The king behind the empress

Chapter 398 Crowd
Mo Zizai didn't know about Situ Yao's departure to the south of the Yangtze River. He was assisting Han Qu and Yang Yanzhang in Yining City to deal with the matter of military expansion.

Among them, Yang Yanzhang's initial plan for the Yuzhi Army is to expand to 5 people, with the original 2 people as the core, and the remaining [-] people will serve as auxiliary soldiers. As for the Chiyan Dragon Rider, they will serve as the core of the Yuzhi Army.

However, those 3 people are said to be auxiliary soldiers, but they will also enjoy the accelerator effect of Mo Zizai. In a few months, the minimum cultivation base of these people must be at the refinement level, and it is so extravagant to use the refinement level as auxiliary soldiers I'm afraid that if you say it, it will shock other people's jaws.

As for Han Qu's side, Mo Zizai directly named this yet-to-be-established army Zhennan, and his intention was self-evident.

In Mo Zizai's plan, the Zhennan Army will expand to 10 people, and everyone will enjoy the accelerator effect. After fighting those families, the Yuzhi Army will act as the main attack. Wherever it is the strongest, the Yuzhi Army will fight wherever it is .

The Zhennan Army is acting as a deputy army, a backup army, and they will go there whenever there is something wrong.

The recruitment of soldiers is not only carried out in Yuanling County. Now that half of the Zhou Dynasty is under the control of the imperial court, Mo Zizai will naturally not ignore his own advantages, and directly send people to establish recruitment points in various places.

Still in accordance with the previous rules, the mandatory conscription was changed to recruiting soldiers, and the soldiers were promised generous food and salaries, so he was not afraid of finding people. Soldiers not only have to fight with others, but also have to bring their own dry food, which can be described as extremely exploitative.

But now Mo Zizai not only reduced or exempted the land rent for the soldiers who joined the army, but even provided them with salary. Compared with the previous treatment, those soldiers who joined the army thought that they were in a dream.

It's just that, the silver taels in Mo Zizai's hands are obviously not enough to spend. The so much silver taels just sent to the court didn't even wait in the treasury, and Mo Zizai threw it all away with a big wave of his hand. go out.

This caused Mo Zizai to send so much silver to the court before, but now Shen Qisheng, the new Minister of the Household Department, kept sending letters to Mo Zizai, crying poorly to Mo Zizai.

"It's really a bit quick to use the money."

Mo Zizai looked at another letter sent by Shen Qisheng, basically he didn't need to open it to know that he was crying for poverty, but he spent too much money to recruit soldiers, and he couldn't refute Shen Qisheng when he knew he was wrong, so he had no choice but to Put this letter together with six or seven unopened letters sent by Shen Qisheng before.

"If you're not in charge, you don't know how expensive firewood is!"

Looking at the several letters stacked together, Mo Zizai looked a little helpless. The money needed to raise soldiers is really too much, and the food and salary are still a small amount. The main reason is that the armor and equipment of these things are expensive. We can't let them go up to die with bare hands, can we?
If that was the case, what kind of soldiers would Mo Zizai still recruit? It would be over by forcing civilians to serve as soldiers before. Anyway, they would be used as cannon fodder, and they would die if they were dragged to the battlefield. Why spend money to recruit soldiers?

Therefore, in Mo Zizai's vision, all these soldiers have to be equipped with armor. If conditions permit, it is not impossible to train some ordinary cavalry.

Even in the initial plan, Mo Zizai planned to recruit 20 soldiers and establish the Dazhou active soldier system in one step. In that case, there would be no need to build a military service system bit by bit in the future.

It's just that if the steps are too big, it's obvious that it will be a joke. Now Mo Zizai just took the first step, but he was stuck by the money and couldn't continue walking.

"Money, money..."

Mo Zizai turned all kinds of thoughts in his mind, and finally they all became one word, that is money, even the emperor can't do anything without money.

"Zhou Qi, who do you think we should copy now?"

Mo Zizai, who had no money in his pocket, thought about it for a while, and then focused on his old business. He couldn't help but ask Zhou Qi: "The Zhao family in Fuyang County? I've heard that his Zhao family is rich. It's an enemy country, so I want to see if his family really has so much money."

"..."

