When Xu Zi was reading the document first, Jin Jian, who had already entered the house, sat on the chair opposite him. He shrank his upper body in the shadow, adjusted his breathing evenly, and tried his best to make Xu Zi ignore his existence first.

Xu Zi looked at it for a long time, but Jin Jian was still motionless, and both of them seemed extremely patient.

After a long time, Xu Zi put down the documents first and signed them one by one. Finally, he knocked on the table.

A green-robed official walked in and Xu Zixian said, "Don't delay the cardinal room overnight."

The official Xu Bin is a member of Si Cong Cao, with a smart and capable face. He nodded and said, "The people over there are actually waiting."

Xu Zixian smiled and said, "I'm going to get something, everyone is a little anxious."

The Xu Bin family is a big family, with parents, brothers, children and nephews. Twenty-one people have not separated. The official household in Nan'an Hou Mansion is considered one. Their family has opened more than 300 acres of land, including more than 100 acres of cotton fields. If you want to be anxious, I am afraid that few people are more anxious than Xu Bin.

However, Xu Bin was not answering the conversation. He saw Jin Jian waiting. He just clasped his fists and hugged all the documents together, and then turned around and left.

Xu Zixian then looked at Jin Jian and said, "Are you anxious?"

Jin Jian smiled and said, "The affairs of the king and the lord are important matters, and it is appropriate to wait for the post."

Xu Zi nodded first and did not speak. Recently, the efficiency of the Military Intelligence Department has improved. The intelligence of Japan and pirates are sent by ship every day.

In fact, this is a matter of time. The Military Intelligence Department has been established for more than a year. The officials, officials, garrison generals, ordinary soldiers, merchants, ordinary small owners, or friends, errands, and even people from all over the world, including those at the post station, can be included in the scope of the Military Intelligence Department's purchase and utilization.

In the early days, this method was inefficient and the information provided was quite complicated. The Military Information Department had to use a large number of personnel to analyze and summarize this information, and then there might not be anything useful in one hundred articles.

Later, Jin Jian began to collect targeted collections, which was no longer vague. For example, there were special people collecting information about political leaders in the capital, including the movements of important officials of the two governments, the governing officials of the three departments and six ministries and other departments, and policy trends.

The number of troops stationed, the scale and trends of mobilization, the allocation and supply of food and grass, the number of war horses, the warehousing of soldiers and armor, and other various information.

Of course, it also includes the political reputation of officials, local situations, bandits, bandits, drought and flood disasters, etc., which are all within the collection scope.

The information collected and summarized here is much more useful, and even the intelligence work on Japan and Kang Tianqi was quite smooth. This time, the Military Information Department had reported to the Nan'an Marquis Mansion one day before Chen Daojian was sure of this attack, which shows that the military information work has achieved initial results, which has reduced the firepower of Kong He and others' questions. The Military Information Department has huge expenses and has set up branches in many places. If there is no more results in making any moves, the doubts of Kong He and others will of course become louder and louder.

The military intelligence department is quite mysterious, and it is terrifying and powerful in the eyes of many people. There are many rumors about this department on the island, but it is not true.

In fact, when this department was first established, there was no clue. Xu Zi was the first to be at the forefront of the times. Many wars, including important and decisive large-scale battles in later generations, were always at a very important link.

Chinese military arts have always emphasized knowing what is known and what is known, but it turns into actual work. No one can follow this vague military arts and even have no clue.

From the establishment to the growth of the Military Intelligence Department, Xu Zixian has always been very patient and not in a hurry. He knew that this department would definitely shine for a day, and even this day would come soon.

In this era, there are no forces or experts in the world. The collection of intelligence is actually quite simple. Finding the right person, doing some right things, and going to the right path, the feedback will be quite generous.

Now the Military Information Department has sent a lot of people to transfer maps to various routes, and to compile important mountains, valleys, cities, plains, woodlands, rivers, valleys, and detailed relocations.

Jin Jian said to Xu Zixian: "Our people in the Zhao Palace have been confirmed. The night before yesterday, King Zhao, Xu Ziwei, Xu Ziwen, and Li Gu secretly discussed it until the night ended. Our people couldn't enter the secret room and didn't know what to say, so they could only continue to follow the next step. Early the next morning, Li Gu got up to Pu Shougao's mansion. In the evening, he sent a carriage to the Pu family and pulled the whole carriage back. Our detailed work can confirm this, and he was there when he moved the money. Next, yesterday afternoon, Li Gu left the Zhao Palace and left Fuzhou with the money and carriage. The whereabouts of the next step are not yet clear, and we have to wait for the military personnel at our city gate to confirm it."

Xu Zixian nodded repeatedly when he heard this and said with a smile: "Compared with last year, the Military Information Department is much more capable."

