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"Shopkeeper Zhao, can you bring what the official wants?"

After hearing Zhao Zicheng's inquiry, the thousands of households present were all concerned and their expressions were eager. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Under everyone's attention, Zhao An nodded with a smile, then turned to Zhang Jie and said, "Zhang Qianhu, please send someone to bring in the boxes in the convoy." ”

Zhang Jie nodded and agreed, immediately turned around and left, and did as Zhao An instructed.

Seeing Zhang Jie so obedient, Zhao Zicheng couldn't help but be stunned - you must know that Zhang Jie has always been known for his arrogance in Xuanfu Military Town, and he seems to be low-key and introverted, but in fact, even Zhao Zicheng can't support him at will many times, and now Zhang Jie's obedient performance to Zhao An naturally surprised Zhao Zicheng.

However, in Zhao Zicheng's opinion, this was just a small matter, and the focus was still on what Zhao An sent, so he didn't think deeply, and his attention quickly shifted.

It didn't take long for Zhang Jie to lead a team of sergeants carrying more than 20 large boxes into the room, looking at the sergeants' hard performance, it was obvious that these boxes were heavy.

After the sergeants retreated, Zhao Zicheng and all the thousands of households gathered around the box, and then Zhao Zicheng first opened a box.

Then, the dazzling gold and silver light sparkled everyone's eyes!

A whole box, all of which were large ingots of gold and silver in excellent condition!

Seeing this scene, everyone present was breathing heavily and looking greedy!

Then, the rest of the chests were opened one after another, and they were also full of gold and silver!

According to rough estimates, the gold and silver in these boxes can add up to at least 100,000 taels!

Such a large pile of gold and silver was placed in front of him, and the impact was so powerful that anyone would be confused.

And Zhao Zicheng and all the thousands of households present are all greedy for money, which is even more so!

After seeing the change in everyone's expressions, a trace of satisfaction flashed in Zhao An's eyes, and then he asked: "Mr. Zhao, here is the final payment of silver, a total of 88,000 taels of silver and 15,000 taels of gold, do you want to count them?" ”

After hearing Zhao An's inquiry, Zhao Zicheng finally came back to his senses, then shook his head and smiled: "No need, it's too troublesome!" It is not the first time that Shopkeeper Zhao and our Xuanfu Military Town have done business, and we will continue to do business in the future, so I can naturally trust you! ”

After speaking, Zhao Zicheng nodded to his own soldier, and saw this soldier holding a box, and after Zhao Zicheng reached out and took the box, he handed the box to Zhao An, and said: "Here are the land deeds and land deeds within the jurisdiction of Xuanfu Military Town, there are a total of 430 pieces, which are 350 mu of Shangtian, 1,300 mu of Zhongtian, 7,100 mu of Xiatian, one mountain plantation, and more than 80 house deeds...... The bookkeeper sent by the shopkeeper Zhao is indeed very skillful, after their accounting, these field houses have nothing to do with Xuanfu Military Town, and there is no problem in the accounts! ”

After a pause, Zhao Zicheng said again: "In addition, the more than 300 ploughing cattle, more than 2,000 ploughing tools, and more than 7,000 catties of cultivation issued by the imperial court to the military town this year have all been prepared, and the shopkeeper Zhao can take them away at any time!" ”

After hearing Zhao Zicheng's statement, Zhao An also nodded with satisfaction and said with a smile: "Mr. Zhao has a heart!" ”。

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Today's military towns in the Ming Dynasty have long been eroded to the extreme, even the military town of Xuanfu is no exception.

Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty by Taizu, considering the financial drawbacks of the 'conscription system' of the Tang and Song dynasties, the Ming Dynasty has always been based on the "hereditary military household system", with hereditary military households to ensure sufficient military resources, and military households to ensure the self-sufficiency of military towns in various places. According to the regulations, each soldier was given 50 acres of land, and the imperial court provided cattle, farm tools and seeds, and the annual harvest income was handed over to the military warehouse for six stones, and the rest was returned to the military household himself.

However, the regulations seem to be beautiful, but in fact it is another matter, because of the lack of cultivated land, the military households can often only be divided into twenty or thirty acres of land, and after handing over six stones to the military warehouse every year, the remaining grain is simply not enough to feed and wear, naturally the morale is low, coupled with the greed of the thousands of households in the military town, not only repeatedly encroaching on the military households' land property, but also treating the military households as slaves, the life of the military households is becoming more and more miserable, and they are also extremely heavily served, naturally they are unfair, so there are a large number of hereditary military households fleeing.

In the face of the situation of the military households fleeing, the thousands and hundreds of households in the military towns not only did not take action to prevent it, but on the contrary, they vigorously encouraged it, and even tried every possible means to cover it up, because when the military households fled, the officers could not only receive a bribe, but also get the land and real estate in the name of the military households after the military households fled.

Today, less than half of the military households in the major military towns have been obtained, while the thousands and hundreds of households in the military towns have received a large amount of fields, cattle, and agricultural seeds, and all of them are big landlords and rich people.

It's just that after the military households fled, although these thousands and hundreds of households have a lot of land in their hands, they have always lacked manpower to cultivate, so the land has been abandoned on a large scale, and it can't create too much value.

