Along with the reorganization and training of the Marshal's Army, the adjustment of the establishment of various armies has also been completed.

The Chinese army has ten commanders of the infantry army, one commander of the horse army, plus the ballista team, scout team, baggage team and personal guard team directly under it, with a total of more than 8,000 soldiers; The front, left, and right armies are the same except for the infantry army, which each has six commands, and each has more than 6,000 soldiers; Because the rear army was temporarily stationed in Leizhou, where the population was relatively large, more than 20,000 soldiers were recruited with the consent of the marshal's government, except for a part of the supplementary to the various armies in Qiongzhou, the rear army was expanded to 12 commanders of the infantry army, two commanders of the horse army, and two commanders of the naval army, with more than 10,000 soldiers, and the strength exceeded the Chinese army to become the head of each army.

After the reorganization of the navy, there are three water villages of Baisha, Chengmai and Wenchang, of which the Baisha water village has 400 large and small warships with 10,000 soldiers, and the remaining two villages each have 200 warships, each with more than 5,000 soldiers. However, in Zhao Hao's view, the naval army at this time was not much different from the infantry army in addition to the addition of captains and sailors, and the formation and training methods of the infantry army were not as weapons as warships, but just means of transport and offshore platforms. When everyone meets, they first fire their bows and crossbows, and when they get closer, they collide with each other, and when they are hit, they jump into hand-to-hand combat, and use the ship as the city to attack and defend. Nowadays, although the warships are equipped with long-range projection weapons such as ballistas and rockets, they only kill and injure the soldiers on the enemy's ships, and cannot fully achieve the goal of gaining sea supremacy by sinking and destroying the opponent's warships.

But knowing this, Zhao Hao has no better way, because in the era of cold weapons, if you don't get close to each other, you can't reach each other, and the power is enough to destroy the enemy ship, so you can't scold the other party away with your mouth! The same is true of the Destroyer Army, which is not yet at the level of being able to fight with weapons and sailors alone, and still needs a large number of soldiers to participate in the battle, so that there are a lot of soldiers, but the efficiency is not high. In this way, the Shuibu Army plus the 3,000 Destroying Front Army directly under the jurisdiction of the Shuaifu, the 1,000 Ma Army and the personal guard under the command of the Shuaifu Army, the Shuaifu Army has a total of more than 60,000 soldiers......

Everyone knows the truth of 'Han Xin's more soldiers, the better', but Zhao Yu was relieved, but at a young age, there were more forehead lines on his head, thinking that if he wasn't young, his hair would be gray, which was nothing more than money. Think about the 60,000 soldiers who eat horses and feed them for a year, and they get more than 100,000 stone for a year of grain alone, and the salary is more than 1 million yuan, which is still the usual consumption. Along with the war, you have to add the consumption of weapons, rewards and pensions for personnel, etc., and you have to recite Amitabha Buddha when the cost quadruples!

In October, according to the tax law of the Great Song Dynasty, it is the time to collect the autumn tax, and the autumn tax is often the bulk of the agricultural tax, but how much has the whole island collected this year? The autumn seedlings are 21,420 stones, the miscellaneous taxes are more than 42,000 yuan, and the commercial tax has to add the income of the city department to less than 100,000 yuan, and this money has to support more than 1,000 civil servants and business personnel on the island, pay the daily expenses of the yamen, repair bridges and roads, and provide disaster relief and poverty relief.

Zhao Yu calculated, even if Jiang Xuan's tax of 100,000 yuan transferred from Leizhou was still too far away, which means that these deficits need to be filled by the Shuai Mansion, or paid by him, the prince. He felt wronged at the same time, but also felt reasonable, the people are the people of the Great Song Dynasty, the soldiers are protecting the Zhao family, the official is running errands for your handsome house, everyone is coaxing you and playing with you, if you don't pay, who pays! But thinking that it may not be long before he can go to the stepmother and brother to bring the one who helps Bai to eat, can he not worry?

Fortunately, Zhao Yu was prescient, and the 'caravans' sent by him have now returned one after another, not only bringing back millet from the northwest, wheat from the Central Plains, and rice from the south of the Yangtze River, with a total of 100,000 stones. In addition, there were 50,000 taels of gold, 1,000,000 taels of silver, and 100,000 pieces of silk. He calculated, these things are worth about four million yuan according to the current value, according to the pre-set rules, one percent will go to the secretariat, forty percent will go to the total bureau, and he will also accept fifty percent with a smile. Of course, he doesn't want food, he doesn't have a place to put it, and it's not as good as gold, silver, and silk and other hard currencies.

Of course, Zhao Yu will not stop such a good 'business', but at this time his goal is no longer gold and silver, but to snipe at the grain market. Now is the time for autumn grain to go on the market, and the price is said to be cheap, and because of the unstable situation, many large grain merchants are unwilling to spend money to collect grain. Zhao Yu did the opposite, collecting grain at a high price, one of them did his own business without capital, and at the same time borrowed a large amount of grain to make a huge amount of counterfeit money flow into the market; People on both sides have the psychology of buying up rather than buying down, and he stirred up the situation so much that he forced some grain merchants to collect grain and rush to buy grain.

