readx;?“ The officials are really idle today! I actually have time to play here with my sisters. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info\\. qΒ5。 c0m//" Bai Xinlan sat on top of Zhao Lei's soft collapse, and said sweetly to Zhao Lei with a light smile.

"It's very leisurely! Lu Yijian and I have temporarily reconciled, and the official family reuses three old ministers, these old ministers have a close relationship with Brother Xiwen and Uncle Yong, and they will definitely not trouble the new army, they all wish for a new atmosphere in the imperial court! So now that the new army is going well, it is the best opportunity to steal a half-day of leisure. Zhao Lei felt the warm sunshine on his body, and said lazily and casually.

"Yes! walked a Li Di, but came Zhang Shixun, Yan Shu and Wang Zeng, and Lu Yijian was suppressed by the official family again, it seems that the imperial court will be very calm during this time, and will turn its attention from the inside to the outside. Bai Xinlan touched the well-behaved Xuemei beside her and whispered to Zhao Lei.

"Speaking of the outside, my father recently wrote me a letter, Xixia Yuanhao sent troops to the west, he dispatched an army of 150,000 this time, and the soldiers were approaching the Qingtang City, with Maoniucheng as a springboard, this time the troops were much faster than the last time, and it is estimated that it has now advanced to Qingtang City." Xiao Ruoruo also walked over with a fortune fan at this time, and said to Zhao Lei with a frown.

"Yuan Hao doesn't seem to be willing to give up when he doesn't get to the Yellow River! Knowing that there is no hope of victory, he is still stubborn in his westward expedition, and it seems that he is going to suffer a big loss this time. When Zhao Lei heard Xiao Ruoruo's words, he immediately sat up, smiled coldly, and said sharply.

"Suffer a big loss, how can you be so sure, you must know that the current Xixia soldiers are strong and strong, and they have just won Maoniu City. With a logistics base, and with more soldiers and horses in this westward expedition than last time, how can it be possible to suffer a big loss? Xiao Ruoruo heard Zhao Lei's words and asked loudly in confusion.

Looking at Xiao Ruoruo's puzzled face, Zhao Lei sneered and asked, "Ruoruo!" Who do you think is stronger and who is weak? ”

"Of course it's Xixia, Xixia now has hundreds of thousands of armor. Even the Great Song Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom didn't dare to take a peep, let alone a small chatter. Xiao Ruoruo replied affirmatively.

"In this case, why did Western Xia dispatch an army of more than 100,000 troops last time, lose troops and generals, last several months, and finally used a trick to win a cat cow city!" Zhao Lei asked Xiao Ruoruo indifferently.

"That's right! Judging from the process of the Western Xia's capture of the Cat Cow City, the strength of the Western Xia army is not as good as that of the Nuo Nuo! Bai Xinlan also heard what Zhao Lei meant at this time, nodded and said softly.

"You guys are too underestimating it, thinking that it's a small tribe of Tu Clan. With a population of only a few million, I feel that I am not as strong as Western Xia, but have you ever thought about it, I have just fought a bloody way out of the many tribes of the Tu Domain, and has taken root on the border between the Tu Domain and the Western Xia. It is not as simple as you think, a small catbull city will make the Western Xia lose tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, think about the more than a dozen cities like the catbull city in the territory of the country, how much can the Western Xia take with a hundred thousand troops.

Besides, even if there is a cat cow city. It's just an empty city, and the grain and grass logistics of the Western Xia army still need to be supplied from the territory of Western Xia, thousands of miles away. The logistical pressure is huge, how many days can the Xixia army last, and the Xixia Yuanhao's slaughter of the cat and Niucheng, is the biggest failure, which will only attract the hatred of the people. The time, the location, and the people are all over there, why should Xixia fight with the Xixia Yuanhao, plus the Xixia Yuanhao has been deceived once, who will be fooled by the same scam for the second time, so this time Xixia Yuanhao's westward expedition, there is no win or loss! Unless Western Xia Yuanhao goes west, he is definitely not an opponent! Zhao Lei said with a sneer.

