In winter, heavy snow falls.

Ji Yang's original plan was to attack Beijing in winter, and according to the resistance of the warriors, he prepared cotton clothes and gloves and other materials, which could completely besiege Beijing City in the cold winter, and the enemy did not prepare enough cold materials, and he would definitely not be able to resist the Qilin army.

However, Ji Yang's plan was interrupted by a letter from the emperor to suppress the thieves, and the letter of the thieves said that he was crusading against the rebels in the capital, but did not clearly point out that it was the lonely party. If Ji Yang entered Beijing City, he was afraid that he would be regarded as a traitor, so the Qilin Army was stationed in Changping and Fangshan.

After the emperor restored the country in Suzhou, he vigorously promoted the might of the Ming Dynasty and summoned the righteous men of the rivers and lakes to enlist in the army. At this time, the old prestige of the Ming Dynasty was still in the hearts of the people, and many people in the rivers and lakes were either heroic or courageous, or in order to get ahead, they gathered in Suzhou to enlist in the army.

In just one month, the emperor regathered more than 300,000 people, considering the problem of food and equipment, the emperor carefully selected, as long as the fourfold realm was above, and finally reorganized the National Salvation Army of 100,000 people.

However, there was something wrong with the Shizhu army led by Qin Liangyu, because the emperor came all the way and almost did not pay the army. The emperor forbade them to rob, and many of these nameless people brought their own dry food, of course, there was no problem.

But the minority soldiers of the Shizhu Army are a bit of a mercenary, and they don't want to fight anymore if they don't give money. Before, the emperor said that he would give money after the restoration of the country, but now that Suzhou has been restored, he still won't give money. The soldiers of the Stone Pillar Army went on strike, clamoring for repaid salaries for military merits.

"General Qin, how much silver does the Shizhu Army's military salaries and military merits add up?" The emperor finally restored the country, and formed 100,000 elite national salvation troops, and military salaries hung an important issue in front of him.

"The unpaid military salary is 110,000 taels of silver, the pension is 150,000 taels of silver, and the reward for military merit is 320,000 taels of silver, for a total of 580,000 taels of silver." Qin Liangyu said, she didn't say anything about the fraction in the back, so as not to make the emperor too irritated when he heard it.

"So much, our treasury is less than half a hundred thousand taels of silver." The emperor frowned slightly, he wanted to raise more than just the Shizhu Army, but more people on the side of the National Salvation Army. It's just that the National Salvation Army is nameless, and no one asks him for military pay for the time being, but if he wants to fight in the future, he can't always let people be free laborers.

The 500,000 taels of silver were donated by the rich gentlemen of Suzhou after the emperor restored the country.

"Since the King of Shu has supplied us with food, can he also supply military salaries?" Qin Liangyu thought that the best way to solve the military salary was for the emperor to go and talk to Ji Yang.

"Ji Yang deliberately didn't pay the army, just to embarrass me, how could I be underestimated by him." The emperor was completely like a spoiled child, it was not enough to give food, and he was angry if he didn't pay the army, feeling that Ji Yang owed him something. The Emperor snorted lightly, then looked at the young Nameless: "Mr. Nameless, do you have any way to solve the problem of food?" ”

Nameless's opinion is similar to Qin Liangyu's, if he doesn't give this proposal to be vetoed by the emperor, he can only find another way. He has pursued the realm of swordsmanship all his life, and he has almost never been in contact with the economy, so he can't think of any good way for a while.

"Dare to ask the emperor how much silver he needs?" Nameless asked.

"This repayment of military salaries will cost one million taels of silver, and in the future, if we march into Beijing, we will need five million to 10 million taels of silver." The emperor undercounted the heavy weapons, otherwise it would have been three or five times more.

"Ten million taels of silver, even if I take out my savings for many years, it is not enough for a fraction." opened a Chinese building without a name, and there are some industries, some savings.

"Your Majesty, if you want to make enough money in a short period of time, you can only ask the gentry and rich people in Jiangnan for money." Qin Liangyu has been fighting for many years, has rich experience, and is decisive and ruthless, otherwise how could he lead a wolf-like young people's army.

"But they have already donated 500,000 taels of silver, and I am afraid it will not be good to ask them for it again. Moreover, the north and south banks have also been plundered by the Dongying people, and I have just recovered this place, so I ask them for so much money, I am afraid that the people's hearts will be unstable. The Emperor said.

"You don't have to worry about this problem at all, the generation of Wushuang City has not been captured by the Dongying people, and those gentry and rich people deliberately said so in order to pay less. Don't look at how miserable they say, in fact, they are all trying to win your sympathy. Although the last general did not know how rich the land south of the Yangtze River was, the last general once copied the home of the western tyrant. ”

A smile appeared at the corner of Qin Liangyu's mouth and said: "The desolate land in the west, its wealth is far inferior to that of Jiangnan, how much savings do you have there?" The last general saw with his own eyes that the rich landowners of the desolate land in the west had a few million taels of silver in their treasury at a minimum, and tens of millions of taels of silver at most. ”

"Seriously!" The emperor suddenly stood up, and he couldn't imagine that a rich man had tens of millions of taels of silver in his house. When he was still in Beijing City, the Internal Affairs Office was only tens of millions of taels, and he couldn't get the money after fighting Wushuang City a few times.

