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"Five thousand soldiers and horses? Did our ancestors have a fever? ”

In the Sanjin Hall, more than a dozen proprietors and shopkeepers of large and small businesses sat in one place eating Shixin fruits from the South Road, drinking tea and chatting. The topic around it is the recent double dà news of Jingshi.

After Sun Chuanting played the right game, Chongzhen was very happy, and immediately ordered him to train soldiers in the Ministry of War, Prime Minister Shaanxi, Sanbian and other places to train soldiers and soldiers to suppress thieves, soldiers, horses, food and wages.

Sun Chuanting squatted in the squad room for three years, did not understand the situation outside, thought that the strength of the rebel army was still the same as back then, and casually replied that 5,000 elite soldiers were enough. However, before the dispersal of the dynasty, Sun Baigu found that his civil and military colleagues in the Manchu Dynasty all looked at him with a look of a child with cerebral palsy, and some of them still had a trace of pity in their eyes.

After he returned to his lower place, he ordered someone to find the manuscripts of the newspapers and manuscripts of the past few years, and only then did he realize that it was indeed a few days in the mountains, and the world had been thousands of years. The changes in the world have long exceeded his expectations, and he immediately said, "You must train 20,000 soldiers, and pay 1 million." ”

This time, Chongzhen was immediately annoyed, didn't this give me a resounding slap in the face?

So he issued a strict order to reprimand Sun Chuanting and make him understand the recital.

Sun Chuanting's own ability is mainly reflected in the military, on the battlefield, he belongs to the kind of person who has a mess of political ability, but has a decisive ability to make decisions on the battlefield, which is quite similar to Lu Xiangsheng, and it is also because of this characteristic that both of them have bad luck on Yang Sichang. Polar opposite of them. That Yang Sichang's party is very competitive, and the strategy of praising the painting is not bad, but when it comes to making decisions on the spot, it is also a mess. Therefore, when Yang Sichang is in the center, he can command Ruoding. Once out of Beijing, it is in vain to be called Admiral Yanmei. On the contrary, Zuo Liangyu, He Renlong and other military leaders got a glimpse of the truth and reality, so that they became more and more arrogant.

Because of his arrogant, stubborn and arrogant personality, Sun Chuanting has offended many people over the years, although Yang Sichang, who has the highest status, has died. But the others are alive and well. Seeing that he was deflated, these people had to gloat, and the news spread in the capital at that moment, and soon spread in the courtyards of the large and small yamen houses. How could these well-informed Shanxi businessmen not know?

"Twenty thousand elite soldiers with a salary of one million?" The proprietor of a small business with a Jinzhong accent pouted, "Our Sun Xianghe, if we know whose team is the Dragon and Tiger Battalion that is currently disturbing the world in Shandong, I am afraid that this soldier and horse will multiply several times!" ”

Because Sun Chuanting is a native of Daizhou, Shanxi, they are all fellow villagers in Shanxi, and everyone is not a monk. So. When these businessmen talked about this salted fish turned over from the countryman, they still had some affection on their lips.

"I heard Lang Zhong of the Ministry of War say that in addition to training 20,000 new soldiers, and asking the emperor for millions of salaries and ordnance, Mr. Sun also planned to transfer the 10,000 Beijing battalion men and horses in Shandong at this time to his command. It's no wonder that this emperor can agree! ”

Sun Chuanting's original intention was still what he did when he started training the Qin army in Yulin, Shaanxi, and trained troops in Shaanxi. Defend Qin land with Qin soldiers, and raise Qin soldiers with Qin land. Tuntian governance to solve the difficulty of soldiers' salaries.

Since ancient times, there has been no shortage of men who have served as soldiers to eat food, only in Yulin, Yansui and other places, not to mention 20,000 soldiers and horses, that is, 100,000 people are also gathered with a wave of arms. However, there is no food and no army. Where do you ask Sun Chuanting to find money, food, and ordnance to raise these soldiers and horses for two years?

What's more, Sanbian, Shaanxi, and He Renlong, Gao Jie and other unruly people, if he, the prime minister, has no money, no food and no soldiers in his hands, which general soldier will be an empty prime minister?

The idea of fighting the Jingying people who have been trained in Shandong is also helpless. Sun Chuanting's next decision. Unexpectedly, there were only some rumors released, and there was already a voice of opposition in the DPRK and China.

"The people of Jingying are the emperor's own army, how can they be wasted?"

