Sun Jingting, Wang Jingzhong and others were all watching the situation in front of them, and Sun Jingting said to Han Dao: "I heard that the scenery in Taiwan is better, isn't it?" ”

Han Tong replied respectfully: "Indeed, I have been there once, the sky and the sea are blue over there, you can't see the edge at a glance, the beach is snow-white, and the island is full of greenery, which is much better than the environment here." Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"Well, there are already tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians over there." Sun Jingting said a little melancholy: "I, the political official, should indeed go over and have a look." ”

Han Channel: "Do you feel something?" ”

"Yes, indeed." Sun Jingting said: "In the past, logging and transportation and all things on the island, just read the words, but today I can see it with my own eyes, and I know that it is not easy for the people on Phi Island, and it is even more difficult for the military and civilians of our division. I know that many of these woods were cut down by military intelligence personnel and people from the 12th Regiment deep into the enemy territory, and I didn't care much about it before, but now I know how difficult it is! ”

Indeed, the situation presented in front of Sun Jingting's eyes is enough to prove how risky the people of the 12th Regiment and the military intelligence personnel are, and how much effort they have made.

Each piece of wood is like a behemoth, the smallest specification is to be hugged by five people, and Sun Jingting knows that it is not easy to cut down oak wood, sometimes found in the deep mountains and dense forests, each wood may take hundreds of people to transport out, fortunately there are a few waterways to save manpower, otherwise the cost of transportation alone will increase several times.

When the Ming Dynasty built the palace, cut down the golden silk nanmu from the deep mountains and dense forests in the southwest, and it was also a giant tree that several people embraced, and each wood cost tens of thousands of taels of silver before it was transported to Beijing, and now Hutchison is also fortunate to have waterways and sea transportation, otherwise it can only look at the wood and sigh, not to mention that there is not so much silver, even if there is silver, there is no way to mobilize hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians like the imperial court to cut and transport, and can not afford to delay that time.

"My lord," Han Tong continued, "these pieces of wood will be loaded on the ship tomorrow, and it is estimated that they will be able to leave the port and head south with the lord's ship." ”

"Hmm." Sun Jingting nodded, his eyes were focused on the fleet at the mouth of the river, and he had no time to say anything else.

……

"Sun Jingting?"

Mao Wenlong, who had white sideburns, sat in the middle of the seat, beside him were Chen Jisheng and Mao Chenglu, Shen Yourong and other confidant generals, after listening to the report of a small colonel Neiding, Mao Wenlong didn't care, waved his hand and said: "We don't have to worry about him, although I heard that this person is in a high position in Hutchison, only under Zhang Han and Li Shenming, but since he didn't come to visit me, why should I ask him to come over." ”

"Besides, we don't have much to say with Hutchison." The corners of Mao Chenglu's mouth twitched, obviously remembering the old hatred of his house being bombarded.

It is not easy to build houses on Phi Island, Mao Chenglu's house on the island was finally built, but it was bombed by Li Pingzhi and Zhang Xuwen with the Zhenyu Guard, and it has not been rebuilt until now, but it is just a small courtyard or two to live temporarily, and the dignified Dongjiang general is the hereditary Wei command, and the living environment is the pattern of a small landlord in Zhili, which is called how Mao Chenglu can not hold grudges.

Chen Jisheng frowned and said: "It seems that there is no way for us to build a ship, and now we can only master some warships with one or two guns. Fortunately, they are fighting with the Hongmaoyi people in the south, and they will not be able to withdraw for a while, but we must be careful in everything, if it is not necessary, we still have to maintain the current relationship with Hutchison, and a useless fight will only cheapen others. ”

Mao Wenlong squinted and listened, of course, the generals under his command are also fighting for power and profit, and whoever can get Mao Wenlong's approval now and get more benefits will be more likely to inherit the Dongjiang marshal in the future.

Mao Wenlong's son is only a few years old now, and Mao Wenlong is already close to the age of sixtieth, no matter what, there is no way to ask his son to take over the throne as soon as possible, choose a loyal and capable heir, first be a general soldier or two, and then pass it on to his son, this is the plan that everyone understands in their hearts.

In terms of loyalty, of course, everyone must try their best to show it, as for the ability, it is usually the eight immortals who cross the sea to show their magical powers, as soon as Mao Chenglu finished speaking, Chen Jisheng showed a different position from him, among them, of course, Chen Jisheng's defense area and the 12th regiment overlapped, and the reason why the relationship must be good, the deeper level is obviously to be distinguished from Mao Chenglu and maintain a different position.

Mao Wenlong didn't intervene, he still kept a frowning expression, he pointed to a few copies of the mansion on the case in front of him, and said: "Don't talk about Hutchison, we can't pay attention to the things for the time being, just put it aside, but there is one thing, they are not allowed to expand the territory of the cantonment, and they are not allowed to absorb more fugitives." The fugitives can be transported away for them, and those who are willing to leave without enough food can be left, but they must no longer be asked to expand their cantonment in the Kuandian area to recruit fugitives. ”

"That's what the marshal said."

"What my father-in-law said is very true."

This time everyone present is very agreeable, Hutchison's financial and material resources are shocking, the shortcoming lies in manpower, if they can be given enough space to recruit exiles in the Kuandian area, train soldiers and horses, and equip a 20,000-strong soldier with Hutchison's financial resources It is not difficult, Dongjiang Town said that it is claimed to have more than 100,000 soldiers, in fact, there are 30,000 elite soldiers who can fight, and now Hutchison has more than 3,000 soldiers in Kuandian, which is the limit number that Mao Wenlong and others can accommodate, and the two sides have the power to check and balance each other, If Hutchison continues to recruit people and expand the army, Mao Wenlong feels that Hutchison's threat is much greater than that of Jianyu, so he will definitely stick to this point, and even tear his face with Hutchison to break out into a full-scale war.

