Jiang Feng was very satisfied with Zheng's posture. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Those who know the times are junjie, and moving against the trend is often eliminated by the trend, and the Zheng family is obviously well versed in the three flavors.

Since he is so cooperative and supportive, Jiang Feng is of course not hesitant to give a jujube to taste.

"Well, I know that the Zheng family is based on the grain business, Huoqiu and Anfeng are the major grain-producing counties in Shouzhou, but now they are in ruins, and the two counties of Shengtang and Huoshan in Huzhou are now also bad because of the poison of ant thieves and are being rebuilt. ”

Zheng Ju was both happy and a little dissatisfied.

Jiang Feng is rewarding him with business, which is certainly a good thing, but it is far from enough.

This Anfeng and Huoqiu are now a blank field, and it will take a lot of real money to rebuild the situation before the ant thieves came, from recruiting displaced people to distributing supplies and settling down in residences.

Zheng is certainly willing to participate, especially An Feng.

Anfeng's close proximity to Shaobi is the biggest beneficiary of the Shaobi Water Conservancy and Irrigation Project, and the surrounding area of Shaobi can be called the essence of the hinterland in the land of fish and rice, and has always been the sphere of influence of the two Umeda families.

Huoqiu is the foundation of the Zheng clan, and of course it is incumbent on him to rebuild, but in this way, a lot of Zheng clan's resources need to be consumed on reconstruction, and if there is no other reward, this defense guard will be too stingy.

Seeing the three sons of the Zheng family looking at him with a look of indignation, Jiang Feng also knew that this alone would definitely be difficult to meet the other party's expectations.

It's just that this Zheng family's appetite is too big and does not conform to their own ideas, Shouzhou is an important part of their own layout in the future, and it needs to be vigorously built, and no one is allowed to gain absolute control in Shouzhou, but at the moment, Zheng's side does need to be appeased.

"I want to restore the official kiln in Shouzhou, and I hope that the Zheng family can help someone. Jiang Feng took a sip of the teacup for a long time.

"Ah?!" Zheng Ju, Zheng Hong, and Zheng Hui were all shocked, "Your Excellency wants to rebuild the official kiln in Shouzhou?"

"Hmm, could it be that a certain person can still joke with the three of them?" Jiang Feng's eyes froze, "I heard that the Guan family and Mr. Zheng are sons and daughters, and they were originally the head of the Shouzhou official kiln, why did they go to Tanzhou? What treatment did the Ma family give to the Guan family to make him flee with his family?"

Zheng Ju was also taken aback, how could the other party even know about what happened in Shouzhou decades ago? After thinking about it, since the other party had made up his mind to restore the official kiln in Shouzhou, he must have already put a lot of thought into this regard, and this kind of thing was not a secret, although it was a long time ago, but people like the Mei family and the Tian family also knew all about such things, and it was not difficult for Jiang Feng to know the situation.

"I'm afraid my lord also knows the inside story, right? The housekeeper offended the Shi family, although Shouzhou is located in Huainan, but the Shi family's territory and Shouzhou are also separated by a water, who can afford to offend the Shi family?" Zheng Ju was also a little gloomy.

At that time, the Guan family was also a big family in Shouzhou, although it could not be compared with the Umeda Zheng family, but the housekeeper has always been the natural successor of Shouzhou kiln art, but because he offended the Shi family, he had to move his family south.

Jiang Feng naturally knows the inside story, twenty years ago was the heyday of the Shi family's power, not to mention Shouzhou, even Wu and Yue had to let the Shi family have a few points, at that time, only the Great Jin and the Shi family could compete with the Great Liang, and the power of Shouzhou did not dare to make enemies with the Shi family, let alone you have an ordinary surname.

"Well, I don't want to ask more about the previous things, I guess Mr. Zheng and Guan still have correspondence, right?" Jiang Feng waved his hand, "I think that Guan may not have a comfortable life in Tanzhou, it is better to go back to Shouzhou, I can solemnly promise that when Guan comes back, the official kiln in Shouzhou will be handed over to Zheng and Guan to be responsible, the kiln area will be selected by him, and the workers will be selected by him, as long as I see the official kiln rebuilt, I can produce enough Shouzhou porcelain yellow ......"

Zheng Ju was still hesitating, and Jiang Feng said again: "As for other worries, there is no need, since Ren Guanghun Shou is the defense and arrest envoy, no one can cross the matter of interfering in Shouzhou, no one can!"

The domineering words made the three sons of the Zheng family tremble.

It seems that this sudden defense and capture of the Lord is really a bit domineering, although the Shi family is now subject to the rebellion of the ant thieves, but I am afraid that as long as there are feudal lords bordering the Shi family, no one wants to make enemies with the Shi family, right?

But this one doesn't care about this at all, and the tough posture he shows is also eye-catching, and it also shows from another angle that this defensive envoy has absolute confidence in the combat power of the Huzhou army.

Such a bait thrown by Jiang Feng is not small.

To be precise, in addition to being an important commercial port in the upper reaches of the Huai River, Shouzhou itself produces two things, one is grain, but Shouzhou porcelain.

Needless to say, the five counties of Lao Shouzhou, except for Huoshan because it is a mountainous area is not a granary, the remaining four counties are all large grain-producing counties, so Shouzhou has always been the main distribution center of grain, through the Huaishui into the canal into the Central Plains until Guanzhong, you can also go back to Shenzhou to land on the Huaishui River, enter Nanyang through the Southeast Avenue and enter the customs through Wuguan Road.

