After a long time, the dense mountains and forests in front of me appeared in front of me, and at the intersection of the river, there were two A sergeants of the E General B Team guarding them, and next to the intersection, there were several rows of simple barracks for these sergeants guarding the intersection to live.

Seeing the sergeants of the E General A team giggling and coming back with a large number of prey, including a big-headed wild boar, the sergeants of the two first-class teams of the B team were staring wide-eyed: "Good guy, such a big-headed pig, you can eat meat well tonight." They cried out, "Brother, you are still merry, hunting every day, how leisurely."

How can we be like us, sitting here all day long, and we are about to get sick? ”

The sergeant of the General A team said with a smile: "I said brother, you are cheap and good, you are here every day, which is like us, drilling mountains and climbing forests all day long, tired like something." ”

They laughed and entered the mountain road, and crossed the mountains on the rugged path, the mountain road was long, and the Kanko rugged wilderness trail was about half an hour, and the eyes lit up, and below was a small flat river, and a river meandered to the north. On the edge of the river, there were large barracks and dwellings, like a village and town. Hundreds of miners and their families lived here to open mines, as well as more than 300 sergeants of the town guard, turning the originally desolate Shangjinggou into a lively place.

The closer they got to the barracks, the more noisy they became, and when they saw the sergeants of the E General A Brigade coming back with a large number of prey, the families and children of the miners who were busy working outside the barracks all greeted them cheerfully, especially the children, who shouted happily: "Great, there is meat to eat, there is meat to eat." ”

They came over with the sergeants of Team A, Zhong Tiaoyang came out of the barracks after hearing this, and he was also quite happy when he saw the harvest of his subordinates: "Great, I recommend killing these prey tonight, and make up for the brothers, and those miner brothers can also have a happy life." ”

He stretched out for a long time, and it has been a few months since he came to this well, and he was still deserted here at the beginning of the year, and in order to build this silver mine, he and the old craftsman Wu Shiyun together, I don't know how much unimaginable hard work they have paid. However, his cousin handed over the heavy responsibility of guarding the silver mine to himself, no matter how difficult it was, Zhong Tiaoyang would stick to it.

After walking on the track, everything is fine in the silver mine, the supplies are also sufficient, the miners in the mine are the best to eat, the daily white flour dumplings just let go of the food, but the supply of meat can not keep up, the miners are hard to mine, no meat, there is no physical strength. ”

At the end of March of the tenth year of Chongzhen, in the Baoan Zhou City Integrity Mansion, Wang Dou was carefully counting his inventory.

He looked at the booklet and calculated his family's consumption, his brows furrowed, the situation was not optimistic.

In July last year, after Wang Dou seized the income of the Qing soldiers, he had a total of more than 3,800 stones of grain and rice in Shunxiang Fort, as well as more than 7,700 taels of silver, in addition to more than 350 taels of gold, the price of gold in the Ming Dynasty was more expensive, and the discount of silver could reach more than 3,500 taels, so that Wang Dou's silver at the tip of his hand was about more than 10,000 taels.

In addition, in Shunxiang Fort, Wang Dou had 537 ploughing cattle. There were originally 386 ploughing cattle in the state city, and after the king fought from the acropolis and 310 ploughing cattle came to the road city, the state city already had 696 ploughing cattle.

In addition, Wang Dou also had more than 1,000 pigs and sheep and more than 500 mules and horses in Shunxiang Fort.

Wang Dou's principle is to keep as much grain and rice as possible in the treasury, and to buy as much as possible with silver, the fields of Shunxiangbao have not yet produced much, and most of the army and civilians want Wang Dou to provide for them, especially the young and strong men of nearly 2,000 troops, who eat a lot. In fact, now the soldiers and civilians of Shunxiang Fort are very looking forward to organizing them to work in the fort, generally when they are not working, Wang Dou is to let these military households eat themselves, or a small amount of ration of some rice porridge, only when they work collectively, they are full of rice steamed buns, and often have meat to eat.

However, there are all kinds of money, and Wang Dou still uses 1,000 stone of rice grain and 100 pigs and sheep a month. In the past few months, Wang Dou used silver to buy from various rice shops in the state city, and by the end of March, most of the silver in Wang Dou's hands had been gone, and there were not many pigs and sheep left.

Also, in the second half of this year, Baoan Prefecture needs to collect taxes and grains, Wang Dou and Zhizhou Li Zhenxuan have exempted the military and civilians of Baoan Prefecture from collecting taxes and grains this year, and all the burdens will be pressed on Wang Dou's thick shoulders (). The military and civilian households in Baoan Prefecture levied a total of more than 4,000 stones, and the Ming Dynasty levied a discount of silver, and a stone of grain and rice was converted into eight coins of silver, so that the silver was converted down, which was more than 3,000 taels of silver.

Wang Dou also promised to give Zhizhou Li Zhenxuan 500 taels of silver to keep surplus, and there was also the food and salary of the soldiers of the state city, Wubao and Zhangjiabao in the second half of the year. The most important thing is that at present, the irrigation well is being drilled to make water trucks, and it is estimated that the 1,000 ploughing cattle I bought from Lai Mancheng are also about to arrive, and 5,000 taels of silver will be spent here immediately."

Wang Dou shook his head, guarding the land of a state, outsiders looked at the scenery, in fact, the pressure was not Wang Dou then looked at the silver mine document submitted by Zhong Tiaoyang, and he nodded with satisfaction, "Three, three thousand six hundred and fifty-five taels of silver a month, an average of one thousand two hundred taels a month, and more than fourteen thousand taels of silver in a year, which is not bad, and finally has a stable income."

Looking at the documents of these times, Wang Dou is even more satisfied, from the 11th of this month, Wen Fangliang and Gao Shiyin led the army to Ulzhou and other places to suppress bandits, and they have swept away a number of bandit villages, and after seizing and transporting them back one after another, they got more than 6,300 taels of silver, and more than 1,000 stone rice grains, and there is such an income in less than a month, it seems that the bandits are a beautiful difference.

Calculated that there are nearly 10,000 taels of silver, this is a huge amount in the eyes of outsiders, but it will soon cost most of it, and he is still stretched.

Wang Dou stood up abruptly and continued to suppress the bandits, and he would never show mercy to those bandits who harmed the people!

At the beginning of April of the tenth year of Chongzhen, Wen Fangliang and Gao Shiyin led the army back to Baozhou, and Han Chao, Han Zhong, and Sun Sanjie, on the orders of Wang Dou, led nearly 1,000 soldiers from General A, General B, and General Ding, like tigers, to Ulzhou and other places, and continued to carry out the great cause of suppressing bandits.

At the same time, Wang Dou also organized the military and civilians of Baoan Prefecture and began to dig irrigation wells. , If you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the heart, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!