Xu Zixian turned to Lu Wenluo again and said with a smile: "How is it? Have you seen that guy Wang Yue?"

Wang Yue was the censor in the palace and the chief official of Jianzhou. After all, Xu Zi mentioned such officials first, he usually praised him for his respect. However, when he mentioned Wang Yue, he really couldn't respect him.

"I didn't see you." Lu Wenluo said: "The committee after entering Jianzhou is really angry. It is surrounded by people trained by their general regiments, and there are also the wing troops stationed in the city and camp. Hundreds of people followed, dispersing the people along the way, not crowding or cheering. When they arrived at the government office, the Tongzhi Lord Lu came out to see me. After hearing what I said, he waved his hands one after another, asking me to leave the city quickly and go to the Shaowu army to report the victory. I knew he was embarrassed, so I retreated and did not cause trouble in the government office."

Originally, Lu Wenluo planned to make trouble in Jianzhou Prefecture and exclaimed his anger, but when he saw Lu Wenxian's nervous expression, he still decisively retreated.

"Lu Tongzhi is right." Xu Zixian laughed and scolded: "He is a local important official of the dynasty. You really dare to make trouble. Killing a rankless Lubu envoy is nothing more than to hate me. The court's law is correct. Jianzhou has already broken up with us. What if you kill one more? It seems that Wang Yue was waiting for you to be rude at that time and then ordered you to be captured and killed."

Lu Wenluo was also scared and said, "I have to thank Lu Tongzhi."

Xu Zi nodded gently, asked Lu Bu to go down and rest, and return to the team by himself.

Lu Wenxian was originally the governor of Qizhou. Qizhou was a lower-class prefecture under the jurisdiction of the prefecture. In later generations, it should be called a county-level city. After the thieves of Qizhou were wiped out, the status of Qizhou plummeted. Lu Wenxian accepted Xu Zixian's suggestion and went to the Grand Palace to serve as a co-magistrate.

However, although Lu Wenxian had achievements, no one in the court was a major flaw. After the Ministry of Personnel recommended it, he actually placed Lu Wenxian as Ren Tongzhi of Jianzhou.

After arriving at the court, Lu Wenxian was also stunned. Unfortunately, unless he resigned from office and refused to do so, he would have no room for negotiation.

This person must be quite suffocating in Jianzhou. Wang Yue has high qualifications and high rank. He can suppress Lu Wenxian, a co-prime master, to a tight end. This time he was considered a good deal for the Nan'an Marquis Mansion. Xu Zixian estimated that Lu Wenxian would soon follow him.

"Nearly nothing was caught today." Fu Qian said to Xu Zixian: "The repairable shipwreck will be salvaged tomorrow and the next day, and the unrepairable destruction will be taken away. This area of ​​sea will probably be cleared out."

"Well," Xu Zi nodded first, turned to Chen Zuo and said, "Have you counted the items you have caught?"

"More than 10,000 taels of gold, less than 40,000 taels of silver, and fifty or six hundred thousand s of copper coins." Chen Zuocai had a faint look of excitement on his face, but it was obvious that he and the crowd around him were slightly excited, and could no longer be compared with Chen Yutai's treasure when he was in Qizhou.

It can be said that the first pot of gold in the Dongfan period was the capital of Chen Yutai's accumulation over the past ten years. In addition to ships, 150,600,000 jin of gold, silver and copper coins and items made the Nan'an Hou Mansion's major development plan for the Dongfan period.

This time, there were 150,600,000 guan of gold, silver and copper coins and items. Of course, this was a huge sum of money, but everyone was a little excited. Looking at the piles of copper coins, copper ware, gold and silver, there was a feeling in their eyes that was just like this.

The salt in Dongfan has a monthly income of hundreds of thousands of guan, which is almost a waste of money. In addition to the income of Nan'an Town, the marine trade also has a monthly income of more than 100,000 guan. The cotton fields are about to harvest, and it is also a profit starting from a million yuan. The beans have a sufficient amount of more than one million acres, but they are still a profit of more than one million yuan.

