After the relocation and merger of the outer thirteen villages, the population of Shuanglong Town has exceeded 2,500, due to the increase in population, Shuanglong Town is also a lot more lively, and the Ministry of Commerce has set up many shops to activate the market in order to better circulate new coins.

Several factories vacated by Luo Yi have been transferred to the Ministry of Commerce in the form of private and official cooperation, so now on the streets of Shuanglong Town, there are shoe shops, clothing shops, and some cloth shops, etc., Luo Yi's third uncle Huang Feiyan also opened his own book and paper shop.

There are a lot of shops, but it is the villagers who are really trading now, and they exchange their prey for food, cloth or other things they want.

It's not that no one patronizes the shops, it's just that most of the shops are opened by the Ministry of Commerce, and only new money is charged, and the reason why it is open now can only be regarded as letting everyone understand and really start selling, and it will have to wait for about ten days, because by then, the first batch of new money will be officially put into the small market of national forces.

Gao Xinlun's people arrived as scheduled, and Luo Xiong's forces were the last force they collected tribute, one was that Luo Xiong's forces were far away from Baini Town, and the other was that Luo Xiong's forces had a small population, and they would not be able to collect too much food.

The person sent by Gao Xinlun this time is still his housekeeper Li Wenshu, and the national forces are not receiving Huang He before, but his second son, Huang Xun, the current Minister of Finance.

Li Wenwen was very dissatisfied with Luo Xiong's forces at first, and the person who received him was Huang Xun, he went to other forces, and that force was not the No. 2 person to greet him personally, but when Huang Xun quietly stuffed a piece of silver into his sleeve, raised his hand and weighed it, his face returned to a smile.

Li Wenwen looked at the fact that the population has increased a lot now, and the streets are also a lot more lively, and said with a smile: "Huang Xian's nephew! Whiteface Mountain is now a lot more prosperous, it seems that your credit is not small! Otherwise, Commander Luo Xiong wouldn't have let you greet the old man, right? ”

Huang Jing was shrewd, of course, it was impossible to answer truthfully, and said in another sense: "Uncle Li, you don't know that the current situation of Vimo, the prosperity here, is just to save your life!"

As for not the father of the family who came to greet you, it was because the father of the family occasionally felt cold and was unwell, and the commander of the lord could not be separated, so he ordered the boy to greet you old, and I hope you will be considerate. ”

"Haha, the virtuous nephew is worthy of being a businessman, and he has a good tongue, don't talk about this, your forces will pay tribute this year, 6,000 quintals of rice, and 1,000 copper coins."

Although Huang Jing knew that this year's tribute would not be too small, and he was ready to be slaughtered, he was still shocked by this opening, which was six thousand quintals.

6,000 quintals of rice, the power of a year's miscellaneous grains plus rice is only 100,000 quintals, this time it is so much, is this still a life?

The population within the 100,000 quintals of grain is divided equally, and one person a year is only a dozen quintals, and there is not enough to eat, and now each person is reduced by one quintal, and one quintal of grain is enough for a family of eight to have a month's ration, that is to say, one month's worth of grain can be harvested at a time.

"Uncle Li, it can't be a mistake, right? Why is there three times more grain than last year, and it's still rice, we can't get it! ”

"Virtuous nephew, this is an order from above, not to mention me, even the adults of my family can't help it, you are already the least handed in, don't embarrass the old man."

Looking at Li Wenwen, who was squinting and leaving only a small slit, Huang Xun greeted the eighteenth generation of women from the ancestors of Gao Xinlun's family and Li Wenwen's family in his heart, your mother, who are you fooling, the tribute is rising every year, although this year is mainly food, but it is not bad for the national forces, it is not in Gao Xinlun's own pocket to ask for so much.

Huang Xun is also helpless, the situation is weaker than people, what can he do, it seems that the only way to use the strategy of the less commander is to pay as little as possible, if the six thousand quintals are handed over, the national forces have just been planned.

Although the average person has more than a dozen loads of food, can a soldier be the same as any other civilian? If there is not enough food to eat, you can dig up some wild vegetables and hunt prey to replenish them, if this reform is of no use, how can the war be fought.

