Qin Feng did not stay in Hulao for too long. Although there are still wars happening here now, and the Ming army is obviously at a disadvantage in the Hengduan Mountains.

In Qin Feng's view, such a small-scale conflict was not enough to make him look too seriously. The battle in Hengduan Mountains was like the battle between Ming and Qi at sea, and was all for the purpose of occupying a favorable position in the future when a large-scale war of hegemony broke out between the two sides.

One is named bandits and the other is called pirates. Everyone is tacitly informed and works quietly. After all, for the billions of people on both sides, the two sides are now living together peacefully, and the emperors of the two countries have personally signed a peace treaty. Although they fight in private, they still pretend to be a good brother to live in peace on the surface.

Under such a general situation, the scale of the battle in Hengduan Mountains cannot be expanded, because if Tuobayan really dares to fight to Hulao Pass, it would provoke a border provocation without authorization, which would trigger a war between the two sides in advance, and neither side would want to see this.

That's all.

Compared with the battle here, Qin Feng is actually more concerned about the development of the people's livelihood economy such as the grain harvest this year. Eagle Nest's attention has now focused most of its efforts on collecting economic data and local development of Qi, because these things represent the effectiveness of reforms after the new emperor of Qi Cao Yun took office. The more obvious the results are, the faster the national strength of Qi will recover, and the battle between the two sides will break out faster.

Eagle Nest established a special analysis team to analyze these people's livelihood data in Qi. Of course, there is another team that is committed to sabotaging. It is not about sabotaging by force, but about trying to delay the development of Qi. Unlike Chu, a financial invasion made Chu full of holes. Now Qi has learned the lessons of the Chu people and is strictly guarding the Ming Dynasty's financial plan. The negotiations between the two sides have made no progress in this regard. The most optimistic attitude of the memorial sent back by the negotiators was to force Qi to define a border border between the two sides to become a pilot, allowing Ming's currency to circulate here, but leaving this place, it becomes a piece of waste paper.

However, Qin Feng was still very happy. He could open a gap and then use a crowbar to expand the gap bit by bit, and finally pry open the door.

And this is the bottom line of the Ming Dynasty in the negotiations between finance, banks and money banks.

In order to cope with the strength of the Ming Dynasty in this regard, Qi State did not fail to make corresponding countermeasures. Tian Fen organized ten larger banks in Qi State and established a bank alliance. He jointly invested a total of tens of millions of taels of silver in the treasury as a guarantee and issued their own banknotes. These ten banks almost covered the county governments in the entire Qi State. They wanted to use this to fight the popularity of the convenient Ming Dynasty paper money.

Unlike the banks in Ming Dynasty, these money banks still only accept larger amounts of money, and still charge storage fees, handling fees, etc. during the service process. Therefore, those who can use these money banks are basically only rich people and businessmen for convenience. Real ordinary people will not put money into the money bank.

Tian Fen probably knew the winning mode of Mingguo Bank. Mingguo Bank was not willing to accept it, and basically concentrated all the floating wealth in the hands of Ming people, and then went to invest and loans to obtain the benefits generated by people's deposits. However, even if they knew these principles, Tian Fen did not want to try it rashly, because he knew very well that once the experiment failed in Qi State, he could not bear the shock caused, not to mention that those strong money banks were also the main force of opposition.

The current battle between Qi and Ming countries has actually retreated to the second line and is in secret. Instead, the people's livelihood economy has become the main battlefield of competition.

The final battle between the two superpowers must be a competition of all-round national strength. It is impossible to change the confrontation between the two sides by relying on some advanced weapons or one or two powerful weapons.

In other words, whoever can persist for longer will be the final winner.

Qin Feng only brought Ma Baozi and Eunuch Le, and left the escort brigade. Three people and three horses quietly left Hulao Pass. The three of them, two masters, and one of the nine-level peaks, were too simple to avoid disturbing others to leave. Even though Eunuch Le was unwilling, he could only compromise under Qin Feng's threat, because he knew very well that if he insisted, the emperor could easily subdue him and then throw him away. Ma Baozi was full of excitement. He had unusual enthusiasm for accompanying the emperor to do such a thing.

