Chapter 535: The Hidden Dragon in the Abyss (5)
Several consuls and a three-secretary envoy saluted as if they were courteous, and Zhao Ji also waived all of them, and even gave them seats and drinks.
After a few people took office, after all, the Privy Council was in charge of the affairs of the military in the world, even if Li Gang was about to go out, at this time, he was still the first to stand up and speak: "The sage is in person, about the return of the Western Army to the town, the Jinyang Army to the town of Hebei, the Shence Army to the town of Hedong, and the Xifu and Dongfu, it has been almost calculated......
The three armies of the Western Army Jingyuan, Qinfeng, and Xihe, there are still more than three or four thousand five thousand people who have not returned to their hometowns, 13,000 mules and horses, together with all the military equipment and equipment of the army, and then assembled in the Daimyo Mansion to board the boat, land and water, return to Shaanxi Zhulu, supply along the way, has been prepared, the Western Army with the army is rewarded, but also from a part, a matter, because the road is smooth, the back and forth are the heart of the Great Song Dynasty, Shaanxi Zhulu has already been arranged, when there is nothing troublesome. ”
The Western Army returned to the town, everyone present knew it, there was nothing to worry about, the Western Army thought about it, what they were afraid of was that the court refused to let them go back, and the court had kept the Western Army outside for a long time, and they were also worried, and now there is no Tong Guan on their heads to press them.
After a long time, maybe there is a real possibility of a mutiny, now the two are considered to be a hit, how much preparation work will be done by the Western army itself, and there will be no difficulty in extorting local supplies along the way, but will only rush back to Shaanxi Zhulu, and in Shaanxi Zhulu, where the army is stationed, the side wall of the fortress and the facilities, are all ready-made, and there is no need to prepare anything.
150,000 Western Army went out, together with the recruited tens of thousands of daring soldiers, 200,000 male soldiers, 50,000 in the early stage, plus the current 30,000, and finally less than 90,000 people returned to Shaanxi Zhulu, finally a temporary but a trouble, it is expected that the Western Army, which is seriously injured, can also make the imperial court feel at ease for a few years, and then slowly look for a commander who can lead the entire Western Army.
And that old species, now seriously ill, is almost regarded as a fox dead head, without the old species, the remaining three armies of the Western Army may no longer have the cohesion they used to have, and it is easier for the court to reach in.
In general, the western army is no longer what the people in the DPRK and China are most worried about now, the western army returned to the town like this, and everyone did not raise any different opinions, Zhao Ji looked around with a relaxed smile on his face, and then nodded and motioned for Li Gang to continue......
Although the two armies were urgently sent out, but after the Western Army went, the ministers of the DPRK and the Central Committee could not help but take into account this, in order for the weaker Jinyang Army to play a certain role as a barrier, it was also a matter of thought, and the Jinyang Army was put into Yanjing with a pole, and it was not easy to receive help in the rear, Hebei was empty, and Yandi had long been sparsely beaten, unlike Hebei and the defense line that Lanyuan had operated before to rely on, although it had been abandoned over the years, but it was better than nothing.
And there are some things that are not very convenient to say, the imperial court's financial revenue, to maintain the current situation is already stretched, the Jinyang army out of the town, to block the entire north of the river, the center is not able to come up with any money, only rely on the income of Hebei Zhulu to transfer on the spot. Hebei Zhulu has been damaged because of the war against Yan, and the income has also decreased sharply, if you bear the responsibility of transferring all the way to Yanjing, the Hebei Zhulu transfer envoys can only pick and choose, only in this way, ォ can barely maintain a situation, to see if you can free up some resources to invest in the new Hebei military town of Jinyang Army in the future.
As for the imperial court, it is inevitable that part of the Hebei Zhulu will be allocated to the Jinyang army on the spot, then when the time comes, Zhao Ji nodded, and said in a deep voice: "Yang Lingyao led the position of the pacification envoy of Yanshan Road, it should be acceptable, and then the Yanshan Road guards should also be arranged quickly, I heard that after the Yan fell, the more than ten military states recovered, the guards are only two or three out of ten, and the subordinate officials are not complete, if there is no defense of the local government, it will not be possible to have the Jinyang military town alone, after all, it is already the land of the Great Song Dynasty, and there are no guards for a long time, which is too decent." The East Mansion must arrange this matter as soon as possible and report it to me. ”
Cai Jing got up and saluted, indicating that he received the order, but he didn't say anything, and several other people also had ambitions at this time, pretending to be deaf and dumb, and the swallow land was beaten to pieces, and there were no strong soldiers to suppress it, and they were facing the ferocious Jurchen Tartars. The officials of Yanshan Road have almost become the officials of the fingers, as long as you are willing to go, you will be given where to send, the official quality is not enough, even if it is the right to send it, Rao is so, and few people are willing to go to Yandi to serve the official. The official family said this, everyone listened to it, although everyone was fierce in fighting, but they were fooling the official family on this, they all had ambitions together, and besides, this official family was easy, and when he turned his head, he didn't know if he remembered this matter.