In addition to grain, that is Shouzhou porcelain.

Shouzhou porcelain yellow is a famous porcelain with the same name as celadon and white porcelain, but it is far inferior to celadon and white porcelain in terms of output.

However, with the continuous war in the Heshuo area, the output of white kilns in Xingzhou is decreasing, but there is still white porcelain production in Daliang.

The celadon of Yue Di is very prosperous for a while, and it is exported to all over the country, but it is located in the southeast corner of the country, which is inconvenient to transport, and its output is far from being able to meet the needs of various places, especially in places like the Central Plains, Guanzhong and the Western Regions, and Mobei, which cannot be taken into account.

If the production of Shouzhou kiln can be resumed, Jiang Feng feels that this will probably be the biggest support for himself to feed such a large army in the future.

Outsiders only see their own infinite scenery, and only Jiang Feng himself knows his inner weakness.

According to Chen Wei and Cui Shang's estimates, even if they do their best to feed the Fourth Army, the financial resources of Huzhou can only support the autumn grain storage, which is still all dependent on the support of Daliang, Nanyang and Ehuang.

And once these supplies are gone, they will have to be shut down immediately, that is to say, the current Huzhou army has no money and food to fight.

This is not counting the needs of the tooth army and the cavalry, especially the cavalry army, even if the Xiazhou war horses are delivered and people eat and chew the horses, that number can scare people to death.

The reason why Gwangju was able to support such a huge army at the beginning was because the Hsu family almost monopolized many businesses in the state, such as salt, iron, wine and tea, etc., and the Hsu family itself was also a big grain gentry in Gwangju.

But even that made Xu overstretched and couldn't support it.

It can be said that the reason why the Xu clan wants to give birth to the heart of annexing Shenzhou is that it is forced to be helpless, the scale of the army expansion is so large, if it does not immediately expand the territory, I am afraid that the Xu clan itself will have to be dragged down by this army.

Now the scale of the Huzhou army has also expanded to a stage similar to that of the Gwangju Xu clan back then, but Gwangju and Huzhou have not recovered in all aspects after experiencing the poison of the ant thieves and the Yuan clan, as well as the subsequent wars, and many affairs in the state, such as the implementation of the land inspection policy, have not yet been fully implemented, and it will take time to take effect, so now the Huzhou army cannot hold on, let alone fight.

Jiang Feng was already thinking about this problem when he was in Chang'an, if he wanted to expand his strength, he was bound to expand his territory, and if he wanted to expand his territory, he had to expand his army, and to expand his army, he had to ask for money and grain, and to capture Shouzhou, the food problem could basically be satisfied, but where did the money and silver come from?

Armor, weapons, horses, clothing, silver, grain and forage, as well as the magic materials of the Daozang Institute, the salaries of officials, the construction of water conservancy roads and the construction of the city's defense system, this is consumed every day, and the land and commercial taxes in the three states cannot be supported at all, and the difference is too far.

The reason why Jiang Feng hit Ju Rui's two uncles of Hu Shang was that Jiang Feng couldn't help it.

Digging three feet into the ground could not make up the money needed to expand the army, so he could only find Hu merchants to borrow.

But Hu businessmen are not stupid, the matter of fighting the autumn wind and eating big households is a one-time thing, don't think about it in the future, so Jiang Feng doesn't plan to do that kind of thing, so he must find a way that everyone can accept.

In these years, the land of Middle-earth can be marketed to foreign cities and earn high profits, and there are only four major items, tea, silk, porcelain, iron, and others are all small items.

The specialty of Guanghun Shou Sanzhou, calculated, only Shouzhou porcelain is the most immediate, and Shouzhou porcelain is different from others, itself has a foundation, as long as it can be quickly recovered, it can immediately re-enter the peak production period.

With this as collateral, Jiang Feng was able to obtain a large amount of silver loans from Hu Shang in Chang'an to support his army expansion, which was Jiang Feng's plan.

This is also the result of discussions between Jiang Feng and Nashin and Karim at the beginning.

If the regime in Huzhou can be stabilized and have a stable income, then Hu Shang is of course willing to give Huzhou money and silver support according to the situation.

However, it is definitely difficult to borrow money and silver from Hu Shang to satisfy Jiang Feng by relying on the income from the land tax alone, especially if Jiang Feng intends to further expand the scale of the Huzhou Army's cavalry, then the gap will be even greater.

Therefore, it is the Shouzhou kiln, and at the same time, it is necessary to further expand the army and strive to further expand the territory.

Jiang Feng's attitude was clear, and Zheng Ju was also pondering.

Huaibei is currently poisoned by ant thieves, and the Jiang family has taken over Shouzhou, and it is estimated that the Shi family will not dare to provoke the Jiang family for the time being, so it is a good idea to let the housekeeper return from Tanzhou.

The housekeeper has also cultivated a group of kiln talents in Tanzhou, and the business in Tanzhou has also improved, but it still can't be compared with Shouzhou.

The old kilns here are all ready-made, and according to what Jiang Feng said, the scale must be greatly expanded, and Shouzhou porcelain should be the main feature.

Listening to Jiang Feng's meaning, this Shouzhou porcelain is afraid to be sold to Guanzhong, which is of course a good thing, the profit of porcelain is far from being comparable to grain, grain is based on quantity, and once the amount of porcelain is large, its profit is not small. (To be continued.) )