So early the next morning, something strange happened. The officials who had previously claimed that they had no money even if they were beaten to death actually took the initiative to find Xiao Chenlai with money to pay off their debts...
Because Xiao Chen has released the news that as long as you take the initiative to repay, you will be given face and leeway. You can pay back 30% or 50% first.
Just don't wait for me to come to your door!
By that time, it will be hard for me, the King of Heaven, to do anything.
When Chen Wenqi went to the emperor to report that in the past few days, more than 10 million taels of silver owed by the officials of the imperial court had been recovered with interest, Li Wanjiang, who had always been calm, changed his expression.
After listening to Chen Wenqi's description of Xiao Chen's method and process of demanding payment, he was silent for a long time.
So, is Xiao Chen a talented person, a talented person, a genius, a handsome person, or a slave?
There was so much money to come back, but Xiao Chen withheld four million!
It is said that taking into account the food shortage in our country during the Great Zhou Dynasty and understanding the difficulties of the emperor and the Ministry of Revenue, he has sent people with money south to Siam, Burma, to buy this year's new rice...
The remaining silver will be used to purchase military supplies, pay military salaries, and recruit soldiers.
"At that time, I thought he was just fooling around, so I agreed to his conditions. Who would have thought that this guy could actually do it, which made me very passive... Four million taels, Your Majesty! But you can't give it all to him!" Chen Wenqi Now my intestines are green with regret.
If I had known today, why bother in the beginning?
"Wen Qi, do you think Xiao Chen has a chance of winning if he goes to regain Yanyun County?" Li Wanjiang was seriously thinking about another thing.
"Probably not. The Xianbo cavalry is extremely brave and good at fighting, and there are nearly 20,000 people. They almost came out in full force. When our Yanyun County defenders fought against them, they were almost defeated at first touch, and there were even thousands of them. The organized troops surrender directly... Even if Xiao Chen has ten thousand people, he will die." Chen Wenqi said.
"But he once led two ships at sea to defeat seven Japanese warships. This is also a win with less." Li Wanjiang said.
"Our Great Zhou navy is all elite, plus Liu Haishan and Lin Zirui are all fierce generals brought out by the emperor himself, so we can win. We have little to do with Xiao Chen." Chen Wenqi said.
What he said made sense. Li Wanjiang nodded slightly, seeming to agree.
"What about this money?" Chen Wenqi felt heartbroken.
"Just give him the money. You can't just let the horses run without giving them grass. Now he has thousands of people, what kind of firearms camp has he become? They are stationed too close. If they are attacked by him, It's not good to incite a mutiny, and it also shows that our monarchs and ministers have broken their trust." Little did he know that Li Wanjiang also had some concerns about Xiao Chen.
"Your Majesty, this kid is so good at jumping around. I think we shouldn't let him go to Northern Xinjiang. Just..." Chen Wenqi gestured with a knife and lightly scratched his neck.
"It's easy to kill him, but it's difficult to deal with the aftermath." Li Wanjiang sighed and shook his head slightly.
Xiao Chen received the seal of command without saying a word, and prepared with great fanfare to take 3,000 people to the north to serve the Zhou Dynasty. To put it bluntly, he would die.
And although what he is doing now is a little excessive, everything is fair and above board, and you can't find anything wrong with him at all.
Why don't you give me a tael of silver or a piece of grain and grass, and they are racking their brains to raise it themselves? You still have the nerve to say a word to them, don't you?
As for the matter of paying off the treasury debts, he has made another great contribution!
If you kill him now, who the hell will fight for Da Zhou in the future?
"There must be spies sent by Xianbo in Fengyang City now. When they heard that Da Zhou sent troops to attack, they would definitely find a way to assassinate the general. There are also many people who hate him in Fengyang City now, and Xiao Chen is a master He is a scholar with no power, and he doesn’t live in the palace very much now. He wanders around the city and outside the city, so..."
Chen Wenqi suggested assassinating him.
In fact, this was a bad idea, but Li Wanjiang didn't comment after hearing this. He just fell into deep contemplation. Even when Chen Wenqi resigned and left, he didn't seem to notice.
Now that Xiao Chen had money, he immediately started recruiting new soldiers.
Because few people in Fengyang City were willing to serve as soldiers, he personally took Lin Yue and Yue Zhonglin, who had just arrived, to set up the recruitment office at Haining Bay, a land and water dock dozens of miles away from the capital.
I heard from Yan Luo and others that during this period, there were many people who had fled from all over the country. There was a war in their hometowns. They didn't care about the war, so they could only leave their hometowns and come here to make a living.
Now the number of people has reached tens of thousands. Although Haining Bay is a large wharf, it does not require so much coolie, so these ordinary people have become refugees. If they don't have enough to eat, they will cause trouble, causing local officials a huge headache.
These wounded soldiers had been organized and suppressed several times, but with little success.
Because they were all unarmed common people, and they were causing trouble just because they had no food to eat. Could it be possible to kill them all?
They can only be repatriated to their place of origin, but when will tens of thousands of people be repatriated? Besides, they just escaped, so who would want to go back?
I asked the Ministry of Household Affairs to ask for money and food relief, but the Ministry of Household Affairs directly rejected it, saying that the current situation was difficult and there was no surplus food in the court...
The local officials had no choice but to call on the big businessmen to spend money and grain to open small porridge restaurants, but it was a drop in the bucket and simply could not feed so many mouths.
As soon as the recruitment office was set up, it was immediately surrounded by a large group of ragged people speaking in various accents and asking endless questions.
"Is this a kind person who wants to open a porridge restaurant?"
"It doesn't look like much at all. I can't even see a single grain."
"What are the boxes in those carts?"
"Anyway, it's not food that Te Niang wants!"
"What? Recruitment office? What are you recruiting, coolies? Count me in, don't look at my brother who is thin, he is full of muscles!"
"Damn it, it's recruiting troops. So, where are you going to fight? What? Yanyun County? Isn't that place occupied by others?"
"If you ask me, it's pretty rough this week. Why are there wars everywhere? There's no such thing as a safe place."
"That's right, he's not as good as the big man from the previous dynasty."
"I think they're all the same. Two eggs make cooking, but one egg tastes delicious!"
"Brother, be careful what you say, and be careful not to lose your head."
"Everyone in my family is dead, and I'm just a bachelor. I'm about to starve to death now. Why are you so afraid of a bird? It would be better to chop off my head and die early and be reincarnated!"
The common people don't care about the Zhou Dynasty or the Han Dynasty. No matter who becomes the emperor, they will all look like birds. Anyway, the rich will still be rich and the poor will still be poor.
As long as it can barely fill your belly.
But just as the elder brother said just now, you are almost starving to death now, why are you afraid of a bird?
Nothing to be afraid of.
If the people are not afraid of death, why should they be afraid of death?
This shows that Li Wanjiang has problems in governing the country and bringing peace to the people.
He only wanted to quell the rebellion, but he did not care about the life and death of the people. He always thought that when the world was calm, people's hearts would naturally surrender.
But I never thought about why those rebellions could never be put down...
