Mo Zi didn't know about Situ Yao's departure from Jiangnan at this time. He was assisting Han Qu and Yang Yanzhang in Yining City to deal with the expansion of the army.

Among them, Yang Yanzhang's initial plan to expand the Imperial Army to 50,000 people, with the original 20,000 people as the core, and the remaining 30,000 places serve as auxiliary soldiers. As for the Red Flame Dragon Cavalry, it serves as the core of the Imperial Army.

However, those 30,000 people said they were auxiliary soldiers, but they would also enjoy Mo Zizai's accelerator effect. In less than a few months, these people's cultivation level must be at the essence refining realm. Using the essence refining realm as auxiliary soldiers is such a luxurious behavior, I am afraid that it will shock others' chins if you say it out.

As for Han Qu's side, Mo Zizai directly named this unestablished army Zhennan, and its intention would be self-evident.

In Mo Zizai's plan, the Zhennan Army will expand 100,000 people, and everyone will enjoy the accelerator effect. After fighting with those aristocratic families, the Yuzhi Army will act as the main attacker. Wherever the strongest, the Yuzhi Army will fight wherever it is.

The Zhennan Army is a deputy army and is considered a backup army. They will take whatever they have to do.

The recruitment of soldiers was not only carried out in Yuanling County. Now half of the Great Zhou Dynasty is under the control of the court. Mo Zizai naturally would not ignore his advantages and directly sent people to various places to establish recruiting points.

In accordance with the previous rules, he changed the forced conscription to recruit soldiers, and granted generous food and salary to the soldiers. Therefore, he was not afraid of not being able to find anyone. After all, in the past, he had to manage food in the recruitment. Sometimes, even forcibly conscription, the soldiers not only had to go out to fight, but also had to bring their own dry food, which was extremely exploited.

But now Mo Zizai not only reduced the land rent for enlisted soldiers, but also provided money. Compared with the previous treatment, the soldiers who joined the army thought they were dreaming in a trance.

But in this way, the silver in Mo Zizai's hand was obviously not enough. He just gave so much silver to the court, and he didn't even wait for the national treasury to be warm, but Mo Zizai waved his hand and spilled it all out.

This led to Mo Zizai sending so much silver to the court before, but now the new Minister of Revenue Shen Qisheng keeps sending letters to Mo Zizai crying poorly.

"This money is indeed a bit quicker."

Mo Zizai looked at another letter sent by Shen Qisheng. He basically knew that he was crying poor without opening it, but he spent too much money to recruit soldiers. He knew that he was in the wrong, so he couldn't refute Shen Qisheng, so he had to helplessly put the letter together with the six or seven unopened letters sent by Shen Qisheng before.

"If you don't take charge of your business, you won't know how expensive it is!"

Looking at the few letters stacked together, Mo Zizai looked helpless. The money needed to raise soldiers was too much. The food and salary were still small, mainly because the cost of armour and equipment was huge. After all, if you recruit soldiers, you can't let them go up to die with bare hands, right?

If that were the case, why would Mo Zizai recruit soldiers? Isn’t it enough to force recruit civilians to join the army before learning from the past? Anyway, they are all used as cannon fodder, and they will die when they are pulled on the battlefield. Why do you have to spend money to recruit soldiers?

Therefore, in Mo Zizai's idea, all these soldiers must be equipped with armor. If conditions permit, it is not impossible to train some ordinary cavalry.

Even in the initial plan, Mo Zizai planned to recruit 200,000 soldiers and directly put them in place in one step to establish the active-duty soldiers system in the Great Zhou. In that case, there would be no need to build the military service system bit by bit in the future.

But when the steps are too big, it is obvious that it will pull the ball. Now that Mo Zizai has just taken the first step, he is stuck by the money and can no longer continue to move forward.

"Money, money..."

Mo Zi was spinning all kinds of thoughts in his mind, and in the end they all turned into one word, that is money, even if it is the emperor, he couldn't do anything without money.

"Zhou Qi, do you think who should be copied now?"

After thinking for a while, Mo Zizai, who had no money in his pocket, put his mind on his old business and asked Zhou Qi: "The Zhao family in Fuyang County? I have long heard that his Zhao family is as rich as the country. I want to see if his family really has so much money."

