After Lu Xiangsheng heard this, he almost didn't laugh out loud, the current Fu Deming, the head of the household department, is a bit like a housekeeper's wife, talking without talking, and even a bit like a market vendor, calculating, and even refutes the military department's plan to use troops in front of the saint.

But on the other hand, it is not easy to be in the household, although the world is relatively peaceful now, but after all, the foundation of the Great Middle and North Korea is still very thin, and it is really a bit unbearable for the Great Middle and North Korea to use so many people to start a big war at once.

Fighting a war is different from raising troops in peacetime, the food consumption of marching operations will be much more than usual, and mules and horses should also supplement their physical fitness with concentrate feed, in addition to food, the large and medium army also has a great demand for other materials, especially the supply of various ammunition, which will also be astronomical.

But Lu Xiangsheng also has a bitter hatred for Jiannu, as soon as he thinks of the Xuanda soldiers and Shanxi soldiers who were slaughtered by Jiannu with him, Lu Xiangsheng can't wait to send more soldiers and horses to wipe out Jiannu in one fell swoop, and kill them cleanly.

However, as the prime minister of the DPRK, he now knows that he cannot think about the problem in this way, he has to think more comprehensively, and he must take into account all aspects of the matter, so he must also pay enough attention to the objections raised by the household department.

Xiao Tianjian nodded slightly after hearing this, but he opened his mouth and asked: "What Fu Aiqing said is also reasonable, but I know that the agricultural recovery in Hebei and Shandong last year was good, and now the grain produced is basically self-sufficient, and there is still a certain amount of surplus grain in Shandong, and Shaanxi's demand for foreign grain will also be reduced a lot from this year, and Shanxi's grain can basically meet the needs."

Hubei, Hunan, Anhui, and Jiangsu had a good harvest last autumn, and the reason why there was so little grain collected was mainly because we reduced the grain allowance in many places last year, but there was still a lot of grain in the people in stock!

Why can't we use the money to buy more grain from the private sector to meet the needs of this Northern Expedition? ”

When Fu Deming heard this, he immediately shook his head and said: "Qi Qi Sheng, although what the Holy Lord said is good, but the Holy Lord has not thought about it, last year, the various expenditures of this dynasty were also very large, and the various places invested huge in agriculture and water conservancy, just repairing the Yellow River embankment in Henan, the expenditure was very huge, and the Holy Lord asked to build roads in various places, which also accounted for a lot of financial expenditure!"

Last year, the construction and expansion of shipyards along the coast and the construction of warships for the navy also cost a huge amount, and the income of the household department for the whole of last year, after deducting these expenditures, was simply negative, and the household department could not come up with much money to purchase grain from the people, and once a large amount of grain was purchased, it was bound to raise the price of grain, and this would have too great an impact on the local people's livelihood! ”

Xiao Tianjian habitually touched the beard on his chin, frowned and thought for a while, what Fu Deming said was the truth, the south was only initially decided last year, in order to stabilize the situation in the southern provinces, last year, Dazhongchao exempted a lot of taxes from several provinces, and the fiscal revenue can be said to be beyond the means, and at present, the maritime trade group company has not made too much profit, plus they also have to purchase new big ships, and they can't provide too much support for the finance at present, so the household department is indeed not having a good time.

So he thought about it for a while and then said: "We can unify the price of grain procurement, and all localities should strengthen the monitoring of grain merchants. So I don't think there is much of a problem in controlling food prices!

As for the lack of money in the household department, I thought it would be easy to do, and now there are not many rich people in the country who keep their money at home? The mainland is now restricting the annexation of land, for them this money is not spent, and they do not dare to easily take out the money to invest in industry and commerce, always thinking about buying more land.

