This request is not too much at all, Zhou Yuan was very respectful of King Ji at this time and said, "Lord Wang, please." ”

King Ji was confused by Zhou Yuan, he wanted to see Ling Jingyang, that was to let Ling Jingyang come to meet him, not that he deigned to meet Ling Jingyang, isn't this putting the cart before the horse?

No one in the palace moved, Zhou Yuan saw that the prince and the others did not move, and once again made a gesture of please, and the soldiers on both sides burst out with murderous aura and beat the spears on the ground.

The soldiers who had seen the blood knocked on their weapons at the same time, making the entire palace full of murderous aura, King Ji was really afraid that this group of soldiers would kill people, so he followed Zhou Yuan to the official residence of Changsha Mansion to meet Ling Jingyang.

Ling Jingyang summoned Wanliyun early this morning to discuss, how to collect taxes in Changsha Mansion, and how much taxes can be collected?

Wan Liyun conservatively estimated that 500,000 taels could be levied, and Ling Jingyang thought that Changsha Mansion was rich enough to rival the country, and Jiwang Mansion had at least hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, and only 500,000 taels of silver, which was too little.

The two were arguing about whether there was a million silver, and Zhou Yuan took King Ji to the official residence.

Hearing that King Ji was coming, Ling Jingyang and Wan Liyun were sitting in danger, waiting for King Ji to come and visit.

This is also in the last years of the dynasty, if in the past, Ling Jingyang saw King Ji, but he had to bow down.

It's just that in the year of war, the prince who has no power is not as good as a small soldier, even if it is a general, he can lead his subordinates to destroy the palace.

King Ji came to Ling Jingyang, poor Baba looked at Ling Jingyang, and then looked at Wanliyun, not knowing what to say for a while.

Zhou Yuan opened his mouth and said, "Dudu, King Ji has arrived." ”

Ling Jingyang deliberately suddenly realized, and Wan Liyun stood up and looked at King Ji.

"Oh, the prince is here, the lower officials are not welcome, look at the prince Haihan."

Ling Jingyang sat and talked to King Ji, King Ji was so angry that Ling Jingyang's face turned red, he was the prince of the Ming Dynasty, and he was so humiliated by a group of Qiu Ba.

Even if it's a clay figure, it has three points of urine.

"Governor Lingdu, what kind of enmity does this king have with you, and you slander this king like this, aren't you afraid of Your Majesty?"

"Which majesty?"

King Ji was asked by Jing Yang, and his face was full of horror.

"Ling Jingyang, you... Are you rebellious? ”

He was almost scared to death, and Ling Jingyang smiled with him.

"In this world, King Fu can sit down, King Tang can also sit, King Lu can get a piece of the pie, and your King of Changsha is not a descendant of Taizu, so you will be inferior?"

King Ji's pupils dilated instantly, as if he saw that he was plotting to usurp the throne, the matter was leaked, and His Majesty ordered the five horses of Jinyi Wei to divide the corpses, and the entire palace was about to be destroyed.

"It's... This king has no distractions, whoever wants it in this world will be given to whomever you want, you don't have to tell this king again, this king should not know what to do today. ”

Ling Jingyang suddenly laughed, revealing a smug smile.

"King Ji, don't be afraid, the Governor of Pontus is also acting on orders, since the prince has no distracting thoughts, the Governor of Pontus will not talk to His Majesty, but this military salary, as well as taxes, the prince doesn't need to say more about the governor of Pontus, right?"

King Ji repeatedly expressed his willingness to take the lead in collecting taxes, and Ling Jingyang asked Wan Liyun to lead 500 troops and accompany King Ji to collect taxes in various parts of Changsha Prefecture.

Wanli Yun couldn't ask for it, so he took 500 soldiers and King Ji to the prefectures and counties in the palace to collect taxes that morning.

Officials and eunuchs from all over the country saw with their own eyes that King Ji cooperated with the soldiers to collect taxes, and no matter how much they were dissatisfied, under the big knife of the prince and Ming Huanghuang, they obediently handed over this year's taxes to the imperial court.

