Back then, he funded Xu Wei's Jingsui camp, and Jing walked out of the thousand hatreds for thieves and thieves, and this was what he feared. Secondly, he often went south through the canals, and if Xiajin County was not peaceful, it would not be good for him. In the end, it is the verbal declaration of gratitude for his feats and his loyalty and bravery. Of course. If Hu Maochang had the idea of "investing" in Xu Wei at that time, it would be unrealistic. Who would have thought that a person who is not as good as a weak crown, who is good at causing trouble, and who walks the dog with an eagle and a dog, can have today's status?

However, since Hu Maochang was able to "persuade the retreat" of merchants who flocked from all over Shaanxi, it shows that his strength and means are not ordinary. After guessing Xu Wei's intentions, he smiled and said, "Lord Zhijun Mingjian, people have already said it before. Others only stared at money, but Hu came with the idea of contributing to the reconstruction of Dingrong. ”

Well, it's almost to the heart of the matter. Xu Wei was interested: "Oh, that official would like to hear about it." ”

With a smug smile, Hu Maochang said eloquently: "Brothers under the command of Lord Zhijun. In order to protect the territory and the people, regardless of life and death, bloody battles are said to be the duty of people in the army. But how can I, when we are sheltered by it, be unthankful? Hu heard that the soldiers are still living in the military tent, and it is really hard to have a hot day, mosquitoes, and bites. Therefore, the construction of this barracks is a matter of man. Within six months, I promise to complete the construction. ”

The construction of this army barracks was originally a matter for the imperial court. The Hujie Township Army now has more than 20,000 horses, which are stationed in Guanxi Town, Xie County, and the surrounding areas of Dingrong. Li Gang pulled out the money to give Rong, and Xu Wei also prepared the tiles and wood, but he was suffering from the lack of craftsmen specializing in civil engineering. Hu Maochang now proposes to build it by him, which can be regarded as a charcoal in the snow. This person has extraordinary knowledge, and he must have inquired about the situation before this.

Seeing that Xu Wei was still listening, he didn't say anything. He added: "Datong, Fengli two charcoal wells." It is indeed the highest yield and the best texture. But the villain didn't think about swallowing it in one bite, and the Zhijun adults accounted for one percent. Settle semi-annually. Of course, in addition, if there is a shortage in the army, it is incumbent on you to use people. ”

Frankly speaking, the conditions proposed by Hu Maochang are not unattractive, in addition to building barracks, he also gives away 10% of dry shares for free, and it is settled once every six months. But it is not that there are no conditions higher than him, several wealthy local businessmen in Dingrong, when they talked to Xu Wei about this matter, some people even gave a ratio of 30%, and as long as he nodded, he immediately sent 500,000 yuan.

Xu Wei tapped lightly on the table, thoughtfully, Hu Maochang took a sip of the wine glass, and did not urge. In the Song Dynasty, it was forbidden for officials to do business, whether you were in office or idle. It is strictly forbidden to participate in commercial activities. But even so. In this era of business for all people, the atmosphere of civil and military officials doing business can be said to run through the entire Song Dynasty.

As early as Song Taizu Kaibao Sandong, Chengdu Mansion "charged the envoys and the officers and soldiers accompanying the ship to carry goods, private salt, and brocade, and did not lose taxes." "Not only did I start a business, but I even evaded taxes.

Another example is the Southern Song Dynasty, the generals under the command of the front division of the palace openly "raised troops to operate, soaked the military and government", and the generals not only operated privately in the places where they were stationed, but also operated shops, pawnshops and other activities.

To give a well-known example to the world, in "Water Margin", Wu Songzhu was asked to beat Jiang Menshen's grace, and his position was to manage the battalion, that is, a petty officer of the Xiang Army. He opened a hotel for himself in Happy Forest, and used one hundred and ten prisoners in the camp as his companions, making two or three hundred dishes a month down. This can be said to be a microcosm of the business of the military ministers of the Song Dynasty.

To sum up, during the Song and Song dynasties, the business of civil and military officials can be said to be open, and the imperial court has always cracked down hard, and even officials who sell forbidden weapons in the palace for personal gain are just punishments for "demoting three officials". Moreover, the targets of the imperial court's crackdowns were often concentrated on the group of officials who were "illegally" doing business. In other words, there is a crime. For example, tax evasion, bribery, forced buying and selling, etc. With regard to those officials who do business "according to their duty," we will adopt an attitude of turning a blind eye to them.

