Emperor Ming Fengyunlu

Volume 5: Lying on the salary and tasting the guts

Chapter 2 The Tiger and Wolf Nirvana Became an Army

Section 8: Intelligence

Early the next morning, Liu Yunwei left Zhangjiawan Village and returned to Tongzhou Daying, and immediately after returning to the Chinese army's big tent, he wrote a letter to Huang Jiashan, in which he explained in detail the difficulties encountered by the Hanwei army generals at present, especially the drill floor that urgently needed to drill the gun pipe and various follow-up materials; Moreover, since the output of the general division at this stage cannot meet the needs of the Hanwei Army's comprehensive rearmament, it is also necessary for the military department to allocate a batch of sophisticated guns and artillery to equip some soldiers in advance.

After writing this letter, Liu Yunwei called a hundred generals of Longxiang Iron Cavalry and instructed: "You bring twenty iron cavalry soldiers, immediately send this letter to the capital, and personally hand it over to Lord Huang Jiashan, the secretary of the Ministry of War, and be sure to wait until Huang Shangshu makes a promise before coming back." ”

The Bai general manager responded and left in a hurry.

And Liu Yunwei was not idle, in the next ten days, Liu Yunwei took people and horses to run around the fields outside Tongzhou City every day, constantly sorting out the affairs of Mintun and Juntun, and sent all the materials from the Tuntian that the imperial household department had transported not long ago. As for the more than 1,900 ploughing cattle raised by the household department, Liu Yunwei did not put all of them into the hands of military households and tun troops, but left 100 pairs of ploughing cattle and sent them to the camp to raise, and these 100 pairs of ploughing cattle will be used as breeding cattle.

Liu Yunwei also did this after careful consideration, after all, there is a big shortage of cultivated cattle, even if all these cultivated cattle are sent down, it is completely insufficient, so he simply left a batch of cultivated cattle for breeding, and in time he can give birth to cattle and solve the problem of insufficient cattle in Tuntian in the near future; In order to take care of this batch of breeding cattle, Liu Yunwei also specially recruited more than 20 veterinarians to be responsible for the breeding of this batch of breeding cattle. Before the number of cattle grows to the point where it can meet the needs of the tuntian, the Mintun and Juntun can only use manpower to solve the problem of insufficient farming.

"Doctor Zhao, these breeding cattle must be carefully raised, and I want to see that every pair of breeding cattle can breed calves next year." Liu Yunwei said to the veterinarian officer beside him.

That Doctor Zhao was originally just a small official in Tongzhou City, but now he was given such an important task by Liu Yunwei, he suddenly felt full of energy, and immediately said: "Please rest assured, Lord Zongzhen, the villain will do his best to ensure that these breeding cattle are taken care of!" ”

Liu Yunwei nodded, and said to Chen Zitong beside him: "The materials needed by Mintun and Juntun must be guaranteed to be in sufficient supply, and if there is any difficulty, tell me in time." In addition, it must be made clear to those military households in Mintun that although the land has been allocated to them and they do not have to pay taxes for three years, as military households, they still have to pay the harvest to the general military government after the expiration of the three years. ”

Chen Zitong said: "The villain understands, but how much harvest do those military households need to hand over in the future? Shall we make it clear to everyone first? ”

"Of course, you have to make it clear in advance." Liu Yunwei thought for a while and said: "The military tun is three seven open, the tun army keeps thirty percent as military salaries, and the remaining seventy percent is handed over to the general military mansion; The Mintun side will open four or six, and the military households will keep forty percent of it, and sixty percent of the harvest will be handed over to the general military office. However, there is one thing to remind those military households, the reason why the General Military Mansion treats them so favorably is not that the town has a bodhisattva heart, but that when the strong men produced by these military households are reorganized into an army, they will not be paid military salaries; The rents of those tenants who had favoured them were offset against their salaries. In addition, in the event of a war in the future, a portion of the army's capture will be given as a reward to them. ”

After hearing this, Chen Zitong said with some hesitation: "Zongzhen, in this case, I am afraid that those military households will be dissatisfied; In addition, if there is no military salary, the morale of these guards will be very low in the future. ”

Liu Yunwei said: "This is also a matter of no way, we don't have so much money and food to support the soldiers, and the imperial court also does not have this ability, you must know that all our soldiers and horses together have more than 200,000 troops." If you tell those military households that they do not accept the arrangements arranged by the General Military Administration, or if they are not active in training in the future, the General Military Government will directly confiscate the land allocated to the military households and expel their families from Tongzhou Town. ”

Chen Zitong nodded and went down to make arrangements.

After dealing with these affairs, Liu Yunwei rushed to Tongzhou City again, preparing to discuss with the Tongzhou prefect about organizing a military parade.

On the first day of April in the forty-eighth year of Wanli (the fifth year of the Later Jin Heavenly Mandate), the lobby of the Beijing Division.

