Because Zhang Jun strictly sealed the news, even the hidden linemen of the Song Die Club were unable to obtain the information there. Therefore, Xin Wang Zhao Zhen couldn't get the news about Wang Zhichong's commander fleet from the north.
But presumably the one who came to the front line, led the great Song Dynasty general Liu Guangshi led an army of tens of thousands to besiege his fleet, and presided over the overall situation, Zhang Jun, I am afraid that he has already received the news and started to gather the army and strictly seal all roads .
With this guy's loyalty to Emperor Zhao Gou, he would naturally move his army into action as soon as possible, and put pressure on Zhang Jun to suppress the Shimen rebels.
However, thinking of the army that Zhang Jun had in his hands, Wang Zhaozhen was not worried, but a pity. Those are some of the most elite soldiers, among them the Northwest Army and Zhao Gou's most powerful army, they are all excellent fighters, if they can be used by him.
Of course, he also knew that this was just an extravagant hope. Xin Wang Zhaozhen crumpled the note into a ball. He understood that the establishment of his own team in Shimen can only be done step by step, just like a meal can only be eaten in one bite, and he is impatient.
But the news of Shi Zhongtai's dispatch of troops did not surprise him much. The battle with the bandit army was not without purpose. At this moment, from the banks of the Fengshui River to the forests around Shimen City, Ji Yuntian and his soldiers had already sealed off the area.
As for Shi Zhongtai's fate, Xin Wang Zhao Zhen didn't need to spend too much effort to think about it. Thousands of troops, there may be some other troops, but when faced with tens of thousands of bandits, the result can be imagined.
Putting the matter aside, he asked, "What's going on here?" Cui Hu shook his head this time and replied, "I don't know, Lord Chitose!"
When he passed the courtyard, he naturally saw a few people who were arguing, but because of his unique politeness and character, he didn't care much about these things that were irrelevant to him.
The letter king Zhao Zhen nodded without saying much. The two passed through the dark aisle and entered the hall. Of course, this place has been renovated compared to when Wang Zhaozhen, Wang Zhaozhen, went crazy here a few days ago, and even the long table has been replaced. At this time, the sound of the dispute in the outside courtyard became clear and audible.
However, the first thing that Xinwang Zhao Zhen saw was Luo Yue'er in the hall, sitting alone at the other end of the long table, almost his entire body lying on the table. Luo Yueer wears a pair of glasses made of glass that are still very strange in this era. She has a pair of small arms pressing on a large pile of white paper to write and draw, as if she is copying something.
As for the disputes coming from outside the courtyard, she turned a deaf ear.
Of course, after hearing the voice behind her, Luo Yueer turned her head abruptly. When she saw the letter king Zhao Zhen, a pretty little face immediately burst into a smile like a flower, she raised her head and shouted crisply: "Xin Wang Zhao Zhen !"
The letter king Zhao Zhen shook her head, walked over and took off the glasses on the bridge of the girl's thin nose, and asked angrily: "What are you doing like this?"
"Settlement." Luo Yueer raised her snow-white and pointed small chin and replied naturally.
The letter king Zhao Zhen suddenly nodded. Since taking over Shimen City, all the private property that Mo led in the city and all the government property in Shimen have been used as trophies, and of course he was taken for granted by his manager. In addition to the rewards and rewards distributed to the soldiers after the war, a large amount of money was actually left behind.
However, the management of the wealth left by Mo was once quite chaotic. On the one hand, Wang Zhaozhen gave Ji Qianqian, who has basically become his deputy, the absolute right to dispose of the wealth, but later promised Luo Yueer can Use this wealth to complete the re-planning of the commercial network and local construction in Shimen area.
Therefore, he soon discovered that his finances had become a mess. In the end, Luo Yueer personally found Ji Qianqian and suggested that one person is responsible for management and one person is responsible for the review of records in a collaborative manner to manage this property. The system stabilized.
After a short glance, Xin Wang Zhao Zhen raised her head and looked outside again. At this moment, the dispute was constantly coming from outside, and it had been going on for quite a long time.
