After Zhao Lie woke up in the morning, he was full of warm fragrance and jade, and Alexandra fell asleep in his arms with peace of mind. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Looking at Alexandra's long eyelashes and smooth forehead, Zhao Lie couldn't help but move, and he gently blew Alexandra's earlobe.

Alexandra opened her blue eyes, she looked hard, and after seeing Zhao Lie's gaze, she smiled and hugged Zhao Lie tightly.

In the past few months, she can be said to have been restless day and night, and she knows the strength of the Japanese country, and it is because of this that she knows the danger of this trip.

She had cleared a lot of money in the past few months, and it was not until the news came that the clippers were about to win a great victory and besiege the town of Edo, the great general of the Japanese kingdom, that she was reassured.

The months of uneasiness made Alexandra cherish the time the two spent together, and she felt more and more peaceful by Zhao Lie's side.

Of course, the next moment Zhao Lie's intention made the room no longer calm.

In the afternoon, Zhao Lie came to the Shidao Government Office and talked with Zhao Meng and Tang Xianwen about the current situation in Denglai.

While waiting for the shogunate's indemnity in Kamakura, Zhao Lie had already received the news of Zhang Keda's death, and he couldn't help but sigh that Zhang Keda still did not escape the fate of sacrificing his life for the country in the end.

It's just that without his butterfly wings, Zhang Keda would have died in Kong Youde's rebellion, but this time he was sacrificed in the national war.

In addition to the surrender of hundreds of people, all of them were killed, and the Denglai soldiers played a bloody character rarely seen in the Ming army in recent years.

Zhang Keda deserves to be a first-class loyal and good general of the Ming Dynasty, but unfortunately in such a situation, the more loyal and good generals are, the more they cannot die well.

"Second brother, with this 500,000 silver, Shidao's financial resources are greatly rich. You said. Where are these silver taels thrown? ”

These can be considered windfalls. It's not in Shidao's planning, and there are quite a few of them, so I can only ask Zhao Lie about his plans.

"Judging from this Jiannu's entry into the Kou, Jiannu may enter the Kou Gyeonggi again at any time, after all, the Jiannu has hardly encountered too powerful counterattacks, and they will not let go of this fat meat."

Zhao Meng and Tang Xianwen agreed to this, and if they were in the position of Jiannu, they would not give up.

"If Jiannu enters the next house. I intend to take advantage of the opportunity of the main force of Jiannu to divide into two roads, and devote all the strength of the army to annihilate the main force of Jiannu in one fell swoop, so that Jiannu will be slumped until it perishes. ”

As soon as Zhao Lie's voice fell, Zhao Meng and Tang Xianwen's hearts tightened, this was the critical time to become a king and defeat a king.

Of course, Jiannu must leave heavy troops to protect his own nest, after all, now the broken army is stationed in Lushun with thousands of soldiers, and Jiannu does not dare to guard against it, so it will divide the main force of Jiannu into two parts, which is a good opportunity to destroy the enemy.

Of course, their work will be re-burdened. After all, they estimated that it would be a year or two before Jiannu entered the prison.

Sure enough, Zhao Lie next mentioned their task,

"Now that the main force of our army has completely annihilated Jiannu and entered the army, there is still a shortcoming. Therefore, I intend to change the Jinghai garrison army into soldiers, and in addition, transfer 6,000 elite soldiers from the Denglai reserve army into soldiers. In this way, armor and war horses are extremely scarce, as long as the armor buys more iron ore, it is refined and built by itself, but the war horses of the new soldiers are estimated to be only two or three thousand horses in Jeju, and the rest must be purchased with silver. ”

As soon as Zhao Lie's voice fell, Zhao Meng and Tang Xianwen both grinned, the war horse is now about fifty-five taels of silver, if it is purchased on a large scale, the price will have to rise, how can it be more than sixty taels of silver, if it is six thousand war horses, this is the cost of nearly 400,000 taels of silver, plus the armor, it is not enough to fill in all the windfalls of the Wa Kingdom this time.

