stubborn thief

In Nangqian, Liu Chengzong sent a report to the Sifang Tusi of Kangning Mansion, inviting them to hold a banquet in Guanzhai, and asked everyone to borrow money and food.

In fact, he is not a person who fundamentally opposes the aristocratic system. He can accept that people are divided into grades in society, and what kind of achievements they make determines what kind of background their descendants have-and because of accepting this objective reality, he That's why he never gave the chieftain a good face.

Because people are established in the world, relying on ability, and origin is and only part of ability. People of different origins must have different help and resistance in the development of their future. In terms of status, there is no doubt that the comprehensive ability of civilians must be much stronger than that of nobles.

On the contrary, how wasteful is this nobleman?
Of course, this is just one reason why he looks down on nobles, and the other reason is similar, because these nobles were not appointed by him.

Nobles or chieftains are sealed by others. The essence is an incentive system and exchange. If you do meritorious service for me, I will grant you soil. None of the chieftains in Kangning Mansion was appointed by him, which means that these people have never done anything for him. What's the matter, they are worthless to the Marshal's Mansion.

So in essence, in Liu Chengzong's view, he asked the chieftains under the Kangning Mansion to borrow money and food, not because he was asking the chieftains, but because he gave the chieftains the opportunity to show their loyalty and make achievements.

And it's a great opportunity.

He will pay back, pay back the interest, borrow ten and pay back thirteen, but compared to the ten-year repayment period, the interest is a bit lower.

But in turn, he made a promise to repay the debt and pay it for another ten years, which meant that this chieftain territory would still exist under the rule of the Grand Marshal's Mansion for at least ten years.

Is there anything better in the world than this?

Anyway, for the largest chieftain in Kangning Prefecture, Chieftain Muya of Changhexi, this is the best deal in the world!

Like crazy, he saw Liu Chengzong's envoy and heard that the Marshal's Mansion wanted to borrow money from the chieftain. He set off on the same day, braving the locusts flying all over the sky in Kangning Mansion, and rushed to Nangqian to ask if it was true. , received an affirmative answer from Liu Chengzong himself, and smiled like a big fool.

Liu Chengzong didn't say much to him. After all, he knew it well. Muya was the chieftain who had dealt with him before. He had provided him with military support in the past. Until now, Gas, the leader of Changhexi, is still serving in Xie Erhu's Mongolian brigade. General.

For his policy, Mu Ya will definitely support.

But he still underestimated Muya's support.

Liu Chengzong summoned chieftains from all walks of life and sent orders to various places. The chieftains who still existed in Kangning Mansion dared not neglect, and braved the locust swarms to set foot on the road to the audience. It was just that no one rushed like Mu Ya.

Two days after Muya arrived at Nangqian, several chieftains and chieftains arrived one after another, and the rest of them were on the way. Before everyone arrived, Liu Shizi didn't talk about business. He just met the chieftains one by one to get to know them in detail. The situation in their territory for the past two years.

Until then, Muya's guards arrived late.

Even if the guards came later than the main lord, it was still an unusually large team, led by Muya's butler, the father of General Vass, a member of the Mongolian Brigade of the Marshal's Mansion. Guozhuang Ajia, with more than a hundred armored soldiers behind him, escorted seventeen carts, and was led into the courtyard of the official village by the commander-in-chief Habayashi cavalry.

In the sunlight hall on the third floor of the Guanzhai, various chieftains whispered to each other, obviously stunned by Muya's speed.

Muya is different from the chieftains in Kangning Mansion. All the remaining chieftains in Kangning Mansion are small chieftains. Their ancestors are nothing more than Tuqianhu, the chief officials of the sixth rank, and the largest ones are the pacifiers and envoys of the fifth rank. With such an ancestor, he could rule the Kangning Mansion in the past.

Muya is different. First of all, he is a neighbor. Although he sent the butler’s eldest son, Gass, to lead the army to fight for the Marshal’s Mansion, Chang Hexi has nothing to do with Kangning’s Mansion, because his official position in Daming is a consolation envoy.

The consolation envoy is the largest among the local officials, and those who hold this official position are usually powerful figures, such as Yang Yinglong, the consolation envoy of Bozhou, and Qin Liangyu, the consolation envoy of Shizhu.

Those little chieftains were still thinking about how much food to lend to Liu Chengzong. After all, their territories were all under Liu Chengzong's jurisdiction. Marshal Liu was not a kind person. It is really reluctant to lend it to Liu Chengzong.

However, Muya was so courageous that she brought money and food on the spot, which really shocked the little chieftains.

Liu Chengzong also thought that this Muya is worthy of being the chieftain who runs a homestay. He has brains and courage. He knows that this matter is profitable, but he has already brought the goods here before he is sure whether the matter is true.

He had already begun to think, did Muyara bring seventeen boxes of gold or seventeen boxes of silver?The high probability is silver, because there are too many seventeen boxes of gold, I am afraid that Muya does not have the financial resources.

But it turns out he was thinking too much.

"Marshal, what's in the car isn't money and food." Mu Ya smiled and pointed to the seventeen cars parked in the yard, then pointed her fingers and said, "It's the account book, the account book of the Xuanwei Division in Changhe Xiyutong Ningyuan, etc. It's all here."

