Chapter 35 Streamlining the Shaofu

There is no concealment in the first movement.

I can't even hide it.

After all, the tribes under his command don't know how many people have different thoughts. Therefore, when he first expressed his intention to go south in Zhaozhou, he had to know how many Jinyi guards rushed to Beijing to report the news day and night.

Just three days later, Zhu Qizhen learned the news.

Zhu Qizhen was taken aback.

In fact, while he was surprised by the progress of the Ming army, Zhu Qizhen was surprised by the speed of the first.

It also took more than a month to kill all the sons of Tokhtobu, including his sister's son, and there was no male survivor of the Golden Family.

This speed is already surprising.

But think about it, on the grassland, there is not such a difficult offensive and defensive battle. The chase is a bit harder, but there is always an end.

The Ming army was unfamiliar with the grassland, so the Mongols had a place to hide, but for the Mongols themselves, although the grasslands were vast, there was no place for them.

Even in the end, these people were preparing to go south and defect to the Ming Dynasty, and in the end they were killed in the Hetao first.

This still makes sense.

But after the first battle, regardless of fatigue, he immediately launched the Eastern Expedition, which made Zhu Qizhen even more surprised.

From the beginning of the counterinsurgency, to now, the headquarters has been fighting for thousands of miles. From spring to summer, although I dare not say that people are sleepy and tired, but the state is by no means good.

The decision of ordinary people should be to trim it. At least a month or two later, go to war again.

But he didn't dare to do this at all, and went straight south to Liaodong.

I really don't know where he got the confidence.

Zhu Qizhen immediately convened the cabinet to discuss with the Governor's Office of the Five Armies in the Wuying Palace.

As soon as this information was transmitted to the ministers below, Chen Xun's heart moved, and he immediately came out and said: "Your Majesty is really wise and powerful, so it seems that there must be a collusion between Li Shun and the Tile Thorn of North Korea, if it is not for Your Majesty's immediate decision and the crusade of the army, once Li Reverse unites the Tile Thorn, Liaodong and Haixi will be in danger." ”

"My emperor is wise."

Zhu Qizhen listened. I smiled bitterly in my heart.

Although Zhu Qizhen is very comfortable.

But there's a lot of causal stuff in it. For example, in the end, because of the Ming Dynasty's crusade against North Korea, North Korea had to collude with the tile spurs, or North Korea first colluded with the tile spurs before being attacked by the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Qizhen felt that the truth was the former.

Li Jin is not so stupid, after all, after the establishment of Haixi Town, there is no border between North Korea and Waspur. More often than not, it is far from water that can not quench the thirst of the near.

But Chen Xun's sycophant is not meaningless.

He's setting the tone.

Set the tone, set it, this time the tile spur

The large-scale southward march was not the result of His Majesty's eastward crusade, nor was it a mistake in His Majesty's decision-making.

Therefore, what is written in the history books and in the official documents of the imperial court can only be the latter, that is, the collusion between Korea and the thorns, Li Yao's disloyalty, filial piety, and disobedience, heinousness, and outrageousness, which made His Majesty furious and issued an edict to reprimand.

Although Zhu Qizhen didn't feel that he had made any mistakes in the decision to destroy North Korea, he could only laugh at Chen Xun's loyalty.

I just think that the first minister, don't put your mind on these trails.

Zhu Qizhen said: "The matter has come to this point, it is useless to say more, the Tile Thorn army will arrive in Liaodong in a few days, how should we deal with it?" ”

"Your Majesty." Shi Heng said: "The minister has been in Haixi for many years and knows the roots of Haixi and Liaodong. ”

"Haixi Town is newly built, with a total of about 30,000 soldiers, although the militia can be recruited before the war, but the strong men of Haixi are only 100,000."

"The most elite of them is General Jin's department."

"Now Hercynian is indeed empty."

"Liaodong Town is also quite empty, Liaodong Town has 65,000 soldiers, and now most of them are from the Korean conquest, in addition to the soldiers, there are still the same number of soldiers, stationed on the front line of the border wall."

"These soldiers are stationed in various castles, although their combat effectiveness is not as good as that of the soldiers, but they are also enough to guard the city."

"It's just that in this way, Liaodong Town has fallen into a comprehensive passive situation."

"Minister, please fight. Led the headquarters to gallop to help Liaodong and Haixi. ”

"From Jingshi to Shanhaiguan, it is not far, and within ten days, the minister will arrive in Liaoyang."