After a while, Xu Wei smiled and said: "The sincerity of the shopkeeper Hu has been seen by the official." It's just that the stakes are too big to make a decision in a hurry, so how about I think about it for a few days? ”

When Hu Maochang heard this, he hurriedly said: "That's nature!" That's nature! As long as the army is willing to lift people. Isn't it a word for adults? After chatting for a while, Xu Weitui said that he couldn't do anything, so he said goodbye and left first. Hu Maochang personally sent it downstairs. Please.

In the next three days, except for the local businessmen who often wanted to ask to see Xu Wei, Hu Maochang did not show up for the fourth day before finally unable to sit still. I met again. In the past few days, after thinking deeply, Xu Wei always felt that the other party couldn't take the dry shares that he gave away for nothing. If you take it, it is the same as taking bribes, there is no impermeable wall on these, and there is a Qu Dashuai on it.

However, the fat meat of the charcoal cannot be left uneaten. It is said that raising soldiers and raising soldiers, what to raise? Isn't it about taking money to raise? Share weal and sorrow with the soldiers. It can indeed make the soldiers compete to die. can see clearly, the same happiness is in the front, and the common suffering is in the back. Who will be born and die with you when you are hungry? The military salary of the Hujie Township Army is just a little bit, to put it mildly, it is not enough to rely on the military salary alone in January to return to private prostitution. You have to wait until there is a war before you can be relieved. But that depends on your luck, otherwise, you will have a life to earn and no life to spend.

After thinking about it, Xu Wei decided to buy a stake. When he put forward this idea, Hu Maochang hesitated and agreed. After all, this is someone's land, and the knife is fighting with the rich. The rich do not compete with the officials. For thousands of years, it has been a crying truth. And it is a pity that he has become a shareholder. That is to share weal and woe, share the risks, why not? There is also a key problem, that is, the charcoal wells in Xie County are all opened and all the equipment is complete. Just hire someone to get started. It can be mined on the same day, and you can see cash within a month. What the mine owner has to pay is actually the contract fee.

Now that the conditions have been negotiated, there is still a problem that needs to be resolved. Datong and Fengli are the two largest charcoal wells, and they have been contracted to foreign merchants, and local merchants must have ideas, and if they want to be convinced, they will have ideas. Xu Wei thought about it and thought of a hand.

On August 24, just a few days ago, Hu Maochang invited Xu Wei to dinner in this restaurant, and in the most spacious seat, Xu Wei invited almost all local and foreign businessmen who wanted to contract charcoal wells. In fact, the businessmen from other places, mainly from the Jingzhao area, were almost all persuaded by Hu Maochang to retire. Today, though. He still brought a few. People come just to fill the scene.

In the private room, the two groups of merchants sat in one place, talking to each other. This trader pays attention to harmony and wealth, and must get by on the surface, so whenever a new person comes, whether local or foreign, he still nods politely.

"Am I dazzled? That's Hu Maochang? The landed merchant asked in a whisper.

"It's him, I'll be there when I enter the door. This guy stretched out his hand really long, in Chang'an City, he has more than a dozen quality warehouses and wine shops, a few years ago he poured charcoal in Hedong, and sold it through the canal south, and made a lot of money. There are many acquaintances in the yamen. This time, it's time to set its sights on Dingrong again. The colleague next to him smiled.

"Hmph, this is Dingrong, he wants to be satisfied, I'm afraid it's not that simple." Someone glanced at Hu Maochang with bad intentions and said in a deep voice.

Immediately, some people raised different opinions: "It's hard to say, this coal is in Jiezhou, and we have never operated it before." Hu Maochang has an advantage in this regard. Don't underestimate him. ”

"What about the top bird? It's not a word from the yamen, "The words came to an abrupt end here, because Xu Zhijun and Master Zhang in the yamen had arrived."

It can be seen that Xu Wei and Zhang Qing didn't want things to look too formal, so they didn't wear official uniforms, green clothes and gauze hats, and came in with a Xichuan origami fan. The room full of merchants stood up and saluted, and the two of them returned the house. After sitting down, he first invited tea, and then Xu Wei said: "Today, the official invited all the shopkeepers to come to the east, and made it clear that it was to understand the dozen or so charcoal wells in the county. ”

Although they knew that it was for this, as soon as the word "charcoal well" entered their ears, everyone couldn't help but tremble in their hearts.

"You all know the system of the imperial court. Private. It's just that there are only seventeen charcoal wells. This monk has more porridge and less porridge, and you are sincere. The official didn't sleep well for half a month. Xu Wei snorted haha. A group of merchants also laughed together, saying that adults are diligent in government affairs, and they are really model officials, and we are blessed.

