Landlord of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 428 Letter from Cangzhou
Changsun Chong laughed and said, "Xuan Pinghou, you really live in the riches and honor, and you don't see the clouds of riches and honor."

"How to say?"

"Mr. Xuanping, there are a lot of rich people in this family, but there are really not many who can spend 2000 taels at home." Chang Sun Chong explained: "Like our family, there are many people in the family, and the family has a lot of money. The money belongs to each house, and my father can’t move the money from other houses for his own use. Besides, the money is only called money when it is spent, so what’s the use of keeping it at home? All the money in my house has become a bill. It became a field and a house. It is true that there is not much cash..."

Xu Qing sighed in his heart, although this is the shortcoming of the family, it is also their advantage.This is the bottom line, don't look at the lack of movement at ordinary times, but when you are in danger, you can spit out all your bottom line like a sponge.Xu Qing's family has a lot of properties, most of which are profitable, and have no idea of ​​further expansion, so they have a lot of cash.

Speaking of which, when Xu Qing was in Luonan, he had a plan to bloom everywhere, but the people in Luonan never asked Xu Qing what money he wanted.In fact, Xu Qing didn't know that Manide, Yang Wen and others had already started buying things that belonged to Xu Qing in various places in the Tang Dynasty. Yang Xin in Luonan also took advantage of the time when he was not growing potatoes. The outer disciples who started to lay out the dark river.However, since Luonan's financial resources are still strong, they didn't ask Xu Qing what kind of working capital he wanted.

After Xu Qing was in a daze, he said to Changsun Chong: "So that's the case, hehe, I just like to keep money in my hands, so I can get so much at once."

Chang Sun Chong smiled a few words and left.Holding the land deed, Xu Qing pouted, this apology is really insincere, two thousand acres of land sent me away?no way!After Xu Qing found out the truth from Li Yuan, he didn't let the captured soldiers go, but continued to interrogate them, asking what army they belonged to.

Finally, it was found out that these people were indeed the Divine Strategy Army under King Qin, and they belonged to a special team that Changsun Wuji had trained for a long time.The Shence Army is divided into three divisions, one is the headquarters of King Qin, and the other two belong to the imperial court in name, but they are held by Changsun Wuji and Yuchi Jingde respectively.

Li Yuan promised at the time that as long as he found out which army he belonged to, he would let Xu Qing choose 7000 people and expand his staff to 1.But Xu Qing thought about it left and right, and he didn't think it was good. After all, it was difficult to hold other people's soldiers by himself.So Li Yuan allowed Xu Qing to recruit [-] recruits, and another [-] were selected by lottery.Xu Qing also knew that Li Yuan's move was really to reduce the power of his subordinates before King Qin returned to the court.

Originally, Xu Qing saw that if Changsun Wuji could apologize better, Xu Qing thought about choosing some ordinary soldiers and letting him send them over by himself.But now, I have to choose it myself, and all 4000 people must be elite soldiers.

Holding the title deed, Xu Qing approached Huang Shimei and asked her to draw up a list, giving each of the people around her a [-]-[-]-mu land, and giving some money to build a house around Shantianzhuang.The method of guarding that Zhang Sunchong said is really good. Xu Qing can not only reward people, but also let the underground rivers be stationed in the surrounding houses.

Huang Shimei went to discuss candidates with all the girls, but at this time, Niu Checao pulled Xu Qing aside.

"My lord, here is a letter from Cangzhou. It seems that there is something urgent."

Xu Qing was shocked. On the surface, when he resigned as governor of Cangzhou, he waved his sleeves without taking away a cloud. It seemed that he had nothing to do with Cangzhou, but in fact, Xu Qing regarded Cangzhou as his pocket things.There are a bunch of students working there, the guarantors are going to die, and there is also the Cangzhou Chamber of Commerce, which can be regarded as the property of Xu Qing's family.

Because, the largest shareholder of the Cangzhou Chamber of Commerce is Xu Qing and Huang Shimei's natal family, the main manipulator is the Huang family, and Xu Qing is behind the scenes.In addition, the pillar of belief in Cangzhou is not Buddha, nor Taoism. Apart from my ancestors, there is only a big belly Mr. Xu on the altar table.It can be said that Xu Qing has great control over Cangzhou on both the spiritual and material levels.

In order to avoid other people's irresponsible remarks, Xu Qing generally does not communicate with Cangzhou, unless there is an urgent matter.

Opening the letter and scanning it quickly, Xu Qing frowned.I saw that Xinshan wrote about the seriousness of the locust plague, even Cangzhou and Xingzhou tried their best to eliminate the insects, but they still couldn't withstand the wave after wave of locusts, and the losses were very large.Those local aristocratic families took the opportunity to raise the price of grain and force the people to sell their fields.

In the Qin Dynasty, Zhao Lu signed the letter, saying that the head of Ji Nan Road was an uninitiated person.He neither wanted to offend the family nor the Cangzhou Chamber of Commerce, so the two sides were deadlocked.For the consideration of the common people, Zhao Lu and Qin Shi suppressed the grain price in Cangzhou and controlled the trade routes in Xingzhou, but it was still a drop in the bucket and far from enough.

The common people were suffering, Zhao Lu and Qin Shi couldn't bear it, and wrote to ask Xu Qing if he would let the family members enter the Chamber of Commerce in exchange for them to lower the food price.

Xu Qing's face sank. The summer grain still needs to be harvested at the end of May. Now it's only the end of March, and there are still two months left. What should these hundreds of thousands of people eat?If the family is allowed to enter the Cangzhou Chamber of Commerce, the chess that Xu Qing has played in Cangzhou for several years will collapse at this moment.

Hmph, what aristocratic family, okay, this is what you are asking for.

Xu Qing thought about it and wrote to Cangzhou.First of all, Xu Qing told Zhao Lu and Qin Shi some of his experience in controlling the locust plague in Guanzhong, so that they could ensure the smooth harvest of summer grain in their two states.Secondly, he told Qin Shi and Zhao Lu that the aristocratic family could come in, because the Cangzhou Chamber of Commerce was originally the product of the combination of the Cangzhou aristocratic family and businessmen, and now adding new blood is also an opportunity to grow stronger.

However, the family that comes in cannot be any one of the five surnames and seven families, nor can they be their relatives.It can only be a relatively down-and-out small family, a small landlord with a lot of food in the family but no money.There are also conditions for these people to join, that is, they must form a caravan by themselves, with more than five vehicles, create as much performance as possible within one month of membership, and abide by stricter rules of the chamber of commerce.Only after the probationary period has passed can you normally participate in monthly dividends and quarterly dividends.

If the Cangzhou Chamber of Commerce wants to grow bigger, it is far from enough to rely on its own people, and it must often absorb new blood.So Xu Qing set his sights on a family of small aristocrats and small landlords who wanted to rise, but had no skills, and were very large.They are richer than ordinary people, but they are not as difficult to control as big families.They would have known the pros and cons of joining the chamber of commerce, and would definitely be willing.Then they will sell the useless grain piled up in the house, use it to form a caravan, and use it as the first commodity by the way.

The food in the pockets of each small landlord is not much compared to the whole of southern Hebei, but when all the small landlords in southern Hebei add up, the food is a bit scary.

(End of this chapter)