Just now Li Gang just said that Zuo Zang's savings are only 700,000 yuan, which only refers to money, but what about gold and silver? The imperial court needs to use gold and silver as collateral for the issuance of the meeting, so this gold and silver must still be in Zuozang.

In addition, Zuo has no money, there is also an inner treasury, and there are hundreds of thousands of various treasures stored in the palace, if Zhao Huan is really sincere, how can he not pay for the military?

Now Li Gang kicked the ball to himself, needless to say, this is what Zhao Huan meant, it should be the result that Li Gang also wanted to use the inner library, but was denied by Zhao Huan.

Li Yanqing secretly sneered in his heart, he simply spread his hands and said, "Let me solve it!" What can I do? Does the court want me to pay for the soldiers' salaries out of my own pocket? ”

"Nope! No! No! It doesn't mean that. Li Gang hurriedly denied it.

"What does that mean?" Li Yanqing's tone was obviously a little displeased.

Of course, Li Gang heard the dissatisfaction in Li Yanqing's tone, and he was really a little bitter in his heart, the financial predicament of the imperial court was not a day or two, the last time was to temporarily solve the financial crisis after the treasury silver of the silver mines was brought back to the imperial court, and now he is facing this problem, in fact, it is not that the imperial court has no money now, but that the tax money from various places cannot be transported back to the capital, and it should be a transportation crisis.

Li Gang originally hoped to use the inner treasury to pay for the military expenses first, but he was rejected by the officials, which really made it difficult for him.

Li Gang said hesitantly: "The official family means to owe it first, and then pay it to the soldiers after the war, and add 10% of the interest, and the official family will personally guarantee it, all to see if this is feasible?" ”

"Is there money after the war?"

"There are taxes everywhere, but they can't be transported to the capital, and now the military expenditure is not large, there should be a lot of surplus, and the imperial court is enough to pay for the military expenses."

Li Yanqing nodded, if Zhao Huan is willing to be a guarantee, this can be considered, but the interest rate of one percent seems to be too low.

"So be it! I will explain the situation to the soldiers, let the soldiers choose for themselves, if they are willing to take the money after the war, then they owe it first, if they want it now, I hope the court will pay it in time, of course, I also know that the court is currently in financial difficulties, as long as the court is willing to promise 20% interest, I can guarantee that the vast majority of soldiers will choose to take money after the war. ”

Li Gang thought for a while, "Okay then! As for the interest of 20%, I will convince the officials. ”

At this time, Li Yanqing said again: "There is also a death pension, this is related to the morale of the army, it must not be delayed, this time you need to come up with a double pension, it will also cost more than one million, I know that the imperial court is in financial difficulties, so I propose a plan to see if the imperial court can accept it." ”

Just now the problem of military spending was solved, and a double pension came out, which really gave Li Gang a headache, but since Li Yanqing had a plan not to pay for it, he was also willing to listen to it, Li Gang hurriedly said: "You say, I'll just listen." ”

"I know that the imperial court has a large amount of official land in its hands, especially in the south, in fact, I think that farmland can be used to pay for the bereavement of the fallen soldiers, which not only solves the worries of the soldiers, but also solves the financial difficulties of the imperial court, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone, I hope the imperial court can consider this plan well."

Li Gang was also quite moved, and now the Shangtian area in the Jianghuai Jingxiang area is 10 guan yuan per mu, and the double pension for a soldier killed in battle is 1,000 guan yuan, that is, one hectare of Shangtian, and the death of more than 2,000 soldiers is only more than 2,000 hectares of official land, which is really not much for the tens of thousands of hectares of farmland controlled by the government, and this plan can be considered.

"Can the officers and men of the three armies accept this pension plan?"

Li Yanqing smiled and nodded: "I think it's acceptable!" ”

Li Yanqing, of course, is for the sake of the army, the invasion of the Jin soldiers caused a large number of northern peasants to flee to the south, and the farmland in the south is also valuable, rather than a thousand yuan in pension, it is better to take a hectare of farmland, and after renting out, the pension of elderly parents will be settled, I believe that many soldiers are willing to accept farmland, and even military merit rewards are willing to be in the form of farmland.

Since Li Yanqing gave a promise, Li Gang didn't wait long, he was anxious to go back and report to the official, so he hugged his fists and saluted, and left first.

After pondering for a moment, Li Yanqing instructed his soldiers: "Go and inform Zhang Hu to come to see me!" ”

The soldiers rode away, and Li Yanqing turned around and asked a messenger who had been waiting for a long time, "What's the matter?" ”

"Return to the capital, and the king will send someone back to report the news."

Li Yanqing was overjoyed, he just wanted to know the news of Wang Gui now, he hurriedly asked, "Where is the person?" ”

"People are in the South Xun Gate!"

Li Yanqing immediately turned his horse's head and ran towards Nancheng.........

