In later generations, Japan was said to have only two states, the state of war and the state of preparing for war, they did not have the era of peace, but today's Dongjiang is similar, although Mao Jue does not want to, but unfortunately born in this troubled era, he can only carry out classical militarism to the end.

Other towns have never suffered from the lack of big soldiers, but unfortunately the Ming Dynasty has a vast territory and the advantage of dense population, but Mao Jue, who is lonely overseas, can't borrow it, and there are too many places where Dongjiang needs manpower, mining robes and sewing sheets, this head has to develop Hamgyong Road, digging mountains and opening fields requires manpower, it seems that more than 400,000 people are a lot, and they will be gone when they are thrown into the mountains, forcing Mao Jue to use a plan that he has always felt a little shameless.

Child soldiers!

On the playground in the village, a group of dolls in their early teens struggled to hold up real guys and stab forward with bayonets, while on the side, several former members of the pro-corps who had retired from the army because of their disabilities and served as reserve officers did not pay any attention to them, shouting slogans one by one.

"Thorn!"

"Close!"

"Thorn!"

"Close!"

Autumn Tiger tanned the children's skin, and some even burst their skin, but no one dared to relax, and those who failed to train were not just beaten as simple as being beaten, you must know that Dongjiang did not recruit these child soldiers for nothing, and these children's rations and clothing were completely provided by Dongjiang.

In the past few years, Mao Jue has been in charge, he advocated drinking boiled water, and ordered the Dongjiang Wenpo to gather for training, and also specially "invited" some doctors from Jiangnan to form a roving medical center, the birth rate and the infant mortality rate of children are obviously one is increasing, one is decreasing, and there are no TV and computer entertainment activities these days, every family has seven or eight children, and these slightly older children are sent to Dongjiang for foster care, which obviously reduces a large burden on the family.

In these years, filial piety is the supreme thing, and the places that are finally selected, if they are driven home by the master, the disappointed expressions of the parents are not as good as taking a few boards, everything is a heavy life.

However, standing on the wall of the newly built village, watching the children below training bravely, Mao Jue couldn't help but nod secretly, this can be regarded as his military academy! The oldest here will be eighteen adults in two years and can enlist in the army, even if the youngest has another seven years, he is also a young and heroic soldier, although he spends a lot more money and food, but at least in seven years, he can replenish more than 5,000 elite troops trained since childhood, if it expands, 8,000 is not impossible.

There are successors who can't be bought with any amount of silver.

Didn't Prussia unify Germany and defeat France just by relying on a generation of junior high school students?

Looking down, Mao Jue was still dealing with political affairs, listening to the reading of the confidential secretary Adriana next to him, he couldn't stop nodding his head.

"So, the Maori family is already in full swing?"

"Back to the general, when Inoue Teng sent the news, the Maori family attacked the Yoshikawa family and slaughtered Iwayama Castle, although it is a kind of daimyo, but the Yoshikawa family is the hero of the Tokugawa shogunate's battle in Sekigahara after all, if you don't care, the shogunate will also lose the hearts of the people, and it can't suppress the rest of the appearance."

"Since this knife has been stained with blood, then the Maori family must have no way to retreat, and can only resist to the end."

"The Kuroda family also sent a message from Asuka to send a message, before this happened, someone from the Maori family had already contacted them, hoping to fight against the shogunate together, how to reply to the old fox Kuroda Tadayuki asked the general, how should the Kuroda family deal with themselves!"

"Cut, this old guy is really hypocritical, Lao Tzu asked him to raise troops now and follow the Maori family to Luo, what can he do?"

sneered disdainfully, but Mao Jue still waved his hand: "Write a reply letter, let him wait and see for a while, if he can hold back the reinforcements on Kyushu Island, it will be a report point for the Maori family!" ”

"The concubine obeys!"

Yan Ran smiled, this girl was embarrassed and slapped over again.

"But general, you are really powerful enough, and it is easy to force the Maori family to pull up the flag and rebel."

"Awesome?"

At the mention of this, Mao Jue's old face couldn't help but twitch violently.

More than 700,000 stone white flowers!

Guan Zhong used to do this back then, before attacking the Chu State, he paid three times the price to buy the deer of the Chu State, and at the same time secretly used two or three times the price to buy rice grain, seeing that it was profitable, the King of Chu and the nobles of the Chu State ordered to hunt the deer with all their strength to earn the money of the Qi State.

