Now that the money and food problem was solved, Zhao Jun immediately asked again:
"So, with this money and food, how long will it take for the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Household Affairs to prepare for the expedition?"
Cui Wen, the old minister, raised his hands and replied: "Your Majesty, may I ask when these supplies will arrive in Bianjing?"
Zhao Jun thought for a while and replied: "If you have money and food, you can start immediately. It will take about two months to get all the money."
However, the food can only come in batches due to the huge quantity.
Just transporting 200 million shi of grain to Bianjing will consume almost 10 million shi, which means that the official warehouse in Bianjing will finally receive 190 million shi of grain.
The weapons needed for the other 200,000 troops must be too late in the pass.
I decided to let the Tiangong Institute of Yunzhou County place an order for manufacturing first. The Ministry of War will prepare the required quantity and type of weapons and report them to me. I will send the message back to Yunzhou County.
According to Yunzhou County's production capacity, it will take about a month to manufacture everything, plus transportation.
It takes about two months to reach Bianjing. "
Upon hearing this, Cui Wen made a quick calculation and asked: "Your Majesty, are the civilian men used to transport grain from Yunzhou County recruited from Yunzhou County or from within the pass?"
Zhao Jun was stunned and then asked: "Is there any difference?"
Cui Wen immediately said: "Your Majesty, if you can, I hope that these people will be recruited from within the pass, so that the pressure on the people in the pass can be greatly relieved.
One million civilians are enough for nearly millions of northern people to support their families.
In addition, the grain transporters sent by the imperial court were also recruited from within the pass.
With this and this addition, the veteran is confident that the survival problem of the people in the north can be solved for at least a period of time.
In this way, the court can save a lot of relief expenditures and allow the people to support themselves. "
Zhao Jun frowned when he heard this. Of course he knew that this could create jobs for many people, but there was also a problem at the same time.
Nowadays, the projects that the imperial court provides work relief to the people in the north are large-scale construction projects, such as repairing city walls and building roads in various places. These are all sieges that require a large number of people.
Nowadays, if we recruit civilian laborers from the official ranks to transport grain and the army, the number of civilian laborers required will not be small.
Two jobs that require extremely manpower are started at the same time. Will the people in the north have enough?
What should I do if there is still land?
Everyone goes to work, but who will farm?
Is it possible that the imperial court will launch these major projects every year in the future to support the people?
Where in the world are there so many big projects?
It is not possible and unhealthy to prevent people from being self-sufficient!
Zhao Jun immediately expressed his doubts.
However, Cui Shangshu said:
"Your Majesty, this is wrong.
Although the population in the north is indeed insufficient to launch two major projects at the same time, they do not need to work two jobs all the time.
The veteran has thought about it, we can leave the job of transporting grain to the people in the north. This job has a time limit. Once the food shipped from Yunzhou County is finished, the people in the north can continue to build. Or go back to farming.
There is no rush to build the road, so it will not delay the people from farming.
The people in the south can be busy with farm work first. When they are finished with the farm work and the court has received the grain, allowing them to transport grain at this time will just solve the problem of eating after the busy farm work.
When the army enters the south and gradually recovers the southern counties, I estimate that there will be a large number of people in need of assistance. We can slowly use the people from the south to take over the work of transporting food and support some people.
Among them, the people in the north can gradually come back to continue the construction. Until the summer grain comes out this year, the people in the north can be completely self-sufficient. Your Majesty, you are tax-free, and the people's lives will be easier.
At that time, the imperial court can let go of the north and help the people in the south. "
After listening to this, Zhao Jun roughly understood what Cui Wen meant. He wanted to use the time difference to rotate the people in the north and south through the days when the food was mature and there was no food to survive.
Through project rotation, this difficult period can be passed and the relief materials needed by the court can be saved as much as possible.
At least when the seven southern counties are recovered, the first batch of people don't have to worry about how to resettle them. They can be directly included in the system of transporting grain and grass, so that they can have a job of earning rations.
At the same time, because they are locals, the people along the way can participate in transporting food one round at a time, which speeds up the transportation of food to the front line and keeps the people along the way well fed.
