When Jia Hao got up, there was a burst of scolding on the street, I didn't understand what he was scolding, but the sound of the meat on the whip was very clear, and when he turned his head, it turned out that the Annan official was dragging the two children who were blocking the road to the side of the street, scolding and whipping them with a whip.

"Stop!"

Jia Hao didn't want to care, how to deal with it, it was a matter for the locals, but the words during the secret discussion before poured into his mind again. He suddenly felt that this was a wonderful opportunity, the two countries were friendly, and he could take on the heavy responsibility.

After drinking the official errand, Jia Hao stroked his injured arm with a little bit of play, and shook it to the two children. It was a pair of brothers, the eldest seven or eight years old, the younger five or six years old, ragged, unkempt, and barefoot. Knowing that he had caused a big disaster, he knelt on the ground and kowtowed vigorously.

When the surrounding Annan people saw Jia Hao finding these two children, they all shook their heads and sighed, saying in their hearts that these two torturers could not escape punishment, and they actually stopped the horse of the governor of the Celestial Empire, not only the governor's mount lay on the ground panting, but even the governor himself was injured. In the case of King Zheng, he may have been tied up by the soldiers, and tomorrow he will be two corpses on a mass grave.

Jia Hao put on a kind face, squatted down and asked, "You're not scared, are you?" ”

The guard was anxious: "Dudu, your injury ......"

Jia Hao shook his hand, and asked the guard for some caramel and handed it over, and the two boys took it with a cower, barely calming down.

An Nan official knelt down and reported that this should be the son of the Zheng family's excellent soldiers, and it is estimated that his family had been killed when he resisted the heavenly soldiers, so they lived on the streets, begging for a living. During this period of time, there were many such orphans in Thang Long Mansion, and the people of the city did not dare to help them.

Seeing that one of them pinched a handful of candy, wanted to eat it but didn't dare to eat it in front of him, and there was still panic and confusion on his dirty little face, Jia Hao's heart was sour, and he suddenly remembered that a few years ago, after he broke his house with Wu Ya, no, Wu Shishi, he was mining in the mine, and he was so tired that he was not human, lying on the hillside at night, looking up at the starry sky, and he didn't know where his future was. At that time, the expression on his face should be not much different from theirs.

Thinking of the fourth brother again, well, one day, the fourth brother gathered them, gave them short swords, and told them that one day, they could become him, and at that time, everyone felt that it was a height that required a lifetime of struggle to reach.

From then to now, only six or seven years, Jia Hao feels that he has faintly reached that height, just the previous height. The fourth brother has been walking upward, not stopping for a moment, they are stumbling and chasing, and it is impossible to stand side by side with the fourth brother.

But when they look at others, this height is just like when the fourth brother looked at them, the fourth brother stretched out his hand to them, bringing them a new future, and now, he also has the strength to reach out.

At this time, the idea of acting in Jia Hao's heart had disappeared, and the previous seven people had a secret discussion, and they also had another understanding. Jiaozhi will be Huaxia after all, this is fate, even if there will be temporary suffering, even if Feng Jingyao's gang of scheming people are reaching out with different intentions, but the final result is......

Jia Hao stretched out his hand to the sister and brother: "Follow me, follow me to become a Chinese." ”

The brothers didn't know much Chinese, they looked at Jia Hao stupidly, the official shouted, the two stayed for a while, tears suddenly fell, and they didn't know how to express their joy and gratitude.

Jia Hao continued: "One day, you will also become me, but this is not for nothing. You must use your loyalty, your life, and all your abilities to repay Huaxia, and that will also be your Huaxia. ”

Even if these words were translated by the official, the brothers didn't fully understand, but when they heard "loyalty" and "return", they roughly knew that Jia Hao was asking for them, and they almost fell to the ground like a five-body throw.

Jia Hao got up, stroked the heads of the two boys and said, "From today on, your surname will be Jia." ”

After a moment of silence on the side of the street, there was a sudden burst of cheers, and many people bowed down to salute the young general. Titles such as "General Rende" and "Admiral Buddha" began to be put on Jia Hao layer by layer.

