The search began early in the morning and lasted until the afternoon, and more than 1,800 prohibited horses were found, a total of more than 2,250 horses were seized yesterday, and more than 2,250 horses were seized in the past two days.

"This is the list of the horses that belong to them, please take a look at them."

Liao Ping handed over the list, and Bai Liyan only read one page at a glance and ten lines, and the content was basically the same as guessing.

Withholding the list on the case, Bai Liyan asked Liao Pingdao:

"What is the condition of the detained horse?"

"Some still gather people to make noise outside the government, and some are staying at home or going out of the city. The total number should be more than 470 households. Among them, foreign business travelers account for 20 percent, domestic business travelers account for more than 10 percent, and most of the rest are China's own magnates, rich and powerful, and there are foreign magnates. ”

"Go and tell the people who asked for the horses that they have bought all these horses, and they are limited to go to the government office within three days to recognize the horses, and all the horses will be purchased according to the market price. Those who do not sell will be confiscated. ”

"No!"

More than 30 percent of the horses confiscated are smuggling, and since they are smuggling, they have high profits, and now they buy horses at market prices, and smugglers not only cannot make money, but may also lose money. If these smugglers do not admit that they continue to make trouble, they will not be able to justify the law, and they can be arrested and questioned at that time.

If they admit it, they can only go to the gold owner behind it to ask for losses, and this money is really a lot of money, the money behind the money not only did not get the horses, but also lost gold and silver expenditures, one in and one out is double the loss, plus the gold and silver invested in the previous horse purchase, the cost of thousands of horses is less than tens of thousands, plus rich promises, 100,000 may not be able to stop, after tonight, I don't know how many people will go bankrupt overnight.

As for Bailiyan's expenses for buying horses, of course, he couldn't pay for it completely by himself, and he had to use the state treasury to reimburse some of it afterwards, and all the horses were filled into the army for later use.

Of course, even though there are more than 2,000 horses trapped inside and outside the king's family today, they are by no means all, not including those horses that are running on the way to and from the merchants, horses that have already gone out of the city to run errands, etc., and it is conservatively estimated that there will be no less than 3,000 military horses. And in addition to this, there are also second-class horses stepping on the red line, and the total number is really not small.

After explaining the details to Liao Ping, Bai Liyan looked at Huang Che and asked:

"General Huang, what are the details of the people who entered and left the city yesterday and today?"

"Back to the Hou Ye, those thieves in the market stole and spilled their skins, and even fled with fear and intimidation, plus the government was huge, and those who didn't know why ran away, and the rest of them shrank honestly. If you do it for a few more days, most of the rest will have to run for your life, hehaha......"

Huang Che laughed loudly, but Bai Liyan was not at all relaxed, he said:

"Lord Qiu."

"The lower official is here."

"Ben Hou immediately signed, you quickly draft an official document and send it to Chenling, and inform the Lingling County Government to immediately notify the villages, counties, and cities in the county, and the strict family will guard against thieves who have escaped from the king's family, such as thieves and scoundrels, and once it is found that the offender is found to be picking quarrels and provoking trouble, he will be arrested immediately, and his name and accent will be enthroned."

"Xia Guan understands."

"In addition, starting tomorrow, the government will begin to arrest repeat offenders who still stay in the city, and after questioning, they will be imprisoned, and those with domestic household registration will be disposed of separately from foreign offenders."

Most of the property of these gangsters and gangsters is in the Wang's family, and they dare not enter the city for a while, and they have no livelihood, and some of the local people can return to their hometown in Xianguo to avoid separation, while the foreign gangsters who do not have a household registration have no land and livelihood for their own lives, so they can only continue to resume their old business and commit crimes all the way, and in the end they can only aggravate and deteriorate the public order in the rich areas of the capital county.

It is better to take precautions, warn all localities in advance to do a good job of preparedness, and screen the scattered gangsters in various prison cells than to concentrate all on the arrest of the king's family and be used by some people who have other Yongxing to make waves.

