When Xu Zixian read the paperwork, Jin Jian, who had already entered the room, was sitting on the chair opposite, he shrunk his upper body in the shadows, and his breathing was evenly adjusted, so that Xu Zixian could ignore his existence as much as possible.

Xu Zixian watched for a long time, but Jin Jian remained motionless, and both of them seemed extremely patient.

After a long time, Xu Zi put down the paperwork first, signed them one by one, and finally knocked on the table.

A blue-robed official walked in, and Xu Zixian said, "Overnight, don't delay." ”

The clerk Xu Bin was Si Congcao's person, with a shrewd and capable face, and nodded at the moment: "The people over there have actually been waiting. ”

Xu Zixian smiled and said, "It's time to harvest, everyone is a little anxious. ”

Xu Bin's family is a big family, parents, brothers, children and nephews, 21 people have not been separated, and the official household in Nan'an Hou Mansion is counted as a household, and their family has opened up more than 300 acres of land, including more than 100 acres of cotton fields.

However, Xu Bin didn't answer, he saw Jin Jian waiting, and he just hugged his fists at the moment, hugged all the papers, and then turned around and left.

Xu Zixian looked at Jin Jian at this time and said, "Are you in a hurry?" ”

Jin Jian said with a smile: "The affairs of the prince are all important matters, and it is appropriate to wait for the subordinates." ”

Xu Zixian nodded and did not speak, the efficiency of the Military Intelligence Department has improved recently, and the intelligence of the Japanese State and the intelligence of the pirates are sent by ships every day.

In fact, this is a matter of time, the Military Intelligence Department has been established for more than a year, and the officials, officials, garrison generals, ordinary soldiers, businessmen, ordinary small business owners, or buddies, errand runners, and even people in the rivers and lakes, including post guards at post stations, etc., as long as they are well-informed people, can be included in the scope of the Military Intelligence Department's bribery and utilization.

In the early days, this method was inefficient, and the information provided was quite mixed, and the military intelligence department had to use a large number of personnel to analyze and summarize this information, and then there was not necessarily anything useful in the 100 articles.

Later, Jin Jian began to collect information on the political leaders of the Beijing Division, including the movements of the important officials of the two governments, and the chief officials and policy trends of the three departments and six ministries.

The number of garrisons, the scale and movement of the movement, the allocation and supply of grain and grass, the number of war horses, the armor storehouse and other information.

Of course, it also includes the political voices of officials, local conditions, bandits, bandits, droughts and floods, etc.

This time, the collection and induction of intelligence is much more useful, and even the intelligence work of the Wa Kingdom and Kang Tianqi is quite smooth. This time the pirates attacked, before Chen Daojian was confirmed, the Military Intelligence Department had already reported to the Nan'an Hou Mansion a day earlier, which shows that the military intelligence work has achieved initial results, which makes Kong He and others have a lot of questioning firepower, the Military Intelligence Department has huge expenses, and has set up branches in many places.

The military intelligence department is quite mysterious, terrifying and powerful in the eyes of many people, and there are many rumors about this department on the island, but they are not true.

In fact, at the beginning of the establishment of this department, there was no clue at all, Xu Zi was a person who was at the forefront of the times, and in many wars, including important and decisive large-scale battles in later generations, intelligence work has always been a very important link.

China's art of war has always emphasized knowing and knowing the enemy, but when it is turned into actual work, no one will abide by this vague art of war, or even have no clue.

From the establishment to the growth of the Military Intelligence Department, Xu Zixian has always been very patient and not in a hurry, he knows that this department will definitely shine one day, and even this day will come soon.

In this era, there are no forces and masters in the world, intelligence gathering is actually quite simple, find the right people, do some suitable things, go to the right path, and the feedback will be quite rich.

At present, the Military Intelligence Department has also sent a considerable number of manpower to compile maps in various routes, and the important mountains, valleys, cities, plains, woodlands, rivers, and valleys are compiled in detail.

Jin Jian said to Xu Zixian: "Our people in King Zhao's Mansion have been determined, the night before yesterday, King Zhao, Xu Ziwei, Xu Ziwen, and Li Gu discussed secretly until night. Our people can't get into the secret room, they don't know what to say, they can only continue to follow the trail of the next step. Early the next morning, Li Gu got up and went to Pu Shougao's mansion, and in the evening, he sent a carriage to Pu's house and pulled the money back from the whole car. We can be sure of this, and he was present when the money was moved. Next, that is, yesterday afternoon, Li Gu left Zhao Wangfu, took the money and the carriage, and left Fuzhou. The next destination is still unclear, and we will have to wait for the military intelligence personnel at our city gate to decide. ”

Xu Zixian nodded again and again when he heard this, and said with a smile: "Compared with last year, the ability of the Military Intelligence Department is much greater. ”

Jin Jian smiled: "It's still what the prince said, it's a matter of time." Let's try one in Zhao Wangfu, and then the next one, anyway, be cautious. Zhao Wangfu didn't notice it all along...... There are too many people looking for them to get through and buy news, and they regard us as some general of the box army who wants to be motivated, or someone sent by a local official who inquires about the news. It's not easy for the Pu family to enter, so let's infiltrate his surroundings, and we can always know what is going on there. The garrison army at the city gate is either the city garrison camp or the people who hunt the thief camp, and they are all sparsely bought and can't spend a few dollars. ”

"You've got the hang of it." Xu Zi praised first, knowing that he had chosen the right person.

