Iron Dynasty

It's not that the secret guard is powerful, but that King Wei is too stupid. He only knows how to protect the interests of the wealthy family, but he forgets that there are more ordinary people than the wealthy family in this world.

Sitting in the palace, Li San took a sip of tea.

He was really exhausted these days. According to Xiao Ming's request, they organized a grievance meeting in the village, and let the people who were oppressed by the wealthy come to power to complain, and then ended by scolding King Wei and the wealthy.

In addition to the grievance meeting, there were also propaganda slogans in each village. The content of this slogan was naturally to support King Qi and destroy King Wei.

At the same time, they are also cooperating with the government to establish a local militia organization to unite people's hearts.

Of course, no matter how much you say, there is no actual action. The distribution of land into the hands of the people is the key to truly let the people put their guard down.

With all these means added up, the four states have finally achieved what the people want, and there are many young and middle-aged people who enthusiastically join the army.

Ye Qingyun smiled, the secret guards were always very mysterious, and he had a kind of fear in Li San, because he felt that these people must also be stared at by Li San.

After hesitating, he asked, Where are you going next?

Jinling City! Li San didn't shy away, he said, Catch the thief first and capture the king. If you can assassinate the King of Wei, it will be easier to attack the city, right?

Assassination! Ye Qingyun was taken aback, Aren't you afraid of leaking this thing out to me?

If the governor leaks it out, I'll know right away. Li San smiled.

Ye Qingyun shuddered all over his body, which further confirmed his guess. At this time, he was even more in awe of Xiao Ming, because in his opinion King Qi was really elusive.

How did he set up such an institution as the Secret Guard?

But this is not something he should think about. After chatting with Li San for a while, he left the government office to work on recruiting new recruits.

Yangzhou City is a big city with a population of 600,000 people, because they arrived in time. After the massacre, there were still more than 400,000 people left in the city. In addition to the population of the nearby prefectures and counties, the population of Yangzhou City is very large. About seven hundred thousand.

The recruitment of such a surplus population is naturally not a problem, and now Qingzhou has ordered him to recruit 30,000 recruits from Yangzhou and Tongzhou. After half a year, he needs to lead the army to cooperate with the Southern Expedition Army to completely take Wei land.

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Qingzhou.

In the fiery propaganda of the four states, war bonds began to be issued at the Qingzhou Chamber of Commerce. In conjunction with the issuance of war bonds, Qingzhou Daily gave a comprehensive explanation of what war bonds are.

When the people and businessmen learned that the war bond was issued by Xiao Ming, the Qingzhou Chamber of Commerce was blocked by the people for a while.

With grain and silver, the people exchanged war bonds in the chamber of commerce to support the war.

Compared with the common people, the merchants were more interested in war bonds, and they took out their money to buy them. At the same time, the powerful and powerful people who came to Qingzhou from Chang'an did not miss this opportunity.

Taking their own property, they exchanged the gold and silver for a few chapters of thin paper, which is exactly the bond issued by the Chamber of Commerce.

Xiao Ming did not expect such a hot scene, but the people and businessmen are so active, which is enough to show his current status in the hearts of the people. As for the businessmen who have tasted the sweetness of the Northern Expedition, they naturally do not want to miss the opportunity.

The only thing that made them regret was that this time Xiao Ming set a limit, and they could not buy more than 10,000 taels of war bonds.

The Chamber of Commerce was overwhelmed, and Xiao Ming's palace was full of traffic. After the war bond was issued, Cao Zhengyang and other giants came to the palace to discuss the war bond.

His Royal Highness, there was no limit set by His Royal Highness last time for the Northern Expedition. Why do you want to set a limit this time? And the 10,000 taels are really less. Cao Zhengyang said.

Ding Wu also echoed: Your Highness, please believe in our loyalty to Fengguo. We hope that Your Highness can win consecutive battles and expand territory.

Yes, Your Highness, we are all from Qingzhou now, and there is no disagreement.

...

The merchants said in a hustle and bustle, and the main hall was full of noise.

Xiao Ming sat in the main seat without making a sound, but drank tea and listened to the complaints of these merchants. After everyone finished speaking, he said: Everyone, setting the limit is definitely not because this king does not trust you, but this time. War bonds are issued in limited amounts, so you can't get them all.

After a pause, Xiao Ming said: And this war bond, this king doesn't want too much silver and silver notes. It doesn't have much effect on this king. Do you understand now?

Cao Zhengyang, Ding Wu and the others looked at each other, and they immediately understood that this time, the people exchanged food, cloth and other materials for bonds. After all, the people didn't like silver and liked to exchange silver for materials.

But these merchants have a lot of silver in their hands, and these 50,000 taels of bonds were purchased in the form of silver and silver notes.

Your Highness means that as long as you exchange materials, you don't need to care about this restriction? Cao Zhengyang asked tentatively.

Of course not, this king can consider raising the upper limit to 300,000 taels. Xiao Ming said with a smile, this time the limit is actually a trap, in order to allow businessmen to find ways to obtain various materials from outside the feudal kingdom.

His strength alone is limited, but the combined energy of so many merchants in Qingzhou is very large. After all, they are related in other places. If they act, it will save him a lot of trouble.

300,000 taels. Ding Wu repeated, this limit is acceptable, and he asked, What supplies does Your Highness need?

Iron ore, saltpeter, sulfur, cloth, horses. Xiao Ming said, these are all things he is in short supply. After expanding the army, he needs more steel, gunpowder, military uniforms, and war horses.

Hearing this, Cao Zhengyang frowned, Your Highness, these supplies are in short supply right now, and it's hard to find them.

If it's easy to do, why should this king tell you about this? But I can remind you of iron mines. There are many closed subway mines in King Yong, and you can go there to buy mines for mining. Xiao Ming Said that he must now mobilize the power of capital to reserve supplies for the war.

A group of businessmen look at me, I look at you, but thinking of the rich rewards, they finally couldn't help the temptation, and they all agreed to this matter.

His Royal Highness, since this is the case, we will prepare these materials for His Highness. There are 20,000 war horses on the Caomin's horse farm, and fifteen or two groups of war horses, which are exactly 300,000 taels. Cao Zhengyang glanced at the others proudly.

Twenty thousand war horses! Xiao Ming was also shocked. Cao Zhengyang had only taken over the pasture for a year.

But after thinking for a while, he understood that Cao Zhengyang must have done some smuggling from the grasslands, otherwise there would be so many horses.

It's just that he doesn't bother to take care of it now. Sometimes capital and politics are contradictory. While guarding against each other, they also need each other.