When Hulaoguan woke up in the morning of the next day, the three of them had disappeared without a trace, shocking the people who knew the inside story. He Weiping, Tang Weide and Mu Ronghai were relatively speechless when facing the pampering left by Qin Feng. They had no idea which route Qin Feng was going to take, so naturally they could not send people to follow. The only way now is to keep the guards who had guarded Qin Feng all the way to Hulaoguan, and not let them contact outsiders. In addition, they secretly threw people back to Yuejing to report to the Zhengshi Hall, waiting for the Zhengshi Hall to react.

There was not much concern about the safety of the emperor and the other two. After all, with their strength, they were enough to dominate the world. Moreover, even though there were some thieves and bandits in the west, it was difficult to threaten them. However, Qin Feng's identity actually did such a thing, which made them unexpected.

He Weiping and Tang Weide felt that they had to add another one to the crime of defeat. The bosses of the Political Affairs Hall were already unhappy with them, but now that this incident happened, the dissatisfaction would be a little more serious.

Now Qin Feng naturally doesn't care about his subordinates' views and the dissatisfaction buried in his heart. He just simply wanted to know the real situation in the west. Sometimes, the things described in the memorials may be very different from the actual situation.

He was not worried about the Ming Dynasty. After more than ten years of deep cultivation, everyone had a deep sense of identity with the Ming Dynasty. As a Ming Dynasty, it has become their pride. Countless rules and regulations, laws and regulations have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. The plan of every village, school and scholars promoted by the Minister of Rites Xiao Hua, has produced fruitful results in the Ming Dynasty. Although the land of Chu was recently conquered by the Ming Dynasty, Qin Feng did not have much worry. Because of the relationship between Min Ruoxi, it would be less difficult to integrate the land of Chu than imagined. More importantly, Nan Chu was originally a fertile land and the people were rich. He had a very hard life in the past two years. It was also because of the war that it would take a few years to reach the hands of the Ming Dynasty, or their prosperity would even surpass the land of the Ming Dynasty.

The only thing that made Qin Feng feel uneasy was the West.

In terms of natural conditions, this place is far inferior to the Ming and Chu lands. In the Western Qin Dynasty, they played more of the role of robbers. In the bitter and cold land, the people are naturally strong. If they want to integrate the people here, the price they want to pay is much harder than other places.

Because it is not easy to get people here to get rid of poverty and live a peaceful life. God is not good at doing it. Many places in the western region have actually experienced droughts once in a decade this year.

This made the situation in the West worse.

This year, the focus of the political affairs hall's aid was on Chu. Qin Feng was also very clear about this, because it was to quickly restore Chu to prosperity at the lowest cost.

If a little force is invested in Chu, Chu will gain some rewards, and if a lot of force is invested in the west, there will only be a little reward. Therefore, the Zhengshi Hall will naturally choose to be easy first and then difficult. In the Zhengshi Hall's plan, the support for the western region will be weakened. When the Chu land recovers, the country will be able to free up and provide larger-scale assistance to the western region with Chu land.

Such policies will not feel guilty when formulated for a country, but for the Westerners, they may not feel this way.

Because this will make their poverty unsolvable.

So Qin Feng wanted to come and take a look. As the emperor of a country, he must have a clear understanding of possible hidden dangers. He did not want any signs of instability in the west when he was fighting against Qi.

Ten days before leaving Hulao Pass, Qin Feng was in a happy mood. Whether it was the area centered on Hulao or Yong County, the development momentum was extremely good. Farmers were happily harvesting crops in the fields. From their smiles and singing, they could know that this year had a bumper year. There are abundant water resources in these two areas. In recent years, these areas of Daxing Water Conservancy have not been affected by drought.

Roads are being paved, and Tang Weide, Hulao County, Zhong Town, Yong County, and Huangcheng, the three county magistrates are trying to have cement avenues to connect these three golden areas to form a larger area, and combine the strengths within the three areas to create a larger and prosperous area.

Yongjun is the political and economic center of the west. Hulaojun is located in the central part of the west and has a large area of ​​fertile land. After being conquered by the Ming Dynasty, Xintong has been integrated and has surpassed Daye to become the first steel base of the Ming Dynasty for several years. The combination of strength has brought broader development space to this area.

But after walking out of this area, the situation gradually became worse. The further away from this area, the worse the situation became. Qin Feng, who had been happy for ten days, finally frowned and became worried.
Chapter completed!