“…”

Looking at Mo Zizai who was crazy about poverty, Zhou Qi felt helpless. Although the Zhao family in Fuyang County is relatively rich, the Zhao family has been very honest for a while. Even if they were cut by the new policy, they were still honestly killed, without any intention of resisting.

Now you have to copy the other person’s family because they see that they have a lot of money, which is obviously inappropriate.

It was a bit bad to directly oppose Mo Zizai, so Zhou Qi said tactfully: "Prince, Your Majesty's new policy has just been promulgated. If you start killing randomly at this time, it may damage Your Majesty's prestige."

"That's true..."

After hearing what Zhou Qi said, Mo Zizai thought for a moment, then nodded helplessly.

Now the aristocratic families under his rule have been shocked. When they feel powerless to resist, even though they know that the new policy is targeting them, they dare not object at all in order to survive. They allow the court to divide their power and cut off their inheritance.

However, there is a saying that rabbits will bite people when they are anxious. If they cooperate honestly, you will kill others. At that time, cooperation will be dead, and not cooperating will be dead. It would be strange if those aristocratic families do not resist.

Although Mo Zizai, who was in the hands of the army, was not afraid of them resisting, but after all, it would kill people in war. If he had saved so many lives in vain because of such a small matter, Mo Zizai felt that it was not worth it no matter how he thought about it.

"It's a little troublesome to not be able to search the house."

The fastest way to make money was blocked, and Mo Zizai was a little helpless. Apart from raiding his house, he seemed to have no means to make money quickly.

"Prince, the output of the coal mine has now increased."

Looking at Mo Zizai who was at a loss, Zhou Qi couldn't help but remind him that after Mo Zizai had made the coal and stove, he handed the matter over to the imperial prison. Now he has completely left this matter behind, but Zhou Qi still remembers it.

Before leaving the capital, Zhou Qi went to the Imperial Supervision to find out, saying that the output of the coal mine had increased several times, and now he is waiting for Mo Zi to deal with it.

“Coal mine?”

When Mo Zizai heard Zhou Qi suddenly talk about this, he was stunned for a moment before he realized that there were too many things that had happened during this period, so he forgot everything about it.

"This is a way to make money."

Now the cold disaster is coming, and the weather is getting colder every year. Winter is coming soon this year. If coal can be launched at this time, it will not only reduce the number of people who have frozen to death, but also gather a lot of money with the flow. This is a good idea.

"Okay, I'll write a letter to the capital later, and then hand it over to the head of the Ministry of Revenue. Didn't Chen Qisheng keep crying for poverty? Give him this black gold mountain and let him cash it. I'll see how he can cry for poverty."

After finally having a solution, Mo Zizai couldn't help but feel much more happy, "By the way, how is the steam train built now, do you know?"

If you want to transport coal on a large scale, it is unrealistic to rely on manpower alone. You must have the ability to transport on a large scale, and steam trains undoubtedly meet this condition.

"The main distances near the capital have been initially laid. Before leaving the capital, I could try to operate them because of the imperial prison, but now I don't know what the details are."

Zhou Qi hadn't contacted the capital for a long time, so he just told him what he knew.

"Oh, since they said that, it seems that the train has been made."

Mo Zizai nodded, not surprised by the result. Everyone in the imperial prisons are top craftsmen. In other words, they are all major industrial masters in this era, and they are also cultivating. They can be comparable to machine tools with one hand. With concepts, knocking out steam trains is not difficult.

"If there is a train, it's only a track."

Mo Zizai pondered for a while, then turned on his accelerator.

【Level 7, Heart member level 1】

【Small acceleration position: 60,000/200,000】

After upgrading to the Xin membership, the small acceleration position was not improved. The current small acceleration position is still 200,000.

In these 200,000 miles, the Yuzhi army used 30,000, and the Yulin Army in the capital and some other messy people used 30,000, and the remaining quota was only 140,000.

For these 140,000 miles, there will be 100,000 places for Han Qu and 20,000 more places for the Yuzhi Army. In this way, there will be 20,000 places left empty.

"Twenty thousand...two thousand..."

Mo Zizai pondered for a moment and decided to use the 20,000 quota.

"Zhou Qi, gather the direct personnel of those aristocratic families and I want to send them to build roads."

When we captured Yining City before, in addition to some ordinary soldiers, there were also some direct soldiers from aristocratic families. These people were supported by the aristocratic families and were obviously stronger than ordinary soldiers. There were no more evil things to sit down with the aristocratic families.

