Chapter Forty-Nine: The Great Fire of Kyoto

Zhu Yong naturally didn't dare to put the 100,000 yuan into his pocket.

He came to the army with the 100,000 yuan, and first killed a few corrupt officers to shock the army's heart. Immediately called the account and sent it down together with the 100,000 yuan.

It is said to be a reward from His Majesty.

For a while, there was thunder of joy below.

The battle below will be much smoother.

The Ming army, then at the end of the Ming Dynasty, also maintained this law, that is, as long as enough money was given, the Ming army was still very capable of fighting.

Of course, this money should be able to fall into the hands of the lowest soldiers, not be swallowed by other generals.

As a result, although the entire autumn and winter of Daming from Liaodong to the border of Datong was not very calm, but on the whole, Wu Liangha's name did not take much advantage.

It's just that in terms of overall strategy, the imperial court is still passive, although the cavalry of Liaodong, Xuanfu, and Datong are gathered, it may not be weaker than Wuliangha.

But with so many cavalry distributed over a thousand-mile front, it was much weaker.

Wu Liangha didn't want to have a hard time with the Ming army, so he divided his troops into several teams and broke into the side wall respectively, grabbing a handful and leaving. Although for the Ming Dynasty, the economy of the nine sides is extremely withered, and it is a burden on the imperial court at all, but for Wu Liangha, even if he grabs a bag of grain, an iron pot, and a woman, it is earned.

So, faced with such a situation.

It was also difficult for Zhu Yong to gather the cavalry, after all, every military town was responsible for defending the territory. The cavalry was transferred to Zhu Yong's command, and when the Wuliangha cavalry arrived, the foot soldiers in each town could only follow behind and eat ashes.

The losses in various places are great, and they want to eat the ranks of the imperial court.

Therefore, Zhu Yong could only let each town defend its own place and distribute all the cavalry.

In general, this is the situation.

As soon as Uliangha came, beacon fires were lit everywhere, and the people, in fact, there were no people in the border areas, and even if there were people, they were military households. Hide in the midst of thousands of houses.

If someone doesn't escape in time, they will be caught up by Uliangha, and the end will be needless to say.

Then Uliangha looked to see if there were any villages that were not protected by the city walls, probably not. Anyway, the Ming Dynasty has always paid no attention to the construction of the side wall in the border area, that is, the Ming Great Wall that seems to be winding and circling in later generations, and their efforts are all on the city, almost dozens of miles There is a big city, and there is a small fort in a few miles.

As long as it is not extremely unlucky, it is enough to escape into the city.

If the Uliangha felt that they had made money, they would retreat, and if the Mongol nobles who led the group were not greedy enough, they would choose one or two cities that seemed easy to attack.

Although the Mongol siege technology is still a little, it has degraded a lot. Moreover, the Ming army's technology of defending the city has not degraded, especially from

The Taizong Dynasty placed special emphasis on firearms to defend the city.

Although the firearms are not very powerful when they are fighting in formation, they play a great role when defending the city.

Most of the Mongols could not be attacked.

And at this time, the cavalry in the vicinity came, with a few hundred horsemen and a few thousand horsemen.

If you don't talk about thousands of riders, just go over and beat them up. But if there are only a few hundred horsemen, if the generals are brave, they may not dare to go straight to the city.

Get in touch with the defenders of the city.

And at this time, the Mongols began to retreat.

By the time the brigade of foot soldiers arrived, the Mongols had already patted their butts and left.

The cavalry, which was the most concentrated, fought several battles with the cavalry behind the Mongol palace.

The Ming army had few cavalry, and they didn't dare to chase too hard. Although there are not many Mongolians now, the ancient tactics of Mangang are famous, and the border generals of the Ming Dynasty are all fighting old battles with Mongolia.

Naturally, I knew.

The tactics of the Mongols, in general, can be said to be a decisive battle of retreat. Using the mobility of the cavalry, let the opponent continue to pursue, when their military strength is consumed to a critical point, the Mongolian cavalry suddenly turn to the decisive battle, or cut off the backup, surround it, and slowly trap to death.

Therefore, pursuing the Mongols was a test of a general's experience, especially when the number of cavalry in his hands was insufficient.

