Ni Yuanlu said with a smile: "Your Majesty, the minister also knows that he is smart when he is a child, and he is very good when he grows up, but he is not so powerful that he is comparable to the grandson of the art of war. ”

Apocalypse said: "Say you're fat and you're still panting, tell me what else comes to mind?" ”

Ni Yuanlu said: "According to what the emperor saw, the minister also thought of forming a ground soldier who could drill into the ground or a heavenly soldier who could rise into the air, and the enemy could not go to the sky and enter the earth on horseback. ”

Everyone laughed when they heard this, and scolded Ni Yuanlu for being whimsical, and then Sun Chengzong said: "Your Majesty, Mao Wenlong's army belongs to the land war army, and if the camps we built in Songshan and Tashan are built and stationed on the top of the mountain, they can be regarded as mountain infantry, but there is no special establishment in this area, you can think about it according to this idea, and there is a lot to do." ”

Apocalypse said, "Sir must have thought of something since he said this, and he must have said it for everyone to hear." ”

Sun Chengzong sighed and said: "In the past few years, the minister and the superintendent Ji Liao have been thinking about how to restore the whole Liao, but unfortunately our army can't defeat the cavalry of Jiannu in weak and flat combat, so I only have the idea of building more castles and gradually advancing forward with the strategy of step-by-step, but this is also difficult." First, there are very few places where you can build a fortified city, and even if it is built, it will be besieged by the enemy, not to mention that the enemy will attack and destroy it when you are halfway through it; Second, it costs a lot of money, and the cost of building only a castle is a big amount, and if it is repaired too much, it will be even more costly, and the financial and material resources are unsustainable. A while ago, the emperor decided not to attack and only defend the ministers, and there were still some different opinions in his heart, feeling that it was far away to draw the land as a prison and restore the whole Liao, but now it seems that the emperor is right, and it also gives the ministers hope. ”

Tianqi looked at Sun Chengzong, whose face was full of wrinkles, grabbed his hand and said, "It's all my incompetence, wronged sir." ”

Sun Chengzong also held Tianqi's hand and said: "The minister thinks that the mountain infantry and the marine division should be formed into a camp as soon as possible, and the cavalry battalion should also start training as soon as possible. The Marine Division Battalion was able to keep the enemy from approaching the sea and the great rivers; If the cavalry battalion dares to fight to the death with the enemy without fear when it is backed by the city, then it can go out of the pass and attack. When the time comes, the city will be built by the mountains or the sea, the mountains and the sea are the rear, and the three major battalions will be relied on. ”

Apocalypse said, "Sir has booked such a big plan for me, and I will fully support you." ”

Wang Zaijin also said: "Lord Sun, Xiaguan has always thought that your plan is so ambitious that it will only cost money and food, but your words today Xiaguan agrees. ”

Apocalypse said, "Don't say anything superfluous, what should I do next?" ”

Sun Chengzong said: "According to the information, Xiong Tingbi's Ningyuan Pass is almost completed, and after completion, continue to repair the wall between Ningyuan Pass and Ningyuan City. In Ningyuan Pass, the arrow tower of the beacon fire pier is repaired, every four arrow towers are surrounded by thick walls to make a fort in the middle of the well, and a fort is connected to the moon word Guancheng that the emperor said, and the soldiers and their families can live in it. The soil pits on both sides of the Guancheng built vertically are connected into rivers, and laundry and fish can be raised, which is enough for Xiong Tingbi to be busy until next year. At the same time as the completion of Ningyuan Pass, the people and all materials that could be moved back were withdrawn from Jinzhou, Songshan, Dalinghe, Xiaolinghe, Xingshan, Lianshan, Tashan and other places. It is expected that most of them will be moved back in a month, and the rest of the worthless ones will be moved slowly until the end of the year. Now we can recruit 20,000 soldiers who dare to fight to guard the pass, and by the way, recruit people to form a mountain infantry battalion, a marine division battalion, and a cavalry vehicle battalion, each battalion is 5,000 sufficient, and the rest will be built with Xiong Tingbi. What does the emperor think? ”

Tianqi said: "How to dispatch people and horses, I don't understand, see what is the difficulty of Mr. saying so much?" ”

Sun Chengzong said: "There is nothing major, but Xiong Tingbi reported that he encountered a little trouble two days ago. ”