After all, the expedition to break the Japanese army also cost tens of thousands of taels of silver, which must also be removed.

As everyone said, Lord Zhao's ability to find silver is not said, but no one can compare to the ability to spend silver.

"Second brother, when do you want these armor and war horses to be used?" Zhao Meng asked.

"Big brother, I can only say that the sooner the better, because after the armor and horses are ready, you still have to train the soldiers, and it is best to experience the battle and see blood, so that it can be reused."

Zhao Lie replied.

"In this case, we have to arrange manpower immediately, the old rule, it has to be the merchants of the Shidao Department to go out."

Zhao Meng thought for a moment.

He now knows the benefits of Zhao Lie's efforts to win over these businessmen, and now these businessmen are sparing no effort to work for Zhao Lie, selling salt, cement, buying horses and wood, and even buying refugees, if the Zhao family comes forward, it will be extremely conspicuous.

But these businessmen came forward, and no one knew that the Zhao family did it behind them, and they did it without showing the mountains and water.

It alleviated the suspicion of other officials and the imperial court against the Zhao family, so that the Zhao family could go to this day in peace.

"Lord Bingzhao, Lord Du Li asks to see you." Outside, a guard came in to report.

"Let him in." Zhao Lie nodded.

Du Li walked quickly into the lobby and saluted Zhao Lie, Zhao Lie waved his hand,

"You must have something to do, tell me about it."

"My lord, the subordinate newspaper came with news from the capital, saying that the Denglai soldiers were all wiped out, and the imperial court had no money and food to reorganize Denglai Town, but the land of Denglai was an important place to defend Jiannu, even if it was unable to attack across the sea, it was necessary to protect Denglai from being attacked by Jiannu across the sea. So someone proposed to let the adult be the head of Denglai. ”

Zhao Lie smiled slightly when he heard this, he took Du Li's words and said,

"So Chongzhen Tianzi approved this suggestion, and planned to appoint Ben as the chief soldier of Denglai."

"That's right," Du Li bent slightly, "but at that time, the courtiers opposed it extremely fiercely, and in the end, it was Shoufu Wen Tiren who supported it, and finally calmed down." It's just that Denglai's military salary in the future is only 250,000 taels, which is half of that when Lord Zhang was in office. ”

Zhao Lie smiled dumbly, "This is to let me Denglai Dusi do the work of Denglai soldiers, the Son of Heaven and Shoufu are very calculating." ”

"The Son of Heaven promoted the second brother like this, is there an article here?" Zhao Meng hesitated.

"Without him, give those pitiful military salaries to the guard, let me face the chaos of the Dongjiang River after I take up the post of chief soldier, if the Japanese enter the Kou again, the court will either let me attack the rear of Jiannu from the Dongjiang River in Lushun, or ask me to lead the troops to Qin Wang, in short, it is to exhaust the Zhao family. Let the Zhao family fight against Jiannu. It's just a way to drive away the wolf. ”

Zhao Lie smiled. It's really not worth it.

"Which minister has a bad idea?" Tang Xianwen pouted, "I'm afraid that the bamboo basket will be empty." ”

This strategy is also vicious enough, and the poor military salary of the capital division is only enough for the silver general, if it is added to the drift, it is not even enough to pay the silver. How to prepare the armor, I want to come to the imperial court and see that except for Jing Haiwei, the other soldiers of the Denglai Division have no armor to protect the body, thinking that the Zhao family has no money and food to build the armor.

In this way, although the Zhao family has nearly ten thousand tigers and wolves. But it is impossible to expand at all, if it is allowed to fight with Jiannu, the two tigers will fight for one injury, no matter which tiger is injured, the court is overjoyed, if the two tigers are injured, then the court and the Son of Heaven will be ecstatic.

