On Chinese New Year's Eve, the taste of the New Year in Fangfu is still relatively heavy, and it looks very busy up and down.

Zhang Cheng sat on the chair, looked at the two middle-aged people who looked about forty years old opposite, smiled and didn't say a word, just silently drank his tea!

Seeing this, Fang Qian introduced: "Compared to General Zhang, these two don't know each other. The old man will introduce you to you! This is Ji Governor Shi Wang Zheng, Lord Wang! This is Master Li Du, who joined the army in Jizhou! ”

"Two adults. Zhang Cheng is polite! Zhang Cheng sat in his position and arched his hand. However, Yang Wenzhao and Qi Tian gave each other a salute.

The two of them were not surprised, they felt that the soldiers were so informal, and they didn't care. It's also a knack for acquaintance. But Wang Zheng boasted: "The general pacified the Northern Barbarians and set up this honor, he is really young and promising!" My Jizhou is really full of talents! ”

"Thanks for the compliment! A little thing, not enough to worry about! I am really ashamed to be blessed by the Lord! Zhang Cheng said with a smile.

Zhang Cheng put down the teacup, he bowed his hand to the other party humbly, and said: "Xiaguan came this time, mainly because of a few things, I want to discuss it with Lord Thorn Shi!"

"Oh? Please speak! Fang Qian took a sip of tea and said.

"My Northland County is now plagued by war, and there is not a single person and not a grain of grain. The countryside is barren and uncultivated! But the subordinate officials have been blessed by God, and they dare not slack off in the slightest! Therefore, after thinking about it, there are also some ways to do it. It's just that these methods have a wide range of implications. After all, adults are my immediate bosses, so I'm going to ask for advice! Don't make any mistakes! Zhang Cheng said.

"What's the matter? You might as well be straight! As long as you don't break the law, I fully support you! Fang Qian drank tea and said lightly.

"Good! The adults really care about the people! You see, I don't have this population, do I? You're not moving some to Northland. It's spring ploughing soon, the lower officials are poor and white, and they can't afford to buy farm tools, do you always give me tens of thousands of sets? Also, this always makes the people rely on manpower to cultivate, which is laborious and laborious, do you see if you will send me thousands of ploughing cattle again! Zhang Cheng said shamelessly!

"Lord Zhang, what a big breath!" Fang Qian's face was displeased, he felt that Zhang Cheng was teasing him. He said a little indifferently: "Half of the fifty-one counties in the nine counties of Jizhou have been affected by military disasters of varying degrees!" Which place is not life difficult! I know Northland is especially difficult! There are still a thousand sets of farm tools in the Assassin Mansion, and the ploughing cattle are not too much, only ten! I've got you covered! I can only suffer from a few other counties! As for the population, I can't give it to you, after all, people have already taken root, although I am a thorn in history, but I can't force the people to do this kind of thing! ”

"So little! Farm tools are not given, and ploughing cattle are not given! Even the population, you don't give! Lord Thorn Shi, if you do this, I'm afraid Northland County will become a barren land! Zhang Cheng stood up and shouted loudly!

"I can't help it!" Fang Qian spread his hands and made a helpless look! At this moment, Fang Qian was also holding back the fire in his heart, he had been a stabbing for five or six years, and he had never met such a subordinate!

"Humph! You can't help it! What if I had a solution? Zhang Cheng suddenly stood up and yelled at Fang Qian!

"If you can make the people willing to go to Northland County, then I naturally have nothing to say! I should be glad that you have such ability! I will also cooperate with you to rebuild Northland! Fang Qian said with some disdain. What kind of place is that in Northland County, it is the closest to the Northland, and I don't know how many people have moved from Northland County over the years. Day after day, year after year, the population of Northland County is getting smaller and smaller, and the population reported last year was only less than 30,000! Even if Zhang Cheng snatched back all the people who fled south from Beidi County, it wouldn't be a big deal! Zhang Cheng wants to be the king of grass in the real sense, but it will never work!

"Good! Deal! The two adults heard it too! I hope that Lord Assassin will not regret it and cheat! Zhang Cheng said fiercely.

"Lord Thorn Shi is a promise! What a man who does not believe in his word? When you say that, you are insulting the personality of adults! Wang Zheng saw that Zhang Cheng didn't say a word as soon as he came in, and he was also full of anger at the moment.

"Good! Since Lord Thorn Shi is so picky, we don't dare to eat and drink anymore! That's it! Zhang Cheng gave up his hand and turned away.

Yang Wenzhao frowned, but finally had to leave.

Zhang Cheng and the three of them had just walked out of the inner hall and walked out as if they were running away, while saying this to Yang Wenzhao, he hurriedly walked out, and suddenly bumped into a person at the corner door of the corridor! Zhang Cheng only felt that the warm fragrant nephrite was full of arms, and a faint fragrance refreshed people's hearts. This kind of taste, Zhang Cheng is very familiar, it is a girl's unique body fragrance!

