Section 1680 Military and Financial Power

After Li Cong wandered around the Queen Mother's Palace, he returned to the Yunhuang Palace in front. The fake emperor Hualong was still waiting for Li Cong. He didn't know what was wrong with Li Cong, so why did he go to fight with that old bitch, the Queen Mother?

, you must know that the Queen Mother's ability is not comparable to that of ordinary people. At the beginning, Hua Long also thought that the Queen Mother was just an old lady. Who would have thought that it was not the case at all. On the surface, the Queen Mother was the patriarch of the Ulanala clan, but

This is one of the identities of the Queen Mother. The number of troops, soldiers, horses, money and food that the Queen Mother can command is quite terrifying. Just like the local troops in the nine administrative regions, the emperor is in charge of the pro-army of the imperial capital and other places.

Troops with strong combat effectiveness, but most of the generals in the second-line troops in various places are the Queen Mother's domestic slaves, or the servants of the Queen Mother's servants. They just recognize the Queen Mother, and the other people are of no use at all. If the Queen Mother is given to

If they are in a hurry, the Queen Mother may immediately raise an army to rebel. The Queen Mother raising an army and the Prince are two different things. The manpower and material resources used will definitely be many times more than that of the Prince. If the Snake Queen comes to attack at that time, they really can't cope with it.

Come on, anyway, Hualong felt that Li Cong was a bit unwise in provoking the Queen Mother at this time.

"I said, boss, we have just had a stable life for a week. We are about to install cement, and there are new policies of this and that. They all take time. Just don't pay attention to that old woman. Anyway, she

She is already eighty years old. Maybe one day she will go there if something is a little bit wrong with her body. What can you have to do with her? This old lady wouldn’t come to us normally, no, but now it’s good.

Well, not only are you and him on opposite sides, but so am I. I think it’s enough to use Ye Qiugu to sound the alarm for her. It’s become such a big fuss now that basically everyone in the palace knows about it. Tomorrow

Maybe everyone in the imperial capital will know about it at this time." Hua Long said with an unhappy face. He was originally in favor of a peaceful transition, and Li Cong was also in favor of it from the beginning. To be honest, Li Cong just didn't control it for a moment.

Come on, let that bitch Ye Qiugu raise her temper. Of course, another thing is that Li Cong also wants to rectify the Ministry of Internal Affairs. On the way, he thought of the issue of increasing revenue and reducing expenditure. Revenue is in the palace.

Obviously it is not very realistic, but there is no problem in reducing expenditure. If nothing else, just follow what Li Cong asked the Queen Mother just now, and save a lot of money every year.

"Haha, it's okay. You must know that you are the emperor now. Anyone who goes against you is a rebel. The people don't know anything else. Anyway, in the past tens of thousands of years, no one who rebels has a good ending. If

If we don't kill the prince, there may be rebellions in the future, but it's different now. The death of the prince proves that you are a cold-blooded emperor. Anyone who can't get along with you can be killed.

This old lady will also consider this. Besides, she has such a huge power. This is no joke. Now we are prepared to let her burst out. It is better to rush up to her when we don't pay attention to her.

We are much better all of a sudden. We can solve the problem at once." Li Cong's talk is really useless. It was originally a mistake of this guy, but now it has become Li Cong's credit.

Well, you are the boss anyway, you have the final say no matter what. We are just part-timers, so there is no need to care about so much.

"Yes, what you said is easy. It doesn't matter if I cooperate for a while. Anyway, I haven't seen everything about the palace. I just wandered around for a while. But this old queen is against you, so we don't have it."

It's so easy. We must have most of the army start monitoring the Queen Mother's direct army. Although they are not in the imperial capital, if anything happens in the local area, it will not end well. In addition, we must send troops 24 hours a day.

People are looking at the Queen Mother. If she leaves the palace, it will be absolutely detrimental to us." Hualong guessed some unfavorable things. Will the old Queen Mother really leave the palace where she has lived all her life and stay outside?

