After four days of recruitment, a total of less than 4,000 people were recruited, standing at the door of the handsome tent and looking at the somewhat empty school field not far away, Liu Zheng sighed softly, and Wei Boyuan and Qin Haiqing, who were following him, were also silent. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Lord, this is not a solution, it is basically impossible to recruit people in this part of Fucheng, it is better for us to divide the recruitment work, and let the counties post notices and send them to all townships and villages, so that we should be able to recruit a lot of people!"

As soon as Qin Haiqing spoke, Liu Zheng sighed again, he hadn't thought of this method, but now that he was about to be busy farming, who had the heart to become a soldier? In the past few years, the imperial court has recruited soldiers every year because of the wars between the Mongols in Ningxia and Liaodong and the wars between Korea and the Japanese, and the hardcover in this Shandong has been scraped several times in a row, and the people are very resistant to this recruitment.

If you can't survive, who wants to be a soldier?

Alas, Liu Zheng sighed again and said, "I don't know what happened to the looting of silver in the counties below?" It's been days, and no one has sent the money! The new recruits are counting on the money to pay their settling-in expenses! ”

Wei Boyuan doesn't want to take this stubble, although the people in the rivers and lakes have no resistance to robbing the poor and helping the rich, but you also have to divide whether the person you rob is good or evil, this work of distinguishing between good and evil is not easy to do, if you don't distinguish between good and evil, he Wei Boyuan is still very resistant.

Qin Haiqing doesn't care about this, whether it's good or evil, as long as it's robbing the rich, he has no resistance.

He thought about it in his heart, among the people sent out, except for Yuboda, a fool who dared to think the same as him, and dared to rob him regardless of thirty-seven twenty-one, the rest of the people should have to distinguish some good and evil, so that it would be much slower.

So Qin Haiqing spoke: "After all, we have only occupied the city, and if we want to rob those who are rich and unkind, we have to have a good life to screen them, so it will take some time!" ”

Liu Zheng nodded, thinking that this should be the case, but he was so unhappy in his heart that he couldn't get rid of it, and after a while, he opened his mouth and said to the guards beside him: "Go and find the platoon commander of the communication platoon!" ”

The guards took the order and left, and after a short time, the platoon commander of the communication platoon came to Liu Zheng.

"Lord!"

"Well, in this way, you immediately send people to the leaders of Gaoyuan, Boxing, Le'an, Linzi, Shouguang, Changle, and Linqu to send orders, asking them to screen as rich and unkind gentlemen, landlords, and wealthy businessmen, and at the same time, those who usually do more good deeds should also let them donate, and don't force them to donate as much as they want! At the same time, let the county magistrates of each county post the conscription notice to all townships and villages, and those who enlist can immediately get 20 taels of settling-in allowance, which will be paid from the commanders of the county leaders! ”

"Yes, my subordinates will do it!"

The platoon commander of the communication platoon took the order and left, and Wei Boyuan suddenly spoke: "Virtuous nephew, is it a little inappropriate to do this?" ”

Liu Zheng nodded and shook his head before he spoke: "I know it's really not good to do this, but there's no way, and it's ......" Speaking of this, Liu Zheng paused before continuing: "And in order to change and develop, you have to break the original things, such as buying land when you have money, such as burying money in the ground when you have money, these are the key factors that hinder development, if you want the people's life to be better, if you want the people to never pay the land tax, you need to use the commercial tax to make up for it!" ”

"How can I overcharge my business tax? It's very simple, as long as you do more business, you can overcharge! But how can people give up the world to do business? There are two ways, one is to let him see the benefits of doing business, and the other is to force them to go into business! If the first method is used, countless sages have used their experience to tell us that it will not work, because in the inherent concept, Shinong industry and commerce, business is the most lowly, but anyone who has a little ability will not go to business, even if business is not so looked down upon now, rich people will still go desperately to buy land, local owners, so that it will increase the annexation of land, of course, this is another problem, let's not talk about this today! ”

"So, when the first method doesn't work, the second way is needed, to force them to do business, and how to force them to do business, that is, to seize their land by brute force, so that they have to dig up the silver hidden in the ground and devote themselves to business! Old man, you may also say that even if you forcibly take their land, even if you force them to dig up the silver buried in the ground, they will not fly away with the silver to buy land elsewhere? ”

"Of course I won't be so stupid, I will force them to go into business and spend money to buy shares and trade with me before they dig up the silver!"

"Of course, old man, you will definitely not approve of me doing this! But I'm here to assure you, old man, that time will prove that I'm right! I could swear, swear I was absolutely right! ”

Originally, the more Wei Boyuan listened to Liu Zheng's words, the tighter his brows wrinkled, and his heart became more and more uncomfortable, but in the end, Wei Boyuan's brows suddenly relaxed, although there was no evidence, but he knew that his nephew was a measured person, and he was by no means a person who would cut himself off.

