Xue Ju suddenly laughed: "Wang Huaqiang, what do you mean?" Destroy me first, and then give me a little good, do you expect this to make me grateful, and let you drive me later? You also underestimate me Xue Ju, I am a dignified nine-foot man, how can I be at your mercy, even if I die, don't expect me to take refuge in you!"

Wang Huaqiang sighed: "Brother Xue, the matter of equality and mutual benefit, what do you say about taking refuge or not taking refuge, how ugly it sounds, how hurtful it hurts." Don't do this. ”

Xue Ju snorted heavily: "You kid monkey spirit monkey spirit, you have a bad stomach, don't I know what to do?" Are you willing to do anything that is not beneficial? ”

Wang Huaqiang's eyes flashed green: "Of course I have benefits, this benefit is that you ensure the smooth flow of this Silk Road, and my caravan can be safe from Guanzhong to Tianshui." That's my benefit. ”

Xue Ju was a little unconvinced, and his voice was full of doubts: "It's that simple? ”

"It's not complicated, you have been in this Golden City for a long time, I think everything is fine here, you can be the king and hegemon here, and even the history of the assassin has to sell your face, and you are considered the uncrowned king of this city, but my eyes are not in this Golden City, I am a businessman, although I have an official body of Yitong now, but I am idle at home, and I will become a servant in the future, and I will not let go of the family business, so what I want is very simple, that is, to make money.

The Silk Road in Longyou is just one of my many business routes, I just need to ensure that the trade routes are unblocked, and pay as few taxes as possible, this is my purpose, as for the goods trafficked by my caravans, they are all valuable goods such as silk, jewelry, and jade. No one can afford your little city of gold. I'm not even interested in selling here. How could they rob you of this barren land? Wang Huaqiang said with a smile.

Xue Ju nodded again and again when he heard this, and his brows finally eased a little: "I said it earlier, I don't have to be nervous that you will come to grab my territory." You have to show sincerity as soon as possible, why don't you die as soon as our brothers come up. ”

Wang Huaqiang looked at Xue Ju calmly: "Just now I just reminded you, don't take the dead road of the sand and the sky back then, he set up cards around Jincheng to collect taxes, and raised the commission to 30%, which made the caravan complain." Those caravans would rather go to the bandit-infested Qilian Mountain and Gobi than to go to Jincheng, no wonder Li Tingshi and they wanted to attack Sha Mantian, you experienced this incident back then, how could you be so confused? ”

Xue Ju smiled: "Seeing so many caravans coming and going, and not charging more money, I really feel bored." ”

Wang Huaqiang waved his hand: "You have to understand the principle of trickling water and long-term flow, setting up cards to collect taxes, in the short term, you can make a lot of quick money, but in the long run, these caravans have changed places." Where do you collect money? Now you have a self-respecting army here, which has caused the dissatisfaction of the imperial court. The reason why it didn't make you as dark as it was when Sha Mantian was was because you weren't a bandit, and you didn't have time to cause tax losses to the imperial court.

If you really dare to collect 30% of the tax on ordinary caravans in this Golden City, as you said, even if I don't attack you, within three years, these caravans and Lanzhou Thorn History will definitely find an excuse to destroy you, believe it or not? ”

The beads of sweat on Xue Ju's face rolled down, and he said hatefully: "Damn, I listened to Liu Changshui's nonsense, and the traitor misunderstood me!" He slammed his fist on the table.

Wang Huaqiang secretly said in his heart: Sure enough, it's this dog thing. But he didn't have any expression on his face, he was still as calm as ever, and continued: "Liu Changshui can betray me yesterday, he can betray you today, he can fall to you for money, and he can also ask for your life for money, how can you listen to this kind of person's words, when the time comes, when the money is collected, anyway, with you on top, his home is not here, if something really happens, he will roll up the money and run away, where can you run?!"

