The final result no one could have imagined, this ring challenge played a draw, so that everyone was surprised, although the fifth flying stone hit Gao Chong's left shoulder, but the flying stone is not a flying knife, although Gao Pet lost half a point first, but in the end he successfully forced the girl Hu with a gun, won a winning point, it stands to reason that Gao Pet should be judged to be successful.

But as the discussion among the soldiers deepened, many soldiers realized the suspicion, that is, the final victory of Gao Pet was won by Hu Sanniang giving up resistance, why did Hu Sanniang give up resistance, is there a secret trick they didn't find?

Gao Zhong was extremely dissatisfied with this result, he went directly to the big tent of the Chinese army, and protested loudly to several main generals: "If you lose, you lose, will I not admit it?" It's ridiculous to tie, it's obvious that Miss Hu shot me first with a throwing knife, if she didn't shoot me, but shot the horse's leg instead, could I still sit on top of the horse? She was afraid of hurting my war horse so she showed mercy, how could I not know how to fight for this face, this is an insult to me! ”

Li Yanqing smiled and said: "The reason why the two leaders were judged was not because of your face, but because the army could not make the decision that Sanniang won." ”

"Why?" Gao Chong was stunned.

Next to him, Han Shizhong said: "Because Miss Hu is not a general in the army, she can't get the top spot, so she can only tie for the top spot, you have to look at the written decision, there is no meaning of a tie, just a tie." ”

Although Gao Zhong was arrogant, he was not so much that no one was in his eyes, he saw that several superiors had formed a consensus, so he bowed and saluted, "Obey the decision of the system, just ....."

"Just what?" Li Yanqing said with a smile: "General Gao might as well say what is in his heart, and we will try our best to consider General Gao's feelings." ”

Gao Zhong sighed and said: "The humble duty was first stabbed in the leg, and there are very few people who have seen it, and the humble duty does not want the soldiers to misunderstand Miss Hu, and if it is defeated, it will be defeated, and the humble duty can afford it." ”

Han Shizhong said with a smile: "Since General Gao can afford it, then I will talk about it among the low-level generals and tell the truth." ”

"Thank you, Commander Han, and take your leave!"

Gao Pet saluted, turned around and left, Li Yanqing saw that Gao Pet was walking a little lame, so he asked: "General Gao, the injury on his leg is not in the way!" ”

Gao Pet shook his head, "A little flesh wound, it will be fine in two days." ”

He saluted and turned to leave, and when Gao Pet retreated, Cao Xuan smiled and said, "I'll just say it!" Gao Zhong refuses to accept this tied leader, he is that person, proud! If he loses, he will fight back next time, and he will never accept the humility of others. ”

In fact, this is the result of Hu Qinger's resolute refusal to accept the leader, Li Yanqing was helpless, so he thought of a way to tie for the first place, but Gao Pet refused to accept it, which really made Li Yanqing's head big, but Gao Pet only asked Li Yanqing to explain the truth, and did not oppose the plan of tying for the leader, which made Li Yanqing breathe a sigh of relief.

Li Yanqing said to Mo Jun, who was joining the army on the side: "The imperial court accepts it for the time being, and the army will first make Sanniang a partial general, and then go back to officially recruit five hundred female soldiers, and the female barracks will be arranged by Mr. ”

Mo Jun said with a smile: "I am going to set up the women's barracks next to the intelligence battalion, open up the barracks as a single battalion, separate them with barracks, and set up female soldier sentry posts, and I am already preparing military uniforms, I don't know if there are any special requirements for the command?" ”

Li Yanqing thought for a while and said: "I'll think about the female soldiers' uniforms again, anyway, they don't have to go to the front line, and they don't need too heavy armor." ”

At this time, Mo Jun hesitated, but did not say anything more.

Li Yanqing's idea of setting up a women's barracks was supported by Han Shizhong and Cao Xing, they all know that women have an irreplaceable role for men in the care of wounded soldiers, although Liu Jian adheres to the tradition of not entering women in the Western Army camp, but he is only resolutely opposed to the battalion prostitution, and he is not resistant to the military doctor nursing female soldiers, plus Hu Sanniang's performance today is extremely good, Liu Jian finally accepted the plan to set up a female barracks.

Wang Gui, another commander, basically supported whatever Li Yanqing said, without the slightest resistance, and the four commanders all agreed to this plan, and it was logical to set up a women's barracks.

