Because of another large-scale expansion of the Mandate of Heaven Army, Li Zizi became a god of copper and iron, so he asked Sichuan Governor Guo Shijun for help, Guo Shijun lived in Xining and Lanzhou for many years, and knew the dilemma faced by the Mandate of Heaven Governor's Office, so he did whatever it took to reinforce the Mandate of Heaven Governor's Office.

The whole Sichuan Province has taken action, the existing mines, expand the scale of mining, speed up the speed of mining, all the inventory, all mobilized, in addition to farm tools, knives and other necessary farming tools, all pig iron, red copper, are immediately transported to Lanzhou.

Li Zicheng finally breathed a sigh of relief when he received the copper and iron from Sichuan for emergency relief, and while the Firearms Bureau was expanding the scale of production, the ammunition in its inventory gradually increased, approaching a month's production volume, which was one and a half months away from the one-and-a-half-month inventory he had set, although it had not yet reached the target, but it had tended to improve.

The recruits of the third and sixth battalions have basically sufficient ammunition for training, but at the end of the daily training, they need to collect used shells and warheads, and then collect them and deliver them to the Firearms Bureau, where they will be melted down and reused.

Guo Shijun was afraid that Li Zicheng would be worried about Sichuan, so he wrote a long letter and sent it to Lanzhou.

Li Zicheng received the long letter, took a closer look, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he was secretly proud in his heart, fortunately Guo Shijun was allowed to go to Sichuan to serve as governor.

In the long letter, Guo Shijun told Li Zicheng that starting this year, Sichuan began to levy taxes on all personnel, and like Qinghai Province and Gansu Province, the types of taxes are very simple, merchants pay industrial and commercial tax, and people with land need to pay agricultural tax, and the tax rate is 15 taxes and 1, and there is no poll tax for the time being.

In the first half of this year, the commercial tax in Sichuan Province is nearing its end, and according to the situation that has been collected, it is about 19,000 taels, and it is estimated that it will not be less than this figure in the second half of the year.

According to the figures reported by the prefectures and counties a month ago, Guo Shijun conservatively estimated that it was about 1.2 million stones, but the agricultural income of Sichuan Province is mainly in the summer, which is almost the agricultural tax for the whole year.

There is also the setting of various prefectures and counties.

Guo Shijun said in the letter that the core area of Bashu, the northeast of Chengdu, including Chengdu Prefecture, Chongqing Prefecture, Baoning Prefecture, Shunqing Prefecture, Kuizhou Prefecture, Hanzhong Prefecture, Tongchuan Prefecture, Jiading Prefecture, etc., the six prefectures and two prefectures have completely become familiar land, and all the industrial and commercial and agricultural taxes collected this time come from these six prefectures and two prefectures.

Zhao Guangrui's division of the second regiment of the seventh battalion is recovering Long'an Mansion in the north of Chengdu Prefecture, the military war is basically over, and the next thing is mainly the pacification work in the later period, after Long'an Mansion, in the northeast of Sichuan, there is only a vast and sparsely populated Songpanwei with complex terrain.

To the southeast, after completely conquering the southeast corner of Chongqing Prefecture, Ma Xianglin of the 8th Battalion began to regain the Banzhou Xuanwei Division in May, and now occupies most of the northern part, leaving the high mountains in the south.

In addition, the Jiangbei part of Xuzhou Prefecture and Luzhou has been included in the jurisdiction of Sichuan Province, but the Jiangnan part has no time to conquer.

The difficulty of Sichuan is still in the south, not only is it all high mountain terrain, but it is all foreign Tusi to establish rule, and it will take a lot of time to completely conquer it.

At the end of the long letter, Guo Shijun told Li Zicheng that the Zhao Guangrui Division of the Second Regiment of the Seventh Battalion had only one regiment of 5,000 soldiers, and it was really a little powerless to protect the vast area dominated by Chengdu and to serve as the main force to conquer on the periphery.

Li Zicheng read the long letter again from beginning to end, overall, this is good news, the entire Chengdu Plain is already in the hands of the Mandate of Heaven Governor's Mansion, and the surrounding mountains are just strategic places, and the output and population are not much.

Calculated in Sichuan now, industrial and commercial tax and agriculture are the sum of Qinghai and Gansu provinces, which is still the development of Qinghai and Gansu provinces for these years, and the wealth of Shu can be seen.

Li Zicheng opened the march map and carefully inspected every corner, first of all, Songpanwei northeast of Chengdu, which has penetrated deep into the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and if it is taken in time, it will not only allow Sichuan Province and Qinghai Province to seamlessly connect here, but also have the highlands, and not lose to the Tibetans on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in terms of terrain.

But the land in the southwest direction gave Li Zicheng a little headache, looking at it, the dense mountains, completely under the control of the local Tusi, I don't know how to conquer until the year of the monkey, I can only go from north to south, first easy and then difficult, step by step, the battle is inevitable, for the time being, I don't expect these places to pay taxes, as long as he is naturalized and solves the national problem once and for all, he will be satisfied.

Guo Shijun suggested the expansion of the army in Sichuan, Li Zicheng also thought that it was imperative, the first step was to expand the number of 3,000 households, and after the training was over, it would not belong to any battalion, but would be directly controlled by Sichuan Province to maintain security near Chengdu and completely liberate Zhao Guangrui's second regiment.

Like Zhao Guangrui's department, they can't load rifles for the time being, so they can only use cold weapons.

Li Zicheng came out of the study, humming a minor tune back to the backyard, his heart was already thinking about the creation of man, among his wives, only Namu Zhong has not been pregnant with a child, this period of time, he will focus on Na Mu Zhong, after dinner, Li Zicheng came to Na Mu Zhong's bedroom.