"The official thought about it for a long time, and felt that this matter would inevitably be said to anyone who was given it. After careful consideration, I scratched my scalp and finally came up with a solution. Now, I would like to ask Mr. Zhang to tell you about it. Xu Wei said that, and then looked at Zhang Qing.

Zhang Qingzhi was not in a hurry to say, took a roll of paper from his belt, put one according to the head, and the merchant picked it up and took a look. On the paper, the seventeen charcoal wells in Xie County were marked according to the size of the output, and Datong Fengli was naturally in the front. After the project, there is a blank space that asks to fill in the contract price.

After waiting, Zhang Qing hurriedly sat back in his position and took a sip of tea, and then said: "You can see clearly, there are seventeen charcoal wells on here." If you want to include one place, or all-inclusive, fill in the price. Teach on the spot, and the one with the highest price wins. ”

When everyone heard it, they all felt fresh, what is this method called? But when you think about it, it seems reasonable. Naturally, the government wants to get the highest price. But how high it is is not certain, there is always a reference. For example, if I find a few acquaintances to discuss and deliberately lower the price, you can't help it, right? With this idea, I only heard the shouting of the adult, and suddenly a group of soldiers rushed in from outside, and then came in without saying a word, first pulled out the bright steel knife with a "swish", and then ran to the front of the merchants, and someone came to stare at people.

When the businessmen were frightened, they heard Zhang Qing say: "It is inevitable that some people will cheat and get along to lower the price." Today, the Zhijun Office has chartered this restaurant, and all the shopkeepers have a single Jiang, so you can go and think about it carefully, and after filling it out, hand it over to the guards outside the door. When the nine documents are ready. On-site announcement of the decision. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, nine soldiers and prisoners took out a group of merchants. Xu Wei didn't look at it, just drank tea and fanned. He was leisurely, but he suffered nine merchants. Now there is one room per person, and there is no way to negotiate with anyone. Moreover, these nine businessmen all came alone under the banner, and none of them said that they wanted to jointly contract. Even if someone got the document and temporarily tried to find someone to lower the price, they didn't even have a chance to speak, so they let the soldiers take it away.

Staying in a single room, racking my brains, thinking of all kinds of possibilities, I still don't dare to fill in randomly. If the writing is low, you can't contract, and you're busy in vain. Fill it in, that's money, not lumps. I can't kill you. After thinking about it again, some people simply gave up on a big charcoal well like Chase Fengli. Instead, he focused on some of the smaller ones.

Some people are lucky and secretly open the door to fish in troubled waters. As soon as half of his head was exposed, he listened

Looking at the naked face, as well as the sharp blade that can cut the eyelids at a glance, he couldn't help but swallow his saliva: "Go up, go to the thatched house." ”

This Xu Zhijun's subordinates were also reasonable, and let go: "I'll accompany you." ”

It took nearly two hours to toss like this, and it took all nine documents to be handed in. When they returned to the private seat, the merchants who had been in high spirits before were all drooping their heads as if they had traveled hundreds of miles.

Zhang Qing spread the nine documents on the table, each of which had the private seal of each shopkeeper, and it could not be faked. He then reviews the prices one by one. The nine merchants under the "winning bidder" who recorded each charcoal well stared at him intently, eagerly awaiting the final result. Of course, there is no suspense, the two largest charcoal wells. Hu Maochang won the bid, and his price was only less than a thousand times higher than the second place, and he. He was the last one to hand in the paperwork.

As soon as this matter was finalized, all the merchants who contracted to the charcoal well began to hire charcoal workers, and they begged Xu Wei for this matter. The people of Xie County are scattered. Now the labor force there is all under the control of Xu Wei, he doesn't nod, who do you find to work? Hu Maochang was quite active, and before the construction of the charcoal well contracted by himself started, a large number of masons had been transferred from Jingzhao, and Xu Wei had some strong help from the township soldiers and began to build barracks. After the news spread in the army, it went up to the officers. When they came down to the soldiers, they all rejoiced.

In the blink of an eye, in October, the Shaanxi side began to send people to various prefectures, prefectures, armies, and counties to evaluate the performance of officials. After arriving at the Dingcheng Army. The officials are now in Huayin County, and their household registration has recovered quickly, agricultural and mulberry water conservancy has gradually improved, and merchants and goods have also become more and more prosperous.

