Chapter 397 My sister is really good at making up stories
Wu Yuqi's pretty face immediately turned red, and she went up to them and hit each other with her fists, saying, "No way, my sister is really good at making up stories."
A group of people sat down at the dinner table. Ma Ling'er asked for a jar of daughter's red wine for Yuqi to drink as a gift, and the sisters started drinking it immediately.
After dinner, the beauties pushed and dragged Zhao Yulin to Wu Yuqi's yard as if he were a gift.
The woman was already a little tipsy, and she asked him to carry her with her eyes slightly closed. Zhao Yulin carried Yuqi on his back, and the woman immediately put her arms around his neck and pretended to be dead.
He said they are an old couple, but they are becoming more and more clingy.
Yuqi stretched out her right hand to cover his mouth to stop him from speaking. She wanted to feel it well.
Zhao Yulin waited on Yuqi like a maid, helping her bathe and change clothes, and then carried her to the couch. At dawn, Yuqi let him go and wanted to do it again.
It is true that men are like wolves at thirty and tigers at forty.
After the battle, the couple leaned against each other lazily to take a rest. Zhao Yulin felt a little emotional. It is said that a man should be independent at the age of 30. In the blink of an eye, he has reached the age of being as strong as a tiger.
Seeing that he was motionless, Yuqi asked him what he was thinking about.
He stroked the woman and said, "Look, the children have grown up, and we are all old."
The woman climbed up and said, "Brother, you are not old at all." Her eyes were fixed on Hulan again. As she spoke, she started to move quickly.
Ouch, are you jealous yet?
What happened today? This girl has completely changed and is not reserved at all?
Zhao Yulin was really impressed when he suddenly encountered a tiger.
He hurriedly served and tried his best to perform the drama perfectly. The couple bathed, changed clothes, and went about their business.
When Ma Linger saw that he was about to go out, she stretched out her hand and beckoned Zhao Yulin, who immediately went over to help her get on the carriage. The woman led him up as well.
Ma Linger asked him: Were you really angry with Hua Yue yesterday?
Zhao Yulin said no, he thought it would be best to let the children step away from the public eye. Those ignorant officials saw that we were doing a money-making business, so they would inevitably have all kinds of messy thoughts in their minds. We need to slow down a bit so that everyone can see clearly.
What should the carriage bureau do? You all have different opinions, and you need to come up with a complete strategy.
In the future, we will need money to manage the unfinished street in Daojiang County.
Ma Ling nodded and said that since the family was rich and powerful and it was the right time to give up, it was better not to do it. I was afraid that the children would complain and stop doing it. They would think that we were not stealing or robbing and were following the right path.
Why don’t you want the livelihood you earned through hard work at home?
Zhao Yulin praised her and said with a smile that with her as the mistress of the house to teach them, how could those guys dare to disobey?
Ma Ling'er fell into his arms and said happily, "Brother knows how to coax people."
When the two men arrived at the government office, a maid was already waiting outside and led him to see Cao Youwen.
Old Cao happily handed over the secret report, telling him that good things happened one after another. Li Yunqing in the west ordered Cao Yong to attack and occupied a large area of Langerke's land, beating them without any ability to fight back.
In the past, this small country often crossed the Himalayas to bully us Tubo.
Li Yunqing sent a letter saying that the team would open up a territory in Shannan and establish a Tibetan administrative area for winter and summer, so as to find the best place for recuperation for the brothers who were not adapted to the high-altitude and cold areas.
Langerke has been a vassal state of the Central Plains Dynasty since ancient times, and was incorporated into the territory of the Tang Dynasty. Zhao Yulin certainly supports it. When he has the power to make them surrender, he must hold them tightly in his hands.
He saw that the secret letter was dated February, and several months had passed. He thought it was a long journey.
Lao Cao told him: Because of this letter, two postmen at the post station fell off a cliff and died.
Both of them were silent.
At ease, he said the road still needs to be repaired.
We must spend a lot of effort to repair the road to the Western Regions and connect the inaccessible places. Not only will the difficult mountain roads be made easier, I believe that the days of Tubo Road will get better and better.
Zhao Yulin suggested that Lao Cao write a letter to Li Yunqing to show his concern and support, and encourage him. The 100,000 brothers who entered Tubo should be rehabilitated and transferred to civilian jobs. The Ministry of War would give a resettlement allowance to those who were willing to stay, and those who insisted on returning would be gradually trained and demobilized, so that the brothers could go home.
Lao Cao nodded and said that it was difficult for the brothers.
There is nothing in it. Even if you have money, you can't buy anything suitable.
Zhao Yulin knew all this. Even in the nearby Baoning Prefecture and Kangning Prefecture, the barley production was too low to support many people, not to mention the high-altitude and cold regions further in.
He believed that Cao Yong and his team made the right move by moving south to Langerke. Shannan had good climate conditions and fertile land, which was enough to obtain abundant food. Once the problem of food and clothing was solved, everything would be easy.
Moreover, Tubo already had a lot of land in Shannan, and if they wanted to keep it, they had to manage Shannan.
Lao Cao also thought so and happily told him that there was good news: Zhao Bing from Lin'an had escaped.
The Shunfeng Division reported secretly: the envoy and Zhao Bing reached a tacit understanding to let Zhao Bing go out to sea through Hangzhou Bay. Shi Ziran did not hurt anyone and easily controlled the Liangzhe Road without firing a single arrow.
