Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 546

[Chapter 546 Disgusting]

“Ode to the twenty-one prefectures, Qinzhou and Yongzhou are occupied by Beidi, Jinzhou is under the control of Ma Yuan, Sizhou is under the control of Ma Han, Yanzhou is under the control of this king, and the remaining sixteen prefectures are now all fallen It’s in the hands of a powerful family.” Zhao Xu sighed.

Xu Ke sighed, “Your Highness is wrong, Jinzhou Zhou Mu is no longer Ma Yuan, and the imperial decree granted Jinzhou to the sixth prince.”

“Zhao Fang?” Zhao Xu froze with his hand holding the teacup.

Tsui Hark nodded lightly, suddenly he didn’t even dare to breathe hard.

Although King Yan looked normal in front of him, he felt that King Yan was like a fierce tiger ready to eat people at any time.

“They are deliberately humiliating this king.” Zhao Xu put down the teacup and went outside the study.

He has made great achievements in battle, and now he controls the entire Yanzhou.

But the sixth prince did not have any merit, but Dou Wei and the others gave the entire Jinzhou to the sixth prince.

It’s not humiliating him, is it?

Furthermore, the sixth prince’s personal enmity with him is known to everyone in the entire capital.

Zhao Xu is crazy and stupid, and behind the rumors that Zhao Heng hates Zhao Xu, there is the shadow of the sixth prince.

What’s more, he also drove his reliance, the Yuan family, out of Yanzhou.

Now, the sixth prince is afraid that he will hate himself to death.

“Dou Wei is really vicious. Jinzhou falls into the hands of the sixth prince, and the west side of Yanzhou will not be safe.” Xu Ke gritted his teeth for a while.

Zhao Xu snorted, Dou Wei can even do the civet cat for the prince, what else can he not do.

“You’re overthinking this, Jinzhou will not fall into the hands of the sixth prince.” Zhao Xu suddenly smirked.

To the east of Jinzhou is Yanzhou, and to the south is Sizhou.

Under such circumstances, if he allowed the sixth prince to successfully control Jinzhou, wouldn’t he be in vain for such a long time.

The most important thing is that the lower limit of the power family is getting lower and lower.

He thinks that only the dragon can defeat the dragon.

The powerful people can play dirty and disgust him, why can’t he make the powerful people uncomfortable in turn.

“What does Your Highness mean?” Tsui Hark suddenly looked expectant.

In fact, it is very simple to solve the Sixth Prince, just a word from King Yan, and the Fourth Court will prevent the Sixth Prince from coming to Jinzhou.

But this requires King Yan to nod.

“Since they use Jinzhou to disgust me, I just take Jinzhou down.” Zhao Xu smiled wickedly.

When Ma Yuan was the state shepherd of Jinzhou, he was too embarrassed to do anything.

But for the sixth prince, he has no such scruples.

Now that the steam engine workshop is completed, more and more steam opportunities will be invested in all walks of life in Yanzhou in the future.

With the popularity of steam engines, the amount of coal used in Yanzhou will continue to increase.

In this case, it is safest to hold Jinzhou, a coal-rich area, in your own hands.

Furthermore, Jinzhou was bought in exchange for the lives of Yanzhou soldiers.

How could this piece of land with the blood of Yanzhou soldiers be given to the sixth prince, and let him deal with Yanzhou.

“Your Highness, please show me.” Tsui Hark suddenly became excited, looking forward to the result he wanted.

“This king knows what you’re thinking, but you don’t need your four courts to do anything.” Zhao Xu said.

When he withdrew from Jinzhou, he kept a hand.

When Xiliang captured Jinzhou, most of the people in Jinzhou were brought into Yanzhou.

Ma Han once wanted to introduce the people who escaped from Qinzhou and Yongzhou into Jinzhou, but he also intercepted them.

In addition, Jinzhou was severely damaged by Xiliang, so Jinzhou is now very dilapidated and sparsely populated.

According to his understanding, the population of Jinzhou is mainly concentrated in the county towns of the seven counties.

The total is less than 800,000.

And of the 800,000 people, more than half of them are actually under the jurisdiction of Yan County Commercial Bank.

After taking Jincheng, he killed the four great families in Jinzhou, and at the same time confiscated all the mines, lands and shops of the wealthy families.

He handed over all the confiscated assets to the Yan County Commercial Bank, and they became the assets of the palace.

It can be said that now Yanjun Commercial Bank almost controls the economic lifeline of Jinzhou.

After all, these wealthy families have the best fertile land and the best mines in Jinzhou.

But the most important thing is that he ordered the commercial house to charge only one-tenth of the tax for the tenant farmers of good land, just like Yanzhou.

The minimum tax levied by the imperial court is three tenths.

As a result, almost all the people in Jinzhou chose the fertile land of the commercial firm.

Ma Yuan could only stare blankly at this.

During the war, King Yan forced the rich to sell land, shops, and mine contracts to the palace.

This is a fair deal, and he can’t criticize it.

What made him even more depressed was that Da Song levied very low taxes on the royal family’s property, which was basically a symbol.

There is not even one percent of the tax, even if King Yan only collects one-tenth, it is still profitable.

In addition to the land, he also asked the business to give the mine workers a generous bonus.

This has absorbed part of Jinju’s population.

Therefore, although Jinzhou is under Ma Yuan’s jurisdiction, in fact, if he stomps his feet in Jinzhou, Jinzhou will also be shocked three times.

In the past, he was worried about Zhao Heng and had a good relationship with Ma Yuan.

So let the merchants of the commercial firm divide their duties under Ma Yuan’s rule.

But if the sixth prince came, it would be different.

He will definitely let the sixth prince experience the sinister heart when he first came to Yan County, and let him die in despair.

“Let him go to Jinzhou first, and this king will have his own way to deal with him.” Zhao Xu decided on a strategy for Jinzhou.

Secondly, if he killed the sixth prince halfway, Ma Yuan and Mo Kuan would not be grateful to him.

It’s better to let the sixth prince harm Jinzhou for a while.

Anyway, before the integration of Jinzhou, the sixth prince did not pose any threat to him.

Even if there is, he can press it to death at any time.

The royal army at Feihuguan is also sufficient to deal with any emergencies.

Having decided on this matter, Zhao Xu ordered Xu Hark to continue to stare at the capital.

Tell him about the changes in the capital at any time and ask him to monitor the movements of the powerful clans.

Especially the relationship between the Han family and Dongying.

The two were talking, when suddenly Feng’er notified Wang Chong to invite him to the workshop area.

He then let Tsui Hark leave, and went straight to the workshop area.

When he arrived at the workshop area, Zhao Xu was led to a workshop where the steam engine was roaring.

Some plainly dressed women are going back and forth between the workshop and the warehouse.

They were holding bundles of pure white cotton yarn.

“Your Highness.” Wang Chong came out of the workshop at this time, his clothes were covered with cotton wool.

Smiling, he stretched out his hand towards the workshop and made a gesture of invitation, “This is your spinning workshop.”

Zhao Xu laughed and strode in.

Seeing him, the women who were spinning all lowered their heads and saluted, then continued to spin with shy faces.

And what they were operating was nothing but the spinning machine he asked Wang Chong to develop.

But this is no longer the original spinning jenny, but an improved spinning machine like a steam engine.

Wang Chong also gave this spinning machine a new name – Qianji Spinning Machine.

Because Dasong’s original spinning machine has only one spindle, while the improved spinning machine has eighty spindles.

Increased efficiency eighty times.

(end of this chapter)