What about the rebellion of those powerful domestic slaves?

"I think there is no need to monitor the Queen Mother. You may not know the Queen Mother yet. The Queen Mother is a very strong person. I guess she will never be able to think about things like rebellion. She has a lot of say in this empire.

Yes, she has always represented the empire. I think it is impossible for her to rebel on her own. However, we must pay attention to another aspect. Recently, she has been talking to the royal family or the descendants of the Uranala clan.

You must pay attention to surveillance when you meet. She is the head of both the royal family and the Uranala clan. When you, the emperor, have nothing to do, you should also beat the nobles who are close to the Queen Mother to let them know that the Queen Mother is following her.

It was different before, so the Queen Mother might be a little more isolated." Li Cong thought for a while and said, the strategy they were teasing out a while ago was very offending, at least half of the nobles in the palace felt bad about this strategy.

Those who are dissatisfied may not have been laid off for the time being, but it will only be a matter of time.

"This is a good idea. To be honest, people like the Queen Mother don't take good care of the people in the royal family. I guess this old woman will be like this when she reaches this age. She takes care of her parents' family better than her own children.

By the way, let's put this aside for a moment. General Meng Tian from Guangming City has received news. He said that the Snake Queen's army is less than 300 miles away from Guangming City, and many of the wolf cavalry's forwards have already arrived in Guangming.

City, the situation over there seems to be getting tense again." Hualong looked at the battle report in his hand and said, things in the imperial capital are in chaos, Hualong can't let Li Cong go to the front line at this time, but he also knows about this memorial

That's very important. If Li Cong really doesn't go through, Mengtian's ability really may not be able to do it. Now there are no reinforcements from the Southern Empire. All the Southern Empire's troops have withdrawn because of the serial crossbows.

The quarrel between the two empires was not very pleasant. Even if there was a matter about the Snake Queen, they would not come to support, so this time everything had to rely on their own abilities. Li Cong was also surprised when he heard this

It's amazing. It seems that this Snake Queen is really capable of her own thing. She managed to produce so many troops in such a short period of time.

"It seems that I will have to go to the front line in the next few days. I'm worried that you still have trouble getting around this imperial capital, so I have to complete two things before leaving." Li Cong thought for a moment and said, indeed, now

Things are not very stable in the imperial capital.

"Two things? Boss, are you kidding me? Why do I feel that two hundred things are not enough? How come two things are enough?" Hualong said with a look of horror. Now the empire needs to carry out everything, and he

How could he have such great ability?

"Haha, you may think there are a lot of things, but I calculated that there are only two things. After finishing basically the other things, you can solve them. I will do the first thing tonight. You

Just continue to look for news in the harem with peace of mind." Li Cong smiled and went out. Hualong looked at Li Cong with some confusion. He may never know what the boss is thinking, but he is used to doing things by himself.

Just do what the boss says and you won't suffer any loss.

The two things Li Cong said can really stabilize the situation in the imperial capital. One is to control the military power of the entire imperial capital. Now, in addition to the army controlled by Li Cong, there is only the Jingxi Camp in the west of the imperial capital, where the troops are stationed.

There are 350,000 infantry and 200,000 cavalry. If Li Cong does not capture this place, Li Cong will not be safe. Another important reason why Li Cong wants to capture this place is that the guard here is the Queen Mother.

The disciples here must be in their own hands. Another thing is financial power. Currently, only one of the two ministers of the Ministry of Revenue is under Li Cong's control. The other minister can be said to be the queen's man.

He is also the leader of the Wu Ya clan now. Originally, Li Cong felt that he had just provoked the Empress Dowager, and it seemed that he had made too many enemies by going against the Wu Ya clan so quickly, but now he can't control so much. Their

There is still a big gap between these crises and those on the front line, so now Li Cong must do these two things.

