Zhang Zhongyao nodded yes, and Wu Yingying said: "If we scavenge the people's financial resources, who will sell the goods and things produced by the many factories we have opened in the Western Regions to use? If they are sold to places like Liao, Song and Persia, if one day the Song Emperor bans border trade and the people's livelihood in the Western Regions withers, wouldn't he control his own lifeline in the hands of others? ”

These words made Zhang Zhongyao seem to have an understanding, and nodded and said: "The lord has seen thousands of miles, and his subordinates admire it." Wu Yingying smiled: "It's just the heart of the heart, pay attention to it on weekdays, and you will benefit." He saw that Zhang Zhongyao's eyes were already a little weird when he looked at him, and he suddenly remembered the sentence "Zhuge Kongming is wise and close to demons", unlike most of the superiors in this era who make themselves very mysterious, Wu Yingying is extremely unwilling to be worshiped as a god by his subordinates, so that after accumulating, his subordinates will become dependent on themselves and superstitious, and the plan he proposed cannot be correctly discussed and corrected.

On the second day, Na Qingchi came to the door again to ask for a meeting. I saw that Qingchi, who was still in high spirits yesterday, had a withered face and a depressed expression, as if he had changed people. To Wu Yingying's great surprise, he didn't expect him to figure out the joints so quickly.

"My lord, I am not as knowledgeable as the adults, and I have not thought as far as the adults, and I almost missed the big thing, so I came to confess to the adults. Qing Chi smiled bitterly.

Wu Yingying asked him not to be formal, and asked, "Mr. Qing, you really figured it out, why don't I use your financial management strategy?"

Qingchi nodded and said: "My lord has passed through the Western Regions, there are many foreign barbarians, unruly, and the arrogant soldiers of the domain are even more difficult to control. What's more, the leaders of the various clans in the neighboring domains will sooner or later occupy a place in these state capitals and towns, and these are connected to the larger domains, and even Song Liao, if the days are embarrassed and urgent, they will also cause chaos. The Western Regions are thousands of miles away, if there is smoke everywhere, even if there are hundreds of thousands of male soldiers, they will be exhausted. He bowed his head. Seeing that Wu Yingying nodded slowly, and did not say anything against it, Qingchi came to his senses again, raised his head and said: "However, if you enter the Central Plains, you can implement this policy in the state capitals of the Central Plains, and the treasury will definitely be enriched, and with this as a support, you will be able to conquer foreign countries, and finally you will be able to subdue the four empires and dominate the world." ”

Wu Yingying couldn't help but laugh dumbly when he heard this, and said: "Mr. Qing is good at financial management, but he may not be too sharp, if I do this, wouldn't I treat the Fanbang Hu people with kindness and treat the Han people with meanness, then I am the lord of the Han people in the Central Plains, or the lord of the Fanbang Hu people?"

Wu Yingying was just a feudal town at this time, Qingchi didn't expect that his ambition was not even covered up when he spoke, so he couldn't help but be a little uncomfortable, he was a little reserved, gritted his teeth and bowed down: "My lord is naturally the co-master of all the people in the world, and he is confused." ”

Wu Yingying smiled: "It's okay, I know the talent of the gentleman, here I will entrust the business in Jiangnan, follow me back to Bianliang, and bend down to the staff first." Seeing Qingchi bowing down and thanking him with joy, Wu Yingying said: "A matter is explained to Mr. first, there are two ways to be civil and military under my account, since Mr. is not a sergeant, if he wants to find an official in the future, he needs to pass the scribe assessment. Are you sure, sir?"

Qingchi is a native of Chizhou, he has studied since he was a child, and he turned to business after that, and has never practiced martial arts, but since Wu Yingying is willing to accept him and point out the way to advancement, it is not possible to do it, so he nodded without hesitation and replied: "My subordinates are trying their best to do it." Wu Yingying laughed.

After withdrawing from Wu Yingying, Qing Chi asked Zhang Zhongyao with some embarrassment: "Lord Zhang, I don't know how the lord said about the second art of archery, how to take the school?"

Zhang Zhongyao stared at him and couldn't help but be a little funny, and said in his heart, this person didn't even know how to take the test for the second art of shooting, so he agreed in front of the lord, I don't know whether it should be decisive or reckless.

