Chapter 42: Wei Mang is born
After all, Wei Si hadn't touched a woman for a few days, so he hugged Ying Concubine and went to his bedroom, and the two of them were happy.
After that, Ying Ji lay in Wei Si's arms and looked at it and said:
"King, don't you like me?"
Wei Si also hugged Ying Ji and replied:
"No, you're thinking too much!"
Ying Ji suddenly asked again:
"King, didn't you just choose so many ladies to enter the palace? But why haven't you pampered them? ”
Wei Si touched Ying Ji's face:
"Concubine, didn't the widow just spoil you? They, let them get acquainted with them in the palace first, and then talk about it later! ”
Yingji suddenly asked again:
"But Luo'er told me that you used to be interested in beautiful women, but now why have you become so dedicated to me?"
Wei Si thought to himself at this time:
"Yingji, do you really think that the widow is dedicated to you, the widow is only pampered because you are the princess of Qin, you are still narcissistic here!"
On the surface, he still looked at Yingji and said:
"Yes, don't you like widows like this?"
Ying Ji put her head on Wei Si's shoulder:
"The King...... King...... What are you talking about? ”
At this time, Zhang Xiao outside suddenly shouted:
"The King...... King, I heard that General Zhai Zhang has returned from the Song Kingdom in a great victory, and now he is almost outside the city of Daliang! ”
Wei Si hurriedly pushed away Yingji beside him, began to put on clothes, and said to Yingji by the way:
"Concubine, the widow has to go to work on state affairs, you should sleep here first!"
Ying Ji was a little unhappy and sat directly beside Wei Si:
"King, you are always busy with state affairs, when will you be able to accompany my concubine and me!"
Wei Si had to comfort her:
"There is no way to be a widow, after all, national affairs are important, so you should be more considerate and considerate of the widow!"
After Wei Si put on his clothes, when he came outside, it was almost sunset, but Wei Si still asked people to hurry up and prepare a guard of honor, and personally went to the outside of Daliang City to greet these recruits who had won the first victory.
Wei Si brought Su Qin to his side, and then called Zhai Zhang to the city tower, although it was late, but with the help of the light, Wei Si still reviewed the victorious recruits he had retrained.
Zhai Zhang was also very excited and said to Wei Si:
"King, our new army doesn't have its own title yet, but now they all want to have their own name to intimidate the world like Wei Wushu!"
Wei Si glanced at Su Qin:
"Su Qin, what do you think of this new army?"
Su Qin glanced at the dense Wei recruits under the city tower and said:
"Great King, your army is indeed good, but if it is compared with the previous Wei Wushu, it is still a lot worse, a lot worse!"
Wei Si smiled lightly:
"Of course, Wei Wushu is one in a hundred, and most of them are children of poor families, how can they compare?"
Su Qin said suddenly:
"Great King, forgive me Su Qin for taking the liberty to ask, how many Wei Wushu of Wei are still alive today?"
Wei Si actually didn't know the situation of Wei Wushu's survival, but he only knew that he could no longer afford to fight against the big countries alone, especially countries like Qin, Qi, and Chu, so he set his sights on Zhai Zhang:
"General Zhai Zhang, you were in charge of managing Wei Wushu before, just answer Su Qin!"
Zhai Zhang came over and said to Su Qin:
"Wei Wushu originally had nearly 400,000 people when our Wei State was strong, but now due to the defeat of several major battles in Maling, Hexi, Shangjun, and Xiangcheng, today's Wei Wushu is difficult to adapt to the replenishment due to the harsh selection conditions, and the recruits are difficult to adapt to the supplement, and there are less than 80,000 people, and now they are basically scattered, mainly led by Gongsun Xiangguo himself, stationed in Anyi, Xiangcheng, Xiuyu, and Ye, in order to prevent the Qin army from advancing eastward!"
Su Qin sighed with emotion:
"Alas, I didn't expect that Wei Wushu, who was so powerful back then, is now so withered, no wonder the Qin State can be so domineering now!"
Wei Si also says:
"Yes, if Wei Wushu still had the strength back then, then the widow would not have watched the nearly 100,000 people of the Han Zhao allied army being slaughtered by the Qin army in Xiuyu!"
Su Qin suddenly glanced at King Wei carefully:
"Great King, in that battle of cultivating fish, even if it was changed to any sane person, it would be impossible for any sane person to lead troops out to fight Qin, Gongsun Xiangguo's decision was right, if the Wei army really went to save the Zhao Han army at that time, I am afraid that your Daliang City would not be able to be saved at that time."
魏嗣 says:
"Yes, the reason for this is nothing more than the decay of my Wei State Wei Wushu!"
Then he asked Su Qin again:
"Su Qin, you can help us come up with a name for this new army!"
Su Qin nodded:
"Okay!"
After Su Qin looked at the countless Wei troops under the city tower and hesitated for a moment, he said:
"King, why don't you call Wei Mang?"
Wei Si nodded:
"The name of this Wei Mang's pawn is really good, but Mang's pawns of our Wei State are proud of their recklessness, not afraid of life and death, and bravely kill the enemy!"
