After Tang Si Dog's funeral, a naming craze started in the valley. The trend first started among the slave soldiers and slowly spread to other slaves.
After the name fever passed, Zheng Yuming thought back and felt that the trend started when the second son came to Chu Chao Hui.
"My lord! Sir! Please help Second Son with a better name." Er Zi went to the villa to look for Chu Chao Hui after dinner,and when he saw Zheng Chu and the two of them, he stood upright and 'snapped' a military salute.
"Do you use the name of a place for your surname?" Chu Chao Hui frowned,he remembered that Er Zi's profile was from Tang Kingdom and lived in a place called Ma Di in Tang Kingdom,could it be that Er Zi wanted to use Ma as his surname?
"Yes!" Erzi replied loudly.
Zheng Yuming puffed and laughed from the sidelines. "Surname Ma called Er Zi, not as smooth as calling Er Ma Zi."
"I just feel that Ma Er does not sound good, that's why I want to ask your honor and the officer to name it." Er Zi scratched his head,being laughed at so much by Zheng Yuming, he felt even more that the name Ma Er was not up to par.
"I'll tell you what, you'll be known as Ma from now on, Ma and Ma sound similar, so you can honor your homeland just the same. Your nickname is Er Zi, your first name will be Ren." Chu Chao Hui thought for a moment and thought of a name for Er Zi.
"Maren." Er Zi pronounced it and felt that it was much better and more learned than Ma Er. Immediately, he saluted Chu Chao Hui again, "Thank you, sir!"
When the slave soldiers learned that Er Zi had begged for a name with Chu Chao Hui, those who didn't have a surname wanted to go and beg for a surname, those who didn't have a big name wanted to beg for a big name, and some of them who felt that their names weren't good wanted to beg for a good name. These slave soldiers didn't dare to go directly to Chu Chao Hui to ask for a name like Er Zi did, because Er Zi was the first captain of the slave soldiers, and was highly respected by Chu Chao Hui, and the other slave soldiers felt that they didn't have enough status and didn't dare to trouble Chu Chao Hui.
The slave soldiers didn't dare to bother Chu Chao Hui, they all went to bother the valley's soul engineering teacher Fan Jin. When the other slaves saw that the slave soldiers all went to ask for names, they also followed the trend and went forward.
Fan Jin's limited knowledge could not cope with the slaves who flocked to him to seek a name, so he had to seek advice from Zheng Yuming, who was quite quick to throw Fan Jin a Hundred Surnames and a dictionary. Although half of the simplified characters in the Hundred Surnames and the dictionary are not from this time and space, there is still another half of the characters that are similar to the Da Qin script, and after Fan Jin has the Hundred Surnames and the dictionary, taking a name becomes a trivial matter.
The day after Tang Si Dog was buried, Chu Chao Hui started to reward the slave soldiers based on their performance in the battle. The merit was divided into three grades, the first grade was first class merit with a reward of twenty gold, there were three people who were assessed first class merit, they were Wei Qing, Ma Ren and a slave named Zhou Cheng. The next was second class merit, ten slave soldiers were rated, the reward was ten gold. Lastly, there was third class merit, any slave soldier who participated in the fight against the bandits received this rating, and the reward for third class merit was five gold.
After the reward was sent down, the valley slave soldiers celebrated for a while. Chu Chao Hui set the reward bonus is not generous, he did not want to completely stimulate the soldiers with material, the real use to stimulate the soldiers is the merit system, is the military service, there is a sense of honor, the soldiers in the future in the army's promotion linked to the military service.
In a month and a half of banditry, Chu Chao Hui led the slave soldiers in strict accordance with the army combat steps, every day march must send scouts, that is, scouts first to explore the situation, get the safety of the information before the troops march. Nearly to the bandit strongholds, mapping the terrain of the strongholds, the formulation of combat plans, combat archers and crossbowmen and infantry to cooperate with each other, fifty-two combat troops, Chu Chaohui is when tens of thousands of people in the action of the force, and even how to arrange the logistics of these soldiers in the teaching, a few fights to eliminate the bandits, the slave soldiers on how to fight with the enemy, there is a three-dimensional impression.
After the end of the banditry, Chu Chao Hui felt that these slave soldiers could lead the new recruits, and he was ready to expand the armed guards. Expanding the force, Chu Chao Hui faced a problem, which was the source of soldiers.
Dacheng's slave market, Zheng Chu two people have not dared to buy more, nobles buy slaves there is a digital record, the number of slaves purchased by Nambu compared to other nobles, the number has been too much, and then buy without fear, surely to cause Wei Shen's suspicion and vigilance, the exiles in the dungeon, can only pick the sinners who have a hand, and other exiles can not be all bought.
