The Golden County Magistrate

"The root cause lies in the body and diet."

"The soldiers in Qingshan County are all carefully selected, and they have good innate physical conditions."

"And their acquired diet is far better than that of the soldiers in my Great Zhou."

"I heard that they have multiple meals a day, and they are all provided with food according to a certain special combination, so that the soldiers can physically withstand the extraordinary amount of training."

"I have inquired about it, and it is said that the soldiers there spend a full one or two taels of silver per meal!"

When he said the last sentence, Wei Han even emphasized his tone.

Tang Yun was completely stunned!

One or two taels of silver, in the homes of ordinary people, can feed a family of five for more than a month!

But it is just the cost of one meal for ordinary soldiers in the Qingshan County Nafu Camp!

"Doesn't this mean that those soldiers are all raised with silver..." Tang Yun murmured.

No wonder Wei Han said it was impossible.

The number of soldiers in the Great Zhou army reached hundreds of thousands. If one person really had to pay one tael of silver for one meal, then a full meal every day would cost hundreds of thousands or even millions of taels of silver. How could they afford it?

Just think about how rich the meals worth one tael of silver would be. This was not about raising soldiers, but about raising the emperor!

"There are some more, Your Majesty, do you want to hear more?" Wei Han asked carefully when he saw her expression.

"No need, just keep it in mind and let me think about it again." Tang Yun was a little bored.

Wei Han knew what she was thinking, but he could do nothing about it.

Everything was about money!

However, Wei Han didn't know that Qian Wu had revealed to her about the Nafu Camp at Chen Yan's behest.

And the part that was revealed was only superficial, and the core training part would not be told to her at all.

Chen Yan had considered that if he refused directly, Wei Han would probably not give up.

But if he revealed some extremely difficult training, she would naturally give up.

Among them, money is the most troublesome thing.

Not to mention the empty treasury of the Great Zhou, even in its most prosperous years, it was impossible to raise a large number of special forces in this way.

Now, this trick has worked.

After a long time, Tang Yun regained his spirits.

"Forget it, let's not talk about this for now. You should make preparations first, go to Yongzhou, and capture Gongsun Cheng!"

"Remember, I want him alive!"

...

A few days later, Wuyin, outside the city gate.

Zhao Changhe sat high on his horse, looking expressionlessly at the convoy approaching from a distance.

But he was very happy in his heart!

Song Zhixian, the chancellor of Yuzhou Prefecture, has finally arrived!

Zhao Changhe naturally did not dare to go against Chen Yan's intentions, but he was happy to see anything that could have a negative impact on Chen Yan's plan.

This time, the court rejected He Dun's recommendation for succession and transferred Song Zhixian over, which made Zhao Changhe vent his anger.

His official position was gone, but since the Song man was not Chen Yan's man, he would continue to cause trouble for the Chen man in the future.

On the side, He Dun remained calm and watched the caravan approach. The leader was about 40 years old, with a dark face and cunning eyes. He was the Yuzhou prefectural chancellor Song Zhixian, whom they came here to greet.

"Is the one here, Lord Song Zhixian?"

He Dun took the initiative to drive his horse forward and asked with a bow.

"I am the prefectural chancellor of this state, who are you?"

Song Zhixian also returned the greeting and asked with some surprise.

"I am He Dun, the prefectural chancellor of this state, and this is Lord Zhao, the prefectural governor. Knowing that Lord Zhao was going to be transferred to this state, Lord Zhao specially brought us here to greet him." He Dun said politely.

When he heard that it was Zhao Changhe who came to greet him personally, Song Zhixian immediately turned over and dismounted, stepped forward and saluted respectfully.

"Your humble servant greets the prefect! How dare you trouble me to come and greet you? I am so terrified!"

Zhao Changhe laughed, dismounted and stepped forward to support him: "Sir, you don't have to be so polite. You must have been tired all the way! Come, let's go into the city. The mansion has prepared a welcoming banquet. Let's not talk about official business today. Have a good rest!"

Song Zhixian said gratefully: "Thank you, sir!"

Zhao Changhe secretly glanced at He Dun, and seeing that the latter still had a calm expression, he couldn't help but sneer in his heart.

Pretend, keep pretending!

Wait for Song Zhixian to take office, and see how long you can sit in the position of prefect!

At the same time, Qingshan County Yamen.

In the inner hall, Chen Yan's joyful voice came out: "It fell off! It finally fell off!"

Lu Qing'er was cooking dinner in the kitchen. She came over when she heard the voice: "Sir, what fell off?"

Chen Yan showed a few thin scars in his hand: "Look, sir, the wound on my thigh is finally healed! These scars are all gone, and my skin is white and tender again!"

Lu Qing'er suddenly realized and said happily: "Then sir, can you walk normally?"

Chen Yan walked back and forth several times and felt that the pain on the inside of his thigh had completely disappeared.

The last time he rode too much to chase Wei Han, he suffered a lot of friction and injury.I had been walking with my legs bowed, but now I have finally recovered.

I have been living comfortably these days. Zhou's Chamber of Commerce sent someone to negotiate the business of the feed factory. At the same time, the sugar business is also ready and will be officially opened tomorrow.

More importantly, the key business he has been vigorously developing, salt, has also been put on the agenda.

After easing the Jizhou civil uprising, Zhou's Chamber of Commerce has slowly accumulated some funds through the recent pork and Yaochi fairy wine business.

After Tang Yun and He Jinyao discussed, they decided to give priority to basic people's livelihood and develop the salt business.

Because there were many restrictive clauses in the previous agreement with Chen Yan, most of the profits were divided by Chen Yan. Zhou's Chamber of Commerce did not lose money in this business, but it was difficult to make money.

Moreover, the high price of salt led to high profits, but to ensure basic people's livelihood, the first thing to do was to suppress the price, and the profit was even lower.

There was no way. Ordinary people couldn't even afford to eat, so how could they use the remaining money to buy expensive salt?

This is also the main reason why Zhou's Chamber of Commerce has not started to implement the cooperation on salt, even though the cooperation on salt has been agreed upon long ago.

The treasury of the Great Zhou is empty, and what is needed at least in the short term is a business that can bring high profits.

Another important reason that affects the development of the salt business is the insufficient number of salt mines in Qingshan County.

It may be enough to supply this county, even neighboring counties and even Longzhou.

But it is far from enough to supply the entire Great Zhou.

Therefore, the two sides have negotiated these days and determined two things.

First, Zhou's Chamber of Commerce will transport the salt made from salt mines and salt fields elsewhere and hand it over to Qingshan County for processing.

Since other places in the Great Zhou do not have the refined salt technology of Qingshan County, the salt quality is generally low, which can improve the quality of salt.

This part of salt will be the main force of Zhou's Chamber of Commerce in selling salt in the future.

Second, Chen Yan will send people to salt mines and salt fields across the country to find abandoned collection sites.

Then Zhou's Chamber of Commerce will come forward to help get the salt mining rights of these places to Chen Yan.

These places were basically abandoned by the Salt and Iron Bureau. It would be useless to leave them there. If they were given to Chen Yan, they could be reused. Tang Yun was naturally happy to see it happen.

After all, they did not have the waste mine re-mining technology of Qingshan County.

The salt collected from these abandoned salt mines and salt pans, after processing, will be sold by Zhou's Chamber of Commerce, which will become another main sales force in the future.

From Chen Yan's perspective, of course, he would like to get all the salt land in the country.

But there are several difficulties.