If you have no money, you naturally want to increase income and reduce expenditure. Of course, saving money will not save much money. The whole Yangzhou is developing. How can there be places to save money? Rivers need to be dredged, roads need to be repaired, and wasteland needs to be opened up. Now Yangzhou They are all in a thriving look.
If you can't save money, then open source, open source, this is to ask Mi Zhu, Minister of the Ministry of household affairs, and Mi Zhu is called, and Mi Zhu can only shake his head. Basically, the scene in Yangzhou can't be any bigger now. Maintaining such a business The road is not easy.
The annual tax burden should be around 300,000 to 400,000 gold. This is based on the fact that Mi Zhu has used all his connections. It is impossible to increase it, unless it is killing the chicken to get the egg.
"Business routes won't work, so let's find another way!" Liu Mang thought about it. The easiest way to make money is also the fastest way to get money. Liu Mang thought for a while, and finally his eyes lit up.
Why didn't he expect that the easiest thing to make a fortune in this world is nothing else, that is war wealth. When the cannon is fired, the golden ten thousand taels are not talking about war wealth. Take a city, get a city's tax, and get the enemy in the city The ordnance and warehouses left behind are wealth, and the enemy has to cede land and pay compensation. Yangzhou's army is now ready to go. The first thing that Liu Mang thought of was Jingzhou, because Jingzhou is really rich. After taking down the capital of Jiangling, Liu Mang received 500,000 shi of grain and grass, countless armors and weapons, and more than a dozen Wan Jin, these are all money.
If we take Nanjun of Jingzhou and Xiangyang, the mansion of Jingzhou, I am afraid that we can get no less than one million gold.
"Yuanzhi. How about we send troops to attack Jingzhou?" Liu Mang was going crazy thinking about money now. There is such a rich man around. If you don't grab his mother, you will be sorry for Liu Mang's Yangzhou army.
Liu Mang originally thought that Xu Shu would agree with his idea. In Jingzhou, the three main forces, one of Wenpin's main force has been wiped out in the Yangtze River, and one of Huang Zu's soldiers and horses can only be seen. It's all about defending the five counties of Changsha. The last main force is in the hands of Cai Mao, but now Cai Mao and Liu Biao are both incompatible. So now is a good time to attack Jingzhou.
But Xu Shu clasped his fists at Liu Mang and shook his head, "Master, now is definitely not the time to attack Jingzhou!"
"Why is this?" Liu Mang didn't understand. Such a rich man is in front of him, why don't you attack him? "My lord, when we took Jiangxia, the gentry in Jiangxia had already withdrawn. Jiangxia was basically dispensable. To take Jiangling, it was my General Lu Xun who planned the strategy. It is only through the help of the young lady, but if you want to attack Xiangyang now, my lord, then you are no longer an enemy of Liu Biao!" Xu Shu said to Liu Mang.
"Aren't you an enemy of Liu Biao? What do you mean by that?"
"It's not against Liu Biao, but against the entire Jingzhou." Xu Shu continued.
"Is there a difference between the two!" Liu Mang didn't understand. Isn’t this Jingzhou Liu Biao’s Jingzhou? Liu Biao and Jingzhou are still different
"There's a big difference between the two. What does the lord who wins the world need?" Xu Shu asked Liu Mang.
"People's hearts? Army?" Liu Mang responded suspiciously. Liu Wei still understands that those who win the hearts of the people win the world. You see, Liu Bei's showmanship over there can make the people be fooled by him, and finally die for him in vain, and there is also a strong army.
"Of course!" Xu Shu nodded, "But my lord, do you think you are more than the two now? Have you won the hearts of the people in Jingzhou, and do you have enough troops?"...
"Army? I, Yangzhou's 100,000 elites, are ready to go. In the Yangtze River, my Yangzhou navy has already crossed the river. I can give them 30% of the tax. Can Liu Biao compare with my Yangzhou?" Liu Biao Mang said to Xu Shu, 30% of the tax, this amount, it can be said that no prince would dare to play like this, once 30% of the tax, then he would not even think about having enough food and grass to fight, Liu Mang is not afraid, that is because there are so many people in Yangzhou It is fertile land without an owner, and Liu Mang has things like sweet potatoes in his hands, so he can afford it. He doesn't believe that Liu Biao can still treat the people like Liu Mang.
Xu Shu smiled wryly and shook his head, "My lord, we didn't care before, because it's true that Liu Biao in Jingzhou couldn't pay 30% of the tax, but my lord, that's on the border of Jingzhou. And what we're going to attack this time is the mansion of Jingzhou, which is Xiangyang. One generation." Xu Shu explained to Liu Mang that it didn't matter if Liu Mang attacked the outskirts of Jingzhou, because the people there were indeed poor, and they wished to enjoy the benefits of 30% taxation after joining Yangzhou, but it was different for the Xiangyang generation.
What is Xiangyang? It is the economic and political center of Jingzhou. It can be regarded as a rich place. A music hall can bring in ten thousand gold in a day. Among them, even an ordinary citizen can become a millionaire or multi-millionaire by selling his house.
Therefore, although the people in Xiangyang are still in a state of high taxation, they are not poor. This is why Liu Pan can't find any recruits near Xiangyang. They have money and food, so why should they follow you? The job with the head on the waist.
If Liu Mang attacked Jingzhou now, he would not be an enemy of Liu Biao, but these common people.
These people think simply, this is my hometown and the political and economic center of Jingzhou. When Liu Biao was here, my real estate could be sold at a high price. If you attack me, the capital of Yangzhou, Shouchun, has nothing to do with me. , my status in Xiangyang will naturally be lowered, not to mention the sharp drop in housing prices, there is another reason if you destroy my home.
