The courtesans are not good at selling their skills. They are proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and are familiar with poetry and books. Otherwise, they will not be able to make the always arrogant scholars like hens.

After careful consideration, he looked at Gu Qinniang again. Seeing that she was neither humble nor arrogant, he instinctively felt that the woman in front of her was not a woman who could surrender easily. After a silence, Cai Yan still spoke: "The girl is very clear about the reputation of the Cai family. As the leader among flowers, as the age of such aged, as if the beautiful flowers bloomed in spring and summer, the girl could redeem herself and keep a low profile of the common people and merchants. If the pure lotus in the mud is sludge, Cai did not dare to defile the girl's reputation. But... Cai still wanted to invite one or two, not for anything else, but for Cai, he admired the girl's character very much."

As he said that, he clasped his fists and bowed deeply.

"Cai doesn't dare to force her, she just hopes that the girl can consider it."

Lu Tao hurriedly pulled Gu Qinniang's sleeve and said anxiously: "Sister Gu, the young master is very good and has become the young master's husband. Then Liu Tuzi would never dare to bully his sister again..."

Seeing that Gu Qinniang was still hesitating, Cai Yan felt disappointed, and grabbed Lu Tao's sleeve and smiled and said, "A gentleman does not take away the ambitions of others. If the young master is Miss Gu, he would also hesitate."

Cai Yan grabbed Lu Tao, clasped his fists to Gu Qinniang, and then inadvertently looked at the old man arched behind her, and finally said nothing.

The streets are still lively, different from the neat and order he remembers. They are a bit noisy and messy, but he likes this kind of lively scene. He is always pulled by the green peach and squeezed into the crowd, watching others quarrel happily.

Seeing the two villains squeezed into the crowd from afar, Gu Qinniang frowned repeatedly and looked back at the old man who was cleaning up the ground, and a wave of disgust and dislike arose in her eyes.

Cai Yan and Gu Qinniang are both smart people. No one is so idiot that they don’t even eat naan bread. They even sell it out and sell it. They silently bite the naan bread that Cai Yan had bitten and tasted it carefully. When they looked at the old man in front of them, they became even more disgusted and cold.

"Uncle Sun, today Qin Niang moved out and borrowed money from Uncle Sun, just pretend... there is no need to pay it back."

"girl……"

"Needless to say, Qin Niang has decided."

"girl……"

Old Man Sun spoke, Gu Qinniang had turned around and left, leaving only a broken ground.

Cai Yan and Lu Tao had empty pockets and were still wandering around for most of the day, but they didn't know that there were two young men following them more than ten meters behind them. Even more, Liu Qi and a few rogues were lying in the corner of no one.

The two little men jumped and just stepped into the mansion gate, and just saw Su standing at the door waiting, the little girl Lu Tao immediately lowered her head. Seeing her like this, Cai Yan had to bow her head and say nothing.

"Weller wants to go out for a trip, but his mother doesn't object, but he is too young. Liu Qi is a scoundrel who lives in Hebei. Although it is during the day, there are headmasters on the streets, and there are still heads next to him. It is still extremely dangerous."

Cai Yan was shocked, and then he realized that he was not a 1.8-meter-old man at this time, but just a six or seven-year-old child...

"Baby... I realized I was wrong..."

Cai Yan did not argue or ask how Su knew what happened on the street. Seeing that he bowed his head and admitted his mistake, Cai did not continue to blame him, and looked at the two men walking in silently clasped their fists and saluted.

"Yang Sheng, the Qilin Arm of Hebei, Meng Fei, the Yuhou of Huaide Army, will be my son in the future. Both of them are warriors in the army. My son must not be humiliated easily."

Cai Yan was stunned and couldn't help but look back and see the two of them.

Yang Sheng is seven feet tall, with a square face, and looks quite majestic, but it is not much the same as the Song people wear at this time. The soap clothes and soap boots are no different. The key is that the upper body looks like a Tibetan with his entire right arm exposed, and you can clearly see the ferocious roaring qilin sashimi on his right arm.

Meng Fei's thick eyebrows were slightly shorter, his eyebrows and eyes were a little deep, his straight nose bridge and slightly curly short hair looked more like a stranger. He did not have Yang Sheng's burly figure, and his big hand was always held on the hilt of the knife at his waist, making him look more like a dangerous leopard who could devour people at any time.

Cai Jing was the imperial magistrate, and recruiting a few brave soldiers as servants was nothing. Su did not tell what position Yang Sheng held in the army. Cai Yan was very hesitant about Meng Fei's position as "Yu Hou". He looked at the cold face and said suddenly.

"The two generals were in their prime, and they would not mention what happened before entering the Cai Mansion. However, they stayed in the Cai Mansion because they wanted to regain their lives with the help of the Cai family. The boy was just Wulang of the Cai Mansion. His father was old and although he was favored by the official family, his reputation in the countryside was not very good."

"When the emperor and the minister are in high positions, they are incredible. When the big trees fall, they must be separated by money, and even more people will take advantage of the situation. The two generals stay in Cai's Mansion and become boys, are they really willing to do so?"

Su was stunned, Yang Sheng and Meng Fei were also surprised and looked down at the sick boy who did not pay too much attention.

After a silence, Meng Fei said in a deep voice: "If the young master can send Meng back to Huaide's army within three years, Meng is willing to drive the young master."

Cai Hua shook his head slightly. Although he didn't know what mistake Meng Fei made, he had been... but he didn't even think about it. Just when Meng Fei looked disappointed...

"The boy is just a child, with no fame, no job, no occupation, and no industry. If you want to restore General Fei to his post within three years, or even go further to the top of the top of the pole, that's something that you can't even think about, let alone the elite Western Army that is head-on with Xixia."

