Chapter 171: Gao Family Wealth

"Your Highness, the food here is estimated to be enough for 20,000 people to eat for a year." Liu Fu said.

Zhao Xu and the others stopped in front of a large warehouse.

At this time, there were already soldiers from the royal palace guarding here to prevent it from being destroyed.

Liu Fu looked excited after looking at each warehouse.

Gao Yuan had plundered Shanggu County for many years and accumulated a lot of financial resources.

Now that it has been destroyed, all these things belong to the royal palace.

"This is just the Gao family. The food in all the wealthy families' fortresses in Shanggu County is enough for the people of Shanggu County to eat for one or two years." Chang Wei added.

Zhao Xu nodded.

The situation in Shanggu County is the same as that in Yan County at the beginning.

Although the land can be distributed to the people now, the autumn harvest has passed and the people have no surplus food. They need relief from the royal palace until the wheat harvest in June next year.

With these supplies, there is no need to worry about the people going hungry.

After checking the granary, the group continued to move westward.

On the road, there were soldiers searching everywhere. Although many wealthy families were captured, there was no trace of the father and son of the Gao family. It was unknown where they were hiding in the fortress.

Arrived at the Gao family's house.

Zhao Xu saw that the soldiers of the royal palace were busy carrying boxes of things into the yard.

When he came to a box, Zhao Xu opened it casually and found that it was full of cash.

He opened another box, and inside were gold bars.

"These are all the fat and blood of the people that Gaoyuan has plundered in the past two years..." Liu Fu sighed.

Such boxes filled the yard, and the soldiers kept carrying them out of the house.

"All these things are collected in the treasury of the royal palace and allocated uniformly." Zhao Xu said, "and the materials found from other wealthy families are also stored together."

His purpose in doing this was to strengthen the centralization of the royal palace and rationalize the financial distribution.

This is the case in Yan County.

The taxes of each county are uniformly paid, leaving only a small part for emergency use.

If the county needs silver, it must report it to the government office. After the government office approves it, the approved silver will be sent to the county.

Although this is troublesome, it is a necessary means to strengthen centralization.

Otherwise, if the local area is not short of money and food, it will lose its dependence on the palace, like to do its own thing, and will ignore the government orders.

This is the same as the head office and the branch.

If the local branch is not short of money and can operate independently in the local area, what does your head office need to do?

Although the head office has the right to appoint and dismiss, the fundamental problem has not been solved. Who can guarantee that he will not establish his own interest group in the branch and enrich himself if he changes someone?

It is different to turn in profits.

If there is no money in the account, the head of the branch company has to look at the face of the head office and beg the head office for money.

"Yes, Your Highness." Liu Fu agreed very straightforwardly. '

He has tasted the sweetness.

Now none of the county magistrates dare to delay the government orders he sent to the counties of Yan County.

If anyone dares to do so, he will hold the silver and not pay it, so that the county cannot even pay the officials' salaries.

If anyone dares to stir up trouble, he will be dismissed and replaced.

This is just a county.

Now that there is an additional Shanggu County, it is even more necessary to do so.

After all, he can be the governor of Yan County, but he cannot be the governor of two counties.

This time, two governors may be selected from the officials to sit in Yan County and Shanggu County respectively.

"Da Da Da..."

As he was talking, the sound of hurried horse hooves suddenly sounded outside the courtyard.

A scout cavalry rushed in, "Your Highness, there are about 20,000 Yuan family soldiers and horses coming towards Gaojiawu Fort."

"Yuan family soldiers and horses!" Chang Wei and Mo Yu looked at each other, and both of them had a hint of anger in their eyes.

Chang Wei said: "Yuan Li is getting more and more daring. He dared to invade your fiefdom. Your Highness, I will lead the troops to destroy them."

"According to the law of Dasong, without the consent of the prince, no army except the royal army can break in, otherwise they will be held accountable, and the prince also has the right to lead the troops to kill." Mo Yu said at this time.

Zhao Xu nodded.

He was still angry about the last time the Yuan family burned the food of the people in Yan County.

Now, he dared to send troops to his fiefdom to make trouble.

No matter what these 20,000 people came to Shanggu County for, he must teach them a lesson.

"Let the soldiers enter the city, climb the city wall, and then pull up the artillery." Zhao Xu said.

Gaojiawu Fort is a ready-made fortress that can be used.

He wants to see what this Yuan family army wants to do first?

After leaving the Gao family's house, Zhao Xu and the generals climbed the city wall.

Not long after, a black line appeared in the south.

The black line gradually approached, and Zhao Xu saw the Yuan family's army clearly.

There were about 5,000 cavalrymen and 15,000 infantrymen.

What surprised him was that the soldiers of this army had white cloth tied on their arms and heads, just like the funeral procession.

"Hey, isn't that Zhongli?" Mo Yu exclaimed when he saw the general in front of him.

"Zhongli?" Zhao Xu looked at Mo Yu with a puzzled look.

Liu Fu heard this and saw that the Yuan family soldiers were wearing mourning clothes, and he couldn't help laughing, "Your Highness, it's okay this time, there's no need to fight."

Chang Wei looked at Liu Fu with a look of a fool, "When did Liu Wangfu become so smart? How do you know there's no need to fight?"

Zhao Xu was confused at first, but he smiled and nodded when he thought of something.