Chapter 100 Victory in the first battle, a lot of gains!
Chapter 100: Won the first battle and gained a lot!
Author: Fengze Fangfei
Chapter 100: Won the first battle and gained a lot!
"It is easy to expand the army but difficult to raise it. Now that we have come to Lingnan, we have a new understanding of the poverty in Lingnan. If taxes cannot support the current officials and soldiers, what are you going to do to raise the army?"
Thinking of the current situation in Lingnan, Li Chengmu was worried, let alone the two heads of the palace.
Xia Jing nodded: "What you are considering is exactly the problem we are currently facing. If we want to solve various problems in Lingnan, they are fundamentally about money. As long as we solve the money problem, other problems can be easily solved."
Li Chengmu sighed tiredly. This matter is easy to say, but the real difficulty is money. "It would be great if Lingnan was as prosperous as Jingzhou. It would be really advantageous for Yuan Rujiang to sit as the governor of Jingzhou."
Xia Jing laughed: "Since Jingzhou is prosperous in the south of Lingnan, the imperial court will not regard it as your father's fiefdom."
The taxes in Lingnan were so pitiful that the imperial government could not raise a few dollars in tax revenue, so it had to allocate a sum of money every year to raise troops in Lingnan.
Only the border states that subsidized money in this way got King Qian in their turn.
The most important thing is that the court's focus in raising troops is still in the north. The people in the north are fierce and wild, and they often invade the borders, giving the court a full sense of crisis.
The south is full of small tribes with tens of thousands of people. Even if they invade the border, it will only be a small fight. It's strange that the court will take it seriously!
Just talking about Yuan Rujiang, Xia Jing reminded her solemnly: "Yuan Rujiang is a person in power who cannot be underestimated. The jurisdiction of Jingzhou is located in the hinterland of the Central Plains and South China. This area has a suitable climate and most of the terrain is
It is flat and is a high-yield area of grain. It is no exaggeration to say that it is the granary of the world.
If there is chaos in the world in the future, then he will be a dominating prince and will become our formidable enemy."
Of course, Lingnan can’t arouse his interest at the moment!
Li Chengmu noticed Xia Jing's frown and comforted him with a smile: "Lingnan is also very large, so it is currently at a disadvantage, but my son believes in you and your father. Under the governance of you and your father, Lingnan will be better in a few years."
It will still take off next year.”
After hearing his words, Xia Jing felt relieved and burst into laughter, "You are very confident."
Li Chengmu laughed. Speaking of the situation in the world, one thing he has always been curious about is, "Mother, do you think the emperor still has a chance to move the imperial court back to the capital?"
Xia Jing adjusted her sleeves, leaned on the couch, looked at the cloudless sky outside the car window, and sighed sadly, "This matter is so difficult!"
Not to mention that Beidi soldiers and horses are still stationed in the capital. Even if Beidi retreats to the grassland, who knows if these barbarians will destroy the capital when they retreat.
If the capital city is destroyed, where will the imperial court move back?
The capital city is being rebuilt, and everything in the world needs to be renovated. Money is needed everywhere. Where will the imperial court get the money for construction?
The reality is cruel. The chance of the imperial court moving back to the capital is slim. Even if it is to be moved back, it will only be possible after many years when the imperial court's financial and military resources have reached their highest peak.
Without money, everything is in vain, just like the situation in Lingnan now, just like her situation at the moment.
A bucket of rice stumps the heroic man!
The former thousand strong men have been reorganized into Xia Jing's personal bodyguards. Not too much, not too little. If trained well, they are an armed force that cannot be underestimated.
"Lingnan is poor, and I am also poor. If we don't find a way, our team will have nothing to eat tomorrow."
Li Chengmu saw that Xia Jing didn't have any worries about not having rice to cook, so he raised his eyebrows and asked, "So, what are you going to do?"
Xia Jing chuckled, swept away her previous depression, and sat up from the couch, "I do have a business here. If it is successful, it can temporarily alleviate the team's food problem."
With that said, Xia Jing took out a parchment roll from the drawer.
Taking a closer look, Li Chengmu found that it was a map of Lingnan, with many places marked with black charcoal.
"Mother, the places marked should be mountains and forests. What kind of place is this? Are there any minerals?"
"mineral?"
Xia Jing nodded: "You have a good idea. I will send people out to explore for mineral veins when we get back. The mountains in Lingnan should not disappoint me."
She remembered that during the end of the world, she watched a documentary about the history of mining in Lingnan. Lingnan was rich in mineral veins, especially in the Nanling Mountains.
Li Chengmu was surprised, "What you marked here is not a mineral vein, what is it? Is it a bandit's den?"
Xia Jing snapped her fingers: "Smart, follow me!"
Li Chengmu blushed a little, "Concubine, you are not so proud of yourself."
Xia Jing clicked on a black mark on the map, "This time I came out and took care of this den."
