Xu Zi first planned to train a group of mature cavalry officers, Zhang Huchen was also a famous cavalry general who emerged in the last days, and he led his troops to raid Donghu, coming and going like the wind, and being fierce, it can be seen that Fujian can form a fairly strong cavalry, but it depends on whether people are willing or not, or dare to invest.

In addition, the military attache of the water camp should also be reserved, and this time the generals will be awarded more nine-rank martial arts, so that they will gradually go to the position of the water camp sentry officer, and even the deputy head and the head of the capital after the year.

Maybe in two or three years, Gao Shilai and others will be able to take the position of battalion commander or deputy commander, and then Xu Zixian's control over the army will be even more solid.

"I can go back to Fucheng for the New Year with peace of mind......" Xu Zi stretched his waist first and took the tea from the front of the case to drink.

Everyone looks comfortable, and they have been kicking to the current situation for more than half a year, and of course they can have a pretty good year.

Li Yi said: "Will the prince go directly to Beijing after the future, or will he go back to the other courtyard?" ”

"No further delay." Xu Zixian said: "The ninth day of February is the lock hall test, and I still have to go to Zongzheng Division to do the matter of attacking the lord, and I plan to take a boat directly after the year." ”

Qin Dongyang said: "Hire a boat or take our own boat?" ”

When it comes to "their own ship", there is a sense of pride and pride in those present.

Although there are still many small sentinel ships with two or four pulps, there are large sentinel ships with single sloops and eight pulps, as well as large ships such as fortune ships and water bow ships, and the foundation of the future regimental training water camp is already quite rich.

"Go in our own boat." Xu Zixian said: "This is not as good as going to Fucheng." I plan to keep Li Changshi, Qin Sima to take care of the house, and the rest of the people, Kong Xuanping will keep it, and Fu Muzhi will also stay. Chen Daojian, Chen Zuocai and others went north with me. Among the military attachés, Liu Yi, Zhang Huchen, Lin Cunxin, Gao Shilai, Jin Jian, led fifty generals and one hundred cavalry, and went north with me......"

Li Yi reminded: "The prince, according to the system, each prince's mansion will go to Beijing to attack the lord, and it is only allowed to bring the generals of the palace." ”

"I'm a regimental training envoy, and it's reasonable to bring a guard with a guard." Xu Zi first pressed Li Yi, who was still arguing, and said: "If the right minister supports it, it is just a trivial matter to bring more people." If the right minister loses his position, Liu Zhiyuan, the left minister and others want to embarrass me, there may not be any action on the official face, but it is likely to send someone to assassinate, and I have to be more careful. ”

Li Yi didn't know, but Xu Zixian knew very well that the killing of Zuo Xiang's Mansion would be a year later, and now the situation is so complicated, it is difficult to say what changes will be provoked that should not have happened in time and space.

Bring more people, at most be impeached, with Xu Zixian's current strength, it is great to be severely reprimanded, and at most he will be fined. If you don't bring more guards, you will be besieged and assassinated inexplicably when the time comes, that is really wronged.

Li Yi came to his senses and said, "That's right, the safety of the prince is the most important thing." ”

Qin Dongyang said at this time: "Why don't you go with me too?" ”

Liu Yi squinted his eyes and said: "The martial arts battalion left me in charge, so you can rest assured?" ”

Everyone laughed, Li Yi laughed for a while, and reminded: "If you want to use three lucky ships, you will have to release a list of qualified sailors before the year, and each ship will have about 20 sailors, 100 personnel, and the military food and materials needed along the way, and you must also prepare in advance." Leave these things to me, it just so happens that I am a foreigner, and I am very idle before and after the year. ”

Xu Zixian said: "That's fine, just work hard for Gong Li first." ”

