Jiang De looked at Liang Shijie again, and suddenly said with a smile, "Uncle, seeing that you are nervous, it is just a trivial matter." ”

"A trifle? The soldiers and horses under the command of the Marquis of Pingyin have exceeded 100,000, right? If there is no dissent, what are you doing with so many soldiers? Liang Shijie snorted.

Jiang De's eyes rolled, and he said mysteriously, "Uncle, you don't know, right?" The Marquis of Pingyin is ready to disarm. ”

"What?" Liang Shijie looked at Jiang De stunned.

Jiang De nodded and said, "It's true, the Marquis of Pingyin is ready to disarm 30,000, this is also for the heart of the An Imperial Court, or it won't be long before you hear the news." ”

Liang Shijie immediately thought that there were benefits to be gained, and he said, "Is this serious? ”

"Seriously!"

Liang Shijie poured Jiang De a glass of wine with a smile and said, "Virtuous nephew, I heard that you and Eunuch Liang also have a lot of relationship?" ”

Eunuch Liang naturally refers to Liang Shicheng, Jiang De intended to make friends when Liang Shicheng's status was still low, and he continued to greet him during the New Year's holidays, and Liang Shicheng also reciprocated the favor, giving Jiang De a lot of convenience.

"Pretty familiar." Jiang De's eyes rolled and asked, "Does my uncle need anything?" ”

Liang Shijie said, "Since Pingyin Hou already wants to disarm in order to win the king's heart, don't you need a reason?" Now there are voices of opposition to Pingyin Hou inside and outside the government and the opposition, but they are worried about the resurgence of the army, so no one plays. ”

As he spoke, Liang Shijie's eyes narrowed slightly and said, "But if someone plays it, and Pingyin Hou immediately plays it to demand disarmament, and then Eunuch Liang speaks from the side, wouldn't it be a great achievement?" ”

Jiang De understood what Liang Shijie meant, so he promised, "Uncle, rest assured, this credit must belong to the uncle, and the position left behind, the uncle-in-law must be as stable as Mount Tai." ”

The two looked at each other and laughed, as if there was no barrier.

——

Walking out of the left-behind mansion, Jiang De only felt a chill on his back, and Li Zhong came up and asked, "Why is Xiao Langjun's face wrong?" ”

Jiang De waved his hand and said, "Don't ask, let's go, go back first." ”

Back at Qionglou, Wang Ming just happened to come over, and when he saw Jiang De, he smiled and said, "Hou Ye is back?" ”

When Jiang De saw Wang Ming, he stepped forward and said, "I've seen Wang Yuanwai." ”

Wang Ming hurriedly flashed aside and said, "I can't help it, I can't help it, you are now the Hou Ye." ”

Jiang De smiled and said, "What Hou Ye, if it weren't for the former kings and you picking me up, I'm afraid I would have already fallen into the wolf's belly." ”

The two talked about old things for a while, and after sitting down, Jiang De asked, "Has our business been a little difficult recently?" ”

Wang Ming sighed, nodded and said, "I don't know what's going on, in the past two months, our business has hit a lot of walls, but fortunately, our goods are good, and the loss is not big." ”

The real operators of Jiang De's Qionglou and other businesses are Wang Ming, who are veterans, so Jiang De attaches great importance to Wang Ming's words.

"Where does our pressure come from? Is it folk? Or is it a government? ”

Wang Ming thought for a while and said, "Actually, our shopping malls and officialdom in the Great Song Dynasty are not separated, for example, the largest business in Jiangnan is the Zhu family, so although the pressure comes from the people on the surface, in fact, I think it still comes from the officialdom." ”

Jiang De nodded, everyone in the world knew that he was Cai Jing's party, and now that Cai Jing has fallen, naturally someone wants to snatch the meat in his hand.

It seems that this business has to be done differently.

"What are the most profitable things about our business right now?" Jiang De asked.

Wang Ming thought about it and said, "Our business is mainly divided into several parts, one is the restaurant industry with Qionglou as the core, as well as the oil, grain, wine and hundred operas attached to Qionglou, we Qionglou relies on hundreds of operas, Qiong wine, and stir-fried vegetables to open all the state capitals, and we can make a profit of seven million yuan a year, which is our most profitable business."

The second is the maritime merchants, our fleet has gone to Sriwijaya and other places, from Goryeo, Wa and Song goods to Sriwijaya and other places, in exchange for spices, jewelry, can make a profit of three or four million a year. ”

Saying that, Wang Ming smiled and said, "Speaking of which, this maritime merchant used to make more money, but since Goryeo and Wa were appeased by you, Hou Ye, we are not easy to make too much money, otherwise the self-construction work in Goryeo and Wa will not be able to do well." ”

Jiang De explained, "These two places will be our own places in the future, and they will be our financial resources in the future. ”

Wang Ming nodded in agreement with Jiang De's thoughts, and continued, "There are lotus shops all over the country, although each store makes a small amount, but it adds up to a lot, and there can be more than one million guan a year, and finally it is wool, Hebei's wool business is very fast, and our workshops have been built, even if you give some money to the Liao magnates and a few magnates in Hebei, you can also enter millions of guan a year, as for the cotton in the northwest, it can only keep a lot of money." ”

Jiang De pondered for a moment and said, "Now our most conspicuous business should be Qionglou..."

