Wang Yun came up with a plan, and after the others read it, they were excited and shook their heads. The excitement is that if this plan can be implemented, then they will gain great benefits, and shake their heads that this plan is impossible to implement.

Wang Yun's plan was very bold, and he demanded that Liu Xiu open up a series of resources originally owned by the government and the imperial family, such as salt and iron, mountains, and mining, on the condition of supporting Liu Xiu's development in Bingzhou, and asked Liu Xiu to recognize the legitimacy of the land currently occupied by each family.

"If this plan can be implemented, I estimate that it can support an army of 30,000, and there are nearly 100 cities in Bingzhou, 200 people in each city, a total of 20,000 people, and 10,000 are led by adults in person, with these 30,000 troops, it is enough to deter the Xianbei people and ensure the safety of the state." Wang Yun talked eloquently and explained his thoughts to everyone in detail, "The soldiers in each city are supported by each city, and the 10,000 army is supported by the wealth in the hands of the Assassin's Mansion, considering that this 10,000 army has been gathered for many years, they need about 200 million to 300 million yuan a year, which can probably account for half of the wealth we get from this plan, and it will not exceed seventy percent at most, and we are still profitable." ”

Everyone thought about it, Wang Yun's plan was designed very carefully, and many numbers could withstand scrutiny, although everyone was busy until more than half of it was going to be taken away by Liu Xiu in the end, but because the total amount was large, they were still profitable, and the income of one to two hundred million a year was distributed to each family, and the more could get 10 million, and the less could also be about 1 million, which was much more than what they now get every year.

The biggest source of wealth here is salt and iron, these were originally government-run, although each family has a private operation, but the scale is very small, the profit is limited, if they can divide the government-run part, their wealth will increase exponentially.

"What if there is a big war? With just one fight, the wealth we have accumulated for decades may be swept away. Guo Yi raised his biggest concerns.

"If there is a big war, it will naturally be the imperial court that will bear the vast majority of the expenses." Wang Yun said with a smile: "Your Majesty arranged for Cao Ying to specialize in trafficking goods and rice from Jiaozhou, just to supply the adults. If we can get the permission of the adults to take the official ship to and from Jiaozhou for trade, there will be many opportunities here. Among other things, this tax along the way can save a lot of money. ”

Everyone laughed, if it could really be as Wang Yun said, this was indeed a good opportunity.

"Can you agree?" Wen Shu stroked his beard and said worriedly: "Salt and iron have always been one of the biggest sources of wealth for the government, and Shanze is the private wealth of the Son of Heaven. ”

"Whether the adults agree or not is a matter of the next step, now I will ask you whether you agree or not." Wang Yun tried his best to make himself very calm, although he knew that Liu Xiu intended to let go of industry and commerce, but he didn't know if this plan could be agreed by Liu Xiu, what he wanted to do was to unify the thoughts of the people of the state, and then tie them together and bargain with Liu Xiu, otherwise even if Liu Xiu was not forced to move roughly, he would be broken by Liu Xiu and divided into pieces.

The Haoqiang discussed with each other and felt that Wang Yun's plan was the most favorable plan at present, so they all nodded in agreement.

Wang Yun immediately went to Liu Xiu with the plan, this is the result of our discussion together, please review it.

Liu Xiu took the plan and read it carefully, while feeling that Wang Yun was smart, and with his vision and knowledge, he could come up with such a plan, even if it was not perfect, it was worthy of Guo Linzong's praise of "Wang Zuo", and on the other hand, he was lamented by the greed of these powerful families, they did this, in fact, they snatched up the wealth that originally belonged to the government and the royal family, and their wealth not only did not decrease, but also increased.

"I'm just a thorn in the world, and I can't decide so many things by myself." Liu Xiu put down the plan, with a heavy face: "But I will send your plan to Your Majesty, and Your Majesty will decide." In addition, in order to increase the number of possible surnames that Your Majesty can agree to, I would like to make a contract with you. ”

"Contract?" Wang Yun was surprised.

"Yes, we have a limit of three years, if after three years of operation, this plan can meet the needs of all our parties, then we will continue for another three years, if it cannot meet our requirements, then this plan will be revised or directly overturned."

