Chapter 8: Where does the soldiers come from (I)

Shuntian Prefecture is much closer than the Taixue, so it is naturally the Yangxin Palace that Shi Kefa first visited. He asked about the recent situation of Shuntian Prefecture. This Shi Kefa is really capable and has completely deviated from the original history of life development. He began to use all the things learned from Zhu Yinglong that can be used to make money. First, it was cement to build the city wall. After Yuan Chonghuan saw it, he felt like he had a treasure. After asking about the use method, he directly sent a white strip to send a thousand bags of soldiers from Shanhaiguan to drag away. This money was naturally paid by the national treasury. Then it was glass. After the transparent and non-fragile glass appeared, Shuntian Prefecture took the lead in attracting investment, and it was even more popular in the capital, with wealthy businessmen gathering.

The merchant's eyes were poisonous. Who wouldn't know that this was a treasure pot and MSG. This thing was tightly compiled by Tian Shulan. It was the imperial concubine. Shi Kefa had no choice but to ask Emperor Zhu Yinglong. Zhu Yinglong agreed to tell him about the title and let Tian Shulan sell some of it to the public. On the market, the furniture made by the emperor himself was even priced at a sky-high price. There were only a few pieces of it. In fact, most of it was created by Xu Yingyuan. Simmons led the revolution in the furniture industry and impacted the traditional furniture industry. These were all thrown out by Shi Kefa's official joint ventures. Shi Kefa became the God of Wealth in the eyes of big merchants gathered in the capital.

When Zhu Yinglong made a comeback in Kaifeng Xinwang Mansion, Shi Kefa was promising, and he was doing everything he could do. In just a few months, he, the prefect of Shuntian, had accumulated a lot of silver for the treasury. The old man Sun Shenxing was also very sloppy and only mentioned a lot of money. As for the specific amount of silver he received, he did not mention it at all. If he had not summoned Shi Kefa so carefully, he would not have known that the treasury still had some extra money, and he felt much more at ease.

The summer harvest is coming soon, and the results of the promotion of corn and sweet potatoes by Song Yingxing have come out. Although there are constant disasters in various places today, Zhu Yinglong ordered all places to renovate water conservancy, and all areas affected by disasters will be implemented. The so-called "salvation" means to divide the households into five levels. The richest ones only save half of the grain and half of the food; the richest ones only save but don't save them; the second poor ones are half of the money; the second poor ones are half of the money; the extremely poor ones are allocated, and the rice is allocated by the government and half of the taxes are suspended. This is when the court has no grain or little grain to provide relief.

A good law. Any county where one person starved to death, the county magistrate was demoted to death, five people were starved to death, and five people were exiled to the border, and more than five people were starved to death, and those less than ten people were exiled to death for 3,000 miles, and more than ten people were starved to death. In this way, these county magistrates who were suffering from disaster were not afraid of offending the gentry and gentry. If they did not implement the law of assistance, they would starve to death and starve to death. The person who was directly unlucky was themselves. The court had even thought about the methods for them, and they would have nothing to say at that time.

"Xianzhi, I regard you as a brother and as a loyal minister. Now I am facing a difficult situation. Can you help me share my worries?"

"The emperor must not say this. If you kill me, I will get the favor of the emperor, and rehabilitate my mentor's injustice, and even become the third-rank magistrate of Shuntian Prefecture. It is hard to repay such a kind-hearted student!" Shi Kefa knelt down on both knees and said to the ground.

"I just said that, let's see why you are doing this. There is no need to break your bones. Come on, let's calm down!" Zhu Yinglong walked down from the imperial throne with a satisfied smile, and helped Shi Kefa up and said.

"I thank the emperor for his kindness!"

