Today's imperial history of the superintendent army of the towns on the nine sides is different from the ministers of the army in the past. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

These Jinshi were born in the science and Taoism officials, when they arrived in the border towns, no matter what they planned in their hearts, what they showed outside was definitely the decent style of Confucian gentlemen, not only not greedy for money, not lustful, not occupational, and not empty salaries, compared with the eunuchs of the prison army in the past, they were simply honest and honest I don't know how many times, so it only took half a year to win the hearts of the soldiers and soldiers in the towns.

More important than this point is that these supervising military imperial histories not only represent the emperor in charge of the important powers of military salaries, money, food, military discipline, and meritorious service in each town, but also recruit troops and horses, build their own standard battalions for supervising the army, and have independent military power that is relatively independent of the border town battalion and guard system.

The standard battalion of the supervising army, with a minimum of 3,000 and a large number of 5,000, is also a force that must not be underestimated in the border town far away from the Emperor of Tiangao.

In particular, these imperial histories of the supervising army, as well as the imperial gift of Shang Fang's sword and the right to perform secret folds, any of these alone is a great existence, and it is impossible for these border town generals not to pay attention to it.

After Yuan Chonghuan took office as the governor of the three sides, the first thing he thought of was to try his best to win the support of the imperial historians of the border town supervisors under him.

Now the words of Qu Shiruo and Shi Gongsheng have at least shown the firm attitude of Yuan Chonghuan, the superintendent of Ningxia Town and Guyuan Town.

Speaking of which, I have to say a few more words, at the end of the Apocalypse and the beginning of Chongzhen in history, Yuan Chonghuan's reputation in the Ming Dynasty was really in full swing, but there was no one in the towns on the nine sides who didn't know Yuan Chonghuan's name.

Yuan Chonghuan's reputation for successive victories against Jianyu also gave Yuan Chonghuan unparalleled prestige in the army of the entire Nine Border Towns.

Whether it is He Huchen in Ningxia Town, Yang Qi in Guyuan Town, or He Shiyu in Yansui Town, in front of Yuan Chonghuan, a thin Lingnan man, he is honest and obedient.

This kind of worship is not because Yuan Chonghuan has a sword of Shangfang, but he can cut it first and then play anything, but because in front of Yuan Chonghuan, a civil official, and his record against Jianyu, these generals are also really admired in their hearts.

Yuan Chonghuan quietly listened to Qu Shiji and Shi Gongsheng's words, first smiled slightly, stroked his beard with his hand, and then hugged his fists and said: "Brother Jiaxuan, brother Xingzhi, I understand your kindness first." It would be more appropriate for me to write to the Holy Lord. Today's saints are wise and wise, and there will be no twists and turns. ”

Qu style is the word Jiaxuan, Shi Gongsheng is the word line, Yuan Chonghuan and both of them are from Jinshi, and they are called by each other, which is more cordial.

After saying this, after a pause, Yuan Chonghuan continued: "The governor moved to Huamachi, the matter involves Guyuan and Ningxia two towns, and the main concern of the ministry is to cause your misunderstanding, and now you have no opinion, then it is the best."

"The headquarters of the Governor of Huamachi is quite dilapidated, and most of the facilities along the border camp are gone, and in a hurry, the Governor's Residence cannot be moved here.

"The renovation of the original line and garrison barracks, but also to bother General He and Brother Jiaxuan to recruit craftsmen and men in advance, prepare in advance, the required expenses, Ningxia Town will advance the expenses, and later will be allocated by the governor's yamen."

This time, Yuan Chonghuan came to Guyuan to take office, and he came with a large amount of military salary.

The emperor allocated him 300,000 taels of silver for training his troops, and the military salaries that were repaid to the towns on the three sides again reached 500,000 taels, and on average, the military salaries of each of the five towns of Yansui, Guyuan, Lintao, Ningxia, and Gansu were about 100,000 taels.

Now the reissued to Yansui has been handed over to the superintendent of Yansui Town, the imperial historian Ma Maocai, and the one given to Guyuan and Ningxia has also been given to the superintendent imperial historian Shi Gongsheng and Qu Shiji.

Therefore, at this time, Ningxia Town should be regarded as having unprecedented money and food.

Yuan Chonghuan stayed in Ningxia Town for another three days, and waited for Mei Zhihuan, the governor of Gansu, Zhang Jiamo, the chief soldier of Gansu Town, and Liu Zhilun, the superintendent of Gansu Town.

At this time, Mei Zhihuan, who was fifty years old, was a Jinshi in the thirty-second year of Wanli, and he was also a capable minister in the late Ming Dynasty, like Yuan Chonghuan, he was a civil and military all-rounder.

