readx;?readx; Chapter 616: One Hundred Years of Solitude

Qin Li has always been resolute, and in the afternoon of the same day, he asked the guards to ask for directions, and went straight to Jingshan City. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Coming out of it, the bustling scenery along the way deeply shocked His Royal Highness the Great Prince. The depression and ruin of the Eastern Front are still in my heart, but in the blink of an eye, the world has changed, so Qin Li has to think deeply, what kind of power has created such a miracle?

The closer you get to Jingshan Castle, the more you can feel the taste of a peaceful and prosperous world. Especially after entering the city, the neat and wide streets are bustling with people, and the shops lining the streets, it is hard to believe that only three or four years ago, it was a desolate and dilapidated shantytown.

His Highness's heart was full of questions and curiosity, so much so that he put aside the original intention of Xingshi's questioning. As soon as he saw Qin Lei, who was out to greet him, he asked, "What happened here?" ”

Qin Lei welcomed him into the front hall with a smile and explained lightly: "It's nothing, it's just that the current conditions and environment of Great Qin have taken too much advantage of the people, and it has seriously hit the enthusiasm of merchants, which has hindered the circulation of goods and made the country increasingly tired." Saying that, he stretched out his hand to invite the eldest brother to have tea: "I just created a relaxed environment for them within the scope of my ability." ”

"It's as simple as that?" Qin Li said in disbelief.

"That's true." Qin Lei Zhengse said: "The vitality you have seen along the way has been suppressed in my Great Qin's body, as long as we try not to harass them and exploit them not so much, they will give us back ten times the harvest and a hundred times the harvest." ”

"It sounds like it makes sense, but I can't understand it." Qin Li thought about it seriously for a while, and finally said with a wry smile: "That's it, I don't understand these things anyway, you can do it well, so that the people can live a good life." ”

Qin Lei smiled faintly, looked at him and said, "Big brother won't just come to visit and guide, right?" ”

"Well, I'm here to ask the teacher." Qin Li looked around and said to the guards and palace maids in the house, "You all go out for a while." ”

Seeing Qin Lei nodding, the palace maids of the guards retreated in unison, and only two people were left in the room to talk.

"How much do you know about my father?" Seeing that there were no outsiders, Qin Li split his head and asked, "I want to listen to the truth." ”

"I have nothing to hide from you in this matter." Qin Lei spread his hands and said: "According to the will of the second brother, I will secretly send my father and sixth brother from Tongguan to the palace; Then, in accordance with the decree of the imperial grandmother, he no longer asked about the matter. ”

"Grandmother's decree?" Qin Li frowned and said, "Isn't she an old man?" ”

"Of course not." Qin Lei shook his head and said, "It's true that she is not in good health, but her old man is clear-minded." As he spoke, he took out an apricot-colored letter from his sleeve and threw it to Lao Dao: "This is what I just received, and the imperial grandmother once again asked me when I would be able to train the army well." ”

Qin Li caressed the letter, but did not open it, and asked in a deep voice, "Again?" Could it be that her old man often writes to you? ”

"It's been more than forty days since I came back and I received five letters." Qin Lei said softly: "I don't know if it's a lot?" ”

Hearing what Qin Lei said, Qin Li couldn't help but fall into silence, and only after a long time did he slowly ask, "Do you ask you questions about the army every time?" ”

"Yes, from combat power to combat readiness, nothing can be said to be detailed." Qin Lei said calmly: "But it's a pity that the army I trained in the south is only barely usable in the first phase, and the other two phases are still semi-finished products." ”

Qin Li also knew that Qin Lei was training in the south, but he didn't know how much, it was inconvenient for him to ask before, but at this juncture, he couldn't care so much. I only heard him ask in a deep voice: "How many people are in the first phase?" ”

"One hundred thousand." Qin Lei said unshockedly: "But it's all infantry. ”

"That's 300,000 ......" Qin Li couldn't help but gasp, and said dumbfounded: "Can you afford it?" ”

"Didn't you say that? All infantry. Qin Lei smiled slightly: "The cost of three infantry is not as good as that of one cavalry, which is still relatively economical." ”

"Why do you get six or seven million a year?" Qin Li's face turned pale and said, "Where did you get so much money?" ”

"Hah, tighten your belt." Qin Lei snorted and said, in fact, his troops are well-equipped and well-paid, although they are far from being comparable to the Jingshan Army, but they can't be beaten with more than 10 million taels of silver a year. He demanded a portion of these military expenses from the treasury in the name of the local garrison; It will be distributed to the southern state capitals, and the rest will be borne by Qin Lei, which is about four million taels.

