The eldest son of the red mansion

Chapter 560
Hearing Jia Ke's order, Wei Kun said hastily, "Master, Tang Kuai has released all the spies under his command, and the Tatars can't escape our eyes even if they make a fuss."

Jia Ke was still not at ease, and asked Li Deshan next to him, "What news did your hidden guards get? Didn't I become blind?"

After hearing this, Li Deshan quickly said to Jia Ke: "Master, it's not that the slaves didn't get the news, but that the slaves mainly monitor the country, and they are beyond the reach of foreign affairs. If the master needs it, I will arrange people for the slaves. Nothing like this will happen again.”

Jia Ke thought for a while and said, "That's it, let's send some people to the south and north to find out as much information as possible, even knowing the prices of those goods."

Li Deshan immediately kept expressing his opinion to Jia Ke from the side, "Master, this slave is not exaggerating to you, as long as the slave handles this matter, the slave will know if there is trouble within a year."

Jia Ke felt relieved when he heard this. He was not like what the court did before. The Tatars had already attacked the door, so they defended.

This time Jia Ke is in charge of the world, he must do it, if the enemy does not move, I will not move, if the enemy has moved, I will move first.

"You send people to contact the Manchu Eight Banners, and let them get ready and wait for my orders at any time. Once my generals are down, they will immediately gather all the armored men in the clan and join me."

Jia Ke thought that it was time for the Manchu Eight Banners to show their faces this time. In the past, Jia Ke was jealous of the emperor's pressure, so the Manchu Eight Banners have not been exposed, and now finally there is no need for these taboos.

According to Jia Ke's estimation, the current Manchu Eight Banners are also strong in people and horses. If the Eight Banners were dispatched together, there would be at least [-] to [-] cavalry.

At that time, together with the elite cavalry and infantry from the nine sides, he will command 50 soldiers to sweep the grassland north this time, so that Arslen Khan can also taste what it feels like to be beaten to the door of his house.

After Wei Kun went down, Jia Ke thought through his thoughts completely.Feeling that there was nothing negligent, he sent an order to the five ministers of military affairs and Peng Bi, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, to meet in his lobby immediately.

The five ministers of military aircraft came very quickly because they had been working in front of the Prime Minister's Office.

The five people came to the hall and saluted Jia Ke first. Sun Yan was the first minister to ask, "Is there something urgent, my lord? You called us here in such a hurry."

"Wait for a while, and we'll talk about it together when the Minister of War arrives, otherwise we'll have to explain again."

So the five military ministers could only stand below and wait a while, and at the same time they began to ponder in their hearts.

The prime minister is waiting for the minister of the Ministry of War. It seems that this time the matter has something to do with the army. Could it be that there is going to be another war.

Except for Fan Kang, all of them have never been in the war, and now they are a little flustered, and they don't know what is going on in the world.

Without a stick of incense, Peng Bi, Minister of the Ministry of War, rushed over. He was still panting when he came to the lobby, and he seemed to be trotting here without stopping.

Peng Bi came to the lobby to calm down for a while, then handed over to Jia Ke and confessed, "I'm late, please forgive me, my lord."

Jia Ke didn't blame him, but let him go back to the class, then stood up and said, "Just now I got the news from the north that Arslen Khan has returned to the grassland from the Western Regions. What do you think about this matter?" ?”

Although Sun Yan is the Minister of Military Affairs, he is really not good at these marching and fighting matters, but he can still make a general point and just say, "I see, the Tatars have been fighting frequently in recent years. I think they should Rest for a few years in order to recover, otherwise, if you fight with us again, I am afraid it will be time to exterminate the clan."

The others nodded their heads based on what they heard, and they didn't think that the Tatars still had the ability to continue their southward invasion.

Only Fan Kang shook his head when he heard their optimistic views.

Who knew that Fan Kang's performance was noticed by Jia Ke, "Fan Kang, don't shake your head there, stand up and say something."

Seeing that Jia Ke had already found out, Fan Kang could only stand up and say, "According to my inference, Arslen Khan will definitely go south this autumn."

"Oh, why?"

"My lord, Arslen Khan is also a hero with a high self-esteem, but he has been repeatedly defeated by the lord, so he must not be angry. This time Arslen Khan pacified the Western Regions and conquered dozens of countries. The morale of the soldiers under his command must be high, and he has obtained many slaves and mercenaries from the Western Regions. Arslen Khan thinks that he can fight the lord now. With his character, he must not wait to recover his vitality. The lord fought a battle."

Jia Ke nodded after hearing this. Fan Kang, as expected of his chief strategist, analyzed the matter clearly and logically, exactly as he thought in his heart.

After listening to Fan Kang's words, the other military ministers also began to be a little shaken by what he said.

