Seeing that Jiang Feng was so interested, Liu Ji and Wei Chi Yanshan were dumbfounded, this county king was really interesting, and seemed to be looking forward to a confrontation with the Yangzhou gentry.

Yangzhou is put into the hands of Xuzhou, and it stands to reason that appeasement is the most important thing to ensure that Chu Yang slowly integrates into the Xuzhou system.

After all, Xuzhou is still facing many uncertainties externally, such as the actions of the Shatuo people, the instability of Heshuo, and the turmoil in the south of the Yangtze River, and even what countermeasures Xuzhou will take against the Shatuo people in the future in the battle against Nanyang.

But this county king doesn't seem to care too much, and still insists on dealing with these things according to his own likes and dislikes, Liu Ji and Wei Chi Yanshan both feel that Jiang Feng is too willful, but before they determine Jiang Feng's true intentions, they can't be sure whether Jiang Feng did it intentionally.

"The king of the county seems to be a little prejudiced against the gentry of Yangzhou?" or Liu Ji opened his mouth lightly and asked.

Not really, but the gentry and businessmen of Yangzhou are rich and extravagant, and they are criticized by the world, and there must be their reasons. Jiang Feng shook his head, "Actually, when you get to Yangzhou, you can take a look, although the gentry and merchants in Yangzhou are rich and rich, but the weaving households in the city and the farmers outside the city are not much different from other places, that is to say, the gap between the rich and the poor in Yangzhou is greater, the rich are richer, but the poor are always poor, and this has been the case for hundreds of years." ”

"Does the county king think this is unreasonable?" Liu Ji and Wei Chi Yanshan both frowned, if the county king had this attitude, then all the gentry in the world would be in trouble.

"There's definitely an irrational side to it. Jiang Feng replied calmly: " The gentry themselves have a strong position and financial advantages, so it is easy to get the first opportunity in the concentration of land, and the uncertain floods and droughts, natural disasters and man-made disasters make it easier for ordinary people who lack risk resistance to have to sell their land in order to survive, which makes the land easy to concentrate in the hands of the gentry and merchants, in Yangzhou, the commonality of the gentry and the merchants is more obvious, in fact, you can see that although the Wu land under the rule of Li Yu and Yang Pu is rich, but its own financial resources are not abundant, I refer to itself refers to the government, not their family itself, that is to say, in fact, most of the wealth and land of Wu are concentrated in a small number of gentry and merchants, and this group is especially the salt merchants, and if you understand it, you can know that the salt merchants in Yangzhou are basically the largest gentry families in Wu State, and you all know what the salt merchants rely on to make a fortune. ”

Of course, Liu Ji and Wei Chi Yanshan knew what the salt merchants relied on to get rich, that is, the government's selling privileges.

"If you look at the land concentration in Yangzhou, you can also find that most of the most fertile land is concentrated in the hands of dozens or hundreds of families who have in-laws and blood relations with these dozens or dozens of families, and the villagers under their hands basically account for about two-thirds of the population outside Yangzhou. ”

Jiang Feng naturally also went through some investigation, the relationship between the gentry and the merchant group in Yangzhou is too close, and the control of Xuzhou is very unfavorable, even if there is a strict order, the pioneer may not be able to achieve satisfactory results in a relatively short time, so Jiang Feng has long decided that it is difficult to get what he wants if he does not shoot in Yangzhou, just like Luzhou.

"That's also the formation of historical accumulation, which is understandable. Liu Ji retorted.

"Of course, since it is formed by historical accumulation, it can be changed, especially when it does not conform to the laws of historical development. Jiang Feng said unceremoniously: "Yangzhou's status is actually being replaced by Shouzhou, if Yangzhou does not change, it will be more and more difficult to adapt, well, of course, Yangzhou also has its advantages, I hope it can be highlighted on its advantageous side, so it needs to change more, especially those gentry." ”

Liu Ji and Wei Chi Yanshan had already heard the full malice in Jiang Feng's words towards the Yangzhou gentry, and couldn't help but shudder.

"Then what does the king of the county want Yangzhou to become?" Yu Chi Yanshan was also a little apprehensive in her heart.

Jiang Feng's attitude towards these noble families, that is, the top level of the gentry, did not seem to be very optimistic, and she was a little worried that when the Wei Chi family came to Xuzhou to rule, would it be the same? She was not arrogant enough to think that she could change the pattern and regulation that Jiang Feng had set for him by herself.

"Well, it's a big question, it's hard to explain it in one word. Jiang Feng felt that this question was not easy to answer, did he want to say that he wanted to promote the transformation of the traditional gentry class into the industrial and commercial class?

