Chapter 166: Knowing Today Earlier
So early the next morning, something strange happened, the officials who had claimed to have killed no money actually took the initiative to find Xiao Chen with the money to pay off the arrears......
Because Xiao Chen released the news, as long as you take the initiative to repay the loan, it will leave you face and leeway, and you can repay it by 30% or 50% first.
Just don't wait for me to come to the door!
At that time, the king of heaven will not be able to do it well.
When Chen Wenqi went to the emperor to tell him that in the past few days, the more than 20 million taels of silver owed by the 100 officials of the imperial court had been recovered even with interest, and Li Wanjiang, who had always been calm, changed his face.
After listening to Chen Wenqi's description of Xiao Chen's means and process of asking for accounts, he was silent for a long time.
So Xiao Chen, this kid, is he a talent, a talent, a genius, a handsome talent, or a slave?
The silver was going to come back so much, but it was intercepted by Xiao Chen for four million!
said that in consideration of the food shortage in our Great Zhou, he understood the difficulties of the emperor and the household department, so he had sent someone to Siam, Burma, with silver, to buy this year's new rice......
The rest of the money was to be used for the purchase of military supplies, the payment of military salaries, and the recruitment of soldiers.
At that time, the minister thought he was messing around, so he agreed to his conditions, who would have thought that this kid really did it, so the minister was very passive...... Four million taels, Your Majesty! But you can't give it all to him! Chen Wenqi's intestines of regret are now blue.
If you knew today, why bother in the first place.
"Wen Qi, do you think Xiao Chen has a chance of winning by one or two points when he goes to recover Yanyun County?" Li Wanjiang was seriously thinking about another thing.
"There shouldn't be, the Xian Yu cavalry is extremely brave and good at fighting, and there is a scale of nearly 20,000 people, almost pouring out, those defenders of our Yanyun County are fighting against them, almost all of them are about to collapse at the touch of a button, and there are even thousands of troops who surrender directly...... Even if Xiao Chen has 10,000 people, he will be sent to death. Chen Wenqi said.
"But he once led two ships at sea to defeat Dongying's seven warships, which is also a victory with less." Li Wanjiang said.
"Our Great Zhou Sailors are all elites, plus Liu Haishan and Lin Zirui are all fierce generals brought out by the emperor himself, so they can win, and it has little to do with him Xiao Chen." Chen Wenqi said.
What he said also makes sense, Li Wanjiang bowed slightly, and seemed to agree.
"And the silver?" Chen Wenqi was distressed.
"Give him the money, you can't just let the horses run, you can't give the horses grazing, now he has thousands of men under him, what kind of firearms battalion has it become? They are stationed too close, in case he instigates a mutiny, it will not be good, and it will also appear that our monarchs and ministers are discredited. But I didn't know that Li Wanjiang also had a little scruple about Xiao Chen.
"Your Majesty, this kid is too good at jumping, I don't think he should let him go to Northern Xinjiang, just ......" Chen Wen used his hand to compare the knife and lightly scratched his neck.
"It's easy to kill him, but it's hard to deal with the aftermath." Li Wanjiang sighed and shook his head slightly.
Xiao Chen received the handsome seal without saying a word, and prepared to take 3,000 people to the north to serve the Great Zhou with great fanfare, which was to put it bluntly.
And although what he is doing now is a little excessive, everything is above board, and you can't find fault with it at all.
You don't give a tael of silver, you don't give a grain and grass, and people rack their brains to raise it, are you embarrassed to say a word to others, aren't you?
Speaking of paying off the arrears of the state treasury, he can be regarded as making another great contribution!
Now that you kill him, who will fight for Da Zhou in the future?
"Now there must be spies sent by Xian Xiao in Fengyang City, they heard that the Great Zhou sent troops to crusade, and they will definitely find a way to assassinate the main general, Fengyang City now hates him There are many people, Xiao Chen He is a scholar who has no power to tie the chicken, and now he doesn't live much in the palace, and he wanders around in and out of the city, so ......"
Chen Wenqi suggested assassinating him.
In fact, this was a bad idea, but Li Wanjiang didn't say anything about it when he heard it, he just fell into deep contemplation, and even Chen Wenqi retired and left, he didn't seem to notice it.
Xiao Chen now had the money, and immediately began to recruit new soldiers.
Because there were few ordinary people in Fengyang City who were willing to fight as soldiers, he personally took Lin Yue and Yue Zhonglin, who had just arrived, and set up the recruitment office in Haining Bay, a land and water wharf dozens of miles away from Beijing.
Listening to Yama, they said that during this time, there were many ordinary people who fled from all over the country, and their hometowns were all fighting, and they did not look at the disturbance of the war, so they could only leave their hometowns and run here to eat.
Now the number of people has reached tens of thousands, although Haining Bay is a big wharf, but it does not need so much coolie, so these ordinary people have become homeless, and the big guys will make trouble if they can't eat enough, which makes the local officials extremely headache.
The wounded soldiers were also organized to suppress them several times, but with little success.
Because they are all unarmed ordinary people, and they make trouble just because they don't have anything to eat, can they all be killed?
They can only be repatriated to their places of origin, but when will tens of thousands of people be repatriated? Besides, they simply fled, who would go back?
He asked the household department to ask for silver and grain relief, but the household department directly rejected it, saying that the current situation is difficult and there is no surplus grain in the court......
The local officials had no choice but to call on the merchants to open a small porridge field with money and grain, but they couldn't feed so many mouths.
As soon as the recruitment office was set up, it was immediately surrounded by a large group of ragged people with various accents and non-stop questions.
"Is this another great good man going to open a porridge field?"
"It doesn't look like it, I haven't seen a single grain."
"What's in those carts?"
"Anyway, it's not food!"
"What? Where to recruit? What are you recruiting, coolies? Count me in as an ang, don't look at my brother's thinness, he is full of muscles! ”
"It's a recruit, it turns out, where to go to war? What? Yanyun County? Isn't it all occupied by others? ”
"If you want me to say that this big week is enough to choke Ang, why are there wars everywhere? There's no special place to live. ”
"That's it, it's not as good as the previous dynasty."
"I see it's all the same, two eggs stir-fry, one egg flavor!"
"Big brother, you speak carefully, pay attention to lose your head."
"Lao Tzu's family is dead, just one single, and now he is about to starve to death, and he is still afraid of a bird? It's better to cut off my head, die early and be reincarnated! ”
The common people don't care about the Great Zhou Dynasty, whoever is the emperor is like a bird, anyway, the rich are still rich, and the poor are still poor.
As long as you can barely fill your belly.
But as the big brother said just now, now he is about to starve to death, and he is still afraid of a bird?
What not to be afraid of.
The people are not afraid of death, so why should they be afraid of death!
This shows that Li Wanjiang has problems in governing the country and securing the people.
He only thought about quelling the rebellion, but he didn't care about the lives of the people, always thinking that when the world was calm, the people's will naturally be obedient.
But I didn't think about why those rebellions couldn't be quelled......