Seeing Du Zhongxiao bringing Chen Xiliang in, Tian Jing and others hurriedly got up to greet him. Du Zhongxiao said to Chen Xiliang: "This is Caoxian on this road, Bao Longtu. I have seen it. It's not too early, and everything is over. We go to the Houya to have a banquet."

Everyone said that it was. After finishing the ceremony with Bao Zheng, they went out to the Transportation Office together, and the Later Office welcomed the officials.

It is said that there are two yamen, but in fact they are close together, with a small place, and share the Houya. Du Zhongxiao's official yamen is the General's Office, Bao Zheng's Transport Office is the Constitutional Office, and the Constitutional Office is the supervisor of all officials. They must be separated, and officials must pay separate visits.

When he walked on the road, Wen Tong whispered to Chen Xu: "You have all your residences arranged, and the soldiers have led their followers to clean up. When the banquet is over, you can go back."

Chen Xu said: "Prior, how dare you ask the Jishang what rules are there for drinking? Will he get drunk?"

Wen Tong shook his head: "As long as you control yourself, you won't be drunk. Jieshuai and Longtu are not people who like to drink. As long as you have fun, you won't force people to drink. Now everything is heavy, Jieshuai sometimes invites people to drink, just relax."

After hearing this, several people felt relieved. In recent days, Du Zhongxiao's reputation has spread all over the world, defeated the Khitan and Dangxiang, and expanded the territory and several states. Many places can stop children from crying at night. They all know that he can fight and has unparalleled military achievements, but they don't know who he is, and they are inevitably nervous. The Song people drink wine and drink in the officialdom. There are often things that bosses will not give up until they are happy or not drunk. The most famous one is Kou Zhun, who likes to drink heavily. When drinking, they are surrounded with a large curtain, and they must be drunk like mud.

Du Zhongxiao often summoned his subordinates to drink, treating them as relaxation, and the wine was fine. He rarely got drunk, nor did he persuaded him to drink, nor was he forced to do so. He would enjoy himself every time. It was a good thing for his subordinates.

When we arrived at the Houya, we had already set up a banquet under the big tree in the yard, and several soldiers were busy.

The guest and host took a seat, Du Zhongxiao said: "The newly opened land of Hequ Road is complicated, and it is also difficult to be an official here. We have fun in the bitterness and coldness of the north. It is also appropriate to gather together to drink a glass of wine and relax. I said that in front of me, I don't like to drink wine, don't like to drink and force me to drink, and get together to talk and laugh. It's all enough. If you are not used to it, be patient for the time being. You can enjoy it when I am not here."

Everyone hurriedly said that they didn't dare.

Bao Zheng didn't speak, with a stern face, and looked very serious. Today, the new officials from his subordinates came, and Du Zhongxiao himself was very serious and had a sense of authority. Now, regardless of military and political affairs, the Hequ Road is a mess. These new officials cannot be left alone.

The soldiers poured the wine and Du Zhongxiao said, "This is the wine produced on Hedong Road. It is the most suitable to drink it in summer. When I came last year, the Yellow River was still frozen thousands of miles away, and I ordered people to take a lot of ice in the cellar. I thought that after the New Year, there would be railways here, and good fish produced in rivers, lakes, ponds and mutton nearby, and the mutton here could be stored in ice, sold to Bingzhou and Central Plains, making some money and subsidizing military use. I didn't want the Dangxiang to cause trouble, so I had to fight another battle, and everything was delayed. There was enough ice in the cellar to use it. The wine was placed in ice, which was very delicious."

Speaking of this, Du Zhongxiao said: "Everyone, drink a drink!"

Everyone stood up and raised their glasses and drank them all. The wine was sweet in the mouth, and the wine pot was in the ice, and after a cup, it was refreshing.

After sitting down one after another, Du Zhongxiao said to Tian Jing: "Deputy General Zhang is in Fengzhou, and the judge is in the northwest with him, and he is familiar with each other. He will go to Fengzhou tomorrow to help him handle the military and political affairs of Fengzhou. When the court sends Fengzhou magistrate and Mu Cao official, then make arrangements."

Tian Jing stood up and bowed to him.

Du Zhongxiao said: "You are new to you, let me tell you about Hequ Road. Hequ Road is vast and sparsely populated. Now several cities are built, and the population is arranged near the city. Several major states, Shengzhou, here is Shengzhou, along the Jinhe River in the northeast, and Fengzhou and Hezhou to the west. Except for these states, the remaining military cities and counties are only stationed in the county, and there are no households. Now there are 130,000 troops on Hequ Road, and about 30,000 people will come in the next two months. According to the deployment of the court,

It is divided into three armies, which is roughly the same as the previous pattern of the Hequ Road troops. Of course, the army had only 10,000 people before the New Year, but now it has expanded to 50,000 people. The military affairs are heavy, not only expanding the army but also training. There are not many households, so people are sent to camp the fields. There are only less than 5,000 Hanban households in several states, which are placed around the city, and the rest are empty land. Now there are more than 30,000 households in the wings and more than 7,000 households in the wings. According to the deployment, they will be scattered around the states mentioned above, either farming or pastoral, and properly placed."