Today's Wang family is an important fiscal and tax town in Xianguo, more intuitive, more like the current special economic zone, improper disposal caused turmoil, the loss of the economy is less than tens of thousands, more than hundreds of thousands of hundreds of thousands, the impact on the political level is greater, the impact on the market is wider, Bailiyan has to boil frogs in warm water, the impact of damage to the minimum.

The elite group saw the special economic status of the royal family and the court did not dare to act rashly, so they hid the filth and dirt here, deceived the heavens and listened to the ulterior motives and had no fear. Coupled with the focus on technical education and overall economic development for many years, Bailiyan seriously neglected the particularity of the extralegal place at the feet of the Son of Heaven.

While everyone was talking, Wei Qi hurriedly reported:

"Master Hou, the envoy sent by the king has arrived."

"Bring it to me."

"No!"

Bai Liyan hadn't noticed that the situation had changed for a long time at this time, and only thought that King Xian had sent someone to inquire about political affairs. The person who came was King Xian's entourage of the forbidden army, in his thirties, and Baili Yan also recognized it.

"On the orders of the king, please return to the palace as soon as possible."

"You know what's going on." Bailiyan asked.

"I don't know. I was ordered to come here, but I don't know exactly what happened. ”

"I know, when the Hou Hou has trivial matters at hand, I will rush back to the tomb immediately, and please wait a while."

The incident happened suddenly, Bai Liyan did not dare but slowly, explained Huang Che, Qiu Purui, Liao Ping and others, and took advantage of the fact that it was still early, and took Zhou Kong and ten people from his entourage out of the north gate to rush back to Chenling, leaving only Wei Qi and others to continue to supervise.

When I rushed back to the tomb, it was already four o'clock, the four doors had been closed, and Bailiyan ordered to knock on the west gate and rush to the palace. At this time, it was late at night, the cabinet was dispersed early, and King Xian sat on the wooden couch in the inner hall of the Wenxue Pavilion to read the classics.

"Respectfully, King Saint."

Bowing down and saluting, King Xian put down the scroll in his hand and said leisurely:

"Aiqing, come and sit."

"King Xie."

Sitting down, Bai Liyan hurriedly asked:

"I don't know what the king is anxious to summon his ministers into the palace."

"Early this day, Ma Zhongning, the envoy of the Jin State, met with the widow and asked the Xian State to prepare for war. The cabinet had different opinions, so he summoned Aiqing back to the palace to ask Aiqing what he meant. ”

"This ......" Bai Liyan clenched his fists and was quite surprised, thought for a moment and said: "The preparations for war began as early as May and June last year, except for the fact that the armies have not yet been mobilized and the new artillery has not yet been put in place, the rest of the arrangements have been secretly completed at the end of last year, and there is no problem of hasty preparations.

However, Ma Zhongning's motive for proposing the Xian military war is unknown, if it is the intention of the King of Jin, it can only be that the vitality of the Changsun Kingdom in February was greatly damaged, and he could not parry the offensive of defending the country. But just now there have been two battles, each with a victory or defeat, and it makes no sense to seek a response from Xianguo at this time.

Yichen estimates that the Changsun country should at least be at the end of the summer and the beginning of the autumn, the main force and the defense of the country two or three more battles, then to see the fatigue, then is the best time to persuade our country to send troops, now to prepare for the war, not to mention the late autumn after the defeat of the eldest grandson, our army will face the choice of direct troops, now the preparation for war is to mobilize the whole country, what to do with the summer grain, autumn grain, once the war starts next year, the spring grain will be affected, this is a move to launch the whole body, must not be hastily decided.

Taking a step back, even if it is decided to send troops within this year, it should not be deployed now, at least until next year. ”

War mobilization is a very complex system of work, even in the agricultural period, the start and preparation of war are closely related to agricultural labor.