Wang Yun stroked his beard and quickly weighed the pros and cons of Liu Xiu's proposal.

"During these three years, you will keep the covenant, and I will keep the covenant. If any party violates the agreement, such as not giving me what should be given, or pushing back and missing, then don't blame me for turning my face and not recognizing people. ”

"What if the adults break the agreement?"

"You can sue Your Majesty directly, and I will ask for my dismissal." Liu Xiu knocked on the case: "People can't stand without trust, this contract I agreed with you will be announced to everyone in the state and the imperial court." ”

Wang Yun nodded and agreed, if Liu Xiu breached the contract, even if the imperial court refused to sanction Liu Xiu in the end, Liu Xiu's personal reputation would be ruined, and no matter where he became an official in the future, no one would believe him.

Wang Yun and the others discussed it and agreed to Liu Xiu's request. Liu Xiu expanded Wang Yun's plan, wrote the treaty into it, agreed on the rights and responsibilities of both parties, and then everyone signed it and submitted it to Luoyang.

……

Yuan Kui got out of the car with a smile on his face, entered the inner courtyard, and greeted his wife Ma Lun, who couldn't help but be a little surprised. Yuan Kui spent 100 million dollars and re-became Situ as he wished, but the Son of Heaven has never had a good face for him, urging him to get money every day, and he has a posture of forcing Yuan Kui to exonerate himself again, Yuan Kui is not comfortable with this Situ, and it is rare to show a smile, let alone such a bright smile today.

"What's the good thing?"

"That disciple of your junior brother, Liu Xiu, has come up with a new trick." Yuan Kui took Mullen's hand and walked to the hall, sat down opposite, and had his own servant bring wine. Yuan Kui took a sip and let out a long breath: "He gave up all the salt and iron and mountains in Bingzhou to the families of Bingzhou, and also made a three-year contract with them, betting on his official reputation and future. ”

Hearing what Yuan Kui had said, Ma Lun couldn't help laughing: "This is really a new thing, no matter whether this thing can be done or not, he will lose the face of the court." ”

"No, Your Majesty is so angry that his face turns white." The more Yuan Kui thought about it, the happier he became, "There is almost no one who does not scold the three princes and nine qing, they all say that he is messing around and giving people a handle." ”

"Almost?" Maren raised his eyebrows: "Then who doesn't scold?" ”

"Me." Yuan Kui blinked and looked at his wife proudly: "I'm the only one who doesn't object." ”

Ma Lun's eyes flickered, she knew that Yuan Kui was not the kind of person who didn't hold grudges, Liu Xiu trampled his face under his feet, and he wouldn't help Liu Xiu in turn.

"If it's just a contract that hurts the face of the court, it's just a joke." Yuan Kui put away his smile and said gloomily: "But if he violates the contract and slaps himself, not only will he not be able to stay in Bingzhou in the future, but the entire Han will not have a foothold for him." How can a person who is not trustworthy be an official? ”

Ma Lun remained silent, she understood Yuan Kui's intentions, he was not helping Liu Xiu, but wanted to push Liu Xiu again and push Liu Xiu to a dead place where there was no way to retreat. She could imagine that as long as this contract was approved, it would soon spread throughout the country with the imperial court's mansion newspaper.

"Will Your Majesty agree?"

"He'll agree, he just wants to win the Xianbei people now, and he can't care about anything else. He didn't see the hidden crisis behind this at all, otherwise, he would not have connived at Zhang Jiao's killing in Jinan, which made the people's resentment boil. Yuan Kui sneered, "Zhang Jiao uses a hard one, and Liu Xiu uses a soft one, but the result is the same, they are all digging the foundation of the Han Dynasty." The Son of Heaven only saw the money that Zhang Jiao collected, and only saw that Liu Xiu solved the source of military expenses in the state, and he couldn't see the disadvantages of doing so, so why didn't we help him. ”

Yuan Kui took a sip of wine, and then said: "Everyone is against it, but I am the only one who supports it, will he still pick and choose from me and find faults?" If it weren't for me, how could he solve the problem of merging states through this ridiculous contract? ”