While Jia Hao is leading by example to promote the "friendship between the two countries", the previous seven-person secret discussion is also in full swing to implement the pile practice. Under the strong insistence of Annam's king Le Wai Woo, the "Anglo-Vietnamese Covenant" became the "Thang Long Oath", in Le Wai Yu's words, Annam is a vassal of China, how can it be an equal attitude to meet the alliance, so it should be Annam to the Yinghua oath of allegiance. ,

Since Annan is determined to recognize Yinghua as the superior kingdom of the Celestial Empire, Yinghua will naturally not shirk. After receiving a letter of appeasement from Li Xi himself, and saying that the Yinghua "Confucian Mission" would soon arrive in Annan and that the Confucian scholars led by Kong Shangren would help Annan establish a stable imperial system, Li Weiyu replied with tears in his eyes, imploring him to go to Huangpu at an appropriate time to meet His Majesty the Emperor.

In Annan, where the times are changing, there are still many people who are emotionally agitated, and Mo Gaoji, who has been promoted to Annan moderation, and Mo Gaoji, who holds the military power of a country, is one, and he feels that he is soaring through the clouds and fog, and has become a god, until the mysterious person Huang Er of the Heaven and Earth Society said: "Mo moderation, you are in a high position, but you must pay attention to moderation", he was like ice water, and suddenly woke up.

Who gave him his place? What is he doing with this moderation?

Mo Gao bowed to Huang Er respectfully and said: "The Heavenly Empire has orders, even if you go to the soup and the fire, the villain will not complain!" ”

At the same time, Ruan Shanyun, the original Lang Son Governor, sat in a carriage and entered Thang Long Mansion in a daze, and Yuan Yinggang was still sitting in the carriage, looking at him with an interesting look, and his eyes occasionally swept to a certain place, Ruan Shanyun felt that the pain rose again.

Yuan Yinggang said: "It's okay, this official is just a report and a report." ”

Ruan Shanyun blushed and bowed her head: "Thank you, Lord Yuan, I just got ......"

Yuan Yinggang said with a smile: "The times are different, before you followed Lord Zheng, it was just, as long as you endure the pain for a while, the future will definitely be high." As for your children, I will take care of them, especially your sons, who should have a greater world to stretch out their hands. ”

Ruan Shanyun paused for a moment, and reluctantly thanked him again, he had been "convinced" by Yuan Yinggang to become the new guard of Thang Long Mansion. And his son will also be sent as a hostage to the Whampoa Martial Arts Academy and become a British Chinese soldier.

Entering Thang Long Mansion, what he saw was a scene of singing and laughter, far different from the silence and indifference in the past, Ruan Shanyun blinked his eyes and said in his heart What kind of future will this heavenly kingdom bring to Annan......

"I really don't see that this kid still has such a high acting talent?"

Nearly October, in the west of Guangzhou City, a magnificent pavilion rises from the ground, this is not a Taoist temple, a Buddhist temple or an official office, nor a restaurant, the main entrance plaque hangs on the "mountain and sea building", there is a door on the left and right "the book mountain stops at the top, the sea of learning is endless", look at this meaning, it is actually a library building.

On the side of the railing on the top floor of the pavilion, listening to Feng Jingyao, who was reporting the matter of Jiaozhi behind him, talk about Jia Hao's deeds, Li Xian sighed so emotionally, he didn't know that he had wronged Jia Hao.

Feng Jingyao defended Jia Hao: "The Governor divided a lot of war losses, built an orphanage in Thang Long Mansion, and adopted those orphans who lost their relatives due to the war, and it should not be ...... for the Governor to treat them."

Li Shi suddenly lost his temper: "He only thought about accumulating yin virtue at this time, it's too late!" He also opened an orphanage...... One of him, one of Luo Cat Demon, and one of Xie Bachi, are not good things! Piles of women stuffed into me, can my inner court afford to raise so many people!? ”

Feng Jingyao smiled bitterly, these guys are indeed a lot of officials, plus the women sent by the king of Annan, two or three hundred Annan women have been stuffed into the official family, so they don't die, Luo Mao Demon actually snatched Princess Baoyin of Dzungar from Tibet, and the two sides got together, no wonder the official family lost his temper, presumably because he was cold-faced by five mothers, especially Yan Niangniang, who was full of unhappiness.

Then Li Xian shook his head and laughed, if he wants to lose his temper, he doesn't have to face Feng Jingyao, it's better to wait for those guys to come back and then clean up.

