For Zhang Xiaowu's safe return, the two maids in the general's residence were also very happy. Mang Zhong wanted to cook him all the delicious food. However, Yuan Wanqiu said that the general had been hungry for several days and could not overeat. He must eat small meals and eat more.
Food that is easy to digest. Ear sprouts are here
She didn't dare to argue with Yuan Wanqiu at all. After all, she knew that no one else knew better, so she followed Zhang Xiaowu like a little tail all day long. When Zhang Xiaowu fell asleep, she fanned him, and Zhang Xiaowu chased him away several times.
If he doesn't leave, he will comply with her wishes.
However, the little girl fanned herself for a while. Just as Zhang Xiaowu was about to fall asleep, the fan hit him in the face with a bang - Mang Zhong fell asleep first. Zhang Xiaowu was woken up in a daze, and he couldn't laugh or cry when he saw this.
, after exhaling, he stood up and picked up the mango, preparing to put it on the maid's bed in the outer room.
Yuan Wanqiu walked in with tea and snacks. Seeing this scene, she couldn't help lowering her head and whispered: "General, you...can you let Mang Zhong go? She is still young, not yet twelve years old. If the general is determined,
There needs to be someone...slave willing."
Zhang Xiaowu looked at the awn seeds in his arms, and then looked at Yuan Wanqiu, who had a red face and lowered her head as if she was letting him pick it. He didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "You are thinking too much. This little girl, please fan me and fall asleep first."
Yes, I took her to her bed."
"Ah? So it's not about that?" Yuan Wanqiu blinked her eyes and jumped away in panic like a deer.
Zhang Xiaowu put away the awn seeds and returned to the bedroom. He saw Yuan Wan sitting by the bed with a fan. He quickly got up and said: "General, I will fan you."
"You're still fanning the flames." Zhang Xiaowu joked, "No, I'll take a nap first, and you have someone prepare the bath water. I'll take a good bath after I wake up."
Yuan Wanqiu responded, walked lightly to the door, suddenly leaned against the door and said with a smile: "General, what I said is true."
"What's real or fake?"
"If the general is in a hurry, I am willing to do so."
Zhang Xiaowu rolled his eyes and saw Yuan Wanqiu pursed her lips and ran away, just like a deer looking for food in early spring.
In this victory, 12,269 dog barbarians were beheaded. After Zhang Xiaowu woke up, he immediately asked people to reward him for their merits. One tael of silver for each head. He was only a city garrison and could not promote anyone to an official position for the time being.
, so he could only reward taels of silver. There was insufficient silver in the city, so Hu Sanwan sent a message to Wang Changsheng, asking him to smuggle 50,000 taels of silver out of the fortress. As for now, the General's Mansion can only give the soldiers white notes.
Fortunately, Zhang Xiaowu had a high reputation and borrowed five thousand taels of silver from the gentry in the city. The gentry first thanked Zhang Xiaowu for driving away the barbarians, secondly admired Zhang Xiaowu for his bravery, and thirdly believed in his character, so they donated generously.
Zhang Xiaowu refused to donate, saying: "
As frontier gentry and merchants, it is not easy for you to make some money, so how can I exploit you? Farmers make money, businessmen make money, and each performs his own duties. Under the rule of this general, merchants and gentry will only be encouraged to do business.
, we will definitely not exploit money from you."
After hearing this, all the gentry and merchants were deeply moved. After all, it was a cold and miserable place in the north of the Great Wall. Except for the Yaojin Granary, the rest of the land could not grow much food. If business was not encouraged, the people's lives would become even more impoverished.
Seeing that Zhang Xiaowu was tired, everyone resigned one after another and reported from Guancheng that Guan Xiang was back with a large amount of cattle and sheep. Zhang Xiaowu was overjoyed. No matter how others looked after Xiang, an incompetent staff member, Zhang Xiaowu knew that he was
Importantly, it was precisely because of his unremitting efforts that the business of Mucheng was restored and the soldiers and people of Mucheng were able to live.
