"Princes....How long has the Northern Xinjiang been stable?" Liu Tai opened his eyes, glanced at everyone, and said with a heavy expression.

"Back to my lord, since the Battle of Hushan Pass, Northern Xinjiang has been stable for one year and eight months." Xun Yu, as the head of the civil officials, first got up and bowed to Liu Tai.

"Otherwise..."Liu Tai frowned deeply, and said with a gloomy expression: "Northern Xinjiang has never been stable, for more than a year, the Southern Xiongnu have repeatedly invaded the border, Wu Heng has opened his teeth and claws outside the Great Wall, and after Gongsun Zan of Liaodong has been helped, the army is getting stronger and stronger, and even provoked my Northern Xinjiang Army many times, and although Xianbei seems to be about to split, but whenever Tai Ruo rises up to the north, Xianbei will definitely unite as one, in this case, what else is there to wait for Tai?" ”

Speaking of this, Liu Taihu glanced at the dozens of civil and military officials present, and his momentum soared wildly. With a hideous face, the palm of his right hand was facing upward, and he said with a slightly crazy expression: "There are now 580,000 troops under the command of Tai, including 420,000 infantry troops, 60,000 naval troops, and 100,000 cavalry. ”

Everyone present was frightened by Liu Tai's hideous look, no matter when, in the memory of the officials, Liu Tai was like a gentleman, and he had never had such a murderous expression, and they all thought suspiciously: "Could it be that the lord was stimulated by the three master mothers?" ”

"Absolutely not, my lord, this time the construction of Huacheng is not completed, and the financial and material resources of the two states are invested in Huacheng, if the foreign army is used, it will inevitably cost the people and lose countless money, the lord must not be like this, the two states of the two states cannot withstand such a big war." After Tian Feng listened to Liu Tai's words, his face was full of shock, and after coming back to his senses, he forgot even the minimum etiquette, and hurriedly stepped forward to admonish Liu Tai.

"Yuan Hao, you don't understand! You don't understand. Liu Tai took a deep breath, retracted the monstrous momentum just now, opened his eyes, looked at Tian Feng and said, then turned to everyone, and said with a heavy expression: "Tai can't help but fight this battle, and he can't defeat this battle!" Zhu Gong only sees the infinite glory of Tai in his heart, but can he know the pressure that Tai is under? ”

Everyone couldn't understand Liu Tai's words, but they didn't interrupt them, Tian Feng was also shocked by Liu Tai's expression, returned to his original position, and listened to Liu Tai's speech with a frown.

"Where did everything come from today? It is a military feat, it is a military merit that shakes the sky, the first battle of Linghe, Tai with the strategy of ambition, annihilated the Xianbei and Wuheng hundreds of thousands of allied troops in the first war, but after that, what did Tai do? The two states were given by His Majesty, the Marquis of Heaven was sealed by His Majesty, and the successive reforms of Tai in the two states were also supported by His Majesty, otherwise those big families would make it difficult, and the new policies of the two states would not be released at all! Liu Tai glanced around at the civil and military officials present with a serious expression, and said slowly.

"Dare to ask the lord, since His Majesty is so supportive of the lord, why is the lord so anxious to use troops abroad? If it drags on for another year or two, with the strength of Northern Xinjiang, it will be able to sweep across the prairie within a few years, and the grassland barbarians will not be able to raise their heads! Xun You stepped forward and asked with a puzzled expression.

"Gongda, you don't understand, all this was given by His Majesty, and His Majesty gave me a child of weak crown age, what is it for? It's because Tai can fight, and Tai is a relative of the Han family! No matter how big the territory is and how great the merits are established, Tai will not become Wang Mang's second, at most it will be just a change of emperor in the Han family. Liu Tai shook his head, sighed, and then continued: "Now Your Majesty is in a hurry, seeing that Tai is constantly reforming and changing his government in the north, but he has not taken the slightest action against the foreign tribes in the grassland, His Majesty is worried that Tai will support the army and respect itself, and even take the annexation of the state as the front line to take the imperial city of Luoyang, so Tai can't help but fight, can't not block the mouth of the hundreds of officials in the court with greater merits, and can't help but make His Majesty who is so happy with great achievements satisfied and slack!" Even re-reward Thailand! ”

Although Liu Tai's words were very rebellious, but all the people present were Liu Tai's henchmen, none of them were the slightest different, after listening to Liu Tai's explanation, everyone finally understood why Liu Tai wanted to fight abroad, indeed, if it was the Spirit Emperor who gave Liu Tai everything, and asked Liu Tai to fight, could Liu Tai not fight?

"My lord, so it seems? There is only one foreign war? Xun Yu stepped forward with a heavy expression and asked.

"Yes!" Liu Tai said affirmatively.

