Wu Sangui's move was clearly to admonish the soldiers!

In the three hundred years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, when has there ever been a front-line border army general who threatened to bring troops to the capital to explain things to the court and the emperor? If it was in the Wanli and Apocalypse years, Wu Sangui's actions would have been enough to kill the head and raid the family, or even the point of beheading the whole house.

However, in the Chongzhen Dynasty, which was in the Zhongzheng Dynasty, this kind of rebellious behavior was not punished, but there was continuous praise between the government and the opposition.

Some of the words and phrases in Wu Zongbing's recital have even been widely praised by countless officials and scholars, just like the telegram sent by another general surnamed Wu to the whole country hundreds of years later.

"The ministers fought in the bloody field, shed blood and drifted, and those who did it were killed and repaid to the country. However, the traitorous ministers accepted bribes from the Tartars, confused the saints, and discussed peace with the devils, and their purpose was to disperse the hearts of our army! ”

"The minister and Jiannu have been fighting bloody for many years, and according to the minister's view, Jiannu is just a clown who jumps off the beam. After many years, it has not been able to be pacified, only because of the lack of food and salaries, and the inconsistency of government decrees, now that the malpractices have been eliminated, the morale of the army has been greatly boosted, and there is no reason to indulge in the enemy and feed the troubles? ”

From Ningyuan, Shanhaiguan, to Jizhen, military towns around the country have rumored that the imperial court wants to negotiate peace with slaves and thieves, and for a while, the military heart is floating and there are many discussions. After Wu Sangui's ship arrived in Tianjin, the news exploded like a big bomb in the mainland officialdom. From the county officials and wardens of Jiupin, to several governors, governors, and even the scholars and cabinet officials of the court, they were all very dissatisfied with this matter!

A political upheaval is already brewing.

The government and the opposition, civil and military officials, since the defense of Beijing that year, have been unprecedentedly united, and everyone is united as one, to find out the guy who intends to betray the country and seek glory, so that he will be escorted to the vegetable market like Yuan thief back then. Eat 3,600 dollars!

Several governors who were stationed close to Tianjin either came to the door in person, or sent henchmen to the Tianhou Palace to pay homage to the Han guard, crying and begging Ning Yuanbo to come out and preside over the overall situation, for the Ming Dynasty, for the world!

"Bullshit's big tomorrow!"

sent away a group of guys who came to emulate Shen Baoxu and cry Qin Ting. Looking at the distant backs, there are still the aftermath of these people's generous statements or bitter pleading. Li Peiting sneered and commented on the behavior of these people.

"Uncle Wu's hand is amazing!" Shouhan also sneered twice, and threw aside a few thick secret letters in his hand, most of these letters were written by the elders of the imperial court, various ministries and nobles, and they also asked him to stand up and lead everyone to ask the emperor to come out to clarify the matter of peace. Give an explanation to the people of the world, and give an explanation to the ancestors and the soldiers who are bloodied in the border passes!

The actions of these people are just like the famous lines in the spy war drama that created a precedent, "The mouth is full of isms." All I think about is business! ”

What the princes of Gon Gon were concerned about was not how to win the battle in Liaodong, but how Liaodong could continue to fight. Because only when there are Liao thieves who continue to make trouble and pay Liao for many years, can they justifiably save zài!

Liaojiao is a non-large interest group, how many people benefit from it? It's the cabinet elders, but there is one person. Didn't share the profit benefits in it?

Cutting off money, such as killing parents. Officials at all levels are deeply aware of this, so they do not dare to profoundly express their attitude, and only dare to say a few vague words.

From the forty-sixth year of Wanli to the present, a total of about 20 million taels of silver have been collected in these years. However, in the past few years, the annual military expenditure has reached more than 8 million taels, and with the remaining expenditures, it is still unable to make ends meet. Liao salary is the main component of it.

At that time, the nine-sided salary, in the middle of the Wanli period, about 2.8 million taels of paper per year, the towns shared, the amount of grain and salary, relatively average, an important reason to change this situation is the rise of the Houjin.

The towns in Liaodong quickly took a large amount of the Ming military spending, and even now, Liaodong, including Guanwai and Shanhaiguan, although the amount of food and salary has been reduced and reduced, there are still nearly five million a year.

As for the income of the Ming Dynasty, in the middle of Wanli, the imperial court had more than 26 million stones of summer and autumn grain every year, of which the Taicang silver treasury of the household department collected about 3.6 million taels of cash every year. As a result, the Liao Salary Plus faction came into being.

