The rise of the prince

Chapter 534 Arrangement of Troops + Yelu Yali
"You are also a family member, so be more prudent in the future. Also, you two should work hard so that I can report to my great-grandson as soon as possible. You see, the brothers of your royal uncle's family have long since had children who could run away." The queen ordered road.

A-Jiao blushed and nodded obediently.

Li Xingzhou's eyes were empty, and he nodded quickly.

He really has a big head, he didn't expect the queen to let him into the palace, and he said the same things.

In the past few days, every dish in the palace has a strong smell of medicine, and they are all whips and whips.
I went to question Yan Cui, he said it was Yan Yan's order, and I went to ask Yan Yan, the old man was serious and thoughtful, saying that everything was for his own good
I'm not afraid to mend him badly, I always feel that my nose starts to itch when I get up early in the morning, and my nose is about to bleed.

As a result, he gave repeated orders, not to use those messy medicinal meals, and don't mix those messy ingredients. As a result, the food still smelled like medicinal herbs, and Li Xingzhou was so angry that he had to cook by himself.

During this period, Wei Chaoren also visited the palace. He was Wei Chaoren's savior, so it was only natural for him to visit.

However, Wei Yubai was also a little embarrassed after seeing her father. She followed Li Xingzhou to the south, and only returned a letter to her family, and her stomach went south.

As a father, Wei Chaoren was of course angry, but when he heard that Wei Yubai had been made a fourth-rank military officer by the court, he immediately became happy, and kept saying that his daughter would be handed over to him in the future.

So, people are fickle.

A few days later, the queen said that he and his wife were invited to the palace for a banquet. Li Xingzhou was overjoyed and tears filled his eyes, thinking that the food could finally be improved, but it turned out to be the same.

I don't know why they believe in the nonsense that what you eat makes you feel good.

After repeated instructions from the queen, Li Xingzhou finally left with Gillian.

After leaving the empress's place, the eunuch told him that the emperor was discussing important matters with the Privy Council and many officials of the Political Affairs Hall, and let him go.

Li Xingzhou had no choice but to let Gillian go to the queen's place to wait first, and go there by himself.

Gillian was very obedient, and obediently went to the queen to wait for him.

When Li Xingzhou followed the little eunuch who led the way to the side hall of Changchun Hall, the emperor had already started talking, so he didn't dare to disturb him, so he went in silently and stood aside.

"Xue Fang, how much money do you think will be needed for this expedition?" the emperor asked.

Xue Fang, the Duzhi envoy, stepped forward and cupped his hands: "Your Majesty, if all the rations are converted into money and silk, I have calculated that it will cost about 250 million taels. But this is only the result of all the money and silk. It doesn't take that much money to collect and distribute everywhere, it only needs about 85 taels, and even if it is the most, it only needs about 100 million taels.

The last time King Pingnan seized more than 120 million taels of dirty silver from Jiangzhou, plus the treasury surplus, it was completely enough. "

The emperor nodded: "That's right, thanks to King Pingnan's more than 100 million taels."

As he spoke, he looked at Tang Zhouwei again: "How much food can be distributed from each road."

Tang Zhouwei stepped forward, and then opened the booklet he had prepared earlier, "Your Majesty, Jingxi Road and Shuzhong Third Road are the ones that collect the most food. It is estimated that there will be 25 shi. As for the final amount, it depends Transshipment envoys all over the place."

The emperor nodded: "This matter is related to the national system, and there is no delay. Let the transshipment envoys from all over the country not delay, otherwise they will be severely punished."

Afterwards, under the discussion of all the ministers, combined with the taxation statistics of various places, the specific share of the money that the transshipment envoy needs to pay was given.

These things are mainly done by the three divisions, namely the Salt and Iron Division, the Duzhi Division, and the Household Division. Li Xingzhou only listened to and watched the process of their work.

From time to time, Li Xingzhou heard words such as "5000 taels for Chengdu Fu Road, 2000 shi for grain" and "[-] taels for Jiangnan West Road". The gap between them is still huge.

For example, a road with Shangfu may require an investment of 5 taels, while a barren area can only pay a few thousand taels. The gap is self-evident.

In terms of the general trend, the north is richer, such as Jingxi Road, Jingbei Road, and Kaiyuan Mansion. If you can take out several thousand taels, it is not as good as a state or prefecture in the north.

The economic center of gravity of later generations was all in the south, but this change took place, starting in the Song Dynasty and becoming apparent in the Ming Dynasty.However, the Ming Dynasty restrained this trend, because Zhu Yuanzhang did not trust the southerners.

