Han Qian took the chopsticks and picked up a small piece of crunchy pickled cucumber, smacked it, saw that Yao Xishui was sitting opposite him with no appetite at all, put down the porridge bowl, and asked:

"What's the matter, when Miss Yao mixed my wine with phantom poison, she wasn't as unbearable as she is now? Could it be that Miss Yao thinks that I used my own money to feed more than a dozen girls who sold themselves in the Evening Red Mansion, and I deserve to die, and those four guys who don't listen to commands, slack off in battle, and sit and watch the team lead so easily fight back against the enemy shouldn't die? ”

"The sin is not as good as the wife and the heir!" Yao Xishui said.

"Sin is not as good as a wife and an heir?" Han Qian snorted coldly and said, "These four people died for their sins, I don't punish their wives and heirs, do you think their wives and heirs are in the camp, and their conditions can be better than being slaves?" You have to sympathize with them, and you can buy them all back. ”

Yao Xishui was blocked by Han Qian's words, speechless, and wondered if Han Qian was hinting at something when he said the last sentence, and looked at him coldly and lowered his head and snorted and pulled half a bowl of porridge into his stomach, I really can't understand how Han Daoxun, who has the hope of a famous minister, can there be such a strange son, could it be that the years when he fostered Xuanzhou really twisted him into such a cold-blooded and ruthless?

Han Qian saw Yao Xishui's dislike in his eyes, and just sneered in his heart, if the historical trajectory does not change, it is no wonder that after the death of Emperor Tianyou, the three princes were so easily uprooted by the Anning Palace.

To be honest, Han Qian didn't think that Xinchang Marquis Li Pu was a masterpiece of a generation, otherwise he would have been secretly supported by the Red Mansion early on, and his achievements should not be under his brother, Li Yu, the king of Zhedong County.

Even in Li Yu's family of military figures, the status of Li Pu, Marquis of Xinchang, is slightly worse than that of Zhang Peng, the first general under Li Yu; And looking at the current situation, Li Pu, the Marquis of Xinchang, the black gauze woman, has not succeeded in pulling Li Yu, who returned to Hongzhou at this time, and Zhang Peng, who served as the assassin of Tanzhou at this time, onto their thief ship.

Lin Haizheng and Fan Dahei sent a summary of yesterday's gains and losses to Han Qian, and Han Qian asked them to go to rest as well.

If the officials do not pass the reply of the province of Menxia for a day, they cannot relax.

Han Qian's experience of gaining and losing in the written record was not much different from what he expected.

Last night, in such a large area, to prevent the spies of the Ministry Division from infiltrating in, there were less than 80 spies from the Zuo Division, and they were divided into 16 groups to search in Baohua Mountain.

The children of the soldiers who were incorporated into the soldiers and horses were still young, and even though they had received strict training in the past six months or so, as a team leader, they still could not suppress those brave veterans who were carefully selected from tens of thousands of hungry people.

Last night, he was able to ambush and kill three people, Zhao Wuji killed one, Fan Dahei killed one, and Guo Hong, who was injured and died, was sentenced to kill one person, and the two injured were also family soldiers and the children of family soldiers.

It is those "brave" veterans who were originally pinned on high hopes, their personal strength is definitely not weak, and they also have the experience and ability to maneuver in complex situations, but if these people are accompanied by the same brave soldiers of the Han family, they will be more or less obedient; If it is carried by the children of fourteen or fifteen-year-old and thin soldiers, the vast majority of them are perfunctory.

The loss they suffered last night was actually caused by the slackness or disobedience of these brave old soldiers.

Where does Han Qian have time to discipline them step by step now?

Yesterday, Zhao Mingting's men and horses were only hit by small wounds, and tonight is the most critical time, if he doesn't use thunderous means to shock these newly recruited scouts so that they can obey orders, and tonight he has to release them out to guard the perimeter of the camp, and the casualties will be difficult to control.

The Three Emperors wanted to bring their brides into the palace to face the saint before the noon, but Li Zhihe didn't get away until the afternoon, and rushed to the Qiuhu Mountain Courtyard with a group of people to meet Han Qian.

Chai Jian still stayed in Longhuatown, confronting the elite scouts gathered in Longhuatown, but there were more than forty good players around him, and it was destined to be a stalemate.

Li Zhihe stepped into the Qiuhu Mountain Courtyard again after four months, and found that the interior of the villa had changed a lot compared to four months ago.

