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The yamen were worried, and even many officials couldn't help but sigh, especially the officials from the south of the Yangtze River, who inevitably returned to their hometowns to repair books, so that their families could do their best, and those who could go north would go north, and those whose land could be sold would be sold.

The Ministry of Rites is even more chaotic, the emperor's will is to let the Ministry of Rites come up with a personal selection, go to capture King Ning, first salute and then soldiers, the soldiers and horses have not moved so quickly, even if they start to move now, it will not be possible without a month or two, so the court must make a gesture, and have to send an envoy to read out the emperor's will, it is best to capture King Ning to Beijing, and if you can't take it, you will have more truth.

The problem is that everyone knows that going to Nanchang is ten deaths, and King Ning is not a fool, he must have to fight against the water, and whoever goes to Nanchang will die, of course, no one takes the initiative to ask for help.

Li Dongyang came down from the court, he didn't even go to the cabinet, he came directly to this Ministry of Rites and Yatang, the candidate must be finalized as soon as possible, but you can't find the right person to pick and choose, you call people to go to this kind of pit daddy, but it makes people jealous for a lifetime, of course, the parties must only hold grudges in the underworld, but people also have children, protégés, relatives and friends, mixed in this officialdom, which one does not have a few backstage, you Li Dongyang is a cabinet scholar, and you can't push people into the fire pit.

Li Dongyang had no choice but to mobilize, called a few heads of the Ministry of Rites, and greatly preached the truth of loyalty and patriotism, and talked about the difficulties of the imperial court, of course, it was inevitable to say a few words about King Ning, even if he was bold, but the two armies did not fight to make the class relieved, it means the same thing, who is willing to go, there will be a little danger, but the future is very bright, fame and fortune, fame and fortune, as long as the disaster does not die after going, fame and fortune are rolling in.

Outcome...... Everyone coughed and coughed, Mu Ne was in a daze, deaf to the ear, everyone understands the truth, but the difficulties of the court make everyone sympathetic, who should be sympathetic to their own difficulties? Everyone has studied hard for decades, and after becoming an official, they have climbed up step by step, how difficult is this? Why should people be killed?

But someone came up with an idea and said: "Duke Li, since you want to go to Nanchang, you don't have to let the people from Jingshi's side move, King Ning is a vassal king after all, and the person who wants to go must have a noble status, otherwise it is in line with etiquette, it is better to let Nanjing ......"

This idea is greedy enough, but Li Dongyang's eyes opened, and he immediately understood what it meant, the biggest problem here is the level, you have to have a certain level to go, even if the Ministry of Rites sends a director and Lang Zhong to go over, it seems that the pattern is smaller, but you can't let him Li Dongyang and Shilang go, after all, these people are the heads of the department, and Li Dongyang is also a cabinet scholar, but there are not no high-level people, isn't there a Ministry of Rites in Nanjing, and there are Shangshu and Shilang?

There are also six departments in Nanjing, but these six departments are mostly places full of some unsatisfactory officials, the imperial court wants to degrade officials, generally degraded to Nanjing, you don't think that there is no level when you degrade it, in fact, this is not the case, in Nanjing, there is also a Ministry of Rites, there are also waiters, these people have no background, the officialdom is not very satisfactory, and there is no real power in their hands, which is dispensable for the imperial court, if you choose people from Nanjing.

Li Dongyang smiled slightly, and dismissed everyone, although he didn't say anything more, but he already had a plan in his heart.

Not only the Ministry of Rites, but also Liu Daxia of the Ministry of War is also convening the officials in the yamen to start preparations, the military horses must be moved, the army in the south of the Yangtze River must begin to assemble, the new army must prepare to go, and the grain and grass must also be prepared, this military department is actually the logistics and organization department of the army.

Liu Daxia is obviously not much easier than Li Dongyang, as soon as the war starts, the responsibilities of the military department are very great, and if something happens, it will be a big deal, and if there is chaos, the court will definitely not be able to run away from him.

However, there are still differences in the ministry, and the officials have a prevarication attitude towards some things, which also makes Liu Daxia very annoyed.

Last time, the new army put up a charter, saying that if the new army sends troops, the equipment, firearms, ammunition, baggage, grain and grass, etc., will consume at least 250,000 taels of silver per month, 250,000 taels, this is a pit father, that's it, not counting the grain, if you add it, and then make up for the transportation expenses, this number will most likely be doubled again. In the eyes of the old men of the military department, this is similar to robbery, where does the Ming Dynasty cost so much silver to raise soldiers, and the two million military households in the world cannot ask for 100,000 taels of silver from the court every year. The 100,000 border troops in the entire Xuanfu spend only more than 200,000 a year, and there are only a few new troops, what is this not a robbery?

