Zhang Zhongjun, who wanted to find out about the 15,000 more households for Mao himself, suddenly became a little crazy, because after he gave the order, all his subordinates looked at each other, and after a while, someone hesitated and asked, "Lord, what department should we inquire about this matter?"

The stupidity of his subordinates drove him crazy, and the question of his subordinates also drove him crazy, because he didn't know which department to inquire about the increased intelligence of this lord. Provinces, prefectures, and counties, there is no such institution at all, and the legendary House of Nobles is only in the imperial capital!

In order to inquire about the inexplicable increase in the number of questions of the people, I went to the Imperial Capital Noble House to ask? Not to mention whether he would not even be able to enter the door, I am afraid that he could only inquire and say: "This is decided by the above." Or come to the last sentence: "This is deliberately increased for the sake of your Zhang Hongyi's meritorious achievements!"

Damn, not only will it be a waste of time, but he will also be speechless to refute, and he can't do it if he wants to continue to dig deeper.

As for going to find someone who knows about the nobility, Zhang Zhongjun also knows that the town lieutenant and mayor of Magong Town are nobles, and the nobles in other places don't know anything.

But there is still the Thirteen Princes in Magong Town, who is inexplicably hostile to him, and he should not go to Magong Town wherever he goes! And he can't guarantee that after the transaction is over, people will not sell their affection to him. When the time comes, just say, "Oh, isn't this normal?" and you'll be blocked!

Thinking about it, he couldn't even think of a place to find out intelligence, Zhang Zhongjun felt so sad, but then he thought about it, he had only been in this world for more than a year, and he had already transformed from an idle man to a lord, with tens of millions of gold in his pocket, hundreds of retainers under his command, a guardian beast, and 10 square kilometers of territory, and 15,000 households.

Thinking about it like this, I feel relieved, and I am still a little secretly proud, damn, Lao Tzu has been in this world for more than a year, not only has his net worth and status come to a ******, but he has also changed from a weak chicken to a fighting chicken, and his strength has not even been in the [Wuji Realm], jumping to the [Liquid Dan Realm], well, there is no one who has changed so much, right?

So there is no need to worry about those trivial things, anyway, if you are bullish and coaxed, you can simply toss as much as you want, isn't it just 15,000 households? Wouldn't it be good if you had more people? At that time, whether it was conscription, taxation, or labor, he would be more awesome than other nobles! Moreover, Lao Tzu had tens of millions of taels of gold in his pocket, so much money would not be able to support the 15,000 households in this district? It is said that the nobles' lords are a family of three, not only 30,000 people, but also 15,000 young people, 15,000 strong households, 15,000 young children, such a very reasonable household configuration, no matter how you count it, you have earned it yourself!

Zhang Zhongjun, who was worried that his subordinates were useless and his connections were not extensive, and he was worried that it was a trap to increase so many people, but after changing his mind, he suddenly found that he had a lot of people, and it was really a good thing for him to meow!

After understanding this, Zhang Zhongjun immediately became refreshed, and while ordering his subordinates to count the materials negotiated by the local tyrants and gentry who had clearly participated in the celebration before, but were actually here to do business, he ordered his own fleet to prepare to set sail, and this time he did not escort much wood, just 10,000 of the most ordinary timber to Magong Town.

Zhang Zhongjun's subordinates are not really stupid, and they can be said to have instantly comprehended such an order from the lord, and now the timber in the water forest area is hoarded with millions of good wood, and this is only the timber resources in the water forest area, plus the timber sold by the local tyrants and gentry in the entire Heyuan Mansion who negotiated with the lord at the ceremony, there are tens of millions of timbers!

As for why Mao didn't hurry up and send all this timber to Magong Town to exchange it for money? Isn't it that Luo Zhengrong, who received the goods in Magong Town, suddenly changed his attitude, and there is also the thirteen princes who see that their lord is not pleasing to the eye is still staying in Magong Town, and they really want to send tens of millions of pieces of wood over, and they don't want it, so they won't be forced to pull it back! And even if they don't want to, they can buy it directly at the price of the Huangwu Forest Farm that is now abandoned, and everyone will directly vomit three liters of blood.

Therefore, now only sending 10,000 pieces of wood to Magong Town is a temptation, to see if Luo Zhengrong still recognizes the previous tacit contract, if he doesn't recognize it, it is nothing to lose 10,000 pieces of wood. If you admit it, then this business can be done slowly.

Of course, these subordinates, who sometimes seem shrewd and sometimes very stupid, are shrewd again at this time, because there are enough subordinates with more than ten figures to secretly propose to Zhang Zhongjun: "My lord, if this timber trade can still be carried out, let's buy the ownership of the timber, and then sell it is our business, and it has nothing to do with the water forest area." Because you are now a lord, you have your own territory, your own retainers and your own people, you only need to be responsible for your own retainers and people in the future, and you don't need to be responsible for the villagers in the water forest area at all. At that time, it is extremely unsuitable for you to give the money you earn to those guys, because then there will be absolutely no one to say good things about you, and the people above will think that you are buying people's hearts, and the villagers below will think that you are a rich man. ”

Listening to this series of suggestions, Zhang Zhongjun was a little speechless, damn, these guys really don't know what to say, they are shrewd and stupid, they are stupid and shrewd.

But it's normal to think about it, and I don't dare to say that my hundreds of retainers are illiterate, but the ability to read big-character posters is definitely still okay. After all, when he first selected the military and political personnel in the Shuilin District, he recruited those who were a little more literate and a little smarter in the Shuilin District.

But if you want to say how powerful they are, it is also false, that is, the few people in charge of the houses in the water forest area are the scholars who go to Fucheng to take the Xiucai exam and do not have that qualification. And a few of them have the highest Chinese quality in their own strength. From this, we can understand why they are shrewd in small things and stupid in big things.

Because the trivial things are that they have been figuring out the interests of these people for most of their lives, they are very familiar with this, and they can understand it at all. And big things are stupid, that's because they don't have much knowledge, they don't have a wide range of knowledge, and they don't think about how the big picture happens.

In this regard, Zhang Zhongjun could only sigh helplessly, it seems that after the territory is settled, he has to educate his retainers well, and the people of the territory must also carry out national education, so that he can use more and more people, and the quality will be higher and higher.

For Mao to work so hard, Zhang Zhongjun already knew that it was very difficult for the nobles to recruit outside manpower, because those powerful people outside knew that they were recruited by the nobles, and they were in the position of a family leader. However, serving the Great Chen Dynasty can become a cabinet minister! Therefore, it is very difficult for the nobles to recruit talented people from outside to serve, and they can only cultivate and select from their own people.

By the way, Zhang Zhongjun couldn't help but feel proud, he led 15,000 households, which made his starting grassroots much better than others, who took care of himself so much?

Zhang Zhongjun, who was happy, was in such a mood, led a few of his retainers, rode his horse and galloped, and went along the avenue to the territory of Eagle's Beak Bend outside Guangnan Mansion.

(End of chapter)