At nightfall, Wang Rong ushered in a distinguished guest, in the Chinese army tent, this person was wearing a black cloak, a long sword hanging from his waist, when he took off the hood, revealing the face of an extremely handsome middle-aged uncle. When Wang Rong saw someone coming, he quickly got up, bowed and saluted: "The last general has seen Yan Changshi. ”

The person who came was Shi Yancheng, the shogunate chief of Qin Ke, the general of Zhengbei, who looked at Wang Rong and said with a smile: "Zhong Ming, I haven't seen you for a long time, it seems that you have had a good life in the past few months, and you have gained weight." ”

Wang Rong looked at Yan Cheng, who was making fun of him, and said with a smile: "Seeing Lord Changshi here, it means that the reinforcements are not far away, and the last general can finally sleep well." ”

Yan Cheng didn't refute, he was not good at martial arts, and it was still very tiring to follow Qin Ke's army for a long-distance attack, and he couldn't bear it, so he asked for the errand of the liaison officer. During the war, if there was no weighty official of the Zhengbei General's Office, Wang Rong might not have believed it.

"Changshi, when does the general plan to launch an attack on this Badhead army?" Wang Rong asked with a perquiring expression.

Yan Cheng did not answer Wang Rong's question, but sat down under Wumo's arrangement, took a sip of the water handed over by Wumo, and said, "What do you think is the Northern Army?" It was a human, not an immortal, and they had not been strong enough to pass through the entire Shuofang County in two days, and then go around behind the bearded man. I'm not here alone, I've brought a team of pigeons with me so that we can keep in touch with the general at all times. ”

Wang Rong knew that things were not so easy, he thought for a moment in his heart, and asked, "Is Changshi planning to stay here with us?" ”

Yan Cheng glanced at Wang Rong and said with a smile: "What? Can't you? Don't look at my weak body, I can't get into the battle formation, but it's still okay to give advice. ”

Wang Rong smiled with an embarrassed face: "This soldier is fierce and dangerous, not safe, if there is a good one in Changshi, how can I explain it to the general." ”

Yan Cheng sneered: "Don't talk about those useless things, I'm not just here to contact me this time, I heard that you have rebuilt the city?" ”

Wang Rong nodded and admitted: "Yes, I went there to investigate on the spot, the desert in the south can be reclaimed, and Tu Shenze in the north can be completely utilized. And there are 500 households and more than 2,000 people here... ”

Yan Cheng interrupted Wang Rong's words: "Not only more than 2,000 people, but now there are at least 6,000 people, you, the western governor's mansion, are about to become the household department of the imperial court, and the displaced people in Guanzhong have been absorbed by you, and Linhe City is now more than 20,000 people, more than 4,000 households, and Woye City is even more powerful, directly expanding four times, and the population under the jurisdiction of your western governor's mansion is about to catch up with the general's mansion." What are you doing? Well? ”

Wang Rong said with a bitter face: "Long history, this is also no way." The four cities and two fortresses of the Western Governor's Mansion are the only remaining fortresses in the western part of Shuofang County, and the cities need to be repaired, the fortress needs to be reinforced, and the embankments of the big rivers need to be consolidated and extended. The General's Mansion has no money, so I can only find a way by myself, and this is to absorb displaced people in order to increase the labor force. ”

Yan Cheng stared at Wang Rong's eyes and said, "Yes, I know that you are in difficulty here, and the report that you want money is still approved by me." Then tell me, why can a single city provide two regiments of troops, which is not a small number, a full two thousand people. If there is no reasonable explanation, if someone reports this matter to the imperial court, even if the general protects you, you will not be able to escape the responsibility. ”

As soon as Wang Rong heard this, he knew what he was wrong. After the reconstruction, the speed of development was significantly faster than that of the other three cities, although there were only more than 6,000 people, an increase of three times. But there are many young and strong, there are more than 3,000 people, and these more than 3,000 people work very hard, reclaiming wasteland, planting trees, building embankments, plus all kinds of strange inventions of craftsmen: pulleys, hinges, cableways, etc., so that the construction speed is very fast, although it is not as fast as the construction of Huoshenshan Hospital in later generations, but in this era, it is already very fast.