"Listening to the words of the official, the concubine also feels that the Western Xia Army is lost, now that I know the result, can my Great Song get any benefits in it?" Xiao Ruoruo looked at the confident Zhao Lei, her eyes were full of admiration, she liked Zhao Lei the most now, full of heroism in all her hands, looking heroic and heroic, and then asked adoringly.

"Benefits! I'm afraid that the Great Song Dynasty will not get any benefits from this, if the Great Song Dynasty makes any moves, it is possible for Western Xia Yuanhao to withdraw his troops directly, so the only benefit is to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, and at the same time weaken the national strength of the two sides, making it easier for the Great Song Dynasty to manipulate the international situation. Zhao Lei said with a bitter face.

In fact, Zhao Lei knew in his heart that if the army of the Great Song Dynasty was strong enough, he could take advantage of the expedition of the Western Xia army to raid the Western Xia, not to mention destroying the country, at least it could greatly weaken the national strength of the Western Xia and restore the original respect for the Great Song Dynasty, but all these ideas are dreams, without a strong army, no matter how good the opportunity is, it is just a dream.

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The construction of the military camp has been completed, and the five large battalions are located on the land within a radius of five miles, the flags of the four training grounds are flying, and there are non-commissioned officers wearing heavy armor there wielding swords and guns to train the basic skills of the soldiers, and the position of the large camp is directly north, nearly 100 rocket vehicles, and 500 new sergeants with flexible hands and eyes are learning how to operate powerful rocket vehicles.

25,000 recruits have been sent to the new army camp from the Northern Frontier Five Roads, although these soldiers lack battlefield experience, but they are tall and strong, and aggressive, not afraid of death, the quality of the recruits is high, so that Zhao Lei is very surprised.

Gao Zunping, Shi Yuanchun and Yang Zun also came to the camp of the new army and began to take over their army, and at the same time, there were also fifteen partial generals recommended by them, and Han Qi also found five partial generals from people he knew, all of whom were practical generals with rich combat experience and certain abilities.

Zhao Lei's Chinese army was also completed, Zhao Ming and Fan Quan, the two Qiang generals, led a battalion of soldiers respectively and became the military attache of the Song Dynasty, while Zhu Dali and a Hebei hero named Liu Mingcheng became the other two partial generals, and at the same time commanded a battalion of soldiers of the new army, and Zhao Lei's new army commander, of course, was his most trusted concubine Xiao Ruoruo to personally command.

Among the marshals of the military camp. Surrounded by a crowd of surprise and ecstasy, the generals of the New Army, Han Qi, Yang Zun, Gao Zunping, Shi Yuanchun, Ding Du, Zeng Gongliang and Xue Xiang, the logistics officials of the New Army, Gan Ling, Wang Su and Pang Ji, the special envoys of the official family, as well as Pan Fusheng, a wealthy man in Bianjing, and two wealthy people who were also dressed luxuriously, all looked at Zhao Lei in the crowd with shocked and ecstatic expressions.

And Zhao Lei. Dressed in ordinary clothes, with a simple apron hanging around his waist, holding an iron pot in his left hand and a spatula in his right hand, flying up and down, he was stir-frying vegetables in the barracks.

What is the shock and ecstasy of stir-frying, even if Zhao Lei personally stir-frys, there is nothing surprising! However, if the stove used for stir-frying is a refined coal stove, the fuel burned is ground into pulverized coal. Honeycomb coal with loess and water was added, and all this was enough for the onlookers to grow their mouths in shock.

"Coal is ground into powder, and when you add loess and water, you can burn smokelessly, you can cook and heat, and you can replace dry firewood to become the best fuel, oh my God! It's been a thousand years. Since the appearance of coal in the Western Han Dynasty, why has no one seen this kind of thing? Pan Fusheng looked at the coal stove and the dried honeycomb coal in shock, and said loudly unwillingly.

