Chapter 470 Abnormality (1)

Lu Shiqi was startled and found out that it was Lu Xiong who was planning to grab him and said bitterly: "Who am I so chaotic? It turns out that he is Xiong. You are now the governor of a state. As the saying goes, "A gentleman is respectful and he is powerful." You must also pay attention to some morality in your daily words and deeds."

Lu Xiong smiled and returned the calculation to Lu Shiqi. When he came to Huizhou this time, most of the people he brought were military soldiers, but he is now a state guard, and he is a military officer, dismounting the horse to manage the people. Whether it is money, food, taxes, lawsuits, prisons and punishments, it is his business, not to mention changing customs, repair projects, etc. These things cannot be solved by swords, spears, bows and crossbows. Originally, there were a group of civil servants in this state who were specially responsible for this matter, but these local snakes have a close connection with the local powerful tribes, and many are simply children of local powerful people. Although the "districting the fields and raising the people" promoted by Lu Fang in the past two years has increased the tax source and reduced the ordinary people.

The various burdens of this area also greatly damaged the traditional interests of these local strong rulers and nobles in Huizhou. Therefore, before Lu Xiong left, Lu Fang reminded that to prevent these local powerful forces from rebounding, these civil servants who knew the local situation in Huizhou should not be fully responsible. For this reason, more than 20 people were drawn from the newly trained civil servants to check and calculate various accounts documents for Lu Xiong, and supervise the local civil servants to act quickly. As a trusted old man in the Lu clan, Lu Shiqi was also the housekeeper of Lu Xiong for many years. He knew some arithmetic and acted steadily. After arriving in Huizhou, he was appointed as a tooth pusher by Lu Xiong. His main task was to direct the work of these civil servants who came from Hangzhou.

Lu Xiong looked at the books piled up on several cases, as if they were the inlet and out of bulk goods such as grain, salt, charcoal, and smiled and said, "Uncle Seventeen, I asked you to do this tooth push not to do it yourself, but to direct the civil servants to work, but to the account books of some goods. You can just look at the results, and there is no need for you to do it!"

"There is a great relationship at this time. The gains and losses in Huizhou may depend on this. Do you tell me to give it to someone else?" Lu Shiqi replied in a low voice.

"What, come and listen?" It seemed that the other person's face was no longer the relaxed expression on Lu Xiong's face. He picked up a account book and looked at it carefully. Although he could recognize a few words, he had never done it in the store. There were some hidden words on the account book, which seemed to him like a heavenly book. After a while, he could only smile bitterly: "Uncle Seventeen, you should just listen to me. I really don't understand this thing!"

Lu Shiqi took the account book and pointed to the number above and explained: "Please look at the account book of Wuji Salt Shop in the city. According to the records in this account book, over the past month, the salt he sold at most was only 60% of the weekly day, but the salt he obtained from the government had increased by 20%!"

Under Lu Shiqi's guidance, Lu Xiong finally understood the general idea and frowned and asked, "Does this guy want to hoard goods and make profits from it?"

"Impossible!" Lu Shiqi shook his head: "According to my verification, the price of Wuji salt shop has not increased. The guy who bought salt has been slower, opened the door late and early. Moreover, there are many prefectures and counties near the sea in Liangzhe, and most of the people have privately cooked it. If the price is too high, there will be more people who risk selling privately, and he will not be able to sell it. This Wuji salt shop is a time-honored brand for nearly a hundred years and will not ruin its own brand for a little benefit."

"Then behave. You can eat only a little salt a day. He has so much salt in it. Can you pickle a lot of bacon?" Lu Xiong shook his head and smiled.

Lu Shiqi picked up the account books from several cases and pointed out to Lu Xiong one by one. It turned out that these account books were all details of the entry and exit of several large shops in Huizhou. These shops all hoarded grain, medicinal materials, cloth and other substances. It turned out that a civil servant under Lu Shiqi discovered a strange phenomenon a few days ago: just when summer grain was about to be launched, the prices of grain on the market were surprisingly high. Generally speaking, grain merchants would sell the old grain in their hands as soon as possible before summer grain was launched, so that they had enough buzz cuts to buy as much grain as possible when the grain price fell after the new grain was launched, so that they would not be too high in the past few days. Originally, this civil servant

He thought this was a special situation caused by the barren land in Huizhou, but when he asked his colleagues in the mansion, he found that it was not the case. So the clerk investigated everywhere. After his investigation, he was surprised to find that not only was there very little food sold on the market, but many substances such as salt, medicinal materials, charcoal, cloth, oil, etc. were in short supply, and the price was about 30% or 40% higher than in the same period in previous years. The sensitive clerk immediately reported the matter to his superiors. After learning about it, Lu Shiqi did not make any statement, but sent someone to investigate secretly. These books were secretly copied by him by buying a few big shops.

