Chapter 553 Disgusting

"Of the twenty-one states of Dasong, Qinzhou and Yongzhou are occupied by Beidi, Jinzhou is ruled by Ma Yuan, Sizhou is ruled by Ma Han, Yanzhou is ruled by this king, and the remaining sixteen states are now in the hands of the powerful families. Read М" Zhao Xu sighed.

Xu Ke sighed, "Your Highness is wrong, the governor of Jinzhou is no longer Ma Yuan, and the imperial edict has granted Jinzhou to the Sixth Prince."

"Zhao Fang?" Zhao Xu's hand holding the teacup condensed.

Xu Ke nodded gently, and suddenly he didn't even dare to breathe hard.

Although the King of Yan in front of him looked normal, he felt that the King of Yan was like a tiger ready to eat people at any time.

"They are deliberately humiliating this king." Zhao Xu put down the teacup and came outside the study.

He had made great military achievements, and now he controls the entire Yanzhou.

And the Sixth Prince has not made any achievements, but Dou Wei and others have given the entire Jinzhou to the Sixth Prince.

If this is not humiliating him, what is it?

Besides, the Sixth Prince and himself have a personal grudge that is known to everyone in the capital.

Zhao Xu is crazy and stupid, and the Sixth Prince is behind all the rumors that make Zhao Heng hate Zhao Xu.

Moreover, he also drove his support, the Yuan family, out of Yanzhou.

Now, the Sixth Prince is afraid that he will hate himself to death.

"Dou Wei is really vicious. If Jinzhou falls into the hands of the Sixth Prince, the west of Yanzhou will not be safe." Xu Ke gritted his teeth.

Zhao Xu snorted. Dou Wei can even do the cat-for-the-crown prince thing. What else can't he do?

"You think too much. Jinzhou will not fall into the hands of the Sixth Prince." Zhao Xu suddenly laughed evilly.

To the east of Jinzhou is Yanzhou, and to the south is Sizhou.

In such a bad environment, if he lets the Sixth Prince successfully control Jinzhou, wouldn't he have been in vain for so long?

The most important thing is that he sees that the lower limit of the powerful family is getting lower and lower.

He thinks that only the evil dragon can defeat the evil dragon.

The powerful families can play dirty and disgust him, so why can't he make the powerful families uncomfortable in return?

"What does your highness mean?" Xu Ke suddenly looked expectant.

In fact, it is very simple to deal with the Sixth Prince. With just one word from the King of Yan, the Four Courts will prevent the Sixth Prince from going to Jinzhou.

But this requires the King of Yan to nod.

"Since they are using Jinzhou to disgust me, I might as well take Jinzhou down." Zhao Xu smiled evilly.

When Ma Yuan was the governor of Jinzhou, he was embarrassed to do it.

But for the Sixth Prince, he had no such scruples.

Now that the steam engine workshop is built, more and more steam engines will be put into various industries in Yanzhou in the future.

And with the popularization of steam engines, the amount of coal used in Yanzhou will continue to increase.

In this case, it is safest to control Jinzhou, a coal-rich area, in one's own hands.

Moreover, Jinzhou was originally exchanged for the lives of Yanzhou soldiers.

How can this piece of land with the blood of Yanzhou soldiers be given to the Sixth Prince and let him deal with Yanzhou?

"Please give me your instructions, Your Highness." Xu Ke suddenly became excited, looking forward to the result he wanted.

"I know what you are thinking, but you four courtyards don't need to do it." Zhao Xu said.

When he withdrew from Jinzhou, he kept a trick.

When Xiliang captured Jinzhou, most of the people in Jinzhou were introduced to Yanzhou.

Ma Han wanted to introduce the people who escaped from Qinzhou and Yongzhou to Jinzhou, but he was also intercepted.

In addition, Jinzhou was severely harmed by Xiliang, so now Jinzhou is very dilapidated and sparsely populated.

According to his understanding, the current population of Jinzhou is mainly concentrated in the county towns of the seven counties.

A total of less than 800,000.

And of these 800,000, more than half of them are actually under the jurisdiction of Yanjun Merchants.

After taking Jincheng, he killed the four great families in Jinzhou, and at the same time confiscated all the mines, fields, and shops of the great families.

He handed all these confiscated assets to Yanjun Merchants to manage, and turned them into assets of the royal palace.

It can be said that Yanjun Merchants now almost controls the economic lifeline of Jinzhou.

After all, these wealthy families controlled the best farmland and the best mines in Jinzhou.

But the most important thing was that he ordered the business to collect only one-tenth of the tax from the tenants of the farmland, just like in Yanzhou.

The lowest tax levied by the court was three-tenths.

As a result, many people in Jinzhou almost all chose the farmland of the business.

Ma Yuan could only stare blankly at this.

The King of Yan forced the wealthy families to sell the contracts of farmland, shops, and mines to the palace during the war.

This was a fair trade, and he could not blame it.

What made him even more depressed was that the tax levied by Dasong on the royal farmland was very low, basically just a symbol.

Not even one percent of the tax, even if the King of Yan only collected one-tenth, it was still a profit.

In addition to the farmland, he also asked the business to give generous silver to the miners.

This absorbed a part of the population of Jinzhou.

So, although Jinzhou was under the jurisdiction of Ma Yuan, in fact, if he stamped his feet in Jinzhou, Jinzhou would also shake three times.

In the past, he was concerned about Zhao Heng and had a good relationship with Ma Yuan.

So he let the merchants of the business behave themselves under Ma Yuan's rule.

But if the Sixth Prince came, it would be different.

He would definitely let the Sixth Prince experience the evil hearts of people when he first came to Yan County, and let him die in despair.

"Let him go to Jinzhou first, I have my own way to deal with him." Zhao Xu decided on the strategy for Jinzhou.

Secondly, if he killed the Sixth Prince halfway, Ma Yuan and Mo Kuan would not be grateful to him.

Let the Sixth Prince cause trouble in Jinzhou for a while.

Before Jinzhou was integrated, the Sixth Prince posed no threat to him.

Even if there was, he could kill him at any time.

The royal guards at Feihu Pass were also sufficient to deal with any emergency.

After deciding on this matter, Zhao Xu ordered Xu Ke to continue to keep an eye on the capital.

He was told to monitor the movements of the powerful families at any time about the changes in the capital.

Especially the exchanges between the Han family and Japan.

As the two were talking, Feng'er suddenly informed Wang Chong that he was invited to the workshop area.

He then asked Xu Ke to leave and went straight to the workshop area.

When they arrived at the workshop area, Zhao Xu was led to a workshop room where the steam engine was roaring.

Some women in simple clothes were going back and forth between the workshop and the warehouse.

They were holding bundles of white cotton yarn.

"Your Highness." Wang Chong walked out of the workshop at this time, his clothes covered with cotton wool.

With a smile, he extended his hand to the workshop and made a gesture of invitation, "This is your spinning workshop."

Zhao Xu laughed and strode in.

The women who were spinning bowed and saluted when they saw him, then continued to spin with shyness.

And what they were operating was nothing else but the spinning machine he asked Wang Chong to develop.

But this was no longer the original Jenny spinning machine, but an improved spinning machine like a steam engine.

Wang Chong also gave this spinning machine a new name - Qianji Spinning Machine.

Because the original spinning machine of Dasong had only one spindle, while the improved spinning machine had eighty spindles.

It increased the efficiency eighty times.