Jin Jian smiled and said, "It's just a matter of time. We tried one in the Zhao Palace, but it won't be the next one. We must be careful anyway. The Zhao Palace has never noticed it... There are too many people who buy news from them. They also regard us as a general of the Xiang Army who wants to advance, or the local officials who ask for information. It is difficult for the Pu family to enter, so we will penetrate his surroundings. We can always know what happens there. The Xiang Army at the city gate is either the city guard or the thief camp. It's too loose to bribe them and it won't cost a lot of money."

"You are a clue." Xu Zixian praised, knowing that he had chosen the right person.

"The capital movements, the sealed pile warehouse is empty, and the outer warehouse is empty. The meeting of the two governments made suggestions to the emperor, but there was no other way, so they decided to levy each other."

Xu Zixian's expression subsided. He clearly remembered this incident that the Northern Expedition in history was larger in scale, more miserable defeat, and the money was even more flowing.

The emperor's inner treasury and the outer treasury of the two prefectures were stored between 2,000 and 30 million treasurys. This is of course a huge sum of money, but the Northern Expedition has been mobilizing for several months.

Nearly 300,000 imperial guards, fifty or sixty thousand war horses, hundreds of thousands of horses, mules, donkeys, and oxen. A 300,000-400,000 wing troops, plus a million civilians, the daily consumption and preparation of war resources are astronomical figures. The Wei army's war model relies heavily on logistics, and the mobilization of more than one million chariots and horses is proof of this.

A large amount of food, cloth, medicinal materials, weapons, armor, bows, crossbows, and arrows are all spent a lot of resources every day. The main force of the army has gathered in Yongping, and the whistle cavalry has passed the gate and has advanced the whistle detectives in the plain area outside the pass. They have fought with the whistle cavalry of Donghu, which has suffered losses.

According to the Wei army's plan, it should be to establish a large supply base in Yongping. After the gate is closed, a second base will be established in the Daling River area, and Wang Zhi's navy and civilians will transport supplies from water and land together.

Until here, there is still a narrow terrain in western Liaoning. After the defense base on the banks of the Daling River is completed, it will go north to build a city in the area of ​​old Jinzhou, Daling River City, Jinzhou, and closed the gate until Yongping. On the sea is the Wang Zhi of Pingdao, advancing water and land, pushing the front line of the Great Wei against the Donghu about three or four hundred miles.

Don’t underestimate these three or four hundred miles. This is the distance from the gate to the old Jinzhou. Once Jinzhou is rebuilt successfully, the Great Wei can use the Linghe River in the north, as well as the endless mountains and forests in the north, to compress the Donghu people into the old Yingzhou and the forests in the north. The strategic situation of the Donghu people will become quite bad. They cannot break through the layers of city defense. If they want to attack the land of the Great Wei, they have to detour from the grasslands in the north and take an extra three or four thousand miles to reach outside the northern defense line of the Great Wei.

The Donghu people are no longer purely fishing, hunting and nomadic fighting styles. They also need strong logistics. If the strategic situation deteriorates to this extent, they will be restricted. Not to mention attacking the inner realms of the Great Wei, looting wealthy people, and weakening the national strength of the Great Wei, they will find it difficult to protect themselves, because the Wei army has quite strong combat power. They can attack from Jinzhou north, or cross the Daling River and continue to push the front line. By then, the Liaohe River outside Yingzhou is the front line, and the national strength of the Donghu people will be continuously weakened by the Great Wei.

It has to be said that the Northern Expedition led by the two prefectures led by Han Zhong has relatively clear goals and has made heavy progress. It has been several months since the whistle cavalry has only left the door to close.

If we follow such a heavy-handed approach, the main force will build camps and push forward slowly. The main force of the Donghu people has 200,000 cavalry, and they will have nowhere to go when facing the 300,000 imperial guards who are strictly prepared and the more than 200,000 wing troops who are cooperating with defense.

If there is a hard attack and a head-on bloody battle, it is exactly what the court is willing to do.

The imperial guards hold heavy crossbows, wear thick armor, long scepters, and horizontal swords. They will never suffer any loss when fighting against enemy cavalry head-on.

"The emperor and the two palaces did it on purpose." Xu Zixian said: "Can you be sure?"

"According to previous investigations, some officials from the Ministry of Revenue are scrambling to take our bribes. It is easy to get statistics from the external warehouse. It is not impossible to find some bold eunuchs in the internal warehouse." Jin Jian said: "The two warehouses add up, and there are still about 15 million guans of money to save money."

Xu Zixian snorted coldly and said, "This is almost the same."

Of course, it is very good to use money these few months. In fact, the emperor and the two palaces are already panicked.