The national power is not the eighteen villages in the past, and the Su clan headed by the Luo family has the final say, although the leader is still Luo Xiong, the Huang family is also the second largest family in this force.

Huang He is the head of the civilian officials, Huang Yi is a major in the army like Luo Ba, and the second major of the National Army, and Huang Xun himself is the Minister of Finance, of course he can't let this happen.

Not to mention living up to the trust of the forces, even for the sake of the Huang family's face, such a thing must not be allowed to happen, if such a thing can't be done, what will other people think of the Huang family, how will they look at him Huang Jing.

"Uncle Li, you came from afar, and the kid ordered someone to prepare wine and food, eat first and then talk, do you think it's okay?"

Li Wenwen has long been familiar with the behavior of various forces, and he does not call out to please himself, so that he can reduce some tribute, but he has always eaten what he should eat, drink what he should drink, and pay tribute, of course.

"The virtuous nephew has a heart"

Li Wenwen brought a lot of people and horses this time, and there were more than 200 horses, which may be half of Gao Xinlun's horses and manpower, because the road was not good, Gao Xinlun had to go several times every time he sent out to collect tribute.

Huang Xun ordered the town guards to help tie up these horses, and took more than 100 people with Li Wenwen into the "Junfeng Inn", the inn was made by Luo Yi, and it has not opened yet, but of course I have to entertain these robbers well today.

Of course, the purpose of opening the inn is to make money, but Luo Yi doesn't see it for himself, but for his own sergeant, because the two armies are all recruits, the official statement is that they are all children, and there is no credit.

The reasons of others are very sufficient, or do what they say, Luo Yi is not easy to force, if he makes a bad start, it will not be easy to manage it in the future, isn't it just more than 200 people, and it is difficult for himself.

The Second Army was divided into four platoons by Luo Yi, one platoon and five squads, one platoon was on duty every day, and one platoon on duty did not need to participate in training today.

Of course, the people in the military camp are not eating here, but a few people who have done well under Luo Yi's teaching, come to the inn to find the person who is responsible for managing the inn, the farmer church, and after the church, naturally there is no need to come again.

Today's cooking, naturally not the firehead army and the wok's farmers, they can only fight, related to the future of the power of the food, Luo Yi had to cook himself, but there are many people here, his own strength is too small, or can only command the firehead army, how to adjust the season, when to start the pot.

Due to the early preparations, Huang Xun took Li Wenwen and a group of people into the inn and brought up dishes one after another.

In the private room on the second floor, naturally there are only two people, Huang Xun and Li Wenwen, of course, the dishes, the two of them are more sumptuous, the person downstairs Luo Yi only takes the usual food in the military camp, and lets the Huotou Army make it himself, these people are just some strong laborers who have been arrested, it is difficult to say whether they can eat enough at ordinary times, and the food in the barracks of the second army is not bad.

Huang Xun and Li Wenwen pushed the cup and changed the lamp, so happy, these wines were brewed by Luo Yi in order to ask for alcohol, the purity is very high, Li Wenwen is also a wine lover, and he completely liked it after taking a sip.

Huang Xun saw that the timing was about the same, and said with a smile: "Uncle Li, food, the forces really can't take out so much, you can always see if you can exchange it for other things." ”

"Haha, you don't think I'm drunk! Exchange, what to exchange, if you can come up with such a wine of 4,000 yuan in exchange, I will make my own decision to exchange with you. ”

Huang Xun is now not only greeting the eighteenth generation of women of Li Wen's family, but also the men cursed and died many times, I don't know, if I can be willing to use grain to brew 4,000 taels of wine, Lao Tzu will not directly give you 6,000 loads of grain, how can I be in the mood to fight with you here.

"Uncle Li laughed, but we really have something to exchange, and it's better than giving Uncle Li 6,000 loads of grain."

"Really, take it out and see, what else can be better than 6,000 quintals of rice, and the old man also wants to see it."

