"Lord Xiao, you know the situation of our household department, now the treasury is extremely scarce, and I can't make ends meet, and the tax money of the county governments below has not been collected, and those arrears have only been recovered by less than one percent, and now I don't have any silver." Chen Wenqi spread out his hands and said that he couldn't help.

In order to show that he was not lying, he found a few officials in charge of food and salary, moved out a thick account book, and asked Lord Xiao to look at it.

"Lord Xiao, what do I not know about your difficulties? But you also have to be considerate of the difficulties of the emperor and his brother, don't you? Now, including me, the salaries of hundreds of officials in the imperial court have not been paid for a year, and people come to fight lawsuits with my brothers every day, and I am anxious about my brothers...... "Chen Wenqi is also telling the truth.

"So I think Lord Xiao, you should overcome it, the military salary is owed first, and when you return triumphantly, the military salary and silver will be sent to you!" This is a special painting flatbread, and you can't eat it at all.

"The main thing is that the silver owed must not be returned, otherwise what is this little bit of silver? If you have a way to come and owe money, Lord Xiao, you will be given as much as you want back! "Chen Wenqi, this is Xiao Chen's army.

What's the matter, if the prince doesn't come back, you let Xiao Chen ask for it?

"Okay, that's it! Go back and give me the IOU, I'll try to ask for it, hehe, I can't get food from your Lord Chen, so go to someone else's house to ask for it! Unexpectedly, Xiao Chen promised without hesitation.

It caught Chen Wenqi a little off guard, Lord Xiao, are you serious?

"Then let's not talk about the military salary, what about the grain and grass?" Xiao Chen was lazy to talk nonsense with him.

"In terms of grain and grass, we don't have much inventory at present, there are so many garrisons in Fengyang City, and how much food the people in the city need a day, Lord Xiao, do you know? Fortunately, now that the grain and rice in Jiangnan are ripe, they are being shipped one after another, and I will send people to send them one after another when you start pulling it out. ”

This means that if you want to carry enough food and grass, it is impossible, I can only guarantee your basic supply, or send three days of food at a time, or two days, or even one day at a time......

In other words, if you make the slightest move, you will be cut off from your bread at once!

Grain and grass are the lifeblood of an army, and running out of food is life.

"What if the war is tense and your rear cuts off my food and grass for some reason?" Xiao Chen said coldly.

"This Lord Xiao, don't worry, I will send capable personnel to deliver food, if anyone dares to miss your food, he will be punished for delaying military discipline!" Chen Wenqi slapped his chest at a shocking price, but in fact, it was almost like a fart.

When the time comes, just kill a scapegoat, can you Xiao Chen still ask if the crime of the household department is not true?

"There is no silver, there is no grain and grass, so there is always a young man, right? I've seen all the 3,000 soldiers, all of them are old, weak, sick and disabled, not to mention taking them to war, whether they can go to the place is a problem, I'll tell you! Xiao Chen's little face turned pale with anger.

"Alas......" Chen Wenqi sighed, indicating that the words of youth and strength are not available at present.

How many recruiting offices do we have in Fengyang City now? But there aren't many people recruited, and all of them have been injured in various places.

You can't be conscripted, right?

But since the emperor has given you so much power, you can set up a recruitment office to recruit soldiers, and you can raise as many as you can.

This is almost like a fart, you Chen Wenqi is a household book, why can't you recruit soldiers, why don't you have a little pressure in your heart?

Now that serving in the army is a deadly business, who wants to pay so much money for you? And the money is still in arrears again and again, and I heard that the settling-in allowance is only one or two silver......

Hell if you can recruit someone!

But with your words...... No, you have to come up with a document from the household department, and Lao Tzu recruits troops by himself!

Chen Wenqi was also refreshed, and immediately signed a document to Xiao Chen.

Don't say I didn't help you, I've done my best, don't sue the emperor about me, okay?

Of course, it's useless to sue, this is what the emperor and his old man meant.

In fact, these Xiao Chen had already expected before he came, and the reason why he came back was to have the power to recruit troops and collect arrears.

He had to let Chen Wenqi take the initiative to bring it up, so he had actually achieved his goal.

just pretended to be very angry, and when he went out of the door of the house, he scolded and muttered to himself......

went to the military department to find Lu Jing again, Lu Jing was angry when he saw him, but his kid had the king's flag, and it was not okay if he didn't see him.

"I see Lord Lu, your face is displeased, who is this angry with?" Xiao Chen smiled and asked knowingly.

"Humph! You kid return my war horse as soon as possible, otherwise when the King of Fengyang comes back, you kid won't be able to eat and walk around! Lu Jing said angrily.

"It's okay if you don't mention it, I'm very annoyed when I mention it, you even went to the emperor to sue me for a similar thing, do you say you? The emperor sent the Marquis of Pingyang with a few hundred brocade guards to ask me for horses, and he had to take 2,000 horses! "Xiao Chen is even angrier than him.

Two days ago, he forcibly snatched 5,000 war horses, but the hateful Lu Jing turned his head and went to find Li Wanjiang, Li Wanjiang was also very surprised when he heard it, this kid really took my chicken feathers as an arrow?

It's going to take 5,000 horses at once, do you want to be ashamed?

But he had already promised that Xiao Chen could arbitrarily take military supplies, and it was not easy to go back on his word, so he immediately sent Zhu Xiaochuan to find his kid to get it back.

Zhu Xiaochuan said Your Majesty, you don't know who Xiao Chen's kid is?

I heard that he is going crazy now, holding your royal flag, wearing your Shang Fang sword, holding your marshal's big seal full of Fengyang City's toss, and he will bite anyone who catches it!

The dead pig is not afraid of boiling water scalding him now.

Don't talk about the ministers, I'm afraid that the emperor will go in person, he has something to say.

Li Wanjiang also regretted his impulsiveness a little, and he would have known that he would not give him the royal flag.

But you can't give him all the five thousand horses, you go, and you can come back as much as you want......

This is Zhu Xiaochuan, Xiao Chen can't help but give face, if it is replaced by Gong Shouli, Xiao Chen can directly call him!

For the sake of your face, Master Hou, I can hand back two thousand war horses, but I must give me another thousand sturdy green mules, otherwise how can I carry supplies?

"You, you, you kid still dare to say this to me! That's my 1,000 mules in exchange, and your kid has a total of 3,000 soldiers, and you need 1,000 mules to transport supplies? So Lu Jing was even more angry when he heard Xiao Chen say this.

"The special household department doesn't give a tael of silver, I can only sell these mules for military salaries, and there is no food and grass, and I have to kill them as military rations in a hurry!" Xiao Chen said loudly.

Lu Jing stopped talking, because he also had a force in his heart.

So what are you doing here?

What else can I do with you? I want weapons and equipment.

How much?

First, 10,000 pairs of armor, 10,000 spears, 8,000 wind swords, and 5,000 hook scythes......

What hook scythe?

You don't even know that I'm relying on this? It's like a sickle-shaped blade, similar to a halberd.

No ang?

If not, forget it, I can find someone to build this myself......