Two days after the Ningyuan mutiny was pacified, Emperor Chongzhen successively received detailed reports from Lu Shanji and Fang Zhenghua. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Lu Shanji truthfully reported the situation after he returned to Ningyuan, and also reported the progress of the construction of the fortress in Yizhou New Town, as well as some ideas of the Jiliao Governor's Mansion for the defense adjustment of Liaodong Town.

And after Fang Zhenghua reported what he knew about the beginning and end of the Ningyuan mutiny, he also reported to the emperor the execution of Zuo Liangyu.

The execution of Zuo Liangyu is, of course, one of the tasks assigned to Fang Zhenghua by Emperor Chongzhen.

There were many heart-wrenching events in the history of the late Ming Dynasty, and what Emperor Chongzhen is doing now is to make these events that make countless people in later generations sad as much as possible.

If Zuo Liangyu is really loyal to the country, Nanming may not be able to gain a firm foothold, and it can even be said that if it were not for his self-respect for raising thieves, Beijing City may not fall in March of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen.

In the days of the Ningyuan Mutiny, Emperor Chongzhen had to go to the Forbidden City outside the Xuanwu Gate and the Jingshan Mountain next to the Beihai in Xiyuan every day to "hang out", and sit under a crooked-necked old locust tree that has grown for an unknown number of years.

Gong Yonggu, Wang Chengen, Gao Wencai and others who accompanied him naturally didn't know what the emperor was doing.

However, now Emperor Chongzhen himself is clear, and what he is looking at now is the place where he died seventeen years later in history.

And at that time, only Wang Chengen, the eunuch, will follow him all the way here and die here.

Three hundred years later, it will be opened as a people's park, and it will be commemorated by the people of later generations, and the monument will be engraved with the words Ming Sizong martyrdom or the monument to the 300th anniversary of the martyrdom of Emperor Chongzhen.

People who come here to visit will sigh about the Jiashen National Revolution of that year, and some people will even mourn him, the Ming Emperor who was martyred for the country.

It's just that the mourning of future generations is meaningless to him. Even for Huaxia at that time, it was meaningless.

And now all he wants to do is to stop it from happening again.

What is the use of lamentations, regrets, mourning, and even tears? Instead of letting the descendants of China cherish with infinite sadness, it is better to let them look back with infinite pride!

Emperor Chongzhen originally thought that his actions in the past half a year had brought a lot of changes to the Ming Dynasty, and he had some slackness in the things that should have been guarded against, but this Ningyuan mutiny made him suddenly awake and even frightened, because the inertia of history is so strong, although a lot of adjustments have been made, it still has not been able to change the progress of history.

In fact, if he is really familiar with the history of the late Ming Dynasty, he will know that the historical process of the Ming Dynasty is actually quietly changing.

For example, the Guyuan Mutiny and the Jizhen Mutiny, which preceded the Ningyuan Mutiny, did not occur one after another in early July, as in history.

Because today's Guyuan and Jizhen have no basis for mutiny.

The arrival of Yuan Chonghuan and the relocation of Guyuan Town made the soil for mutiny completely nonexistent.

At the same time, due to the output of Huamachi Salt and the opening of the border market, today's Dingyu Town has changed the poverty of Guyuan Town in the past, and is about to become one of the richest border towns among the three towns in the northwest.

The lives of the soldiers in the border towns have also bid farewell to the extreme poverty that made people feel hopeless when they think about it, and positive changes are quietly taking place.

The same is true of Jizhen, with the Santun Battalion and Jianchang Battalion under the leadership of Wang Shiqin and You Shiwei, it has greatly changed the pattern of the border army in Jizhen in the past. The Santun camp and Jianchang camp that had retreated to the Guannai no longer became a hidden danger in Jizhen, but began to play its due role.

The soldiers of the Santun Battalion and the Jianchang Battalion, without the protection of the Great Wall Pass, also realized the danger of their own situation, and quickly got rid of the past passable and careless, not only building the city outside the pass more actively, but also training more hard.

Therefore, in history, the mutiny that occurred on July 20 in the first year of Chongzhen in Santun Camp in Jizhen did not happen.

And this is the change brought by Emperor Chongzhen now, although the change is not big, but it is a good start after all.

At this moment, Emperor Chongzhen sat in the study of Qianqing Palace, watching Lu Shanji and Fang Zhenghua's recital, and his heart was full of thoughts.