Wang Mingdao: "That's right, it is said that someone has started to make trouble in Qionglou recently." ”

Jiang De thought for a while and said, "Qionglou can't be saved." ”

"What?" Wang Ming asked in disbelief.

"Qionglou was already a big man, and Rijin Doujin was spied on by others, and now the imperial court is suspecting that we have something to do with Liangshan, plus Taishi Cai was dismissed, this is a temptation...."Jiang De took a breath and said.

"It's... How is this possible? Wang Ming said in disbelief: "Do they still dare to rob it?" Is there still a royal law for this? ”

Jiang De smiled, "This royal law, only support the powerful side, otherwise Bao Longtu will not be praised by everyone like that."

It doesn't matter, even if they want to swallow our Qionglou, they can't swallow it so quickly, and it's not something they can swallow if they want to, we are talking about it on the Zhao Guan's side. ”

Wang Ming thought about it too, and couldn't help sighing.

Jiang De's heart was not relaxed, if Zhao Ji knew that Qionglou and Liangshan had a great relationship, I am afraid that the first one would rush out to burn Qionglou, and then take away Master Li....

Jiang De flicked his finger and said, "It just so happened that you were also there, I decided to re-plan our business outside, let me briefly talk about it first, you two will go back and take the lead and work with other gentlemen to come up with a rule and give you seven days."

The first is to exchange all the Qionglou except Shandong, Huaixi, Kaifeng, and Daimyo's mansions within a year, but if the intelligence officers want to find a way to hide them, they can secretly buy other local restaurants and shops, or they can think of other methods.

The second is to re-establish a prefix, which is called Huaxing, and has four major shops, namely Huaxing Grain Store, Huaxing Qianzhuang, Huaxing Cloth Village, and Huaxing Department Store.

Huaxing grain shop specializes in the purchase of grain and grass, to enter more and go out less, to choose a remote area outside the city to build a warehouse, send people to guard, not more, there are 3,000 stones outside the county, there are 10,000 stones outside the general city, 50,000 stones should be hoarded outside the important big city, as long as the grain and grass exceeds these will be transported to Shandong, this is to prepare for possible wars in the future.

Huaxing money village was first opened in the state capital Dacheng, and we already have a money village in the Song Dynasty, but most of them are buying and selling banknotes, we don't do this, only do storage exchange and lending.

I want to be of great use in the future, the money bank should send the most reliable people to go, after all, the gold and silver are moving, the core of the money is credit, please consider more in this regard, in addition to our money and other people's money is different, the longer other people's money is put, the more this storage fee, we don't want to deposit money, but to give interest, but the expenditure has to pay a handling fee, the balance of interest and handling fees should be designed, the interest of different money should be different, and finally we have to lend, the loan must be collateralized, I'll write you a rough outline of these later.

In addition, this Huaxing cloth village, we want to focus on wool products, and send our wool products out as quickly as possible, and also buy silk through channels to export overseas.

Finally, Huaxing Department Store, this department store is going to open to the bottom, we want to establish a channel for this department store, shopkeepers, guys can be locals, no matter how much money is made below, we only need to share the channel, but each state capital must have a dark point, this point does not hang the brand of Huaxing Department Store, whatever he hangs, but if this person is our person, it is also our future intelligence point!

In addition, there are maritime merchants, and I will go to Wu Di in this regard and tell Wu Di that in the future, all our maritime merchants will hang the Huaxing merchant flag in order to unify with the outside world. ”

Wang Ming waited for Jiang De to finish speaking, and then asked, "Redeem it within a year?" Is something big going to happen? ”

Jiang De nodded and said, "I'll tell you about this matter, you have to pay attention to secrecy, now up to the official family, down to the ministers, they all want to take advantage of the war between the Jin State and the Liao State to recover Yanyun."

In other words, the battle of Song and Liao is about to begin, and I have a more reserved view of this war, regardless of whether Yanyun is recovered or not, as long as the Jin State borders the Song State, it is inevitable to start a war against the Song State. ”

Saying that, Jiang De smiled and said, "Think about it yourself, the Liao State and the Jin State have been fighting for several years, and the people in the Liao State must be living in poverty, how can they not be greedy when they see that our Song State is so rich?"

And our Song army, in my opinion, is much inferior to the Jin soldiers, our Song army lacks cavalry, and the only one that can fight is the Western Army, but the Western Army first fought in Hebei, then in Jiangnan, and then in Yanyun, and then in Jinguo, this is the iron fight should also be soft, I am afraid it will not be stopped.

At that time, if the world is good, it will be the situation of the Anshi Rebellion, and if it is bad, it will be possible to travel to the south in good clothes.

Our roots are all in the north, you say, what should we do? ”

Wang Ming clenched his fists, and he said firmly, "Several of us came out of the Western Army, and we dared to fight with the Western thieves back then, and we dare to kill the Northern Thieves today!" ”

Jiang De patted Wang Ming's fist comfortingly and said, "Leave the matter of the war to us young people." ”

Wang Ming nodded, he also came out of the army, and he knew the current situation of the Song army very well, and understood that Jiang De's words were not untargeted.

Jiang De talked to Wang Ming again, and seeing that Wang Ming was also tired, he asked Wang Ming to rest and talk about it the next day.

