After returning that day, Yang Yunnong and Zhou Laifu were elated, and the stupid monk went to listen, and came back to report to Liu Minyou that the two were very satisfied with the Taishan nuns who were bright and bright in the late Ming Dynasty.

Because everyone still has something to do, he hurriedly ended the trip to Mount Tai, left the five-star inn and rushed back to Jinan to continue the journey, Wang Daixi has been sitting in the carriage, and rarely came out to talk to everyone, only Wang Erya kept looking at Liu Minyou with white eyes.

On the return trip, we walked to the twenty-third day of the lunar month and made a short stop in Qingzhou Mansion. A barracks was built on the side of the avenue outside the city, and the Chinese military camp tent had a red flag of the general soldier of Zhangliu, written with the word Geng Da, Liu Minyou was quite surprised by Geng Zhongming's efficiency, and he also went to Beijing to face the saint, and it was only a month at most when he came back, and he actually repaired the barracks.

Liu Min had a cavalry in front of him under the banner of Dengzhou, a tax card on the road, a few soldiers with cross-faced faces blocking the road, and a grass shed was built behind, in which people from the Department of Industry and Commerce were sitting.

When the soldiers saw that it was the banner of Dengzhou, they nodded and came over, and some of them recognized Liu Minyou and hurriedly ran back to report to Geng Zhongming.

Liu Minyou checked the work of the tax card by the way, and the tax he could receive in winter was very small, and there was no problem with the accounts, and the only thing that pleased him was that thirty percent of the money was used in Dengzhou Town, mainly one penny and one or two denominations, indicating that the tax bill began to have the nature of currency, and it also began to be recognized by merchants as an intermediary in transactions.

The other silver and copper coins in the cash box are of different colors, more than 100 taels of silver have seven or eight kinds of color, which is difficult for tax collection, the tax collector must be able to identify, if the color is poor, but also always be ready to fight with the businessman, the daily work is quite boring, of course, the final result of the mouth war is mostly the merchant concession, which depends on Geng Zhongming's group.

Those who stood in the way were Geng Zhongming's family members. Everyone is a cross-faced, and changing clothes is the style of bandits. But now in front of Liu Minyou, he is as docile as a cat.

Liu Min didn't want to delay here after the inspection, all the branches of the trading company had to be received along the way, and he couldn't shirk it at the banquet, he was already drunk and weak, and he felt tired after dealing with people a lot.

This Geng Zhongming is now Dengzhou's hob meat, and the magistrate does not dare to provoke his gang of Liao soldiers, and Chen Xin is also quite conniving, as long as it does not harm the interests of Dengzhou Town. didn't pay attention to it, so Geng Zhongming is now ascending the state throne sideways, and now when he arrives in Qingzhou Mansion, where Emperor Shangao is far away, he has nothing to fear from even a governor and a supervising army, and he will only be more arrogant.

A few family members struggled to keep it. Liu Minyou must be allowed to stay in the barracks as a guest, Liu Minyou refused politely, and at the same time he was about to go horseback, just got on the horse, only to see a drum in the military camp in the distance, and a group of vigorous knights rushed out of the camp gate, and the horses' hooves galloped. Bring up large snowflakes.

Liu Minyou was amazed, and saw the mighty and domineering Geng Zhongming coming to him, looking forward to it like a god descending from heaven.

Geng Zhongming's eyes shone brightly, and he rode a horse in the middle of the avenue. He said loudly to a few family members: "I heard that Mr. Liu has passed from Qingzhou Mansion? ”

Several family members hurriedly pointed, and Geng Zhongming saw Liu Minyou on the horse in a blink of an eye, and a charming smile instantly appeared on his face, and he slipped off the horse with a snort. Leaned over to Liu Min and led the horse in front of the horse's head, "Lord Liu." You have come from Qingzhou Mansion, how can you let the villain do his best to the friendship of the landlord. He swept his eyes and saw Zhou Laifu and the others, and hurriedly nodded: "A few adults are too, don't look down on the Pengyu of the upper and lower officials." ”

Liu Minyou sighed and jumped off the horse, shaking his head at Geng Zhongming's charming smile......

