Yuan Huang gradually understood what Xiao Ruxun meant, and was shocked: "What Ji Xin said...... Isn't it...... Ji Xin, that's a captive, not a young man! If we want so many captives, how can we have the money to raise them? ”

"Who said we were going to keep captives? Yuan Gong, have you heard about His Majesty's increase in mining deposits and payment of mining taxes in various places? ”

Yuan Huang was stunned: "I have heard a little, most of the courtiers are dissatisfied, the local people's grievances are boiling, those mining tax eunuchs are too arrogant, enslaving the local people, and in the long run, the world is unstable." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ”

"Is it feasible to use 100,000 young captives to open mines instead of the common people?"

Yuan Huang opened his mouth and didn't know how to express his thoughts, and it took a while to react: "Let the captives go to open mines?" ”

"Yes, since ancient times, all dynasties have had the practice of letting the children of prisoners serve as some lowly jobs, since the native can, why can't the foreign captives? Anyway, they are all captives, rather than killing or letting go, why not make them serve the Ming Dynasty, contribute labor, and die directly on the construction site? ”

Xiao Ruxun smiled coldly.

Yuan Huang shuddered.

"Duke Yuan, there is no need to have the slightest sympathy for foreign captives, the reason why the court officials oppose His Majesty's mining and harm to the place is mainly to disturb the people and harm the people, then let's directly let the Japanese prisoners go to the mines, that is dead or alive, we don't have to care, and we don't have to damage the local people's people, the prisoners are not the people of the Ming Dynasty, but war criminals, and they don't have to pay a penny to open the mines, what reason do the courtiers have to oppose His Majesty's mining?"

Yuan Huang thought about it carefully and felt that this was indeed the case, as long as people took good care of those war criminals, it would be fine, but ......

"Ji Xin supports His Majesty to open a mine?"

Yuan Huang's eyes were a little wrong.

"Of course yes, Yuan Gong doesn't know that the battle of Ningxia and the current war would not have been fought at all if His Majesty had not directly allocated money from the inner treasury?"

Yuan Huang's complexion also became not quite right.

"Where does the money come from in the treasury of Your Majesty? Naturally, these courtiers strongly opposed the excesses and miscellaneous taxes, but in other words, why did His Majesty open mines and engage in these exorbitant taxes? Why did the imperial court not allocate funds from the household department when the war started, but asked His Majesty to transfer silver taels from the inner treasury? This incident has happened many times since the Jiajing period, if there is no money in His Majesty's inner treasury, how can this battle be fought? ”

Yuan Huang had a calm face and was speechless.

"Those courtiers, others don't know, but I know it clearly! Local taxes are greedy by them again and again, taxes are getting lower and lower year by year, it stands to reason that the war is calm and production is resumed, and the taxes should be higher than before, but now the taxes are not increasing but decreasing, and even in some years, they can't even earn three million taels of money, squeezing out the people's money, and they can't get a penny, and the tax of ten taels of silver can be greedy for five taels or even six taels or even six taels or seven taels! Do they really think that everyone in the world is stupid?! ”

was yelled at by Xiao Ruxun, Yuan Huang frowned, didn't say a word, his eyes were a little unnatural, there must be fools that Xiao Ruxun said, but it definitely does not include this old gentleman, he saw everything through before he was disheartened and retired from the rivers and lakes no longer being an official, and tried to save the country and the people from another path.

"I am a military general, everything only looks at the result, not the process, I only know who supported me in this battle, who gave me money, who gave me food and ordnance, that's all, I only know that at least part of the money from these mines is used for military spending, and the taxes that are embezzled are not used for one or two places, and all of them are spent by corrupt officials! Then I naturally support mining!

Of course, I have also read books, I also know how difficult the people's livelihood is, I also know that it is not easy to survive, I am not a cold-blooded person, I also feel uncomfortable when I see that the people of the Ming Dynasty are not full, so I think of replacing the people of the Ming Dynasty with captives, so that they can rest for a while, save a little money for the court, and give the people a little more respite, this is all I can do, and it is also the only way that I, as a military general, can save money for the Ming Dynasty, Yuan Gong! Am I wrong? ”

Yuan Huang lowered his head and didn't say a word.

After a long time, Yuan Huang sighed deeply.

"Ji Xin, sometimes, if you see it too thoroughly, it's not good."

"Yuan Gong, this is the way of survival of civil officials, Xiao Ruxun is a military general, or a very awkward person, obviously not qualified to manage, but always thinking about what should not be thought, non-Guotai and the people can not be happy, only the heart is happy, Ruxun can be happy, if you can't convince your heart, then even if you have the wealth of the Wanguan family to rival the country, the left and right hugging the beauty like a cloud, you are also unhappy, rather than being depressed for a lifetime, it is better to let go and die, worthy of the man."

Yuan Huang raised his head and looked at Xiao Ruxun deeply.

"How good would it be if you were to enter the Shihanlin? But why are you a general......

"Ye Gong also said this to me, I said to him, Daming, not the Ming of Jinshi, not the Ming of Hanlin, but the Ming of the people of the world, the rise and fall of the country, the responsibility of the husband, not the responsibility of the first or second Jinshi Hanlin, although Xun has a low status, but also has the ambition to serve the country, this body is not destroyed, this will not be swerving."

Yuan Huang looked at Xiao Ruxun in a daze, and for a while, he seemed to close his eyes with a guilty face.

This is enough to make the world's Jinshi Hanlin ashamed to death! Ji Xin, the old man is not as good as you! ”

After speaking, Yuan Huang stood up, sighed, and slowly walked out of the house.

On the fifth day of October, 10,000 Shandong soldiers arrived at Zhenjiang Fort one after another, on the seventh day of October, Xuanda crossbowmen arrived at Zhenjiang Fort one after another, and on the tenth day of October, Zhejiang's Southern Soldier Group arrived one after another, and a large number of gunners and artillery arrived.

Xiao Ruxun began to cross the river and return north on the sixth day of October, inspected the army at Zhenjiang Fort, calmed the morale of the army, arranged for the army's food, clothing and housing, and then brought a mixed military medical battalion composed of more than 200 North Korean and Ming doctors, specially for some soldiers who were sick on the way to see and treat, some headaches and brain hot water and soil symptoms can be cured soon, Xiao Ruxun is most worried that so many people came at once, but don't cause a plague.

Then, Xiao Ruxun issued the first military order, all soldiers are not allowed to drink raw water, not to eat raw food, water must be boiled before drinking, food must be eaten cooked food, must not be relieved of hands anywhere, must be relieved of hands at the specified place, if not complied with, once found, the first time the cane is punished ten times, the second cane is punished fifteen, the third cane is punished twenty, and the fourth time is beheaded to show the public.

Then there is the general army, deputy general soldiers, and general guerrilla generals who have come to the war to meet and get acquainted with each other, to see which people can be trusted and can be used, which people are reckless and cannot be used without permission, and which people are dissatisfied with the commander-in-chief army of their age and want to find a good man, and so on.

Commanding the army is a very troublesome thing, commanding an army from different places in the south and north of the world is a difficult thing, the Ming Dynasty has always led the troops like this, the soldiers do not know the generals, at the beginning of the founding of the country due to the great prestige of the generals, the soldiers are good at fighting, such disadvantages are not big, but with the passage of time, there are fewer and fewer generals who can fight well, and the soldiers are getting weaker and weaker, so the problem is very big.

How the Lord will run in with the various forces is a very important matter.

Therefore, Xiao Ruxun intentionally or unintentionally connived at the news that Xiao Ruxun scolded Li Rusong for twenty in the barracks.

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