For example, the Black Turban Rebellion occurred in the spring, when the countries were completing spring ploughing, and a large area of cultivated farmland where the Black Turban Army passed fell into their hands, and Xianguo lost two and a half counties of spring ploughing rations. Since then, more than 400,000 young and middle-aged people have confronted each other in the Yongxing River, and the agricultural work in various counties and counties has been deserted, so that there will be a grain shortage everywhere in the coming year.

Although the later reform succeeded in greatly increasing grain production and improving the industrial structure, it is not possible to underestimate the harm caused by the imbalance of agricultural production, and agriculture is still the basic plate of all industries.

As soon as the war ends, it is inevitable that a large number of young and strong laborers will be siphoned off to serve in the war, and the resulting loss of agricultural output value will be transmitted to other upstream industries through agricultural products, and eventually affect all aspects, and the harm caused by this will be more significant than before.

With the existing strength of the Xian State and the international environment, fighting and defending the country is a one-line operation, supplemented by advanced artillery and ships, and it is not a problem to destroy one or two main armies of the defense of the country, so from the very beginning, Bailiyan did not plan to mobilize national strength on a large scale to put into combat readiness. What's more, the country is building a large number of buildings, and at this time, a large-scale mobilization and withdrawal of manpower is tantamount to adding insult to injury. One has to wonder about King Jin's motives.

At this time, the Jin State did not complete the war preparations, nor did it complete the reinforcements to the Qi State, and the preparation of the Xian State was tantamount to telling the Wei State that the Xian State might be involved in the war. Taking advantage of the fact that the Jin State had not completed its deployment in the Qi State, he first sent troops to beat the Qi State and deter the countries of the West Sea. Anyway, the main force of the Jin army did not arrive, and they beat Qiguo, and the Jin army stationed in Qiguo did not dare to speak up, so as not to be annihilated by the main force of the guards.

Qi Guo was destroyed, at this time the Jin State was even more embarrassed, there was no Qi army as cannon fodder, Jin Guo Yan could drive his soldiers and the main force of the defense of the country to fight a decisive battle thousands of miles away. If they don't make a statement, how do the countries of the West Sea view the Jin Kingdom, it will be difficult to gain a foothold in the West Sea in the future.

"Ma Zhongning proposed that the Xianguo prepare for war at this time, and there must be something strange in it. The minister remembered another matter, maybe he got a glimpse of it. ”

King Xian cheered up and said:

"Aiqing said something quickly."

"The king may not know that the eldest grandson's great victory over the country last year was not the result of his combat power, but the use of two new types of firearms that have lost their conscience, which are extremely powerful and easy to imitate, and the eldest grandson kept it secret until the day of the war to kill the country by surprise.

In the first battle in February this year, the eldest grandson was defeated, and it was precisely because of the heavy rain that this new type of firearm was useless, and it was taken advantage of by the defense of the country and won a complete victory. When the minister went to Yongxing City a few days ago, he arranged for the imitation of such firearms.

If the guards had secretly made such firearms, our army would have hastily engaged the guards and would have suffered tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of casualties in the first battle. The minister was thinking, if it weren't for the fact that the Jin army already knew that this thing was powerful, so he wanted to make our army act as a substitute for the dead ghost for the stone throwing and asking for directions, so as to weaken the strength of our army and plot against our Xianguo again. ”

Bai Liyan's words were deeply recognized by King Xian, Jiang Hai twisted his already gray beard and said with a little anger:

"The Jin people's heart is not dead, it is really hateful."

"King Shengming, the country of Qi is thousands of miles away from the Jin Kingdom, and the method of advancing between the east and the west is just a fantasy, and the most feasible way is to annex my Xianguo and enjoy its success, and use this to dominate the world. However, if I can't swallow it at the moment, I can only return to the old way, but as long as I have the opportunity, I will see a needle and use poison to harm our country, so we must not listen to his words. ”