"If it weren't for Ben Hou's alarmist remarks, the situation is like this, and I hope that General Chen will give priority to the navy today, step up the training of sailors, and not slack off for a moment."

"This matter is very important, and it needs to be approved by the king and Sima Fu, and the last general has no troops to adjust now."

General Chen can rest assured that there will be an approval document immediately after returning to China. In addition, starting next year, there will be no need to continue to explore the open seas, and we will concentrate our forces on training sailors to thoroughly understand all the sea conditions in the waters north of our Xian country, so as to facilitate the next Japanese war. ”

"The last will be ordered."

"The general came from afar, Ben Hou immediately arranged for the two to rest for a few days, temporarily stay in Jinye City for a few days, and after the enthronement ceremony of the Son of Heaven is over, it is not too late for the two generals to return to Tianyungang."

"Thank you Lord Hou for your understanding."

The father and son of the Chen family stood up and saluted, and Bai Liyan and Wei Qi said:

"Please ask the two generals and their entourage to go to the East Wing for a while."

"My subordinates understand."

When the Chen family's father and son left, Zong Botai, who had never spoken, said worriedly:

"I'm afraid that King Xian and the internal and external dynasties won't believe this matter, and the Hou Ye must be prepared."

"Sir's worries are not unreasonable, no one in the world believes in it, and it may not be easy for the king to accept it. Moreover, the navy consumes such financial resources, and the king probably will not agree to build warships on a large scale.

However, the navy is not my main focus, even if I go all out to build warships now, in five years there will only be more than 200 10,000-stone warships, which is a drop in the bucket compared to the coastline of the Central Plains, which stretches for tens of thousands of miles. Therefore, the focus of this Hou is still on the infantry army and the fortress of the city, as long as the land is still in the hands of our army, as long as it can be dragged for five or ten years, there will be special planes. ”

Outside of the agrarian military system, the accumulation of industrialized personnel and armaments is a medium- and long-term process, and the navy's ship manufacturing cycle is long, and Bailiyan no longer has the time and economic resources to arm the navy, and a short period of three or five years is not enough to change the navy's disadvantages.

However, the Central Plains is a vast country with plenty of space and population markets for internal trade, and zero dependence on overseas trade outside the mainland, and even if the sea control is lost, there is plenty of space for trade and transportation in inland rivers, so the key is still in the army.

At best, the current navy is still stuck in a simple blockade and coastal aggression, without the threat of aviation carrier-based aircraft and missiles, and the navy's radiation to the interior is only within the range of artillery.

The Xian State had strong fortresses and cities, and had new artillery and individual weapons with excellent range, but any ship that dared to approach it was far more effective in firing at a land fortress than a ship at sea. Therefore, the main task of the Xianguo Navy is to guard the mouth of the Wangqin River, defend the inland shipyards, and concentrate more resources to equip the army.

The next morning, Bai Liyan was invited to the main hall of the Chengdao sect to meet Mo Qingzi.

Compared with the vague stance of the foolish and the eloquent arguments, which tend to the political proposition that "the prince and the prince will be the prime minister, and everyone can be the emperor", the Chengdao faction is a staunch conservative. Twenty years earlier, the Black Turban Rebellion, Uncle Guang came to the door to offer advice, and brokered the cooperation between the Xian State and the Liang State, and faced the common enemy, which was also happy at that time.

However, since the rise of the Xian State and the monopoly of steel and pearls, the situation has changed, and as a potential power, the attitude of the Chengdao faction has changed greatly, and this meeting may not be the last, but it will definitely be the dirtiest.

The station of the Chengdao sect is located on the shore of Taochun Lake in the southwest of the city, covering an area of 70 acres, and at first glance there are no outstanding pavilions and palaces, nor are there gorgeous halls and dojos. But looking at the row of wings are scattered, the format style of the school hall is dotted, the hall is full of seats, kneeling full of protégés, the master on the stage is reasoning, the protégés under the stage listen seriously, a simple and unpretentious preaching and teaching "grand scene".

The reason why it is said to be a prosperous scene is to a large extent because of the failure of the strategy of the foolish school and the heroic school and the aiding and abetting, which contributed to the prosperity of the Chengdao school. To put it mildly, sit back and wait for the opponent to die, and lie down and become a winner.

Fundamentally speaking, the Chengdao faction is poisoning the next generation of young people, spreading backward ideas, wasting extremely limited intellectuals, and continuing to pay for their mistakes.

There is no problem with the monarchy of the Liang Dynasty and even the previous dynasties, but the problem is the irrationality of the policy and the unreasonable distribution of interests. The Chengdao faction rigidly maintains the inherent traditional political propositions, even if he Bailiyan does not overthrow him, there are people who overthrow him.

Sooner or later, the loose feudal monarchy will be replaced by a centralized imperial system, and it will eventually be spurned by the times.

Of course, Bai Liyan can say such cool words in the history of human civilization for 5,000 years, for the people of the time, the limitations of history imprisoned the extension of thought, and the cognition of the Chengdao school could not see through the surface of reality that the essence behind the ruling power was the social productive forces and production relations, and naturally could not put forward measures to reform the status quo.

The place to meet Mo Jianzi is arranged in the "Sage House" of the main hall, which has a complex meaning and gives people countless associations. "Xian" can be homophonic to "Xian", it can also be "Xian", it can also be "Wei Xian", and it is the Son of Heaven.

Mo Jianzi is not very old, he is in his prime, forty and five, he is still quite young, only three or two years older than Bailiyan, compared with the previous ones, he drove the crane west after a few years, and he was more than ten years younger.

