Now that the problem of money and food has been solved, Zhao Jun immediately asked again:

"In this way, with all this money and food, how long will it take for the military department and the household department to prepare for the expedition?"

The old Shangshu Cui Wen replied: "Your Majesty, dare to ask when these materials will come to Bianjing?" ”

Zhao Jun thought for a while and replied: "If you have money and food, you can set off immediately, and the money will be in place in about two months."

However, due to the huge quantity of grain, it can only come in batches.

200 million stone of grain, just transported to Bianjing will consume almost 10 million stone, that is to say, in the end, the Bianjing Guancang can receive 190 million stone of grain.

In addition, the weapons needed by the 200,000 army should be too late in the pass.

I decided to ask the Tiangong Institute of Yunzhou County to place an order for manufacturing, and the Ministry of War drew up the number and type of weapons needed and reported them, and I sent them back to Yunzhou County.

According to the production capacity of Yunzhou County, it will take about a month to manufacture all of them, plus transportation.

It takes about two months to get to Bianjing. ”

Hearing this, Cui Wen quickly calculated and asked, "Your Majesty, are the people used to transport grain from Yunzhou County recruited from Yunzhou County or from Guannei?" ”

Zhao Jun was stunned and then asked, "Is there any difference?" ”

Cui Wen immediately said: "If Your Majesty can hope that this part of the people will be recruited from the Guannei, this can greatly relieve the pressure on the people in the Guannai."

One million people are enough to feed the families of nearly millions of people in the north.

In addition, the grain transporters sent by the imperial court to march were also recruited by the Guannai.

In this way, coupled with this, Lao Chen is confident that he will be able to solve the problem of survival of the people in the north for at least a while.

In this way, the imperial court can save a lot of relief expenditures, and the people can support themselves. ”

Zhao Jun frowned when he heard this, of course he knew that this could create employment opportunities for many people, but at the same time, there was a problem.

Nowadays, the imperial court's work-for-work relief projects for the people in the north are large-scale construction, repairing city walls and roads in various places, etc., which are all sieges that require a large number of people.

Now, if we recruit logistical men to transport grain and troops from within the government, the number of men needed for this will not be small.

Two extremely manpower-intensive tasks are started at the same time, are there enough people in the north?

What to do with the land?

Everyone has gone to work, so who will farm the land?

Could it be that in the future, the imperial court will embark on these big projects every year to support the people?

Where in the world are there so many big projects?

It is not okay and unhealthy not to allow the people to be self-sufficient!

Zhao Jun immediately said his question.

However, Cui Shangshu said:

"Your Majesty, this is a mistake.

Although it is true that the population of the north is not enough to carry out two major projects at the same time, it does not require them to do two jobs all the time.

Lao Chen thought about it, we can completely hand over the work of transporting grain to the people in the north, this work has a time limit, and when the grain transported from Yunzhou County is gone, the people in the north can continue to build or go back to farming.

The road construction is not in a hurry, so it will not delay the people from farming.

The people in the south can be busy with farm work first, and when they are done with farm work and the court has received grain, then let them transport grain just to connect the problem of food after the farm is busy.

And when the army enters the south and gradually recovers the southern county, the minister estimates that there will be a large number of people in need of help, and we can slowly use the people in the south to take over the work of transporting grain, and we can support some people.

Among them, the people in the north can gradually withdraw back to continue the large-scale construction, until this year's summer grain is down, the people in the north can be completely self-sufficient, Your Majesty, you are exempt from taxes, and the people's life will be better.

At that time, the imperial court will be able to let go of the north and give relief to the people in the south of the river. ”

After listening to this, Zhao Jun roughly understood what Cui Wen meant, he just wanted to use the time difference to rotate to let the people in the north and south spend the days when there was no food to survive during the grain maturity period after growing grain.

Through the rotation of the project, this difficult period can be passed, and the relief materials that the imperial court needs to be given can be saved as much as possible.

At the very least, when the seven southern counties are recovered, the first batch of people do not have to worry about how to settle them, and they can directly integrate them into the system of transporting grain and grass so that they can have a job to earn rations.

At the same time, because they are local, the people along the way can participate in the transportation of grain, which not only speeds up the speed of transporting grain to the front line, but also allows the people along the way to eat enough.