Mao Wenlong ignored everyone, pointed to Di Bao and continued: "Look, this is the important thing. ”

"What the marshal said is that Li Fan of the Imperial History attacked the Sun Pavilion?"

"Yes."

Chen Jisheng thought and said: "It is also a common thing for the imperial history to attack the cabinet lord, now the court and the central government are Wei Zhongxian's party, Donglin is defeated, everywhere is welcoming Wei Gonggong, the cabinet is Donglin's people, it is difficult to support alone, this time the wind rises at the end of Qingping, it seems that the eunuch party is going to attack generally, and it has to be pulled down by the cabinet lord." ”

"Quite ingenious." Mao Wenlong snorted coldly and said: "His generation is now starting from two places, both of which are in the eyes of the emperor's heart, one is that it is too expensive, the year before last used five million a year, and now there are more than four million, if you are not thrifty, it is equivalent to Ji Liao taking forty to fifty percent of the imperial court's annual income from discounting, how can this be done?" ”

Chen Jisheng agreed, nodded vigorously, and continued: "There are nearly two million soldiers in the entire Ming Dynasty, and there are more than 900,000 on the nine sides, why should Jiliao's more than 140,000 troops take millions of silver?" The cabinet lord has built a lot of military forts and cities, but how to calculate, at least three to four percent of the silver fell into the hands of the generals in western Liaoning, and the cabinet lord also knows in his heart, in order to reinvigorate local confidence and make the generals feel at ease to guard the land, it is also appropriate to give them some benefits...... In addition, there is no silver, and Jiangmen does not have the heart and financial resources to raise Neiding, and the cabinet master also understands in his heart that after all, the war still depends on Jiangmen and Neiding, and Jiangmen without Neiding is a tiger with teeth extracted, if the Li family's eight thousand Neiding are still there, what is there to worry about in Liao now? However, the people in the court are either really confused or pretending to be confused! ”

Mao Wenlong quite agreed, the combat power of the Dongjiang River is not enough because the upper and lower levels are still very poor, Mao Wenlong has tried many ways, and now there are only hundreds of thousands of people gathered in his hands, and the generals at all levels are still looking at the silver, and they can't wait for Mao Wenlong to give it a share as soon as he gives an order...... Of course this is impossible, Mao Wenlong also depends on the ability of the generals and the size of the territory they occupy, the strength of the required troops to allocate resources, in the first two years, in addition to the internal funds issued by the Emperor of the Apocalypse, there is also Dengzhou supplementary food, Dongjiang Town does not have any additional income, every tael of silver has to be calculated to use, and now can get Mao Wenlong's support to expand the number and quality of his inner ding, that is, the few people, these in front of them, as well as Lushun's Zhang Pan, Mao Youjun of Tieshan, and the rest of Mao Yongshi and the like, You have to fight for everything on your own.

It may also be because of this reason, in addition to the main general, there is only Neiding in Liaoxi General, and Dongjiang Town because of insufficient financial use, the training of generals at all levels is greater, and since then, Dongjiang Town has also been regarded as a famous general, if it is not for the gap in equipment, even Kong Youde after the Wuqiao Mutiny in Dengzhou is very strong, and the Guanning Iron Cavalry from Liaoxi may not be the opponent of the Dongjiang soldiers.

"This time it's a great shot." Mao Wenlong sighed again.

Mao Wenlong has been studying the power struggle between the DPRK and China, and he consciously has a sufficient understanding of the psychology of these top-level bigwigs. In his opinion, civil officials were no more remarkable than military officials in terms of conduct and character, and he looked down on these incompetent people who read poetry and books more and more. They are timid and suspicious, and they will also fight for small profits, like a pack of wild dogs that bite and fight for bones, as long as they are given some benefits and coercion, these guys are a bunch of soft bones, and there is nothing to fear.

Chen Jisheng looked at Di Copy: "Li Fan's attack cost too much and has no size, which makes Sun Gebu unable to defend himself, he can't say that in the past few years, he has repaired countless forts for 200 miles?" The training of the imperial court is to fight, and not to fight is always soft-mouthed. The other is that Guo Xingzhi raised the issue of Sun Cabinet's possible embezzlement of military salaries in the military department, of course, he also talked about his lack of military exploits, and then pointed out that the cabinet minister might enrich his own pockets, and openly proposed to ask the cabinet minister to go to work. This was unimaginable a year ago, and the eunuchs were also trying to see the dagger. ”

Mao Chenglu and the others were all staring, and they were far worse than Chen Jisheng in this regard.

Mao Wenlong nodded secretly, and had some calculations in his heart.

"What do you think?" Mao Wenlong turned to Shen Yourong and Mao Chenglu.

Mao Chenglu rolled his eyes and said: "If it was a year or two ago, Sun Gebu might have retreated to advance, and even asked to return to the dynasty with a few sparse requests, at that time, Donglin was powerful, once he returned to the dynasty, he was still a high-powered cabinet elder, and it was not impossible to even rank to take over the position of first assistant, but now it is different, it is too dangerous to return to the dynasty, so Sun Gebu is absolutely unwilling." ”