"Congratulations to the Tokai Commander!"

Pan Dui, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites from Beijing, finished reading the holy decree with an expressionless face, and then bowed his hand to Zhou Quan. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

At this time, it was already May of the third year of Xuanhe of the Great Song Dynasty, and half a year had passed since Zhou Quan's army in October and the battle with Yeluchun in November.

Zhou Quan's harvest in the past six months is not just a Donghai county prince.

After eliminating the living force of Liao Yu Nanjing Dao, with the help of Concubine Wen, Yu Liyan and Ao Luwei's appeal, Zhou Quan searched half of Nanjing Dao. From Gu'an, Yongqing, and Anci, to Luanzhou and Yingzhou, Yelu Margo led his men to drive them all over again, and drove all the people he could find to Wuqing, and the population gathered far exceeded the 100,000 that Ye Chu originally planned, and even more than the 300,000 that Zhou Quan wanted. Coupled with the more than 50,000 people captured during the war with Liao, the population he looted in the past six months was as high as more than 527,000 people!

This figure surprised Zhou Quan himself, and began to worry, the placement of so many people exceeded the previous plan, so that in addition to placing him in Jeju and Liuqiu, he also had to arrange part of it to Japan.

Moreover, the eating, drinking and lazing of more than 500,000 people also made Zhou Quan's originally sufficient supplies suddenly seem nervous, the most nervous thing is food, he was originally going to solve the food problem from Goryeo and Japan, but the food in these two places is not abundant. Fortunately, a group of discerning businessmen in Quanzhou bought a large amount of grain from Zhancheng and other places and sent it to Liuqiu, so that he had enough food.

Now looking at these more than 500,000 people is a heavy burden for him, but two years later, they will become Zhou Quan's huge assets, these more than 500,000 people, so that the population of the Han and Tibetan tribes directly controlled by Zhou Quan has jumped to more than one million, and the million-level population is enough for him to train about 50,000 standing troops!

It is not like now, when every time there is a war, there must be a full mobilization.

The population could be moved, but the land could not be moved, so Zhou Quan handed over the territory he could not occupy temporarily to the Great Song Dynasty in exchange for the title of the prince of the East China Sea.

In the testament of Song Shenzong, the person who recovered Yanyun can be the king, Zhou Quan did not recover the entire Yanyun, but before he had taken Liaodong in exchange for half of Shuozhou, this time he conquered the state and county, and dedicated the land of the eight counties of the two states south of the Sanggan River to the imperial court, although the imperial court only got empty land, but it recovered a large amount of territory, and Tong Guan and the generals of the Western Army and the Hebei Forbidden Army were afraid that Zhou Quan would swallow all the credit, so he gave Zhou Quan the title of the Duke of the East China Sea without waiting for the entire Yanyun land to be recovered.

In this holy decree, it was also clearly stated that after the land of Yanyun was fully recovered, Zhou Quan, as the first person to make a contribution, could be crowned the king of the county.

Probably afraid that Zhou Quan would snatch the entire Yanyun population, so he promised a county king title to appease him, because in this edict, in addition to promising to be crowned king, a more important content is to make Zhou Quan "stick to Wuqing and not be taken advantage of by the Liao people".

To put it bluntly, it is to let Zhou Quan return to the station, and others will pick peaches to grab credit.

Pan Dui also knew that his knighthood ambassador was a thankless task, so his face was not very good-looking.

It was Zhou Quan himself, who accepted the order with a smile, and thanked Pan Dui: "Pan Shilang has been reinstated again, congratulations." ”

"This is the blessing of the Duke of Tuojun, if Zhu Mian's thief is still alive, the lives of the lower officials are worried, where can he return to the temple."

After the death of Zhu Mian's father, Zhu Mian escorted the coffin back to his hometown, Pan Duo did not go to greet him, Zhu Mian sent people to send gifts to Pan Dui to express his respect, and Pan Tui also closed the door. Because of this, Zhu Mian hated it, and after entering Beijing, he instructed Yushi to criticize Pan Dui and force him to resign. When Pan Dui talked about this, he not only expressed his gratitude, but also showed favor to Zhou Quan to a certain extent: We have a common enemy, and this unflattering job is not my intention, so you can be sorry for me.

He is not afraid of Zhu Mian, because he knows that a villain like Zhu Mian will not last long, but he is still very jealous of Zhou Quan.

"I'm going to hand over the atlas of the states and counties, but after the war, the Liao people don't know how to govern, the household registration is full of errors, and many demographic statistics are wrong." Zhou Quan said.

Pan Dui laughed twice, Zhou Quan wantonly robbed the population in the south and east of Yanjing, this matter has long been in an uproar, and some officials who are not afraid of death are already attacking him for cruelty and harm to the people, how Pan Dui doesn't know, even Zhao Ji knows this.

But so what?

Sure enough, after Zhou Quan smiled, he began to complain: "This time to attack Liao, although I raised troops without authorization, but after all, I did not use a single soldier in the imperial court, and I did not spend a single money or grain in the treasury. I heard that some people in the Beijing division attacked me for this, saying that I had harmed the people and committed a great crime, and that not only should I not reward the county prince, but I should also send one official and two soldiers to arrest me and enter the capital, and I will be tortured and tortured by these people...... I think of Li Guang in the Han Dynasty, who did not want to be humiliated by such a small official, and even committed suicide...... After the squire went back, he asked the official family for me if these people wanted to force me to kill myself, so that I would be willing to give up. ”

Pan Dui smiled bitterly: "There are always flies, insects and ants, and the county prince has a golden body, so you can't make such jokes." ”

"I mean really, what are the names of those people, I can't remember them anyway, but I remember everything they said!" Zhou Quan is still serious.

