Listening to the news brought back by the spies, Shi Wanshan and Ning Wenfeng, who was traveling with him, all showed a look of exclamation on their faces.

Looking at the treatment of mercenary soldiers, looking at the treatment of their Beiming soldiers, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is one heaven and one earth. If you want to say that Xuanfu is better here, at least Shi Wanshan will not deduct the soldiers' salaries too much, and most of the soldiers still live a good life. Compared with some other places, the army is still dominated by military households, and they give a little land every year, but they only collect less rent, and they can't see a fight for money at all, so why should they sell their lives when they are fighting?

"It's not the same fate, such an army is far from something we can defeat, unless..."Ning Wenfeng sighed.

"Unless what?" Shi Wanshan asked with a glimmer of hope.

"Unless the mercenaries run out of money and can't support such a huge military spending, then the army may not fight and be in chaos, which is our chance. It's just the financial resources of the mercenaries ... Alas. When Ning Wenfeng said this, he sighed.

Some things are just a matter of thinking about it. Not to mention, with the income of the greenhouses in the winter of Sicheng, I don't know how much silver can be earned from the fresh vegetables sold. For this point, Shi Wanshan hadn't thought about imitating it before, but how did the greenhouse cloth come about, and how much silver is needed to make it is a big problem. What's more, once these greenhouses are really completed, who is the income, I'm afraid that before they can make up their minds in Xuanfu and Wanquan Dusi, the officials of the Northern Ming Dynasty will stretch out their hands one after another, if that's the case, isn't it making wedding dresses for others?

No one wants to do thankless things. Shi Wanshan could only dispel this thought. Now when he heard Ning Wenfeng say that unless there is a problem with the mercenaries' financial resources, maybe their opportunity will appear, he shook his head and said, "This problem will not appear for the time being. I'm afraid you already know that the mercenaries also have a large military base, which is on Xiaoliuqiu Island, and the development there must have far exceeded our imagination, and how much money can be made from the things produced there is not at all what you and I can guess. ”

With the arrival of 200,000 Han Chinese and 30,000 intellectual youths in the city, the problem of the city is finally no longer a secret, and some legends about it can now be heard on the streets and alleys. It's like a light that can be emitted at night, and it can shine as if it were daytime, which is something that no one who has ever been there can imagine.

The news leaked, and there is no way to do it. After all, there are 200,000 people, and no one can guarantee that they are all people who abide by secrets, and with the lure of spies from all sides, the news quickly spread. For this matter, Director Feng Liang first grasped some people, and after finding that it was useless, he asked Yang Chendong, and then the Security Bureau began to take the initiative to release all kinds of news, such as what is the air of immortals in the sky above the Red Embedded City, which supports the light there during the day and night, like the gold and silver placed on the avenue of the Red Embedded City, and no one picks it up, and the artillery in the mercenary camp of the city is no longer placed, and some are simply squeezed into the sea, etc.

In short, the news is varied, and there are all kinds of things. It's getting more and more mysterious, and it's getting more and more unbelievable. In the end, in addition to getting the mercenary headquarters possibly established on the island of Minor Ryukyu, useful information was not in one.

Shi Wanshan sighed, and Ning Wenfeng also couldn't think of any good way. The two of them stared at each other with big eyes, lamenting that they were born at the wrong time, and even faintly worried about Beiming's future.

A few blocks away from the guest house, the Yang Mansion, as the most mysterious and respected existence in the First City, is also holding a meeting here at this moment, discussing how to meet the 80,000 army of Tokto.

"Robbers, all robbers." One of the participants, Yu Qian, the lord of Shicheng City, said angrily.

It's no wonder that he is so angry, this time he will personally lead the army to come, and even bring the elite of the Tatar Iron Cavalry, on the surface he is dissatisfied with the sixth young master's title of Heavenly Khan, but in fact it is just an excuse to find for himself to forcibly occupy this place.

Shijo has everything it has now, but it was not blown by a strong wind, but it was built through the efforts of countless people and a huge amount of silver. Even now, it seems that there are many ways to generate income in the city, such as commercial tax, land tax, house rent, greenhouse vegetables, and large-scale horse and sheep farms, etc., but in fact, there is still a huge difference compared with the input. According to the sixth young master's earliest plan, it was already very good to be able to break even within three years.

This is also because Shicheng is the first big city on the grassland, and it itself occupies many innate conditions. And once the city becomes more, there is still some influence on each other, and at that time, if you want to invest in a city to reach breakeven, and even start to make money, I am afraid that it will not be possible to do it in five years.