There is also his descendant Jingshan Army, the treatment conditions are the highest in the world, especially after the expansion to 50,000, the military expenditure allocated by the imperial court can only be regarded as a drop in the bucket, so he has to take out an extra 3 million taels a year to make up for the shortfall.

In addition, in order to let the newly recruited Shenwu Army and the Tiger Ben Army follow them with all their hearts, Qin Lei promised to give them the same treatment as the Jingshan Army, so that there was an extra expenditure of four million taels, and it was impossible for the treasury to afford this, so Qin Lei could only bear all the problems by himself.

These three aspects add up, a total of 400,000 troops, I have to say that the strength of Prince Wucheng's mansion can already match any country. And the price that Qin Lei has to pay is also expensive, although a considerable part of it is passed on, but his annual expenditure on raising troops reaches about 10 million taels.

This terrifying figure is obviously not something that can be paid for simply by hard work or wealth.

Within a few years, the royal government built the central capital, dredged the Jingshui River, and dug an aqueduct to achieve leapfrog development, and the gold and silver spent were more than tens of millions. The same is not the young Prince Wucheng Mansion can pay!

As His Highness wondered, what kind of force created such a miracle?

In fact, it is very simple, it is to borrow. Of course, Qin Lei called it 'financing', in other words, 'spending other people's money to do his own things' and 'spending tomorrow's money to do today's things', the biggest advantage is that he can achieve the development of the Great Leap Forward and greatly enhance his own strength.

Of course, the disadvantage is also very big, after all, there is interest on borrowing money, the more you borrow, the longer you delay, the higher the interest, the shrewd and professional accounting office of the palace, through a series of complex calculations, has clearly told Qin Lei that he and his descendants are very likely to never repay this huge amount of money.

So even in the eyes of many people in the palace, the prince is tantamount to drinking water to quench his thirst, but Qin Lei is still unswervingly fundraising, borrowing, and issuing bonds, trying every means to raise debts and raise debts again, putting on a posture of not borrowing all the money in the world and vowing not to give up.

Did he become addicted to the loser? Do you have to drag your children and grandchildren to the point of wearing dragon robes and asking for food? Of course not, as a politician with experience ahead of his time, any of his initiatives are future-oriented and have indescribable meaning.

When he stands at the pinnacle of the world, and can finally use heaven and earth as a chessboard, with all things as chess pieces, and the next chess game that determines the fate of thousands of people in China, he is not satisfied again, he wants to try to reverse the fate of thousands of years of dynasty change of this nation, and he wants to give it a great turn!

For what this kind of madman thinks, in fact, I and other ordinary people can speculate, and we can only follow what he did, or suddenly realize, or beat my chest, or scold the case, or gather to applaud!

Anyway, it's just for the sake of watching......

Qin Lei's pain also lies in this, even if Zhuo Ran is like a person in Taole Buyi, he can't understand his realm, he can only let others comment, and he can't justify a word. Qu is high and widowed, lonely for a hundred years......

Therefore, Qin Lei could only say a few perfunctory words to the eldest prince's question, and then diverted the topic and said: "From the perspective of the eldest brother, what is the situation in the capital?" ”

Seeing that he was reluctant to answer, Qin Li also asked again, and said with some unhappiness on his face: "Who are you Qin Yutian?" Can't see it better than I can? ”

"Hehe......" Qin Lei laughed dryly and said: "I only know that they are going to break their wrists, as for who is active, who is passive, and which party has what means, I don't know anything." Said with an honest face: "You don't know yet, the emperor's grandmother and second brother strictly ordered me not to return to Beijing, and Li Hun swept away my tentacles in Beijing, although I am not deaf or blind now, but I can't find out the inside story." ”

Nodding suspiciously, Qin Li said in a deep voice, "Yesterday I went to Lord Taiwei. ”

"Relatives?" Qin Lei squinted his eyes and asked, "You are really filial." ”

"That's just a starting point." Qin Li stared at Qin Lei with a gloomy face and said, "You know my purpose very well, don't keep playing tricks with me and look angry!" ”

"Temptation." Qin Lei smiled embarrassedly: "After all, the eldest brother is surnamed Qin, not Li." ”

"Hmm......" Qin Li snorted, lowered his eyelids and said, "But my grandfather is very kind to me, and I can't bear him." ”

Qin Lei rolled his eyes in his heart and said with a wry smile: "Everyone will be in a dilemma, but there is only one choice." ”

Qin Li nodded slowly, "That's why I came to Jingshan City, and I don't plan to go back." ”

"You want to go back to the front?" Qin Lei asked softly, "Actually, it is very beneficial for you to be in the capital. ”

"You guys fight as much as you like, and I don't care if you break your head as a urine tank." Qin Li shook his head resolutely and said, "But in this matter, I can't interfere." ”

"What if our Qin family loses?" Qin Lei raised his eyebrows and asked in a deep voice.