Chen Xu bowed: "In this way, only the 5,000 households that were originally resettled will have output this year?"

Du Zhongxiao nodded: "Not bad. Except for those five thousand households, the rest of the family were raised by the imperial court. Tens of thousands of families were raised in this way. If they didn't do anything, they were afraid of not causing trouble. The General Secretary arranged them to build bridges and pave roads. The most important roads were the railway to Shazhou, and the other was the railway to Hezhou. Next month, the railway in Shazhou would be opened, and the Xiang army who came to Yingtian would be arranged to go there. The roads were paved there were Dangxiang prisoners, and these people would have nothing to do. Now the plan is to build prison cities in each state and divide them into each state. If there is any bridge and road construction or city construction, they can be allowed to do it. By autumn, the railway to Hezhou will be built, and the general layout of the road will be basically decided."

Speaking of this, Du Zhongxiao said to Chen Xu: "There is a difficult task now, which needs to be solved by Changping. The Duzhi Department gave the money to the road, and the printed machines were shipped over, and the plates would be prepared soon. After printing the money, it would be easy to spend it, and buying goods and paying wages would be a considerable amount. If the manpower built to Hezhou Railway, it would be agreed that the money would be paid on a daily basis, and it would be kept in the account and not distributed. After printing it, it would be sent to them first."

Speaking of this, Du Zhongxiao paused and said, "It is easy to spend money, but it is not easy to make people who receive the money without complaints and are willing to use it. The easiest way is to use all the taxes of the court, and not even collect cash, so the people will naturally be willing to use it. But this cannot be done here on Hequ Road. The court has been exempted from three years of money and grain. To make the people happy to use it, they have to rely on Changpingsi."

Before Chen Xu came, he knew that his main task was to recycle the money sent by the Rich Bureau. He bowed to Du Zhongxiao and said, "Before Xiaguan left Beijing, the prime minister and the Ministry of Revenue Department specifically explained that the most important thing was to exchange the money sent for the goods back to the court. Xiaguan thought all the way, there were too few households on Hequ Road. If he only set up a shopping mall, he would be afraid that there would be few recycling. The largest number of garrisons, their food, clothing, housing and use were all supplied by the court, and they did not need to go to the mall to buy goods. There were only tens of thousands of households, so how could they spend so much money? The only way was to let foreign merchants who came here to trade."

Du Zhongxiao said to Bao Zheng: "Longtu and I think so too. It is not difficult to trade with Hu merchants, but it is not easy to get them to use money to attract them. Changping is more attentive and will come up with a solution in the near future. Otherwise, when the money is triggered, too much and too excessive, and the goods are heavy and the money is light, the people will be unstable."

With a small population, the market will be small, and too much money is given out, and inflation will inevitably be inevitable. Once inflation is inflated, the Strategic Corporation will use money to attract private goods and pay wages, and the money will depreciate, which will form a vicious cycle and will eventually be out of control.

The Ministry of Revenue Department is the key to ensuring the value of money. On the one hand, it is taxed to use money to ensure the credit of money. On the other hand, it is through official commercial activities to recycle money with goods. As long as the money is recovered smoothly, there is no situation on the market where you cannot buy things with money, everything will go smoothly.

Hequ Road has inherent defects, and the court has exempted taxes. The Ministry of Revenue cannot rely on this to provide the court's credit. On the other hand, the population is too large and the market is too small, and the recycling of money for commercial activities is restricted. Both roads are not available, and the money is printed, and a lot of it becomes waste paper.

This problem cannot be solved in just a few words. If you don’t talk about it, you will drink together. Seeing that the atmosphere is too serious, you will suppress the business and talk about some gossip.

After three rounds of wine, Du Zhongxiao said to Chen Xiliang: "Daizhuang has not yet taken office, so he signed the position of the military officer. The next day, go to Xincheng and inspect the place, and choose the suitable place for the field to be camped, and prepare to arrange people to camp. Also, if the new city is built, how to arrange the city, you will write a letter to me. If the station is stationed there, move it over early, many things will be easy to do."

Bao Zheng said: "This matter is important. Now that the food is transported, it will be transported to the old city. It will waste too much manpower, the sooner the better."

Chen Xiliang bowed his hands and said yes.

Du Zhongxiao also said: "In addition, the Strategic Department needs to run some industries to supplement the military's expenses. Judge Li discussed with Chen Tiju together to discuss which industries to run and where to run them, and make plans early."
Chapter completed!