The hot wife of the champion

Chapter 482 The First Cooperation (2)
Fei Yu came back soon, and as expected, he brought back 20 taels. Obviously, he still earned money by selling high-priced fruit wine.

There are 20 taels to appease and resettle King Wu's military households, which is usually enough, but it's a pity that King Wu can't treat him normally.

In the evening, before dinner, Xie Wenjing appeared at the gate of Shizi's courtyard. It was time to talk to King Wu.

"The concubine mother is back?" The son was practicing martial arts with his father, when he suddenly saw the concubine mother coming, he stopped immediately and greeted him with a smile.

King Wu was very angry, his face was gloomy and dripping water, this son is more and more concerned about this woman, see?Why don't we just separate for a while, why are we so excited to meet each other?

Xie Wenjing took Shizi's hand, and looked at Shizi gently: "Why did you drink so much last night? Drunkenness will not only hurt your body, but also cause trouble. You can just taste it later, okay?"

"What can he miss with a child?" King Wu suddenly stood behind Shizi, glaring at Xie Wenjing fiercely, trying to block her.

The son saw that the mother and concubine didn't feel too embarrassed, but the father was furious, and suddenly he didn't know how to answer the mother and concubine's words.

Obviously, the concubine mother is very magnanimous, and she doesn't care about what she said to her father. Asking herself about being drunk is just worrying about herself, but now her father is targeting her concubine everywhere. is angry!Eh!Shizi was speechless.

"My son, the concubine mother wants to talk to your father about something, you can listen and watch from the sidelines, how the concubine mother and your father fight for their own interests, King Wu, is this okay?"

Xie Wenjing smiled and asked King Wu, as for these things, although the prince is young, the prince can understand that when the prince himself faces these things in the future, he will know how to maximize his own interests and reduce his losses.

King Wu twitched a little, is this okay?Let your son watch him talk to this woman?Is there anything worth fighting for with her for their own interests?Didn't the ten-year agreement have already been negotiated?What else are you talking about? A 20-year contract?If she dares to extend the time, this king will kill this hypocritical woman!

Xie Wenjing ignored King Wu's instant murderous intent, just waved away all the palace people, and pulled the prince to sit firmly in the gazebo in the courtyard, waiting for King Wu to sit down and discuss cooperation matters.

King Wu still sat down with a gloomy face, and still stared fiercely at Xie Wenjing: Say!
"My lord, I want to borrow two thousand soldiers who can farm the land from you, and the price can be negotiated!" Xie Wenjing immediately showed the businessman's style of her previous life, only focusing on the results, and then discussing the details.

"I don't want to borrow it!" King Wu glared at Xie Wenjing fiercely, and wanted to borrow two thousand soldiers from himself. Although the number was not many, this king is a soldier, not a commodity. What are you talking about?The king's soldiers are killing the enemy, so I will lend you the land?Pooh!Rusty the king's soldiers?
"My lord, the real purpose of borrowing these two thousand soldiers who can farm the land is actually to fight, but the enemy they killed was not a tart, but a pirate. The two thousand soldiers I borrowed from you are just for farming. It’s just to cover and paralyze the pirates. Over the years, pirates have been haunted and haunted. Although they have not caused serious disasters, they have become more and more serious. My father and third uncle happen to be in Jiaxing, which is very close to the sea. Shaoxing is the prefect. I haven't encountered pirate attacks for several years. I am afraid that pirates will come to attack these two places in the past few years. There are no sailors in Dazhou. As long as these pirates go to sea, Dazhou can do nothing. If they can be in the place where they attack next , wait in ambush, maybe these elusive pirates are likely to be completely sniped by King Wu's two thousand soldiers, so as to truly give the people along the coast of Dazhou a peaceful life, and don't have to worry about how many years of hard work their savings will be. Looted and empty. I'm a woman, so I shouldn't worry about these court affairs, but my father and third uncle are very likely to encounter these pirates, and they can't raise their own private soldiers to protect the local people. As a last resort, they borrowed troops from King Wu Qian, in the name of renting my father's land, buried it there, waiting for pirates to enter the urn."

Xie Wenjing dared to bet that if she told the truth that her father and third uncle's land had no tenants and urgently needed tenants to farm, otherwise she would not be able to pay the [-]% tax that she had previously submitted to the emperor. The extent to which King Wu is tempted, perhaps in the eyes of people like King Wu, only killing the enemy can move his heart.He really might not be interested in hearing about the filth and filth in the imperial court.It doesn't matter if you don't say anything.

King Wu was a little silent. Of course, he was also worried about the pirates, but unfortunately, even if the emperor wanted to set up a coastal garrison, it would not work.

The chance of pirates appearing is not high, only a few times a year, and they will not appear in the same place. Most of them are looting, and they rarely kill people to prevent fire unless they encounter fierce resistance.

The coastal area of ​​Dazhou is too extensive, and it is really difficult to garrison troops in every place for defense. The most important thing is not that there is no one in Dazhou, but that Dazhou cannot afford the food and wages to raise soldiers.

Even his own soldiers often go hungry when throwing their heads and blood, because there is no food and pay.

Dazhou seems to have a lot of rich people, but these rich people seldom pay taxes. Even if they pay, they are paying commercial taxes. The tax rate is [-] in [-]. With such a low rate, they are also trying to evade taxes.

Almost all of Dazhou's fertile land was in the hands of the gentry. They had tax-free benefits, so how could they be willing to pay taxes?
Most of the food that my soldiers eat is grown on the dry land of their own military households, and a small part is donated by gentry and merchants, and purchased by people they arrange. Families like the Du family are like this Supporting the food and salary of the soldiers of the Great Zhou, it is a pity that like the Du family, there are still very few people who can do business. How can I force them to provide me with free food and salary for the family that has lost money?

The original master emperor thought that the south was rich and rich, and the farmers were divided into good land, and they were asked to pay [-]% of the grain tax, while the income in the dry land in the north was low, so the northern farmers were incorporated into military households, and they only had to pay [-]% of the family’s dry land. Taxes, and the rest to support the family.Of course, adult men need to accept the responsibility of killing the enemy at any time.

In these years, if the military households hadn't endured hardships and stood hard work, shed blood and sacrificed, Dazhou would have been full of wars and chaos everywhere.And the life of rich masters and gentry in the south?
However, even though Xie Wenjing is a woman, she is not mistaken in this point. The people of Dazhou were harassed by pirates, but they were powerless.

They actually used money to calculate how much the pirates caused losses in a year, and then calculated how much it would cost if all the troops were stationed along the coast in Dazhou. Jaw-droppingly huge.

(End of this chapter)