In the territory of the original Jiezhou, although it was greatly damaged by the war, it was because Xu Wei organized the township soldiers to reclaim. The carbon well will resume production, and it is expected that there will be a greater recovery within two years. Therefore, it gives a moderate and good evaluation.

And the whole. Shaanxi, thanks to Li Gang's efforts in civil affairs, had a bumper grain harvest, abundant taxes, and fought against Xia County. There were several more large-scale victories. After Zhao Huan's personal minister inspected Shaanxi, he returned to Tokyo and reported. It was a wise move for the official to use Li Gang to appease Shaanxi. When Zhao Huan heard this, he originally intended to send Li Gang to Shaanxi, but now he has no intention of transferring him back to Beijing and regaining power. The emperor also specially asked about the achievements of young generals such as Xu Wei and Yao Pingzhong, and was very happy when he heard that Xu Wei's military affairs and civil affairs were handled well, and Yao Pingzhong trained more than 10,000 elite soldiers in Shaanzhou. Specifically on this matter, he said to the privy envoy Xu Shao that he would return to Hedong every day, and he would make these two people the vanguard.

But just. A few days after rejoicing, a shocking news came from the north. It is said that the Jurchens have now controlled most of the Lianghe region with the help of Gao Shiyou, Li Zhi and a large number of surrendered officials. intends to choose one of these two people, and the founding of the country is known as the emperor. As soon as the news came out, regardless of whether it was true or not, it had already made the Great Song Dynasty monarchs and ministers anxious, and they didn't care about the main battle and the main war.

Lost the land of the city, and lost the grain and grass of the soldiers, horses, and horses. They can not care, not care. But once someone uses Yue to claim the emperor, it is to challenge the imperial power, which is the most intolerable in all dynasties. Since the Great Song Dynasty seized the throne in the Taizu Zhao Kuangyin and Chen Qiao mutiny, generations of people are most afraid of being occupied by their own people. Now, if the traitors of the Great Song Dynasty are made emperors and open the country on the homeland of the Great Song Dynasty, what will this make the Zhao family lose face? Therefore, Zhao Huan urgently sent his envoys to Jinjin to care about this matter, and on the other hand, he ordered Li Gang, the envoy of Shaanxi Xuanfu, to select elite soldiers and strong generals. If the situation changes, the army will be waved into Hedong. In any case, we must not allow another one to emerge from the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, the imperial court.

In Xu Wei's view, this trick of the Jurchens is not new. Historically, in the year when they broke through Tokyo and destroyed the Northern Song Dynasty, they set up Zhang Bangchang as the emperor and the country name Dachu. However, Zhang Bangchang has been a Song minister for a long time, so he naturally knew that this matter was a desperate plan, so after only one month as the emperor, he invited Meng Shi, the empress of Song Zhezong, to listen to the government, and later officially returned the throne to Zhao Gou, who fled south. The Jurchens became angry, and more than two years later, they used the traitor Liu Yu of the Great Song Dynasty to establish a pseudo-Qi to confront the Southern Song Dynasty.

However, this time the imperial court was so anxious to use troops. But it surprised him a little. But on second thought. Not surprising either. Historically, Zhao Gou fled all the way south to Hangzhou, taking care of himself and being too busy, how could he still care about the puppet army of the puppet dynasty? Zhao Huan, on the other hand, was not, because he fanned his butterfly wings there, he was spared the fate of being exiled to the north with his father Zhao Wei. Tokyo was spared from falling, and the Western Army suffered almost no losses. Therefore, he still has this confidence, and when he is angry, he angrily wants to use soldiers.

At the beginning of November, Xu Wei received an order to issue mobilization orders to the rebel army in the prefectures and prefectures in the southeast of Hedong as the commander of the Hedong Righteous Army, and prepare to cooperate with the official army in battle. In mid-November, he received another military order. He, Xu Sheng, and Yao Pingzhong, the three generals, each led the elite to assemble in Xiuzhou. But it wasn't them who went to war, Li Gang made it very clear in his order. To put it bluntly, it is to pretend to be a show, to engage in drills, and to scare the Jurchens and their puppets. Don't, I'm staring at you! Because of this instruction, none of the three major generals took it seriously, and a total of less than 10,000 people ran to Yizhou, claiming to be 50,000, and preached that they would go straight to Taiyuan. (To be continued), if you want to know what will happen next, please go to 6 Mandarin Orange Office Mountain Horn Chapter More, support the author, support genuine reading of the latest Dong Jie on the washing stream book to dry the fine notch Di Shan)" said Qi umbrella