"It is true that both sides of the Yangtze River are famous and rich places, and the rich people here have only a lot of silver in their silver stocks. If the emperor doesn't believe it, there will be a plan, you only need to send a few people to investigate a rich gentleman's past violations. None of these rich gentry are clean, and after finding out, they will be raided for felony crimes, and they will definitely be able to raise enough military expenses. Qin Liangyu said.

"It's okay, but I want to ask, where did the money you used to confiscate in the west go?" The emperor is not a fool, and raiding one family will inevitably cause unrest among other rich gentry, so there is a better way, and he does not want to make trouble on both sides of the Yangtze River.

"At that time, the last general obeyed the orders of the King of Shu, and most of the silver confiscated also entered the Shu King's Mansion." Qin Liangyu said.

"Bastard, how much silver have you confiscated?" The emperor raised his eyebrows.

"The general does not know the general ledger, and it is estimated that there are hundreds of millions of taels of silver, all of which will be used to build the Western Railway." Qin Liangyu said.

"It's the kind of train that doesn't need cattle and horses, and can travel thousands of miles a day tirelessly?" The Emperor asked.

"Yes, it costs a lot of money to build a railway, and it takes tens of thousands of taels of silver for a mile. Although there are many industries in the Shu Palace, it cannot independently support such a huge amount of silver consumption, so it can only collect money in the fiefdom. However, the gentry and rich people in Shuchuan were unwilling to pay, so Wu Kun, the technical director in the palace of the king of Shu, proposed to rectify Shuchuan. Wu Kun replaced the king of Shu to introduce a new law and drastically rectify the fiefdom, which naturally offended many gentry and wealthy in this process. Those who did not want to accept the new law were confiscated on various charges, and all the money and silver they received were used to build railroads. Qin Liangyu admired the king of Shu the most, and he changed the atmosphere of Shuchuan, vigorously developing agriculture and handicrafts, casting railways and cement roads, and building frame buildings.

In fact, these were not done by Ji Yang at all, but after he retreated, Wu Kun replaced Ji Yang to develop the foundation of Shuchuan. Wu Kun, as the technical director, originally did not have this right, but he and Xiang Yang, Ding Chunqiu, Jing Xiulian, and the three princesses, Ji Xia and others agreed to this plan.

Wu Kun's statement is also very simple, everyone can't stop developing just because the King of Shu is in retreat. So after the king of Shu came out, there was no change in Shuchuan, wouldn't it be a vegetarian meal for the corpse.

Wu Kun has excellent wisdom, there is almost nothing he can't take, no matter military politics and technology, he can play it. Under his plan, Shuchuan dealt a great blow to the gentry and plutocracy, pulled the handicraftsmen, commerce and agriculture, and made the various classes slightly more balanced. Wu Kun did not exaggerate too much, in the past ten years, he mainly did infrastructure construction, road construction, housing development, and industry, agriculture and commerce.

"If you promulgate a law without permission, you should be beheaded!" Qin Liangyu said this with admiration, but received a ruthless evaluation from the emperor.

It is true that the prince did not have the right to enact laws, and the emperor had reason to say so. Ji Yang's approach can be said to be a great rebellion and does not respect the law of the country, and the emperor attaches the most importance to the monarch and ministers.

If everyone is like Ji Yang, who always exceeds his own rights, then he, the emperor, will still be a fart. If this kind of thing is allowed to happen, after a long time, I am afraid that people in the world will really treat him as a fart.

When Qin Liangyu heard this, his heart was cold, but it was difficult to refute the emperor's criticism.

"But you are right, the rich man of the desolate land in the west is still so rich, and this land south of the Yangtze River must be ten times richer. Before, more than a dozen of them pooled 500,000 taels of silver for me, and they looked like they were going to die, most of them were pretending to be garlic. If they dare to bully the king, I don't need to be polite anymore, and I will leave this matter to you. The Emperor said.

"Your Majesty, I thought you can't come hard, this place is no better than Shuchuan, if you offend these gentry and rich people, I'm afraid they will be centrifugal. When the time comes, don't talk about raising military salaries, for fear that they will secretly do things and hinder your great cause of recovering the country. Nameless said.

"They dare, I am 100,000 elites, just rely on these pot-bellied lowly businessmen to endure me." The emperor said that he was afraid that the people's hearts would be unstable before, because he thought that those gentry and rich people were sincere. Who knows that these people treat him as a fool, one by one, he has a lot of money, and he dares to say that he has exhausted his family wealth when he makes up 500,000 taels, and he also says how righteous Ling Ran is, and he does his best for the restoration of the Ming Dynasty.

