Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 168

[Chapter 168 Gao Family Wealth]

“His Royal Highness, the food here is estimated to be enough for 20,000 people for a year.” Liu Fu said.

In front of a large warehouse, Zhao Xu and the others stopped.

At this time, there are soldiers from the palace guarding here to prevent it from being destroyed.

Liu Fu looked excited after looking at each warehouse.

Plateau has searched Shanggu County for many years and accumulated a lot of financial and material resources.

Now that it is destroyed, all these things belong to the palace.

“This is only from the Gao family. The food in all the wealthy Wubao in Shanggu County is enough to feed the people of Shanggu County for a year or two.” Chang Wei added.

Zhao Xu nodded.

The situation in Shanggu County is the same as that in Yan County.

Although the land can be distributed to the common people now, the autumn harvest is over now, and the common people have no food left, so they need relief from the palace until the wheat harvest in June next year.

And with these supplies, people are not afraid of starvation.

After checking the granary, the group continued westward.

On the road, there were search soldiers everywhere. Although many wealthy families were captured, the Gao family father and son have not been found yet, and I don’t know where they are hiding in Wubao.

Arrived at Gao’s house.

Zhao Xu saw that the soldiers of the palace were busy carrying boxes of things into the yard.

When he came to a box, Zhao Xu opened it casually, and found that it was full of cash.

Another box was opened, and inside were gold bars one by one.

“These are the people’s fat and people’s ointment that the plateau has scavenged in the past two years…” Liu Fu sighed.

Such boxes were piled up in the yard, and soldiers kept carrying them out of the house.

“These things are all collected into the treasury of the palace, and are deployed in a unified way.” Zhao Xu said, “There are also materials found from other wealthy families’ homes.”

His purpose of doing this is to strengthen the centralization of the royal family and rationalize the financial distribution.

This is the case in Yan County.

The taxes of all counties are turned over uniformly, leaving only a small part for emergency.

If the county needs silver taels, it must be reported to the government office. After the government office approves it, the approved silver taels will be sent to the county.

Although this is troublesome, it is a necessary means to strengthen centralization.

Otherwise, if there is no shortage of money or food in the local area, they will lose their dependence on the palace virtually, prefer to act on their own, and will adopt an attitude of disregard for government orders.

This is the same as the head office and branch offices.

If the local branch is not short of money and can operate independently in the local area, what else do you need your head office to do?

Although the head office has the right to appoint and remove, but the fundamental problem has not been resolved, who can guarantee that he will not establish his own small interest group in the branch company and fill his own pockets.

Turning over the profits is different.

If there is no money in the account, the boss of the branch company will have to look at the face of the head office and beg the head office for money.

“Yes, Your Highness.” Liu Fu agreed very simply. ‘

He has tasted the sweetness.

Now he sent the government orders to the counties in Yan County, and none of those county magistrates dared to delay and neglect.

Whoever dares, he will not pay the silver taels, so that the county cannot even pay the officials’ salaries.

If you dare to make trouble, you will be dismissed and replaced directly.

It’s just the county.

Now that there is one more Shanggu county, it is even more necessary to do so.

After all, he can be the sheriff of a Yan county, but he can’t be the sheriff of two counties.

This time, two county guards may be selected from the officials to sit in Yan County and Shanggu County respectively.

“Da da da…”

Just as he was talking, suddenly there was a rush of horseshoes outside the courtyard.

A scout cavalry rushed in, “Your Highness, there are about 20,000 yuan soldiers and horses coming to Gaojiawu Fort.”

“Yuan family soldiers and horses!” Chang Wei and Mo Yu looked at each other, and there was a hint of anger in their eyes .

Chang Wei said: “Yuan Li is really getting more and more daring. He even dared to invade His Highness’s seal. Your Highness, I will lead troops to destroy them.

” The army is not allowed to break in, otherwise they will be charged with crimes, and the prince also has the right to lead the troops to kill.” Mo Yu said at this time.

Zhao Xu nodded.

The last time the Yuan family burned the people’s food in Yan County, he still hasn’t calmed down yet.

Now, he dared to send troops to run wild on his land.

No matter what the more than 20,000 people came to Shanggu County for, he must give them a look.

“Let the soldiers enter the city, climb up the city wall, and then pull the artillery up.” Zhao Xu said.

Gaojiawu Fort is a ready-made fort that can be used.

He wants to see what this Yuan family army wants to do first?

After leaving Gao’s house, Zhao Xu and the generals climbed up the city wall.

Not long after, a black line appeared to the south.

The black line gradually approached, and Zhao Xu could clearly see the Yuan family soldier.

About 5,000 cavalry, and 15,000 infantry.

What surprised him was that the soldiers of this army were all wearing white cloths on their arms and heads, just like the funeral team.

“Hey, isn’t that Zhongli?” Mo Yu exclaimed when he saw the general in front of him.

“Zhongli?” Zhao Xu looked at Mo Yu with puzzled eyes.

Hearing this, Liu Fu saw this Yuan family soldier wearing sackcloth and filial piety again, and couldn’t help laughing, “Your Highness, it’s all right this time, I can’t fight anymore.”

Chang Wei looked at Liu Fu with a look of foolishness, “When will Liu Fu fight?” Wang Fu will also have a clever plan, how do you know you can’t fight?”

Zhao Xu was puzzled at first, but when he thought of something, he smiled and nodded.

(end of this chapter)