The eldest princess is obsessed with rebellion, but there are six male protagonists

As soon as Qiao Gui left, Su Fengyi began to prepare for Shen He's expedition to the Northern Tartars. The first thing she did was to call Bai Guo to the study to collect food and fodder.

Bai Guo is in charge of Su Fengyi's warehouse and purse on a daily basis. He can write and calculate, and is an expert at using an abacus.

In the entire Princess's Mansion, the only person who knew exactly how much money the Princess had was Bai Guo. Even Su Fengyi herself didn't know exactly how much money she had.

It was really because the eldest princess's family background was so rich that ordinary people couldn't even count the amount of money she had.

Su Fengyi was the eldest princess and enjoyed the salary of a prince. In addition to the annual salary of 50,000 dan of rice, 20,000 taels of silver, several thousand pieces of silk, brocade, gauze, cotton, cloth, several thousand kilograms of tea and salt, and the daily supply of fish, meat, fruits and vegetables from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, her largest source of income came from the land and salt permits awarded to her by Taizu and the late emperor.

Because the princess could not go to the fiefdom, Taizu was worried that his granddaughter would suffer a loss in terms of land, so he decided to give Su Fengyi an extra large amount of salt permits every year.

If salt merchants want to sell salt at the salt fields, they must have a salt permit. Without a salt permit, selling salt privately is a capital crime punishable by death.

Salt merchants had to buy salt permits, but Taizu set the rule that they could not buy them with silver, but had to exchange them for grain from the border to ensure that there was enough grain on the border in preparation for wartime requisitions.

Because of this rule, Su Fengyi has his own granaries in various places along the border to store grain handed over by salt merchants.

Su Fengyi wanted to prepare food and grass for Shen He. If she purchased them locally, the news would definitely spread. However, if she sent them from her own granary, it would be done quietly without anyone noticing.

When Bai Guo heard that the princess wanted to see the account books, she came with an abacus and called a few little maids to carry two large boxes of thick account books.

As soon as he arrived at the study, Bai Guo was shocked to find that the princess' study was crowded with people, including the general of the Shen family, the deputy general of the Shen family, Captain Xie, and Wutong.

With so many people around, Bai Guo was a little worried. This account book belonged to the eldest princess's family fortune. Captain Xie and Wutong were the prince's confidants, so it didn't hurt for them to know about it. But with the Shen family present, would it be inappropriate?

Shen Quan looked at Bai Guo's scene and observed his expression, and felt something was wrong, so he bowed and left:

"Why don't we step aside for a moment..."

Su Fengyi held him down:

"The two generals and I are on the same side, so you don't mind listening."

Then he said to Bai Guo:

"Take a look and see where I can find a granary to gather three thousand light cavalry and five days' worth of food and fodder. Hurry."

Bai Guo knew the eldest princess's family background very well, so he didn't even open the account book and replied on the spot:

"Three thousand light cavalry, five days' worth of fodder, including the men and horses, three hundred dan a day, one thousand five hundred dan in five days.

With such a small amount of food, Your Highness, the Great Mu Dynasty has it everywhere, from south to north, from west to east, and in important border towns."

In this case, it is easy to deal with. Su Fengyi ordered:

"Bai Guo, write a note to Young General Shen. All the granaries of this palace, no matter where they are, within 2,000 dan, are under the control of Young General Shen."

Then he asked Shen He:

"Is two thousand shi enough? If not, I will ask Bai Guo to add more. I will ask Xie Xuan to bring a hundred soldiers to help you. He knows where the granary is. You can go and get it with the note."

The princess was so rich and generous. Shen He just wanted to curry favor with her and couldn't help shouting:

"Enough, enough, enough! There are granaries everywhere! Oh my god, sister, you are really my fairy sister, I will follow you from now on, okay?

With our friendship, if I, Shen He, become poor and come to your house to borrow money, you must not refuse to entertain me."

Yesterday she was still arguing with Su Fengyi about who was older, but today she called her sister for the sake of the two thousand dan of grain. Shen He's bottom line as a person is much more flexible than that of General Shen.

