Chapter 583

"It's not that the secret guards are powerful, but that the king of Wei is too stupid. He only knows how to protect the interests of the powerful families, but forgets that there are more ordinary people in this world than the powerful families."

Sitting in the yamen, Li San took a sip of tea.

He was really tired these days. According to Xiao Ming's request, they organized a complaint meeting in the village to let the people who were oppressed by the powerful families go to the stage to complain, and then they ended up scolding the king of Wei and the powerful families.

In addition to the complaint society, there are also propaganda slogans in every village. The content of these slogans is naturally words like supporting the king of Qi and eliminating the king of Wei.

At the same time, they are also cooperating with the government to establish local militia organizations to unite people.

Of course, no matter how much is said, there is no practical action. The key to let the people down is to distribute the land to the people.

Combined with all these means, the people of the four prefectures finally wanted to join the army, and young and middle-aged people were everywhere.

Ye Qingyun smiles. The secret guards are always mysterious. They are afraid of Li San, because he feels that these people must be watched by Li San.

Hesitating for a moment, he asked, "where are you going next?"

"Jinling City!" Li San didn't shy away. He said, "if you can assassinate the king of Wei, it will be easier to capture the city and seize the land, won't it?"

"Assassinate!" Ye Qingyun was surprised, "you are not afraid to let it out if you tell me about it?"

"If the commander leaked it, I would be so hot. Xiao Ming didn't expect it, but the people and merchants were so active, which was enough to show his status in the hearts of the people. As for the merchants, they didn't want to miss the good opportunity after the northern expedition.

But the only regret for them is that this time Xiao Ming set a limit that they could not buy more than 10000 taels of war bonds.

After the war bonds were issued, Cao Zhengyang and other big businessmen came to the palace one after another to discuss the war bonds.

"Your Highness, your highness didn't set a limit during the last northern expedition. Why did you set a limit this time? And that's a little less. " Cao Zhengyang said.

Ding Wu also echoed: "Your Highness, please believe in our loyalty to the feudal state. We hope your highness can continue to win battles and expand territory."

"Yes, your highness, we are all from Qingzhou now. We have no different ideas."

“……”

All the merchants said, the main hall was noisy.

Xiao Ming sat quietly in the throne, drinking tea and listening to the complaints of the merchants. After they finished speaking, he said, "you guys, setting restrictions is not because the king does not trust you, but because the amount of bonds issued in this war is limited, and you can't all get it."

After a pause, Xiao Ming said, "besides, we don't need too much silver and silver in this war. It doesn't have much effect on us. Do you understand now?"

Cao Zhengyang and Ding Wu look at each other, and they immediately understand that this time the people are taking food, cloth and other materials in exchange for bonds. After all, the people do not like silver, they like to exchange silver for materials.

But they have a lot of silver in their hands, and the 50000 taels of bonds are purchased in the form of silver and banknotes.

"Does your highness mean that as long as you exchange materials, you don't have to care about the restriction?" Cao Zhengyang asked tentatively.

"Of course not. I can consider raising the ceiling to 300000 Liang." Xiao Ming said with a smile that the restriction was actually a trap for businessmen to find a way to obtain all kinds of materials from outside the feudal state.

His strength is limited, but the total energy of so many merchants in Qingzhou is great. After all, they have relations in other places. If they act, they will save him a lot of trouble.

"Three hundred thousand taels." Ding Wu repeated that the quota was acceptable. He asked, "what materials does your highness need?"

"Iron ore, saltpeter, sulfur, cloth, horses." Xiao Ming said that these things are in short supply. After the expansion of the army, he needs more steel, gunpowder, uniforms and horses.

Cao Zhengyang frowned and said, "Your Highness, these materials are in short supply now, and it's hard to find them."

"If it's easy, why should I tell you about it? But the iron ore king can remind you that there are a lot of iron ore in the fiefdom of King Yong, where you can buy mines for mining. " Xiao Ming said that he must now mobilize the power of capital to reserve materials for war.

A group of businessmen look at me and I look at you, but they can't resist the temptation to agree to this when they think of the rich returns.

"Your Highness, in this case, we will prepare these materials for your highness. There are 20000 war horses on the grass people's horse farm, and a batch of 152 war horses, just 300000 taels." Cao Zhengyang looked at the others with pride.

"Twenty thousand horses!" Xiao Ming is also shocked. Cao Zhengyang has only taken over the grassland for one year.

However, after a little thought, he understood that Cao Zhengyang must have done some smuggling business from the grassland, otherwise there would not have been so many horses.But now he is too lazy to take care of it. Sometimes capital and politics are contradictory and need each other while they are on guard against each other.

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