He also made a lot of preparations before going out.

For example, a month earlier, he had made a break and explained in detail to Chongzhen the necessity of the current expedition to Yarkand. However, Chongzhen just wanted to implement the new policy safely at this time, and was cautious about the expedition, so he never gave a clear reply.

Including Sun Chengzong, they all believed that this was a good time for the Ming Dynasty to recuperate, and the use of troops abroad could be postponed for a year or two, so as to create a peaceful new policy environment for the country.

Another important reason why Chongzhen and Sun Chengzong were reluctant to let Qin Shuhuai go on an expedition was because now that the New Deal was completely dominated by Qin Shuhuai, if he went on an expedition, the speed of the promotion of the New Deal would inevitably slow down - you must know that there are still more than half of the country where the New Deal has not yet been implemented.

However, Qin Shuhuai repeatedly insisted on the expedition, and gave Chongzhen eleven concerts within a month, arguing with reason, a bit paranoid.

The reason why he must send troops is for no other reason, because if he sends troops now, the Demon Sect is likely to follow suit, so that the two sides will join forces and defeat Yarkand easily.

But he couldn't say that the Demon Sect would help when the time came, otherwise, if the Demon Sect really didn't send troops, how would he end up after he boasted about Haikou? After all, he was now the grandfather of the country, and he would never draw conclusions if he was not 100% sure of something.

Under Qin Shuhuai's frantic request, Chongzhen had no choice but to convene the cabinet to rediscuss the matter.

As a result, Lu Xiangsheng and Hong Chengchou agreed.

Lu Xiangsheng and Hong Chengchou saw very clearly that the countries of the Western Regions were now being annexed continuously, and the two major groups of Yarkand and Dzungaria had been formed. If they are not calmed down now, when they become bigger in the future, they will pay a greater price if they want to be pacified again.

Of course, the most important reason is that they have no doubts about Qin Shuhuai's ability. In their opinion, Qin Shuhuai must be completely sure of his repeated requests to expedition to Yarkand, even if he puts aside his private relationship, it is necessary to support him at this time.

Seeing this, Chongzhen no longer hesitated, and immediately approved Qin Shuhuai's expedition plan.

Having said that, how could Chongzhen not have the heart to surrender to the Western Regions? Since there were three people in the cabinet who agreed, and Sun Chengzong only raised doubts and did not directly deny the matter, why did he not agree?

After agreeing, Chongzhen's attitude immediately changed greatly, and with an extremely positive attitude, he ordered to start preparations for this expedition.

He knows very well that this battle will either not be fought, or it will be won!

Because winning or losing will inevitably have a far-reaching impact on the pattern of the Western Regions in the future!

According to Qin Shuhuai's estimates, only 50,000 people were needed for this expedition, but the time span may be relatively long, at least about half a year. Therefore, it is estimated that about 170,000 stone (27 million catties of grain is now needed), not counting the grain and grass for war horses.

In addition to food, it is also necessary to add some weapons and armor, as well as the soldier's promotion fee (equivalent to the settling-in fee, the practice of the Ming Dynasty), which is a few big sums of money.

Overall, an expedition would require at least 600,000 taels of silver.

Chongzhen didn't say a word, and allocated 600,000 taels of silver to Qin Shuhuai from the tax silver collected in May.

After Qin Shuhuai got the money, he immediately asked the Jianghe Gang to send the 100,000 stone military rations purchased in the past six months to Lanzhou—he had already begun to prepare.

As for the rest of the military rations, he planned to ask those vassal kings for it - these people have to contribute to the court because they have been eating and drinking for nothing for so long because of their royal status, right?

In this way, he can "embezzle" more or less the 600,000 taels of silver. However, this embezzled money can't go into his own pocket, but he wants to post hundreds of thousands of taels upside down to reward the martial arts alliance.

It has been a year since the formation of the martial arts coalition army, from 110,000 to the current 43,000 (many wounded soldiers have returned to the team after recovery, and now there are about 43,000 people), and all sects have suffered heavy losses. Although the imperial court has rewarded it in various ways, when it comes to the most realistic money, it does not give much because of the shyness in the pocket.

Therefore, Qin Shuhuai planned to reward the whole army with 800,000 taels of silver before the start, so that the soldiers could set off in peace.

In addition, he is also promoting the normalization of the salary of the martial arts coalition army, that is, let the imperial court pay the salary to the coalition army according to the standard of the regular army.

This is an important step.

In the future, the martial arts alliance army will wear the same standard uniforms as the imperial army and receive the same military salary, which is the first step towards naturalization.

And the naturalization of the coalition forces will inevitably promote the mutual reconciliation between the imperial court and the martial arts, at least it can not be as hostile as before.

Of course, this is more for the long term.

Because of the current martial arts, the relationship with the imperial court is good!