The only thing that can get labor to replenish and not let the other nobles in Dacheng perceive is the foreign civilians who come to Nambu to survive, but these civilians don't want to sell themselves into slavery, they just want to open up the land and become peasants, and directly recruiting these civilians is afraid of leaking out and arousing the suspicion of the nobles in Dacheng.
Chu Chao Hui wanted to expand the number of the army to more than five hundred, and the slave soldiers who had participated in the fight against the bandits brought ten recruits each. More than a hundred people were selected from the valley, together with the sixty captured bandits, barely making two hundred people, and there was still a gap of three hundred for the five hundred target.
"Yuming, I want to go buy people." Chu Chao Hui thought left and right and felt that there was only one way for him to gather the five hundred soldier quota.
"Buying people, at the slave market? Didn't we say we wouldn't buy there?" Zheng Yuming stopped the pen and ink in his hand, he was just writing a tutorial.
"Not buying in Dacheng, I want to go abroad to buy people." Chu Chao Hui meant to use the merchants of the trade to secretly buy and move those victims to come to Nambu.
"How to buy?"" Wei-Tang two countries are densely populated, the drought there is more powerful than Dacheng, the Little Ice Age is also more severe than Dacheng, and the nobles there are more brutal, there are many commoners who can't survive, if we give a little settling down fee, and then promise to pay for it, I believe that we can recruit a lot of strong men to come to Nambu."
"They would be willing to be slaves?"
"I don't want to turn them into slaves, I just want to make a five year contract with the strong men, who are not allowed to move around during those five years. This will still ensure the seclusion of the valley." Chu Chaohui exhaled a cigarette, in order to cut off smoking later, he now stipulated that he only smoked two a day.
"What about after five years?" Jung Yuna frowned, it cost a lot to train soldiers, and after five years of training good soldiers, should they just let them go?
Five hundred people of the army, the expenses spent is the textile factory most of the profits, good in porcelain kiln now porcelain production increased, porcelain in addition to supply Yu Kui there, but also sold to Chu and Tang, Wei three countries, and even a second-hand traffickers in Wei, Tang take over and then sold far away to Zhao, Qi, Lu. These porcelain profits are very objective, with the increase in production, the profits directly after the textile factory. Otherwise rely solely on textile factories, like Chu Chao Hui so at all costs training, Nambu sooner or later have to go bankrupt.
"After staying for five years, do you think they will still want to leave?" Chu Chao Hui raised his eyebrows, nowadays, when disposing of a slave who made a mistake, as long as one said 'get out of the valley', the slave who made a mistake would die begging for forgiveness, and in their eyes, expelling them from the valley turned out to be the greatest punishment.
"If they ask to go home to visit their families after five years, they will expose our strength." Although Zheng Yuming said this, he felt mystified as to whether the valley could be kept secret for five years.
"King Wu is already in his fifties, and his life of spending and drinking has weakened his body even more, Yu Kui just sent back the news that after the Spring Festival, King Wu had a small cold and stayed in bed for more than a month before recovering. With King Wu's level of health, will he be able to live until five years from now?"
Chu Chao Hui analyzed with Zheng Yuming. "As long as the king of Wu is untimely, the royal court will be in chaos, Ripple Ji is not a good person, she and Prince Zhao in the end who will die, can not be determined, it is the Prince Zhao ascended to the throne, Gong Zi Guang did not have immediate danger, but if it is Ripple Ji won, her son Yong did the king of Wu, we valley there is still a need to keep it secret?"
At that time, Ripple Ji will not let go of Gong Ziguang, Gong Ziguang will not be so pedantic as to tie his hands, and even if the valley power is exposed, it will be good news for Gong Ziguang as opposed to Ripple Ji's son Yong succeeding to the throne. Gong Ziguang can use the valley power to deal with Yi Ji.
If Crown Prince Zhao succeeded the throne, Gong Ziguang had the valley force in his hands, which was also a kind of deterrent. Of course, Gong Ziguang would have to trust Prince Zhao very much, and the valley power would be a threat to him.
"The five years you set is an estimate that the King of Wu will not live to see that number of years?"
Yu Kui sent back the news, the king of Wu if not pay attention to health, is not a few years of life, but the king of Wu does not obey the old, but also as his own prime, wine and sex do not see moderation. Dr. Jiang learns from the royal palace doctor that the king of Wu will have a maximum of three years to live if he continues like this.
"Good, even if the King of Wu doesn't die in five years, we don't have to be afraid of the Wu nobles."
Chu Chao Hui was very confident that as long as he had five thousand elite soldiers in his hands, he would dare to fight any nobles within Wu. Like the armed forces of Dacheng, as long as he trained a thousand soldiers, he would be able to properly destroy them.
