Recruiting Tian Feng and putting him on the northern front, Li Qing had his deep considerations. The development of Dingzhou's forces to this day, as an emerging force group, the shortcomings of insufficient talent reserves have finally been exposed, and among Li Qing's generals, there are not many who can really stand alone. Lu Dalin is counted as one, and he has the experience of opening up the second battle of the Western Front alone, and he can barely be counted, even if it is Wang Qinian, for so many years, he has either fought under the command of Li Qing, or he has been fighting with Lu Dalin, and he has basically never commanded a large-scale battle alone, as for the single side, he has never had it, not to mention Jiang Kui, who has just been promoted.

Tian Feng is different, decades of military career has allowed him to accumulate considerable experience, and he often leads the army, stands alone, and sends him to Jiang Kui's side, which can effectively help Jiang Kui grow up as soon as possible. Moreover, Dingzhou has great kindness to Tian Feng, and Tian Feng is a latecomer, in a short period of time, it is impossible to compete with Jiang Kui in the army for control of the army, on the contrary, in order to show his ability, he will do his best to assist Jiang Kui, as soon as possible in the north to create a favorable situation in Dingzhou, once Li Qing decides to open up the northern front battlefield, the winning division can drive straight in, as much as possible to control the situation in their own hands.

A deeper thought, although Tian Feng broke off with Xiao Shien, but in his heart, this person never wanted to confront Xiao Shi head-on, after all, he had been with Xiao Haoran for decades, and the relationship over the years could not be broken, and the conflict with Xiao Shi was inevitable at a certain stage in the future, this was the unanimous opinion of Li Qing and his advisers and ministers, at that time, although Tian Feng had the ability, it was impossible to be entrusted with important tasks on this front, so let Tian Feng go to Jiang Kui's side, once he started a war with Xiao in the future, Jiang Kui's Changsheng Division, as the main combat division, will definitely be transferred back, so that there is a heavy general like Tian Feng who is familiar with the local situation in the north, and there will be no changes in the northern form.

Li Qing's strategic concept is still to first the north and then the south, and before solving the problem with the Lu clan in the north, he will not intervene in the war between the Xiao clan and King Ning on a large scale, so it is impossible for the mountain-moving division to have a large-scale war with the whole state under the control of King Ning in a short period of time, unless the other party takes the initiative to provoke an incident, if this is the case, the scale of more than 20,000 people in the mountain-moving division can also support the situation, not to mention, Wang Qinian's Qinian division is stationed in Dingzhou, but it can also be mobilized in the shortest possible time and go to the front. In the south, Deng Peng's sailor was more of a harassing attack on Deng Linbo, after solving the Bozhou sailor and cutting off the arm of King Ning's sailor, Li Qing was not prepared to move an inch and further challenge King Ning's bottom line, although it was inevitable for the two sides to move in the dark, but large-scale water battles would not happen, I believe that although King Ning suffered a big loss, but in the current form, he will still pinch his nose and swallow this breath. Although there is only one ice-free port in the east under Zeng's control, the rivers in his territory are crisscrossed, and the three thousand warships on the main river can enter, and some other branch ships can enter on a large scale. Like some other places in Dachu, most of these cities along the river are also the economic lifeline of the Zeng family, and controlling these places is equivalent to taking out the Zeng family's lifeline. When the Lu clan is completely defeated, the Zeng clan will be exhausted and at the same time, it will no longer be able to fight back against the erosion of Dingzhou, even if it is unwilling, it can only be admitted that the Zeng clan will become a vassal of Dingzhou.

The plan was formulated perfectly, but in the process of implementation, what accidents would happen, no one knows, like this time Zheng Zhiyuan's fleet actually completely eliminated the Bozhou Naval Division, which greatly surprised Li Qing's expectations, so that he was very worried that King Ning would be angry and desperate to start a war with Dingzhou, but fortunately, King Ning was quite calm, and completely took a cold approach to this incident, and it was certain that he would send Pang Jun to deal with the Fuzhou Naval Division in private, but on the bright side, on land, in addition to the diplomatic personnel on the two sides, And not much of a move. It is up to people to plan things and things to succeed in heaven, Li Qing is unwilling to be restrained by these unpredictable things, soldiers will come to block, water will flood, anything happens, there will always be a solution.

The north is currently the focus of Li Qing's eyes, Jiang Kui's Changsheng Division brings together the strongest troops in Dingzhou, Changsheng Battalion, the two main cavalry divisions of the Whirlwind Battalion alone have 12,000 combat cavalry, plus auxiliaries, no less than 20,000 people, and the two infantry battalions transferred from the Qinian Division are even more experienced in a hundred battles, although they are not as strong as the Tianlei Battalion, the old foundation of the Qinian Division, but these two infantry battalions are also out-and-out strong troops in the Dingzhou Army series, and Li Qing is ready to transfer Chen Zeyue's infantry battalion to Jiang Kui's command. Chen Zeyue was originally the chief instructor of Ji Mingze, and of course he made a lot of small moves in private for this combat battalion under his personal command, although this battalion only went to the battlefield once, but his combat ability was quite amazing, so that Li Qing called Chen Zeyue in private, and reprimanded him fiercely for his small actions of using power for personal gain, and gathered the elite soldiers and strong generals in Ji Mingze's training camp into one battalion, and the price was of course the result of the decline in the combat strength of other combat battalions. Secretly in his heart, he was happy, although Li Dashuai taught him a hard lesson, but he had no intention of dismantling this battalion, which made what he had been worried about have an unexpected result, but he didn't know that if Li Qing was not ready to make a big move on the northern front, it was indeed necessary to strengthen the strength on the northern front, and this infantry battalion would inevitably be broken up and divided into other battalions.