From Shanhaiguan to Jinzhou and other places, Shanhai Town, Qiantunwei, Ningyuan Town, and the general army of each aid and suppression, etc., add up to 120,000 horses, calculated by one stone of grain per soldier per month, 2 million stone of grain is needed a year, and there are all kinds of food that should be consumed, and the huge supply of grain and salary has derived one interest group after another.

Jin merchants, Caoyun merchants, grain merchants, and even salt merchants in Yangzhou all sat in a row on this huge pie and divided the fruits. Officials, who are the representatives or agents of various business interest groups, have a way to make money in addition to making profits from business activities.

That is, the officials are collecting salaries, suppressing salaries, and training salaries, and all kinds of additions and fire consumption! From Zhang Juzheng began to implement a whip law, to the fourth master of Yongzheng, who was known as the first tyrant of the ages, to implement the return of fire consumption to the public, one of the major sources of income for officials was to increase the distribution and fire consumption. The so-called 100,000 snowflakes of silver in the Qing Governor's Mansion in three years, the source of this silver is generally fire consumption. If the official's hand is longer, the rake of holding the money is more dense, the means are more, and the discipline is less, such as a birthday every month, then I don't know how much money will come.

Once Liaodong stopped fighting against the slaves and thieves, the amount of Liaodong was bound to decrease, and where could the officials find their interests? If there is less additional distribution on the heads of the farmers, then the salary and training salary should gradually lose their meaning. So what's the point of everyone doing this?!

Whether it is Liao or San, there are too many interest groups involved, and one by one strong interest groups will exist like the Jin Merchants and the Donglin Party. Now some people say that they want to negotiate peace with Liao thieves in Liaodong, and from then on they will stop the army and truce, how can this be achieved?

Looking at the cabinet ministers, who has not benefited from the salary? It's just a matter of how much and how little.

Although Shouhan did not obtain direct benefits from the three salaries such as Liaoyu, these additions and levies were also closely related to the development of the Nanyue Army.

Let me ask, if there is no war in Liaodong, who will sell a large number of grain, rice, knives, guns, equipment, armor, salt, shochu and other things? If there are no various increases, the farmers will not be able to survive. How can there be a large number of displaced people? How can the Chinese who have relocated to the land be able to stomp their feet to the sea to make a living?

Without the continuous arrival of immigrants, how could the Nanyue Army have the population to change the ethnic structure of the various parts of Nanzhong? Assimilate and exterminate the natives step by step?

Thanks to the gift of maritime trade, Shouhan now has no shortage of precious metals such as gold and silver, all kinds of gems and pearls, can be used in buckets, and the issued silver dollars have been circulated north to Liaodong. It stretched to the south to the ten states, to Rome in the west, and to the vast extent of the Wa kingdom in the east.

If there is nothing to do in Daminghai, who will sell the grain, refined salt, sugar, meat, armor, knives, guns, weapons, cloth and other products produced in Nanzhong? Where can you find so many immigrants to reclaim the entire South Central Peninsula?

"My lord, no matter what, this peace negotiation can't let the emperor succeed! Once he succeeds, my Nanzhong will be a place where there will be no corpse to be buried! Li Peiting spoke to Shouhan, always straight to the point. Never beat around the bush.

Shouhan also nodded slightly. Although he disdains to take a piece of the pie from Liaoyu, what Liaoyu brings him is more than just a little silver! If he cared about silver, he would not give Chongzhen nearly one million silver dollars and grain every year, and give blood transfusions to the dying Ming court.

What he needs is time, and with time, he can accumulate enough strength. Create the ideal Ming Dynasty in your heart. For this reason, he offered money and grain to Chongzhen. Make friends with the eunuchs in the palace and make friends with the Xungui group. Even when Yang Sichang and Wang Chengen waved the small hoes that dug the foot of the wall, he also turned a blind eye and endured it. For the sake of the ideal in the heart.