However, the general trend of the world is unstoppable, and the economic center of gravity will eventually move to the south.

The south is like an untapped jade with great potential.

After these matters are discussed, they will be assigned to the transfer envoys installed in various places, and then the transfer envoys will not go to ask for money and food in person, but will distribute them to the magistrates, prefectures, and county magistrates, and let them pay within the specified time.

When the war ends, it is not a trivial matter. The whole country is involved. Under the heavy taxation and corvee, public grievances abound, and many innocent people will suffer.

Afterwards, the emperor talked to several newly promoted members of the Privy Council about sending troops. As a result, these people answered irrelevant questions and could speak, but they had no experience and no opinions at all. nothing.

Many things seem small, but when there are too many people, they become big things.Things such as conscripting labor first, then sending out auxiliary troops, followed by the regular army, or letting the Forbidden Army, the Guanbei Army, and the Yang Family Army go north first, and then sending out auxiliary soldiers and labor to transport food and grass have all become issues that need to be carefully considered.

The width of the main road is limited, let alone hundreds of thousands, even tens of thousands of people are on the road, and the team can stretch several miles long.

At this time, the Privy Council must be sober and have a feasible plan, how and where the armies will go, how to deal with the enemy quickly if they encounter the enemy, and the equipment for the encounter battle must keep up.

The experienced Privy Council can naturally make reasonable arrangements in the general situation, but these newly promoted officials have obviously never fought a battle, and someone actually proposed such a whimsical idea as "every five sergeants, one hundred auxiliary soldiers, and one hundred labor labor" statement.

He Zhao, Xue Fang and others laughed at him severely, because anyone who has seen a large army marching knows that when an army encounters an enemy, what they fear most is not the number of enemies, but the fact that their own team is too long and cut off by the middle.

Even if the regular army is like this, if they insert some laborers every hundred steps or so and break their own formation, wouldn't they be looking for a dead end?
The matter of the Privy Council was said to be blushing, he hesitated for a long time and couldn't speak, obviously he had never been on the battlefield at all, he just took it for granted.

This was the evil result of Ba Zhong Daoyu's summoning, but no matter what, the emperor had no intention of giving in at all. With a dark face, he directly ordered the generals of the army to make arrangements for themselves.

Hearing this, Li Xingzhou knew that this might be a bad idea.

The reason why the Privy Council was asked to arrange the supply of supplies in a unified manner is to facilitate scheduling. The Privy Council can directly order the transfer envoys to act in a unified manner.

If the general is asked to dock with the transfer envoy by himself, what if the other party does not cooperate?What to do if you lose the chain or take advantage of the opportunity.

Of course, he can't say these things, the emperor must be clear in his heart, but he will not compromise or admit defeat, no one will say anything.

The small court meeting almost arranged most of the conquest of the Liao Kingdom. After the meeting was over, the emperor called him to the imperial garden and told him: "I'm keeping you in the capital this time because I want you to study hard and study hard." Look, think about it, don’t need to do everything yourself, you have to learn how to employ people.”

Li Xingzhou nodded and wrote it down.

The emperor taught him again before letting him out of the palace.

Back at the palace, Shiyu came to him and told him good news.

The people from various merchants to help him have arrived, all of them from Xixia, a total of [-] people, nine of them are Han Chinese and can speak Chinese, and they also brought several sacks of cotton seeds.

The Han people in Xixia are not surprising, because Xixia was once the land of the Han Dynasty, and many Han people lived there.

Finally a major event was settled, and the cotton planting season hadn't been missed yet, he was still worried before, the Black Leopard had lived in the palace for almost a month, so let's make arrangements for the Taihang Mountain generation next.

The second thing is that Yan Kun asked Li Xingzhou Xiao Hongqi to be his deputy, because Xiao Hongqi understands Khitan, Mongolian, and Chinese, which is a rare talent, and Yan Kun is now in charge of the business in the north. Apart from Jingguo businessmen, he has also begun to contact the north. There are more and more businessmen from various countries. Sometimes everyone chatters and dances, but they don't know what the other party is saying. The scene is very embarrassing.

Now with the help of Xiao Hongqi, a Liao native, there is not so much embarrassment.

Li Xingzhou also agreed.

The emperor asked him to employ more people, not to do everything by himself, he also wanted to employ people, but there were not many people in the palace who could take care of themselves.

Poetry counts as one, Di Zhi counts as one, and so do Yan Kun and Qi Fang.Apart from the four of them, Li Xingzhou did not dare to entrust one party's affairs completely.

