Text: The Great Power Battle_Chapter 148 The Iron Horse is Unstoppable
After going out for a walk and having breakfast, I met a super superb aboriginal hero, which is indeed very happy.
After arranging for Yun Qi to report to Wu Feng, the boss of Taiwei, Xiao Chen and Xiao Dezi began to wander around Donglin City. After going around for a long time, the two of them reluctantly returned to Miyagi again.
As soon as he returned to the palace, before Xiao Chen had time to rest for a while, a eunuch reported that Prime Minister Xun Yu and the general Wang Ping led a group of civil and military officials to wait outside the palace, asking to meet the king! Xiao Chen was puzzled at the time, are these bastards idle and have nothing to do? All the people of the family came to ask to see themselves, why did they ignore the country's government affairs and military?
Although he was puzzled, Xiao Chen hurriedly walked out of the house, and asked the little eunuch who reported the situation to go out and call Xun Yu and Wang Ping's gang. I walked slowly all the way towards the consultation hall, disturbing the interest of this king, and it was okay if I didn't let you clean the toilet collectively, so stay in the main upgrade and wait for the master slowly.
Along the way, touch the flowers and plants, play in the water again, and tease the little palace maids passing by. Originally, it only took about ten minutes, but it took Xiao Chen nearly an hour to finish. When Xiao Chen walked into the consultation hall, a group of civil and military officials immediately cried and shouted long live.
Sitting on his own dragon chair, Xiao Chen looked at Chen Gong, who was the first to jump out and start playing, and suddenly his head was big. Chen Gong stood up and spoke, it must be three sentences inseparable from giving birth to a son. Sure enough, after the military advisor sacrificed wine Lord stood up, he was talking nonsense for a while. The content is still the big question about giving birth to a son, but this time the ideological education class has obviously been longer.
From the time I entered the counseling hall, the time that was originally more than three o'clock slowly became more than four o'clock. Until the sun sets, Chen Gong still talks about it. Gradually, the sun disappeared, and Sister Yue'er revealed her true face of Lushan. Then, Chen Gong said it again.
After several hours of ideological education, Chen Gong also drank more than a dozen cups of tea. But this kid still has the strength to speak, and the words are not the same. Xiao Chen listened to such a long time, his ears had already become calloused, his eyelids were pulled, his head was hooked, and his mouth kept yawning!
The big guys in the group of people standing on the left side of the big point have already slept with their heads crooked one by one. On the contrary, none of the Zi Wenchen on the right were sleepy. All of them have their eyes scattered with fine light, looking at the endless Chen Palace, their eyes are full of little stars! This Chen Gongtai is really extraordinary, look at this mouthpiece, I talked for a few hours in one breath, what a talent!
After waiting for a long time again, Xiao Chen finally waited for the moment of peace in his ears. Chen Gong's ideological education course has finally ended. Chen Gong has nothing to say, so everyone naturally went back to their respective homes to find their own mothers, and they haven't had dinner yet!
After walking out of the consultation hall and taking two big breaths of the night air, Xiao Chen returned to the big house of himself and his two little daughters-in-law again. Looking at the table, it was full of food. The two daughters-in-law sat quietly at the table without moving the chopsticks in front of them.
After Xiao Chen walked into the house, the two girls hurriedly ran to Zhaochen's side. After a few words of affectionate care, the two girls helped Xiao Chen to come to the table and sit down. Immediately, a lot of meals were sandwiched for Xiao Chen, and the whole scene was warm and harmonious.
After eating and drinking, the rest of the things were much simpler, in order to block Chen Gong's mouth that said that dead people don't taste life, Xiao Chen had no choice but to continue plowing the land on the second daughter. , a moment of good happiness came to this big room again.
In the following days, Xiao Chen has been living in a three-person world with Concubine Xiang and Concubine Min. The national government affairs are taken care of by Xun Yu, Wang Zuozhi, and Xiao Chen doesn't have to worry about it at all. A series of things in the army, under the care of Wang Ping, Zhang Han, and Yun Qi, none of the big soldiers dared to make trouble in Donglin City. In short, Xiao Chen can honestly be his own palm, and having a son well is a big deal.
