Under the vicious circle, the entire Hedong Road and Hezhong Province, after Fan Zuyu and his successors took office, the tax revenue fell sharply, which also led to the officials in these two places almost all being rated inferior when they were grinding.

There is only one state capital on Hedong Road that has the opposite situation, and that is Fuzhou. Today's Fuzhou is not the same as it was at the beginning.

Due to Zheng Xia's tossing, the trading gathering place of the entire Shanxi region gradually shifted from Taiyuan Mansion to Fuzhou City. Of course, there is Cai Dao's credit, under his influence, the courage of Zhi Kexing has gradually risen, and the border trade business is already profitable, and it is a unique business, so it is even more profitable. Seeing that it was profitable, the merchants of Hedong Road flocked to the city of Fuzhou.

With Cai Dao's guidance, of course, the Zhejia family will not trade at a loss. At Cai Dao's suggestion, they specially expanded the area near the South City Gate into a commercial area, and the land and houses were tightly held in their hands. These shops are rented and not sold, and the price of renting a shop increases every year.

At the beginning, some stewards of the big families came here to hit the nail, and they were naturally unwilling to spend a lot of money to rent a shop, and they were not willing to fall behind others and lose this good opportunity to make a fortune.

Where did these big families have been so angry, so they joined forces and sued the Fuzhou family to Zheng Xia. Zheng Xia was worried that he couldn't find a place to vent, so he used the excuse that the Zhe family colluded with the Western Xia and sold contraband to the Western Xia Kingdom to thoroughly investigate the Zhe family. However, the family did not obey Zheng Xia's order at all this time.

The Zhe family suddenly started a business on the border, but the target of the trade was neither the Liao nor the Tangut, but the Tatars. These nomads did not border the Great Song Kingdom at all, so how could they talk about fornicating with the enemy country?

What's more, those shops are all the property of the folded family, only renting and not selling without violating the laws of the Great Song Dynasty.

Could it be that Zheng Xia, the transfer envoy of Hedong Road and the prefect of Taiyuan Prefecture, can ignore the law and take people's money.

Zheng Xia's bullet and fold of Zhe Kexing's self-defense were all in the hands of Wen Yanbo and Lu Gongzhu, and after the two discussed it all night, they had to order Zheng Xia, the transfer envoy, to 'put a stable place first'.

The meaning of these words is already very clear. Since you Zheng Xia became the transfer envoy of Hedong Road and the prefect of Taiyuan Mansion, you have caused enough trouble for them. Now he still provokes the folded family for no reason.

At that time, the Empress Dowager was indeed because of her faith in Sima Guang, and she also valued the two of them. However, that doesn't mean that Gao Taotao will be like Sima Guang, and the two of them will obey their words.

The Zhe family has defended the frontier for the Great Song Kingdom for more than a hundred years. The loyalty and courage of the family members were naturally very clear to the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty. If Gao Taotao was asked to choose between Zhe Kexing and Zheng Xia, Gao Taotao would definitely choose to believe in Zhe Kexing. Although Zheng Xia is a civil official, what this guy did in Hebei Zhulu and Hedong Road is really disappointing.

If it was in the past, Zheng Xia would not have had no means to control the folding family. In the Great Song Dynasty, civil officials had jurisdiction over the most effective thing for military attachés - grain.

That's right, it's food. Fuzhou is located on the border, and it is not an important production area, and it has a lot of soldiers, so food is naturally indispensable. It is no wonder that the emperors of the Zhao and Song dynasties were so afraid of the generals who led the troops abroad, but they dared to let the Zhi family support troops in Fuzhou for a hundred years.

On the one hand, the Zhe family is actually not Han Chinese, and on the other hand, the Zhao and Song courts have the means to control them.

The amount of food will directly limit the size of the soldiers under the Zhe family.

It's a pity that Zheng Xia was very unlucky, and when he was in office, he just caught up with Cai Dao and made friends with the Zhe family.

When Zheng Xia was in office, the food on Hedong Road itself was very scarce, and the grain he had delivered to Fuzhou had been kept at the lowest level, which made the entire Zhe family very angry. Since becoming friends with Cai Dao, the Zhe family has obtained their continued food through the channels of the Cai family. However, this comes at a cost.

For example, Cai Dao established a large-scale soda factory in the city of Fuzhou.

Fuzhou is also the Fugu area of the later Shishi, located south of the Great Wall and east of the meanders of the Yellow River. That is, there is no shortage of land, there is no shortage of water, and the only thing that is lacking is actually land suitable for growing food.

In this piece of land in Fuzhou, there is very little vegetation in the area, which causes the local soil erosion is very serious, and the land is barren, the terrain is fragmented by rivers and strong winds, and the ravines are vertical and horizontal, forming a unique terrain on the northern Shaanxi Plateau - the wind-sand landform of semi-arid loess.

Of course, such land is not suitable for growing herbaceous and woody grains, but because there is no shortage of water, this place is a treasure land for growing pasture grass and grazing. Therefore, Cai Dao used the grain in his hand to buy a large amount of wasteland south of Fuzhou City. He sent a capable subordinate to this place to grow alfalfa on the land he had bought.

However, it is not used for grazing, but for alkali production.

Although Fuzhou is under the system of the Great Song Dynasty, the Kezhi family is undoubtedly the emperor of the soil in this place, so Cai Dao's interests are absolutely guaranteed. Unless, the Zhe family and Cai Dao choose to break up completely.

It's not that Cai Dao doesn't want to graze, on the one hand, there are not so many manpower, on the other hand, the cavalry in Fuzhou is still too few, and they have to beware of the invasion of the Western Xia Kingdom, so they can't take care of the Cai family's property outside Fuzhou at all.

What's more, Cai Dao has not found the kind of sheep that can't eat grass roots until now. He had to temporarily abandon this seemingly tempting plan, of course, Cai Dao planted pasture grass in order to keep the local water and soil in Fuzhou from losing a lot of water.

In the Ming Dynasty, Datong Mansion was an important base for alkali production in the Ming Dynasty. And there are many places where Cai Dao's industry will use alkali in the future, such as soap.

The opening of this soda factory employed a large number of local laborers, and the rapid commercial development of Fuzhou City also led to the migration of people from surrounding prefectures and counties.

In order to counteract Zheng Xia's means of cutting off the supply of grain and grass, Zhi Kexing planned to fight Zheng Xia and the families of Hedong Road to the end this time, and he handed over the taxes he needed to pay every year to Hedong Road after deducting the money for buying grain. However, it was not handed over to Zheng Xia, but to another deputy transfer envoy. And the shops of the Zhe family will definitely not be rented to those who are united with Zheng Xia and try to force themselves to submit.

The secret battle between the Zhejia and the Hedong Road transfer envoy Yamen was not resolved until Zheng Xia stepped down and Fan Zuyu took office. At that time, the Zhejia family completely relaxed the restrictions on renting shops in Fuzhou.

Seeing others making a lot of money, while they themselves are desperately holding on to land that cannot generate profits, waiting to die, the heads of those families are full of regret, but they can't do anything. No matter how powerful these family heads are, they will never be able to control all the state capitals and counties on Hedong Road. What's more, the power of those small and medium-sized businessmen united should not be underestimated.

Fortunately, at this time, the Zhe family took the initiative to revoke the restrictions on them, which can be regarded as giving these family owners a face.