However, he also knew that Qing Chi was a great talent, so he arched his hand and said in a deep voice: "Mr. Qing is polite." The trajectory established by Lanzhou, the scribe examined the school to shoot the second art of the imperial army, fired ten arrows in a row a hundred steps away, divided into three trajectories in the middle and lower, and fired seven arrow targets, and the archery skills were qualified. If you can travel 150 miles a day on a horse, you can be considered qualified. ”

Hearing that the archery assessment was so difficult, Qing Chi couldn't help but gasp, a bow with a range of 100 steps would require a strong force of four stones, and after pulling it away, it would take a lot more power to aim and launch the arrow. Seven out of ten at a hundred paces away has greatly exceeded the standard of the forbidden army's crossbowmen. Thinking of this, Qing Chi couldn't help but feel a little cold sweat, "It seems that I will have to practice the bow every morning and evening in the future, and in order to enter the soldiers, I will start practicing with two stone bows." ”

Zhang Zhongyao saw that Qingchi's hands and feet were stiff, his body was bloated, his eyes were scattered, and he was not a person who had practiced martial arts at a glance.

The two of them were thinking about their own thoughts, and they were about to walk to the door of the pavilion, when Qingchi suddenly patted his head and shouted: "Yes, yes." It was as if the question of a difficult question that had been pondered and meditated on had suddenly been answered.

Zhang Zhongyao frowned, and before he could ask a question, Qing Chi suddenly said: "Looking at the look of the lord, although he reluctantly accepted Xia as a staff member, he still has many reservations about my opinions. Now I finally understand the real reason why the Lord is unwilling to adopt my plan. The lord is still martial, and the scribes under his command can also hold a strong bow, as the so-called upward and downward effect, I heard that the lord uses the military to rule the people, so the people everywhere can fight in ranks, and the combat power is probably not bad. If I use my strategy, the people will not be angry in their hearts, and they will have their own martial arts, but they are afraid that they will rebel. Such a fierce people, even if there are hundreds of thousands of troops, it is difficult to suppress them, not to mention that the sergeants are inextricably linked with the people. Therefore, my self-righteous financial management strategy is the way to take chaos under the rule of the lord. ”

While muttering to himself, he bowed his hand to Zhang Zhongyao with a ashamed face, accusing him for his behavior just now. Although this Qingchi is deep in terms of calculating money, it also has its own idiots, and it is not as exquisite as ordinary businessmen and Confucians.

"This colleague will not be difficult to get along with in the future. Zhang Zhongyao smiled and said goodbye to him, and saw that there was a sergeant from the Chengying Battalion at the door disguised as a man from the rivers and lakes who sold bone-setting medicine, so he called him over and took out fifty copper coins to buy five stickers. Bone-setting plaster is a common item in the army and needs to be replenished at any time, and this move is no different in the eyes of the forbidden army next to him.

Zhang Zhongyao returned to the post house with the medicine sticker, carefully closed the door, and took out the thin paper silk book hidden in the mezzanine of the ointment and kept with beeswax. If it is an unimportant matter, the Anxi Jiedu envoy is very willing to use the post station system of the Great Song Dynasty, and every month Hexi will present a few military letters to Wu Yingying through the military post, which is fast and safe, and he is not afraid of the imperial court inspection.

"Youtong marched because of the attack on Cai Wei Gongcheng, and the effect was very good, according to this, the Tubo tribe had no way to take them. Wu Yingying read the secret report translated by Zhang Zhongyao and said with a smile.

At that moment, the Chi Hunter Army and the Jinfan Army were stationed in Liangzhou, swept away the remnants of Tubo, and drove them south. The original plan was for the Jinfan army to stay in Liangzhou, and the Chi Hunting Army to dispatch, but in Liangzhou to the south, it would cross the Qilian Mountains and enter the northern part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, which was vast and sparsely populated, and the cavalry was inconvenient to supply. Later, Luo Youtong followed the method of Cai Jing's march when he attacked the Turks in the north, except for leaving a small number of sergeants to guard in Liangzhou, the Jinfan Army and the Chi Hunting Army went out together. The weight of the baggage carried by the mule-horse infantry was much greater than that of the cavalry. The cavalry would need a long rest time after galloping at high speed, and they would march slowly on weekdays. When a long march is extremely long, the infantry will not only not slow down the cavalry, but will enable the cavalry to travel a longer distance. And relying on the solid barracks and military formations of the infantry army, the cavalry that originally retreated without a fight had more tactical options. In this way of marching, the infantry group carries a large amount of baggage, and the defensive ability is not weak, which is the support on the battlefield, while the cavalry is like an aircraft carried by the mothership, with the infantry group as the center of the circle, searching and sweeping the surrounding grasslands for hundreds of miles, which is especially suitable for dealing with the Tibetan tribes that have been scattered.