"Marshal, this Li Xiang is really a tiger general. He defeated the nearly 400,000 troops on the grassland side and reduced it to less than 100,000 people!" There was a smile on Yu Cheng's rigid face.
Li Zhen threw the letter aside casually: "It's just some prairie nomadic cavalry!"
"The nomadic cavalry is also a cavalry!" Yu Cheng said with some expectation: "You said that if the northwest is stronger and 300,000 Xiliang cavalry are formed, starting from the Qingxi grassland, and our army puts pressure on the frontal battlefield, can they be destroyed?
One or two tribes?”
The soldiers should be more refined than more numerous!
In Yu Cheng's eyes, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry is already the best in the world. With 300,000 elite cavalry, no one can stop them!
Li Zhen chuckled, shook his head and sighed: "Xiliang's cavalry is very good, but can Xiliang afford so many horses and horses?
Moreover, do you think the man in the imperial capital is willing to see 300,000 cavalry in the northwest? With 300,000 cavalry, Prime Minister Li may not move the grasslands first, but send his troops southward!"
Yu Cheng shook his head helplessly as he listened. He didn't like politics. He couldn't pay attention to the shortage of political things. Their northern army was still worried about the new army. If it weren't for the grassland army or the late emperor's order, dozens of counties in the northwest would be destroyed.
They are all under the jurisdiction of Li Zhen. Maybe they have cut off their food, grass, and military pay. Now their food, grass, and military pay come from the northern counties. At the same time, the northern counties have stopped paying taxes to the court, which makes the new king very dissatisfied.
Seeing Yu Cheng's depressed look, Li Zhen smiled and said, "Don't worry! We will take back the grassland!"
Recovering the grasslands is the mission of their generation of generals. He will fight for this goal throughout his life. When Chi Yuchijing died of the rebellion in the south and central plains, he had already seen the faces of those people!
Daqian is a huge quagmire, and their north is better, at least there are not so many intrigues!
"Go to the Song family in the Northeast in person and get those weapons back. Remember to bring the black armor cavalry with you!" Li Zhen gave Yu Cheng a jade pendant: "If they want to delay any longer, then destroy them!
I dare to steal Li Zhen’s things, do you really think that if you take refuge with a little guy, you can fly to the sky?"
Yu Cheng received the Xuanjia Order and smiled coldly: "My subordinates know, so go ahead!"
Soon, a group of black armored cavalry from the army was dispatched, heading toward the northeast in a mighty manner!
Some people in the army saw the Xuanjia cavalry dispatched. Every time the Xuanjia cavalry was dispatched, big problems would arise. Looking at the direction, many people showed gloating in their eyes.
The news spread quickly, and when the Song family in the Northeast learned that Yu Cheng was dispatching with a black armor cavalry, and the target was their family, the head of the Song family looked pale, and the young man kneeling in front of him had a look of resentment.
"Obstacle!" The head of the Song family said hysterically to the kneeling young man, "What are you doing wrong? If you want to touch the military resources of the Northern Army, are you afraid that our family will not die quickly enough?"
The young man lowered his head: "Dad, I have already asked me to send the things out. They took the waterway. It's too late to say anything now!"
Snap!
The young man fell to the ground and covered his face with one hand. The head of the Song family closed his eyes and took a deep breath: "Come here, tie him up with a fairy rope and let the secret guards guard him. Without my order, who will
You’re not allowed to see me either!”
"Yes" the guards who came dragged the young man down without paying any attention to the young man's identity.
"How was the check?"
A dark figure stood up: "This batch of supplies was an order placed by Marshal Li Zhen personally to the Weapon Refining Sect. It contains a large number of spiritual soldiers. It is said that these weapons were designed by people from the Taoist sect and were finally decided upon with the advice of many major generals of the Northern Army. Next pattern.
This time is just a sample, but for the Northern Army, this is an attempt, for which they spent two million taels of silver!"
"After these goods were robbed, they were quickly sent south through Zhang family channels. However, after investigation by my subordinates, these goods did not really go south, but quickly entered the Beiwang Mansion."
"King of the North?" The head of the Song family narrowed his eyes: "Such a small thing shouldn't be worthy of the King of the North! Prepare horses for me, I'm going to the Prince of the North's Mansion!"
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Li Xiang returned to Jiuyuan City, and soon the news of Zhuo Bufan and Gao Yuan's victory in the Qingxi Grassland spread throughout the northwest.
