"It's easy to expand the army and it's hard to raise soldiers, now that we have come to Lingnan, we have a new understanding of the poverty and poverty in Lingnan, so under the premise that the tax can't support the current officials and soldiers, what is the mother concubine going to use to raise the army?"

Thinking of the current situation in Lingnan, Li Chengmu is anxious, not to mention the two heads of the royal family.

Xia Jing's head was raised: "What you are thinking about is the problem we are currently facing, if you want to solve the problems in Lingnan, it is fundamentally a problem of money, as long as we solve the problem of money, other problems can be easily solved." ”

Li Chengmu sighed tiredly, this matter is easy to say, but the real difficulty is money, "It would be great if Lingnan was so prosperous as Jingzhou, it would be really cheap for Yuan Rujiang to sit in the position of Jingzhou Thorn History." ”

Xia Jing smiled: "Lingnan has Jingzhou prosperous, and the imperial court will not use it as your father's fief." ”

Lingnan's taxes are pitiful, and the imperial court can't pay a few bucks in taxes, and a sum of money is allocated every year to raise soldiers in Lingnan.

In this way, the border state that is down-to-money is the turn of King Qian.

The most important thing is that the focus of raising troops in the imperial court is still in the north, and the northern ethnic groups are fierce, wild and untamable, and often invade the border, which gives the imperial court a full sense of crisis.

The south is full of small tribes with tens of thousands of people, even if they invade the border, it is only a small fight, and it is strange that the imperial court can pay attention to it!

Just mentioned Yuan Rujiang, Xia Jing solemnly reminded: "Yuan Rujiang is a person in power that cannot be underestimated, Jingzhou jurisdiction sits in the hinterland of the Central Plains and South China and other places, this region has a suitable climate, most of the terrain is flat, is a high-yield grain area, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the granary of the world."

If the world is in turmoil in the future, then he will be the prince of the dominant side, and he will also become our fierce enemy. ”

Of course, Lingnan can't arouse his interest at the moment!

Li Chengmu noticed Xia Jing's frowning brows, and smiled and comforted: "Lingnan is also very wide, and it is currently at a disadvantage, but my son believes that you and his father, Lingnan will take off in a few years." ”

Xia Jing listened to his words, her mood was relieved, and she laughed out loud, "You are very confident." ”

Li Chengmu laughed along with it, and when he talked about the situation in the world, he had always been curious, "Mother, do you think the emperor still has a chance to move the imperial court back to Gyeonggi?" ”

Xia Jing tidied up her cuffs, leaned on the couch, looked at the cloudless sky outside the car window, and sighed abruptly, "How difficult this is!" ”

Not to mention that there are still Beidi soldiers and horses stationed in Gyeonggi, even if Beidi retreats to the grassland, when these barbarians retreat, I don't know if they will destroy the capital.

If the capital is destroyed, where will the imperial court move back?

The capital is rebuilt, and the world is waiting for a new one. Money is needed everywhere, where does the imperial court get the money for construction?

The reality is very cruel, the probability of the imperial court moving back to the capital is slim, even if it wants to move back, it will be many years later, and it will only be possible when the imperial court's financial strength and force have reached the highest peak.

Without money, everything is empty, just like the current situation in Lingnan, just like her situation at the moment.

A bucket of rice is stumped by heroes!

The former 1,000 strong men were reorganized into Xia Jing's own personal guards, saying that it is not too much, saying that it is not much less, and if it is well trained, it is also an armed force that cannot be underestimated.

"Lingnan is poor, and the concubine is also poor, if we don't think of a way, our team will have no rice to cook tomorrow."

Li Chengmu saw Xia Jing's expression and didn't worry at all because there was no rice to cook, so he raised his eyebrows, "So, what is the mother going to do?" ”

Xia Jing smiled, swept away the previous gloom, and sat up from the couch, "I really have a single business here, if it happens, it can temporarily alleviate the food problem of the team." ”

As she spoke, Xia Jing took out a parchment roll from a drawer.

After a closer look, Li Chengmu found that it was a map of Lingnan, and many of the places in it were marked with black charcoal.

"Mother, the marked places should be mountains and forests, what kind of place is this? Is there a mineral? ”

"Minerals?"

Xia Jing nodded: "Your idea is good, when I go back, I will send someone out to explore the ore veins, and the mountains in Lingnan should not disappoint this concubine." ”

She remembers that in the last days, she watched an episode of a documentary about the mining history of Lingnan, which is rich in mineral veins, especially the Nanling Mountains.

Li Chengmu was surprised, "What are you marking here is not a vein, so what is it?" Is it a den of bandits? ”

Xia Jing snapped her fingers: "Smart, you can do this with me!" ”

Li Chengmu blushed a little, "Mother, you don't boast so much." ”

Xia Jing clicked on a black mark on the map, "This time I came out and put this den to an end." ”

It is believed that the money and food in the bandits' den should allow their personal guards to hold out for a while.

