It turned out that the army of the Ming Dynasty, especially the guards, would hardly allocate much military spending from the state. First, the imperial court is not confused, these guards are so bad that they are almost equivalent to ordinary farmers, and it is better to enrich the border army than to spend their limited military spending on them.

Secondly, the establishment of the Weisuo Army began in the Hongwu period. The Ming Dynasty implemented a strict household registration system, and the common people were divided into private households, merchants, military households, and artisan households, which remained unchanged for life, and their children and grandchildren also had to do the same job. In other words, the children and grandchildren of craftsmen are also craftsmen in the future, and the children and grandchildren of military households can only serve as soldiers for generations.

In the past two hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, the military households have multiplied and grown, and I don't know how many people there are, and the little land in the guard house can't support so many people at all.

As a result, there are guards who operate the shipping industry and even engage in smuggling. Because they are an army, it is not convenient for the local government to investigate and collect taxes. For these famous halls engaged in by Wei, the imperial court also turned a blind eye.

As far as Sun Yuan knew, the group of officers of Dahewei were more greedy than the other, and they thought that the two sea ships and the navy were set up for smuggling.

Sun Yuan was originally a native of Yangzhou Prefecture, so he was naturally clear about the local situation

。 He had already figured out before that Yangzhou Town was located in the wealthy area south of the Yangtze River, which was the core area of Ming Dynasty rule. More than sixty percent of the land in that place was annexed by the big bureaucrats and big landlords, and as for the salt industry and the water transportation, they were also controlled by them. Although he is now a small warlord, he naturally dares to rashly set foot in the two fields of salt and Cao, which will inevitably cause a great backlash from them. Salt and Cao, who are two extremely wealthy businesses, do not occupy a few court grandmothers behind them, to tell the truth, even if Sun Yuan is now famous all over the world, it is nothing in the eyes of the big people.

Instead of spending energy on this, it is better to think of other ways out.

Shipping is a good idea, since the Ming Dynasty implemented the policy of closing the country, as long as you are harmful to the ship, a trip in the ocean, it is ten times more profitable.

The silk and porcelain of the Ming Dynasty can be grabbed overseas, and you only need to run towards Japan, and you can't get back any kind of money.

Didn't Zheng Chenggong's family first become pirates, and then start by controlling the sea trade of Fujian and Zhejiang?

If a navy can be formed and the sea trade can be brought to the scale of the Zheng family, it will be a piece of cake to feed a military town.

This is also the reason why Sun Yuan chose Yangzhou to open his teeth and build a mansion, that is because it is close to the sea, but not because he is a native of Yangzhou.

After being appointed by the imperial court, he had ordered the 5,000 soldiers of the Ningxiang Army to prepare and begin to march south. In the future, he plans to take Chongming Sha as his base camp and recuperate. At this time, Chongming Island was smaller than modern society, only one-third of the size, and was divided into four islands. They are Pingyangsha, Changsha, Sansha and Nansha.

"It turns out that Dahewei also thought about doing sea trade back then, great, wonderful!" Sun Yuan's face was happy.

"Although I have the rules to go to the sea, there are still many people who do it in the sea trade. For example, the old man knew that there were many merchants in Tianjin Wei and Shandong who were running the sea line from Shandong to the Japanese slaves, but these maritime merchants all had backgrounds, and the people did not raise officials and not be held accountable. Moreover, I don't have a sailor in the Ming Dynasty, and the ships of those maritime merchants are big and fast, even if the officials have the heart to arrest them, they can't catch them. Liu Yuliang sighed: "However, if you really want to do sea trade at the beginning, you have to hide it from the imperial court." Also, as the old man of the two sea ships just said, they have been suspended for so many years, and no one can figure out what they look like now. ”

Hearing him say this, Sun Yuan's heart was cold. Yes, ships have to go to the dry dock for repairs every year. It's been stopped for so many years now, maybe it has already been corroded into a pile of rotten wood by the sea.

Moreover, the cost of sea vessels is extremely high, and they cannot be manufactured in a short period of time

。

Liu Yuliang: "In addition, I don't know if the water army of Dahewei is still there, maybe it has already been disbanded." ”

"Hey, then there's no way, let's talk about everything when we go back to Yangzhou!"

As soon as Lao Liu said this, Sun Yuan was even more depressed. After thinking about it, I felt that after all, the capital was thousands of miles away from Yangzhou, and although I had been a thousand-household officer of Dahewei before, I had always been marginalized, and I was blind to the situation in the Command Division. There is no point in talking to Liu Ge on paper now, everything will be talked about when he returns to his hometown.

There is no endless road, even if there are no sea ships, can't you build them slowly or buy them slowly? As for the lack of qualified sailors, it is a big deal to recruit and train.