Looking at Mo Zizai, who is poor and crazy, Zhou Qi feels helpless. Although the Zhao family in Fuyang County is relatively rich, the Zhao family has been very honest during this time. He really endured it, without any intention of resisting.

Now you want to copy other people's houses just because they have a lot of money, which is obviously inappropriate.

It's not good to directly oppose Mo Zizai, so Zhou Qi said tactfully, "Your Majesty, your Majesty's new policy has just been promulgated. If you start killing people indiscriminately at this time, it may damage your majesty's prestige."

"This is also..."

Hearing what Zhou Qi said, Mo Zizai thought for a while, and then nodded helplessly.

Now the aristocratic family under his rule has been intimidated. When they feel powerless to resist, even if they know that the New Deal is targeting them, they dare not oppose it in order to survive. They allow the court to divide their power and cut off their heritage.

But there is a saying that rabbits will bite people when they are in a hurry. If they cooperate honestly, you still have to kill them. At that time, you will die if you cooperate, and you will die if you don’t cooperate. .

Although Mo Zizai with the army in his hands is not afraid of their resistance, but after all, people will die in war. If so many lives were wasted because of such a trivial matter, Mo Zizai would feel that it is not worth it.

"You can't copy the house, it's a bit troublesome."

The quickest way to get money was blocked, and Mo Zizai felt a little helpless. Apart from ransacking his house, he seemed to have no other way to get money quickly.

"My lord, the output of the coal mine has already increased."

Looking at Mo Zizai who was at a loss, Zhou Qi couldn't help but remind him that after Mo Zizai got out the coal and the stove, he handed over the matter to the imperial prison, and now he has completely forgotten about it. But Zhou Qi still remembered.

Before leaving the capital, Zhou Qi went to the Imperial Supervisor to find out that the output of the coal mine had doubled several times, and now it was waiting for Mo Zizai to deal with it.

"Coal mine?"

Hearing Zhou Qi mention this suddenly, Mo Zizai was stunned for a moment, and it took a while to realize that so many things happened during this period that he forgot all about it.

"It's a way to get money."

Now that the cold disaster is about to hit, the weather is getting colder every year, and this year is about to enter winter. If coal can be released at this time, it will not only reduce the number of people who freeze to death among the people, but also gather a lot of people The money is a good way.

"Okay, I'll write a letter to the capital later, and I'll hand it over to the head of the household department at this time. Hasn't Shen Qisheng been crying poor? Give him this black gold mountain and let him cash it out. I'll see how he will cry poor for me. "

The matter finally had a solution, and Mo Zizai couldn't help feeling much happier, "By the way, how the steam train is being built now, do you know?"

If you want to transport coal on a large scale, it is unrealistic to rely on manpower alone. It must be equipped with the ability to transport coal on a large scale, and steam trains undoubtedly meet this condition.

"The main roads around the capital have been preliminarily laid. Before leaving the capital, I heard from the imperial prison that I can try to operate it, but I don't know how it is now."

Zhou Qi hadn't contacted the capital for a long time, so he only told what he knew.

"Oh, since they say so, it seems that the train has been worked out."

Mo Zizai nodded, not surprised by this result. All the imperial supervisors are top-notch craftsmen, in other words, they are all masters in the industry in this era, and they are all cultivated. It can be compared to a machine tool, and it is not difficult to knock out a steam train when there is a concept.

"If there is a train, the only thing missing is the tracks."

Mo Zizai pondered for a while, then turned on his accelerator.

[Accelerator VIP Level 7, Heart Member Level 1]

[Small acceleration bit: 6/20]

After upgrading the heart membership, the small acceleration position has not been increased, and the current small acceleration position is still 20.

Of the 20 miles, the Yuzhi Army spent 14, and the Habayashi Army on the capital side and some other messy people added up to [-], and the remaining quota was only [-].

And for the 14 miles, there must be a quota of [-] for Han Qu, and another [-] for the Yuzhi Army. In this way, there are still [-] quotas left vacant.

"Twenty thousand... twenty thousand..."

Mo Zizai pondered for a moment, and decided to use up the [-] quota.

"On Saturday, gather the direct descendants of those aristocratic families, and I will send them to build the road."

When Yining City was taken before, in addition to some ordinary soldiers, there were also some direct line soldiers of the aristocratic family. These people were supported by the aristocratic family. few.