The war has not started yet, but the ranger has already fought and used more than ten million yuan. There will be a big battle and a stalemate. The war will last at least half a year, and sometimes it will cost more money than it is now.

In other words, the idea that the court and the emperor planned to fight this battle with 3,000 to 40 million yuan was completely unrealistic fantasy.

Xu Zixian also knew that this money must be insufficient. The Great Wei is an economy dominated by foreign trade. The industries and GDP formed by self-cultivated farmers are large and unreasonable. For example, an ordinary Dawei self-cultivated farmers' family created 200 trump cards in a year, but the income is less than 20 trump cards. If you remove the necessary expenses in life, the money that can be provided to the court is quite limited.

This is similar to the late Qing Dynasty. In the late Qing Dynasty, during the Second Eagle and Pieces War, the United States' total economic revenue exceeded Britain and was the first in the world. China ranked second in the same period, followed by Germany, France and India. China's total revenue was more than 200 billion US dollars, about twice that of India's more than 100 billion. However, the fiscal revenue of the Indian colonies was generally equivalent to the taxes that the Qing government could receive. The fiscal revenue of the British government in the same period was dozens of times that of the Qing government. The difference between the fiscal revenue of the two was that the Qing government could collect taxes.

For example, it is a large number of self-cultivated farmers struggling on the food and clothing line. The United Kingdom had already developed industry and commerce through early maritime trade and industrialization. The British government could collect industrial and commercial taxes and tariffs far exceed those of the Qing government. The gap between the two was huge. It can even be said that the war reparations caused by the Qing government's several crushing defeats were not as high as those of the war reparations that Napoleon III lost to the Prussians. However, the French banking giants held a meeting and collected all the war reparations of billions of francs in one afternoon.

This is the benefits and benefits brought to the country and society by the development of industry and commerce. The Qing government's fiscal revenue increased dramatically, and it was also the period when the British Hurd presided over the Qing customs. At that time, the Qing government vaguely understood the importance of foreign trade and tariff income, but it seemed too late.

As for the Great Wei, Xu Zixian felt that the Great Wei relied on overseas trade and industrial and commercial income, but was limited to the theory that agriculture was based on the pre-Qin and Han dynasties, and agriculture was stable and the country was limited to a contradictory state.

On the one hand, the Dawei encouraged industry and commerce, and did not restrict overseas trade, and obtained massive income through this. However, the Dawei had no idea about the law protecting industrial and commercial trade, and the support and protection of overseas trade was also out of order. 70% of the Dawei's income came from industrial and commercial trade, but the trend of national policies still accounted for only 30% of the massive self-cultivated farmers who were less than 30% of the taxes.

Especially in the northwest, north and central plains, a large number of self-cultivated farmers with nearly 100 million people, stabilize these people and protect them, this is the dominant direction of the Wei Dynasty.

This makes the South and the North

The interests and demands of the Party were broken down, and the development of industrial and commercial trade stagnated or even regressed. The practice of the Great Wei court was to impose higher taxes, and there was no other way.

The Great Wei Dynasty was in a state of high silver and low money. It only took more than 20 million yuan to date. Xu Zixian felt that he was already quite frugal, which shows that Han Zhong, the head of the family, had already done his job to the extreme.

Going forward, if the plan is to make the truce before the New Year, the military expenditure will be at least 50 to 60 million yuan. This number may make the emperor sleepless all night, and Han Zhong is afraid that he will die... This money, including the normal annual income surplus of the court before the New Year, plus the money from the internal and external treasury, the deficit will be at least 30 million yuan.

The emperor's inner treasury is clean and can run away mice. Is it impossible for the emperor to take out the calligraphy, paintings, antiques and bronze ware collected by the emperors of the past dynasties to sell it?

Even if the emperor is willing to sell antiques with calligraphy and paintings, how many people will buy them in a short time? How much does it have to be sold for a gap of 30 million yuan?

"The people in the capital have been confirmed." Jin Jian said: "Starting next month, the amount will be paid based on various populations and income. The vacancies of more than 30 million will be charged and urged by local officials. I don't know how much I have settled on Fujian Road. After the news, I will immediately report to the Lord and Hou to know."

Xu Zixian smiled coldly. Of course, he knew the share of Fujian Road. In addition to Jiangling Prefecture and Jiangnan East Road, which had staked 6 million yuan, Fujian Road was the most common.

This period was originally the most glorious period in Fujian. In terms of the imperial examination, Jiangnan was the first, Liangzhe was the second, Jiangnan West Road and Fujian Road were tied for third.

This was the result of the imperial suppression. It seemed that Wei Chu had family rules, and Fujian Jinshi should not be admitted to the Three Sessions, nor to the Political Affairs Hall, and even the share of the stock was restricted.

