Chapter 110: Recruitment Is Settled
After He Shen mentioned the amnesty again, the civil officials immediately agreed.
That is, in the current situation, the best way to eliminate the rebellion of the White Lotus Sect is to amnesty.
Seeing this, Lin Chen knew that it was time for him to take the stage.
"Your Majesty, why is it so?!"
Lin Chen took a big step forward, bowed and said, "I still have 50,000 elite soldiers under my command, and the White Lotus thieves are just defeated generals."
Yes.
Everyone present just remembered this.
There is also a newly built army under Lin Chen, with a number of up to 50,000.
Before Zhao Kuangyin took the Beijing Camp out of the city to wipe out the White Lotus Sect, this General Lin had confronted the White Lotus Sect.
And the results of the battle were quite fruitful!
The Beijing Camp is not doing well in the war, so let Lin Chen go.
When He Shen heard this, his face changed slightly.
Thinking of the ten thousand taels of gold that had just been sent to his house and deposited in the warehouse, he hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, the national treasury is really unable to sustain the army's expedition!"
No matter what, he must promote this matter of recruiting.
Lord He is still a particular person. If he receives money, he will do the other party's entrustment properly.
"Now that the canal is interrupted, money and grain from all over the country cannot be transported to the capital. If this continues, there may be a disaster!" He Shen also brought up the canal transportation.
The capital city has already caused the grain price to soar because of the gathering of disaster victims. Even if Shangguan Wan'er suppressed it according to the disaster relief policy, the grain merchants dared not be the first to come out.
Although it is effective, the interruption of the canal transportation has caused not only the grain price in the capital city to rise sharply, but also the prices of other daily necessities have risen a lot.
If this continues, there will be resentment in the capital city.
So.
Your Majesty should recruit quickly!
He Shen spoke very nicely, saying that most of the believers in the White Lotus Sect were disaster victims who could not survive.
Your Majesty's offer of amnesty to save the victims from war was done by the Holy Emperor!
After hearing this, Li Zhao fell silent.
She was also very clear about the current situation, and amnesty was the best way.
After Li Zhao dismissed the ministers on the grounds of thinking, the ministers left in an orderly manner.
Only He Shen boasted that he knew the young emperor well and knew that this matter was done!
On the other hand, the military heroes took a long breath and wiped the cold sweat from their foreheads.
Some people even whispered: "I thought that Your Majesty would punish us this time."
When talking about this topic, these guys put the matter behind them and began to discuss going to Fanlou to have fun.
"Nephew Lin, why don't you go with us?" Jia She invited.
He also planned to make friends with this up-and-coming military hero.
Can't let Jia Zheng take the cake!
Lin Chen originally planned to accept it.
After all, he also had some plans for the Jia family.
But.
Lin Chen suddenly noticed a certain gaze looking at him.
He raised his eyebrows slightly and subconsciously looked in the direction of the gaze.
He saw that it was a beautiful and heroic palace maid in elegant palace clothes. Only after seeing her face clearly did he know that it was Mu Guiying.
After all, he had been with her for some time, and Lin Chen immediately saw something in her eyes.
"Marquis Jia En, let's do it another day." Lin Chen politely declined.
Jia She was stunned. He didn't expect Lin Chen to be so disrespectful. His expression was a little embarrassed, but he held back.
So, Lin Chen hurriedly said goodbye, avoided the crowd, and walked towards Mu Guiying.
"Follow me!"
Mu Guiying felt the eyes of the guy in front of her scanning her body, and a trace of shame and anger appeared on her face.
She was still used to military uniforms, not the light palace maid clothes on her body.
But in Lin Chen's opinion, it was a different flavor to taste.
"Have you seen enough!"
Mu Guiying, who had felt Lin Chen's burning gaze throughout the whole process, stopped at the door of the imperial study and whispered to Lin Chen in a low voice.
The blush of shame could not be concealed between her pretended indifference.
Lin Chen shook his head jokingly under Mu Guiying's angry gaze.
"You!"
Lin Chen, who walked into the imperial study without waiting for the beauty in front of him to get angry, laughed in his heart.
This girl is just as easy to tease as before.
When he walked into the imperial study, Lin Chen saw Li Zhao sitting in front of the imperial desk with a gloomy look in his eyes.
"Lin Qing is here."
Seeing this, Li Zhao smiled at the corner of his mouth.
If it was before, Lin Chen would have felt a little unnatural about such a confidant attitude.
But after learning about his original body, that is, his own life experience, Lin Chen lay down and felt relieved.
"Your Majesty." Lin Chen still pretended to salute respectfully.
He knew very well what Li Zhao wanted to do by calling him here.
It was obvious that the other party was unwilling to follow the script written by Zhao Kuangyin.
According to what Zhao Kuangyin said in his letter.
One hundred and fifty thousand soldiers could be recruited from the White Lotus believers to join the Imperial Army.
The rest could be sent back to the counties in the capital area, and they could be allowed to farm in peace and not cause any more trouble.
Li Zhao cast an inquiring look at Lin Chen, as if he wanted to get some different opinions from Lin Chen.
Seeing this, Lin Chen pondered for a moment.
"Your Majesty, recruiting one hundred and fifty thousand is too much, and these soldiers cannot all be incorporated into the Beijing Camp!"
Nonsense, the Beijing Camp is almost becoming Zhao Kuangyin's private land.
So.
Lin Chen's idea is.
"Your Majesty may train another new army."
In Lin Chen's opinion.
The best way to deal with these recruited soldiers is to let the White Lotus confidants secretly controlled by Zhao Kuangyin enter the Beijing Camp.
If it is really just the innocent people who are affected, they will be incorporated into the new army.
But even so.
There are too many people recuperating in the capital, so some of the recruited soldiers need to be sent to the border army.
In this way, there is no need to worry too much about Zhao Kuangyin's rapid growth.
"Oh?"
After listening to Lin Chen's words, Li Zhao's eyes flickered slightly.
In the end, Li Zhao adopted Lin Chen's plan.
Immediately.
An imperial edict was issued.
A new army was established with Lin Chen's troops, named Yulin Guard, with a total of 80,000!
And.
The Yulin Guard station was placed in the Royal Forest Garden by Li Zhao.
This means that the Yulin Guard replaced the original three guards of the capital's central camp and became the emperor's personal army.
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Thirty miles outside Xianping City.
Zhao Kuangyin also received the news that the emperor agreed to recruit at the first time.
"Brother, the little emperor finally gave in!"
Zhao Guangyi walked into the military tent with a happy face and celebrated for this.
However,
He noticed that Zhao Kuangyin, who was sitting in the military tent, had a gloomy face and was not very happy at all.
Why?
"This Lin Chenjia, dividing it up is a good idea!"
Zhao Kuangyin was silent for a long time before he uttered this sentence.
"Let's go and meet this Yulinwei General, Lord Lin!" Zhao Kuangyin said this expressionlessly.
The situation in Xianping City was not very good either.
The city was full of White Lotus believers who were so hungry that they sat on the streets.
The city was short of food, so they could only satisfy the soldiers' daily hunger.
As for these White Lotus believers at the bottom, they could only get one meal every two days.
As a result, many old and weak people in the city starved to death during this period.
"Miss, let's go back."
Outside a carriage, two retainers of Murong Fu were waiting covetously.
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