Looking at the map in front of him, seeing the state of Chu and Wei, which were inadvertently sandwiched by three breads, Dai Yan couldn't help laughing. Now I am finally standing on this big stage in the world and competing with the princes of other countries!

After listening to the entourage's analysis of the strength of the Chu army on the other side of Suishui, Dai Yan learned about the situation in the country again. After knowing that Taoqiu received all the provinces in the country and remained in a stable state, he was finally relieved. In this way, he can initially mobilize the domestic army to deal with the Chu army on the other side of Suishui!

At his current position, there are certain things that he no longer needs to do personally, he only needs to give orders, and the once well-functioning war machine of Taoqiu can do what he wants to do for him!

He first passed a law of war that allowed the state to use future taxes as collateral and issue war bonds. Subsequently, the congressman from Taoqiu in the right court was asked to initiate a proposal to issue a war bond of 600 million wen. At a time when the territory is now occupied by the Chu State, launching a foreign war and regaining the territory is what the Song people are eagerly looking forward to, and it can be said that it is the "political correctness" in the Song State today!

For the issuance of this bond, the left court quickly approved. According to the rich experience of the Taoqiu Exchange in issuing war bonds, this bond is still issued by the major commercial banks in the exchange.

The only difference from the previous issuance is that the previous war bonds were only issued in a city in Taoqiu, and now the scope of issuance has been expanded to the entire Song Kingdom!

And for this kind of war bond, it can no longer be called a risky bond, it can almost be regarded as a welfare! Those Taoqiu people who had previously purchased war bonds, after learning of the victory of the sovereign, were extremely excited! Even some businessmen have a new vision and start buying bonds that they sold before at a high price!

The Taoqiu people bought war bonds before, mainly for the benefit of the Taoqiu collective, which was a simple collectivist consciousness. And now that they have reaped the benefits of such a spontaneous action, they are all the more able to drive their desire to buy bonds. At such a time, the war bond, although it is also necessary for the Taochu people, is already a kind of icing on the cake!

Dai Yan hopes that the war bond will become a powerful tool to win over the major political forces in the Song Kingdom! Therefore, this time there were a total of 600 million bonds, Dai Yan only allocated 100 million bonds to Taoqiu, and Dai Yan arranged for the remaining 500 million bonds to be issued in the Song Kingdom.

Among them, Suiyang and Pengcheng were allocated 150 million bonds, and the remaining 200 million bonds were all allocated to the Song Kingdom. The subscribers of these bonds were different from the first time when most of the commoners received the bonds when they were issued in Taoqiu, and the bonds issued this time were basically completely divided up by the magnates from all over the Song Kingdom!

Regarding the behavior of the magnates, Dai Yan did not stop it. After the third issuance of war bonds, he was already deeply aware of the greatness of this financial instrument. This is a tool of war that can quickly mobilize funds and gain people's hearts!

What Dai Yan didn't know was that the reason why the British Empire was able to rise rapidly in the 18th century, surpass the old maritime empire Spain, and even defeat the maritime power Netherlands, and win the hegemony with France in overseas colonies, not only relied on the so-called "bourgeois revolution", but also relied on the financial revolution caused by the bourgeois revolution!

In particular, in 1694, six years after the Glorious Revolution, the Bank of England, a new central bank, and the subsequent establishment of a comprehensive bond system, as well as the reform of the financial system, enabled Britain to lead the European countries in terms of financing. The most crucial role of the bourgeois revolution in this is to ensure that creditors representing the interests of the bourgeoisie can legally intervene in politics and protect their own rights and interests!

It was with enough money that Britain could afford to raise a strong enough navy and drive it to expand overseas; The lucrative benefits of expansion can continue to provide sufficient benefits to creditors. Driven by this system, the more expansive it became, the more it could benefit creditors, and Britain was able to become a global empire on this basis, and the Industrial Revolution evolved!

Today's Taoqiu, consciously before Dai Yan, actually has its own central bank, Taoqiu Qianzhuang. It also has its own professional bond issuer - Taoqiu Exchange. To put it mildly, Dai Yan, who has the vision of the 21st century in later generations, has established a financial system that is more advanced than the British financial system in the 18th century! The only thing that this fiscal system lacks is the legal guarantee of the state.

After issuing war bonds with the credibility of Taoqiuyi Prefecture in the past, allowing the whole people of Taoqiu to enjoy the benefits of expansion, Taoqiu actually embarked on this state of benign expansion. Now that Dai Yan has taken control of the Song Kingdom and made up for the last shortcoming in law, this perfect war machine has finally begun to become stronger and stronger with the change in the scope of rule!

