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There was a deathly silence in the room, and everyone was stunned on the spot, and their eyes turned to the direction where the sound came from, and everyone realized that the person who spoke was Zhou Jinfeng, the commander of Anyun County.

Zhou Jinfeng was actually prosperous in Annan Province during this time, because the people of Dongfang Port continued to send him a lot of benefits, first of all, a large number of bandit captives and heads, so that he exchanged a large amount of silver from Beihai; Then the "Ministry of Commerce and Trade" gave him a special document, giving him a certain amount of preferential treatment when he purchased a certain amount of goods, although he said that he did not do business, but it did not mean that he could not lend this document to others, An Yun several large local households pooled thousands of taels of silver to him, borrowed this document, these large households from the transaction he did not know, but from the expenses of these large households will send him five hundred taels of silver every month, you can guess that they must have made a lot of money. Although he also wanted more money, as an official and a scholar, he knew that the rank of the merchant was the lowest and inferior, and he disdained to do such work himself, and he only needed to rent out a piece of paperwork and sit at home to make money, so why not? As for where the money comes from, he doesn't have to worry about it, he saved less than 300 taels of silver in a few years before he came, and he can't solve it if he wants to save his pension before he leaves office, and it is estimated that even if he can save 100,000 taels when he leaves office, it is simply a dream. Compared with the previous harvest of autumn crops every year, it is like entering heaven to snatch a few little wealth from the peasants' grain harvest.

Moreover, in the past two years, the people have taken care of An Yun's grain - they simply ignored the records in the so-called fish scale book, let alone the grain officials' requests for grain, and only paid the grain according to the ratio of ten taxes and one tax. This move made the grain officials very embarrassed, according to the taxes of the Wu Dynasty, even after adding the current Liao, Suppression and Lian salaries, it had to be multiplied by three times to reach ten taxes and one. This kind of behavior has completely lost the value of the various marks that can only be understood by themselves on the previous fish scale books of the grain officials, because the local land of Anyun has basically been contracted by the people, and it is basically only a matter of time before the land that is left uncontracted is basically a matter of time. Many small and medium-sized landlords have given up the option of self-management of their own land and have instead consulted the Committee of Agriculture on whether they can contract out their land.

With such a toss, the grain officials reduced their work by 90 percent, which was originally based on nine centimeters of silver per mu, which was converted into less than ten catties of grain. In previous years, in order to pay less grain, the grain officials used all kinds of tricks in order to collect more grain, what big buckets in and small buckets out, piles of tips and other means you come and go, let a bunch of poor and sour talents on the side of the bitter sarcasm - of course they are interested, because scholars do not need to pay a certain share of the grain tax, which is stipulated by the law of the Wu Dynasty. Therefore, there are often people under the names of these Xiucai who invest in the land and transfer the land to the name of Xiucai, which can legally avoid taxes. As for the common people who sold their land in the face of disasters, sometimes black-hearted buyers would buy the grain officials, make a note in the fish scale book, and transfer the land and property without transferring the taxes. Every year when the autumn endowment is accepted, there are always many people who come to Zhou Jinfeng's yamen to complain, and he is not at peace for several months.

But now the people have contracted the land, together with the autumn fu above, and this time the people directly transported thousands of stones of grain over, making the grain officials two big, and they can't even find a place to store the grain, and finally timidly negotiate with the people who deliver the grain to see if they can exchange it for silver. Who would have thought that the real man who led the team actually agreed with a smile on his face, it turned out that the people originally planned to pay with silver, but they didn't know how much silver they wanted, so they had to bring the grain over to open the way, as soon as they heard that they could use silver, they brought the grain back without saying a word, and the next day they came with a cart full of silver coins to pay the tax. This can save Zhou Jinfeng and them, in the past, whether it was cashier or grain, they had to make local chickens fly and dogs jump, if it was better to collect grain, everyone would take the grain to hand it over, but if it was cashier, then they had to sell their own grain first and exchange it for silver. At the same time, so many people sell grain together, naturally they can't afford to sell it, the so-called cheap rice hurts the peasants, but he, Zhou Jinfeng, has no way at all, so he can only let those grain dealers bargain at will. But now they are the ones who grow the grain, and they have the final say on the price of the grain, but they don't care how the price of the grain changes.

