Chapter 6 An Army of Millions in the Sky
Coming out of the queen, Chongzhen feels refreshed, in the past six months, he has tasted the taste of the emperor Chongzhen has been deeply infatuated with it, if he is now giving himself a chance to choose, Chongzhen will not hesitate to give up everything in his previous life, what computer, what wifi, there is comparable to the taste of being an emperor. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
If he is reborn in Zhengde or Wanli, Chongzhen must choose to be a faint monarch. The faint monarch of the wine pond meat forest all day long, think about the leopard room of Zhengde, Wanli has not been in the court for decades, if it were not for Chongzhen, the unlucky emperor of the dead country, he would definitely do more than them, and he was more chic, and the right was the easiest to corrode people's hearts, and now Chongzhen has been corroded, but when I think of it, the wild boar skin outside the gate, Li Zicheng in the pass, Chongzhen can only give up the plan to be a faint king, Chongzhen in the previous life was forced to kill his wife and daughter by the wild boar skin and the peasant army, and finally hanged himself from the coal mountain, Of course, all this has to be counted as the credit of the Donglin Party and the Jin merchants.
If you want to defeat the enemy, you must first understand yourself, with the help of Sun Chengzong, Chongzhen finally had a preliminary understanding of the deployment of the Ming Dynasty's troops, but after watching for a long time, Songping found that there were really not many troops that could be mobilized, and the pit was that he had to mobilize the local defenders, and it actually cost money, and the soldiers were not cheap to pay for their stay, thinking about the performance of the garrisons around the country in later generations, Chongzhen estimated that he mobilized the old soldiers, and it was estimated that there was no other use except for wasting silver, Chongzhen did not think that the group of old men could fight.
However, to Chongzhen's surprise, in the capital, he actually has a Beijing camp of 100,000 horses that can be mobilized, but as for the group of crooked melons and cracked dates of the Beijing camp soldiers he met last time, this group of old men, it would be good to help him defend the imperial city, counting on them to go on the expedition, it is estimated that there will be no fun.
Next is the largest nine-sided army, the most important one stationed in Shanhaiguan and Liaodong Town to defend Houjin, it is estimated that there are more than 200,000 people, due to the long-term battle with Houjin, combat effectiveness is currently the strongest in their own army, and now it is taken over by Yuan Chonghuan, this army is guarding against Houjin, and now they can't move lightly, other border troops, with Mongolia and other chaotic forces to guard against, can not move lightly, calculated, all their own army is actually only the power to defend the city, there is no strong and fast mobile troops.
He is really a failure as an emperor, he has an army of millions, and now he has no soldiers to use.
The key is to rely on yourself, after smashing down 30 million taels of silver, after the efforts of Sun Chuanting and Lu Xiangsheng, his new army of people wearing armor and holding knives has been gradually taking shape, in order to fight the cavalry, sixty percent of the soldiers are equipped with bows and crossbows, under the leadership of Sun Chuanting and Lu Xiangsheng, it may not be possible to win the fight against the Jurchens now, but the Jurchens have Yuan Chonghuan and people leading people to stand in Liaodong, as long as they don't withdraw him, the Jurchens can't afford to make big waves for the time being, Taking advantage of this period, Chongzhen intends to let the new army first eliminate the unstable factors near the capital, or a few years before the Xiaoice River period comes, every year there is a great drought, Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng and others rise up, the million peasant army empire swept the north, at that time this new army will be asked to suppress the rebellion, as for whether Sun Chuanting Lu Xiangsheng can win the group of rebellious mud legs, this Chongzhen has not worried at all, let alone 200,000 new troops, such a configured army, Whether it is Sun Chuanting or Lu Xiangsheng, if he pulls out 50,000 horses casually, he can run the whole country that the peasant army is chasing and killing.
Although Chongzhen knew that there would be a large number of farmers rebelling on SX's side in the future, Chongzhen could not do anything, this is not something that can be solved by finding some sweet potatoes to promote, there is a big drought every year, thousands of miles of red land, the earth is full of cracks, and the drought-tolerant sweet potatoes do not grow much, and in addition to the locust plague everywhere, this is no longer something that can be reversed by manpower in this period, even if he is the emperor.
After the great drought, Chongzhen did not plan to provide disaster relief at all, it will take several years for natural disasters to occur, it is impossible for them to provide disaster relief every year, millions of victims themselves can't afford to raise, rotten good people, that will only put the entire Ming Dynasty into drag to death, Chongzhen has been ready to abandon the areas affected by the drought, anyway, now the tax revenue is not much in his own hands, the drought is coming, and the direct reduction and exemption of taxes in the drought area for five years is already the limit, in other words, no one will oppose their new army to train there, first take the peasant army to exercise, If you go to fight the Jurchens again, you will have a lot of certainty. Anyway, they are all rebels, and it doesn't matter how many people die, in the end, ten rooms and nine empty rooms, and there is no one, I see how you rebel.
The formation of a new army, vigorously develop the second factory in the east and west and the silver of the inner treasury of Jinyi Wei Chongzhen bottomed out again, the new army Chongzhen is completely trained by the professional army, a year's military salary plus weapons, armor, artillery and ammunition The loss is as much as 10 million silver, 20W professional army This is already the limit of Chongzhen, and Chongzhen really can't afford to raise it.
But think about it, in the future, in the hands of Li Zicheng's mud legs, this BJ City knocked out 70 million taels of silver, and Chongzhen was angry, "Come on, let people find Cao Huachun from Dongchang."
"Slaves knock to see the emperor" Cao Huachun, who has eyeliner in the palace, learned the information that Emperor Chongzhen was in a bad mood when he didn't see Chongzhen, and after seeing Chongzhen, he cautiously stepped forward to salute.
"Cao Chitose, recently covered the sky in the court with one hand, referring to the deer as a horse, and still remembering my existence?" Chongzhen's angry cup smashed on the ground, and the tea inside splashed Cao Huachun's face, and a large number of guards who heard the sound nearby rushed into the hall and pointed their knives at Cao Huachun. "It's none of your business here, let me out" The emperor yelled, and the guards who had just rushed in hurriedly retreated.
"Your Majesty, the minions are all done according to the emperor's wishes, and those ministers and ministers with innocent family backgrounds dare not move" Hearing Chongzhen's words, Cao Huachun was so frightened that he died.
"If it weren't for my intentions, if you dared to toss like this in the court, you would have been dragged out by me and killed" Chongzhen was in a bad mood before and poured his anger on the head of this old eunuch, but now his anger is almost gone.
"You go to me, check the property of all the ministers in the court, I want to see the results in a month, this matter can't be done, you can come to see it" want to distinguish whether a minister is capable and loyal to the Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen has no time to let Cao Huachun accompany those ministers to play slowly, directly one-size-fits-all, the family wealth is definitely not a good thing, when the time comes, find a reason to directly dismiss the official and copy the family, the impoverished Qing officials, maybe the Qing officials have no outstanding ability, but they can at least do something for the Ming Dynasty.
It seems that you can't wait for the imperial examination any longer, you must open Enke as soon as possible, select some real talents, and you can use the Second East and West Factory and Jinyiwei to control the Ming Dynasty, but you can't use these secret agencies to rule the Ming Dynasty. Governing the country still requires a group of ministers who are loyal to themselves.
At this time, without Chongzhen's order, Cao Huachun was still kneeling on the ground and didn't dare to get up, "What are you still doing here, go check for me now" After hearing Chongzhen's reprimand, Cao Huachun breathed a sigh of relief, got up, and thanked him and retreated.