The next day, Jiang De summoned Shi Qian to inquire about the armaments of the Daimyo's Mansion.

Shi Qian took out a booklet and handed it to Jiang Dedao: "The armaments of the Daimyo's Mansion are all in this book. ”

Jiang De opened it and flipped through it, the Daimyo's Mansion is the Beijing of the Great Song Dynasty, with a respected status and an important geographical location, with Taihang in the west, Lianhe and Ji in the east, and the throat of the north-south road, whether it is Song Taizong or Song Zhenzong in the war against Liao, they all regarded this place as a command center, so they stationed heavy troops.

In the early days of the Song Dynasty, there were about 120,000 forbidden troops, which were expanded to 180,000 during the Song Taizong period, and because of the rise of Western Xia in the Renzong period, the national army was about 1.25 million, of which 800,000 were forbidden troops, and after the Shenzong reform, there were 700,000 soldiers and horses in the Song Zhezong period, of which 500,000 were forbidden troops. By the time of Huizong, there were about 800,000 soldiers and horses, including 550,000 forbidden troops.

As Beijing, the Daimyo Mansion had jurisdiction over the soldiers and horses of Hebei and Kyushu, with a total of 67 commanders of the forbidden army, 112 commanders of the Xiang army, a total of 179 commanders, 33,500 forbidden troops, 55,000 Xiang troops, and 53 commanders of the township soldiers, totaling 26,500 people.

Therefore, from the point of view of the establishment, the army that the daimyo can command is as high as 115,000 people, which is not a lot, but these are just data on paper.

The Song army during the Zhao Ji period, the biggest problem was to eat empty salaries, and the whole situation in Hebei at this time was that there were only two or three out of ten soldiers and horses, and the others were all virtual soldiers, and only when the soldiers were ordered, they would appear.

In other words, there were actually less than 30,000 soldiers and horses in the Daimyo Mansion, which was in Kyoshu, and less than 10,000 were assigned to the Daimyo's Mansion, and the rest were all drunk with the blood of the soldiers.

In the Daimyo's Mansion, there is one soldier and horse supervisor, and one deputy soldier and horse supervisor, respectively, Wenda and Li Cheng, as for the fifty or sixty commanders stationed in the Daimyo's Mansion, more than half of the commanders have not even used their blades, and this business is doing well.

According to the investigation of the times, in the command of the entire Daimyo's Mansion, there are several people who are worthy of the name of soldiers, and the most capable of fighting are Suo Chao and Yang Zhi.

These two are also tiger generals that Jiang De has already noticed.

As for Guan Sheng, whom Jiang De heard before, he had been transferred out of the Daimyo's Mansion and sent to the Yongjing Army to garrison.

Suo Chao's level is actually not high, Jiang De remembers that in the original book it was said that he was a genuine army, but the brand army was not a position at all, but referred to the lowest-level soldier, but it was impossible for such a soldier to be the finale when the Daimyo's Mansion competed, so this can only be said to be a mistake.

At this time, Suo Chao, whom Jiang De discovered, was under the jurisdiction of the Daimyo's Mansion and the commander of the Armed Guards.

The meaning of Du Ti Zhi is to be in charge of all the people who are in charge of the military training, and the Wu Wei Army has only one command in the Daimyo's Mansion, and the other commanders are in other parts of Hebei, which is also a way to prevent local rebellions in the Song Dynasty. Therefore, in the ranking of military generals in the Daimyo Mansion, Suo Chao's ranking is still among the best.

And Yang Zhi's status is much lower, he is still sent after losing his official position, and he fought a draw with Suo Chao in the competition, and was appointed as the commander.

Jiang De looked at the situation of the other commanders again, among them, there were only three or four people who were evaluated by Shi Qian as being able to fight in waves, and the rest of the best were only able to defend the city and fight, and more than half of his subordinates were evaluated as like grass cowards.

Jiang De closed the booklet and asked, "What are the backgrounds of most of these commanders?" ”

Shi Qian Hui said, "Half of them are from martial arts, half are buying officials, and only four or five people are promoted for military merit." ”

Wuju was an important source of officers in the Song Dynasty, Jiang De asked those few people who could fight, and found that only one person was born in Wuju, and the others were all promoted from small soldiers because of their military achievements.

"Shi Qian, you've been exploring the Daimyo's Mansion for so long, and I ask you, how much does it cost if we want to buy a conductor? Who is it right for? Jiang De asked, rubbing his brows.

Shi Qian replied with a smile: "Hou Ye asked well, but there is a lot of knowledge here."

The root cause of such a serious ban on the army's empty pay is that the upper and lower levels eat together and cover each other.

An infantry commander has a number of 500 troops, and a cavalry commander has 400 troops, and these troops must first have at least 20 percent of the actual amount, otherwise it is difficult to fool the rehearsal of the soldiers, according to the military system, regardless of the generals, there are monthly salaries, grain, spring and winter clothes, pickle money, three festivals of rewards and special expenses, only to say that this monthly salary, according to different levels, is divided into 30 to 300 wen, divided into 23 grades, an infantry command is about 32,000 a year, a cavalry command has 43,000 yuan.

For example, the current infantry commander's money is 25,000 guan from the third government to the box, 18,000 from the box to the army, and only 14,000 from the army to the command, and then the 8,000 guan required by the actual amount is removed, and the commander has about 6,000 guan a year.