Everyone discussed military affairs again, and Han Shizhong and the others left, leaving only Li Yanqing and Mo Jun in the camp, "What did Mr. want to say just now?" Li Yanqing asked with a smile.

Mo Jun sighed slightly: "Today Liu Fang said that the expenses are a little tight!" ”

Li Yanqing was stunned, and immediately turned around and said, "Hurry up and invite Liu to join the army!" ”

Liu Fang served as Li Yanqing's clerk to join the army, in charge of clerical work, and he was also in charge of Jing Zhaojun's small treasury.

There are three main pieces of military expenditure for the Jingzhao army, one is the planned military expenditure, that is, the cost of the 15,000 troops recognized by the imperial court, which is borne by the imperial court.

The second piece of military expenditure is the military expenditure of the 5,000 local chamber army, in fact, it is the same as the forbidden army, which is borne by the imperial court, transferred by the transfer envoy, and managed by Hu Cao, which can also be regarded as the planned military expenditure.

The third piece of military expenditure is quite special, Li Yanqing called it an unplanned military expenditure, and in other prefectures and counties, it refers to a subsidy for township soldiers, but in fact it is a little food subsidy, and the burden is not heavy.

But Li Yanqing is different here, their township soldiers are 5,000 new troops, approved by the Privy Council, the Son of Heaven nodded, and changed the collective training of township soldiers to long-term training of township soldiers, which is regarded as the management of the forbidden army, which means that they have to solve the problem of military spending by themselves.

The monthly salary expenditure of 5,000 village soldiers alone is as high as 50,000 yuan, and although the armor, weapons, and large tent are solved by the Privy Council, the expenditure on food three times a day cannot be avoided, so that another 10,000 yuan will be added every month, and the rigid expenditure of 60,000 yuan per month is an extremely heavy pressure on them.

Fortunately, the compensation they received for quelling the rebellion of the Black Party was given to Jing Zhaojun by the Son of Heaven as a reward, so that they had the accumulation of more than 200,000 yuan of money, which was barely supported.

Now that Li Yanqing is preparing to set up a women's barracks, it is naturally another expense to bear by himself, and the monthly expenditure of 500 female soldiers is at least six or seven thousand yuan.

After a while, Liu Fang hurried over and bowed, "See Tongzhi!" ”

"Liu joins the army, please take a seat!"

Li Yanqing invited Liu Fang to sit down, and asked the soldiers to serve tea, Li Yanqing only then said about the establishment of the women's barracks, Liu Fang really looked embarrassed, and nodded half-loudly: "I want to find a way!" ”

"How much money is left in the new library now?" Li Yanqing asked.

"There are still about 80,000 guan, and in a few days we have to pay for the recruits' salaries and food, and there will be 20,000 guan left, and the recruitment of female soldiers is customary to give 20 guan first, 500 people are 10,000 guan, and in the end we only have 10,000 guan."

"What about Bao Yan Zhai?"

Li Yanqing finally got the secret support of Bao Yan Zhai, Li Daqi transferred all the profits of Bao Yan Zhai stores on Hedong and Shaanxi roads to Jing Zhaojun, and calculated that there was an income of 20,000 guan per month, but compared with the monthly expenditure of 60,000 or 70,000 guan, Bao Yanzhai's income was still slightly less.

Liu Fang has made it very clear that this month is barely enough to pay, and next month it will not be able to open the pot.

Speaking of which, this is indeed Wang Huang's sin, since the year before last Wang Huang forcibly implemented big money, in just two years, prices in various parts of the Great Song Dynasty have skyrocketed, copper coins have depreciated, and silver and gold have become more and more valuable.

Ten years ago, a family could support their family with a monthly income of 3,000 yuan, but now it takes at least 5,000 yuan to barely maintain the family's food and clothing.

The reason why the township soldiers are willing to accept long-term training is mainly because of the welfare of food and lodging, strictly speaking, the monthly salary of ten yuan is indeed not high, but this is not a high military salary, which also forced Li Yanqing to fidget.

"How many sheepskins are left?" Li Yanqing pondered for a moment and asked.

"There are about 200,000 left!"

The black party couldn't get enough money to compensate, so they had to use sheepskins to pay off debts, and successively took out 300,000 old sheepskins to Jingzhaojun, of which 100,000 had been rewarded to the soldiers of the whole army, and there were still 200,000 pieces left in the treasury.

