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"Back to the factory, here are six caravans."

Jiang Changge looked at Cao Huachun and said, Cao Huachun's face showed a trace of exclamation after hearing this: "56 caravans, it's just noon, so I'm afraid there are nearly a hundred caravans leaving Lantian today."

After hearing this, Jiang Changge didn't speak, as if he agreed with this statement, Cao Huachun was calculating here at this time.

"Yesterday there were 98 teams, the day before yesterday was 95 teams, the day before yesterday was 56 teams, the day before yesterday was [-] teams, and today there were [-] teams this morning. In just three or four days, there were three or four hundred caravans. Leaving Lantian, how many caravans have traveled to and from Lantian this year?"

After hearing this, Jiang Changge pondered for a while and said: "I haven't made statistics on the annual figures, but now is the season when Lantian caravans increase. The busy farming season in Lantian has passed, and many farmers will send goods from their hometowns through caravans. For sales, from now until the beginning of spring next year, I am afraid that there will be hundreds of caravans coming and going every day. There will be fewer caravans during the busy farming season, but there are still fifty or sixty caravans every day. The prosperity of Lantian is due to these merchants."

"And it's still starting from Lantian County, starting from other areas, or there are some caravans in Lantian that run out all the year round, and some halfway caravans. It is time-consuming and laborious to count, and the number may not be accurate."

Jiang Changge said, after hearing this, Cao Huachun sighed, knowing that what Jiang Changge said was the truth, and the caravans in Lantian were divided into half-way and full-way caravans.

The whole caravan is my journey from Lantian to Luoyang, and the whole journey is carried by a caravan.

And some places may be because of the remoteness, or because Lantian merchants have taken root in that place, and they can sell their goods at a price higher than the market price, but such merchants feel that the cost of transporting goods by themselves is a bit high, or it is too late. So they hired other caravans to transport, and the two people met at a delivery place, such as Luoyang, they might choose Tongguan as the delivery point, and the two caravans exchanged hands, and the first wave of caravans from Lantian to Tongguan I went back.

The journey is only halfway, so it is called a halfway caravan.

To put it bluntly, the caravan on the whole journey is direct, while the caravan on the way needs to transfer.

So this kind of statistics is very difficult.

Jiang Changge told Cao Huachun that the Lantian caravan was an important pillar of Lantian's finances, and Cao Huachun sighed again and again: "Hey, the Donglin Party deserves to die, and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty deserve to die. Although Wei Zhongxian deserved death for all his crimes, However, the only thing that can be considered a saving grace is the collection of commercial taxes. If His Majesty hadn’t trusted the Donglin party members too much when he became the throne, even if he wanted to kill Wei Zhongxian, he shouldn’t have agreed to the Donglin party members’ practice of not collecting commercial taxes.”

"The miscellaneous family has been to the south of the Yangtze River. Our spies will report the situation in the southeast to the miscellaneous family every year. Although it is not as prosperous as Lantian, it is still a prosperous place. The merchants there are also very rich. If they can collect their taxes, Why is Your Majesty living so poorly, not to mention the money for fighting the Tartars in Liaodong, even the money for the crusade against bandits is not lacking, why do you have to collect donations from the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty?"

Cao Huachun said here with a lot of emotion. …

Cao Huachun and Wei Zhongxian had a grudge against each other. In the early years of the Apocalypse, Wei Zhongxian was favored and killed the well-known eunuch Wang An at that time. He monopolized the power. Cao Huachun was also implicated and expelled from Beijing. He went to Nanjing to take the blame .

Cutting off a person's future, especially cutting off a eunuch's future, is like killing one's parents. Such a great hatred made Cao Huachun hate Wei Zhongxian to the bone, but seeing how the business in Lantian is so developed today, Cao Huachun had to admit that Wei Zhongxian had collected commercial taxes is a very good idea.

Although the commercial tax was collected at that time, Wei Zhongxian filled his private pockets, but although Wei Zhongxian was very greedy, he still spent most of his money on the military affairs of Liaodong. Moreover, when Wei Zhongxian was in power, the situation in Liaodong was still very stable. There has been a precedent for Tartars entering the customs.

On the contrary, Wei Zhongxian died, and Liaodong became more corrupt. The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty kept instilling in the emperor that the Holy Son would not compete with the people for profit, and then the treasury became more and more empty. In the end, His Majesty had to wear patched clothes, and there was no meat for a month. .

Look at the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty again. Isn't that one so rich that an [-]-year-old man can still marry a [-]-year-old bride? The emperor is living a hard life.

