Yi Yin was a minister of the Shang Dynasty and once assisted the kings of the Five Dynasties. The Shang Dynasty King Taijia was incompetent and injustice, Yi Yin exiled him to Tong Palace to reflect. After Taijia repented himself, he took him back again.

This is a beautiful legend of harmony between the monarch and the ministers written by ancient scholars and officials.

Huo Guang was powerful in the court and the country, but he did not usurp the throne but devoted himself to assisting Emperor Liu Han.

Zhang Kai said that Yi Yin and Huo Guang meant that Wang Xin Zhang Zhen wanted Changshou to be someone like Yi Yin and Huo Guang to assist him.

Changshou came out of King Hui Zhang Kai's mansion and thought about it and did not go to the King's mansion again but went to find Zeng Jihou.

"My father Zeng, the old lady, was appointed as the Third Envoy of the Great Chu State for more than 20 years. You are also the shopkeeper of our refugee army. Now I have something to ask you for advice." Changshou said.

"Shi Zailiang suggested dredging the Yongji Canal. It connects to Zhuozhou in the north and to Zulong River in the south. Then it goes directly to Suhang through the Tongji Canal. What do you think about this? After returning to Daming Mansion, you will ask Mr. Zeng. I wonder how much money you will throw in the project?" Changshou asked worriedly.

"If the Chief Manager just asks about the cost of dredging the Yongji Canal, I can tell you now. The cost of dredging by the court every year is no less than one million taels of silver." Zeng Jihou replied.

"Can the court still charge over taxes after dredging? The two are more than the amount of money?" Changshou asked.

Zeng Jihou shook his head with a wry smile.

"One million taels of silver can be used for the construction of the canal in the end. The merchants collected millions of customs taxes on the canal, and finally returned to the court with less than half a million. The court lost one million!" Zeng Jihou continued.

"Greed is nature. What should I do for it?" Changshou said helplessly. He remembered the issue of corrupt officials discussed with Xiao Yan.

"What the adults want to dredge Yongji Canal is to benefit the country and the people, not for the selfish interests of each family. Although we are not short of money now, we can't throw the money into the water for nothing, right? If we just want to make the goods flow freely and seek benefits for the people of the world, then I have an idea." Zeng Jihou said.

"What's your idea? Tell me it out." Changshou said.

"We don't pay for it, but the people pay for it to dredge the Yongji Canal!" Zeng Jihou replied.

"You can't let the people pay for nothing, right? I can't do the forced things." Changshou said.

"Of course it's not forcing but voluntary! In the future, the customs and Tianjin tax will be compensated. If you pay more, you will also get more rebates." Zeng Jihou replied.

"The gentry and wealthy families in Daming Mansion are rich in resources. Your idea is not tailor-made for them, right?" Changshou asked.

"How could it be! There are many large households in Zhending Mansion. More than 30,000 refugee soldiers can invest in it. The salt residents in the salt farm in Yanshan can also use salt to invest in it." Zeng Jihou explained.

"Okay, but I want to let the refugee soldiers and ordinary people invest first. In the end, it is not enough and then the big investors will invest." Changshou said.

Zeng Jihou nodded.

"What I lack most now is people, capable people! Not everyone can do it by dispatching tens of thousands of people to dredge channels in segments. I will leave this to you. You will find people who have participated in the construction of channels in the past. After the dredging of the Yongji Canal in the autumn and winter, I will lead the refugee army to Zhuozhou by boat." Changshou said.

Zhuozhou is only more than 200 miles away from Yanshan Prefecture to the north.

Borrowing waterways to march day and night is much faster and much more convenient than using livestock to transport military supplies by using livestock trucks.

When attacking Yanshan Prefecture and other counties around Yanyun in the future, soldiers and supplies can be transported to the battlefield continuously through water.

It is the black bone man who can use up the siege to die of supply.

"I will go back to Daming Mansion immediately. I will ask my father and other officials who have returned home in the city for advice and then come up with a charter." Zeng Jihou said excitedly.

"What you said just now is good to invest. If the people think that the country has a share in me and not has nothing to do with me. If the country benefits, everyone will benefit; if the country suffers, everyone will suffers. Such a country will not perish!" Changshou said. Then he turned around and walked out.

Zeng Jihou stood there blankly thinking about what Changshou had just said.

"The country has a share in me, and I have a responsibility for the country." Zeng Jihou said in a low voice.

Changshou returned to his residence. Xiaodie was counting the property in his box. These things were given to them by Murong Xingshi and his wife Ta Buyan. Some of them were given to them by Brother Song when he was in the water.

"That's all left. People who don't know think that we are the richest people in the world now. At least half of the wealth of the Great Chu State is in our hands." Xiaodie said regretfully.

"Those property were clearly shared in public. We didn't get a tael of silver," said Changshou.

"Don't learn from the Emperor of the Great Chu State, and think that the wealth in the world is all yours. Women in the world are all theirs. What's going on in the end? The Supreme Emperor Zhang Mao and Emperor Zhang Heng watched helplessly as all the wealth belongs to others, and even their own wife and daughters belong to others." Changshou continued.

"This is why you don't want that princess? Do you think she has been a woman for someone else, so you don't want it?" Xiaodie asked.

In fact, the Wugu people do not have so many moral constraints. It is common to snatch women during tribes. They even treat the snatched children as their own.

"Forget it for women. It's okay to steal a child. There's no way, my own woman can't even lay an egg." Changshou said regretfully.

"You blame me for this kind of thing? Do you think I am a chicken? You can lay eggs without seeds? Can such eggs hatch chickens?" Xiaodie said angrily.

"This time you go back to Yanshan with me and leave all the cavalry matters to Ma Kuo and others. We are dedicated to studying the egg laying matters." Changshou said.

Xiaodie blushed suddenly.

"Aren't there three thousand palace maids coming to Yanshan? You can pick a few of them from the people lay eggs for me." Xiaodie said.

"Around 3,000 craftsmen have also arrived in Yanshan. There are still many refugee soldiers who have not yet got married. They should let the palace maids marry quickly. Let them choose the best husbands themselves, right?" Changshou said.

"I heard that there will be no tax collection here for ten years. I heard that many people have already taken their families from the south to settle down from Hebei. In a few years, dozens of prefectures and counties will have a prosperous population." Xiaodie said longingly.
Chapter completed!