After another few days, Xiao Chen was really a little irritable to play. So, all the officials in the court were called to the advisory hall, intending to be the Ming monarch for a while.
After a few hours of court meeting, Xiao Chen also learned about the current development of Donglin City. There was nothing big about the army, and the regular troops did not increase except for 80,000 cavalry and 20,000 sailors. After the infantry army was replenished, it was still fifty associations and 500,000 horses. The cavalry increased by 80,000 to 100,000 iron cavalry. The number of sailors has also officially reached 100,000, with 500 warships and 600 troop transports. The Guards Association and the Yulin Association also had extra war horses, and all of them were equipped with horses, becoming a real horse infantry army.
The number of regular troops reached 720,000 horses, but the servant army was greatly expanded. The main reason is that the big guy feels that the cannon fodder is not enough, so more than 100,000 slaves who surrendered to the army picked up the sword again. With the tens of thousands of servants left before, the slave army has reached twenty associations, a full army of 200,000!
Because of the expansion of the servant army, the Beichen Army has officially reached an army of more than one million. The combat force has an army of 920,000 and a garrison of more than 100,000. All of them are single-handed, and their mission is to be stationed in various cities and be responsible for the daily security of the city.
The strength of the army is no longer allowed to expand, although there are 200,000 cheap servant troops, but the rest of the nearly 800,000 horses are almost drunk up the military advance. Especially with the addition of 80,000 cavalry, the military expenditure of the entire Beichen Army soared a lot, directly from the previous 150 million copper coins to 240 million. Although Beichen Kingdom's monthly tax is also scary, military spending is still a super burden.
The commercial tax also became a county because of the Beichen Kingdom, and after it became famous all over the world, it took off by leaps and bounds. After all, it has the name of the first county in the world, and wherever you go, there will be no unsightly players to stop you. So the commercial tax has also increased from 180 million in the past to 260 million now, of course, these are all copper coins. Compared with the 80 million silver tax in the year of the Great Song Dynasty, Beichen Kingdom is not even a scumbag. 80 million silver, well~80 billion copper plates, you still continue to struggle.
The field tax has also increased to more than 80 million copper coins, which was stimulated by the defeat of those previous subordinates. The people of other people each have 20 acres of land, and their own people have 10 acres per capita. So, with a wave of his hand, Zhaochen directly told the farmers of the world that you can cultivate as many fields as you can cultivate. However, the sale of land must be filed with the government, and the local government must report to the central government once a month. At the same time, there will be officials from the DPRK and China who will visit the localities privately, and all those who have annexed land will be beheaded all over the house, and the local officials will be exiled to the wild islands!
As soon as this order was given, the approximately 2.5 million peasants in Beichen were immediately excited. There is a large amount of open land in Beichen, all of which can be used to grow food. It's just that in the past, each family could only cultivate ten acres of land, so most of that land was abandoned. But now, the king has decreed to encourage farming, and the big ones are more diligent than the other.
Not only did the people cultivate more grain, but even those slaves made 8 million fertile fields for the Beichen army, with a monthly output of 80 million units of military rations. Of course, half of them belonged to the slaves, but even if it was only forty million, it was a lot of money. It's enough for a million troops to eat half a month's worth of food and grass, can it be small?
The poll tax was canceled by Xiao Chen, and the three or four million poll tax was really not worth mentioning. However, even so, the revenue of Beichen Kingdom in January from the commercial tax and Tian tax alone has 340 million copper coins. And the government has finally passed the previous difficult period, and the 340 million copper coins are still 90 million in addition to the 250 million in military expenditures. I don't know how many times stronger than before, when the fiscal deficit was caused by huge military spending at every turn.
Of course, with the continued filling of money at Xiping Pass and the Son of Heaven Fortress that is being built, there will definitely be a fiscal deficit this month. However, this is due to the start of a huge construction project, and in the past, because of military spending, all economic development in the country has come to a halt, and the fiscal deficit is still there. But with the 100,000 silver and 100,000 gold that Xiao Chen brought back, Xun Yu was not worried at all. In short, the entire Beichen Kingdom is now thriving.