In fact, the entire armed force of the city lord of Dacheng was only about a thousand men, and Gong Zi Guang called for a collection of the private armed forces of the other nobles of Dacheng, which could probably be pieced together to an army of three thousand men.
"To buy strong soldiers in Tang and Wei countries, we have to use reliable merchants." Zheng Yuming felt that the plan was feasible after hearing Chu Chaohui's analysis.
"Let's send big ships to dock on the Tang coast, and the merchants will send them to our big ships when they buy strong men."
The merchant's boat is too small, loading at most twenty or thirty people at a time, the twenty material big boat sold to Wu Mu by Nambu Shipyard can load a hundred people at a time, running three trips, it can buy enough three hundred strong men, the strong men carried by the big boat can be directly disembarked in the western part of the valley, so that the outside world won't find out that there are more people in the valley.
After deciding on the plan to buy strongmen, Zheng Chu and his two men acted immediately, Wu Mu's big ship was requisitioned, and the second son of the man who was supposed to be from the Tang Kingdom, that is, Ma Ren, was sent to the ship to travel with it to the Tang Kingdom, and a few merchants who were carefully selected were promised generous benefits, and they were paid two gold for pulling in a strongman. After recruiting a strong man, they only had to send him to the mooring of the big ship, and the traveling expenses would be reimbursed separately.
These merchants are from Tang and Wei, they know the area very well, and the locals also know them, after the merchants threw out the recruitment pay, there were soon victims to apply for the job, and when many civilians who had difficulty in life saw that the enrolled victims really received five dollars' settlement first, they couldn't help but be moved one after another. Five dollars is not much, but it is enough to feed a family for more than two months. It is now the end of February, and the summer harvest will be in time in two months' time, so with this settlement fee, a family will be able to live peacefully until the grain harvest.
Because of the attraction of the settlement fee, in addition to the desperate disaster victims enrolled, the civilians with extra laborers in their families also went to enroll, although it would take five years to not be able to go home, but they would be given money every month, which could be brought back by the merchants to help them, and their families could have a mouthful of food with the money if their fields didn't yield a good harvest.
More than a month time, Chu Chao Hui has enough five hundred people, but the strong man program did not stop, the big ship continues to the coast of the Tang Dynasty loading strong man, because Zheng Yuming realized that buying strong man is also a shortcut to replenish the valley's labor force. As for the expiration of the contract after five years, the valley will face the strong man to leave, Zheng Yuming think until then, the conditions of the valley is comparable to the United States in the twenty-first century, the outside world conditions are better than Mexico, so that the strong man is free to choose, the vast majority of the strong man will only choose to relocate their loved ones to the valley. After the development of the valley, at least can accommodate 50,000 people living, as long as the financial enough, Zheng Yuming decided to long-term implementation of the buy Ding program.
After the plan to buy Ding became long-term, Wu Mu was dissatisfied because his twenty-material large ship was requisitioned for a long period of time, seriously affecting his business to Chu. Zheng Yuming was nagged by Wu Mu and got a headache, and in the end, he promised that he would sell him the 50-material large ships built by the shipyard in the second half of the year for his use.
Nanbu's move to buy strong soldiers in Tang and Wei was not unnoticed by the local nobles. These aristocrats refused to reduce rent or provide relief. Seeing that there were more and more victims, they were afraid that the victims would riot like the commoners in Qilu, and they were closely monitoring the situation, and if they found that the situation was not right, they would send their soldiers to suppress the situation. Now, some people take the victims away and put an end to the riots, their hearts are happy to see it, as for where the victims flow to, they don't care at all.
Chu Chao Hui in addition to secretly training soldiers in the valley, to the south port, Chu Chao Hui also has another arrangement. Although the bandits around the south port was swept away, but no protective wall of the south port is not safe, south port special location, even if the construction of the wall, the bandits can also come up from the waterway, if the waterway side also build protection, this project is too big a little bit, the south port is now more than 3,000 people, all of them to repair the protection, have to be a year before you can build a good, how can not afford to stop work to dry a year of construction work in the South Port. The city can't afford to stop work for a year to do construction work. To ensure the safety of the south port, can only set up guards in the south.
Chu Chao Hui is ready to build the guard as the reserve unit in the latter days, put on the uniform can go to the battlefield. Therefore, in the south port to recruit guardsmen, strict physical requirements, generous treatment, and slave soldiers almost, the same monthly remuneration is five gold. The quota was tentatively set at thirty. When openly recruiting, it was claimed that the guards recruited were for the protection of the governor's residence.
