Both unexpected and reasonable, the war came on time. After receiving the urgent military report from the General Staff, Lin Feng immediately returned to the official residence of King Han in Zhongnanhai and sent an envoy to convene a meeting of the officials in Beijing.

Because of the demolition of the Forbidden City, the Han army has not yet had a very grand building to hold a large-scale court meeting, originally according to the Han Dynasty Prime Minister Li Guangdi Lord's meaning, the Han King's mansion should be greatly expanded once, in fact, after the summer harvest last year, the Han military government had a special project for this matter, and allocated a large amount of funds in advance to operate, and when the news just came out of a little wind, several major consortia in the Han army immediately broke their heads to "donate", And there are many officials to mobilize the northern Shilin to create public opinion - this is also a very heavy and very classic problem, in ancient Chinese politics, the imperial palace has an extremely important political symbolic meaning, the so-called palace is magnificent, can be "majestic country", and the imperial court can also stimulate the sense of national honor of its own people through this thing, so as to achieve the purpose of consolidating the rule. However, in the end, this matter was denied by His Royal Highness the King of Han, and a large number of smart people who tried to curry favor with their superiors and plot to be promoted touched a small nail.

Lin Feng is unwilling to spend this kind of fool's money when money and food are scarce, in fact, the Han Mansion is not small, since Lin Feng's wedding, it has become the political center of the Han Empire as a matter of course, for the sake of administrative efficiency and security, the Han government has thought about this building complex very early, and until recently, the various facilities of the Han Palace's palace have been basically complete, including the road outside the mansion, the greening of the garden and trees, and the repair of the "Haizi" landscape, and around the palace, Four permanent barracks were also built in the four directions of the southeast, north, and west for the garrison of the Guards units tasked with protection duties.

Although as a king's living place, the current "palace" still seems a little chilling, but Lin Feng's attitude in this aspect is very tough, not like a show at all, the Han Dynasty Prime Minister Li Guangdi feels very ashamed and guilty about this, but in view of the attitude of the lord, he rarely mentions this matter now.

The Han Empire spent almost all of its wealth on army building, and in the Han Dynasty, the army was supreme and everything else gave way, but now, this army was challenged like never before.

The small chamber was already full of senior officials of the Han military group at this moment - with the increasing authority of the Han King Lin Feng, the atmosphere of this meeting became more and more tense, when the Han military government was hastily established, the relationship between the monarch and the minister was quite harmonious, Lin Feng's tolerance, easy-going and "corporal Lixian" demeanor was really heartbreaking, but with the formalization of government agencies and the bureaucratization of the ruling class, especially the establishment of the "rite" department Cao, various "monarchs and ministers" gradually recovered, according to the previous unspoken rules, During the internal meeting of the Han Army Group, the minister could sit on the chair, but now, if it weren't for the "grace of the Lord", everyone would have to stand there in a proper manner.

Seeing that everyone had arrived, Colonel Li Ergou, who was standing beside the throne, quietly waved his hand, and the officers of the Guards on duty outside the hall bowed slightly, retreated outside in turn to guard and closed the door with their backhands, the light suddenly dimmed, and several palace maids stepped forward and lit the giant candles on both sides one by one.

The air fell silent, and the ministers of civil and military affairs in the hall all lowered their eyebrows and stood solemnly.

Zhou Peigong coughed, moved a few steps to the left, stepped forward and arched his hand to Lin Feng, passed over, and said loudly to his colleagues on the left and right, "Ladies and gentlemen, this time the lord urgently summoned the rank here, it is really for the puppet Prince of Qingjian and the Northern Ko Geldan to violate the border, and now the group of thieves and soldiers are pressing the border, and the princes from all walks of life are watching from the wall, if my Han can't deal with it calmly, I am afraid that there will be unforeseen dangers," he turned around, bowed to Lin Feng again, and said in a heavy tone, "According to the words of the privy envoy Wang Shirong Wang, the enemy army who attacked me this time, The sincerity of the soldiers is unprecedented: the southern thief Prince Jian's Labu Division, the soldiers marched into Anhui in two ways, one from Jiangxi, about 50,000 or 60,000 people, and the other from Shicheng (Nanjing), about 70,000 or 80,000 people, the two armies marched by land and water, the momentum was huge, and they intended to sweep the whole territory of Anhui; In addition, the Jungar Department of the Koubian also raised troops to attack, according to the Shanxi detailed report of our army, this offense is extraordinary, the thief of the Western Mongolian Khan Geldan personally led the army, and the army under his command gathered, about 50,000 or 60,000 horsemen, and the soldiers were divided into two roads, one way along the Weishui to the south, and attacked Taiyuan, and the other road was partial to the southeast, and Kou disturbed Baodezhou and Datong generation, it was reported that the enemy was very sharp, and only committed my Datong Road, and the Mongolian iron horsemen carried three or four horses, and ran hundreds of miles day and night, and the iron hooves were terrified to the cities. There are many officials in the northwest of the pseudo-Qing and Jin dynasties - the rivers and mountains in Shanxi are the barrier of the Central Plains, if they are allowed to steal from the Mongolian Tartars, Hebei will be in danger, so they must not be ignored lightly......"

