Iron Dynasty

ps: One more chapter

A ray of sunlight gleams on the broken wall of Jinling City, and the servants responsible for repairing the wall are sweating like rain under the golden light.

Although it has entered the autumn, Jinling City is still hot, but the clothes of the corvettes were soaked after working for an hour.

"Elder Fei, is the news of your Highness's enthronment true?"

Fiji stood with his hand in front of the city wall. The Jinling city wall was severely damaged by the war. Since he arrived in Jinling City, this was the first thing he did. After all, the opposite of the Yangtze River was the kingdom of Chu.

Although Xiao Ming and the King of Chu signed the covenant, this was only a temporary expedient by the King of Chu for the purpose of firearms, so repairing the city wall was an important matter in his opinion.

"Of course, this matter can still be false? The first emperor personally handed the will to Du Heng when he was still alive."

Fiji stroked his beard and smiled. The news of King Qi's enthronement reached Jinling City yesterday, which made him happy that he never fell asleep all night.

For him, if Xiao Ming did not ascend to the throne in one day, he would be the emperor of the Great Yu Kingdom, and the longer he dragged on, the more he would be questioned. Now the 13 states of Weidi were regained and his strength greatly increased. At the best time, Xiao Ming's decisive and decisive actions also made him very much appreciated.

Moreover, once Xiao Ming ascended the throne, Fei Yue'er was the queen of the dynasty, so the Fei family's position in Qingzhou was firmly established.

The Fijian figure is an old man wearing a cyan silk gown. He is about the same age as Fiji. He said: "If this is the case, our Tong family should also go to Qingzhou to congratulate His Highness on the throne. His Highness is kind and generous, and the big clans of Jinling City are right. Your Highness is all grateful to you, if Elder Fei does not dislike him, how about Tong is willing to go to Qingzhou with Elder Ge?"

"Tong Yuanwai is indeed a sensible person. The rumors that His Royal Highness will kill the rich and unscrupulous is a false rumor. Don't believe it!" Fiji said with a smile.

After coming to Jinling City, he intervened to deal with the wealthy family. He was merciless to the Zhang family, who had in-laws between Jinling City and the King of Wei. He should kill, be exiled, and be the army.

Because of this, the tycoons of Jinling City are all dedicated and ready to mobilize and fight with him.

It was only after disposing of the Zhang family that he suddenly summoned the Tong family. After some talk, the patron of the Tong family walked out of the mansion with a smile, and then the decree on disposing of the rich family was spread among the rich. All of a sudden, they dropped their weapons and came to visit Fiji.

Tong Hongchang said with a smile: "If it weren't for the old Fei Ge, we would have followed King Wei's words and made a big mistake. Now in order to prove the loyalty of the Jinling family to his Highness, Tong should also go to Qingzhou."

Fiji nodded, "Actually, the most important thing for His Royal Highness is the stability and taxation of the 13 states. Your Highness has experienced too many unprovoked things, and Mr. Tong needs to show his Royal Highness something fruitful. It is."

Hearing that, Tong Hongchang smiled awkwardly. Although Xiao Ming’s decree did not kill the wealthy family, the dissolution of the wealthy family and the return of illegally occupied land must still be implemented. Whether these two items can be implemented will require the Tong family to do so. The local clans cooperated.

"Old Fei Ge feel at ease, Tong will definitely handle this matter, and Tong who disobeys His Royal Highness's orders will not be the first to let it go." Tong Hongchang said firmly.

Fiji nodded when he heard the words, "If this is the case, member Tong, please go back and prepare."

Upon hearing this, Tong Hongchang bowed and chose to leave.

Seeing Tong Hongchang walking far away, Fiji’s eyes became cold. Just as he said to Xiao Ming, the wealthy clan of the 13 states are deeply rooted, and the trees are deeply rooted. Even if the Southern Expeditionary Army conquered one city after another, the influence of the private wealthy clan still remained. huge.

If it were not for fear of the fierceness of the Southern Expeditionary Army this time, it is estimated that the civil unrest in the 13 states would not be subdued so quickly.

But even so, it will take some time for the soldiers to solve the tribe of the rich family without blood, and for this he chose a strategy of pulling one by one. This Tong Hongchang is the local rich family he wooed, and now he is using this Tong Hongchang to deter other rich family.

And it was the autumn harvest season. Now the government only controls Jinling City and its nearby counties, and there are still many villages without officials from Qingzhou.

It's not that he doesn't want to send, but that the 13 states have basically run out of free officials, and most of the counties and villages now have to rely on these local tycoons and Lizheng to govern.

Although the people of Weidi have been influenced by some Qingzhou thoughts, the traditional concept cannot be changed in one or two days. If there is no one to supervise the collection of taxes, the losses will be great in autumn today.

The Southern Army has worked so hard to lay down 13 states for taxation. Fiji has a clear view on this issue, so he only mentioned Tong Hongchang just now. This effective thing is taxation.

He was thinking, suddenly Jinling Governor Wei Yuan came to him.

This Wei Yuan was originally just a six-rank little official in Chang'an, but he had excellent written test results in the Bowen College exam and had withstood the test of Xiao Ming himself. Only then would he be sent to Jinling City to take charge of the first responsibilities of the governor.

"Elder Ge, Chu Wang's navy appeared on the river." Wei Yuan said nervously.

"King Chu's navy?" Fiji frowned, "When did it happen?"

"The news from the guards on the dock just now indicates that the Dengzhou Army has boarded the city wall to guard." Wei Yuan said.

Fiji immediately walked to the southern city wall when he heard the words. It’s not a good sign that the Chu King’s navy suddenly appeared here. Even if it wasn’t to take the opportunity to get a foot in Jinling City, I’m afraid it was to guard against them, just as he thought. King Chu had never trusted them ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ to reach Nancheng and board the city wall. At this moment, Ye Qingyun was looking at the river with a telescope. The warships sent by King Chu were loaded with artillery this time. The battleship is moving from west to east at this time.

The battleship at the head was slightly larger, and someone was faintly visible on it pointing at Jinling City.

"I'm a missionary." Ye Qingyun put down the telescope and said to Fiji.

Fiji took Ye Qingyun's binoculars and looked at the river, and he saw a blond man wearing a black robe and a cross in front of him on the battleship headed by him.

He said: "His Royal Highness sent news that King Chu had contact with the French. King Chu was beaten up by the Dutch. Since then, he is very eager to contact other Western countries to obtain firearms. It may not be a mission from France. Taxi."

"Just why did they come here?" Ye Qingyun frowned.

Fiji is also a scheming figure. He said: "Suhang is the land of wealth in the world. Now that His Royal Highness has taken Jinling City, the King of Chu will inevitably worry about the safety of Suhang. They passed so swagger and deliberately warned us."