The Li Dongxiang brothers finally chose to return to Renzhou with 60,000 taels of silver, and then opened two shops on West Street, one was a porcelain shop and the other was a silk shop, which was the Li family's business.

Such an inconspicuous little thing became a letter three days later. Chen Shang and his line of text were reported to Qin Ziyan, the deputy supervisor of Longwei and Liulongwei and Liuzhou Prefectures, and the commander of Huazhou Prefecture. Qin Ziyan, who was browsing the letter quickly, stopped his eyes. He knew that these two shops were sent to send He Yi, because these two shops belonged to the Li family, and the person in charge was Jiang Li's wife, the governor Jiang.

The Longwei Yamen has been in the history of more than 50 years. It is deeply rooted, with sound institutions and perfect everything from funding staff to case handling procedures. The number of people in the Longwei Ming office is close to ten thousand, and there are ten thousand secret spies lurking in the homes of civil and military ministers. There are 337 people in the Longwei Longwei in Huazhou, and these more than 300 people are scattered in the fifty-three counties of Huazhou, and there are not five or six people in the upper county. As for the lower county, there are only two or three people. Huiye Prefecture is the seat of the prefecture government. It has to be arranged and summarized and analyzed the affairs of the whole province. There are more people, with more than 70 people.

In contrast, the Secret Guard was only established for a few years, and most of its personnel were allocated from the Dragon Guard and the Sixteen Guards in the Beijing Central. It was still in its inception. Feng Zhong took advantage of the opportunity of the world's martial arts competition to recruit a large number of martial artists to enrich the Secret Guards. He was ambitious to make achievements during the Northern Expedition and then expand the Secret Guards to the states in the world.

Huazhou was the earliest place where the secret guards took action. Xinfei came to Huazhou with Jiang Anyi and served as the supervisor of the Long Guard and the secret guards. Later, she left the position of the child and transferred to tribute. Feng Yucai was able to take over her position. The court also served as two deputy supervisors, Wang Zuoguo and Qin Ziyan. Feng Yucai asked Wang Zuoguo to be responsible for the secret guard affairs, and Qin Ziyan was in charge of the Long Guard affairs. The two were both cooperative and fighting, so there was no need to say anything.

Recently, Qin Ziyan received another 500 taels of silver from the court, rewarding him for capturing the Yuantian Cult who was causing trouble in Hecheng County. He distributed the silver to his accompanying entourage and subordinates, and paid out of his own pocket to host the banquet at the Qixianlou to express his gratitude. The contribution was given to him by the governor Jiang.

The eyes stopped at a message. The years of work in the Longwei Office made Qin Ziyan have an instinctive intuition, which was strange. A brief sentence: There was a Taoist priest who cured diseases and prayed for the people to cure diseases and prayed for the more people. Each message had a label in front of it. Qin Ziyan ordered the clerk beside him, and said, "Change the file No. 3327."

Soon, a file was placed in front of Qin Ziyan, and detailed records of the old Taoist priest who led three disciples to perform in the Western Market on August 14th. A scholar was angry and was depressed by the gods. Later, he was treated by the old Taoist. The people regarded him as a god and asked him to treat his illness one after another. The old Taoist set rules that one person was treated at the end of every ten days, and eleven people have been treated so far. After investigation, these eleven people were all the people of the Huiye Prefecture, and they were plagued by the old Taoist. The symptoms were indeed relieved after the old Taoist treatment. The old Taoist did not charge any money to treat people, but only asked the people to recite the "Sacrifice of Saving People".

Qin Ziyan asked someone to find the "Sacrifice of Saving People" to read the scriptures carefully. The full name of the "Sacrifice of Saving People" is "The Greatest Classic of the Great Spirit Treasure of the Unlimited Saving People". There are 61 volumes in total. The old Taoist asked the people to recite the opening volume, with more than 800 words. It is called the first of the sutras and the part of the sect of all dharmas. From the scriptures, there is nothing wrong with it. It is promoted that "fast and precepts are of great merit. It eliminates natural disasters from the top, protects the king, and saves the people below, and all of them are protected and survives, and all of them will be immortal." This is the scripture that Taoist disciples often recite.

