On June 26 of the fourth year of Xuanping, the Forbidden City in the middle of summer is as hot as the southern provinces, but even if the heat is unbearable, the doors and windows in the bedroom of Emperor Zhengde are still closed!

Rao is from time to time when eunuchs move in, and in winter, there are ice cubes in the ice cellar to cool down, but the inside of the house still makes people feel extremely hot.

Emperor Zhengde on the dragon bed was holding on to the eunuchs, and at the same time he was struggling to watch a few pieces of music in person.

Maybe it's because it makes him feel quite hard to do it, or maybe it's because the content of the piece makes him angry and his face is a little flushed!

A few eunuchs waiting on the side, even the eunuch who was the celebrant and the eunuch Bingbi inside, didn't dare to breathe!

Because just yesterday, when Emperor Zhengde was reviewing the chapter, a eunuch accidentally coughed a few times, and was ordered by Emperor Zhengde to be dragged down with a cane!

During this period of time, Emperor Zhengde was in a very bad mood, very bad, and this fact was not only known by these eunuchs, but also by the ministers of the outer court and even the concubines in the harem.

If you are a little careless, you may be killed with a cane or lose your position!

What can make Emperor Zhengde feel so bad is naturally because the suppression of the puppet Tang Dynasty in the south is not smooth, not only did it not go well, but also lost troops and generals, and even the strategic towns such as Changsha and Jiujiang were successively captured by the puppet Tang thief army.

Last month, Nanzhili reported that there had been traces of a small-scale thief army in the Nanzhili area, and the huge Jiangnan was in a state of panic and panic, for fear that it would not be long before the puppet Tang thief army would be able to hit Jiangnan.

Moreover, some military governors, especially the southern officials who know about the puppet Tang Dynasty thief army, even said that according to the consistent situation and method of the puppet Tang thief army, spring and summer are the time when the puppet Tang thief army hoards strength, and when the autumn harvest comes, the puppet Tang thief army will often launch a super-large-scale offensive, and call it the autumn and winter offensive!

Once the puppet Tang thief army launches a new round of autumn and winter offensive this year, I am afraid that Jiangnan will not be protected!

Emperor Zhengde couldn't figure it out, why couldn't this pseudo-Tang thief army be killed, and it became stronger and stronger?

Is it because you don't pay enough attention to yourself? No, on the contrary, Emperor Zhengde attached great importance to encircling and suppressing the puppet Tang Dynasty thief army, sent Zhang Yue to supervise the six provinces, sent Wang Yiqi to sit in Jinling, and served as the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department, and at the same time successively mobilized no less than 40,000 border troops and tens of thousands of new troops in the north, and the Beijing camp went south to suppress the thieves, and the military expenditure was unknown.

The military expenses that were pulled out of his inner treasury alone were no less than five million taels!

He has been in power for more than 40 years, intriguing with ministers, and even carrying the infamy of competing with the people for profit, so he has collected a lot of money and stored five or six million taels of silver in the inner treasury.

However, now, the silver in the inner treasury has been almost spent, and the treasury is even more empty enough to starve the rats to death, but this pseudo-Tang thief army cannot be exterminated.

Not only could it not be eradicated, but it lost all the southern provinces!

Who is to blame for this?

Is he to blame?

Fart, as the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, he wants to exterminate the pseudo-Tang thief army more than anyone else, and he is more concerned than anyone else, and he doesn't do too many negative things when he asks himself.

Zhang Yue said that he would raise military funds to open a flat thief salary in Huguang and other provinces, although Emperor Zhengde might cause some follow-up trouble, but he still agreed.

Wang Yiqi said that the troops were not enough, and said that he would send the border army to the south, and he was approved!

For the reward of the meritorious soldiers reported by the south, Emperor Zhengde has never rejected it, and all of them are allowed!

He asked himself, he did everything he had to do!

Even the soldiers on the front line did what they should do, in the first battle of Hengyang, 30,000 soldiers were annihilated, dozens of senior generals died on the battlefield, and Cheng Hongan, the commander of the first army, was defeated and died.

In the first battle of Changsha and the first battle of Jiujiang, countless soldiers fought to the death and did not retreat, and suffered heavy casualties!

But I still can't beat it!

Why?

He thought about this question for two or three months, but he didn't figure it out!

Why is the puppet Tang thief army so strong? Because their guns are sharp? Just kidding, although the guns of the puppet Tang thief army in the early days were indeed sharp, but now the official army is also making guns, and even in terms of the number of guns, it is not inferior to the puppet Tang thief army.

It's because the tactics of the puppet Tang thief army are more advanced, but the new army such as the governor uses the same tactics as the puppet Tang thief army!

After thinking hard for two months, Emperor Zhengde still didn't figure it out!

This made him feel a kind of helplessness that the general trend is so unstoppable!

Could it be that he really wants to be the king of a dead country?

But it shouldn't be, he has been in power for decades, he asked himself to do better than most of the emperors of this dynasty and even many emperors in history, for more than 40 years, although turmoil has occurred from time to time in various places, and even the rebellion of King Ning has broken out This major event that shocked the world, but he was pacified one by one.

The whole world does not dare to say that the prosperous era is prosperous, but it is also much stronger than before, some time ago, some people even said that this dynasty is a prosperous era.

Sometimes, he thinks that maybe after he dies, future generations will give him an evaluation of Zhengde and prosperity, even if there is no evaluation of Zhengde Zhongxing, but a Zhengde Zhongxing may not be able to run.

But in such a big back' scene, there was such a monster as the pseudo-Tang thief army, and no matter how he fought, he couldn't be killed!