Apocalypse asked, "What little trouble should be reported here?" ”

Sun Chengzong said: "He said he was running out of money. ”

Tianqi said angrily: "Xiaoguan, less than two miles, spent a million taels? Does Xiong Tingbi drink with silver every day? Or did he carry it in his pocket? He's impatient, isn't he? ”

Wang Zaijin said: "The emperor is angry, Lord Xiong only used 700,000 taels to repair Ning Yuanguan, and he saw that he couldn't use all the manpower, so he sent half of the people to repair the side wall." ”

Apocalypse asked, "What side wall?" ”

Wang Zaijin said: "There are a few miles behind the cave mountain, the mountain is a little slow, the horse can not pass but people can climb over, Xiong Tingbi said to guard against all possibilities, send people to repair the side wall, the side wall to build a beacon fire pier garrison to ensure that Ningyuan Pass is foolproof." ”

Apocalypse said, "I blame him by mistake. ”

Seeing that everyone looked strange, Tianqi understood after thinking about it, and he said, "I understand, you all look at the money in my pocket." I made a total of 6 million windfalls, first I lent 2 million to the household department to repay the arrears of soldiers and officials, and then lent 1 million to the household department to repair the Ningyuan Pass, I will send the remaining 3 million to the household tomorrow, 1 million to the beacon pier and arrow tower in the Xiuning Yuanguan, and 2 million to the three major battalions such as the mountain battalion and the land battalion. ”

Sun Chengzong and Wang Zaijin said in unison: "The ministers are ashamed. ”

The apocalypse said, "Do not be ashamed of this, for this is called cutting down the tree so that the old owl will not cry." However, I said first, before the household department paid off the six million, the 10% tax in the military control area will go to me. ”

At this moment, the internal guard came in and reported: "Your Majesty, Lord Wang Huazhen asks to see you." ”

Tianqi heard and said, "Let him go to the side hall and wait, and I will come over immediately." ”

He turned to Sun Chengzong and said, "Everything is up to Mr. Lao, I will go first to see how Wang Huazhen talks with the Mongols, and then you can discuss the details." ”

Sun Chengzong agreed and sent the apocalypse away with everyone.

When he came to the side hall to wait for Wang Huazhen to see the ceremony, Tianqi asked: "You sent someone to contact at the end of June, and you went in person at the end of July, what good news did you get out of contact?" ”

Wang Huazhen said: "Back to the emperor, the minister went to see Lin Dan Khan this time, the good news is that Lin Dan Khan misses the old, he told the minister that he hates the Jurchens, and hopes that the Ming Dynasty can trade with the Han Department." ”

Apocalypse said, "Listen to you, that's another piece of bad news? ”

Wang Huazhen said: "To be precise, there are two bad news, one is that Lin Dan Khan personally told his ministers, he said that the Mongols like to sing and dance on the grassland and enjoy a happy life, and they don't like to be caught between the Jurchens and the Ming Dynasty and be angry. ”

Apocalypse said: "He didn't say what he was going to do? ”

Wang Huazhen said: "He said that he wanted to lead his tribe back to his original territory, hoping to get help from the Ming Dynasty, or sell him enough grain this winter, and send people to help him cultivate the grassland and farm in the spring of next year, otherwise his tribe will not be able to survive." ”

"This is impossible, if he wants to go back, unless he slaughters all the uncles and brothers who occupied his original land, and the Ming does not interfere in their internal affairs." As for the reclamation of the grassland, he is not afraid of turning the grassland into a desert? ”

Wang Huazhen said: "It's not that serious, right? However, if the steppe really becomes a desert, it is a good thing, and whether it is the Mongols or the Jurchens, there will be no land to herd horses. ”

"The sand in the desert will drift with the wind, and maybe one day you will wake up in the morning and find that the Qianmen Hutong is buried in the sand," said Apocalypse. ”

Wang Huazhen smiled awkwardly and said: "There is also bad news that the minister himself discovered, one of the minister's entourage understands Mongolian, and overheard someone mention some Jurchen prince, it should be that the Mongols are also trading with the Jurchens while contacting us." ”

Apocalypse said, "He wants to be left and right? If you don't do it, you're not a human being inside or out. In this way, you go again and negotiate with them to deal with the Jurchens together, and the food is easy to say. ”