Time is busy, and twenty days have passed in a blink of an eye.
Li Yizhi was busy for twenty days and didn't even have much time to treat his injuries. However, he finally sorted out everything, including two of the most important things.
The first thing is the promotion of new coins.
In order to raise military expenses for the Xiaoguo Army, Li Yizhi turned to the national treasury.
So he went to Yang Guang with the sample coins and told Yang Guang that if they promoted this set of coins, they could make more than 10% profit out of thin air.
When Yang Guang saw that the sample coins were exquisite and he could make more than 10% profit out of thin air, he naturally agreed very much.
Therefore, Li Yizhi cast all the more than seven million silver and more than two million taels of gold in the treasury into new coins, excluding five baht coins.
Since then, he not only has enough money for promotion, but also made millions in profits.
With millions of taels of silver, Li Yizhi not only made up for the military pay of the Xiaoguo Army for six months at once, but also increased the military pay of the entire army, making the soldiers return to their duties.
The second thing was the great victory of the Yangzhou Army.
Under the leadership of Li Jing, after more than ten days of attack and pursuit, the Jianghuai Army was finally defeated, and Du Fuwei fled in disgrace, unable to regain his strength.
Therefore, Li Yizhi wrote a letter to Li Jing, asking him to rush back to Yangzhou as soon as possible after arranging military affairs.
There is really no other way. Li Yizhi's strength has expanded too quickly, resulting in an extreme shortage of talents at his disposal, whether they are civil servants or military generals.
Although the Xiaoguo Army has returned home, he still cannot fully trust the generals in the army, so it must be led by a trustworthy general, and this person is naturally none other than Li Jing.
Although Luo Tong is still qualified, he is now the commander of the Imperial Guard, and his abilities are limited, so he is not yet able to take charge of his role on his own.
As for civil servants, there are also Tian Wen, Xue Zhen, Gao Shouyi, and those officials from the former General Manager's Office.
But to be honest, none of these people are considered to be great talents, and they cannot have an overview of the overall situation for Li Yizhi, even Tian Wen.
After all, in the final analysis, Tian Wen was just a teaching student, and his abilities were indeed limited.
This is the reason why Li Yizhi has been busy in the capital during these twenty days and sleeps no more than two hours a day.
There was no way, his subordinates were not capable enough, so he could only do it himself.
Although Li Yizhi was busy or tired these days, he could sense in the dark that a great fortune seemed to befalling him.
Therefore, even though he did not deliberately heal his injuries during this period, the injuries healed very quickly, and he felt as if he was making vigorous progress in his cultivation, as if he was not far from a breakthrough.
In Jiangdu, Li Yizhi spent twenty days to completely consolidate the results.
The general trend of the world is also changing rapidly.
The first is the forces around Jiangdu.
The Jianghuai Army suffered heavy losses; Shen Faxing and Li Zitong were stepping up their efforts to capture the city; Wagangzhai, on Li Mi's suggestion, assembled a large army to march to Xingyang; even the Poyang Hui and the Baling Gang south of the Yangtze River were ready to move.
Next is the north.
The biggest change was that Li Yuan of Taiyuan finally raised an army. The banner was to angrily accuse Li Yizhi of holding the emperor hostage, so they wanted to march to Chang'an to assist the acting king Yang You and welcome back Yang Guang.
Li Yizhi saw the changes in the world, but did not make any response.
In other words, he can't take any specific measures to deal with it now.
Because of the lack of talented people under his command, he had to do everything himself and was unable to spare any energy.
In order to solve the talent problem, Li Yizhi found Tian Wen.
Tian Wen muttered: "Yizhi, I do have a few friends who are quite talented. It's just that they came from a poor family, so their reputations are somewhat obscure."
Li Yizhi said: "I don't care about fame, as long as I have talent. By the way, Mr. Tian, I remember that you originally opened an academy, and you should have a lot of disciples. I think it's better to call them all in and conduct an assessment.
As long as they can pass, they will be given corresponding positions."
Tian Wen was a little hesitant and said: "This is a bit uncomfortable, after all, they are all my students."
In Li Yizhi's current interest group, Tian Wen is the number one civil servant. If he recruits a large number of his disciples, he may be accused of forming a clique.
Li Yizhi chuckled and said: "Mr. Tian, there is no need to worry. As long as he has talent, no matter what his background, I dare to use him. When Li Jing comes back, I will order him to attack and start the battle of unification. A large number of talents will be needed.
Therefore, Mr. Tian must prepare now so that we don’t have to conquer a place and have no one to manage it.”
Tian Wen nodded solemnly, and then said: "Yizhi, in fact, there is a Yangzhou school in Yangzhou, which has a large number of scribes. I am also from this school. A few days ago, they passed me, hoping to recommend it to you.
.It’s just that I have some hesitation in my heart, so I haven’t agreed yet. If possible, you can meet them and use them according to their talents.”
Li Yizhi nodded directly and said: "Well, let's just hold a small internal assessment, just like the imperial examination. Those who pass will be retained. You will handle this matter, and I will personally come up with the test questions and mark the papers."
In fact, it was not that Li Yizhi did not want to hold the imperial examination publicly to recruit talents from all over the world.
It's just that the world is in chaos and travel is inconvenient, so even if he holds it, only people from Jiangdu County will participate, and it will become a joke in the end.
After handling the matter of talent recruitment, Li Yizhi could finally breathe a sigh of relief.
However, Shi Long's arrival and his report made Li Yizhi feel heavy again.
"Yizhi, last night Yang Guang hinted and tried to win over me. Gang Leader Yin was also hinted."
Shi Long said in a deep voice: "Not only that, I also heard that people from the Dugu family have secretly gone south. Yang Guang also received news from the Dugu family. It seems that they are going to join forces to get rid of you secretly."
Li Yizhi's eyes flickered and he whispered to himself: "It seems that I was confused by Yang Guang's appearance before. I originally thought that he had really fallen and could not see the reality clearly. Now it seems that he is preparing to
I’m secretly hiding Chen Cang.”
After saying this, he couldn't help but shake his head and smile.
Although Yu Wenhua and his mutiny awakened Yang Guang.
But after all, Yang Guang is not the Yang Guang he used to be. He is a little too naive.
So what if people from the Dugu family come, he is now firmly in control of the Jiangdu palace, and has an army of nearly 300,000 in his hands. How can Yang Guang be able to overthrow him if he wants to?
However, this matter is a trouble after all. In order to fight for hegemony in the future, he does not want to bear the reputation of regicide.
Seeing that Li Yizhi didn't take it seriously, Shi Long couldn't help but remind him: "Yizhi, don't be careless. It is said that You Chuhong went south in person this time, and he also brought their Dugu family's little phoenix, Dugu Feng."
Needless to say, You Chuhong, a veteran master who has been famous for decades, is also the number one master of the Dugu Clan, at least in the late innate stage.
As for Dugu Feng, although this girl is young, her martial arts has already surpassed that of Dugu Sheng and Dugu Ba, the "Dugu Shuangjies". She has the unique skills of both schools, and her martial arts is on par with You Chuhong.
Therefore, even if the martial arts has not entered the late Xiantian stage, it is at least very close to it, and it is definitely still above the Yuwen culture level.