After another day's delay in Qingzhou Mansion, Liu Minyou first took a look at the Qingzhou Zheng Barracks, which contained more than 2,000 Dengzhou reserve soldiers, plus two or three hundred grassroots officers, training officers and non-commissioned officers, the officers were all out of the crash course in martial arts, and the training officers were trained by the training team.

The deputy general of the Qi Barracks is Liu Zeqing, who is a close confidant of Wang Tingqian, who shared some of Lushun's military exploits, and was able to finally divide nearly 2,000 soldiers, stationed in Anqiu County, Dengzhou Town's Tunbao has spread to Anqiu County, Tongguò absorbs the tenants at the bottom and makes the local gentry unable to hire any labor, many landlords have to sell their fields to Dengzhou Town at a low price, and then collect some land rent with peace of mind, and watch those places grow one by one Tunbao.

The next door to Anqiu County is Gaomi in Laizhou Prefecture, where a thousand headquarters of the third battalion are stationed, faintly aimed at Liu Zeqing's small army of 2,000 people.

There is also a brigade battalion that has already set a quota, and the guerrilla is Fan Shouye, and the station is in Linzi. At this time, Fan Shouye and Liu Zeqing both went to Beijing to go through the formalities of the military department and face the saint, and they could not come back until the first month. The guerrilla battalion was the first general of the original first battalion, and the station was changed to Linzi, but they ate more than 1,000 people's salaries, and their original defense in Zhaoyuan and other places would be handed over to a newly established unit.

The other two thousand headquarters of the first battalion were relocated to the border of Changyi, and they could enter Qingzhou from Laizhou Mansion to support at any time.

The barracks of the guerrilla camp were to be built after the beginning of spring, but the location was on the border of Xincheng County, near the economic south of Linzi, in the name of maintaining land transportation from Qingzhou to Jinan, and specifically to deal with the bandits of Qingzhou. Liu Minyou knew that it was used to intimidate the canal as a striker when necessary.

Liu Minyou went to see the land occupied by Geng Zhongming's columns, although this is the capital city of Qingzhou, but Geng Zhongming is famous, the locals heard that it is the Liao army, or once did chaos in Dengzhou, no one dares to go against Geng Zhongming, the Tun Affairs Division does not intensify the conflict in the local area, only uses the annual rent as the field, the original landlord has some income, will not fight with Dengzhou Town, and Dengzhou Town harvested the land to support the population, and organized them with Tunbao.

The Ministry of Civil Affairs also has a civil affairs officer in Qingzhou Mansion, which is transferred from the original Tun Affairs Division, and is stationed in Zhucheng, which is close to Gunzhou Mansion and has a lot of cotton planting, and secondly, it is close to Lingshanwei, which is already on the border of Laizhou Prefecture, and occupies the convenience of shipping in Jiangnan, even if the canal establishes a textile factory, this area is still the most convenient place for Denglai to dump Jiangnan, because shipping does not have to pay tariffs.

Because of the importance of the Lingshanwei area, Dengzhou Town needed to establish a local front line to effectively cover the Lingshanwei area. Therefore, the economic focus of the Ministry of Civil Affairs is in the south of Qingzhou. The south of Qingzhou Mansion has been connected with Huai'an Mansion in the south of Zhili, which is a very safe area, Huai'an Mansion is weak in troops, and the Tunpu itself can be effectively defended. The northern capital of Yidu County to Linzi and Guangrao may face a military threat from the north. More military use will be considered.

Liu Minyou is clear about the overall layout of Qingzhou Mansion, and the priority must be between Le'an and Changle, this area will form a Tunbao group like Denglai, providing strong support for the army to fight on the inner line, as long as it is stable here, Denglai will be as stable as Mount Tai.

Liu Minyou only checked near the Qingzhou capital city, and dealt with Geng Zhongming's reception with Zhou Laifu. There is nothing to do with the Financial Secretary here, and Wang Daixi has not come out.

Before leaving, Liu Minyou asked Geng Zhongming about the bandits in Qingzhou, and Geng Zhongming laughed and said, "Lord Liu, don't worry. As soon as the earth tiger heard that we were coming from Dengzhou Town, he was already frightened and ran south. ”

"So easy?" Liu Min said strangely.