"You're not going to lose." Ignoring his aggressive gaze, the eldest prince got up and said, "Originally, I wasn't sure, but after all the way here, I understood that the destiny of heaven is on your side." After speaking, he walked out without hesitation, never dragging mud and water.

"Don't just go." Qin Lei then got up and said, "I'm here all the way, I have to have a meal." ”

"I'm not hungry." Qin Litou didn't reply.

"Don't look at your niece?" Qin Lei took a few steps and followed: "Is there such an uncle as you?" ”

"Next time, I didn't bring a gift this time." As he spoke, he walked to the gate, the chief guard led the horse, and Qin Li stepped on the stirrups and said, "Please." ”

"You still give the order directly, how can you beg for help." Qin Lei pouted and smiled.

Qin Li smiled awkwardly, "I beg you." ”

Qin Lei sneered and said, "Say it, I will do what I can do." ”

"Don't kill them all." Qin Li's voice suddenly became low, and he said softly: "I know that the Qin and Li families are already dead and alive, and it is really inappropriate to say such things. As he spoke, he looked up at the blue sky and said, "But my name is Qin Li, but the surnames of the Qin and Li families are combined, and I really can't give it up." ”

Qin Lei also looked up at the sky and said: "Don't worry about it, the outcome is still unknown, maybe Li Hun will exterminate our old Qin family." ”

"If you're really that, I'll lead the army back to rescue you." His Royal Highness turned over and got on his horse and let out a long roar: "But Baisheng Gong is defeated at your feet, I don't believe that anyone else in this world can defeat you...... There will be a period later! With that, he rode away.

"I haven't said yes yet." Qin Lei shouted loudly.

"You can count it in your heart......" Qin Li's voice floated from afar, but his back had disappeared around the corner.

"This guy ......" Qin Lei shook his head with a wry smile, and stood in front of the gate for a long time before turning around and walking inside.

"Lord Wang, what is the purpose of Your Highness's trip?" Zhang Zhizhi appeared beside him and asked softly.

"Tell the news." Qin Lei wandered around the courtyard with his hands in his hands.

"Oh...... What did he say? Guan Tao asked with interest.

"Didn't say anything." Qin Lei shook his head and said in a low voice, "But I already understand what he means." ”

Although it is difficult for Qin Li to give up the Li family, his heart is always towards the Qin family, he came to Qin Lei here to ventilate the news, although he didn't say anything because of the so-called faith. But his mind is as clear as Qin Lei, how can he not know the meaning of the boss's move......

Li Hun clearly wanted to pull the banner of Qin Li, enter the palace in the name of 'rescuing the Emperor Taishang', push Qin Ting down from the throne, and then help Qin Li up, so as to achieve the goal of the country in the process.

And Qin Li obviously wanted to use his departure to dismantle Taiwei Li's conspiracy, so as to continue to maintain this situation of coexistence.

"Big brother, big brother, do you think that without Zhang Butcher, Old Bastard Li won't be able to eat pigs with hair? Qin Lei couldn't help but shake his head secretly, he could be sure that in Li Hun's plan, the boss was just a very important prop, but it was far from being the key.

Once the conspiracy is formed, will it stop because of the disappearance of a prop? It's a big deal, just change it!

"Find Shi Yong, Shen Bing and Yang Wenyu." Unconsciously walked to the study, Qin Lei ordered: "And Chang Yi, let him come over too." ”

Shi Dare hurriedly went down to give the order.

Seeing that the prince had military affairs, Guan Tao got up and said, "The subordinates have avoided it." ”

"No need," Qin Lei shook his head and said, "Stay and listen, you have to know what to do." ”

After returning to Beijing from the front-line division, Qin Lei gave the Jingshan Army a month's vacation, and all the officers and soldiers returned to the team in the past few days, and the troops had just resumed training. At present, the situation is turbulent and may be useful at any time, so Yang Wenyu and his officers naturally threw themselves on the training ground all day long, hoping to recover to their best condition as soon as possible.

The black-clothed guard who gave the order followed the instructions and ran all the way to the hot training ground in the back mountain, and found several generals on the martial arts stage...... After a protracted war, several commanders are already real generals.

After listening to the order of the black-clothed guard, several people did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly got off the stage and got on their horses, and ran towards the city.

"Brother Yang, what do you say the prince is looking for us to do?" As he galloped, Shen Qing asked loudly.

"Maybe it's for the sake of receiving troops." Yang Wenyu also replied loudly: "You'll know when you arrive." ”