Mullen smiled knowingly. She turned around and brought a pair of porcelain cups, filled with wine: "Come, let's celebrate." ”

Yuan Kui was quite surprised when he saw the porcelain cup, he held it in his hand, did not drink, but carefully looked at the porcelain cup for a long time: "Is this a jade cup?" ”

"I don't know." Mullen smiled and shook his head: "I only know that this kind of cup is beautiful, and I have never seen it." ”

The Ma family is a big family that has been out of the queen, and there are countless things in the palace, and its knowledge is far above the Yuan family, Ma Lun said that he has not seen it, and Yuan Kui has not seen it. He couldn't put it down and looked at it for a long time: "Where did it come from?" ”

"Newly bought." Ma Lun smiled: "It is said that there are no more than ten pairs of such cups in the entire Luoyang. ”

"So valuable?" Yuan Kui raised his eyebrows: "How many pairs did you buy?" ”

Ma Lun smiled lightly, feeling a little proud: "Two pairs, one keeps for them, and the other pair is sent to Hui'er." ”

Yuan Kui laughed: "It's still Mrs. who thinks thoughtfully." In that case, I don't need to put my beak in it. ”

……

The Son of Heaven raised the porcelain cup in his hand, looked at it again and again, and saw the traces of the wine in the cup faintly revealed on the wall of the cup, and couldn't help but admire: "Like jade but not jade, like porcelain but not porcelain, white as snow, bright as a mirror, wonderful things!" Wonderful! Beauty, where did you get this? ”

Yuan Hui smiled skillfully: "It was my uncle who met by chance in the city, she said that this cup is exquisitely shaped, hidden in the simplicity, ordinary people will see it, will think this cup is too light, only Your Majesty's true surname can appreciate the wonderful meaning, so let people send it, and ask me to ask Your Majesty to identify it." ”

"It's your aunt, Mrs. Ma." The Son of Heaven smiled for a moment, then regained his composure, and nodded again and again: "I can get Mrs. Ma's praise, although I am the Son of Heaven, I am also quite happy." As she said, the cup looks plain, but it's actually wonderful. I look at the curves of this cup, and ...... tsk" The Son of Heaven shook his head and was full of praise: "Only those who are good at painting things and can see the beauty and ugliness in a line can appreciate the beauty in it." ”

Yuan Hui clapped his hands and said, "Uncle and mother are right, sure enough, only Your Majesty can appreciate the beauty of this cup." ”

The Son of Heaven smiled and drank all the wine in the cup: "With such a beautiful cup, this wine is even more mellow." ”

Yuan Hui carried the wine jug and poured another glass of wine for the Son of Heaven: "Your Majesty likes it, so the concubine will offer this pair of cups to Your Majesty." ”

"No need." The Son of Heaven smacked his lips: "It's better to stay with the beauty, if I think about it, I will come to the beauty to drink and appreciate the beauty, and then listen to the beauty chant poetry, wouldn't it be wonderful?" ”

Yuan Hui was overjoyed, and Ma Lun sent this pair of cups so that the Son of Heaven could come to her more often, so that she would have more opportunities to please the Son of Heaven. No matter what the Son of Heaven thinks about her, as long as the Son of Heaven often comes to her, others will think that this is the Son of Heaven favoring her, and the Yuan family will be safer.

The Son of Heaven played with the cup, thinking that Yuan Kui would refute the ministers in the court and fully support the contract sent by Liu Xiu, he couldn't help but have some doubts, he didn't know what Yuan Kui was thinking, but he knew that although Liu Xiu did this, it was a way to solve the dilemma of merging the state, not to mention that Liu Xiu set a three-year deadline, with these three years, if Liu Xiu can defeat the Xianbei people because of this, of course it would be better, if the progress is not ideal, after three years, this contract will no longer be recognized, and the state can be restored to the original state.

Three years, I will give him three years to see if he is a useful talent. Tianzi squinted his eyes slightly, comparing Liu Xiu and Zhang Jiao with two completely different methods in his heart, and sighed secretly. Liu Xiu still can't get rid of the habit of doing business in the end, and even when he becomes an official, he doesn't know how to use the power in his hands, but he wants to make a contract with someone, which is far less vigorous than Zhang Jiao, simple and direct, and the effect is obvious.

