As soon as they heard this, their eyes lit up for many people in the Chinese military tent. If this is the case, the speed of the infantry army can be accelerated, no matter how fast the Jianyu army is, after all, they want to escort the plundered Ming people, and the speed must be faster than the Ming army with mules and carriages!

Hong Chengchou didn't believe it. Because in his experience, what he saw more was that those local squires in the Ming Dynasty shouted to him one by one to kill the thieves, but when they asked them to give some money, they cried poor one by one. How did it get into the hands of this little Zhizhou, and he actually had the ability to let the squires of Jinju donate their animal power?

Thinking so, he immediately asked with a little curiosity, "How do you get them to donate?" So sure? ”

"Back to the words of the Governor! If the lower officials were not sure, they would not dare to bring it up here. When Chen Hongxu heard this, he immediately replied with a fist, "The lower officials share the hardships with them, I believe they will listen to the lower officials!" ”

When Lu Xiangsheng heard this, he explained to Hong Chengchou with a smile: "Heng Jiu doesn't know that he is under great pressure for the sake of the people of Jinzhou, and openly refused the request of Liu Yuliang, the former chief assistant, to lead troops into the city, and took the people of Jinzhou to defend the city and protect the people of the city under the attack of the whole army of Jianju. Now the squires of Jinju are all listening to him. At the beginning, they were still thinking about paying for someone to blame Liu Yuliang against him. ”

In fact, this incident did not happen for long, Hong Chengchou had been on the road, and after arriving, he fought with the Manchu army. At this time, Liu Yuliang's head had already been hung on the Zhengyang Gate, and not many people still mentioned this matter. Therefore, when Lu Xiangsheng said this, Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting couldn't help but be surprised, and then looked at Chen Hongxu, and there was no lack of admiration in his eyes.

Wang Chengen didn't understand military matters, but he knew a little bit about things at this time, so he said: "The emperor praised Chen Zhizhou in public as the pillar of the country, and he will definitely be reused when the army retreats!" ”

As soon as he heard this, he heard about winning people for the first time, including Lu Jiude, Liu Yuanbin and other people from the Yongwei Battalion, and they were also surprised. That's the emperor's compliment, then this person will definitely be promoted!

Sun Chuanting originally thought that he had been using the strategy of "clearing the tun to fill the salary", which was bold enough to offend many people. But he didn't expect that a little Zhizhou would dare to refuse Shoufu's request to enter the city, this courage is really big enough!

If he knew that Chen Xinjia was not even a jinshi, but just a lifter, he would probably be even more surprised.

In the Chinese military tent, after a digressive chat, Lu Xiangsheng quickly brought the topic back to the topic, and listened to him ask Chen Hongxu with a straight face: "How many mule and horse-drawn carts can be used in Jinzhou?" ”

"Maybe two hundred, or less." When Chen Hongxu heard this, he estimated it in his heart, and immediately replied.

A cart can't pull anything too heavy, otherwise the animals won't be able to eat it. Based on the five foot soldiers with armor, there are only 1,000 people, which seems to be too little. Still, something is better than nothing.

The emperor's appreciation and support, at the same time, also made them feel the pressure, and if they didn't do their best, they would be ashamed of the emperor.

Lu Xiangsheng thought in his heart, so he immediately made a decision, and said resolutely: "Immediately pass on the military order of this official, all the surrounding states and cities, all animal power will be requisitioned, and those who dare to do not want will be punished as prisoners." ”

If it were Hong Chengchou, I'm afraid he wouldn't be able to say such a thing. However, Lu Xiangsheng has already made a decision, showing his tough side.

However, after saying this, Lu Xiangsheng paused and added: "Those who make a living by animal power, give them the market value of silver, and they will be bought by the imperial court, and they must not be shirked." ”

Speaking of this, he turned his head to look around at the feudal officials and supervisors present, and said in a deep voice: "If the imperial court is to blame for this matter, this official, as the commander-in-chief, should take it all his might." ”

When Sun Chuanting heard this, he remembered the emperor's secret decree before, and couldn't help but feel a little more confidence in his heart, and also said: "The lower officials are also willing to bear it with the adults!" ”

At this moment, no matter what Hong Chengchou thought in his heart, in front of so many supervising troops and generals in the army, he couldn't help but speak: "The lower officials are also willing to bear it with adults!" ”

Lu Xiangsheng didn't rush to resist responsibility with them, but just glanced at them with relief, it is rare to have such colleagues to work with.

Of course, he is naturally not stupid, and knows that the reason for this result is because there is a higher person who is more responsible, so that they can rest assured.

didn't have time to think about it, Lu Xiangsheng's brows didn't loosen, and continued: "However, the surrounding area has been ravaged by Jianyu, even if you can gather a few more state cities, I'm afraid you won't be able to transport many troops." However, the national crisis is at the head, and the only way to do it is to do our best. The congregation will obey the order! ”

Hearing that the official military order was about to be issued, the people sitting stood up, and those generals stepped out of the ranks, clasped their fists together and echoed: "The last general!" ”

"Wait for the speed to select the most elite soldiers under your command, and as soon as the animal power arrives, you will immediately go north."

