Chapter 258 Guaranteed Money
Fire Phoenix reported to everyone that all local tribes had already known about the Shenwei Army's military management philosophy and new social vision, and most of them supported it, so the Shenwei Army was advancing very quickly.
However, Zhao Yulin believed that the smoother things went, the more careful one should be.
The team was advancing too fast and far away from the rear supplies, so it was inevitable that someone would do something bad. Cutting off the traffic behind would be extremely dangerous.
Fenghuang nodded and said that it was relatively safe where she was, because the Dali Kingdom had encountered an ambush when it marched into South Vietnam.
She got the news that the Dali Kingdom was confident that its new army was powerful, and when South Vietnam invaded, it dealt a head-on blow to the enemy, causing the Vietnamese army to be defeated. They took advantage of the victory and pursued the enemy for hundreds of miles into South Vietnam as if they were in an empty land.
However, South Vietnam was a land of mountains and rivers with dense paths and trails. The Dali Kingdom's follow-up troops failed to follow up in time, resulting in the front army being ambushed by the enemy. Under the multi-pronged attacks of South Vietnam, they could not get supplies and suffered heavy losses, and were forced to flee back.
The new army of Dali Kingdom was in the front and must have suffered heavy casualties.
Zhao Yulin said that past experience is a lesson for the future. We don't need to rush, just stop and go.
Lao Cao laughed when he heard his light-hearted analogy, and said, "Brother, you are just doing your work by stopping and starting along the way."
Fire Phoenix laughed and said that his brother was just stopping and starting to flirt with girls and get married, he was not really doing any work.
Zhao Yulin was drinking water and it spat out with a "puff".
Shunzhidi had already run outside with a blushing face due to embarrassment.
Lao Cao couldn't stand seeing this family making fun of each other in public, so he immediately made an excuse to leave.
Zhao Yulin complained to Fire Phoenix, why did you always expose other people's secrets when you could just make a joke in public?
Fire Phoenix looked at him like a nagging woman and asked, "Brother, you have several wives. Don't you know that pregnant women are irritable and in a bad mood and need comfort?"
Zhao Yulin went over and hugged him and said that no matter what happened, they had to wait until night.
The woman said she couldn't wait and wanted it now.
The couple quickly started interacting and greeting each other.
The next day, Zhao Yulin convened the military and political officials of Renhuai Fort for a meeting and announced the establishment of the Renhuai Road-level General Administration Office, with jurisdiction extending from Kuizhou Road in the east, Mahu River in the west, Dajiang Bank in the north, and Guangnan West Road in the south.
Cao Youwen announced that Shunzhidi would be the first pacification envoy of Renhuai Road, and his wives Zhen and Shun would be his deputy envoys. Huofenghuang was stationed in Renhuai to dispatch the southern expedition, and as the chief consultant, he coordinated and prepared to build the relevant government offices of Renhuai Road and divide the prefectures and counties.
Before Lao Cao had finished speaking, there was already cheering below.
Zhao Yulin stood up and spread his arms and pressed down, signaling everyone to be quiet, quiet, he said there were a lot of things to do. The first thing was to figure out how to make sure that the people in these newly arrived counties and prefectures had food to eat?
Cao said: "When the granaries are full, people will know etiquette." Only when the people have food to eat can the society be stable. After returning to Chengdu, he and the commander will ask the officials to discuss the matter again and allocate special funds to new areas such as Renhuai to support the improvement of people's lives. But to truly get rid of poverty, we still have to rely on ourselves.
The conference room was crowded with people, all of whom were thinking and nodding.
Zhao Yulin said: "It's the same old saying. To get rich, we must first build roads. We must find a way to repair the mountain roads and waterways, so that the dirt in the mountains can be turned into gold and silver."
The officials at the meeting immediately burst into laughter.
Shunzhidi said to everyone seriously: Commander Zhao meant that even though we are poor and have nothing to use here, as long as the road is built, the insignificant things may be able to turn into money. Right?
Zhao Yulin nodded and smiled, praising his woman for her imagination.
Shunzhidi then told everyone that the Third Young Master had decided to build a new distillery in Sifangjing. This is a brand new wine-making distillery. Not only is it large, but its wine-making method is also completely different. It will purchase a large amount of sorghum and other wine-making crops that we grow to ensure that the people can make money.
The next day, after finishing their work, the two were about to return to Chengdu. As soon as they arrived at the dock , they saw a small boat approaching the shore quickly. A young man jumped out of the boat and shouted: Kill people, you charming man, Abao, come and chop people.
Zhao Yulin stopped immediately. The young man ran to old lady Shun and knelt down and said that Zhen Youmei's man Abao hated his father-in-law for calling him useless, so he picked up a knife and injured Zhen Youmei and Shun Zhidi's father. The two old men were in danger.
Shunzhidi collapsed immediately after hearing this. Zhao Yulin rushed forward and held her in his arms, saying to Lao Cao that the incident happened suddenly and only the general could go ahead.
Lao Cao nodded and told him not to rush and to go back after he was done.
Zhao Yulin suddenly remembered that Ma Ling would be back soon, so he asked the general to send him to Chengdu to take up his post.
Lao Cao immediately agreed and hurriedly got on the boat and left.
A group of people on the dock stood at a loss. He told them to go back and asked Madam Zhen to bring the imperial physician and the chief judge to the village to rescue people and find out the truth.
The crowd dispersed immediately.
Zhao Yulin carried Zhidi back and laid her on the bed. Fenghuang said helplessly, "What's going on?"
Aren't you just looking for trouble?
Zhidi took a short rest and got up to go see her father again, but Zhao Yulin pressed her down on the bed and told her not to move and to have a good rest.
