The slender body is quite straight, revealing a noble momentum, not angry and arrogant.

This is a generation of feudal officials, but Tang Wen was a human being in two lives, and he had seen a lot in movies in his previous life, but he didn't feel how scary he was.

"Xiao Senguo, the governor of Linghai, has seen Lord Earl." Unexpectedly, Xiao Senguo was actually very polite, and preemptively arched his hand towards Tang Wen slightly.

"Well, Lord Xiao is polite." Tang Wen returned the salute.

"Sit!" Xiao Senguo put on his robe and invited Tang Wen to sit at the head of the guest seat, and Wan Hansong and Jiang Xuan were with him.

"My lord, my lord is here to ask for silver. The last time, Master Jiang bought a thousand tents for us, and at that time he gave half of the silver taels, and there was still a difference of one million taels. Wan Hansong said.

"Well, it's a hard thing to do. It has been almost a year since the Northwest was fighting, and the fighting has not stopped, but has become more and more intense.

The grain, grass, horses, and silver that I have been requisitioned in Linghai are not a few, and I am already stretched.

Unexpectedly, the thieves of the Sun Country took advantage of the fire to rob and directly pushed our Linghai to the front of the battlefield.

The thieves have captured several islands in our Linghai, burning, killing and looting, and doing all kinds of evil, which is sad. Xiao Senguo stroked his beard and said with a sad face.

"Who's to say it isn't? The political secretary and the yamen were also shy in their pockets, and they used all their money to buy arms, grain and grass.

If this continues, the soldiers will all go hungry.

And when the cold winter came, they didn't even have winter clothes. Wan Hansong followed and said miserably.

"The court has no money, and it's the same in all provinces." Xiao Sen National Highway.

"Some time ago, the donations of the squires from all over the country were spent, and the general army yamen came to beg for money every day, and I wanted to hide when I saw them." Wan Hansong sighed, his brows furrowed.

"I said that the two adults complained as soon as they met, and it was not easy for us to do a small business.

The Western side is urging tightly, and if you don't give the silver, this business will be yellow in the future.

My Tang family relies on Western business to make a living, once this road is broken, what will the thousands of people in my Tang family eat? That's going to add thousands of dry bones. Tang Wen said.

"Hehehe, sir, you seem to be crying worse than us?" Wan Hansong actually smiled.

"Lord Wan, that's one million taels, and the thousands of slaves of the Tang family are all counting on the money to buy clothes and food for the New Year." Tang Wendao.

"I heard that you still have a few thousand guards?" Xiao Senguo asked suddenly.

"Don't dare to be, how can I have the right to raise so many guards, there are only four hundred guards, and the rest are the nurses." Tang Wen shook his head.

"Hehe, no. It is said that your pro-army also has thousands of fine guns and dozens of cannons, and has wiped out nearly 1,000 pirates twice. I've heard Lord Qin talk about this. Xiao Senguo said with a smile.

"They came to grab food, and we had no choice but to resist. Take your life, otherwise, do you stretch your neck and let them cut it? Tang Wen asked rhetorically.

"What a deputy envoy of the Jiangzhou regiment, you have trained a group of excellent soldiers for the court." Xiao Senguo said.

I'll go, it won't be a trick......

"It's not good, it's just ordinary people, and it's okay to train and train to resist pirates." Tang Wen hurriedly shook his head.

"Let me tell you this, I don't want any money. However, it is only natural that you should come and ask for money. It's just that we really don't have any money. "Xiao Sen National Road.

"You two, one is better than the other." Tang Wen almost blackened his face with anger.

"Hehehe, but it's not like there's no way." Xiao Senguo said, "There is a lot of land opposite your island that belongs to us, but there is also a town on that piece of land, called 'Qingniu Town'.

There are thousands of people in the town, and when you recruit all the young and middle-aged people in the town, there will be few people left in the town.

At that time, even if there is some land left, I will have to sell it to you, right?