What made Qin Ziyan suspicious is that Taoism is not popular in Huazhou, and most people believe in Buddhism and

There are only three Taoist temples in the entire Huazhou area. These Taoists obviously did not come from these three Taoist temples. On August 14th, they were in the West Market. On August 15th, Yang Siqi appeared in Qixian Tower. The Yuantian Sect appeared and disappeared in Huazhou. The origins of these Taoists are suspicious. I think the Yuantian Sect started with Taoism back then.

Seeing Qin Ziyan thinking about the file, Chen Han, the Dian Shi, who was standing in front of the hall, said: "Sir, do you want a humble official to take someone to investigate?"

"No need", Qin Ziyan closed the file, tapped his fingers on the file, thought for a moment, and ordered: "Please monitor it secretly, don't alert the snake, maybe you can catch a big fish."

A guard walked in quickly and reported: "Sir, urgent reports from the Western Regions."

Huazhou was invaded by the Western Regions coalition two years ago. The emperor angrily accused the Longwei spy lagging behind, which caused the Anxi Protectorate to be unable to provide assistance. After Xinfei took office with Jiang Anyi as supervisor, she focused on strengthening the intelligence work of the Western Regions countries. The Longwei headquarters handed over the spies from the Western Regions to the Huazhou Prefecture General Administration for management.

Qin Ziyan was appointed as the prefectural commander of Huazhou. He held more than 200 secret spies from the Western Regions in his hands and was very clear about the movements in the Western Regions. Recently, Rong Mi Kingdom joined forces with the vassal state veto and Juxu Kingdom forced Sha Su Kingdom. The king of Sha Su fell ill and the princess was regent. He sent an envoy to ask for peace from Rong Mi Kingdom and asked other countries for help. I don’t know what news came from this urgent report.

The information was sent by a secret spy from Sha Su country, and it was transmitted to Huiye Mansion through a caravan. It was already seven days ago. Sha Su country's peace mission was rejected. Rong Mi Kingdom issued the last spy to Sha Su country: sending 40,000 troops, funding 500,000 taels of gold, 500,000 taels of silver, and one million stones of food and grass as military pay, otherwise the army would face the border and divide the country's territory.

Sha Su Kingdom asked for help from other countries, but the conditions offered were extremely harsh. Sha Su Kingdom could not agree by just ceding the five northern counties. You should know that Sha Su Kingdom was only one-third of Huazhou, and there were only sixteen counties under its jurisdiction. Xiu Li Kingdom asked to go one-third, so how could Sha Su Kingdom agree? Qiang Lan Kingdom replied that he made his son, Duo, the son of Duo, the crown prince, abolished the princess, and deprived the Tule family of power and sent troops to provide assistance. Other countries watched, but no one was willing to help.

"According to the Bingzhou Supervisory Office, the regulations were reported to the Clerk for filing, but his brows frowned. The news of the Western Regions became increasingly tense, and civil war was about to begin. It was a good thing for Da Zheng, but once Rong Mi Kingdom captured Shasu Kingdom, its power would inevitably become stronger. At that time, with the power of the destruction country, Huazhou would face another catastrophe. In Huazhou, Qin Ziyan witnessed the transformation of Huazhou from withering to prosperity, and the people lived and worked in peace and stability. If they suffered wars one after another, they would probably be difficult to recover.

In recent years, the government office has been busy deciding the accounts and the total tax this year exceeded 4.5 million, reaching 4.63 million, of which 600,000 taels of land tax and 4.03 million commercial tax. The land tax center, prefecture, and county tax were divided into 200,000 taels each; the commercial tax was summarized from the provincial government, and the provincial government and the central government divided into 37. This year, the commercial tax was 4.03 million taels. After deducting the 800,000 checkpoint tax of the Anxi Protectorate, it should be 2.26 million taels, plus 200,000 taels of land tax, and 300,000 diverted loans. The tax silver in Huazhou in the 16th year of Fengle was as high as 2.76 million taels.

