A shout: "Your Majesty has arrived!" ”

Yang Yi has been in charge of Luoyi for several years, and the Great Han Kingdom has been built and expanded several times, and now after modification, it has been renovated and renovated, and it is the eastern capital of the Great Sui.

The Great Sui now has the eastern capital Luoyi, the central capital Chang'an, the southern capital Hangcheng, the western capital Jincheng, and now the northern capital has not yet been established!

"Long live my emperor, long live, long live!" After entering the palace and taking the seat, the ministers paid a visit.

This is a big court meeting, and all the high-ranking officials above the fourth grade in Beijing will come, as well as some fifth-grade and sixth-grade officials!

Yang Yi calmly lowered his voice at this time: "Zhu Qing is flat." ”

A large number of guards, standing upright by sword, without blinking an eye, looking very young, the Great Sui now has two forbidden armies in the palace of Longwei and Fengwei, Longwei and Fengwei generally come from two channels, one is the selection of these forbidden troops from the good families in Kyoto, and the other is the selection of orphans in the nursing homes in various parts of the Great Sui!

They are all cultivated from the age of thirteen, and after a few years to the time of youth, they can be on the stage, although these guards seem to be shallow in terms of experience and martial arts, but how rich the Great Sui is, first of all, weapons and other equipment are at least high-grade weapons; The foundation of martial arts starts from innate mastery, which is the treatment only the descendants of the sect in the rivers and lakes!

Not to mention all kinds of elixir decoctions, basically after three or five years of training, put on the rivers and lakes, at least they have to be first-class skills!

Nowadays, those who can serve in the court meeting are basically one out of a hundred, and when they are put on the rivers and lakes, they are basically congenital-level martial arts masters!

There weren't many empty words, and Yang Yi said lightly at this time: "Each ministry has its own charter? ”

"Your Majesty, this war is aimed at laying the foundation of this dynasty for all generations, and you must not be careless." King Shang Shu of Wei ordered Du Ruhui to step forward at this time and said: "Your Majesty, this time the King of Qin has been ordered to arrive in Dragon City, and the rest of the departments are in place. ”

Yang Yi nodded and said, "Where is the grain and grass?" ”

At this question, Zhang Juzheng, the secretary of the household department, stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, my Great Sui government is harmonious, and there are bumper harvests every year, and the grain depots in various places are full, and the household department has mobilized enough grain and grass for a million troops to go north, and now it has been placed in Luocang!" ”

Yang Yi asked them one by one, and although most of the ministers had objections, the task was completed!

Yang Yi said with a smile at this time: "I have already thought about it, the unification of the Central Plains is right now, after the Tang Kingdom of Jizhou, the land of Youyan will be subdued, and my great cause will be basically completed......"

Yang Yi told his own merits, decades have passed, such as today's unification, this is undoubtedly a thing, now the Tang Dynasty has been bloodied by the war that has lasted for several years, although Li Shimin is eloquent, but Li Jiancheng did his best, the Tang Kingdom is the most difficult time at this time!

If he were given another three or five years for the First Emperor of the Ages, he would definitely be able to drive out the enemy, and when the time came, it would probably take several more years to fight again!

What the ministers opposed was not to fight the Tang Dynasty, but to wait for another two years, after all, it had not been a few years since the annexation of the Song Kingdom, the Ming Kingdom, and the Han Kingdom, and there may be some hidden worries in various places!

However, Yang Yi's decision has now been made, and the ministers can only bow down and obey orders!

"Your Majesty." All the ministers said that indeed, in the face of Han Gao, Ming Hongwu, Song Taizu, Qin Shi Huang and other emperors through the ages, they still defeated them one by one; Bai Qi, Han Xin, Wei Qing, Huo Quzhi, Xie An, Chang Yuchun, Xu Da and other famous generals, but they still came to the prosperity of today, and they can be called "Shengming".

"The soldiers are in danger, but also to prepare the pension of the fallen soldiers, which not only requires the military department to report the list, but also to the household department and the ministry, to arrange this, I mean, ordinary soldiers build tombs on the spot, carve their names on it, and the spirit card is sent to the hometown, there are grade soldiers, the body will be sent back to the township, this time against the dead soldiers of the pension to be thick and preferential, the children of the fallen soldiers, can be made up according to the law!