So much money and effort has been put into it. Now that the situation in Shicheng is starting to improve and prosper, someone will immediately fight their idea, and it is no wonder that Yu Mian, who is used to being angry, will be so angry. He's always treated Shijo like his own child.

"Yes, they just took a fancy to the status and resources of the First City, and they originally started the war to plunder. If they really let them occupy this place, I am afraid that it will not be long before this place will return to the depression of the previous city of Arahumaqi. Wang Si, the dean of Shicheng College, also said in agreement. Then it seemed to remember something, and he smiled.

"Dean Wang, what are you laughing at?" Yu Mian on the side asked puzzled.

"Oh, nothing. I heard that there is another reason why Tokhtar does not spend time to enter Shicheng, that is, it is the disrespect of the sixth young master to Genghis Khan, and that he once said in poetry that a generation of Tianjiao, Genghis Khan, only knows how to bend the bow and shoot the eagle. said that this is the sixth young master's metaphor that their ancestor can only shoot birds with a bow, ahaha, hahaha. ”

When he said this, Wang Si couldn't control himself anymore, and couldn't stop covering his stomach and laughing at such a serious meeting.

Not only him, but also many participants laughed at this moment. The original meaning of this was that the sixth young master said that Genghis Khan was brave and unstrategic, but it was interpreted like this, but literally, there seems to be nothing wrong with it.

Yang Chendong, who was sitting in the first place, also smiled, and then raised his right arm slightly, and suddenly the meeting became extremely quiet. "Well, there is no need to say anything about the robbers, I said a long time ago, in this world, sometimes it is useless to reason, in the end it depends on who has the biggest fist, that is the last word. The so-called soldiers will block, and the soil will cover the earth, that is, they will come to find death without flowers, and we will fulfill them. Humang, how is the training of the New First Army now? ”

was named, and Hu Mang, the only one in the audience with the rank of major general, stood up, "Young master, the situation is very good." The general trend is that there are too many young men in the grassland who want to join the mercenary army now, this is where the pressure lies, and finally joined the army, occupying a place, in order not to lose all the soldiers are training hard, no one dares to be lazy, for fear of being squeezed out by others. ”

"Okay, being able to train independently, this is the best, only if you are really willing, the trained can be a strong army, an iron army, and an undefeated army." Yang Chendong raised his forehead with satisfaction after hearing this, and then looked at Yang Er on the other side and asked, "How is the situation of the logistics division?" How many recruits are being trained, how many prisoners can be sent into battle right away, and how many reservists are available? ”

"Young master, the current logistics division has 10,000 recruits in training, and in half a month, the first stage can basically be over, and in one month, most of the pro-soldier training procedures can be completed, and you can consider officially entering the army; There were fifteen thousand prisoners, and they were all the kind of people who could go into battle at any time; There were 10,000 young men from the grasslands in the reserves, and they mainly studied Chinese and Chinese in normal times, and were also responsible for cultivating grain fields and doing construction work in the city, which was also a way to exercise their mental and physical strength. Once you have passed the initial assessment, you can be transferred to the recruit area for training at any time, waiting for the opportunity to replenish the army. ”

"Well, thirty-five thousand, quite a few." Yang Chendong is also quite satisfied with the work of the logistics division. It was said that if he wanted to, he could now form an army, but considering the financial pressure, this idea was abandoned by him.

The salaries of mercenary soldiers are very high, and even some are too high, once the number of troops is too large, the pressure on the city lord's mansion will become more and more great, which does not meet the line of elite soldiers set by Yang Chendong, and the original requirements of grasping the army with one hand and the economy with the other.

"Okay, don't recruit new soldiers for the time being, and replenish it according to the actual situation after this battle." Yang Chendong gave an order to Yang Er, and then looked at the others and said: "Just last night, Yang Si, who was building Mobei City, sent a message, saying that the tribes of Mobei Mongolia were willing to contribute to Shicheng's resistance to the provocation of Tokhok Buhua, saying that they could send 20,000 troops, and that they didn't need military salaries, nor did they need to equip them with war horses and sabers, as long as they made military merits on the battlefield, they would be rewarded according to the standards of mercenaries." If you unfortunately die in battle, you can also implement the mercenary pension standard, but considering that their comprehensive quality may be far inferior to that of mercenaries, so in the area of pension, they only need half of our soldiers, let's talk about their own opinions. ”

"I don't need to." Yang Chendong's words just fell, and everyone at the meeting was gossiping.