"Oh, I see," Zhao Meng sneered, "It's just that the Son of Heaven and his important ministers didn't expect that the money and food of my Broken Army had another source." I'm afraid that I will disappoint those ministers who have broken their hearts for my Zhao family. ”

Indeed, the crux of this strategy is to start with money. Trap the expansion of the Zhao family's strength, and then wait for an opportunity to weaken, but the money and food of the broken army do not expect the salary of the imperial court at all, nor is it the embarrassment that the imperial court thinks, and the main reason for not equipping the reserve army with armor is to make the imperial court feel at ease and give Denglai a stable environment for development.

"It seems that it is a clever move for the lord not to equip the reserve army with armor, and he actually let the imperial court present the throne of the general army." Tang Xianwen laughed.

The others from Zhao Lie and below also laughed, and this time it was really unexpected.

"My lord, the head of General Zhang has been placed in the Ancestral Shrine, adjacent to the cemetery of General You Shilu."

Du Li whispered.

At the mention of Zhang Keda, Zhao Lie's smile passed, and Zhao Lie only had respect for this elder who had helped his family and the loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty.

"Du Li, you have done a good job in this matter, the execution of the Military Intelligence Department is extremely strong, and the general is extremely satisfied."

Zhao Lie nodded to Du Li,

"Well, reward those brothers who were born and died and brought Lord Zhao to Denglai, a hundred taels of silver, and fifty acres of fertile land."

"Brother Dulidai, thank you." Du Li bowed and saluted.

Zhao Lie has always rewarded the warriors under him, this is why the Broken Army is famous, in Zhao Lie's opinion, there is too much to talk about, and there must be the support of interests, tens of thousands of soldiers inside and outside the Broken Army follow him, it is not a hindrance to the need to support his family, of course, it is better to fight for a wife.

These needs are actually the needs of different interests, so Zhao Lie has always been a man who rewards meritorious officials, stimulates the morale of everyone's army, and wants to be promoted and wants to be paid, so let's fight bravely to kill the enemy.

"Du Li, now our army is already a thorn in the side of the imperial court and Jiannu, it is estimated that the careful work will continue to come, you and Wang Quan have to put a tight fence for Shidao."

Zhao Lie said to Du Li.

"Don't worry, my lord, my subordinates will do their best." Du Li bent down and said.

"Lord Du Li has captured a lot of spies from the imperial court and Jiannu in the past two years, and they have all been cut off their heads, and the Military Intelligence Department and the Internal Security Department have made great achievements in this regard."

Zhao Meng said with a smile.

"Don't be careless, I dare to say that Jiannu and the imperial court have spies in Shidao and Dengzhou now, but they don't dare to move around often, but they will continue to inquire about everything in our army, so that it can be transmitted back to their masters."

Zhao Lie shook his head, in fact, exploration and arrest are only a part, it can only be a passive defense, but there is no way, no one can completely destroy it from the root, unless Zhao Lie can conquer the Central Plains and eliminate Jiannu.

At night in the mansion, Du Li brought Zhang Keda's personal guard Wang Linquan up, and Wang Linquan brought out the situation of the Denglai soldiers and the Jiannu army one by one.

Speaking of the killing and wounding of the Han military banner to the Denglai soldiers, Wang Linquan scolded with tears in his eyes,

"Wan Wang, Lord Zhao, will avenge my family."

Wang Linquan said that he was in tears and kowtowed, and he couldn't stand on the ground.

"You can rest assured, this revenge will not be avenged by Zhao." Zhao Lie gave Wang Linquan a positive reply.

Wang Linquan was led down by the guards with peace of mind.

"My lord, I learned from Liaodong that the Jiannu chieftain Taiji is indeed vigorously expanding the Han army banner."

Du Li arched his hand.

"It seems that from today on, these traitors and **** of the Han Army Banner are really the number one slaves of the Jurchens."

Zhao Lie gritted his teeth and said.

"Du Li, from now on, I will order the personnel of Liaodong to make every effort to find out the number of Han army flags, the generals who command the army, and the number of people who are dispatched by the Han army flags every time there is a big war, this matter is very important and must not be ignored."

From the crucial thing that Zhao Lie said from his mouth, of course Du Li did not dare to slack off, and immediately received the order. (To be continued.) )