Knowing about the financial problems and domestic development issues, Xiao Chen was also very happy, and the evening movement became more violent. Chen Gong, a great ideological educator, saw that his king was working hard day and night, and he was not carrying out his course. There is no worry, and Chen Gong does not come to discuss the big problem of having a son with him every day. In the past few days, Xiao Chen's sleep has become better and better, and his body and mind have become healthier and healthier.
Time passed in a hurry, and the beautiful month of August slipped away from Xiao Chen's eyes in an instant. The calendar has been announced in September, and the powerful war machine of the Beichen Kingdom is also running again.
The bumper harvest in August made the military rations in Xipingguan, Minxiang City and Donglin City also reach the peak of history, with a full reserve of 130 million units of grain and grass, which made Xiao Chen's mind active again.
With a wave of Xiao Chen's hand, countless transport personnel began to escort the reserve grain and grass of Donglin City, Xiping Pass, and Minxiang City towards the territory of Anping County. The armies everywhere were also preparing for battle, and groups of soldiers were running in all directions, answering the orders of their own king.
In this battle, in addition to the 140,000 under the command of Li Zhaoliang, who was still in the south, there were still 480,000 troops in the regular army. Of these 480,000 people, 150,000 stayed in Anping County, defending dozens of cities that the Beichen Kingdom had just occupied for two months. The remaining 230,000 people, except for the Guards Association and the Yulin Association, who are still staying in Donglin City, will all gather in Anping County.
The servant army had 20,000 people in Anping County, 30,000 people in Li Zhaoliang, and the remaining 150,000 were all directly pulled to Anping County by Xiao Chen. At the same time, Xiao Chen also trained more than 20,000 single sword soldiers during this period. They will go to Li Zhaoliang by boat, and be responsible for guarding the city that Li Zhaoliang has built, and liberating the troops for Li Zhaoliang!
But even so, the strength of the Northern Route Army this time is still extremely powerful, with a full 510,000 combat troops. Among them, there are 100,000 iron cavalry to suppress the array, and the ordinary enemy, the Beichen army can do it by pinching their fingers. The navy army was also not idle, except for the 20,000 defenders who continued to protect Li Zhaoliang and Donglin City, the rest of the 80,000 troops drove the high war ship towards the depths of the sea east of Beichen Kingdom. They had two missions, one was to draw charts and the other was to attack along the road.
The regular sergeants of the Northern Route Army in the Beichen Army's western expedition were all troops wearing iron armor. Even those servant armies are all dressed in iron armor, and their strength is not very strong! The regular army on Li Zhaoliang's side, Xiao Chen did not forget, and all the remaining 50,000 sets of fish scale armor were transported there. At present, the Beichen Kingdom has more than 50 cities, and all the craftsmen are almost full of fish scale armor in addition to the production of Changge, ring-headed knives and shields. The monthly production of fish scale armor has also reached more than 5,000 sets, and before addition, except for the Armed Guards Association and the Feather Forest Association, all the fish scale armor produced was sealed.
The reason is that there are not many of them, just tens of thousands of sets, and it is a bit inappropriate to take them out of the armed forces. However, because of the 400,000 sets of fish scale armor obtained by the heroes' activities, Xiao Chen began to redress the army on a large scale.
But even so, the number of fish scale armor is still insufficient, and there is still a gap of nearly 100,000 sets. This is still because it is inconvenient for the navy to wear iron armor, and there is no armed sailor, otherwise the gap will only be greater.
Ten days later, the 360,000 troops who were still in Donglin City began to assemble and march, marching towards Anping County, where they would meet the 150,000 troops. According to the previous plan, the 360,000 troops would be divided when they marched to Julin County. The newly promoted general Yun Qi led an army of 100,000 servants, 50,000 cavalry and 60,000 infantry troops to form the Middle Route Army of the Western Expedition and turned south. Then fight all the way to the west, and strive to let the North Route Army, the Middle Route Army, the South Route Army, and the 700,000 troops of the three armies converge into one!
Not long after the army was assembled, the old wolf came to mix with his army of 100,000 again. Xiao Chen remembered that he didn't call this guy, but why did he still come here? Could it be that he has a heart and soul with himself?
Thinking of this, Xiao Chen suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, it was really too evil, is the little master that kind of person?