"Female!" Zhang Cheng was secretly shocked in his heart!

The man screamed in surprise and hurriedly broke free from Zhang Cheng's embrace. Hurriedly tidied up Luo's skirt and supported a few strands of messy hair with his hand! looked up at Zhang Cheng, quickly apologized, nodded with a flushed face and bowed down and ran!

But Zhang Cheng was stunned for a long time, and he was stunned! Fairy! Definitely fairies! Looking at the beautiful figure that was gradually moving away, Zhang Cheng felt that he should believe it at this moment, and it was love at first sight!

Out of the Assassin's Mansion, Zhang Cheng also looked back at the Assassin's Mansion step by step, as if he could still see the beautiful figure! Finally looking at his own hands, he decided that from today, at least a year later, he was not going to wash it! That's the hand that hugged the fairy!

"I have long heard that Lord Fang, there is a daughter, who is in her twenties, and she looks beautiful, and when I see it today, it is really amazing!" Yang Wenzhao saw Zhang Cheng like this, and deliberately said angrily to him. Qi Tian also admired: "Yes! So beautiful! It's like coming out of a painting! It's a perfect match for our general! ”

"Deliberately angry with me, isn't it? I offended the old man's pole! Zhang Cheng said depressedly: "It's over!" This deal is a big loss! Why don't we go back and apologize now, and then talk to him and get his daughter?" ”

"It's late! Fang Qian is a person who re-commits to it! And he looks down on the weak and incompetent the most! If you really like his daughter, it is better to build Beidi County seriously, so that Beidi County is ten times more prosperous than Linyang County, and maybe you can still get his appreciation! When the time comes, when he is happy, he may marry his daughter to you! Yang Wenzhao shook his head and said with a smile.

"Bitter life! Life is too bitter! Zhang Cheng shook his head, and walked away slowly with small steps in his hands!

Fang Ningyu walked to the inner hall a little absentmindedly, but saw that the inner hall did not call the general that the maid told her, but saw that the father and the two adults in the hall had extremely ugly faces.

Li Du on the side said extremely depressedly: "I thought that this Beidi county guard was such a wise heroic boy!" I think I'm just a reckless man! ”

"That's it! The man is gone, say no more! I have a few glasses of thin wine behind me, and the two of you will come while they are happy! So saying, he walked out. The two followed.

Fang Ningyu didn't know so, what was going on? She found a subordinate and asked, only to find out about the conflict just now, and secretly thought: Could it be that he was the one she met at the small door just now? Thinking of the matter at the garden gate, Fang Ningyu couldn't help but blush, and secretly said to himself: Deng's disciple!

The next day, Zhang Cheng began to buy tea, coarse salt, and grain in Anhua City!

In the prosperous era of the Great Qian, that is, during the period of Taizong and Wenjingzong, the price was extremely low, and a bucket of rice could not be sold for more than a dozen yuan, but in the later period of the Great Qian, especially after the Emperor of the Emperor, the price soared, and a bucket of rice was sold for 200 yuan, and by the time of Mengqian, a bucket of rice was sold for 300 yuan. One stone is ten buckets! In other words, one stone of grain is three taels of silver!

And salt, as a necessity for people's three meals, is also skyrocketing. Now a pound of salt costs 30 yuan, and a stone of salt weighs 120 pounds, that is to say, a stone of salt can be sold for 326 yuan of silver! This is still ordinary salt, coarse salt, that is, salt mixed with a lot of sand in it, but it is cheap, one stone is only one or two or five dollars of silver, but how much salt is in it? What's more profitable is still the best of salt, refined salt. That is, the salt purified from ordinary salt, the color of the salt is snow-white, just like snow! One pound of refined salt is four hundred dollars a pound, and one stone of refined salt is forty taels of silver! It's a huge profit!

Tea is better, after all, it is not a necessity, but it is prohibited by the imperial court from being exported, and the people of this tea are limited to buy. A basket of ordinary tea leaves costs only a few hundred dollars, and good tea leaves can cost a few taels or even dozens of taels! Once exported, the price can rise exponentially.

This is true in troubled times!

Zhang Cheng and others took 1,500 taels of gold this time and purchased 2,000 stones of grain; coarse salt 3,000 stones; two thousand baskets of tea; A total of more than 11,000 taels of silver were spent, and more than 10,000 taels of silver were spent.

Vehicles drawn by mules and 500 escorted servants formed a long line that stretched for several miles, slowly heading towards the Northlands.

"Ouch my money! More than 10,000 taels of silver! That's it! "Zhang Cheng is howling miserably all the way!

