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After Li Chongjiu inspected the mill, he felt that it was a convenient move for the people, but after attracting inquiries from the local people, he was very dissatisfied with the construction of the mill, but when he asked about it, he dared to be angry and did not dare to speak.

Li Chongjiu asked several people to be like this, and the generals were also puzzled, and at the moment Li Chongjiu knew that no matter what he asked from the local people, he would not get any results, so he immediately returned to the county guard in the city and called Wen Yanbo, Lin Dangfeng and others.

After Wen Yanbo was summoned by Li Chongjiu, he came very late. After Li Chongjiu asked the reason, Wen Yanbo was a little embarrassed, and then he said that Wen Yanbo had only just entered Jixian County, and many local scholars had to visit him within one day. The Wen family in Taiyuan is a prominent family since the Han Dynasty, and it is not far from Zhuo County, so several local scholars can climb the relationship with each other, so Wen Yanbo only arrived in Jixian County, and many local scholars came to visit.

Wen Yanbo has such treatment as a subordinate, compared to Li Chongjiu, who is a county guard, but there are almost no visitors to the house. Li Chongjiu also went to Xue's mansion in person, but before he could speak, Xue Wanshu already clearly showed his refusal, just like meeting a girl he liked, and before he confessed, the other party told him that you already have a boyfriend.

Not only the government, but even the old officials of Zhuo County, who came to the yamen to answer the ceremony, were less than six or seven, and most of them unfortunately took sick leave at the same time.

Li Chongjiu knew what to expect, and when asked about the mill, Lin Dangfeng hesitated for a moment, and truthfully told Li Chongjiu that it was built by several Zhuojun scholars.

Li Chongjiu immediately asked about the matter of peeling and grinding, which is necessary for the common people and peasants, where are the ordinary people's horses, donkeys and mules and other livestock in their homes, and why the people don't build their own houses.

Lin Dangfeng replied that in the past, there were people from one village and one township who wanted to build in the township, but it cost a lot of money to build a mill, and the mountains, forests and rivers were all the things of the government, and there was no official uniform to allow those ordinary people with no background to dare to encroach on the river. Therefore, this industry can only be monopolized by the scholars.

Li Chongjiu immediately asked, although this grinding industry is monopolized by the scholars and uses the power of the state to facilitate their own selfishness, but it is also a move to facilitate the people, why are the people so indignant. Lin Dangfeng said that it was just a monopoly of the scholars, but the harm of the mill was not only this, this river could have been used to irrigate farmland, but the scholars built the mill as a river dam, which led to a great reduction in the number of farmland irrigation on both sides of the river. Where do the common people not complain.

Wen Yanbo said, this is also a common thing, the Zhengbai Canal in the Guan, could have irrigated more than 40,000 hectares of thick fields, but for the dignitaries to build a mill on the canal, the weir curbed the water, so that the canal flow was greatly reduced, and finally stopped irrigating more than 10,000 hectares. The imperial court wanted to dismantle the mill, but these magnates obstructed it and had to give up halfway (Note 1).

Wang Mahan, Wei Chigong and other generals were all furious when they heard this, and they all said angrily that they wanted to eradicate all the scholars who benefited the people.

Li Chongjiu was silent, and asked the generals to go home, Li Chongjiu was busy for two days and two nights, he was already exhausted, closed his eyes, and wrote on a piece of paper, the four words of arsenal, granary, Yongji Canal, and Shi clan.

After Li Chongjiu woke up the next day, he was told that Zhou Bo, an old man from a silk weaving company, and several other old people from a hemp weaving company had come to visit. Li Chongjiu didn't expect that this was the first batch of people to come to the house after he entered the city.

At that moment, Li Chongjiu and the county government hall met with Zhou Bo and several people.

This time, Zhou Bo was still wearing a silk dress, the difference was that there were a few hemp sewn in the inconspicuous places at the corners of his clothes, and the rest of the merchants were also dressed together, and even wore sackcloth.

Zhou Bo saw Li Chongjiu and bowed respectfully, and said, "See the envoy." ”

Li Chongjiu said with a smile: "There is no need to make this big gift, please take a seat." ”

Following a few elders behind Zhou Bo, Zhou Bo saw that Li Chongjiu did not care about their businessman status, so he gave up his seat, and his heart was really as Zhou Bo said, this envoy was also born in the market, so he did not have the slightest prejudice against businessmen.

At that moment, everyone Zhou Bo said: "Yesterday I listened to the teachings of the envoy, and today I came to visit the house. ”

Hearing what the other party said, Li Chongjiu was chatting in at the moment, and after saying a few words, he immediately knew it in his heart.

These are all big businessmen in Jixian County. Each of them has several, or even a dozen large ships, which specialize in running on the water transportation of the channel, and the net worth is also very rich.

Throughout the ages in China, if a businessman has no power to protect himself, he is just a fat sheep raised by officials, which can be slaughtered and eaten at any time. At present, the situation is changing, Jixian County is changing, and those local scholars are strong and strong, and Li Chongjiu does not dare to do anything to them, and they are a little lazy.

But at this time, the merchant did not have an umbrella on his head, and he was most likely to be regarded as a fat sheep, so when he heard that Zhou Bo had this way, he came to the door to ask for a meeting and touch the door of the new county guard.

The two sides talked very happily, and everyone was happy to see that Li Chongjiu was not as big and rough as Luo Yi, and he was also a warlord. Of course, they are most concerned about the transportation of the Yongji Canal, and Li Chongjiu said that if they want to pass the Yongji Canal, they do not need to capture Yongnu County, but only need to prepare a naval army and sweep down the river.