Nanxun Gate is the main gate of the south city wall, and there is a sub-city gate, called Dailou Gate, and there are two other water gates, one is the Caihe Water Gate, and the other is the Siliqiao Water Gate, because the terrain in the south is relatively bumpy, it is difficult to walk large siege weapons, so the Jin soldiers basically will not attack the south city, and there are not many defenders on the south city, only 10,000 people, trebuchets and cannons are not installed, but if necessary, temporary mobile trebuchets can be used.

Li Yanqing came to the urn city of Nanxunmen, where he met the messenger soldier sent by Wang Gui, this messenger Li Yanqing knew, Wang Gui's personal soldier, named Chen Duo, is also a native of Xiaohe Township, Tangyin County, and currently holds the position of the head of the capital.

"Humble and unrecognizable!" Chen Duo knelt down on one knee and saluted Li Yanqing.

Li Yanqing sat down on a large wooden box, waved his hand and smiled: "Chen Dutou, please get up!" ”

"Xie Dutong!"

Chen Duo stood up and presented Wang Gui's letter to Li Yanqing, and his own soldiers stepped forward to forward the letter to Li Yanqing, and Li Yanqing opened Wang Gui's letter.

Prior to this, Li Yanqing already knew that Wang Gui had succeeded in attacking the temporary transit warehouse of the Jin soldiers on the south bank of the Yellow River, and annihilated 500 Jin soldiers and captured hundreds of war horses, resulting in Wan Yan Xian also having to send 20,000 cavalry to protect the safety of the grain road.

But in this letter, Wang Gui put forward his idea of going north to Hebei, which is a very bold and very creative plan, after the Jin State occupied Hebei, almost all important cities will leave a small number of Jin soldiers, as few as a hundred, as many as a thousand, these Jin soldiers gathered together to have one or two thousand people, but if they are scattered, it is conducive to the Song army to concentrate their forces and break through, so Wang Gui's cavalry went north, just hit the weakness of the Jin soldiers.

Of course, it is unrealistic to sneak attack Yanshan Mansion, the wolf lord of the Jin Kingdom is in Yanshan Mansion, where there are 30,000 iron cavalry guards with the most elite Jin soldiers, Wang Gui went north to Yanshan Mansion, and he could only be a moth to the fire.

"Where is General Wang now?" Li Yanqing asked.

"Now in Sujube County!"

Suozao County is also a subordinate county of Kaifeng Prefecture, also on the south bank of the Yellow River, and on the opposite bank is Weizhou on Hebei West Road.

Li Yanqing pondered for a moment, then asked someone to bring a pen and paper and write a letter back to Wang Gui.

He sealed the envelope and handed it to Chen Duo, at this time, Chen Duo bowed down again and said, "There is still information to tell Dutong." ”

"What information?"

"When I came over, I found that the Jin soldiers were requisitioning a large number of people, and I don't know what they are going to do?"

Li Yanqing frowned, a large number of people were requisitioned, did the Jin soldiers want to build any projects?

Li Yanqing couldn't figure it out, and he didn't think about it anymore, so he asked people to take ten taels of silver and reward it to Chen Duo, Chen Duo thanked Li Yanqing, and then rode out of the capital and ran away from Suozao County.

..........

That night, there was a movement outside the city, tens of thousands of people were escorted by the Jin soldiers to the northwest corner outside the north city, where the terrain was slightly higher, and the people carried sandbags like ants, constantly shuttling back and forth between the sand mining site and the northwest corner a mile away, piling up bags of sediment.

The night was getting deeper and deeper, but there were more and more people who were escorted by the Jin soldiers, and they immediately joined the team of carrying sediment after being escorted, and by dawn, nearly 200,000 young and strong people who had been escorted from various counties had been put into the construction of the Jin soldiers.

Li Yanqing and a group of generals stood in the northwest corner of the city wall and watched the construction of the Jin soldiers not far away, who had already built a circle of city wall foundations with a circumference of about four miles, and filled them with a large number of mud and sandbags inside the city wall.

The intention of the Jin soldiers is so obvious, so that many generals gasp, this is clearly piling up a mountain of earth, the Jin soldiers want to attack condescendingly, once the earth mountain is built, the giant trebuchet of the Jin soldiers is launched on the top of the mountain, covering the entire northwest corner, the northwest corner will be no danger to defend, there is a defense hole of up to half a mile, and this condescending threat will seriously affect the morale of the defending army.

"This kind of accumulation of dirt can only last for two or three months at most!"

Dong Ping, the commander of the New Taipei Army, said slowly: "They directly used sandbags to pile up without tamping, the foundation is very unstable, now it is frozen in winter or can be supported, once it is spring, the sandbags at the bottom will break because of too much pressure, then the entire dirt mountain will collapse, as long as we carry it for three months, this sand mountain will disappear naturally." ”

Everyone nodded silently, and now the question is whether they can carry these three months.

At this time, Li Yanqing smiled faintly: "The soldiers are coming, the water is flooding, they have a good plan, we have a wall ladder, don't worry too much, there will definitely be a way to deal with it." ”