"The boat should go fast, and it should be close to the shore." Li Yi continued: "The five pirates at sea, Wang Zhi, the king of the East China Sea, has been active in the Liaohai area, although he is loyal, he will also loot when he encounters ships, after all, he has not yet recruited An, and many of the ships in the North Sea have been looted by Wang Zhi's subordinates and disappeared. The prince should also be more careful, troop carrier pirates generally do not attack, but just in case. ”

Xu Zixian nodded and said, "What Gong Li said is that we will drive close to the shore and walk with the Cao boat that will go north after the year." ”

The Great Wei Caoyun was different from the previous dynasties, which either set the capital in the Central Plains or Guanzhong, and used canals and several large rivers to transport materials to Beijing. The capital of this dynasty was Jiangling, and the transportation of the southern provinces was either along the southern rivers, or along the rivers to the sea first, and then by sea to Jiangling.

Later, the Son of Heaven guarded the country and moved the capital to Yanjing, with the financial resources of the north simply unable to support the burden of millions of soldiers and civilians in Beijing, and the expenses of the royal family were also huge.

The emperor of the Great Wei did not hold on to the defects, since the river was impassable, there was no need to use the canal to transport the water, and directly changed the river to the sea.

Every year, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, there are 23 roads in the whole world, according to different regulations, arranged by the household department and the three envoys, and successively transport money, grain and various specialties to Beijing.

Here in Fujian, the state taxes and miscellaneous taxes to be transported to Beijing every year add up to more than 10 million yuan, plus more than 2 million stone of grain.

There is more money than grain, mainly because Fujian has developed industry and commerce, and there are many mountains and few fields, so it is natural for Fujian to have less grain than copper money.

But that's not all, there are also raw silk, tea and other Fujian specialties, which are transported to Beijing every year for about hundreds of thousands of yuan.

The 23rd Road of the Great Wei Dynasty, if it is as financial as Fujian, I am afraid that the treasury revenue will be restored to more than 200 million yuan, but the wealth of the world, can be reported annually to explain the miscellaneous taxes of the Beijing division There are so many figures, only Jiangnan East Road, including Jiangling, as well as Zhedong Road and Guangdong South Road, and the rest of the roads, the least Yunnan Road, is only one million yuan a year, which is less than one-tenth of Fujian.

Guizhou Road does not even have a million guan, only 800,000 guan.

In addition to materials, there were also a large number of garrisons on the two routes to suppress the Southwest Yi and Shengmiao, and the state treasury also had to bear the cost of military salaries and military supplies.

The cost of garrisoning soldiers and horses in the southwest is still a small number, Qinfeng Road, Hedong Road, Yongxing Military Road, Hebei East Road, Hebei West Road, the cost of garrisons and military rations in these places is astronomical.

The financial income of the Great Wei Dynasty was mainly from Jiangnan and the southeast, and the four roads and one mansion of Jiangling, Jiangnan East Road, Zhejiang East Road, Fujian Road, and Guangnan East Road were handed over to the Jingshi treasury more than 60 million yuan, accounting for 60% of the treasury revenue.

Sixty percent of the state's fiscal and tax expenditures, and at most 80 percent of them, are spent on military spending.

Among the military spending, sixty to eighty percent was spent on the battlefields of Hebei, Hedong, Yongxing Army and Qinfeng Road, etc., and I don't know how much food was spent.

At the beginning of each year, Fujian Road will start Haicao, and transport all kinds of copper coins received by the end of the year to collect miscellaneous tax revenues, including a small amount of gold and silver, from the national two taxes to the general system of money, all kinds of miscellaneous tax revenues, wine and tea monopoly, salt and vinegar monopoly, raw silk export trade tax, sea ships into Quanzhou and Zhangzhou ports of taxes and fees, a year more than 10 million yuan of wealth from the southeast to Yanjing.

The southeast supplies wealth, and the people in the north along the Great Wall pay blood and sweat to resist the invasion of the barbarians, which is actually a relatively fair and cost-effective deal, but the imperial court is at a loss, and most of the money is thrown into the water, and the people in the southeast of the Yangtze River are living more and more bitterly, and resentment is inevitable.