Pan Dui understood that Zhou Quan asked him to speak on his behalf: "With the will of the county prince, how to deal with it?" ”

"Simple, isn't the imperial court going to the Northern Expedition to Yanjing and doing their best, let these people serve with the army, they can't go to the front line to fight, they can always be a civil servant with the army or something, right?" Zhou Quan said.

With this sentence, several imperial historians and more than a dozen Tai students were sent to the army!

At this time, Zhou Quan's credit was huge, and the court owed him something, and Pan Dui himself felt that those people had gone too far.

Therefore, he nodded without hesitation: "The lower officials will live up to the trust of the county magistrate!" ”

"In addition, I will go to Beijing in a while." When Zhou Quan said this, his eyebrows lifted slightly: "The affairs of the Beijing-Xu Railway, although my father is in charge, but my father is too kind, there are always people who bully him, this is not possible, I am a son, so I naturally want to support my father!" ”

When Pan Dui heard this, his heart moved again, and he laughed dryly: "Naturally, naturally." ”

The matter of the Beijing-Xu Railway was really full of twists and turns, and the local tyrants and inferior gentry in those places were overwhelmed by the peasant unions, and the two sides clashed several times, and dozens of lives were lost. However, there is the support of the Donghai Chamber of Commerce behind the peasant association, so the noise is getting louder and louder, but those gentry who originally controlled the place found that the young people in the local area are becoming more and more disobedient to them, and many of them simply beat their dogs, and even beat them themselves, and then fled to Xuzhou and Haizhou.

No matter how they objected, at the end of the second year of Xuanhe, the Beijing-Xuzhou Railway Chamber of Commerce was still established in Beijing, which is a semi-official and semi-non-governmental organization, and a month after its establishment, it successfully issued as many as 5 million railway bonds - in fact, most of this bond has already been booked, and the real issue for Kaifeng merchants and citizens is only 1.5 million yuan, which has been subscribed out within an hour after the sale.

With enough money, the Beijing-Xuzhou Railway can be officially launched, which in the territory of Jingxi Road, Xuzhou to Yingtianfu section has started, the wages are settled every day, a strong laborer can get 100 Wen, more can get 300 Wen, so the people along the way, one after another, to work on the construction site. It is said that the daily wage expenditure is as high as 20,000 yuan!

Some people who do not understand the mystery of this only think that the 5 million yuan obtained from the issuance of bonds is only enough for 250 days' wages, and 250 days will definitely not be able to build the Beijing-Xuzhou Railway, so they feel that it is difficult to accomplish things. But they never thought that after these people who worked on the construction site got the money, they immediately used the money to buy new clothes, toys for their children, and new tools for their homes...... Or simply deposit it in the Tokai Chamber of Commerce. Their consumption suddenly made the related businesses that advanced with the road construction army make a lot of money.

In March of the third year of Xuanhe, when the second batch of Beijing-Xu railway bonds was subscribed, these merchants traveled thousands of miles to Beijing and snatched up the second batch of 5 million bonds.

At the beginning, Zhou Quan made a budget, saying that as long as he used 8.6 million yuan, he could leverage the construction of the Beijing-Xu Railway, Zhao Ji was still a little worried, and the two batches of bonds were subscribed so smoothly, so that he finally put his mind at ease.

In fact, if it weren't for the incidents caused by those squires, the original labor price would not have been so expensive, but since they made trouble, Zhou Quan had the intention to turn the construction of this railway into a propaganda team and a seeding machine, and used this railway as an opportunity to sow the control of the local tyrants and gentry over the countryside, so he increased investment, and mobilized the local people to participate in the construction and maintenance of the railway with high salaries everywhere he went.

So far, the results have been excellent.

The remnants of conservative officials in the imperial court, as well as some local mediocre officials who refused to accept new things, colluded together at this time, trying to obstruct the construction of the railway by delaying, pushing and other means, Zhou Quan's father Zhou Fu is now supervising the railway, so he has not been less affected by these people's cold eyes and breathlessness, at this time Zhou Quan said this, Pan Dui understood, this is Zhou Quan's second condition.

The imperial court only relied on an empty title, and wanted to exchange more than ten states and counties from Zhou Quan's hands, how could there be such a cheap thing!

"Is there such a thing? The county prince respected his father for state affairs, and I heard that he even went to the construction site in person to pile rocks and carry rails with the people! There is no need for the county prince to return to Beijing in person, after the lower officials return to the court, they will definitely impeach those who dare to be disrespectful to the heroes! Pan Dui also made a promise.

These two conditions are harmless, and there is a consensus inside and outside the court, Zhou Quan is too good at causing trouble, so it is better to stay outside and not get into the capital.

Zhou Quan nodded and thanked Pan Dui, who saw that he didn't say anything more, and was a little apprehensive in his heart: "The county prince has nothing else to say?" ”

Zhou Quan really has no other conditions to mention, what he wants, as long as he takes it himself, now that Da Song has nothing to give him, there is not much. (To be continued.) )