After all the things to be said about this arrival, Shopkeeper Qin naturally wouldn't stay long, after all, he could completely see that Lord Zhizhou on the other side was not so welcoming to him.

Shopkeeper Qin can fully understand Lord Zhizhou's feelings, what happened last night, he himself came over to make such a show today, and if it were him, he would definitely not like it.

So, the shopkeeper Qin directly said goodbye and left, in the intelligence station, as well as on the side of Weihai Trading Company, he still had a lot of things to do, such as filling in the action report and evaluation for the team that participated in the operation last night, and receiving the inheritance and land left by the 7 local tyrant families killed last night.

Lord Zhizhou naturally got up immediately, and personally sent the shopkeeper Qin out of the door of the official room all the way.

After seeing the shopkeeper Qin walk away, he slowly turned around and returned to the main hall of the official room to sit down again.

He took the new tea from the maid, took a sip and suppressed the shock, and after a long time, he sighed to the master who whispered to his cronies.

"It's really a bad star, he killed so many people, and he had to occupy other people's names and occupy the land left by others, not counting, he still had to jump out and tell others that he did it.

However, although he meant that, he did not say it explicitly, and there was no evidence or witness to testify against him.

Now, he has come to me again to form a trade guild, and when he really becomes the president of this guild in the future, he can deal with those who want to steal business with them openly.

This time to deal with those people, I really used thunderbolt means to deter a lot of people, with this incident, I am afraid that in the short term, no one really dares to go against them again.

Judging from what I have seen and heard today, this person is indeed black enough, bold enough, and thick-skinned enough, fortunately, he has an ugly face and cannot be an official in our dynasty, otherwise, I am afraid that he is Yan Song, Wei Zhongxian and the like. ”

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For the time being, it is not clear what is happening on the side of the Grand Canal in the Daming Zhili area, in fact, as the head of a country, there is really no need for him to pay attention to the process of what happened over there. All he cares about is the result.

It had been a long time since the last Battle of Fuzhou, and the time had come to the end of October, and Chen Xin was looking at a recent report from the Military Intelligence Bureau, which showed that the army of the Tartars, led by Dolgon, on the way back to Liaodong.

After calculating the time, they should have arrived near the Qinghe River by now, and the men and horses led by Dorgon have been out for so long, although they have gained a lot, but they are also tired and unable to fight anymore.

The General Staff also analyzed that this year there is no need to expect the Tartars to come over to fight the Lushun defensive line, Chen Xin was a little disappointed in this, and could not give the enemy a hard blow again, but, in the same way, this also gave him more time to prepare and gave him more choices.

This winter is even colder than last year.

Although a boiler room was built at the back of the palace to supply heating to the palace, the boiler room did not dare to make the pressure too high because the level of processing of the pipes was not up to the requirements, and the temperature in the huge palace could not be too high. It makes those large rooms seem a little cold.

Chen Xin is physically strong and not afraid of the cold, but the officials under him who are not from the tiger are not so good endurance.

In order to prevent the civil servants who came to consult with him from time to time from falling ill and delaying their work, Chen Xin specially ordered a temporary stove to be installed in a part of the large room.

At this moment, after being busy for most of the day and finishing today's work, several old brothers were sitting opposite Chen Xin, chatting over the stove.

After the end of the autumn harvest, there are fewer civil affairs related things in the kingdom, and in this era, after the winter, there will be fewer activities, and the work of civil affairs will be relatively easier.

The kingdom has been running out of food because it is constantly taking in displaced people and expanding its population. Moreover, the local troops have not been idle for a year.

They advanced all the way to the south, while completely annihilating the remnants of the Houjin kingdom, and on the other hand, they also pushed the confrontation line between the kingdom and the Korean kingdom dozens of kilometers south.

The newly established forts and fields on these newly acquired territories have not yet been distributed to households, and food is still being supplied to the new immigrants there.

And that piece of land has been abandoned for a long time because of the perennial war, and the output in a short period of time is not too much.

After the autumn grain was harvested this year, the tunpu began to divide the acres of land to households, and by this time next year, it would almost be possible to start collecting taxes and grain, and at that time, the investment of the kingdom's civil affairs in those new tunbao could be reduced.

Fortunately, the kingdom's trading companies still had many ways to buy food, which could make up for the lack of food.

One of the most recent ways is to spend money to buy smuggled grain from the Daming Canal. Of course, the amount of this kind of food is not much, and it has to be snatched from the mouths of those sitting tigers in Daming, so it is not convenient to get close.

Thirdly, it is the expropriation of grain from the colonies already occupied, such as the Wa kingdom, which has signed a provisional treaty with the kingdom, the Champa city, which can produce three crops of rice, and even the Indian city-states that have been initially established by the kingdom.

However, this year, although the kingdom's land has expanded again and its population has increased again, the pressure on the kingdom to import grain is even less than last year.

Because, during the Fuzhou Campaign in the spring and summer of this year, the Huaxia Army grabbed a large amount of grain on the territory of Houjin. It is completely sufficient for the army and navy units in eastern Liaoning to consume rations for more than half a year.

Zhong Fulin grabbed a handful of peanuts, threw a few into his mouth, and then picked up the wine glass and took a sip of wine.

What Zhong Fulin is drinking now is the sorghum wine that was only trial-made this year.

For many years, the kingdom did not have enough food to eat, and even in the first few years, when there was no expansion, it had to feed its hunger with potatoes every day. Therefore, the kingdom prohibits the brewing of alcoholic products that are large consumers of grain.

Even later, because alcohol was needed to disinfect and heal the wounded of the army, food could only be purchased under strict supervision by the alcohol factory run by the Royal Government.

In the past two years, with the arrival of several winemaking experts from immigrants, the kingdom has also begun to study the same grain wine, and the current sorghum wine is the latest achievement.