The first thing to do is to deal with the Jingxi Camp. The Jingxi Camp is about twenty miles away from the imperial capital. It is a military fortress that stretches for hundreds of miles. All the people stationed here are the emperor's personal troops. Of course, they do not belong to

Li Cong knew that he did not have much time to capture any of the eight legions, so Li Cong directly led hundreds of thousands of troops to station opposite the Jingxi Camp, including Li Cong's 50,000 new troops.

Army, Li Cong's army expansion has basically been completed. Although this newly expanded army may not have strong combat effectiveness, they will have absolutely no problem dealing with the army of the Jingxi Camp. Situ Sheng, the general of the Jingxi Camp,

I was a little puzzled when I saw so many White Tiger Legion soldiers suddenly coming outside. The size of their army could not keep up with the White Tiger Legion, but the White Tiger Legion had suffered a lot of losses in the melee in the city a while ago, and all the remaining troops were

They were all taken in by the regent Li Cong. He had just received a secret order from the Queen Mother, saying that something had happened recently. Li Cong came with so many troops. Could it be that some news was leaked or something happened? Situ

Sheng stopped the chaos among his officers and soldiers and walked out of the camp with more than twenty cavalrymen to see what the opponent's background was.

The former commander of the White Tiger Army was still very familiar with him, but now the commander of the White Tiger Army was newly appointed after the chaos. It is said that this guy doesn't care about anything and leaves everything to his two lieutenants, and these two

The two lieutenants were even more evil. They were not emperors at all before, as if they appeared out of thin air. At first, Situ Sheng felt that the White Tiger Army was now abolished, but today he saw their

It didn't seem to be the case at all. Their military appearance was very neat, and the most terrible thing was that Situ Sheng saw the row of soldiers in front of them. The thing in his hand was the serial crossbow that was very famous in the imperial capital recently.

This thing is absolutely powerful. It has killed a lot of people in the imperial capital. I didn't expect them to come here. What do they want to do? Are they going to kill all the troops in the Jingxi Camp?

When Situ Sheng thought of this, the sweat on his forehead broke out. He was really scared.

"Who is your general in command of the White Tiger Army now, and why do you want to come to us? As far as I know, your station is not here." Situ Sheng took a breath and said, his voice was very loud, but Li Cong also heard

Out of this guy's inner thoughts, speaking of Situ Sheng, he can actually be regarded as the one-yuan tiger general of the empire. This guy is also very brave in fighting against the Southern Empire. But I don't know why he became the general after being transferred to the Western Camp of Beijing ten years ago.

There is nothing to achieve. Now it seems that this guy must have received the order from the Queen Mother to be optimistic about the Jingxi Camp. There is no need to worry about other things. In fact, Li Cong only knew that the Queen Mother gave him

It was just a letter from him. He didn't know whether it contained the content of rebellion, but Li Cong guessed that it should be Bu Li Shi, so now that Li Cong has arrived at this place, he must solve this trouble for Hualong.

Yes, otherwise, the Jingxi camp will become a huge disaster sooner or later.

"How dare you, the regent of the empire is here, Situ Sheng, why don't you pay homage?" At this time, Long Wu, the commander of the White Tiger Legion, stood up and said, this guy has such a name for nothing, he is Prince Gong's distant nephew, speaking of this

This guy has no ability at all. The reason why Li Cong mentioned this guy to the position of the White Tiger Army was actually because he saw that this guy had no ability to go. Li Cong directly arranged for him two lieutenants from the earth, and the White Tiger Army

He caught it in his own hands. This guy's daily life is eating, drinking and having fun. Normally, he would not go to the military camp at all. But at this time, Li Cong came out, so he naturally wanted to go. This is not ordinary.

Master, he could see that he was a idle royal child in the past. Even his distant uncle didn't want to see him. He had no father and mother. He didn't have to worry about eating and drinking, but he wanted to live and drink like he is now.

