Finally returned with satisfaction!

The storm in Yanggu County was somewhat unexpected, but in the end it still allowed Wu Haogu to get a relatively satisfactory result. At the same time, he also saw the reality clearly: the grassroots of the Great Song Empire are slowly decaying and gradually losing control. The local powerful families, such as the Ximen Family and the Yimen Fan Family, have expanded to the point where they can take control in Yanggu County.

During the collapse of the Yimen Fan family, Yanggu County Government almost became a tool for the fierce struggle of the big clans.

At the beginning, the Fan family used the archers of Yanggu County Weishi - in fact they were all from the Fan family - to capture Ximen Qing's fiancé! This may be because Fan Jiu Xiucai was very angry for a moment, or maybe it was the Fan family's long-planned action! The purpose was to ruin the prestige of the Yanggu Ximen Family in order to establish the Fan family's absolute dominance in Yanggu County!

The romantic rumors about Ximen Qing that were circulated in Yanggu County may have been deliberately released by the Fan family, with the same purpose as to attack the prestige of the Ximen family.

Because the Fan family's action to catch thieves was not clear, the Fan family's action to catch thieves was declared a failure, and at the same time, it also lets the people of Yanggu County know that the Ximen family, which is roaming the world, now has a high-ranking official (compared to Yanggu County, Wu Haogu is already a high-ranking official) as the backstage.

Then Ximen Qing launched a fierce counterattack! He used the money given by Wu Haogu to bribe Liangshan as a thug, broke the Fan family's nest Fanjiazhuang, and also launched a large armed parade of Baoding from Ximen's family! This large armed parade was not so much a scare Liangshan, but rather for officials like Wu Haogu, Shi Guozhong and Zhang Kegong to watch it.

Shi Guozhong, the "confused magistrate", cleverly chose to cooperate with the Ximen family, and on the excuse that someone from the Fan family followed the thief, announced a big split between the Fan family. This matter was not conducive to the rule of the Song Dynasty in Yanggu County in the long run, because the situation of the two great tyrants became the dominant one! But in the short term, it was very beneficial to the confusing magistrate Shi, the confusing magistrate.

Because the Song Dynasty collected taxes and levies according to households, and also implemented a household order system, the "main households" with industries were divided according to the amount of property. Rural farmers were divided into five levels and urban kufang households were divided into ten levels. The taxes, taxes, levies and levies that needed to be borne by each level were different. Theoretically, the burden on the wealthy households in the upper households was heavy, while the burden on the poor households was lighter, but this was not the case in the implementation process.

It goes without saying that the large households and powerful households were reduced to the hidden property, and the poor households must be aware of the slightest mistakes. In addition, there were two special households, "official households" and "scene households" (they were also included in the fifth-class rural areas and the tenth-class Kufang households, but they were special existences), and they both enjoyed certain privileges.

For example, because Yanggu Yimen Fan is a super big family, and there are three officials from the ninth rank, he is naturally the one with the highest privilege! Therefore, he can control the grassroots level and have a large amount of hidden fields, without having to pay exemption of service and taxes.

Once the family is divided, except for the three officials who have officials from ninth ranks, the other children of the Fan family in Yimen will become ordinary households and no longer have privileges. Moreover, most of the Fan family's hidden fields will be found out and become industries that need to pay taxes.

Therefore, the political achievements of Shi Da County in the second year of Yuanfu will be very good... the promotion is just around the corner!

Considering that the economic foundation of the Fan family of Yimen is the identity of the official household and the hidden field, this separation is equivalent to digging out the foundation of the Yimen Fan. Although the Fan family, which has lost its foundation, will also lead to three literati families (the Fan family has three sesame officials from the ninth rank), they are no longer able to suppress the financial resources and the military power is very strong, and will soon become an official household (now the Ximen family is a situation household) Yanggu Ximen family!

In other words, Ximen Qing used a little trick to completely destroy the Yanggu Yimen style who had been with the Ximen family for many years, and established the Ximen family's absolute dominance in Yanggu County.

At the same time, Ximen Qing also proved that he was a super fierce female hero. Of course, Ximen Qing's fierceness was also related to changes in the situation. Originally, the Ximen family was a situation household, and could not compete with the government and official household. But now Old Man Murong and Wu Hao Ancient Capital were preparing to recommend Ximen family as officials, and the Ximen family would become an official household!

Moreover, Old Murong was a civil servant from the fourth rank, while Wu Haogu was a "close-loving villain" from the seventh rank. With these two backstages in, the local officials in Yanggu County could not move the Ximen family at all.

Of course, Ximen Qing’s method of dismantling the Fan family is still very clever and fierce!

It is really a good deal for Wu Haogu to be able to "buy" such a female hero with 20,000 taels of silver. Because Wu Haogu is not short of money, officials, and backstage now, what he lacks is a knife for killing! And Ximen Qing is a helper who can help Wu Haogu "build a knife".

Although Wu Haogu already knows how to "make a knife", theory is one thing, and practice is another.

The Ximen family really raised 500 elite Yanggu tyrants, and they took over the actual control of a county by colluding with bandits. They were local tyrants and evil gentry with sufficient practical experience.