"Of course, Lord Liu, you don't know, that Dihu was driven out of Daze Mountain in Pingdu Prefecture by our Dengzhou Town. As soon as he heard that we were coming, he dared to stay anywhere. ”

Liu Minyou did not know the origin of this tiger, so he continued to hurry with a few question marks, and finally rushed back to Dengzhou on the 28th of the lunar month, ending the year-end inspection......

"You didn't say yes?"

"Before I could speak, she went away with a red face and never spoke to me again on the way."

Chen Xin stood up and laughed. Pointing at Liu Minyou, he didn't think about what to say for a long time, and then he walked around the room, laughing as he turned.

Liu Minyou was dissatisfied: "You gave an idea." Just laughing has a fart. ”

Chen Xin said with a smile: "Then you have to let me think about it, isn't this called a lifelong event, how can you say it casually." ”

Liu Minyou lit a cigarette in the charcoal basin and smoked it with his head down.

"This is ......," Chen Xin said after a few turns. Others say that it is better to demolish ten temples than to destroy one family. We watched the joy grow up again, and we know the roots. ”

Liu Minyou snorted, Chen Xin hurriedly waved his hand and said: "This is not sarcasm, I agree with this matter from the position of a friend, you don't hold the outdated concept of monogamy, we have been here for a long time, and we should follow the customs." ”

Liu Minyou looked up and didn't speak.

Chen Xin continued with interest: "But from the perspective of Dengzhou Town, you are not suitable to marry with Daixi for the time being, and you can't live together. Chen Xin knocked on the table, "Wang Tingqian over there, we haven't given a reply yet, you will marry a new house here, Wang Tingqian's face needs to be not good-looking, and secondly, Daixi is the Financial Secretary, as a superior, you are now mixed with her, and others will say some bad things behind your back." ”

"What is mixed together, pay attention to the use of words."

Chen Xin suddenly leaned on the table and probed over, "Why don't you look like this, you should be lovers?" ”

Liu Minyou grabbed a few books on Chen Xin's desk and threw them over, "Tell you to come up with an idea, can this lover Wang Daixi agree?" ”

Chen Xin blocked a few books and hurriedly said: "Then who do you say Wang Daixi is going to marry, she is the financial secretary of Dengzhou Town, and the officials and gentry recruited her as a daughter-in-law, who is allowed to come out and show up, besides, I can't agree, the financial secretary has many important departments." Then do you say that Dengzhou Town is an insider, she is so fierce on weekdays, who would dare to marry him, those division chiefs and battalion commanders are full of food, marry a tigress and come back, they would rather buy a thin horse in Yangzhou as a concubine, how comfortable they are at home. With the status of Wang Daixi, he can't marry those commanders, so in other words, he can only marry you, the chief soldier. ”

"Aren't you okay, you're also a general soldier?"

Chen Xin spread his hands, "People don't look down on me, isn't the twisted melon sweet?" Besides, Lao Tzu said a few years ago that Wang Daixi is interesting to you, but you don't believe it, wouldn't it be okay to marry her off as soon as possible. ”

Liu Minyou threw down the cigarette butt and covered his face, "I still think she's a little girl, after she said it that day, I felt that she was really an adult, age or anything has nothing to do with it, it's just a few things you just said, I can't marry a subordinate as a wife, and secondly, Wang Ting tried that old bastard to sing that, last time I made up an elder from Tianjin to come out, saying that I wanted to ask the elders and answered, and now I will marry a king with joy in the blink of an eye......"

Chen Xin slapped the table, "That means that you like Wang Daixi, then it's done, I'll go and tell her, you should be lovers first, and then pass through the door when the conditions are ripe, and settle her heart first, otherwise she won't budget for your civil department next year, and I'll see what you eat." ”

Note: Yesterday I was more anxious, I forgot the remarks, the description of the Tai'an Prefecture Inn refers to "Tao'an Dream Memories - Tai'an Prefecture Inn", not the author's imagination, this inn is real, it is indeed an ancient five-star, according to Zhang Dai, "no longer dare to look at the inn". The inn is large in scale, excluding dramas and prostitutes, with one or two hundred employees, according to Zhang Dai's records, the travelers rotate every day, and there are no mistakes or omissions in the housing and meals, which shows that its management level has reached a very high level, and there are five or six inns of similar scale in Tai'an Prefecture, and the prosperity of Tai'an Prefecture in the Ming Dynasty can be seen.

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