Chai Yan wrote a secret letter that day and sent someone to send him a special trip to Princess Yu.

Li Qiniang and Yan Xuehuai both thought they would have to wait at least two or three months before they could reply. Unexpectedly, things were completely different from what they imagined.

Ten days later, news came that King Yu led his eldest son Chai Yi and his third son Chai Su to the imperial tomb to worship his ancestors.

The Empress Dowager was furious but could not do anything. The proposal of the Nei Cao Army had been put on hold because of Qi Wei's opposition. Now the Empress Dowager was extremely angry and did not consider how the front-line army fought. Instead, she decided to form the Nei Cao Army immediately.

The Empress Dowager believed that the most urgent task was to defend the new capital and the emperor. As long as the emperor was safe, the country of Wei would be safe. After forming the Nei Cao army, it would be stable once and forever.

This time, no matter how the civil and military ministers led by Qi Wei opposed it, the Empress Dowager made up her mind and ordered the Feiyuwei commander Wu Duo and the Feiyuwei governor Xu Huaiyi to assist Wei Ming and form the Nei Cao Army.

Who will pay the money for the Nei Cao Army?

The Empress Dowager never thought of taking out the silver from her private warehouse, and she couldn't bear to leave even the money from the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

So, the money was distributed to the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Revenue!

Then, the Empress Dowager ordered the Ministry of Works and the Inner Prison to speed up the construction of the imperial city while building the city wall. She wanted to build an imperial city that was stronger than the old capital, so that King Yu could not conquer it.

The court was originally recruiting troops, but they were all in remote rural areas. After the riot in Luheying, no army was willing to recruit soldiers from these places near Xinjing. The risk was too high and if it was not well-operated, it would spread to Xinjing. Wei Bao's backing was so big that he was still severely punished and sent to the front line.

Therefore, now recruiting soldiers is far away from Xinjing.

But the Nei Cao army is different. The time is too urgent and the task is too heavy. What's more, the Nei Cao army is superior. They are not on the front line to die, but on the imperial city to defend the emperor and the empress dowager.

In short, it means that you can recruit soldiers wherever you want, and you will be recruited will be blessed!

The amount of silver given by the soldiers recruited by the Great Wei Dynasty varies. The higher ones can be given ten taels per 10 taels per 10 taels, the lower ones are five taels per 10 taels, and most of them can be given seven taels or eight taels.

But the inner warrior is different.

Although the money was paid by the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Revenue, there is a war ahead and the money is spent like water. No matter it is the Ministry of War or the Ministry of Revenue, it cannot squeeze out the money.

Therefore, the money used by the Nei Cao Army to recruit soldiers is really limited, and a soldier can only give three taels of silver!

Even if you only recruit eight thousand people, you will still need 24,000 taels of silver. But if you agree to be ten thousand people, you will have to allocate funds based on ten thousand people.

The Ministry of War and the Ministry of Revenue complained that they could only tear down the east wall and repair the west wall. It was finally enough to raise 30,000 taels of silver to transfer it.

Therefore, the money used by the Nei Cao Army to recruit soldiers was only 30,000 taels, and the expenses incurred during the recruitment process were deducted. The middle-aged people were greedy for the work, and the soldiers gave them to the hands, some were 2 taels, and some were only 1 and 2 taels!

At the beginning, some poor and crazy families gritted their teeth and sent their men to join the army for two taels of silver. However, they were bringing people over to realize that this was not only about joining the army, but also about being cut off their descendants.

Eight out of ten people who can send male soldiers to join the army for two taels of silver are poor and remote villages, where they are all from honest mud legs. They have never seen this place, and they are so scared that they will run away.

At the beginning, we ran away, but later, more people ran away, and the people who sent recruit soldiers were not happy. We can't not recruit people to go back empty-handed. If you dare to run, we dare to chase after them. If you chase them too much, we will stop chasing them. If you change to catch them!

The eunuchs who came down to recruit soldiers asked the yamen runners in the county yamen to catch strong men in various villages. What kind of yamen are like? They will be cut off with one knife when they are caught. The yamen runners are all from their hometowns, and no one is willing to do such things. Today they have captured their children and grandchildren, and another day they may have to dig out their ancestral tombs.