Huang Xun knew that the old guy was already a little interested, and the young commander had already arranged everything, so he must not be too anxious at this time, and he must be calm.

calmed down the fluctuations in his heart, Huang Xun said in a low voice: "Uncle Li, I don't know if you are old, do you want to sit in the seat of a tall adult?" ”

"Boy, you're looking for death."

Li Wenwen said directly, loudly, it seemed to be very atmospheric, and everyone downstairs could hear his voice, and someone immediately rushed upstairs, but he was frightened back downstairs by Li Wenwen.

Looking at Li Wenwen, who scared people away, Huang Xun said with a smile: "Uncle Li, don't get me wrong, I don't want you to betray Master Gao, and I don't have that ability."

However, what we exchanged with you this time may make the tall man promoted, and you are just the successor to the throne after the promotion of the tall man. ”

"What?"

Li Wenwen couldn't sit still, Huang Xun still knew that the only businessman in Luo Xiong's forces lied and deceived himself, which did not do Luo Xiong's forces any good, which showed that this matter was really possible.

"Virtuous nephew, you can't let the old man see it first, don't always hang the old man's appetite."

"Haha, Uncle Li, just take a look!"

After speaking, Huang Jing clapped his hands, the ten female slaves in Luo Yi's family before her, now with the eldest Luo Rong as the head of the household, ten young girls, stepping on high heels and wearing dresses, walked in flutteringly.

In order to achieve a better effect, Luo Yi taught all the catwalks he had seen on TV and the catwalks taken by the models, and looked at the two eyes of Old Man Li like a toad now, and knew that the effect was still good.

"Uncle Li, Uncle Li, Uncle Li..."

Huang Xun screamed several times before he woke up this old man, but the old man immediately didn't understand, is this going to exchange people?

Li Wenwen, who didn't know why, opened his mouth and said: "Virtuous nephew, you don't want to exchange these ten female slaves!" ”

"Poof..."

Huang Jing squirted out directly with a sip of wine, your mother, you want to be beautiful, these ten women, but the treasure of power, now a few factories in the government, the ones who can be separated from these people, and they are still from the Luo family, if Luo Yi is mad and only kills you directly, it is also possible.

Immediately, Huang Xun said: "Uncle Li, don't scare me, these younger sisters, it's not good, but what I let you see is shoes and clothes." ”

"What's so nice about clothes and shoes, you won't be entertaining the old man again, right?"

"Uncle Li, these clothes and shoes are not ordinary, although the younger sisters are beautiful, but if they are without these clothes and shoes, they will lose a lot of color, Uncle Li, you can call someone to go to the street, just find a girl who looks ordinary and come back, wear these clothes and shoes to try."

Li Wenwen also wondered if there was really such a miracle, and immediately asked people to find it, there are very many girls on the street today, because, for this matter, the government has already announced that whoever wants to be selected can still get white clothes and shoes.

These clothes and shoes are not cheap, they are luxury goods stipulated in the commercial tax, and the two things together cost at least 100 yuan of new money, and a teacher is only 20 yuan a month, so you can imagine how attractive it is, these clothes were originally prepared and sold to other big forces in the future.

looked at an ordinary girl, but when she came out to tea time in the next room, she became so delicate, Li Wenwen was also stunned.

"The clothes and shoes of the virtuous nephew are strange, but even so, I want to exchange it for 6,000 quintals of rice, does the virtuous nephew think it is possible? Besides, does this have anything to do with the promotion of tall adults? ”

Talking about business, Huang Xun felt that this was difficult for him, and said with a smile: "Of course, these can't be exchanged for 6,000 quintals of rice, but we still have ten sets of clothes and shoes that are 100 times better than this, and these are all imitations of these ten sets."

As for what you said had to do with the promotion of the tall man, you said that if you gave these ten treasures to the nobles of Yang Tho Baa City, would the tall man be promoted.

Well, there should be no shortage of food, and he won't care about our rations, and the merchants in Baini Town can easily solve the problem of food from other provinces. ”

"Virtuous nephew, take the treasure you said and show me, if it is really as good as you said, your tribute this year, I will make my own opinion, and I will do it if I don't harvest it."

