Over there, Zhang Jue left in a hurry, probably to discuss countermeasures with Ma Renwang. Wu Haogu, the Hebei Xuanfu envoy who is stationed in Jiehe Shang City, is in his villa on the north bank of the Jiehe River, and he has convened the big guys to discuss the matter.

The meeting place was on a three-story pavilion facing the boundary river. Outside the window, it is the boundary river where all kinds of boats shuttle back and forth, and it is a prosperous and lively scene. A group of men in official uniforms all sat upright with solemn faces, all with solemn expressions, and the fragrance of tea wafted faintly in the pavilion at the same time.

The people who were summoned this time were not only a few of Wu Haogu's henchmen, but also the leading figures in the Senate of Jiehe Shang City. Even opposition veterans like Xiang An, Ji Sheng and Zhang Kexiang, who had always been against Wu Haogu, came. Originally, because of the power struggle that has always existed in Jiehe Shang City, these people will never enter the mansion of Wu Haogu. However, with the news that Yelu Yanxi concentrated his army in Yuanyang Luo, he was about to attack Jiehe Shang City at any time. The patriarchs of these opposition factions also put aside their grievances with Wu Haogu and visited from time to time to discuss countermeasures.

Speaking of which, they, the elders of Jiehe who have transformed into evil capitalists, are most concerned about their own increasingly huge industries in Jiehe Commercial City. As the first batch of investors in Jiehe Commercial Market, they undoubtedly enjoyed a large number of dividends brought by the growth of the commercial market, and all of them became millions of wealthy families. And unlike the later merchants, who were mainly engaged in maritime trade and handicrafts, their property was mainly in the form of immovable property. It has a large number of immovable rental properties, as well as many self-operated restaurants and hotels, and can earn more than 100,000 or 200,000 yuan just by collecting rent every year.

In other words, once the Jiehe Merchant City was leveled by the Khitan Iron Cavalry, they would be the biggest sufferers. Now this kind of good old days of collecting rent and profligacy, and still being able to put some nonsense in the senate, are gone.

So at this time, these few veterans who made a small report to the imperial court, exposing Wu Haogu for "secretly accumulating force and building a city privately" in Jiehe Shang City, only felt that the force of Jiehe Shang City was too small, and the city was not strong.

Why was there only one masonry wall? You should build two or three outer cities to be safe!

And there are still too few citizen soldiers in the city, how can it be enough to support 10,000 or 20,000 deaths? Those who build ships, strike iron, build roads and build houses, and there are so many strong workers, they can all be incorporated into the citizen army! If it's really not enough, go buy it, didn't you say a while ago that you caught a lot of Gulam slave soldiers on Anxi's side? Why don't you buy all of them to come to Jiehe Commercial Market as a thug?

And that scarlet armor...... The yield is also too low! A little more land near the water should be used to build a hydraulic hammer, and a thousand hydraulic hammer workshops should be built, all of which will be used to beat the armor.

There is also the Jiehe crossbow, which should be abolished by a decree, so that the citizens of Jiehe Shang City and even ordinary people can have a crossbow in their hands!

In addition, is it possible to spend money to eliminate disasters? If the imperial court refuses to pay, can the commercial market pay for it? Not to mention more, millions can always be scraped together.

"Xuan Shuai, we are all businessmen, and peace is precious! If the Khitans want money, let's make up a little. The court refuses to give it for the sake of face, so let's pay for it. Anyway, as long as this Jiehe Commercial Market is open, it can earn two or three million from the Khitans every year. Even if we give them money and go around in a circle, it will still go into our pockets......"

It was Zhang Kexiang who spoke, he spoke slowly, with an elegant bearing, but he spoke a little depressed, holding the tea bowl and just sighing. His ancestor Zhang Qi was a hero in the battle of Jingde in the first year (that is, the time of the alliance of Lanyuan), and served as the commander of the eastern platoon in the battle of Lanzhou. Moreover, before the battle of the first year of Jingde, he led his troops to fight with the Khitan year after year, and had many victories, and accurately predicted that the Khitan would invade on a large scale in the sixth year of Xianping (the year before the first year of Jingde), and also put forward a proposal to preemptively attack the Khitan territory, which almost did not scare Song Zhenzong to death.

It can be seen that Zhang Kexiang's phobia is not a genetic disease, but an infectious disease...... If it is a disease, it must be healed!

Ji Yi's cousin Ji Sheng is almost fat now, sitting there panting, and now he is panting while panting: "It's better to go bankrupt and eliminate the disaster...... Not to mention whether the market can be defended, as long as the war starts, trade will be interrupted...... The merchants in the market will have to be scared away, and our losses will be great......"

Xiang Bao, the daimyo to the family, also echoed: "Isn't it, how do you do business in chaos?" I think it's better to give money...... As long as you can buy peace, you will be Amitabha......"

Wu Haogu smiled, just sat there quietly, listening to the words of several elders, he just smiled faintly.

"Why can't you do business when you're in chaos? In my opinion, fighting a war is the biggest business! The Khitan Emperor is really going to bring troops into Xijin Mansion, and our Jiehe Shang City is about to make a windfall! ”

The one who spoke was the presiding patriarch Wu Chenglan, although he was Wu Haogu's uncle, but he developed with Wu Haogu, and he was the most hardcore supporter of Wu Haogu in the Wu family, and now he was also Wu Haogu's mouthpiece in the Senate of Jiehe Shang City.