Not only was the construction speed fast, but more than 3,000 people went to work in the fields, piece by piece, and soon planted the old land and the new land. This kind of high efficiency not only makes Wang Rong happy, but also makes others feel worried, which makes people envious, jealous and hateful.

The expression on Wang Rong's face did not surprise Yan Cheng, and he said angrily: "Who are the people who own a large piece of land in Dayong now?" Don't you know? The royal relatives and relatives, the officials are rich and rich, and the relationship between them is intertwined. Yes, the city has been abandoned for a long time, and the people left here don't have title deeds, so there's no way to count who owns the land, but what are you doing here? Well? The officials and gentry are one errand and one food; Spread into acres. I know, this is the land city of Dayong, and if I don't know, I thought you were going to rebel. You think you've grown ten heads, don't you? If the emperor investigates it, you will not be able to cut off a hundred heads. ”

Wang Rong knew that there would be a backlash from the policies he had implemented in the city. Since the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, the families of officials and nobles have not been responsible for paying taxes, and the emperor used this as a reward for their support to him. Since the beginning of the Qin Dynasty, the situation of land annexation has become more and more serious, and the rich have no land to stand on. The displaced people could not survive anymore, so they launched an uprising and overthrew the Qin Dynasty. But this is an endless cycle, where the last rich are killed by the poor, the poor become rich, and new poor are created.

And the seven kingdoms of the world, taking Dayong as an example, the emperor and the imperial family are the rulers and the leaders of the Dayong gate valve, and the Guan Longshi clan is the gate valve of the first ladder, they were born from the old Qin clan and are the staunch supporters of the Dayong royal family. The gate lords of the second ladder are the Kwantung Shi clan, who were relocated to the Guanlong region from the hometown of the Six Kingdoms of Kwantung during the Qin Dynasty. The gate valve of the third echelon is the Bashu South Sergeant Clan, which was developed relatively late, and the strength of a single Shi clan is not strong, but they are very grouped and can compete with the Guanlong Shi clan and the Kwantung Shi clan.

Regardless of which side they are, their attachment to the land is the same: more land, more servants; And then there's more money, more power. And there are so many land servants, and there are so many money and power, so although Dayong's strength is very strong, the struggle between the three scholar groups greatly involved the emperor's energy and greatly consumed Dayong's national strength.

The policy implemented by Wang Rong in the city of Yancheng was certainly very attractive to Emperor Dayong, but he could not implement it, and if he forced it, the three scholar groups would not mind changing the emperor and changing the obedient master.

And Wang Rong's fate can be predicted, he will end up the same as Shang Ying, Wang Anshi and Zhang Juzheng in history, or even worse.

Wang Rong said with a serious face: "The city is a rebuilt town, and everything needs to be rebuilt, so we can only implement such a policy and concentrate all the labor force together. And how can you make them obedient? If we don't pay taxes, the people will feel unfair, and they will find all kinds of reasons and ways to evade taxes. And how do you bring them together? That is, to give them land, but also to restrict it, to prevent land annexation. Because all the policies of the city are based on the fact that everyone has land. Once a household loses its land, it will lose the tax and service of a household, which is not conducive to the development of the city. ”

Yan Cheng said angrily: "That's right, but do you know how much trouble you will cause yourself by doing this?" How much trouble did it cause to the general? If the Emperor wants to enact these policies, do you think the General and you will be able to stay out of it? You know the general's situation, since he became the general of the expedition to the north, he has always wanted to be low-key, low-key, and low-key. But you don't let the general keep a low profile. The establishment of the Western Governor's Mansion made Shuofang County Ling Meng Ao very dissatisfied, and he did not write to the emperor, the general and you. Now you're still doing this kind of policy in Lucheng, aren't you adding to the chaos? ”