"Li Jichun, are you guilty?"

"My lord, I will be convicted of sin."

The middle-aged man kneeling under the hall had a calm face at the moment, looking like he was being beaten and punished.

And Zhang Zhongqi, who was sitting behind the public case, turned up the corners of his mouth at the moment, pretending to be the pressure of the Qingtian Lord, and asked with a little playfulness: "Wen Death Advice, Wu Death Battle, look at the few adults who went to Yongping to die, Li Jichun, you are kneeling here today, are you half ashamed?" ”

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In ancient times, due to the inability of communication technology and social management to keep up, the government was unable to extend its tentacles to all cells, so in the construction of the military system, in order to separate powers and checks and balances, including the Song and Ming dynasties, they all adopted the principle of "controlling military force with literature, and controlling large and small".

The so-called large and small system is actually a reduced version of the military feudal system: the governor can directly order only his own superintendent battalion, and the rest of the provincial troops, the governor must give orders through the chief military officer.

In the same way, the general army can only command its own town mark, and in order to give orders to a certain army, it must go through the middle adjutant general to participate in these people.

This is the principle of the feudal system: the next layer cannot be directly managed, the monarch can only find the feudal lord if he has something, and the vassals below only listen to the feudal lord, and it has nothing to do with the monarch.

China's feudal system, although there are some differences from the West since the Han Dynasty, but the core rules are still the same - the emperor and the court cannot control the peasants in the countryside, and the clan landlords similar to the feudal lords are the peasants' gods, and the so-called "imperial power does not go down to the county" actually interprets the core idea of the feudal system.

In this regard, the West has done more obviously: the king can only tear up with the big feudal lords at the level of the princes, and the knights (squires) below the princes are obeyed by their own feudal lords.

Once there is a war, it is usually a marquis and a certain earl who takes a group of vassal knights under his command to participate in the battle, and the king can only give orders to the level of the great nobles.

Return to the government office of Yongping City.

According to the above principles, theoretically speaking, it is impossible to control the general Li Jichun. This top boss is the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, and if he wants to kill or chop, he should also be reported to the court by the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, and finally Chongzhen will decide this person.

But this is not the case right now. Yongping City has just been recovered, and the "military government" system implemented in the city by the traversal people can kill anyone at any time - Li Jichun resisted stubbornly, and after breaking off the Tartars, he was punished by the heavenly soldiers, it's as simple as that.

So General Li, who is kneeling in the hall now, is actually hanging by a thread, and he will be dragged out and slaughtered at any time.

"Are you half ashamed to kneel here today?"

After hearing the mocking question in the hall, Li Jichun first kowtowed, and then replied with a blank face: "My lord, when the city was broken that day, more than 20 of the general's personal soldiers had all been killed...... If I say I am incompetent, then I admit it; If you are ashamed, this is not true. The ants are still stealing their lives, and the last general will surrender after the battle, what is the crime? ”

"It's fresh!" Yao Jianjian, the stationmaster of Tianjin Station, who was sitting on the side, smiled and said to this soldier with the concept of later generations: "According to this, even if you die and die, then the 2,000-person garrison army under your command is not a decoration?" ”

"It's really a decoration." Li Jichun smiled bitterly when he heard this, knelt on the ground and arched his hand to the green-jacketed official who couldn't tell the rank: "This lord is graceful." ”

"Since the beginning of the apocalypse, the affairs of the imperial court have been tight, and the expenses have become more and more serious. Yongping, which seems to be defended by the end of the year, has never encountered a war in the past 100 years, so the military salary allocated by the Ministry of War is less than one year a year, and there are still a lot of decay and waste. ”

When Li Jichun said this, a trace of embarrassment slipped on his face: "It is Lord Zheng, who hangs himself from the army, and every time he goes to ask for a leader's salary, he also has to get enough to become a regular practice." ”

"All the empty salaries that the last general eats on weekdays are used on these soldiers." When Li Jichun said this, the muscles on his face twitched, and he seemed to be extremely distressed: "Just that bit of silver is enough to support this little soldier." ”

"Yongping has been peaceful for a hundred years, the military equipment is deserted, and the equipment is decayed. Most of the 2,000 soldiers defending the city were temporarily recruited by the wealthy families in the city. ”

"The soldiers under the command of the last general, they don't even have a decent fat jacket on weekdays, and when they saw the wolf-like Tartar soldiers, they scattered on the spot, only the last general and his own soldiers still stood up for a while...... My lord, the soldiers are all dead, all the kindness and righteousness, the last general has done his best, and the last general is worthy of it. is to see the emperor, and the last general is also this sentence. ”

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When the traversal heard this, no one spoke for a while.

Yes, in order for a unit to complete its military tasks, it is at least necessary to ensure that the non-commissioned officers are well fed, clothed, and have basic training and basic weapons.

So again, the first step in the fall of all regimes is always a financial problem.

The fundamental reason why the Ming army could not defeat foreign tribes in the middle and late stages was that the rentier class such as the gentry and the imperial relatives were greedy for a large amount of government taxes.

