I'm the lord of the alien world

Chapter 220

The slender body is straight and straight, exuding a noble aura, not angry and majestic.

This is a generation of feudal officials. However, Tang Wen was a man in two generations, and he had seen a lot of movies in his previous life, so he didn't feel how scary he was.

"Xiao Senguo, the governor of Linghai, has seen the Earl." Unexpectedly, Xiao Senguo was very polite, and he gave Tang Wen a slight bow first.

"Well, Master Xiao is being polite." Tang Wen bowed back.

"Sit!" Xiao Senguo flicked up his robe, and invited Tang Wen to sit at the head of the guest seat, while Wan Hansong and Jiang Xuan accompanied him below.

"My lord, my lord is here to ask for silver. The last time Lord Jiang bought a thousand tents for us, he gave half of the silver taels, and there was still a million taels short." Wan Hansong said.

"Oh, this matter is really difficult. The northwest has been fighting for almost a year, and the fighting has not stopped, but it has become more and more intense.

There are not a few food, grass, horses, and silver that have been expropriated in my Linghai, which is already stretched.

Unexpectedly, the thieves from the Sun Kingdom took advantage of the fire to loot us and directly pushed our Linghai to the forefront of the battlefield.

The thieves have already captured several islands in our Linghai, burning, killing and looting, doing all kinds of crimes, it is distressing. "Xiao Senguo stroked his beard and said with a sad face.

"Who said it wasn't? The chief secretary's yamen is also cash-strapped, and all the wealth of the family is used to buy arms and food.

If this continues, the soldiers will be hungry.

And when winter comes, they don't even have winter clothes. "Wan Hansong said miserably.

"The imperial court has no money, it's the same in every province." Xiao Senguo said.

"Some time ago, the donations from the gentry from all over the country were all spent, and the general's office came to ask for money every day. Whenever I saw them, I wanted to hide." Wan Hansong sighed and frowned.

"I said that the two adults complained as soon as they met, and it is not easy for us to do a small business.

Xiyang is pressing hard, and if they don't give money, the business will fail in the future.

My Tang family relies on doing Western business for a living. Once this road is cut off, what will the thousands of people in my Tang family eat?That will add thousands of dead bones. " Tang Wen said.

"Hehehe, my lord, you seem to cry worse than us?" Wan Hansong unexpectedly smiled.

"Master Wan, that's 100 million taels. The thousands of servants of the Tang family are all counting on the distribution of money to buy clothes and food for the New Year," Tang Wen said.

"I heard you have thousands of personal guards?" Xiao Senguo asked suddenly.

"I don't dare to be that. I don't have the right to support so many guards. There are only four hundred guards, and the rest are guards." Tang Wen shook his head.

"Hehe, why not. It is said that your army has thousands of high-quality firecrackers and dozens of cannons, and wiped out nearly a thousand pirates twice. I have heard Master Qin talk about this." Xiao Senguo laughed.

"They came to grab food, and we have no choice but to stand up and resist. We will fight with our lives, otherwise, would we stretch our necks and let them chop?" Tang Wen asked rhetorically.

"What a Jiangzhou Regiment Deputy Envoy, you have trained a group of excellent soldiers for the court." Xiao Senguo said.

I'll go, it can't be a trick...

"It's not so good, they're just ordinary people, they usually train and train, and it's okay to resist pirates." Tang Wen shook his head hastily.

"Let me tell you this, I definitely don't have money to ask for. However, it's only natural for you to ask for money. It's just that we really have no money." Xiao Senguo said.

"You two, one is worse than the other." Tang Wen almost turned black with anger.

"Hehehe, but there are ways." Xiao Senguo said, "There is a large piece of land opposite your island that belongs to us, but there is also a town on that land called 'Qingniu Town' .

There are thousands of people in the town. At that time, if you recruit all the young and middle-aged people in the town into the camp, there will not be many people left in the town.