By the way, Father Garcia asked a few days ago when he would be able to go south. At the beginning, Sun Yuan promised him that once the Ningxiang army returned to Jiangnan, he would come forward to build a church and help promote the mission. The Jesuit missionary activity in the Beijing area has come to a standstill and is unlikely to open up for many years in the foreseeable future. So, Garcia decided to try a different place, and Jiangnan might be a good choice.

During that conversation, Garcia had also mentioned that he had written to Ho Kyong, that is, Macau, to ask his acquaintances there to bring letters back to Europe to see if he could recruit sailors, prisoners, and adventurers who knew how to sail to China.

Garcia said that the last time he wrote was two years ago, and that there should be news.

God willing, I hope everything goes well.

……

Feelings of grief and loss can be much dissipated if you can confide in your friends. After saying so many words to Sun Yuan, and being comforted by him for a long time, Liu Yuliang seemed to have figured it out, and said with a smile: "What Taichu said is that the old man is already old, and his body is not boneless. He has been out of office for many years, ranked as a member of the cabinet, relieved the siege of Jinan, broke the Jiannu, and was knighted Wu Dingbo. Self-cultivation, family harmony, governing the country, and leveling the world, all of them have not fallen, and they can be regarded as complete merits. It's also time to think about retreating, our son of heaven is a bad waiter, don't be unsure when the time comes. Since the matter of Ji Liao, the governor of the capital, can't be done, after a few days, the old man will go up to the fold and beg the bones of the monarch's father and return to the countryside. ”

Sun Yuan: "It is naturally the best for the elder to think like this, and the last general is also happy for the elder of the pavilion." ”

Speaking of this, he suddenly remembered something: "The last general once heard the elder Ge say that Enxiang's hometown is Mianzhu, Sichuan. At this moment, there are rebels in Henan and Huguang, and the places in Shaanxi are not peaceful, but I am afraid that it will not be so easy to return to my hometown

。 ”

If history does not change greatly, Zhang Xianzhong will turn around and attack Sichuan next year after rebelling against Gucheng again this time. In the next ten years, Sichuan will become a big battlefield. Especially after the Qing troops entered Sichuan, the entire people of Bashu would be slaughtered. By the early years of Kangxi, there were only about 100 households left in the entire Shu region.

Sun Yuan persuaded Liu Yuliang to pay tribute, originally because he didn't want him to be in the chaos after Li Zicheng entered Beijing. But he didn't want to, and now he had to throw him into a bigger fire pit.

"This ......" Liu Yuliang was a little depressed.

Sun Yuan said with a smile: "Elder Ge, otherwise, you might as well go to Jiangnan to live temporarily." In his early years, the last general's family was poor and he spent a few days in Suzhou. The pavilions and pavilions in the city are particularly beautiful, every time I pass there, the last general is envious and envious in his heart, and his heart says, there is heaven above, and there is Suzhou and Hangzhou below, if I have money in the future, I will definitely put a place in this city to the courtyard for the elderly. ”

Liu Yuliang smiled: "Isn't this the beginning of the world where he can replace him?" ”

Sun Yuan: "Don't hide it from the elders, the last general has brought soldiers for so many years, and the eunuchs are very rich." A while ago, people were already asking for land in Suzhou and repairing the yard. Or, the last general will also build a house for the elder pavilion? "There's no way, Liu Ge is really good to himself. I can have today, it all depends on Lao Liutou. To be a man who thinks of the source of drinking water, he can't just repay his kindness.

Moreover, in his heart, Sun Yuan suddenly had an idea. If history really didn't change much, the Ming Dynasty would have perished in a few years. At that time, Nanjing will become the capital of the Southern Ming Dynasty. At that time, the shelves of a new small court will have to be rebuilt. If Liu Yuliang was in Nanjing at that time, with his status, status and prestige, he would definitely have a place in the cabinet as soon as he came out. Perhaps, the position of the first assistant of the cabinet can also be contested.

When the time comes, Lao Liu Tou will be above 10,000 people under the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty, covering the sky with one hand, and my Sun Yuan will also have many benefits in leading troops outside.

Oh, wonderful, wonderful!

"This ......"

Sun Yuan said eagerly: "Elder Ge, would it be good to be a neighbor with the last general in the future?" In the future, if you have leisure, you can also go to see the fishing fire of the maple leaf crossing and listen to the bell of Hanshan Temple, wouldn't it be happy? ”

After that, he groaned:

"The east, west, north and south bridges face each other, and the bridge is painted with three hundred reflections of the river city

Spring City 370 Bridge, both sides of the Zhu Lou sandwich wicker

Green waves, east, west, north and south, red bar 390 bridges"

Liu Yuliang also sang loudly: "Suzhou is good, the head of the chicken is planted in water, and every doubtful pearl is ten times, the soft fragrance is milky, and the small courtyard is secluded."

。 Listening to what you said at the beginning, it aroused the old man's interest. It's good to be older than Suzhou! ”

Both of them laughed, and immediately agreed that after Sun Yuan got married in Beijing, the two would go to Jiangnan together.