I thought that it was better to take advantage of this opportunity to meet their needs and issue a war treasury bond in China, the specific amount of which was determined by your household department, in short, as long as it could meet the needs of this Liaodong war! ”

Fu Deming's face collapsed when he heard this, and he bowed to Xiao Tianjian and said: "Qi Song Sheng, this dynasty has issued two treasury bonds since the second year of Tianyuan, and the amount of treasury bonds has reached 26 million dragon coins, which will already take five years for this dynasty to pay off, and if the war treasury bonds are issued again, how long will it take for the household department to pay them off!" ”

Xiao Tianjian immediately shook his head and laughed: "Fu Aiqing doesn't have to worry, the war bonds issued this time, we can use the land in Liaodong after this war to pay off the creditors, and we can use the land in Liaodong to pay off these people who bought the war bonds, don't they want land?" There is too much land in Liaodong, just give it to them!

Moreover, after this battle in Liaodong, I thought that there would not be many people left, and in the future, a large number of immigrants to Liaodong would be needed, so that these rich people could get the land first, so that it would be more convenient to speed up the immigration outside the customs in the future, which can be said to be the best of both worlds!

As for your household department thinking that this time there are too many troops, I think this matter can be discussed, and it is okay to reduce some troops, but the main force still has to be guaranteed!

In this way, the military department will adjust the original plan, and a division of the Central Plains Army will not go again! In addition, the Northern Army can also reduce the strength of a division, so that the household department can reduce a lot of pressure! ”

Fu Deming heard that this is a good way, Liaodong is already vast and sparsely populated, plus after the big Chinese army goes out of the customs, it will definitely kill a lot of Jiannu, in order to strengthen the control of Liaodong in the future, it is inevitable to immigrate outside the customs, the best way to emigrate is to use the land to attract people from the customs, and now use these land that has not yet arrived as collateral to collect the surplus money of some landlords' families, even if they do not want the land outside the customs in the future, the household department can also sell the land outside the customs in the future. Take the money to pay off this war debt.

However, for Xiao Tianjian's hypocritical proposal to reduce the strength of the two divisions, it is simply fooling their household department, two or two divisions are 20,000 people, even if they don't go, there is not much expenditure, so Fu Deming greatly slandered Xiao Tianjian's fake belly in his heart.

But Xiao Tianjian's words immediately made Liu Bao quit, originally Liu Bao felt angry because he couldn't personally participate in the battle of Liaodong, but the Ministry of War asked them that the Central Plains Army could send an elite division to participate in the Northern Expedition, which was also a comfort for their Central Plains Military Region.

Xiao Tianjian immediately filmed these two guys, and now he intends to let the cabinet ministers do more things, can't everything be tossed by these soldiers, the necessary compromise is still needed, so the opposition of the two guys is invalid, and it was directly rejected by Xiao Tianjian, which made Liu Bao gasp angrily, but he was helpless.

After some discussion, the deployment of troops for the Northern Expedition was finally decided, and the number of troops sent was reduced by two infantry divisions compared with the original plan of the Ministry of War, but Xiao Tianjian pulled out the cavalry battalions of several divisions of the Central Plains Army in disguise, temporarily organized into an independent cavalry regiment, and joined the Northern Expedition.

This made Liu Bao somewhat regain a little balance, after all, this out-of-pass operation, more cavalry is needed to deal with Jiannu's cavalry, relying on infantry alone, defeating Jiannu, but it is difficult to annihilate them, after defeating them, you must rely on cavalry to pursue, in order to completely kill Jiannu, so this is also the reason why Xiao Tianjian found a way to draw cavalry to go out.

The reason why the Northwest Army wanted to mobilize a cavalry division to participate in the battle was precisely because their Northwest Army had the strongest cavalry strength, so the military headquarters had to draw elite cavalry divisions from them to participate in the battle.

"Let's talk about the situation on Jiannu's side during this time! Let everyone understand that only by knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent can one not be defeated! After Xiao Tianjian agreed on the scale of the troops with the ministers, he said to Li Xin again.

