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Chapter 177 The Mystery of Changing a Horse to a Sang

Wuwei, Hexi Jiedushifu.

Seeing the majestic Hexi Jiedu Mansion, and Wuwei City, which is as prosperous as Lingwu, and even comparable to Fengxiang Mansion, Fang Guan couldn't help feeling that his choice was correct.

Instead of staying in Fengxiang Mansion and being a prime minister like a clay Buddha statue, it is better to go out of the town and become a real power Jiedushi.

Fang Guan's chief aide, Dou Shen, joined Fang Guan and said, "Jie Shuai, the time has come, and all the generals, schools and officials in the Jie Du Shi's mansion are waiting in the lobby."

Fang Guan said calmly: "Leave them alone! These mean generals and officials are mostly rebellious, let's kill their prestige first!"

Emperor Li Heng may be grateful for Fang Guan's contribution to persuading the emperor to abdicate, or because he voluntarily resigned from the position, so in order to allow Fang Guan to better control the Hexi Jiedu envoy, the Jiedu envoy was also transferred away from Hexi.

After the Jiedu envoy stayed, he was generally considered to be the deputy commander of the Jiedu envoy. In the era of feudal separatism in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, the successor of the Jiedu envoy would serve as the heir of the Jiedu envoy after he stayed.

The former Hexi Jiedu envoy Guo Ziyi led Hexi from afar, and the Hexi Jiedu envoy stayed behind in charge.

Now the Hexi Jiedu Envoy has been transferred after staying, and all the generals, schools and officials in the Jiedu Envoy's mansion are leaderless.

Guo Ziyi, the former governor of Hexi, ruled the army strictly, and all the unruly generals in the Hexi Jiedu's mansion have been cleaned up by Guo Ziyi.

Now standing in the lobby, the generals and officials of the Jiedu Mission Mansion are all tremblingly waiting for the new boss.

Besides, this boss was once a prime minister, and everyone was even more trembling.

The current feudal town is not as unruly as the middle and late Tang Dynasty, and the authority of the prime minister is still not small!
In the backyard of Jiedushi Mansion.

"Come on, Shizhong, let's talk about it!"

Shizhong is the watchword of Dou Shen, and Shuodan means playing Go.

The long follower outside the door immediately brought the chessboard, and Fang Guan, the newly appointed Hexi Jiedu envoy, actually pulled Dou Shen, the judge of the Jiedu envoy, to play chess.

Dou Shen couldn't help but secretly praised in his heart: "It's really worthy of the demeanor of a prime minister!"

At this time, in the lobby of the Jiedu Ambassador's Mansion, all the generals and school officials were already standing with numb legs, but everyone stood upright, and no one dared to act rashly.

The old man in the officialdom immediately understood that the new Jieshuai was not Guo Shuai's style, but a "big man" with a big airs!
This is a killer!
Everyone lowered their heads, and it seemed that the next days would be sad.

And in the backyard of Jiedushi Mansion, Fang Guan is holding a white chess piece and is fighting with Dou Shen for a big dragon.

Seeing that this big dragon was about to be cut off by Dou Shen, Fang Guan never thought that Dou Shen would have such chess prowess at such a young age.

Seeing that he was about to lose, Fang Guan simply dropped the chess piece and said:
"No more, Shizhong, before we came to Hexi this time, His Majesty asked me to explain that there is only one thing to do when we come to Hexi, and that is to change the horse into a mulberry!"

Dou Shen nodded quickly, saying that power is the best aphrodisiac, and when he walked in the submissive Fang Guan in Fengxiang Mansion, he immediately stiffened up when he came to Weiwu.

The farther he went to Wuwei, the greater the official power of Fang Guan.

When he first entered Suzhou, when the officials who came to greet him presented treasures, Fang Guan would shirk them a lot, and would always have to resign and quit before accepting the gift.

But after arriving in Wuwei, Fang Guan only asked the concierge to accept the gifts from the school officials from the local Jiedu Mansion, and quickly scanned the list of gifts every day, and then asked the servants to deliver the gifts to the warehouse.

Unless it is a celebrity calligraphy or painting or a rare treasure, Fang Guan will ask the servant to take it out, and then record the name of the gift giver.

As Fang Guan's confidant, Fang Guan did not shy away from him when he received gifts, which sowed a handful of fiery seeds in the heart of a young scholar, Dou Shen.

This is how a man is born!

This is the purpose of being an official!The big officials are feudal, and they are in charge of one side!This is the way to go!

Dou Shen said carefully: "Jie Shuai, the decree that the horse should be a mulberry has been sent to the Hexi Jiedu envoy first. This is a win-win matter for many parties. Naturally, you will have no difficulty in carrying it out, it's just that."

"But what?" Half an hour had passed, but Fang Guan still didn't intend to see his subordinates, but chatted with Dou Shen in a leisurely manner.

Dou Shen said: "The horse should be a mulberry. The first thing to do is to plant a mulberry tree. If you want to produce silk this year, you have to transplant an adult mulberry tree. This will cost a lot of money."

Fang Guan nodded. The price of mulberry trees has never been low, and there must be losses along the way to transport the mulberry trees to Hexi.

Therefore, in order to implement the national policy that the horse should be a sang, this sum of money must be paid by Hexi himself.

This is a large amount of money, and obviously the Hexi Jiedu Mission's Mansion cannot afford this amount of money now.

Fang Guan asked: "Shizhong, who should pay for this money?"

Dou Shen said without hesitation: "It's a national policy that the horse should be a mulberry. Of course, the money should not be paid by the Jiedu envoy."