He said that Zhidi was already the pacification envoy of Renhuai Road, and once she entered the village, she would be like a mountain, which would not be conducive to the judicial officer making a fair judgment.
He asked Zhidi to believe that Madam Zhen would act impartially.
Old Madam Shun said tremblingly that this was a sin and she shouldn't have sent You Mei to the Third Young Master's house in the first place.
Zhao Yulin and Fenghuang looked at each other in shock. What did the bloody incident in the village have to do with Cuiping Mountain? Why was it linked to Zhao Yulin?
Fenghuang stared at Zhao Yulin, then looked at the old lady and asked, "Why did you talk about Cuipingshan Mansion?" Madam, please tell me in detail and make everything clear.
Mrs. Shun sighed, told Zhidi to take good care of herself, and stood up to ask everyone to go outside for tea.
After the three people came to the tea room and sat down, the maid quickly brought tea and left. Then the old lady slowly told the story of Zhen Youmei.
It turned out that they had selected the most beautiful girls in the village, Zhen Youmei and Shunzhidi, and sent them to Zhao Yulin's residence in Cuiping Mountain. However, Zhen Youmei had no chance to be with the third young master and kept thinking about her childhood sweetheart, Abao.
Soon after You Mei returned to the village from Cuiping Mountain, she married her beloved brother Abao. At that time, the economic conditions of the Zhen family, Shun family and Abao family were similar. Abao's family made a living as a horse caravan, and it seemed that they were better off than Shunzhidi's family, which was supported by Shun's ancestors. Everyone lived happily and peacefully.
Three years passed in a flash, and the news that Shunzhidi had become Zhao Yulin's wife and returned to Renhuai Fort to serve as the chief steward immediately spread throughout the mountains and rivers of Renhuai.
Zhen Youmei's father, Zhen Shangli, sees that Shun's family is getting better and better, but Abao's caravan has to go to more barren mountains because of the Shenwei Army building a cooperative and repairing roads, and their income has been greatly reduced. Zhen Shangli feels seriously unbalanced when he sees that their lives are getting worse day by day.
As an old Taishan, Zhen Li often scolds Abao for being uneducated and unskilled, who can only climb trees and rob bird nests; he scolds Zhen Youmei for only knowing how to have fun and marry a scoundrel who only knows how to get into bed and have children. What future does it have for her to live in the mountains?
Zhen Youmei had been abused by her father for a long time, and when she saw Shunzhidi was already high up and doing things gloriously, she also became tired of the life in the village facing the stove all day long. The couple's occasional quarrels gradually evolved into frequent husband-and-wife wars.
Zhao Yulin listened and gradually understood that Abao was the rich second-generation in the village, who spent all day wandering around in the ravines and had very simple thoughts. It must have been the constant insults from the Zhen family, young and old, that angered him and caused him to lose his mind and commit the crime.
He asked Madam Shun to go back and have a good rest, and asked someone to tell the village not to make things difficult for Zhen's family and Abao's family.
Zhao Yulin knew very well that the constables who were on duty would see that Shunzhidi's father, who was also the third young master's father-in-law, was injured and would definitely not give him a lenient punishment. This would be against judicial justice.
Speaking of judicial justice, there was no such concept in Lin'an at that time .
After the establishment of the small court, a large number of officials were appointed. The expenditure of maintaining the army and government offices alone was an astronomical figure. They also had to take the initiative to bear the heavy responsibility of paying tribute and silk to the Mongol Empire. How could the several roads in Jiangdong afford it?
Shi's son originally wanted to make a fortune in the salt war with Zhao Yulin, but unfortunately the Buddha did not protect him, so Zhao Yulin made a lot of money. He speculated in salt and became the largest salt owner. He immediately dragged the salt merchants to take the blame for him.
Shi's son sold the salt back to the salt merchant and escaped. The loss was not that big after all, and there was silver in the treasury of the small court again.
However, if the salt merchants could not sell their salt, they would not have any salt tax revenue, which was the mainstay of the finances of Liangzhe. The tax revenue of the small court immediately plummeted.
Officials in the imperial court had not received a penny since the New Year, and even the concubines of the young emperor had to rely on their parents' families for money to buy rouge and powder.
The officials from various departments gathered in the court to discuss ideas, and finally targeted the wealthy families with money. Shi's son asked the officials to collect taxes in their respective areas, and collect the taxes paid by the wealthy families for a hundred years, because some counties had already collected taxes for ten, twenty, or fifty years in order to pay the taxes he set.
Shi's son had no choice but to intensify the efforts. After a hundred years, anyone who dared not hand over the money would be sentenced to imprisonment at the very least, or beheaded as a warning to others at the worst.
Damn, is there any law in this world?
Zhao Yulin accompanied the two women to drink tea and chat, and then had a good sleep. When he woke up, the Chief Inspector and Madam Zhen came back with the prisoner.
As soon as she entered the government office, Madam Zhen bowed to him and apologized, blaming herself for not disciplining her family well, which led to such a shameful and illegal incident.
The chief judge said that A Bao committed intentional homicide. Although he did not cause anyone's death, he seriously injured two elderly people. He was sentenced to at least 30 years in prison and exiled 8,000 miles away.
Zhao Yulin frowned, thinking that Abao was just a playful and idle young man. If he was to be exiled eight thousand miles away, he would probably die on the way before he even got there.
Just as she was thinking about it, there was a sudden cry outside the door, and then she saw Zhen Youmei coming in. The little woman cried and hugged Shunzhidi, begging her to let her man, Guai Abao, go.
Then she called out to Zhao Yulin, saying that she had served the Third Young Master in the past, and begged him to save her Abao.
Madam Zhen immediately stopped Zhen Youmei from making trouble, and then she called all the officials around to leave.