"Account, account book?" Liu Shizi was very disappointed, thinking that you bastard came to me to cry poorly, right? He was very puzzled and said angrily: "Why did you send the account book to me?"

Mu Ya is also very helpless. Since Liu Chengzong went to the north, he has been doing things for Liu Chengzong to promote Wang Hua in Kangning. He invited the students from Dajianlu to make up many stories, hired painters to paint around, and dispatched hundreds of ascetic monks. Traveling among the people in Kangning Mansion and even Wusi Tibet, they spread everywhere the merits of the Generalissimo sending troops to sweep away evil knowledge and views, expelling evil spirits and ghosts, and subduing demons and demons.

Although his identity is a consolation envoy, his location at a key trade node along the ancient tea-horse road makes his living conditions unlike those chieftains who are keen on scrambling for territory.

After all, Mu Ya is a businessman who invests in homestays. He does not rely on agricultural production for a living. He can support an army to guard his home and guard his home with his arrow furnace alone. Not afraid of locust swarms on his territory.

After all, except for the two trade nodes in Shenbian and Lengbian on the east bank of the Dadu River, the other chieftain's territories are useless to him, and he can't grow much food, and the population is not much, let alone even if there are people. , it doesn't mean much to Muya. How can the benefits of farming compare to the food and lodging expenses of the core nodes of the tea-horse trade?
No, it can't be said to be tasteless, it's too impolite to say so.

Customers, they are all customers of Dajian Furnace.

But he was very afraid that the locust swarms would eat up his neighbor's food, and he was very afraid, because his biggest neighbor was Liu Chengzong.

This neighbor is good everywhere, but he is afraid of starvation, and he will go crazy if he is hungry.

So for Mu Ya, she had no choice at all. Hearing that Liu Chengzong was hungry, what could he do, send him food.

"Commander, as soon as I heard that the Marshal's Mansion wanted to borrow money and food, I asked them to collect the accounts of the entire Changhexi Propaganda Envoy, and ask the Marshal to review the money and food of the local soldiers."

Liu Chengzong was walking down the official village with Mu Ya, he was really stunned to hear him say this.

It’s true that he wants to borrow money and food, but what are you doing with the land, population, and military accounts of Changhexi?
Just in a daze, he had already led Muya and others out of the official village. Ajia of Guozhuang Village in Changhexi immediately came forward to salute with the accounts in his hand. The old scholar Yang Wanchun even started the mode of repaying the accounts, and reported all the property of Changhexi. It's all over.

First, the territory of the Xuanfu Division under the rule, followed by the real estate of Dajianlu, then the grain and silver storage in Changhexi, and the inventory of more than 200 years, and finally reported to the population and soldiers of the Xuanfu Division of Changhexi.

Liu Chengzong didn't realize it until this time. There seemed to be a slight discrepancy between him and Mu Ya in their understanding of wealth.

In Muya's eyes, wealth is not just money and food, but also population, land, income, armor and soldiers.

Mu Ya even planned to lend [-] troops to Liu Chengzong.

Liu Shizixin said, who wants to strip you of your military power? The army needs food. This thing may be a rare asset in the eyes of the surrounding chieftains, but in the Marshal's Mansion, it is a negative asset.

But even so, Liu Chengzong still looked at Muya with a new look: "You lend me all the soldiers and people, and you don't want Changhexi?"

In the final analysis, even though Mu Ya is the person who has seen him the most times among the southwestern chieftains, he has only met him a few times. This time and before the Northern Expedition, the power of the Marshal's Mansion has not changed drastically. That's all.

Even if he personally proposed to let the chieftains lend all the money and food, it is actually a policy for those chieftains located in Kangning Prefecture, and has nothing to do with chieftains outside Kangning Prefecture such as Chang Hexi and Jinchuan. Be like an ally, not a subordinate.

Liu Chengzong was very curious, what made Mu Ya show so much courage, and actually bet on him the inheritance of chieftains for hundreds of years.

But this is just Liu Chengzong's own thoughts, he doesn't know what he means in Mu Ya's eyes.

There are only four kinds of people in his eyes, court officials, small chiefs dependent on others, independent chiefs, and his own people. Muya belongs to the relatively stable independent chiefs, so he is willing to cooperate with Muya.

But in Muya's view, this is not the case at all. In Muya's eyes, there are mainly two types of people in this world, one is the restless chieftain, and the other is the law-abiding chieftain. He himself is a law-abiding chieftain. Chieftain, and Liu Chengzong is not among these two kinds of people.

Not counting people.

Because the chieftain is the group of people with the most sense of feudal hierarchy. If a chieftain regards himself as a human being, the subjects are not human beings, but small animals raised; The sun that radiates light and heat eternally above the realm.

So to Muya, Liu Chengzong is neither a chieftain nor a native citizen under the chieftain's leadership, and his identity is different from the common characters in the Southwest in the past hundreds of years - a ruthless character who fights for the world.

