The door knocked lightly, someone walked in, Su Jun didn't need to look back, he knew that it was Chu Xuan who came, and there were only two people who could walk into his study without notice, one was Gao Meng, and the other was Chu Xuan.

A pair of soft hands rested on his shoulders and kneaded them gently, Su Jun silently leaned back on the chair, enjoying Chu Xuan's gentleness, but his face was still sad.

"Master Su, are you still worried about money?" Chu Xuan asked softly.

"Yes, I don't know how expensive firewood and rice are if I don't belong to my family, now, I really realize this, if I don't think about it, we will not be able to open the pot in Taidang County." Su Jun said with his eyes closed.

"There is really no way, so I can only open my mouth to the Anning royal court and borrow some silver to save the emergency." Su Jun said.

"General, the Anning Royal Court is far away from our Taidang County, and our Taidang County is in urgent need of silver, is it too late?" Chu Xuan replied.

"It's better to have hope than nothing," Su Jun said, "I really can't think of a way." ”

"Or, add war taxes in Taidang and Merlot counties. I think the people of the two counties can also understand, as long as the barbarians can be eliminated, the people will support it no matter how difficult it is. ”

"No," Su Jun refused, "In the past two years, Taidang County has been spent in the flames of war, and the lives of the common people are hard enough, they have paid enough for Taidang County, not only to pay, but also to give their lives, how can I take advantage of their last bit of life money." ”

"Then ......" Chu Xuan hesitated for a moment, and said: "Master Su, we have a lot of wealthy gentry in Taidang and Merlot counties, these families are all worth a lot, and they are not very clean, our blood red demon queen has mastered these evidence, we can use this as a basis to raid these wealthy families, presumably we can raise some funds to solve the current crisis." ”

Ahem, Su Jun coughed violently, turned his head, stared at Chu Xuan, and said, "Chu Xuan, what kind of bad idea are you?" Not by all. ”

"Why not?" Chu Xuan stared at Su Jun and said, "Which one of these families is not extremely rich, and the stains on their bodies do exist, it's not that I defile them and take them down, killing two birds with one stone." Just like we did with the Lu family back then. ”

Su Jun sighed, "Chu Xuan, this time is also that time, at that time, if we didn't take the Lu family, we couldn't effectively control Taidang County, but now, it's different, we have gained a firm foothold in Taidang and Meiluo County, and if we want to make a difference, we have to rely on the support of these family gentry, which one of these family gentry doesn't have an intertwined relationship in the six countries of Jinxi, and it will lead the whole body." Think about it, who are the people who operate our current Commerce and Trade Division, and where does the money earned every day come from? Killing them can indeed raise a large sum of money in a short period of time, but what about later? Killing chickens and taking eggs is absolutely unacceptable. What's more, the wealthy family in the Dawu Empire is clean, even my mother Concubine Yan's family, and it is also not clean. ”

"If the water is clear, there will be no fish, and if the person is observed, there will be no disciples" Su Jun stared at Chu Xuan, word by word.

"Yes, Master Su, I thought it was wrong. We've gotten some rumors of the Scarlet Enchantress that could be quite a blow to our finances, and I'm currently verifying the authenticity of these messages."

"What's the news?" Su Jun was taken aback, now he is very sensitive to everything that involves silver.

"Some forces in the Dawu Empire seem to want to attack our Taidang County, and they are ready to cut off our business network and crack down on our illegal salt trade."

"What did you say?" Su Jun stood up suddenly, the income from private salt now accounts for about three or four percent of the military expenses of Taidang and Meiluo counties, if private salt is attacked by a strong blow within the Dawu Empire, it will not be worse for the current situation in Taidang County.

"Is the message accurate?" Su Jun asked in a deep voice.

"Although it hasn't been verified yet, it's still eight or nine, Master Su, we have to prepare early" Chu Xuan said worriedly.

Su Jun walked around the room a few times and sneered: "It seems that some people don't want us to defeat the barbarians so quickly, and even do such a thing that takes a salary from the bottom of the kettle and disregards the interests of the entire Dawu Empire." Have you reported this matter to Zou Hong? ”

Chu Xuan shook his head, "I haven't verified it yet, so I didn't report Zou Hong, but I informed Xue Kaiyi and asked him to reduce the shipment and try to reduce the loss after the incident." ”

"Since they want to crack down on our illegal salt, they must also have to do tricks with food and other strategic materials."

Su Jun is very annoyed, this year's war, Taidang County is basically out of harvest, grain and other materials will be more tight, that is, now, the price of grain in the market has begun to rise, although the county is still forcibly pressing, but if you can't buy food, the county can't be suppressed. Taidang County is not a large producer, and it needs to buy a large amount of grain from outside every year.

"You should inform Zou Hong of this matter immediately, discuss with him, no matter what, you must first free up a sum of money to rush to buy a batch of grain in, and in addition, let Zou Hong send someone out to mediate, and buy as much grain as possible in the county with which we have a good relationship." Su Jun commanded.

After a pause, he said: "Inform the Imperial City and the Yan family of this matter, now, we need their support." ”

"Yes" Chu Xuan said: "I will do these things immediately, but, Master Su, doing these things requires a large amount of silver, and others will not give us food on credit, what about the silver?" Even if we borrow it, we can't borrow it for a while."

"Borrow?" Su Jun's eyes lit up, "Yes, we can borrow it, who can we borrow it from, there is, Ah Meng, Ah Meng"

Outside the door, Gao Meng entered in response, "Master"

"Send someone immediately to invite Master Yan and Lord Zou," Su Jun commanded in a loud voice.

"Master Su, do you have a way?" Seeing Su Jun's eyes lit up, Chu Xuan couldn't help but be happy, and Su Jun said excitedly: "Yes, I have a way." ”

Soon, Yan Qinghua and Zou Hong came together, and it seemed that the two of them had a lot of verbal fights along the way, and their faces were not very good-looking, and they didn't like each other.

"I've got a way to get the money." Su Jun looked at the two of them and said word by word.

Yan Qinghua and Zou Hong looked at each other, looking at Su Jun without saying a word, how much effort did it take, and the county head came up with a way? But can this white silver pop out of the crack in the stone?

"Lord Zou, what do you say are the rich people in our Taidang and Merlot counties?" Su Jun asked.

"Many, especially Merlot County, although it was swept away by Chu Yan, there are still many super-rich families." Zou Hong is very honest.

"Will the people have money left in their hands?" Su Jun asked again.

Zou Hong was taken aback, "County Chief, you don't want to raise taxes, you promised at the beginning, and at this time, it will be bad for your reputation."

"I don't raise taxes," Su Jun said categorically.