When he arrived in the corner, Wu Haowen, who had slept lazily, rushed to the new Xuande Gate south of Qionglin Palace in the west of the city under the escort of a group of Yuan Sui.

The new Xuande Gate is the main gate of Qionglin Palace, and like the Xuande Gate of the old imperial city in the center of Kaifeng Fucheng, it also faces south. However, the Qionglin Palace is located in the southwest, so you have to pass through a very long Xuande long street from the east of the Qionglin Palace to enter the square outside the new Xuande Gate.

Xuande Long Street is connected to the new royal street in the north of Qionglin Palace, which is very wide, and it is a straight avenue twenty steps wide. On the west side of the long street, there is the Qionglin Palace, which is a moat and several city gates, and the name is similar to the city gate of the old imperial city, but it is crowned with a "new" word.

On the side of the long street is a thousand-step corridor, and almost all of the shops selling breakfast in the corridor are there. It is for officials who get up early to go to court. Every morning before the court, when the officials pass through the Beihua Gate between Yujie and Xuande Long Street, they can solve the breakfast problem in the corridor of Xuande Long Street.

However, Wu Haowen was not an official in Beijing, so he did not have to go to the early dynasty. Today is just to be summoned to the palace to accompany Zhao Ji for lunch, and by the way, to discuss the matter of Feng Taishan and Guancanghai. So when he arrived at Xuande Long Street, most of those breakfast stalls were closed. Only a few stalls still have the elders of the officials who gather together to eat and drink.

Wu Haowen didn't pay attention to them, just rode his own horse, and when he was about to reach the new Donghua Gate, he suddenly heard someone shouting his name.

"Wangdao, but Wangdao?"

As soon as Wu Haowen turned around, he saw Ji Yi in a scarlet official uniform in front of a breakfast stall that had not yet closed, and was eating noodles with a red robe and a red hat that looked a bit like Fan Yangli.

"It turned out to be Brother Memory and Grand Abbot Virgil." Wu Haowen arched his hand at the two on horseback.

That person turned out to be Cardinal Virgil, the emissary of the Holy See, and his "cardinal" was translated by Murly as the abbot in red, which sounds very Chinese.

Now the ceremony of "All Nations Come to Dynasty" has been over for many days, but most of the foreign envoys have not left Kaifeng Mansion. Since most of the foreign missions coming by sea had to wait until the northwest wind picked up in the autumn before they could leave by boat, they were now confined to China.

And the Grand Abbot of Virgil is on a mission to spread the gospel of the Lord in China, so he can't leave.

After spending some time in Kaifeng Mansion, Grand Abbot Virgil discovered that the "Gospel of the Lord" had already been preached in China. During the Tang Dynasty, it was transmitted to China by the Assyrian Church in Persia - a Christian heresy founded by the former Patriarch of Constantinople, Nestorius, which somehow spread to China and became known as Nestorianism. However, as early as the Tang Dynasty, it was banned because of the Huichang Law, and later suffered a devastating blow because of the Huangchao Rebellion. Now there is no influence in the Central Plains, but there seem to be believers in the Divination Grassland.

It is said that there was a very powerful tribe called Kerebu, who believed in Jing.

After gaining an in-depth understanding of the Confucianism (Neo-Confucianism) of the Great Song Dynasty, the abbot of Virgil felt that it was difficult for the Christian doctrine to impress the Confucian students who "believed in the Lord but not in religion" (in Virgil's view, the principle of heaven is God, and Confucianism discovered the Lord through speculation, not the revelation, which is a very great achievement), so he turned to contact the Hindraffe and guide them to the right path.

Therefore, he had to stay in Kaifeng Mansion and wait for an opportunity to enter the Obbu Grassland to spread the true base religion to the Kereh Department.

And his plan, in Ji Yi's opinion, is also an opportunity to establish a connection between the Great Song Dynasty and the Obstruction Keree Department.

If you can win over the Keree Department to the side of the Great Song Dynasty, it will be a great achievement!

Therefore, he secretly wrote to Zhao Ji and reported his wishful thinking. Today, I got the will and took the Grand Abbot of Virgil to see Zhao Ji. When the two arrived outside the new Donghua Gate, it was still early, and the abbot of Virgil didn't eat breakfast because he was busy praying early in the morning, and now he was a little hungry, so he was taken by Ji Yi to eat soft sheep noodles.

Since the abbot doesn't know how to use chopsticks, Ji Yi has already asked people to prepare a three-piece set of "fork, spoon, and knife" for him to carry with him, and now the abbot is eating noodles with a fork - this three-piece set was not learned by Ji Yi from the West, in fact, the tableware used to eat in the West in this era is only knives and spoons, not forks. The three-piece set of "fork, spoon, and knife" that Ji Yi prepared for Virgil was an ancient Chinese tableware, and this was how chopsticks were eaten before they were popular. Until the Warring States and Western Han Dynasty, there was still the use of dinner forks and table knives.

"But enter the palace to face the king?" Ji Yi got up and saluted Wu Haowen, and asked with a smile.

"Yes," Wu Haowen said with a smile, "Brother Yi and the Great Abbot must also go to the Chongzheng Palace, right?" Let's go together. ”

"Okay," Ji Yi smiled, "Then I'm going to look at your light." ”

Ji Yi knew that Wu Haowen was now favored, and he was no less than his brother Wu Haogu. Others have to queue up slowly when they go to the Chongzheng Palace, but he sees him wherever he goes. Even if Zhao Ji is discussing with the prime minister, he can directly enter the palace. Because he is now in charge of the ceremony of "Feng Taishan and Watching the Sea", this is a big event, Ji Yi can follow him, and he can see Zhao Ji soon.