In addition to the planted sugarcane, tea gardens, mulberry, hydraulic textile, hydraulic oil pressing, iron ore coal mines, blast furnace iron smelting, iron tools and cotton cloth, tea and sugar, all are the main products. The future of Dongfan is promising, and this million yuan is really a lot of dead money.

If we say that this war has the greatest gains, of course, the forty-seven warships, which together are millions of chunks of money, are the second most important. The most important thing is to save the process and time of shipbuilding. More naval soldiers, including those who are active and those who are about to be recruited, will board the ship directly and start training early. The Nan'an navy will grow rapidly in a faster time.

This is the biggest gain!

Kong He was of course the happiest one. Recently, in order to fight against pirates, the salt farms, all factories and farmlands were stopped. Tens of thousands of people were recruited and used. Money and grain flowed out like flowing water. The soldiers of the government were seriously injured, and the pension also required a lot of money.

Resuming production, pensions for the casualties and soldiers, and rewarding the successful soldiers and the people and the strong, all these require a lot of money.

Originally, Kong He was still a little short of his time, so of course there was no need to worry at this time.

"The officials will hand over to the household house as soon as possible." Chen Zuocai understood Kong He's difficulties quite well. He immediately clasped his fists at Kong He and said with a smile: "I know Brother Kong must be waiting in a hurry."

Kong He glared and said, "I'm almost anxious to see that I can't eat it when I see it."

Everyone laughed.

Xu Zixian smiled and said to Qin Dongyang: "Tell Wu Weisan, tell him to go back to Nan'an and preside over the recruitment of Nan'an's waterkou valley entrance, especially Jianzhou miners."

Qin Dongyang nodded and said with a smile: "When it comes to miners, there is a man named Cai You who has dozens of men and their family. He hired a boat to come over, saying that he would rather lead a horse to the hero than to be his ancestors. Jianzhou and the others could not stay there, nor would they want to go back to their original hometowns in Jinghu, Quzhou and other places to be farmermen. Thinking of our soldiers and food here, I think they are all serious miners, each with big arms and round waists, and Kong Wu is strong, so they asked the Military Training Department to take over first."

Xu Zi nodded first and said, "Before we were all recruiting people, most of them were official households and people near Nan'an. The miners have never been recruited. Wang Yue was doing nonsense in Jianzhou, which has helped us a lot. Jianzhou is now a powder keg, and maybe something will happen one day. Recruitment matters, don't wait for the end of the year. Taking advantage of the increasing looseness of the hands now, recruit all the expected camps and use more Jianzhou miners!"

Jianzhou miners have a wide range of sources. In addition to the locals in Jianzhou, there are also people from Quzhou, Mingzhou, Tanzhou, Changsha, and even people from Guangnan West Road, Guangnan East.

People on the road, such as Shaoguan people and more than 100,000 miners, came from dozens of prefectures and counties nearby, and would have a major impact on the formation of the Nan'an Marquis's army.

Xu Zixian also hopes to promote a group of useful generals from the miners to dilute the current situation of the overly strong hometown of the government generals in Fujian.

Qin Dongyang was overjoyed when he heard this. Of course, the military boss hoped that the army could quickly withdraw its strength. He said to Xu Zixian: "According to the original plan, we plan to recruit another 20th battalion of troops by the end of the year. Now we have to ask the Lord to show our advice. Should we do it according to the original plan?"

"First recruit forty battalions." Xu Zixian said decisively: "The opportunity should not be missed. No more time will come. If you make up your money, fifty or sixty battalions will be fine."

Qin Dongyang was overjoyed and clasped his fists. Nan'an Hou Mansion now has four battalions of naval divisions, one battalion of cavalry, and the 12th battalion of infantry. This was equivalent to a few times expansion. With the quality, body, and organization of Jianzhou miners, and a little training, it will become a strong army in a few months.

