Chapter 123 As long as you are willing to wait, something wonderful will happen

The fourth year of Chongzhen in Yun Zhao arrived soon. For Yun Zhao, it was a bit boring, a little lazy, and a little waste of time.

However, for the Ming Dynasty, the world did not become better after the arrival of the fourth year of Chongzhen.

The thieves entered Shanxi and actively attacked Hequ as their foothold.

In January, the river bend fell.

After Hequ was lost, the Jin army was defeated, and a large number of foreign troops entered Shanxi and gathered in the Hequ area.

For this purpose, the imperial court set up unified command and dispatch of Shanxi and Shaanxi General Du Wenhuan.

Cao Wenzhao, deputy general of Yansui East Road, led the Guanning Army to the south of Hequ.

The giant bandit Wang Jiayin stayed in Hequ and did not come out.

With the expansion of the scale of the combat, Shanxi's river defense degree of the Yellow River is also increasing.

The supply line in the eastern part of Yansui was cut off, and the transportation in the southern and western parts was not smooth, so the price of Yansui reached 1 stone and 6 taels of rice.

In this case, not only military pay is needed, but also disaster relief is needed. The Ministry of Revenue issued 60,000 yuan as the spring salary for Yansui soldiers, and the Ministry of Revenue issued 100,000 taels as disaster relief silver.

Wu Da took the 100,000 taels of silver to Shanxi for relief.

Without a large amount of food entering Shanxi, the silver alone is just a painting of cake to satisfy hunger for the people of Shanxi.

At the suggestion of Hong Chengchou, Wu Qian turned to Lantian County to buy grain from Yunzhao.

In the first month of the fourth year of Chongzhen, Zhang Yingchang, deputy general of Dingbian, Zuo Guang killed the giant bandit Shen Yiyuan before the security guard. Unfortunately, he failed to defeat the enemy in one battle. The rest depended on Shen Yikui and vowed to massacre the people in the security guard.

However, the food and grass were not enough, so I had to follow Wang Jiayin, Luo Rucai and others' retreat, crossed the Yellow River and entered Shanxi.

Li Hongji and Zhang Xianzhong plundered all directions in Shanxi and fought fiercely with the official army. That is, through consecutive battles, Li Hongji finally won the name of "Breaking General", and Zhang Xianzhong also shook Shanxi with the name of "Eight Kings".

When the entire Yansui, as well as Hequ, Shanxi, northern Henan, and east of Gansu, Lantian County was safe and boring.

The refugees continued to enter Lantian County. Although Yun Zhao ordered the border to be blocked, the refugees still looked for all opportunities to enter Lantian County.

As long as they enter Lantian County, they will join relatives and friends, and ask for help to obtain household registration in Lantian County at any cost.

In December of the third year of Chongzhen, Yun Zhao had only more than 24,000 households under his command. By March of the fourth year of Chongzhen, the number of registered people in Lantian County actually reached a shocking 35,000 households. The population of Lantian County soared by 10,000 households in one year, almost 40% of the original household registration in Lantian County.

Refugees who can enter Lantian County through various channels and obtain household registration cannot be called refugees. Most families are household registrations, and the least one is a household registration. Only such families can afford the expensive household registration in Lantian County.

"The Han Emperor moved 100,000 households to Guanzhong, which was only of this scale."

Xu Yuanshou looked at the population book of Lantian County again and couldn't help but sigh.

Yun Zhao said: "Chang'an County was in trouble by Hao Yaoqi, Gao Yigong, He Jin made Fufeng County and Qian County a mess again. Xiangfan behind us is also full of thieves. It is really difficult for the people in the world to find a stable residence."

Xu Yuanshou said: "You only need rich families and do not allow poor people to enter Lantian County. Doing so will hurt the world."

Yun Zhao shook his head and said, "Sir, I blamed me wrongly. The reason why the population of Lantian County has skyrocketed is not that the rich have come in, but that the poor have come in.

A family with a family who can bring three households to Lantian County together, which is the main reason for the surge in Lantian County's population.

It’s just that it’s more interesting to talk about the rich family entering Lantian County, while the poor and small households entered Lantian County with the upper households, so everyone only said that the upper households have a big business.”

"Your land in Lantian County cannot support so many people... Even if you always expand the boundary marker outwards if you have something to do, you cannot support so many people."

"I'm going to do business, it's impossible for all of these people to farm. I don't have that much land, and I don't need so many people to farm."

"I heard that you have joined forces with merchants from Jin to develop business outside the border?"

"Yes, this is a big deal, and if done well, it can support a lot of people."