The military department naturally hopes to reduce it, but some people disagree, believing that the war is about to start, and the silver must not be stingy, and if it delays the major event of counterinsurgency, it is not fun.

The rations, equipment, and various preparations of the hundreds of thousands of troops are all headaches when I think about it. Everyone knew that counterinsurgency was going to cost money, and the household department got the money, but when the military department reported an approximate figure, the household department immediately shouted and cursed.

"This is just a joke, the cost of the civil fort back then was only 1.3 million yuan, but this military department is actually a lion's mouth, and it is 8.4 million. Although these words are a bit of an increase in prices, they are too outrageous. ”

"That's it, where is this war, I look at it, it's like smashing people with silver, those people in the military department, are they messing with the Qiu Ba too much, and they are stained with the surname Bing who Qiu Ba is dying and asking for money."

The household department is inextricably linked, almost all of them are scolding, this dispute has reached the cabinet side, the cabinet is also dumbfounded, each yamen is now talking about their own difficulties, everyone says that they can't get by, the cabinet is also worried for a while, and finally has to choose to carry out cabinet deliberations in the next day.

When the old men were deeply disgusted by the upcoming war, in the treasure building, the merchants' eyes were red.

The squires who were the most damaged by the war, once the war broke out, the land of the squires would be tipped to no harvest and no harvest for a year. But for the merchants, it is a different matter, in fact, at the beginning, the merchants were also afraid that the war would affect their business, but later, some people found that once the war broke out, a large number of materials needed to be raised, the reserves in the treasury were far from enough, and it was said that the border towns should also strengthen defense, and the imperial court had faintly revealed that this time to quell the rebellion, the imperial court did not plan to requisition the people.

What does this mean? It means that if the imperial court does not want to requisition, it must be purchased in the market, a large number of clothing for the army in the south, a large number of iron tools, a large number of chariots and horses, as well as mountains of arrows, gunpowder, and horse materials, which are impossible to provide by the official bureaus of the imperial court alone, and the time has come to make a fortune.

Many businessmen were like headless flies, and when it came early the next morning, a news began to circulate in the treasure building, and Liu Chengfeng, the prince of Lian Guo, had written a book, saying that he was going to set up a military quartermaster purchase bureau, and he would directly sign a sign in the treasure building, and many of the materials needed by the army might be directly listed for purchase in the treasure building.

The businessmen went crazy all of a sudden, and the various expenditures of hundreds of thousands of troops, and the materials consumed every time were astronomical, and if anyone could get a piece of the pie, it would be a profitable business.

For the first time, the merchants discovered that war could also be an opportunity to make a fortune.

In the mansion of Lian Guogong, there were eunuchs in the palace early in the morning.

Now is the time of the day, the palace has just opened, the fog is shrouded, Liu Chengfeng's mansion has not been lit up, the palace suddenly came, so that the people in the house were in a hurry, Liu Chengfeng and the three ladies came out in dresses together, but Wen Chenxi was about to give birth, it was inconvenient to salute, just said a word of ten thousand blessings, and ordered someone to send them back to rest, of course, the eunuchs who came did not dare to take it big in the Lianguo Mansion, first warmly greeted Liu Chengfeng, and then coughed, and said: "Lian Guogong Liu Chengfeng, miscellaneous family is under the emperor's command, His Majesty said, although the Duke of Lian Guo is a third-class duke, he is a meritorious man, and there are no villains in the court who are not punished, and there are no brave men who are not rewarded. This python robe is now with you to show your wealth. After repeating the emperor's original words, the eunuch smiled again, and said: "Lian Guogong, give the surname of the python robe, the grandfather is the first, that is, Zhu Neng, the hero of the Jingnan Martyrdom, which was also worn when he was buried, the emperor is really kind to you, and he is envious of you." ”

I didn't expect this eunuch to know some allusions, speaking of the surname living in the world, only Liu Chengfeng can wear this four-clawed dragon robe, Zhu Neng is posthumously gifted a Dongping king, so he was buried when he entered the coffin, Liu Chengfeng seems to be a level higher than this Zhu Neng.

It's a good thing to get a reward, Liu Chengfeng was suddenly happy, smiled and asked someone to reward the eunuch, and then took the reward, and called the people in the family to put the python robe in the flower hall for everyone to observe, everyone naturally looked at it, but Princess Taikang saw it as usual tight, python robe, she saw more dragon robes and phoenix robes in the palace, and she was already aesthetically tired.

(To be continued)