Of course, this still requires the kindness of the old men of the household department, the military department, and the Privy Council, and if they drift a little more, there will probably only be three or four thousand yuan in their hands.

According to the rules, if you want to buy troops, you have to pay five times the military salary at one time, and when the time comes, the actual amount will be adjusted according to your requirements, and a commander will calculate it like this, at least twenty or thirty thousand!

As for who to buy, in the Daimyo's Mansion, of course, it is to buy from the left-behind division, that is, the uncle-in-law of the Hou Ye, Liang Zhongshu Liang Shijie. ”

Jiang De couldn't help rolling his eyes after hearing this, he only felt so angry that he was funny, and in the hands of the commander, the military salary was inexplicably reduced by half, and this real amount can be full of ghosts, and this is really rotten from the root to the end.

In fact, this is also because the military salaries in ancient times were issued by the officers layer by layer, which gave them the opportunity to get up and down, and the military salaries in later generations were directly paid to personal accounts.

This is also the reason why Jiang De wants to pay his military salary directly to individuals as much as possible.

When Huaxing Money Village is completely rolled out, Jiang De will transfer all the money of all officials and soldiers directly through the money bank to minimize the possibility of drifting.

The idea is back, and I want Jiang De to buy an official from Liang Shijie.... Liang Shijie already doubted the relationship between Jiang De and Liang Shan, and if he bought the command and training again, I was afraid that Liang Shijie would jump up and beat people.

"Can you still buy it from someone else?" Jiang De asked again.

Shi Qian thought for a while and said, "If the two eunuchs approve, it will be fine." ”

"Good! Immediately post to Wenda and Li Cheng, and say that there is a good deal for them to do! ”

——

In a private room in Qionglou, Wen Da and Li Cheng walked in with a smile, Jiang De stood up and greeted him, "Boy, Jiang Zijun has seen two adults. ”

Wen Da and Li Chengdu knew the relationship between Jiang De and Liang Shijie, so they didn't dare to slack off, hurriedly returned the salute, the two sat down, and Jiang De also observed the two seriously.

Speaking of which, the three of them have actually met a few times, but they have not talked deeply.

Wen Da is good at using a big knife, has a wide face and a wide mouth, and has a beard, while Li Cheng has a pointed and slender face, which is said to make a good bow and arrow.

According to Shi Qian, these two people have courage, but they are not inferior to Suo Chao in martial arts, but they are more poisonous than Suo Chao's heart, compared to Wenda, who is more short-sighted, and Li Cheng only has fame and fortune in his eyes.

The three of them first talked about the wind and snow, and soon got down to business.

Jiang De said, "The two adults should have also heard that there are a few righteous brothers in Xia, and they don't like to study on weekdays, but only love to dance knives and guns, so they want to ask for a martial arts position for a few righteous brothers." ”

The two glanced at each other, Li Cheng stroked his beard and said with a smile, "What a big deal is my Dao, such a thing, Jiang Xiaolang sent a letter directly, and there are more than 170 commanders in the forbidden compartment of my Daimyo Mansion, where do you want them to go, just give an order, we will definitely take good care of it." ”

Wen Da also felt that with Jiang De's identity, this was really too small a thing, and this forbidden army identity was not a kind of promotion, and it was not worth anything at all.

Jiang Dehe shook his hand and said, "After listening to the two adults, my brothers, I have no other skills, but I have a lot of ambition, and I want to learn from Na Wei Huo and make a name for myself right away."

I heard that there are many vacancies in the Daimyo's Mansion, I don't know? ”

Wen Da and Li Cheng gasped, this kid is so ruthless, he wants to be a commander as soon as he comes up? Others don't know, but the two have heard of Jiang De's sworn brothers, and they are both young men.

At this time, Jiang De was only in his early twenties, and Yue Fei was only seventeen, so they were indeed young and terrifying.

This seventeen-year-old conductor .... What can be done?

Drink the blood of soldiers!

Both thought of the word.

If you want to say anything, the two of them will help arrange it, and they should give it to people, but a few commanders are worth 100,000 yuan!

It's reluctant.

"Jiang Xiaolang, you are the nephew of the left-behind adult, such a trivial matter, can you just say no to the left-behind adult?" Wenda asked as he felt something was wrong.

Jiang De first took a sip of wine, sighed, and then said, "Although I am close to the left-behind adults, this transaction is not on the table after all, and the left-behind adults must also avoid suspicion, so I came to find the two adults, by the way, the two adults don't ask, otherwise this face will be ugly." ”

As he spoke, Jiang De stretched out another palm and flipped it over. "Of course, I also know the rules, I have three righteous brothers, called Wang Gui, Zhang Xian, Tang Huai, I hope that they are all commanders, this matter is also troublesome, I am willing to give the two of them 50,000 yuan of hard money, and soon this Qionglou is ready to exchange the shares, if the two are interested, they can also negotiate."

"What? Jiang Xiaolang, do you want to exchange this Qionglou? Why is that? Wenda couldn't believe his ears, who in the Daimyo Mansion didn't know that this Qionglou was a place where the day was making money, it could be said that as long as there was Qionglou, it was only a matter of time before there were 100,000 or 100,000 or 100,000 or 100,000.