"Jingshi movement, the pile sealing warehouse is empty, and the outer warehouse is also empty. The meeting of the two governments suggested to the Son of Heaven that there was no other way to decide to apportion the funds in various ways. ”

Xu Zixian's expression froze, he remembered this very clearly that the Northern Expedition in history was larger in scale, more miserable in defeat, and even more like flowing water.

The inner treasury of the Son of Heaven and the outer treasury of the two prefectures have accumulated between 2,000 and 30 million guan, which is of course a huge amount of money, but the Northern Expedition has been mobilized for several months, nearly 300,000 forbidden troops, 50,000 or 60,000 war horses, hundreds of thousands of horses, mules, donkeys, and cattle. With an army of 300,000 or 400,000 people, plus millions of people, the daily consumption and preparation and mobilization of war resources are astronomical, and the Wei army's mode of warfare is extremely dependent on logistics, as evidenced by the fact that more than one million chariots, horses, and people have been mobilized.

A large amount of food, cloth, medicinal materials, as well as weapons, armor, bows, crossbows, arrows, every day is a huge amount of resource expenditure, the main force of the army has gathered in Yongping, the sentry cavalry has passed the gate, in the plain area outside the pass to advance the sentry scout, has been with the Donghu sentry cavalry many battles, there are mutual losses.

According to the Wei army's plan, it should be to establish a large supply base in Yongping, and after the gate is closed, a second base will be established in the area of the Daling River, and Wang Zhi's sailors and Minfu will jointly transport supplies from land and water.

So far, it is still the narrow terrain of western Liaoning, after the defense base on the bank of the Daling River is completed, then go north to the old Jinzhou area to build a city, Dalinghe City, Jinzhou, close the gate, until Yongping, the sea is the Wang Zhi of Pingdao, advance by land and water, and advance the battle line of the Great Wei to Donghu for about three or four hundred miles.

Don't underestimate these three or four hundred miles, from Guanmen to the old Jinzhou is this distance, and once Jinzhou is successfully rebuilt, the Great Wei can use the large and small Ling River, as well as the endless mountains and forests in the north, to compress the Donghu people in the old Yingzhou and the Conglin in the north, the strategic situation of the Donghu people will become quite bad, they cannot break through the layers of city defenses, if they want to attack the Great Wei mainland, they have to take a detour from the grasslands in the north, and walk an extra three or four thousand miles to reach the northern defense line of the Great Wei.

The Donghu people are no longer pure fishing and hunting and nomadic fighting, they also need strong logistics, if the strategic situation deteriorates to such a point, they will be restricted, not to mention attacking the inner territory of the Great Wei, looting the wealthy people, and weakening the national strength of the Great Wei, they will be difficult to protect themselves, because the Wei army still has quite strong combat effectiveness, and can sneak attack from Jinzhou to the north, or cross the Daling River and Xiaoling River, and continue to push the battle line forward, at that time, the Liaohe Hunhe outside Yingzhou is the battle line, On the contrary, the national strength of the Donghu people will be continuously weakened by the Great Wei.

I have to say that the Northern Expedition led by the two governments presided over by Han Zhong has relatively clear goals and is also very progressive, and it has been a few months, but the sentinels have only come out of the gate.

If the main force builds a camp and slowly moves forward, the main force of the Donghu people has 200,000 cavalry, and they will have nowhere to go in the face of the 300,000 heavily guarded forbidden army and the more than 200,000 box army that cooperates with the defense.

If it is hard to break through, a frontal bloody battle is exactly what the imperial court is willing to do.

The forbidden army is armed with heavy crossbows, thick armor, long swords, and horizontal swords, and will never suffer a loss when engaging enemy cavalry head-on.

"The Son of Heaven and the two mansions are deliberate." Xu Zixian said: "Can you be sure?" ”

"According to the previous investigation, some officials of the household department are vying to take our bribes, and it is easy to get the statistics of the outer treasury. Neku has to find some bold eunuchs, and it's not impossible. Jin Jian said: "Adding up the two libraries, there is always about 15 million yuan in savings." ”

Xu Zixian snorted coldly and said, "This is about the same. ”

Of course, the use of money in the past few months is very powerful, in fact, the Son of Heaven and the two governments have panicked.