It is foreseeable that such a big war, I'm afraid this is the last time, you should do your best, this battle, I will not hesitate to reward. ”

The ministers hurriedly said, "The ministers have the order." ”

After a pause, Zhang Juzheng, the head of the household department, said again: "Your Majesty, the financial cost of this war is very large, although my Great Sui has had a bumper harvest year after year, but over the years, the army has been dispatched again and again, fighting in the south and the north, soldiers, horses, grain, grass and pensions, the expenditure is very large, please pay attention to Your Majesty." ”

Yang Yi listened, was silent, and asked again: "Qin Guogong, has there been a shortage of money this time?" ”

Zhang Juzheng has now been promoted to the Duke of Qin, and the right servant of the Shangshu can be seen, it can be seen that he is the successor of Du Ruhui who Yang Yi likes, at this time Zhang Juzheng replied: "The household deposit silver is now 135150000 taels, and it can still support this war!" ”

Yang Yi groaned again, this is not bad, don't look at this number seems to be very huge, but the current officials of the Great Sui are tens of millions every year, and when the army moves, the money is like flowing water, and these estimates are only enough for more than a year!

This is because under the successive years of war, the past few years have been filling in the financial holes of previous years, otherwise, this number should be three or five times more!

Now the annual revenue of the Great Sui is also about 70 or 80 million, and after the complete stabilization of various places, this figure will increase by more than two or three times, because many places are still in the tax exemption period at this time!

Many places laid down by the Great Sui, for the sake of people's hearts, have their own tax exemption periods of several years!

At this time, there is no way, only to take your time, and immediately say: "This is very good, use it first, and it will be good after this year!" ”

Yang Yi didn't think about the capture of the Tang Kingdom, the Tang Kingdom has had a hard time all these years, Yang Yi didn't let Li Shimin be idle, the Tang Kingdom's conquest has not stopped all these years, and the finances must be very difficult!

Zhang Juzheng thought about it, and could only say with a sad face: "Your Majesty, the disaster victims were completely resettled last year, and this year we should not use troops on a large scale, and those newly acquired lands are still in the pacification period!" ”

Zhang Juzheng shook his head and said with a bitter face, but he knew that he couldn't change Yang Yi's mind, at the previous small court meeting, he was not the only one who objected, but under the order of the Holy Emperor, it was useless to oppose it!

After complaining, Zhang Juzheng could only say again: "We still have to consider rehousing the victims, Your Majesty, the minister plans to apportionment one or two to all the big businessmen, and raise 50 million taels of silver with one cent of interest!" ”

Yang Yi nodded: "Qin Guogong has thought it very well, this is an important matter, and it must be dealt with." ”

He said to Fang Xuanling again: "Shangshu Province wants to deal with important matters, Zhongshu Ling wants to help, and a group of county and county officials must be selected quickly, and then a few people will be selected by the officials in Beijing to inspect the military and civilian affairs for the governor, assassin history, and state pastor, and have the right to dispose of it cheaply on the spot!" ”

Fang Xuanling responded: "Your Majesty, I don't know what the deadline is?" ”

Governors, governors, governors, governors and other high-ranking officials are all sent temporarily, so this is not an official position and has a time limit.

"Three or five years is enough, and after three or five years, presumably all counties and counties are almost operating normally, and they can come back to report on their work."

Yang Yi thought for a while, and then said: "Since we want to move, then everything is arranged, regarding the military, all prefectures must build a Zhichong army, appoint the commander of Zhichong, each county must enrich the county captain's soldiers, and all towns must rectify the military, enrich the soldiers, and strengthen training.

I know that money and silver are very short, but since there is no shortage of food now, I hope that all places will also be prepared, after all, in the event of a big war, I am afraid that there will be a small incident. ”

Yang Yi glanced at the ministers, she knew that there were probably two-hearted people among them, and she also knew that if she delayed it for a year or two and then moved, things might be much easier, but the world changed, and it wasn't necessarily the time!

And she didn't have much time, at this time Yang Yi continued: "The soldiers and soldiers from all over the country must be selected, and they must not be careless, I must also send Jinyi Guards and Imperial Forest Guards to check more, and do not let lawless people get involved, as for household registration and taxation, they must also be clear one by one." ”

The military system of the Great Sui Dynasty, each family should have a man who began to serve at the age of 20, and was exempted from military service after the age of 30, and the government distributed money and grain, the county seat was 100 people, the government city was 1,000 people, the county seat was 5,000 people, and the state city was 10,000 people, all of which were called the Zhichong Army, which was actually the reserve army.

This army was supposed to bring its own money, food and weapons, but the Great Sui government issued money, food and weapons, and the annual training time was in winter and spring, avoiding the busy agricultural season, which was an effective reserve army!

Of course, there are regular armies in various places, that is, guards, but most of the guards are only stationed in cities above the prefecture, and there are some important passes, where the guards are generally stationed in the prefecture with 500 people, and the county town is a thousand-man guard; And the state city is the top town guard army of the Great Sui is stationed, generally one town guard, that is, 10,000 people, each state has another town guard, basically a state is two or three town guards, and the ordinary guard army is about 100,000!

The regular army of the Great Sui is basically around five million now, and the reserve army is basically at this number!

