Zu Dashou said these words very slowly, but he believed that Man Gui understood. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Rebuilding Jinzhou and even Dalinghe City is Sun Chengzong's wish.

From the perspective of grand strategy, Jinzhou guards the western Liaoning corridor, is the throat of the important place, the place where the soldiers must fight, if the Ming Dynasty only guards the gate, Jinzhou is not very important, but as long as Ningyuan and Juehua are guarded, Jinzhou is very important, Jinzhou is in, Ningyuan can be guaranteed, and the Daling River is the key fortress to garrison the west of the river, as long as the Daling River forts are repaired, build troops and defend, you can go north along the west of the river and take Guangning back.

There are thirteen mountains, and then regain Guangning, which is equivalent to confronting Jianyu along the river, although there is no hope of recovering Liaodong in a short period of time, and the recovery time of Shenyang and Liaoyang is far away, but from the perspective of the entire strategic situation, it is quite beneficial to the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, this is just Sun Chengzong's idea, and what the generals see is where the opportunity to make money lies.

As Zu Dashou said, Jinzhou has been destroyed by the Houjin side, if you want to repair it, you have to spend a lot of materials, the allocation of silver is only the first step, and there are a lot of expenses that can be reimbursed at the bottom.

Man Gui was silent for a while, picked up the wine glass and touched a glass with Zu Dashou, he said: "I only want to collect more family members and train to become a strong soldier, so as to repay the Inspector for reusing the grace of trust." ”

Zu Dashou said seriously: "In the next place, I also have to practice more family members to repay the country's kindness." ”

After talking about business, Zu Dashou is much easier, the ancestral family has many sources of income, but the main source is in the land and empty quotas and embezzlement of military salaries, these things are considered good if there are tens of thousands of taels a year, and most of the income is used to raise the family, after all, the ancestral family is not only safe and quiet so far, but also more and more valued by the imperial court, and the strength retained by the ancestral family is the most important. Like Li Chengliang in his later years, corruption and pleasure, the sons of the Li family only cared about pleasure after Li Rusong's death, no one took care of military affairs, and the Li family disappeared, and as a result, Li Rubai lost a battle, was attacked by the government and the opposition, and ended up being forced to commit suicide.

After understanding this, Zu Dashou's idea of enhancing his own strength has not stopped, no matter what, the ancestral family must maintain its current status, for this reason, whether it is land or silver, as well as the recruitment of those who dare to die, the ancestral family has not stopped for a day.

In the first two years, Zu Dashou was worried that Jianyu would attack, and at the same time there was a reason for political speculation, and he violated the rebuilding of Ningyuan Yin and Fengyang, and later was forced to surrender to Sun Chengzong, and most of the projects of building Ningyuan City were Zu Dashou, and it was only then that Zu Dashou gradually understood that the imperial court's strategy for Liaodong had completely changed!

There is very little land and Dingkou, and only a few cities are left in the land of Liaoxi, and the silver taels allocated by the imperial court in a year exceed three million taels!

What can I do with all this money?

The old grandson's use of silver is nothing more than to build weapons, train soldiers, reclaim land and build houses, but the biggest money spent is to build cities!

When he figured this out, Zu Dashou couldn't wait to smoke himself to death.

At the beginning, he was so confused, resisting the construction of a city, you need to know that building a city is to mobilize tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people, just by falsely reporting the loss and expenses, he earned tens of thousands of taels in a city in Ningyuan, and directly took the whole box of silver home, Zu Dashou did more than once, built a city in Ningyuan, the ancestral family made at least more than 100,000 taels, if according to Sun Chengzong's plan, build dozens of military forts and several important cities, Zu Dashou is sure to get at least more than one million taels, or even more.

"There seemed to be displeasure on the face of the Supervisor of Suitable Talents," Zu Dashou and Man Gui inquired after a round of eating and drinking: "Is it because the vehicle collection did not go well?" ”

"Not bad." Man Gui frowned and said, "Originally, Master Inspector wanted to be able to help with Yusheng, but now it seems that he can't count on it. ”

Zu Dashou said with a smile: "He Yusheng is also a powerful businessman, and he is famous for his carriage and horse logistics, how can there be difficulties in this matter?" ”

Man Gui said: "Zhang Han said that he could gather 1,500 carriages to Ningyuan in half a month, isn't this nonsense. The Governor was very suspicious of him, and naturally there were some people who believed him. ”

Zu Dashou laughed and said: "This Zhang Han is indeed a big brag, how can a trading house have so many big cars, I think it would be very good if he could get two or three hundred cars." ”

Man Gui thought so.

"What are Zhang Han's conditions?" Zu Dashou's curiosity was not satisfied, and he continued to ask.

"He doesn't want extra silver." Man Gui said: "The Inspector was originally worried about being embarrassed with Yusheng and affecting his business, so he was willing to compensate some silver taels as appropriate, but Zhang Han said that there was no need to compensate, as long as the grain and corresponding materials from Tongzhou Dacang to Liaodong were transported in the future, and Yusheng's carriages and horses would be hired." And it is best to send a clear decree through the cabinet, as a rule, even if the governor returns to the court in the future, the successor of Jinglu or the governor of Jiliao cannot be reversed. ”

"Is he going to be a trickle?" Zu Dazu commented with a smile, and then said: "If he can really collect those big carts and transport hundreds of thousands of stone grains to the Thirteen Mountains, and the Thirteen Mountains will no longer be the worry of the imperial court, this credit is so great that he can agree to his conditions." ”

Man Gui nodded lightly in agreement.