In this way, the price of grain in Jiangnan will be raised, which will inevitably increase the military expenditure of the enemy, and the entry of a large amount of counterfeit money into the market will also increase the number of people who accept gold and silver, making it difficult for the Pingzhun Treasury to accept all the money, and the Zhongtong banknotes that have lost their credit will depreciate rapidly, thus causing inflation, forcing Kublai Khan to change the banknote law, so that the copper coins and silver of the Song Dynasty will be in the market at the same time, and thwarting his plan to implement the Zhongtong banknotes in Jiangnan. Of course, this operation was not enough to achieve the goal, but it would also cause market volatility and panic, but Zhao Yu exchanged a pile of paper for the food and supplies he needed.

Such a large amount of grain from Qiongzhou has entered, and only the funds of the inner government have been used, which will definitely make several executives in the government suspicious. But he didn't dare to ask His Royal Highness, so he could only ask Zhuang Shilin, but he got the benefits and His Royal Highness's strict orders, how could he confide in a word, only saying that it was the income of the prince's business through the Bureau, and he didn't know the details, so the matter became a mystery, so that there were rumors that His Royal Highness got the cornucopia of the gods, what to put and what to ......

After entering October, smoke erupted along the coast south of the Yangtze River, and war clouds were also in the sky over Qiongzhou, so Zhao Hao could no longer sit still, and insisted on inspecting the defense of the whole island and reviewing all armies in spite of dissuasion, so as to strengthen combat readiness. The chief officers of each department were also sent by him to various places to supervise the local state and county school parades and township soldiers, and to pay close attention to training. These days, Zhao Yu has visited several military camps and water villages in Qiongzhou, and he is going to go to the Jiyang Army to see how the former army is training. He originally wanted to go by land, but how dare everyone! If he was caught by the slang and repaid, he asked His Highness to take the waterway instead in the name of mobilizing military guards to take the post road and harassing the place.

Zhao Yu reluctantly agreed, and accompanied him with Ying Jieyan, because everyone knew that only the old man could persuade His Highness, and if His Highness was angry, no one could control others. And these days he came out to patrol by boat, the imperial ship was too big to enter the city through the waterway, and it was too troublesome to change it, so he transferred the idle 'Warrior', and parked in the South Lake behind the government on weekdays, becoming the special car of His Royal Highness, and the sailors naturally followed into the fleet of the personal guard battalion, but the soldiers were replaced by personal guards, and the top cabin was modified.

Now that the rainy season has passed, and the weather is much more refreshing, Zhao Yu and Ying Jieyan took the 'Warrior' into the sea early in the morning, and met the imperial ship moored in Baisha Water Village at Haikou, and then turned east to go south to the Jiyang Army. The journey was long, and the master and apprentice chatted in the cabin.

"Your Highness, Privy Envoy Zhang has withdrawn his troops from Quanzhou, I don't know where they will go next?" Ying Jieyan took a sip of tea and looked at His Highness and asked.

"Where else could he go? The Tartars have captured Shao Wu's army and re-entered Fuzhou, so they can only go south to join the imperial court! Zhao Yu said indifferently.

"The spies have reported that the enemy generals Da Chun, Li Heng and the rebel general Lu Shikui are approaching Da Yuling and want to attack Guangzhou, and the imperial court may not be stable." Ying Jieyan said again.

"This is inevitable, the instigation has already lifted the siege of Quanzhou, and the Quanzhou naval army that will meet Pu Shougeng will follow Zhang Shijie's army, and under the attack of the two roads, Guangdong still can't hold it." Zhao Hao sneered, "I said that day that we should not take advantage of the enemy's return to the north, but first stabilize the position and establish a solid defense line, and then plan for the future, who will let them not listen!" ”

"Privy Envoy Zhang also wants to occupy Quanzhou to find a foothold for the imperial court, and it can't be an exaggeration!" His Highness can say this, but he can't say it himself, so he should defend it strictly.

In my opinion, Zhang Shijie couldn't swallow the tone of being calculated by Pu Shougeng before, and used this as an excuse to announce his personal vendetta. Moreover, Quanzhou is a land of wealth, how can the Tartars give up easily, even if they are captured, they will definitely send troops to recover. The funny thing is that he besieged the city for two months, not to mention the loss of soldiers, and even the hair was fished, and the deal was lost to grandma's house! Zhao Hao sneered.

"Your Highness is a person who wants to do great things, how can he be so small-minded?" Ying Jieyan knew that His Royal Highness was angry with Zhang Shijie for bullying him that day, so he was not angry with him, and of course he had no good words.

"I'm a child, I'm naturally small-minded, and it's not big to think big!" Zhao Hao said with a smile.