The pacification of the Ningyuan mutiny, especially those who deserved it in history but escaped, all died this time, which made Emperor Chongzhen deeply pleased.

But he knew that three months after the Ningyuan Mutiny in history, there was another mutiny in Jinzhou, and the reason was still non-payment.

Therefore, he quickly agreed to Lu Shanji's request. On the one hand, it was approved and agreed to make up the arrears for Liaodong Town, and the money, grain, and silver for the second half of the year were released in advance. On the other hand, it was approved and agreed to Lu Shanji's reorganization of Liaodong Town, referring to Sun Chengzong's practice in that year, and dividing all the existing armies in Liaodong Zhen into five routes: front, back, left, right, and middle:

First, with He Kegang, the deputy commander-in-chief of Liaozhen, as the commander of the front road, he commanded the defenders of Jinzhou, Dalinghe, Guangning and other places, and referred to the practice of Yizhou New City to build a fortress for Jinzhou City;

Second, Jin Guan, the deputy commander-in-chief of Liaozhen and the defender of Juehua Island, was the commander of the right road, commanding the naval division and defenders of Juehua Island, and using Juehua Island as the grain and grass transfer place of Liaodong Town, and building a fortress on Juehua Island to facilitate long-term holding;

Third, Lin Maochun, the deputy general of Shicheng Island in Dongjiang Town, was promoted to the deputy commander-in-chief of Liaodong Town, and was the commander of the left road of Liaodong Town, stationed in the newly built Yizhou City;

Fourth, Du Gui, the deputy general of Changshan Island in Dongjiang Town, was promoted to the deputy commander-in-chief of Liaozhen Town, and was the commander of the back road of Liaodong Town, commanding the defenders of Ningyuan and the Zhongzuo and Zhonghou stations south of Ningyuan;

In the end, with the chief military officer of Liaodong Town, Man Gui as the commander of the five routes, led the cavalry to garrison Tashan Fort as the middle road, and at the same time commanded the defenders of Songshan, Xingshan and Tashan, and built a fort in Tashan, and built a fort in Tashan, and built a fort in Tashan as a city, and responded to the left road ahead.

At the same time, several generals who participated in the quelling of the rebellion in Liaodong Town, such as Wu Xiang, Yang Guozhu, Zu Dabi, Zu Kuan and others, also had their own rewards.

Lu Shanji also suggested that the emperor should approve Chen Renxi, the imperial historian of the supervising army, to take the supervising army standard battalion to sit in Yizhou, the deputy envoy of the military garrison, Guo Guangsheng, to participate in the politics of Liaodong Zuo to sit in Jinzhou, and to select the governor Langzhong to sit in Juehua Island, and continue to sit in Ningyuan, and control the middle and back roads nearby.

Emperor Chongzhen naturally fully agreed with Lu Shanji's proposal, and soon transferred it to the Military Aircraft Department for coordination and implementation.

Needless to say, the importance of Uiju was originally proposed by the emperor to build the castle of Uiju.

And Juehua Island is not to mention. This is the island of Ningyuan overseas, and it is also called Chrysanthemum Island in later generations.

Although the island is not big, but the location is important, it is very close to Ningyuan City, there are boats and boats of sailors, if Ningyuan changes, and even Liaoxi changes, the sailors of Juehua Island can be reinforced.

Juehua Island is located in the sea, if you can build a city on the island, it is definitely a strategic place that can be attacked, retreated and defended.

The other, the selection and transfer of the generals of Dongjiang Town, also won the heart of the emperor, so naturally there was no reason to disagree.

Veterans like Wang Fu, who followed Mao Wenlong to open up Dongjiang Town in the early days, and now continue to stay in Dongjiang Town, not only can not give full play to their original wisdom, but also suppress the growth of young generals under Mao Wenlong, and transferring them out is a multi-win for both the imperial court and Dongjiang Town.

After receiving Lu Shanji and Fang Zhenghua's report on the quelling of the Ningyuan mutiny, the Beijing Division Cabinet and the Military Aircraft Department naturally had a joyful atmosphere.

The worries of the previous days seem to be superfluous, and Lu Shanji is no worse than Yuan Chonghuan.

In the afternoon of the same day, Emperor Chongzhen came to the military aircraft department and met with the military aircraft ministers who had been sitting in the military aircraft department for the past few days and were ready to deal with emergencies at any time.