"You know that the court is short of food. Nowadays, all parts of the country are suffering from disasters every year. The people are suffering. Several provinces in the south of the Yangtze River are controlled by Wei Zhongxian, the eunuch. Although Liaodong is peaceful, the Jin people still peek at the Central Plains with fierce eyes, surrounded by powerful enemies, and internal and external troubles. It is really difficult for me to be an emperor!" In front of his most loyal minister and friend, Zhu Yinglong said what he had always wanted to say in his heart.

"I am willing to do this to the emperor for the hardships, and I am willing to do it for the emperor." Shi Kefa looked at Zhu Yinglong with a firm expression, his eyes clear and righteous in his body, which made him feel much more comfortable.

"If Xiong Zhaolian hadn't had the 50,000 troops in Yangzhou, Wei Zhongxian would have led the army across the river to fight." Zhu Yinglong said helplessly. The defense of the pseudo-Ming Dynasty was simply full of loopholes and was vulnerable at all, but he was unable to fight. The reasons were only three: no soldiers, no military pay, and no food. If you had to count the first one, there were no naval generals, and no warships. They were relying on natural dangers of the Yangtze River. What you could not do was to look at the rolling Yangtze River water and sigh.

"Does the emperor want to use troops to the south now?" He is worthy of being in tune with his predecessors, and he can understand it as soon as he explains it.

"Yes, now money and food can barely support it, so the soldiers are missing. Xianzhi, what do you think? Come and listen to me?" Zhu Yinglong stared at Shi Kefadao with eager eyes.

"The provincial and military offices in the Central Plains have long been destroyed in name only. The remaining elderly, weak, sick and disabled fight in battle is like suicide. Even if there is some combat power, the combat power that is temporarily pieced together can be imagined, so..."

"So tell me!"

"So there must be a period of time to form combat effectiveness, but this is obviously not possible. Because there is too little time, the border guards are drawn to give opportunities to foreign enemies who are eyeing them. More and more Mongolian tribes surrender to the Jin people. Huang Taiji truces with the court, and he will inevitably speed up the conquest of Mongolian tribes, so there is not much time left for the emperor and the court."

"Very good, continue talking!" Zhu Yinglong nodded frequently.

"Weichen dared to speculate that the emperor must have tried to regain Huguang when he used troops to Nan?"

"Yeah." Zhu Yinglong responded very plainly this time. This answer is not difficult to guess. Even Wei Zhongxian from Nanjing also saw that regaining Huguang means getting the grain road. With Huguang's grain, the broken sea grain road was repaired more than half, and it strategically formed a semi-encirclement.

"The sixteen brigades of the new army cannot be moved, because this is not only the garrison force in the capital, but also the backbone force of the emperor to wipe out the pseudo-Ming Dynasty. Before training equipment to form combat power, the emperor would not use this army, and the rest is only one army to use."

"Oh, which army is available?"

"Shaanxi's army suppressing the bandits!"

"Yes, why did I forget this army?" Zhu Yinglong said happily and said, "I'm sure he's calling Shi Kefa to enter the palace."

"Xianzhi, this is really a short plan for one person, two of them are a leading plan. You have found tens of thousands of troops for me by saying this, and you have made great contributions!" Zhu Yinglong said happily.

"The emperor must not be too happy. Although the army that was attacking the bandits experienced wars from time to time and was skillful, it was still a little different from the combat effectiveness of the regular army. After all, they were all small-scale fights, and they had not experienced real army operations. Moreover, this army was only more than 20,000, so it would be difficult to meet the emperor's requirements for advancing south!" Shi Kefa reminded.

Zhu Yinglong's happy smile immediately calmed down again and said, "In this way, I have to transfer at least 30,000 troops to go south. Where did these 30,000 troops come from?"

"Disaster!" the two of them said in unison.

"I still need to consider this method, and think about it again." This matter is very important, and it is not easy to recruit refugees into the official army. Although Zhu Yinglong knew that this was a good way to recruit an army with very good combat power at the fastest time, and in this way, the commander who went south to command the battle would be replaced. The general was incompetent and exhausted thousands of troops. This issue had to be cautious.
Chapter completed!