As soon as the recruitment notice was posted, hundreds of people surrounded the recruiting and selection office, besides the favorable treatment that attracted them, the other one was still the values of this time and space. Qin people believe that being a soldier is a decent profession, even if this soldier is not a Huben, but a guard, in people's minds, it is still superior.
Originally, the selection of the guards was restricted by conditions, and could only be Nambu villagers, or refugees who had already settled in Nambu. But there were two villagers from Houpo who clamored in front of Zheng Yuming and insisted on joining the guards, and these two were the two cousins, Tian Hu and Tian Bao, who had once robbed Wu Da.
Tian Hu and Tian Bao worked in Nambu to support their mother, sister-in-law and nieces and nephews. Some factories in Nambu only hired people from their own villages, so Tian Hu and Tian Bao had been doing hard labor in Nambu, and both of them had been working as porters at the docks. Because of the busy wharf in Nambu and their willingness to work hard, they earned a high monthly income and were able to support their family without planting the fields in Houpo. It takes an hour and a half to walk from Houpo to Nambu, and it takes too much time to go back and forth, so the two of them reported to Wu Da, and built a mud hut as a stopping place against the refugee's hut.
After the two lived in Nambu, they realized that the Nambu Village Ancestral Hall has a night school in the evening, where all the village people go to pursue their education, and those who are not villagers of Nambu can also go there, only that they don't enjoy the literacy rewards. Tian Hu Tian Bao on two days later, they know from the mouth of the night school teacher, Nambu village ancestral hall school, is open to all children, children who go to school there, every day at noon can also eat a free lunch. Hearing this news, Tian Bao Tian Hu was moved, they want to bring their nieces and nephews to Nambu, so that their nieces and nephews can enjoy compulsory education.
The nieces and nephews are coming, and the widowed sister-in-law will have to take care of them. When the widowed sister-in-law comes, the old mother will not be able to stay in the back slope alone, and will have to come to live in the south port. Tian Hu and Tian Bao went back to discuss, then in the South Port mud house next to the addition of two, the back slope of the field back to the landlord, all the family moved to the South Port. The Spring Festival of the Tian family was spent in Nambu.
The Recruitment Guard stipulated that only settled residents of Nambu were to be recruited, and Tian Hu and Tian Bao believed that their family had already moved to Nambu and were considered settled residents, and that they could not be regarded as people from Houpo Village. They fully met the recruitment requirements, and the Recruitment Office should have recruited them.
The lawsuit came to Zheng Yuming, Zheng Yuming looked at Tian Hu Tian Bao eager eyes, nodded to let the recruiting office to recruit the Tian family brothers. After this incident, Zheng Yuming vaguely felt that the first conflict between Nambu and Dacheng aristocrats to break out. Sure enough, soon after, Da Cheng Wen Zai Wei Shen summoned him and Chu Chao Hui.
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The one who came to Nangbu to deliver the summons was an attendant with a pointed chin, and Huo Sizhong knew this attendant. This waiter is last year's moon festival, Wei Qing fake news of the burning of the south port, had bribed him to go and Gong Ziguang report the news of the one.
After the pointy chin waiter conveyed Wei Shen's meaning, Huo Sizhong courteously led the waiter to the lower room to rest and have a cup of hot tea. Zheng Yuming here just changed into his deep clothes, Huo Sizhong came back.
"My lord, this attendant got wind of the fact that it was the Houpo feudal lord who went to Wei Wenzai and complained, saying that we in Nambu had tempted the people of Houpo village to throw away their land and work, and requesting Wei Wenzai to dispose of your lordship."
Huo Si Zhong originally saw Wei Qing flirting with the pointed chin waiter to Gong Ziguang in front of the report, at that time, Huo Si Zhong did not react, but also scolded Wei Qing greedy money.
Wait until later to know the truth of the South Port was burned, and was Weiqing ruthless ridicule, Huo Sizhong began to reflect on their own one-sided thinking, with the intention of observing and pondering Zheng Yuming to treat the people of the words and deeds, and found that everything is tailored to the circumstances of the situation, depending on the person, the specific problem to have a targeted approach to deal with the problem.
When entertaining the pointy jawed waiter today, Huo Sizhong treated him attentively, showing that we were all former acquaintances, and while the pointy jawed waiter was interested in nagging him, he stuffed twenty gold into this waiter, and from the waiter's mouth, he pulled out the information about why Wei Shen had summoned Zheng Yuming and Chu Chao Hui for something.
"Si Zhong, you did a good job!" Zheng Yuming looked at the teenager with relief, the teenager's head was not flexible, but he would ask for advice with an open mind and work with heart.
"My lord, Si Zhong will now go back to the valley to report." Huo Sizhong had a feeling that Wei Shen would punish Nanbu this time, and he wanted to go and inform Chu Chaohui, who was a symbol of the valley's power.
