Chapter 45: The Great Victory Comes

In the Qianqing Palace.

The news from Zhu Qizhen couldn't hold himself at all, and it was a rare gaffe.

"Good, good, good." Zhu Qizhen's fingers pinched deeply on the good news, eager to pinch out a hole in the good news.

As for the smooth progress of the Korean war, this was expected by Zhu Qizhen. But for the smooth operation of the tile spur, Zhu Qizhen never thought about it.

North Korea is unbearable, and before the war, Zhu Qizhen already knew about it.

However, the defeat of the tile spur was due to the civil war in the past few years, and the loss of troops was serious, but the Ming army cleared up the accumulated shortcomings, and the combat effectiveness rose greatly, and even Shi Heng was a general.

Zhu Qizhen still needs to analyze these reasons. But the news itself is enough for Zhu Qizhen to comfort his life.

No matter what the reason is, Zhu Qizhen can be sure of one thing, since Zhu Qizhen succeeded to the throne, the situation that Zhang Fu has been emphasizing that he cannot go out of the customs to fight no longer exists.

Zhu Qizhen's military reform once again gave the Ming army the ability to fight outside the border.

In particular, Zhu Yi stayed in Zhaozhou, which completely reversed the strategic pattern between the Ming army and the thorns, and Zhaozhou was established, not only shielding Haixi and Liaodong, but also becoming the northernmost city in the territory directly under the Ming Dynasty.

It is also the Ming Dynasty that adheres to the style of Taizu Taizong and once again establishes the Ming Dynasty's ownership of the land outside the border wall.

"Zhaozhou already has it, Kaiping, Daning, Quanning, Dongshengwei, these places, will they be far away?" Zhu Qizhen thought of this. The joy in my heart was almost irrepressible.

He originally thought that such a war would not be launched until a year or two later, but now it seems that only if there is enough money and food, the Ming Dynasty will be able to go north next year. Rebuild Kaiping, Daning.

Just at the mention of money and food, Zhu Qizhen felt a headache.

Nineteen years of orthodoxy, for the Ming Dynasty, is not too stable a year, a year of climate can be described as a drought after fishing. In March, April and May, the whole country was in drought, and there was a resurgence of locusts in Henan.

In short, although the situation is better than the snow disaster in Jiangnan and the drought in Jiangxi in the first half of the year, the imperial court still spends a lot on disaster relief.

Fortunately, there is Hebei.

Although the drought and flood had some impact on Hebei's grain production, it had little impact, and the imperial court spent tens of millions of taels of silver on the water conservancy project of the three lakes and five rivers.

So, no matter how the South suffers.

Hebei's grain supports half of Beijing's grain, coupled with the abundance of Beijing warehouses, although the imperial treasury is about to bottom out, it is generally passable.

After all, Hebei has a bumper grain harvest, and Jingcang grain can be stored a little less as appropriate. It can also be directly converted into hundreds of officials' salaries, after all, hundreds of officials are only a messy discount

, collectively known as silver dollars, has not yet been many days, and it is still acceptable to exchange it for grain.

Even if all the silver in Taicang and the inner transport warehouse is taken out, it will probably be able to reward the army this time, but the imperial court will not be able to live a long time.

Fortunately, Xu Youzhen made a lot of money in North Korea. This sum of silver is about three million taels, and it is still in Liaodong at the moment. It is transported by land to Beijing.

Now Zhu Qizhen doesn't need to transport these grains to Beijing, and he will reward the three armies directly in Liaodong.

However, none of this is to be decided lightly.

Zhu Qizhen immediately convened the cabinet to discuss.

First of all, it is decided to reward the army.

Zhu Qizhen decided to send personnel from the cabinet to reward the army in Liaodong. Whether it is Yang Hong, Shi Heng, Guo Deng and others, or the Eastern Army, they will also be rewarded.

Zhu Qizhen decided to send Li Xian to preside over the matter.

Li Xian is the most junior in the cabinet, and it is natural for Li Xian to handle the errands.

Zhu Qizhen must come forward with the cabinet, and it is also necessary to establish the absolute leadership of the cabinet over the Ming army.

Although Zhu Qizhen feels that it is wrong for civilian officials to oppress military generals, and civilian officials regard military generals as slaves, which is simply a deformed state, but this is definitely not, making Xungui the ruling class of the Ming Dynasty can only be a corner of the ruling class of the Ming Dynasty, so although there is a noble background in the cabinet. But on the whole, the power of the court is still in the hands of civil officials. Zhu Qizhen is not prepared to change this political structure.

