After solving the army and the commander-in-chief, then there is one last problem.

That's the matter of food and grass.

As the saying goes, as soon as the guns go off, my parents raise them for nothing!

Fighting a war is a very money-consuming thing, so many soldiers eat horses and chew horses, and there is also the payment of military salaries, which requires a lot of money.

At this time, the newly appointed Hubu Shangshu was worried about this matter, especially after his previous emperor was raided and exterminated, he was even more trembling.

However, this problem cannot be left unsolved.

So he stood up and stammered: "Your Majesty, now Lord Suo Etu is resisting the rebels of Wu Sangui, the king of Pingxi, in Yunnan, and a large amount of grain and grass in the imperial court is transported to the front line every day. At the moment, there is really no extra money to support General Shi Lang to fight. ”

As mentioned earlier, the Qing Dynasty was very poor.

The main reason is that Wu Sangui's military salary over the years has been too exaggerated, and the treasury has been almost consumed, plus all kinds of corrupt officials and corrupt officials, such as the Hubu Shangshu who embezzled millions of taels, as for Aobai, it is even more terrifying, so many corrupt officials and corrupt officials, how can you expect the court to have extra money?

Hearing this question, Su Mo also knew that it was tricky.

Although he is not short of money now, after all, the money he spent on his family has been swallowed by himself, and this money is more than enough to support a large army.

It's just that why did Su Mo take out the money?

Thinking of this, Su Mo said lightly: "Since the treasury has no money, then increase taxes and let the people of the world take the money out to support the army." ”

Later, Kang Mazi never gave a sentence, and as a result, it was blown for hundreds of years.

Kangxi is considered to be the most virtuous emperor of the Qing Dynasty.

But in fact, never giving is a lie, and in ancient times taxes and taxes were two different concepts.

The so-called tax is to the worship of the gods of the suburban community temple, that is, the emperor's expenses for the food and affairs of the hundred officials, and generally this money is leased from the land, in fact, it is the grain harvested by the people's homes, and a certain amount must be paid to the imperial court, which is the tax.

As for the endowment, it refers to the poll tax.

In the Qing Dynasty, every household paid money according to the number of people, for example, if you have four people in your family, then you have to pay four people's Ding Yin, and never add it means that the poll tax will not be increased, and even if your family rises to ten people in the future, then you only need to pay the tax of four people.

But in fact, this policy is useless at all.

Because the Qing Dynasty has always collected land taxes, ding taxes, miscellaneous labors, etc., all of them are added to the tax.

In other words, he counted what you were supposed to pay to you into the tax.

In fact, you didn't pay a penny less at all.

Even because of this will never be given, later the people under the people disobeyed the yin and the yin, and made a lot of tax projects under the name of skillful projects, and the most important thing is that the taxes of the Qing Dynasty themselves are much heavier than those of the Ming Dynasty, no wonder the common people have not bought it, and there have been no fewer people who have rebelled and revolted.

I don't understand why there will be so many blows in later generations.

And those ministers looked at each other one by one when they heard that the emperor was going to raise taxes.

Now that wars are raging everywhere, and the people are struggling to make a living, if the tax is raised again, isn't that forcing the people to rebel?

Of course, they didn't dare to say such things.

Among them, the head of the household department also asked: "Then I don't know how much the emperor wants to increase the tax?" ”

"How much? Doubled, of course! ”

Su Mo glanced at his mouth, he actually wanted to force the people to rebel through this method, so he added: "I want to double it!" ”

………………

After agreeing on a counterinsurgency strategy, Su Mo retreated and returned to the harem.

During this time, he had been concentrating on cultivation, wanting to stabilize the true qi of the riot in his body as soon as possible.

So about the affairs of the court, he rarely asks anymore.

Time passed gradually, and as Su Mo shouted in the court that I wanted to double up, there was immediately a decree sent to various places.

When the news came out, the world was in an uproar.