Cao Huachun couldn't help but wanted to tell Chongzhen what the officials were like, but in the end Cao Huachun gave up. There was no way, Cao Huachun was not like Wei Zhongxian who was tolerant, alone, without any worries.

He, Cao Huachun, has a family and a business. Don't get me wrong. It's not that Cao Huachun is a fake eunuch who can give birth, but because Cao Huachun has many brothers. Cao Huachun has five brothers in total, and he is the fifth.

The third is rich, the fourth is diligent, died early, and the elder brother and the second brother, especially he has the closest relationship with the second brother Cao Huayu, and Cao Huayu is now an official of the court, and he is also the commander of the rear army, a high-ranking official. .

And my second brother is not a fuel-efficient lamp. He has a good relationship with civil and military officials in the court, and he is too implicated. If Cao Huachun informs, maybe the old Cao family will also be implicated. My family can't.

Cao Huachun is childless, but he can't let his family be cut off from now on, especially his nephews, he likes them very much, so Cao Huachun can't fight against the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty, he can only maintain, and he is also loyal to Chongzhen .

Therefore, Cao Huachun has been entangled in this way all the time. He has no choice but to focus all his attention on the hostile forces. Externally he is a sharp knife, but internally Cao Huachun still enjoys it with civil and military officials. After all, after Chongzhen succeeded to the throne It was Cao Huachun who presided over the redress of the unjust, false and wrong case sentenced by Wei Zhongxian back then, and rescued more than a thousand civil and military officials and their family members.

This is also the main reason why Cao Huachun enjoyed a lot in Daming, otherwise the restless minister would have grabbed Cao Huachun and said, this is the second Wei Zhongxian.

Cao Huachun took a sip of the tea in the tea bowl. The tea from the roadside tea stand was bitter and tasted ordinary, that is, it could quench thirst, but Cao Huachun liked it very much. At this time, another caravan left Lantian County.

Jiang Changge said: "Mr. Chang, listen to the report from the front line. The Tartars have already invaded the capital. Shall we also meet Li Chaosheng? After this matter is over, we can go back to Beijing to protect His Majesty."...

After hearing this, Cao Huachun said, "Well, it's time to meet Li Chaosheng, but there's no rush."

Jiang Changge heard this and said: "Mr. Chang, now that the Tartars are invading the capital, and the world is in turmoil again, the attitude of Lantian County is very important. If Li Chaosheng is moved at this time and sends troops to besiege the court, then the court is in danger. .”

After hearing this, Cao Huachun said: "No, Li Chaosheng will definitely not send troops to help the Tartars at this time. Li Chaosheng wants to take over the world with benevolence and righteousness. Although it is the best time to attack Ming Dynasty, he will definitely not do it. Because he is absolutely unwilling to bear the eternal infamy of being a traitor."

"How can you see this?"

Jiang Changge asked puzzledly, Cao Huachun laughed and said: "If he wanted to do that, this Lantian would not have been partial to a corner of Shaanxi, I am afraid that the entire Northwest is his Li Chaosheng, he is a proud man , He disdains to take advantage of others, he wants to be a hero of the generation who will give a thumbs up when people talk about him, instead of saying that he takes advantage of others as soon as he is mentioned, he doesn't even want to have the word "differing praise and criticism", he I want to be a perfect person, an existence who will be called an emperor through the ages by later generations, and his ambition is so great that it runs through the universe, and this alone can be called a hero of the world."

Speaking of this, Cao Huachun seems to have something called tears in his eyes and said: "Your Majesty, under his background, will be used by countless people to use vicious words such as stupidity and self-willedness, and you and I are loyal but incompetent subjects under His Majesty's command. , even you and I will be written as vicious, incompetent, and stupid images in later dramas, and used to praise the greatness of Lantian."

"This is what Li Chaosheng wants, this is what Li Chaosheng expects, he wants to take over the world in the name of justice, for this reason he doesn't even bother to take advantage of others' dangers, hehe... how sad it is for you and me, how sad It's sad, from this we can see that Li Chaosheng doesn't care about you and me at all, in his eyes, we may be like bedbugs, who can be crushed to death at will."

Cao Huachun looked at the bustling Lantian City, and smiled bitterly. He felt that he had seen through Li Chaosheng, but he was helpless. As for the established Lantian County, Cao Huachun's conspiracies seemed to be vulnerable. According to the plan, among the 25 Jinyiwei sent, except for Qianhu Jiang Changge, 23 of them were instigated, and even the deputy Qianhu was instigated.