It's not that there are no ambitious figures in the southwest, but the geographical environment is too awkward. It is difficult for the army of the separatist forces to leave Sichuan, but it is not so difficult for the army of the unified dynasty to enter Sichuan. The relatively closed environment will suppress people's ambitions.

Liu Chengzong and Mu Ya didn't say anything, but the little chieftains behind were all shocked.

Chang Hexi Xuanweisi unreservedly spread out his family fortune for the Marshal's trial. This chieftain's territory can be described as a huge rich man!
Only at this time did people understand why Muya asked people to bring the account books, because Changhexi Xuanweisi might not be considered rich in terms of gold, silver and hoarding of grain.

Counting the ornaments and utensils used by the women of the clan, the wealth is only three thousand gold and more than 12 taels of silver; the grain is only more than [-] shi. This is because Muya spent a lot of money.

In order to deal with Dong Buhan Hu Xuanweisi in the north and his enemies Shen Bian and Leng Bian, Chang Hexi raised [-] native soldiers for a long time, and the expenditure was huge, so the money and food in the warehouse were naturally pitifully small... In fact, in the past few years, they have been able to spend on food The reason why he saved so much money was because Liu Chengzong took away a thousand soldiers from Hexi under the command of Gas.

Most of Changhexi's properties are real estate and living things, including thirteen Guozhuang houses, two chain bridges, 1 hectares of cultivated land, more than 400 livestock, more than [-] shops, and even two coarse salt wells.

These properties do not all belong to Mu Ya, but the people who own these properties belong to Mu Ya, so in Mu Ya's heart, these things are also things that he can lend to Liu Chengzong.

This kind of wealth and power, as long as Muya is changed to another place, such as the counties of Kangning Prefecture before Liu Chengzong's southern expedition, he can completely dominate the king. The core force of Baili King Dunyue Dorji is not as strong as Muyaduo.

Of course, if it were another place, it would be impossible for Muya to gather so much wealth.

"Changhexi... Marshal, to be honest, Changhexi is too safe."

In the past two years, Mu Ya has realized that it is useless to raise soldiers. Raising soldiers has always occupied the largest part of his expenditure. There were threats everywhere in the past, but now he finds that as long as he maintains Liu Chengzong well, the safety of Changhexi will be completely safe. .

Because Changhexi has been surrounded.

Thanks to the three 15-acre self-protection plans that were leased to the Marshal's Mansion back then, the west side of the Changhe River is Luhuo County in Kangning Mansion, and [-] hectares each in the north, east, and south are leased to the Marshal's Mansion. This [-] mu of land is lived by the Songpan Guard Banner Army, who basically separated all enemies in the west of Changhe.

These banner troops have a strong sense of expansion. They recruited the Sichuan Banner Army and played 36 guards in the southwest. Muya's own territory did not have any conflicts with them. On the contrary, they have established a long-term trade and cooperative relationship, so Changhexi is now very safe. .

Whoever wants to deal with him will have to fight with those Songpan Banner soldiers who are full of fighting spirit, or they have to beat Liu Chengzong twice, send troops to fight once, and withdraw troops to fight again.

Liu Chengzong's territory is notoriously large in size. Muya still doesn't know who the neighbor on the other side of Liu Chengzong's territory is. There may be people in this world who can cross the Marshal's Mansion and attack Changhexi, but there must be no horizontal Those who go through the Marshal's Mansion to attack Chang Hexi and then come back alive.

As for Liu Chengzong attacking him, don't even think about it.

There are many people who are stronger than Mu Ya in the world, and Mu Ya has never heard of anyone who can stop Liu Chengzong's offensive.

Since I can't stop it, I will give you what you want, and have a better attitude, at least Liu Shizi is still asking for it.

Mu Ya put it down straight away, and said with a smile: "Marshal, I've settled the bill. Now I can lend 6 taels of silver and 7 stone grain to the Marshal's Mansion. If you transfer 11 local soldiers to the Marshal's army If I take it away, I can lend 500 taels of silver and [-] shi of grain and grass to the commander-in-chief. Watch the nursing home."

Liu Shizi thinks that you have made a good calculation. It is true that the annual interest alone is more than 2000 taels of silver and more than 3000 shi of grain. It will be more than enough to raise a general. Ya raised soldiers.

But he didn't intend to go back on his word. As long as he survived the locust plague next year and gave the Kangning government a chance to breathe, the developed land taxation could fully cover this part of the interest. It doesn't matter if there are locust plagues or droughts in the future.

He had to get over the calamity year before him.

Liu Chengzong said with a smile: "I want me to raise soldiers for you. It's easy to handle. The troops in Changhexi will belong to me. You can sit in Dajian Furnace, but I need you to draft a call for action next year."

As he spoke, Liu Chengzong patted Mu Ya on the shoulder, and led him to the Zhaqu River.

Mu Ya's eyes widened: "Who is the call to crusade, the commander wants me to declare war with the Ming emperor?"

"No, you don't need to write the letter to the emperor. Chang Hexi and Shen Bian declared war coldly. You don't need to worry about anything. The marshal's army will fight across the Dadu River. After the matter is completed, the money and food will belong to me, and the land will belong to you."

Good morning!