"Yes!" These generals did not hesitate to receive orders together.

Soon, the outside of Jinju City and inside the city immediately moved. Zhizhou Chen Hongxu mobilized in the city, and mule and horse-drawn carts were soon delivered to the army outside the city. And the military camps outside the city are all preparing to be opened. In addition to having a car to sit in a car, the other infantry troops also had to go north on foot to complete their tasks.

Although Emperor Chongzhen is far away in Beijing, he can also know all the eavesdropping seeds on Wang Chengen's body. So, he immediately had the map in question brought and studied it carefully.

Lu Xiangsheng and others have already talked about the possible movements of Jianyu and their countermeasures. Emperor Chongzhen looked at it this way, and he only confirmed what they said.

On the route planned by the Ming army, Hejian Province had already been breached by the Manchu army, so forget it here. Next, there are Wen'an, Baoding, and a Bazhou can be regarded as a big city, and there should be a lot of animal power available. This may not be enough, so add another Gu'an.

After considering this matter, Emperor Chongzhen had to sigh that without mechanized troops, he relied on animal power to transfer military strength, and the price was also quite large. Especially in this severe cold weather, this kind of large-scale use of animal power, not to mention the consumption of rations, the livestock will freeze to death and die of exhaustion. In other words, it's all money!

However, war is like that, it is money to fight.

Emperor Chongzhen also considered that if Lu Xiangsheng was in a hurry to collect the animal power nearby, he might die a lot of livestock in the second half of the year. In this case, he felt that it was not safe to just have a few cities.

After thinking for a while, he set his eyes on Jingshi, the largest city in the north of the Ming Dynasty. The horses of the Jingying and the families of the officials and nobles alone are a very large number. Now that a major case of rebellion has just been handled, those nobles have been beaten, and they are trembling, not speaking at this time, let alone when!

Thinking so, he sent an order to the cabinet, the celebrant and the six ministries and nine secretaries to discuss matters in the Wenhua Palace.

As soon as the people arrived, Emperor Chongzhen announced straight to the point: "Now that the war against the captives has reached a critical juncture, the soldiers at the front urgently need horses for military use. I decided that I would recruit horses from the nobles, and as long as they were horses, except for young horses that could not be humped, they would be recruited. And the civil and military generals in the capital city, the Qing and others went to solicit it, do you have any opinions? ”

If it had been changed, maybe someone would have come out against it. But at this time, a major case of rebellion had just occurred in Jingshi, and the reason was that the relevant people did not want to break the fortune for the country. So, one is to lose 400,000 taels, plus the title was cut, and the person is gone; The other was also cut off, and the hemorrhage was given 300,000 taels. As for the other two who conspired against it, not to mention.

This bloody lesson made these officials in the main hall, or the Jingshi, realize the fact that when the national disaster is at hand, if they can destroy the wealth and eliminate the disaster, they will destroy the wealth and eliminate the disaster.

Compared with the rumors of the Beijing Division, saying that the emperor decided to borrow money from the civil and military officials and the emperor's relatives and nobles, this kind of requisition of horses is a better response.

After all, if you borrow money, how much should you borrow? If you borrow too much, how did you get this money? Did you tell the emperor clearly that I was greedy and I was holding money? If he borrowed less, would the emperor feel that he was not sincere, leading to disaster? And the horses don't have this concern, if they have, if they don't, if they don't, they won't lose too much anyway.

Besides, the emperor himself made it clear about this matter, and he went to Xungui to ask for transfer. There is such a precedent, and it is not abrupt for them to give orders to civil and military officials and urge the collection of horses.

Thinking so, after a moment of silence in the hall, everyone unanimously replied to the emperor, saying that there was no problem.

In this regard, Emperor Chongzhen also felt a little smooth, it should have been to deter the courtiers before, and the effect was not bad. So, he struck while the iron was hot, and because of the urgent need ahead, he immediately summoned all the nobles of the Jingshi to the Wuying Hall to meet him.

It can be said that these nobles of the Jingshi all came to meet with apprehension. It's really a recent thing that scares them. A prince, two marquises, and an earl were severely punished, and the lightest was the original Jiading Bo, who was only fined 300,000 taels of silver, and returned the shop property that he had taken by skill.

These nobles, although they have not done anything to rebel against the prince, but there are always some illegal things. For example, there are even a few things like stealing, and there are also connections with the palace, they have been worried that they have done a good job, and they will suddenly be known by the emperor, and then they will end up with the nobles in front of them.

In the Wuying Palace, although there are many nobles, even if the emperor has not come, they are all quiet and very well-behaved!

As soon as Emperor Chongzhen arrived, he looked at these nobles who were salute, and immediately discovered this, and couldn't help but sneer in his heart. To put it mildly, these nobles are actually like naughty boys, when the original Chongzhen Emperor was not able to take care of them, he did everything wrong, he knew that he would eat, drink and have fun, and enjoy the glory and wealth given to them by the Ming Dynasty, but he didn't think at all that while there were benefits, they also had corresponding obligations.