Shi Heng looked at Zhu Qizhen with blazing eyes, and his eyes were radiating light. It's as if a wild beast has seen its prey.

The generals of the Beijing camp asked for battle, except for Meng Ying.

Zhu Qizhen coughed lightly, and everyone immediately quieted down, and then Zhu Qizhen asked Wang Ji and said, "Mr. Wang, what is your opinion on this situation?" ”

Wang Ji said: "Shengming is nothing but Your Majesty, and now the battle of Korea, successive battles, for the mountain, must not fall short." Therefore, no matter what the means, the troops cannot be withdrawn from North Korea. Such an increase in troops in Liaodong has become inevitable. ”

Zhu Qizhen also understood in his heart that the main forces of the Eastern Army were Jingying and Liaodong Town, and the soldiers and soldiers of Liaodong Town were all in Liaodong.

Therefore, the current situation must be protected in Liaodong, and the battle of Korea's conquest of the east must also be carried out.

Now after the Battle of the Yalu River, the Battle of Pyongyang, the two major wars, and the Battle of Hamgyong, the battle of the Navy Division going south to clean up the remnants of the Korean Navy Division, large and small battles.

The army has already arrived in Seoul.

It is only separated from Seoul by a river.

In the south of Korea, there was also a turbulent situation, with troops supporting Seoul and local governors supporting their own troops.

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Carved North Korea has reached the verge of disintegration.

If the army is withdrawn, not to mention that the previous victories have been in vain, just one point, the Ming Dynasty did not destroy Korea for the first time, and Li Yao's prestige will bottom out.

Da Ming wants to go on a second crusade, and the decision is not as easy as it is today.

Therefore, it is impossible to return.

Therefore, it has become inevitable to support Liaodong and Haixi.

Wang Ji said: "It's just that there is a difficulty now, that is, the court is short of money and food. ”

When Zhu Qizhen heard this, he immediately frowned, he seemed to find that he had never had enough money and food to fight a war, and most of the money and grain he prepared for the Northern Expedition was consumed on disaster relief and water conservancy.

As soon as it came to the matter of money and food, the officials in the Wuying Hall also fell silent.

Zhu Qizhen couldn't help but sigh and said, "Is it possible, with Mr. Zhou's old strategy, to first embezzle the treasury of Hebei, Shanxi, Huguang, and Henan?" ”

Zhou Chen insisted that the embezzled funds should be returned to the local government, which was a sum of millions of taels of silver. In addition, the tax has actually been in progress, the summer tax is relaxed until the autumn, and the autumn tax is relaxed until March of the following year.

Liu Dingzhi said: "The minister has a plan to solve His Majesty's predicament." ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "Sir, please speak." ”

Liu Dingzhi said: "The minister has been in charge of the Shaofu for a long time, after all, the workshops in various places are assigned to the Shaofu to be responsible, but in the opinion of the minister, some workshops are indeed like chicken ribs. Sending people to preside over is a lack of talents, but it is a waste not to send people to preside. Down, but the court will indeed use it. ”

"The minister has always wanted to sell these workshops. Everything went well, and it was estimated that he would be able to raise enough three or five million taels of silver. ”

Zhu Qizhen was overjoyed and said, "Let's talk about it carefully." ”

Although the auction of state-owned assets is an act of a loser, at this time, Zhu Qizhen can't manage so much.

And in history, this is not the first time to come back, if you count it carefully, the Han Dynasty and the Song Dynasty have similar behaviors.

Now Zhu Qizhen just wants to get a sum of money.

Liu Dingzhi immediately elaborated.

In fact, Liu Dingzhi has long been unpleasant to these chicken ribs.

Shaofu was built by Liu Dingyi, and there are many workshops in the Hebing Palace, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Industry, and so on. The workshops of the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Industry are a little better, there are many workshops in the palace, which makes Liu Dingzhi unpleasant for a long time.

In particular, Liu Dingyi was determined to engage in large-scale production and large-scale division of labor. But there are many workshops in the palace, all of which are for Ouchi's use, and they are only for Ouchi's use. The annual output is only a little bit, and it doesn't make sense to increase the production, but it takes up a lot of people.

Especially when Liu Dingzhi expanded several large industries such as steel, textiles, mining, porcelain, weapons, etc., he often felt that there was not enough manpower, and it was even more unpleasant to look at these workshops.