There are no ordinary people who complain about grievances, there are no tenants who make noise for the uneven weight of grain, and there is no "Diao Min" who are caught in the yamen every year to urge grain to beat the board and stand in the cage, this year's Zhou Jinfeng is so idle that he feels very uncomfortable, so he often goes to his own territory to inspect.

From the chats of the subordinates, he knew that the people had built a few roads, but he didn't expect that the people had already used a road about four zhang wide to connect all the eighteen villages of Anyun, and expanded westward to the border close to the country of Annan before stopping. The people had no intention of stopping the construction of the road, they turned around, and repaired it all the way from the port of the east to the north, and now they have repaired the mountains twenty miles before the Beihai Sea, and it seems that they plan to build the road all the way to the bottom of the Beihai City before March. The road was built for the convenience of the people, but the greatest use was certainly not just for the people, he had seen more than once the army of the people running on the road to the west, each soldier was fully armed, carrying their own weapons, bags taller than a person, dragging huge artillery, running and marching quickly on such a road.

The ghost ship of the enemy is the lonely master of the battle

Speaking of the army, Zhou Jinfeng had to admit that the Chinese army was the most well-trained he had ever seen, not to mention the loose command and hoe soldiers he saw in the thousand households in the west of the city who did not know how to wield a knife, even if it was the capital imperial forest army he saw when he entered Beijing to catch the exam, compared with these ordinary Chinese army, there is a big gap. Usually standing in the queue one by one stands there like a solid pine tree, when the queue enters, it is like a wall moving as magnificent, and the beard man also specially invited him to watch several rifle targets and artillery shooting, flying shrapnel, soaring targets, and the permeated gunsmoke made him understand the force declared by the man in an instant. However, even if he did not declare him, he was very clear, when the people were only 500 people and just arrived at Anyun Beach, they beat his thousands of villagers and military households to the ground, and now the Chinese army has exceeded the size of several thousand people, there are big ships in the sea, and there are heavenly boats in the sky, and they want to pacify them, not to mention the 100,000 army, that is, the 200,000 Annan army could not defeat the castle called Shabak where more than 1,000 people were stationed, but they also broke down and fled all the way.

It stands to reason that Zhou Jinfeng should not want to discuss the matter of borrowing troops with the people, as soon as the people came to Anyun, they built the city with their heads stuffy, and after the construction was completed, they were hula during the New Year, and they raised the flag and built the country, and now it is like an enemy country. But if it is said to be an enemy country, it is not at all a look of going against the Wu Dynasty, if it is like those anti-thieves, if they rush into the city to kill officials and rebel and steal money and grain, he Zhou Jinfeng should be the first to hang up, but after the success of the counterattack against the army he sent, not only was he not interested in attacking the county, but he was very happy to contact Zhang Rusong, who he sent, returned the body, and negotiated with Li Xijue, although the lion opened his mouth to ask for compensation of 60,000 taels of silver, But it can be offset by some unbelievable means, and in the end, An Yuncheng did this big thing that was supposed to make him lose his black yarn hat without paying a single copper. The next "bandits" that happened made Zhou Jinfeng even more incomprehensible, aren't these people themselves pirates? Why do you still want to suppress bandits? At that time, there were more than 10 bandits outside the city of Dongfang Port, robbing the people and caravans along the road, and the people turned to Zhou Jinfeng for help, but Zhou Jinfeng lost a large number of people and military households because he sent troops to attack Dongfang Port, so he could not do anything. As a result, the people went directly to the gang of people who were still commonly called "thieves" at that time, but what they didn't expect was that the people of the people actually had a posture of defending the land and having a responsibility, and directly dispatched almost all the troops, constantly dividing and encircling and annihilating the bandits, and defeated them, except for some who were killed or captured, most of them escaped from the Anyun realm and did not dare to come back, but I heard that a small group of bandits ran to the Haichao Temple outside the Oriental Port City to become monks, and the people seemed to be afraid of the monks, so they did not pursue it again. The men killed and captured so many bandits, and instead of asking for credit, they sent these captives and their heads to themselves, and left them at their own disposal, and the rewarded people didn't even bother to look at them. What made Zhou Jinfeng feel even more strange was that although people said that they had established "China", they paid grain and money in accordance with the laws of the Wu Dynasty, and there was no shortage of payment, which made him wonder what the Chinese thought.

