Wanli Youming

Chapter 55
Territorial Man, the invading radical of the Han Dynasty, looked surprised at the Ming army rushing out of the city suddenly, as if burning the mountains in front of them into flames.

He didn't expect that the Ming army would take the initiative to attack his side, and all of them were brave and fearless, even under the leadership of a young general in a cloth mask, everyone rode their horses like flying, making arrows rain like raindrops Generally, they rushed into the crowds of their own besieged city, so that the tribes of their own side fell down in rows like stubble that had been cut down.

The local barbarians knew that Liaodong had already been populated by Han, Mongolian, Jurchen and other ethnic groups, and they basically knew how to ride and shoot since they were young. Therefore, most of the Ming army's military households were also good at riding, but the Ming army's military households were not good enough because of the financial resources of the Ming Dynasty. As a result, the food and salaries distributed to the border towns were insufficient, so most of them lost the will to guard the border for the Ming court. They either starved and dawdled, or fled, or simply voted for themselves, and if they voted for them, they would be able to follow their own horses. The original tribe went to the customs together.

Because of this, the leaders of the Mongolian tribes like Tuman had the desire to despise the border defense of the Ming army, and wanted to seize customs to make a fortune.

This time, he just wanted to make a fortune by plundering, and solve the problem of insufficient tea and salt in his tribe after a winter's consumption.

And he also knew that the Ming army didn't know how to fight hard, at most they would defend the city and fire a few cannonballs. As long as he could attack the city, he would make a lot of money, and he could force these people to join him to strengthen his strength. .

If you can't attack, you won't lose much, and the Ming army will not take the initiative to pursue it anyway.

But who knows, this time the Ming army took the initiative to attack.

The native is also depressed.

"withdraw!"

The barbarian decisively gave the order to retreat.

He came to make a fortune and rob people, not to really capture Liaodong.

After all, the size of his current tribe can't hold the entire Liaodong, so he decisively chose to retreat, without any intention of entangled with the aggressive and morale Ming army.

What's more, the Tuman is worried that if he steals chickens, he will lose a lot of money and lose too many followers, which will affect his own strength.

However, when the Tuman led his troops to retreat, he found that the Ming army did not seem to have returned because of his voluntary retreat. From actively retreating to retreating, and watching these Ming troops harvesting the heads of their own troops.

This made the Tuman very distressed, but he didn't dare to delay any longer, and ran directly along the east bank of the Liao River.

"Has the Ming army in Liaodi changed their temper?"

Tuman slandered, and ordered after returning: "Order, go back and prepare the best new horses and the best mink, ginseng, beautiful women, etc. that have been traded, and gather them together, and go to Datong honestly. Trade with the people of the Ming Dynasty! Without my order, you are not allowed to violate the border without authorization. If there is a conflict when trading with the Han people, let the local Ming government handle it!"

"Yes!"

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The Ming army led by Li Rusong did not return until the horses were exhausted and the men were exhausted.

The main reason is that they haven't had such a good time for a long time. In addition, Li Rusong himself is also a general who is young and energetic and likes to lead the way. When the Ming army came back, almost every saddle was covered with human heads, making the horse look fatter.

Li Chengliang looked at the heads full of people in the yard with a sullen face, and said coldly to Li Rusong who came back: "Why kill so many people, if the Han people don't come next time, what are you going to kill?"

"That kid will go to his old lair. We will rob them as much as they rob us. It's best to be like Huo Qubing in Han Dynasty, who also sealed off the wolves and lived in Xushan."

Li Rusong looked at his achievements all over the floor with a chuckle and said.

Li Rusong was born as a martial arts scholar, he had also studied, and his teacher was Xu Wei, a great talent, so naturally he also knew the story of Huo Qubing, and he was eager to emulate the famous generals in history to make contributions.

"There is more than enough loyalty and courage, but not enough scheming! You still need to read more!"

Li Chengliang went back to his room after speaking.

Li Rusong bowed his hands and said yes, and followed.

Then, Li Chengliang asked: "How many people died this time?

"Including those who are seriously injured and cannot be saved, there are 56 people."

Li Rusong replied.

Li Chengliang said: "Then you go to the nursing home to get the pension money and report it to the list. Remember that it is 30 taels per person."

"Why so many this time?!"

Li Rusong was quite pleasantly surprised, and after asking, he said: "In the past, the war dead were given ten taels of compensation, isn't it? If it's 30 taels, I dare to take some sons to the depths of the desert to find the Tartars' lair!"

