Wang Rong didn't know whether Yan Cheng's words were okay or not, but from his life in Shuofang County in the past few months, he keenly found that Dayong was no longer enough in terms of military spending. Take the Northern Army as an example, the Northern Army has 50,000 soldiers, 10,000 cavalry, and 40,000 infantry, and four divisions stationed in Linwo County and Yunzhong County.

There are two kinds of military salaries for non-commissioned officers: one for civilian use and the other for military use. Civilian use is to take a part of the army's salary home as the cost of the family. The military is the equipment of the foot soldiers, and the equipment of the soldiers is indeed borne by the General Mansion of Zhengbei, but the soldiers need to repair or enhance the equipment by themselves.

If you calculate it in this way, you need to pay eight taels of silver per month for foot soldiers, and sixteen taels of silver per month for horse soldiers; In a month, the army of the Northern Expedition reached the scale of 600,000 taels of silver alone.

Since the establishment of the Western Governor's Office, the Western Governor's Office has implemented a number of policies, among which is the item of "apportioning the land into the mu", abolishing all kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes that have been pressed on farmers and herdsmen, and uniformly leviing taxes according to the assets of each household, with peasant households levied on the land they own, herdsmen levied on their livestock, and merchants levied on the goods or assets they owned.

At the same time, the implementation of "the official gentry as one errand, one body to pay grain", Wang Rong personally reported taxes for his income, his monthly salary was 11 taels of silver plus 23 stones and 4 buckets of grain, and directly handed over 1 26 coins of silver and 4 buckets of grain as personal income tax. With Wang Rong, the real power of the governor, taking the lead, the civil and military officials below have handed over one-tenth of their salaries to the Western Governor's Mansion as personal income tax.

As soon as the two policies were implemented, the tax revenue of the Western Governor's Mansion not only did not decrease, but increased. From 100,000 taels of silver per month to 200,000 taels per month, and it is still rising. When Shi Chukun, the governor of the Western Governor's Mansion, counted these data, he was directly stunned, he was not optimistic about these two policies at the beginning, and he was too offended. But what he didn't expect was that the effect was too good, and he got 600,000 taels in three months, and the salary of one army in the Northern Army came out in one month.

However, Wang Rong did not send the 600,000 taels to Shuofang, but only symbolically handed over 100,000 taels, and then cut off the military expenses and salaries for a total of 200,000 taels, and the remaining 300,000 taels of silver were all invested in craftsman's workshops, mines, dams, roads and other places, which directly stimulated the economy under the jurisdiction of the governor's office.

According to Chu Kun's prediction, this month's tax revenue can exceed 250,000 taels, and it is expected to reach 300,000 taels. And such a good situation, now there is no more.

Wang Rong bowed to Yan Cheng and said: "Changshi, now I think that these things are still too far for you and me, and for the general, and the top priority now is to wipe out this army of Devils under the city of Chickens." ”

Yan Cheng also knew that it was useless to talk about this now, he looked at Wang Rong and said, "I plan to go to the four cities of the Western Governor's Mansion and walk around." I heard that you invited Chu Kun out, it's amazing, it's all a long history, just let him accompany me. ”

Wang Rong nodded and said, "Then I will send a soldier to you to escort you to Fertile City." Now Mr. Chu is handling the affairs of the Governor's Mansion in Fertile City, and you can just meet him in Fertile City. ”

Yan Cheng nodded, got up, and left the big tent. Immediately, a group of centaurs followed him out of the Pheasant and headed for the city of Woye.

Wang Rong looked at the back of Changshi Yan Cheng leaving, dispelled the dark clouds in his heart, and then began to focus on the defense of Ji Yu.

Now there are more than 3,000 defenders in the city and more than 20,000 enemy troops outside the city, a disparity of nearly seven times, which makes the dark clouds that have just been dispelled in Wang Rong's heart gather again.

Meng Song said worriedly: "Captain, if we keep it like this, we will all die in this city." ”

Wang Wei shook his head and said, "If I just defend one city, I won't gather all my soldiers here. ”

Wang Rong pointed to the map and sand table and said, "Look carefully." His fingers slid from Shuofang City to Linhe City, then slid to the Block, clicked here, and then said: "General Zhengbei has led the First Division of the Zhengbei Army to quickly advance to the Blockade, the first division is adapted from the original middle division, they are elite, well-equipped, strong, and the speed of the march will be very fast.

Now two days have passed, and they have reached Riverside City. From the top of the block, it will only take three days at most to reach the outside of the Wolf Mountain, and the slowest will be two days if you go south to the gap outside the Chicken Mountain.

So we need to hold on to five days, and how many people we can survive in these five days depends on a few points:

The first is that we, the commanders, need to be able to adapt to the situation on the battlefield at all times.

Second, we must ensure that the soldiers have sufficient physical strength and ensure their mental health.

Third, it is the enemy, you and I both know that the habit of the steppe people is to attack when the situation is favorable and retreat when the situation is unfavorable, and not to be ashamed of running away. If they can't take the city within five days, they will consider retreating.

And we can't let them retreat so easily, so we must have a cavalry ready to go at any time, not much, two hundred men are enough. ”

Meng Song listened to Wang Rong's words, lowered his head and thought, in the entire big tent, only the two of them, the iron tower and the sledgehammer listened to Wang Rong's words the most, pointing where to fight. Wu Xinghan and Shao Hongxuan are grateful for Wang Rong's promotion, but there are some things that they will not listen to Wang Rong. Wumo is a pawn planted by the general of Zhengbei in the Western Governor's Mansion, and he can choose to listen to Wang Rong's words or choose not to listen.

But fortunately, from the beginning to the present, Wang Rong's generals can still listen to him. Meng Song raised his head, looked into Wang Rong's eyes, and said firmly: "Captain, these two horsemen will be handed over to me, and I promise to drag this army under the city." ”

Wang Rong smiled, this is a good brother, he patted Meng Song on the shoulder and said, "It's really my good brother, but your task is not this." These two hundred horsemen will follow me to harass the Bearded Army, and your mission is to be able to take command of me while I am out of town. Although Wumo is very capable, he is only a fierce general, and he is still far from being handsome. I know what you are capable of, and you can command the defenders of the city to defend it. ”

As soon as Meng Song heard Wang Rong's words, his face instantly turned red, and he was anxious: "My Lord Duwei, you are the pillar of the Western Governor's Mansion, how can you personally take risks?" You... ”

Wang Rong waved his hand, interrupting Meng Song's next thoughts, and he said with a serious face: "Don't fight, you can't compete with me, and besides, if the city is broken, the entire Shuofang County will be in danger, where is it not dangerous?" Don't worry about it, tell me how you're going to command your soldiers if I'm not in the city? ”

Wang Rong directly diverted the topic and pulled Meng Song to study the next plan to defend the city.