But what is certain is that these Chinese have a good impression of the Wu Dynasty, at least not malicious, even if their side maliciously dealt with them at the beginning, people also repaid their grievances with virtue, which made Zhou Jinfeng, who was frightened at the beginning and wanted to hang himself, completely relieved, and now he has begun to have normal communication with the Yan people.

There seems to be a very strange attitude among the Chinese, they are quite unoptimistic about the current Wu Dynasty, often one or two young elders can directly criticize some of the political systems of the Wu Dynasty, which makes Zhou Jinfeng can't help but pinch a cold sweat, but fortunately, the Tiangao Emperor is far away, then Wei Zhongxian is also far away, and he should not blame himself for a while. But Zhou Jinfeng can feel a kind of goodwill towards the Wu Dynasty from these attitudes, because what they say is the real shortcomings of the Wu Dynasty, and he has heard many elders say that with this Chinese army, it can sweep through Liaodong, so that those "Tunguska monkeys" in Liaodong have no place to be buried, which made him have a thought in his heart at that time, can he ask the people to send troops to help calm the chaos in Liaodong? At least looking at the current situation, the Chinese army seems to be very capable. Now that he is participating in the discussion of the troop dispatch meeting in Beihai, he can't help but directly say his thoughts.

To tell the truth, Zhou Jinfeng's opinion is very much in line with Huang Qiusheng's appetite, this group of people is now making a lot of trouble in the "Oriental Port" on the side of An Yun, which makes him look at it in his eyes, greedy in his heart, and anxious at the same time. According to what he learned, the amount of silver imported and exported by Dongfang Port in a day was as much as several thousand taels, and now Dongfang Port even began to use silver for the issuance of additional coins - copper needs to be used to make bullet shells and raw materials for industrial products, although silver is more valuable in comparison, but it is used to make coins and cause less losses than copper. With so much silver entrenched in Dongfang Harbor every day, this group of people simply slept on a small amount of money, which made Huang Qiusheng remember the feeling of being a little sleepless; And what he is anxious about is that the power of the Beard people is increasing day by day, from the weapons used by the Beard people he saw when he met with the Beard people in Beihai last time, one is sharper than the other, even the weapons they gave to Liu Chuanzhi that they don't look down on, are far from the Wu Dynasty's armament more than a dozen streets, these Beard people's fleets in the sea have been able to defeat Zheng He's fleet before, and now they have developed a heavenly boat that can fly in the sky, and in time, let alone pacify the thieves, even if it is to send the imperial court heavenly soldiers, I'm afraid I won't be able to move anyone.

Zhou Jinfeng's opinion opened a window in front of him, and the people had negotiated with Liu Chuanzhi to get an official identity, and even wanted to send a team of people to Beijing to give gifts, but he still wanted to take the emperor's route directly to obtain a legitimate identity. Now that he has been ordered to send troops from Annan Province into Shanxi to assist in the suppression, but there is no way to scrape together the money to mobilize the troops, then it is not too difficult to negotiate with the people now, if they can send troops to assist in the battle, and when it is over, just find a way to give them a whole identity, it is not too difficult.

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