Emperor Ming Fengyunlu

Volume VIII Troubled Times

Chapter 1 The military is shaking the sky and raising the prestige of the Han

Section 7 Where to find money and food

After all the matters concerning the deployment of the Han Wei army had been finalized, everyone began to think about the relevant details, and one of the biggest problems faced by everyone was where the money and food needed for the reorganization of the army would come from. You must know that the money and food required by the 200,000 army in terms of reorganization, defense, and support are all astronomical, even if it is a bottomless pit, it is not an exaggeration!

After the enthusiasm subsided a little, Liu Yunwei and everyone in the hall began to seriously think about this big problem.

Liu Yunwei frowned and asked, "Governor Chen, Governor Ma, how much grain can the Tun Shou Division and the City Ship Division raise now?" ”

Chen Zitong took the lead in saying: "Inspector Qiqi, now the Mintun under the jurisdiction of the Tunshou Division has hoarded 80,000 stone of grain, and it can also accumulate about 30,000 stone of grain every year; And Juntun also accumulated 30,000 stone of grain before; At present, our garrison division can provide a total of 110,000 stone of grain as the cost of the army's reorganization, but the annual income of grain is only about 60,000 stone, and it will be a difficult problem to provide for the army in the future. ”

Ma Shiming then got up and said: "Inspector Qiqi, the Municipal Shipping Division currently has two fleets under its jurisdiction, with a total of 33 sea vessels; In addition, the city has also opened more than 20 shops in various parts of Beizhili, and it is estimated that a total of nearly 800,000 taels of silver can be earned every year. In the past few years, the city has also accumulated 600,000 taels of silver, which can be used for the reorganization of the army, but the cost of raising the army in the future will definitely be insufficient. ”

After hearing this, Liu Yunwei couldn't help but sigh and said: "After the reorganization of the battalions and armies, my Hanwei army will have more than 200,000 elite soldiers, and the annual salary alone will be as high as 120,000 or 300,000 taels, and the military rations will also be 1.3 million stones, not counting the expenses of the generals and the shogunate, as well as the expenses of repairing the city and stockpiling weapons in various places. Even with the support of the imperial court as before, the gap in money and food is too much. ”

After speaking, everyone looked dejected, and all of them bowed their heads and remained silent, which was in stark contrast to the elation when discussing the reorganization matter before.

At this time, Yuan Mingxuan said, "Supervisor, is it possible for us to find Wei Zhongxian again?" After all, he was going to let the little general concurrently serve as the secretary of the military department, but now the post of the secretary of the military department is occupied by Li Chunye, the left attendant of the former military department, why does he have to give the superintendent an explanation, right? Shall we argue with Wei Zhongxian on this point and see if we can ask for some money and food? ”

Sun Yuanhua also said: "Supervisor, I think we can also find the newly appointed military secretary Li Chunye, after he takes office, it is impossible to ignore the requirements of our three towns in Jiliao, right?" ”

Liu Yunwei nodded and said, "It's okay, whether it succeeds or not, we can give it a try." Governor Yuan and Governor Sun, you wrote letters to Wei Zhongxian and Li Chunye respectively, saying that the three towns of Jiliao urgently need to rectify their defenses in order to deal with the possible offensive of Jiannu, and ask them to do everything they can to support us with a batch of money and food. ”

"Yes!"

At this time, Zhao Kaishan asked with some puzzlement: "Big brother, since you have already assumed the position of Jiliao Governor, won't the money and grain allocated by the imperial court to Liaodong be given to us?" We can take out some of the emergency first! ”

Everyone's eyes lit up when they heard this, Liu Yunwei thought for a while, and said, "I also thought about using this money and food before, but it's not that simple. The imperial court allocated a lot of money and grain for Liaodong, with two million taels of silver and one million stone grains and grass every year. However, the army stationed in Shanhaiguan and Jizhou Town also had 60,000 soldiers and horses, and those soldiers and horses also had to consume money and food; In addition, it costs money to collect the displaced people who fled back from Liaodong and repair the weapons of the city. After careful calculation, we can only leave a fraction of the bottom at most, and it is not of much use. ”

Zhao Kaishan was a little annoyed after hearing this, and said, "Hmph! Those soft-footed shrimp in Shanhaiguan and Jizhou Town can't fight, and they spend money on food and salary, what's the use of raising so many tofu soldiers! ”

Everyone deeply agreed with Zhao Kaishan's words, but Liu Yunwei seemed to have thought of something, frowned and muttered for a moment, and then suddenly laughed and said, "Haha, Kaishan, you are really my lucky general!" ”

Everyone was stunned when they saw this, only Yuan Mingxuan and Sun Yuanhua looked at each other and smiled, as if they knew something.

Liu Yunwei continued: "The 100,000 Tuntian soldiers will be mobilized immediately, and all of them will be distributed to the various battle barracks to make up the strength of each war barracks. Five days later, all the barracks were departed and left for the designated garrison sites. As for the military equipment required for the subsequent reorganization of the various war barracks, all the generals will be responsible for providing and transferring them, and the necessary money and food will be raised by the governor as soon as possible. ”

Everyone was curious when they heard this, and they all asked Liu Yunwei what good way he had thought of to solve the huge gap of money and food needed to support more than 200,000 troops.

