Emperor Ming Fengyunlu

Volume VI The Battle of the Northern Frontier

Chapter 4 Recruiting Troops and Gathering Strength

Section 6 Remembrance and Great Development

Three days later, south of Tongzhou, on the bank of the canal.

Liu Yunwei led all the officials of the shogunate of Tongzhou Town and 200,000 soldiers of the Hanwei Army to erect a mound for the Qian Yuan outside, and held a grand memorial ceremony to commemorate all the Liaodong people who died tragically under the Jiannu butcher's knife in this battle.

The memorial ceremony lasted from early morning to noon, and many people in Tongzhou City and the surrounding cities, and even in Jingshi, heard the wind, and many people brought their own fire paper, incense and candles and other memorial things, and incinerated the souls of the victims of Liaodong on the spot to comfort their souls in the sky.

After the ceremony, Liu Yunwei announced to the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians present that the Hanwei army would begin large-scale military training and accumulate grain, and when the Hanwei army accumulated enough strength, it would be the day of revenge for the Hanwei army and 100,000 soldiers to go north to Liaodong!

As soon as the words fell, all the soldiers of the Hanwei Army roared angrily, and then countless people also roared, and a dark cloud of anger filled the sky over the entire Tongzhou City, containing the thunderous anger that could sweep everything, waiting for the day when the crit attack on Jiannu came.

Subsequently, Liu Yunwei carried out a big military parade in front of the mound outside the Qian Yuan, the mighty and majestic soldiers of the Hanwei Army walked in front of the onlookers one battalion after another, and suddenly pushed the atmosphere of the scene to a climax, hundreds of people shouted wildly, the men present were eager to put on armor and march with the soldiers immediately, and some old people knelt directly on the side of the road, bowing to the soldiers of the Hanwei Army and bowing non-stop, and kept chanting: "Wang Shi!" ”

Finally, Liu Yunwei commended the meritorious soldiers who went to Liaodong this time, rewarded different amounts of silver according to the size of the military exploits, and promoted the meritorious soldiers below the 1,000 generals, and the morale of the officers and men of each battalion suddenly soared.

That night, Liu Yunwei, who had finished his day's trip, had just returned to the General Military Mansion in Tongzhou City, and before he had time to eat a bite of food, he saw Sun Yuanhua and Ma Shiming (that is, Ma Steward) coming to the door.

"Master Sun, Steward Ma, sit down and take a rest, how are things going?" Liu Yunwei put down the teacup in his hand and asked.

Sun Yuanhua and Ma Shiming sat down under Liu Yunwei, the two glanced at each other, and then Sun Yuanhua said: "Little General, after today's matter is over, Steward Ma and I will sum up the things in our hands. This is the case, all the money left by the Qian staff in Tianjin Wei has been brought back, and after counting, this batch of money is enough to 200,000 taels of silver, 30,000 taels of gold, and the rest of the various goods are worth more than 80,000 taels; In addition, we also found three granaries in the backyard, which contained about 20,000 stone of grain. ”

Liu Yunwei was overjoyed when he heard this, and said: "The grain will be stored in the treasury of the General Military Mansion first, and as for the money, don't put it into the treasury, and use it immediately for the purpose of purchasing a fleet!" By the way, how much silver does it cost to buy a sea boat? ”

Ma Shiming sighed and said: "Little General, sea ships are very expensive, even if it is a small fortune ship that is not very large, it will cost about 100,000 taels of silver, not counting the petty expenses such as guns and ballast that need to be equipped on the ship, and not counting the expenses of the sailors on board. At best, the money left behind by my family is only enough to buy four or five lucky boats. ”

"There are only a few of them?" Liu Yunwei was a little disappointed when he heard this, thought for a while, and then asked, "How much silver can those five lucky ships earn in a month?" ”

Ma Shiming said: "Back to the town, it's like this, running the sea is generally calculated by year, and these five lucky ships will earn 30,000 or 50,000 taels a year, which depends on where the business route goes." After all, there are too few ships and too small to carry much cargo, and the revenue will be much less. ”

"It's only 30,000 or 50,000 taels?" Liu Yunwei said with a wry smile: "It seems that I thought about this matter too simply. ”

But when I think about it, don't those rich people in the capital also have to invest some money? So, Liu Yunwei asked again: "By the way, Lord Sun, is there a reply from the capital?" ”

Sun Yuanhua said: "I have already replied, there are a total of seventeen rich people in the capital who are willing to pay, I roughly estimated, the money of those rich people should be more than one million taels, if these money are used to buy sea ships, we can buy at least ten big fortune ships, and the annual income is at least more than 300,000 taels." However, the wealthy have some opinions about the distribution of the fleet's revenues, and they want to distribute the profits according to the amount of money invested. ”

Liu Yunwei couldn't help but be very happy when he heard that at least one million taels of silver had been credited to his account, but he was a little unhappy when he heard the proposal of the rich people behind, and said coldly: "The human heart is not enough to swallow the elephant!" Do they think it's so easy to run to sea? If I didn't have the soldiers of the Hanwei Army to escort me throughout the whole process, I am afraid that those rich people themselves would not even be able to get out of the East China Sea! How much silver should my Hanwei soldiers be converted? How much silver should the horse stewards and their leading old sea wolves be worth? ”

Sun Yuanhua asked, "What does the little general mean?" ”

Liu Yunwei thought about it carefully and said: "Lord Sun, you tell those rich people that I must take sixty percent of the income from running to the sea, and the remaining forty percent will be divided according to the amount of silver they have paid. If those rich people agree, we will immediately start preparing for the fleet, if we don't agree, we will replace them immediately, anyway, there are many wealthy families on the rich side of the Ming Dynasty, and there are many rich people who want to make money, so we are not inferior to a few of them! ”

Three days later, Sun Yuanhua and Ma Shiming returned to the General Military Mansion and brought back a contract.