This has already touched the vital interests of the people. By then, the people of Xiangyang will not buy Liu Mang's battle, and even Cai Mao's 30,000 elite Jingzhou navy can only turn their bows to deal with Yangzhou together with Liu Biao. After all, Xiangyang is also the hometown of those Jingzhou navy.
"I'll give them their original treatment! But I will give them less houses, and I will give them less fields!" Liu Mang said to Xu Shu.
"My lord, how much can you give? There are hundreds of thousands of people in Jingzhou. If you give it to the people in Xiangyang, what about the other people in Yangzhou?" Xu Shu asked rhetorically. There is no absolute fairness in this world, but there is a premise that you don’t worry about the few but the unevenness. If you give so many benefits to the people of Jingzhou, how will you deal with the people of Yangzhou? We have shared joys and sorrows.
"There is another aspect of this public opinion, which is the huge gentry relationship in Jingzhou!" Xu Shu spoke again, and Liu Mang got Jiangxia and Jiangling in Jingzhou, both of which are of good character. After Jiangxia was abolished by Huang Zu, Jiangxia's gentry moved away from Jiangxia. As the Jiangxia war became bigger and bigger, the gentry had already run away without a shadow, so there was no obstacle to taking Jiangxia.
The original No. 1 gentry in Jiangling was the Wu family of the Jiangling ship king, and Liu Pan used an excuse to kill them. Therefore, everyone in the gentry who was related to the Wu family was in danger, fearing that they would be the next Wu family, so they also started Moved towards Jingnan, that is, the five counties of Changsha, as for the gentry related to Dong Zhi. Because Dong Zhi rebelled, it was easy for Lu Xun to deal with it, that is, ransacking the family and exterminating the family. If you rebel, there will naturally be an excuse to mess with you, and no one will say much about it.
That's why Jiang Ling and Jiang Xia can accept it very easily.
But now you want to attack Xiangyang is different. Where is Xiangyang? Then one after another.
Although the largest Kuai family and the Cai family have a good relationship with Liu Mang, it is difficult to speak for Yangzhou under such circumstances, because after Liu Mang attacks Xiangyang and takes Xiangyang, it will definitely be a cleansing of power and interests. , Xiangyang was originally a piece of cake, which has been allocated by the major noble families in Xiangyang.
If you, Liu Mang, are going to come in, you will definitely bring those gentry from Yangzhou. At that time, there will inevitably be conflicts between the local gentry and the foreign gentry from Yangzhou. The cake is only that big, and there will be more people sharing the cake. Some people suffer.
No one would like this kind of loss, so once Liu Mang attacks Xiangyang, the gentry will definitely unite the front.
"Then what should we do? You can't fight this, and you can't fight that. Let Liu Biao enjoy his old age in peace! Then Liu Pan is forming a new army, waiting for Xiangyang's 100,000 troops to appear again!" Liu Mang became sullen, Attacking Jingzhou was not only because Liu Mang coveted the wealth of Jingzhou, but also to revenge Liu Biao. After all, Liu Mang almost died in the hands of Liu Biao. And that woman, thinking of her, Liu Mang couldn't help but feel a twinge of pain in his heart.
"My lord, it's because we can't attack now, but it doesn't mean our army can't take Xiangyang!" Xu Shu shook his head and stepped forward to appease Liu Mang.
"kindness?"
"My lord, if we go to attack Jingzhou now, we can only let Liu Biao unite the power of the entire Jingzhou and you are our enemy. This is not good for us. Even if Xiangyang is captured, we will be powerless to enter other places. In the end, we can only live in a corner. And we are now the best way to attack, Jingzhou is not monolithic, my lord, do you know that Huang She, the eldest son of the Huang family, and Liu Pan, the second son of Liu Biao?" Xu Shu faced Liu Mang words arrive.
Of course these two people Liu Reck knew, not only did they know but they were also familiar with each other, because both of them had been enemies with Liu Reck before. "What?"
"These two are now Liu Biao's right and left arms!" Xu Shu said with a smile, "But these two are incompatible."
Xu Shu's previous sentence made Liu Mang frown, but the latter sentence made Liu Mang think.
Liu Biao's two confidantes have conflicts, this is a lot of fun, although the emperor's art is to support one subordinate to suppress the other, and then support the suppressed one to fight back, so as to ensure the balance of power under the subordinate .
But that is the art of the emperor, and it will have to wait for the unification of the empire. If you have no enemies in the country, now Jingzhou itself is hard to protect, and there are internal strife, isn't it courting death
"Liu Biao is getting old. According to the information sent by Chief Envoy Yang, Liu Biao won't live long." The news brought by Yang Hong's spies in Jingzhou was that Liu Biao had vomited blood several times. It's very bad, among the medicinal materials he used, there have been medicinal materials such as ginseng and Polygonum multiflorum that have been used for a hundred years, and these are all used for hanging.
"Liu Biao can still maintain restraint among these two people. If Liu Biao dies, my lord, what do you think will happen to Xiangyang?"
Since Huang She and Liu Pan had a bad relationship, naturally there would be no reconciliation.
If Liu Pan wanted to overwhelm Huang She, he had to get the high position in Jingzhou. On the contrary, if Huang She wanted to overwhelm Liu Pan, he had to prevent Liu Pan from having this opportunity and had to support Liu Biao's youngest son Liu Zong.
The Cai family and the Kuai family also want to support Liu Zong's accession to the throne, and Liu Pan has military power in his hands. Once Liu Biao died, Liu Mang had already seen that scene. Liu Mang can't force Xiangyang to go too far now, he should relax and let Liu Biao's second son train the soldiers and horses to command the army well.
While the two were discussing, a personal guard ran in and said to Liu Mang, "Report! Report to Your Highness, Xu Du will come to envoy you!"