Just when Xiao Lengzi blatantly ordered the robbery of the Ming merchant grain team, Deng Shu and Dai Shulun had just entered Qingzhou County with more than ten guards.

The entire Qingzhou area was almost a scene of people living in poverty, very dilapidated. Almost all the old, weak, women and children who were farming in the fields were old, weak, women and children, and young and strong men were almost all recruited by Lu Ding. But entering the county town was another scene, and the first impression that Deng Shu was the most prosperous.

Among the crowds who were rubbing shoulders and beating, most of them were soldiers wearing yellow clothes. Judging from their complexion and faces, they obviously received good treatment, which made Deng Shu quite satisfied. In her future plans, she didn't need a group of people who couldn't even eat enough, and had a pale and thin face.

Of course, in addition to soldiers, there are also homeless people and beggars. Deng Shu is not unfamiliar with this situation. In Yongdu, it is almost the same. Once the people in other places cannot maintain their hardships, they will bring their children to the city. Because there will be more opportunities for work, and some good people will build porridge sheds and provide porridge and grain after the homeless people arrive.

Deng used to do such things. Of course, doing these things is not just a kind of good deed, but more importantly, giving these wanderers a hope to survive and maintain the most basic local order. A person who is hungry and can do things that he can't think of normally. And as long as he has a bowl of porridge to save his life, it is enough to let them get rid of the idea of ​​taking risks.

Just outside the city, Deng Shu saw a lot of porridge sheds, and people outside were preparing to drink porridge also lined up in a long line. However, the banners on these porridge sheds surprised Deng Shu. Without the official porridge sheds in Qingzhou County, one after another were porridge sheds of some merchants.

"Uncle Dai, a businessman in Qingzhou County, is not only rich, but also looks very kind-hearted!" Deng Shu said to Uncle Dai with great enthusiasm.

Dai Shulun, who was deeply familiar with the inside story, smiled bitterly: "Miss, those porridge sheds were not built by local merchants in Qingzhou, and those who served the porridge were not rich local merchants in Qingzhou, but merchants from Ming Dynasty, and there were even some people with ulterior motives."

Deng Shu suddenly stopped and stared at Dai Shulun with a pair of wonderful eyes, "Are they all Ming people?"

Dai Shulun nodded: "There are no local merchants in Qingzhou now? Even if there are, they will be together with the Ming people! Lu must not be able to take out the grain to feed these hungry people, so these Ming people merchants jumped out. Now their reputation in Qingzhou is very good. Whenever the Ming people are mentioned, no one of the people gives a thumbs up."

Deng Shu was silent for a moment, "No matter what, they feed our people, and they always support us. By the way, what do you mean by what you just said about someone who has ulterior motives?"

Dai Shulun lowered his voice and said, "Miss, some people in these porridge sheds are constantly taking me to the Ming Dynasty while giving porridge and rice, and selling them as goods to make money. I sent someone to inquire that a craftsman with a skill can sell more than ten taels of silver there, and even the elderly, weak, women and children can sell one to five taels of silver."

Deng Shu's expression immediately changed: "How can you not stop such a crazy move?"

Dai Shulun smiled bitterly: "Miss, how can I stop it? They did not openly trade here, but used words to lure the refugees, making Ming Dynasty a scattered statement, promising that as long as they were willing to go there, they would immediately have houses, land, livestock, and those people followed them voluntarily. They just didn't know that these Ming merchants took them to the land and actually collected silver."

"Don't Lu care about it?" Deng Shu said gritting her teeth.

"I also took care of it at first, and the Ming people did not deny it, and even allowed Lu to send people to Ming State to get those people back." Dai Shulun's face became a little tummy, "but no one came back with the Qingzhou officials."

"The Ming people interfere with it?" Deng Shu asked.

Dai Shulun shook his head: "No, it's the Qin people who were abducted and sold to the past that they don't admit that they are Qin people at all." He paused and said: "The Ming Shangs who sold their past have no lies at all, that is, they have gone there. They really have houses, livestock, and land. Tell me, why are those people willing to come back?"

Deng Shu's face turned pale: "How could this happen?"

"I have sent people to see it. The buyers are not someone else, but they are just local governments. For example, Changyang County. They have experienced many wars and many people. The business there is now gradually developing, and it requires a large population. For example, the Taoyuan, Yiyang Wuling, which the Ming people recovered last year, is not an exaggeration to describe it as ten miles of uninhabited. A large amount of land was abandoned, and the Ming people were trying every means to immigrate to those places. As long as they are willing to go, the local government will prepare houses and livestock for you." Dai Shulun sighed: "Also, the agricultural tax of the Ming people is outrageously low. The tax paid by a person in the year, plus the population tax, is only 20% to 30% of the total income. When the Qin people went there, they knew about these situations, and there would be willing to come back?"