"It's a very simple thing, but no one presents, and it will never be valuable!" Zhao Lei copied the wild vegetables in the pot. said indifferently to Pan Fusheng.

"Charcoal is so easy to use, I'm afraid there will be a lot of people who mine it privately!" Seeing that the coal has a civil land value, and the profit is amazing. Xue Xiang, who returned to Bianjing from Chengdu, was thin and his eyes were bright, and immediately began to think about how to maximize the profits of coal, and if he wanted to protect the profits of coal, the first problem he had to face was the trouble of private mining.

"This is not a problem, the official family has already prepared to issue an order, and the coal is used as a military strategic reserve material. Illegal mining is a major crime for the whole family to be exiled and the house is raided, and a notification order is also issued, and anyone who reports that someone has mined a coal mine without permission can get one-tenth of the family's property confiscated by the prisoner. Zhao Lei smiled and said indifferently.

Zhao Lei's words were recognized by the onlookers of the imperial court officials, but for Pan Fusheng and the two wealthy businessmen he brought, it was a shocking thing, you must know that they did not have the idea of less coal minerals, Pan Fusheng knew the news that coal can be used for civilian use, and he organized people to mine a lot of coal mines near Bianjing, and planned to continue mining like this, but if things are really like Zhao Lei said, I am afraid that the entire Great Song Dynasty family will not dare to mine coal minerals privately, after all, there is no impermeable wall in the world, All families have many enemies, once the private mining of coal minerals is discovered, it is a felony to steal the family and allocate land, you can work hard for money, but no one will do anything to make money knowing that there is no life.

"How is Lord Zhao going to buy and sell charcoal and charcoal furnaces?" A thin wealthy businessman beside Pan Fusheng asked Zhao Lei carefully.

"There are many places in the Great Song Dynasty of the Iron Coal, and the Iron Case will set up a Coal Monopoly Office, which is responsible for supplying the Great Song Dynasty roads in the states and counties near the Iron Case, and the Iron Case only supplies the carboniferous ore to the merchants in the states and counties, and the merchants are responsible for making briquettes and coal stoves to sell to the people, of course, these merchants not only have to pay the coal money, but also have to pay a tuition fee for the production of briquettes and coal stoves." Zhao Lei carefully explained to the wealthy businessman who asked the question.

"How much do you have to pay?" Another wealthy businessman brought by Pan Fusheng asked directly.

"The cost of studying briquettes and coal stoves is 20,000 taels, and the coal is one stone and one tael of silver." Zhao Lei still said casually.

Hearing Zhao Lei's price, Xue Xiang called Zhao Lei the biggest profiteer in his heart, as the judge of the iron case, Xue Xiang clearly knew Zhao Lei's plan, Zhao Lei was ready to find two coal sales agents in all states and counties in the Great Song Dynasty, that is to say, more than 400 states and counties in the Great Song Dynasty, the iron case will charge nearly 9 million taels of briquettes and coal stove production and learning fees, which is already double the official appropriation of 10 million taels.

The price of charcoal is even more exaggerated, now the price of grain in the Northern Song Dynasty is less than one or two silver, Zhao Lei actually asked for one stone of charcoal for one or two silver, and according to the estimated annual sales share, the Great Song Dynasty can consume more than 20 million taels of charcoal a year, that is to say, you can get more than 20 million taels of silver, so much silver, not only can pay the food and salary of 25,000 soldiers of the new army, but also feed the many officials, servants, craftsmen and servants of the new army's logistics yamen, and can definitely save nearly 20 million taels of silver every year.

Profiteering coal, it's black gold! Xue Xiang thought with a shocked sigh.

Just as Xue Xiang sighed, a black-faced craftsman from the Ordnance Institute ran in with an excited face and said loudly: "The black powder has been successfully made!" ”

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