I believe that the money and food in the bandit's den should allow his personal guards to persist for a while.
Li Chengmu looked at the map and then at Xia Jing. His mother and concubine had really made a good idea.
Bringing the bodyguard team out can solve the food problem, exercise the team's combat capabilities, and clean up the banditry in the Lingnan area. It is really a double-edged sword!
"My father has been struggling with money all day long. Why didn't he think of letting the guards come to suppress the bandits?"
Xia Jing raised her head from the map and glared at him: "He can compete with me! How else can I say that your intelligence is not as good as mine?"
Li Chengmu: "."
Lingnan has beautiful mountains and clear waters, but the people are poor and the land is poor, but the forces of all parties are not poor.
The first bandit den is located in Fandou Mountain.
Fan Dou Mountain, the mountain is as its name suggests.
From a distance, its shape looks like a man raising his buttocks and preparing to do somersaults, and the bandits' den is located on top of the buttocks, which is also the highest mountain.
Although it is said to be a mountain, the top of the mountain is actually very flat, but the road up the mountain is very steep, which makes Tuandou Mountain easy to defend and difficult to attack.
The team stopped in a dense forest about ten miles away from Fan Dou Mountain and asked everyone to make rice to fill their stomachs first.
In the evening, the spies reported back, and then the team entered the scope of Dou Dou Mountain under the afterglow of sunset.
The road up the mountain is a canyon. The bandits have set up a total of three sentry posts on this road. It is extremely difficult for outsiders to climb up the mountain.
But this time, Xia Jing and the others may have been lucky, because after the heavy rains in the previous two days, the streams in the canyon swelled, causing the sentry post to be temporarily withdrawn from the mountain.
This situation greatly facilitated Xia Jing's personal guards.
We groped in the darkness and slowly approached the top of the mountain. At the last sentry post on the top of the mountain, there were five people on duty.
Ding Dazhuang is now the squadron leader of the personal guards. He has a team of one hundred people under his command. He selected five guards with good skills in his team and slowly approached the sentry post together.
In the dark, Xia Jing unleashed her mental energy and clearly investigated the situation at the sentry post.
Ding Dazhuang led five guards and quickly rushed into the sentry post to kill several people. When one of them wanted to shout, Xia Jing, who had been paying attention to them, blocked his mouth with her supernatural power, making him want to shout but he didn't.
The team reached the top of the mountain and found a bandit's den of three to four hundred people. A thousand guards made a surprise attack and solved it in no time.
On the front terrace of the cottage, more than two hundred bandits who surrendered voluntarily were tied up, and any other bandits who resisted were hacked to death.
Except for the one guarding the bandits in Qianping, the guards were all searching for supplies.
Xia Jing led the two maids into the lobby. She looked up and saw the plaque on the door, "Loyalty Hall, the name is good, but what you do is not loyalty!"
The furnishings in the lobby are all rough, and the only valuable thing may be the tiger skin on the first floor.
Hongmei walked over and looked at the tiger skin and exclaimed: "I didn't expect that there is such a good skin in this remote country."
Xia Jing stepped forward and looked at the tiger skin, and said with disgust: "It's an old skin, and the tiger hair has lost a lot of hair from sitting on it. It's disgusting to give it to me."
I really don’t understand how in such a high temperature in Lingnan, the bandit leader of Tuandou Mountain can sit with this tiger skin on his buttocks without getting heat sores?
"Princess, don't you want this tiger skin? It's really majestic to sit on it."
"I'll take you back if you like, but be careful your little butt gets sores from the heat."
Hongmei: ".It's really possible."
Bai Mei covered her mouth and snickered.
"Hey, there's a back door here." Xia Jing found the back door and walked towards it.
After exiting the back door, they found that the back door was not the backyard they imagined, but directly led to the back mountain. The wind at the top of the mountain was very strong.
"With weather like Lingnan, it's very cool to live on the top of the mountain. The wind is strong at night and there are no mosquitoes."
Hongmei advised: "Princess, the back mountain is dark because there is no light, so we should go to the front."
Xia Jing walked around randomly, using her mental powers to explore the surroundings, but found nothing.
Several people re-entered the lobby, left the lobby, and began to explore other places.
After exploring the entire cottage, no secret passages or secret rooms were found.
Arriving at Qianping again, Fang Ji stepped forward and reported: "Princess, we found a dungeon in the mountain village, and a lot of people were imprisoned in it. Woman, what do you think we should do with it?"
Fang Ji, tall and good in martial arts, is the squadron leader of Xia Jing's personal guard. Like Ding Dazhuang, he has a hundred guards under his command.
"Women?" Xia Jing thought for a moment and understood the role of these women. "Just open the cell door and let them out. From now on, it is up to them whether she goes or stays."
"How many supplies have we confiscated this time?" This is what Xia Jing wants to know most.