"Well, you talk to Lord Chu, I already have a countermeasure, the valley should not have a big action." After slope fiefdom nobles and south port have conflict this matter, early in Zheng Yuming expected, Zheng Yuming also has thought of a good countermeasure, so heard Wei Shen summoned for this matter, he instead settled down, this matter he alone can be set right, but for security reasons, still let Huo Sizhong to send a letter to Chu Chaohui, who is in the valley to train the soldiers to go.
Zheng Yuming rode his horse and followed the pointy chin waiter to the Ulsan government house, after informing him, he entered Wei Shen's office, only to see Wei Shen with a serious face sitting cross-legged behind the desk table, his side of the lower head kneeling in a middle-aged fat man, Zheng Yuming has seen this middle-aged fat man in a few big festivals, he is a small nobleman in the Dacheng area, the back slope is the fiefdom of this middle-aged fat man. This called Yan Fu small nobles see Zheng Yuming come in, face a face of contempt.
"Governor Zheng, why did Nambu rob the villagers of the back slope?" Wei Shen was not polite when he came up, his tone was harsh.
It is against the moral code for a noble of one fiefdom to instigate the defection of a commoner from the land of a noble of another fiefdom, and such behavior, is a provocation to the current ruling order.
"Greetings Wenzai, Nambu has no intention of competing with Houpo for the villagers." Zheng Yuming argued.
"Hmph! Governor Zheng, many of the villagers from my back slope work in your south port, and that Tian Hu Tian Bao even relocated his entire family there, so this is still not called a competition?" Yan Fu was furious.
Last year, there were many villagers who went to work in Nambu, because these villagers used the money earned from working to buy food to pay taxes, and the interests of the nobles of the fiefdom of Nambu were not lost, so they did not pursue the phenomenon, but from the end of last year, after Tian Hu Tian Bao's family relocated to Nambu, the hearts of the villagers were unstable, and there were several villagers who, through the mayor of the village of Nambu, expressed their desire for the return of the land to him.
Returning the land means that no one will cultivate the land, and no one will be able to collect taxes if they don't cultivate the land, and the Back Slope Fiefdom nobles only have this piece of fiefdom, and less taxes means a decline in the quality of life, so how is this middle-aged fat noble willing to bear the loss.
Qin society is now in a semi-slave and semi-feudal state, the Western Zhou Dynasty, the implementation of the well-field system, to the Qin, with the popularization of iron farming tools and oxen plowing, so that the agricultural productivity greatly increased, the people are their own cultivation of private land, and the abandonment of public land, the well-field system gradually disintegrated. Nowadays, most of the vassal states in Da Qin continent were mainly based on private fields. The private land reclaimed by the common people did not become private, and belonged to the fiefdom nobles in which it was located. The commoners only have the right to plant, not ownership, and the nobles control the land, not the population.
There is no household registration system in this time and space, the commoners can move around as they please, and if the commoners don't want to plant, they can in principle abandon their land and go to another fiefdom to make a living. Nobles in order to ensure that their own fiefdom laborers do not go missing, agreed that each fiefdom can not accept to stay elsewhere on the fiefdom of the plebeians, if the feudal lord has this behavior, it is to be subject to the collective condemnation of the nobles, the lord will also be disposed of.
When the king of Qin gave land to his vassals, the land of the vassal state belonged to the lord of the vassal state, and the lord of the vassal state then gave it to the nobles of the fiefdom, who then owned their own fiefdom. Even if the land was barren, it still had an owner, which meant that under the sky, it was all the king's land, and you commoners did not have any land, even if you went to the mountains to open up the land, if the nobles found out that you were a fugitive, you would be driven away as well.
This kind of customary covenant among the aristocracy, in the absence of a household registration system, was a good way to restrain the mobility of the common people. However, with the development of society, the rule of the Great Qin sovereign state became weaker and weaker, and the vassal states gradually got rid of the constraints of the sovereign state and began to be independent and autonomous.
With the weakening of the central authority, this constraint became weaker from country to country, and it was not uncommon for commoners to flee to neighboring countries to make a living, dissatisfied with the tyranny of the local nobles. More commoners helping to farm the land meant more income. Therefore, the nobles of the vassal states, in their own countries to keep the agreement, but to foreign exiles, but turn a blind eye, this is also the South Port can take in refugees, but not the neighboring village of the village people.
"Governor Zheng, what do you say?" Wei Shen looked at Zheng Yuming, Nambu's tribute to the Ulsan Monarch has always been positive and generous, Artemisia medicines are effective in treating malaria in the Dacheng area, Wei Shen looked at the Nambu's contribution to Dacheng is very large, Gongziguang's eyes on Zheng Yuming's sake, intended to give Zheng Yuming the opportunity to defend himself, if it were any other small nobles, the Ulsan Monarch's House would only send Huben to account for the situation.
