The official subordinate of the Ming Dynasty commanding the army is the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, but now it has basically existed in name only, the imperial forbidden army has been lost, and there is no money to re-recruit, and the local governors mostly raise their own military salaries and train their own new troops, which have become a separate system.

Since the imperial court does not pay salaries or pay food, the army is naturally equivalent to the private soldiers of the governors, and the system of the five loyal armies is now basically independent of the imperial court.

If it weren't for the Qing court, the current situation in the Southern Ming Dynasty would most likely evolve into a powerful secession at the end of the Han Dynasty.

At this time, the imperial court entered Guangzhou for nearly two months, and began to obtain some silver money from the city's shipping department, but the finances still did not improve, and it was soon spent on relocating official subordinates, opening Enke, and supporting the clan.

The mansion of Wang Yan in the city of Guangzhou, which is the mansion of the state prince, the mansion of the marshal of the five loyal armies, and the yamen of the governor of Liangguang, is a mansion that performs several functions.

At this time, in the lobby, Wang Yan was convening a staff meeting, and Chen Yonghua told Wang Yan what he had said before, about the money being expensive and the silver being cheap, and told many ministers again.

Wang Yan waited for him to finish speaking, and gave the ministers a little time to digest before saying: "The governor summed up that the current situation is that there is too much silver flowing into the land of Quang Nam, so it must be spent on a part of it and buy some materials from other places to reserve it. However, this matter is very complicated, the imperial court has no money, the silver is mostly in the hands of the merchant gentry, grain, pig iron, salt, these materials are bought in large quantities, and the price will definitely drop significantly, for the merchants, it is basically unprofitable to transport these materials to Guangnan, so the main force to buy from outside can only be led by the government, and the governor has persuaded several merchants to buy some, but the key is to look at the government. Now I wonder how much gold, jewelry, and silver we have in stock? ”

Li Suiqiu picked up the account book and came out to read: "Guogong, in addition to the cost of commending the soldiers, compensating the families, and building the martyrs' shrine, the gold is about 90,000 taels, the silver is 1.1 million taels, and there are ten boxes of jewelry. ”

These money and property were all obtained from the killing of Qing court officials in Nanchang and the seizure of homes, in addition to the property taken back from Zhang Cunren. \u000bAfter Li Suiqiu finished speaking, he closed the account book and was about to return to his seat, but he remembered something again, so he immediately added: "In addition, Jindu Town will offer 200,000 yuan of silver, which has been transported to Guangnan, and his position has not yet been recorded in the account. "\u000b" This is the silver that Jin Shengheng gave to the imperial court, which was transferred directly to the household department and should not be included in the account. At present, the court is short of money, but the account of the governor is very sufficient, and some ministers and clans have complained about the governor. Wang Yan said in a deep voice: "Now there are more and more clans gathered in Guangzhou, last month the city of the city paid 200,000 yuan in silver, and the clan was divided into 30%, but the court can still only take care of the big domain, the small sect has a lot of complaints about the court, the 200,000 taels, just give it to the court." ”?

"Nuo~" Li Suiqiu responded with a salute.

"How much money is still being shipped from Wuchang to Changsha?" Wang Yan asked again. \u000b "At the beginning, there were 500,000 taels of silver in the account, and 1.5 million taels of silver were transported back to Changsha by Mandazhuang, but since then, the blockade of Futai has been used for relief of the victims, and some of them must have been used. ”

Wang Yan frowned slightly, the Lingqu communicates the Yangtze River water system and the Pearl River water system, once dredged, Huguang's ships can sail directly into the Li River through the Xiangjiang River, and then go down the river and directly reach Guangzhou, so that a large number of materials do not need to cross Lingnan, which is a move in the future, and the Dongting Water Division is related to the strategy of locking the river in the future of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and it cannot be stopped, and Huguang also has two armies of Zhongzhi Town and Houyong Battalion paid by Wang Yan, it seems that the silver of Changsha cannot be moved.

"What about Quang Nam's material reserves?"

