Chapter 804: The Man Behind the Pot

The treatment of the "Red Banner Army" was treated equally, regardless of nationality, and the monthly salary of the cavalry soldiers was 224 coins of silver and 5 buckets of polished rice.

Therefore, families whose children served in the "Red Banner Army" were entrusted by their relatives to regularly patrol the "Red Banner Army" to bring back money, food, and daily necessities.

This is somewhat similar to the early eighties when families with overseas connections were able to access in-demand domestic goods.

Naturally, everyone is envious, and it will naturally lead to more Mongolians volunteering for the opportunity to serve the "Red Banner Army".

More than 5,000 Mongolian cavalry, representing at least 5,000 Mongolian families, have become beneficiaries, and the loyalty of these tens of thousands of Mongols is increasing, and they will also influence more Mongols to choose allegiance to the "Red Banner Army".

The Tartars were already so poor that they had milk and were mothers, and after seeing who to follow to live a better life, their allegiance came naturally.

As long as the management is strengthened and the number of people in control of a tribe does not exceed 200, only the collective of the "Red Banner Army" can form tens of thousands of Mongolian cavalry.

In the long run, the Mongols grazing on the steppes would become a barrier outside the Great Wall, and enemy attacks were even discovered hundreds or thousands of miles north of the Great Wall.

The "Red Banner Army" led the Han and Mongolian cavalry to encircle and intercept it in time, and it was no longer possible to run away after being repeatedly robbed by the enemy, and it would definitely be pursued until the enemy's nest was killed and bloodied.

At the end of the tenth year of Chongzhen, the land of Gyeonggi dripped into ice, and in this harsh winter, there was a piece of news coming, like a spring breeze blowing the earth, and the soldiers and civilians of Jingshi were boiling again.

A good deed person announced loudly: "The puppet Manchu Qing Yu Prince Duoduo has been escorted into Beijing, and he entered the city from Guangqu Gate at noon. ”

A Xiucai smiled and said: "Hahaha, go together, go together, I have finally waited for the day when I raise my eyebrows." The conquest of the great general is mighty! ”

An old master said: "I think that the old man saw it with his own eyes when Duoduo's turtle grandson showed off his power under the city of Beijing, and he didn't expect that time had passed, and today he has become my Ming Dynasty's prisoner, happy and comforting!" ”

A young man gritted his teeth and said: "Lao Tzu wants to eat his flesh raw to comfort the seven people of my family who died in vain in the second year of Chongzhen." ”

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As early as half a month ago, the "Red Flag Daily" published the good news that Duoduo was captured alive by Ge Liubensheng, and the soldiers and civilians have been talking about it for more than ten days, speculating whether the son of the old slave was also like Zhang Cunren who suffered 3,600 knives before he died.

Many ordinary people who fled from Liaodong and returned to Guannai and are now living in Beijing have prepared at least one bottle of "drunk and immortal" high-grade liquor, and they swore that they must buy a mouthful of the meat of the puppet prince of Jiannu to chew raw to comfort the relatives who died in Liaodong.

Knowing that Duoduo had finally been sent to Beijing, thousands of military and civilian eunuchs poured into the inner street of Guangqumen.

Due to the influence of the "Red Banner Army" throughout Gyeonggi, the good news of the great victory over the Qing army was repeatedly transmitted.

The military and civilians of Gyeongshi were not spoiled by the bad news in Shaanxi, and the entire land of Gyeonggi was still peaceful.

It's a pity that the court needs to grasp the overall situation, and Emperor Chongzhen and Yang Sichang, the secretary of the military department, are not in a good mood, and even fall into anxiety.

The Ministry of War has continuously received urgent documents from Hong Chengchou, saying that if the imperial court cannot send people to help the troops in time, the city of Xi'an will fall in March next year, and the consequences will be unimaginable.

Huang Han can give up the whole of Shaanxi, Chongzhen can't do it! Sending troops to rescue is on the agenda, but can you send people from Beijing?

There are less than 50,000 men and horses in the Jingying camp who can fight at full capacity, leaving the necessary troops to defend the land of Gyeonggi, and it is already the limit to be able to dispatch 20,000.