"These are all cost a lot of money, and there is no effect in a short period of time. They are all long-term measures to focus on the future. Since the establishment of the Ming people, they have been fighting wars for many years. Where can they have the money to do these things?" Deng Shu asked with some difficulty. The Deng family has always been the top family in the Qin State, and Deng Shu is not unfamiliar with governing the country.

"I don't know." Dai Shulun sighed: "But I have heard that there is no money in the Ming Dynasty from the national treasury to the local government's treasury. They all owe money. The more they go up, the more they owe. For example, the treasury of the Ming Dynasty, they even borrowed debts."

"A court that owes countless money has not collapsed yet?"

"It's strange here. It seems that the more money the Ming court owes, the richer his people will be, and the stronger their support for the court will be." Dai Shulun said: "Anyway, I don't understand the Qin Feng's arrangement of governing the country. Just like the banknotes they issued, a piece of light paper, their people believe it. Now in the Ming Dynasty, there is no transaction of cash silver and copper coins on the market."

"Bank notes?" Deng Shu looked surprised, "Is it like the bank notes of a bank?"

"No, it's completely different." Dai Shulun shook his head and said, "Miss, it's time to eat, let's take a break first, eat something to keep your stomach. Lu must go out of the city to perform in the army, and I'm afraid he will not be able to come back at night."

"Okay, after dinner, go out for a walk. The situation in Qingzhou was a bit beyond my expectations." Deng Shu looked at the shops that were scattered on the bustling streets, and most of the goods inside were those she had never seen before.

"These goods all come from the Ming Dynasty." Dai Shulun said: "Even their banknotes have become common coins in Qingzhou County. There are very few that use Daqian to make money or silver."

Deng Shu stopped and her face looked even more ugly. Money and interest have always been one of the most important benefits of a country. The infiltration of the Ming people has reached such a point.

"What about other places except Qingzhou County?"

"Miss, after our last defeat, there was a clause that allowed the Ming people's money house, that is, the bank they mentioned, to operate in Qin. In fact, it was not just Qingzhou County. Now in the Daqin, Ming Dynasty paper money is not a rare thing. As the Ming Dynasty merchants walked around our Daqin, their bank money was also circulated to our Daqin. Ming Shangs, they were only willing to settle with Ming coins. If the Qin people wanted to do business with them, they could only go to Ming people's banks and exchange them for Ming coins. The Qin Dynasty made copper coins, but Ming Shangs did not recognize it."

"No wonder the economy of Daqin is getting worse and worse!" Deng Shu sighed: "This is an invisible knife, which is quietly cutting Daqin's flesh."

"Who said no! But our court seems to be blind to this!" Dai Shulun sneered.

Deng Shu was silent for a while: "We don't need to worry about this anymore. This clay pot will eventually be broken. Instead of letting the Ming people carry the pot back, it's better for us to take action and beat him up. No one can think of it."

The first floor of Qingzhou is named after the extremely domineering name. Dai Shulun and Deng Shu and his group chose this inn, which was obviously a tall and high-end inn, and they asked for several rooms.

"Mr. Dai, you are back!" The shopkeeper on the first floor seemed to be extremely familiar with Dai Shulun. When he saw him, he smiled and said hello.

"Although the world is home, Qingzhou is my home after all. After drifting outside for a long time, I have to come back and smell the smell of my hometown." Dai Shulun also laughed and joked with the shopkeeper.

"In the past, I was alone, but this time I had a lot of companions!" The shopkeeper's eyes swept over Deng Shu and his party and said with a smile.

"All of you are friends, I want to come to Qingzhou to see you." Dai Shulun said: "Okay, Lao Tian, ​​I'm tired too. I won't argue with you anymore. The food is delivered to the room and you will get the best and best things to do."

"No problem." The shopkeeper named Tian responded repeatedly: "Then you go and rest first, and the food will be delivered later. Do you want wine? Oh, you still have a female guest. We have the fruit wine just shipped from Changyang County, Ming Dynasty, which is the most suitable female guest."

"Then you need a pot!"

After entering the room, Deng Shu took off the veil, "This person knows your identity?"

Dai Shulun shook his head: "I know my surname is Dai, and I know that I am a surrogate person, but I don't know that I am Dai Shulun, Miss. The head of the first floor of Qingzhou is named Tian, ​​and the person behind it is the Tian family in Shayang, Ming Dynasty."

"This restaurant is an intelligence base in the Ming Dynasty!" Deng Shu blurted out, "Why did we live here?"

"This is open." Dai Shulun said: "This is now the place where the intelligence brokers in Qingzhou County trade information. You can get any information you want from here at the first time, as long as you can afford the price. Miss, living here is the safest. No one cares about your identity, only whether the goods in your hands are worth it, and whether it will be useful to them?"

"Is there such a place?" Deng Shu sighed: "It seems that I still know too little about the outside world."
Chapter completed!