Fang Ji had a solemn face, but when he mentioned the seized materials, there was a smile in his eyes: "More than two thousand loads of various grains, two boxes of silver ingots, fifty gold ingots, as many as ten thousand copper coins, and more than twenty pieces of cloth and silk.
Horses, and the rest also include some weapons, farm tools, and iron tools.”
Xia Jing smiled when she heard this, "Oh, that's all?"
There was a smile on Fang Ji's cold face, "Finally, we found out at the back mountain stable that this group of bandits actually had fifty horses."
"And horses?" Xia Jing was stunned. She really didn't expect that a group of bandits could be so wealthy.
With this batch of supplies, her personal guards will not have to worry about lack of food and grass for at least three months.
Especially when you get fifty horses for nothing. You know, there aren't many horses in the south.
Today, there are only more than twenty horses in her private property, which she acquired along the way when she was recruiting young men.
Fang Ji's eyes were bright, "I didn't expect that this humble bandit den would have so many horses. It's really an unexpected gain."
Xia Jing nodded excitedly: "Well, what an unexpected surprise, it just makes it convenient for us to transport these supplies back."
After cleaning up the loot and transporting it to the foot of the mountain, it was already dawn.
Everyone rested where they were, ate some dry food to fill their stomachs, and then set off again.
Li Chengmu raised his head and glanced at the rising sun rising from the east, and sighed regretfully. He originally thought he would watch the sunrise over the sea today, but who would have thought that his mother-in-law would lead everyone to raid the bandit's lair.
However, the victory is that the harvest is good.
Otherwise, all your hard work will be in vain.
After escorting the bandits and supplies to Linhai Town, Xia Jing arranged for some guards to guard the supplies at the inn, but before dawn the next day, she led the others straight to the beach more than ten miles away.
Today she not only wanted to watch the sunrise, but also wanted to rush to the sea to pick up good goods.
"Are there many fishing villages on the seaside?" Xia Jing asked the guide she found from the town.
The guide smiled and replied: "Back to Princess, the fishing villages on the seaside are not densely populated. The distance between the villages is about ten or twenty miles. Except for in-laws, there is almost no contact between the villages. Of course, contact with outsiders is
It’s even more impossible.”
If he hadn't known that the person in front of him was the princess, he wouldn't have wanted to deal with these foreigners.
Xia Jing nodded. The distance was too far. If there were no relatives, who would want to walk around with people from other villages? It's human nature.
The majestic waves of the sea shocked the mother and son. As the red sun jumped out of the sea level, it was filled with golden light, and the entire sea surface seemed to be sprinkled with golden light.
The waves coated with a layer of golden light are beautiful, imaginary and shocking.
Li Chengmu was very popular in poetry and wrote three poems in a row to express his surging emotions. He followed Xia Jing on the white sand to catch the sea.
This beach is very flat, and the surrounding terrain is also flat, making it very suitable for building a sea salt drying base.
Xia Jing asked Ding Dazhuang to go to the local government office to inquire whether this beach belonged to private property. If not, then it would be confiscated and owned by Prince Qian.
Anyone who wants to purchase this piece of land in the future will probably have no chance.
"Concubine, what are you going to do with this beach?" Li Chengmu caught a large flower crab and wanted to run over to show it off, but happened to hear Xia Jing's instructions to Ding Dazhuang.
"Salt."
Xia Jing did not hide anything from her biological son about what she would do next.
"Drying salt?" Xia Jing looked at the sea in surprise, "How to dry salt?"
"Pfft!"
Xia Jing couldn't help but laugh, and couldn't help but raise her hand and hit his forehead, "Of course it's under the sun, how else do you think you can do it?"
Li Chengmu covered his forehead, "Of course my son knows to bask in the sun, I mean how to bask in the sun?"
Xia Jing smiled and explained to him in detail, "Actually, sea salt drying is very simple. When you think of high-quality refined salt, it's just a few more steps."
Li Chengmu's eyes lit up and he said excitedly: "According to what my mother and concubine said, don't we own a golden mountain?"
As long as there is water in the sea, the mountains of gold and silver will never dry up.
"Well, once the salt field is built, I'm going to give half of the shares to the government."
Now that she is nominally the concubine of King Qian, her honor and disgrace will be hung in the palace. She will be both honored and deprived, and we will share weal and woe.
If Xia Jing wants to live a comfortable life in her later years, then only when Prince Qian's palace becomes stronger can she live the life she wants.
Li Chengmu knew that this was the most difficult time for the palace, "Concubine, this is your idea. I have no objection to how you deal with it."
Xia Jing gave him a happy thumbs up, "My son is most concerned about the overall situation."
Mother and son were walking and chatting, until a large area of algae appeared in front of them, and Xia Jing stopped.
Li Chengmu also stopped and asked, "What's wrong with the concubine?"
Xia Jing pointed to a large area of dark green algae in front of her and said, "Have someone bring all these algae to the shore and spread them out to dry."
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