If you want a navy, you want a ship, Li Chongjiu put forward this condition, and he also tested Zhou Bo and them, he thought that these businessmen would be embarrassed. Unexpectedly, everyone discussed it slightly, and Zhou Bo said: "Our Jixian County is the end point of the Yongji Canal, only if the waterway is broken all the way to the south, what is the use of asking for a boat." Even if the envoy wants the boat to take it, even a person can row it to the envoy. ”

Zhou Bo said this, and the businessmen also echoed it.

Seeing the courage of these people, Li Chongjiu couldn't help but feel the courage of the merchants of this era, and immediately said: "In this way, I will borrow a total of ten ships from the treasurers." ”

Everyone agreed, Li Chongjiu saw this, and said further: "A certain has just arrived in Zhuo County, and he wants to check talents, I see that Zhou Xinglao is very familiar with water transportation, so how about I appoint you as the director of water transportation in the county?" ”

"The water transport division?"

Li Chongjiu nodded and said: "Zhuo County is convenient for water transportation, and I want to set up a water transportation department to coordinate the water transportation of the entire county, which is higher than the six Cao in the county." ”

Hearing Li Chongjiu say this, Zhou Bo was immediately overjoyed, but said again: "Let the king raise love, the villain is just a businessman, where is he worthy of becoming a member of the imperial court?" ”

Li Chongjiu shook his head and said: "Hero don't ask where it comes from, I was also born in the market before, and now I don't become a county guard, you are a local person in Zhuo County, and you must assist me in governing this Zhuo County land." ”

Zhou Bo saw that Li Chongjiu's intentions were very difficult, so he no longer shirked at the moment, and said: "Since this is the case, I will immediately sell my family's business and concentrate on government affairs." ”

When Li Chongjiu heard Zhou Bo say this, he glanced at the other party, shook his head and said, "You don't have to do this, your Zhou family's business continues to be done, don't quit." ”

Zhou Bo was stunned when he heard this, and the businessmen on the side looked at each other with a look of envy, everyone knows what Li Chongjiu's move means.

For Zhou Bo, the power of this water transport department is very great on the one hand, on the other hand, the position of an official is also quite a talisman, and in the future, Zhou Bo, who is the director of the water transport department, does not have to worry about anyone, come to trouble the Zhou family, and at the same time, he can also find trouble with others.

After completing this qiē, Zhou Bo and others stepped down, and then Li Chongjiu issued a second appointment, making Lin Dangfeng the county magistrate of Liangxiang County.

With the first article, let Zhou Bo be the secretary of the water transportation department, and the second article was appointed, which suddenly stirred up a storm in the circle of officials and scholars in Zhuo County. Who is Lin Dangfeng? Although it must be admitted that he is a well-known figure in Zhuo County, no one should forget that this person is a businessman.

It is said that he had been in contact with Li Chongjiu for a long time, and he had been running for him to seize Zhuo County, so Li Chongjiu was promoted by a county order. But in terms of his origin, it was too much.

For a while, all the scholars in Zhuo County, and the county guards of a county did not look at the thatched houses, but came to ask them to be officials, but promoted two merchants, which made them embarrassed.

Li Chongjiu silently paid attention to the direction of public opinion of the scholars in Zhuo County, and the next day, a scholar who claimed to be a madman in Zhuo County came to the county guard mansion and popularized knowledge with Li Chongjiu, accusing him of doing a retrograde act and taking a merchant as an official.

For this second Shangfu, who is purely a person who came to find the ballast, Li Chongjiu has no interest, and he immediately makes people bang out.

It has been a few days since Li Chongjiu entered Jixian County, and after a few days, Li Chongjiu can understand the attitude of the entire Jixian County officials and scholars towards him. This is already very obvious, that is, three words: no cooperation, no opposition, and no communication.

Li Chongjiu knew that there must be someone behind this who came out to take the lead in this matter, and guessed and guessed, but there were only a few people.

Li Chongjiu remained silent, and immediately formed a 1,000-strong naval army with the previously captured county soldiers and some of his subordinates who were well versed in water, and at this time, Zhou Bo's ten boats, along with two hundred boatmen, were also delivered.

On the same day, Li Chongjiu ordered Sun Erniang to lead this 1,000-sailor army to take a boat and sail downstream overnight, and ordered Etuo to lead a 1,000-strong cavalry to sneak attack from the land at night. The waterway from Jixian County to Yongnu County is only a few dozen miles, and it is downstream, and the navy arrives in only a few hours.

The army quietly went ashore and carried out a night attack on Luo Yi's soldiers stationed at Shuiguan. On the water pass, Luo Yi's army was also very well guarded, Sun Erniang attacked for a long time without success, until Eto's cavalry arrived, and both sides went together, and more than 100 Luo Yi's garrisons in the water pass were completely annihilated.

After the night attack on Shuiguan, Sun Erniang took the sheep by the hand, took away all the ships in the ship, and set a fire to burn the Shuiguan and the wharf.

At dawn the next day, in the city of Yongnu, twenty miles away from Shuiguan, Luo Chengcai led five hundred cavalry to reinforce, but it was too late.

Sun Erniang led the fleet and returned triumphantly, Zhuojun was on the Yongji Canal wharf, Zhou Bo and others couldn't help but be overjoyed when they saw Li Chongjiu's victorious sailors. And the Lu family and other scholars were in the mood to watch a good show, but after learning that Li Chongjiu had broken Luo Yi's blockade of the waterway in Jixian County in just a few days, they were all shocked.

Note 1: The matter of Zheng Baiqu is seen in Tongdian Food and Goods II, and in the Tang Dynasty, there were princesses and Buddhist temples, fighting for the construction of the mill, and finally the lawsuit was brought to the court.