Among them, Miao Yufeng's voice was the loudest, Shan Hongfei was on the side to help out, the master craftsman Wang Di only occasionally interjected, and Ji Qianqian spoke the least. On the contrary, the persuading number one said that his voice was almost hoarse, but it seemed that no one seemed to be convinced.
"What are they arguing?" he asked. Hearing the enquiry of the letter king Zhao Zhen, Luo Yueer immediately shook her head happily, imitating Ji Qianqian's tone and prolonged her voice and said: "The master knows that chai rice is expensive, the letter king Qiansui--!"
The letter king Zhao Zhen was taken aback for a moment, and already faintly guessed the core of the dispute outside.
The dispute in the courtyard has been going on for a long time. Ji Qianqian frowned and looked at the few people in front of him. Although Ji Qianqian still maintains basic politeness on the surface, in fact, she is almost annoying in her heart. .
Xin Wang Qiansui wants to build an army of her own, which she certainly supports. He also knew that Xin Wang Zhao Zhen gave Miao Yufeng, Hua Zhonglong, Cui Hu, and Shan Hongfei a task to select some people from among the civilians in Shimen City and prepare to set up the future Shimen Army. .
But the problem is not here. Shimen City has a population of close to 50,000, and there are hundreds of thousands of people in the surrounding areas outside the city. Now the autumn harvest has not arrived. In fact, the food in the city is tight and there will be just enough to eat until next month. In other words, the extra rations of these soldiers cannot even be guaranteed, and they must rely on trade.
The food in Sichuan was transferred to Hedong Road and the vicinity of Kaifeng, supporting hundreds of thousands of soldiers on the two lines. Now even if we ask Sichuan for secret support, we can only wait for the autumn harvest. Far water can't solve the near thirst. It can only be purchased from those grain merchants through money.
On the other hand, Shimen will probably face a lot of wars in the future. During the war, the share of the soldiers' rations is different from that of normal days, and almost doubled. Not to mention that there are still a large number of poor people, working men and women need a lot of food.
When these food gaps are added together, it is quite incredible.
Not to mention that the bandit army in the forest also needs food. This part of the food was provided by Commander Mo before, but Commander Mo doesn't care how many people starve to death in his territory. They can't.
Moreover, if you want to further control the entire Shimen, this grain gap becomes even more incredible. Ji Qianqian now knows that in this year, the crops in the south are generally failing.
One aspect of the crop failure was the climate and the other aspect was the invasion of the Golden State Army.
Therefore, we have to face another problem in purchasing food. This is because of well-known reasons. The war in the South has just passed, and the war in the North is about to start. The sky of Song Dynasty can be said to be overcast at this moment.
The collateral consequence of the war is that food has become more stable as an equivalent than precious metals. In other words, the price of food will rise, and I am afraid that it is not even a little bit.
Especially after the looting by the Golden Soldiers, the people were not livelihood, the government was corrupt, and there were countless exorbitant taxes and levies. This year's rebellion and uprisings were numerous, leading to soaring food prices. The businessmen here will not be ignorant of the current situation. These profiteers will not slow down their hands and feet because of pity. They will only take the opportunity to drive up prices.
Therefore, the prospect of purchasing food is not bleak.
For this matter, Ji Qianqian has already had a headache, and for a while, she still didn't think of a good way to come. She had considered sending troops to looting other nearby official food, but on military issues, as a deputy, he could only suggest. If Xin Wang Zhao Zhen rejects this proposal, then he can only consider the problem from the resources he has.
Besides, she knew that Zhang Jun's army was about to be killed, and the enemy's army was close in front of her. Perhaps her believer, Qiansui, would not be able to pull away for a while and move his troops away.
For this matter, in fact, even Luo Yue'er, who has always been doing her own way, has been very clever to postpone her plan to try her skills in Shimen.