"Endowment Wenzai! It is also helpless for the people of Houpo Village to go to Nambu to work. Many of the fields in Houpo Village have no water source for irrigation and are all but barren, and even if the village people plant them, they have no harvest."
Zheng Yuming bowed and replied, Hou Po, the fief nobles were petty, after the waterwheel was made, other nobles in Dacheng built it all over their own fiefs, while Yan Fu thought that the Hou Po village people had originally always gone five or six miles away to pick up water to irrigate their land, and that repairing the waterwheel was just a way for these village people to be lazy, and that he didn't need to spend money on fueling the village people's laziness.
"Yan Fu, but is that so?" Wei Shen looked at Yan Fu with an unkind look in his eyes, he didn't like the fact that the nobles of Dacheng had overstepped their boundaries, and he didn't like the fact that the nobles didn't do anything about farming.
"Lord Wenzai, Hou Po Village has always been barren and cannot contribute much in the way of finances, and the construction of the water conservancy requires a large expenditure." Yan Fu quickly bent down to apologize.
Wei Shen stroked his beard and mused, Yan Fu only has a fiefdom in the back slope, and the taxes he receives are not much, and the money and goods he pays tribute to have always been the least among the nobles.
"Village Lord Yan, those villagers who came to Nambu to do hard labor, all went there because their family fields could not be cultivated, Nambu also could not bear to see them not having a life of hardship, and only then exchanged food for them to do their work." Zheng Yuming first put himself at the moral supremacy before he lowered his head and apologized to Yan Fu, "It was wrong of Nambu to do so, for the loss of Village Lord Yan, Nambu is willing to compensate."
Wei Shen saw Zheng Yuming's posture lowered and his attitude sincere, his face loosened. "Yan Fu, the people of Hou Po village don't want to stay in the village, you can't all blame Nambu, now Nambu is willing to compensate, are you willing to accept?"
In Wei Shen's opinion, both of them were at fault for this.
"Yan Fu is willing to accept compensation from Nambu, but would like to ask Governor Zheng to guarantee that he won't take in the people of Houpo Village in the future." Yan Fu was worried that the village people would abandon the land and leave in the future.
"Governor Zheng, give me your assurance." Wei Shen felt that things could be resolved.
"Lord Wenzai, Nambu can promise not to use the people of Houpo Village, but Yuming doesn't want to do that." Zheng Yuming turned to face Wei Shen.
"Oh, why is that?" Wei Shen intuited that Zheng Yuming was not trying to disobey orders.
"Yuming would like to finalize a contract with the Yen Fu village master."
"Fixing a contract? Is that a covenant?" Wei Shen was not a merchant who made deals with Nambu and did not understand what a contract was, literally it seemed to be an agreement, similar to a covenant.
"Nambu wants to buy the back slopes."
"What? To buy the back slope? No, Yan family's ancestral property, will never be sold!" Yan Fu jumped up when he heard this, if he dared to sell his ancestral property, he would be laughed at by everyone.
"Not to buy the ownership, but to buy the right to use, how much tax the back slopes have to pay every year, Nambu will pay according to the number, the period can be customized with the Yann village owner, and when the time comes, the Yann village owner doesn't want to renew the contract, he can take it back." Zheng Yuming coveted the manpower and land in the back slope, as long as the back slope to increase investment in water conservancy, the back slope will definitely become a large grain-producing village. In addition, the location of the back slope has strategic significance for Nambu, controlling the trail next to the village of the back slope, Nambu and the northern part of the valley will be safe.
Once Zheng Yuming finished speaking, Wei Shen and Yan Fu both stared at him, trying to find out the reason for doing so from Zheng Yuming's face.
"The cloth woven in Nambu can be exchanged for some grain in the surrounding vassal states, Nambu uses this grain to recruit strong men to help with construction, and the people of Houpo Village can exchange their strength for rations even if their fields are dry. Yuming doesn't want to cut off this path for the people of Houpo Village." Zheng Yuming hurriedly explained that he was doing this for the sake of the village people of Houpo Village.
"Governor Zheng good man!" Wei Shen was a bit ashamed, Zheng Yuming's impression to the aristocrats of Dacheng was that of a great benefactor, yet he had been wary of Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui with the mentality of guarding against outsiders. "You report the annual tax revenue." Wei Shen finished shaming himself and shifted his stance a bit.
"The annual revenue from taxes on the back slopes is three thousand dollars."
