There are teleportation arrays everywhere in Bianjing. Although there are many, if you want to teleport to other cities, you still have to leave the city.
It costs spiritual crystal coins to teleport from Bianjing to Yongbei City, but Zhu Tianming took out the identity token and it didn't cost any money.
The nobles of the Song Dynasty do not need to spend money to sit in the teleportation array.
When Su Shi came to Zhu Tianming to talk about talents, he brought the military salary given by Zhao Guangyi to Zhu Tianming.
Thirty thousand low-grade spiritual crystals, as well as three top-grade magical artifacts, ten high-grade magical artifacts, twenty medium-grade magical artifacts, and fifty low-grade magical artifacts.
These things were discussed before and did not surprise Zhu Tianming.
In the next two years, Zhao Guangyi will also deliver it on time, and Zhu Tianming will not be short of military pay.
Yongbei City's teleportation array is also set up in an area outside the city.
It was getting late now, the gates of Yongbei City were closed tightly, and the most basic defensive formations were slowly opened under the nourishment of spiritual veins.
The city wall was not very high. Zhu Tianming made a visual inspection and found that it was about thirty feet.
It can barely be considered majestic.
In the southern city, there were not many soldiers stationed there, because the main force still had to be placed on the northern city wall.
There are mountains on the east and west sides, and there are also a few city walls. Yongbei City is just sandwiched between the mountains.
If the Jin Dynasty wanted to enter the hinterland of Beizhou, it would have to either cross the mountains or conquer Yongbei City.
It is impossible to cross the mountains. Wu Lin will definitely place a large number of scouts on the east and west mountains, and these are not two mountains.
There are a hundred thousand mountains in a row. If you want to enter Beizhou from the Dajin territory, you can only take the road of Yongbeicheng.
This information was provided by Wang Anshi.
Zhu Tianming came at night just to see what was going on.
Although outside Nancheng is outside the city wall, there are quite a lot of people, and there are also many tea stalls and small wine shops.
Zhu Tianming found a tea stall, sat down to drink tea, and waited for dawn, while listening to the news of these people passing by.
"Boss, when will you close the stall tomorrow?"
A middle-aged man asked.
The tea stall owner’s voice was very strong and he shouted loudly:
"Maozheng, when the city wall opens tomorrow."
The tea stall owner walked up to Zhu Tianming and others and asked:
"How many guests are staying overnight?"
Zhu Tianming asked curiously:
"Is there any such thing as a night stay?"
The boss said:
"At first glance, several of the guests are from out of town. This is a long-standing custom in the south city of Yongbei City."
Zhu Tianming didn't ask about customs. He knew without asking that the owners of these tea stalls and small wine shops were the ones who did business at night. Some people who came late and didn't enter Yongbei City must have a place to stay, so they were born. .
"Baby night!"
Zhu Tianming said.
I saw the tea stall owner saying:
"It's strange to say that since the imperial court was promoted to the imperial dynasty a few days ago, there was spiritual rain from the sky, and many people broke through. They want to come to Shiwanda Mountain to find opportunities, and they are not afraid of being caught by Dajin's people."
Zhu Tianming said curiously:
"This little mountain of 100,000 people doesn't cover a large area. If it has any special products, it's worth looking for opportunities."
The boss said:
"At first glance, I look like my brother belongs to a wealthy family. How could he know the hardships of the common people?"
Zhu Tianming said in confusion:
"The Song Dynasty was so prosperous, how could the people still have hardships?"
The boss couldn't help but said:
"Young Master's words are a bit ignorant of the sufferings of the people. As everyone knows,
As ordinary people without status, half of the spiritual fields we serve every year are taxed and taken away by the court. If we pay the spiritual rice produced in the spiritual fields, how can we have enough cultivation materials for a large family?
Even ordinary fields require a 40% tax. If there are no young people in the family, it may be difficult to even have enough to eat. "
No wonder the Song Dynasty was so wealthy, and taxes on spiritual fields and ordinary fields were so high. How could it not be rich?
Zhu Tianming continued to ask:
"Then what can this small one hundred thousand mountain produce that can help everyone practice?"
The boss said:
"In fact, more than half of the Hundred Thousand Mountains belong to the territory of the Song Dynasty, but there is no place to garrison them.
That's why we opened the city here. It rained spiritually in the past few days. There must be a lot of elixirs growing in the mountains. There will definitely be more people looking for the elixirs. "
Zhu Tianming was suddenly stunned and asked again:
"I see, then everyone is not afraid of the monster beasts in the mountains or the big golden cavalry?"
Zhu Tianming felt stupid after asking.
As expected, the boss looked at Zhu Tianming as if he were looking at a second generation and said:
"It's all for cultivation, or to save some money for our children. We can only risk our lives, otherwise what else can we do."
Zhu Tianming nodded lightly and said:
"Boss, have you ever heard of the three major families in Yongbei City?"
The boss looked around carefully again and said:
"Of course I know. These three families have been rooted in Yongbei City for a long time. I heard that each family has thousands of private soldiers. The heads of the families are all strong men in the false elixir realm. They often help General Wu Lin defend the city."
The reason why Zhu Tianming came in such a hurry was because these three major families were the huge resistance to Zhu Tianming's efforts to conquer Yongbei City.
If they want to monopolize power in their own territory, these aristocratic families must find ways to disintegrate them.
Wang Anshi also mentioned these people in his jade slip to Zhu Tianming.
These people survived because of a policy of the Song Dynasty to rule the world together with the scholar-bureaucrats.
The three major families are the Zhou family, the Wu family, and the Sun family. The three major families control the taxation, economy, spiritual fields, and various political affairs and businesses under the jurisdiction of the entire Yongbei City.
They are even mining some of the mineral veins. Can Zhu Tianming not be in a hurry?
These are all his, and now that someone else is holding them, how can he not be anxious?
Zhu Tianming asked again:
"Then are they good or bad to the people?"
The boss said:
"As long as the taxes are paid on time and no one in their family is offended, the people of Yongbei City will be fine."
The implication is that if you offend people from their three major families, it will probably be difficult for them.
Zhu Tianming nodded, and the boss sighed and said:
"But the Zhou family has a Qilin'er who is only eighteen years old and already has the seventh level of innateness.
He was also valued by the court's senior officials, and now the Zhou family is planning to collect more taxes, honor the big shots in the court, and provide a path to heaven for his family's Qilin'er. "
Zhu Tianming threw a silver coin casually as a reward, and then drank tea by himself, thinking about things, while Que Hu and others guarded him.
If you want to take back the military and political power of Yongbei City, it seems you can't get around these three big families.
It would be easy to take back the military power. Wu Lin has dealt with him before, so he is not ignorant.
If he was really ignorant, Zhu Tianming wouldn't mind adding the spirit of a historical hero.
On the other hand, the three major aristocratic families are difficult to deal with.
If they were all killed, Yongbei City would be paralyzed. Without grassroots officials, it would be very difficult to provide officials.
Moreover, there are five small towns under Yongbei City, three first-level small towns, one second-level small town, one third-level small town, as well as more than 30 towns and hundreds of villages.
These government affairs have to be handled by people. If they are all killed at once, how can they be contacted?
The total population within the jurisdiction of Yongbei City is estimated to be at least 600,000.
If there are still aristocratic families hiding their population, there will only be more.
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