However, Shi's son did not open the pass as promised and show his sincerity in merging with us. Instead, he ordered the militia in Jiangdong to withdraw and retreat to Liangzhe to deploy defenses, and even turned to the banks of the Yangtze River for alert.
Zhao Yulin felt that Shi's son was trying to split up the family business and establish his own kingdom.
Lao Cao told him that he had instructed Miao Gui to order Jiangnan and Guangdong to strengthen their vigilance, and ordered Zhou Ping's navy to monitor the coast and river.
Zhao Yulin nodded and asked Chu Yuxuan to invite Miao Gui over.
He told Lao Cao that he was still a little worried about Lanzhou in the west.
Mengge has returned from the west, and it is clear that he wants to compete for the Khan throne. Given his character, he will definitely fight a battle with us. Only when he makes a name for himself in the East will more princes and generals support him in his fight for the Khan throne.
However, he certainly was not willing to bear heavy casualties.
Then it is unlikely to find a fighting opportunity in Lingzhou, or in the direction of Yan'an Prefecture in Linzhou, which is closer to our hinterland. Our military force deployment and logistics supply in those places are very fast, and a fight may lead to a stalemate and a major war.
He certainly would not want to accept huge losses, so the war would most likely take place in the narrow strip of land west of the Yellow River. As for where it would take place, he was not sure. Wuwei and Zhangye might be their main attack directions.
Lao Cao thinks so too.
Later, Miao Gui arrived. After he analyzed the military situation for Miao Gui, the Ministry of War also reached the same conclusion.
Zhao Yulin was very worried, so he asked Miao Gui to go to Lanzhou secretly to coordinate the two major military groups of the Shenwei Army in Lanzhou and Pingliang to prepare for defense. He would never allow Mengge to enter Hexi and cut off the trade between the Shenwei Army and the Western Regions.
Lao Cao was also very clear that Hexi was too long and narrow, and each military town was far apart. It would be very dangerous if they were broken through by the enemy.
Miao Gui took the order and left immediately.
After sending Miao Gui away, Lao Cao told him to sit down and have some tea, saying that he didn't need to worry too much. We have been operating Hexi for a few years, and if Mengge dares to come, we may not be able to take over.
After a short rest, Shunzhidi came in and told them that all the gentlemen were present and that the time had come to discuss the construction strategy of the Ministry of Construction.
The two went to the meeting room together, only to find that Li Zhongmian's seat was empty.
Lao Cao told him that Mr. Li was in poor health and had resigned twice.
Everyone began to continue the discussion, and there was disagreement on the first issue of the carriage bureau's use of land and government buildings.
Zhao Yulin borrowed the thinking of later generations and advocated providing it free of charge, because it is public transportation and provides convenience for the people.
However, most people wanted the Carriage Bureau to bear the cost themselves. If they did not participate in the dividends, they should at least charge rent according to the local market price.
Others suggested that the Carriage Bureau should collect a toll to pay for repairing bridges and maintaining roads since it makes money by using the roads that the government has spent a lot of effort to build.
Haha, it’s a bit like the road maintenance fee for vehicles.
Damn it, these ancient people followed suit, they were not stupid at all. This completely deviates from his original intention of proposing public service facilities and government support.
Zhao Yulin patiently told them that the carriage bureau was a new thing and the government should support it. Although Yibin's shared tourist carriage bureau made money, it was because the road connecting Jiuzhouba was easy to travel and there were many tourists who could afford it. It was not necessarily the case for other places to open carriage bureaus.
If you don’t believe it, just try your best.
His Zhao family temporarily withdrew from the planning and management of the Carriage Bureau, and the Ministry of Construction recruited merchants from across the country to do the work if they were willing to invest.
Lao Cao was stunned at first, thinking that Zhao Yulin was unhappy. But recalling his calm speech just now, he felt that it was all from the bottom of his heart, so he said that the matter of the carriage bureau would be settled for the time being.
Mr. Qiu continued to explain his strategy for building the street.
The Ministry of Construction believes that building a street requires a huge investment, which is beyond the capability of ordinary businesses, and loans cannot be cut all at once.
Zhao Yulin said that at least loans are not allowed for the money to buy land. These businessmen have no capital at all and rely entirely on making big promises to raise funds. These merchants who have no experience in running a business are simply gambling and taking risks, which will harm innocent people.
You need to take out a loan to buy the land, and there will be a lot of expenses for the subsequent construction and operation. You will definitely owe money for selling wood, sand and gravel, and for the labor. This is a long capital chain. How many families will starve?
The result is just to enrich the developer's family.
Ma Ling'er proposed that banks implement regional control and strictly control the scale of bank lending. Each businessman is only allowed to borrow from one bank, that is, the bank in his own place of residence.
In this way, the merchant's loan situation can be well controlled.
Otherwise, these businesses will borrow money from everywhere, and the banks will not be aware of the situation, or they will turn a blind eye and take advantage of loopholes in our government's strategies. Once this is exposed, it will drag down the banks.
Zhao Yulin was very satisfied with Ma Ling'er's suggestion and nodded to her with a smile.
Finally, the officials reached a consensus that banks should issue a certain percentage of loans to merchants after the foundation of the house is built, and the total amount should not exceed 20% of the total street price. Merchants are allowed to collect deposits from home buyers and are required to accept joint supervision from banks and home buyers.
This method provides slightly limited support to developers and also establishes a joint supervision mechanism between banks and home buyers, so it should be relatively safe.