But at this time, Miao Yufeng ran to her and asked her to immediately arrange the recruitment of private troops. But conscription requires money first, especially in this season, maybe double the money. Secondly, the recruited soldiers also need food rations. If they need to be trained, the gap in rations will be even greater.
Ji Qianqian couldn't imagine the consequences.
There is no way, she can only speak out the dilemma and persuade the other party. And she finally persuaded the other party to let the female leader put aside the recruitment of the private army, at least wait for the people in the territory to settle down and collect autumn grain. But at this time, the master craftsman Wang Di also came, not mentioning anything else, just asking for money.
It turned out that Wang Zhaozhen wanted him to build a workshop as soon as possible, but whether to build a workshop or not to make weapons and armor, first of all, a lot of manpower and material resources are needed. Not to mention that this area does not produce iron, and even recruiting blacksmiths and apprentices requires a lot of money.
As a general from the heyday of the Song Dynasty, Wang Zhen never had to think about these things outside his body, so the first idea he came up with when he lacked these things was of course--Yes!
There was a wave of unrest here, and Shan Hongfei came out from the middle of the road again. Of course, he also asked for money. But he didn't come for conscription, but for the soldiers' battle losses.
As we all know, there will be losses in fighting. At this moment, the soldiers under the leaders of the sect in Shimen City can be said to be attached to the big tree of the letter king Zhao Zhen at this moment. They are called military soldiers in name, but in fact they are a kind of alternative private soldiers. .
Without normal sources of income such as transporting smuggled goods, escorting, hiring, fighting, and retaliating, the task of depleting and replenishing their equipment and salary naturally fell on the leader of the letter Wang Zhao Zhen. In addition, it was written that Wang Zhaozhen should provide the money to support them, but everyone is in the same boat now, and Shan Hongfei also understands that their organization is short of money, so there is no need to mention any more expenses.
But the Jianghu swordsman and the disciples who helped the disciples immediately began to fight one after another, replenishing equipment, and distributing desperate money before the war, it seemed urgent that he could not come. And to add the wear and tear of armor, arrows and weapons, as well as the soldiers' desperate pre-war payment, of course, the first word is money.
Ji Qianqian's head was as big as a fight for a while, and the little money in her hand was not enough. But here she hasn't figured out a proper way yet, and several people over there are actually quarreling because of a few words that don't agree with each other.
For a while, you need to put aside your business, my business is more important, and such yelling words are flying all over the sky. Ji Qianqian can reluctantly persuade her at first, but she can't help but join the battle group later. In the end, it turned out to be the number one passing by and ran over in a panic to persuade him to fight.
Only Ma Yueying, who came with the captain of the Special Forces Soldier of the Believe in the King’s Army, had nothing to do with her. She simply watched these people fighting here from a distance, just thinking that these people were really boring.
The dispute between several people is at its most intense moment.
At this time, Miao Yufeng had just finished listening to Wang Bin's cynicism. As a faction of King Yun's party, Wang Zi has been in the turmoil of the officialdom for a long time, and of course his oral skills are quite good. In the face of this group of people from the rivers and lakes, his mouthpiece has the upper hand. Therefore, the female leader was so angry that her teeth tickled and wanted to refute.
But when she was about to speak, her face changed, but she was silent.
"The King of Letters, Chitose."
The others were taken aback, and they turned around and said, "Believe King Qiansui!"
The letter king Zhao Zhen looked at these people with uneasy expression and hummed from his nose: "It's quite lively?"
Everyone bowed their heads, only Wang Bin, who was not in this small political system, had an indifferent look on his face.
However, the old man thought for a while and lowered his head respectfully and said, "Believe the King Chitose. According to your statement, we should have a common goal and enemy at this moment. The old man is naturally not here to make trouble for you. But as we all know, war is all about it. Competing with the consumption of financial resources, now it seems that your situation is not optimistic--!"
The letter king Zhao Zhen didn't say a word after listening. Of course he understood this. The wealth left by the leader of Mo seems to be huge, but for an ordinary person, it is actually not so effective for the construction and army scattered throughout the region.