On the one hand, in a series of major battles to suppress the Liukou, fight the Demon Sect, and destroy the Tartars, the martial arts alliance and the official army fought side by side, which can be said to have experienced life and death together, and this kind of relationship is more reliable than anything else.

In the process, both sides completely put aside all kinds of prejudices in the past.

The officials, the army and many officials of the imperial court no longer think that the martial arts people are a group of rabble, but admire them for their blood, responsibility, and not afraid of death.

And the martial arts people no longer think that the people in the court are all two-faced and sinister people, but admire them for their knowledge, tactics, and cooperation, and there is no shortage of good men like them.

The most obvious thing is that in the past, the people of the factory guard and the martial arts people were mortal enemies, and the two sides did not know how many fierce conflicts broke out since the establishment of the factory guard, and it was difficult to count the casualties.

In the past, when the two sides met, the style of painting was generally that the people in the martial arts scolded the factory guards as eagle dogs and lackeys, while the factory guards scolded the people in the martial arts as traitors, scolding and scolding each other.

But now, how good is the relationship between the two sides? Even if you see Dongchang Fanzi and martial arts people drinking shoulder to shoulder at the same wine table, it is not uncommon.

Can the friendship of killing from the pile of dead people together be bad?

The harmonious coexistence between the martial arts alliance and the official army soon extended to the relationship between the entire martial arts and the imperial court, and now the two sides have established a high degree of mutual trust, and at the same time have a unified goal - to reopen the prosperous era.

In this case, the relationship between Wulin and the imperial court is naturally unprecedentedly good.

On the other hand, the imperial court implemented a new policy in the past six months, exempting all agricultural taxes, and the social economy was thriving, which benefited Wulin a lot.

As I said before, the world is prosperous, and the martial arts are prosperous.

It can be said that the reopening of the prosperous era that Qin Shuhuai promised to Wulin before is now advancing at a speed that is visible to the naked eye, how can Wulin not support the imperial court at this time?

Everything is moving in a good direction.

The sixth day of the sixth month of the fourth year of Chongzhen, a good day.

Qin Shuhuai took Zhang Xiao, Chen Jing, Meng Wei, Meng Hu, and Lai San'er to set off from the capital in a low-key manner.

They drove lightly and went straight south to Luoyang.

The first thing Qin Shuhuai had to do was to meet the legendary Fu King Zhu Changxun.

Zhu Changxun is probably the most famous prince in the history of the late Ming Dynasty, and has been controversial since his birth.

He was born to Emperor Wanli's favorite concubine Zheng Guifei and ranked third. At that time, Emperor Wanli loved Wu and Wu, and wanted to make Zhu Changxun the crown prince. However, the civil official group firmly believes that the succession of the throne should be long and orderly, and the crown prince should belong to the eldest prince Zhu Changluo, who later became Mingguangzong.

Emperor Wanli was a very twisted person, he hated these civil officials for pointing fingers at his "family affairs", and insisted on making Zhu Changxun the crown prince. And it just so happened that the civil officials at the end of the Ming Dynasty were also very screwed, no matter how angry the emperor was, he just refused to let go, and he must follow the ancestral system and set up the eldest son as the prince.

The two sides twisted and twisted, and it took fifteen years.

This is the famous "national capital dispute", it is said that at least three or four hundred civil officials were dismissed, or assigned, or confiscated by the Wanli Emperor. This also includes four Ministers and Ministers.

But in the end, Emperor Wanli still couldn't screw these civil officials, and had to make Zhu Changluo the crown prince.

Emperor Wanli failed to let Zhu Changxun take over his class, perhaps out of guilt, when King Fu went to Luoyang to take up the domain, he rewarded him with 20,000 hectares (2 million mu) of land, as well as a large number of gold, silver and jewelry.

Zhu Changxun was also not polite, and began to levy and extort violently on the way to the domain, which caused complaints from the people along the way.

After arriving in the Luoyang fiefdom, it became even more intensified.

Two million acres of fertile land, near Luoyang City is simply not enough, so the whole of Henan came to make up - but unfortunately the whole of Henan can't make it up.

What to do?

So I had to circle the fertile fields of Shandong and Huguang to him!

In short, Fuwang is very rich.

How rich are you?

There is a folk saying that the first emperor spent the world's wealth to enrich the king, and Luoyang was rich in the palace.

Because of his special status and extremely high status in the clan, Chongzhen had to give a big salute if he saw him when he was still a king.

Even now, Chongzhen didn't dare to provoke him easily.

What Qin Shuhuai wants to see is such a rich and arrogant prince.

Well, this kind of person he likes the most.

The main thing is that there is money, and if there is money, there is oil and water.

As for arrogance or something, then hehe.

After ten days of fast travel, Qin Shuhuai, who couldn't wait, finally arrived in Luoyang.