"I, Yafu, will pay my respects to Your Majesty!"

Zhou Yafu took Zhidu and Li Guang to the hall, bowed down and said.

"Give it to the prime minister, Jinwu, and the guard!" Liu Che ordered Wang Dao beside him, and then smiled at the three of them: "You should already know, Wusun was ambushed at Rouge Mountain and was basically destroyed.

, I am afraid that the arrogance of the Huns is about to rise again. I invite you to come to the palace to discuss this countermeasure!"

This is almost a no-brainer.

After the Huns destroyed the Yuezhi last time, they immediately came to Chang'an to show off their force and blackmail the Han monarchs and ministers.

It was that blackmailed marriage that made the Han Dynasty give this guy to the Xiongnu.

This matter has made the Han family gnash their teeth and feel ashamed to this day.

Now, the military officials have won such a big victory.

With his slutty character and inner desire to surpass his father and ancestors.

If he didn't come over to blackmail the Han Dynasty, it would be impossible.

Facing the blackmail that the Huns will inevitably come, it is worth considering whether the Han Dynasty will suffer this blow.

Judging from the results, there must be a war between the Han and Hungarians, and the war is not far away from breaking out. It may be as late as five or six years, or as soon as two or three years. The Han army that has completed the preparations for the war will inevitably leave the fortress.

So, getting stabbed now for strategic deception doesn't seem to be a big deal.

However, before the war, the country was still humiliating and humiliating, using money and silk women to sell peace.

Anyone with a bit of backbone will have unclear ideas.

This is just one of them.

In addition, the Huns have always been greedy and greedy.

Agreeing to their requests too easily may make these guys think that the Han Dynasty is easy to bully, and then make more unreasonable demands, or even invade on a large scale.

This is also unavoidable.

Liu Che didn't believe it. The Huns had no plan to invade the Han Dynasty.

For the nomadic people who have no fixed abode and live in pursuit of water and grass, picking up soft persimmons is always a good idea.

After Prime Minister Zhou Yafu took his seat, he said: "Your Majesty, I believe that the Xiongnu have always been fierce in appearance and soft in heart. If your Majesty shows them to be weak, I fear that they will be able to push forward and take advantage of the border! And the art of war says: If you are strong, you will show weakness, and if you are weak, you will show your weakness."

Then show them to be strong. Now that the Xiongnu are arrogant, your Majesty should show them to be strong. To eliminate the greed of others. There is no intention to act arbitrarily!"

Li Guang couldn't wait and said: "I would like to be sent out to guard one of the counties to guard the border wall for Your Majesty. If the Huns dare to provoke, I will take their heads as repayment to Your Majesty!"

Zhidu also said: "The beasts of Yi and Di have always been untrustworthy, and the lessons of the Warring States period are not far away. I also think that it is inappropriate to surrender!"

Okay. Liu Che has actually known for a long time that asking these three guys is a waste of time.

As the current representative of the Han Dynasty military hawks in the court, it is said that the butt determines the head. Even if Zhou Yafu and others were willing to compromise, they would not say it.

Not to mention, the generals and princes below have long felt that their axes have become too powerful, and they can't wait to make contributions and make their ancestors proud. There are countless people.

Under the influence of this trend of thought, expecting the military to preside over peace is like Boeing calling for peace. It is absolutely delusional!

As the country's violent machine, the army has long become a violent and violent machine in recent years under Liu Che's instigation and encouragement in secret and secretly.

Liu Che smiled and said: "Since the prime minister and others think that I should be treated toughly, then I will be treated toughly. Since Emperor Gao, our Han family has decorated women's wealth with silk to bribe Shan Yu. I don't want to live in such humiliating days again."

Take it!"

"I ask the Prime Minister to pass on my instructions to all the armies, all the captains, all the captains, and all the commanders and commanders: It is the fault of the generals if they are not diligent and not taught in how to use the army. It is also the fault of the soldiers if they fail to do their best in teaching clearly! Generals, list

Marquis, lieutenants, and Sima are the leaders of all armies. They should take the lead, teach clearly, practice military techniques diligently, and teach soldiers! The poem says: Jiujiao warriors are the strongholds of the country! Generals, lords, lieutenants, and Sima should know my intentions clearly.

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This is an extremely obvious order to order the mobile and field forces across the country to enter a quasi-war state. It can even be said to be a war mobilization order. With this order, the mobile and field forces of the Han Dynasty must enter a state of war readiness.

Prime Minister Zhou Yafu immediately showed a serious face, stood up, knelt down and accepted the edict: "I hereby obey the edict!"

Then, Zhou Yafu raised his head and said: "Your Majesty wants to organize the army to prepare for war and declare enlightenment. I, Yafu, will obey the order, but... I don't know how to spend this military expenditure..."

When Liu Che heard this, he knew that Zhou Yafu was eyeing his private treasury again.

Liu Che's small treasury has spent a lot in the past two years.

But you can make more money!

Last year and this year alone, Liu Che's small treasury accounted for at least close to one hundred thousand yuan in salt and iron.

In addition, last year, Shaofu purchased a large amount of wheat. As a result, this year after the development of flour technology, it made a lot of money, and its profit nearly tripled.