Boy! Boy!

This is a master of time management!

You deserve to be a scholar of the household department, and this time difference is for you to understand!

As for how to settle the people of the reclaimed land in the future, Zhao Jun himself already had an idea.

The south is now a country with little land and a large number of people, and it is densely populated.

When the Xiongnu passed through the north, there were few people and insufficient population.

It is completely possible to migrate the landless people from the south to fill the population in the north.

Some of them can come to the north, and the other part can be sent directly to the poisonous side by boat, and there are more places where the body is poisoned, and there is a shortage of Song people.

And now that this matter is completely open, he can see that he is already the emperor, and no one can do anything about himself.

After figuring out what Cui Wen meant, Zhao Jundang even agreed.

"Cui Shangshu's method can also be done, and the household department and the Ministry of Industry will cooperate with each other.

In addition, on the side of the military department, as soon as the household department received the gold, silver, grain and grass, it immediately prepared for the army to go on the expedition.

In addition, the number of soldiers in the Great Song Dynasty is insufficient, and now the Xiongnu have no spare strength, if the Xiongnu recover, this force is completely insufficient to defend the border.

Therefore, the military department needs to recruit another 200,000 soldiers for the imperial court in the autumn of this year, and the required silver and grain will be supplied by the household department. ”

Zhao Jun agreed to Cui Wen's plan on the one hand, but on the other hand, he asked the military department to start recruiting.

Now he is no longer the prince of Yunzhou County, as the emperor of today, what he has to consider is no longer his own one-third of an acre.

The border of the Great Song Dynasty is so long, can the entire Great Song Dynasty be defended by only 400,000 troops?

This is bound to be impossible.

There are so many cities in the entire Great Song Dynasty, and there must be thousands of garrisons in each city, and hundreds of garrisons in less, right?

There are also the northwest border and Yunzhou County, which together require at least 400,000 troops to hold the border.

There are remaining troops in Yunzhou County, and it is enough for Ding Hongguang to recruit tens of thousands of people.

The 200,000 soldiers and horses on the border of Hedong are indispensable, otherwise they are developing, what if the Xiongnu suddenly sneak attack?

Although the Xiongnu have been hit hard, they still have a certain strength.

In addition, the garrison forces of the cities in the Great Song Dynasty and the guard forces of Bianjing.

At least half a million people are the norm in this regard.

And when the time comes, the south side will be recaptured, and more soldiers and horses will be needed.

Zhao Jun calculated that a country like the Great Song Dynasty, which had a long border and a huge territory, needed at least one million permanent troops to maintain basic stability.

Now there are 400,000 in the hands of the imperial court, and even if you add your own Yunzhou County, it will not exceed 600,000.

There is a difference of 400,000.

And 200,000 of them will be recruited by the military department.

As for the remaining 200,000......

Zhao Jun looked to the south, he was already ready.

And Da Song is not ready to live in his hands, just guarding his old book.

More armies are an inevitable trend......

Recruit another 200,000 troops?!

Liu Jin was taken aback, but looking at Zhao Jun's serious face, he knew that His Majesty was serious.

But thinking about the amount of money and food that was about to be shipped to Bianjing, he didn't panic in his heart.

If you have money and food, are you afraid that you won't be able to train the army?

But a problem arises.

The military department can recruit soldiers, but who will train?

Is this a problem?

Liu Jin immediately asked.

"Your Majesty, after the recruitment of soldiers, which general should be allowed to train?"

In this regard, Zhao Jun already had a candidate, and even replied:

"Let Guan Ning train the troops, and the 200,000 army will go on the march, isn't there still a large part of the army left?

After the early training, the newly recruited soldiers are mixed into the old pawns, and let the old pawns take them, and they will soon be able to form combat effectiveness. ”

With the candidate, Liu Jin also let go of his heart, and immediately turned his head to Guan Ning, who was at the top of the military general queue, and arched his hand:

"General Guan, after that, after recruiting new pawns, I will hand it over to the general!"

Guan Ning also nodded and said: "I will arrange a special person to dock with Liu Shangshu, and there is Liu Shangshu!" ”

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(End of chapter)