Even when Zhongshan King Xu Da fought against Wang Baobao, he suffered such a loss. However, Xu Da is Xu Da, when pursuing, after being ambushed by Wang Baobao, he was able to stabilize his position and retreat layer by layer.

Let this strange man in the world be helpless.

Counting the biggest defeat of the Ming Dynasty against the Mongols, that is, the battle of the annihilation of Qiu Fu's entire army, in fact, it was also Emperor Taizong's thousands of instructions to keep heavy use of troops, not to pursue, and if the Mongols fled too far, they would return to the army.

But Qiu Fu didn't listen, and in the end he chased after him, and was surrounded by the Mongol army.

Therefore, the later generals of the Ming army, in the face of the Mongol retreat, were careful when pursuing. Many times, this kind of caution can turn into a send-off chase.

Generally speaking, this autumn's war has been won everywhere, but it is only a few dozen or hundreds of beheadings, there are no big battles, and small battles are continuous.

Zhu Qizhen has just started, and he still pays attention to the military newspaper, and every military newspaper must be read carefully. But then it turned out that it didn't make sense at all.

He just filed it and asked the Jinyi Guard to verify it with the military department. Just make sure you don't have some lies or bad things.

And Zhu Qizhen's mind was all involved in a fire.

Zhou Chen knelt on the ground and didn't dare to raise his head for a long time.

Zhu Qizhen reviewed the letter and asked lightly, "I obey."

I'm not afraid that the people below me will do something wrong, but I never feel like I'm a fool. Does Aiqing think I'm a fool? ”

Zhou Chen said: "Your Majesty is wise and martial, and the Ming monarchs of the distant dynasties. ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "Since you also think so, then tell me, what's going on?" Within a month in the capital, there were two fires. Could it be that Zhu Rong, the prisoner of Beijing City this year, is the time when I want to verify the granary. Don't you really think I'm not a fool, and I don't even make a good excuse to lie to me? ”

The more bland Zhu Qizhen spoke. Zhou Chen's face became more ugly, and cold sweat flowed.

After the Shanxi case, most of the official warehouses in Shanxi were empty, and Zhu Qizhen naturally had to find out the bottom, and there were 10 million or 20 million stone grain in the accounts of the household department, but when it was time to use it, there was not so much, and when it came time to fight, this result would be disastrous.

In fact, Daming has a routine inspection of warehouse management. But Zhu Qizhen wants to make an inventory, Yang Pu has no opinion, he is now staring at everyone's clues with wide eyes, trying to find out the black sheep among the Ming officials.

A large-scale change of governors was scheduled for next year, but it was never expected. Something happened in the capital.

It is the Kyokura in charge of the household department.

First, a warehouse caught fire, burning about 10,000 stone of grain.

Zhu Qizhen didn't care too much, just let people check, first, the number is too small, and second, there is always a high incidence of fires in winter, especially in ancient times, many wooden buildings. In which an open flame is used, it is also commonly used to occur such a situation.

But then in the Tongzhou warehouse, there was another fire.

This time, 30,000 stone of grain was burned.

Zhu Qizhen immediately felt that something was wrong.

This is simply a challenge to Zhu Qizhen's lower IQ limit.

Therefore, Zhu Qizhen directly brought Zhou Chen over and hung it for half an hour. Then ask questions.

In fact, Zhou Chen also hated the people below.

Zhou Chen is very sleek and thoughtful, that is to say. Taking care of the interests of all parties, although he became the head of the household department, he did not fight with the old fritters of the household department, but put the regular business of the household department under the squire Li Xian. He is mainly responsible for a lot of unconventional business, such as the implementation of the money law, the salt law, and recently he is planning, no, it has been approved by the imperial court, that is, to reopen the silver mines in Zhejiang and Fujian.

It is estimated that there will be an income of 100,000 taels per year, and after minting, there will be more than 100,000 silver dollars.

Zhou Chen is very clear about his mission, he is open source from Zhu Qizhen, not to keep it. Even if the warehouse system of the capital is adjusted, the formation of the Taicang silver warehouse, the Beijing warehouse grain warehouse, the internal carrier warehouse, the three major systems, has been the miscellaneous warehouse of each yamen, in this process. He adjusted more of the subordinates of the warehouse, which has been in the process of silver money and grain turnover, without directly touching the internal problems of each warehouse.

Because he knows that there must be something greasy in this.