"All the 3,000 headquarters of the soldiers, all the second division of the reserve battalion, and a total of 400 cavalry of the cavalry battalion of the Chinese army, all by land, according to two months of grain 2,000 stones, each soldier brought a total of 10,000 catties of food for 10 days, 500 auxiliary soldiers need 500 stones, bring 2,500 catties of food for 10 days, 200 stones of ordinary military rations with the army, 50 carts for two horses, and the rest of the grain is purchased along the way, which is purchased in advance by the quartermaster and the trading company along the way, until Shanhaiguan, this charge is 3,000 taels. 400 horses, a total of 45,000 catties of horse material, lack of grass in the field in winter, concentrate needs to be counted, plus temporary employment of people along the way, 212,000 taels of military silver, please make up for ......"

Liu Minyou interrupted Dong Yu and said: "There is a budget for the soldiers' food and herbs, even if they are based on the rations for the expedition, they only need to make up the difference, how can they ask for all the supplements." ”

Dong Yu was stunned for a moment, "Lord Chen said that the share of ordinary grain will be returned to the civil administration, and the civil affairs will be asked to provide equal meals." ”

Liu Minyou secretly scolded in his heart, Chen Xin is transferring the labor cost of making zuò dry food to the civil administration.

Wang Daixi is also calculating on the side, she is now the person in charge of the Finance Bureau, and she should be eighteen this year, but she has not yet married, because most of the people in the Wendeng camp system are big and coarse, even if they know words, they are only enough to fight wars, and most of them already have several wives and concubines, Wang Daixi's status in Wendeng Camp is not low, and he is not willing to be small, Wendeng's local gentry family has the right age, Wang Daixi doesn't like those gentlemen, so he has been dragging it out, since women can come out to work, Wang Daixi and Wang Erya, who have achieved executive status, have become late marriages, and they themselves are not in a hurry.

Liu Minyou put down his pen and said to Dong Yu: "We fight every year. Next year, when you make a budget, estimate the levy fee and calculate it for three months on a small and medium-sized scale, so as not to increase temporarily. ”

"Yes." Dong Yu is in charge of military quarters and salaries, and he has been dealing with civil affairs for the past two years, which is becoming more and more similar

Liu Minyou rubbed his forehead, he finally had some savings this year, and originally wanted to repair the house for the newcomers first. Let them repay it in installments with grain in the future, but Chen Xin now promised the imperial court to send troops to Dalinghe, so he had to slow down the original plan.

Chen Xin's dispatch of troops was also compensated. Wang Tingqian made up all the military salaries and grain this year, and also gave a lot of iron and sulfur, just 50,000 catties of nitrate produced in Henan. It is also worth four or five thousand taels of silver, in addition, Wang Tingqian also promised to give him three hundred war horses, and they were transferred from Taifu Temple, the war horses there are naturally better than the ones that Chen Xin himself bought everywhere, and Lu Zhi also promised to give five hundred horses, but there are very few war horses in Dengzhou, at most they can be used to pull cannons. After giving enough things, Wang Tingtry completed the task arranged by the emperor, and Chen Xin got the actual benefits.

After July, the Intelligence Service applied for a supplementary fee. did not specify the reason, Chen Xin also signed, Liu Min did not know about other historical events, but Kong Youde was a traitor, from the recent large number of additional orders for weapons submitted by Dong Yu. He knew that it was by no means for the preparation of 2,000 people, and the increase in the cost of the Intelligence Bureau, he guessed that it might be used for Dengzhou and Dongjiang, and he had also heard about Sun Yuanhua, and he didn't know what the ending would be for this relatively amiable Lord Sun.

When he was thinking about it, a voice next to him said, "My lord." It's time to go to the fifteenth tunbao with Master Chen. ”

Liu Minyou turned his head to see that it was his new assistant Mo Huaiwen, who was born in a literacy class and became a tun chief in Weihai Tunbao, and found no problems in the secret investigation of the Civil Affairs Supervision Department, and his personality was relatively mild, and he had more potential than Xu Yuanhua's group of earliest people.

Liu Minyou stood up and asked, "What's the matter of going to Twenty Tun Fort?" ”

"Send winter clothes to the new homeless households."

"Winter clothes?"

"It's all collected from the old tunhu at a low price, and some of them are new this year."

Liu Minyou sighed, took Mo Huaiwen out, and when he walked to the door, Wang Daixi chased after him and shouted: "Brother Liu, scarf!" ”

Wang Daixi was about to put it on for him, but Liu Minyou took it himself, looked at the snow outside the door and said: "Take Xi, you have worked hard these days, I want to know this year's balance earlier, and Dengzhou will make up a batch of military salaries and true colors in a few days, you check the amount they owe this year, check it when the time comes, and remember to call Lord Chen when you sign for it." ”

"Well, got it, this ......"

Liu Minyou still looked out a little distracted, and asked casually, "What's the matter?" ”

"Hmm...... Forgot! ”

Liu Minyou shook his head with a smile, and walked towards the military camp with Mo Huaiwen, Liu Minyou's civil affairs department had already moved from Weihai to Wendeng, which was next to the old camp garrison of Wendeng camp, covering a vast area, divided into several bureaus of finance, tuntian breeding, population, industry, and commerce, and an administrative system had a rudimentary form.

This camp is located in the center of Wendeng County, it is the place where they have been operating for a long time, and the surrounding area is under the firm control of the Wendeng camp, and the distance from the three guards is about the same.

