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Chapter 40 The emperor is not short of hungry soldiers



Although he knew that a person like Fu Cha would definitely be a constraint on his own seizing the Song Dynasty, he might one day he would have to kill Fu Cha with his own hands, but Cai still admired someone like Fu Cha and could not feel any disgust.

Therefore, after Fu Chaxiaozhi mobilized with reason and emotion, Cai still said directly: "No need to say anything more. Although the establishment of the Jinwu Guard has been in less than three months, this is not the reason why I will not send troops. I will say here that as long as the food, grass and supplies are ready, I can lead troops to set off immediately."

After hearing Cai Jian's statement, Fu Cha, who had a bad impression of Cai Jian because of Cai Jing's relationship, suddenly felt that Cai Jian was worthy of being a scholar, wise and understanding the truth.

Thinking about it again, Cai Bian is still Cai Bian's son, not Cai Jing's son. Cai Bian is a scholar with a strong backbone. Unlike Cai Jing, he only knows how to persuade the officials to be extravagant and wasteful, and his arrogance and extravagance have corrupted the foundation of the Song Dynasty.

Moreover, Fu Cha also heard from his brother-in-law Zhao Mingcheng (the third son of Zhao Tingzhi) that Cai Shen had a very high literary literacy and could even be comparable to Li Du. Even his sister-in-law Li Qingzhao, who is few in the world, thinks so.

Therefore, Fu Cha changed his previous attitude and said with a kind look: "Ziyin is really wise and wise!"

Cai still said: "It's just a due diligence."

These four simple words made Fu Cha feel that Cai is still good.

Fu Cha asked again: "How many military horses do you have and how many can you send out?"

Cai still replied: "Four hundred infantry and one hundred horses can all be dispatched."

Fu Cha thought Cai was still showing off and said, "I don't have to hide it from me. Everyone knows the difficulties of the imperial guards. And Lord Zeng wants to arrange troops and set up formations, and he also needs to know the real force, otherwise it will easily lead to big mistakes."

It’s not a big deal for Fu Cha to think so. He went along the way, and the army was not willing to go out. Even if they were willing to go out, they would be only 10 or 2 or 3. One commander of the troops would be able to send out two hundred, which would be great. How could there be enough to go out?

Cai still understood the situation of the imperial guards, so he explained: "My situation here is different from other troops. Because it is a newly formed army, my troops and horses here have no other tasks, so they can be dispatched."

After hearing Cai still explained this, Fu Cha said in his heart: "He is Cai Jing's nephew. Those borers may not dare to drink his blood, so he can get enough military sounds. Since he abandoned civil and military affairs, he must have done something in the martial arts. In this way, he really can recruit sufficient military bravery and dispatch five hundred military horses."

Thinking of this, Fu Cha immediately changed his words: "Ziyin has solved Lord Zeng's urgent need!"

Cai still said: "This is my duty."

Cai Jian then changed his tone and said, "It's no problem for me to send troops here, but because our Jinwu Guard is a new journey, the military armor, especially the war horses and the divine arm bows, are seriously insufficient. As for the excavation fee..."

After looking at Zhao Kai, whose face had already sunk, Cai Shen slaughtered a fierce knife and said, "I used to owe me the military sounds of Jinwu Guards. I have to make up for us this time, right? In addition, I don't know how long this battle will take, so I will pay the military pay for half a year in advance, and the more you get paid, the less you get."

Cai still said this, and the central idea is actually just one word - 未分.

Cai still doesn’t start the price. No matter what era, it is, a cannon will make you ten thousand taels of gold.

If you don’t have money, what kind of war?

Cai is still not short of money, but this is not to conquer the country for Cai, but to suppress bandits for the Northern Song Dynasty. Can't Cai still pay this money by himself?

Let’s take a step back and say that even if Cai is still willing to go on his own, Zhao Ji still doesn’t do it. What’s the matter? War is not worth it, do you want to rebel?

Therefore, from the perspective of emotion and reason, Cai still had to ask for it.

Moreover, you not only have to reach out and ask for it, but also have to ask for it more. Otherwise, you will not only treat yourself badly, but others will also suspect you.