By October, Jiang Kui's army had gathered more than 30,000 elite soldiers, and the arrival of Tian Feng made everything ready on the northern front.

As an emerging power group, the officials under Li Qing's command are not as bloated and procrastinated as the old bureaucratic system, and the new bureaucratic class is enthusiastic and maintains a fairly efficient degree of work efficiency in order to have a more ambitious future.

But seeing that the strength of the territory under his control is growing every day, in addition to the military, the economy and people's livelihood are also thriving, and the people in the territory live and work in peace and contentment, Li Qing is painful and happy, and he is very satisfied.

In the past, with the power of Dingzhou to support an army of 100,000 people, the financial situation was stretched, and he had to borrow money, but after taking Fuzhou and merging the state, it was much better, Fuzhou was commercially developed, and the salt industry was enough to affect the price of the entire Dachu, and the state was a large grain-producing state, with him, the grain of the three states could basically be self-sufficient, and Li Qing vigorously cultivated the newly expanded territory in Dingzhou, opened up new food sources, and even some of the barbarians who were mainly animal husbandry began to settle and plant, Now from the Fuyuan fortress to the forest, hundreds of miles of the original wilderness, the area where the battle frequently takes place is already ten thousand hectares of fertile land, standing on the top of the fortress and looking at the past, the golden wheat waves are like the endless waves in the black water ocean, with the wind together, people can't help but feel excited.

Even so, Li Qing still spared no effort to store grain, in his opinion, the entire war in Dachu is only the beginning, with the deepening of the war, a large number of fertile fields in the hinterland of the Central Plains will be barren, countless peasants will be forced to enlist, [***] is already certain, if bad luck, and then encounter a drought and flood, the price of grain will skyrocket, Dingzhou must be prepared. Be prepared.

Fu Zhengqing's Dingzhou Bond Issuance Department is still in operation, and this institution that was originally temporarily established to cope with the financial crisis has been formalized, and after the maturity of the one-year bond roll, Dingzhou really returned the principal and interest as promised, which made some business officials who were originally forced to buy and sell very happy, and some ordinary people who had not recovered this bit of money in order to support the barbarian war at that time were also overjoyed, and actually made a small fortune unexpectedly.

And like Long Sihai and the like, after the debt department got the silver ticket, he expressed his willingness to continue to buy Dingzhou's debt on the spot, Long Sihai bought the debt book back then, it was a kind of political investment, and he didn't care if the money was collected or not, anyway, in the past two years, he followed Li Qing and didn't know how much money he had made back, and now it seems that this investment in the year is completely out of the table.

And a big businessman like Xiang Wenjin who has a handle and is pinched by the Statistics and Survey Department, as long as Qingfeng doesn't go to him for trouble, it is not a big deal to use the money to buy peace. As a result, the continued sale of term bonds became a topic of discussion in Dingfuzhou, and even the gentry of the common people who had just been annexed to the state began to pay attention to this issue.

For the continued issuance of bonds, the Dingzhou high-level discussed for several days, and finally decided to continue this policy, the temporary yamen of the debt department continued to exist and turned regular, for Li Qing, he was very happy to do so, in the people, in the hands of the gentry and businessmen, there was a large amount of cash, these people made silver, many people did not use it to expand production, expand business, but to hide it privately, put it in the cellar to mold, this in Li Qing's view, is simply a waste, money only circulation, in order to reflect his value.

Finding that the government kept its promise, the silver that could only be hidden at home could also earn back a steady amount of interest every year, and the people were also elated, running to tell each other, of course, this is also a kind of trust in Li Qing himself, and the regime under Li Qing's control, for another ruler, everyone can't help but worry about being embezzled by him, but Li Qing has accumulated a very high reputation in Dingfu over the years, since there is a big marshal to come forward to guarantee, some of everyone's small worries have also been swept away, and debt has become the hottest thing in the area controlled by Li Qing for a while.

There is no other reason why the Debt Papers Division has jumped from the original deserted Yamen to a hot department, because there are three kinds of bonds issued by Dingzhou, one-year, three-year, and five-year, and there are strict regulations on the number, which Li Qing and his senior staff members formulated through careful study and repeated arguments to confirm that no matter what happens, these bonds have the ability to repay the principal and interest when they mature. Otherwise, there will be bad debts, which will lead to credit bankruptcy, which is of course unacceptable to Li Qing.

The number is limited, but there are many people who buy it, which has formed a situation where there are more monks and less porridge, and Fu Zhengqing's debt book division has of course become a big name.

(To be continued)