After Li Yanqing seized Taiyuan Mansion, he immediately sent Guan Sheng and Hua Rong with 3,000 soldiers each to guard Lou Fu Pass and Yanmen Pass to defend the Jin soldiers of Datong Mansion to the south.

This time, Li Yanqing only led a total of 30,000 people to attack Taiyuan City, and after sending 6,000 people to defend Lou Fu and Yanmen Pass, the army in his hands was immediately a little stretched, and it became an urgent matter to recruit troops to defend the city.

On the second day after Li Yanqing arrived in Taiyuan City, Li Yanqing sent people to openly recruit 50,000 new troops in all counties of Taiyuan Prefecture and in Taiyuan City, and at the same time set up recruitment points outside the four city gates in the east, west, south and north to recruit anti-Jin righteous soldiers who were willing to defend their homes and defend the country.

Although the recruitment notice was written with great enthusiasm and took advantage of Li Yanqing's huge prestige in Taiyuan, it would certainly stimulate the enthusiasm of the people to join the army to resist Jin to a certain extent.

But on the other hand, the reality is very cruel, people can not only rely on a blood to participate in the anti-Jin, for more than a hundred years, the Great Song Dynasty soldiers are to make money and eat food has penetrated into the bone marrow of every Great Song Dynasty person, if there is no Yulu, at most a few months as a man will be considered to give face.

If you want to recruit a new army, you have to follow the rules, ten yuan or two taels of silver per month, which is the lowest recruitment standard at present, and you must ensure that you are well fed and clothed, which used to be a little lower, that is because you don't have to fight, and now being a soldier has become a high-risk occupation, and the tide is naturally rising.

Early in the morning, Li Yanqing came to the bank of the Fen River about ten miles east of Taiyuan City, surrounded by hundreds of personal soldiers, where the Jin soldiers built a huge warehouse city, and almost concentrated the grain and grass materials of all the states on the Hedong Road here, and it was also the logistics center for the Jin soldiers to attack Luoyang Mansion and Yan'an Mansion.

At this time, 20,000 Song troops were using carts and sleds to transfer grain and grass into the city, and they had to rush all the materials, grain and grass into the city before the Jin soldiers came, which became the foundation for Taiyuan City's long-term persistence.

The current official in charge of Cangcheng is Bo Chen Dong, the lord of Jingluo Mansion, Chen Dong is no longer the leader of Taixue, he was awarded the title of Qipin Wu Delang by the imperial court, and took the initiative to ask for a civilian official in Li Yanqing's army, serving as the head of Jingluo Mansion, this time following Li Yanqing north to Yan'an Mansion, and then came to Taiyuan City with the army, in charge of logistics materials and grain and grass.

Hearing that the capital was coming, Chen Dong hurriedly brought a few entourages out to greet him, and Li Yanqing asked with a smile: "Have the materials been verified?" ”

"Returning to the scriptures, eighty percent of the materials have been verified, and some of the war drums, military flags, tents and other materials have not been verified, and one more day will be given to the humble post, and by this time tomorrow, it should all be completed."

Li Yanqing smiled and said: "You can check those materials slowly, I am here today to learn about the situation of grain and grass, silver money, and armor and firearms." ”

Chen Dong hurriedly asked, "Is Jingluo listening to the report, or is it an on-the-spot inspection?" ”

Li Yanqing smiled slightly: "It's too boring to listen to the report, it's better to check it on the spot." ”

"In that case, please go to the warehouse with your humble position."

Everyone surrounded Li Yanqing and walked into Cangcheng, and while walking, Chen Dong introduced: "The circumference of Taiyuan Cangcheng is about ten miles, and it is composed of one hundred and twenty-two large warehouses, which are mainly divided into three parts, grain and grass warehouse, armor and firearms warehouse, and material warehouse. ”

"So how do you tell the difference?" Li Yanqing asked with a smile.

"Look there!"

Chen Dong pointed to more than 40 warehouses directly opposite and said: "The doors of these warehouses are painted black, indicating that they are material and general goods warehouses, such as silver money, pig iron, cloth, tents, war drums, banners, military blankets, sheepskins and other materials are concentrated here, there are numbers above the gate, the beginning of the word A indicates the silver money storehouse, the armor warehouse is the red gate, the first word A means the armor storehouse, the B word head is the bow and crossbow storehouse, the money and grain store is the yellow gate, all the major categories are gathered together, at a glance. ”

Li Yanqing is most concerned about silver money now, which is related to how many troops he can recruit, he did not hesitate to walk into the silver money vault at the beginning of the word A, Li Yanqing walked into this warehouse is silver ingot warehouse, silver ingots are placed in boxes, almost all of them are official silver, twenty-five taels of ingots, forty ingots per box, that is, one thousand taels of silver.

"How many boxes are there?" Li Yanqing asked as he looked at the boxes piled up like a hill.

"Five hundred and fifty chests in all, of which fifty chests were gold, fifty thousand taels of gold, and five hundred thousand taels of silver."

"With such a coincidental amount, hasn't Jin Bing ever used it?"