At this time, it was early autumn, but the temperature did not drop, and the autumn tigers were raging in Lanzhou, even at night, the bedroom was very hot.

Namu Zhong knew Li Zicheng's thoughts, and she was very cooperative, but Shuji had always slept with her, and every time she was sandwiched between them as a light bulb.

Li Zicheng has adapted to this kind of life, and regardless of Shuji, he directly picked up Namu Zhong Hengsheng, still in bed, and lay down on his side beside her.

Shuji took a puff fan and climbed onto the bed and got into the middle of the two, "Abu, Eji, aren't you hot?" Will Shuji fan you? ”

Li Zicheng couldn't cry or laugh, Shuji was eleven years old, and there were some things that shouldn't be seen by her, "Shuji, can you go to bed earlier?" ”

Shuji pouted, "Who can sleep on such a hot day?" Didn't Abu sleep too? ”

Namu Zhong smiled, turned sideways and put one hand on her shoulder, stroked it for a moment, and said, "Shuji, go to bed early......

"Oh, Shuji understands," Shuji turned over, clapped his little hands and said: "Abu and Eji are going to have little brothers, Shuji will go there first, Abu and Eji will have a good life in a while, Shuji will come again, okay?" Seeing that Namu Zhong didn't answer, he shook her head, "Okay?" Eji, okay? ”

Namu Zhong said softly: "Shuji go first, Eji will call you later, you come back!" ”

"Shuji will be obedient, don't peek," Shuji followed Li Zicheng's appearance and kissed Namu Zhong's face, "Eji must be called Shujiao, Shuji doesn't like to sleep alone!" ”

Namu Zhong said lazily: "Got it, let's go!" ”

Shuji reluctantly gave up Namu Zhong's arms to Li Zicheng, climbed to the middle of the bed, but turned back again, "Abu, Eji, you hurry up......"

Li Zicheng finally waited for Shuji to leave, and just reached out, when he suddenly heard a violent knock on the door, and when he heard it, it turned out to be He Xiaomi's voice, "Metropolitan Governor, urgent message from the Hanqing Bureau!" ”

"Han Qing Bureau?" Li Zicheng's head suddenly became big, since it was delivered overnight, he didn't have to think about it and knew that the matter was urgent, so he had to smile bitterly at Namu Zhong.

Namu Zhong half-sat up and helped Li Zicheng sort out his clothes, "The Metropolitan Governor will go first, and when the matter is dealt with, the maid will wait for the Metropolitan Governor at any time to ......."

Over there, Shuji knew that Zicheng was leaving, so he hurriedly crawled over and learned Namu Zhong's tone, "Shuji is also waiting for Abu ......"

Li Zicheng was suddenly angry, you are still waiting, if it weren't for you being caught in the middle and making trouble, Lao Tzu would have planted the seeds a long time ago...... Ignoring her, he only kissed Namu Zhong on the forehead, and then went out in his clothes.

He Xiaomi had been waiting outside the door, and when she saw Li Zicheng, she hurriedly greeted her, and whispered: "Governor, several adults are waiting in the front hall." ”

"Wait? What's the big deal? Li Zicheng frowned lightly, knowing that the matter was not small, otherwise, it would be impossible for the people of the Heavenly Mandate Governor's Mansion to gather overnight.

"Subordinate...... The subordinates don't know either," He Xiaomi said: "However, seeing that several adults are all dignified, they should be in a hurry......

Li Zicheng thought for a moment, couldn't be sure for a while, and said: "Let's go, go to the front hall, I want to see what is going on, and I have alarmed several adults overnight!" ”

The front hall of the Mandate of Heaven Governor's Mansion is the largest hall of the Mandate of Heaven Governor's Mansion, and it was originally very spacious, and if there were thirty or fifty people in a meeting, it would not feel crowded at all.

At this moment, there were more than a dozen bright lights in the front hall, the light overlapped, not at all less than the day, and several of the most powerful people in the Heavenly Mandate Governor's Mansion were sitting opposite the main seat, no one spoke, and their faces were solemn and solemn.

He Xiaomi pushed open the door, and Li Zicheng walked in slowly.

Everyone heard the sound, turned around and looked, and hurriedly got up and saluted, "Governor! ”

Li Zicheng glanced at it, in addition to Liang Wencheng and Shen Dao, there was also Gansu Provincial Governor Mei Zhihuan! He sat down on the throne and said, "No need to be polite, what's the matter, sit down and talk first, don't be nervous, the sky won't fall!" ”

"Hey!" The faces of the three of them softened slightly, and they sat down again opposite Li Zicheng.

Shen Dao got up again, took out a message from his arms, presented it with both hands, and handed it to Li Zicheng, "Metropolitan Governor, this is the message I just received!" ”

Li Zicheng stretched out his right hand, clamped it with his index and middle two fingers, put it on the desk in front of him, swept his eyes sideways, and was secretly surprised in his heart, although he was prepared to a certain extent, but when he saw this information, the blood in his heart was still boiling violently.

Liang Wencheng and the others must have been very anxious when they saw such information, they must not be messed up, let alone show a panicked face, he read it carefully again, so as not to make any omissions, and then said lightly: "Lord Shen, is there any other information?" ”

Shen Dao was incoherent, and he said...... "What else...... Yes...... Wang Anping didn't say that the details were sent by the fast horse later, and now there is only this information......"

"It's such a message that makes you so nervous?" Li Zicheng picked up the warm tea in front of him, took a sip, and said: "You are all high-ranking officials of the Heavenly Mandate Army, no more than ordinary soldiers, from the moment you joined the Heavenly Mandate Army, didn't you expect that there would be today?" ”