Jiang De sighed and said, "The two adults also know that they can have today, half of them rely on the appreciation of the officials, and half of them rely on the help of the Taishi, and now that the Taishi is closed, he wants me to keep a low profile, and my uncle-in-law also said yesterday that he doesn't know how many days he can sit in this stay, instead of waiting for trouble in the future, it is better to find some friends to help him first." ”

As he spoke, Jiang De looked at Wen Da and Li Chengdao, "What do you two think?" ”

The two of them suddenly understood, Li Cheng touched his mouse whiskers, and said with a righteous face, "Jiang Xiaolang is the nephew of the left-behind adult, and he is the nephew of us, of course such a thing is obligatory." ”

Jiang De's eyes rolled, and he said, "Let's tell you the truth, let's talk to the two adults, in fact, I asked these three commanders, it is also for my business, and the two adults also know that my business needs to go south and north, and the road is not very peaceful, if there is a forbidden army to escort it, it should be safe, so it is best for these three commanders to be outside the city." ”

Wen Da and Li Cheng exchanged glances, and after a short while, Wen Da said, "Speaking of which, there is a place that is quite suitable."

Thirty-five miles away from the Daimyo's Mansion, there is a place, called Feihuyu, which is a place where soldiers are stationed, there is a military village, but four commanders are stationed. ”

Jiang De smiled: "Then can the fourth commander be transferred?" ”

Li Cheng asked, "What?" Xiao Langjun doesn't want others to disturb him? ”

Jiang De sighed, "After all, it is still a little inconvenient to send out the forbidden army to guard the caravan from time to time. ”

"It's easy to say, it's easy to say, just wait for the news of the two of us." Wenda patted his chest and made a wish.

A few people ate and drank again, Jiang De sent the two away, and Shi Qian came and said, "There is news from the mountain, the envoy of the Ming Sect asked to see Hou Ye, probably hoping that Hou Ye would help." ”

Jiang De couldn't help but feel a little unbelievable when he heard it.

"Doesn't Fang La know who broke through Hangzhou?" A thought came to Jiang De's mind, and he immediately dispelled it.

"Let them wait, Fang La's defeat is already a foregone conclusion, let's do our thing first, how long will Zhao Wenshan arrive?"

"Tomorrow will come." Time to move back to the road.

"Okay, when he comes, bring him to see me immediately, and send a message to Nei Huang, so that Yue Fei and the others can come together."

"Obey!"

——

Zhao Wenshan was the head of the cement factory, although the cement workshop was also built in Goryeo and Wa Kingdom, but it was the largest and best in the Song Kingdom in terms of scale and maturity.

Zhao Wenshan looked at the map hanging on the north wall, and couldn't help swallowing his saliva, there were city checkpoints, mountains and rivers, roads and fields on the map, and a huge Song character represented that this was a map of the whole territory of the Great Song Dynasty.

If outsiders knew that Jiang De had such a map in his hand, he would not be able to escape with a single killing.

Maps have extremely important strategic significance in ancient China, in the past Zhang Song's gift to Liu Bei is the map of the whole territory of Xichuan, it can be said that to get a complete map, there is a basis for ruling a region, in later generations everywhere map, in this era, is the highest secret.

Jiang De's finger slid lightly on the map, and his mouth asked, "Zhao Wenshan, how much does our cement workshop produce now?" If all of them are used to build roads, will it be possible to link up the provinces, the First Army, and the Ten Prefectures of Heungin, Puzhou, Jeju, Yunzhou, Qizhou, Qingzhou, Yanzhou, Zizhou, Weizhou, Laizhou, Dengzhou, and the Guangji Army in two years? ”

Jiang De's cement workshop has been used to build roads and bridges, and thanks to the economic development of the Song Dynasty, both the imperial court and the local government attach great importance to road construction, so it has developed well for such a long time, but after all, there is no unified plan, so that the cement roads within Jiang De's sphere of influence are not completely connected.

The roads of the Song Dynasty were divided into two types: official roads and private roads, and the official roads were used for the implementation of government decrees, political communication, material transportation and military operations, and were also the main roads connecting states and counties. Of course, the official road is also allowed to be used by the common people and business travelers, which also facilitates the collection of commercial taxes.

Private roads are roads built by wealthy families in various places, which are often narrow, and most of the roads between villages are private roads.

The official road can be divided into post road and county road again, the post road is a more advanced road, not only has a post station, but also wider, the road between some important cities can even be as wide as a hundred steps, comparable to the two-way ten lanes of the later generations, the road around Kaifeng Mansion is such the highest level of road.

Zhao Wenshan had a plan on the way here, so he immediately replied, "Back to the Hou Ye, we now have workshops in Guangjijun, Yunzhou, and Qingzhou, which can produce 9,000 barrels of cement a day, and the width and thickness of the state road are higher. ”

Jiang De waved his hand and said, "Then expand production!" What are the reasons for restricting production now? ”

Zhao Wenshan replied, "It's a raw material, cement needs limestone, this thing is not very useful, and the output is not large." ”

"Now it's more useful, this road is watered with cement, whether people walk or cars and horses can walk much faster, I will solve the problem of limestone, your task is to produce three thousand miles of cement to be used in two years!" Jiang De said categorically, "Especially the road from Qingzhou and Yunzhou to Xingren Mansion, this is the top priority!" ”

Zhao Wenshan took a breath and replied, "Little one understands!" ”

Jiang De nodded and continued, "Write down what help you need from these state capitals, and I will pass it on to the officials of these state capitals, and they will help you." ”

"Thank you, sir!"