Seeing that Cai Jianshi spoke loudly, not only Zhao Kai's face was not good-looking, but Fu Cha also frowned.

This may be one of the reasons why literati do not like military men, because they are always so greedy.

But if you say you don’t give it to me, the emperor is not short of hungry soldiers, and if you don’t give them enough food, grass and supplies, how can you fight?

Seeing that the two sides were in a deadlock, Jiang Xingzu came out to smooth things over and said, "Ziyin, you have to ask too much. In this hurry, where did you ask Lord Zhao to get so many things for you?"

Cai Shen heard this and smiled, saying, "If it were someone else, of course he wouldn't have the ability, but we Lord Zhao is the God of Finance that everyone knows. If he just leaks a little in his fingers, he can ask me to send troops to defeat him with peace of mind."

Historically, Zhang Jun was appointed as the Privy Council to promote Sichuan and Shu, and ordered Zhao Kai to be the army's transfer envoy, set up a coin in Qinzhou, and cast copper coins in Xingzhou.

After that, Zhao Kai made a large amount of money entries, so that the amount of money entries reached 41.9 million, which exceeded the limit by about 33 times.

However, unlike Zhao Ji's excessive money supply, which led to a great depreciation of money supply, Zhao Kai issued banknotes in Sichuan, adding silver and silk as a preparation for issuance of money supply. Officials sold silver and silk, allowing the people to use money supply to buy silver and silk. The people needed to pay various taxes to the government, and Zhao Kai allowed the people to use money supply to pay. Therefore, the measures taken by Zhao Kai ensured the stability of the value of money supply.

From these methods, it is not difficult to see that Zhao Kai was the financial genius at this time and the top one.

In addition, Zhao Kai is also an expert in financial management, and has the reputation of "can transport department stores with one step, and can help the three armies with one cough."

Historically, in order to support the anti-Jin War in Sichuan and Shaanxi, Zhao Kai racked his brains. Without increasing the agricultural taxes based on land and assets, he reformed the tea, wine and salt methods, and focused on making money on the three incomes of tea, salt and wine. With the tax on tea, salt and wine as the pillar, he established Sichuan's wartime financial system, created new taxes such as counseling and rewards, increasing wages, assisting military leaders, exempting money from paying money to move rice, and increasing interest rates of salt and wine. This led to the rapid increase of fiscal revenue in the early Southern Song Dynasty, more than doubled than in the late Northern Song Dynasty, with an annual income of more than 30 million yuan.

Let me put it this way, the land of Sichuan and Shu, including the Southern Song Dynasty, could be defended, and Wu Jie was the superficial hero, while Zhao Kai was the behind-the-scenes hero.

Now, although Zhao Kai’s talent has not been fully revealed, a corner has been revealed.

In recent years, Yangwu County has been said to be the richest county nearby in Zhaokai's governance power, no doubt about it.

This is also one of the reasons why Cai Ganshi spoke loudly.

Cai still said again: "I don't want too much, but I want to fight with peace of mind. As long as I can successfully suppress the bandits and eliminate Song Jiang and his gang, we all will be rewarded if we count."

People actually disbelief about what Cai Jian said that he could destroy Song Jiang and his gang. Song Jiang and his gang led their troops to attack Heshuo, Jingdong East Road, and fought in Qingzhou, Qizhou to Puzhou, and captured more than ten prefecture counties. It was not so easy to suppress, let alone the young boy Cai Jian could destroy.

But the real problem is that if Cai still manages, the Jinwu army has an excuse not to send troops.

Therefore, no one cares about Cai Jian’s big talk. Everyone thinks about how to coax Cai Jian to lead his troops to the war.

As for what happened, Cai still spoke loudly.

Easy to deal with.

It is said that if you ask for a price everywhere, you can pay it back locally.

Zhao Kai was petty and still bargained with Cai for a long time.

Finally, under the persuasion of Fu Cha and Jiang Xingzu, Cai and Zhao Kai reached an agreement - Cai still didn't want money. In addition to the necessary food and grass, Zhao Kai prepared another 300 arm-stretching bows, sufficient crossbow arrows, and 100 war horses for Cai, and Cai still led his army to set off.

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