Troubled times: Start practicing spiritual practice by taking care of your sister-in-law

Chapter 296 Request for help from the Heavenly Master Army

Early July.

Qing Wu returned to Longmen County and told Ning Yuan about the investigation.

When the first Fuze Hot Pot Restaurant opened, the revenue on the first day was only 5,320 taels.

Therefore, the three hundred taels that Luo Qin was greedy for was not much at first glance.

But don’t forget, ordinary people can earn one tael a month, which is a high income.

Three hundred taels is enough for ordinary people to earn for nearly thirty years, which is almost a lifetime.

As for Luo Qin, he had only been the shopkeeper for two months, and he had already taken three hundred taels. If it had been two years, that would be fine.

If it were thirty taels, Ning Wan might be able to endure it, but such a large amount must be reported.

Chen Mo was not in Longmen County at the moment. After staying in Longmen County for a few days, he went to Jiaping County to inspect. Several weapons workshops built in Jiaping County, as well as the Divine Arm Crossbow Workshop, were his focus.

Because these things can improve the strength of his army as a whole, there is no room for error.

If anyone dares to cheat with him in this matter and embezzle money for arms, then the Tang Dao in his hand will never be merciful.

After visiting Jiaping County for inspection, Chen Mo took the opportunity to visit Jun County.

After receiving Chen Mo's advice last time, Ling Li followed Chen Mo's methods and established the county school in Jun County, which was running well.

Ling Li was able to pass the examination, and there was still something in his mind.

During this period, many counties in Yuzhou were cutting down trees and transporting them to Linzhou.

Jun County is one of them.

He organized people to go up the mountain to cut trees and transport them down the mountain, allowing them to earn the money Chen Mo allocated to the counties. He also used the excuse of transporting trees to Linzhou and needed to widen the roads to repair roads and improve people's livelihood in Junxian County.

Moreover, due to the felling of trees, a clearing was created on the hilltop. Ling Li personally led the officials below and led the people to transform this clearing into more than 200 hectares of farmland.

However, the farmland obtained by clearing forests is not called farmland at all. There are still many tree root systems left underground. Such "farmland" will not produce any yield at all without a few years of transformation.

But since ancient times, a lot of farmland has come from this way.

Ling Li obviously knew this, because this was a point he used to attract people to move to Jun County.

These transformed farmlands will be given free of charge to the people who participated in the transformation.

After visiting Jun County, Chen Mo was actually a little tired, but since he was already in Jun County, he simply went to the next county to have a look around.

There is no way, he really lacks capable civil servants around him, such as ordinary soldiers, but even though he has been recruiting talents for so long, there are still so few people who come to join him.

He wanted to transfer Geng Songfu to Yuzhou and let him manage the two counties of Pingting and Qingting. It would be too humiliating.

As for the new army, Chen Mo planned to recruit 20,000 troops and horses, which together with the existing troops would be 50,000.

At the beginning, there were only a few people who came to join the army, but by the ninth year of Xuanhe, the number began to double.

The original plan of 20,000 horses and horses has already been reached, and now it has even exceeded 10,000.

It was exceeded, but Chen Mo did not eliminate the excess. The trade with Huaizhou, the hot sales of briquettes, the popularity of hot pot, and the taxation of the three states allowed the finance to be sustained.

According to Chen Mo's previous regulations, new recruits are classified into the Formation Guard, and only those who pass the training are eligible to join the Divine Brave Guard or the Divine Martial Guard.

The best among them can enter Chen Mo's personal barracks.

After all, the pro-barracks also needs fresh blood.

Chen Mo originally thought that he had figured it out, so he simply went out to inspect a few more counties. At this moment, Sun Meng came over and whispered a few words in his ear.

Chen Mo's expression changed slightly, he stopped his inspection, and hurried back to Longmen County. The Longmen County Yamen has moved out and moved to the west of the city. The move was very fast.

Something happened to the Tianshi Army.

In early June, the Tianshi Army launched a full-scale attack on Huaizhou, but they never thought that the Huai army's successive defeats were just a trick by the King of Huai to lure troops.

As soon as they entered Huaizhou, they were ambushed by the Huai army. Two commanders of the Tianshi army, Dafangqu, were bribed by King Huai and openly rebelled during the battle. This led to chaos in the army and Wan Zhen, the number one general under Luo Guang's command, was killed in battle.

In addition to Wan Zhen's death in battle, this ambush also killed three Dafang and four Xiaofang Qushuai in the Tianshi army, and captured one Dafang Qushuai and two Xiaofang Qushuai.

When they returned to Shan County, they were ambushed by the navy sent by King Huai to raid Shan County by waterway in advance. The Tianshi Army suffered heavy losses.

After that, King Huai sent his navy to cross the Huai River from Qingzhou and blocked the north bank of Fengzhou. If the Tianshi army wanted to return to Qingzhou across the river, they would have to pass through here.

In other words, the current Tianshi Army was completely besieged by the Huai Army in Fengzhou and became a turtle in a urn.

It was at this time that Chen Mo received two urgent letters.

One letter was sent by the Tianshi Army and was written by Luo Guang himself, begging him to send troops to assist.

Now King Huai's navy is stationed on the river between Fengzhou and Qingzhou.

One letter is naturally from King Huai.

The letter first stated that the navy on the river was not heading for Qingzhou, and also mentioned the non-aggression treaty, saying that with the treaty in place, the navy's warships would not even touch the shore of Qingzhou.

In addition, Chen Mo was asked not to interfere in the affairs of the Tianshi Army. After the matter is completed, he will be rewarded with a large sum of money.

Through these two urgent letters and the news received from the front, Chen Mo knew that the Heavenly Master Army, which once swept through the Northland and was so majestic, was now at the end of its rope.

Chen Mo sent someone to immediately tell Geng Songfu and Zuo Lianglun and ask them what they thought.

After all, Chen Mo would definitely ask others for their opinions on such a big matter.

It seems that it is impossible to transfer Geng Songfu to Yuzhou for now.

But in his heart, he would not rescue the Tianshi Army.

Because providing assistance is equivalent to helping the Tianshi Army retreat to Qingzhou.

The only way for the Tianshi Army to retreat is Qingzhou.

And Qingzhou is its own territory. With most of its troops now in Lin and Yuzhou, if the Tianshi Army is allowed to retreat to Qingzhou, it will undoubtedly attract wolves into the house.

The reputation of the Tianshi Army is not good.

However, before the final decision was made, just in case, Chen Mo ordered Sun Meng and Wen Heng to lead 5,000 divine guards, 5,000 divine guards, and 3,000 trapped guards, a total of 13,000 troops, to return to Qingzhou to garrison.

Just after finishing the matter at hand, a letter from Linzhou came again. It was from Zuo Lianglun, whom Chen Mo had been reading just now.

The letter said that the eldest son of the Wu family in Jiangdong wanted to see him to discuss important matters.

After reading it, Chen Mo was concentrating when Ning Wan came again.

The woman seemed to have just taken a bath. She had changed into a light yellow dress, had a gorgeous bun, and her hairpins were shining brightly.

She has never given birth to a child, but she has a plump figure. Her skin is like snowflakes, white and rosy, and her jade face is as bright as a large peony. Under her curved willow eyebrows, there are ripples in her eyes.

She came to Chen Mo and bowed: "Master Hou, I have something important to discuss with you."

(End of this chapter)