Saying this, he turned his head to look around, and when he saw that the ministers in the hall were all talking timidly, he paused, raised his voice, and suppressed these noisy private discussions, "...... Thieves from the north and south, a total of about 200,000 military horses, is the founding of our dynasty has not been, stealing that this is the autumn of the Han Dynasty's critical survival, I hope that all of you will work together to assist the main public difficulties!! ”

Lin Feng nodded, waved his hand to signal Zhou Peigong to retreat, cleared his throat, and said loudly, "Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Peigong said the enemy situation just now, do you have any good solutions?!" ”

It may be that this news is too sudden, most of the ministers in the council hall are more surprised than calm, and they are speechless for a while, seeing the dull atmosphere, Li Guangdi on the side coughed lightly, and saluted Lin Feng, "The lord is clear, not to shirk the blame, but this soldier is killing together, but it is not good at subordinates, but the so-called 'soldiers come to block, water comes to cover', I don't know how many soldiers our army can use at the moment?!" ”

Lin Feng groaned slightly, and calculated in his heart, "Now our army has a total of two armies, the navy and the army, among which the army has seven town generals, from north to south, they are the Nuergan Ma Ying Division, the Ningjin Wang Dahai Division, the Xuanhua Zhao Guangyuan Division, the Datong Zhao Liangdong Division, the Baoding Sun Sike Division, and the Zhou Qiu Department and Liu Lusi Troops in Anhui, together with the three guards in Beijing, our Han Army has a total of ten corps, including about 60,000 musket infantry, more than 20,000 artillery, and more than 40,000 cavalry, totaling more than 12 or 30,000 people; In addition, there are two naval fleets, at present, the first fleet of General Shi Lang of Fubo Zhonglang has opened ports and stationed troops in Tianjin, Yingkou, Huludao, Chrysanthemum Island, Lushun and other places, together with the headquarters of the second fleet, there are nearly 200 large and small ships and more than 7,000 sailors! ......" Speaking of this, he couldn't help but smile, waved his hand at Li Guangdi and said, "But the navy is probably hard to count on, you also know this, in the past two years, our so-called 'naval fleet' has been doing business with one mind, hundreds of ships sound like a lot of money, in fact, there are only dozens of ships that can be beaten, and the others are all silver-making, and there are many ships that are not the navy in the first place, but the major chaebols see it as seeking shelter and entrust the fleet to act with the army!" ”

Of course, Li Guangdi knew about the affairs of the navy, as the prime minister of the empire, because of the professional division of labor, he rarely asked about the affairs of the military, but this did not include the navy.

At present, it is indeed difficult for the "navy" of the Han Dynasty to associate it with the army, and this fleet has almost disappeared after showing its face once at the wedding incident last time, and in addition to the Taiwan side, many people in various princes and even the top level of the Han army have forgotten the existence of this armed force, but as the highest official in charge of administration, Li Guangdi still clearly knows the function of this fleet, and in fact, the development of the navy to the present has long become a pillar industry of the Han military government. In today's situation of war in the country, the canals are not passable, there are many land fortresses, and half of the commercial transportation activities between the empire and the south are carried out by sea, so today's "Han Navy" has almost become a professional commercial mercenary under the silver bullet offensive of several major chaebols, and so far, it has never proved its existence through a war.

Lin Feng felt very funny when he thought of this incident, in fact, he had always attached great importance to the navy, and had placed great hopes on this unit, so at the beginning of the establishment of the army, he frequently visited the military port, but later found out that building the navy is really a big project, and it is definitely not something that can be done in two or three years, and in this slow development process, what makes him even more stunned is the change of officers and soldiers.