"It's nothing!" Lu Xiong looked at the account book and smiled, "Huizhou is different from ours. They are all businessmen, they just rely on the price rise and fall. In fact, these goods are just grain, salt and cloth. As for grain, as long as summer grain comes, it will naturally fall. As for salt, Uncle Seventeen, you write a letter to the lord of Hangzhou and send a batch of them. The lord used the new method to dry salt, which was very fatal; it took less than a month to walk the waterway of Xin'an River. As for cloth, it's summer now, and there is no need to worry about the problem of soldiers dressing. It's time to wait until the autumn tax is over."

"But what if the summer grain cannot be collected?" Lu Shiqi's tone did not become more relaxed with Lu Xiong's relaxed tone, but instead became more gloomy.

"How is this possible? It's not Huai Shang here. It cleaned the crops with a lot of water. They were all small rivers and rivers, and they wouldn't be able to water them together!" Speaking of this, Lu Xiong's speech gradually slowed down. He suddenly understood what Lu Shiqi meant. "Are you talking about going to fight?" Lu Xiong asked suddenly hesitantly.

Lu Shiqi nodded heavily: "Yes, these things are things that the army urgently needs. Those shops are owned by local snakes in Huizhou. Their information is much more informed than ours. Imagine, think about it, the summer grain has not yet come up, and the warehouse is almost at the bottom of the warehouse in the treasury. If a large army invades the besieged city, what will we give to the soldiers and the people in the city at that time? Without those things, how can we defend the city?"

Lu Shiqi asked a series of questions and asked Lu Xiong all the time. As a general who had been through the battle formation, he knew very well that if everything Lu Shiqi said happened, the invading enemy troops could eat the unharvested summer grain in the wild, and the rugged mountain roads would no longer be an insurmountable obstacle for the other side's supply convoy; and as the defender, he would fall into a desperate situation, not to mention that the reinforcements in Hangzhou could not rely on Huizhou's warehouses to fight, but would also have to go upstream through rugged mountain roads or the tortuous and dangerous Xin'an River to transport grain supplies. What could be worse than this? He was surprised by his stupidity and retardation.

"Uncle Seventeen, can you be sure that these stores are instructed by foreign enemies to purchase various materials?" Lu Xiong asked in a low voice, his voice as if squeezed out of the gaps in his teeth.

"I can't be sure yet. I have drawn a few people from the army to find out the news. However, this time we came, we brought the twelve capital soldiers, and the rest were state soldiers. Many rock camps on Huining Road were stationed by state soldiers. These local snakes have mixed forces among state soldiers. Once they start to attack, they will be out of control and must be careful to prevent them."

"Uncle Seventeen said it right. We can't act recklessly. If we alert the snake and let them attack first, it will be bad. I will go and count the food and weapons in the warehouse immediately, so that those bastards can wake up. Don't catch those bastards off guard!" Lu Xiong nodded in agreement.

What Lu Shiqi just mentioned is the military organization of Zhenhai Army, each of which is usually about 100 people, which means that Lu Xiong brought about about 1,200 troops from Hangzhou. While completing the internal integration of the 13 prefectures of Zhejiang, Lu Fang also cleaned up and reorganized the complex troops under his command. Zhenhai Army's army is mainly divided into the following three categories:

The personal army in front of the palace is the most elite army in the Zhenhai Army and the most trusted army by Lu Fang. It is divided into two sides, with about 6,000 people. There are commands under the wings and there are Dudus under the command. The fifth city is one command, and the ten commands are one case. Due to insufficient troops, it is not fully organized. The source of the personal army in front of the palace is mainly the children of Huai Shang and Danyang. Even if it is not the above two categories, they are brave and healthy people selected from the surrendered army. Their main task is to stay in Hangzhou Guard Lu Fang.

The six guards of the Zhenhai Army are the main force of the Zhenhai Army, with about 30,000 people. The main subordinates of these troops are in Hangzhou, and there are also quite a few Su and Hu prefectures on the border with Huainan. The other prefectures and counties of the Zhenhai Army are either basically not adjacent to strong enemies, or the terrain is rugged, easy to defend and difficult to attack, so the troops stationed are quite limited. For example, in Huizhou where Lu Xiong is located, he only brought the twelve capital troops to take office, and the remaining prefectures and counties in the mainland are even fewer, and some prefectures and counties only have two capitals and three capitals. The organization of these troops is the same as that of the personal army in front of the palace, and it is also the wing (guard)- — Command——The third-level organization of the capital, and the officers command the army according to the following organization: the Jiedu is the commander, the wing (guard) has a commander, the commander is the commander, the commander is the commander, the commander is the commander, the commander is the commander, the commander is the commander, the deputy commander (cavalry); the Dutou and the deputy commander (infantry). The military and political affairs of the Dutou and the left and right are managed, and the marching and combat are the Jiedu, the Dutou and the commander, the Dutou and the Dutou. The following officers below the Dutou and the Commander are generally called generals, generals, and generals. In addition, the Zhenhai Army also has a navy army, with more than 400 large and large warships and nearly 10,000 soldiers.
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