Huang Xun clapped his hands again, and the ten girls led by Luo Rong came in with a red box that had been brushed with lacquer, followed by ten carrying, Jing Teng weaving imitation girl body shape dolls, and the dolls were wearing dresses made of good silk, of course, the tota cover, and the overlord fork were not less.

After the things were placed, Huang Xun waved everyone away, and led Li Wenwen to look at the past one by one, and the functions of the tower cover and the overlord fork were also explained to the old man.

Li Wenna has seen such a battle, his eyes are squinting, looking left and right, each of these clothes has a different style, two colors of shoes, turquoise, and red, and the styles are still different.

Of course, the most important thing is to be charming, now just wearing it on the puppet, it has such a charm, if it is worn on a beautiful girl, Li Wenwen thinks about it and feels that the lower body is hot and dry, and he knows in his heart that the 'big man in Yang Tho City' will not be much better than himself when he sees it.

The reason why the shoes have these two colors is because of two rare snake skins, and both of them are snakeskins of big snakes, such a big snake, or this color, don't say that Luo Yi has never seen it, and no one has seen it from the people of the power, it was Lu Kui who exchanged it from the Bunu forces.

At the beginning, Luo Yi asked him to use his shoes to exchange food and animal skins for other forces, but he only went to the Bunu forces once, and then Li Peng's forces launched a war, that is, this time, to exchange these two snake skins back.

Looking at Li Wenwen who was still looking around, Huang Xun said: "We can still imitate the tota cover and the overlord fork, and this clothes can barely be made, but this shoe can't be made anymore!" This is the masterpiece of Western people! Uncle Li, do you think it's okay to exchange these tributes for this year? ”

Li Wenwen, who calmed down, said with a smile: "It's really not ordinary, but I don't dare to make decisions in this matter!" Otherwise, I'll take the things away, I'll take a thousand quintals of food first, and I'll take the copper coins first, and I won't take it at the time, what does the virtuous nephew think? ”

No matter how good his temper is, Huang Xun also has the urge to hack this old man to death, he doesn't dare to call the shots and wants to take things, he raised it by a son of a bitch, this is what he wants to do more.

Huang Jing, who held back his anger, said: "Uncle Li, if you can't be the master, let someone send back the clothes worn by the sisters just now to Lord Gao, and you can also write a letter and bring it."

These ten treasures can't be taken away, if it weren't for the fact that the forces really don't have food, they wouldn't have given gifts from Westerners and exchanged them. ”

Li Wenwen also knew that Luo Xiong's forces might really not be able to squeeze out more things, so he relieved himself and said: "Uncle won't say anything, like the clothes and shoes worn by the ten girls just now, you prepare a hundred sets for me, five hundred quintals of rice, ten pounds of Qingquan wine I drank just now, and a thousand copper coins, and my uncle is in charge of this matter." ”

These are barely within the acceptable range of influence, but they are much less than originally estimated, and the stone in Huang Jing's heart can be regarded as landing, but in order not to let the old man see through it, he still said painfully: "Uncle Li! With these ten treasures, you can be in the position of a tall adult, why are you still thinking about our little subsistence food?

That's it, Uncle Li, the kid is also making his own opinion, the clothes worn by the younger sisters just now are fifty, and it is not easy to make these clothes, we will imitate fifty pieces now, and five hundred quintals of rice will be counted according to what you said Uncle Li.

There is not so much Qingquan wine, now there are five pills left, and the power food is not enough to eat, if you don't know that Uncle Li is coming, it will definitely not be used to make wine, but if Uncle Li likes this wine, you can let people bring the grain, and we will help you brew it.

This wine is so delicious, but it costs too much food, and a load of grain is only four or five catties of wine, and only you can afford it like Master Gao and Uncle Li.

Copper coins, I won't earn it with Uncle Li anymore, we'll just give it. ”

In the end, these damn robbers were finally dismissed, Huang Xun felt a lot more relaxed, he didn't embarrass the Huang family, and he didn't live up to the trust of the forces, the young commander said well, these people are robbers, fortunately, they have been dealt with this time.

But then, the peace is estimated to be gone, and the flames of war will surely come.