Therefore, after two big victories, there must be cabinet ministers to come forward to reward them, that is, I am afraid that some people will not know who they are when their tails are cocked.

However, the following reward is a good way, and there are certain rules.

But the reward of the leading generals has to be nodded by Zhu Qizhen.

Zhu Qizhen thought for a while and said: "Cao Yi is the Duke of Fengguo, Shi Heng is the Duke of Zhongguo, and each adds 10,000 Shi Nian. ”

Cao Yi's sealing of the Duke of the Kingdom was expected by Zhu Qizhen, but Shi Heng's sealing of the Duke of the Kingdom was a helpless thing. Zhu Qizhen wanted to suppress Shi Heng, but after thinking about it, he finally gave up.

Cao Yi is old, he is actually about the same age as Meng Ying, both in their sixties, and if it is not necessary in the future, Zhu Qizhen does not plan to let these veterans fight.

Enjoy your old age in Jingshi, and train the younger generations.

Shi Heng, Yang Hong, Guo Deng, they are all in the age of fighting, among which Yang Hong is the oldest, in his fifties. The three of them are compared together in Zhu Qizhen's heart.

After all, when these veterans grow old, someone from these three people will always enter the cabinet and assume the military power of the country.

Therefore, Zhu Qizhen doesn't want a certain person to be too dazzling, and every era has every era and every era is the best. No one person's prestige should be allowed to dominate in the military.

So, Zhu Qizhen thought

Waiting for Yang Hong, Guo Deng and others to make any contributions, it is not too late to be crowned duke together.

Just think about it, if it's just for this, it's a little too petty.

Speaking of which, the emperor must be magnificent, although the highest title of the opposite sex in the Ming Dynasty is only the duke, if Shi Heng really makes the contribution of destroying the country, what if he is crowned a county king? And even what about giving him a prince?

Zhu Qizhen didn't feel that he couldn't hold it down.

I had to worry about it, but now the battle with the Tile Spur is just around the corner. It is precisely when it is necessary to motivate the soldiers, even if there is a balanced mind, it should not be revealed at this time.

Therefore, Zhu Qizhen made up his mind and sealed Shi Heng. However, he also secretly said in his heart: "The main general of the next big war is best Yang Hong." ”

The two great heroes have been placed, and the following generals, Wang Yingfeng Navigation Uncle, Jin Fancha Feudal Prefecture Uncle, as for the other generals, at most, they will be added to Lu, and they are not knighted.

After the reward has been agreed.

Zhu Qizhen turned the topic to the main topic, after this war, the strategic pattern of the Northeast has changed very much. Many policies in the Ming Dynasty need to be adjusted.

This is for all to discuss.

Zhu Qizhen first took out Xu Youzhen's recital and let the ministers circulate it, in fact, everyone has already seen Xu Youzhen's recital.

Now it's just a matter of revisiting.

Wang Ji said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that what Xu Youzhen said made some sense before the victory in Zhaozhou, but now, it is a little biased. ”

"When you talk about North Korea, you can't help but say that Liaodong and Haixi, and Haixi can't help but talk about Zhaozhou, all of which are one and the same."

Xu Youzhen has the meaning of Xu Xu Tu, the two northern provinces of North Korea are assigned to Haixi, of course, it is to maintain the back road of Haixi, but now Haixi is not trapped in the area near Haixi City, there is Zhaozhou in front, east of Changbai Mountain, and even near Xingkai Lake, can reclaim fertile land, and these two roads are separated from the mountains of Haixi, and the contact is inconvenient, it is better to directly assign them to Liaodong, but also to achieve the role of dividing the risk of the Yalu River, and use Liaodong to balance the back road of Haixi, and not let Haixi be left alone. It is not connected to the Central Plains. ”

Zhu Qizhen thought for a while and said: "What Mr. said is very true, this side is so decided, but the two provinces of North Korea have been changed to prefectures and counties, which are under the jurisdiction of the governor of Liaodong, and it will not be that the governor of Liaodong has always governed a county." ”

Zhu Qizhen estimated that the current governor of Liaodong had the idea of arranging the administrative office to Anzhou. There is no other reason, although Liaodong has a province, there are too few guards, and although the governor of Liaodong also has a lot of military affairs to deal with, there are too few prefectures and counties under his jurisdiction.

Now the two provinces of the imperial court are assigned to Liaodong Province. These two prefectures are probably the largest territories that the governor of Liaodong can govern. This may be an ironic consequence.

Chen Xun said: "The ministers obey the order. ”

Someone immediately wrote it down on one side. When the meeting is over, the decree is issued.