Two days after Zhao Wenshan left, Yue Fei and others came to the Daimyo's Mansion, and Wen Da also got the official life book of Tang Huai and others, Zhou Tong was extremely happy that his apprentice could be a commander in the official army, after all, from the heart, Zhou Tong still hoped that Yue Fei and others could help the Zhao family in the world.

The reason why Jiang De only bought three commanders was to give these three commanders to Wang Gui, Tang Huai, and Zhang Xian, and Yue Fei was sent by Jiang De to Lu Junyi to learn the battle of the large corps, and Jiang De ordered the three to make friends with Suo Chao, Yang Zhi and other capable generals, and after concentrating on training for two years, they returned to Liangshan to prepare to deal with Fang La's affairs.

In a small courtyard in Liangshan, Fang Jinzhi and Lou Minzhong sat opposite each other at a stone table, both of them were dressed as Mingjiao members in white clothes and black hats, and the black and white chess pieces on the scattered chessboard on the table tore each other apart.

Fang Jinzhi threw away the white child in his hand and sighed, "It's the sixteenth day, what does this Liangshan mean?" Do you want to put us under house arrest and send us to receive a reward after the defeat of the Holy Father? ”

Lou Minzhong shook his head while packing up the chess pieces and said, "If this is really the case, Liang Shan should send us to the Song Imperial Court as soon as possible." You have also seen along the way, rural cooperatives, agricultural technology stations, these systems are not the imperial court system, the decrees of the imperial court do not exist when the state capital is out, I specially investigated before I came, in the past five years, the officials of Jingdong and the two roads have changed very strangely, most of the officials have not even circulated a poem, it seems that they are ruling in a vertical arch, if I guess correctly, these officials sent by the imperial court were controlled as soon as they arrived in the place. ”

As he spoke, Lou Minzhong's eyes lit up, "Li Daitao's stiff strategy, this Liangshan, is it not the opposite!" ”

Bang, there was a knock on the gate of the courtyard, and a sergeant came in and said, "Master Hou, please, please come with me." ”

The two looked at each other, knowing that the moment of truth had come.

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In the Juyi Hall, Jiang De did not wear a mask anymore, Fang Jinzhi and Lou Minzhong entered the Juyi Hall, looked at Jiang De and the others sitting on the upper seat, and couldn't help but be surprised.

Jiang De threw a letter from the table and said, "Yesterday's battle report, Tong Guan led the Western Army to conquer Wuzhou, all 50,000 defenders were killed, the defender Fang Jie was seriously injured, I don't know whether he was alive or dead, and more than half of the 24 generals were killed and wounded. ”

"What?" Fang Jinzhi hurriedly stepped forward to pick up the battle report, looked at it at a glance and ten lines, and couldn't help but cry out after reading it, "Tong Guan!" I want you to die a good death!! ”

Lou Minzhong was very calm, as if he had thought about it, and he didn't look at the battle report, but looked at Jiang De.

"If my holy kingdom is defeated, Liangshan is the final target of the imperial court, isn't Pingyin Hou really worried?"

"Worried about what?" Jiang De leaned on the handle of the seat and said with a smile, "Zhao Guan's heart is in Yanyun, as long as I don't rebel, how can you attack me?" ”

The corners of Lou Minzhong's eyes twitched slightly, he didn't expect Jiang De's judgment of the situation to be like this.

"Fang La is now retreating to Huangshan, as far as I know, it is your holy land, there are many masters of the Ming Sect, but Wen can't govern the country, and martial arts can't be Anbang, it's just the courage of a horseman." As he spoke, Jiang De threw down another booklet and said, "This is a notice issued by the imperial court, look at the good things you have done!" It has not been a year since the uprising, and more than three million people have died in Jiangnan, is this the holy country you want? I would like to ask, are there any living people in this holy kingdom? ”

Fang Jinzhi and Lou Minzhong couldn't help but tremble, Fang Jinzhi shook his head desperately and said, "Impossible!" We've just killed some corrupt officials, where can there be three million so many..."

In fact, Jiang De knew in his heart that not all of these three million people were killed by Fang La, and at least half of them died at the hands of the Western Army.

On the one hand, the Western Army will naturally kill people when attacking the city, on the other hand, the military discipline of the Song Army is really not very good, the reason why the Western Army is strong in combat is because there are a large number of people and criminals in the composition of the personnel, and these people have strong destructive power.

Of course, such a thing will not be reflected in the proclamation and compromise, and such a thing is also recognized by the scholar class, since Diao Min dares to rise up to rebel, then naturally to kill his whole family, this view has not changed much until later generations, after the red regime in later generations was encircled and suppressed, the Sanguang work of the homecoming regiment was done so that the later generations of the Japanese had to bow down.

But even so, there were millions of officials and civilians who died in the hands of Fang La, otherwise there would not be so much money and food in Hangzhou, and Fang La would not be able to supply the conquest of hundreds of thousands of troops.

In any case, the entire Jiangnan was almost beaten into ruins, and the number of people killed in this war is still rising, Zhu Wu and others are estimated to exceed four million, plus the death toll in Hebei and Huaixi, at least five million people are killed or disabled in this great chaos, and the entire Great Song Dynasty can be said to have suffered heavy losses because of this war.