At that time, even if there is some land left, I have to sell it to you, right?
If someone doesn't want to join the army, just use land to pay for it.

In this way, the whole town is owned by your Tang family. "

"I guess it's not easy to recruit people in the town?" Tang Wen asked.

"The country is in trouble, everyone is recruited by the court. Whoever refuses to obey, you show the yamen handbook and chop off their heads." Xiao Senguo snorted.

"Yiwu, have you heard of Qingniu Town?" Tang Wen asked.

"It seems to be not far from Liujia Village. It is said that the county seat was built in Qingniu Town before, but it was moved away later. So, that town is very big." Luo Yiwu thought for a while.

"Look, I'm right." Xiao Senguo said.

"Hehe, it's just a broken town, and I lost 100 million taels?" Tang Wen asked.

"The town's land is not small, and with our yamen's land, it's thousands of hectares, which is equivalent to half a small county." Wan Hansong said.

"We're fighting now, so what's the use of the land? It can't be turned into food and clothes, and money can save lives." Tang Wen shook his head.

"Let's take a long-term view. When the war subsides and we grow food, how much money can you collect in a year just by collecting rent?" Xiao Senguo said.

"No! I want money." Tang Wen shook his head resolutely.

In fact, I've already liked it, but it's just that I want to extract more benefits.

"There is one more important point that you may not know." Wan Han said loosely.

"Oh?" Tang Wen gave him a sideways look.

"Qingniu Town has a population of several thousand, and half of the population are official slaves. So, official slaves, as long as we open our mouths, we can't help but do whatever we want?" Wan Hansong said.

"Official slaves? Why are there so many official slaves stationed in Qingniu Town?" Tang Wen was taken aback and asked.

"This matter is complicated to say, all the officials and family members who committed crimes in the whole province were put there.

Some people are already a hundred years ago, and those are just their descendants.

However, once you become an official slave, you will be an official slave forever. "Xiao Senguo said.

"Is this official slave recruited to count me as my Tang family?" Tang Wen became interested.

"Hehe, the official slave belongs to the official family, how did you become your Tang family?" Xiao Senguo laughed.

"My lord, we are short of money at the moment. Why don't we sell these official slaves?" Wan Han said pine.

"These official slaves are much better than ordinary people, because they were born in official families.

Therefore, most of them have read books, and some of them are even pretty good at it.

Also, there are quite a few young ladies among them, all of whom are descendants of prisoners.

Proficient in everything from piano, chess and calligraphy, it is definitely much better to take it as a girl than to buy it from the common people.

It's just that someone in their family committed a crime, which only affected the fish in the pond. "Xiao Senguo said.

"That's true, but it's much more expensive than ordinary people." Wan Hansong nodded.

"How much money does that cost?" Tang Wen asked intentionally. These two guys cooperated well, and they were obviously playing a double reed.

"Master Luo, bring the roster." Xiao Senguo said to a thin middle-aged man next to him.

The man nodded, turned into the back hall, and soon brought a yellowed roster.

"My lord. I just turned over, and there are a total of 280 official slaves in Qingniu Town.

Women... 15 of them were young and middle-aged men aged 25 to 830.

Women, 520, five people..." Master Luo responded while turning the pages.

"There are many young women, and there are also many young and middle-aged men." Xiao Senguo touched his chin and said.

"It's just over a thousand people, and the rest are old, weak, sick and disabled, right?" Tang Wen sneered.

"Of course not. There are hundreds of middle-aged men and women here, and the elderly and children account for less than [-]%." Master Luo shook his head.

"In the past, these official slaves farmed the fields, and the yamen received a large amount of grain every year." Xiao Senguo said.

"How much silver per person?" Tang Wen asked.

"We can't sell them one by one this time, we'll deal with them all together." Wan Hansong shook his head.

"How much?" Tang Wen asked.

"300 million taels." Wan Hansong said.

(End of this chapter)