In fact, the Autumn Lake Mountain Annexes have been rebuilt and expanded since the beginning of the year.

To this end, Han Qian also carved out a new piece of land on the east side of the workshop and built a brick kiln.

Although Jinling City is said to be rich in the south of the Yangtze River, the main houses in the city are built of rammed earth, and even most of the city walls are made of rammed earth, without bricks.

The houses built with logging as beams and pillars, green bricks and mortar plastering are naturally much stronger than rammed earth walls and thatched roofs, and they also carry much of the heavy rain in summer and autumn in the south of the Yangtze River, but the cost of burning bricks in the world is still too high.

Before the Qiuhu Mountain Annex, the east courtyard is the main courtyard, three spans of more than ten rooms, only six rooms are blue bricks and small tiles and wooden beams, and the house is paved with square blue bricks, which is already quite a good house in the world.

In the forbidden area of the Imperial City Palace, except for a few main halls that are more luxurious and use a lot of stones, the other courtyards are just like that.

Heavy rain often pours in the south of the Yangtze River, Han Qian expands the villa and insists on using green bricks, but even if a brick kiln is built, he also recruits craftsmen to cut wood and burn charcoal in the back mountain, and the cost is still too high.

It takes more than 500 catties of charcoal to burn 1,000 catties of lime, and more than 4,000 catties of charcoal to burn 1,000 ordinary green bricks. Fortunately, the timber in the back mountain is still sufficient, and the hired laborers from the cantonment military government are even cheaper, and more than 30 green brick houses have been added and rebuilt in the mountain villa after the year, which is barely enough at present.

Li Zhihe met with Han Qian, and seeing that the situation was under control, he relaxed a little, even if Yao Xishui said that Han Qian executed the four newly recruited scouts without authorization, Li Zhihe didn't care.

According to the rules, Han Qian could only directly execute those soldiers who escaped without asking for instructions on the battlefield, and then he should be bound and sent to Li Chong, who was also the secretary of the Fa Cao, to be disposed of.

In addition to Han Qian's request for the right to be exclusive when he agreed to prepare for the establishment of the Secretary Cao Zuosi, what is more important is that the situation they are facing is so dangerous that if they are not careful, they will lose everything, and they urgently need to have a person who can control the situation to sit on the side than to study these details.

Shen Yang was not all the way with them, and he didn't expect him to participate in the open and secret battles with Anning Palace and Chuzhou here, and in addition to his father, himself and Chai Jian, Li Zhihe thought that Li Chong, Yao Xishui and others were far from being able to stand alone.

Han Qian has now become an indispensable part of them, and he also plays a role that is difficult for others to achieve, and Li Zhihe doesn't feel that he should be more demanding of him; And when there is a shortage of manpower and people's hearts are unstable, it is a decisive and resolute means to use thunderous means to suppress the unruly soldiers first.

Considering that Zhao Mingting might send more elite spies to infiltrate tonight, and the people brought by Li Zhihe were not very familiar with the terrain of Baohua Mountain, Han Qian discussed with Li Zhihe, and finally decided that the people brought by Li Zhihe would be responsible for the guard inside the camp together with the cantonment; The counter-infiltration and hunting on the periphery were still handed over to Lin Haizheng, Fan Dahei and Zhao Wuji, and the scouts to whom the Zuo Si soldiers belonged were responsible.

Anyway, it is impossible for Zhao Mingting to openly lead most of his troops and horses to attack him, and even the slackness of those newly recruited scouts last night is very likely to mislead Zhao Mingting to a certain extent, and the situation is still extremely favorable to them.

Han Qian can control the situation, Li Zhihe is also happy to be idle, and he still focuses more on the construction of the cantonment military mansion and the dragon bird army.

Han Qian naturally raised the matter of building a fortress under the villa and with the military government office as the center, in addition, there are six gaps in the mountain ridge outside the villa to build a defensive outpost, so that a complete defense system can be formed, and if necessary, seven or eight thousand soldiers and horses can be gathered, and the families of thirty or forty thousand soldiers can be withdrawn to hold on.

When Han Qian saw Li Zhihe and Chai Jian the day before yesterday, he proposed this plan, and Li Zhihe discussed with his father after going back, and also felt that Han Qian's proposal was very good, and it was necessary to build such a fort to prevent the situation from suddenly becoming bad, and the three princes could have a place to settle outside the city to gather soldiers and horses.

However, the key to the problem is the cost.

Seeing Li Zhihe frowning and thinking, Han Qian was not in a hurry or impatient.