Zhao Ji was still muttering there, showing that he, the king, was worried about state affairs and had to take care of it everywhere: "Even if the Hebei military town has been operating for more than half a year, but, once transferred, this army will always be damaged a lot in January, and when the two armies are transferred to each other, there is inevitably empty time, so the Jinyang army re-established the camp, and the cost should be a lot, Hebei Zhulu can only bear the daily supply in the future. Zhuqing, how much can you vacate now to help the Jinyang army open the town? ”
This sentence made everyone speechless, how many families does the imperial court have now, as an official family, how can you not know that the annual income and daily expenses are not enough, although the Jinyang Army is in Hebei and rebuilds the military town, but the expenses of the forbidden army stationed on the Hebei Zhulu Roads that basically only exist on the roster cannot be saved. No one would be stupid enough to clean up this, and then free up funds to divert it to the head of the Jinyang Army, didn't your official family use Yang Ling Yang someone to do this, let Yang Ling touch this hornet's nest.
But when it comes to the head, you always have to deal with it, Cai Jing lightly looked at the three envoys Gao Dai, Gao Dai coughed, got up and saluted back: "Now the funds and financial affairs, it is really difficult, now I need money, but the source is cut off, the summer tax has not yet been collected, and it has been all paid out in advance. If you want to be a little more generous in the financial affairs of the imperial court, you can only wait for Jiangnan and other places to slowly recover, and see if you can breathe a sigh of relief when you see the time...... "The additional expenditure of the Jinyang Army is really impossible to come up with, and the money issued is already exhausted, and it must not be increased this year. Hebei Zhulu is no better than other hinterlands, and then so many banknotes are sent out to pay for the re-establishment of the battalion, and the soldiers are used to buy and sell strongly, and the border land is unstable, and there should be a great danger of mutiny......"
"Recently, I heard that Your Majesty's inner treasury, because Lord Yang should serve, there must be a sum of money, and the minister dared to ask the saint to send 500,000 yuan to the inner treasury to pay for all kinds of matters related to the Jinyang army's promotion, as long as the Jinyang army successfully enters Zhenxiongzhou, it will always be easy to say later!"
Zhao Ji frowned suddenly, Gao Yi said clearly, the third division now does not want money, the summer tax is not confiscated and all the money is spent, if your emperor is as poor as the third division, then there is nothing to say, Yang Ling has recently been given a lot, first take 500,000 yuan to deal with it, as long as it can support the Jinyang army to enter Zhenxiongzhou smoothly, the future supply is all the matter of Hebei Zhulu, see how Hebei Zhulu himself moves to deal with it, it is not easy for the three divisions to manage the current Jinyang army's food and salary, and if there is any move in Hebei in the future, they will find their own way.
His own family knows it, and Zhao Ji also knows that what Gao Dai said is that the real three divisions really can't come up with money, and the idea is to hit the inner provinces and treasury that only has a little bit of input, but this is a big deal, and his own family can't shirk it, so he frowned for a long time before he reluctantly said: "Okay, the treasury of the inner provinces is also in trouble, and it has been supported by the state over the years, and it has already bottomed out...... It is important for the Jinyang army to open the town of Hebei, so how can it move 500,000 yuan...... Liang Shicheng, you mention this matter, and hand over this financial plan to the cardinal, and the cardinal government will reissue it to the Jinyang army. ”
At this moment, Zhao Ji's heart ached, and he couldn't help but think of Yang Ling's good, if it weren't for Yang Ling making money, the two armies discussed by your group would not be able to go out of the town to dig Yang Ling's corners, and Yang Ling had no complaints, or a steady stream of supplies to his own inner library, so thinking about it, this Yang Ling is a loyal minister, once the two armies are transferred to each other, they should be honored and favored, and this minister's heart should be appeased.
Zhao Ji loosened his mouth, and the ministers hurriedly saluted: "Your Majesty Shengming, the Jinyang Army must also thank Heaven for the grace of the Great Song Dynasty!" Liang Shicheng even bowed down to receive the order, saying that he would do a good job in this matter, and never let the money in the sage's treasury be wasted.
Zhao Ji spent his own money, he was lazy in his heart, and he didn't rejoice in this false sycophancy, but he waved his hand, the arrangement of the second army of Shence Jinyang was not completely nonsense, and the people in the court and China just wanted to cut off the connection between the second army of Shence Jinyang and Yang Ling, and by the way, weaken it a little.
