Juyong Pass, the northwest gateway of Youzhou, is also known as Jundu Pass and Jimen.

In the evening, the sun had already set and the gate was closed up. The evening breeze blew away the heat of the day and brought a hint of coolness.

Ah Huang brought the charcoal box, Liu Jiu brought the baking pot, Lin San carried the whole fan of lamb chops that had just slaughtered fat sheep, and Qin Yong even more fiercely carried dozens of kilograms of beef on his legs.

Wei Zheng held a wine gourd in his left hand and a handful of willow branches in his right hand.

"Sanlang, everything is ready, let's start baking!"

After having a barbecue on the city gate last night, these guys have been thinking about it. Today, as soon as the sun sets, they are ready separately.

"When is it? You are still thinking about eating." Qin Lang smiled.

"Sanlang, you have already thought of a good plan, so we don't need to spend our brains anymore." Liu Jiu was also straightforward.

The upper floor is really a good place for barbecue, tall, airy and cool, and there are no mosquitoes.

Lin San drew his sword, and the whole fan of fresh lamb chops quickly cut the ribs into pieces, and then cut them into pieces. Qin Yong started to cut the lamb, Wei Zheng sipped in a small wine, then picked up the willow branches and started to skewer meat...

A group of people has a clear division of labor.

Qin Langze is responsible for preparing barbecue ingredients, cumin, pepper, and some tea, fine salt, and other seasonings.

Some meats need to be marinated in cooking wine and other places in advance.

Of course, it’s not enough to eat barbecue, so you have to have some vegetarian skewers.

Li Jinxing, the governor of Yanzhou, the governor of Shunzhou, the governor of Shenzhou and other chiefs of Hu came up as they smelled the fragrance and looked at the hot and hot appearance here, they couldn't help but scream. Since they ate Qin Lang's Guanmenlou Grille skewers yesterday, they all felt that what the barbecue they had eaten for decades was called.

Especially Li Sishun, the Khitan Governor of Shenzhou, was even more in tears.

Li Xuandao came up with a stack of official documents. Seeing the scene, his face turned pale.

"Governor, do you still have the mood to drink and barbecue here for fun?"

"Li Changshi, the matter needs to be done, but I have to eat it. Besides, I am also thinking of ways to deal with money, grain and equipment."

Li Xuandao wanted to kick Qin Lang's oven over. He stood in front of Qin Lang and stared at the young governor skillfully flipping the skewers on the charcoal fire.

"Governor, my subordinates have thought about it recently and tried their best to do it, but the gap in money and grain is still too big. The only way I think of at present is to temporarily take over the Yi Cang in Hebei Province and detain the Yi Cang grain first. The Yi Cang grain in the six prefectures of Youzhou will be directly recruited and transported to the Seventh Army, Four Guards and Chasers and other towns. The Yi Cang grain in the other prefectures will be sold on the spot and replaced with light goods. Then purchase iron and other materials and transported back to Youzhou to build military equipment for military use......"

As a result, Qin Lang just waved his hand after hearing this.

"Li Changshi, this Yichuang grain is the grain that the people gather bit by bit after harvest every year. It is used to save themselves in the years of famine preparation. When the Yichuang was established, the court agreed with the people that the Yichuang grain would be paid by the people of each county to store the grain and put the grain into the warehouse and manage it by the people of the county. In the year of disaster, the grain in the warehouse would only help the victims of the county, or to usually use the widows in the county to help the county. Now you have to forcefully take over the Yichuang grain, transport the Yichuang grain to the border for military use, and even sell it to exchange it for gold, silver, money, silk and iron. Haven't you ever thought that the people would be willing?"

"Governor, at this moment, the people are helpless and have no choice but to...."

"Don't use some big talk to suppress the people. The grain in the charity warehouse cannot be moved. It is the last life-saving grain for the people. Everyone usually pays one bucket of two liters of grain, but now they are forced to requisition. What is the difference between the behavior of the imperial government and the robbers? I, Qin Lang, opened this head, and then the backbone will be poked in the future?"

Li Xuandao said unconvincedly, "The governor doesn't have to conquer the grain of the charity warehouse. Do you expect to start a war and ask for money from the big merchants?"

"I, Qin Lang, will neither rob the charity grain from the common people nor donate wars to those landlords and wealthy families. Don't worry."

Li Xuandao didn't believe it. He had heard that Qin Lang sent people to pass on messages to the gentry and powerful people in Hebei provinces, asking their families to come to Youzhou to discuss major events.

What else can this so-called discussion of major events, not forcibly starting a war and donating levy?

Qin Lang is so young that he can really make money and food?

Tens of thousands of troops were stationed on the border, and now more than 10,000 united soldiers were added. There are already 50,000 auxiliary soldiers in Youzhou, and people eat horses and chew a lot.

Qin Lang handed the newly-grilled mutton skewers to Li Xuan and said, "Li Changshi tried my barbecue and sprinkled with secret seasonings. The taste was good."

Li Xuandao didn't want to eat Qin Lang's skewers, but the taste was so tempting that it dripped straight into his nose, so he couldn't help but take it over.

I put it in my mouth and took a bite and found it was very tender, with a golden and slightly burnt appearance, but it was tender and juicy inside, without a fishy smell. It was obviously mutton, but it tasted like it was not mutton.