"Windfall? This is a fight with the Khitans! On behalf of the patriarch of the palace, Hao Sui, the internal official of the Jiehe Ying Bureau, interjected, "If you don't do it, the world will be in chaos, where is there any money to be made?" Not to mention how to defeat, it is a victory, and the states and counties of Hebei have to be ravaged, and our prosperous and magnificent commercial market is afraid that the prosperity is gone......"

Hao Sui is the confidant of the Empress Dowager Liu, although he cannot enter the core leadership of the internal officials, he is also a figure who is through the sky. On the side of Jiehe Commercial Market, he is also the master who lies down to make money. He didn't have any big revenge now, so he was thinking about making more money in Jiehe Commercial City, and when he got older, he would retreat bravely and go to Haizhou to become a rich man.

Wu Haogu smiled at this time, gently placed the tea cup in his hand on the desk, and then said as if talking to himself: "Our Jiehe Commercial Market was actually set up for the Northern Expedition to Yanyun...... You should all know this. Otherwise, how could we build a city wall in Jiehe Shang City and store force over the years? How holy are the officials? How could these actions be hidden from him? If it weren't for the fact that there would be a city with a base when the Liao was cut, the commercial market would have been banned a long time ago.

And now, it's time to test the market! If our business market will only break the fortune and eliminate the disaster, hehe, then our good days will come to an end.

So this time, what we should plan is how to give full play to the role of Jiehe Shang City as the city of the Northern Expedition! We have to let the imperial court know that our Jiehe Commercial Market is of great use, and we also have to let the industrial and commercial people in the Jiehe Commercial City know that fighting a war is also a business with a lot of money! If you are not afraid, stay and make a fortune! If you're scared, leave early! ”

Wu Haogu's voice was very soft, but all the elders were in their hearts.

Pan Xiao'an's nephew Pan Qi frowned and asked, "As soon as the battle starts, someone will definitely run...... But if there is really a big profit, there will be new people coming in. But the question is, where is the big profit? ”

Wu Haogu smiled faintly: "This official is the ...... of Hebei Xuanfu's envoy" When he said this, the elders present all set their eyes on Wu Haogu.

“…… If the Khitan Emperor does not come, this official, Hebei Xuanfu, is an empty send. In addition to the coastal 1st Road and Cangzhou County, the Hebei 4th Road Pacification and the Hebei Transshipment Ambassador did not recognize the official as the commander. The deployment of the four roads in Hebei and the rectification of the forbidden army of more than a dozen generals in Hebei have nothing to do with me. In this, there are big benefits! To set up defenses, it was necessary to build cities, organize the militia, and hoard grain, grass and armaments. The red bricks and plaster for repairing the city wall, the armor and equipment of the militia, as well as transporting grain and grass, and buying war horses, do not cost anything?

Not to mention the rectification of the forbidden army. How much do a dozen horses get? In addition to our Jiehe Commercial Market, where else can it be supplied? Is the imperial court an ordnance supervisor? Will their stuff work? Herdsman's horses? How many horses do they produce a year?

Ladies and gentlemen, the court is rich now! Whether it is the treasury of the household department or the official family's pile sealing warehouse, it is full of gold and silver coins, and Ji Yizhi has brought back more than 10 million from overseas. And the official family is willing to spend money, are you still afraid that you won't be able to earn it? As long as you can force Yelu Yanxi back in the Battle of the Boundary River, what is it to spend tens of thousands? It is nothing more than to sell a few more pieces of land in Kaifeng Mansion, and then rectify the three major commercial markets of Mingzhou, Quanzhou and Guangzhou. ”

And such an operation!?

The elders present were dumbfounded, they never thought that Wu Haogu's idea of making money would hit the pockets of the officials.

Hao Sui asked: "Xuan Shuai, is this ...... Can the official family and Cai Xianggong agree? ”

Wu Haogu laughed, "Why can't you agree?" It took tens of millions and tens of thousands to repel the Khitan Emperor once, and the Genghis Emperor of the official family was real. With this prestige, we will be able to sweep Yanyun smoothly and restore the homeland of the Han family in the future!

Compared to such a great feat, what is 10,000,000 yuan? ”

Of course, 10,000,000 yuan is a lot of money, and if the war in the northwest is not over, it will be difficult for the Song Dynasty to make up such a large amount of military expenses.

However, now that the northwest has been Da'an, the western army has also been cut a lot, counting the soldiers and horses of Gao Yu and Tong Guan, that is, the eleventh general new army, and most of them are not paid to the Tianfu soldiers.

Therefore, in the past few years, the finances of the Great Song Dynasty have been surplus, at least tens of millions a year. And Zhao Ji's private treasury Taifu Temple is even richer because of the sale of land. Rao is a loser like Zhao Ji, and the treasury of Taifu Temple is still full of money, and it is not difficult to take out tens of thousands at a time.

And if these tens of thousands are spent on Hebei's armaments, most of them will become various orders and consumption flows to the Jiehe Commercial City, and the stimulating effect on the industry and commerce of the Jiehe Commercial City should not be underestimated.

Wu Haogu estimated that if the two sides of the Jiehe River could face off for a year, the Jiehe Commercial Market would be able to complete an industrial upgrade.

As for the capital that fled because of the war, it will also return to Jiehe because the Jiehe Trading City successfully resisted the attack of the Khitans, and will never leave easily.

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