Become a feudal king from today

"Da Song of the twenty-one states, Qinzhou and Yongzhou were occupied by Beidi, Jinzhou was ruled by Ma Yuan, Sizhou was ruled by Ma Han, Yanzhou was ruled by my king, and the remaining sixteen states are now in the hands of powerful clans Read." Zhao Xu sighed.

Xu Ke sighed, "Your Highness is wrong. The governor of Jinzhou is no longer Ma Yuan. The imperial decree granted Jinzhou to the sixth prince."

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

Tsui Hark nodded slightly, suddenly not even daring to breathe hard.

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

"They are deliberately humiliating me." Zhao Xu put down the tea cup and came outside the study.

He has made great military exploits and now controls the entire Yanzhou.

However, the Sixth Prince did not achieve even an inch of success, but Dou Wei and the others gave the entire Jinzhou to the Sixth Prince.

This is not humiliating him, what is it?

Furthermore, no one in the entire capital knew about the personal enmity between the Sixth Prince and himself.

Zhao Xu is crazy and stupid, and the rumors that make Zhao Heng hate Zhao Xu have the shadow of the Sixth Prince behind them.

What's more, he also drove his 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 side of Yanzhou will no longer be safe." Xu Ke gritted his teeth.

Zhao Xu snorted, Dou Wei could even change the civet cat into a prince, and there was nothing else he couldn't do.

"You are overthinking this. Jinzhou will not fall into the hands of the Sixth Prince." Zhao Xu suddenly smiled evilly.

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

Under such a bad situation, if he allowed the Sixth Prince to successfully control Jinzhou, wouldn't he have been in vain for such a long time.

The most important thing is that the lower limit of the powerful people is getting lower and lower.

He felt that the only one who could defeat the evil dragon was the evil dragon.

The powerful people can play tricks on him and disgust him, so why can't he make the powerful people feel uncomfortable in turn.

"What do you mean, Your Highness?" Tsui Hark suddenly looked expectant.

In fact, it is very simple to deal with the Sixth Prince. Just a word from King Yan, and the Fourth Court will prevent the Sixth Prince from reaching Jinzhou.

But this requires King Yan’s nod.

"Since they use Jinzhou to disgust me, I will simply take Jinzhou." Zhao Xu smiled evilly.

When Ma Yuan was the governor of Jinzhou, he was too embarrassed to take action.

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

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

With the popularity of steam engines, the amount of coal used in Yanzhou will continue to increase.

Under this circumstance, it is safest to keep Jinju, a coal-rich region, in our own hands.

Furthermore, Jinzhou originally exchanged the lives of Yanzhou soldiers.

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

"Your Highness, please give me your permission." Tsui Hark suddenly became excited, looking forward to the results he wanted.

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

When he withdrew from Jinzhou, he retained a hand.

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

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

In addition, Jinzhou was seriously harmed by Xiliang, so Jinzhou is now very desolate and dilapidated, and its population is sparsely populated.

According to his understanding, Jinzhou's population is now mainly concentrated in the seven counties.

The total is less than 800,000.

And among these 800,000 people, more than half are actually under the jurisdiction of the Yan County Commercial Bank.

After taking Jincheng, he killed the four major wealthy families in Jinzhou and confiscated all the mines, fields, and shops of the wealthy families.

He handed over all these confiscated assets to Yanjun Commercial Bank for management and turned them into royal palace assets.

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

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

But the most important thing is that he ordered the merchants to only collect one-tenth of the tax from the tenant farmers of fertile land, just like Yanzhou.

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

As a result, many Jinzhou people almost all chose the fertile land of the trading houses.

Ma Yuan could only stare at this.

During the war, King Yan forced the wealthy families to sell their land, shops, and mine contracts to the palace.

This was a fair transaction and he couldn't fault it.

What made him even more depressed was that the taxes Dasong levied on the royal family's property were very low, basically symbolic.

Not even one percent of the tax was paid. Even if King Yan only levied one-tenth, he still made money.

In addition to the land, he also asked the trading houses to give generous subsidies to the mine workers.

This absorbed another part of Jinzhou's population.

Therefore, although Jinzhou is under the jurisdiction of Ma Yuan, in fact, if he stamps his feet in Jinzhou, Jinzhou will be shaken three times.

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

Therefore, the merchants of the trading house were allowed to perform their duties under Ma Yuan's rule.

But if the sixth prince comes, it will be different.

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

"Let him go to Jinzhou first. I will 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.

It's better to let the Sixth Prince cause harm to Jinzhou for a while.

Anyway, before Jinzhou was integrated, the sixth prince posed no threat to him.

Even if there is, he can press it to death at any time.

The royal troops at Feihu Pass are also sufficient to deal with any emergencies.

After settling the matter, Zhao Xu ordered Xu Hark to continue to keep an eye on the capital.

Inform him of the changes in the capital at any time and let him monitor the movements of the powerful clans.

Especially the exchanges between the Han family and Japan.

While the two were talking, Feng'er suddenly informed Wang Chong and asked him to go to the workshop area.

He then asked Tsui Hark to leave and went straight to the workshop area.

Arriving at the workshop area, Zhao Xu was led to a workshop where a 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 pure white cotton yarn.

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

Smiling, he stretched out his hand towards the workshop and made a gesture of invitation, "This is your spinning workshop."

Zhao Xu laughed and strode in.

When the women who were spinning saw him, they all bowed and bowed, then looked shy and continued spinning.

And the thing they were operating was none other than the spinning machine he asked Wang Chong to develop.

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

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

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

Improved efficiency eighty times.