Now that I have killed the chickens and monkeys, I am very worried one by one, for fear that I will also end up miserable, just by looking at it, I know that most of these nobles are actually straw bales, and they have long ceased to be the heroic posture of their ancestors.

Emperor Chongzhen naturally wouldn't give them a good face, and said to them with a cold face: "I summoned you because horses are urgently needed on the front line, so all the provinces in Beijing, including the imperial family and nobles, civil officials and military generals, all horses must be recruited, and your provinces are no exception, who has an opinion?" ”

He went straight to the point, just so simply, see if they give it or not? The attitude that is shown makes people feel extraordinarily strong.

These nobles were also very surprised by this, and for a while, they couldn't react a little. However, one person immediately replied: "Your Majesty, since it is urgently needed at the front, the ministers should do their best to help and do their best for the country, which is what we should do." Otherwise, if the dynasty raised me for 300 years and didn't do anything, it would really disgrace the ancestors and shame the grace of the ancestors. ”

As soon as he heard this, Emperor Chongzhen was a little surprised, and he seemed to have a high level of consciousness when he heard it, so he looked at it and found that it was Liu Kongzhao, the sincere uncle.

He didn't know that in the original history, among the many nobles of the Ming Dynasty, in addition to the Mu Wangfu in Yunnan, there was only Liu Kongzhao, the sincere uncle, who proved with his actions that he had the Ming in his heart.

After the martyrdom of the original Chongzhen Emperor in Beijing, Emperor Hongguang quickly established a small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty in Jinling. Liu Kongzhao became one of the backbone forces of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and played a great role in arranging the river to prepare for the Qing army and cooperating with the anti-Qing hero Zhang Huangyan's water division. It's a pity that the small court of Emperor Hongguang had fierce infighting and no cohesion, and the Qing army collapsed as soon as it came.

After the failure of the anti-Qing Dynasty in Jinling, Liu Kongzhao went south to rely on the anti-Qing hero Zhang Mingzhen, and repeatedly took the naval division warship to the north to fight against the Qing army, and his son Liu Yongxi died heroically. Later, Liu Kongzhao went south to defect to Emperor Longwu, King Zhu Yihai of Lu and other Southern Ming forces, but they were defeated one after another. Liu Kongzhao saw that the general trend had gone, and drove the boat into the sea, and has not been seen since then.

As for the remaining nobles, they either surrendered to Li Zicheng or surrendered to the Manchus, and even some of them surrendered to Li Zicheng first and then to the Manchus, anyway, no one thought about being loyal to the country, and raised them for hundreds of years in vain, and became a white-eyed wolf.

At this time, in the Wuying Palace, as soon as Liu Kongzhao opened his mouth, the other nobles came back to their senses and didn't dare to slack off, wasn't it just a few horses, so they immediately echoed and echoed Liu Kongzhao's words.

Emperor Chongzhen originally wanted to scare them again, but he didn't expect Liu Kongzhao to take the lead like this, and things were going very smoothly, so it would be difficult to have a seizure, but he didn't just let them go so simply, and continued to say with a cold face: "The forage needed for the horses will be used for at least ten days, and you must prepare it yourself, and the imperial court is currently unable to provide a large amount of grain and grass materials." ”

Hearing this, many nobles opened their mouths slightly, but they didn't expect this to be there, but they were still sincere, and Liu Kongzhao replied: "Your Majesty, this is what ministers and others should do!" Or maybe the minister thought, since it is needed by the front line, it is better for the minister to send someone directly to the front line, and His Majesty does not need to worry about such a trivial matter. ”

"......" The other nobles were speechless, and they all looked at Liu Kongzhao, thinking in their hearts, aren't you asking for trouble! What if something happens to the horses on the road?

Emperor Chongzhen listened, stared at Liu Kongzhao, and began to pay attention to Liu Kongzhao in his heart. If this Liu Kongzhao hadn't done a lot of unsavory things to be so active, he would be a person who sincerely serves the country and is worthy of use. Thinking so, he decided in his heart to go back and ask the factory guard to check him well, if it could be used, it would be good.

For the Xungui Group, we can't always suppress it strongly, but we must also set up a model to reuse, so that the big sticks and carrots can be put together in order to clean up these Xungui obediently.

Thinking so, Emperor Chongzhen agreed to Liu Kongzhao's request, and also decided to hand over all the horses obtained by civil and military officials and other sources to these nobles and send them to the front. Each family has a register of how many horses to send, and it needs to be stamped and accepted by the front-line commander, so that this thing is completed.

In any case, this can be regarded as a small test for Xungui.

I have to say that the capital division has the most rich people, the Xungui group and the civil and military officials, plus the horses in the Beijing army, there are more than 8,000 horses in such a levy.

On the third day, the horses were sent by the nobles to the front.

At the same time, Emperor Chongzhen issued another holy decree to Dacheng on the way of the Ming army, asking the magistrates to forcibly recruit mules and horses in the same way as Lu Xiangsheng, and prepare to form a relay to transport the infantry army.

An unprecedented action to support the army in the history of the Ming Dynasty was launched vigorously.

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