Zu Dashou said this very slowly, but he believed that Man Gui understood it.

Rebuilding Jinzhou and even Dalinghe City was Sun Chengzong's wish.

From a grand strategy, Jinzhou guards the western Liaoning Corridor, which is a key place for military strategists. If the Ming Dynasty only guards the gates, Jinzhou is not important, but as long as Ningyuan and Juehua, Jinzhou is very important. With Jinzhou here, Ningyuan can be protected, and Daling River is a key fortress for defending Hexi. As long as the forts of Daling River are built and troops are built, they can go west and north along the river and bring Guangning back.

With thirteen mountains here, regaining Guangning is equivalent to confronting Jianlu along the river. Although there is no hope of regaining Liaodong in a short period of time, and the recovery time of Shenyang and Liaoyang is far away, from the perspective of the overall strategic situation, it is quite beneficial to the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, this is just Sun Chengzong's idea. What the generals see is the opportunity to make money.

As Zu Dashou said, Jinzhou has been destroyed by the Later Jin side. If you want to repair it, you have to spend a lot of materials. Allocating silver is only the first step, and there are still many expenses that can be reimbursed below. To restore this city, the overall cost is hundreds of thousands of taels, which is not too out of line.

Man Gui was silent for a while, picked up the wine glass and clinked it with Zu Dashou. He said, "I just want to collect more servants and train them to become strong soldiers to repay the kindness of the Supervisor. "

Zu Dashou said seriously: "I should practice more servants to serve the country's kindness."

After talking about the main business, Zu Dashou was much more relaxed. The Zu family's income was a lot, but the main source was the land, the vacancy and the embezzlement of military pay. It would be good to have tens of thousands of taels a year, and most of the income was to raise the servants. After all, the Zu family has not only been safe and safe, but also has been increasingly valued by the court. The strength retained by the Zu family is the most important. Like Li Chengliang in his later years, he embezzled and enjoyed pleasure. After Li Rusong's death, the Li family members only paid attention to him, and no one cared about military affairs. The Li family members disappeared. As a result, Li Rubai was defeated and attacked by the government and the public, and ended up being forced to commit suicide. If there were thousands of servants in the Li family, even if everyone shouted to kill him in the court, would the court dare to risk rebel against the Li family?

After seeing this, Zu Dashou's idea of ​​enhancing his own strength has never stopped. In any case, the Zu family must maintain its current status. For this reason, whether it is land or silver, or the recruitment of the desperate people, the Zu family has never stopped for a day.

In the past two years, Zu Dashou was worried that Jianlu would attack, and at the same time, there was also political speculation. He was forced to surrender to Sun Chengzong, and Zu Dashou was responsible for most of the projects for building Ningyuan City. At this time, Zu Dashou gradually realized that the court's strategy for Liaodong had completely changed!

With only a few cities left in the western part of Liaoning with only a few cities, the imperial court allocated more than three million taels of silver a year!

How to use so much money?

Lao Sun used money to build weapons, train troops and farm farms, and cultivate land to build houses. However, the biggest source of money was to build a city!

When he figured this out, Zu Dashou wanted to kill himself.

He was so confused at the beginning. He resisted the construction of a city. It is necessary to know that building a city requires mobilizing tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of people. Just by falsely reporting the loss and expenses, he earned tens of thousands of taels in Ningyuan City. He took the whole box of silver home. Zu Dashou did more than once. If he built a city in Ningyuan City, the Zu family would get at least 100,000 taels. If he built dozens of military forts and several important cities according to Sun Chengzong's plan, Zu Dashou would be sure to get at least one million taels, or even more.

"Just now, there seemed to be an unhappy look on the supervisor's face." After eating and drinking for a while, Zu Dashou and Man Gui asked: "Is it because the vehicle collection is not going well?"

"No," Man Gui frowned and said, "Originally, the Supervisor wanted to help with Yusheng, but now it seems that he can't count on it."

Zu Dashou smiled and said, "He Yusheng is also a powerful businessman, and he is famous for his carriage and horse logistics. How could there be any difficulties in this matter?"

Man Gui said: "Zhang Han said that he could gather 1,500 carriages to Ningyuan within half a month. Isn't this nonsense? The Supervisor was very suspicious of the person, so he naturally believed him."

Zu Dashou laughed and said, "This Zhang Han is really bragging. How can a business store have so many big cars? I think it would be great if he could get two or three hundred cars."

Man Guishen agreed.

"What are Zhang Han's conditions?" Zu Dashou's curiosity was not satisfied yet, so he continued to ask.

"He doesn't need to add extra silver." Man Gui said: "The Supervisor was worried that He Yusheng would be in a dilemma and affect his business, so he was willing to compensate some silver at the discretion. However, Zhang Han said that there was no need for compensation. As long as the food and corresponding materials were transported from Tongzhou Dakuang to Liaodong in the future, He Yusheng's carriages and horses were employed. And it would be best to issue an order to pass the cabinet to make a decision. Even if the Supervisor returns to the court in the future, the manager or the governor of Ji Liao will not be reversed."

"Is he going to flow slowly?" Zu Dazu commented with a smile, and then said: "If he could really collect those big trucks and transport hundreds of thousands of stones of grain to Shisan Mountain, from then on, Shisan Mountain will no longer be a worry for the court. This great contribution can be agreed to his conditions."

Mangui nodded slightly and agreed.

