Water Margin farming to become powerful

Chapter 362
Official Zeng didn't know what Sun Xin was thinking, seeing Sun Xin being so free and easy, he felt more and more in his heart that there was a huge difference between this son-in-law and his own sons.

He had to think about Sun Xin's previous comments and was more worried about Zeng Suo's actions, but after hesitating for a while, he felt that his son finally had such ambition, and he couldn't suppress it no matter what position he took.

"After all, he is helping the court to suppress bandits, so it's not a bad thing anyway, right?"

When Master Zeng said this, he only looked at Sun Xin, as if he wanted to seek Sun Xin's approval.

Sun Xin nodded and didn't say much. Official Zeng was a little embarrassed, so he could only go with his family's farmer.

With military affairs in hand, Sun Xin didn't go to talk to Senior Official Zeng and the others. After chatting, he took Shi Xiu to find Luan Tingyu together.

Entering Luan Tingyu's barracks, Sun Xin smiled and said, "Senior brother, I brought back our desperate Saburo."

Luan Tingyu was overjoyed, "Didn't you say it would take five days to come here? It's only been three days?"

Shi Xiu said with a smile: "The bones of the guards in Zengtou City are itchy, so I just came here earlier."

Luan Tingyu said: "It's better to come earlier, you don't know how tight we are here, your position is reserved for you."

He pointed to the inside of the room, "Look at the deployment position." Sun Xinshixiu and the staff officer behind them hurriedly followed him into the room.

There is a big map in the tent, which looks very different from the random maps of this era, with basic contour lines and standard legends, although it is not as detailed as the military maps that Sun Xin has seen in later generations It's not the same, but the detailed regulations are much better than the draft-like maps of this era.

This is naturally a masterpiece of the Supervisory Council Military Academy.

Shi Xiu also went to the Supervisory Council's Sergeant Academy for half a year of training, and she also knows how to read military maps.

After Shi Xiu surrendered, Sun Xin did not dare to trust him rashly, so he was first sent to Zengtou City to manage the militia, and what he did was only the most common supervisor position in the factory in Zengtou City, while the supervisors in the supervisory committee carefully inspected him.

Shi Xiu probably also knew what Sun Xin meant, so he worked diligently during the past six months. After observing for half a year, Sun Xin found that Shi Xiu's various assessments were very good, and asked the supervisory committee to report his opinions on him. After discussing with Luan Tingyu, they unanimously agreed to promote Shi Xiu to the Sergeant Academy of the Supervisory Committee to study further. After half a year of study, Shi Xiu has now returned to Zengtou City to serve as the battalion commander of a reinforced battalion under the regiment.

Luan Tingyu specially sent him to defend Qingzhou this time.

"Now temporarily transfer your reinforced battalion directly under the headquarters."

Luan Tingyu pointed to the city defense map on the table, and circled the location of the granary in the southwest corner of the city with his fingers.

"Just set up the reinforcement camp here."

Shi Xiu was stunned when he saw the location of the granary, and asked, "Are you not allowed to go to the front line?"

Seeing his hesitation, Sun Xin knew that he must have felt that the guards were still suspicious of his relationship with Liang Shan and deliberately prevented him from going to the front.

Sun Xin smiled and said, "This place is not easy to guard."

"In the entire Qingzhou city, there is only one reinforcement battalion of yours protecting the army battalion level. If there are people making trouble in the city, you must guard the granary at the critical moment, otherwise our entire army will have to be defeated. The task is very difficult. Can you do it?" Hearing Sun Xin say that the task of defending the granary is very difficult, Shi Xiu was happy.

He had been on Liangshan for less than a month when he attacked Dulonggang, and he didn't have a deep sense of identification with Liangshan. Shi Xiu joined the supervisory committee because of Sun Xin's idealistic remarks before. After staying for such a long time, she has already agreed with the concept of the Protectorate Army very much. During this Battle of Qingzhou, Shi Xiu really wanted to make a contribution to prove her loyalty and dispel the suspicion of her comrades.

Now that he heard that the team did not suspect him, Shi Xiu finally felt at ease.

Shi Xiu looked at the topographic map, nodded and said, "Understood, this time my task is to defend the granary and prevent bandits from capturing our granary or setting fire to it when they enter the city."

"Haha, it's not just about guarding against bandits," Luan Tingyu smiled: "There are only two regiment training envoys in Qingzhou city, and there is another Qingzhou command division commander Wanchong, and even the prefect Murong Yanda, what kind of local army The Xiang army is full of officials, big and small, and in their eyes, our escort is just a Baojia. If these people see money, why don't they come to snatch it?"

It will be some time before Liangshan fights Qingzhou, Shi Xiu must understand who they are mainly defending during this period.

Shi Xiu nodded solemnly upon hearing this.

Luan Tingyu is discussing with Shi Xiu the specific deployment situation.

Suddenly I saw Jiang Jing hurried in from outside: "Master, Du Cai, the eunuch sent by the government to manage our bank, has arrived."

Sun Xin hurriedly nodded to Luan Tingyu, then turned to Jiang Jing and said, "Take me there."

As soon as he walked out of the tent, Sun Xin asked Jiang Jing, "How did the eunuch come here? How many people did he bring?"

"Sure enough, as the owner said, the eunuch is very domineering, and there are more than 20 people who follow him. I just asked about it, and more than a dozen of them are civilian husbands that he ordered all the states and counties to provide for him along the way. There are only three real confidantes, plus the four of them are usually from the West City."

Xicheng Institute... Hearing this name, Sun Xin probably knew the origin of Du Cai.

Zhao Ji relied on the eunuchs to go out of the palace for him to handle affairs, and he relied most heavily on two men, one civil and one military, and the military was Tong Guan who led troops to the northwest to seek meritorious service for him.

Don't think that Tong Guan's reputation will be improved after many big promotions. All his military exploits are for the purpose of pleasing Zhao Ji and stabilizing his position.Therefore, if you are so successful, you often spend a lot of war resources for a little achievement on paper. For the political achievements that can appear immediately, you destroy the original national defense policy, and the loss of people's strength and imposition of taxes are countless.

The harm of the civil eunuch Yang Jian is even more straightforward. The Xicheng Office he is in charge of is an organization that manages public land for the state.

The land law of the Song Dynasty had a lot of public land at the beginning of the founding of the country, but with the annexation of land from generation to generation, there are very few public lands left today.

If this Xicheng office operates honestly according to the law, there will be almost no taxation, but if Yang Jian wants to make political achievements, he must collect money.

So he tried every means to exploit the people, such as forcibly classifying the wasteland as farmland and forcing the people to rent it. In fact, the wasteland that has not been opened up can't grow food at all, but the people must sign the contract and pay the public land tax every year. The court's payment of grain is tantamount to raising taxes on the people in a disguised form, which has caused resentment among the people in Hebei and Shandong.

Another example is the robbery of common people's fields, which they refer to as public land.

Another example is the trouble of finding merchants for private tax customs to facilitate tax collection.

Xicheng is doing everything to collect taxes, but for Zhao Ji, he has actually seen the increase in tax revenue, and the money can be used for him to spend and enjoy, so he let Yang Jian's vicious laissez-faire, but because Yang Jian received He has enough money and becomes more and more dependent on him.

Du Cai and his subordinate officials were all from the Xicheng Office, so Sun Xin could guess what kind of virtue they should have.

(End of this chapter)