Li Chengmu looked at the map, and then at Xia Jing, the mother concubine is really a good idea.

Bringing out the personal guard team can solve the food problem, exercise the combat ability of the team, and clean up the bandits in the Lingnan area.

"Father has a headache all day long about the lack of money, why didn't he think of letting the guards come to suppress the bandits?"

Xia Jing raised her head from the map and glared at him: "He can compare with me!" How else can I say that your cleverness follows me? ”

Lee Seung-mu: "."

The mountains and rivers of Lingnan are beautiful, the people are poor and the land is poor, but the forces of all parties are not poor.

The first bandit den, located in Toosan Mountain.

Turning over Dou Mountain, the mountain is as its name suggests.

From a distance, it looks like a man pouting his ass and preparing to somersault, and the bandits' den is on top of his ass, the highest mountain.

It is said that it is a mountain, but in fact, the top of the mountain is very flat, but the road up the mountain is very steep, which also leads to the fact that the mountain is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

The team stayed in a dense forest more than ten miles away from Doudou Mountain, and asked everyone to bury the pot and cook to fill their stomachs first.

In the evening, the spies returned, and the team entered the range of Doudou Mountain in the afterglow of the sunset.

The way up the mountain was a canyon, and the bandits set up a total of three sentry posts on this road, making it difficult for outsiders to touch the mountain.

But this time it may be Xia Jing's luck, because after the rainstorm two days ago, the stream in the canyon swelled, causing the sentry post to temporarily withdraw to the mountain.

This situation greatly facilitated Xia Jing's personal guards.

Groping all the way in the darkness slowly approached the top of the mountain, at the last sentry post at the top of the mountain, there were five people on duty.

Ding Dazhuang is now the squadron leader of the guards, with a team of 100 people, and he selected five good guards in his team to slowly approach the sentry post together.

The black light blinded, Xia Jing's mental power was released, and she clearly investigated the situation of the sentry post.

Ding Dazhuang led five guards to rush into the sentry post with agility to solve a few people, and when one of them wanted to shout, Xia Jing, who had been paying attention to them, blocked his mouth with an ability, making him want to shout but didn't shout.

The team went to the top of the mountain, the bandit den of three or four hundred people, and the raid of a thousand guards did not take much time to solve.

On the front lawn of the cottage, more than 200 bandits who voluntarily surrendered were tied, and the other bandits who resisted were all cut down.

Except for the bandits guarding the front lawn, everyone else was searching for supplies.

Xia Jing led the two maids into the front of the lobby, and looked up to see the plaque on the door, "Zhongyi Hall, the name is good, but the things you can do are not the things of loyalty!" ”

The furnishings in the lobby are all rough things, and the only valuable thing may be the tiger skin that is the first to be cushioned.

Hongmei walked over and looked at the tiger skin and exclaimed, "I didn't expect this poor country to have such a good skin." ”

Xia Jing stepped forward to look at the tiger skin, and said with disgust: "The old skin, the tiger hair has lost a lot of hair, and I don't like to give it to me." ”

I really don't understand that in Lingnan, the bandit leader of Toosan Mountain sits on this tiger skin and sits on his buttocks without heat sores?

"Princess, don't you want this tiger skin? It's really majestic to sit on. ”

"You like you to take it back, be careful that your little ass is hot and sores."

Hongmei: "It's really possible. ”

Bai Mei covered her mouth and snickered.

"Well, there's a back door over here." Xia Jing found the back door, raised her feet and went to the back door.

Out of the back door, the back door is not the backyard they imagined, but directly to the back mountain, the top of the mountain is very windy.

"In weather like Lingnan, it's cool to live on the top of this mountain, and there are no mosquitoes in the mountain at night."

Hongmei persuaded: "Princess, there is no light in the back mountain, it is dark, let's go to the front." ”

Xia Jing walked around at will, her mental abilities were released, and she explored the surrounding situation, but she found nothing.

Several people re-entered the lobby, exited the lobby, and began to explore other places.

After the entire cottage was explored, no hidden secret rooms were found.

Coming to the front lawn again, Fang Ji stepped forward and reported: "Princess, we found a dungeon in the cottage, and there are a lot of people in it. Woman, what do you think should be done? ”

Fang Ji, tall and good in martial arts, is the squadron leader in Xia Jing's personal guards, and has a hundred guards under him like Ding Dazhuang.

"Women?" Xia Jing thought about it for a while, and then understood the role of these women, "Just open the prison door and let them out, and in the future, she will go or stay with their own wishes." ”

"How much did we collect this time?" This is what Xia Jing wants to know most.

