With low bungalows, deserted streets, and few pedestrians, Yang Cong saw everything in front of him, it was hard to imagine that this was Xuanhua Prefecture City. It was even worse than Hui'an County, and it was far inferior to that of Hui'an County.

The walls of Xuanhua Prefecture City are quite tall, but the inside of this city is too deserted, just like a ghost city.

After five days of slow marching, Yang Cong and his party finally arrived at Xuanhua Prefecture City. After Li Fengming arranged his soldiers and elite troops in the Shenji Camp to go to the military camp for repair, he took Yang Cong and others to the General's Mansion in the city. According to his intention, he asked Yang Cong and Zhu Xizhong to live in the east and west wings of the backyard of the General's Mansion. He went to live in the military camp by himself, but Yang Cong politely declined.

Yang Cong's trip was not just about commanding the border troops to fight against the Tartars. What was more important was to establish the logistics system of the border troops and equip the elite troops of the border troops. In other words, he had to establish a logistics base in Xuanfu, and there was no room like the General Office in just a few places.

He took a short rest in the General's Mansion, and then left Lu Ling'er and Zhang Zhen in the Yingbin Building of the General's Mansion for a while, leaving behind a group of guards to protect him. Then he took the Jinyiwei and a group of accompanying officials and Li Fengming to inspect the Xuanhua Mansion City.

Although Xuanhua Prefecture City is deserted and has a large area, it has about eight miles in width from east to west and north to south, and it is not a problem to live in 200,000 to 300,000 people. However, at this time, there seems to be no one else in the city except the border guards and the families of the border troops. According to Li Fengming, at this time, there are 10,000 elite border troops in the city, with a total population of less than 50,000.

There is no way. Since the Tartars invaded Xuanfu, the population here has become increasingly sparse and business cannot be done. Many merchants have no choice but to move away. Once the merchant leaves, many daily necessities cannot be bought, and other residents in the city can only find ways to move away. Under such a vicious cycle, the population of Xuanhua City is naturally smaller and smaller.

The benefits of having few people and few people are easy to mess around. Yang Cong inspected roughly and had plans in his mind. After returning to the General's Mansion, he pulled Li Fengming to his study to discuss.

The General's Mansion actually has many office-use study rooms. Li Fengming meant that he wanted to give the largest study room to him, but he declined because he didn't even think about working in the General's office.

After the two sat in the study, Yang Cong said impatiently: "General Li, you should know that the emperor sent me not only to command the army to fight against the Tartars, but more importantly, to match the elite border troops with firearms and chariots, and these need to be made. I just saw that there are basically no people in the north of the city. See if you can free up the entire north of the city as soon as possible so that I can let the craftsmen move in as soon as possible to produce firearms and chariots."

Could this guy be crazy? What a big place in the north of the city? Xuanhua Prefecture City covers an area of ​​more than 20,000 acres, and the entire north of the city is nearly 6,000 acres!

Although there are not many residents in the north of the city, there are not no one living there. Moreover, even if people hide in other places, the land and house are still owned by others. You can’t force them to rob them, right?

Li Fengming was stunned for a while before he said embarrassedly: "Sir, although there are no people living in the north of the city, there are owners of the houses and land. It may be difficult to free them all. Otherwise, I will only order all the guards and soldiers to move to other places, so that the north of the city will be nearly 60%. Have you seen enough places?"

Just kidding, this is not only a question of whether the place is enough, but the production of firearms cannot be allowed to be learned by the Tartars. It is also not safe to have other residents in the arsenal. What if the Tartar spies sneak in and make trouble?

Yang Cong shook his head slowly and said, "This is not a question of whether the place is enough. The whole north of the city must be vacant. This way, I will pay all the houses and land of the original residents. In addition, I will compensate ten taels of silver for each military household in the Tunwei. In short, in a word, it is necessary to be able to relocate all within five days. Also, remember to notify all the military craftsmen in Xuanfu Town to gather in Xuanhua City for five days and clean up the north of the city. The craftsmen in the capital can come here for about six or seven days."

I'm so gloomy, I'm afraid I don't know how many residents there are in the north of the city. It's a good idea to pay for someone to move. Is it a question that you can afford to pay for this?

Li Fengming couldn't help but remind: "Sir, there are more than 2,000 military households in the north of the city, and there are also many ordinary people's courtyards and gentry's mansions. It would cost at least 40,000 taels of silver to be freed out of the entire north of the city."

Forty or fifty thousand taels?

Are there many?

If it were later generations, 40,000 to 50,000 taels of silver would be enough to buy a good villa in a city government like Xuanhua. If you buy a city area, you don’t have to think about it!

Yang Cong said lightly: "Forty or 50,000 taels of silver are trivial matters. You don't have to worry about this, just keep in mind if you let someone move it quickly."

No matter how this silver is possible, if you don’t give it the promise, someone will definitely cause trouble at that time. The court will do too much such things.

Li Fengming said carefully: "This, sir, if someone moves, will the court really give them money?"

Yang Cong said inexplicably: "The court? Why does the court give others money?"

Damn, I won’t admit what I just said immediately!

You guy, aren't you too shameless?

Li Fengming could only spread his hands helplessly and said, "If there is no money, this matter will be really difficult to deal with."

Yang Cong finally understood it. This guy thought the money for the relocation was paid by the court.

The imperial court had a lot of money, but Jiajing didn't even allocate a tael of silver to him.

However, Jiajing has issued an order. Starting this year, the salt intakes in the three towns of Xuanfu, Datong and Taiyuan will become 500 kilograms of salt. In this way, the income of the Yang family and the Lu family will soar by 80%.

Of course, this salt was not given for nothing. The Yang family and the Lu family had to bear all the costs of building equipment for the elite border troops in Xuanfu, Datong and Taiyuan.

In fact, this is also a kind of reward for Jiajing's disguised form for Yang Cong, because Yang Cong's promise is to equip 10,000 elite border troops in Xuanfu Town this year with firearms and chariots. Datong and Taiyuan Towns will have to wait for next year as soon as next year. In this way, the 80% of the additional salt in Datong and Taiyuan Towns this year will be in vain.

Jiajing's gift is not small, because the Yang family has saved the money that needs to be paid when the salt transfer is transferred from Nanjing households and the money that needs to be paid when the salt transfer is transferred from Lianghuai Salt Administration. With these two items alone, the Yang family saved more than 1.2 million taels of silver.

At this moment, the governor of Shanxi has been replaced by Zeng Xian, who is both honest and honest, and the inspector of Xuanfu has also been replaced by Yang Cong himself. I believe that Datong Town dares not make things difficult for the Yang family. In other words, when exchanging salt from the border town, the Yang family does not need to pay example money, which saves more than 600,000 taels.

If you add this extra 80% of the salt, even if the Yang family sells salt at half price in the past this year, they can earn nearly two million taels!

You can earn nearly two million taels in a year. Will Yang Cong care about these 50,000 taels?

The gold and silver he brought to Xuanfu this time were calculated to be more than 100,000 taels, and he could allocate silver from the capital, Baoding Prefecture and Taiyuan Prefecture at any time. The 50,000 taels were nothing to him.

He said without hesitation: "I can give you the money later, and the relocation must be as soon as possible."

ah!

Li Fengming was stunned when he heard this.
Chapter completed!