In the earliest days, the people sent to the navy were the most fierce part of the Han army, but in the increasingly strong commercial background, these people have slowly begun to transform into the role of merchants, Lin Feng once found during the review that the officers in the naval fleet are more and more like the "shopkeeper" in the business, many soldiers are very familiar with the prices and specialties of the coastline, and when it comes to this, the people are foaming at the mouth, and it seems that they are not very good at their naval warfare profession. For them, the cannon equipped on the battleship is more deterrent than practical, and on this part of the China Sea, except for Zheng Jing's Taiwan fleet, there is no force that dares to trouble them, and many sailors and officers have no chance to fire two guns all year round, let alone more advanced things such as broadside warfare.

Lin Feng discovered the major mistakes he had made in the construction of the navy very early, in fact, the general program he gave to the navy in his subconscious came from the game "Age of Discovery", to develop the navy like a business chamber of commerce, and the economic purpose has always trumped the military purpose, although he himself did not realize it. Now it seems that there are advantages and disadvantages to this, the advantage is that the navy has expanded rapidly in a short period of time, and at the same time it has brought huge economic benefits to the empire, and the disadvantage is that the commercialization of the imperial navy is extremely unfavorable to the professionalization and nationalization of the navy.

Most of the ministers present knew about this matter, so although the atmosphere was so serious, when Lin Feng talked about this "navy", the ministers couldn't help but laugh secretly.

After a pause in laughter, Li Guangdi glanced at Zhou Peigong, frowned, and said, "The ministers often listen to humanitarianism, my Han General Staff has been planning the matter of the militia, according to the rumors in the official workshop, now in addition to these hundreds of thousands of regular soldiers, there are still hundreds of thousands of militiamen, if this matter is true, wouldn't it be a trivial matter to resist the enemy?!" ”

Zhou Peigong shook his head when he heard this, and politely gave Li Guangdi a polite look, "Li Xiang misunderstood!" He patiently explained, "The so-called 'militia group' was started before the Eastern Expedition last year, and its original intention was only to guard against small disturbances, warn people's hearts, and appease the localities, so the Yamen of our General Staff sent a large number of officers to various prefectures, prefectures, and counties to rectify and recruit the private soldiers of large households. It may be reluctant to use it to exterminate the scattered bandits and robbers in the local area, but if you leave your hometown and fight in a different place, its combat power will be six out of ten......" He shrugged his shoulders and said with a wry smile, "Li Xiang, my lords Mingjian - according to the plan of the General Staff, the militia is the deputy of my Han, which can supervise the grain and grass, can guard the rear, and can defend the city, but it is absolutely powerless to fight against the elite of the enemy army in the field!" ”

Li Guangdi was silent for a while, then turned to Lin Feng and said, "Lord Qiqi, now that the spring ploughing is not finished, people everywhere are tight, if the war starts at this time, what will happen to the harvest next year?!" ”

It is indeed embarrassing, Lin Feng is having a headache for this, "Mr. Jin Qing, this war is not trivial, this king has made a slight calculation, if you want to ensure the conquest of the army, you must at least levy 200,000 militia to ensure logistics!" ......" he patted his head, "and I want to go on an expedition to Shanxi and Anhui, I won't be able to return home in a few months, I don't know if Mr. has any good equations?!" ”

Li Guangdi sighed, bowed down and said, "Now that the war is pressing, the enemy and I will not stand together, and we will not be able to fight without fighting!" He straightened up, frowned and said, "I have a territory across the Xiongguan and outside, so the cold and warm are uneven, the minister read the official document yesterday, according to the local yamen report, now Zhili Baoding, Zhengding to Luanzhou Shanhaiguan cultivated land has been turned over the soil and planted, but outside the Guan, Ningjin, Nuergan and other places The frozen soil is solid, and it has not yet been ploughed, not to mention that many reclaimed wasteland still needs to be excavated with water diversion ditches, and the project is cumbersome and huge, if you rashly transfer a large number of strong men, the consequences are really worrying!! ”