If sixty battalions could be recruited, plus the original troops, the Nan'an Marquis' Mansion had nearly eighty battalions and more than 40,000 people. This is not a 40,000 wing army. If armor and weapons were also followed, it would be an invincible existence on the sea, land, and on Fujian Road, which would be enough to crush the existing 100,000 wing army and more than 10,000 imperial guards on Fujian Road.

The civil servants around all nodded slightly. Their interests may be damaged by the sudden expansion of the army, but everyone knew quite well that when the troubled times came, which force would have the stronger the force, so that they could hold true power. In the Nan'an Marquis Mansion, the interests of civil and military are the same and connected to each other, so there is no need to suppress the generals to expand the army.

Xu Zixian was as excited as Qin Dongyang. Forty thousand troops, 10,000 were rationed to the navy, and most of them were Fujian people, while at least 30,000 were supplemented with infantry battalions and cavalry battalions. The cavalry battalions could be expanded to three to four battalions to form a cavalry army. Then the infantry could be expanded to the fifth battalions into one army, and each army had the ability to fight separately in the prefectures of Fujian Road.

In the short term, the generals will use the original generals to disperse the miners and organize them into each battalion, and do not form the battalion independently, and mix them with the original soldiers. These miners come from various nearby routes and should understand the dialect of the Fujian people. There will be no difficulties in communicating with each other. Next, they will accept each other. There may be some controversy, but they should forcefully do this.

If the fiscal situation is healthy by the end of the year, Xu Zi will first recruit about 40th battalion in Jianzhou and expand the army to a scale of 60,000.

This is not because he is too urgent. A large number of discrete miners are treasures. Some miners may not want to join the army to eat food. This is also very good. The blast furnace in the Dongfan will soon require a large amount of manpower, and it is just the right time to eat the Jianzhou miners.

A large number of miners, including ordinary people from Jianzhou, can join the Nan'an Prefecture Army, which will increase the strength of the Nan'an Prefecture Army sharply. If it is to outsiders that Xu Zi first invested millions of trump cards a year on the army and ships, it would be too stupid unless he had the ambition to rebel, but with tens of thousands of Nan'an Prefecture Army and facing hundreds of thousands of elite imperial guards in the north, how could he have a chance of winning?

Others don’t know that Xu Zixian knew in his heart that a few years later, when the Donghu Iron Cavalry headed south, whether he had made sufficient preparations was a crucial matter and a major issue related to his capital and life.

...

In the evening, Chen Zhengzhi, who was patrolling from all over the cotton fields, returned to the dock and saw piles of gold, silver and copper coins. The prince of the Changwen Hou Mansion did not have much stunning expression, but just made a few jokes.

Chen Dujing spent a lot of private money on the Dongfan, but the family money left to his son was at least 20 to 3 million yuan. With the identity of Changwenhou in the future, Chen Zhengzhi would certainly not be tempted by the money left by a bunch of pirates.

However, Chen Zhengzhi praised Xu Zixian for treating the pearl collector well, and complained: "Emperor Renzong hangs the word "Renzong", and there are several stories, such as the story of the pig farmer ringing and hearing drums, which makes people think that the emperor really cares about a pig in the farmer. In fact, it is just a fame. During the reign of Emperor Renzong, I ordered me to give tribute pearls in Fujian. The envoy went to Fujian Road to scold local officials for being ineffective. In a few days, I collected more than 3,000 pearl collectors to go to the sea to pick pearls. It was early winter and the sea water was cold. I collected enough tribute pearls in a few days and enjoyed it for Emperor Renzong's concubines. Of course the emperor was happy, but he ignored my pearl collectors in Fujian. More than 600 died, only a few days. If I were really kind, could I do such a thing?"

"This is the emperor." Xu Zixian smiled and said, "The so-called benevolence is nothing more than the superiors and the inferiors, and it is pity, and it is for the sake of his own reputation. The emperor regards the world as his own private property. When he regards what he gains is greater than his reputation, the so-called benevolence can of course be put aside and ignore it for now. Besides, the benevolence of Renzong was not to the common people, but to the scholars and officials."