In fact, Sun Chengzong was still very happy when he received Zhang Han's letter, but as soon as he saw the number of cars and horses that Zhang Han was willing to provide, Old Man Sun immediately felt unreliable, the general big car dealership has dozens of broken cars, even if the scale is very large, it can do a good job in the business of several state capitals, Zhang Han's cars and carriages are all made by Seiko, and at a glance, you can know that the price is expensive, and Zhang Han's car dealers are all over Beijing, Hebei, Shandong, Xuanfu, Datong, Northern Shaanxi and other places, how much can be gathered in a hurry? Sun Chengzong thought that Zhang Han could gather two or three hundred carts in ten or so days, and with the transportation capacity of Heyusheng, one cart of fifty stones could send 15,000 stones at a time, plus Ningyuan to Yongping Mansion gathered some ordinary carts that could pull more than ten stones, which could send 20,000 stone grain, which was enough to support the mountain for a while.

There is a grain store, Juehua Island normally has about 100,000 stone of grain storage, Bijia Mountain also has a large amount of grain storage, plus the rest of the cities, the fort also has a lot of grain storage, adding up to hundreds of thousands of stone is always there.

One stone of one hundred and twenty catties, that is, there are seventy or eighty million catties of grain reserves outside the customs at any time, plus coarse grains and beans, which is an astronomical amount.

This is a great wealth for the Houjin, but for the Ming Dynasty grain reserves is the embodiment of national strength, since Zhang Juzheng combed through the Cao Yun and clarified the land, the phenomenon of insufficient grain storage in the north of the Jingshi and the north during the Jiajing period has long been solved, every year there are four million stone grain from the south through the canal directly to Tongzhou, Cao Yun is the most important thing for the imperial court, along the river deployed a large number of guards, after a long time of peace, these guards simply changed to Cao soldiers, they and the south of the guard changed into the Cao gang is responsible for transporting grain, and the south of the two lakes and Jiangnan are granariesRegardless of whether there is a good year or a poor harvest, the grain sent to the north has never been less than one and a half catties and taels. In addition to grain, there were also cloth, silk and other specialties needed by the imperial court, which were also continuously sent to the north through the canal.

Tongzhou's grain reserves, in Wanli ten years or so to reach a peak, grain storage has never been less than 10 million stones, with the Emperor of the Apocalypse and the government and the opposition to the thirteen mountains trapped in the military and civilian, food is how much can be transported, plus to withdraw as much as possible a part of the women, children, old and weak, Sun Chengzong believes that can send millions of catties of grain, at least can be called the mountains to survive a winter, and so on next spring Jinzhou and nearby military forts are repaired, the Ming army's threat to the Thirteen Mountains increases, it is very likely that Jianyu himself withdraws away, that is the most ideal result.

In addition to the distrust of Zhang Han's promise, what made Sun Chengzong angry was that Zhang Han still had a few words.

He advised Sun Chengzong not to put the granary on Juehua Island, and not to store grain or other ordnance in the small military forts outside Ningyuan.

Ningyuan, Jinzhou, Zhongzuo, and Shanhaiguan, these big cities might as well put some military funds, but Zhang Han suggested that Sun Gebu still put a large amount of materials in Shanhaiguan, which is the safest.

Although Zhang Han's letter was very respectful, the hidden meaning was that Sun Chengzong was very angry.

Obviously, this young businessman does not have the slightest trust in the combat effectiveness of Guan Ning soldiers, although Zhang Han's meaning is vague, but in terms of Sun Chengzong's observation, it is obvious that there is only one meaning: Guan Ning soldiers can not fight in the field, and the forts and cities built can only be held alone, and Juehua is only an island, the nearest place is less than ten miles from the shore, the sea is frozen in the cold winter, the cavalry can drive straight in, there is no danger to defend, the Guan Ning soldiers in Ningyuan City dare not send troops to help, Juehua is waiting to die.

In his strategy, Jinzhou, Ningyuan, Juehua, and the forts along the road, garrison in peacetime, and assist each other in wartime, attract the army of Jianyu in one city, and if the reinforcements are four sets, the captives are trapped in the city, and they need to deal with the reinforcements again, and they must be in a dilemma and fall into a predicament.

If according to what Zhang Han said, if the defense system of the entire western Liaoning is wasted and millions of taels of silver are wasted, it is better not to repair Ningyuan and directly give up all the land outside Shanhaiguan, isn't this what Wang Zaijin and others think?

Behind this letter, Sun Chengzong had to ponder, was this a tentative attack by the eunuchs on the strategy of western Liaoning?

Originally, although the old Sun Tou did not appreciate Zhang Han's behavior of joining Wei Zhongxian, but since Wang Xinyi took the initiative to provoke at the beginning, it was understandable that Zhang Han was forced to fight back, and there was a righteous act of He Yusheng to fund the Thirteen Mountains, Sun Chengzong always had some appreciation for Zhang Han, but this time the letter really angered the old Sun Tou.

If it is a private matter, no matter what, Sun Chengzong has a sense of tolerance and tolerance, and the more people in high positions, the easier it is to be tolerant of small people. However, if it involves major military and political matters, especially major events related to disputes over the overall line, Sun Chengzong's anger will not be easily dissipated. It can be said that Old Man Sun is already self-contained enough, if it was someone else, it is likely that the Heyusheng branch in western Liaoning would have been seized a long time ago.

"It's self-inflicted." After listening to Man Gui's words, Zu Dashou also sighed sincerely.

Man Gui didn't speak, just shook his head slightly.