Not to mention anything else, just the annual joint defense of the rivers and seas, the nobles and eunuchs of the north and south capitals, they used guò as a means to control the coastal trade of the Ming Dynasty. It relied on the sale of customs defense and pass flags at high prices, as well as various goods from the sea to be sold in the north and south of Naoli and Gyeonggi, and made great profits. This hand was stolen by Shouhan from his own in-law Zheng Zhilong's practices in history. History contains "all sea ships are not allowed to be Zheng's order flag, and they cannot come and go." Each ship earns 2,000 gold, and the annual income is tens of millions, so as to enrich the enemy country. "Anyway, those guys who go to sea to trade are not short of money, so they just pluck their feathers from them! However, with the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty's maritime trade at this time, it is also a terrifying number. According to the calculations of the customs, the nobles and eunuchs who made a fortune by relying on the Jianghai Joint Defense Agreement made a fortune every year at least 10 million silver dollars! On the other hand, in the Ming Dynasty, the annual market tax was only 40,000 taels.

"After raising them for so long, it's time for them to contribute!"

Shouhan whispered to himself in his mouth.

Li Peiting on the side quietly reminded: "Lord, Wu Sangui is fighting well on the front line of Ningyuan and Tashan, do you want to send him some men and horses to make the momentum bigger." Or take the opportunity to open the road to Jinzhou and Quang Ninh? ”

The soldiers and horses of the two garrison brigades, carrying hundreds of sea ships, set out from Tianjin to the sea with gongs and drums, and headed for Ningyuan. On the day of departure, the following officials of the governor of Tianjin, the gentlemen and merchants in the city, have gone to the wharf to work the army, set up more than a dozen colorful sheds and archways along the way, and there is a place where the gentlemen work along the way every hundreds of steps, and the wine and water are like a hill and the bread and meat are piled up.

They want to use such behavior to make their position clear to the imperial court and Ning Yuanbo!

The brigade sailed to the east, and was sent west to the capital by the messenger.

In the court, it has become a pot of porridge.

Although the eunuch did not speak, he also expressed dissatisfaction with the emperor's behavior from the occasional expression, such a confidential matter, actually bypassed us and directly issued an order to Chen Xinjia! Shouldn't we be considerate? A feeling of not being trusted arises from the hearts of these physically and mentally unsound people. What's more, they are also part of the vested interest groups in Liaoyu and Liaodong.

The festival respect, New Year's ceremony, and ice tribute of those Liaodong army generals and officials have never been missing from them!

The Chinese officials and nobles of the DPRK even played one after another, loudly criticizing Chen Xinjia's betrayal of the lord and seeking honor and losing power and humiliating the country! The two gangs, which are incompatible with fire and water on weekdays, are fighting side by side for the common good this time!

However, the object of their battle was not Warat more than a hundred years ago, nor the Liao thieves who were raging in Liaodong at this time, but Emperor Chongzhen himself who was on the throne.

However, Zhu Youzhen on the throne is the emperor and the Son of Heaven after all, and they can only say that some people deceived Shengcong and some traitors bewitched the emperor. So, who is the traitor? Who is Chen Xinjia, the secretary of the Ministry of Soldiers?!

Time. Above the court, the nobles were headed by Zhu Chunchen, the Duke of Chengguo, and Li Guozhen, the Bo of Xiangcheng, and when they saw Chen Xinjia, they couldn't help but say that they were beaten violently, and Chen Da Sima broke his head and bleed, and his mouth and nose bleed. Seeing that the nobles moved. The civil officials no longer considered what kind of party was the same as the same party, and they rushed up to fight Chen Xinjia, and kept shouting and scolding to kill the traitorous ministers. If Chongzhen hadn't sent a eunuch to stop it in time, he was afraid that it would have been possible to beat Chen Dasima to death on the spot!

The city was already full of mass movements, and a large number of idlers were shouting and scolding in the streets, opposing the surrender of the knees and the shyness of the thieves. Moreover, the main venue of the rally was located outside the gate of Chen Xinjia's mansion until the mouth of the alley. The idlers scolded when they saw the people of the Chen family coming in and out. He was so frightened that his master and slave did not dare to show his face on the street, and kept the gate closed all day long. The common people still did not spare it, openly smeared dung on the gate of Chen's house, and people kept throwing garbage and dog feces into the wall.

The arrival of Li Shouhan's inscription undoubtedly added fuel to the fire.

The penmen who were waving their flags and shouting against surrender and peace with the Liao thieves suddenly found a hero who appeared in time.

Everyone else is just verbally criticizing, but our Uncle Ning Yuan is here with practical actions! The two brigades crossed the sea east and joined the Tashan battlefield, which was undoubtedly the best expression and support for opposing surrender!