Hedong important land, but also do need military horses to sit in the town, the west of Hedong Road such as Yanzhou, Baode Army, at this time, although the administrative division is still Hedong Road, but the military horses have long been integrated with the Western Army, undertaking the defense of Western Xia. From the Ninghua Army to the east, it undertook the defense of the former Liaoyun Prefectures, and the Shence Army filled this void, and because the Jinyang Army was weaker than the Shence Army, after the Shuozhou War, although it was a tragic victory, but the strength was even weaker, and the defense area of the Shence Army also extended to the Zhending Mansion on the West Hebei Road, covering such an important place, so that the Shence Army and the Jinyang Army were united in one place, which was also a complete defense line.
Normally, just now Zhao Ji asked about the financial planning of the Jinyang Army to open the town, and at this time, the three divisions Gao Dai should step forward and also report how to arrange the financial affairs of the Shence Army's opening town, but now Gao Ji did not move, Zhao Ji sat on the head and did not ask.
Although there are few people who can give the Jinyang Army now, but Yang Lingyao of the Jinyang Army will appease and make him responsible, and the imperial court will also make it clear that Hebei Zhulu should fully cooperate with the person in charge of the Jinyang Army, and now it is Yang Zhi, a considerable part of the local income, Yang Zhi has the power to call, who does not cooperate, Yang Zhi will write to the court, and will also give him an explanation, in addition to not being able to give him a large sum of money and goods for a while, the court has given enough support to the Jinyang Army.
However, Han Shizhong, the general of the Shence Army, is far from Yang Zhi's status, and he has to be restrained by the pacification envoys of Hedong Road, and the resources that can be obtained from the local area are naturally more limited, and it is impossible to fill this hole by letting the center of the imperial court fill it, and no one in the imperial court wants to fill it. On the contrary, he wanted to use this financial plan to completely snatch the Shence Army from Yang Ling's hands, and turn it into an ordinary garrison forbidden army in the Great Song Dynasty, so that the court would have nothing to fear.
As for the extent to which the Shence army will be weakened, is it a pity that such an elite army will eventually be reduced to ordinary, but who cares about him, as long as the upper edge of the map is empty and plugged, everyone is already very diligent in state affairs, and the arrangements are thorough.
As everyone knows, now the pacification envoy Wang Hao of Hedong Road is Yang Ling's person, and in exchange for the Shence Army, it is just a change of soup and not a change of medicine, but it is just vain.
This is a matter that the monarchs and ministers all know well, and Zhao Ji didn't bother to ask for this boring, so he didn't have to pay for it again, this money was not easy to come by, and the Son of Heaven, who had been poor for a long time, also said that it was difficult to give up good money......
In the Yanfu Palace, there was a strange silence at the moment, and after a while, Zhao Ji looked at Li Gang and said with a gentle smile: "Li Qing, this year, as the ruling party, you are loyal and diligent in state affairs, and you are in charge of the Western Mansion, which has helped me a lot...... According to my heart, I still want to keep you in Xifu, Bingheng Song Rong, but then the people are in the must, and such a capable minister as Li Qing really hates less, Hebei Road pacification envoy, except for Qing, who else can be? Qing went out for a few years, settled the Hebei road affairs for me, and then returned to the court, when the Xifu is making the throne, it is still the Qing...... Li Qing, are you willing to worry about Hebei Road for me? ”
Li Gang's expression was as if he was solemnly saluting: "The saint is looking down, how dare the minister?" For the king's worries, the minister's duty is also, and the minister is willing to deal with the affairs of Hebei, within a few years, when the side affairs will no longer be worried about the saint. ”
Zhao Ji suddenly looked overjoyed, praised again and again, and immediately added grace: "Li Gang sentenced Yanjing Mansion, led Hebei Road to pacify the envoy, and the official moved to Longtu Pavilion Bachelor, and Zengyin's son was Chengfeng Lang, and the edict was issued in the future, and he was appointed as the Qingzhuan Hebei Road." ”
Li Gang saluted again and thanked Tian'en, and the rest of the people looked at each other, knowing that this was the precursor to the change in the pattern of the DPRK and China after the war against Yan. From this point on, we don't know how many changes the old pattern has made, how much benefit everyone can gain in the process, or how much power will be lost.
Liang Shicheng, who was standing next to Zhao Ji, had the most ugly face, Li Gang went out, and it was he Liang Shicheng who hit him in the face, who didn't know that he was hidden with the same privy envoy to deal with a Yang Ling, and the final result was that the privy envoy went out, but Yang Ling entered the privy council with pride.
Even with him, Liang Shicheng's prestige has declined, and now he has to join forces with the old party Qingliushi doctors, so he can barely stabilize his position, seeing that this situation is about to change, but it is difficult for him to cover the sky with one hand, everyone has to admit that he is snorting and acting, the East Mansion has been reinstated for Cai Jing, and the West Mansion has now gone to Li Gang, can he only mention some palace views? Without this favor, this palace view itself doesn't know how long it can be mentioned. (To be continued.) )