Huang Jiashan looked at the letter sent by Liu Yunwei and sighed slightly, and said to Li Linbin: "Our General Liu has sent a letter asking for help again." ”

Li Linbin also smiled bitterly and said: "I think our little general is hard-hearted, and he wants to take back the stolen money that was handed over to the court little by little." This time, what did Yunwei want? ”

Huang Jiashan said: "Drill platform! One mouth is a hundred, he thinks this is a table, chair and bench? Even the generals of the Ministry of War don't have so many drill pads! In addition, he also said that the output of the Tongzhou Town General Zuo Division was too low, so he asked the imperial court to allocate a batch of excellent guns and artillery so that some soldiers could be equipped in advance. ”

Li Linbin pondered for a while and said, "I think it's better to give some, after all, if you have soldiers and no weapons, you can't form an army." ”

Huang Jiashan nodded and said: "Okay, then give Tongzhou Town ten drill platforms, two thousand fine flint bird guns, and two thousand Miru guns, but artillery is a militaristic weapon, and it can't be given to other towns according to the rules. ”

Li Linbin got up and said, "Okay, then I'll do it now." ”

"Well, that's fine. It's time for me to go to the palace and report to Your Majesty about the current situation in Tongzhou Town. Huang Jiashan sighed and continued: "I just don't know if Your Majesty is sober today. ”

Thousands of miles away, Hetuala, Liaodong.

Nurhachi, Huang Taiji, Dai Shan, Amin, Mang Gurtai, Azig, as well as Ning Wan I, Tong Yangxing and other traitor ministers were listening attentively to a Jiala Ezhen report on the information.

"It is reported that the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom has been ill for a long time since the beginning of this year, and now he is bedridden and delirious, I am afraid that time is running out, and the political situation of the Ming State is about to usher in great changes."

"It is reported that after Liu Yunwei, the former guerrilla general of the Liaoyang General Military Office, returned to Guannei, he successively quelled the Shandong Bandit Rebellion and the Henan Exile Rebellion, and has now been transferred back to Beizhili by the Ming Imperial Court and promoted to the chief military officer of Tongzhou Town."

When they heard this, whether it was Nurhachi, Huang Taiji and the others, they were all secretly frightened: "At the beginning, Liu Yunwei was just a guerrilla general, with only a few thousand soldiers in his hands, and he had already caused so many casualties to the warriors of all banners, and now that he has been promoted to the chief officer, wouldn't it be even more difficult to deal with?" ”

Nurhachi's ugly horse face was extremely gloomy, and he asked, "How many soldiers and horses does Liu Yunwei have now?" ”

The Jiala Ezhen said: "Qi Great Khan, it is reported that when Liu Yunwei quelled the rebellion of the displaced people in Henan, he captured 180,000 rogue soldiers and collected about 100,000 displaced people. Now the Ming court has ordered it to reorganize all the 180,000 captives into the Hanwei camp, and change the Hanwei camp to the Hanwei army; And the 100,000 displaced people also began to carry out tuntian in Tongzhou, and all of them became military households under Liu Yunwei's rule. ”

Huang Taiji's face was also very bad, a pair of wolf eyes almost narrowed into a slit, and said in a deep voice: "Khan Ama, these 100,000 military households are estimated to be able to train 20,000 soldiers, plus 180,000 prisoners, and Liu Yunwei's original soldiers and horses, the strength of the Han Wei army is definitely above 200,000!" ”

All the people present had bad faces and whispered about it.

Nurhachi slowly stood up and walked around the house slowly, and everyone suddenly fell silent and looked at Nurhachi.

"This Liu Yunwei has fledgling! If we wait until its troops are trained to become an army, then my Dajin will bear the brunt and become the primary target of the Hanwei army, you must know that Liu Yunwei's family has died under our soldiers. Tell me, how should I deal with it? ”

Dai Shan first said: "Khan Ama, the Han people have always been good at infighting, why don't you implement a divisive plan against that Liu Yunwei and use the hands of the Ming court to eradicate him." ”

Huang Taiji on the side sneered and said, "Hehe, Da Beile, the emperors of the Ming Kingdom are about to enter the ground, where can they take care of these?" Besides, then Liu Yunwei used 200,000 troops next to the capital of the Ming Kingdom, which minister of the Ming Kingdom would provoke Liu Yunwei if he ate the leopard gall? ”

Dai Shan's expression changed, and in the end he didn't say anything and sat aside; while Azig and Mang Gurtai were clamoring to compete with Liu Yunwei, and were directly reprimanded by Nurhachi; And Amin was also worried, and he didn't think of any good way for a while; When those traitors saw this, they were also silent, not daring to express their opinions casually on such a major issue.

Nurhachi looked at Huang Taiji and said, "Sibeile, do you have any way?" ”

"Hui Khan Amma, the way to deal with that Liu Yunwei has not been thought of yet." Huang Taiji paused and said: "However, Erchen thinks that we shouldn't just stare at that Liu Yunwei, after all, it is not possible to train 200,000 horses into an army, not to mention that Ming Guo and Liu Yunwei have to bear a heavy burden for this." My Dajin can take advantage of this opportunity to find the weak link of the Ming Kingdom in Liaodong and further expand the strength of my Dajin. As long as there is strength, even if Liu Yunwei comes to attack in the future, my Dajin Iron Cavalry can also gather and annihilate it on the spot under the leadership of Khan Ama! ”

Nurhachi laughed when he heard this, and asked, "What does the four beylers think my big golden iron rider should look at?" ”

"Shenyang! Liaoyang! ”