But in history, in the winter of the second year of Chongzhen, when the Later Jin invaded Gyeonggi, Mei Zhihuan led his soldiers and horses to Beijing to fight against the Later Jin army, but because of the lack of food, the tired and sleepy Gansu army was quickly defeated by the Later Jin army, and most of the soldiers under his command fled to Shaanxi.

These routs occupy the mountain as the king, but the Shaanxi thieves who have been on the verge of extermination suddenly grow stronger, Mei Zhihuan drew his sword in shame and committed suicide, and was finally rescued, and the court also remembered the previous merits, but only removed him from his position, and did not give a punishment.

Of course, at this time, Mei Zhihuan didn't know what happened later, and when he saw Yuan Chonghuan's face, they also cherished each other. And Liu Zhilun, the imperial history of the supervising army, is an admirer of Yuan Chonghuan. Therefore, when they meet, it is natural that the host and guest are happy.

Yuan Chonghuan met with Mei Zhihuan, the governor of Gansu, and others in Ningxia Wei, and made up the military salaries owed by Gansu Town according to the actual number, and then seriously explained the affairs of recruiting people and reclamation, and then took Yang Qi, the chief soldier of Guyuan Town, and Shi Gongsheng, the superintendent of Guyuan Town, left the Ningxia Acropolis and returned to Guyuan along the original road.

On the first day after leaving Ningxia and returning to Guyuan, Yuan Chonghuan sent an envoy to Jingshi at an expedited speed of 600 miles to send his preparations to move the trilateral governors to Huamachi in Ningxia.

In this era, the post station system along the border was still relatively sound, and the meaning of 600 miles of urgency was that it took 600 miles to gallop in one day and night.

In this way, ten days later, Emperor Chongzhen saw Yuan Chonghuan's first note after taking office in the Forbidden City, and in the following two days, he successively received the secret fold of Ma Maocai, the imperial supervisor of Yansui Town, and Qu Shiji, the imperial historian of Ningxia Town.

A few things that Yuan Chonghuan requested, of course, the Chongzhen Emperor quickly approved and agreed.

The secret fold of Qu Shiruo also reported that Yuan Chonghuan went to Ningxia to inspect the situation of reclamation along the river and border defense, especially Huamachi, from which the emperor himself certainly knew more details.

At the same time, Emperor Chongzhen also learned more truly and concretely about the current drought and famine in the trilateral land of Shaanxi and the chaos of Wang Jiayin, Gao Yingxiang and other bandit leaders from the music and secret twists and turns of Yuan Chonghuan and Ma Maocai.

In particular, the secret fold of the Yansui Town Supervisor Yu Shi Ma Maocai, every word of which is shocking, the famine in northern Shaanxi and other places has reached the point of cannibalism.

I thought that Emperor Chongzhen, who would be in turmoil in northern Shaanxi after the second year of Chongzhen, suddenly felt a little scared, but fortunately he made a certain precautionary arrangement in advance, otherwise the consequences would be really unimaginable.

Emperor Chongzhen transferred the twists and turns of Yuan Chonghuan and Ma Maocai to several ministers of military aircraft, and then quickly agreed on measures according to the emperor's wishes.

First of all, it was agreed that the governor of Shaanxi Province would move to Huamachi, followed by the general military office and the soldiers and horses of Guyuan Town, most of them followed the transfer of Huamachi and Dingbian guards, and Guyuan Town was changed to Dingyu Town from then on, and the salaries of the officers and soldiers under his command remained unchanged.

The second is to set up a field along the side of the flower horse pond to trade with the Ordos tribes, and exchange the pond salt and tea for the horses and furs of the Ordos tribes.

In the end, it agreed to all the measures taken by Yuan Chonghuan to recruit displaced people from Shaanxi and go north to Ningxia to reclaim along the river, allowed him to dispose of the affairs of the northwest reclamation at a cheap price, and allowed him to use the salt produced in Huamachi to trade with the salt merchants in the interior directly according to the Chinese law, and the proceeds were to recruit the Shaanxi refugees to reclaim on the spot.

This is a reply to Yuan Chonghuan. The reply to Ma Maocai was to order him to lead the standard battalion of the supervised army from Yulin as soon as possible, move to Yan'an Prefecture, and find a suitable place to recruit people to reclaim land and raise military rations in the vicinity of Yan'an Prefecture, and at the same time allow him to reserve grain and salary to help the hungry people in the jurisdiction of Yan'an Prefecture.