The Sage of Confucianism and Taoism

Chapter 1513 Raising military expenses

"Very good! However, I am the leader of the Pearl River Army. You must remember this clearly!" Fang Yun raised his chin slightly and looked directly into Su Lun's eyes.

"The general will know." Su Lun's expression remained unchanged, and it was hard to tell what he was thinking.

"Very good, you go and write a miscellaneous record now, and write down everything that happened in the Pearl River Army in the past ten years. Even if the matter only involves ordinary people, you have to write it down. Do you understand?" Fang Yun asked.

Su Lun immediately said: "The last general takes orders!"

Zhang Qingfeng looked at Fang Yun from the side and said, "It's a good thing that you understand various matters. But...you still have to read all the account books and documents. Isn't it too much work?"

Fang Yun smiled and said: "It's just a day's work, it doesn't count as hard work."

Zhang Qingfeng and Su Lun looked at Fang Yun in surprise and disbelief.

"Well, you have been working hard for many years, and you naturally know the priorities, so I will stop talking." Zhang Qingfeng said.

"Uncle Qingfeng's words are serious. If my nephew has something wrong, I hope you can point it out so that he can re-evaluate. As for those account books and documents, it is indeed not difficult for my nephew. Ten years in prison, My nephew has grown far beyond his peers.”

Zhang Qingfeng nodded and said nothing.

Not long after, the first batch of account books and documents located inside the military camp arrived, pulled by horse-drawn carriages. Soldiers came in carrying boxes containing documents. There were twelve boxes in total, each box was three feet high.

Neither Zhang Qingfeng nor Su Lun left. They stood close to Fang Yun, wondering how Fang Yun could read quickly.

Fang Yun flicked his index finger at the first box, and then he saw thirty-five books of varying thickness flying out of the box, suspended in the air, and arranged neatly facing Fang Yun.

Fang Yun moved his fingers again, and the pages of the thirty-five books were turned together as if being blown by a strong wind.

In the big tent, the sound of rattling could be heard endlessly. After just five breaths, thirty-five pages of the book were turned over.

Fang Yun moved his fingers for the third time, and the thirty-five books fell back into the book box in the same order as before.

"Next box."

Everyone present almost dropped their jaws. Zhang Qingfeng blinked blankly and asked: "I don't want to poke your pain, but how much suffering have you gone through in the past ten years to achieve such miraculous abilities? Even a bachelor can't be so fast. In reading, only a great Confucian can read thousands of volumes with a flick of his hand."

Everyone nodded and looked at Fang Yun with great sympathy. Even Su Lun, who was lukewarm about Fang Yun, showed pity in his eyes.

Fang Yun chuckled and continued to read the second box of books. He thought that he was now doing two things. He first used this method to enter all the books into the world of strange books, and then let another mind read in the world of strange books. Read a thousand times faster than usual.

Box after box of account books and documents were transported to the big account, and then box after box was transported away. Because it took time to transport the account books and documents, Fang Yun often sat in the big account to rest because there were no books to read.

This strange incident quickly spread throughout the city. Wei Changxian secretly caused trouble and asked people in the warehouse to send other documents that had nothing to do with the Guards. Then he contacted the prefect of Zhucheng and asked him to send those documents from the government that had nothing to do with the army. Documents and account books were also sent to the Guards.

As a result, the carriages and horses of the Zhucheng government and the Pearl River Army mobilized. After a while, a spectacular scene appeared in the Guards Camp. Carriages carrying books continued to enter from the left, and the same carriages continued to go out from the right. The whole process continued until It ended early the next morning.

All the account books and documents in the city that could be shown to Fang Yun had been sent to the guard camp, and there were even several carts of messy books that Fang Yun could not read correctly.

After reading all the documents, Fang Yun took a nap and then got up to have breakfast. While eating, he read the letters and the comments from everyone on the list.

"Anyone who praises Zhang Longxiang for being knowledgeable and rich in the future will be scolding him!"

"If you apply it to him, it seems to be far away."

"Others have a standing bookcase, but Zhang Longxiang is a standing library."

"Terrible speed! You always say that Fang Xusheng is better than Zhang Longxiang, can he do it? He absolutely can't! That's why I keep saying that Zhang Longxiang can definitely surpass Fang Xusheng!"

"Please stop comparing Zhang Longxiang and Fang Xusheng. From now on, any comparison between the words and deeds of the two will be regarded by me as flattering Zhang Longxiang!"

Fang Yun got a headache after reading the list for a while, so he simply stopped reading. The recent debate between "self and myself" has gone too far. As long as Zhang Longxiang is mentioned, some will praise him and others will disparage him.

The most interesting thing is that some idiots are obviously incompetent and shameless, and they are jealous of Zhang Longxiang's rising literary reputation, but they first judge from a neutral perspective, and then say that they are angered by those who praise Zhang Longxiang, so they are forced to attack Zhang Longxiang instead.

Fang Yun has long seen through the faces of these people. It is nothing more than four words, "literary people look down on each other". If you add four more words, it would be sanctimonious.

After breakfast, Fang Yun went to the guard camp again, but this time Zhang Qingfeng did not follow.

Compared with yesterday, the Guards had 30% fewer generals and more soldiers, a full 40% less!

Out of an army of ten thousand, only six thousand remained.

Fang Yun secretly sighed in his heart. Even among these six thousand, I'm afraid only half of them are sincerely willing to stay here. The influence of the suspicion of reverse breeding is too great, and it is exposed at this time.

Later, Fang Yun entered the military camp, summoned the generals, and prepared to organize the troops according to his own intentions, formulate a new training plan, and even readjust the military types, diet, equipment, military uniforms, etc.

After Fang Yun finished formulating the new plan, Pingjiang General Su Lun took the document and read it for a while before saying: "It's not a big deal for you to recruit new soldiers, but plans such as increasing military pay, improving food, etc. will cost at least two hundred thousand taels more every year." Silver! The court will never allocate it! What? You mentioned at the end that you want to build a cavalry guard army of 5,000 people? That will cost at least another 500,000 taels of silver!"

Fang Yun smiled and said: "It's wartime now. As usual, we can ask merchants and landlords to raise donations."

"The taxation in Zhucheng is already heavy. If we ask merchants to raise donations again, not only will Lumenhou disagree, but I am afraid it will anger the merchants and landlords in the city. You also know that those big merchants and landowners have their backs."

"No, I only target some merchants and landowners. Su Lun!" Fang Yun suddenly stood up and shouted.

"The general is here!" Su Lun put his legs together, stood up straight, and looked at Fang Yun doubtfully.

"Sign up with a thousand soldiers and follow me to Pearl River Street!"

Su Lun was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized, a flash of excitement flashed across his face, and he turned around and left.

"I have the order!" Su Lun responded after taking several steps.

The army was stationed in the south of Zhucheng, while the living and commercial area was in the north.

Over the years, the properties of the Zhujiang Marquis Mansion in other places have been confiscated or robbed, but the properties in Zhucheng have remained nominally unchanged.

There is a prosperous Zhujiang Street in the north of Pearl City. All the shops in the entire street are the property of Zhujiang Marquis Mansion. In addition, Zhujiang Marquis Mansion also has the title deeds of many houses and fields.

After Zhang Wankong disappeared and Zhang Longxiang was imprisoned, all the shopkeepers responsible for these industries were imprisoned, most of them were tortured to death, and only a few were released.

Those who were released have joined various major forces, and not a penny of the money earned over the years has fallen into the hands of the Zhujiang Marquis Mansion.

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