"Alas......" Ying Jieyan couldn't laugh or cry when His Royal Highness said it, and sighed, "This battle is a strange battle, Zhang Shumi's generals have tens of thousands, and there are She people assisting, and Quanzhou only has thousands of soldiers, why can't he attack it for a long time?" ”

"What's so strange about this, Zhang Shijie has a poor character and no money; And although Pu Shougeng's character is worse, he is rich. He paid for the She people, and those people naturally refused to contribute when they attacked the city, how could this battle be won! Zhao Yu spread his hands and smiled.

"It's as simple as that?" Ying Jieyan was stunned and said, he knew that His Highness seemed to be joking, but he also knew that his information had always been accurate, so there must be a basis for saying so.

"Not really, but it's the majority!" Zhao Yu said.

"Then how will His Highness fight?" Ying Jieyan asked again.

"If I were him, with a bad character and lack of money, then I would tell the generals before the war that the Pu family has hundreds of millions of dollars, and after the city is broken, you can rob it, and it won't take three days to break the city!" Zhao Yu sneered.

"How can Your Highness do this, isn't that against the righteousness, how innocent are the people of Quanzhou!" Ying Jieyan was so angry that his beard rose when he heard this, and he said angrily, looking at the posture to expel him from the division.

"Sir, I'm talking if I were him. This king is young and golden, and he has to be disciplined by a famous teacher, and his natural character is also very good, so why make such a decision! Zhao Hao saw that the old man was really angry, and hurriedly laughed.

"Your Highness...... Alas! "Ying Jieyan is really speechless, how can he spread such a student, but think about His Highness's method, although it is damaged, there is a chance that it will succeed, and now he is changing his method of 'fundraising' I am afraid that there is also this reason.

"Hehe......" Zhao Hao scratched his scalp and laughed, in fact, he felt that what he said was right, the ancient war was actually fought with character. Character is not good, hundreds of millions of people can be easily conquered by hundreds of thousands of people, this Great Song Dynasty is the best example, in a few decades it has overdrawn the character that the ancestors have saved hard, and the result is that the rebels left the country and died.

Sometimes the decision to win or lose a battle has a lot to do with psychology, think about tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of people on both sides of the battle, when the fight is a white knife in and a red knife out, blood is flowing, and corpses are everywhere. And everyone is human, with wives and children, at least fathers and mothers. When the battle starts, when the battle is stalemate, as an ordinary soldier, everyone will inevitably think, fight or run? The so-called civic consciousness such as whether it is worth working for this government and so on is definitely a run for individuals alone! Because everyone is human after all, it is not realistic to say that they do not think about their own lives at all.

And once defeated, in fact, no matter which nationality, everyone will run away, running all over the mountains and wilderness, in order to run far, run fast, it is best to throw away even armor and weapons. Even if there is a white-knuckled battle behind, it can't stop it, but it may be trampled by the indiscriminate soldiers like a herd of bison. But everyone also understands that the more panicked you are in the battle, the faster you die, and you will run in front of others and chase after others, and those who suffer heavy casualties must run first. Then again, since everyone understands the truth that whoever runs first dies, why do they still run? It's a matter of character.

In the end, it is a question of whether you can trust your comrades-in-arms and commanders. This judgment of trust and distrust did not fall from the sky, but was lived out of society, dug out of the sea of blood, seen by father and brother, and fought on the battlefield. In terms of the small abacus in the heart of the individual, if you run, you will be chased and killed by the other party, and the possibility of death is half to half; If the brothers insist, the chance of death is less than 10%, so perseverance is victory! The problem is that if you are "more and more courageous", but your comrades-in-arms have already run away two miles away, and the probability of your own death is 100 percent, then why not fight for that half of the chance of survival!

As for if the soldiers are fighting desperately, but the commander has 'no face to go', not to mention, what percentage to worry about, you can directly consider the question of how ugly the death will be. And you don't have the money to buy your life, and there will be brave men under the heavy reward, so this thing that has influenced the judgment of the soldiers for a long time has formed the national character and character, and has become the ultimate force that determines the outcome of the war......

"It's bad, you have to quickly transfer Jiang Yishan and the rear army back, otherwise you will also suffer from it!" Zhao Yu said suddenly with a smile.

"Your Highness, what is this about?" Ying Jieyan asked in confusion.

"Zhang Shijie's defeat will inevitably lead the imperial court to continue to retreat south, if it is not good, he will go to Zhancheng through the strait, but Jiang Yishan is a good person, I am worried that I will be used by them and eventually lose my life!" Zhao Yu explained.

"Your Highness is too worried, I'm afraid things won't get to that point for a while." Ying Jieyan smiled and said, "The old man is just strange, His Royal Highness is dissatisfied with Jiang Yishan, why do you want to defend him?" He had been thinking about this question for a long time, and today he took the opportunity to say it...... (To be continued.) )