As soon as Yan Fu heard of the purchase program, his brain was rapidly calculating. Houpo Village has a larger population than Nangbu before Zheng Chu took over, and has more reclaimed land than Nangbu. In the year when Houpo Village had the best harvest, Yan Fu received 3,000 gold in taxes, and in the past few years, because of the drought, he could only receive half of what he would have received in a good harvest. Since Nangbu offered to buy it, don't blame him for pricing it according to the harvest of a good year.
"Three thousand gold ah." Zheng Yuming was not a fool, he certainly understood the harvest of the fields in Houpo Village. But this price was just a piece of cake for today's Nambu. "Yes, plus another thousand for the handyman. That's a payment of four thousand gold per year, is Village Master Yan satisfied?"
"Four thousand dollars! Good! Good! Four thousand gold per year." Yan Fu's face was wrinkled with laughter, the three thousand gold he quoted already included the handyman fee.
"How many years does Village Master Yan think it's reasonable to set?" Zheng Yuming left the contract's limitation date up to Yan Fu himself.
"Fix five no, fix ten years!" Yan Fu saw 40,000 gold flying in front of him, with 40,000 gold, he could rebuild his mansion in Dacheng and buy more servants and maids.
"Nambu can't be paid off at once, it can only be paid once every two years, can Village Lord Yan agree to that?" Zheng Yuming had a difficult look on his face.
Nambu was fully capable of paying for it all at once, but such a wealthy and generous behavior could easily attract Wei Shen's attention.
"Okay! Just one payment for two years." Yan Fu nodded his head like a chicken pecking rice.
"Since both of you agree, let's take the oath of alliance." Wei Shen was prepared to be a witness to the oath of alliance between the two.
"Lord Bunzai! Can the covenant oath be written on paper?" Jung Yuming was uneasy about the verbal covenants of this time and place. "Yuming's hometown, formulating contracts are written on paper, in duplicate, each holding one."
"This is also fine." The Great Qin Continent rarely had agreements that were written down as instruments, and this phenomenon usually only appeared in state letters, and Wei Shen felt that Zheng Yuming was being redundant in this way.
In fact, the ancients valued promises so much that although they were verbal covenants, those who made covenant-breaking behaviors were rare, and being known would be condemned by the whole society. The ancients relied more on moral constraints to rule their countries, and of course, this morality was one that favored the rule of the slave feudal aristocracy.
Yan Fu and Zheng Yuming signed the contract on Wei Shen's book case, and the contract paper was made in the valley, and nowadays all the paper in Ulsanjunfu is supplied by Nambu.
After signing the contract, Wei Shen signaled Yan Fu to leave.
"Governor Zheng, please take a seat." Wei Shen let Zheng Yuming take his seat this time.
"Thank you, Wenzai." Zheng Yuming's heart was in awe, but on the surface, he knelt down on the futon as if nothing had happened.
"Chen Meng's carriage workshop is jointly opened with you?" Although Wei Shen's tone was calm, Zheng Yuming could hear that there was dissatisfaction behind it.
"Yes."
"Carriages are very profitable, right?" Wei Shen stroked his beard, his eyes half-closed.
"Definitely earned." Hearing this, Zheng Yuming understood that Wei Shen was dissatisfied that Nambu only cooperated with the Chen Clan and not with the Ulsan Monarch's House.
Wei Shen's eyes opened, there is inequality in it, he feels that, Gong Zi Guang favors Zheng Yuming, but Zheng Yuming doesn't think about the Ulsan Monarch's House, the benefits are only given to other people, in vain, Gong Zi Guang's love for Zheng Yuming is a piece of love.
"Yuming has something to suggest." Zheng Yuming arched his hand towards Wei Shen.
"Speak!" Wei Shen's voice trailed off.
"Nambu wants to work with Junfu to make paper." When Zheng Yuming worked with Chen Meng, he knew that he could not bypass the Ulsan Junfu.
Zheng Yuming to visit the Ulsan government, basically and Gong Ziguang together, Gong Ziguang a look like not eat earthly fire, these economic matters are not interested in, Zheng Yuming can not be in front of the Gong Ziguang Bala open their own skin, reveal a copper out, and now face the Wei Shen, it is just to throw out the bait, the Ulsan government is also tied to the big boat to the South Port.
"In that case, granted! The cooperation is also in accordance with the way Nambu cooperates with Chen." Wei Shen's face smiled. The sales of this paper could be much bigger than a four-wheeled carriage.
Zheng Yuming and Wei Shen negotiated some details of cooperation before getting up to take their leave. Just as he climbed to his feet, Gong Ziguang's attendant came to summon him.
"Go on!" Wei Shen stroked his beard, his demeanor resembling Zheng Yuming's mother's, Zheng Yuming's brother-in-law's expression of relief when she first came to the door.
