The five pavilion elders turned their heads to look, only to see Zhu Yijun smiling and entering from the outside, his eyes revealing incomparable confidence.

When the elders saw that the emperor was coming, they all stood up and saluted him: "The ministers see the emperor."

Zhu Yijun waved his hand and said, "You Aiqing don't have to be polite...... Where did you go? It's Daning City, right? ”

Several pavilion elders glanced at each other, and Zhang Siwei spoke: "As the emperor heard, Fang Caichen and others are discussing the fact that Daning's persistence is a little difficult. ”

Zhu Yijun raised his chin slightly, and Shi Shiran said: "Long before taking Daning City, someone took this issue into consideration, but it was different from now, and it was uncertain whether the conditions could be met, so although I knew, I didn't mention it to you Aiqing first. ”

The elders of the pavilion were a little stunned at first, and then immediately showed thoughtful expressions.

Before Daning City was taken?

Ha, the goal of "taking Daning City", in addition to the emperor, only Gao Pragmatic knows, and even the cabinet did not know the exact arrangement before, so before taking Daning City, he began to consider the issue of perseverance after Daning City was in hand, can this person be someone else except Gao Pragmatic?

As soon as Zhu Yijun's words came out, the reaction of the elders of the pavilion was very interesting: Zhang Siwei and Xu Guo were obviously in good spirits, Shen Shixing and Yu Youding frowned at the same time, only Pan Sheng's face was calm, except for raising his eyebrows slightly, he could be said to be calm.

Zhu Yijun saw their reactions, but he didn't say anything special, but just revealed the mystery as everyone wished: "Truth-seeking told me that he had an appointment with the King of Shunyi, and as long as the Ming Dynasty needed it, the King of Shunyi would send Totochataiji as a general, stationed about 100 miles south of Daning City, to guard my baggage team...... Of course, rewards are indispensable. ”

It is not impossible to give Hannaji free help to the face of Hannaji with high pragmatism, but this kind of thing can not be used as much as possible, especially for the state affairs of the Ming Dynasty to spend his personal face, which is not in line with the style of high pragmatism.

So he and Hannaji were rewarded by the agreed Ming Dynasty and Tumut sent troops, which is a bit of a mercenary - of course, there are more individuals in the Mongols who are "mercenaries" in Xuanda and other places, and there are even many small tribes collectively surrendering to the south, which is not a new thing, and even there are many Mongolian athletes under Li Chengliang in Liaodong, many of whom are still his family members or even godsons.

In this era, nationalism or something, that's still far away.

Daming has long had a tradition of spending money to buy Mongolians to fight Mongolians, not to mention now, Tumut is the thug that Daming has been wooing, and it is natural to contribute at this time. As for the reward, it is also reasonable, and the only thing that needs to be paid attention to is nothing more than how the price is negotiated.

Yu Youding just forced Zhang Siwei's signs, and was suddenly disturbed by the emperor, quite unwilling, his eyes rolled, and asked: "Although it is a clever plan to drive the tiger and devour the wolf, but my Ming Dynasty has disasters in the north and south this year, and the imperial court has exempted some money and grain, plus I have to prepare for the wedding of King Lu next year and the expenses of the country......

As soon as Yu Youding spoke, Shen Shixing immediately spoke out and said, "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that Yu Ge is very worried. Originally, I had no expectation of a big war this year, and I died and Mongolia was in turmoil, which led to the occurrence of the Monan War, which was already an unexpected war...... Although this battle was a great victory for our dynasty and shocked all sides, it was difficult to estimate the cost of it. ”

Yu Youding first glanced at the emperor's expression, and saw that he did not have obvious displeasure, so he continued: "The minister is trusted by the emperor and is in charge of the affairs of the household department.

The two combined, it will cost a million taels of silver, and now the household department is discussing countermeasures day and night to see where to borrow and spend...... Your Majesty, at this moment, if you want to add a reward for Tumut's troops to protect our army, but I don't know where this money will come from? ”

Therefore, as soon as the cannon sounded, there were 10,000 taels of gold, and there were not a few cannons in the battle of Monan this time, and the cost was so huge, Rao is Zhu Yijun had already prepared in his heart, and he was also taken aback by the cost of one million taels, and subconsciously asked: "Why do you have to spend so much?" Li Chengliang also fought a lot before, and you always said that he spent too much money, but now that you compare it, wouldn't his cost of 350,000 taels in a war be called thrifty? ”

Zhu Yijun's words were unintentional, but Shen Shixing found an opportunity, and immediately nodded: "What the emperor said is extremely true, and the minister also has a few words to say about this." ”

"Well......" Zhu Yijun frowned slightly, but still nodded: "Mr. Shen has something, but it doesn't hurt to say it." Shen Shixing was his "Tongzhijing Feast" when he was the prince, that is, the teacher, so naturally he still had to respect it and call him "sir".

Shen Shixing said: "Gao Qiuzhen won big victories in the two battles of the north and the south, and his talent is beyond doubt, but the two battles were one after the other, Annan was in front and Mo Nan was in the back, but there was an unexpected problem. ”

"Questions?" Zhu Yijun was puzzled: "What's the problem?" ”

Shen Shixing sighed: "In the battle of Annan, because the imperial court did not directly send troops, Gao Qiuzhen fought on his own with his own family and Guangxi Tusi wolf soldiers as the main force, which is the origin of the so-called 'partial division of Annan'. In this battle, the minister didn't say how he fought, but only in terms of the cost that Elder Yu Ge said, in short, it was...... It didn't cost a penny to the imperial court. ”

Zhu Yijun was surprised: "Isn't that good?" ”

"Good, naturally good." Shen Shixing nodded vigorously, but smiled bitterly, and said: "But there is a problem, the imperial court has an extremely lack of understanding of the style and use of Gao Qiuzhen's war, which has led to the cost of this battle of Mo Nan is particularly huge, far exceeding the original estimate of the ministers." ”

Because of the war of words a few days ago, Zhu Yijun is now a little sensitive to criticizing Gao Shishi's words, and when he heard this, his face suddenly stretched a little, and his tone was already slightly displeased: "What does Mr. Shen mean that the battle of seeking truth is not fought well, so that the court has spent a lot of money?" ”

Shen Shixing shook his head and said: "No, no, no, the minister has listened to the detailed reports of the household department and the military department, and Gao Qiuzhen's battle is almost impossible to find fault with, but it is just ...... His plan is too big, and the scope is too wide. From Shaanxi to Liaodong, thousands of miles of defense line are moving according to his orders, and every time it moves, it costs money.

This is only a matter of strategy, as well as tactics, because he mobilized the elite of Xuanda, among which there are thousands of troops equipped with the new type of fire qing of Wanli, and this army also fought a hard battle, and the results were particularly huge, so the high reward is really the only one in decades.

Then there is the battle of Shacheng, although this battle is the turning point of the entire battle of Monan, but in order to achieve the goal, Gao Qiuzhen almost rebuilt the capital of the old Yuan, which is also unavoidable...... It's too extravagant, what do you think, Your Majesty? ”

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