If someone doesn't want to join the army, then use land to offset it.

In this way, the entire town is your Tang family's property. ”

"I guess it's hard to recruit people in that town, right?" Tang Wen asked.

"The country is in trouble, and everyone is the object of the court's conscription. If you don't accept it, you show the yamen's edict and cut off their heads. Xiao Senguo snorted.

"Yiwu, have you heard of Qingniu Town?" Tang Wen asked.

"It seems to be not far from Liujia Village, it is said that the county seat was built in Qingniu Town in the past, and then moved away. So, that town is huge. Luo Yiwu thought for a while.

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"Look, I'm right." Xiao Senguo said.

"Hehe, it's just a broken town, I don't have a million taels?" Tang Wen asked.

"The land in that town is not small, plus the land that belongs to our yamen, thousands of hectares, which is as big as half a small county." Wan Hansong said.

"Now that there is a war, what is the use of the land? and it cannot be turned into bread and clothing, so that silver can save life. Tang Wen shook his head.

"If you want to take a long-term view, in the future, when the war subsides, and you grow food, how much money can you collect in a year just by collecting rent?" Xiao Senguo said.

"Don't! I will ask for money. Tang Wen shook his head resolutely.

Actually, I liked it for a long time, but I just want to squeeze more benefits.

"There's something more important that you may not know." Wan Han Song Road.

"Oh?" Tang Wen glanced at him.

"Of the thousands of people in Qingniu Town, half of the population is official slaves. So, official slave, as long as we open our mouths, we can't help but do what you do? Wan Han Song said.

"Official slave? Why are there so many official slaves stationed in Qingniu Town? Tang Wen was stunned for a moment and asked.

"This matter is complicated, and the officials and families who have committed crimes in the whole province have all stayed in that place.

Some of them are a hundred years ago, and those are just their descendants.

However, once you enter the official slave, you will always be an official slave. Xiao Senguo said.

"Is this official slave recruited into my Tang family?" Tang Wen became interested.

"Hehe, the official slave is an official family, how did he become your Tang family?" Xiao Senguo said with a smile.

"My lord, we are short of money nowadays. Why don't you sell these official slaves? Wan Han Song said.

"These official slaves are much better than ordinary people, and some of them are from official families.

Therefore, most of them have read books, and even, many of them are not bad.

Also, there are many young ladies among them, all of whom are descendants of convicts.

You are proficient in piano, chess, and calligraphy, and it is definitely much better to collect it as a girl than what you buy from the people.

It's just that someone in their family has committed an accident and harmed the pond fish. Xiao Senguo said.

"That's true, but it's much more expensive than ordinary people." Wan Hansong nodded.

"How much silver does that cost?" Tang Wen asked deliberately, these two guys, with proper coordination, are obviously playing double reeds.

"Master Luo, bring the roster." Xiao Senguo said to a thin middle-aged man next to him.

The man nodded, turned into the back hall, and soon brought a yellowed roster.

"Your Excellency. I just turned over, and there are a total of 3,281 officials and slaves in Qingniu Town.

Woman...... Among them, 830 were young men between the ages of 15 and 25.

There are five hundred and twenty-five women......" Master Luo replied as he flipped through.

"There are a lot of young women, and there are also a lot of young adults." Xiao Senguo touched his chin and said.

"There are only more than 1,000 people, and the rest are old, weak, sick and disabled, right?" Tang Wen sneered.

"Of course not, there are still hundreds of middle-aged men and women here, and the elderly and children account for less than thirty percent." Master Luo shook his head and said.

"In previous years, these officials and slaves farmed, and the yamen could receive a large amount of grain every year." Xiao Senguo said.

"How much silver is a person?" Tang Wen asked.

"This time, we can't sell them one by one, we all deal with them together." Wan Hansong shook his head and said.

"How much?" Tang Wen asked.

"Three million taels." Wan Han Song Road.

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