With some spare money in his hand, Luo Cheng couldn't help but spend it.

Jinghu Water Conservancy has to invest tens of millions of dollars every year, and this money is not saved. But he didn't immediately invest all the excess money into it, and if he had money, he had to consider other things, such as whether the people had so much time, etc., so in the end, Luo Cheng did not change Jinghu's thirty-year plan.

After first consulting with the Privy Council and the Ministry of War, he decided to increase the military expenditure of Su Dingfang in Xishan Road by 10 million guan, send him an additional army, and send 12,000 new soldiers to Xishan to build castles, beacon piers, post stations, and patrol cavalry. He also asked Su Dingfang to grasp a few typical examples and fight a few tough battles.

Don't ask for a big battle, but you have to win a battle, and don't care about the gains and losses of one city and one pool, but you can't lose money. The general idea is to carry out an autumn sweep of those Qiang people who do not obey the king, to put it bluntly, to rob. If you can grab it, you can grab it, and if you can't grab it, you won't be hard.

The initiative is in the hands of Su Dingfang, so it has to be the same as the previous barbarian invasion of the Quartet, take advantage of your inattention to run over to fight the autumn wind, in the past, the Central Plains was mainly defensive, building the Great Wall, and Tunjun Fort.

Now Luo Cheng wants Su Dingfang to change his strategy, take the initiative to attack, and learn from those people, this time it is their turn to attack. What Qiang people, cattle and sheep, if you can grab it, you can grab it, and if you grab it, you will earn it.

Once the Qiang people dare to break away from their bunkers and cottages to fight, it is better, look for opportunities, surround them, gather and annihilate them, once their main force is destroyed, then they can take advantage of the situation to pull out their bunker and village, and then a pot will be served.

The privy envoy Zhang Xutuo and the deputy envoys Zhou Dewei and Song Laosheng looked at the emperor's plan and were very worried, but Cheng Yanjin was more in favor.

"There are only a thousand days to be a thief, how can there be a thousand days to prevent thieves, on this border, there are few people in the area, and it is remote and backward, it is better to defend than to attack, Your Majesty didn't say for a long time, the best defense is to attack, let's attack. If I don't build the Great Wall, hundreds of thousands of soldiers are the Great Wall of Daqin! ”

10 million yuan, this is a lot of money, which can build many fortresses and add a lot of equipment. Lao Cheng was a little envious, he earned all this money back in Anxi, but now he has to hand it over to Su Dingfang to spend, and he can only watch from the rear.

He took the initiative to ask and wanted to go to Xishan for guidance.

"You just stay in Luoyang City honestly, your privy deputy envoy went to Xishan, the soldiers and horses of Xishan Road, do you listen to Su Dingfang or listen to you? Su Dingfang has been in Xishan for a while, and he is familiar with that side, and you suddenly went over, which is not suitable. Luo Cheng unceremoniously rejected Cheng Yanjin's request.

Su Dingfang's performance in Xishan is still remarkable, in the past, there were so few soldiers and horses, and the conditions were so poor, which also opened up the situation, but now there is no reason to let Cheng Yanjin go to pick peaches.

"Give Su Dingfang 10 million military expenses, and add 12,000 soldiers and horses to him, I think Xishan is enough, just see if he can earn more money for the imperial court, and now there is still some money, I think it can be given to Xu Shiji of North Korea, before he fought with Baekje and Dongying for a while, but he has limited troops, so he has been following the will of the imperial court, focusing on defense, and has not attacked. I think that now, I can add 10 million to Xu Shiji's military expenses, and give him 12,000 new soldiers and horses, and then add another army, and he will have the strength to fight back. ”

"If you want me to say, it is long overdue to increase the number of troops in Korea, and let the Baekje and the Japanese people jump up and down for so long, and they have long wanted to clean them up." Before, some people in the imperial court also wanted to propose to increase the number of troops in Korea, but the emperor kept suppressing it.

Before, the situation in the northwest was unstable, and the imperial court had no money to start a war on all sides.

But now there is a windfall in hand, although the disaster relief has spent a lot, this is still a big project, but Luo Cheng did not simply regard the use of troops as a matter of spending money, there is a precedent in Anxi, he believes that as long as the imperial court increases the strength of North Korea and Xishan, increases military spending, and invests more capital into it, then it is completely possible to earn more back.

There is only one reason, the strength of the imperial court is far stronger than the opponents in the two places.

"The counterattack against the Wa State and Baekje can also be based on the method of the Xiqiang, not to seek to destroy the country directly in a war, as against the Qiuzi, you can first counterattack and enter the country, sweep and fight, first earn back the capital, and wait until the opponent's strength is almost consumed, and then fight a big battle and destroy the country."

Come up and fight a big siege war, Luo Cheng thinks that it is not necessary, this kind of war sometimes revolves around a fortified city, and it may have to be fought for several months or even years, the consumption is too great, and it is not cost-effective.

If you want to fight, you should be more flexible and attack, harass and loot, which can also weaken the enemy's strength. If the enemy leaves the fortified city to fight, then he can find an opportunity to surround and annihilate them, and then go to the big cities that are not defended by a large army.

"The saint's idea of using soldiers is really ingenious, and he treats fighting a war as doing business, which is powerful."

Luo Cheng laughed and said, "If you don't make money in war, what else is there to fight?" We now take the initiative, so this battle has to be a money-making battle, we can't fight like Yang Guangzheng Liao, just look good at face and talk about pomp, arrange troops for a few months, and send more than one million troops at a time, this battle has not been fought, it will be lost to grandma's house, and the battle has not been fought like this. ”

Yang Guang's style of play, the early investment is too large, the capital chain is easy to break and easy to collapse, and even if he really wins, Yang Guang's style of play is not proportional to the input and output.

Even if Luo Cheng gave Xu Shiji 12,000 additional troops, North Korea only had a total of 24,000 soldiers and horses, and this number of soldiers and horses had much smaller requirements for logistics.

Late autumn.

Andong Korea.

Xu Shiji received a holy edict from Luoyang, and also saw the reinforcements from the Central Plains by boat.

The 12,000 soldiers and horses, all of whom are the elite of the Southern Ya, will all be stationed in North Korea this time, and they will bring their families and stay in Andong forever in the future.

Along with the will was a long letter from the emperor.

In the letter, the emperor was much clearer and clearer than what was stated in the edict, and the emperor explained the reason for the increase in troops in Anton, and even repeatedly told Xu Sanji that he wanted to fight a flexible war and a battle to make money.

"A young and strong slave in Luoyang City is worth forty yuan!"

Luo Cheng reminded Xu Shiji, don't always think about destroying the country in a war, and then fighting to capture the king of thieves, instead of thinking about attacking the city and plundering the land to fight a big battle, it is better to think about taking more Baekje people and Japanese people back to sell, now the demand for slaves in various places is high, how many Central Plains have digested, after all, a large number of people have been granted fields by the imperial court and have become yeoman farmers, how can they still have the spare energy to farm for the landlords.

In places where there was little land, many people were also moved to the frontier to grant land, which led to a great shortage of landlords and a shortage of workers in the merchants' workshops, and the Han people became mostly self-cultivated farmers, so of course they could only buy slaves to do things.