Then Wei Si personally said loudly to these soldiers downstairs in the city:
"Did you hear that? The widow, this little strategist of Su Qin, gave you a name that is not inferior to Wei Wu's 'Wei Mang', you must remember that you are a member of Wei Mang's pawn in the future, do you know? ”
There was a neat response from the downstairs of the city:
"Wei Mang, Wei Mang, we finally have our own number in the future, we will be equal to Wei Wushu in the future, thank you for the name...... Thank you, Mr. Su Qin, for the name! ”
Zhai Zhang reminded Wei Si again at this time:
"King, is the reward for the meritorious service of the soldiers who went to the Song Kingdom this time still the same as before?"
魏嗣 says:
"Of course, the rewards for the meritorious service of the soldiers this time are indispensable, you know?"
Zhai Zhang nodded:
"The king, the minister understands!"
Su Qin asked Zhai Zhang curiously:
"General Wei Zhang, how do you Wei Mang's meritorious deeds count?"
Zhai Zhang replied:
"This is all set by the king himself, and our Wei soldiers are divided into thirteenth rank!"
Su Qin asked again:
"What thirteenth rank is General Wei Zhang?"
Wei Zhang explains:
"These thirteen ranks, the first class is the 'captain chief' just like me, and the second is the lieutenant chief, lieutenant general, lieutenant auxiliary, lieutenant chief, lieutenant general, lieutenant general, thousand commander, centurion, centurion, sergeant, sergeant! That's it! ”
Su Qin suddenly smiled:
"Then according to that, don't these soldiers still belong to the corporal now?"
Zhai Zhang also replied with a smile:
"Su Qin, don't underestimate us Wei Mang, although their Yulu is only half of Wei Wu's pawn, but after being promoted to the knighthood, it is not comparable to Wei Wu's pawn!"
Su Qin was a little worried:
"But if you want to feed these Wei Mangs, who will gradually become stronger in the future, it will cost a lot of money!"
Zhai Zhang said:
"Since the king is determined to establish this Wei Mang, he must have a way to deal with it!"
Su Qin turned around and found that King Wei was no longer around, so he asked Wei Zhang:
"What? Where did the king go? Didn't they all just get here? ”
Wei Si laughed out loud:
"Haha...... Haha, Mr. Su Qin, you are really too interested in our Wei Mang, and you haven't even seen the king leave just now, but as courtiers, we should try to interfere as little as possible in the king's affairs! ”
Su Qin also echoed and laughed:
"Haha, too, where is the king, we courtiers really shouldn't ask...... You shouldn't be asking! ”
It turned out that Wei Si saw that Zhai Zhang and Su Qin were chatting happily, and he was a little bored, so he quietly went down the city tower, returned to the palace, and continued to check the various reports submitted from various places under the oil lamp.
When Wei Si saw the harvest in Hedong County, he found that the harvest in the past three years was less than half of that of Shanyang County, and Wei Si immediately asked Zhang Xiao to help him find out the comparison of the previous years, and he was shocked.
Ten years ago, the grain handed over by Hedong County was about 1 million quintals, but this time, the grain handed over by Hedong County was only 300,000 quintals, a full 700,000 quintals, and it is still declining year by year.
Then Wei Si checked the harvest of Hanoi County again, and there were actually more than Hedong County, and this Hedong County is the largest county in Wei now, almost ten times that of Hanoi County, and the old capital Anyi is also in its place.
A few days later, Wei Shuang rushed to Daliang, and after entering the palace, he knelt directly in front of Wei Si.
Wei Si was angry and threw the harvest situation of Hedong County in front of Wei Shuang, and Wei Shuang didn't dare to say a word with this document at this time.
I only heard Wei Si ask loudly:
"Wei Shuang, the widow asked you to receive the Anyi Order and manage Hedong County, why is it that in the past few years, Hedong County has such a large area, but the harvest is not as good as a year?"
Wei Shuang explained:
"King, in the past few years, the Qin soldiers have repeatedly invaded our Hedong County of Wei State, either burning or looting, and there has been a drought, where can our Hedong County still have a bumper harvest?"
Wei Si pointed at Wei Shuang again and said:
"Then look at Hanoi County, it is more influenced by the Qin State than your Hedong, and now Hanoi County is narrow, why are their harvests better than yours?"
Wei Shuang continued to explain:
"King, Hanoi County has our Wei heavy troops, of course the Qin people dare not come easily, and our Hedong County, since the loss of all the West River, Shang County, the Yellow River is basically in the hands of the Qin people, the Qin people now occupy the Yellow River water source, our Hanoi County has been raining little in recent years, and the Qin State took advantage of the road to attack Zhao last time, and by the way, it was another robbery along our Hanoi County, how can we still have a harvest in Hanoi County?"
Suddenly, Gongsun Yan also came to the palace at this time, and naturally heard Wei Shuang's words just now, so he said to Wei Si:
"Yes, the king, what Wei Shuang said is true, since our Wei State lost all the West River and Shangjun land, Hedong County is now almost a piece of fat in front of the Qin people, although there is the Yellow River as the boundary, but the Yellow River has all belonged to the Qin State in the land cession treaty given by the first king to the King of Qin."
Wei Si then asked:
"Then Gongsun Xiangguo, do you think it will be easy for the widow to recover Xihe and Shangjun?"