You think it's business? This is statecraft.

……

Because of Situ Yuan Kui's strong support, the Son of Heaven passed Liu Xiu's application and agreed to contract the salt and iron and mountains of Bingzhou to Bingzhou Haoqiang in exchange for them to provide wealth to support Liu Xiu's army for three years. At the same time, he also approved Liu Xiu's plan to set up Xihe and Yanmen pastures in Bingzhou and recruit Han and Hungarian people to land and herd horses.

Liu Xiu breathed a sigh of relief, and Wang Yun and the others were even more relieved, their desire for this contract far exceeded that of Liu Xiu. After getting the permission of the Son of Heaven, they immediately took action, dividing the interests according to the division of the interests that had been quarreling for most of the month, and on the other hand, they took out a large amount of money and gave Liu Xiu on credit for him to solve the current financial crisis.

With the money, the preparation for the construction of the Jinyang School could be carried out smoothly, and the military gifts that had been in arrears for several months could also be distributed, and the affairs of Tuntian and Muyuan were also carried out smoothly, and the northern part of the state began to become lively.

Liu Xiu adjusted the personnel of the Assassin's Mansion, introduced Guo Yi, Wang Rou and other young talents from several big families into the Assassin's Mansion, and was jointly responsible for the affairs of the state with Wang Yun.

The grassland in August is a sea of green, with unknown wildflowers everywhere, and the tuntian fields in the west to Sanfeng and Yaohun in the east and Meiji and Shanan are in full swing. Taking into account the lessons of history, Liu Xiu forbade the cultivation of cultivated land too close to the river to avoid soil erosion, and in order to compensate for the inconvenience of obtaining water, he built thousands of waterwheels by the river, and took the river water into the higher ditches, and then distributed the ditches into the cultivated land. These waterwheels are all improved from Bi Lan's sprinkler trucks, which are driven by river water and can be used to divert water day and night without manpower, which has won unanimous praise from the people of Tuntian.

In order to grind flour, mills have been built along the river, and these mills can be used for wheat and soybeans harvested in the future, saving a lot of manpower.

Because of the limitation of grain production, it is necessary to control the population as much as possible, Liu Xiu asked that wherever the use of machinery instead of manpower can be used as much as possible, in order to encourage the people to use the active surname of machinery, Liu Xiu spent a lot of money, in various places to build mills, waterwheels demonstration sites, and at the same time encourage those powerful families to invest in the construction for public use.

With Liu Xiu's efforts, the Tuntian in the Wuyuan and Shuofang areas progressed smoothly, and after many homeless people heard about it, they rushed here with their families to apply for naturalization, and more than 10,000 people were recruited in just a few months.

With the population, the market became lively, and the business of the Hu market, which had just opened, was getting better and better, and Cao Hong, who was in charge of the Hu market, was very busy.

Considering the convenience of geographical location, Liu Xiu set up Hu City in Yangshu Lake, one is convenient to get water, whether it is from all directions to come to the merchants or his army, stationed here will not have the difficulty of using water, the second is convenient transportation, for the merchants of the Central Plains, there are both the road leading to Taiyuan and Shangdang, and there is a straight road leading to Guanzhong, for the Xianbei people outside the Saiwai, this is facing the Red Tribe, realizing the promise of establishing Hu City to support the Red Tribe.

On the grounds that Hu Shi was in Yangshu Lake, Liu Xiu stationed the army near Yangshu Lake, and even sent Xu Huang to lead a thousand people to Guanglu City, which was more than 100 miles away from Yangshu Lake, to inquire about the news of the Xianbei people, monitor their every move, and provide early warning for the army. To this end, Liu Xiu carried out large-scale repairs to Guanglu City, and stored enough food to ensure that even if he was besieged by the Xianbei army, Xu Huang could hold on until the arrival of reinforcements.

Hearing that Liu Xiu was back, Cao Hong hurriedly went out of the city and welcomed Liu Xiu in, he led Liu Xiu to the market building, and at the same time introduced Liu Xiu to the vendors he saw along the way. Because of the short time, there was no time to build a city wall here, but a circle of barracks was built like a military barracks, and different goods were arranged into different barracks, unlike the mainland market, those vendors could stay in their own shops at night, so the market closed relatively late.