Especially when he thought that in the autumn and winter of this year, the Jiangnan region might be affected by the war, and even fall into the hands of thieves, he would even have a sense of despair.

It's no wonder that he can be in a good mood like this!

And at this time, the excerpt sent from Shaanxi in his hand made his mood even worse! The excerpt said that some time ago, some people in Shaanxi gathered a crowd to rebel and coerced the displaced people to occupy the local county seat, and the local officials and soldiers did not dare to slack off in the slightest, for fear that if they were allowed to do so, they would make a pseudo-Tang thief army come out, and they immediately used thunderous means and mobilized tens of thousands of troops to defeat the rebels in one fell swoop.

But although this is a good news, it still makes Emperor Zhengde unhappy, but the mood is even worse.

This is the first time this year that thieves have captured the county? Eighth or ninth?

In the past two years, perhaps under the influence of the rise of the puppet Tang Thief Army, those careerists in the world have the illusion that the Central Plains is fat, and all kinds of rebellions are endless, several times more than in normal years, and the scale is not small, and there is even a Shandong guard commander who feels that he is quite awesome, and he actually did a rebellion against thousands of guards, and he is not ashamed to directly claim to be the Northern Expedition of the Pseudo-Tang Thief Army, and he proclaimed himself the king of Tang Lu.

As a result, the new army that had been newly organized and trained in Shandong in the past two years was directly killed, and the specific situation was that after the 500 people of this Shandong training camp fired a few rows of guns and a few shells, the rebel army that had been wrapped up scattered in a hurry.

Although the Ming army, especially the various new armies in the Ming army, can't defeat the puppet Tang thief army in the south, they can still catch the other rebels!

The Central Plains deer is fat, this is definitely an illusion!

This war for hegemony, in fact, whether it is the Tang Dynasty or the Ming Dynasty, is not weak, the current Ming Dynasty is not the end of the Ming Dynasty, and Emperor Zhengde is not Chongzhen, his methods are still very sharp.

The civil officials in the court were pressed to death by him, and those eunuchs were just dogs who obeyed orders, and Emperor Zhengde asked them to do whatever they wanted, and the entire Ming Dynasty was under the control of Emperor Zhengde.

And the Tang Dynasty is not to mention, with the outlier Li Xuan, it is definitely not comparable to ordinary rebels.

So in the past two years, whether it was under the rule of the Ming Dynasty or the Tang Dynasty, in fact, there were countless rebellions of all kinds, and the armed tax resistance incidents in the Tang Dynasty have always emerged in an endless stream, and there were many rebellions in the Ming Dynasty.

But so far, there has not been a single rebel army with significant influence!

However, although the impact was not too great, it still made Emperor Zhengde feel a deep sense of crisis!

After putting down the fold, he picked up another fold, just looked, his eyes were a rare flash of joy, this is a fold on Wang Yiqi, saying that he has been trained through several months of rectification, has been trained out of 100,000 Jiangnan New Army, is currently in the process of expedited exercises.

100,000 Jiangnan New Army, plus other official troops, this is enough to stop the puppet Tang thief army

However, after this excerpt, he said that the new army in Jiangnan was seriously short of military spending and lacked guns, artillery, and food, and hoped that it could follow the example of Huguang, Jiangxi, and other provinces and set up flat thieves' salaries in Nanzhili, Zhejiang, and Fujian.

At the same time, he also said that it is no longer a matter of one or two years to suppress the thief army, and it is necessary to have preparations for long-term combat, and in the last two or three years, it is necessary to take the fortification as the priority, and no matter what, it is necessary to defend the important land south of the Yangtze River, and to defend instead of attacking, and to consume the sharp spirit of the thief army, and when the thief army's sharp spirit is lost, it is the time to counterattack.

In order to fight for a long time, he proposed that not only in the southern provinces, but also in the northern provinces, should be set up to make up for the lack of military spending.

After Emperor Zhengde saw this excerpt, he also agreed with Wang Yiqi's idea of long-term warfare, although he himself wanted to destroy the pseudo-Tang thief army in a short time, but reality did not allow it.

But if you fight for a long time, the question of where this military spending will come from.

After thinking about it, he planned to gather his ministers in two days, and then discuss the matter of leveling the salaries of thieves, and at the same time, he also had to take precautions and train more new troops in the northern provinces.

Wang Yiqi's way of rectifying the guards was still good, only selecting the elite, turning the old and weak guards into simple cantonment soldiers, and these selected elites were supplemented by the recruited young and strong to form the Jiangnan New Army.

This method can be replicated in other provinces.

In this way, the system of guards can still be preserved, so as not to cause too much turmoil, and at the same time it will be possible to obtain a new army unit with combat effectiveness.

The only downside is that the money is spent!

But this new army model, compared with the supervision standard made by Zhang Yue, still costs less money!

Although Emperor Zhengde did not give Zhang Yue too much money, he also knew that Zhang Yue's supervision standard cost a lot of money, and countless military expenditures were used to train a supervision standard, and the combat power was the first class in the Ming army.

However, there is no second person like Zhang Yue who dares to stare at the impeachment of countless people to loot money and raise the army, at least Wang Yiqi does not dare to do this, so Zhang Yue's supervision cannot be copied, but Wang Yiqi's Jiangnan New Army can be copied.

In addition, one Zhang Yue is already a jealous Emperor Zhengde, and then the second and third Zhang Yue, he will not be able to sleep well, don't exterminate the pseudo-Tang thief army at that time, but these governors have rebelled again, when the time comes, what will he use Emperor Zhengde to suppress these governors?