Jiangmen Tianjiao: Reborn with funny ancestors

Zhou Changan, the Minister of Household Affairs, changed from his usual tendency to shirk poverty and pinched it quickly with his fingers, thinking about where to get money and food.

After having a general direction, Zhou Changan stepped out and said:

"Don't worry, Lord Marquis, just arrange your troops. If there is no money in the treasury, I will find a way to get the money.

The national treasury is out of food, so please send me a food collection team. Even if every household in the capital goes hungry, I will never let the soldiers on the front line go to war hungry. "

Over the years, Chu Ye had often argued with Zhou Changan in order to get money and food.

Hearing what he said, I couldn't help but stepped forward and hugged Zhou Changan's shoulders, turned his face to him, and said in surprise: "Old Zhou, I suspect that you are possessed by Qi Wenyan and Qi Lao Shangshu!"

Qi Wenyan was Zhou Changan's predecessor. When Qi Wenyan was in office, the Chu family was quite comfortable during the war.

At that time, no matter what the opinions of the court and the emperor were, Qi Wenyan would try every means to ensure the supply of the front line.

It's a pity that such a capable minister was eventually framed and killed.

This is why the Chu family has always remembered the kindness of the Qi family and is willing to protect the Qi family.

Zhou Changan didn't want Chu Ye to compare himself with Qi Wenyan, so he tried to break away from Chu Ye's hand with a straight face.

Helpless, Chu Ye hugged her hard and could only spit: "Master Chu, you are looking down on me, Zhou Changan. The national crisis is at hand, and I, Zhou Changan, know what I should do."

Chu Ye patted Zhou Changan on the shoulder and said sarcastically: "It's rare, it's rare. If you, Old Zhou, were so worried in the past, why did our Li country have less than 500,000 regular troops when the war started?"

Zhou Changan blushed a little. In recent years, when the Chu family asked for recruitment, he was called poor.

Zhou Changan has not been so close to Ye Linxuan since Ye Tinglan poisoned his son.

And because it was Chu Tianjiao who saved his son, naturally the relationship between him and the Chu family has eased a lot since then.

There have also been some changes in thinking.

It's just that he has a handle in Ye Linxuan's hand, so he can't openly oppose Ye Linxuan.

Feeling ashamed and annoyed, Zhou Changan glanced at Ye Linxuan and felt relieved when he saw that Ye Linxuan had no objection to what he just said.

With Zhou Changan's guarantee, Li Yanghou immediately asked Prince Lu Yuanqing to issue a nationwide conscription order again.

Marquis Liyang had already recruited 200,000 new soldiers before, and recruitment work in various places was in full swing.

This time, Marquis Li Yang recruited another 200,000 new soldiers.

It's just that these 200,000 new soldiers do not need to be mobilized to the front line, but are stationed in the local state capital.

Marquis Liyang will later issue recruitment quotas to various places and send people to set up local military camps.

"These 200,000 new soldiers are reserve forces and form a layer of defense to prevent the enemy from advancing directly to Beijing."

Marquis Liyang explained to the prince and courtiers.

When everyone heard that this was to prevent the enemy from advancing directly to Beijing, everyone agreed. Some even suggested that they could recruit more people. Would two hundred thousand be too little?

"We can only recruit another 200,000 yuan. If we recruit more, I'm afraid that the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Works will not be able to bear it."

Zhou Changan nodded.

Hu Butu, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, also nodded hurriedly.

The Ministry of Industry is responsible for forging weapons for the army. The weapons and equipment for the previous army of 200,000 people have already made the Ministry of Industry's craftsmen's workshops work day and night, and they are overwhelmed.

Hu Butu cupped his hands to Marquis Liyang and said: "Master Hou, I will definitely supervise the craftsman's workshop to work day and night.

But in a hurry, even though Xiaguan had already recruited all the blacksmiths near Shangjing, he also ordered iron mines across the country to increase the mining of iron materials and send them to Shangjing in time.

But if the Marquis wants to send out the 200,000 new soldiers in the near future, it will still be too late to complete the weapons and armor. "

Marquis Liyang said: "I want to use the new soldiers I have recruited to go south to Ezhou to stop Nanchu's attack. Mr. Hu, how many weapons and armor can you get?"

Since Nan Chu has crossed Chibi, the land of Ezhou is as flat as a river, and Marquis Liyang must send troops to stop it.