When they arrived in Beidi County, all the goods had been transported to Xiyang City, and the five hundred servants who were responsible for escorting the goods received the money, and Yang Wenzhao said to everyone: "Three foremen, brothers. My family has something to say to you, and he asked me to tell you that now Beidi County has just experienced the disaster of war, and the five counties of Beidi County are already empty. Millions of acres of fertile land and thousands of acres of vast buildings are now waiting for you to receive them! Anyone who is willing to register in my Beidi County and settle down the household registration, the houses in the counties and counties, you can choose whichever one you want! Each family can immediately receive 100 acres of fertile land, first come, first served! As long as the newly opened fields are registered with the government, they also belong to individuals! Northland County exempts you from paying taxes for three years! ”

"Lord County also said that if you go to Beidi County before the beginning of spring, we will give you an additional twenty acres of fertile land!" Yang Wenzhao said passionately.

When everyone heard this, they were all confused by this sudden news.

Yang Wenzhao saw that everyone didn't seem to believe it, Yang Wenzhao cleared his throat, and he said: "Folks, if you don't believe it, you can go to Xiyang City to have a look, there are more than 500 villagers in our city who have come back from the grassland, and they all have houses and allocated land!" Li Hao, you take the big guy to take a look! ”

Li Hao promised, let the villagers follow and have a look!

Zhang Cheng had a life-saving grace for the people of Daqian who were rescued from the grassland, and at this moment he heard that the people of Linyang County came to see if the matter of dividing the house and land was true. Smart people understand the truth at once, and at the same time warmly welcome them, they also pull the villagers to see the land outside the city!

The effect was immediate, and the eyes of the five hundred servants in Linyang County widened, isn't this a great thing! Who doesn't want to take advantage of this cheapness?

Before leaving, Zhang Cheng personally sent them out of the city, and patted their chests and promised: "Jizhou Assassin Shi has promised this official, and he fully supports the reconstruction of Beidi County!" As long as you are willing to come, all household registration changes and registrations will be handled by the official for you! Go back, and tell your bosses that anyone who is willing to do business in Northland County will not be taxed by the official within a year! ”

"Good! General Zhang, we ordinary people trust you! There is your word! We'd all love to come! Let's go back and discuss with our family, before spring ploughing, we will all come! The foreman said happily.

"Go early and come back early! Go early and come back early! Zhang Cheng smiled and sent them away!

There are dozens of singles, who live directly in Xiyang City, and they have already chosen a house, and Yang Wenzhao has handled the household registration for them clearly, and he has also led them to clear the land. All of them are so happy! These poor people, transformed into rich people! How can that little bit of stuff in Anhua City compare with the house and land!

Zhang Chengke became the shopkeeper, Fang Qian, he had already helped Yang Wenzhao solve it, and he didn't care about the rest.

After receiving the instruction, Yang Wenzhao immediately summoned the existing people in the city who could read and write, copied thousands of notices, and printed the big seal of the county guard, and then asked the pro-guard and hundreds of veterans to disperse to the eight counties of Suiyuan County, Haiyi County, Yishan County, Linyang County, Liyang County, Pinglu County, Huxi County and Cangyu County, and conveyed the policies of Beidi County one by one.

Suiyuan County next to Beidi County,

Outside a grain store, a few workers who were resisting the work were talking.

"Li Tou, have you heard about the matter of Northland County?"

"Hey, who doesn't know about this! What a good thing! As long as you go to Beidi County, you can get a house and a hundred acres of fertile land! Before spring ploughing, you can get an extra 20 acres! You don't know, several babies in our food team have gone to see the situation. It's been more than a month, and I haven't come back! I think it's eight times out of ten. Nine is true. I'm in my forties, and half of my body is in the ground, or I'll go to Northland County too! Li Tou said.

"Yo! What do you mean, is this accurate? A foreman asked.

"Exactly! Absolutely! Didn't you see the notice at the gate of the city? It's covered with a vermilion seal! This is a notice from the government, so it can be fake! Li Tou patted his thigh and said.

"That's good! I'll have to go home and discuss this, and I'll go to Northland County to take a look!" You go back and talk to your boss, and I'll go! Don't do it here anymore! The foreman hurried away.

In the grain shop, Boss Qi frowned, in the past two days, the long-term workers have been going more and more, and they have never come back. It seems that the notice of the county guard of Northland County is accurate! Boss Qi is thinking about whether to go there to develop too!

Even if you don't move your home, at least you have to find a way to buy a shop, so many people move here, there must be a lot of food, this is a business opportunity! After making an calculation, Boss Qi shouted to the guy: "Ertou, pack up and salute, let's close the shop first and go to Beidi County to have a look!" ”

"Huh! Okay! The little ones are going to be cleaned up! ”