Chapter 326 The Great Speechless Spell (Third Update)

What Emperor Chongzhen didn't expect was that Bi Ziyan, the Minister of Household Affairs, came to him to complain. It is said that money has been flowing like water recently. About six million taels have been spent on military pay alone. Now that the new army has been established, it costs a lot. Training is required every day. The supply of food and the full amount of military pay are required every month. There must be budget allocation, as well as reserve funds to be allocated after the weapons and equipment are restructured, feed for war horses, etc. These expenses are very large. The Ministry of Accounts does not have much money in the first place, and he is afraid that he will have no money again in the blink of an eye.

At first, Emperor Chongzhen explained to him that all the money was necessary. Only later did Emperor Chongzhen realize that he was worried that he would feel that the quota of about 5,000 people in the new army was too small, and would add more in the future, so he came to get vaccinated.

Logically speaking, in this era, five thousand troops is indeed a bit small. However, Bi Ziyan was obviously overly worried. Emperor Chongzhen himself had long known that it was unrealistic to train the new army on a large scale at the beginning. He, the chief leader of the Ming Dynasty, cared more about money than Bi Ziyan, the external leader. Although Shanxi merchants were raided, Ming Dynasty's economic development was the kingly way. For the time being, the court did not have much money to train enough new armies. The principle of the new army is that it is better to be small and elite than to be numerous and ordinary.

"Don't worry, Bi Qing!" Emperor Chongzhen smiled and promised his financial officer, "As for the new army, it is only a division. At least until the new army has achieved results, I will not add more. In addition, as long as the new army suffers After this first year, cement and banks will make profits, and then all ministries will have some money, which will also reduce your pressure. I will also look for other opportunities to replenish the national treasury, just watch it!"

After receiving the emperor's assurance, Bi Ziyan was somewhat relieved. He didn't know that he had ruined the emperor's and queen's good deeds, so he patted his ass and left!

Seeing that no one was bothering him anymore, Emperor Chongzhen relaxed himself and reentered the chat group.

He looked at the lower left corner of the chat group and saw that the achievement value was 11,324, which was not as many as he had imagined. Emperor Chongzhen thought about it for a moment and understood that part of the reason was that some of these new soldiers had already contributed all their achievement points a year ago.

Forget it for now, let’s add people! Emperor Chongzhen thought about it and clicked "Add People". After consuming the achievement points, the add button popped up and the turntable started spinning.

The hands stopped and showed that the first one was an eleven-year-old boy. This made Emperor Chongzhen hesitate for a moment. What was the use of such a person? Just a little kid! Do you want to spend achievement points to join the group?

As he thought this, he glanced at the achievement value of more than 10,000 in the lower left corner. After thinking about it, he didn't worry, there were more achievement values, and he didn't care about the 50 or 100 achievement values. It's of no use, just kick him back. So, I added this person.

The second one was a man who was almost thirty years old. This was true. Emperor Chongzhen immediately spent the achievement points without saying a word.

The third person is a woman in her early twenties, the fourth person is a man in his fifties, and finally there is a red and green person in the fifth place. According to experience, he is a eunuch.

…

Emperor Chongzhen kept adding people regardless of the situation, and stopped adding people until the achievement value was only about 2,000.

The system's sign-in notification kept ringing, causing the chat in the group to be temporarily suspended.

Emperor Chongzhen looked at the names of the new members and found that this time there were more bizarre names. For example, "Floating on the Water". You can tell at a glance that this ID comes from a nickname, and it also has a Jianghu aura. This also reminded Emperor Chongzhen of Wu Ergou, who was almost in prison and it was time to use him.

The child who was a bit hesitant to add her was named Zhang Dingguo. The name was quite impressive, Dingguo, haha...

The ID of the woman in her early twenties is Hai Lanzhu. I don't know what she has to do with Hai Dafou. She doesn't look like a Han name.

The man in his fifties, whose ID is Sihailou Storyteller, is quite honest. He told his occupation and location at once, but I don’t know if this is considered an advertisement?

…

After browsing around, Emperor Chongzhen greeted: "I am the group leader. Newcomers are welcome to join the group!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Yuan Qiao bubbled up: "Welcome newcomers!"

Like flowers bubbling up: "Welcome newcomers!"

Liu followed up: "Welcome newcomers!"

"..."

All members who knew the identity of the group leader responded immediately. Suddenly, the screen was full of welcome newcomers. This also inspired those who did not know the identity of Emperor Chongzhen to follow the message "Welcome newcomers!"

If these newcomers knew that the emperor was taking the lead in welcoming them, followed by the chief minister of the cabinet, the commander of the royal guards, the chief eunuch of the ceremonial department, and so on, would they be frightened? Emperor Chongzhen thought maliciously.

However, he was satisfied with the effect. After the welcome speech was finished, and when he was about to speak, Hauge bubbled: "Haha..."

A little later, Qian Fugui bubbled up: "Haha..."

When Emperor Chongzhen saw it, he didn't hesitate and immediately stopped talking, and then said: "Two pigs, ignore them."

Then he added: "When a new person joins the group, please introduce yourself first! Whoever comes first is welcome."

Maybe the welcome effect just now was good. After the group became quiet for a while, the Sihailou storyteller replied first: "Hello, group leader, brothers and sisters, parents who live in food and clothing... Well, good afternoon, everyone! I am Yangzhou Sihailou Speaking of bookmakers, if you are free, come to Sihailou. I have a small noodle. I can ask for a discount from the shopkeeper. There are even more exciting stories waiting for you to listen to. It is absolutely wonderful! If you are not satisfied, you can use this sign. Smash it! If you don’t like it, feel free to choose, I will say more. Maybe you don’t know that in Yangzhou, I have the most people listening to books here in Sihai Tower. There is no other reason. It is really wonderful. Please take a look. Officer, if you don’t believe it..."

"..." Emperor Chongzhen was speechless. This guy really took the opportunity to advertise. But it seems hard to say anything to him, after all, this is also a self-introduction.

He was still patient, but some people were impatient. The avatar of the floating ID shook: "Go away, you are blabbering. Do you believe that I went over and ruined your situation?"

As soon as his words appeared, the screen was suddenly flooded with short sentences.

"I..."

"Huh……"

"I know these two words..."

"Hey, I got to know a few of them, and I also got to know these, ah..."

"Zhang Dingguo, haha, I also recognize my own name..."

"..."

Emperor Chongzhen was speechless, knowing that he shouldn't bring in the kid. But Jiadu had already added it, so he gave Zhang Dingguo a ban and asked him to calm down first.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Dingguo's words reminded the other newcomers intermittently. Suddenly they also tried to speak, and then found that they recognized the written words.

As a result, the chat group was completely unreadable, and the screen refresh rate was extremely fast!

Emperor Chongzhen had no choice but to spend achievement points to cast a great silence spell, which silenced everyone. Now, the whole world was pure.

There is a dinner party tonight, and I don’t know if it will be possible, so I’ll just pretend it won’t be any better. Still owe five more.