In the autumn, the State of Qi turned its face, blocked the border passes, and the army pressed towards the State of Chu.

The soldiers and horses did not move, the grain and grass went first, and this Chu State found that he had a pile of coins and no food! And the surplus grain of several nearby countries was all purchased by Qi State, how could he fight a good war when he was hungry, so Chu State was defeated like water, and a large number of refugees fled to Qi State, and had to admit the hegemony of Duke Qi Huan.

This time Mao Jue is also playing economic warfare, or the last time he hit Edo Castle soldiers and horses looted to a place of Asakusa Bridge, where dozens of huge granaries were found, but elsewhere, the samurai were desperately resisting, such a strategic place, seeing the Dongjiang army come to rob, several samurai teams actually watched the excitement on the side, and under curiosity, Mao Jue ordered to catch a warehouse dealer who was blind from crying and asked, only to know that they were called Zacha, like vampires lying on the samurai's head as rice worms.

They control the direction of food prices, determine how much the rice-based samurai can earn each year, and also lend usury to the samurai, with an annual interest rate of up to a quarter, I don't know how many samurai have been bankrupted by them, their shops have been robbed, and it is strange that the samurai are willing to lend a hand.

This Mao Jue has learned posture! The samurai didn't attack, he also reciprocated the favor, and ordered those debtor status ledgers to be burned in front of those samurai, which was really happy, and this time, these zacha's annoyance was also used by him.

700,000 koku of grain, so that the Kuroda family was quietly sold into the territory of the Mori family, although it was considered a development of the commodity economy, but the feudal states still hindered the circulation of goods, and the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate was actually a regression of the commodity economy, 700,000 stone rice could not flow out of the Mori family quickly, occupying a large amount of money from the Zacha and rice merchants, and the price of rice naturally fell to the bottom.

Already poor, they couldn't even get one-third of the money in previous years, and they had to find a way to repay the loan sharks, these Maori samurai were angry, and they responded to the old saying, barefoot people are not afraid to wear shoes! Those who have constant birth have perseverance! Anyway, they are all bankrupt, and there is a big fuss, if they win, the Maori family will become the new shogunate family, and everyone will naturally follow the promotion and get rich, and have a new territory, even if they lose, it doesn't matter, anyway, they will die.

Just such a ship of food, forced a big feudal clan of the shogunate to obediently give Mao Jue cannon fodder, the first to emerge must be the worst one to attack in groups, the Maori family in the attack on Iwayama City, is already in the world of this banner, out.

It's just that Mao Jue obviously doesn't have the same good attitude as Guan Zhong back then, 700,000 stone grain, it is estimated that all of them will be requisitioned by the Maori family as military food, although Yuan Chonghuan's strategic goal has been achieved, but he has really lost a lot, while walking, in Adriana's speechless smile, the dignified Dongjiang general is still wailing there.

"700,000 stone of rice!"

"Okay, my general, Song Xiance's kid is coming back soon, didn't the imperial court allocate a military salary to Dongjiang? You've made your money! ”

"Imperial court, heh......"

It's okay not to mention it, mentioning this, Mao Jue rolled his eyes again and waved his hand disdainfully.

"That's not enough to raise a scout! Don't come to any big eunuchs this time, it's good to have Lao Tzu to post money. ”

As he spoke, Mao Jue had already walked to the end from the newly repaired wall, and when he came down, he didn't know whether it was a sycophant or if there was really such a project, and the first few pro-soldier instructors whistled violently and shouted.

"Whose bread do you eat?"

"Dongjiang Mao General!"

"Whose clothes are you wearing?"

"Dongjiang Mao General!"

"In the future, who will you carry guns for? To whom desperately? ”

"Dongjiang Mao General!"

A loud voice shouted out from the mouths of these children, each sentence was more imposing than the other, although the shouting was over, they disbanded and ate, watching these boys compete for the braised pork in the cauldron, the first time they were so cult of personality, Mao Jue was still fluctuating, and his head in the aisle seemed to be raised.

"These guys!"

But seeing this scene, Adeleena's expression was a little wrong, there was emotion, envy, melancholy, and hope, and she turned her head to look at it for a few minutes, and then she suddenly burst out with a bright smile and hurriedly followed Mao Jue's footsteps.

"My lord, wait for the concubine!"

(End of chapter)