Jia Ke then asked Peng Bi, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, "Can our food and grass support hundreds of thousands of soldiers to fight?"

Peng Bi thought about it for a while, and then said after careful consideration: "My lord, this year we have a bumper harvest all over the country. I think the harvested food should be enough, but the Ministry of Household Affairs needs to do a careful calculation."

Jia Ke pondered for a while, and then said directly to Sun Yan: "Your Military Aircraft Department will now give orders to the household department to raise food and grass from now on. By autumn, I will be able to stockpile 50 soldiers and provide food for half a year of combat."

After hearing this, Sun Yan frowned a little, but still said resolutely: "My lord, there is nothing wrong with the matter of food and grass. Even if I rob, I can still raise food for my lord."

After hearing this, Jia Ke said with a smile: "Whether you want to grab it or not, it has not reached this point. If the court is in trouble, it is not impossible to solve it."

Sun Yan didn't think there was any way to raise so much food without hurting his bones, but since Jia Ke said it, he still had to ask: "My lord, isn't there something already going on?"

Jia Ke nodded with a smile, then stood up and walked among them and said, "Although the imperial court has some difficulties, those rich men in the folk are very rich. , the food and grass for the 50 million army can be easily raised."

Tian Ye, the military minister who just came back from the south, couldn't believe it after hearing Jia Ke's words. He had seen the stinginess of these rich people in the south, and it was simply a fantasy to ask them to pay so much food.

So Tian Ye asked in disbelief, "What good plan does the prime minister have?"

"It's not a smart way. This time I'm going north, and I won't leave after taking the land. With so much fertile land stretching as far as the eye can see, how can I sell it for some money?"

After listening to Jia Ke's words, Sun Yan and the others suddenly realized that if it is said that what these rich landowners are most concerned about, it is naturally the land.As long as the land is exchanged with them for food, are you afraid that they will not agree?

Jia Ke actually had this idea long ago. He thought that he would nationalize as much land as possible in the interior of the Central Plains, and then rent it out to common people who had been swept away. , As for their lack of manpower to cultivate, it is not easy to capture all the natives and treat them as slaves.

This time when Jia Ke went north, he wanted to do a pilot project in the north to see if it would be successful. If it was successful, then the land in the south that had three common customs every year would naturally be able to sell for a lot of money, and there was no shortage of arable land in the densely populated area. people.

Now that Sun Yan had relaxed his mind, they naturally knew that there would be no problem raising food and grass this time. Now that they had relaxed their minds, they began to think about how to defeat the Tatars. It is impossible to appease these old rich landlords who have paid for it.

Sun Yan thought for a while, since he had already decided to sell the land captured by the North during the victory, there must be a price, "My lord, what price will the land in the North be sold at?"

Jia Ke thought for a while, and was a little undecided. He was also afraid of losing money in this transaction.

"Fan Kang, what do you think?"

Fan Kang rolled his eyes when he heard Jia Ke ask again, but he couldn't help but answer, "My lord, the land in our Central Plains is about eight taels to twelve taels, and the land we seized in the north should not be cultivated yet." , then it can only be sold as wasteland, so the price in the Central Plains is four or five taels."

Fan Kang didn't speak anymore when he said this. This was to leave room for Jia Ke to express himself. As a subordinate, could he really compare himself to his lord?

After listening to Fan Kang's introduction, Jia Ke nodded, "It seems that if we sell too much, those rich landowners won't obediently pay for grain."

After Jia Ke finished saying this, she thought about it carefully. That time, she wanted to give these rich landowners a little bit of sweetness, so the land should not be sold at too high a price, so that they could devote themselves to producing food and money. And if there is a war in the future, they will definitely participate actively.

"Let's see it this way. The land in the north is sold as 150 catties of grain per mu. What do you think?"

The next few military ministers looked at each other, and then nodded. The price Jia Ke offered was extremely low, and those local rich men would flock to it.

Seeing that everyone had already nodded in agreement, Jia Ke ordered like Sun Yan: "Leave this matter to the Military Aircraft Department. You arrange to disclose the news to those rich landowners, and then collect the food uniformly, and then give them a receipt." .”

After listening to Jia Ke's instructions, Sun Yan immediately said, "My lord, we always have a limit. Otherwise, these rich people must be crazy when they hear such cheap land. How can we sell so much land to them?"

Jia Ke thought about it for a while, and the outcome of this trip to the north is unpredictable. Although Jia Ke expected to capture some land, it would be a drop in the bucket to satisfy the appetites of the rich people in the world.

"Then sell 500 million mu of land and test the waters first. Don't have so much land handed over by then, and the court will be embarrassed."

(End of this chapter)