Chapter 14: Military and Political Controversy
After Ning Yue issued the order, Luo Yaoji began to implement it privately. There were 100,000 troops controlling all parts of Ganzhou. Everything went very smoothly, and no one rejected the arrival of Xia Kingdom's immigration.
The publicity Li Xukong and his side did in Xia were also very impressive. In the first month, they only had less than a thousand immigrants. However, with the later publicity and Li Xukong's efforts, tens of thousands of people in the Xia Kingdom migrated in one breath in the next few months.
If it were just such a large number of migrant populations, Ning Yue would not pay too much attention. However, as Nan Sheng brought information, he informed Ning Yue that most of the tens of thousands of migrant migrants from the Xia Kingdom summoned by Li Xukong were merchants and craftsmen. Ning Yue was satisfied and continued to order the garrison to cooperate.
Ning Yue saw from this point that Li Xukong had a clear goal. The merchants he recruited could speed up the trade process between Xia State and Ganzhou, and craftsmen could even communicate the craftsmanship between the two places. As long as the trade routes were opened, the reconstruction work of Ganzhou after the war would become much easier.
With this point, Ning Yue felt that Li Xukong was a first-class official.
Li Xukong's subsequent actions were indeed not beyond Ning Yue's expectations. With merchants and craftsmen who immigrated to Ganzhou, he accelerated political affairs and trade governance in various places, opened up the trade channels between Ganzhou and Xia Kingdom as quickly as possible, and brought fresh vitality to Ganzhou after the war.
Ning Yue was extremely convinced of such a thing that was beneficial to Ganzhou. Luo Yaoji secretly assisted him to help Li Xukong speed up the governance of Ganzhou government affairs.
It was another few months, and all towns in Ganzhou were benefited by Li Xukong's letting go of government affairs. They could feel that the civil reconstruction was better. Ganzhou's cohesion became stronger. All the people living in the Ganzhou area were witnessing with their own eyes day by day, and the vitality of Ganzhou was constantly recovering.
The people of Ganzhou have aspirations for a new life, and the reconstruction of Ganzhou has become very enthusiastic. In this case, Ning Yue and Li Xukong both paid attention to the tax revenue of Ganzhou.
Ning Yue's idea is simple. Now he has more than 100,000 troops garrisons in various places in Ganzhou, and Qian Kunzong recruits his disciples in a large manner, which is equivalent to having an additional recruitment route in disguise. He needs a lot of money and property to build a garrison.
Li Xukong's side was also considering the government affairs of Ganzhou. If he wanted to make the agricultural and commerce in Ganzhou operate quickly, he had to have enough taxes, which required reducing the expenditure on military affairs. In order to pay enough taxes to Daxia, he could also ensure that he had sufficient financial reserves in his hands.
As a result, Ning Yue and Li Xukong had a dispute over politics for the first time.
Although the two of them did not meet once in Qianyuan City and once in Sichuan City, even though Ning Yue understood Li Xukong's actions, he would still not hand over the big financial such as grain tax.
In the following period, Ning Yue, Luo Yaoji and Nan Sheng met more and more times. Li Xukong was still unwilling to give up the tax and began to arrange it in various places in Ganzhou, interfering with the tax that Ning Yue grabbed tightly in his hands.
However, Ning Yue had the military power in hand, coupled with Nan Sheng's quick information report and Luo Yaoji's flexible response, both Qian Kunzong and the garrisons in various places were built by Ning Yue, and Li Xukong's continuous methods were frustrated. Not only was he unable to compete for taxes, but he also recognized the real control of Ganzhou, the chief manager of Ning Yue.
After several open and secret struggles, Ning Yue was only prepared and did not fight back against Li Xukong. After all, for some time, he had been optimistic about the government affairs that Li Xukong did in Ganzhou, and his actions were for the sake of Ganzhou. Even if he was fighting for taxes with him, it was not for his own selfishness.
Li Xukong began to stop, but the matter was obviously not over. One evening, Nan Sheng rushed to the Qiankun Sect Hall where Ning Yue was to report, looking a little surprised, and just said something.
"Li Xukong is here, and he only brought a few guards. He will be in half a day to come to Ikchuan City. One of his guards brought a letter saying that he would like to ask you to open his own words."
Ning Yue raised his hand and took a thin envelope from Nan Sheng. After opening it, he took out a piece of letter paper from it and looked down.
Not long after, Ning Yue chuckled at the content on the letter paper, and said to Bai Luoluo who was curious around him and Nan Sheng who had been waiting aside: "This Li Xukong is not simple. He suffered a loss before and found the problem. So this time he came to Sichuan City and said he was coming to visit, so he wanted to discuss some things with me in detail."
In addition to practicing, Bai Luoluo also pays attention to Ning Yue’s recent mention of Li Xukong. Hearing this, he couldn’t help but ask: “This Li Xukong is so brave. He is not afraid of coming to Sichuan City. Will he never be able to leave then?”
Ning Yue smiled and reached out to rub Bai Luoluo's hair. The girl jumped flexibly and pressed her hair to make a stance that she would not let you touch her.
Ning Yue couldn't help laughing louder, pointed at Bai Luoluo with his fingers, and said, "When you listen to things, you only have a slight understanding. This Li Xukong is not simple, unlike those people we met before, he is doing practical things that are beneficial to Ganzhou, so I will give him such a chance to see what he wants to say."
Nan Sheng nodded aside and said, "Since the lord is about to see him, I will ask someone to prepare now."
Ning Yue reached out and called Nan Sheng and said, "Since he has come to me, he is a guest. Prepare a banquet well. He is walking lightly and doesn't have to be too cautious."
Nan Sheng nodded and saw that Ning Yue had something to say, so he continued to listen.
Ning Yue thought about it again before speaking again, saying to Nan Sheng: "Also, let's sort out the existing information on the military farms in Ganzhou and leave it to me to see. In addition, all the tax items in Ganzhou are now sorted out for me, and the industries that are born in taxes will be described in detail..."
Nan Sheng nodded seriously. Ning Yue usually handed over these affairs to their confidants. Now it mentioned that it shows Ning Yue's attention to these matters.
So she decided to go there later and sort out the information as soon as possible. After all, there was only half a day left before Li Xukong came to Sichuan City.
Ning Yue pondered for a moment, walked a few more laps in the yard, and when he looked at Nan Sheng, he told her to prepare some other materials and deliver them as soon as possible.
Nan Sheng wrote it down carefully. Seeing that Ning Yue had no other instructions, he left quickly. Not long after, all the information Ning Yue needed was sent over.
Chapter completed!