But it's not that there are no benefits, the benefit is that a large amount of land in the south of the Yangtze River became terra nullius, and these lands laid the foundation for the later establishment of the Southern Song Dynasty.

It can only be said that one drink and one drink, a certain non-definite number?

"You still want us to help? Is it the hope that there will be another death in the world? Your so-called holy kingdom can't even mention a single law of peace and mind, and I am not willing to shed even a soldier's blood for you! Jiang De shouted.

"No, no!" Fang Jinzhi was completely panicked, the casualties of millions of people frightened her into chaos, she was just a woman after all, although she was pushed to the position of a saint, she did not have the determination to shed thousands of miles.

Lou Minzhong knew that he couldn't let Jiang De take the rhythm anymore, and bowed, "Please Hou Ye Mingjian, the reason why the people of Jiangnan are willing to follow the Holy Father and fight against the Song Dynasty is that the officials are the fish and the common people, the squires are rich and unkind, the farmers have no food to eat, and those who boil salt have no soup to drink, for example, my Holy Father, there is a lacquer garden, but it was occupied by the local magnates, I don't know how many such things there are, life is better than death, why are you afraid of death?" ”

Jiang De looked at Lou Minzhong and nodded secretly, Fang La and the others were able to incite hundreds of thousands of people to rebel against them so quickly, and they didn't just rely on the teachings of the Ming Sect, the officials of the Song Dynasty were their greatest help.

This is like the growth of the red regime in China in later generations, and the biggest contributor is undoubtedly the bureaucrats of the white regime headed by Chang Kaishen.

"Since you are not afraid of death, why did you come to my Liangshan?" Jiang De asked again.

"Come for the life and death of millions of people in the world!" Lou Minzhong put his sleeves on his sleeve for a while, and a wave of righteousness poured out, looking at Lou Minzhong's appearance, Jiang De suddenly understood why so many people trusted Mingjiao... The momentum of this fool is still very strong.

"Since the Qin and Han dynasties, there have been only the Han and Tang dynasties for two hundred years, the Han has the merit of eliminating the Qin, and the Tang has the cause of destroying the Sui, while the Zhou has no fault, and the Zhao family has usurped it, and the position is not correct and only the Jin can be compared.

If the Zhao family treats the people well, the people of the world are enough, since the Shenzong changed the law, crying hunger and cold, the mouth is grassroots, the people are wearing lock weapons, tiles and trees, selling money to pay off officials, dying in ravines, endless! And the cool officials coerced and pursued angrily, and since Zhao Ji ascended the throne, it has intensified! The people of the world can be said to have been suffering for a long time, what kind of person is Wang Qing? What kind of person is Tian Hu? can also raise his arms and exhale, Wanfu responds, why? Bitter also!

Hou Ye was born in the green forest, when he knew the suffering of the people, there were tens of thousands of male soldiers under his hands, just climb high and shout, how can Wang Qing, Tian Hu and others be comparable, at this time Kaifeng is empty, Hou Ye can raise troops to take it, Zhao Ji will inevitably tie his hands, at that time, Hou Ye can enter the foundation of the world, retreat can be Qingjun side, and do Cao Cao's story, is it not a hundred times stronger than sitting on Liangshan now? And the people also have a chance to live.

Lou is thinking about Hou Ye wholeheartedly, please think twice! ”

Jiang De felt dry when he heard this, and then looked below, many people looked moved, and couldn't help biting the tip of their tongues, forcing themselves to calm down, and only after a while did he say, "Ben Hou is also a courtier of the Zhao family, and he sent troops for no reason, what is the difference between him and the Zhao family?"

What's more, the official family made up their minds to send troops to Yanyun, this is the great cause of our Han nationality, how can it be ruined for personal gain? ”

Everyone listened and couldn't help nodding, Jiang De and everyone had analyzed it many times, although they thought that Yan Yun's battle was defeated and won less, but they also knew that this was a national war, even if they didn't make any efforts, they couldn't pull back.

Lou Minzhong wanted to say more, but heard a sergeant shouting, "Report!! "Rushed in from the outside.

Jiang De saw that the sergeant was holding a letter with chicken feathers in his hand, and he knew that he was in a hurry, and said, "Take it!" ”

This chicken feather letter is not a spoof of Jiang De, but since ancient times, this kind of letter with bird feathers is called feather in ancient times, it was used in the Han Dynasty at the earliest, and there are many poets who have left poems about this thing, such as Li Bai has "Feather skulls are like meteors, and tigers are in line with the city." Shouting for help, the birds are singing at night. The famous psalms circulated.

Jiang De opened the feather box, read through it, sighed and said, "Don't say it again, let's leave it here, the battle report just came, Qingxi guarded by Fang La himself was also broken, Fang La's wife Shao Shi and second son Fang Hao were captured, Fang Fei was killed by the rebel army, 70,000 people were killed in battle, Fang La and his son Fang Tianding led the remnants of the army to retreat to the mountains, I am afraid that they have also been arrested at this time." ”

"What? No way! Lou Minzhong also panicked at this time, Qingxi is the place where Fang La started an incident, if this place is also broken, Fang La's army will really be finished.