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Five days have passed, and the following counties have successively sent the silver and the newly recruited soldiers to the camp of the left guard battalion, with the arrival of silver and soldiers one after another, the smile on Liu Zheng's face became stronger and stronger, until the end, Liu Zheng counted that there were as many as 30,000 newly recruited soldiers, and nearly 27,000 recruits were recruited in seven counties, and the silver sent to him was nearly 400,000 taels.

The number calculated by his heart made Liu Zheng can't help but burst into foul language, Nima is really a horse without night grass and no fat, and people without windfall are not rich, it seems that robbery is the best way to make a fortune, and the old rich people in the counties of Qingzhou Prefecture are really rich enough, he copied the homes of these rich people in the city and copied more than 300,000 taels, Nima is still a rich man in the countryside is a real tyrant.

In fact, it is normal to copy a lot in the following counties, after all, once there is a war or banditry, these rich people will all hide in the old mansions in the countryside, and most of them dig a cellar in the old mansion and bury the money in it.

There is a wise saying in my Great Shengbang, called happiness and sorrow, just when Liu Zheng was happily counting the silver, training soldiers, and hiring people to mine and forge blades everywhere, one day in early April, the godson of the dead eunuch Chen Zeng, Chen Qing, who also had no eggs, came to Qingzhou Mansion with a black face.

As soon as Liu Zheng heard that Chen Qing was coming, he lost his temper in the prefect's yamen, although he didn't know what this grandson was doing, although he looked down on this eggless guy in his heart, but he still called Wei Boyuan as soon as he learned the news, and the two rode into Qingzhou City on fast horses.

As soon as he entered the back hall of the mansion, Liu Zheng saw Chen Qing sitting under the first seat with a black face, he was alone in the entire back hall, and Wang Jiabin didn't know where to go.

"Wow, my best partner, you don't seem to look good?" Liu Zheng walked towards Chen Qing with a hippie smile.

Chen Qing's brows furrowed even deeper, obviously he didn't understand what Liu Zheng said, but he didn't care about this, he was extremely worried about it now.

"Master Liu, our family is really envious that you can still laugh!" After Chen Qing said this in a strange way, he glared at Liu Zheng fiercely.

Liu Zheng shrugged his shoulders and said, "I don't know what you are doing here, Gonggong Chen?" ”

Chen Qing snorted and said: "Our family is not in the mood to play poverty with you here now, do you know that something big has happened in Beijing, you, me and our godfather will be in big trouble soon, if you don't do it this time, you will lose your head!" ”

Liu Zheng was slightly stunned, then put away his laughing expression, and looked at Chen Qing very seriously: "What happened?" ”

"The godfather's people in the palace sent news to Kuaima, and Li Shan, Shouguang Zhixian County, beat the Dengwen drum!"

"Li Shan? Beat the drums? Liu Zheng's brows furrowed suddenly, after capturing Shouguang that night, he ordered someone to search for this Li Shan, but he didn't find it all night, and scattered to several other gates of the Tan Ma, only the Tan Ma of the East Gate and the West Gate came back the next day, and the Tan Ma of the North Gate disappeared, at that time he guessed that it should be the people of the six doors who took Li Shan away at the same time when they left, but he didn't care at the time, and he didn't care afterwards, after all, Li Shan is just a county, and it is an outdated county.

But he didn't expect that this person he didn't care about would cause him a big trouble, and this person actually went to beat the drum! Liu Zheng's mind turned all of a sudden!

"Yes, he beat the drum, and then saw the master, in front of the master, he sued you and our godfather!"

As soon as Chen Qing finished saying this, Liu Zheng's frown deepened, and his mind turned sharply, and after a long time, Liu Zheng spoke: "He only sued me and Chen's husband?" ”

Chen Qing snorted and said, "What? Liu Ye, do you still think he has sued less? He sued you for rebellion in front of the emperor, saying that our godfather is your comrade! ”

After hearing this, Liu Zheng's brows were almost twisted together, he was not afraid that this Li Shan would accuse him of rebellion, in today's environment, Wan Liye's mind is not in the country, and the adults in the court are also staring at the North Korean side, according to the news obtained in these days, even his counterpart in Taiyuan Mansion, the imperial court only let the Ningxia general army send two thousand border troops to exterminate it, and before the Korean battle is over, it is impossible for the imperial court to come to him for trouble!

Sue him Liu Zheng, he can figure it out, but what does it mean to sue Chen Zeng? The big backer in this Chen Zeng Palace is Zheng Guifei, and this Chen Zeng is also deeply trusted by Lord Wanli, otherwise it would be impossible for him to come to Shandong to collect mining taxes, but there are gold mines in Laizhou! In Liu Zheng's opinion, no one should sue Chen Zeng if this Li Shan sued, how could the emperor believe that Chen Zeng, who had looted silver for him, rebelled? This is not only a stupid trick but also a little inexplicable, does he Li Shan want to expose Lao Tzu, or do he want to help Lao Tzu?

I can't figure it out, I can't figure it out!