"Those are all from the Red Tribe, but not all of them are from the Red Tribe." Cao Hong pointed to some Xianbei people who were bargaining with customers in stiff Chinese and said, "My lord said that the merchants of the Red Yue tribe can pay less than 10% of the tax, so people from other tribes pretend to be people from the Red Yue tribe to trade. ”

"You make a lot of money, but you have to make people make a little money." Liu Xiu smiled and said, "Are these Xianbei people still honest?" ”

"Originally, they were not honest, and there were those who bought and sold strongly, but after being cut off by Lu Sima and cutting off more than a dozen heads, they were all honest." Cao Hong was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth, although Lu Bu is now a long history of Shuofang, he is still used to calling Lu Bu Lu Sima, and he seems to be reluctant to be in Changshui Camp. "It's more difficult to manage those who come from Bingzhou, these people are actually as barbaric as the Xianbei people, and we treat them more leniently here, we can't kill them casually, they can't help but be a little arrogant, and they will fight and fight at both ends in three days."

"That's not good, treating them leniently is not conniving at them, doing business still has to be more disciplined, when you meet such a person, don't be polite, if you are really disobedient, tie them up and show them for a few days, and kill their ruffians."

"Don't worry, my lord, I've been doing this all the time." Cao Hong scratched his head: "Those who have stalls are easy to do, they are really disobedient, I will accept their goods, the most annoying thing is those hawkers, they don't have their own stalls, they do odd jobs every day, or they will batch some goods, and they will sell them in a random place, and in the blink of an eye, they will disappear, and they can't even collect taxes." What's even more troublesome is that some of them also steal other people's goods to sell, and they can deceive one by one, and if they are discovered, they will run away. ”

"The market is originally a mixed place, and at the beginning, your ancestor Cao Shen ruled Qi, and the most important thing was to govern the city." Liu Xiu smiled and comforted Cao Hong: "It's not easy to do a good job of this Hu Shi order, you have to be mentally prepared." ”

Cao Hong smiled: "Don't worry, I won't dare to slack off." I'm short of manpower, Lu Sima is good at hunting, it's not easy to find him for help, now that the adults are back, assign a few more people to me. Recently, there have been more and more people in the city, and I can't keep myself busy. ”

"Okay, how many people do you want?"

Cao Hong thought for a while: "City guard, it's almost enough to allocate another twenty people." What I want is to ask the adults to dial a few tigers. ”

"Tigers?" Liu Xiu was surprised: "What do you want Hushi to do, do you want to kill someone?" ”

"I want to kill someone, I'm really forced to do it." Cao Hong invited Liu Xiu to sit down on the upper floor of the city, and said with frustration: "A few days ago, a big man came, doing some small business in the city, selling some dates today, and selling some tofu tomorrow, anyway, he is not a serious businessman, but he is a brute force, and the fight is very fierce, and several city guards who went to collect taxes were injured by him." It's just that we can't collect taxes, and we don't have a lot of money anyway, but this person is in the city, who still cares about us? Wouldn't it be troublesome if they don't pay taxes if they don't pay taxes? I'd like to ask the adults to dial a few tigers for me, clean up that guy, and let him be honest. ”

"Who is so capable of fighting, even a dozen city guards can't level him?" Liu Xiu is very curious, but the Han people in this year are not those honest people in later generations, when they go out, nine out of ten have knives, most of them have practiced some boxing and kicking, and the city guards can't control the scene without two hits, which is much more powerful than those city managers who only know how to bully migrant workers and vegetable sellers in later generations. If a dozen of them go up together, I'm afraid that even two or three tiger warriors will not be opponents. What kind of hawker can beat them to the ground, this force is not low.

"Listening to the accent, it seems to be a person from Shangdang and Hedong, who must be nine feet tall, with big shoulders and a round waist, and look like a dog, but he has a bit of power." Cao Hong slapped his thigh in annoyance: "I originally wanted to wait for Lu Sima to come back to clean him up, but now that the adults are back, there is no need to wait." ”

(To be continued)