The war has not yet been fought, but the rangers have engaged in the battle, and the money has exceeded 10 million, and there will be a big war and a stalemate at the bottom, and the war will last at least half a year, and there will be times when the money is much more than now.

In other words, the idea that the imperial court and the Son of Heaven planned to use 3,000 to 40 million to finish this battle was a completely unrealistic fantasy.

Xu Zixian also knew that the money must not be enough, the Great Wei is a foreign trade-oriented economy, and the industry and GDP formed by the yeoman farmers are large and inappropriate, for example, an ordinary Dawei yeoman farmer family creates an industry of 200 guan a year, but the income is only less than 20 guan, excluding the necessary expenses for life, the money that can be provided to the imperial court is quite limited.

This is similar to the end of the Qing Dynasty, at the end of the Qing Dynasty, during the Second Opium War, the total economic volume of the United States surpassed that of Britain and was the first in the world, while China ranked second in the same period, Britain ranked third, followed by Germany, France and India, China's total amount was more than 200 billion US dollars, about twice that of India's more than 100 billion, but the financial revenue of the Indian colonies was roughly equivalent to the taxes that the Qing government could receive. At the same time, the British government's fiscal revenue was dozens of times that of the Qing government, and the difference between the two fiscal revenues was that the Qing government could collect taxes on a large number of yeoman farmers struggling on the food and clothing line, while Britain had a fairly developed industry and commerce through early maritime trade and industrialization, and the British government could collect industrial and commercial taxes and tariffs far more than the Qing government, and the gap between the two was huge. Together, there were not as many war reparations as Napoleon III's defeat to the Prussians, but the French banking tycoons had a meeting and collected billions of francs in one afternoon.

This is the benefits and benefits brought by the development of industry and commerce to the country and society, and the period when the Qing government's financial revenue increased dramatically, and it was also the period when the Englishman Hurd presided over the Qing customs, and at that time, the Qing government vaguely understood the importance of foreign trade and tariff revenue, but it seemed that it was too late.

As for the Great Wei, Xu Zixian felt that the Great Wei relied on overseas trade and industrial and commercial income, but was limited to the doctrine of agriculture as the foundation and the stability of agriculture in the pre-Qin and Han dynasties, and was confined to a state of contradiction.

On the one hand, the Great Wei encouraged industry and commerce, did not restrict overseas trade, and obtained a large amount of income, but the Great Wei had no concept of the law to protect industrial and commercial trade, and the support and protection of overseas trade was also unregulated.

Especially in the northwest, north and the Central Plains, a large number of yeoman farmers with a population of nearly 100 million, stabilizing these people and protecting them is the leading direction of the Great Wei Dynasty.

As a result, the interests of the south and the north were separated, and the development of industrial and commercial trade came to a standstill or even regressed, and the practice of the Great Wei court was to levy higher taxes, and there was no other way.

Da Wei is in a state of cheap money, and now it has only taken more than 20 million yuan, Xu Zixian feels that it is already quite frugal, which shows that Han Zhong, the head of the family, has done things to the extreme.

In the future, if the truce is planned before the year, the military expenditure will be at least fifty or sixty million, this figure is afraid that the Son of Heaven will not be able to sleep all night, and Han Zhong is afraid that he will want to die...... This money, counting the normal annual income surplus of the imperial court in the previous year, plus the money from the internal and external treasury, the deficit is at least 30 million.

When the Son of Heaven's inner library is clean and can run mice, he can't ask the Son of Heaven to take out the calligraphy, paintings, antiques, and bronzes collected by the emperors of the previous dynasties and sell them?

Even if the Son of Heaven is willing to sell calligraphy and painting antiques, how can so many people buy them in a while and a half, and how much do you have to sell for a gap of 30 million?

"The people of Jingshi have been determined." Jin Jian said: "Starting next month, it will be apportioned according to various people and income. The shortfall of more than 30 million yuan was levied and demanded by local officials, and I don't know how much has been set on Fujian Road, so I will immediately report it to the prince and marquis when I have news. ”

Xu Zixian smiled coldly, of course he knew that the share of Fujian Road, in addition to the apportionment of six million Jiangling Mansion and Jiangnan East Road, Fujian Road was the most.

This period was originally the most glorious period in Fujian, in terms of the imperial examination, Jiangnan was the first, Zhejiang was second, and Jiangnan West Road and Fujian Road were tied for third.

This is still the result of the suppression of the imperial court, it seems that there was a family law in the early Wei Dynasty, and Fujian Jinshi should not enter the three divisions, nor should they enter the political hall, and even the share of the middle is limited.