Most of the people in the northwest are Gan people, and they feel deeply guilty about the betrayal of the grasslands. This time, the northwest army defeated the army of grassland people, and the northwest was plunged into a carnival.
Especially those refugees from the Central Plains. They threw all the changes in the world on the grassland people. If the grassland people had not betrayed Daqian and caused a large number of soldiers and horses to be sent to the north from various places in Daqian, the Central Plains would not have allowed those bandits to run rampant!
The people in the northwest were immersed in the great victory over the grassland people. Li Xiang returned to Jiuyuan City to discuss how to reward Gao Yuan and Zhuo Bufan.
Both of them were demoted generals. Zhuo Bufan joined Xiliang during the battle with Xiliang in the northwest. Gao Yuan joined Xiliang not long ago when the rescue army was in charge of the city. He is also the one with the highest status in the current Great Wall Corps.
Both of them have fought against Xiliang!
Currently, Xiliang is still affiliated with Daqian, so even if official positions are granted, they are only awarded privately and cannot be announced.
Li Xiang wanted to make the northwest land start advocating military martial arts. This was a great opportunity. Not only the two generals, but also their soldiers, all needed rewards.
What is the purpose of being a soldier? Don't talk about noble things like defending your home and country. Currently, except for the soldiers from Xiliang headquarters, aren't the remaining soldiers just for a living?
The treatment of the Xiliang army is comparable to that of the Northwest. The treatment given by others is much better. There is a complete security system. Even if they die in battle, their families can still live a good life.
Their offspring can enjoy the benefits brought by their parents.
Only by letting the soldiers feel how good Xiliang is to them can they become loyal to Xiliang later on.
At present, the Xiliang army can be said to have captured the northwest land. More than half of the martial arts masters, and more than half of the remaining people are waiting and thinking about whether to join the Xiliang army.
They have a good impression of the Xiliang army, but not enough to make them sacrifice their lives.
At this time, you need to use profit to lure!
Some people may say that it is difficult to discipline people who have cultivated, but are discipliners stronger than them?
The Xiliang army will not have a team that is too weak, and ordinary people's troops will not exist in the Xiliang army.
Xiliang has changed the rules for recruiting soldiers this year. If you want to be a soldier, you must at least have some energy or talent. This will be tested by the recruiter.
What Li Xiang wants is a group of wolves, not a group of sheep.
After two days of discussion, Li Yi and Zhang Qingyun decided to give Gao Yuan, Zhuo Bufan and their more than 100,000 troops a one-time reward, for which Li Xiang paid several million taels of silver.
At present, excluding the commercial trade of the city lord's palace in the northwest land, the monthly tax revenue received is only 1.5 million taels of silver.
Li Xiang spilled no less than two million taels of silver this time. Including the previous war expenses, the maximum cost of this war was more than four million taels.
A month later, a large reward notice was posted on the bulletin boards of major villages in the northwest, and the villagers rushed to it.
There will be one or two people in each village who know the characters, and the people around them only need to listen to these people recite them.
At the same time, there are rewards for the families of soldiers who participated in the war. Each general will receive five taels of silver. The current price in the northwest is that a steamed bun is one penny, and one tael of silver is equivalent to one thousand penny.
An ordinary family can spend at most one tael of silver a month, which is about half a year's living expenses.
If you kill a prairie man, you will get three taels of silver. If the prairie man you kill still has some status, the leader will get five taels of silver, the centurion will get one hundred taels, the thousand-centurion will get ten thousand taels, and the other higher-level ones will get 3 taels of silver.
There are rewards.
The family of a soldier who died in battle will directly receive fifty taels of pension, plus the enemies killed by the soldier on the battlefield (each soldier has a team, and only enemies killed by the same team will get the silver.
The deceased will get half, and the rest will be divided among others)
The number of soldiers killed in this war exceeded 20,000, and more than one million silver dollars were used as pensions.
Soldiers who die on the battlefield will receive a martyr's house number in their family, and will receive a lot of benefits, such as free tuition for their children to go to school...
These bonuses and pensions were quickly distributed to the families of the military families, all done by soldiers from the Xiliang headquarters, and Li could not trust anyone else.
These silver coins just landed in the homes of military families in various villages, instantly arousing the envy of countless people. The soldiers' bonuses were as high as more than ten taels. At present, Xiliang civilians can only save one tael of silver a year.
You can get ten taels of silver from a war?
There is also a pension for those who died in battle, and each military family member received a pension of more than seventy taels, as well as various benefits, which made countless people instantly jealous.