So after these people surrendered, Mo Zizai planned to kill them all directly, but there were too many people, and he always felt that it would be a pity to kill them like this, so he was locked up in Yining City all the time. Before it was laid out, he suddenly had some ideas.

Since these people are all capital offences, then simply give them an accelerator and let them mine. With the accelerator, their speed of practice and recovery will be much faster. As long as they don’t die, they will die. use them here.

Presumably with this batch of fresh troops, the speed of repairing roads for the Queen's Supervision will definitely be improved several notches, and maybe the railway can be laid to Yining City before the war breaks out.

After making up his mind, Mo Zizai didn't hesitate any longer. Besides these people, he also selected a lot of captives from other cities that Yang Yanzhang escorted. Beijing began to build roads.

Poor Kou Xing, who was sent back by Mo Zizai before he was familiar with him in Yining City, made Kou Xing, who originally wanted to fight with Mo Zizai, return to the capital full of resentment.

……

Just when Mo Zizai was thinking about building bridges and paving roads, building railroad tracks, and selling coal to make money, Situ Yao had already rushed to Jiangling County from Qianjiang County with a team of elite soldiers.

Jiangling County is one of the seven counties in the south of the Yangtze River, and it is also the state county with the largest territory and the strongest strength among the southern counties.

When Situ Yao came to Jiangling County, he didn't alarm anyone, but quietly sent his people to contact Bai Changqiu who was doing lobbying here.

"Teacher, why are you here?"

When Bai Changqiu received the report, he was still guessing in his heart, who actually came to Jiangling County, and made it so mysterious, but in his mind, his senior brother Tu Yu was the one who guessed the most. I didn't expect that it was Situ Yao himself who came from Qianjiang County.

"Let me see how you are doing."

Looking at the disciples who had been away for a long time, Situ Yao felt a little relieved, and said, "It's really hard for you to let you run around the southern counties alone."

"Teacher is serious."

Bai Changqiu's life here during this time is not easy. Although he has the identity of a descendant of an aristocratic family, none of the people he came here to meet is the person in power of the aristocratic family, and there are many families who are more prominent than his Bai family, so His identity is not very useful here.

Although most of your aristocratic families look at each other's face and will not embarrass him on the surface, but he is here to be a lobbyist after all, and the things he said often offend the interests of some people, so he has suffered a lot here. Make things difficult.

Originally, he didn't care much about these things, even if he was looked down upon by others, he could face it calmly and never felt discouraged, but at the moment when Situ Yao put his safety at risk, he suddenly had the urge to cry.

With red eyes, Bai Changqiu lowered his head to adjust his emotions, and then said: "Teacher, I already know about Senior Brother Hu Ming, and I hope you can express my condolences. If there is a chance in the future, I will definitely replace Senior Brother Hu Ming." Vengeful."

"Hu Ming..."

Hearing Bai Changqiu mentioning Hu Ming, Situ Yao couldn't help being silent for a moment, then shook his head and said: "Tomorrow, he should be destined for such a calamity. Since he can't escape, then no one can do anything about it. Let him go."

"It's not just him, I want his entire Da Zhou royal family to be buried with Ming'er."

Situ Yao always looked gentle and refined, but at this moment when he was ruthless, he looked extraordinarily ferocious. Bai Changqiu, who had never seen this side of Situ Yao, was shocked by Situ Yao's aura and dared not speak for a long time.

After a while, it seemed that he realized that he had lost his composure. Situ Yao restrained the expression on his face, returned to his usual appearance, and asked Bai Changqiu, "Changqiu, how are the southern counties doing now?"

"Not ideal."

Bai Changqiu came back to his senses, and when he heard Situ Yao's question, he couldn't help shaking his head helplessly and said: "The strength of the southern counties, if taken individually, is not bad, but if they are put together, I can only Describe them in one word."

"That is, the mob."

Thinking of what happened in the past few days, Bai Changqiu's expression became somewhat contemptuous, "The seventeen counties in the south were meant to unite together to resist Mo Zizi."

"As a result, only nine counties have come from the seventeen counties today, and even the nearest seven counties in the south of the Yangtze River, there are only four families here."

"What's even more outrageous is that there are only nine families here, and they are already fighting for the position of leader. If the students didn't come forward to stop them, I'm afraid those people would have killed themselves yesterday."

(End of this chapter)