So after these people surrendered, Mo Zizai planned to kill them all, but there were too many people, so he always felt that it was a pity to kill them like this, so he kept locked up in Yining City. At this time, he learned that the track had not been laid out yet, and he immediately had some ideas.

Since these people are all murderers, they might as well open an accelerator for them to mine. With an accelerator on their side, they will become much faster regardless of the speed of their cultivation or recovery speed. As long as they cannot die, they will use them to death.

I think with this group of new forces, the speed of the imperial supervision roads will definitely be increased by several levels. Perhaps it is possible to pave the railway to Yining City before the war begins.

After making up his mind, Mo Zizai no longer hesitated. In addition to these people, he also picked a lot of prisoners escorted from Yang Yanzhang from other cities, and then put them on the accelerator, allowing Kou Xing to suppress these people and return to the capital to start building roads.

Poor Kou Xing, before he got to know Yining City, he was sent back by Mo Zizai, which made Kou Xing, who originally wanted to fight with Mo Zizai, return to the capital with a lot of resentment.

...

Just when Mo Zizai was thinking about building bridges, paving roads, building railway tracks, and selling coal to make money, Situ Yao had already rushed from Qianjiang County to Jiangling County with a team of elite soldiers.

Jiangling County is one of the seven counties in the south of the Yangtze River and is also the largest and most powerful county among the southern counties.

When Situ Yao came to Jiangling County, he did not alarm anyone, but just secretly sent his subordinates to contact Bai Changqiu, who was a lobbyist here.

"Teacher, why are you here?"

When Bai Changqiu received the report, he was still guessing in his heart who came to Jiangling County and was so mysterious. However, in his heart, the one who guessed the most was his senior brother Tu Yu. He never expected that Situ Yao himself came from Qianjiang County.

"I'll see how you're doing."

Looking at the disciple who had been away for a long time, Situ Yao felt a little relieved and said, "It's really hard for you to let you run around the southern counties alone."

"The teacher is serious."

Bai Changqiu has not had a good time here during this period. Although he has the identity of a noble family, no one he came here to meet is the ruler of a noble family, and many of them have more prominent families than his Bai family, so his identity is not very useful here.

Although most of your aristocratic families will not make things difficult for each other's sake, they are here to be lobbyists after all, and what they say often offends some people's interests, so they have suffered a lot of difficulties here.

He didn't care much about these things at first, and he could face them calmly even if he was rolled down. He never felt discouraged. But at this moment, he suddenly had the urge to cry when Situ Yao was so safe.

Bai Changqiu, whose eyes were a little red, lowered his head to adjust his emotions, and then said, "Teacher, I already know about Senior Brother Hu Ming. I hope you can always be mourning. If you have the chance in the future, I will definitely avenge Senior Brother Hu Ming."

"Hu Ming..."

When Bai Changqiu mentioned Hu Ming, Situ Yao couldn't help but remain silent for a moment, then shook his head and said, "He should have such a disaster tomorrow. Since he can't escape, no one can do anything about it, but Mo Zizai will definitely not let him go."

"It's not just him, I want him to be buried with him in the entire Great Zhou royal family."

Situ Yao thought he was gentle and elegant. When he was ruthless, he seemed particularly ferocious. Bai Changqiu, who had never seen Situ Yao's side, was shocked by Situ Yao's momentum and did not dare to speak for a long time.

After a while, it seemed that he realized that he had lost his composure. Situ Yao restrained the expression on his face, returned to his usual appearance, and asked Bai Changqiu, "Changqiu, what is the situation in the southern counties now?"

“Not ideal.”

Bai Changqiu came back to his senses. When he heard Situ Yao’s question, he couldn’t help but shook his head helplessly and said, “If you take it out alone, your strength will not be bad, but if you put it together, I can only use one word to describe them.”

"That's, the mob."

Thinking of what happened in the past few days, Bai Changqiu's expression was a little contempt, "The seventeen counties in the south were originally united together to resist Mo Zizai."

"As a result, only nine counties have arrived today, and even the nearest seven counties in Jiangnan have only four of them here."

"What's even more outrageous is that only nine families have come to this place, and they have already made a big fuss in order to compete for the position of leader. If the students had not come forward to stop them, those people would have had their lives yesterday."
Chapter completed!