What he mentioned was something that could not be delayed, and now it was up to the late Red Mansion and the Xinchang Marquis Mansion to see how much potential they could squeeze.

This is also convenient for him to estimate how much power the Late Red Mansion and the Xinchang Marquis Mansion have been hiding under the water over the years.

"The six defensive outposts, just at the ridge of the mountain, the terrain is dangerous, can be called the pass, should be started as soon as possible, and these six places are vulnerable to the impact of rain, and need to be built with masonry and glutinous rice slurry mixed with lime. And the city wall below, if the cost is too huge, you can ram the earth wall first, and then wrap the city bricks later. Han Qian gave a compromise suggestion.

"How much additional food is needed each month?" Li Zhihe asked.

Seventy or eighty thousand acres of land have been reclaimed by the military government of the cantonment, and by the end of April there has been a harvest one after another, but because it can only be planted on dry land such as wheat and beans, and even it is strictly forbidden to catch crab snails to satisfy hunger, even in the southern foot of Baohua Mountain, where the sun is abundant, the total annual output is about 100,000 stones.

This is only enough for the dependents of the 23,400,000 cantonment soldiers not to starve to death, and weddings, funerals, birth and recuperation medicine, and even the cantonment military government wants to repair houses, villages, roads, ditches, and isolate the source of the epidemic that will last for many years, as well as the public consumption within the cantonment military government, it still needs to invest 10 million yuan a year to barely maintain.

In addition, the training of 7,000 soldiers could not be stopped, and in addition to the 20 million yuan of military funds allocated by the imperial court every year, they had to paste at least 60,000 stone of grain into it every year.

The armor of the Dragon Bird Army will be allocated by the Arsenal Department of Weiwei Temple, but in addition to casting more than 12,000 pieces of crude swords and spears, only 500 sets of armor of all kinds will be drawn, 300 healthy horses, 500 mules and horses, and 20 horse armors.

If the Dragon Bird Army wants to become an elite, the Late Red Mansion and the Xinchang Marquis Mansion will have to purchase a large amount of additional sophisticated equipment.

In addition to the seventy or eighty million money invested in the preparation for the construction of the Longque Army and the Cantonment Military Mansion in the first half of the year before the opening of the Xinchang Marquis Mansion and the Late Red Mansion, another seven or eight million yuan will be posted every month after that, so that the Longque Army and the Cantonment Military Mansion can barely continue to operate normally.

If you want to build kilns to burn bricks and build fortifications in the cantonment military palace, you can requisition cheap labor from the cantonment military government, but no matter how cheap it is, you have to give three full meals, and then at least a month to allocate an extra thousand stone of grain or corresponding money and materials.

Han Qian made a silent calculation in his heart, and said to Li Zhihe: "Leave this matter to me, allocate an extra thousand stone grain every month, and it will be completed within a year; In another half year, the outer wall of the military palace fortress can be covered with city bricks.

Li Zhihe commanded the army to fight, in addition to attacking the city, he also set up weapons to build the walled city, knowing the number reported by Han Qian, it was still quite economical.

In fact, they had already considered this matter, the Cangcao, Gongcao, and Bingcao of the Cantonment Military Mansion joined the army, all of whom were sent by the Marquis of Xinchang, and there were also construction officials under them, and they estimated the cost of building a brick-covered fortress, which was actually more than three or four percent more than Han Qian's side.

Li Zhihe thought that Han Qian was presiding over his affairs here, and he could save so much, so he should let Gong Cao cooperate with this side, gritted his teeth and said:

"How can this matter be squeezed out of money and food, and it will be done as soon as possible, don't delay on your side, prepare it first......

Although converted into six or seven thousand cakes of gold invested by the Xinchang Marquis Mansion and the Late Red Mansion into the Dragon Bird Army and the Cantonment Military Mansion in the first half of the year, the absolute value is not so terrifying, but the Xinchang Marquis Mansion and the Late Red Mansion have not only secretly maintained the elite combat strength of five or six hundred people over the years, but also cultivated a group of extremely deep secrets to lurk in the court and the opposition, and the consumption is not a small amount.

After Han Qian expanded the scale of his soldiers' children, and when he intended to train them all in the direction of elite and even elite, he found that this consumption was too terrifying.

Seeing that Li Zhihe didn't look like a fake, Han Qian thought to himself that if he took another thousand stone grain every month, it was really the limit of the Marquis of Xinchang Mansion and the Late Red Mansion.