"Well, what Mingda said is very much." Chen Zhengzhi laughed and said, "When I was enlightened by Tong Sheng, the old scholar would never understand this kind of trick. When I mentioned Renzong, I still praised him."

"Killing people to kill their hearts, and the pen of a literati is sometimes more terrifying than a knife."

"Mingda, your reputation in the future should be good..." Chen Zhengzhi smiled and said, "After a while, all schools in primary and secondary schools will start. This is a grand event in China. If the emperor and the two palaces were not in a hurry, they would probably have to declare the world and publicize it. After it was promoted, they would become the virtues of the emperor and the two palaces."

"It can still be counted." Xu Zixian smiled and said, "But too much is not enough, don't ask others to lean on Wang Mang."

When Wang Mang usurped the Han Dynasty, he was already famous all over the world and was famous for his benevolence, virtue and filial piety. Even so, he was still Daxing Taixue. There were tens of thousands of Tai students at the end of the Western Han Dynasty, all of which were funded by the imperial court. This was Wang Mang who wanted to win over scholars to show his attention. In fact, it was also very successful. The new dynasty was established. If Wang Mang had not played those inexplicable retros to kill himself, the new dynasty Han would have succeeded.

Chen Zhengzhi knew that Xu Zixian was not saying these words for no reason, so he said seriously: "Don't worry, if anyone on Fujian dares to spread such shameless and unreasonable words, our Changwen Hou Mansion will be the first to not let him go."

Xu Zi nodded and smiled first, and did not continue the topic.

A big tree attracts wind, and the ancients are truly unrestrained. After defeating the pirates, the prestige of Nan'an Hou Mansion and Xu Zixian on Fujian Road of course reached a new level. While the people support it, there will naturally be people who will be jealous and jealous, so they fabricate all kinds of rumors and rumors, and try to slander them.

This is normal. Such villains have not been short of all dynasties and even hundreds of years later.

As long as there are methods to cure them.

It is definitely not possible to ask the military officers to arrest people, but you can use the civil servants and gentry of Changwenhou Mansion to fall, scold and warn. If it really doesn't work, the Military Information Department will intimidate or assassinate.

Rumors should not be afraid, but what is afraid is that everyone is willing to believe it. Xu Zixian is too dazzling and too dazzling now. If similar rumors spread, people can know that it is rumors, but most people will still choose to believe it, because even if Xu Zixian has no intention of rebelling, he has the qualifications and capital to rebel and rebel.

This is the most terrifying place. Now the Dongfan and Nan'an Marquis Mansion are just starting out, and it is far from time to tolerate such rumors.

"I'm going to rush back before dark." Chen Zhengzhi said: "I looked at thousands of acres of cotton fields and explained to my father and uncles. It is certain that most of the cotton fields can be high-yield. Mingda, taking advantage of the victory, the morale is strong, so hurry up and harvest it. If a typhoon suddenly comes these days, it will be a lot of fun."

Xu Zixian nodded calmly and said, "Cotton and beans are harvested together, day and night, and tomorrow will begin."

"So courageous." Chen Zhengzhi raised his thumb and smiled, "My girl was determined when you were seriously ill in Mingda. There were temptations in the family and told her to scold her several times. Mingda, you can rest assured."

Xu Zixian showed a touching look on his face, and there was also a complex expression in his eyes.

The entanglement with Chen Wenjun in his past and present lives seems to have finally had a relatively perfect result in this life.

"I'm relieved too." Chen Zhengzhi joked: "I wandered around the island for two days, and finally I know why Uncle Jiu praised you. I dare not say whether the Nan'an Marquis Mansion will be rich in the future, and at least Pu Shougao and others are far from comparable to that of you."

"Is Pu Shougao still quiet?"