If it weren't for intentional suppression, Fujian Road should not be below Liangzhe, and culture and education are second only to Jiangnan.

The sum of the Jinshi quotas in Jiangnan, Jiangxi, Liangzhe, and Fujian are probably able to account for more than half of the total number of Jinshi quotas in the Great Wei in the past three hundred years.

The prosperity of culture and education in the world is in these four ways.

The addition of the financial power of the four routes is even more terrifying. It can be said that 70% to 80% of the financial income of the Wei Dynasty comes from these four routes plus one Guangnan East Road. In the rest, from the northwest to the Central Plains, the southwest, the 18th route and the capital can only provide 30% to 40% of the financial income.

The quota for Fujian Road was 4 million yuan. For this reason, the Fujian Pacification Envoy Department sent a large number of yamen officers and soldiers to urge the local government to pay additional taxes. Large-scale civil unrest broke out in all prefectures and counties, almost all the roads were reversed. Later, the wing troops and imperial guards were strongly suppressed. It took about half a year for the chaos, and the tide subsided.

By the 16th year of Chongde and 17th year, the court had entrusted several times. The local officials were not attentive. Everyone could see that the center had no choice. Moreover, the Donghu had already attacked the Wei territory again, and the main force of the imperial guards was destroyed and unable to resist. The emperor ordered the world to serve the king in the capital, but there was no reaction. The whole world was just waiting for the Great Wei to destroy the country.

"I did a good job. In addition to the capital, I should pay more attention to the Northern Expedition battlefield. In addition, Guangnan, east, west, south, and north, all should pay more attention to it, and send more people." Xu Zi first thought for a while, and then said: "Li Gu's trip was very mysterious. He sent more people to follow him, and the people from the operation team also sent a team of people to follow him."

Jin Jian was revulsed and knew that Li Gu's trip was probably not that simple, so he had already paid great attention to the king and the lord. After all, in terms of the current situation on Fujian Road, all prefectures, prefectures, military and counties had the connections of Changwen Hou's Mansion, and Xu Zixian's strength and reputation were enough to control.

In Fuzhou City, it is not difficult to cooperate with Yang Shiwei, the great mansion of Zheng Liqi has long been a person from the Nan'an Marquis Mansion. Lin Douyao will not resist. He doesn't need to take risks with his life. He is so great that he resigns from his official position and leaves with his crown. He doesn't get into trouble.

Only King Zhao and the Pu family are the life-and-death enemy of the Nan'an Marquis Mansion. These two families also understand this. With the suppression of King Zhao and his son of the Nan'an Marquis Mansion, the two families have accumulated deep grudges. Even if Xu Zixian doesn't care, he knows that the defeat in Qizhou was designed by King Zhao, how could he not avenge his father after he knew that the defeat in Qizhou was designed by King Zhao?

Once Xu Zi gained power first, the best result for the Zhao Wang family was to be kicked out of Fujian.

As for the Pu family, Xu Zixian was determined to win. This Tianfang merchant family was not a pure maritime merchant family, or a small patriarch who crossed the river. They came to preach, bribe the officials of the Great Wei Dynasty, and attacked the former station for the invasion of the Tianfang people.

If it weren't for the bad influence, Xu Zi would have sent someone to assassinate Pu Shougao and exterminated the Pu family.

Once Xu Zi first takes power, investigates the Pu family, and obtains actual evidence, eradicating the cancer parasitizing in Fujian Road is what he must do.

Li Gu involved two lines between the Zhao Prince's Mansion and the Pu family, so Xu Zixian could not ignore it.

"The subordinates will send the best people to follow." Jin Jian said: "The operational personnel also choose the boldest, most meticulous and skilled people to follow."

"Well," Xu Zi nodded first and said, "I'm very relieved about this."

Jin Jian stood up and said, "According to the instructions of Junhou, the people we placed next to Lord Qin and the First Army and others can be withdrawn?"

"Some people from the First Army will be transferred gradually, so there is no need to follow." Xu Zixian looked at Jin Jian and said, "They were jealous of the country. They had some ideas about the situation at that time, and they did not have to worry too much about the overall situation."

Jin Jian listened seriously and did not respond. Sure enough, Xu Zixian continued: "Qin Dongyang did a great job this time. I want such a responsible general. I set up various departments, Jing'an, and military information, mainly for external and external spies, meticulous and ill-behavior, rather than targeting my own confidants. I am not saying that I am completely against the generals and officials, but there is no need to exaggerate them and prevent them too much. Military information is still mainly for external affairs. Do you have to understand my words thoroughly, do you understand?"

Jin Jian clasped his fists and said, "If you understand the job, you must do it according to the Lord's wishes."
Chapter completed!