In their view, if there is no identity of the gentry, then the industrial and commercial income may be taken away by others at any time, this is actually a very real problem, unless it is fundamentally overthrown, and now it is simply not possible, this is a problem of productivity and production relations, it takes decades or even hundreds of years of development to promote, it is possible to achieve, even if Jiang Feng can penetrate everything in the future, he cannot be realized at once。

It's a natural process of transformation, and you may be able to speed it up, but you can't leapfrog it.

Seeing that the two daughters were still looking at him, Jiang Feng couldn't help but scratch his head, "Well, in short, what I want to see is that every group and every class should contribute, and the contribution I am referring to is not to sit back and enjoy it in its own specific capacity, or monopolize a certain right, such as farmers farming, weavers weaving silk, merchants selling goods, and ship households transporting, or you want to say that salt merchants also rely on sales, but what if they can all come and sell salt?" This is a monopoly, of course, the specific details here are very complicated, and need to be treated differently, in a word, I don't want to see any class or group can take it for granted to sit back and enjoy it, which is not in line with a certain idea. ”

This topic is too big to explain, so I can only cross the river by feeling the stones, and try to come step by step, after all, there is no precedent, even Jiang Feng only has a general idea, and it may be adjusted at any time, because Jiang Feng needs to ensure that his regime is not threatened.

Jiang Feng's words made Yu Chi Yanshan and Liu Ji fall into deep thought.

They all realized that Jiang Feng's thinking was far more complicated than they imagined, although there were still some contexts that were not very clear, but one thing was certain, if the gentry wanted to maintain their status, it was not possible to rely on the existing methods and rules, but they needed to find another path.

"It's a little weird. Rubbing his eyes and putting down the butcher's knife in his hand, Wei Er glanced at the barracks outside the field, he noticed that there had never been more than half of the soldiers in this barracks, but in the past few days, many soldiers have come from the east and north one after another, not only filling the barracks, but also filling the camp tents.

It stands to reason that Langshan should not have so many soldiers, and when I had the least impression, there were only one or two hundred soldiers stationed here, and now there are at least more than five thousand people stationed in the barracks.

It can be seen from the consumption on his own meat stall that although there will be no meat purchased in the army, those officers have to let their soldiers buy meat every once in a while, so that the mutton, which may not be sold out until noon, will always be swept away an hour in advance.

Wei Er was certainly not a butcher, he was just one of the countless fine works scattered all over the place in the Unknown Hall.

Some time ago, Wei Er returned from Huzhou, where Wei Er received a one-month primary training, to put it simply, Wei Er has begun to enter the level of primary professional detailing from the most basic meticulous work.

Langshan has not always been the focus of Wuwentang, but in the near future, it is strengthening the layout of various parts of the Central Plains, so Wei Er has only obtained an opportunity for professional training.

One of the components of professional training is how to detect anomalies, especially in ordinary situations.

Wei Er felt that it was a big abnormality in the past few days, if it was normal to station a battalion of soldiers, but the first army was worth being vigilant against, and more than the two armies, there was definitely a problem.

What is the place of Langshan, located in the west of Caizhou, and Nanyang's Mizhou and Shenzhou, which is now under the control of Nanyang, live next to each other, Fangcheng Mountain to the southwest, is Tongbai Mountain, and Tongbai Mountain in the Rongshan Mountain, Ma'anshan and Langling Mountain are all in this line, and continue to Langshan County.

Further south, it is also the remaining vein of Tongbai Mountain, but the terrain is relatively broken, and from this line to the west, you can directly insert into Mizhou, and force Huaishui to the south, and you can go straight into Shenzhou.

Wei Er didn't need to know these things before, he only needed to write down some of the things that his boss prescribed that needed to be collected, and pass them on to his boss every once in a while, but after the preliminary training, he was able to roughly understand the geographical location of Langshan and the status and role of each feudal lord.

He also knew that Gwangju in the southeast and Nanyang had been officially handed over to Xuzhou, which meant that the territory of the king of the county had become closer and closer to Caizhou, so Langshan was even more important, and he needed to pay attention to the changes in the situation in this area at any time.

Like in the past few days, there has been a continuous increase in the number of troops in Langshan, which is a typical anomaly, and he also observed that the price of grain in Langshan is also rising, which is not a normal phenomenon, the summer grain has just been harvested, and the price of grain should fall, how can there be a rise, even if the increase is not large, but it is not normal.

He needs to report the situation to his boss immediately.

In fact, a situation like this is like a trickle of trickles towards the Huzhou garrison in charge of the entire western part of Huainan Province and Caiju in Henan Province and the Nanyang control area.

For example, the front-line troops from Yuncheng-Xiping-Wufang are frequently transferred, and the price of grain in Caizhou has risen, even in Yingzhou.

These intelligence clues were summarized and analyzed and passed on to the Xuzhou headquarters.