As a scientific researcher, Zhao Si is top-notch, but he is a nice gentleman.Yan Shen has the demeanor of Ji Chunsheng, very brave, but not as brave and resourceful as Di Zhi.

Wei Yubai and Li Xingzhou are not very familiar yet, Shenlin doesn't have much experience, it's okay to host the rear, but it's still far from letting him take charge of it alone.

In this way, Gillian and Yue'er can also help her if there is poetry in the internal affairs, so there is no need to worry.There are Yan Kun and Qi Fang in the business, one north and one south, and they also manage the business outside the palace is booming.

But in the army, Li Xingzhou can rest assured that there is only one Di Zhi.

He couldn't help thinking of a person, that is Liu Ji, the leader of the rebel army in Suzhou and the number one general under Ding Yi.Ding Yi is just a scholar. He is good at calculation and strategy, but he can't lead troops to fight.

So the army that has been fighting with them is commanded by a man named Liu Ji. Later, after the rebellion was put down, Li Xingzhou specially sent people around to inquire.

This person is also a person who can stand on his own. In several fights with him, he can command the army with certainty and make reasonable arrangements.

If they hadn't had firearms as their secret weapons, they might not have been able to defeat the rebels.

It's a pity that such a person's whereabouts are unknown after the rebellion is over. They may die in the rebellion, or they may flee to other places to avoid the court's pursuit. If such a person can be used by him, there will be another general under his command .

Thinking about it, he suddenly remembered the accountant that Yan Kun said was very good at arithmetic. What is it called? Fang Xin, he should visit it when he has time.

Yelu Yali didn't know how long she had been running. She hadn't washed or had a good rest for almost a month.

Her eyes were sunken, her hair was dry and disheveled, and her body smelled so bad that she was almost unhuman. The bumps in the past few days made her dizzy and vomited several times, especially after she drank the stream water on the road, she vomited and diarrhoea.

She would vomit out food and pull it out when she drank. After a few days, she was already weak, her whole body was sore and limp, she had no strength to speak, and she was skinny and skinny.

Several times she thought she was going to die, staying on the verge of life and death, and even vaguely heard her father say how to deal with her, because the situation was urgent, she was going to be buried by the roadside.

But she thought of her grandma and the former Empress Dowager Xiao, so she survived.

But
The father had already abandoned her, and he fled westward with his twenty or so personal imperial guards, leaving her and more than 50 cavalry behind, because their speed was too slow, let them keep up slowly.

The grassland outside the car window was getting greener and more grass, and the wind and sand began to recede. Yali knew that they were not going west, but east. They went back, and the east was the territory of the Kingdom of Jin. They want to dedicate themselves to the Kingdom of Jin.
Yali is very weak, and she knows that she can't stop it. She has almost no human form, just a walking dead.

She was very angry at first, cursing them weakly.

But they didn't answer at all, just gave her food on time, and didn't let her get out of the carriage, but the carriage was big enough.

Gradually, she didn't have the energy to swear anymore, and she began to understand these people in her heart. If her Khan abandoned them, what could they do?
The grass began to grow and turn green, and when the cold wind started to subside, Yelu Yali returned to Shangjing again.

But Shangjing is no longer her former home.

The emperor of the Kingdom of Jin had just held the enthronement ceremony. Inside and outside the city, traces of the celebration were everywhere. The blood on the top of the city had faded, and the people still lived and worked in peace and contentment, as if nothing had happened.

She was rudely dragged into the palace, and outside her former palace, she met the emperor of the Kingdom of Jin, the one who destroyed their country.

The other party didn't laugh at her, and didn't do anything to her. On the contrary, the new royal family and nobles beside him held their noses and looked at her with disgust.

"Take her down to wash up, take a good look at it, no one can neglect, his brother is still fighting in the corner of Nanjing City." Wanyan Wugunai smiled meaningfully.

Afterwards, a court lady took her down to wash and dress up.
She is like a doll, at the mercy of others.

Yelu Yali didn't know what her fate would be. Now she only wanted to live, to see her brother, and to see General Yelu Dashi. As she thought about it, she burst into tears.

But after washing, she actually smelled a familiar smell, it was the perfume she used to treasure, she used to want to see the strange King Pingnan, and wanted to break through Jingguo, but now it's only been a year or two, Everything is turned upside down.

She changed from a high-ranking princess to a prisoner at the mercy of others.
How could the golden man treat her like this?She felt scared just thinking about it.

　This generation of Borderlands is really fun, but I don’t have time to have fun, so uncomfortable
　　
　
(End of this chapter)