"It is easy for the imperial court to have a military horse that has been trained, and it is afraid of the thieves. How can he go to Shaanxi to serve as his personal soldier? ”

Among them, there are many voices of the noble sons of the soldiers of the Beijing camp, originally! Our son followed Ning Yuanbo in Shandong, and it was good to enjoy the shade under the big tree, eat well, use it well, fight effortlessly, and make a fortune as a thief. Why go to that poor place in Shaanxi to drink the wind and gnaw the sand, and fight hard with a group of bitter thieves?

"Old man Sun's life is not easy!"

A big shopkeeper's wind-ground copper cigarette pouch pot knocked out the soot in the smoke pot: "He plans to raise soldiers in Tuntian, Shaanxi, and the emperor has promised him." However, what about the grain and farm tools in this tuntian? He figured it out himself! ”

"That's it! Back then, Lu Xiangsheng and Lord Lu were in Xuanda Tuntian, and the situation was much better than his current situation, not to mention that Ning Yuanbo also funded Lu Jiandou with so much money, grain and farm tools! ”

"A few big shopkeepers, Old Man Sun is so short of money and food, and the court is in urgent need of money and food, why don't you find Ning Yuanbo? In the correspondence and correspondence everywhere, it is said that there is a wide range of money and grain in the jurisdiction of Ning Yuanbo, and there are bumper harvests year after year. ”

"Not only is there a lot of money and food, but it also has the meaning of helping Daming to engage in Tuntian, but Lord Sun is eager to try, but it is a pity that there is opposition from the court up and down."

In the past, the imperial court lacked money, food and equipment, and Chongzhen would send an order to Shouhan and ask him to allocate some for military needs for the time being. However, since the Shouhan was released on the new policy, the attitude of the entire court towards him has quietly changed.

"Without Ning Yuanbo's money, food and equipment, I see where to raise the food and salary of the 20,000 new army! Is it impossible for the emperor to pay out of his own pocket? ”

"That's it! Ning Yuanbo, the old man, didn't know who he was bewitched, so he couldn't die on that book, and what kind of errand was paid for in one body. Originally, the government and the opposition regarded him as an old man, and he was the white jade pillar of the Ming Dynasty. Now it can be poured well, from the hanging ginseng soup to Pan Jinlian's medicinal soup! ”

In a word, it is true.

Now the position of Shouhan is quite embarrassing, and he has taken the post of the emperor in the Ming Dynasty, even in Shaanxi, Gyeonggi, Shandong, Henan, Denglai, Jimen and other places, he first started the title of the official gentry as an errand and grain payment, which completely pushed him to the opposite side of the official gentry.

This system is different from the previous proposal to pay money and grain with silver dollars, and the fire consumption will be returned to the public. With silver dollars to pay money and grain, officials and subordinates in various places can also get up and down their hands, businessmen can buy low and sell high, and everyone will still get rich. But this body should be a matter of sending food. But it deprives everyone of their dignity.

In this way, Shouhan is up and down the government and the opposition, of course, it has become the bowl of medicinal soup for Wu Dalang in Pan Jinlian's hand, eating it is death, and not eating it is death!

However, now the Ming Dynasty. In fact, it was barely maintained by the money and food of the Shouhan. (Of course, the export of grain, various agricultural products, and industrial products to the imperial court was also to make his body stronger.) Without food, the sergeants could not even complete basic training, and if they wanted to train elite soldiers, they needed a lot of meat, otherwise forced training or rectification would only cause mutiny.

Why did the Ming army appear as a family member? It was not because of the lack of food and salaries that the various ministries had to allocate a part of the people with sufficient food and clothing, and the rest to endure hunger and starvation to maintain their combat effectiveness. This part of the people became the elite of the family. At the beginning, it played a great role, but now, it has become the source of private troops, and the court is helpless.

In the past, the premise of rectification must also be put down with enough food and salary, otherwise we will wait for the previous achievements to be wasted.

"Throw Ning Yuanbo's old man into idleness, what about the food and salary equipment of the 20,000 new army that Sun Lao'er said? Where to find it? At that time, Xu Guangqi trained in Shandong, and selected soldiers at four levels: team soldiers, front soldiers, strong soldiers, and sergeants. Not to mention that the sergeant needs to pay four taels a month, he is a small soldier. You also need to pay one or two or five dollars a month, which is the price of many local families! There is also an family silver, food silver, armor, knives and guns, which one doesn't ask for money?! 20,000 soldiers of the New Army, even if it is calculated according to the military salary of one or two or five cents. It also needs at least 30,000 taels a month, and 360,000 taels in a year! ”