Liu Yunwei said with a smile: "Zhao Kaishan's words just now reminded me that the original tens of thousands of troops in Shanhaiguan and Jizhou Town were not only low in combat effectiveness, but also generally ate empty quotas, what is the use of keeping such soldiers?" Therefore, I decided to downsize all these tens of thousands of troops, leaving only 10,000 elites under the command of Yuan Chonghuan, the new governor of Liaodong, and the whole army was stationed in Ningyuan City to guard against Jiannu, and the remaining tens of thousands of troops were turned into Tuntian soldiers on the spot! In this way, Shanhai Town and Jizhou Town can save a lot of money and food! ”

Everyone was overjoyed when they heard this, but after thinking about it, even if the soldiers in Shanhai Town and Jizhou Town were abolished, the money and food needed to raise soldiers every year were still a lot worse!

"We can only take one step at a time!" Liu Yunwei said arrogantly: "The car has its own road in front of the mountain, I don't believe it, our 200,000 soldiers can still suffocate the silver!" ”

Everyone burst into laughter when they heard this.

Four days later, Tianjin Wei.

"This is Tianjin Wei, it's really lively!"

"Yes, we've been on the sea for an unknown number of times, and today is the first time we've gone ashore into the city!"

On the street, two teenagers under the age of twenty were happily laughing, and their eyes were looking around as if they were not enough. The two of them were followed by ten strong men, each holding a knife, an iron ruler and other things in their hands, like the bodyguards of the two teenagers.

Although these two teenagers are not very old, they look very calm, like old fritters who have been in the rivers and lakes for many years, and both of them are very burly, with a smell of blood all over their bodies, which is no less than a veteran soldier who has been fighting for many years!

These two teenagers are the two younger brothers of Zheng Zhilong, who had a relationship with Liu Yunwei and became sworn brothers: Zheng Zhihu and Zheng Zhibao!

Zheng Zhihu, Zheng Zhibao and their entourage walked around Tianjin Wei for a while, and then came to a tavern. More than a dozen people sat at two tables and ordered a table full of big fish and meat, but they didn't order wine.

"A few masters, the dishes have been served, please use them slowly."

"Wait a minute!" Zheng Zhihu said: "Xiao Er, let me ask you about something. ”

"This young master, please say, as long as the little one knows, he must know everything and say everything."

"Do you know where the Hanwei Army is stationed?"

"Oh? Hanwei Army? Everyone on the street knows that it is the elite tiger wolf under the command of today's broken army! ”

Zheng Zhihu and Zheng Zhibao were slightly stunned when they heard this, and they both had some doubts in their hearts: "Who is this broken army?" What about the eldest brother's sworn brother, General Liu? ”

"Let's be more detailed!" After speaking, Zheng Zhibao took out five taels of silver and threw it to Xiao Er.

The little second took the silver and immediately smiled, and said: "Two young masters, it's like this, the name of the broken army is Liu Yunwei, the commander of the Hanwei army, and he was knighted by the imperial court for quelling the Southwest Luxury and An rebellion; Now the dynasty is urgent, a while ago Po Jun Bo was appointed by the imperial court as the governor of Jiliao, I heard that in just these two days, Po Jun Bo will lead the army north to the mountain customs. ”

Zheng Zhihu and Zheng Zhibao were both excited when they heard this: it is not a loss to be the righteous brother of the eldest brother, and he has not been promoted from a guerrilla general to the governor of Jiliao in a few years!

"Do you have any other instructions?"

"Where is Uncle Broken now?"

"I don't know much about this. But before he was promoted to the governor of Jiliao, Po Junbo was the chief military officer of Tongzhou Town, and I thought that Po Junbo might still be in Tongzhou City now. ”

"Okay, it's none of your business."

After sending the shopkeeper away, Zheng Zhihu said to Zheng Zhibao: "Let's hurry up and eat, and then rush to Tongzhou City immediately, and don't rest tonight." ”

Zheng Zhibao nodded and said admiringly: "Second brother, we followed the eldest brother to Japan for a few years, but I didn't expect that General Liu would become the governor of Jiliao, so how many soldiers and horses do you have to command?" Isn't that like the handsome man in the story? ”

"Haha, that's it. Or the eldest brother is right, let's come back from time to time to take a look, otherwise we don't know what happened in Daming, just like the deaf and blind. ”

A day later, Zheng Zhihu and Zheng Zhibao rushed to the north gate of Tongzhou City with ten entourages overnight.

At this time, there were a sea of people outside Tongzhou City, and tens of thousands of people gathered here, vying to see the demeanor of the Hanwei soldiers. Liu Yunwei had already gathered the soldiers of the pacesetter battalion, the trapping camp, the Yingyang battalion, the Changshui battalion, the Huben battalion, and the Zhechong battalion outside the city, and a total of more than 135,000 soldiers were divided into more than a dozen huge phalanxes, which stood motionless under the blazing sun, like an endless jungle. Seeing this, the surrounding people all felt a burst of murderous aura rushing towards them, and many old people knelt down one after another, kowtowing excitedly and shouting "Master Wang".

And Zheng Zhihu, Zheng Zhibao and others were already stunned when they saw the military formation of more than 100,000 Han Wei troops, and their minds were blank. Those who are accustomed to the war scenes of the 100-person level in Japan, the people who are accustomed to the battle scenes of more than a dozen maritime ships, where have they seen the spectacular scene of more than 100,000 troops arrayed, and where have they seen such a majestic Han tiger wolf!

Just when Zheng Zhihu, Zheng Zhibao and others were in a daze, the dense crowd of people not far away suddenly broke out into bursts of cheers, and tens of thousands of people rushed to the front, shouting loudly: "Break the army and win!" ”

"General Wansheng!"

The whole scene was plunged into an extreme uproar.