Thereupon. In the words of these officials, yesterday they denounced it as the rebellion of the late Tang Dynasty. Li Shouhan, who was at the beginning of the martial arts disaster country, immediately transformed into Jiang Xiaobai, the Duke of Qi Huan, who supported the Zhou royal family and respected the king of Jiuhe. Moreover, this parable is very appropriate for the adults and gentlemen, "Look. At that time, Jiang Xiaobai also had a reputation for greedy money and good goods, and he had the disease of widowhood. All this, which one of Ning Yuanbo's old men doesn't have it? But. The gentleman's mistakes are like the eclipse of the moon, and people will always see it. However, the exploits of Qi Huan Gong and Ning Yuanbo are also rising like the sun, and people will always know it! The prince of Qi Huan respected the king, and the king of Ningyuan Bowanliqin. The work is bound to be famous for eternity! ”

The speed of changing his face, the speed of turning into the position, his unashamed words, and the reasonableness of his remarks made the flying general who wrote a "Moment in Billions of Light Years" as a memory of his life achievements beyond the reach of the flying general.

For a time, inside and outside the capital, up and down the government and the opposition, and in the market, Li Shouhan was the leader of the opposition to peace. Countless people went to the capital Zhongning Yuanbo Mansion and Chaoyang Gate Wailong to pay their respects.

Shouhan's prestige quickly rose from falling to the bottom of the mountain in an instant, and he pulled several price limits in a row, and there is still room to continue to climb.

Because, Emperor Chongzhen has never publicly expressed his position on the matter of peace. As long as the emperor does not go to the court behind the backs of the subjects of the world and the civil and military officials to privately negotiate peace with the Liao thieves, this kind of humiliating activity of losing power and humiliating the country, the protests in the capital will be higher and higher. Moreover, it gradually spread from the capital to all directions. There are already signs of trouble in the towns of the nine sides, as well as in Nanzhili and Nanjing.

It's the night of March 20th, the moon is shining, and the early spring flowers and trees in the palace are fragrant and pleasant. But Chongzhen's heart was very depressed, he couldn't sit in front of the imperial case to review the documents, and he didn't have the intention of going to the palace of the queen or any concubine to relieve his worries, so he had to linger in the courtyard of the Qianqing Palace for a long time.

Sometimes he stopped and looked up at the bright moon at the head of the Imperial Palace; More often than not, he lowered his head and walked back and forth on the long white jade road from north to south, from south to north, sometimes with light steps, sometimes heavy. Several eunuchs and palace maids waited carefully a few feet away, and no one dared to cough lightly.

Everyone knows that things are not going well at the moment, the court has reached the point of stormy times, and the emperor is in a bad mood to the extreme, at this time, who dares to touch the scales?

The military in the pass is extremely worrying, Li Zicheng and Cao Cao and the two thieves besieged Kaifeng with 500,000 people, and the ancient capital of the eight dynasties where King Wei Hui began to build the capital was drummed down! Although he and the courtiers knew that the thieves were pressing the border, it could be said that they would never give up if they did not capture Kaifeng. But in their hearts, although Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai are fierce, they are a group of thieves after all, and they have no ambitions.

But he knew in his heart that Li Zicheng was strong and good at winning the hearts of the people, and this attack on Kaifeng may be to establish a claim to the king soon. Although he received military reports from officials in Henan and other places during the day, saying that the two thieves had raided the department of Cao and robbed the official treasury and plundered the property of the gentry in Kaifeng City, it seems that the thieves are the thieves, and they are still the children of the goods.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen settled down a little.

"Although Kaifeng is the first provincial city to be captured by the thieves, but there are still many cities in the Central Plains, as long as you deal with the thieves, and wait for Sun Chuanting to train soldiers and horses in Shaanxi, I will order Sun Aiqing to go out of Tongguan and fight with Ning Yuanbo's soldiers in Shandong, and the soldiers and horses of Zuo Liangyu, the general of the Ping thief, will fight in the Central Plains, and then it will be the end of the thieves!"

But what about things outside the border?

Just after the peace clause was secretly sent to the Qianqing Palace, watching Huang Taiji prescribe those conditions that were far higher than Chongzhen's bottom line, before he had time to be happy, Chongzhen's classmates were drowned out by the overwhelming scolding and baskets of impeachment texts.

There are even some guys who are bent on becoming famous and deceiving the court staff, and they actually ran outside the temple to hold the tablet of Chengzu and cry bitterly! Who is this Nima for?! (To be continued......)