"What is the market value of sheepskin now?"

Mo Jun and Liu Fang glanced at each other, Liu Fang smiled bitterly: "If it is winter, sheepskin is indeed easy to sell, a good old sheepskin can be sold for three yuan, now that the weather is hot, it is estimated that it will be about two yuan at most, and there is no market, they can only sell to fur dealers, they also want to make money, it is good to be willing to give consistent money." ”

"It's always money!"

Li Yanqing was also a little reluctant, such a good old sheepskin was only sold for the same money, it was too much of a loss, he thought about it and asked, "How did Yanshan Mansion solve the lack of military spending?" ”

Like them, Guo Yaoshi of Yanshan Mansion turned the township soldiers into long-term training and trained them as new soldiers, and the number of them was also more than them, there were 20,000 people, and the monthly military expenditure was at least 200,000 yuan, and the imperial court would definitely not bear it, which was a great test for Guo Yaoshi, two months ago, Li Yanqing specially sent Liu Fang to Yanshan Mansion to learn experience, and Liu Fang had not had time to report to Li Yanqing.

"Returning to Tongzhi, Yanshan Mansion is mainly a three-line development, one is the implementation of the military tun, which solves the food problem of the recruits, and the second is the implementation of military business, Yanshan Army opened three commercial houses, and the nomads in the north do business, I heard that the profits are extremely high, and the third method may not be thought of by Tongzhi."

"What's the solution?" Li Yanqing asked anxiously.

"Open a mine and mint money!"

Li Yanqing was stunned for a moment, he hesitated and asked, "Could it be that they have been approved by the imperial court?" ”

Liu Fang nodded, "Pharmacist Guo did get a special approval from the Son of Heaven to allow him to open mines and mint money, and these three methods solved the problem of military spending for the Yanshan New Army. ”

Li Yanqing took a few steps and said to the two: "We can also take the road of trade, trade with the Western Xia, sell tea, porcelain, salt and Baoyan Zhai rouge to the Western Xia people, if you do a good job, there should be a profit of 20,000 yuan per month, and there is no problem with the military tun, the military tun includes raising pigs and sheep by itself, and the food money of the new army can be saved, as for minting money, I estimate that the imperial court will not approve us, but we can open mines and mint silver." ”

"But where is the mine?"

"I will go to the Son of Heaven today and ask for the Jingchuan Silver Mine to be assigned to us."

Generally speaking, the imperial court also allows private mining, but the cast blister copper, coarse silver and other products must be sold to the imperial court, mainly to prevent private private coinage or imitation of official silver, but the army is not a private person, the army mining income can be disposed of by itself, although not allowed to mint money, but can play the imitation of official silver, especially the Jingchuan silver mine is owned by the military, and it is more reasonable to transfer it to them.

Of course, the premise is that the Son of Heaven approves it, Li Yanqing felt that he could ask Gao Yu to persuade Zhao Ji that since Zhao Ji acquiesced in his training of new soldiers to be used as border defense, then Zhao Ji should also use mining to raise military expenses.

At this time, Mo Jun reminded: "If this matter bypasses Liang Shicheng, I'm afraid there will be extraneous complications." ”

When it comes to Liang Shicheng, Li Yanqing has a big head for a while, he is still Liang Shicheng's person in name, and he really can't bypass Liang Shicheng, Liang Shicheng is a person, he may not be willing to help you get things done, but if you bypass him, he will definitely make you unable to do things, Mo Jun reminded him very right.

Helpless, Li Yanqing had no choice but to say: "Okay! I wrote a letter to my father asking him to visit Liang Shicheng again. ”

"The normal application to the Privy Council still has to be done." Mo Jun reminded him again.

"I know!" Li Yanqing nodded, and asked Liu Fangdao again: "What about Liu Joining's opinion?" ”

Liu Fang pondered for a moment and said: "Whether it is doing business or opening a mine, it all needs a start-up capital, and in addition, the military expenditure of our new army will not be able to support next month, and we must have a few months of military reserves." ”

Li Yanqing already had a plan in his heart, and he immediately decided: "Give 200,000 sheepskins to Baoyanzhai as collateral, and borrow 300,000 yuan from Baoyanzhai as the capital of business and a few months of turnover." ”