Wu Haogu planned to take half of the Baibo Yimen Wushua, and hand it over to Ximen Qing for management. Using the Ximen family's method, the Wu family clan was the core, and the land was widely used, and at least 1,000 were controlled. No, it was better to have 2,000 strong customers and three or four were protected. If possible, control the grassroots level of a county.

At the same time, let the core children of the Haizhou Wu family go to school in Guangta City, first go to Liuyi Academy, and then go to Guangta University or the Military Science Department of Lighthouse City. In this way, if there is a need in the future, the Haizhou Wu family can organize at least 2,000 elite soldiers.

If we add the Ximen family, Murong family, Chai family, and maybe Zhao Zhongge's Zhao family, Ma Zhi's Ma family, Zhang Xizai's Zhang family, Huamanshan and other powerful forces, plus Wu Haogu's students (Liuyi Academy) and slave warriors, maybe they can raise tens of thousands of elite soldiers and control the population of tens of thousands of households.

One of the two cores of the Wu Family Army in the future will be there!

As for the second two cores of the Wu family army, Wu Haogu hoped to have a "Lighthouse City National Army". The so-called Chinese people originated from the Western Zhou Dynasty, referring to people who live in and around the capital or the city and have certain political rights. For example, in "Zuo Zhuan", there is a record of "Zi Si (Zheng Qing of Zheng Guo) leading the Chinese people to join the palace"; in "Mencius and King Hui of Liang", there is a record of "all the Chinese people say no, then observe it"; in "Records of the Grand Historian", there is a record of "Shuqi also refused to stand and fled, and the Chinese people established their own sons". It can be seen that Chinese people are similar to later citizens, and are the core forces that the country and city-state can rely on.

Armed forces with various powerful families as the core are similar to the old military soldiers in the Northern Zhou Dynasty and the early Sui Dynasty (different from the military soldiers who were managed by prefectures and counties after the Kaihuang ten years). The combat effectiveness should be guaranteed, but it is easy to cause too much power to be too strong, so the "national army" needs to be restrained.

Moreover, the "Chinese Army" can also be regarded as the primary version of the modern army in later generations. They are all professional officers (Liuyi Academy, Military Academy) and civilians. They should be relatively reliable powers, but what Wu Haogu could build is just a seedling-level citizen army. Without the help of the old mansion soldiers, they might die...

However, the Chinese army and the old soldiers of the powerful mansions cannot be used as the core of cannon fodder, because the number of people will not be too large. In the future, the Chinese people in Dengta City will have tens of thousands of people who can die, and it will not be easy to have ten thousand soldiers. The number of veteran soldiers is only about ten thousand, and the number of them will exceed the management capabilities of several powerful soldiers.

If the two are combined, the force of 20,000 combat soldiers will be as strong as possible.

But with the core armed forces of these 20,000 people and a system of cheap and low-level officers, the Lighthouse City State can drive a large number of mercenaries in the future troubled times.

Thinking of this, Wu Haogu, who was riding a horse on the way west, suddenly turned around and asked the Female Hero of Ximen who was walking with him, "Sister, how much land have we bought in Xuhai Erzhou?"

"There is no land? There is no acre."

"Not acre?" Wu Haogu was stunned, "Why is it so hard to buy? Sister, are you too low in your bid? In fact, money is not a problem."

Ximen Qing shook his head and smiled, "I know, but the official wants to buy land to accommodate relatives from Baibo Yimen Wudi. It is best to think that it is a land that can be connected together."

"It's better."

"Now there is a chance," Ximen Qing smiled, "A large family in Haizhou is preparing to sell 60,000 acres of paddy fields, all of which are connected together."

"Sixty thousand acres of water?" Wu Haogu took a breath, "So much? Whose field?"

"The Wu family in Haizhou." Ximen Qingdao, "The Wu family is a Haizhou businessman with very strong financial resources, but they did not abolish Confucianism because of business. There was always a family in the clan who specialized in Confucianism. However, their Confucianism skills were not very good, and they could not get into Jinshi. Later, they didn't think about it, but instead went to Jinshi in the Song Dynasty, but went to Jinshi in the Goryeo Kingdom, and they were even in high school. Now they are doing well in Goryeo, so they are ready to take over the land in Haizhou. The slave family has already told them that they are going to spend 200,000 yuan to take down the 60,000 acres together."

"Okay!" Wu Haogu said with a smile, "Twenty hundred thousand is only 200,000, and it doesn't matter if it's expensive."

Of course, the farmland must be judged according to quality. The Ximen family found paddy fields for Wu Haogu this time, and the value is not comparable to dry land!

"Your official, you are really easy to talk to." Ximen Qing smiled, "but they don't care about Wan'er's eight thousand... These maritime merchants have become high-ranking officials of the Goryeo Kingdom, and they have more money."

The Goryeo Kingdom was an important maritime trading partner of the Song Dynasty. Needless to say, the Wu family must have a certain monopoly position in the Song-Li trade, and the wealth they owned may not be inferior to that of Wu Haogu.

"What do they want?"
Chapter completed!