Zhou Zheng not only has the position of Tianjin Bingbeidao, but also the identity of Zhou Qingli, and he is finally qualified to be received by the secretary of the military department.

Zhou Zheng saw the ceremony, so he complained directly, and said: "My lord, not to mention the arrears of military salaries in Yongping Mansion and Hejian Mansion, and the arrears of Tianjin Wei are only half for a year, and the other armor and weapons are even more than half......

Xiong Mingyu was most afraid of asking for money and food, and he didn't have it.

Xiong Mingyu was like a good old man, and said with a smile: "Next year, in March at the latest, I will send it down." ”

"Then, the lower officials will wait until the money, grain, and soldiers are all in place before going to Liaodong? It's not that the lower officials are ignorant, but if the lower officials just pass back such empty words, how can they follow the lower officials to Liaodong? Even if you go to Liaodong, you have to have money and food, and you can't let the soldiers go hungry to defend the city, right? Zhou Zheng continued to pour bitter water.

This is not what Zhou Zheng deliberately wants to blackmail, it is an obvious practical problem, the emperor is not short of hungry soldiers, this is an ancient theorem.

Xiong Mingyu looked at Zhou Zheng, still smiling and said: "Don't ask me, the money and food are in your father's hands, you ask your father for it, I will give you as much as he gives, and I will never keep it privately." ”

Old bureaucrats!

Zhou Zheng slandered in his heart, but said on his lips: "My lord, you don't know my father's temperament, I was sent by him, and the salary is under the management of the military department, and it can't be paid directly from the household department...... My lord, in this way, I don't ask to make up for the arrears of the past years, you will send me next year, as well as weapons and armor, if I take 30,000 ragged people into Shanhaiguan, Lord Sun will see it, I must be able to read to you, you can do it, I will also have an explanation when I go back......"

Xiong Mingyu sat down with the old monk and said, "That's it, the Ministry of Industry owes me 200,000 silver, if you can come back, I will give you half." ”

Zhou Zheng smiled bitterly on his face and said: "My lord, if you don't give it, why should you embarrass the lower officials, in this way, you will give the lower officials enough armor and weapons, is this okay?" ”

Xiong Mingyu looked at Zhou Zheng and said, "You Tianjin Wei also has an Ordnance Bureau, didn't you give you the power to make it yourself?" ”

Zhou Zheng smiled more and more bitterly, and said: "My lord, the military department only gave a quota of 15,000 people, and refused to pay a penny, and only gave five cannons to the lower officials. ”

Xiong Ming met a lot of officials who came to ask for money and food, so he was not moved at all, pretended to be silent for a moment, and said: "In this way, the quota of the armor will give you 30,000 yuan, and the cannon, you can build as much as you can, you can report a number, and I will approve it." ”

If this were to be replaced by other officials, they would definitely continue to spit on. Because not to mention the armor, a cannon costs at least seven thousand taels, and the bulky one can only be used to defend the city.

But Zhou Zheng is different, Zhou Zheng is not short of silver, but what he lacks is power.

Zhou Zheng looked at Xiong Mingyu with a wry smile on his face, but he stopped talking, and his heart was happy.

With the power to wantonly create armor cannons, the equipment problem is solved!

No matter how cunning you are, there are times when you miscalculate!

Xiong Mingyu thought that he was stumped Zhou Zheng, and said with a smile: "Okay, the military department has silver, and it is not the first time to transfer it to Liaodong, go back and wait." ”

When the power arrived, Zhou Zheng pretended to raise his hand helplessly and said, "The lower official will retire." ”

Xiong Mingyu watched Zhou Zheng leave and shook his head.

The Ming Dynasty owes more than Tianjin Wei, the most serious is Liaodong and Sichuan, don't look at the Liaodong three salaries so big, that's because there is really no way, and to resist the Jianyu, and have to raise it as a last resort, if it is other places, it is good to be in arrears for a year and a half.

Therefore, mutinies have emerged everywhere one after another, and even in places like Hangzhou, there have been mutinies!

Zhou Zheng left, and Zhang Fengyi, the squire of the military department, came in from the side door and said with a smile: "Send it away?" ”

Xiong Mingyu sighed a little helplessly, and said: "Zhou Yuanshan is about to resign, he is an old minister in the palace, the emperor is reluctant in his heart, if he has any requirements before leaving, the emperor will most likely agree, and now it is naturally best to persuade him to leave with good words, if Zhou Zhengyun is about to make trouble in the military department, don't say whether it looks good or not, when he arrives in the palace, most of the people who are embarrassed are still us." ”

Xiong Mingyu is also a person who is about to resign, and he doesn't want to make anything happen at this time.

Zhang Fengyi is the person who is about to take over as the secretary of the military department, and he smiled when he heard it: "Fortunately, he is sensible and does not mess around." However, you must always give a little, otherwise you will go hungry in Liaodong next year and make trouble there, which will be more serious than in the capital. ”

Xiong Mingyu shook his head and said: "The rebellion in the northwest is getting more and more intense, the military salary of the imperial court is either in Liaodong or in the northwest, where is there still a balance, Bi Shangshu has exhausted his efforts, the treasury has increased, but he can't bear too many holes around......"

Daming is a ruined building, leaking wind and rain everywhere, if you want to repair it, how can you do it with a little money in the treasury.

Zhang Fengyi listened, sighed secretly, and said: "I'll go to the household department and the Ministry of Industry later, and find a way to squeeze out 350,000 yuan, so that Zhou Zhengyun can go back and have an explanation, so as not to make more trouble." ”

Xiong Mingyu nodded indispensably, and then said: "Yang He was imprisoned, I heard that his son Yang Sichang went to the book and replaced his father?" ”

Zhang Fengyi said: "Well, the emperor appreciated his filial piety, exempted Yang He from the death penalty, and let Yang Sichang be the governor of the military affairs of the three provinces of Henan." ”

Xiong Mingyu nodded silently, holding the teacup and not speaking.

He and Yang He worked together in the military department for a long time, and Yang He's imprisonment was also one of the reasons why he was wise enough to protect his life and resign.

Zhou Zheng left the military department and hurriedly began to write official documents and send them to the military department.

He not only demanded the authority to manufacture weapons, but also the power to 'raise his own military salary' and 'recruit soldiers'.

The latter two will be released in a year or two, because the civil unrest in the northwest is getting bigger and bigger, the defeat of the imperial court begins to increase more and more, and the civil unrest begins to bloom everywhere in Sichuan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan, Guizhou, Huguang, Shandong, etc., the imperial court is powerless to deal with, lack of money, food and army, 'self-raising military salary', 'recruiting soldiers' This absolutely impossible power has been given, and even more encouragement.

When Zhou Zheng's official document arrived at the military department, Xiong Mingyu glanced at it, thought about it for a while, and said with a smile: "Young people always have blood, good things." ”

And as he spoke, he stamped it.

'Self-raising military salaries' and 'recruiting soldiers' seem simple, but in fact they are so easy, if you want to feed an army of 10,000 people, you need 100,000 taels of silver every year.

Does this mean that recruiting can be recruited?

Zhang Fengyi is meaningless about this, in his mind, Zhou Zheng went to Liaodong, if he can recruit troops, then he can recruit as many as he can, there is no upper limit, the silver is not enough, and the Ministry of War will take the initiative to give subsidies!

Liaodong recruits, it's too difficult!

If you don't have money or food, you're still prone to death.