Prior to this, Mo Jianzi had heard a little about Bailiyan, but he didn't know much about him.

Looking at his face, he is also kind and kind-eyed, with a medium stature and a purple coarse cloth deep coat, his appearance is not outstanding, his eyebrows are a little sparse, his eyes are slightly larger, his mouth and nose are similar to ordinary people, his jaw has a long beard, his temples have short hair, and his face is flat and he can't see what is poisonous at the bottom.

But from a medical point of view, this person should be very energetic, at least the nosy and often worried type.

Outside of Mo Chungzi, there are more than 20 masters and masters of the Chengdao sect sitting on the left and right sides of the house, which is not so much a meeting as a question.

"Hou Bailiyan in Yongxing, Xiaxian Country, was invited to come, and I am courteous here."

Respectfully bowed, Mo Chungzi, who was sitting in the center of the room, looked at it and said:

"Yongxing Hou, please take a seat."

Mo Jianzi motioned to the first row on the right side of the seat next to each other, and Bai Liyan saluted again:

"Master Xie."

When he sat down, Mo Qingzi said first:

"Yongxing Hou is Gui Geng this year."

"Ben Hou has one in forty this year."

"Oh...... It was in the prime of life. ”

Mo Jianzi's words seem to be plain, but in fact, the listener has intentions. To put it simply, it's "You're so young." It's complicated to say, "You want to live another thirty years and continue to do evil." ”

Bai Liyan didn't plan to answer, so she returned the original words and said:

"The master in charge is forty-five this year, and he is still so energetic and energetic, Ben Hou is very envious."

"Huh...... Compared with Yongxing Hou Rili, he has every opportunity to work on state affairs, and he really doesn't dare to do it. I think that Uncle Guang once said that Yongxing Hou will be unparalleled in the world when he lowers his strength, and he will make great achievements in the future, but now that he looks at it, what Uncle Shi said is really true, hehe......"

Mo Qingzi smiled lightly, and smiled very calmly, as if everything was very light. However, this "one force to ten meetings" is a deep mystery.

The popular understanding of "one force to ten meetings" is that all conspiracies seem insignificant in the face of absolute power, and the normal understanding is a neutral word, occasionally biased towards praise, but in most cases it is to describe the windfall brought by savage growth.

Thinking carefully about the deep meaning of Mo Jianzi, "one force to ten meetings" obviously refers to Bailiyan reversing the situation in the Central Plains with the power of one person, making the Xianguo rise rapidly in just 20 years, barbarizing the existing political pattern and making things a mess.

In this regard, Baili Yanfu smiled:

"Hehaha...... Mo Qingzi has raised his own position, and he can turn things around with the power of one person. If there is no trust of our king, no soldiers to fight to the death, and no support of the people, even if this marquis has the talent to pass through the heavens and latitudes, he will not have the power to shake the world. All the credit is the credit of the monarchs and ministers of my Xianguo, how dare this marquis take the credit alone. ”

"Yongxing Hou is modest, it's steel making and pearls, and now Yongxing's great cause has been completed, and Yongxing Hou is in the prime of the world, don't you think of anything else?"

"Huh...... Ben Hou just wants our country to have a good weather, the people live and work in peace and contentment, my king has a long life of 100 years and no borders, Ben Hou is already satisfied, as for other things, why should Ben Hou bother with that leisure. ”

"Now that the Xianguo country is strong and has enough money and grain, Yongxing Hou will inevitably waste it in the warehouse."

"Mo Jianzi's words are different." Bai Liyan retorted, and then said: "Money is used to spend, and you can earn it again if you spend it." Grain can be used to hoard, but our country's grain yield per mu is abundant, and it is meaningless to hoard grain, and our king pities Baixin's suffering, so the field endowment is very small, so our country's money and grain are really not abundant. I know all about this, and Mo Qingzi is so lonely and unheard, I can't help but be too careless. ”

"Hehe......"

Mo Jianzi smiled coldly, and from the bottom of his heart, he didn't believe Bailiyan's nonsense at all.

In fact, what Bai Liyan said is not false, the state treasury of Xianguo implements a financial budget system, so there is no surplus at the end of the year, and the surplus that exists in practice is transferred to the money bank for deposit investment and loan business, so after the state treasury budget is full, there is no extra money on the books except for leaving enough emergency funds.

The grain and grass reserves of Xianguo have been fully opened, and they are divided into five large areas: counties, cities, counties, national treasury, and markets. Only the national treasury grain is directly under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, and all counties, cities, and counties have their own grain and grass reserves, and the imperial court gives the minimum reserve lower limit, which is the grain used by the imperial court, and the lower limit is the local self-use grain, so as to set up a lower limit, which can encourage the local grain to grow and raise grain to start production.

At the same time, the fixed-point monopoly system was also implemented, and after the collection of land taxes every year, the grain institutions set up by the imperial court purchased surplus rations from the peasants in kind with copper coins and daily necessities.

Benefiting from agricultural technology to increase production and fertilization, the lower land endowment allowed the peasants to have more surplus grain to buy daily necessities, and the imperial court was able to obtain more grain in addition to the field endowment, which could be used for marketing or treasury storage.

It can not only promote the benefit of Singapore currency and goods to the lower class of the population, but also allow such measures to extend the commercial end to every natural village, activating domestic consumption and markets.

However, these measures may have changed in the eyes of outsiders, first of all, there is no money on the treasury books, and grain is hoarded in various administrative blocks.

Of course, Bai Liyan does not deny his ambition to engage in expansion, but there is no need to hide at all.