Zhang Weixian, Sun Chengzong, and Li Banghua, the three ministers of military aircraft, all congratulated the emperor, and at the same time felt the necessity of issuing military salaries as soon as possible.

Therefore, as soon as the emperor proposed, the three of them immediately agreed, and it was soon agreed that the salaries of the towns in the nine borders would be paid by the inner treasury, and the salaries and silver of the guards and battalions in the inland and coastal provinces would be verified by the household department and the local authorities.

As for the salaries of the towns on the nine sides, there is now a basic fixed number, calculated according to the average annual salary of 20 taels per person for the battalion soldiers and the guards of the battalion and the guards, plus the Beijing camp, the salary that Chongzhen needs to pay in the first year is a total of more than 8 million taels.

The grain and wages of the soldiers and horses in the five towns of Lintao, Gansu, Ningxia, Dinglu and Yansui in the northwest were transferred and supported by the household division located in Luoyang, and the rest of the border towns such as Datong, Xuanfu, Jizhen, Shanhai, Liaodong and Dongjiang were transferred and supported by the Beijing Division, and all the salaries and silver issued were paid in Chongzhen silver dollars.

In this way, it was actually equivalent to saving 1.6 million taels of silver, so the payment method of Chongzhen silver dollars was quickly unanimously approved by the Military Aircraft Department and the cabinet.

Now, with the opening of the Chinese law again, even the northwest towns with the most expensive grain prices a year ago have now greatly reduced the price of grain, and each load of brown rice is equivalent to one tael or six yuan of silver, which is equivalent to one hundred and twenty catties in later generations.

Although the soldier's monthly salary of two taels of silver is not much, it can at least allow the family to have porridge to drink, and occasionally be able to eat a full meal.

In the next ten days, the news of the voluntain of Ningyuan, as well as the imperial court's extermination of the mutinous officials and the eleventh slaughter of the mutinous soldiers, soon spread throughout the Great Wall and the north and south of the river.

The emperor's transfer and reuse of the generals of Dongjiang Town also made Dongjiang Town excited, compared with the suspicion and vigilance of Dongjiang Town in the imperial court a year or two ago, and now it is simply the best period since the opening of Dongjiang Town.

The promotion of Wang Fu, Lin Maochun, Du Gui and others not only made them happy, but also made Mao Wenlong secretly happy in his heart, and at the same time let Mao Wenlong's righteous sons and grandchildren see opportunities and hopes.

Regarding the positions left by these people after leaving, Mao Wenlong naturally also made suggestions to the emperor, and forwarded them to the Military Aircraft Department through Sun Guozhen, the governor of Denglai, and Emperor Chongzhen naturally had no reason to disagree.

As a result, the names of those people who have left their names in history have come forward, such as Shen Shikui got the opportunity to guard Shicheng Island, Yan Zhengzhong got the opportunity to guard Changshan Island, and Mao Shishi, Mao Chenglu, Mao Zhongming, Mao Kexi and others have also been promoted from guerrilla to deputy generals, replacing the veterans who have been transferred, and guarding the key places of Dongjiang Town outside the Phi Island, such as Tieshan City, Guanglu Island, Yuncong Island and Shenmi Island. Of course, that's all for later.

Emperor Chongzhen's killing of Ning Yuan's rebellious soldiers made the generals and soldiers of the nine towns in awe, but the emperor's next actions made them grateful.

That is the one-time payment of military salary in the first year of Chongzhen.

Although for the low-level soldiers, a year's salary will not be issued at one time, but since they have paid their own money and issued a year's salary to the towns, then the superintendent army is in charge, whether it is a month or a March, it will always be issued to his own hands in the future.

At the same time, Emperor Chongzhen also agreed with the cabinet that the annual salary of officials would be increased by ten taels per member, and the silver coin mints set up by the household department in Beijing, Nanjing and Luoyang would be distributed in the form of Chongzhen silver dollars.

Therefore, all of a sudden, the nine-sided army was settled, and what followed, of course, was that the people of the court and the people of the world were settled.

Taking out so much silver at one time, of course, this Chongzhen Emperor also feels pain and reluctance in his heart, but the crooked neck old locust tree on Jingshan makes him dare not hesitate anymore, if the silver is gone, he can find another way, if Da Ming dies because of this, his sin will be great.

As for the officials in the world, because their number is too large, several times or even ten times that of officials, their salaries have to be left to a later date.