"But if the general can take a chance, within ten years, the boy can help the general become the commander of the small army of Song State, or the commander of the central army, at least the soldiers under him will not be less than half of their score."

“…”

Meng Fei was speechless, Yang Sheng couldn't help but smile and said, "It's not Yang who suspected the little Yanei. Just now, Xiao Yanei also said that the Grand Master is old and the monkeys are scattered, and the fall of the evil will be damaged. Xiao Yanei also said that a small army and the commander of the central army within ten years will be contradictory?"

Cai Ying grinned and said, "General Yang said that the boy is indeed a bit contradictory, so he asked the two generals to decide whether to take a chance."

He glanced at the strange expression of Su, then looked at the two of them, and smiled and said, "If we say which one of the Great Song Kingdom is the most powerful at this time, except for the old Grand Master Cai, no one in the world dares to say the second person. Do you want to know why?"

Yang Sheng and Meng Fei were both stunned, but Su's expression suddenly changed. As for Lu Tao, she looked at him stupidly, and she didn't understand why.

Cai Yan looked at the two and said with a smile: "The Song Dynasty's two departments and three yamen commanded 800,000 imperial guards and 1.2 million soldiers in the world. Cai Xiang, the Grand Secretary of the previous dynasty, once mentioned the "Fees for Raising Soldiers" and said that the brocade and silk required for 1.2 million soldiers in a year. Do the two generals know how much brocade and silk needed for our Song Dynasty soldiers every year?"

Seeing the two of them being stunned, Cai Yan stretched out his tender white hands and stretched out seven fingers.

"At least seven million pieces of brocade are needed every year!"

Another smile.

"Do the two generals know that through regular taxes in the Song Dynasty, how much brocade tax can we get every year?"

“…”

Two fingers were placed in front of them.

"When the princes and princes reformed the law, our dynasty was the richest...at least the treasury was like this, and the summer and autumn brocade tax was 2.763,592 pieces!"

"One.2 million soldiers need 7.42 million soldiers. These are just military soldiers, and there are officials. What are the use of the officials?"

Yang Sheng and Meng Fei were stunned, and Su looked at his son with a look of shock and disbelief, vaguely as if he knew what he wanted to say.

Cai Yan scratched his head and said, "The army soldiers in our dynasty are the most prosperous. They need seven million brocades and silk. The regular tax on brocades and silk is only more than two million pieces. This does not count the needs of officials, officials, and other things... such as military pay, military armor and equipment, and only brocades are missing. What should we get? And this has to mention the salt banknotes."

"Since the previous dynasty, salt was sold by the official, that is, salt was boiled and dried, the official collection, the official fortune, and the official sales."

"Official collection, official fortune, official sales are nothing for Jiangnan, where the rivers are crisscrossed. It is even sent north along the Suhang Canal to Hebei, and there is no problem in sending it to Liao, Nanjing, Yanjing, and Shanxi. However, for Shanxi, the mountain roads in Shaanxi are much more difficult. What is even more difficult is the transportation of food and supplies. General Meng was originally a Marquis of Huaide Army. I think it was because he knew how difficult it was to transport supplies."

"So, the government alone requires civil assistance, and there is Shanxi, Shaanxi merchants transporting grain from the border and directly obtaining silver and money from Bianjing. This method is called the "entering to the Central" method. Instead, they directly obtain silver and money. Instead, they rely on the border and grain sales to exchange for the Jie County salt pond. The merchants transported the salt to Shanxi and Shaanxi counties, handed over to local official salt officials, or were officially recognized for selling salt. This is called the "trial" method."

"Afterward, because merchants and border generals deceived them, or the valuation was too high, so there was a doctor of Taichang Fan Xiang to change the salt method, and the Fan Xiang salt method was introduced, that is, Shanxi and Shaanxi merchants transported grain in the northwest border, and no longer gave silver money directly, but salt money. They used salt money to extract salt from the salt pond in Jie County. When the price of salt is low, when the price of grain is high, the official dragged the merchants and stayed in the warehouse, waiting for the price of grain to decrease, or the lack of salt among the people, and when the price of salt rises, the official gave the corresponding salt money to the merchants..."

Cai Yan scratched his head and said with an awkward look: "Although merchants and border generals may really be a bit frivolous, the government did this, but it also reduced the merchants' malicious hoarding of grain for the sake of greed and forcing grain prices to rise."

"Because of the 'tributive' method of salt banknotes, the pressure on official salt transportation and grain transportation was reduced. That is to say, at least in the northwest salt, it became official collection, commercial transportation, and official sales. Then there was a contract 'buy', that is, official collection, commercial transportation, and commercial sales."

"During the Yuanyou period, the previous series of reforms of 'official collection, commercial transportation, official sales' and 'official collection, commercial transportation, commercial sales' were abandoned, and returned to the first 'official collection, official transportation, official sales'. Not only salt, but other official wines and tea... are also the same."

"Official collection, official fortune, official sales, and official sales are not good or bad, because the official operates it itself and does not participate in it, the merchants are definitely unwilling to do so. Moreover, when the official sales go back to the beginning, that is, the official forced the people to sell salt to the people according to the fifth and third grades. One pound per month is one pound per month, and the following one pound is half a pound per month. During the Renzong period, due to insufficient copper coins and insufficient brocade, the people were given the "silver", that is, "three pounds are given one piece of silk", and then it became "one meter per meter and one liang of cotton". After the salt banknotes were found, the officials exchanged salt banknotes for the silk in the hands of the people, and the people could use salt banknotes to get salt from the salt fields to eat their own food."
Chapter completed!