When the eunuchs saw that the jail runners did not move, they simply attacked the jail runners. In Baihe County alone, ten young and strong jail runners were cleansed, two of them did not survive and died that night.

Among the remaining eight people, two were single-handed three generations. After hearing about it, the old man at home went without getting up in one breath.

Those who could send their children to the yamen to work were all decent families in the villages. So that night, these families gathered together and collected money to hire bandits.

The magistrate of Baihe County is cowardly. Since the accident happened, he ordered his children not to go out, but he was unable to guard against it. His youngest son was cut off his descendants in the back alley of his home. When he was discovered, the child had lost too much blood and died.

As soon as the case came out, the first thing that was suspected was the miserables of the eight families. Soon after, it was found that the miserables of the eight families colluded with bandits.

Among the people who came out of Beijing to recruit soldiers, there were eunuchs and Feiyu Guards, but there were not many Feiyu Guards, and only two Feiyu Guards sent to Baihe County.

The yamen runners in the county yamen were already scared. They didn't want to end up like the ten people before, so they followed Feiyuwei to catch people.

All the heads of the eight families were arrested and their heads were chopped off before dawn.

So Baihe County returned to peace again, and the eunuchs continued to recruit soldiers, but the peaceful days only took two days. Two days later, a general flag of the Qianhu Camp in Baihe, along with his friend and another general flag, led a hundred subordinates to capture Baihe County Yamen, and killed all the five eunuchs, two Feiyu Guards who were temporarily living in the Houya, together with the magistrate and his family.

The chief flag who led the way was the eldest son of one of the eight families.

The Baihe Guard Mutiny!

This mutiny with only one hundred people was quickly suppressed, but the disaster of the internal army had already emerged.

In less than ten days, Qingfeng Town, Baijiakou, Erliying, and the people in the three places were in chaos. The local people picked up sickles and hoes and chased the eunuchs and Feiyuwei. In several other places, local gentry actually spent money to hire bandits to protect the tenants at home.

The imperial envoy's memorial was sent to the front of the emperor in a basket, and the Empress Dowager was furious: "Someone instructed that these untouchables were ordered by others. Their purpose was to deal with the Ai family and the emperor. They were accomplices of Yuzhe, and they were killed, and they were all killed!"

Within a month, there were more than a dozen riots introduced by the recruitment of troops from the Neijing Army alone. Although these riots were quickly calmed down, the news reached Xinjing and the people in Xinjing began to panic.

Some people are worried that if the Cao army cannot recruit soldiers in the countryside, they will come to Xinjing to recruit soldiers. Some people are worried that the countryside will be in chaos, and that the food, vegetables and vegetables will not be transported to Xinjing, and that the food will be out of stock in Xinjing.

Soon, all the speculations of the people became reality. The Nei Cao army really recruited soldiers in the new capital. Then, the prices of grain in the city soared!

The reason for the soaring grain prices was not entirely because of recruiting troops, but because of the rice grain warehouse of the Great Wei Dynasty. The Kaifeng canal transport transit warehouse completely changed hands, and the army of King Yu occupied the Central Plains!

One night a few days later, a rice shop located on Huichang Street was snatched by refugees.

The next night, two more pharmacies were robbed.

Chai Yan was waiting outside the Shizi Hutong early in the morning. When he saw Li Qiniang and Yan Xuehuai, his first words were: "Empty the rice and grain in the shop, don't open the door to do business these days."

On that day, Li Qiniang called Cui Xu, Wen Xiu, Hetian Guihua back. Xin Bo and Daniu Dazhuang temporarily moved to the new house in Wenzhao Hutong. Hetian Guihua's family lived together. Dawu and Erwu hurried back to the Shizi Hutong. With the permission of Mrs. Ye, Chai Yan sent Agate over and lived with Zhenzhu.

During his busy schedule, Li Qiniang did not forget to inform Fan Wubing. Old Man Fan closed the shop that day and took his nephews home, staying in the door and not leaving.
Chapter completed!