Li Xin then stood up again and replied: "Venerable Saint, and all my colleagues! Today's Jiannu, after more than two years ago after the fiasco, has long ceased to be fierce, under the calculation of the Holy Lord and your lords, now the Mongolian Eight Banners have long been dissatisfied with the Jiannu, and most of them no longer obey the call of Jiannu, many Mongolian tribes, are openly or secretly in contact with our dynasty to trade, and some tribes have made it clear that they are willing to accept the rule of our dynasty, in exchange for the survival of their tribes in the future!

In the past two years, in order to suppress the Mongols and our courts, Jiannu has repeatedly sent troops into Tatar to massacre some tribes that do not obey them, which is counterproductive and has made the Mongols even more resentful of them.

In order to avoid the attack of Jiannu, some Mongolian tribes either went north to Mobei, or went south into the Hetao, in short, they will no longer listen to Jiannu's call!

As for North Korea, at the end of the year before last, it had been announced that they were a vassal country of our Great Middle Korea, and they would no longer support Jiannu to use troops against Great Middle Korea, nor would they pay tribute to Jiannu, so Jiannu originally wanted to use troops against North Korea again, but after General Luo learned the news last year, he led the army to launch an attack on Jinzhou, forcing Jiannu to give up the march to North Korea, so Jiannu could not get a large amount of North Korean food and material support at the moment!

After the defeat of the Emperor Taiji Tianyuan in the first year, the prestige of the Jiannu fell a lot, although he still controlled the two yellow flags, but because of the defeat in the Jiannu, some people put forward the idea of asking him to abdicate and let Dolgon succeed to the throne.

So Huang Taiji tried to kill Dolgon, but Dolgon was stationed in Jinzhou and refused to return to Shengjing, where Jiannu was ordered, and Huang Taiji did not dare to do anything to Dolgon's brothers easily, and now Jiannu was divided into two factions, one faction was headed by Huang Taiji, and the other was headed by Dolgon, and internal strife continued.

And Huang Taiji is said to have been in the past two years, the body is not as good as a day, and it is rumored that he has been unable to get out of bed and walk recently, and the Shengshang defeated the Jiannu army in the battle of Tongzhou, so that Huang Taiji's son Haoge disappeared, and never returned to the Guanwai, and it is estimated that he has long since died in the Guannei.

And Huang Taiji's other sons are either young, or have no talent, for a time Huang Taiji failed to establish a prince, and now they Jiannu in order to compete for the throne after Huang Taiji's death, there is a big dispute, so Jiannu has been unable to attack the south again in the past two years, and has instead taken a defensive position to prevent our dynasty from suddenly using troops against it!

In addition, because the Shengshang arrested and killed a large number of merchants who secretly communicated with Jiannu, and also arrested and killed a lot of fine work for Jiannu, and after controlling Dengzhou and Jiaodong, he completely cut off the channels of trade between Jiannu and Guannai from the land and sea, which made Jiannu's life very difficult, and there was a big drought outside Guanzhou last summer.

In addition, after the defeat of Shanhaiguan at the beginning, Jiannu lost a large number of Han army flags of the Han army, which made the Han people outside the Guanwai cold, in the past two years, there have been Han people trying to escape from Liaodong and defect to Ningyuan, for which Jiannu has increased the control of the Han people outside the Guan, in order to prevent the Han people outside the Guanxi from returning south, killing a lot of Han people, making the population outside the Guanwai even more withered, and more and more land has been forced to abandon the wasteland.

This has caused a serious shortage of grain in the Liaodong area where Jiannu is located since last year, which has caused the price of grain in Liaodong to rise to an unprecedented level of nearly ten taels of silver per stone of grain, and even so, there is no food on the market, resulting in many people in the city being starved to death.

For this reason, Jiannu also tried to invade the south again, but the Liaodong army held the Ningyuan area to the death, so that Jiannu did not dare to go south easily, and could only go to the Tatar steppe to plunder the Mongols, which intensified the contradiction between the Mongols and Jiannu, and made the relationship between them almost incompatible.