Good guy! Good guy!
This is simply a master of time management!
You are worthy of being the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs. You can understand the time difference!
As for how to resettle the people in the recovered land, Zhao Jun already has an idea.
The South now has less land and more people, and is densely populated.
When the Huns passed through the north, the land was sparsely populated and underpopulated.
It is entirely possible to migrate the landless people from the south to the north to fill the population.
Some of them can come to the north, and the other part can be sent directly to Shendu by boat. It just so happens that Shendu has more land and a shortage of Song people.
And now this matter can be done openly and openly. Since he is already the emperor, no one can do anything about him.
After understanding what Cui Wen meant, Zhao Jun agreed.
"Cui Shangshu's method is okay. The Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Works will coordinate with each other to handle it.
In addition, as for the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Household Affairs will immediately prepare for the army to go out as soon as it receives the gold, silver, food and grass.
In addition, the number of soldiers in the Song Dynasty is insufficient now. The Xiongnu now has no spare strength. If the Xiongnu recovers, this small number of troops will not be enough to defend the border.
Therefore, the Ministry of War needs to recruit another 200,000 soldiers for the imperial court in the autumn of this year, and the required amount of silver and grain will be provided by the Ministry of Household Affairs. "
Zhao Jun agreed to Cui Wen's plan, but at the same time he asked the Ministry of War to start recruiting troops.
Now he is no longer just a prince in Yunzhou County. As the current emperor, what he has to consider is no longer his own three-acre land.
The national border of the Song Dynasty is so long, and the entire Song Dynasty is thousands of miles away. Can it be defended by only 400,000 troops?
This must be impossible.
There were so many cities in the entire Song Dynasty, and each city must have thousands or hundreds of garrison troops, right?
There are also the northwest border and Yunzhou County. The two places combined require at least 400,000 troops to defend the border.
There are troops left in Yunzhou County, and it will be enough for him to ask Ding Hongguang to recruit tens of thousands more people.
The 200,000 soldiers and horses on the Hedong border are indispensable. Otherwise, if we are developing, what if the Huns suddenly attack?
Although the Huns have been severely damaged now, they still have a certain strength.
In addition, the garrison strength of various cities in the Song Dynasty and the garrison strength of Bianjing.
At least half a million people are the norm in this regard.
And when the time comes to recapture the south, more troops and horses will be needed.
Zhao Jun had calculated that a country like the Song Dynasty with long borders and huge territory would need at least one million permanent troops to maintain basic stability.
Now the imperial court only has 400,000 in its hands, and even if it includes its own Yunzhou County, it will not exceed 600,000.
There is still a full difference of four hundred thousand.
Of these, 200,000 will be recruited by the Ministry of War.
As for the remaining two hundred thousand...
Zhao Jun looked to the south, he had already prepared.
Moreover, the Song Dynasty was in his hands and he was not prepared to just stick to his laurels.
More troops are an inevitable trend...
Recruit another 200,000 troops? !
Liu Jin was startled, but looking at Zhao Jun's serious face, he knew that his Majesty was serious.
But thinking about the amount of money and food that was about to be shipped to Bianjing, he didn't panic anymore.
If you have money and food, are you still afraid that you won't be able to send out troops?
But a problem arises.
The Ministry of War can recruit soldiers, but who will train them?
This is a problem?
Liu Jin asked immediately.
"Your Majesty, after the soldiers are recruited, which general should be allowed to train the troops?"
In response to this, Zhao Jun already had a candidate and immediately replied:
"Let Guan Ning train the troops and send out an army of 200,000, won't there be a large part of the army left?
After preliminary training, the newly recruited soldiers are mixed into the old soldiers and let the old soldiers lead them, and they will soon form combat effectiveness. "
With the candidate Liu Jin was relieved, he immediately turned around and rushed to Guan Ning, who was at the head of the general queue, and said:
"General Guan, after I recruit new soldiers, I will hand them over to the general!"
Guan Ning also nodded and said: "I will arrange a special person to contact Liu Shangshu. Thank you, Liu Shangshu!"
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(End of chapter)