Although the people of the Song Kingdom could not see the power of this war machine, even the most stupid people could see the huge benefits behind the national debt. Where there are interests, there are naturally people who go there without hesitation. Even if they need to go to the battlefield to fight to get this kind of benefit, these people don't care at all!

Under such circumstances, the subscription of treasury bonds is completely a distribution of interests. Dai Yan gave this distribution to the merchants of Taoqiu, essentially hoping that these merchants would have a say in this kind of behavior. With the cleverness of these merchants, they will naturally grasp this opportunity to establish a good relationship with the magnates from all over the Song Kingdom, and at that time, the magnates of the Song Kingdom will be able to be co-opted by Taoqiu and used by Dai Yan!

As for not distributing benefits to ordinary people in the Song Kingdom, in fact, Dai Yan has no intention of changing the distribution of domestic interests in the Song State at present. In his opinion, now that he has just taken control of the Song Kingdom, stability is the most important thing, and radical reforms will inevitably push the magnates down to the opponent's side at this time, you must know that his brother Zixi, Hua's Hua Rong, and even Le's young master are still alive now! Who knows if these people will jump out at some point, win over a group of people in the Song Kingdom, and give him a blow in secret?

After the Taoqiu merchants distributed war bonds to the magnates in various places, the magnates in the entire Song Kingdom rejoiced, and everyone began to sing praises to Dai Yan. After that, as soon as the conscription order implemented by Dai Yan came out, the magnates everywhere did not have the sense of slackness that they had during the previous Song Civil War, and everyone began to mobilize the peasants who depended on them to fight!

For the magnates, they have bonds in their hands, and only when the war is won, they will be able to reap the full benefits; All of them bought this kind of bond, naturally hoping to win the war. On the other hand, now that the whole country is under the control of Dai Yan, mobilizing local troops is no longer a chore of obligation, but a great thing with huge benefits!

In the previous feudal era, the monarch was obligatory for the requisition of local armies, and there was never a need to pay money for the requisition of an army. And the only reason that drove the local nobles to lead the army to fight for the monarch was to be able to get the monarch's reward in the title after the war!

And now Dai Yan directly uses money to levy the army, and the effect is much better than that of the army that was completely voluntary and relied on obligations before! The local magnates of the Song Kingdom, everyone knew that Taoqiu had almost endless food, and that in the army they almost never worried about starvation, and this alone was enough for them to lure the young men of their hometown.

Not to mention, they were able to hold the position of officers in the army they formed, and they enjoyed a rich salary and most of the rewards for meritorious service. And the soldiers they lead don't need to bear the salaries at all! Some excessively powerful people will even greedily withhold the soldiers' salaries and put them in their own pockets!

Of course, the powerful people who really have a long-term vision will not do this kind of thing. After all, the new title system of the Song Kingdom has been promulgated, and everyone still hopes to make meritorious contributions under this new system, so as to get a better title!

Driven by so many interests, the local magnates of the entire Song State scrambled to be the first, lest they should be left behind, and mobilized a powerful army of more than 200,000 people in the entire Song State!

Among them, Taoqiu's stay in Taoqiu, and even the troops deployed in various cities of the Song Kingdom were not included! The army of 200,000 people was entirely assembled on the east and north banks of Suishui.

Among the 200,000 troops, the army originally subordinate to Taoqiu was less than 50,000 people, and more than 40,000 people were mobilized from Pengcheng, while more than 50,000 people were mobilized in Suiyang, and nearly 70,000 troops were mobilized in cities all over the Song Kingdom!

Although there was no detailed inspection, Dai Yan only casually inspected the Song army camp near Suishui, and he was able to find that almost all of these troops mobilized by the magnates of the Song State were strong young and middle-aged, and there were basically no old and weak people in them! This also means that if Dai Yan needs to, he can mobilize more troops if he continues to expand!

And with such a powerful army, Taoqiu's original advanced logistics system can supply logistics, and it is not weaker than others in the slightest. Relying on Surabaya and Suishui, these assembled armies did not need to worry about food. And the only lack of weapons and equipment was completely solved in just two months under the full production of the entire Taoqiu!

Dai Yan even took advantage of the short two months to do basic military training for these soldiers, so that they could become basic soldiers.

By the time the training was over and all the soldiers were ready, it was already June. At this time, he already had a group of more than 200,000 people, equipped with advanced weapons, and a powerful army across the river from the Chu army!

Standing by the water, holding a sword in his hand, Dai Yan could suddenly feel that the sword in his hand had an incomparably powerful power! It was as if he only needed to pull out this sword and point it at the opposite Chu army camp, and he would be able to completely destroy that seemingly powerful opponent!