The beautiful court lady he sent thought that he could corrupt the high-level officials in Lantian, but Li Chaosheng was taken away by Princess Changyu without even showing his face, and sent to a textile factory to work as a textile worker. arrive.

When Cao Huachun came here, he found that the things he knew were like pediatrics. Facing the iron wall of Lantian, he found that he could do nothing. Cao Huachun had never been so powerless, even when he faced the powerful Wei Zhongxian back then, he never I didn't feel so powerless.

But now when facing Lan Tian, ​​he found that all his plots and tricks are just a joke here. At this time, Lan Tian is a demon country in his heart. Facing such a force, everyone will feel desperate and can't produce anything. Turn defeat into victory.

It's scary, it's terrible, this is the horror of the devil, he will create a succubus, drag himself into the succubus, and make all his wisdom, strategies, and decisions invisible. …

He will blind his eyes, cover his spiritual consciousness, drag himself into the trap of the Demon Kingdom, and make himself despair. Cao Huachun feels that he is being swallowed by the Demon Kingdom now, and Li Chaosheng is sitting on the Demon King's Bone Throne The most terrifying demon king.

He is now baring his fangs, sneering at himself and at Da Ming, because he will start to devour Da Ming next.

"Hahaha……"

Li Chaosheng laughed loudly, looking at the caravan information submitted by the Ministry of Commerce, among them, the Lantian official caravan accounted for [-]% of the total caravan, which is quite a lot. You must know that the goods sold by the Lantian official caravan are all sold by Li Lan. Scary high.

Seeing Li Chaosheng so happy, Minister of Commerce Ma Tengyun gritted his teeth and said, "Master, it is estimated that the number of caravans out of Lantian this year will increase by about 15.00% compared to last year, which will bring no less than 80 taels of profit to Lantian."

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng nodded and said, "Very good, but although business is important, the internal stability of our Lantian is the most important thing."

After hearing this, Ma Tengyun said: "Your Majesty, don't worry, I have contacted the Ministry of Agriculture. This year we have a bumper grain harvest in Lantian, and the grain stored in storage is [-]% more than last year. It is enough for the entire Shaanxi people to eat two." It’s been a year, and we’ll sell the leftover grain.”

"Oh, is there a bumper harvest this year?"

After hearing this, Guzi said: "Well, you forgot, the county lord, the Institute of Science and Technology has successfully developed a nitrogen fixation method this year, and developed a new fertilizer, nitrogen fertilizer. You personally designated twelve counties as test sites. The grain in the two counties has doubled this year, so the grain harvest in Lantian will be so abundant this year."

"Oh, I remembered, by the way, the effect of nitrogen fertilizer is so good, the food has doubled, it seems that it can be implemented on a large scale."

Gu Zi nodded and said: "It's true. Last year, the chiefs were asked to bring back the new fertilizer for experimentation. They didn't want to do it one by one. You should force the twelve chiefs to bring back the fertilizer and return it to the county. Guarantee their basic harvest, so they are willing to experiment, and this year, the twelve chiefs have taken the lead in applying for the use of new fertilizers, and the chiefs who were useless last year sent people to the county office three times a day, hoping to use new fertilizers this year There are them in Huaihua County, if you said you knew today, why bother?"

"At the beginning, the county lord persuaded them so much and gave them a guarantee, but they didn't care at all. Now they all licked their faces and begged the county lord. If you want me to say, the county lord, let me go out and reprimand them severely , so that they dare to question the decision of the county lord."

Li Chaosheng shook his head when he heard Guzi's words, "Guzi, don't be narrow-minded. In fact, I am very relieved that they can do this. A new thing itself represents a risk. If I implemented it at the beginning, they would agree If you flatter me, I will be very disappointed. After all, they are the chiefs of the village, and they represent the safety of the people in a county. Food is the lifeline of the people in a county. And fighting against me, I am still very happy in my heart, which shows that they put the affairs of the common people first, and this is the official we need in Lantian."

After hearing this, Gu Zi nodded in agreement, and just as Gu Zi was about to continue reporting things, a guard came in and said, "The county lord, Cao Huachun sent someone to explain that he wants to see the county lord tomorrow."

Hearing this, Li Chaosheng's mouth curled up and he said, "This old guy can't sit still, hehe, go tell Cao Huachun's messenger that I'm not free tomorrow, and at noon the next day, I'll treat Mr. Cao to dinner."

"Yes."