Li Chengliang said with a smile: "This is the new pension regulation of the Ministry of War. Because the house raids have ample finances and the effect of clearing the farmland is good, the emperor approved the request of the chief minister of the Ministry of War and raised the life price of military households in the border town to 30 taels."

"However, if this is the case, there are still criticisms from the officials. Fortunately, my soldiers have never looked down on us military households. We have resisted all opinions and insisted on increasing the pension money. The nursing home is also good. When the imperial edict comes, tell us In the future, Liaodong will follow this example to report pensions, instead of saying that it will be delayed for a few years, and let Liaodong continue to pay ten taels of silver for pensions, until the official history of Xunguan is sparse and impeached."

"The new dynasty is really clean and bright, and the court is full of virtuous officials."

Li Rusong said with a smile, and the desire to make contributions became more obvious in his heart.

Li Chengliang nodded, and then said with a serious face: "One more thing, Qi Yuanjing was awarded the post of Prime Minister Jizhou again, and as the governor of the left, he was added to the crown prince Taibao! The imperial court asked him to train the northern side with the southern soldiers, and train all kinds of arms in the infantry academy Coordinated operations, equipped with chariots, firearms, and artillery, and have received a large amount of food and salaries and [-] recruits."

After Li Rusong heard this, he was also quite jealous: "My soldiers are more inclined to the southern soldiers! The southern soldiers' salaries are higher than the northern soldiers. Now that Qi Yuanjing has more food and salaries in his hand, my boy was happy just now, but now I think about it." Thinking about what we got in Liao, I'm afraid it still can't compare with Jizhou."

Li Chengliang nodded and said: "It can be said that the number of soldiers who have been assigned to him for training and command in the whole Jizhou has reached [-]! But we can't let the imperial court only see the benefits of expanding infantry according to the model of southern soldiers, but not me. The benefits of the expansion of the cavalry in Liaodong, as long as my military households in Liaodong have enough food and wages, they are no worse than the various types of chariot battalions in the Southern Army. But now the key is to have enough military households to retain, so This time, you have to distribute the pension money yourself, and you must pay enough, and the mission is in place, to dissuade the military households from fleeing, and say that as long as they are willing to come back, the town will ask the nursing home to reclaim wasteland for them."

"understand!"

Li Rusong replied.

In the Wanli Dynasty, the contradiction between the northern and southern soldiers has always been an important contradiction in the army.

Because most of the southern soldiers were recruited from the people after the establishment of the battalion system, and the background was to fight against the Japanese, they mainly fought in the rich and prosperous areas of the southeast, so the soldiers' salaries were set high from the beginning, otherwise it would not be easy to recruit soldiers.

However, the number of guard soldiers left by the original guard system in the northern soldiers was much lower, so the contradiction between the two existed.

Moreover, as internal conflicts increased and intensified, in the end it happened that the elite southern soldiers did not die on the Korean battlefield that defeated the Japanese country, but were massacred by the emperor's acquiescence and the civil official group in conjunction with the northern soldiers. Cut off one of your own iron fists.

At this time, contradictions have begun to emerge.

Of course, as long as Zhu Yijun makes the finances of the Ming court better and better, and makes up for the treatment of the northern soldiers, there is no need to use the worst way to resolve the conflict between the northern and southern soldiers.

In a word, ruling a huge empire also depends on finances.

As long as the country has money, everything is not a problem.

Wenhua Hall in the Forbidden City of Beijing.

On this day, when Zhu Yijun accepted Zhang Juzheng to read "Dijian Tushuo" to him, Zhang Juzheng also started to mention to him the training of military generals and how the emperor commanded the army to mediate the conflicts between the various armies under the background of major financial reforms.

　Shuntian governor Song Quanshu said that he had recently heard that the emperor was benevolent and mighty. For every Green Banner soldier killed in battle, 30 taels of silver would be given to the family members.The total cost of the three association activities is no less than tens of thousands.What a grand event! ——"Records of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty in December of the second year of Shunzhi"

After seeing this information on some, I realized that 30 taels of pension is very high.And a big guy above explained that before the middle of the Wanli Dynasty, when the finances were not collapsed, the pension silver was only ten taels of silver, so I temporarily wrote ten taels here, and the reform increased to 30 taels.Prepare for the lack of funds to continue the reform.After all, we can't be inferior to the Manchus, so let's not treat our Han soldiers as human beings.This really shocked me.

　
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