"Huh" Xun Yu nodded, closed his eyes and thought for a while, then suddenly exhaled and said: "My lord, this battle can only mobilize 200,000 regular troops and 400,000 logistics subsidy troops at most, and if there are more, the finances of the two states will collapse, I hope the lord will think twice!" ”

Liu Tai heard Xun Yu's words, closed his eyes, pondered for a while, nodded and said: "Okay, 200,000 is 200,000, the Southern Xiongnu are now just tigers with teeth extracted, 100,000 cavalry plus 100,000 infantry, absolutely enough!" ”

"My lord, the Southern Xiongnu are mainly gathered in the Hetao area, and there are many tributaries of the Yellow River in the Hetao area, so more than 30,000 sailors should be used for transportation! As for our army's naval forces, they can fight on land and water, and they can be used as logistics troops or infantry troops. Gao Shun, who is now more and more calm, after pondering for a while, stepped forward and bowed to Liu Tai and said.

Of course, there is also a very important reason, there is a lot of land in the north, and the water land is only the upper reaches of the Yellow River and the Bohai Sea, and the Bohai Sea is adjacent to Jizhou, and the eastern part of Youzhou is occupied by Gongsun Du.

"Okay, then mobilize another 30,000 water troops, the material is not enough, just extract it directly from the Kyushu Commercial Bank, the Kyushu Commercial Bank is Thai, and it has not been used to use the property of the Kyushu Commercial Bank, it is not needed, it is not Thai selfish, this war, the materials that the Kyushu Commercial Bank can mobilize, all mobilized!" Liu Tai understands that all along, officials have always used Kyushu commercial banks as Liu Tai's private property, and no official has ever dared to propose the transfer of Kyushu commercial banks, after all, no one knows how broad Liu Tai's mind is, in case he offends Liu Tai, then the end will not be ordinarily miserable, even Tian Feng, who has always been resolute and straightforward, never dared to mention it, let alone other officials.

"Yes, my lord!!" Guo Jia, who was in charge of the Kyushu Commercial Bank, stepped forward to receive the order and said.

Listening to Guo Jia's order, Xun Yu, who had been tightening his face, also relaxed his complexion, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, if the Kyushu Commercial Bank could take out the materials, not to mention the 230,000 army, even if it was 500,000 more, there would be absolutely no problem, the wealth accumulated by the Kyushu Commercial Bank in the past two years was absolutely unimaginable, at this time, Xun Yu's eyes looked at Liu Tai more and more respectfully, not only Xun Yu, but also other officials looked at Liu Tai with respect.

"This war is very important, the Kyushu Commercial Bank Department, from now on, hyped up the crimes and punishments committed by the Southern Xiongnu to my Han Dynasty in the two states, and mobilized the hatred of the people towards the Southern Xiongnu as much as possible, including the army, Fuyi should also do a good job of comprehensive ideological work, this war, Fuyi does not need to go with Tai, sit in the rear, and guard against Xianbei and Wuheng!" Liu Tai looked at Guo Jia and Gao Shun and said.

Gao Shun, who has been promoted to the secretary of the Ministry of War, is now second only to Liu Tai in terms of prestige in the army, and after Gao Shun listened to Liu Tai's orders, he stepped forward and bowed down to answer the order, and Guo Jia naturally did the same.

"Well, by the way, Mr. Mo, I don't know that in the Ministry of Industry, you can invent a tool that can print books on a large scale?" After Liu Tai brought Gao Shun and Guo Jia back to their positions, they looked at Mo Wen and asked.

"Huh? Is the Lord's Speech a Stereotype? Mo Wen took a step forward, bowed to Liu Tai, and said coldly with a mask with an unclear expression.

"Oh? Did Momen really study the printing press? Liu Tai stood up with a happy expression, originally Liu Tai just asked by the way, and after the meeting was dismissed, he would order someone to develop movable type printing, but he didn't think that Momen already had the ability to print.

Mo Wen shook his head and denied: "Stereotyping is time-consuming and laborious, and each template can only engrave one article or book, and the gain is not proportional to the effort. ”

"Oh??" Liu Tai laughed for a while, originally thought that Momen created movable type printing, it turned out to be the most primitive stereotype, stereotyped printing is indeed time-consuming and laborious, and it is not an ordinary large family, it can't be used at all, and Momen is generally the main member of the lower-class people, so naturally he will not study these things.

"Mr. Mo has ever thought about movable type printing? It is to carve every word into wood, and then if you need a word, take out and put it into a fixed template, you can use it flexibly, so that not only the manufacturing cost of the template is saved, but also the efficiency is much greater, and the paper in northern Xinjiang is countless times cheaper than the original Cai Lun paper, and the cost of printing a book will definitely not be high there. Liu Tai smiled and threw out a big problem that thousands of people in Momen could not solve for a long time, and Mowen was shocked to stand on the spot.

"This....why didn't Wen think of such a method, the lord is really a god and a man!" Mo Wen, whose tone had never fluctuated, said in a joyful tone, and without Liu Tai answering, Mo Wen discussed with the officials of the Ministry of Industry who were also happy behind him.

Liu Tai shook his head and smiled bitterly, and then said: "This matter should not be rushed for a while, just study it slowly later." ”

Then Liu Tai glanced around at everyone, stood up, took a few steps forward, held the hilt of the heroic sword and shouted: "Half a month later, the Huacheng school field swore to go out, and the army pointed directly at the Hetao Southern Xiongnu, this battle is not allowed to be defeated, within three months, Tai will sweep away the Hetao Southern Xiongnu tribes!" ”

"No!!" The Wenchen generals present bowed down on one knee to Liu Tai and answered at the same time.