There is also this year's Xinhua dried fish. So far, the Shaofu has obtained at least more than three thousand dan of dried fish from Xinhua, with a market value of at least tens of millions.

Plus the profit from minting money.

At present, the funds in the inner treasury of the Shaofu are even more than when the late emperor was in power...

This really dazzled the government and the public, and many people didn't understand how this magic worked.

Since Taizong, the emperors of the Han Dynasty have worked so hard and frugally that they were reluctant to build a pavilion. Today, they spent more than half of it in just two years, and then earned back twice as much.

funds.

Although I don't understand why this is happening, it does not prevent Zhou Yafu and Liu Che from asking for money at all.

Of course Liu Che is not a miser.

In fact, history told Liu Che that although wars would drag down the economy most of the time, sometimes wars would lead to economic prosperity.

A large-scale war will inevitably drive the rapid development of related industries and even promote the revolution of the entire society.

Historically, the war against the Xiongnu during Xiaozhu's reign exhausted the national power of the Han Dynasty.

But it's not without its benefits.

It was the war that caused China to completely enter the Iron Age. After the Han Dynasty, the main areas of the country basically realized the transformation of iron tools, and bronze wares were completely eliminated.

It was also the war that forced northern agriculture to abandon corn as the main food and instead develop wheat cultivation.

That was done unintentionally.

Now, through advance planning and unified deployment, Liu Che is convinced that this war, at least before the outbreak and in the early stages, can become the driving force for the development of Han Dynasty industry and technology.

"I will ask the young master to allocate additional war funds every year. Starting next year, we will increase training funds by at least 30,000,000 yuan. In addition, we will also allocate at least 20,000 yuan in equipment replacement funds!" Liu Che said calmly:

"Also, I will order that most of the new dried fish be used as food for the army!"

In one breath, military spending increased by more than 50,000,000 yuan.

This good news almost shocked Zhou Yafu to the point where he could hardly stand still.

You know, in the past, the military expenditure for the whole year was probably no more than this.

The Han army currently implements a conscription system, and all soldiers come from civilians who serve voluntarily.

The expenditure on soldiers' salaries is almost infinitely close to zero.

That is to say, after Jinshang ascended the throne, he began to pay attention to the treatment of grassroots soldiers.

First, an edict was issued to increase the daily supply of corn for soldiers, and at the same time, they also increased the so-called allowances ranging from five to dozens of dollars per month.

Among them, local garrisons and non-field corps can receive a monthly allowance of five yuan per person, while soldiers in the Great Wall garrison, border garrison and field corps will receive between 15 and 40 yuan, depending on the combat soldiers and auxiliary soldiers.

Money allowance.

These allowances all go to the account of the Shaofu, and are jointly supervised by Lantai Shangshu, Yezhe and Shizhong. They are distributed once every six months to the local garrison, and are jointly sung by the local supervisory censor and the chief officer of the army.

Nuos were distributed one by one, and for field operations, the Great Wall, and frontier garrisons, the Shangshu of Lantai and the local county guards and generals presided over the distribution.

Not only soldiers have subsidies, but officers also have so-called allowances.

Starting from the corps leader, in addition to his original salary, he will be given corresponding allowances depending on his grade.

It was these two policies that allowed Jinshang to completely win over the morale of the world's military. The soldiers below were really grateful to Jinshang and were extremely grateful. This is why not long ago, the princes joined forces in tandem, and the emperor was able to crush him without any pressure despite the thunder and the rain.

That's why.

Just for these two policies, the Shaofu has spent nearly 80 million yuan in subsidies and millions of pounds of corn supplies in the past two years.

But Zhou Yafu and most of the courtiers with more than 2,000 shi knew exactly where the money came from...

Since the emperor came to the throne, he has confiscated the properties of criminal officials, powerful men and big merchants, as well as the donations from various merchants.

Among them, the Xuanqu and Ren family contributed nearly 50 million yuan in assets and more than 3,000 gold pieces of gold to the emperor.

In other words, the emperor's inner treasury actually did not spend much money at all.

All the money spent was money from prisoners, deposed princes, and confiscated merchants.

This is really dumbfounding.

But Jinshang seems to be very good at playing similar tricks.

For example, the Baoxie Road project was funded by the Cheng Zheng family and the Zhuo family, the rail carriage project from Chang'an to Hangu Pass was donated by Luoyang Master's family, and even the Longshou Canal was funded by money.

The money confiscated from those unlucky people.

This has to make people sigh, the old Liu family is really the same strain, and today we are the descendants of the Liu family who are more talented than others.

This moral integrity has fallen all over the floor!

However, this will not last long after all.

It wasn't until after the Yantie Guanying and Wuzhao Qian Guanying were established that everyone knew that the follow-up had been planned for this morning.

Since the emperor is so generous, Zhou Yafu did not want to be polite to the emperor, so he immediately thanked him and said: "Your Majesty is generous, I would like to thank you!"

"Prime Minister..." Liu Che stood up with a smile and asked: "According to the system, does the national treasury also have to bear part of it? We can't let the inner treasury pay for everything..."

Zhou Yafu's face turned pale instantly.

Treasury?!

How much money can the treasury have?
To be continued...