"Tell Jia Hao that he is in charge of the military, don't run an orphanage and other civil affairs in Annan. Adopted orphans are assigned to the army as ...... Nurture the soldiers, and let the officers be the attendants. Grace should not be given in vain, but must be reciprocated, so that the recipient can put himself in the right position. ”

casually pointed out the matter, and then Li Shi talked to Feng Jingyao about the matter. The secret discussion of Xue Xue, Feng Jingyao and others has nothing to do with him in name, but in fact he is the one who finally decides the case. But as Xue Xue said, he, the Holy Dao Emperor, would never admit that he had such intentions, and if the situation in Annan changed, he would have to stand up and use these seven people as scapegoats to serve as the last line of defense in the situation.

After the secret discussion, the "Anglo-Vietnamese Covenant" was personally determined by him, and Feng Jingyao came back to report the progress, which meant that the overall situation of Annan had been decided. ,

Li Xi was very appreciative of their agreement to divide agriculture and industry by borrowing from the model of the former Ming Donglin Party, and at the same time added some operational details.

Cochin is poor, how poor is it? The core of Jiaozhi's taxation is the poll tax, and each taxpayer pays 1 guan and 2 Mo per year, which is roughly equivalent to 1.2 taels of silver, in addition to paying immunization money in two quarters, totaling about 6 Mo (0.6 taels of silver). There are about 200,000 tax-paying units in Jiaozhi across the country, divided into more than 8,000 "cooperatives" equivalent to li, and the agricultural tax is less than 400,000 taels of silver in a year.

Coupled with the salt tax and city tax, when Li Shi looked at the household registration files mastered by the Zheng family, he thought that his eyes were spent, and the government's annual financial revenue was only equivalent to 600,000 taels of silver. Just these 600,000 taels of silver will feed the royal family, the Zheng family, the bureaucrats and the army.

What is the concept of treasury income of 600,000 taels of silver a year? The population of Jiaozhi is quite large, when the Ming Dynasty received Annan, the historical records recorded that it had a population of 3.2 million. Up to now, even if there is the battle of Zheng Ruan, but Jiaozhi has been stable for thirty or forty years, how can the population reach the scale of 400 or even 5 million, but only 600,000 national income, it can be seen that it is not the country of Jiaozhi that is weak, but the government of Jiaozhi, because of the existence of the clan, because of the backwardness of the bureaucracy, so the government's control of the country is very weak.

In contrast, Guangxi has a population of only one million, and it is only Tian Fu Ding Yin, which has to bear 390,000 taels of silver during the Yongzheng period, and when it comes to control technology, Jiaozhi is several times behind the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Of course, there is no comparison between Jiaozhi and Yinghua, and the national revenue budget of Yinghua in the second year has already come out in the middle of the year, and the local tax has swelled to more than 4 million taels of silver because of the collection of Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou, Hunan and Fujian. In terms of national taxation, benefiting from the further refinement of the industrial and commercial tariff rules and the gradual improvement of the national taxation department, the goal of 10 million taels is not a castle in the air, and the Federation of Industry and Commerce still feels that it is not harsh, because there are many industrial and commercial members in Xinna.

With regard to the 10 million taels of central finance, Li Shi still felt very dissatisfied, because the expenses for raising troops and officers accounted for most of the expenses, so that the expenses he could spend on education and public affairs were far from enough, so many of his big plans could only be in a slow period of heat promotion.

Looking at the situation of Jiaozhi now, Li Xi is a little worried, can Jiaozhi withstand the impact of Yinghua Capital? At that time, tens of millions or even more capital will pour into mines and fields.

"Customs must be in our hands and not be interrogated. Then let Xiang Huailiang set up the Vietnam branch of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry as soon as possible, and strongly restrain the Yinghua industry and commerce in Jiaozhi, they not only enjoy the benefits of money in Jiaozhi, but also only under the jurisdiction of our Yinghua law, not bound by the Jiaozhi law, every convenience, will inevitably cause trouble. So you have to keep an eye on them. In addition, tell Xu Shenstick that Jiaozhi is also a place to go, let him follow in as soon as possible......"

After explaining a few principles, Li Xi did not continue to study in depth. Even if there are hidden dangers, the overall situation has been settled, and the rest of the work will be left to the people below to worry about. Now, he has another big thing to do...... ）