If it were not deliberately suppressed, Fujian Road should not be under the two Zhejiang, and culture and education would be second only to Jiangnan.

Jiangnan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Fujian, the sum of the Jinshi quota of these four roads is afraid that it can account for more than half of the total number of Jinshi in the three hundred years of the Great Wei Dynasty.

The prosperity of the Heavenly Religion is in these four roads.

It can be said that seventy to eighty percent of the financial income of the Great Wei comes from these four roads plus a Guangnan East Road, and the rest of the places, from the northwest to the Central Plains, the southwest, the eighteen roads and the Beijing division can provide three to four percent of the financial income.

The amount of Fujian Road apportionment is 4 million guan, for which Fujian pacified the envoys, local officials sent a large number of officers and soldiers to urge the local levies, and large-scale civil uprisings broke out in various prefectures and counties, almost all the roads were opposed, and then the army and the forbidden army everywhere were strongly suppressed, and it took about half a year for the chaos to calm down.

In the sixteenth year of Chongde, the seventeenth year, the imperial court apportioned several times, this time the local officials did not care, everyone could see that the center had no way, and at that time Donghu had already invaded the Wei realm again, and the main force of the forbidden army was destroyed, unable to resist, the Son of Heaven ordered the world soldiers and horses to be the king in Beijing, and there was not much reaction, and the whole world was just waiting for the Great Wei to die.

"It's a good job, in addition to the Beijing Division, the Northern Expedition battlefield should also pay more attention, in addition, Guangnan East, West, Jinghu South, and North, all pay attention to it, and send more people." Xu Zi thought about it first, and then said: "Li Gu's trip is very secretive, send more people to follow, and the people of the action group also send a team of people to follow." ”

Jin Jian was in a hurry, knowing that Li Gu's trip was probably not so simple, and he had already paid considerable attention to the prince. After all, in terms of the current situation of Fujian Road, all prefectures, prefectures, armies, and counties all have the connections of Changwenhou Mansion, and Xu Zixian's strength and prestige are enough to control.

In Fuzhou City, it is not difficult for Yang Shiwei to cooperate, and Zheng Liqi has already been counted as a person from Nan'anhou Mansion. Lin Douyao will not resist, he doesn't need to risk his life, he can resign from the office, hang up the crown and leave, just don't get into trouble.

Only King Zhao and the Pu family are the enemies of life and death in Nan'an Houfu, these two families themselves also understand this, with the suppression of Nan'an Hou Mansion by King Zhao's father and son has made the two families have a lot of grievances, even if Xu Zixian himself doesn't care, he knows that the defeat of Qizhou is the design of King Zhao, how can he not avenge his father?

Once Xu Zi gained power first, the best outcome for the Zhao Wang family was also to be driven out of Fujian.

As for the Pu family, Xu Zixian is even more determined to win, this Tianfang merchant family is not a pure maritime merchant family at all, it is a pawn who crosses the river, comes to preach, buys off the officials of the Great Wei, and lays the front for the invasion of the Tianfang people.

If it weren't for the bad influence, Xu Zixian would have sent someone to assassinate Pu Shougao and exterminate the Pu family by the way.

Once Xu Zi first grasped the power, investigated the Pu family, and obtained actual evidence, eradicating this parasitic tumor on Fujian Road was what he had to do.

Li Gu was involved in the two lines of Zhao Wangfu and Pu Jia, so Xu Zi couldn't pay attention to it first.

"My subordinates will send the best men." Jin Jian said: "The operatives also pick the most daring and careful people with the best skills to follow." ”

"Well," Xu Zixian nodded, "I'm very relieved about this." ”

Jin Jian stood up and said, "According to the instructions of the prince, the people we put around Lord Qin and the First Army can be withdrawn?" ”

"Some people in the First Army, it's good to be transferred away gradually, so you don't have to follow." Xu Zi looked at Jin Jian first and said, "The Lord is in danger of the country, they have some ideas about the situation at that time, and it is also for the sake of the overall situation, so they don't have to worry too much." ”

Jin Jian Zhengse listened and didn't answer, and sure enough, Xu Zixian continued: "Qin Dongyang did a very good job this time, I just want to be such a responsible general." I have set up various divisions, Jing'an, and military intelligence, mainly for foreign and external spies, meticulous work, and unscrupulous people, not for my own henchmen. I'm not saying that I don't take precautions against the generals and officials at all. However, it is not necessary to go online, and the prevention is too heavy. The military situation is still mainly based on the outside world, you have to eat my words thoroughly, do you understand? ”

Jin Jian hugged his fists and said: "If you understand, you must do what the prince wants." ”

"Very good," Xu Zixian nodded with satisfaction and said, "It's too late, you can go and rest." ”