The so-called 6 million taels of military expenditure on the Ningjin defense line every year was actually "precipitated" in the bureaucratic system of the capital before it left the capital.

In the long run, the military generals will not have enough military funds at hand, and if the military expenses are not enough, they can only take the road of deducting ordinary soldiers and raising elite soldiers.

Then when they arrived on the battlefield and encountered all the Tartars, the army had to break up - what to do with as much money as possible, the logic was correct, there was nothing wrong.

In fact, how did the garrison of Jizhen, including Santun Camp and Zunhua, break through the city bloodless when the Tartars broke in? I'm sorry, but it was the soldiers themselves who opened the city.

Why did the soldiers open the city? for these men do not receive any money.

Shortly before the Houjin army entered the customs, Chongzhen had just reduced part of the military spending of the towns on the nine borders, and by the way, some soldiers were dismissed.

Then the gateway of the Beijing Division, the core defensive stronghold of Jizhen, the first town in the world, Santunying and Zunhua, were opened by laid-off soldiers.

There is a reason why later governments care about the employment rate, because when the number of homeless people rises, society will be in turmoil. The incident of opening the door of the Santun camp in Zunhua and the laid-off postman Li Zicheng are all vivid examples, including the core horse team under Li Zicheng, which was also composed of the border army laid off from Ganshan.

Li Jichun, who was kneeling in front of the crossing crowd at this moment, was actually the same as tens of millions of Ming Dynasty generals, and belonged to the kind of people who were always suffering in the strange circle of insufficient military spending. It's just that this guy is lucky, and after the Tartars entered the pass, they hit Yongping City.

After listening to Li Jichun's defense, Zhang Zhongqi, who was sitting in the hall, waved him down, and then several traversers began to exchange opinions.

In real history, Chongzhen did not spare Li Jichun afterwards. After the Tartars retreated, all the people of Yongping, including several petty officials, were killed by Chongzhen's order.

In the eyes of the traversal with the thinking of later generations, the soldiers who died in the war did not need to bear the infinitely high moral requirements of ancient times.

In later wars, when wounded or surrounded, governments of various countries also allowed troops to surrender, and they had to find a way to replace people afterwards, and there was no psychological barrier.

What the people are discussing now is mainly the issue of Li Jichun's arrangement.

According to Zhang Zhongqi's opinion, there is no need for people like Li Jichun to waste resources on him, the whole family will go to the Philippines incognito, and the whole reclamation team will be done with the natives.

The two intelligence insiders, however, have different ideas.

After this Qinwang operation, the traversal will start a series of layouts in the north. In this case, a northern general who has been pinched will undoubtedly have a positive effect on the entire layout.

Cao someone's power is all in the south at the moment, and it is a complete blank for the north, and now is the time to establish some recruits.

After the opinions of the two sides were put out, Qian Tieshan and Du Dewei did not express their position. They are pure soldiers, and they will leave after the battle, patting their butts, and they will not mix with this kind of thing.

Although there is a nominal head Zhang Dongdong in the northbound delegation, when it comes to their respective professional fields, it is still up to them to have the final say.

Now that the two sides are not in agreement, this matter can only be put on hold for the time being, waiting for the rear boss to decide.

So General Li, who was waiting outside, was passed in again, and then Zhang Zhongqi told him to "go back and think about it behind closed doors", and inform you when there is news.

After Li Jichun left, the news was sent back to Tianjin and the staff by telegram, and then everyone dispersed and found a place to rest. Today there was a day of continuous fighting, and everyone was too tired to do it.

That night, there was also a little hiccup. The sentinels sent out to monitor Luanzhou City sent a message: The remaining 400 Tartar cavalry in the city had dispersed into more than a dozen scattered squads and began to bypass Yongping and run towards Yanshan in the north.

After receiving the news, the traversers did not take any action, let him go, but it was only 400 people. In the middle of the night, soldiers who had been fighting for a day were sent to disperse and pursue the enemy, not to mention whether they could be caught or not, there was no need for this at all.

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The next morning, the troops, who had had rested all night, got up one after another, began to pack their bags, and prepared to move.

The most important thing in the outfit is the head.

After the residents of Yongping City pickled it overnight, the heads taken yesterday have all been packed this morning.

Regarding the number of heads, the traversal took 550 in Santunying, 400 in Qian'an, 300 on Luanzhou Road, and the most on Yongping's side, including Amin and others, a total of 1400, and now the traversal has a full 2,500 heads on hand.

It was enough to make the man lose his tongue, eyes, and big teeth.

However, this is not enough.

This time, the Houjin troops stationed in several cities of the Ming Kingdom left behind the troops totaled 5,000 people. In addition to the 400 people who ran away last night, there were 2,000 Eight Banner soldiers in Zunhua City, which was fighting against the Ming army.

These 2,000 people are also fat, if they can hold it.

So it's time to pack up and go. Yesterday, Amin had already sent a messenger to Zunhua, and the traversers could not judge what would happen in the direction of Zunhua, so it was better to leave early.

Luming

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