiger Eyes, there are not so many officials and troops to pacify Fangla! ”

The thin old man pinched the gray beard on his chin, nodded, and said, "In this case, the country is in danger, and the husband is responsible, so what does the prince need us to do?" ”

This is the real introduction of the topic, so to say, finally it is his turn to say, Zhao Shu said: "Then the king will say it simply, I want you to recruit 200 people in Caozhou City in the name of recruiting families to take care of the family, and then hand them over to the government for training, and the food and salary will be paid by you, and the clothes and armor will be handled by the government, so as to assist the officials and soldiers to guard Caozhou." After the Caozhou incident, these people are willing to fill the army and let them go home, and each family is not allowed to keep it, of course, the cost of recruiting people and horses will be compensated to you by the government afterwards! You are all famous rich gentry in Caozhou, and at the moment Caozhou is in trouble, I hope you don't shirk! ”

The short and fat rich businessman's face twitched, you said that a dozen people may be easy to do, but for no reason, there are so many Fei Yang more than two hundred people, this is the rhythm of heavy bleeding!

The five of them talked to each other, and no one came up with a unified opinion in the past of Banzhu Xiang's kung fu, and no one dared to go against Zhao Shu's intentions.

At this time, Hu Di hooked down to Zhao Shu's ear and said: "Your Highness, my Caozhou annual expenditure has a fixed amount, and the excess must be handed over to the transfer envoy, and the transfer envoy will be handed over to the imperial court, where is the amount of money and grain to compensate them?" ”

Zhao Shu pursed his lips, yes, he hadn't thought of this question before, and it was a bit difficult now, but now the situation has become a tiger, so he can only go on, so Zhao Shu asked: "Who is the Jingdong Road transfer envoy?" ”

"Your Royal Highness, Jingdong Road was divided into Jingdong East Road and Jingdong West Road as early as the seventh year of Xining, and the imperial court set up transfer envoys on Jingdong East and West Roads, not on Jingdong Road!" Ling Feng explained to Zhao Shu in a low voice.

"Back to His Royal Highness, it is Lord Tan Yongyan, the household servant!" Woody replied.

Tan Yongyan, who is it? Zhao Shu never knew this person in the history books of later generations. So he stared at Woody with wide eyes, hoping to get it out of his mouth

Answer.

"Your Highness! Xiaguan has been promoted all the way from Peng Zezhi County to here, it has been more than 20 years, so he has never known the officials in Beijing, although this Lord Tan is the boss of Xiaguan, but Xiaguan is not particularly familiar with him! Woody replied.

One sentence was enough to make Zhao Shu extremely disappointed, but now that he is the minister of the Qin Mission and the identity of the county king, he has handled the affairs of Caozhou first, and the master Tan Yongyan, the transfer envoy of Jingxi Road, will give him some face no matter what.