Zhou Yuan levied taxes in Changsha City, Wan Liyun levied taxes in the local area, and boxes of silver were sent to Changsha City almost every day.

Leng Rutie thought about it, Changsha City was the territory of the vassal king, there were not many military departments, only a few craftsmen could repair equipment, and there was almost no work in making firearms.

Ling Jingyang needs craftsmen who can make weapons, and there are many craftsmen who can repair Wuchang City, so he asked Leng Rutie to help find some craftsmen, and Leng Rutie tried his best to help him find them, but he didn't find a few.

However, Zhou Yuan and Ling Jingyang came up with an idea, they could go to Liangguang and Macao to recruit red-haired devils, this group of people has strong firearms, and they can also cast cannons, and with red-haired devils in the army, they can definitely improve the firearms unit.

Changsha Mansion is far away from Liangguang, Ling Jingyang gave up this unrealistic idea, and asked Zhou Yuan to post a reward in the city to recruit officials from the Ministry of Industry scattered among the people, and will cast artillery technical officials, twenty taels of silver per month, and technical officials who make firearms such as firearms, ten taels of silver per month

, food, clothing, housing and the governor's mansion are all inclusive.

After the bounty was posted, no one came to the mansion for ten days to report, Ling Jingyang almost lost confidence, thinking that the elite craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty were all in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and at this time, the tax collection teams in various places basically completed the taxation, and in five days he led the troops back to Wuchang Mansion.

On the night of the eleventh day, three middle-aged people came to the mansion together, they wanted to go in, but they didn't dare to go in, they were seen by Xu Sheng, and Xu Sheng stepped forward with a knife.

"Are you sneaky, do you want to eat knives?"

One of the three had a higher personal person, stepped forward and said to Xu Sheng: "This general, the villain should be Lu Mingdi, the ambassador of the Tianfu Ordnance Bureau, these two are the deputy envoys of the lower officials, a few days ago, I saw the governor in the city to recruit people who will cast cannons and make guns, I don't want to be useless with my skills, I am willing to cast artillery for the governor and bombard his mother's Jiannu." ”

Xu Sheng also saw that Lingdu Governor was recruiting craftsmen these days, and these three people were officials of the Ministry of Industry, so he hurriedly invited the three of them.

"Three adults, come with me."

He led the three of them into the mansion, Ling Jingyang had not slept yet, and Zhou Yuan, Wan Liyun was in the mansion warehouse, looking at a large warehouse of silver and laughing.

There are already 900,000 taels of silver in this warehouse, as well as 500 horses of silk, salt and other five products.

"There is so much silver, it is the governor who is far-sighted, and after the official is released, only the governor of the horse is the first to look forward."

Zhou Yuan slapped Wanli Yun's ass on the side again.

"It's hard for the governor to travel these days."

Ling Jingyang couldn't listen to it, and scolded, ""You two shut up, one-third of these silver will be given to the imperial court, one-third will be given to Du Yinxi, and we will take the rest away and go back to Wuchang Mansion, you will do the same, get millions of silver for the governor of Pontus, buy grain and grass, buy weapons, recruit new soldiers, Lao Tzu can't do it if you don't believe it. ”

The three of them were looking forward to the future, and Xu Sheng brought Lu Mingdi and others in.

"Governor, these three people claim to be the ambassadors of the Ordnance Bureau of the Ministry of Industry of Yingtianfu, and they say that they can cast cannons and make guns."

Ling Jingyang hurriedly asked Xu Sheng to bring the three of them in, and the three of them came to the warehouse under Xu Sheng's guidance, and the three of them were stunned to see that the warehouse was full of silver.

The silver in this warehouse can cast thousands of cannons and 10,000 firearms, Lu Mingdi was quite excited and Ling Jingyang arched his hand and said: "Xiaguan Lu Mingdi, the ambassador of the Ordnance Bureau of the Ministry of Industry, meet your lords." ”

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