For example, building a city wall is the consumption of a thousand dollars a day.
In fact, in order for the craftsmen to have the confidence to work for him, Ji Qianqian had to pay double the price. This sounds a bit weird, because in this era, a true official can use the people's labor for free. Of course you have to give people certain food rations.
However, the king of faith, Zhao Zhen, was well aware of the potential undercurrents in his territory. Before the battle with the government army, I am afraid that every commoner here would doubt how long he could stay here, the ruler who was not righteous.
In order to appease the hearts of the people, he had to adopt this emergency method to get through the difficult initial stage. Of course, Shan Hongfei and Hua Zhonglong also suggested that he use compulsory recruitment to grab labor, but this proposal drew unanimous opposition from Miao Yufeng and Ji Qianqian.
What's more, Luo Yueer, who is Shimen’s acting'Minister of Finance', also disagrees with this plan, but he is not based on moral but simple economic considerations. In the long run, self-destroying reputation will not benefit the territory, especially Territory business and agricultural development.
And most importantly, Xin Wang Zhao Zhen will never agree to the policy of harassing the people. But now, the problem can't just be a problem, there must be a solution.
The silver mines in Shimen originated from the tens of millions of years of evolution in the mountains and forests, but in fact there is very little silver, but it is enough to benefit Shimen endlessly.
However, in fact, there are not many silver mines here. Soon, the silver mines here will be exhausted. The poor villages of Shimen are not in vain. Moreover, even if you have silver, you may not be able to buy much grain. In the hands of profiteers, your silver is not a monopoly product, but grain is more precious than silver. The most important thing is that you are a traitor, and those profiteers will charge you ten times the price in the name of taking risks.
However, just in Fengyang, Fengzhou, there is a huge amount of grain reserves, enough for their men and laborers to eat.
"Ji Qianqian, can you introduce the situation of Fengyang, Fengzhou," said Xinwang Zhao Zhen.
Ji Qianqian's dark and faint eyes lit up slightly, Xin Wang Qiansui was about to do something to the granary in Fengyang, Fengzhou? She immediately said: "Believe the King Qiansui, Fengzhou Fengyang has always been one of the most important sources of income in this area. The surrounding area is known as the land of fish and rice, and the grain output is also very high. Because the Yingxuan uprising was quickly annihilated by the officers and soldiers, so relatively speaking It was not greatly affected by the British Propaganda Uprising. Now, there is still an important grain storage base for grain sent to Jiangnan."
The letter king Zhao Zhen smiled slightly and said, "So, this is to let me move Zhao Gou's food, Ji Qianqian."
The girl also smiled and said, "Isn't it already moved, Xin Wang Qiansui."
The letter king Zhao Zhen turned her head and saw Miao Yufeng's gaze towards this side. He keenly noticed that although the female leader still maintained the necessary restraint on her face, there was already a trace of anxiety in her eyes.
Seeing that both Hua Zhonglong and Shan Hongfei, who were born with him, were appointed, Miao Yufeng didn't want his people in this group to get the last benefit, and even be sold out in the end.
Although the young King of Letters seemed to be amiable, she had dealt with gentry, wealthy, government, and thieves, big and small, and she maintained the necessary contempt and suspicion for these guys in her heart. Even if it was a little bit, he knew how mean these people turned their faces.
Miao Yufeng asked in a slightly hoarse voice: "Xinwang Chitose, please let me attack Fengyang granary in Fengzhou, where the granary is not in the city, but in the outskirts. I know the situation there. Only more than a thousand soldiers are stationed."
She held her chest with her hand and said, "My people and I occupy this place more than enough."
But the letter king Zhao Zhen said: "But the granary outside Fengzhou Fengyang is too close to Fengyang City, Fengzhou, the officers and soldiers may be looking at Fengyang. Even if the attack comes down, we won't be able to loot much for a while."
The female leader was silent. "Can't you think of a way from this? The bandit army can't use it?" Ji Qianqian asked: "I still can't trust them?"