Fang Guan sighed and said: "But the current situation is difficult. As the Hexi Jiedu envoy, I came to Hexi to relieve the court's worries. It's really hard to continue to ask the court for it."

Dou Shen said: "Jie Shuai, it's not easy to ask the court for this money, but you can ask the local people."

Dou Shen said the plan he came up with: "Jie Shuai, as far as I know, there is a horse donation in Hexi. The imperial court wanted horses, and the Hexi Jiedu envoy collected money to buy horses from the Uighurs, so he started to collect horse donations in Hexi. "

"Now we are going to change the horses into mulberry, and turn the racecourse into mulberry fields. Then use silk to buy horses. This is something that is beneficial to the people, and the people should also pay for it."

"So I think the Jiedu Shifu can abolish the horse donation and replace it with a mulberry donation, and then use the money to buy mulberry trees in the pass."

Fang Guan nodded and said, "That's true. Then we in Hexi will level the horse farm, plant it with mulberry trees, and then sell it to the powerful people?"

Fang Guan asked again: "But why not sell the land directly?"

Dou Shen said: "These people are all short-sighted guys. If they don't plant mulberry trees on the land and sell them together, they just buy the land of the racecourse, and I'm afraid they won't spend money to buy mulberry trees. At that time, if the people With the crops planted, how can the Jiedu envoy complete the task of turning the horse into a mulberry?"

Fang Guan nodded. If it was just to grow crops, then although the land was fertile, the Jiedushi's government would not receive much rent.

But if mulberry trees are planted and silk is woven, the Jiedu envoy can use the silk to trade with the Western Regions and earn money to buy horses.

Dou Shen said again: "Although it is troublesome to sell the land after sorting it out, there are many ways to do it."

Fang Guan was born as a speech official, so he didn't know much about these methods.

The Dou Shen family has always been low-level officials, so they are naturally very familiar with these unspoken local rules.

Dou Shen took the initiative to say: "Whether it is to buy mulberry trees or level the land and then sell it, the government must spend more to do it."

Now Zifangguan understood, and Dou Shen had already made it very clear that buying mulberry trees and leveling the land for the racecourse were both profitable things!

If it is simply to sell the racecourse to the people, including Fang Guan, the Jiedu envoy, what can be handled is the money from the sale of the racecourse.

And the money from the horse farm must also be handed over to the imperial court, at least not for the Jiedu envoy's government to use casually.

But if you add the purchase of mulberry trees and the leveling of the horse farm land, these things are all dominated by the Jiedu Shifu, then the tricks will become big!

All the people who manage it can make a lot of money. Anyway, these horse farms are to be sold to the common people, and the price is a bit expensive. The money is not paid by the Jiedushifu.

At worst, those who have connections come to buy land, and the price should be a little cheaper.

Fang Guan also suddenly realized, no wonder those poor Jinshi from Yushitai, as long as they can be released as officials, and when they are transferred back to Xijing, they can spend a lot of money to buy real estate. It turns out that there are so many ways.

Now Zifangguan relied more heavily on Dou Shen, and seeing that the time was almost up, he put on his official uniform and walked to the lobby of Jiedushi's mansion.

Not to mention how Fang Guan gave both kindness and prestige, after he arrived in Datang, he directly announced two appointments.

First of all, in the name of the Hexi Jiedu Mission, Dou Shen was appointed as the supervisor of the Hexi group herdsmen, and was fully responsible for the horse administration in the entire Hexi.

The Hexi Qun Mu Jian is a subordinate of Tai Pu Si Qing, and the Hexi Jiedu envoy had no right to interfere with this position.

But before Fang Guan set off, he asked the emperor for an imperial decree and took control of this position.

The original Hexi group shepherd's supervisor was ashamed, Fang Guan asked him to take off his official robe, and the soldiers "sent" him out of the Jiedu envoy's mansion.

The generals and school officials were even more afraid of Fang Guan. Seeing that everyone was intimidated, Fang Guan said:

"Your Majesty asked me to come to Hexi for one thing! Change a horse to a mulberry!"

"This is a great thing that is good for the imperial court, good for Hexi, and good for the common people! If someone hinders me, then I will never let you down lightly!"

All the generals and school officials immediately crossed their hands and said they did not dare, and lowered their heads to continue listening to Fang Guan's lecture.

Fang Guan said with satisfaction: "Changing horses to mulberry is not simply selling the racecourse to the people. If you want to do a good job of changing horses to mulberry, all the people in Jiedushi's mansion must take responsibility!"

The generals, school officials and officials looked at each other in blank dismay.

Fang Guan said: "We are going to plant mulberry trees on the racecourse, turn it into a mulberry field, and then sell it to the people. It all depends on your efforts!"

Fang Guan said it bluntly, but the knowledgeable people in the lobby became excited.

Buying and selling mulberry trees and rebuilding the racecourse, this is a big project!There is too much oil and water in this!

Fang Guan continued: "There is also the matter of donating horses. If the Hexi Racecourse can grow mulberry trees and spin silk, they will naturally have money to buy horses. So I decided to stop donating horses and open a new one. The mulberry donation, the money is specially used to buy mulberry trees.”

The generals and school officials were even more happy. Instead of accepting horse donations, they changed to mulberry donations, and they could blackmail the people.

Although this Jiedu Envoy has a bit more authority, he really leads everyone to get rich!
Compared with Guo Ziyi, the former Jiedu envoy who was strict in governing the army, all the generals and officials in the room were thinking about it, and they said in unison: "Obey!"

(End of this chapter)