Liu Yunwei immediately laughed after reading it, and said: "Okay, it seems that these rich people are still relatively acquainted, a total of 1.8 million taels, plus about 500,000 taels left by Qian Yuan, we can buy fifteen Dafu ships!" Lord Sun, Steward Ma, I decided to set up a city department in the shogunate of Tongzhou Town, and the Steward Ma will preside over it, and from now on, all the affairs of the goods in Tongzhou Town will be fully responsible for the Steward Ma! ”

Ma Shiming was immediately pleasantly surprised when he heard this, and immediately patted his chest and assured Liu Yunwei that he would definitely earn the greatest benefits for Tongzhou Town.

"In addition, I will allocate another fifty officers and men of the Hanwei Army to each sea ship, all of whom will be equipped with self-made firearms, and they will be uniformly deployed by the horse steward."

Subsequently, Liu Yunwei and Sun Yuanhua and Ma Shiming carefully discussed the details of the city's shipping division and the preparation of the fleet, and the discussion lasted until the evening before dispersing.

The first year of the Apocalypse (the sixth year of the Later Jin Mandate of Heaven), June.

After more than half a month's rest, the officers and men of the battalions who went out to Liaodong have recovered their spirits and began to train rigorously with the officers and men of the battalions who stayed behind.

Liu Yunwei also convened the main stewards of the shogunate and the commanders of the various war battalions of the Hanwei army to hold a meeting, and the key agenda was the matter of replenishing soldiers.

Liu Yunwei said: "On this expedition to Liaodong, a total of tens of thousands of soldiers were martyred in each battalion of our Hanwei Army, and the losses of the army were unprecedented. Now that the battalions have begun their training, they must be replenished as soon as possible. Therefore, I decided to recruit more than 100,000 strong men from the military camp in the name of the General Military Office as reserve soldiers of the Hanwei Army. This time, the replenishment of the soldiers of each battalion will be selected from these strong men, and Lu Ying will be responsible for this matter, and all the soldiers who need to be supplemented by each battalion must be selected within a month, and I will see a fully equipped Hanwei army at that time! ”

Lu Ying immediately received the order and said: "The last general will obey the order!" ”

After that, Liu Yunwei continued: "From today on, the generals under the jurisdiction of Tongzhou Town will start to build all kinds of military equipment again and fill all the treasury; The newly established city shipping department will handle the fleet affairs in two months at most, and this year I will see our fleet in Tongzhou Town set sail! As for the Cargo Breeding Division, from today onwards, it will be changed to the Tunshou Division, which is still responsible for the Tuntian and mining affairs in Tongzhou Town; The planning department should begin to prepare the strategic plan for the return of our Hanwei army to Liaodong, and revise it at any time with the changes in the situation in Liaodong, such as how many soldiers and horses, how much grain and grass and equipment, marching routes, etc., the day the army goes north, I want to see a plan that can be used and referred to at any time; The Zhenfu Division should also always pay attention to the changes in the period of the soldiers, and should not affect the morale of the army because of the corruption of the situation in Liaodong. Everyone should perform their duties and accumulate the strength of my Tongzhou Town in the shortest possible time! ”

Sun Yuanhua, the governor of the General Division, Chen Zitong, the governor of the Tunshou Division, Hu Kun, the governor of the Zhenfu Division, Zhou Tianyi, the governor of the Planning Division, and Ma Shiming, the governor of the Municipal Shipping Division, all stood up to receive the order.

Liu Yunwei nodded and continued: "As for the commanders of each battalion, after the replenishment of their respective soldiers, they must immediately carry out the training of the army, you only have two months, and after two months, I want to see the 100,000 soldiers of the Hanwei Army strong and strong, and their morale is like a rainbow!" ”

Lu Ying, Wu Xing, Zhao Kaishan, Wen Poyu, Gao Hongguang, Huang Fuming, Wang Dangdang, and Li Tianhao all hugged their fists and took their lives.

In the end, Liu Yunwei said to Yuan Mingxuan: "Lord Yuan, the Investigation Division is the eyes and ears of Tongzhou Town, and it is the most important basis for me to make decisions. In short, I just say that as long as it is the needs of the Investigation Division, Tongzhou Town definitely wants money and people to give people, and what I want is very simple, there is only one thing: reliable, timely and fast information! ”

Yuan Mingxuan nodded, and said solemnly: "What the head town said is naturally no problem, and I and all the sentinels of the Investigation Division will definitely do our best to handle it." In addition, there is one more thing that needs to be said to the head town. ”

Liu Yunwei asked, "What else is the matter with Lord Yuan?" ”

"Jin Shang! I want to thoroughly investigate the traitors and collaborators of the Jin merchants! ”