That is definitely not possible. It has been different since I got together with Li Cong. Look at how a viscount of myself can become the commander of the White Tiger Army. Look at what kind of life I am living now. It turns out that tens of thousands of gold coins are

I have a year's salary, but now, I can throw out tens of thousands of gold coins in one night without batting an eye. Anyway, the regent told me that I have four million gold coins every year. I can spend it as I want. If the White Tiger Army doesn't

If anything happens, I will have an extra million gold coins at the end of the year. Days like this make me so happy that I don't want to sleep every day. This master has come out, and I have to work harder. Looking at his majestic appearance, if

If you don't know him, this guy is really a one-yuan tiger general. It's a pity that Situ Sheng knows this guy, and calling him a idiot is just to praise him.

Although Situ Sheng was not interested in Long Wu, he still knew the brand name of the Imperial Regent. He originally thought that Li Cong sent someone to take a look, but he didn't expect that Li Cong himself came. It seems that things are not that good today.

It was easy to handle. He immediately winked at the people behind him. From the front, the Jingxi Camp looked unchanged at all, but in the distance, the cavalry troops at the Jingxi Camp had begun to gather. There would definitely not be peace today.

’s past, so I have to prepare well today.

"General Situ Sheng, the last general of the Jingxi Camp, came to see His Highness the Regent. The Regent of the Qing Dynasty is wearing armor and cannot dismount to pay homage. I wonder what the Regent's intention is in bringing so many troops here?" Situ Sheng said, although he said

The words he said were very respectful, but the way he looked did not mean to respect Li Cong at all. Some of his soldiers had been following this guy for more than ten years, and now Li Cong looked like a baby.

How can a person be a prince? Although he is a prince, in their opinion, such a person is of no use at all. The legendary Li Cong is so powerful. Those who have never seen it with their own eyes think it is nonsense.

Can a baby like this defeat the Snake Queen? It's probably a legend, it's impossible.

"It doesn't matter. You don't need to pay too much attention to etiquette. I am not a person who attaches much importance to etiquette. I am so casual in the Queen Mother's Cining Palace." Li Cong said with a smile, and one sentence already made Situ Sheng.

I'm not happy. Situ Sheng is a domestic servant of the Queen Mother. As long as others say something bad about the Queen Mother, this guy is unwilling. But today he faces such a huge threat. Even if Li Cong said such a thing,

He won't worry about it anymore. It's better to be honest. Li Cong is here to cause trouble for him. It's better not to have a conflict with Li Cong. If there is a conflict, they will definitely suffer a lot.

Yes, although there are many more people in the Jingxi Camp than the White Tiger Legion brought by Li Cong, war problems cannot be solved with large numbers now. The White Tiger Legion is the second-ranked legion among the eight legions. It is definitely

They are much stronger than their second-line pro-army troops. Of course, the most terrifying ones are Li Cong's crossbowmen. They know the legends of those people. Later, when they were cleaning up the imperial capital, they also saw the terror of those people.

Yes, it's easy to say it out loud, but if you really try to experience it, you won't be able to do it. You don't have the ability.

"The prince seems to have not answered my question yet. You brought so many troops to our camp in the west of Beijing. Aren't you afraid that you will be suspected of causing friction? We are all the army of the empire now, and the front line is Guangming City.

The war is urgent, how can we handle such a thing here?" Situ Sheng said loudly, and his words made many soldiers of the White Tiger Legion who followed Li Cong also nodded, although they were all Li Cong's subordinates.

, but internal friction at this time has no meaning. At this time, everyone should support the front line. This Situ Sheng is not a fool. His words can really win people's hearts. Li Cong smiled and looked at the soldiers around him.

We are not afraid of you saying that. As long as you say that, there will be no chance for you to avoid this matter. Do you want to serve the country and go to Guangming City? I know that the Queen Mother does not want you to go. Since you

What you say is so grand, I naturally want to give you this opportunity to serve the country, go to the front line.

"General Situ, what you said is really right. The battle on the front line is tense, and we troops in the rear need to obey the arrangements from above. According to the intelligence we have received, the Queen of the Snake Tribe brought two people this time.
To be continued...