How touching what they said before, how touched Zhu Ding was, and how angry he was behind the scenes.

"People die for money, birds die for food, these people have huge wealth in their hands, and they must have recruited many masters of the rivers and lakes. Let me tell them, I'm sure they'll give me some thin noodles. Nameless said.

"Then please sir." The emperor is also very confident in Nameless, this is already a mythical figure, how can he not deal with a group of lowly merchants.

At this moment, someone outside the palace came to report, and the envoy of Dongying asked to see Huangying.

The emperor had long wanted to meddle in Dongying's surrender, but he had been dragged by the military, but he didn't expect the Dongying envoy to come by himself. He was overjoyed in his heart, and immediately announced that the emperor shadow had an audience, and the emperor shadow walked in with a rectangular wooden box in his hand respectfully.

After entering the palace, the imperial shadow was the first to see Nameless, and he was secretly frightened by the person's breath. The young Nameless looks about the same age as Ji Yang, but his aura is not inferior to Ji Yang at all, and even more unfathomable.

"There is such a master by the emperor's side, it seems that this time he came to the right place, in the end, the emperor of the Central Plains is stronger. I knew this was the case, why should I bother to go to the King of Shu. Emperor Ying thought secretly.

"Dongying envoy Huangying, I have seen His Majesty the Emperor." The emperor was hit by Ji Yang's side before, and he was no longer so reserved, and when he saw the emperor, he immediately knelt on his knees and presented the wooden box: "Your Majesty the Emperor, this is a gift from the Emperor, I hope Your Majesty will accept it with a smile." ”

"The Emperor is gracious." The emperor showed a satisfied smile, who said that the Dongying people are arrogant and domineering, isn't this very well-behaved.

As for the attack on Dongying by the Star Fleet, the emperor selectively thought that the Nanyang Naval Division would attack Dongying. The Nanyang sailor is the sailor of the imperial court, that is, the emperor's person, so he did not hesitate to accept this honor in his heart.

"Your Majesty the Emperor, this sword is called Silence, and it is the strongest supreme divine weapon in my Dongying. If an ordinary person encounters a stunned silence, he will be injured by a sword, and only a truly strong person can control it. The Imperial Shadow opened the wooden box, revealing a uniquely shaped Silent Knife.

"Yes, I don't know which Aiqing is willing to pull out this knife." The emperor is very confident in the martial arts of Nameless, Sword Emperor, Jian Chen, Huaikong, Qin Liangyu and others, and they can pull out any one of them with a Dongying knife.

"Let me try." Jian Chen was young and vigorous, and immediately stepped forward to take the Silent Knife. He condensed the scabbard and hilt of the Silent Knife, and looked admiring: "Good knife, but it's a pity that I practice swordsmanship." ”

As he spoke, Jian Chen slowly pulled out the Silence Knife, but he only pulled out a small section, and the Silence Knife released an incomparably sharp blade. Yes! Jian Chen exclaimed, his palm was cut by the knife and blood marks were cut one after another, and he reflexively let go, and the stunned knife fell and was caught by the imperial shadow.

After catching the Silent Sword, the Imperial Shadow stood up and said with a smile, "I said that only a truly strong person can pull out the Silent Knife. ”

Jian Chen's face showed shame, and he retreated holding his injured and bleeding right palm.

"I'm coming!" The Sword Emperor was interested, and stepped forward to take the Silent Sword.

"Senior, be careful, this knife will release knife qi on its own." Jian Chen kindly reminded.

"Hahaha, how can my Sword Emperor not even be able to accept a sword." The Sword Emperor laughed loudly, not taking Jian Chen's reminder to heart at all, after he took the Silence Knife, he pulled out the Silence Knife as quickly as he could. Buzz Buzz .... After the Silent Knife was pulled out, it quickly trembled, releasing a dazzling sharp sword, and the emperor's martial arts were too weak to look directly at the edge of the Silent Knife.

The Sword Emperor's face tightened, and he urged the Ten Powers to suppress the Silent Sword, but the Silent Knife not only did not surrender, but instead released a stronger sword, and the dazzling sword covered the entire hall.

Jian Chen and Huaikong had to urge the True Qi Protector, and the overflowing sword light swept past them, splitting the decorations in the main hall. The Sword Emperor urged the twelve success powers, and there was still an extremely high sword realm, but he still couldn't suppress the Silent Sword, and in the end, he could only return the Silent Knife to its sheath.

"This knife is worthy of being a supreme divine weapon, even I can't be intimidated, it seems that it can only be handed over to Mr. Nameless." The Sword Emperor was shocked.

"Mr. Nameless, you can be sure." The emperor didn't expect that both the Sword Emperor and Jian Chen would fail.

"This knife is worthy of being a supreme divine weapon, even I can't be intimidated, it seems that it can only be handed over to Mr. Nameless." The Sword Emperor was shocked.

"Mr. Nameless, you can be sure." The emperor didn't expect that both the Sword Emperor and Jian Chen would fail.