"If I remember correctly, the rice I ate seemed to be the ones you snatched from the merchants in Jindi, right?"

"Business is like a battlefield, breaking up and getting back together is commonplace. Mr. was an open-minded person, but why has he become pedantic now?"

Xu Yuanshou shook his head and said, "I am just sad for the Jin merchant who is doing business with you. What kind of business partner is difficult to choose, but I chose a robber."

Yun Zhao smiled without saying a word, took out six money, bought two mashed buns from a vendor stall on the roadside, handed them to the gentleman and the other to eat them by himself.

Xu Yuanshou looked up at Caoshizi, which was two miles long on both sides of the street, then looked down at the magnolia in his hand, took a bite of the magnolia and said to Yun Zhao, "One magnolia and three dollars?"

Yun Zhao smiled with a curved smile, holding the matuan and saying to Xu Yuanshou: "Sir, everyone in his family thought that I had obtained the arsenal and became the county magistrate, which was my greatest achievement, but he didn't know that turning the matuan in our hands into a three cents is my greatest achievement in the past two years."

Xu Yuanshou and Yun Zhao stood in front of the stall selling mashing balls, watching passers-by come to buy the mashing balls that had just been cooked, and a look of satisfaction appeared on their faces.

"I sold twelve tumbles in one incense stick, and I got thirty-six dollars."

"You can buy six kilograms of grain when you take the household registration book and take thirty-six dollars to the grain warehouse!"

"Huh? The grain prices in Lantian County have fallen to the point of six cents per kilogram?"

Yun Zhao shook his head and said, "No, there are many tricks here, and students can't explain it clearly for a while. There are many algorithms involved, such as making malt balls requires white rice, and white rice has different prices from wheat, millet and millet, which is very troublesome to convert.

However, since a mahjong sells three cents for a mahjong business, it is necessary to make a mahjong one cent.

This is the benefit I give to the people and the way for them to support their families.”

"Why did you give it?"

"Do you know how much the price of grain outside?"

"Until Brother Liu Zhang had just returned from visiting relatives in Hancheng, the price of grain there was almost more than gold.

By the way, aren’t you worried that someone will take your low-priced food to sell it outside?"

"Don't worry, every household can buy low-priced food. We will ensure that the food of the people is low-priced and they will not have any excess food to buy and sell."

"What do you say about Ma Tuan?"

Yun Zhao laughed silently, took out a few copper coins from his arms and handed them to Xu Yuanshou.

Xu Yuanshou looked at the copper coins in his hand carefully and saw that the copper coins were golden in color, with clear handwriting, and heavy in his hand, unlike other copper coins that were light and had no weight.

"Is this the copper coins you cast privately?" Xu Yuanshou was shocked.

Yun Zhao looked at his husband and said, "I never risked the big deal. There is a money minting bureau in Shaanxi, and these coins were minted by the Money Making Bureau. The money minting bureau in Shaanxi was in Fufeng. I released some copper materials and then obtained a batch of such coins.

In the Ming Dynasty, there were twelve generations from Emperor Hongwu to Emperor Shenzong, but only six of them minted money, and only 190,000 chunks were minted at each time.

Since Emperor Shenzong, he has minted new coins every year and minted new coins every year... and then everyone has started to use silver.

I think this is wrong. What do you think, sir?"

Xu Yuanshou put Yun Zhao's money into his sleeves, and looked at the Caoshizi at the foot of Yushan with his hands behind his back. After a long time, he said to Yun Zhao: "Grow up early, your body can no longer hold your ambitions."

Yun Zhao smiled and said, "Take it slow, I'm not in a hurry at all. I even wish I could stop at the fourth year of Chongzhen, so that I could take more preparation time, so that we can do things better and more appropriately.

The future is not easy, we need to make enough preparations to face the storm of the future.”

"Li Taibai said: I wish I could hang a long rope in the blue sky and tie it to the sun flying west, and Yun Zhao's time could not stop."

Yun Zhao smiled and said, "Since that's the case, is the sir willing to return a slave craftsman from Haojing?"

Xu Yuanshou sighed and said, "I am already on the way to come. My brother has bought a lot for you. He does not think it is a matter of harming the truth, but rather thinks it is a good deed. Among them, two Jesuit priests will also come together."

"Who are they?" Yun Zhao's big eyes shined.

"Deng Yuhan, Luo Yagu, my brother also wrote to him and said, "You can visit the Jesuits Jinnige and Johnson Chan who live in Xi'an Prefecture to preach."
Chapter completed!