The only soldiers he can use now are the new ones he announced to the whole country a few days ago and are still recruiting.

Everyone is still scattered in various places, let alone training.

But now I can’t control that much.

Marquis Liyang has already decided that these people will not go to Beijing and will be sent directly to Xinyang by various state capitals.

Before Xinyang, when Chu Tianjiao recruited troops from Yuzhou, he built the Xinyang camp.

Xinyang is also close to Ezhou. In order to prevent the Southern Chu from conquering Ezhou from going north to capture Yuzhou and approaching Beijing, the Marquis of Liyang must also station troops in Yuzhou.

When I heard that Marquis Liyang wanted to station troops in Yuzhou.

Cui Gui, the Minister of War, said: "The Cui family of Xingyang will definitely support the military supply of the Xinyang camp. Even if the Cui family's children are hungry, they will save food and support the army."

Cui Gui's words were righteous, but he also had his own selfish motives.

Yuzhou is indeed close to Ezhou. If Nanchu invades, the Cui family will suffer heavy losses.

Marquis Liyang changed the gathering place of the army to Xinyang, which was in the interests of the Cui family.

If he could defend Yuzhou, he could save the Cui family. Cui GUI believed that even if he reported to the clan, the clan would agree.

Marquis Liyang was certainly happy to get the support of Xingyang Cui family.

Zhou Chang'an said: "I previously issued an order to implement a wartime tax system across the country, and aristocratic families from all over the country opposed it. If other aristocratic families have the same awareness as the Cui family, then why worry about not being able to collect food and salary!"

Chu Ye sarcastically said: "They will be willing when the troops come to the city."

Officials from aristocratic families who had previously opposed the wartime tax system in the DPRK turned their faces away.

At this time, Hu Butu, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, also calculated the number of weapons and armor that could be supplied. He said to Li Yanghou in embarrassment: "Master Hou, I am really sorry.

In addition to what was rushed to be produced before, the Ministry of Engineering is rushing to rush these days, and it can only provide at most 30,000 sabers, 20,000 arrowheads, and 10,000 pieces of armor. "

This means that the newly recruited recruits are not only going to the battlefield without training, but they don't even have weapons and equipment.

"Too little!"

Not only Marquis Liyang sighed like this, but all civil and military officials in the court stared at Hu Butu and expressed their sighs.

Hu Butu became anxious and kept explaining at the top of his lungs that it was a miracle that he could produce so many from the beginning of the war to now.

Marquis Liyang knew that Hu Butu was not to blame.

If the imperial court doesn't issue an order, he usually doesn't dare to forge on a large scale!

If you want to forge, you have to allocate funds from the Ministry of Household Affairs to allocate iron materials and various materials!

Judging from the time Hu Butu just reported the quantity, it was indeed overtime work.

But how many troops can be equipped with such a small amount of supplies?

Thirty thousand sabers, that is, thirty thousand soldiers, of whom twenty thousand had to fight naked without any armor.

There are too few arrowheads, 20,000 arrowheads, that is, 20,000 arrows.

Arrows are consumables. In an ordinary battle, they will consume more than that.

Marquis Liyang knew that there were still some old armors and weapons replaced by Yangguan soldiers in Ganzhou, but he couldn't talk about it here.

The weapons and armor of the Ganzhou garrison have been replaced with new ones this year, which were made by Chu Tianjiao secretly mining iron ore and refining them.

Marquis Liyang could only ask the new soldiers to rush to Ezhou first, and then send a message to Ganzhou to send the old weapons and armor to the Xinyang camp.

Marquis Liyang said: "Master Hu Shangshu, it is too late to rely solely on the Gongbu Craftsman Workshop and the blacksmiths near Shangjing.

It would be better for the Ministry of Industry to authorize various state governments to summon private blacksmiths to make some weapons locally and send them to the front line.

However, this involves many legal restrictions of the imperial court, which requires the prince and Prime Minister Wang to organize a study on how to do it more reasonably. "

After being reminded by Li Yanghou, my thoughts suddenly opened up.

The laws and various issues involved were all raised in the court.

The ministers and ministers of various departments brainstormed and discussed until late at night under the auspices of Prime Minister Wang, and finally came up with an emergency solution.

On this day, in the imperial city, all the civil and military officials from the country finally had the momentum to unite and overcome the difficulties together.