Therefore, now is the time when Jiannu is the weakest, and the use of troops against Jiannu at this time can ensure that Jiannu will be wiped out in one fell swoop! ”

After listening to Li Xin's brief introduction to the situation of Jiannu outside the Guan, the participants all showed joy, Jiannu has been rampant outside the Guanguan for decades, and now after the defeat in the first battle of Shanhaiguan, it has rapidly begun to decline, and it is no longer as fierce as it was in the past, and its situation can be described as precarious.

"Good! That's what I want! Now is the time to take advantage of his illness to kill him! Our original strategy to divide the relationship between the Jiannu and the Mongols has now paid off! After Jiannu lost the Mongols, his lackey, he became a cripple as if he had broken his leg, and now is the time for me to clean them up once and for all! Xiao Tianjian immediately let out a hearty laugh, waved his hand and said to the ministers in the hall with a heroic voice.

"Lu Aiqing, you can also tell everyone about the news you received a few days ago!" After Xiao Tianjian laughed, he said to Lu Xiangsheng.

Lu Xiangsheng immediately nodded and said to the participants with a smile: "Jiannu has been falling apart internally in the past two years, and a few days ago, the slave chief Dolgon secretly sent someone to sneak into the pass, asking to meet the saint, and was captured by the Liaodong army and sent to Nanjing!"

After Dolgon learned the news of the pacification of the south, he realized that the next step of our dynasty would be to do something against it, so he wanted to make peace with my dynasty in private, on the condition that our dynasty supported him to ascend the throne, once our dynasty helped him enter Shengjing outside the Guan, he was willing to abdicate and become king, no longer emperor, in the future their so-called Great Qing Kingdom is willing to be a vassal state of our dynasty forever, accept the canonization of our emperor, and never be the enemy of our dynasty again! ……”

After Luo Li heard this, he didn't wait for Lu Xiangsheng to finish speaking, so he scolded in a thick voice: "Phew! This bastard thinks beautifully! You want us to help him get on the throne, so that he can continue to entrench in Liaodong in peace and life, disgusting us! It's really a person who doesn't know how ugly he is, a horse doesn't know how long his face is, and he doesn't pee according to his virtue, he also deserves it! ”

Xiao Tianjian's face sank and shouted, "Luo Li! Licentious! What kind of place is this, Lord Lu is talking, how can you jump out and interrupt? If you dare to talk more, I will order someone to fork you out and throw you out of the palace! ”

As soon as Luo Li heard Xiao Tianjian's words, his face turned white with fright, and he quickly knelt down and confessed his guilt again and again, and turned his head to confess to Lu Xiangsheng, Xiao Tianjian let him stand up, and honestly retreated to the column to listen to Lu Xiangsheng continue.

After Lu Xiangsheng laughed for a while, he didn't think it was Xu either, and after saying some forgiveness for Luo Li, he continued: "But I'm afraid what you didn't expect is that when Dolgon sent people into the customs, the Nu Chief Taiji also sent people into the customs!"

This Huang Taiji actually has the same plan as Dolgon, saying that in the future, he Huang Taiji is willing to be a vassal to the Dazhong Dynasty from now on, and is willing to take the Daling River as the boundary in the future and return Jinzhou and other places south of the Daling River to our court, but the premise is that I will take Jinzhou back by myself, in fact, I will ask us to do it on his behalf and solve the three Dolgon brothers stationed in Jinzhou! Even if we fail to get rid of the three Dolgon brothers, at least we will expel them from Jinzhou, in that case, it will give Huang Taiji a chance to get rid of the three Dolgon brothers! ”

After everyone listened, they all looked at each other, and then suddenly, including Xiao Tianjian, they couldn't help but laugh, and they all started laughing out loud at the beginning.

(Today, I will continue to thank General Mao Mao's friends for their tips!) Hehe! ）