Fang Ji had a solemn face, and when he mentioned the seized materials, there was a smile in his eyes: "More than 2,000 quintals of various grains, two boxes of silver ingots, fifty gold ingots, as many as 10,000 copper coins, more than 20 pieces of cloth and silk, and some other weapons, farm tools, and iron. ”

When Xia Jing heard this, she smiled, "Oh, that's all?" ”

There was a hint of a smile on Fang Ji's cold face, "In the end, we found out in the back mountain stable that this gang of bandits actually raised fifty horses. ”

"And horses?" Xia Jing was stunned, she really couldn't imagine that a group of bandits would be so rich.

With this batch of supplies, her personal guard team will not have to worry about lack of food and grass for at least three months.

In particular, fifty horses were earned for nothing, and you must know that in the south, there are not many horses.

Now there are only about 20 horses in her private property, and these horses were purchased along the road when she recruited strong men.

There was a light in Fang Ji's eyes, "My subordinates didn't expect that there would be so many horses in this inconspicuous bandit's den, it was really an unexpected gain." ”

Xia Jing nodded excitedly: "Well, it's an unexpected surprise, it's just convenient for us to transport these materials back." ”

The loot was cleared and transported to the foot of the mountain, and it was already dawn.

Everyone rested on the spot, ate some dry food to fill their stomachs, and then set off again.

Li Chengmu looked up at the rising sun from the east, and sighed regretfully in his heart, he thought that he would watch the sunrise over the sea today, who would have thought that the mother concubine would take everyone to raid the bandits' lair.

However, the victory is good.

Otherwise, it's all in vain.

Escorting the bandits and supplies to Linhai Town, Xia Jing arranged for some guards to guard the supplies at the inn, but she led the others straight to the beach more than ten miles away on the second day before dawn.

Today, she not only wants to see the sunrise, but also wants to catch the sea to pick up good goods.

"Are there many fishing villages by the sea?" Xia Jing asked the guide she had found from the town.

The guide smiled and replied: "Back to the princess, the fishing villages by the sea are not dense, the distance between villages is about ten or twenty miles, except for in-laws, there is almost no contact between villages, and of course contact with outsiders is even more impossible." ”

If he hadn't known that the princess in front of him was the princess, he wouldn't have wanted to deal with this group of strangers.

Xia Jing bowed her head, the distance is too far, if there is no relative, who wants to walk around with people from other villages, it is normal for people.

The magnificence of the sea shocked the mother and son, and as the red sun jumped out of the sea level, the golden light was shining, and the whole sea surface was sprinkled with layers of golden light.

The waves coated with a layer of golden light are beautiful, illusory, and shocking.

Li Chengmu's poetry flourished, and he wrote three poems in a row to express the surging emotions in his heart, and followed Xia Jing to catch the sea on the white sand.

This beach is flat, and the surrounding terrain is flat, which is suitable for a sea salt drying base.

Xia Jing asked Ding Dazhuang to go to the yamen in the jurisdiction to ask if this beach belonged to private territory, if not, it would be requisitioned and owned by King Qian's mansion.

In the future, whoever wants to buy this piece of land will probably not have a chance.

"Mother, what are you doing with this beach?" Li Chengmu caught a big crab and wanted to run over to show off, but he happened to hear Xia Jing's instructions to Ding Dazhuang.

"Salt drying."

As for what she would do next, Xia Jing did not hide her son.

"Salt?" Xia Jing looked at the sea in surprise, "How to dry salt?" ”

"Poof!"

Xia Jing couldn't help laughing, and couldn't help but raise her hand and knock on his forehead, "Of course it's in the sun, how do you think you can do it?" ”

Li Chengmu covered his forehead, "Of course my son knows that he is drying in the sun, I mean how to dry it?" ”

Xia Jing smiled and gave him a detailed explanation, "In fact, the drying of sea salt is very simple, and thinking of high-quality refined salt is nothing more than a few more processes." ”

Li Chengmu's eyes lit up, and he said excitedly: "According to what the mother said, don't we have a golden mountain?" ”

As long as there is water in the sea, then the mountains of gold and silver will never dry up.

"Well, when the salt pan is built, I am ready to give half of the shares to the government."

Now that she is nominally the princess of King Qian, then her honor and disgrace are hung in the palace, one is prosperous, one is lost, and the honor and disgrace are shared.

If Xia Jing wants to live a comfortable life in her later years, then only when King Qian's Mansion is strong, can she live the life she wants.

Li Chengmu knew that the palace was the most difficult time now, "Mother, this is your idea, I have no opinion on what you should do." ”

Xia Jing gave him a thumbs up with relief, "My son is the most concerned about the overall situation." ”

The mother and son walked and chatted, and Xia Jing didn't stop until a large patch of algae appeared in front of them.

Li Chengmu also stopped, "What's wrong with the concubine?" ”

Xia Jing pointed to a large area of dark green algae in front of her and said, "Ask someone to bring all these algae to the shore and spread them out to dry." ”

It's the end of the month again, and the babies with monthly passes support Fei Fei~

Fei Fei is grateful~

(End of chapter)