In addition, everyone knows that when Wu Haowen is busy with this matter, he should enter the court as an official. is not a bachelor of Hanlin, or a member of the Chinese Academy, and after he is thirty years old, he should be recommended to the second mansion! To be able to tie up such a backer, for Ji Yi, who has just lost his father-in-law, Lao Taishan, is a good thing that he can't ask for.

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Wu Haowen and Ji Yi talked and laughed, took the red-clothed abbot into the Donghua Gate together, and greeted the military attache guarding the door when they arrived at the Dongshang Gate, leaving Virgil behind, and then took Ji Yi to the Chongzheng Palace. As soon as the two arrived outside the hall, before the gate who led the way was announced, they heard Zhao Ji, the official in the hall, shouting.

Listen carefully, it turns out that Zhao Ji is scolding! It's actually a scolding martial arts good ancient......

"Wu Haogu, a profiteer, actually got to my head, ten thousand thousand! How did he figure it out? Yelu Yanxi's house only needs a few million, and he actually wants 10,000 ......"

In the Chongzheng Palace, the official Zhao Ji was holding Wu Haogu's recital in his hand, his face was pale, and he was scolding Wu Haogu for being a profiteer.

And the important ministers in the palace looked at each other, and no one took Zhao Ji's stubble.

It turned out that the general army engine room of the Xuanfu Division of Hebei Province made an "anti-Liao budget" and sent it to Zhao Ji's imperial front in the form of a concerto. In this "anti-Liao budget", Wu Haogu is no more, no less, and plans to spend a small goal first, that is, 10,000,000!

However, this budget of 10,000,000 yuan is not just a mouthful, but a careful calculation! The reason why there are so many is to a large extent in the defense and preparation of the four roads in Hebei.

After all, after the alliance of the Yuanyuan, the Great Song Dynasty did not really rectify the defense of Hebei, and it was all about tossing the Yellow River! In the course of the Sanyi Yellow River, it is not known how many originally intact city walls have collapsed. As for the place near the border of the Liao State, due to the constraints of the Lanyuan Alliance, the city wall has not been repaired for almost a hundred years, and only the Jiehe Shang City has committed crimes against the wind and built a tall and solid red wall.

Therefore, in the planning of the general army machine room of the Xuanfu Division in Hebei, the first thing is to build various city defense passes, arrange war defense equipment, hoard arrows, crossbow machines, paper armor and military rations, and rectify the township soldiers and militia.

It is completely a heavy deployment that does not think about victory and defeat. "Sun Tzu's Art of War" can say, "For the general, before the victory is concerned, the defeat can be defeated." Wu Haogu, as the commander of Hebei, proposed to build a city and defend it, and he was undefeated, so what's wrong? You haven't spent money on rectifying the city defense in the past hundred years, and now of course you have to spend a lot of money to make up for it.

In addition to the cost of repairing the city and arming defenses, the second major expenditure was to rectify the new army in Hebei. The Hebei New Army has been engaged in it for several years, but it is only in vain, and there is no reality. In addition to the problem of the quality of the soldiers, the money is not spent. The six generals directly under the Hebei Xuanfu Division are a little better, and the equipment is not much sufficient, at least it is enough. And the remaining twelve generals are actually called Hanako troops! The weapons and armor equipped with them are either of extremely poor quality or cultural relics with collectible value. If you don't re-equip it, you will be sent to death if you go to the battlefield.

Therefore, you have to order weapons and equipment from Jiehe Business City in a big way! Oh, and buy horses!

The two cavalry generals of the Hebei New Army pulled the knights, and they all brought their own horses, retinues, and equipment. But the sixteen infantry generals (including the four generals directly under the jurisdiction of Wuhaogu) also have cavalry, and the imperial court has to provide horses. Sixteen infantry generals had 8,000 light horsemen on their books, as well as the same number of cavalry auxiliaries, all of them with one man and two horses. That is, at least 16,000 war horses and the same number of walking horses and pack horses are needed. According to the price of two or three hundred horses, it is three or four million. In addition, the military attachés and horsemen among the sixteen infantry generals must also be equipped with war horses, as well as some pack horses and horses, and a certain number of reserve horses.

All in all, there must be at least tens of thousands of horses, and the cost will not be less than six million.

And that's just the money to buy a horse! Later, you have to spend money to buy vests, build horse houses, and repair horse farms (training grounds), and you can spend two or three million dollars on a lump sum of expenditures......

I still have to train! It costs money to train soldiers! One is the bonus, the other is the food, and the other is the wear and tear of military uniforms and various equipment. You have to dig out money from the pocket of the official Zhao Ji!

The third major item of expenditure is the reserve of military rations, military supplies, and money for rewards. At present, Hebei has a Xuanfu Division, a Transshipment Division, and five pacification and production divisions, except for one Hailu City Shipping Production Division, which has money, grain and materials in its hands, and the remaining six divisions do not have much savings. In particular, the Xuanfu Division and the four pacification divisions are simply called Huazi Yamen, not to mention the state army and county supervisors below and the various walled cities.

These require a huge amount of money from the imperial court to make up for it in the short term!

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