"What the shopkeeper Cao said is the hard-hitting military salary, which is the salary of the soldiers, but they still have armor. Xu Guangqi said that a pair of fine armor costs sixteen taels, and Mao Yuanyi said that a pair is only three taels, so let's not care about how many taels it is," the shopkeeper Han Da who spoke, sneered, glanced at the one next to him who specialized in the business of the Ministry of War, and said: "The king of the Russians here knows the inner doorway best. In this way, the Russians folded it into ten taels, and the imperial court did not have so much silver, and the financial resources were insufficient, so it was impossible to arrange for them to wear the southern middle armor. But at least pikemen and shield men need to wear iron armor, right? The firearms will use cotton armor, and 10,000 pairs of iron armor will cost 100,000 taels of silver. A pair of cotton armor is three or five taels, and the same 10,000 pairs also need three or fifty thousand taels! This armor must be replaced, and some silver must be prepared......"

Several big shopkeepers and small proprietors are old fritters who have been dealing with the border army for a long time, and they are more familiar with the door of military pay and ordnance than that of the military department.

The above is only the cost of people, not the cost of horses in the army. Let's not talk about the price of the horse, but only the money for raising the horse. There is a saying in the army that one horse is better than three people. It is said that the cost of one cavalry is about equal to the cost of five infantry, and the horse team must also be equipped with blacksmiths, carpenters, veterinarians, etc., for horseshoe, saddle, and treatment of horse diseases. The cost of these is also not small. Sun Chuanting himself understood this, and he once said in the inscription when he was the governor of Shaanxi: "One thousand three hundred and twenty-eight horses, each horse has eight cents of grass and silver per day, and fifty-four mules have five cents of grass and silver per day." ”

A horse costs eight cents of silver a day, and nearly thirty taels of silver a year, and this is still when it was garrisoned. When the war began, there would be more need for horse fodder such as wheat beans and hay. This is only the raising method of the mainland officials and soldiers, if it is according to the breeding method of the Nanyue army, each horse has a ration of salt and grain, and even bone meal is added to the feed. These costs are even more staggering.

"Look! How should the imperial court reply to Sun Lao'er, if there is no silver for him, the recruits in Shaanxi will not be able to train, and Wang Qiaonian will hide in Tongguan and not come out. Lord Chen's three-sided method of suppression is a dead letter. But if you want Sun Chuanting to go to training, if you don't have money and food, what will he do to practice? ”

"Look! The battle between the bigwigs of the DPRK and the Central Committee and Ning Yuanbo, this lively thing is still to come! ”

Sitting around the banquet, tasting the highest-grade eight dishes and eight bowls of noodles in Jinzhong, everyone expressed their opinions on the situation in the middle of the court.

"Leave it alone! Let's just drink and do business! Tomorrow, let's go to Longsheng outside Chaoyang Gate to take a walk and see if we can get some grain to sell to Shaanxi! ”

"That's right! Shopkeeper Cao is right! I also heard that Ning Yuanbo and his old man started the idea of those imperial villages in the hands of Emperor Chongzhen, if those imperial villages are also as profitable as the granges in Denglai, Shandong, etc., we have to have a good stutter! ”

Because Huang Taiji was stationed here, the Qingyan Temple in Yiwu Lu Mountain was rebuilt to conform to his status as emperor. In the second courtyard of the temple, a room on the east side served as his residence. It's a dormitory. The room is divided into two rooms, the front and the back. Each has a big kang. The remaining three-quarters of the area is dedicated to the gods.

According to custom and etiquette, the door of this house is open in the southeast corner. There are two large iron pots in the north and south, and pork is boiled in the pots. Next to the cauldron is a large kang.

According to Manchurian customs: the god seat is on the west side, and the south side of the seat is up, and the north side is down. The antler circle chair on the south kang is for the emperor to sit on, and the antler circle chair on the north kang is reserved for the queen to sit on. But at this time, the queen was still in Shengjing. So the chair was empty.

The large kang on the west gable is a place for the gods, and various objects for worshipping the gods are placed. There is a small wooden board on the gable, with a yellow silk curtain, called the god board. On the kang in front of the shrine board is a black lacquer seat with a backrest, and on top of it sit two puppets dressed in clothes, which are said to be Mongolian gods. On the walls on both sides of the shrine are colorful scrolls: the statue of Shakyamuni, the statue of Manjushri, the statue of Guanyin, and the statue of the Seven Fairies (i.e., the fairy Buddha Kulun who swallows the Zhuguo fruit is in the middle, and the two sisters and other fairies are sandwiched between the left and right. Manchurian legend has it that there is a pond named Bul Lake at the foot of Changbai Mountain. There are three female sisters one day, the eldest is called Si Gulun, and the second is called Zheng Gulun. The little one is called Focullen and goes to bathe in the pool. After washing, there is a sacred bird title Zhu Guo placed on the Buddha's coat. Fokulun took Zhu Guo in his mouth, and without realizing it, he gave birth to a boy who was the ancestor of the Manchurians. In addition, there is a statue of Guan Fama with a red face and squinted eyes (that is, Guan Yu, Fama means Manchurian lord).