Xue Ju sighed: "Hua Qiang, only you can teach me these truths, and I will listen to what you say in the future." That dog thing surnamed Liu is completely at your disposal. ”

Wang Huaqiang said with a smile: "Don't worry, let's discuss this tax rate first, Brother Xue, are you still thinking about collecting 30% of the tax now?" ”

At the mention of money, Xue Ju's face tightened again: "Hua Qiang, you have also seen, I also have thousands of brothers to support, the court only gave me the official position of a metropolitan governor under the account, and the military salary was only enough for four or five hundred people, but I have so many brothers, many of them are dragging their families with their mouths, and they always have to eat, if it weren't for the support of everyone, I wouldn't have raised the tax rate, I know that you have a good brain, why don't you give me a better way?" ”

Wang Huaqiang said confidently: "Brother Xue, you can't violate the taboo of the imperial court in this matter, the imperial court can turn a blind eye to other things, but you will not ignore the two things of supporting the army and self-respecting and setting up a tax card without permission, you are the governor of the account, and the number of people under your command cannot exceed five hundred." Although this golden city is a border city far away from the Tiangao Emperor, but after all, it is also an important town on the Silk Road, in case the imperial court starts a war against the Turks, it must also strengthen the defense of this area, I remember that three years ago, General Han Baohu was the general manager here, and he led a large army to garrison, he didn't care about you? ”

Xue Ju grimaced and said with a smile: "General Han was very talkative at that time, the defense target of the governor of Liangzhou was mainly the Turks in the north, and he didn't have much control over Jincheng, and the Qiang and Tuyuhun people here are mixed, and there are many bandits. ”

Wang Huaqiang smiled: "Brother Xue, I'm afraid that you have not given General Han Shao any benefits." ”

Xue Ju smiled "hehe": "It's just 100,000 yuan, it's not much, it's just a little meaning, the young general was noncommittal at the time, and left directly, and afterwards I sent someone to send the money to General Han's mansion in Daxing City, and they accepted it directly." ”

Wang Huaqiang nodded: "You don't understand the matter of Daxing, I will casually reveal a little to you, General Han is the general who pacified Nanchen, but his merits are high, so the emperor doesn't want him to continue to be in charge of the army, so he let him stay here in Liangzhou for a few years, after all, Liangzhou and the Western Turks are separated by seven thousand miles of desert, and it is not like Shuozhou and Daizhou in Bingzhou directly border with the East Turks.

So General Han also knows this, here is basically to open one eye, close one eye, no accident is the best thing, you can help him protect the territory and the people here, he is naturally happy. It's just that if the new head of Liangzhou is replaced, and that person is an ambitious person who wants to make contributions, then there will be no such good talk. ”

After all, Xue Ju was in the border city, and he didn't know much about these things in the court, and when he heard Wang Huaqiang say this, he suddenly nodded in understanding, and then frowned: "Huaqiang, then what should I do next?" Even if I only keep 500 people according to the establishment of the imperial court, how can I settle the other brothers? ”

Wang Huaqiang smiled: "My dynasty is a government soldier system, since you are an officer in this city, and the position of the general of the chariot and cavalry in this city has been vacant for a long time since Sha Mantian's death, then you might as well let the other brothers be incorporated into the government soldiers and go home to settle down."

The government soldiers need to pay the grain tax to the imperial court, you can buy the rice and grain around here to pay on your behalf, and then let these people enter the city as security guards, government officials, and kuding, and they are usually responsible for patrolling the city, and if something needs to go to war, you can take them out of the arsenal to take out the weapons, so that no one can pick out what you are not for. ”

Xue Ju Ha Da said with a smile: "Hua Qiang, I really convinced you, to be honest, if you want to do this, it will not be a problem for me to develop another two or three thousand people." This golden city is vast and sparsely populated, and there are ownerless wastelands around it, and when the time comes, they will all be scattered outside the city, many of these people are Qiang and Tuyuhun people, and they are usually used to herding horses and hunting, and I just don't bother to care about them, and when there is something, they are called together to fight.

Anyway, now the bandits for hundreds of miles around this golden city have already been cleared by me, and these people have nothing to do, so it will save me the trouble of letting them go back to the tribe. ”

Wang Huaqiang nodded: "Now we can talk about this issue of commission." (To be continued......)

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