In Liu Sheng's opinion, this kid is going to make trouble again, and what kind of ancestral system is he talking about. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info I'm afraid I've already fed the dogs. Alas, I don't know whether Grandpa Gaozu is worried or happy when he sees the current situation.

Xue Qing listened, alas, she really understands the emperor more and more recently. When did it start, the old lady became his confidante, what he wanted to do, what he thought in his heart, he could guess it at a glance. The emperor is clearly about to start restricting the power of the prime minister, and at the same time, he will choose a more radical system of supervision.

Xue Qing pondered for a long time, an embroidered messenger like Jiang Chong was basically a bit of a spy. That's a later thing. Now I guess it's the assassination system and the imperial history system. It seems that the life of the officials and princes will be even more difficult in the future. Will it have an impact on the development of the Heavenly Dao on the ground?

The emperor lost his temper, several ministers were hard to bear below, and the few people sitting in the front row were basically sprayed with spittle. I pretended to wipe off my sweat.

The temper tantrums didn't last long. The emperor also kept silent about how to limit the rights of the prime minister. It is expected that he is planning to prepare in secret, and wait for the next year to find an opportunity to implement measures to restrict the rights of the prime minister, this is an opportunity, the best is to take advantage of the issuance of white deer coins, and wait for the ministers and princes to be dizzy and confused, and then throw it out, then there will be no resistance, or Han Yan's words are good, who dares to jump out to oppose it, will give him a few more white deer coins. Hum.

The Emperor turned to other issues. asked Sang Hongyang if the money was enough.

Sang Hongyang pondered it for a while, and still issued a relatively conservative and prudent fiscal policy: "Your Majesty, the minister has made preliminary statistics on the money and various industries of this case. But the number is huge. But if you really want to say that it is a few percent, there is no bottom. The key is that there is no specific forecast of the fiscal revenue in the next few years, if the natural disaster reduces production, if the war breaks out in advance, even if the battle of death is successfully started according to our ideas and time, then according to the different development of the war, there will be different requirements for logistics. But at first glance, this money is a big help. But Your Majesty, the key problem for us at present is that even if this money arrives in the accounts of the imperial court in advance, it is useless if it cannot be spent, and the grain has not been sown yet, so where will the harvest be. The horses haven't been fed yet, how do you spend money on them? Weapons and equipment are still waiting for pig iron. These materials, which are related to all aspects of the Northern Expedition, are not well prepared, and it is not enough to simply have the funds in place. So in terms of time. It's not a big help, it's just a lot less financially stressful. ”

Emperor Wu beckoned to show that he was a little thirsty, and Chuntuo hurriedly took another cup and poured a glass of wine. Emperor Wu drank it all, wiped his mouth with his big sleeve and said, "Gongsun He, if you have enough funds, can you buy horses from outside the territory?" ”

Gongsun He arched his hand and said, "Your Majesty, this is not cost-effective." Dawan's famous horse is often worth thousands of gold, let's buy it for breeding, and we have to think about it. If all the horses were to be bought, it would take a lot of money. And far from necessary. I have a lot of pastures, and now I have the land west of the river. As long as you have time and capital investment, you can produce a lot of sycophants, compared to spending all the money to buy outside the territory, the difference in the total price is hundreds of times, and the gain really outweighs the loss. ”

Emperor Wu smiled bitterly: "Time, time, what I lack is time." Then he asked Wei Qingdao: "Qing, if it is now, can the Han army take out 200,000 cavalry and 400,000 foot soldiers for the Northern Expedition?" ”

Wei Qingyi gritted his teeth and said, "Your Majesty, you can't." The Chang'an Forbidden Army has just undergone a major blood change. There is also a need for a large number of conscripted soldiers. With training, it can be achieved in three years. Crossbowmen, riders, must be three years. This is also not in a hurry. ”

Sang Hongyang said: "Your Majesty, even if the Han army has this strength at present, we can't hold it just because of the grain and grass." Two thousand miles away, the amount of grain and grass consumed on the road is an astronomical amount. After the Great Battle of Hexi, Shandong was flooded. At present, Taicang and Aocang have bottomed out. Only the Ganquan warehouse is still full. And a Ganquan warehouse alone is not enough to support such a large military operation. ”

Emperor Wu sighed twice in a row, then turned his head and asked Xue Qing: "Ah...... Well, Wei Xueqing. If the treasury is full, weapons, arrows, armor and other supplies, may they be prepared in the short term? ”

Why didn't this emperor give up, he didn't have any soldiers, and he didn't have training. As for the money, it doesn't mean that it is enough. Food is not. Did he expect Shaofu to take out his weapons, and then make a big move, what ten thousand swords are one, and all these weapons flew over out of thin air?

Xue Qing arched her hand and said, "Go back to Your Majesty, unless there is someone." There are mainly enough manpower, and a year is enough to be ready. ”

Emperor Wu asked, "How many?" ”

Xue Qing said: "500,000." It's better to have some familiarity with it, and it can go more smoothly. ”

Emperor Wu gasped: "So much? It's almost the total number of troops on the Northern Expedition. ”

Xue Qing looked strange, didn't the previous Shaofu Supervisor report the imperial court's armament to the imperial court at all? He said: "At present, the arsenal and the Shaofu will be used as a prisoner, and the weapons in stock are seriously insufficient. Since the siege of Mayi, our Han army has fought one after another, and there have been military operations every year. In southwest Yunnan, Shu and Yunnan. and North Korea in the northeast. Minyue in the southeast, Eastern Europe, military operations in Jiaozhi. Coupled with the situation of the struggle with the Xiongnu, the perennial expenditure of weapons in the arsenal was greater than the output of the Shaofu. If there is a Northern Expedition, in addition to the armament and supply of the Northern Expedition army. The arsenal also needs to be replenished in case of the unexpected. In this way, it takes 500,000 people to open mines and smelt iron. Then forge weapons. Especially in ironmaking, and crafting weapons, making arrowheads, and more complex bows and crossbows, which are more technically demanding, the output is extremely low, and the only way to ensure the output is to increase the number of people and rely on more people. ”

Prime Minister Zhuang Qingzhai said cautiously: "Where are there still people, there are more than one million migrants in Hexi, and more than 500,000 migrates in Shandong." Southwest, southeast, all need to migrate. There are also these migrations based on households, men, women, and children, but these people asked for by His Highness are strong men. 500,000 strong men is 500,000 households, plus wives and children, at least 2 million need to be resettled by the imperial court. Moreover, the Han army still urgently needs to recruit. The cavalry infantry added up to at least two or three hundred thousand strong men to supplement the northern and southern battalions as a preparation for the Northern Expedition. In addition, the Quartet Han Army also needs to make supplements, which is at least one or two hundred thousand. Next year's production task is so heavy, you can't recruit hundreds of thousands of peasant households to you. Can next year's grain production be guaranteed? (To be continued.) )