But they can only be jealous, because after having the martyrs’ house number, if anyone dares to bully their family, they can only let the people from the Xiliang headquarters know.
That would be bad luck. The big men in Xiliang headquarters always only recognize the decrees of the King of Xiliang. If anyone dares to violate them, they will be waiting at the county jail.
Where are all those green-skinned men who used to run amok in the county? Were they not caught by the Xiliang headquarters soldiers who came down from the battlefield with broken arms and legs, and were thrown away like chickens to build bridges and build roads?
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Although those people in the headquarters are physically disabled, their skills are not lost. They will avoid evil spirits when they encounter them. If something is wrong with someone, just ask them to come over and their murderous aura will be able to calm everything down.
Many cultivators who are working in agriculture or doing other jobs will soon be able to earn a lot of money after they follow the Xiliang army out and see those who are not considered weak in their eyes.
There are others who are similar in strength to them. Because they joined the army, most of them are already very long, and some are still centurions.
Not only did he get a lot of money, but he also gained a high social status.
I thought the people around me were afraid of them because of their force, but now they are respectful and respectful.
Because of Xiliang's high-pressure rule, those who could have taken advantage of others could only live a very ordinary life. For those Xiliang people who had come down from the battlefield, they were still armed, so it was easy to suppress them.
When the cold winter comes, the soldiers who participated in the battlefield return home from the change of defense, and they also bring with them a large amount of supplies obtained from the army, including ferocious beast meat, fine wine presented by the northern army, and a year's military pay, twenty-four taels of silver!
Prime Minister Li’s policy succeeded!
People throughout the northwest have begun to yearn for the army, but it is difficult to join the army. You must at least have practiced a little bit, have some energy or have a talent for cultivation!
White snow soon covered the northwest, outside the Pass, and the Qingxi grassland.
In the cold winter, in such cold weather, most people cook some hot pot at home and eat together as a family.
Li Xiang prepared a large pot of hot pot in the city lord's mansion, and called Xia Li, Zhang Qingyun, and Li Yi, who had nowhere to go in the city, to his home to eat hot pot together.
"Lord, your military plan is very good, but this will make the cost of our army very high.
The current number of the Northwest Army has reached 200,000, the Seventh Army has 70,000, the Eighth Army has 90,000, and the Ninth Great Wall Army has 40,000.
This data will become 400,000 next year, the Seventh Army will be 100,000, the Eighth Army will be 150,000, and the Great Wall Army will be 150,000!
According to the current military pay, one soldier in peacetime gets one month's military pay. The Seventh Army gets three taels, which is 3.6 million taels a year. The Eighth Army gets one tael, which is 1.5 million a year. The Great Wall Legion gets 2 taels, which is 3 million a year.
600,000, and every year we have to pay 8.7 million taels of silver.
In addition, all kinds of supplies, armaments, etc. add up to at least 10 million taels a year, which means we need to pay 20 million taels a year.
When I was in power, Xiliang's tax revenue was only about 20 million.
And our investment in the army is equivalent to one year's tax revenue in the northwest. Next year, my lord, you will start your pig-raising plan. According to the price of piglets, we must prepare at least two million silver. Local roads need to be rebuilt, at least
A budget of around 10 million is needed..."
After Zhang Qingyun asked a series of questions, Li Xiang was a little dumbfounded and worried about money.
Zhang Qingyun did not include the expenses of the Xiliang headquarters. In his eyes, the expenses of the Xiliang headquarters were more than three times higher than those of the ordinary army!
However, the expenses of the soldiers of the Xiliang headquarters are not included in the northwest government. They have such a way to make money, which is the lord's own small treasury.
Sitting on the edge to eat, Qian Duoduo heard Zhang Qingyun's words, stopped and calculated, tens of millions of taels of silver, how much food can he buy with this!
Xia Li pulled Zhang Qingyun's clothes, he was eating! Can the lord still eat like you?
"Li Yi, how much money do I have now?" Li Xiang looked at Li Yi, all his money was with Li Yi.
Li Yi wiped his mouth: "There are still 45 million taels of silver and 30 million taels of gold. After the Western Business Road is officially opened next year, we will get 4 million taels of gold every month, and the silver should be around 5 million taels.
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"It's okay, it's okay!" Li Xiang breathed a sigh of relief and didn't see Zhang Qingyun's wolf-like eyes next to him...
PS: There was a power outage at home and the call didn’t come back until nine o’clock. It was very dangerous.