The statues of the gods are painted on scrolls, and they are rolled up when they are not worshipping their ancestors. Packed with yellow or red lacquered wooden tablets. There is also a magic arrow hanging on the wall, and the arrow is pointing downward. There is a wisp of linen hanging from the tail; On the other side hangs a yellow Goryeo cloth bag of Sheng Shenso. There is a stone seat not far from the southeast outside the gate of Qingning Palace, meet the day of worshipping the sky, the day before on the top erected a wooden pole of one zhang and three feet long, called the god pole, there is a wooden bucket. There is no sacrifice to the heavens today, so the stone seat is empty. There is no magic rod.

The sun went down completely. The lights inside and outside Qingyan Temple are lit, and many candles are lit in the room. Some butter candles are as thick as mallets and painted red on the outside. Cigarettes, candle smoke, wood smoke under the stove. The water vapor coming out of the large meat pot mixes together, making the atmosphere more slender, mysterious, and solemn.

Today is the day of worship to the gods.

The two specially fat pure black pigs were selected, tied the front and rear legs, carried them into the temple, and helped them towards the god case, standing like people on their hind legs. When the shaman had jumped into the gods, he poured hot wine into his ears, and he struggled to move, shaking his head and waving his ears, which showed that the gods were happy to receive it.

Hearing Wu Bai say this, the Eight Banners Lord Wang Ye and Huang Taiji who were present were very happy. Everyone has been fighting hard for many days, and they are already physically and mentally exhausted, so they are waiting for good news to come. Hearing Wu Bai say this, everyone's hearts suddenly lit up.

Led by Huang Taiji, the crowd went west and knelt down in front of the statue. After the salute, sit down in the antler circle chair on the big kang. Later, the witch known as the shaman's wife wears a feathered hat with a bell around her waist, shakes her head and swings her waist, beats the leather drum with her hands, and the bell and drum beat at the same time, and dances and sings the blessing: Son of Heaven. The god of tin of the year. An Chun. Ayala. Muli. Muriha. Nathan. Dai Hui. Narhui. Xuan Chu. Si Tu Li. Sanggu. Worship. Zhang Jing. Nathan. Willuri. Sidu. Mont Elle. Katun. Noyan. ……

(Don't ask the author what these mean, these greetings have not been understood by anyone since the Qianlong period.) ）

The shaman's wife recites the prayer to the tightest place, as if she is crazy. The faster you chant and the harder you dance, the faster the bells and drums will sound. After a while, when the chanting was over, the shaman was drunk, as if God had reached her, and staggered backwards, as if she could not stand, and wanted to fall backwards. Two attendant maidservants helped her from the left and right and sat down on a chair. She was suddenly quiet, pretending to be blinded. The maidservants quietly removed the leather drum, the divine hat, and the waist bell for her, and did not make a sound. After another moment, Sama opened her eyes and pretended to be surprised, and it was clear that she thought it rude to sit in front of the throne and in front of the emperor and the princes. She quickly kowtowed to the gods, and then to the emperor and the princes, and then respectfully withdrew.

Huang Taiji once again saluted the gods, and then the prince, the prince of the county, Baylor, Beizi and others behind him saluted in order.

Those who were called to be sent tonight were all people with more status in the Qing army. Dolgon, who came from Jinzhou, Daishan who came from Shengjing, Li Wa, the prince of Joseon, Li Cheng, the second son of Fenglin, who acted as hostages, several Korean ministers and protons, and Youzheng Kim Zidian, who escorted 50,000 stone of rice and 3,000 troops to the front of the army in the wind and snow, first saluted the gods, and then saluted to His Majesty the emperor.

After the ceremony, Wu Bai ordered a group of Kabush soldiers to bring the small table and spread a piece of felt on the ground for each of them to spread on the ground. After everyone had sat down on the felt, the Kabush soldiers placed a plate of white meat, a glass of wine, and a bowl of white rice in front of each of them. A bowl of broth.

The rice was either purchased from Kannai or offered by the Lee court of the Joseon state. Every man took out a knife from his waist and cut the pork from his plate. Although according to Manchurian customs, it was a great honor for the emperor to give meat to eat, but the fat and greasy white pork, which was three inches square and boiled in white water, was too unpalatable. (To be continued......)