Chapter 144
At Dengfeng Labor Reform Farm, Hou Zongze and other managers of Hou's family in Xuzhou stood in the cold wind to receive a lecture.
"When you get here, you must honestly accept the transformation and strive to be a new person as soon as possible!"
Gao Huan asked the Hou family to take out 100,000 taels, but Hou Zongze could not get it out. So Gao Huan confiscated the Hou family's property in Xuzhou and sent Hou Zongze and others to the labor reform farm.
At this time, Chen Guifan and Zhang Qifeng were carrying a load by. Seeing the person receiving the lecture, Chen Guifan couldn't help but sigh: "Old Zhang, you see, new people are coming!"
Mr. Zhang changed his shoulders and carried the load. He had been here for more than a month, but it was still difficult to carry the load. He had to change his shoulders from time to time. He stopped and looked at the person who was being given the lecture. "I was so nervous that I didn't look like the people from our four counties. It seems that the generals have won the battle again!"
Chen Guifan's eyes dimmed a moment, and it was unrealistic to expect the court to come and rescue him.
As farm elderly people, they can already judge the situation outside by sending them to the farm.
Whenever a brigade of prisoners was sent to the farm, they could basically judge that the military government won another battle and occupied a new territory.
Looking at the farm where the population is growing, Chen Guifan felt a little desperate.
At this time, he looked at the high walls of the farm, the guards standing guard, and several big yellow dogs, and suddenly remembered the teachings of the old senior Chen Debiao, "Can you escape? Can you fight against them? Since you can't escape, you can't fight against them, you have to correct your mind and transform it well to become a new person!"
For a moment, Chen Debiao's words kept echoing in his mind and hit his soul.
Chen Debiao, who had already left the farm and became a senior official of the military government, felt that he had realized it immediately.
His dim eyes shone brightly, and his face was filled with a smile, "Since you can't fight, you have to learn to accept it!"
"Chen Guifan! Come here!" The farm that was teaching the newcomer was teaching Tang Yongke, but when he saw Chen Guifan carrying pig food by, he suddenly called out.
Chen Guifan hurriedly put down his burden, trotted over, and saluted: "Chen Guifan is here!"
Tang Yongke was a relative of Mr. Tang. After receiving Mr. Tang’s training, he was assigned to the farm to manage the transformation of prisoners.
Tang Yongke nodded with satisfaction and smiled: "Chen Guifan, you have performed well recently. The farm decided to promote you."
Chen Guifan burst into tears, "Teaching, I feel that my transformation is not enough, I also want to take good care of the pig!"
Tang Yongke turned his head and looked at several farm managers around him, showing a look of relief, "It's been well transformed!"
Several managers were also optimistic about him, but one of them said, "Well, Chen Guifan's awareness is high in the farm, but it is still a little worse than Ma Dexian in the chicken farm."
"Ma Dexian performed well. The candidates who were released from prison must be on the list!"
Chen Guifan heard the conversation between several managers and felt a stern heart. Ma Dexian from the chicken farm made a report not long ago, saying that he was too cruel to make him not awarded the excellence. It turned out that this villain was aiming for the quota of release from prison.
"Teacher, I want to make progress, please give me more burdens!" Chen Guifan said anxiously.
Tang Yongke showed a satisfied expression, "Okay! From today on, you will be the head of the pig pen. You will take all these people away. In the future, you will be managed by you!"
Chen Guifan was overjoyed, "I will definitely not let the teaching down!"
Hou Zongze, who was beside him, heard that he was asked to raise pigs, and immediately said angrily: "My Hou Zongze, even if I starve to death and are beaten to death by you, I will never feed the pigs!"
Tang Yongke frowned and said to several managers: "Take this away, he needs to make good transformation to adapt to the work!"
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On the city of Xuzhou, Gao Huan looked at bags of grain, loaded onto a large cart, and transported it out of the city in a vast way.
At this time, Li Wudao: "The general's army, a total of 54,000 stones of grain, has been loaded into the vehicle and transported to the four counties!"
Gao Huan nodded slightly, "What are the reactions of the merchants? What is their attitude towards military tickets?"
Gao Huan made military tickets, stipulating that merchants had to transport food next time before they could withdraw the full amount of silver based on the ticket.
This is actually threatening the merchant and continuing to trade with him normally.
At the same time, he also used the silver in his hand as two.
This is equivalent to suppressing a merchant’s payment for goods, and he can use one sum of money and get two batches of grain.
Li Wu said in a deep voice: "Many businessmen are worried that they will still not get the money when they transport food next time, so many people choose to sell military tickets."
Gao Huan asked, "Is anyone taking it?"
Li Wudao: "Narrowly no one took it, they lost 20% of the money, and took away 80% of the money from the Tongshang Bank!"
Gao Huan said in a deep voice: "Send some people to collect at about 80% of the price, so that those merchants will wait and see. They are looking for a caravan, transporting grain, using military tickets to get silver, promoting more, and then formulating some reward policies to attract merchants."
Li Wu nodded, and Gao Huan immediately ordered: "Go and summon Tang Sitong and Hou Fangbo to see me!"
Tang Sitong was the rice merchant that Gao Huan conquered in Xinzheng. Now Ding Qirui ordered the lifting of the blockade against him. In addition to relying on foreign merchants to transport supplies to Dengfeng, the military government also needs to form its own caravan and go to the south to purchase grain and other supplies.
Tang Sitong was in the city and counted the food and salt that the merchant had processed at a low price. When he learned that Gao Huan was summoned, he hurried over and saluted: "I pay homage to the governor!"
The Ming Dynasty agreed to recruit peace, and Gao Huan had already changed his banner and raised the banner of the Ming army, but the specific official for Gao Huan has not been discussed yet.
However, even if the official positions were granted by the court, Gao Huan was still the governor of the army.
"Shopkeeper Tang asked!" Gao Huan raised his hand slightly, ordered him to get up, and then ordered: "This time the military government obtained a lot of food in Xuzhou, but it offended some merchants. The food transported from the subsequent month should be reduced a lot. At present, the food gap in the military government is still very large, so I want to ask you to lead a merchant to buy food in the south, buy an extra batch of sweet potatoes, and come back!"
Tang Sitong nodded, "Abide by the orders of humble duties!"
At this time, Hou Fangbo also hurried over and saluted Gao Huan, "Go to the governor!"
Gao Huan glanced at Hou Fangbo, handed a bag of papers to Hou Fangbo, and smiled and said, "You give this attachment to the Hou family. It contains evidence that the Hou family sent food to the Hou family before the reunion was accepted. I believe that after seeing these, they know what to do!"
Hou Fangbo was shocked, "Supervisor, I will take this over and they will be beaten to death and expelled from Hou's family!"
Gao Huan smiled and said, "You were not sent to me personally. I was expelled from the Hou family. I can serve my governor with peace of mind!"
Gao Huan was talking proudly, and Li Pingyuan suddenly stepped onto the city wall and came over, "Governor, Luoyang is lost!"
Gao Huan's body shook significantly and turned his head over, "Really?"
Li Pingyuan said in a deep voice: "The message I just received is not wrong!"
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Chapter completed!