Chongzhen's brigade slowly left Jinzhou City under Qin Liangyu's gaze, and this time they left Chongzhen and took away the Zu Dashou ancestral family, the actual controller of the three customs after Yuan Chonghuan was placed under house arrest. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The mighty 140,000 troops (100,000 new army infantry + 20,000 cavalry + 20,000 white pole army) have now been assigned to various defense areas of the Jinning defense line, and in addition to the manpower left for Lu Xiangsheng to reorganize the Jiangdong Army, this time Chongzhen only took 50,000 horses (20,000 recruits + 3 Liaodong soldiers).

After this northern tour, Chongzhen really has as many as 450,000 soldiers and horses in his hands (Beijing, Sun Chuanting 13W, including 10W infantry of the new army + 2W + 1W cavalry of the new army). (Jinning Defense Line Qin Liangyu 18W, distributed in the Three Customs New Army Infantry 5W, Ningyuan Liaodong Army 2W + Recruits 3W, Jinzhou 6W Liaodong Infantry + White Pole Soldiers 2W) (Jiangdong Town Lu Xiangsheng 9W 4W New Army Cavalry + 5W Liaodong Infantry in the hand).

In order to feed these soldiers and horses, so that they have strong combat effectiveness, Chongzhen spends as much as 10 million taels of silver every year, and the more than 30 million taels of silver accumulated by Wei Zhongxian in his lifetime that he got from his house last time have been almost spent by Chongzhen in these short two years, and secretly commanding the eunuchs around the country to embezzle the silver offered by him can have seven or eight million taels a year, and let people secretly sell some good things in the palace, and they can also sell three or five million taels a year, but this is only a temporary barely maintaining a balance of payments. This is not counting the construction of various artillery and siege and defense equipment, as well as the problem of sailors, now the combat effectiveness of the sailors of the Ming Dynasty is really pitiful, and they can only be used as troop carriers or to bully the Jurchens who do not have a navy. It's a bit of a bit of a no-brainer to get that money yourself.

Think about your current tax revenue of millions a year, think about the tax revenue of 120 million a year in the Southern Song Dynasty, and think about the tax revenue of a huge Ming Dynasty is so much worse than that of a quiet corner of the Southern Song Dynasty, think about the salt and iron ore merchant tax in the Southern Song Dynasty, and then look at your own taxes, now there is only agricultural tax left, and almost all other taxes have been dismissed by the Donglin Party, and if you don't want to recover the salt and iron ore merchant tax, the Ming Dynasty's finances will not improve, and the annual income will be 120 million, so don't think about it.

The more than 400,000 cold weapons troops, is enough to maintain the current Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen does not plan to further increase the cold weapons army, the future is the world of hot weapons, is the world of flintlock pistol + artillery, think about the young and ignorant when he first came, when he established the new army, he was fooled by Sun Chengzong, and actually agreed that the new soldiers are equipped with 2 sets of armor, as well as a sword and a bow and crossbow at the same time, plus military uniforms, such luxurious equipment, the most valuable of which is armor, a set of 8 taels of silver, and 2 sets of one person, too luxurious, With so much money, you don't have to build more cannons.

It wasn't until he arrived in Liaodong that he knew that he had been fooled by Sun Chengzong, look at the equipment of the Liaodong Army, only the henchmen of their respective generals are equipped with armor, and the real armor is the elite of the elite, except for the officers, ordinary soldiers have half armor is already very good, and those who wear full armor are key troops, and only when the situation cannot be opened. Let the new army take out the excess armor, the army of more than 400,000 in his own hands, the armor coverage rate has reached such a terrible level of more than nine layers, and the army is also equipped with more than 100,000 bows and crossbows, which is really too extravagant, too wasteful, and it hurts to think about it.

Sun Chengzong probably knew that he knocked out 30 million taels of silver in Wei Zhongxian's house, and he was afraid that he would spend money indiscriminately, so he cheated his money to expand the army, 2 sets of armor per person, and he could quickly expand the army of 200,000 to 400,000 at the necessary time, but why did he have a feeling that he had been fooled and had not yet spoken.

Chongzhen, who was sitting in the carriage, shook his head, he was still too young, he didn't understand anything, he was easily fooled, it was better to go out and see more, at least with common sense, he would not be fooled by the uprising.

The carriage has been shaking for a few days, this broken carriage does not even have a shock absorber, the bumps are fatal, I remember watching TV before, many people don't like to stop the car and sue the royal or something, why haven't I encountered it.

Now sitting in the carriage has nothing to pass the time, and I don't look like a sister-in-law who lifts the curtain and sticks out his head to look around, which is really boring, and he has no choice but to pick up the fold and start to read it slowly.

What Chongzhen sitting in the car didn't know was that it was so easy to sue the imperial complaint, he didn't understand these himself, they were all arranged by the officials who followed, the emperor traveled with a guard of honor, and the places he passed by would send people to clear the road in advance to avoid, especially Chongzhen, who led the troops to travel, within a radius of several miles, were blocked by the army, for the safety of the emperor, even if someone really approached to stop the royal complaint, they would be sent away by officials of all sizes, and they would not see Chongzhen's face at all, more than one thing is better than one less, in case there is an assassin or something among these people, Who is responsible, there is no assassin killer, in case the emperor is unhappy, he will not be unlucky.

After more than ten days of turbulence, Chongzhen finally saw the city wall of Beijing again, these days Chongzhen is not good at eating, sleeping well, sitting in the broken carriage without shock absorption all day long, in addition to the ancient broken roads are full of potholes. It won't be good for anyone to bump for more than ten days, and now I feel that my bones are about to fall apart, and I finally returned to my palace, and it's not easy to come back alive, so I can sleep well tonight.

Chongzhen returned to the court, countless officials outside the city greeted on the side of the road, and it has been ten days since Chongzhen ordered the officials of the three products to return to Beijing, and many officials who are relatively close to the capital have arrived in Beijing. For a time, the whole capital was very lively.