And Zhao An's current business with the military town is to tamper with the account books of the military town, turn the assets of the military town into "ownerless things", and then spend money to buy these fields, houses, cattle, and seeds from the hands of the officers.

In this way, the "bad assets" in the hands of the officers turned into white money, while the "Jubao Commercial Bank" obtained a large number of fields, houses, cattle and farm tools, which laid the foundation for Zhao Junchen's next plan to resettle the displaced people and save grain.

For example, today's business, Zhao An has handled it dozens of times in the past six months, just between him and Xuanfu Military Town, he has done eleven business, and this time the business is relatively small.

Now, Xuanfu Military Town has once again taken out a total of nearly 9,000 acres of land, which means that more than 300 military households in Xuanfu Military Town have "disappeared".

Now, seeing that the Mongol tribes are about to carry out a large-scale invasion, and Xuanfu Military Town, as the barrier of the capital and the strongest military town, not only did not consider enhancing its strength and resisting the enemy, but instead made concerted efforts and united to encourage the military households to flee, just for their own interests, they did not hesitate to weaken the border defense and abandon the armament, just to embezzle the property of the military town, and then sell it to make money!

Obviously, they didn't think about what a tragic fate they would usher in once Mongolia broke through!

What madness is this?!

However, such a heartbroken madness is also an opportunity for Zhao Junchen, and only with such a heartbroken and greedy military town can Zhao Junchen succeed in buying!

Taking Xuanfu Military Town as an example, after half a year of trading, they have sold half of the military town's land and two-thirds of the cattle and farm tools to the "Jubao Firm", and they have completely lost their ability to be self-sufficient, and if they want to maintain their status in the future, there are only two ways - the first way is to ask the imperial court for silver, and the second way is to seek support from the "Jubao Firm", but no matter which method it is, they can't get around Zhao Junchen, so it is only a matter of time before they are gradually controlled by Zhao Junchen in the future!

In fact, because of Zhao An's strong recommendation, in the name of "making accounts", now the financial power of Xuanfu Military Town has fallen into the hands of the "Jubao Commercial Bank", and the middle and lower-level officers of Xuanfu Military Town have been secretly controlled by Zhao An.

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Secretly thinking about Zhao Junchen's plan, Zhao An was a little relaxed, at this point, most of the tasks assigned to him by Zhao Junchen had been completed, and the next infiltration was just a water grinding effort.

And while Zhao An was secretly thinking, the officers in the room were all staring at the gold and silver in front of them with bright eyes, and some couldn't wait for Zhao Zicheng to distribute it.

However, after Zhao Zicheng hesitated for a moment, he suddenly said: "This batch of gold and silver, I have to bother Shopkeeper Zhao to bring back half of it!" ”

After hearing Zhao Zicheng's statement, Zhao An couldn't help but be stunned and asked, "Why?" ”

Zhao Zicheng shook his head and said, "What else?" I inquired about the news, this year's fire screening into Kou is extraordinary, Xuanfu military town may also participate in the war at any time, but the imperial court is biased, most of the money and grain are supported to the three sides of Shaanxi and Gansu, Xuanfu military town is not a little good, but the Xuanfu army's armament is also a little insufficient, if you participate in the war like this, I am afraid there will not be a good end, I know that the Zhao shopkeeper has always been the hands and eyes of the sky, the magic power is vast, I want to buy some horses and armor from the Zhao shopkeeper, these things are also in short supply in the imperial court, I have asked the court many times, But there has been no result, so I have to count on Zhao's shopkeeper. ”

After speaking, Zhao Zicheng turned his head to look at the thousands of households, and said: "Everyone, we are now on the road of Zhao's shopkeeper, and there will be opportunities to earn silver in the future, but now that the war is approaching, it is best for our family to expand it, if we lose our lives in the war, no matter how much silver is useless, but after our strength is enhanced, once we make war achievements, the benefits will only be more!" ”

Hearing Zhao Zicheng's statement, after hesitation, all the thousands of households were more or less reluctant, but they also nodded in agreement.

At the same time, Zhao An was impressed by Zhao Zicheng.

Zhao An has been in contact with many generals, and most of them are afraid of the enemy like a tiger, but Zhao Zicheng wants to take the opportunity to establish his military exploits, although Zhao Zicheng is just to be promoted and make a fortune, but this courage is already stronger than most people.

"It seems that this Zhao Zicheng is not just a greedy person who forgets his life, but also has some ambitions...... It's just that you'd better be more knowledgeable in the future, and don't try to get rid of Lord Zhao's control, otherwise you'll ......"

Thinking of this, Zhao An glanced at Zhang Jie beside him.

If Zhao Zicheng is disobedient in the future, Zhang Jie will be Zhao Zicheng's replacement!

When his mind changed, Zhao An's expression was as kind as ever, and he nodded and smiled: "Since this is what Zhao Zongbing meant, the contemptible people will naturally do their best!" Mr. Zhao can rest assured, before the middle of August, I will try to raise enough horses and armor to send to Xuanhua Mansion! ”

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Last night, the child didn't sleep all night, and the insects didn't sleep all night, and today I really can't bear it, and my head has been groggy, so there is only one more! Excuse me!

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