At this time it was the beginning of October, last night it fell the first heavy snow of the year, after the stampede on the ground a mud, although the weather is cold, the people on the street are still dense, everyone has a joy on their faces, this year is the first season of harvest after they divide the field, harvest winter wheat in May and June, each Tunpu has a plan for farming, guide the rotation and intercropping of farmers, to the first month have harvested two or three vegetables and beans, and now each Tunpu has also completed the sowing of fertile fields and winter wheat, life has hope, everyone is of course in a good mood.

There is a distance from the old camp to the entrance of the barracks, and a continuous stream of shops has been built on both sides, Liu Minyou has not planned here at all, but the barracks, workshop workers and civil affairs workers with the strongest consumption power all live nearby, and some wealthy family members spontaneously built shops, which is not cultivated land in the first place, and Liu Minyou cannot be demolished as an illegal building, acquiescing to their storage, and as a result, it has become the most prosperous commercial area in Wendeng in just one year.

Liu Minyou looked at the lively restaurants and shops on both sides, and was feeling the enthusiasm of the masses. His feet slipped and he almost fell, Mo Huaiwen hurriedly supported him, and the stupid monk behind him scolded: "The feces of the horse-drawn family of the dog day, catch the beating stick!" ”

Mo Huaiwen looked at the ground, and then said to Liu Minyou: "My lord, there are more livestock now, and many of them are raised by various households. It's okay inside the tunpu, there are tun chiefs and chief armor in charge, and the feces are all picked up in the back basket. When you get outside, no one cares, and it's everywhere. ”

Liu Min nodded a little, "It's so wide outside." I can't take care of it. ”

Mo Huaiwen said again: "My lord, my subordinates feel that the future Tunpu should not be concentrated in residence, first, it is a long way to come to the tun land by the outside of the tun households, and second, it is very inconvenient to come to the place where the people live in the concentration to engage in breeding. ”

Liu Minyou frowned and thought for a while, the concentrated residence of the tunhu is conducive to commercial development, but it is indeed not conducive to planting and breeding, he said to Mo Huaiwen: "There are pros and cons to this matter, when we first came here, the surroundings were not peaceful, and there were bandits from time to time. It is to gather in one place to facilitate defense. Nowadays, the army is majestic, and the bandits have long been defeated, but the scattered are not conducive to the circulation of commercial goods. ”

"Your Excellency is right, but not everywhere needs to be prosperous. The old camp area near the Tunpu is concentrated, and the new Tunpu road near the mountain side is inconvenient, and some of the fields near the Tunpu are still inserted into the private fields, our fields are originally scattered, and the concentrated residence is more inconvenient for farming. The breeding site is also insufficient, and my subordinates feel that at present, for my Wendeng camp, food is still the most important thing, and then we can talk about business. ”

Liu Minyou was refuted by Mo Huaiwen, but he didn't feel unhappy, this is also the atmosphere he is most satisfied with within the civil affairs system, Wen Xianming, Wang Daixi, Wang Erya, and Mo Huaiwen all dare to refute in person, and they do not blindly obey because Liu Minyou is a Shangguan.

He looked at Mo Huaiwen and said with a smile: "You are right, the remote and scattered Tunpu can adopt this method, but there are households and gentry around such places that need to be confronted, and they still have to live in units of fifty households in Zongjia, not too scattered, and set up a simple comprehensive store in the appropriate Zongjia, and the same is true for schools and schools." ”

Mo Huaiwen agreed, and the next batch of Tunpu planned to plan like this, they walked all the way to the gate of the barracks, and there happened to be a group of teenage students coming out, all of them were from the literacy class, wearing various colors of people's clothing, and the team was more neat than the ordinary Ming army.

A man in military uniform shouted the slogan, "Loyal to Lord Chen, loyal to Wendeng Battalion!" ”

A group of students shouted in unison with red faces: "Loyal to Lord Chen, loyal to Wendeng Camp!" The people passing by nearby responded one after another, and the scene was very lively.

"Who's going to feed us?"

"Lord Chen!"

"Who gave us literacy?"

"Lord Chen."

"What's the best place in the world?"

"Camp Wenden!"

"Why is a man a hero in the world?"

"Save the world from danger...... Liu Minyou looked at them with a complicated face, and the people who led the team to shout slogans were the people from the Propaganda Bureau, who directly belonged to Chen Xin's leadership, they were actually the training team, but the target was the ordinary people, and the workers and students were the focus.

In the applause of the people, the students went away with fierce ambitions, and Mo Huaiwen whispered to Liu Minyou: "My lord, that missionary officer is also transferred from the training team, and they are now making a set of things in the school, and each school is equipped with a missionary officer, who will teach the students according to that set of things, and will speak several times a day, and from time to time they will go to the military camp for military training. ”

Some nationalist ideologies are instilled in these students with the strongest receptivity by those missionaries, which is the demand of this era, and Liu Minyou does not object, and last year's twelve tunpu schools were built, and the teachers trained before were assigned to these schools. The literacy classes are still predominantly 10 years old and older, and the curriculum has increased a bit compared to before, including not only cultural classes, but also military training, and now indoctrination by missionary officers.

This group of loyal teenage students will soon enter the Wendeng Camp civil and military system, and they will soon become the new backbone force.

But every time he sees the fanatical expressions of his students, there are always familiar pictures that appear in his mind, and there is an inexplicable worry in his heart, is this education excessive?

"Your Excellency?" Mo Huaiwen didn't know what Liu Minyou was thinking, thinking that Liu Minyou was wandering, and reminded him in a low voice, Liu Minyou came back to his senses, and when the two walked to the door of the barracks, they saw Huang Side, the chief training officer and director of the Propaganda Bureau, appearing in front of him, and he was loudly beckoning a group of soldiers to load some old cotton clothes into the carriage. rs