Lin Feng understood what he meant. As the most core government affairs of the empire recently, he has never dared to ignore the spring ploughing work, is the agricultural problem in Liaodong this year just spring ploughing? The settlement and resettlement of millions of displaced people, and the reclamation and division of millions of wasteland are the most important things. In the past two years, Liaodong has received millions of immigrants, and the reclamation area has already begun to extend from the Liaohe Plain from the Nenjiang Plain, in addition to the great pressure caused by the water conservancy project, the barrenness of the newly reclaimed cultivated land has also become a national problem, and last year because of the poor conditions, the vast number of immigrants had to adopt extensive farming methods to manage the farmland - this means that the displaced people did not spend money on the construction of irrigation projects, but chose relatively fertile land for some acres and dropped seeds. Let its crops grow on their own, completely dependent on the sky for food, in the vast and sparsely populated northeast land, using this farming method, a farmer can cultivate nearly 200 acres of land, a variety of thin harvests, so as to win by area.

This method of farming is obviously not workable, and everyone in the empire understands this, and the reason why last year was able to achieve a good harvest was due to the good weather and good weather season, and the new seeds were drought-tolerant and productive, and the vitality was tenacious.

There are two traditional correct ways, but both need to have a basic irrigation project as a guarantee, one is to divide the wasteland, sympathize with the soil fertility, and adopt the method of sub-tillage to operate, so that the soil can be fully rested if it is cultivated in turns, so as to achieve the purpose of high yield; In addition to the traditional mulberry weaving, it also includes the "six animals", that is, the storage of chickens, ducks, dogs, pigs, horses and other livestock, in addition to providing farmers with a certain income and meat, there is also a more important mission, that is, to accumulate their excrement and transport it to the fertile land in the field.

According to the official statistics of Cao, the household department of the Han government, taking the pigsty as an example, in the process of re-raising a pig, the farmer first padded a layer of fertile soil and hay for it in the pigsty, and then dug it out immediately after a few months, and then carried it to the field, and spread it evenly on the land with grass and wood ash, and then soaked the seeds with pig manure or other human and animal feces and urine mixed with arsenic (Note 1), put the spring equinox into the tank, and the seedlings emerged from the valley rain, and then transplanted, so that for two to three years, after repeated careful and patient management, the wasteland can become a mature field and become a fertile land that can guarantee income.

In order to cope with this special work, the Li Guangdi government issued a special order to send tens of thousands of Ding Zhuang to the major cities to collect feces and urine, and Tang Bin, the governor of Ningjin, even sent people and horses to Horqin to exchange grain for human and animal manure in the Mongolian tribes, transported it back in large wooden barrels, and then lent it to the embryo fields of the displaced people.

If it were in a period of peace, this practice would definitely be an international joke, and it would be said that the officials would think that this matter was insulting to the "view of a great power", and even the peasants would laugh at the yamen for making a fuss and making a fuss, and if it was to develop wasteland, it would take three or five years to slowly cultivate and rest the famine, and if it was not ripe, it would naturally be ripe, and it was really a bit unbelievable to go to other places to collect feces and urine like this, and as far as agricultural production was concerned, the cost was too high.

All of this is for the sake of war - the goal of the empire is to make more wasteland mature as soon as possible, and to produce as much food as possible in each piece of heaven and earth, so that the Ding Zhuang can have more time to deal with the conscription, so that the imperial court can calmly allocate materials and wage war.

It is impossible not to mention the outstanding foresight of the Confucian bureaucratic class represented by Li Guangdi in agriculture, and this plan has been implemented since last year, and until recently, the Han Empire has invested nearly 1 million taels of silver, nearly 400,000 stones of grain, and nearly 60,000 tea bricks regardless of the cost, but the completion rate of the task is less than half. The productivity of millions of hungry immigrants was staggering, and the empire's agricultural inputs could not keep up with the speed at which the immigrants were exploiting the land.

Li Guangdi's melancholy is here, from the heart, he is resolutely opposed to the requisition of a soldier in the countryside, there are too many things that need to be done, in his plan, as long as he is given three years - or even two years, the Han army group can hoard countless grains, and the northeast land will soon become the most important food and military source base of the empire?!!

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Note 1: Arsenic is mixed to control pests and diseases.

The above information on agriculture is based on Wuhan University's 1988 "Agricultural Research in Western and Southern Jinxi in the Seventeenth Century" and "The Natural Economy of the Qing Dynasty".

This is for reference, and some of the contents of the two papers conflict with each other, and the author has made a certain amount of discretion to excerpt them, which is not plagiarism.