This makes sense.
Now that we have decided to accept students, the more the better.
Because his ideas need more people to promote them.
Especially after he decided to live like the sun, he knew that he must find a few heavyweight planets to surround him.
Although Su Yan can only be regarded as a dwarf planet, he is also a very important person.
So he waved his hand and accepted these young people.
Young people are always adventurous. When they heard that their husband agreed, they immediately started shouting like brothers and sisters.
Li Ning did not carefully inquire about the names of these young people, otherwise he would have discovered that there were several big fish among them.
But he felt that he didn't have that much effort, because the next city Alexander wanted to attack was far more troublesome than Milli.
He needs to prepare in advance to pave the way for future plans.
And it was time to begin an expedition against the Hellespont and Phrygia regions.
These two regions are located in the northeast of Asia Minor, close to the Caucasus, and adjacent to Cappadocia. They are not an easy bone to chew.
Therefore, he then led his army back to the city of Sardis and did not watch the duel between Neakas and the Persian fleet.
But six days later, as soon as he stepped into the city of Sardis, he received a letter from Ptolemy from Pang.
The person who sent the letter fell ill due to the difference in climate, in fact mainly the difference in seasons, so the letter could only be delivered by Ptolemy.
After reading the letter, Li Ning was so shocked that he couldn't help but look at Lu Xiaqing fiercely.
The Lu family is a well-known official family in Fujian. I don't know how many uncles and brothers are officials in the court. Although their official positions are not high, they have sufficient motives for speculation because of this.
The reason why it was said to be speculative was because Pang Ji claimed that the imperial court had ordered a large-scale dredging of the Luoyang River Granikas River so that ships with a deeper draft could pass.
This is undoubtedly paving the way for merchant ships and troop carriers.
What worries him even more is that Zhao Zhen's military preparations seem to be too sufficient.
Although the emperor was not a person who liked great achievements, he still sent nearly 100,000 troops southward and successively arrived near the light curtain in the past few days.
The arrival of 100,000 Mouths quickly raised the local grain prices in Fujian. The moldy rice in Changpingcang was indeed used to make a fortune from the national crisis, but nearly 60% of it was within the territory of the Imperial Song Dynasty.
The Fujian Road is no better than the two Zhejiang and Huaihe Rivers - although it appears to have more rainfall due to its latitude, it is actually mountainous and only about 10% of the land is suitable for farming. Therefore, the local food production is not high, so there are often insufficient crops. The parents who took care of their children cruelly drowned their newborn babies.
The increase in food prices has exacerbated the living difficulties of Fujian people.
As a result, the custom of serving as soldiers and eating food began to spread in Fujian. Not long after the recruitment list of the Department of Economics and Strategy was released, groups of young people came to queue up.
But this phenomenon occurred after the arrival of 100,000 troops, which undoubtedly worsened the local financial situation in Fujian.
And what are these 100,000 troops going to do? Li Ning could still guess it.
Even if they originally came with the intention of defending the light curtain, because the war inside the light curtain was going too smoothly, they would want to put their claws in, gain some business benefits, and brush their credit books by the way.
However, Li Ning's plan does not require these 100,000 mouths.
As he said before, what he needs are resources that are beneficial to the Song Empire, rather than consuming these resources.
Even if consumption is used in exchange for profits, too much capital cannot be invested at one time. After all, the productivity difference between the two sides of the light curtain is 1,300 years, which means that the Emperor Song Empire that has traveled through time has to start from scratch no matter what it wants to do.
However, the emperor obviously could not withstand the instigation of the ministers, otherwise he would not have mobilized so many troops.
In this regard, Li Ning also had other evidence. Of course, this evidence also came from the same letter, that is, the emperor had decreed that Guangmu Trading Company should be closed down and returned to the royal family.
If those bureaucrats who originally participated in the establishment of the commercial bank are found to have been embezzled, their capital will be confiscated directly. If there is no such case, it will be returned with interest.
As for the new owner's spending, it was obviously more generous than the bureaucrats. Emperor Zhao Zhen invested 500,000 guan from the inner treasury, and forced the three envoys to allocate 300,000 guan from the left treasury, plus some old dignitaries to chip in. The two hundred thousand coins that came out formed a mighty army of one million and were delivered to Li Ning together.
Li Ning didn't know why the emperor trusted him so much, but he didn't dare to ask because more shocking news was yet to come.
The Shibo Division, which made a lot of noise, failed to pass the big discussion in Chongzheng Hall.
The reason is not that the Emperor Song Empire did not pay enough attention to the light curtain incident, but because they paid too much attention to it, so much so that they discovered the fact that there was a certain difference between the trade in the light curtain and the ships at sea.
First of all, although the Municipal Shipping Department will send people to patrol the coastal areas, the main purpose is to combat smuggling. If a war really breaks out, the local garrison will take action.
The light curtain is only a few tens of feet wide and does not require too many people to patrol it. On the contrary, it is easy to be attacked by the enemy. Therefore, it should be focused on garrisoning like a pass.
So an army of 100,000 troops arrived.
But are these 100,000 troops just for defense?
of course not! Because the light curtain also has a unique feature.
There seemed to be a vast expanse of land on the other side of him rather than an unfathomable ocean where life was impossible.
As the inheritors of the yellow civilization, the Huang Song Dynasty naturally had a greed for land.
Therefore, one of the important purposes of this 100,000-strong army is, as Lu Xiaqing said, to find opportunities to capture a territory.
This behavior is dangerous!
Because Alexander, who was determined to win Asia, would definitely not tolerate the emergence of another group of careerists behind him.
By then, the armies of the Imperial and Song dynasties, who were unfamiliar with this place, would face a joint attack by the Persians and Greeks.
——The Persians are even more likely to take hostile measures than the Greek army, because their territory is vaster and they will inevitably become the target of the Imperial and Song armies.
This made Li Ning feel worried. Chengran's army may not necessarily have no chance of winning here, but the melee situation among the Three Kingdoms was very unfavorable for the Huangsong who were playing away games.
Fortunately, Emperor Zhao Zhen sent him a divine assist by accident.
The people of the Song Dynasty never lacked economic acumen. Even customs offices like the Shipping Department could be run by companies.
Therefore, Emperor Zhao Zhen took the medicine according to the prescription, changed Guangmu Trading Company into Guangmu Division, and prepared to send personnel to supervise it.
Supervising "enterprises" run by the royal family or the court was not unprecedented in the Imperial Song Dynasty. On the contrary, it was particularly common. For example, there was an official position called the Supervisor of the Jingzhai Store, which was responsible for the management of official fixed assets and trade transactions.
And this courtier who was about to become the prison guard was none other than Su Shunqin, who later worked as a shopkeeper at the prison's residence in Beijing.
As for him, Li Ning, after being appointed to the third class for his meritorious service, as a military attache, he will have the power to dispatch and promote the Guangmu Division!
The functions and powers of the Light Curtain Department were entirely in accordance with his original suggestions and the terms engraved on the League Monument on the Granicas River, and were organized and implemented by the personnel allocated by the relevant yamen.
This means that the Light Curtain Division can have its own army to act as a guard for the caravan. It also means that he can have his own school to cultivate the talents he needs.
At the same time, he can purchase land and buy houses like a commercial organization, and then dictate certain policies like a bureaucracy.
Such a good thing reminded Li Ning of the terrifying existence of China's restructuring into a certain head office.
Being authorized to form such a terrifying existence, how could Li Ning not thank His Majesty the Emperor for his divine help?