Especially the ministers in various places are often mixed with private goods, for example, Su Mo just wants to increase the tax by double the tax, but when it comes to the following, it may be five times, ten times, etc., this amount is infinitely magnified, and most of the money is filled by people.

Throughout the ages, there have been countless such things.

When a disaster occurred in a certain place, the imperial court opened a warehouse to release grain, but as a result, the grain was exploited layer by layer, and when it really reached the hands of the people, there may have been very little.

During this time, there were wars everywhere in the world, and since the Heaven and Earth Society rebelled, the lives of the people were already miserable, and now the imperial court has to collect taxes, which is even worse, and everyone can't live it, so they can only rebel together by flipping the table.

In a short period of time, the rebels of the Yangzhou Tiancheng Earth Society increased to hundreds of thousands.

At the same time, Long Er also took the big twin to march towards the Divine Dragon Sect.

Along the way, there were many displaced people.

Famine was everywhere, and the people were cannibalistic.

Because of the treasure of the Qing Dynasty, Long'er was rich and rivaled the country, so he began to collect the displaced people along the way, and gathered more than 100,000 horses in just a few months.

However, the combat effectiveness of these displaced people is generally not high, they have not undergone special training, and their combat effectiveness is really far worse than that of the regular army.

But don't worry, don't forget what the Divine Dragon Cult does.

At the beginning, the Shenlong Sect, as the subordinate force of Wu Sangui, the king of Pingxi, was specially recruited for Wu Sangui and trained the army, after all, Wu Sangui had already had a rebellion, but he could not blatantly expand the army, so he trained a private army in the name of the Shenlong Sect.

When Wu Yingxiong went to the Divine Dragon Sect, he gave wine to Long'er in this name.

It can be seen the importance of the Shenlong Sect to the King of Pingxi.

Under the training of Long'er, this army soon began to form a fighting force.

At the same time, Shi Lang led an army of 100,000 to Yangzhou.

In order to repay the emperor's trust in him, he was also full of confidence this time, and he was bound to destroy the rebel army of the Heaven and Earth Society.

Starting from the capital, Shi Lang had already fought with the rebels of the Heaven and Earth Society several times along the way.

Although he only had 100,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, this army was the most well-equipped in the Qing Dynasty, and his soldiers were all experienced in a hundred battles, including 20,000 cavalry, on the other hand, the other party was just a miscellaneous army composed of some homeless people, and there were even people who didn't even have a decent weapon in their hands, and only held wooden sticks and hoes in their hands.

Therefore, after several battles, the people of Shi Lang's Heaven and Earth Society were defeated and retreated.

For example, the people who will meet tomorrow can only take advantage of the convenience of the city and retreat in Yangzhou City.

"General Shi, if all the thieves who will meet tomorrow gather in Yangzhou City, should we take the opportunity to attack the city?" A soldier suggested.

Hearing this suggestion, Shi Lang shook his head.

"Sun Tzu's Art of War" said that the army is plotting, followed by the war, followed by the army, and then attacking the city, and now we have a shortage of soldiers and horses, most of which are cavalry, and they are not good at attacking the city at all, so the siege is the most undesirable." Shi Lang is still very talented in leading troops to fight, and he continued: "There are a large number of rebels from the Heaven and Earth Society, they are cowering in Yangzhou City, there is no supply of grain and grass, as long as we can surround the city, it will not be long before they run out of food and grass, and then they will be self-defeating." ”

"At the same time, we should spread rumors to the people of the city, that if they are willing to lay down their arms and go out and surrender, then we will not blame them for the past and pardon them for rebellion."

You must know that most of the rebels of the Heaven and Earth Society are ordinary people, and many of them are about to rebel as soon as their brains are hot.

But when the imperial army really fights, there will definitely be people who waver and regret it.

If the imperial court is ready to recruit them now, then these people will definitely not stay in the lonely city and wait for death.

Hearing Shi Lang's strategy, the eyes of the others lit up.

In this way, Yangzhou City will pill sooner or later!