In addition to copper money, gold and silver, the main thing is to send grain into Beijing, the Beijing division has a population of about 1.5 million, and the grain consumption of more than 10 million stone a year, as well as the food supply of the forbidden army along the border is also distributed by the Beijing division as a whole, and the normal grain storage of Tongzhou Dacang must exceed 20 million stone, otherwise there is a danger of shortage of grain.

Fujian reported 2.6 million stone a year, which is equivalent to the annual figure of 2.8 million stone on Hedong Road, but there are many grain fields on Hedong Road, and the grain income here in Fujian is quite small.

After the year, a large number of sea ships went north to send grain, gold, silver and copper coins, including high-quality raw silk and tea, to Beijing.

Wang Zhi, the king of the East China Sea, may have always wanted to recruit An, and rarely plundered the cao boats on the sea, Xu Zi planned to go with the cao boats first, which was a pretty good plan.

"Okay, that's it, the cavalry going north are all soldiers, give them a holiday first, and immediately gather in Fucheng to prepare for the sea after the year. The three lucky ships are heading north, and now they should quickly call someone to repair them, so as not to get any trouble at sea, and then it will be a great fun. Xu Zixian still felt that the trip to the north was not a big problem, and he was afraid that Li Yi and others would be worried, so he finally smiled and said: "That's it today, I'll wait for you to meet again in Fucheng in a few days, and you can talk about it when you have something." ”

New Year's Day is the most important festival of the year, the current Dawei, the first new year, followed by the Lantern Festival, that is, the Shangyuan Festival, and then the Zhongyuan Festival, which is the Ghost Festival of later generations. Qingming, Mid-Autumn Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, such festivals are either not taken seriously, or there is no at all.

In the New Year, of course, the subordinates have to go to the Hou Mansion in Fuzhou to pay New Year's greetings, although they will inevitably have to run around and work hard, but the ceremony can not be abolished, even if it is a common people, the next few days are also an endless stream of people on the road, not to mention the officials.

Everyone really laughed this time, and they all bowed their hands and said: "Congratulations to the prince in advance for the best of the New Year." ”

"Thank you." Xu Zixian also said with a smile: "When the time comes, I will wait in the house, if I am not there, I will have to take the blessing with a piece of paper." ”

When people already like to use red posts for New Year's greetings, Jingshi went to Jiangling and Fuzhou, and gambled for three days during the New Year, and couldn't help it. When it comes to the Lantern Festival, fireworks can't help but be set off at will.

It's just that you have to work hard to lay out troops, patrol at any time, and prevent fires, and once the fire lasts, it will be a big deal.

When they come to each other to pay New Year's greetings, they often encounter the absence of the owner, so they write the name thorn on the red paper, add the New Year's greetings, and put it in the red blessing bag on the door of the master's house, which is called "receiving blessings".

Xu Zixian is very interested in this kind of folk customs, and feels that it is similar to the group text messages of later generations, in short, he is full of joy, everyone sticks blessings in front of the door, and the crowd of people who are running to pay New Year's greetings will make the atmosphere of joy and New Year's flavor rise.

Of course, for politicians, who to worship and how to come to the door, are different, often in the New Year's greetings, you can distinguish political parties and conflicts of interest.

Xu Zixian breathed a sigh of relief, and he was not without emotion in his heart.

In any case, thirteen years have passed in Chongde, and next year will be the fourteenth year of Chongde.

According to his own memories, every year is not better than the year, and the country controlled by the Son of Heaven of Great Wei is like a loose horse, pulling the broken car of Great Wei, constantly rushing towards the cliff of the dead country.

The fourteenth year of Chongde will never be much more difficult than the thirteenth year, and even Xu Zixian faintly feels that the death of Great Wei began in the fourteenth year of Chongde.