"It's been much more quiet." Chen Zhengzhi sighed: "In the past two years, Pu Shougao has gone from a hot-selling wealthy businessman on Fujian Road to an ordinary wealthy businessman who is dormant in the mansion and is still idle. This is thanks to Mingda. He crossed the Pu family, drove away the commander, and suppressed Chen Yutai, which made King Zhao and Lin Douyao breathless. If someone had explained a few years ago that you could reach the point where you are now, I might have laughed wildly for a long time and drove that person out like a madman..."

Xu Zixian also smiled, and after Chen Zhengzhi finished speaking, he said, "When we were in Qizhou, I didn't like you, brother. I was wearing a playboy. Now I realize that I was still shallow at the beginning."

The two looked at each other and laughed, and Chen Zhengzhi murmured: "In another two years, I wonder what the situation is?"

Xu Zixian smiled and said, "It won't be as good as you think, but it won't be worse."

...

After dark in the evening, Xu Zixianfang returned to the courtyard under the escort of Lin Shaozong and others.

Xiuniang, Xiaomei and others had been waiting in front of the mansion. After seeing Xu Zi jumped off the war horse, the two women and the servants came up to us.

"I iced sweet rice wine," Xiuniang smiled and said, "Dried fried sea fish, crab frozen, fish balls, ginger duck, and oysters and egg stalls."

"Very good, great." Xu Zixian smiled and said, "It's all my favorite food."

The younger sister pursed her lips and said, "Brother, I remember that you were very picky in food when you were a child. Now I really don't care about everything. I have never seen you have anything to talk about. If you weren't by my side all the time, I would have suspected that I had changed."

"Maybe the day you fell asleep, you changed people." Xu Zi beat him first and sat on the mat. He saw that the ginger duck was golden in color and had a fresh and fragrant taste. The fish balls were sprinkled with green onions, which were all full of color, fragrance and flavor. Of course, there was no MSG in this era, but the seafood flavor was originally full of umami, and the soy sauce made in the old method was quite fresh and sweet, which was good enough to cook with food.

The crabs are frozen because Xu Zixian runs around every day, which is too bitter in summer, so Xiuniang and her younger sister steam the crabs and put them in the ice room. The soup and crabs solidify and the ice is sweet. It is one of Xu Zixian's favorite snacks.

In the dining room where Xu Zixian had a meal, the lights were brightly lit. Through the candlelight, you could see the armored soldiers standing solemnly with swords outside the window. Occasionally, you could hear the clanging sound of iron armor. They were armored soldiers patrolling outside the wing room.

On the arrow tower and corner tower in the other courtyard, there are also armored soldiers standing with sieges, and there are also divine arm bows holding bows and guarding them.

Chen Zuocai, Lin Shaozong and others even wanted to install a few crossbows in the corner tower, but of course Xu Zixian flatly refused this.

If it is not safe on the island, what's the use of putting a few crossbows?

With the government army here, you can just be on guard.

Recently, the alertness is much stricter than usual. Of course, the reason is that Xu Zixian was instability in the political situation when he was seriously ill. After Xu Zixian recovered, Chen Zuocai, Chen Daojian, and Lin Shaozong did not lower the level of security, so this standard of security level continued.

Now there are a whole city guards, controlled by Si Cong Cao, Lin Shaozong and others, and the armored soldiers were selected from the old mansion army. They are not only skilled in martial arts, but also particularly loyal and reliable.

The closest servants will rotate in batches every three months. As long as the words are passed, they will directly enter the martial arts lecture hall and become the reserve officer.

Due to the status of a close servant, these military officers will easily be promoted in the expanded government army in the future, obtain higher official positions and more generous salaries.

Every close servant was very alert. Even if a close minister like Jin Jian entered the other courtyard, he was untied to enter, but he was not searched.

In fact, with Xu Zixian's own force, Jin Jian had ten or eight like that, and even with weapons, he might not be able to successfully assassinate. It was just a gesture. All civil and military officials could only enter the other courtyard by dismantling their swords.
Chapter completed!