Chapter 421: Not Poor

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Su Qingyu felt that Lu Bocheng was too good at being a Jiedushi... unable to complain.

"Have you never checked the Chuzhou Yamen's salt, iron, money and grain accounts?"

"The military advisor and others checked. But no problem was found. There is really no money in the account."

Su Qingyu stroked her forehead, isn't she so weak?

Then he asked: "Are the officials of the Chuzhou Yamen still the officials of the Liang Dynasty?"

Lu Bocheng's eyes widened: "Ah, madam, you even know this? How do you know?"

Su Qingyao rolled her eyes, luck...can't be angry, can't be angry. There is no one who is omnipotent. He already has martial arts skills, so we can no longer ask too much of him.

Su Qingyu tried her best to suppress her rising temper.

He asked him very kindly: "If the food sold in a restaurant is delicious and expensive, will you go in?"

"Then I'm stupid for going in!"

Su Qingyu looked at him steadily and smiled at him. Lu Bocheng didn't know why. Is this the wrong answer? The lady laughed so hard that his heart went crazy.

After thinking for a while, he tentatively said: "Then, why don't you go in and have a taste? If it really tastes bad, I'll come out again?" Is there anything wrong with this answer?

Su Qingyu was so angry that she picked up a piece of gold on the table and threw it at him.

He yelled at him: "The Qingshui Yamen, which has no oil, water or money, has changed its master! This master is poor, not weak in force, and has hundreds of thousands of troops at his disposal! Why do you think the officials in Chuzhou stayed? Why don't you go and hug Liang Chao's lap?"

Lu Bocheng didn't understand what he heard and nodded: "Yes, I won't stay even if you ask me.

Su Qingyao was extremely angry: "Then they stayed. Why do you think they stayed?"

"Why?"

After Lu Bocheng finished asking, he was suddenly stunned and slapped his thigh: "Madam, are you saying that Chuzhou is not poor?"

"Not poor! Maybe even rich as hell."

Lu Bocheng stood up suddenly! You little monkey, how dare you lie to me!

"Youbai..." Before he could get angry, Su Qingyu called the girl.

Youbai ran in quickly.

"Go to the front yard and call Mr. Pei over."

"Yes." Youbai responded and left.

"What do you want Mr. Pei to do at this time?" Lu Bocheng didn't know why.

"Don't you want to conquer Haizhou?"

Lu Bocheng was a little stunned. Wasn't he talking about Chuzhou? Why is the lady talking about Haizhou again? But he still nodded: "I want to, but the quartermaster said that we are not ready yet."

Lack of preparation means nothing more than a lack of money, food, and various military supplies. He said: "Ask Mr. Pei to go to Chuzhou and serve as the governor of Chuzhou. Your military expenses will be sufficient."

"ah?"

Why did Mr. Pei not lack military expenses as soon as he went to Chuzhou? Could it be that the governor of Chuzhou really concealed the truth?

Pei Shi arrived soon.

Su Qingyu told him the reason.

Pei Shi was dumbfounded and said, "Chuzhou, Yamen, no money?" He spoke with difficulty.

Did he hear wrongly?

Pei Shi felt incredible when he saw both the master and his wife nodding.

"I remember that in the previous dynasty, during the peaceful years, the annual salt tax revenue was generally around 7 million guan, accounting for 30% of the entire dynasty's fiscal revenue. By the end of the previous dynasty, the annual salt tax revenue was as high as tens of millions guan, with the highest It amounts to 17 million yuan, accounting for 50% of the annual fiscal revenue, and the salt tax in Lianghuai accounts for 50% of the national salt tax. Now, sir, the government in Chuzhou has no money."

What a big joke.

After Lu Bocheng heard this, he was so angry. How dare you conceal the truth! Dare to bully him into not knowing how to read an account book! How dare you be so bold and dare to swallow so much money! Did the Chuzhou Yamen still pay tribute to the Liang Dynasty after taking the money?

He was so angry that he kicked over a low stool with a loud bang.

"Master Pei, starting from tomorrow, you will be appointed as the governor of Chuzhou. I will arrange for someone else to take office in Xuzhou."

Uh... is it so casual?

"I know you are worried, but I am here to recommend a more suitable candidate than me."

"The current situation in Chuzhou is obvious. The government officials must be collaborating, covering up each other, and forming a den of corruption. They must have ruthless officials to give them a heavy hammer. This will also serve as a deterrent to other states."

"I know a person. His methods are more ruthless than my subordinates. He is more suitable for this position than my subordinates. Now he is in Jin. Waiting for me to finish writing the letter, I ordered someone to deliver it to him quickly. When I heard it, it was me who called He will come, he will come."

Lu Bocheng was overjoyed: "Who is he?"

"When he comes, I will introduce it to you and your lady. It is not suitable for us to alert the enemy now. However, you can arrange some people to go to Chuzhou to secretly monitor the people in the Chuzhou Yamen. The key point is to send people to the salt field to find out. situation to prevent them from escaping with their money.”

"Okay, I'll make arrangements immediately."

The three of them agreed on Chuzhou's affairs, and Su Qingnao thought that since Pei Shi was still the governor of Xuzhou, she also wanted to mention Xuzhou's economy to him.

She couldn't watch Lu Bocheng worry about military supplies. A military governor only had less than three thousand taels of silver in his hands, and no one would believe him even if he told her.

He was so poor that most of his subordinates were probably short of food and clothing.

The hearts of the soldiers cannot be chilled.

He said: "Xuzhou is an important military town with a large population. It also needs to develop its own economy and cannot just rely on the other four states for supplies."

"Yes, Madam is right. I have been in the Yamen all day today checking the accounts from previous years. But they are only from the past few years. Xuzhou is also very poor."

Lü Bocheng shook his head helplessly: "If Xuzhou is not poor, can I ask Chuzhou for military expenses?"

It is because it is too poor that Haizhou is left there and not taken.

Now he has Wu next door, Jin above, Haizhou, the territory of the Liang Dynasty, and Runzhou and Jiangning below, which are also the map of the Liang Dynasty. He is like being wrapped in dumplings.

Unhappy. Very unhappy.

We still have to take Haizhou as soon as possible.

But the quartermaster said that there is no money and it is not well prepared. We can't rashly start an army, and then run out of food on the way and be cut off by others, right?

Seeing that the master did not understand the lady's meaning, Pei Xi said to Su Qing'an: "Does the lady have any good ideas?"

I heard that the lady has many industries and a lot of land in Yue. If the master also has the vision and ability to make money like the lady, why worry about Zhenhai not being rich?

Fortunately, the lady is here now.

Su Qing'an said, "Do you think the world is peaceful now?"

"Not peaceful, I used to dream about wars."

"Madam, are you saying that the world is not peaceful and business is not easy to do?"

Ah, is that what Madam means?

Su Qing'an shook her head: "There are peaceful businesses when the world is peaceful, and there are unfair businesses when the world is not fair."

"There are profitable businesses when the world is not fair?" Is Madam a Midas Touch? Knowing that he is short of money, God sent Madam here.

Seeing that both of them had a light in their eyes, Su Qing'an did not intend to continue to play dumb, and said, "Selling weapons. The world is not fair, selling weapons is the most profitable." Selling weapons, man, there is no better business than this.

"But we don't have them either."

"This business can indeed be done. As long as we find more blacksmiths and make more weapons, we will not have to worry about selling them. But we need iron and stone, and we need a lot of them." Why did Madam say this?

It should not be aimless.

Pei Xi suddenly looked forward to it.

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