It is known that there are 60,000 or 70,000 Manchurian cavalry eyeing the enemy, and sending 20,000 people is to prepare meat buns to fight dogs?

Yang Sichang had nothing to do, he asked to see the emperor alone, asked the emperor to send the "Red Banner Army" into Shaanxi to rescue Xi'an, and came up with the idea of asking the emperor to send the elders Zheng Guochang and Liu Zhilun to the "Hanjiang Province" to communicate with the general of the conquest.

The year before last, after seeing the methods of Huang Han in Shanxi and witnessing the combat effectiveness of the "Red Banner Army", Yang Sichang, a strategist, realized that a year and a half had passed, and the strength of the general who had sufficient money, food, and troops should be doubled again.

When he faced the emperor, in order to avoid intensifying the contradictions, he decided not to mention how many soldiers and horses the "Red Flag Army" had, but was willing to ask the emperor to issue an order to contact the general to rescue Shaanxi.

Yang Sichang believed that as long as the "Red Banner Army" made a move, and even did not need the "Red Banner Army" to rush to the city of Xi'an, the Manchurian and Mongolian cavalry and rogues would flee when they heard the news.

Chongzhen, who wanted to save face and suffer from the crime, felt even more sad, he hesitated at this moment, and still did not make up his mind to send someone to ask Huang Han to send troops to solve the urgent need.

Yang Sichang was in a hurry to no avail, so he had to wait.

He recommended to the emperor Chongzhen's nine-year return to Ding Wei's right capital Yushi, Chen Xinjia, who had been the governor of Xuanfu, as the left attendant of the military department, and recommended Fu Zonglong, who was dismissed and idle, to serve as the governor of Sichuan.

After receiving the holy decree of seizing love, Chen Xinjia, the "man who carries the pot", appeared on the political stage in the late Ming Dynasty again, I don't know if he will still lose his head for Chongzhen as in history.

After the autumn, it was necessary to settle accounts, and Emperor Chongzhen sent Ti Cai to arrest the Sichuan governor who was ineffective in resisting the Liukou, resulting in the loss of more than 30 cities in Sichuan.

Hou Liangzhu, the chief military officer of Sichuan Province, was also questioned for his successive defeats, but he was not arrested, but was demoted to three levels and retained for meritorious service.

Fu Zonglong, the governor of Shuntian, who had been idle for several years, was enabled by Chongzhen to patrol Sichuan, and the new Sichuan chief military officer was Luo Shangwen, a native of Xuzhou Prefecture.

Before going to Sichuan, Emperor Chongzhen specially summoned Fu Zonglong on the platform, saying that the imperial court was in financial difficulties, and the taxes in Shanxi and Henan were almost cut off.

If Sichuan's imperial grain tax goes wrong again, the imperial court will be even more unsustainable, so it can only exempt Sichuan from taxes for one year.

Fu Zonglong was not only not stupid, but also a capable minister, and when he learned that the imperial court was going to send him to serve as the governor of Sichuan, he began to pay attention to the situation in Sichuan.

The official documents of dozens of prefectures, prefectures, and counties in northern Sichuan and Chengdu were all asking the imperial court for relief grain, and the words were full of words, and the robbing of thousands of households led to millions of starving people, and the lack of relief would lead to starvation everywhere.

He said on the spot that after arriving in Chengdu, he would do his best to organize the reclamation of the victims to ensure that the taxes of the imperial court could be completed after one year, and then he directly asked the emperor for money and grain to settle the hungry people.

Qiao's daughter-in-law could not cook without rice, and the emperor, who was not rich in money, gritted his teeth and agreed to give Fu Zonglong 200,000 taels of internal money for relief.

and instructed Fu Zonglong to contact Qin Liangyu, the general of the expedition to the west, to stabilize Sichuan, which could not lack the support of the white pole soldiers.

Facing at least one million hungry people, 200,000 taels of silver is undoubtedly a drop in the bucket, but Fu Zonglong knew the difficulties of the imperial court, did not embarrass the emperor anymore, and went to Tianjin Wei with apprehension.