The Great Sui military system, during the war, the generals led the guards to the battle; When the war ended, each guard returned to his house; In the event of a general mobilization for the national war, then the reserve armies in various places will also go to the battlefield.

"Your Majesty, now we have mobilized one million soldiers to guard the infantry army, 200,000 naval troops, 300,000 town guard troops, a total of 1.5 million soldiers, and a total of 500,000 Yongzhou, Liangzhou, and Yizhou Zhichong troops." Yu Qian, the secretary of the military department, had already calculated, and stepped forward to say at this time.

As soon as these words came out, everyone who didn't know was gasping at this time, the army of two million was basically a regular army, and it did have the capital to sweep the Tang Kingdom.

This is still the strength of the difficult time, if it is the heyday of the Great Sui, then how much strength should it have?

"Very good, just do this, Zhuqing should do your best, this year you must ensure that the Tang Emperor is captured in front of the battle." Yang Yi said, after years of war, the Great Sui has already reduced a lot of troops, and it has only been cultivated for a few years, and now it has to use a large number of troops, which is also a helpless thing, but now the people are still passable, but this matter can only be done this time, and if you want to come again, I am afraid that it will cause resentment among the people!

Nodding, Yang Yi asked again: "Tell me what the situation is, where are the armies now?" ”

"Your Majesty, General Li Jing has arrived in Longcheng and has gathered 150,000 town guards, 500,000 foot guards, and 200,000 reserve troops, a total of 800,000 troops for a frontal attack!

General Qi Jiguang led an army of 200,000 in Dengzhou, waiting for the opportunity; General Wang Jian has led 100,000 town guards, 300,000 infantry troops, and 100,000 Chong troops to the south bank of the Yellow River, waiting for the frontal battlefield to start and join!

The rest of the town guards have basically reached their assigned positions! ”

Yu Qian said in a deep voice at this time: "The Tang Emperor is indeed talented, but now that my army is moving, the collapse of the Tang land is not far away. ”

"What about Li Jiancheng?"

"Li Jiancheng's department has been defeated in successive battles in the past few years, if it weren't for our country's support behind it, I'm afraid it would have been wiped out, but that's it, in another two or three years, I'm afraid it won't be able to support it, and now the Tang Emperor has sent 300,000 troops to besiege it, I'm afraid that the preparation is to directly destroy Li Jiancheng and Wu Cao's department."

It's not that Li Jiancheng can't do it, but in the hundreds of years of the Tang Kingdom, Li Jiancheng can only attract a small number of people, and the rest are all vested interests of the Tang Dynasty, and it is impossible for them to defect to him; It is not easy for Li Jiancheng to survive for so many years!

Yu Qian, as the secretary of the military department, analyzed at this time: "At this time, our army went to Bingzhou to attack westward, and the total number of Tang troops is only 1100,000 remnants, if Li Shimin's 300,000 troops do not withdraw, I am afraid that even if the relevant card blocks the danger of blocking the mountains and rivers, it will be difficult to resist our army." ”

Yu Qian said with a hint of worry at this time: "If I am the commander of the Tang Army, I must first desperately defend the pass, delay the time, and take the opportunity to attack Li Jiancheng's department, with the current situation of Li Jiancheng's department, maybe it can be broken, so that the hidden worries along the way can be eliminated, and Jizhou can be defended. ”

Yang Yi smiled slightly when he heard this, and said nonchalantly: "If I can only send 500,000 soldiers, Li Shimin may be able to block the attack of my army, and he can also break them individually; If I can only send an army of one million, if I am not careful, Li Shimin still has a chance to live; Now that I have sent an army of two million, advancing by land and water, attacking from three sides, Li Shimin is in possession of the geographical advantage, and now he can only tremble!

Li Jiancheng's life or death does not affect the overall situation, An Qing, Honglu Temple passed a letter to Li Shimin: If you descend at this time, I will not hesitate to give the prince's gift! ”

"Yes!"

Yang Yi smiled slightly at this time: "With the people of the Tang Emperor, I'm afraid they will ignore my kindness!" ”

Li Shimin is so proud, I am afraid that he will not be willing to surrender even if he dies at this time!

……

In the Tang Palace, Li Shimin and Zhu Xi are discussing the future of the Tang Kingdom, he is ready to win over Confucianism, Taoism, and Shijia, and is ready to fight again, he doesn't want to lose the world like this!

He has already seen that there is not much time left for Datang, but what is hateful is why the Song Kingdom should resist vigorously back then, otherwise, if he had occupied the Song Kingdom early, I am afraid that today, Datang will not be so difficult!

Zhu Xi is a Confucian master, among the Confucian scholars in the world, his reputation is extraordinary, the most important thing is that his reputation in the Qing State is very useful, at this time, facing the Great Sui, he knows that if he does not annex the Qing State, the Tang State will win once or twice head-on, and in the end it will be a dead end!

(End of chapter)