"Yes!" Zheng Yuming bowed his head and excused himself, remembering Chu Chao Hui's advice, he had come to the Azure Mountain Monarch's residence less often, and the last time he met with Gong Ziguang was more than a month ago.
"Zheng Qing!" Gong Ziguang stood in the courtyard to greet Zheng Yuming with a brilliant face.
"See you, Your Excellency!" Zheng Yuming saluted in a regular manner.
"Qing don't be rude with Guang." Gongzi Guang reached out to stop Zheng Yuming from making a big salute and directly held his hand, leading Zheng Yuming towards the study.
Gong Ziguang's study was not empty, Ye Ren Xin was sitting on his knees on a futon, when he saw Gong Ziguang and Zheng Yuming come in, he hurriedly got up to greet them.
"You go down." Gong Ziguang waved his hand towards Artist Xin, hearing the report of the sharp jawed attendant, Gong Ziguang realized that Zheng Yuming had come to the Ulsan Junfu, and after waiting for half a day in the study and not seeing Zheng Yuming come, he hurriedly sent an attendant to Wei Shen to summon him.
"Yes!" Artist Xin picked up Konghou and backed out backwards, glancing at Zheng Yuming on his way out.
Jung Yuming had an average impression of this artist with a high level of konghou, and the glance that this artist gave before he retreated made Jung Yuming shiver, the sight was a bit sinister. When Zheng Yuming attentively looked at the artist Xin's expression, he only saw that the artist Xin had a submissive look on his face.
"What's wrong? Zheng Qing?" Gong Zi Guang held Zheng Yuming's hand and felt Zheng Yuming's abnormality.
"Nothing." Zheng Yuming shook his head, he must have been the one who looked away just now.
"Zheng Qing, lately you've been coming to the Jun Mansion less." Gongzi Guang led Zheng Yuming to his seat with a complaint on his lips.
"There's a lot going on in Nambu, and Yuming is helpless." Zheng Yuming broke away from Gong Ziguang's hand without a trace.
"If I had known, I wouldn't have given the southern port to Zheng Qing." Gongzi Guang had chagrin on his face. "It would have been better to grant Qiuzhuang to Zheng Qing, Qiuzhuang is the closest to Dacheng, so Qing can come to Junfu every day to accompany Guang."
"Gongzi" Zheng Yuming speechless, Qiuzhuang is a large village, surrounded by good land, the population is three times that of Nambu, Gongzi light to Qiuzhuang rewarded to him words, shall not Wei Shen heartbroken to death.
Zheng Yuming accompanied Gongziguang for lunch and talked for a while, and it was not until Gongziguang's lunch break that he took off and came out of the Ulsanjun Mansion, and after a few steps on horseback, he saw Chu Chaohui riding his brown horse standing at the corner in front of him.
"Si Zhong didn't bring you a message?"
"Brought, I'm rather idle today, so I came to Dacheng to sneak around." Seeing Zheng Yuming come out in one piece, Chu Chaohui couldn't help but bend his eyes slightly.
"You came alone?" Zheng Yuming's head swayed from side to side. Chu Chaohui was obviously worried about his safety before coming to Dacheng, according to Zheng Yuming's understanding of Chu Chaohui, it was impossible for Chu Chaohui to be so peaceful.
Chu Chao Hui turned his head towards Zheng Yuming and smiled, put his hand to his mouth and whistled, after the loud whistle, Zheng Yuming found that the surrounding cargoes and pedestrians gradually retreated, when he carefully observed the pedestrians who left, he realized that these people were all dressed up as slave soldiers, because the slave soldiers' faces were made up to cover the plum blossom mark on their foreheads, Zheng Yuming swept it with a rough glance and surprisingly didn't manage to see it.
"How many people did you bring with you?" Zheng Yuming asked, lowering his voice.
"It's the soldiers all brought out." If Wei Shen dared to be unfavorable to Zheng Yuming, Chu Chaohui was prepared to bloodily wash the Ulsanjun Mansion.
"You're too nervous." Zheng Yuming blankly glanced at Chu Chao Hui, but felt sweetness in his heart.
"It's better to be careful." Chu Chao Hui didn't want to suffer that kind of what-if misfortune.
"Going home!" Zheng Yuming pursed his lips, lightly touched the horse's belly with both feet, and beat the horse forward.
"Uh-huh! Go home!" Chu Chao Hui glanced back at the Ulsan Junfu, the corner of his mouth curled up, and he followed with his horse.
Dacheng to Nangbu dirt road, two horses one in front of the other at a gallop, and walking on this dirt road to Nangbu to the pedestrians, more than usual, these pedestrians one after another to the north of the village of Nangbu under the hillside, all disappeared in the hillside of a gap in the passage.