Su Fengyi smiled and asked:

"Major General, how is the military pay determined?"

Hearing Su Fengyi's question, Shen He and Shen Quan looked at each other and thought, does the princess mean to give extra military pay in addition to the rations?

No way?! No way?!

The Shen family has been stationed at the border for many years. Since Qiao Gui came to power, the eunuchs in the army have been supervising the army and have been withholding military pay for years. The Shen family has been worried about the shortage of military pay every month. They have never fought such a prosperous battle, nor have they received such a good salary.

Shen He's face was full of anticipation:

"The military pay quota of the Great Mu Dynasty is that ordinary soldiers get half a dan of rice per month, squad leaders get one dan of rice per month, sergeants get two dan of rice per month, centurions get four dan of rice per month, and captains get ten dan of rice per month.

The number of cavalry will be doubled, and the number of my Shen family's personal soldiers will be doubled again. The Shen family will pay for the extra part, and the military merit will be calculated separately."

Double it again and again, Su Fengyi roughly calculated that the most ordinary soldier of the Shen family's personal guard would get two stone of rice a month, which is almost two taels of silver.

This is really a high salary. You know, Wutong, Su Fengyi's first-class maid, only gets two taels of silver a month.

No wonder the Shen family army is so powerful. To improve the combat effectiveness of workers, cultural construction and spiritual brainwashing are all empty talk. To improve the combat effectiveness of the army, the most effective way is to spend real money.

When the military salaries are paid, we will be invincible.

The military pay was doubled, and the enemy troops all knelt.

How much is the monthly military pay for the Shen family's 3,000 light cavalry?

Su Fengyi couldn't figure out the doubling by mental arithmetic, so she asked Bai Guo directly:

"How much is the monthly salary for the Shen family's army of 3,000 light cavalry?"

Bai Guo calculated very quickly in his mind, without even using an abacus, and said, "A total of 10,200 dan per month, Your Highness."

When the quota was just mentioned, half a stone of rice or ten stone of rice did not seem like much. But after calculating it, Shen He felt that he had overthought. More than ten thousand stones of rice meant more than ten thousand taels of silver. Such a huge sum of money, he couldn't let the princess pay for nothing, right?

You know, the Shen family spent a lot of effort every month to collect the 5,000 taels of silver for subsidies.

But Su Fengyi said:

"Ten thousand taels of silver a month is not much. It is inconvenient to carry so much food when marching. It is better to convert it into cash.

Baiguo, write another note to the major general to get the money.

"Major General, there are banks in various places along the border. When you collect the military rations, you can collect the military pay together. I will give you two months' advance on the military pay. What do you think, Major General?"

The princess distributed money so generously that Shen He was almost dumbfounded. When he fought for the court, he had seen soldiers owed wages, but he had never seen any advance payment of wages.

If he still had doubts about the Northern Tartar's secret treasure yesterday, today he was certain of it.

If this business really wasn't lucrative, how could the princess dare to invest so much money?

After paying enough silver, Shen He nodded and issued a military order on the spot:

"Your Highness is wise and brave, I think this is the way to go! If this still fails to break the Northern Barbarians' royal court and obtain the Northern Barbarians' secret treasure, I, Shen, will bring my head to you!"

Shen Quan had a more far-sighted view than Shen He and asked:

"Your Highness pays the soldiers according to the standard of the Shen family army. Could it be that the three thousand light cavalry that Your Highness mentioned are actually my Shen family's personal soldiers?

The Shen family army is in Xuanfu. If we send troops from Xuanfu, the little prince of Beilu will definitely notice it, which is not appropriate. "

Qiao Gui's news was kept secret, and the people in the capital didn't know about the mutiny in Xuanfu yet. Su Fengyi couldn't help but sigh:

"The newly appointed general of Xuanfu withheld soldiers' pay, killed border residents of Xuanfu and treated them as northern barbarians to gain military merit, and sold military positions, promoting officials based on money rather than merit. There was a mutiny in the Xuanfu army, and many soldiers deserted.

General Zheng, the deputy general of General Shen, had a conflict with the new general and had left Xuanfu with the Shen family soldiers for several days.