In fact, Sun Chengzong was very happy when he received Zhang Han's letter, but when he saw the number of cars and horses that Zhang Han was willing to provide, Old Man Sun immediately felt that it was unreliable. There were dozens of broken carts in ordinary large carts, even if they were large in scale, they could do business in several state clubs. Zhang Han's carts were made by precision craftsmen, and you could tell at a glance that the price was not expensive. Moreover, the carts under Zhang Han's name were all over the capital, Xuanfu, Shandong, Shandong, Datong, Shaanxi, etc. How many can they gather in a hurry? Sun Chengzong believed that Zhang Han could gather 2000 large carts in ten days. With the transportation capacity of Heyusheng, a cart of fifty stones can be delivered at a time. In addition, Ningyuan to Yongping Prefecture gathered some ordinary carts that could weigh more than ten stones, which could deliver 20,000 stones of grain, which was enough to support the mountain for a long time.

There is food, but Juehua Island usually has about 100,000 stones of grain storage, and Bijiashan also has a large amount of grain storage. In addition, there is also a lot of grain storage in other cities and forts, which is always available in hundreds of thousands of stones.

One hundred and twenty kilograms per stone means that there are 70 to 80 million kilograms of grain storage at any time outside the pass, plus coarse grains and beans, which is an astronomical figure.

This was a great wealth for the Later Jin Dynasty, but for the Ming Dynasty, grain storage was a reflection of national strength. Since Zhang Juzheng sorted out the canal and clarified the land, the shortage of grain storage in the capital and the northern area had long been solved during the Jiajing period. Four million stones of grain were transported from the south to Tongzhou through the canal every year. The canal was the top priority of the court's concern. A large number of garrisons were deployed along the river. After a long time of peace, these garrisons were simply changed to garrison soldiers. They and the southern garrisons were transformed into garrisons and the southern garrisons were responsible for transporting grain. The two lakes and Jiangnan in the south were granaries. Whether in the good harvest or in the poor harvest, the grain sent to the north was never shorter than one and a half taels. In addition to grain, there were also the cloth, silk and other specialties needed by the court, which were also continuously sent to the north through the canal.

The grain storage in Tongzhou reached a peak around the tenth year of Wanli, and the grain storage has never been less than ten million stones. With the attention of Emperor Tianqi and the government and the people of the government and the people, the amount of food needed can be transported as much as possible. In addition, some women, children, elderly and weak should be withdrawn as much as possible. Sun Chengzong believed that millions of kilograms of grain could be sent to the mountain for at least one winter. By the time next spring, Jinzhou and nearby military forts were repaired, the Ming army's threat to the Thirteen Mountains was increased, and it is very likely that Jianlu would withdraw his own siege, which was the ideal result.

In addition to distrust Zhang Han's promise, what angered Sun Chengzong was Zhang Han's other words.

He suggested that Sun Chengzong should not place his granary on Juehua Island, and that small military forts outside Ningyuan should not store grain or other military supplies.

Ningyuan, Jinzhou, Zhongzuo, and when they go to Shanhaiguan, they might as well place some military funds in these big cities, but Zhang Han suggested that Sun Ge's troops still put a large amount of supplies in Shanhaiguan, which is the safest.

Although Zhang Han's letters were very respectful, the hidden meaning was that Sun Chengzong was very angry.

It is obvious that this young businessman did not have any trust in the combat effectiveness of the Guanning soldiers. Although Zhang Han's meaning was obscure, in terms of Sun Chengzong's observation of the cave as if it was a candle, there was only one meaning: the Guanning soldiers could not fight in the field, and the castles and cities they built could only be defended alone, while Juehua was only an island, less than ten miles from the nearest to the shore. In the cold winter, the sea surface was frozen, and the cavalry could drive in and have no danger to defend. The Guanning soldiers in Ningyuan City did not dare to send troops to help, Juehua would be dead.

This is the most angry analysis of Sun Chengzong. In his strategy, Jinzhou, Ningyuan, Juehua, and various forts along the road, guarding their daily lives and helping each other in wartime, attracting Jianlu army with one city. When four reinforcements gather, the enemy cavalry will trap the city and need to deal with reinforcements again. They will inevitably be in a dilemma and fall into trouble.

If Zhang Han said, if the defense system in western Liaoning is now consuming military resources and millions of taels of silver are wasted, it would be better not to cultivate Ningyuan and directly give up all the land outside Shanhaiguan. Isn’t this what Wang Zaijin and others think?

Behind this letter, Sun Chengzong had to think about whether this was a tentative attack by the eunuch party on the strategy of western Liaoning?

Although Lao Suntou did not appreciate Zhang Han's behavior of joining Wei Zhongxian, since it was Wang Xinyi who took the initiative to provoke, it was understandable that Zhang Han was forced to fight back. He also had the righteous act of Yusheng to fund the Thirteen Mountains. Sun Chengzong still had some appreciation for Zhang Han, but this time the letter really angered Lao Suntou.

If it was a private matter, Sun Chengzong would be tolerant no matter what. The higher the person is, the easier it would be tolerant to small people. But if it was a major military and political matter, especially a major dispute over the overall line, Sun Chengzong's anger would not be easily eliminated. It can be said that Old Man Sun was already well-cultivated. If it were someone else, it would be possible that the Heyusheng semicolon in western Liaoning would have been sealed off long ago.

"It's really a sin." Zu Dashou also felt sincerely after hearing Man Gui's words.
Chapter completed!