Zhang Xiaowu immediately greeted the caravan, and Guan Xiang introduced the merchants with a smile. It turned out that the repeated victories in the Northern Saipe War also gave confidence to merchants in the Central Plains. However, due to the war, the Lianglang Pass closed the exchanges at the frontier, so the merchants could only go to Mucheng to trade.
Fortunately, Zhang Xiaowu always supported business. When the Central Plains merchants heard about it, they went around to inquire about the news. When they learned that Mucheng Dai County Magistrate actually did business in person and invited everyone to come to Mucheng for mutual trading, they immediately came to invest.
Guan Xiang said: "This is the Gu family caravan, this is the merchant caravan, this is the Zhang family caravan, this is the Ma family caravan, they all want to open a business in the city."
Zhang Xiaowu was quite surprised that the four major imperial merchants all came. He immediately welcomed them wholeheartedly and asked Guan Xiang to help them find stores. He also required that the four merchants must be on the same street, and this street would be built into the commercial street of Mucheng.
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"Commercial street...what does it mean?" Guan Xiang asked doubtfully.
Zhang Xiaowu explained: "On this street, only business is allowed."
"So business is not allowed in other streets?" Guan Xiang asked again.
Zhang Xiaowu said: "It is allowed, but the commercial street is purely a commercial transaction."
Guan Xiang shook his head and said: "Businessmen also have to eat, right? I think restaurants, brothels, pawn shops, casinos, etc. can also be allowed to open."
Zhang Xiaowu said: "Place brothels, restaurants, casinos and restaurants on another street. I will name it Entertainment Street. In addition, you can find another street and use it as a farmer's street, specializing in agricultural transactions. People can use their homes to
If excess cattle, sheep, horses, dogs, grains and vegetables are traded here, it is best to stay away from the residents and close to the city gate to facilitate the entry and exit of livestock, and someone must be sent to clean up the livestock excrement."
Guan Xiang's eyes widened and his mouth opened wide, and after a long while he said: "I thought I knew the art of merchants, but I never thought that the general knows more than me. If you do business, you will probably become the richest man in the Central Plains."
Zhang Xiaowu raised his head and said pretentiously: "I understand a little, I understand a little."
All the farmland outside Mucheng was destroyed by the Tartars, and many people wanted to cry without tears, but fortunately Zhang Xiaowu issued a stop-loss order in time, and the people could receive subsidies from the government based on their fields, and one acre of rice, beans, cereals and other grains would be given to them.
One hundred catties. Even in the fertile fields of the Central Plains, one acre of land is
However, the production was about 250 kilograms. With the fertility of the land in Mucheng, the people thought that they could produce 150 kilograms at most. Unexpectedly, the government subsidized two-thirds of everyone at once. All the people danced and cheered, and the common people
Build a shrine to Zhang Xiaowu.
Guan Xiang felt quite inappropriate about this, thinking that the people would be lazy because of this, and some people would take advantage of the government. After asking Zhang Xiaowu for instructions, Guan Xiang ordered the government to distribute subsidies this year because the people were affected by the war. If there was no war, no more food would be distributed.
Subsidy. Even so, the people were so surprised that they couldn't sleep at night. They heard that the government was recruiting grain every day, but they never thought that the government in Mucheng would actually release grain. This is not the bitter cold land in the north of Saibei. This place is simply like a paradise on earth.
But seeing the food in Mucheng's granary dwindling, Wen Ruyu, who was responsible for managing the equipment in the granary, was worried about the future. He immediately sent someone to recalculate the food and consumption, and quickly came to the conclusion that if Zhang Xiaowu continued not to control expenses, he was afraid that military rations would
It could only last for three years. After three years, there would be a famine in Mucheng. However, Zhang Xiaowu put this report aside. He and Ruan Qingwen wrote a memorial together to report the good news to the Ministry of War. How could they care about the famine in three years.