The prefecture left behind 30% of the commercial tax and 97 taels, minus 300,000 taels for temporary loan of 300,000 taels for disaster relief, which was actually 670,000 taels. After Jiang Anyi and Fang Biejiao discussed it, he decided to share the tax with each county for 55, and return 330,000 taels for each county for 53 counties in Huazhou. With these 330,000 taels,

Adding the tax on land of 200,000 taels is 530,000 taels, which is exactly 10,000 taels per county. The tax standard for the county in Shang is more than 10,000 taels, and the share is only 3,300 taels. Now the money retained has tripled. The counties in Huazhou are considered rich and are ranked among the top 100 in nearly 2,000 counties in the country.

Of course, the money was distributed with some emphasis, with 13,000 taels in the upper county, 13,000 taels in the middle county, and 7,000 taels in the lower county. After the distribution, the 50,000 taels of silver was distributed to several counties on the border, allowing them to take advantage of the slack farming, build city walls, strengthen defense, and prevent the re-invasion of the Western Regions. The matter of the Rong Mi National Alliance was like a sword hanging over Jiang Anyi. In addition to training and garrisoning troops, Jiang Anyi was also preparing to work hard on defense.

The richest one is the government office. The 540,000 taels of tax and frugality made Fang Biejia, who was used to frugality, become very proud. There has been news that the annual reward will be paid at the end of the year as twice as the Mid-Autumn Festival reward. Stimulated by the money, everyone in the yamen was full of joy and walked with the wind. After the governor Jiang took office, he was not allowed to blackmail the people. Many people complained at the beginning, and many people were cleared out. Originally, they thought life was a hard time, but they did not expect that the annual reward would be worth two salary, which was more than earned secretly than before.

There is a saying among the people that good men are not working as jobs. It is difficult to be a yamen runner. Now the yamen runner who has not married is dazzled, and the threshold of the family has been stumbled by the matchmaker who came to propose marriage. A while ago, he didn't want to recruit some clerks and yamen runners. The people who came to take the exam lined up on the street. Many scholars came to recruit clerks. They only cost ten taels of silver a year for private schools, and they were almost twenty taels of silver. Who can't figure out the account?

With Fang Biejia, Jiang Anyi didn't have to worry about these things. The old man was energetic and had to ask about everything in detail. Jiang Anyi was just right to be the manager of the government office, the government office, the Sima office, and everyone was busy all around, but the governor was leisurely drinking tea and reading books in the second hall.

Recently, his back home has become much more stable. After Xinfei learned that Tong'er said that the day when she married her husband and took the Jiang family, her attitude towards Tong'er was much calmer. Now the two of them are talking and laughing naturally together. Tong'er occasionally hugged Chenxing for Xinfei, and the two of them said some whispers between women.

In short, Jiang Anyi was much more relaxed. He finally remembered that he had not read a few books of the "Shi Shu Guan Yao" he bought. He had a rare leisure time and had to read more books. Jimin Academy is stepping up its construction and it is estimated that it will be completed in the spring of the next year. He has written a letter to Chief Deng Shan to introduce some teachers and commanders. At that time, he will definitely go on stage to say a few words. Now you might as well find some inspiration from the book and say a few words that Shi Lin is spreading at that time.

Just as he was addicted to the book, a yamen runner came in and reported, "Sir, there is a famous Hu merchant outside asking for a meeting, saying that he is your old friend."

"Let him come in." Jiang Anyi put down the book, unable to remember which Hu Shang was an old friend. Eighty percent of him had seen him with Guo Huaili and had forgotten that the year was approaching, and 80% of him came to give gifts. He thought that he would take care of him. During this period, Jiang Anyi had received many such Hu Shangs.

The visitor stroked his chest and saluted Jiang Anyi. Jiang Anyi looked kind-hearted and smiled and said, "Jiang sees you familiar with me, but I can't remember where I have seen you. May I ask if you have a name?"

"Young master and nobleman remember many things. I am Yan Zhefu, the caravan manager of the Tule family in Shasu Guoguo. The adults returned to Zhengguo from Shasu, and I escorted him. I remembered it."
Chapter completed!