"Look at it." Jiang De asked the sergeant to hand it to Lou Minzhong, Lou Minzhong snatched a look, screamed sadly, and fell to the ground crying, Jiang De sighed, and secretly told himself in his heart that he must not let such a thing happen to him again.

Fang Jinzhi saw Lou Minzhong like this, and knew that it was true, and Lou Minzhong hugged his head and cried together, Jiang De saw that the two of them might not be able to recover all of a sudden, so he was about to get up and leave, Lou Minzhong found that Jiang De was about to leave, and hurriedly stood up and said, "Lord Pingyin Hou, please lend me a thousand, no, three hundred warriors, let me go and save my family's holy father, I am willing to tell the Hou Ye a treasure!" ”

When Jiang De heard the treasure, he couldn't help but stop his legs, looked at Lou Minzhong and asked, "Really?" ”

Lou Minzhong replied: "My holy daughter can stay as a guarantor!" ”

Jiang De thought about it, but still shook his head and said, "Now that the army is surrounding the mountain, how can three hundred people save people?" Cannot! No! ”

Lou Minzhong hurriedly said: "Three hundred people are enough!" As far as I know, Hou Ye and Huang Jiangde have a lot of friendship, as long as Hou Ye can let Jiang De's caravan ambush in Hengshui, and then send me into the mountain, I will be able to persuade the Holy Duke to break through to Hengshui, Huang Jiangde's caravan has a relationship with the Western Army, and the Western Army will definitely not search, as long as it is transported to the seaside, Hou Ye will send troops to help, and he can escape! ”

"Now the Song army has hundreds of thousands of people surrounding the mountain and sending you into the mountain? Let's say it lightly! Jiang De shook his head and refused again.

"It's because hundreds of thousands of people are surrounding the mountain, it must be extremely chaotic, and Hou Ye's subordinates are also Song Army, so it is not difficult to blend in." Lou Minzhong fought again.

"Master Hou, I think you can give it a try!" Zhu Wu came out at this time and said, "But Fang La can't be saved!" If the court does not take Fang La, it will never stop. ”

"You!" Lou Minzhong pointed at Zhu Wu, with fire in his eyes and said, "If you don't save the Holy Father, why bother to try?" ”

Zhu Wu turned around and said, "Fang La can't save it, but others can." ”

Fang Jinzhi stretched out his hand to stop Lou Minzhong at this time and said, "That's it, if you don't save the Holy Father, you won't save it, as long as you can save a brother in the sect, our family will be worthy of the Holy Sect at the last moment!" ”

Jiang De frowned, to be honest, he didn't want a sect madman like Mingjiao among his subordinates.

But then again, Yangsan really needs money now.

"Eight million taels of silver! 500,000 taels of gold! Lou Minzhong gritted his teeth at Jiang De and said, "Save the Holy Father!" ”

Jiang De's eyes were about to pop out, this Fang La is really rich.

There was not much gold and silver in the Song Dynasty, and the silver in the Chinese region was more until the Ming and Qing dynasties, when the whole world was using gold and silver to buy things in China, and most of the silver plundered by Western colonists in the Americas was exchanged for silk, porcelain, and tea to be shipped to Europe in China, which was also the reason why China became a silver system during the Ming and Qing dynasties, so the eight million taels of silver and five hundred thousand taels of gold in this period were enough to be exchanged for fifteen million copper coins, Jiang De's heart was moved.

"Good! Where is Wu Song? ”

"The last general!"

"You select three hundred elite soldiers to escort Mr. Lou to Muzhou!"

"Obey!"

"I will send sailors to Hangzhou and other places to wait, Mr. Lou, I also said ugly things in front, if there is no treasure by then, you will be worse than falling into the hands of the imperial court!"

Lou Minzhong nodded and said, "Please rest assured, Master Hou, there will be heavy thanks!" ”

Jiang De was moved by the wealth, sent Wu Song to rescue Fang La and others, and invited Huang Da and others to discuss Nanyang matters.

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The South Seas of the Song Dynasty is not like the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it is the world of Europeans, but the world of the Chinese, and later Zheng He went to the Western Ocean such an official sea navigation era, the Song Dynasty is undoubtedly the period of civil navigation, except for the Song people, the most is the big cannibals, as for the Europeans, almost nothing, Europe at this time is still sinking into the dark Middle Ages, and will sink for four or five hundred years.

To what extent did the maritime merchants of the Song Dynasty reach, according to the report of the Wu family to Jiang De, the farthest maritime merchants had arrived at the honey Xu fence, Jiang De did not react at first, when he saw the sea chart, he found that the so-called honey Xu fence was actually Egypt, but because Egypt was too far away, although the profits were high, but the risk was too great, most of the maritime merchants went to sea or went to eat, because the sea ships in this period relied heavily on the sea breeze, so it often took two years to go back and forth, but the profits were a hundred times.

The Song Dynasty maritime merchants were mainly stationed overseas, but the most important thing was the three wijayajaya, which was later the Sumatra island region of Indonesia, where thousands of people lived for a long time, most of whom gathered in Lanli, that is, the later Aceh Island, which is the westernmost point of the Indonesian archipelago, and most of the maritime merchants who wanted to go to the big food would wait here for the arrival of the monsoon.

And this is also the next overseas area that Jiang De is preparing to take.