Chen Dong bowed slightly and said: "I have asked about the previous treasury and checked the account books, and the gold and silver plundered by the Jin soldiers from Hedong Road are far more than these, but only 500,000 taels of silver and 50,000 taels of gold were left for the defenders of Taiyuan Mansion, and all the others were transported to Yanshan Mansion, but the Jin soldiers have not used these gold and silver so far." ”

"How much is that?" Li Yanqing asked again.

"The copper coin is five million yuan, all of which are small yuan, and there is no paper money like a huizi."

Li Yanqing pondered for a moment in his heart, the monthly salary of 50,000 soldiers is 500,000 yuan, and 5 million yuan can support ten months, not to mention gold and silver, at least the veterans can be sent later, which is basically enough, which makes Li Yanqing breathe a sigh of relief.

"How much grain and grass is there?" This is also a key issue, although Li Yanqing knows that there are still 400,000 stone of grain recorded in the account, Li Yanqing is more concerned about the actual number.

"In fact, there are 450,000 stones of grain, of which 50,000 stones are people's warehouse grain, which is temporarily stored here, and 300,000 quintals of forage, which is basically the same as the account."

With money in his hands, the army is not chaotic, he has food in his hands, he is not panicked, and with money and food guarantees, as for war preparation materials such as armor, fire oil, and firearms, Li Yanqing is not so nervous in his heart.

However, Li Yanqing still has a relatively big regret, that is, there is no gunpowder inventory in the Taiyuan warehouse, and there are no gunpowder raw materials, so all of them were transported to Yanshan Mansion.

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Coming out of Cangcheng, Li Yanqing asked Liu Jian who was inspecting Cangcheng again, "How much time does it take to move money, grain, and materials into the city?" ”

"Qi Qi Dutong, we are mobilizing the people of the whole city to help together, if we add tens of thousands of new soldiers to help, we are confident that all the supplies, grain and grass will be moved into the city within three days."

Li Yanqing nodded and asked, "Is there enough military camp in the city?" ”

"It is certainly not enough to rely on the barracks alone, but there are many vacant houses in the city, and all the thirty vacant houses near the barracks have been requisitioned, and the courtyard walls are demolished and connected together, which is basically enough."

Li Yanqing thought for a while and said: "Recruits need to hurry up and train, and they still need to ask the people to help with transportation, I see that there are a lot of demolished beams piled up in the warehouse of the Ordnance Institute, and they can be used to make a lot of simple sleds, which are very practical for carrying food." ”

"It all makes sense, and the lowly post will be implemented as soon as possible."

When he was about to arrive at the West City Gate, Liu Jian took his leave and hurriedly went to implement the recruitment of civilians and the making of simple sleds, while Li Yanqing returned to the military office located in the city.

When passing through the West City Gate, only the City Gate was full of long queues, a total of five columns, each of which was at least a mile long, and it was visually estimated that at least more than 10,000 people had signed up for the army here.

The registration point is located outside the West City Gate, here is one of the four registration points in the city, led by a general to lead three hundred soldiers to be responsible for the registration here, and invited more than a dozen young scribes to be responsible for registration, the registration process is very simple, first visual inspection, look at age, height, weight, as long as it is not old, weak, sick and disabled, visual inspection can pass, the second is a simple physical fitness test, through the test can be registered in the army.

The physical fitness test is also very simple, thirty pounds of stone locks are lifted five times above the head, and then run two miles and a round trip, generally as long as a little hard work people can almost pass the test, unless it is a scholar who has no power to tie the chicken, otherwise lifting thirty pounds of stone locks, ordinary people are really not a problem.

At this time, more than 50 men who were running for the test run were running wildly, running across the finish line in one go, but three young men behind them ran out of breath and almost collapsed to the ground when they crossed the finish line.

The general in charge of recruitment immediately lowered his face and said, "These three people are eliminated, and the others can go to register!" ”

The three of them hurriedly pleaded, "General, please be accommodating!" ”

With Du Tong standing next to him, it was useless for the three of them to intercede, and the general said resolutely: "Definitely not, your physical strength is too poor, and you are not the material for being a soldier at all." ”

At this time, Li Yanqing stepped forward and explained with a smile: "This general is for your good, your physical strength is not good, if you start a battle, I am afraid that you will be the first to die." ”

"We are all scholars, and we usually don't exercise much, but as long as we train a little, we can get up physically."

Li Yanqing shook his head, "Scholars are not like you!" ”

"We are students of the original Taiyuan Mansion School, after the dissolution of Taiyuan Mansion School, we have not been able to find anything to do, and we have to support our families, so we have to copy books for people to live, life is really embarrassing, and we have no way to come to the army."

Li Yanqing thought for a while and said, "Since you are a student of Fuxue, you can also do something else, you don't necessarily have to be a soldier, so be it!" The warehouse is recruiting people to keep accounts, you can try it, and if you pass the assessment, you can also earn money to support your family. ”

The three of them hesitated, and the man in charge asked cautiously, "May I ask this general, if you go to manage the warehouse, can you get the military quota of Jingzhao Mansion School?" ”

Only then did Li Yanqing understand their true purpose, it turned out that they wanted to take a shortcut to study in Jingzhao Mansion, but their minds were active, but how could they feel a little unscrupulous.

Li Yanqing didn't expose them either, so he said coldly: "It's okay to support your family, and you can also apply for a place in the government as a civilian in the army, but there are conditions, you have to stay in the army for at least two years!" ”