After taking another bite and savoring it, he tasted the flavors of pepper, fennel, etc. Pepper is a very expensive spice from the Western Regions, and it is more expensive than gold. Qin Lang will enjoy it.

"How is it, it tastes good, right?"

Li Xuandao nodded.

"If you eat more strings of delicious food, you don't have to worry about it. Li Changshi. I have come up with a good way to raise money and grain, and I guarantee that it will not be forced to levy, and it will not make the people and the gentry resent and angry. I must make them willing."

"How to do it?" Li Xuandao didn't believe it at all.

"This matter is actually just a layer of window paper. You can't penetrate it without being able to penetrate it, and you can penetrate it with one stab."

A few days later, many large families and representatives of giant merchants from all over Hebei rushed to Youzhou. When he heard that Qin Lang had visited Junduguan, he rushed to Junduguan to pay his respects.

Many of the Hedong families also received invitations, but because they were not under Qin Lang's rule, only some of them sent people to show off their face.

Representatives from all over the country who came to various places felt that Qin Lang wanted to pay them a donation, so after coming over, they took the initiative to bring a light goods.

Surprisingly, the Viscount Huang, who was responsible for registering his name, refused to accept and return it, but only registered their names and family or business names.

I don’t want to give the money, so many people are a little nervous.

"Is that Duke Yi's appetite so big?"

"I think it's too little?"

"I won't dare to do anything randomly. We are not as easy to pinch soft persimmons. Who has nothing to do with the court?"

Everyone was talking.

At this time, Qin Lang was still inspecting Beiyanzhou outside the military gates. He walked around outside the border and returned to Huairong County, the garrison of Beiyanzhou, which was also the garrison of the Qingyi Army, one of the seven armies of Youzhou.

"The place in Beiyanzhou is good, it is important to guard it. It is outside the Great Wall Military Pass, but it is also inside the Great Wall. It is between the two Great Walls inside and outside. It is Yanshan and Taihang on one side, which is a place that military strategists must fight for."

There are two Great Walls in Hedong, Pitouzhai, Loufan Pass, and Yanmen Pass, which is the inner Great Wall. It is separated from Shuozhou and north of Yunzhou to the north of Yunzhou. It connects the Yellow River Pitouzhai in the west, connects the inner Great Wall, winds northeast, and enters the northeast of Yanzhou in Hebei. It passes through Zhangjiakou in later generations and continues to the northeast to the Dama Mountain Dividing Mountains at the source of the Lu River.

Later Zhangjiakou was promoted because of the trade between Hebei, Shanxi and border cities during the Ming and Qing dynasties. The previous smuggling trade mainly passed here.

After carefully inspecting Beiyanzhou, Qin Lang couldn't help but admire that this place was not only a key road for military strategists, but also a golden commercial port for border trade.

This is not only an important channel from Hebei to the outside of the Great Wall, but also an important channel from Hedong to the outside of the Great Wall. It is also an important channel between Hebei and Hedong. From Beiyanzhou along the Sanggan River Valley Road to the southwest, you will enter the Wei, Dai Basin and directly to Taiyuan. When you go west along the Great Wall, you can enter the Datong Basin, Yunzhou and Shuozhou, and even westward, you can enter the Hetao Plain.

Although this road leads to Taiyuan and does not travel east from Taiyuan to Jingxing and enter Dingzhou for easy access, the road to trade is the real golden channel.

Qin Lang was attracted by the huge profits of smuggling, but he did not intend to smuggle like Wang Junkuo.

He now has more than 37,000 troops deployed on the front line of the Great Wall, and more than 10,000 mobile troops are on the inside, so as long as Qin Lang is willing, he can completely block the smuggling channel.

But what Qin Lang needs now is money and food to fight, not to make private money.

Therefore, after thinking about it, he decided to open the border and reopen the border city. The location of the border city was located at the foot of the Beiyan Prefecture Great Wall, which is well-connected.

He invited the powerful tribes in Hedong, Hebei to come to the meeting, but he knew that the caravans that were smuggled in the past were controlled by these people.

Qin Lang doesn't engage in smuggling, he wants to build a border market.

But his border city is different from the previous border city. First of all, Qin Lang's border city has to collect taxes, market entry taxes, transaction taxes, and even intends to control monopoly taxes such as salt, tea and iron.

Anyway, the ultimate goal is to make money and make a lot of money.

If you don’t like small money, you can’t control it. You must be big money.

The robbery warehouse grain from the common people will not be able to grab much grain, and they will be scolded. They will be scolded directly to wealthy households, and will be scolded, so they will be taxed in border cities.

Since it is so profitable to trade with the Hu people, Qin Lang will provide you with a venue to trade in my place, and then I will charge taxes, so you don’t need to smuggle secretly.

In this way, it is more convenient for you to continue to make money, and Qin Lang also makes some money from it. Qin Lang believes that this kind of cooperation is easier to accept than grab money directly from someone else's pocket, and can also make more money.

"But are they willing to share our money?"

"If you don't know, don't know, don't think about smuggling from me anymore, then they don't think about making a penny. They should understand better than me."
Chapter completed!