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The situation in the imperial court was indeed expected by Xiao Tianjian, and it was basically the same as what Xiao Tianjian said, although Chongzhen was anxious to send the northern border army south as soon as possible to deal with the Xingtian army, but this matter was indeed not an easy matter.

Those generals outside the Guan, now basically have formed a warlord group, they have their own interests outside the Guan, suddenly the imperial court and Jiannu negotiate peace, for them although they are happy to see such a situation, in the future, they don't have to worry too much about Jiannu into the Kou, they have to go desperately, but let them go south immediately, but they still can't do it.

After all, the matter of peace between the imperial court and Jiannu came too suddenly, and they were good officials to say, and they were happy to see that they would negotiate peace with Jiannu, so they didn't have to sell their lives to fight with Jiannu, but the people and soldiers outside the gate were very dissatisfied, thinking that the court was simply betraying the country by doing this, so there was chaos outside the gate immediately.

When these generals encounter this situation, they have to appease the emotions of the generals under their command first, and at the same time suppress the opposition of the local people to this matter, which will take time.

The imperial court was anxious to send them to the Guannai to deal with the Xingtian Army, which was not good news for them, the generals were not good, first, they had to go south, giving up many vested interests outside the Guan, and at the same time, such a large-scale operation, no money could not do things, they were not patriotic enthusiastic, they worked for the imperial court, that was to make money for themselves, it was impossible for the imperial court to say a word, they paid out of their own pockets, and took out the money to give the generals a silver and other silver.

According to the practice of the imperial court officials and soldiers, it is okay to let the officers and soldiers go to war, but they must be paid first, and they must be paid for one or two months, otherwise the soldiers will not do it, even if they are forced to set off, they will be paid from time to time on the road, and even mutiny occurs because the salary is not in place.

Therefore, before these generals get the money, they will not easily lead the army to set off, so if the imperial court wants to mobilize them, they must first take the money out, and because of the withdrawal from Jinzhou, many places have to give up or change the guard, in a short period of time, although the imperial court has a decree to let the army go south, but the real departure is not, they are waiting for the money to be in place, and they have arranged the things in the house, which may raise troops to the south.

And the court is also very difficult at the moment, mobilizing so many people, to come up with a large amount of money, but the most lacking thing in the court is money, over the years the court has already been poor clanging, collect some money, and immediately spend it, which forced the court to have to increase the salary, practice salary, and exterminate the salary year after year, the result is that the more the world is in chaos, has fallen into a dead circle and cannot extricate itself.

So let the household take out a million taels of silver, it is really more difficult than ascending to the sky, and Chongzhen's inner money, it is not really as Gao Qiqian said, there is a large amount of silver, he is reluctant to take it out, although there is still some silver in the inner money, but the world is like this, Chongzhen is also a person who likes to take precautions, knowing that the silver of the inner money can not be easily used, if it is used up at once, it will not be able to get anywhere in the future, so the limited amount of these internal silver, Chongzhen is very careful to spend, but this time is different, Chongzhen has completely felt that Daming is afraid that he is really on the verge of life and death, and he must deal with this difficulty, so this time he is no longer stingy, and orders to allocate 300,000 taels of silver, and he has ordered the household department to find a way to make up some of them, and first allocate them to the officials and troops of the various ministries outside the gate, and let them move first.

Chongzhen is also very helpless about the current style of these arrogant generals, he wants to issue an order to arrest these bastards who disobey his holy decree, but he doesn't dare, because he knows that he is now employing people, although these generals are arrogant, but after all, they are the last available cards in his hand, once they attack them, no one can guarantee whether these bastards will rebel immediately, once these people are forced to rebel, he really has no power to return to heaven, so although he hates these generals in his heart, but I have to be polite to them, this is also over the years, once he encounters defeat, he first picks those civilian officials to ask for the guilt, kills and degrades, but rarely really arrests and beheads some generals, even if he really kills a few generals, they are all picky little mice, or they fight all the generals under him.

As a result, the more they did this, the more those generals saw the weakness of the imperial court, the more arrogant they became, and the more they refused to sell their lives when they went into battle, and they spared the soldiers one by one, for fear that they would run out of money, and they would lose their capital and bargain with the court, and they would be arrested and cut off by the emperor's order, so that the combat effectiveness of the officers and troops would be much worse, so the slightest momentum was wrong, and he immediately led the army to flee, making the combat effectiveness of the officers and troops worse day by day.

But money alone is still not enough, tens of thousands of troops go south, they have to eat and drink along the way, and they can't fight a war without money and food, so the court not only has to solve the problem of silver, but also the problem of food.

But the grain is not easy to get, originally because of the influence of the Xiaoice River era in the north over the years, the grain output is not as good as a year, and there is a famine at every turn, coupled with the continuous increase of various taxes by the imperial court, almost the last grain in the hands of the people has been squeezed dry, in addition, last year the Tartar just entered the Kou, in Jingfu plundered, the common people are even worse, a large number of people were taken away by Jiannu, or follow the criminal army to the south, some people abandoned their family fields, fled directly to the south, but increased the number of people in the area controlled by the criminal army, However, the population of Jingfu has decreased dramatically, and even if there is land, no one cultivates it, and it is simply unrealistic to levy grain in the north to meet the needs of so many officers and soldiers, and even the people in Jingshi mainly rely on Caoyun to transport rice from the south to meet their needs.

What's more, now Huguang, the largest and most important grain-producing area of the Ming Dynasty, has been occupied by the Xingtian Army, and they can only rely on the transportation of grain from Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and other places to the north, and even the grain in Sichuan, because the Xingtian Army captured Huguang and cut off the water transportation of the Yangtze River, it cannot be transferred out of Sichuan, so that there are fewer and fewer ships from the south to the north, which is a huge difficulty faced by the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, Chongzhen solved the problem of soldiers' salaries, and he had to solve the problem of food, so he had to issue an order to let Ding Qirui quickly find a way to requisition a large amount of grain in Nanzhili and transfer it from the canal to Jingshi to meet the needs of the army going south, so that it consumed a lot of time.

Ding Qirui also knows the difficulties of the imperial court, and also knows that Chongzhen is so risking the world's disapproval, and what is the purpose of negotiating peace with Jiannu, if Chongzhen does not do this, then Nanzhili is likely to be unprotected, once Nanzhili is not guaranteed, Daming will basically be finished, so he does not dare to slack off, even if he orders in Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and other places, all the grain that can be checked out, will find a way to collect it, and send a large number of ships to load it to the north.

In this way, when everything was ready for the imperial court and all the soldiers and horses were ordered to start moving south, it was already mid-February of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, and the preparation time of the entire strategy was several months.

The imperial court negotiated peace with Jiannu this time, but it only delayed the use of troops by the Xingtian Army against Nanzhili a little, and it did not immediately transfer a large army south to launch a chilling blow to the Xingtian Army after negotiating peace with Jiannu as Chongzhen and Chen Xinjia envisioned, and without giving the Xingtian Army a little time to react, they pulled out the old roots of the Xingtian Army, and took advantage of the situation to strangle the Xingtian Army with Nan Zhili's soldiers and horses.

However, because of the problem of money and food, everything they had envisioned became a shadow, and by the time they were really ready, the Xingtian Army had already made almost all the preparations.

(Chapter 2 is presented!) One more chapter in the afternoon! ）