"Su Ge has been in business for a year, and he has purchased 570,000 stones of rice and grain from Nanyang before and after, and stored it in the major warehouses in Guangnan, in addition to 100,000 horses of cloth and 300,000 catties of pig iron." \u000b Wang Yan thought for a while, stood up and walked a few steps, and said: "This little reserve, a war will consume a fine essence, this governor wants to buy grain from Jiangnan and Nanyang, enough to buy pig iron from the north, and exchange all the gold and jewelry for supplies." ”

Chen Bangyan thought for a while and said: "If the Duke of Guo uses up all the gold and jewelry, then there will only be one million or 1,000,000 taels of silver in the account, what will happen to recruiting troops in the future?" How is military pay paid? \u000b Wang Yan said: "After the reform of the imperial court's commercial tax, the tax of the city will be increased by three times, and the governor will ask the imperial court for the salary of the soldiers, but as for the recruitment of soldiers, it is more troublesome. At present, the imperial court is in difficulty, and if the governor rashly expands the army, I am afraid that the Son of Heaven and the minister will be unhappy, and it is best to find an excuse. \u000b Wang Fu's way: "This is not difficult, at present, there is a serious shortage of five loyal troops, and there are only 50,000 soldiers who can fight. If you want to do great things, you need at least 100,000 soldiers in Quang Nam. Considering the time of training, the sooner the shortfall is filled, the better. Jiangnan \u000b There is news that as Boluo returned to Jiangnan from Fujian with the main force of the Qing army, Huaxia and others in eastern Zhejiang have abandoned Ningbo and other big cities and transferred to Siming Mountain, Chen Zilong has also returned to Taihu Lake, and King Lu's army has returned to Zhoushan. After the Qing army has rested, it will definitely attack again in the coming year. I think that guarding against the attack of the Qing army is the best excuse, and the imperial court has the lessons of Fujian, so it is natural that it will not oppose it, so it is logical for the state to expand its troops and prepare for war. ”

Wang Yan was persuaded by Wang Fuzhi, but the matter of recruiting troops was not a simple matter, he thought: "Okay! I'll go to the book now, but recruiting people and horses not only requires money, but also land, and the development of Qiongzhou has not yet been completed, and the imperial court may not have so much land. ”

Chen Bangyan got up and said: "Before the Qing soldiers entered Guangnan, the villagers near Guangfu alone suffered two or three hundred thousand casualties, and the household registration in eastern Guangdong also suffered heavy losses, and there were some lands. ”

~~~\u000b A few days later, hundreds of cavalry rushed to the land of ten prefectures and one state in Guangnan to convey the recruitment order issued by Wang Yan, and for a time, notices of recruiting soldiers were posted at the gates of each city. \u000bJieyang County, the capital of Chaozhou, after the Qing soldiers invaded, the people in the city were slaughtered, and after the Qing soldiers returned to Fujian, the people who hid in the mountains, as well as the people who fled, returned to the city one after another, making Jieyang recover a trace of popularity.

At the city gate, nearly 100 people surrounded the notice just posted, and the literate people shook their heads and read: "The Ming Dynasty Chu Guogong, the prince and the young master, the scholar of Wuyingdian University, the military department Shangshu, the governor of Liangguang Wang Yan told the squires and elders in Guangnan, the northern captives are cruel, and the heart of the Ming Dynasty will not die, and the coming year will be a big attack, and the captives will make the lives of Guangnan miserable, in order to defend the homeland, the five loyal army soldiers are 50,000, the local government soldiers are preferred, and the brave and fierce people in various places are second, and those who sign up as soldiers will be given ten taels of settling-in allowance, and ten acres of official land will be given for rent, tax exemption for four years, I hope you will sign up to defend your homeland, your parents, your wife and your children. \u000b After hearing this, the people talked a lot, and a burly man shouted: "The northern captives are cruel, we can't let them kill them again, we dignified men, we should stand up and defend our father, wife, and children." ”

Everyone responded one after another, "Well said, the imperial court does not raise agricultural taxes now, and it is not thin on us, let's go to sign up for the army together, and we must not let the northern captives destroy our lives." ”

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