Liu Yuliang is a literati after all, and he naturally has a romantic temperament, so he decided to move his family to Jiangnan immediately. Anyway, the money for repairing the house was paid by Sun Yuan, but it was disrespectful.

Seeing that Liu Ge finally didn't have to die in the slaughterhouse in Sichuan, Sun Yuan was very happy, so he asked him how he got the idea of leading a town in Yangzhou.

Liu Yuliang said that the matter is actually very simple, with Sun Yuan's merits, serving as the chief military officer of Xuanfu to lead the Ningxiang Army, defending the northwest gate of the capital and resisting the southern invasion of Jiannu is naturally the best choice. However, this touched Yang Sichang's interests in Xuanda Town, and naturally he had to be strongly opposed. In addition, Sun Yuan's scene in the Lu Xiang Shengling Hall angered Emperor Chongzhen, so Yang Sichang took the opportunity to drive Sun Yuan out of Gyeonggi.

According to the system of the Ming Dynasty, the appointment and dismissal of such a major personnel as the military officer of the Yizhen Sect was not something that the emperor said alone, but had to be discussed by the cabinet and the six ministries.

At this time, the more than 100,000 taels of silver that Sun Yuan threw out finally came into play, and the civil officials all said that with the merits and combat effectiveness of the Ningxiang Army, it should be used to guard the door, how could he be punished for his crime because of a song "Appeal to Heartfelt Love", isn't this a closed speech? No, no, absolutely not.

As a result, the civil officials attacked Yang Sichang at full speed.

The civil officials of the Ming Dynasty loved money, but there was no limit, they even dared to take Zhang Xianzhong's money. When Zhang Xianzhong was recruited, in order to retain the troop establishment and was placed in Gucheng by the imperial court, he sent people to Beijing to meet people and gave money. In this way, Zhang Xianzhong can preserve his strength and have his current position in Anti-Valley City.

However, civil servants still have an admirable merit----- since they have your money, they really have to do things for you.

Yang Sichang suddenly couldn't bear it, but Xuanfu was his back garden, so he naturally couldn't let others get involved, so he gritted his teeth and carried it.

At this time, someone threw out a solution, saying that Sun Yuan's credit was too high

。 It is reasonable and reasonable, and they all give a town alone, so that people can make the best use of it. Recently, the Huguang thief army has risen again, and it is necessary to guard against the resurgence of the Chuzhou incident in that year. Ma Shiying, the governor of Fengyang, although there are many people, they are all new troops, and there are only more than 1,000 people who can go to the battlefield. Coupled with the Nanjing Army, there are only tens of thousands of soldiers. This amount of troops, used to defend Nanjing, is obviously not enough. If the thief army advances eastward, once the transportation is cut off and the south of the Yangtze River erodes, how can these northern provinces be maintained?

Since Jiangnan is so important, you have to choose a tiger general to guard it. It is better to send Sun Yuan to Yangzhou, which can not only guard Nanjing, but also keep the Cao Yun and salt transportation from losing.

As soon as this proposal came out, everyone echoed it.

As long as Yang Sichang can drive Sun Yuan and Ning Xiangjun out of the capital, he doesn't bother to pay attention to where he goes and what kind of official he is.

Moreover, as the most strategically far-sighted military strategist in the late Ming Dynasty, Yang Sichang naturally knew the important position of Yangzhou in the politics of the Ming Empire, which was the money bag of the Ming Dynasty! Letting Sun Yuan go to the town guard is indeed an appropriate placement.

After thinking about it, everyone took a step back and discussed setting up another Yangzhou town in Yangzhou, and then reported to the emperor.

Emperor Chongzhen was now wary of Sun Yuan, and when he saw that the officials of the Manchu Dynasty had discussed such a resettlement plan, he also felt that it was good, so he wrote a holy decree and used the seal, which was regarded as nodding and agreeing.

After listening to Liu Yuliang's words, Sun Yuan completely understood the twists and turns, stroked his palms and smiled: "Pavilion Elder's move is to retreat as a strategy, it is really excellent, and the end will admire it!" ”

"It's not that Fu Shan is talking nonsense in the Lu Gongling Hall, which angers the Son of Heaven. Unexpectedly, it was crooked. Liu Yuliang shook his head: "This crazy life, it's really crazy, it almost ruined the good thing of Taichu." ”

"Crooked beating is ......" Sun Yuan was stunned, recalling Fu Shan's words and deeds that day, and suddenly began to suspect that this guy was deliberate.

At this time, I saw Yu Xiang standing at the gate of the moon and couldn't stop glancing at Sun Yuan.

Sun Yuan walked over and asked in a low voice, "Xiaoyu, what's wrong?" ”

Yu Xiang: "General, it's not good, Mr. Huang and Mr. Qingzhu fought just now." ”

"Ahh Sun Yuan was dumbfounded, and hurriedly turned his head to Liu Yuliang and said, "Pavilion Elder, the last general has to leave in advance." ”

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