Chapter 133: The Cabinet's Calculations
"Hmph...... Hello do it yourself! ”
After Geng Ruqi finished speaking, he brushed his sleeves away, and at the end he left a sentence:
"This officer plans to expand the Fubiao battalion to 5,000, and this officer will go to your army to select elite men in a few days."
"Obedience...... Bang bang ......"
Jiang Jiu hurriedly kowtowed again, and after Geng Ruqi walked away, Jiang Jiu immediately got up from the third and began to scold directly:
"Geng Ruqi, you want to select elite people in Lao Tzu's army...... No way, Yang Tingjian of the dog day, Lao Tzu didn't sleep with your woman, why pit Lao Tzu! It's really wronged...... Oh my god...... Yang Tingjian of the dog day. ”
More than ten years later, when Li Zicheng adhered to Datong City, Jiang Hao understood the meaning of Yang Tingjian's words, and Yang Tingjian was even more powerful at that time, in this case, Jiang Hao still dared to surrender to Li Zicheng? That's for later.
A few days later, Yang Tingjian took the convoy to Huyukou, Mu Chengfeng is now managing this tribe, Yang Tingjian left him a few hundred people last time, and now Yang Tingjian has allocated him three hundred musketeers and hoplites, cavalry, plus six Shenwei artillery, this time Mu Chengfeng commanded a full composite thousand households, with a total strength of 1,500 people.
In addition, Yang Tingjian also left 300,000 silver to Mu Chengfeng, with this silver, Mu Chengfeng can calmly build Huyukou into a good defensive fortress, and those Mongols who participate in labor can also contribute labor to earn silver.
For these Mongolians, Yang Tingjian warned Mu Chengfeng not to be too harsh, it is best to have a carrot in one hand and a stick in the other, and those who are obedient will have carrots to eat, and if they are disobedient, they will serve with a stick.
When Yang Tingjian left Huyukou, he also explained to Mu Chengfeng alone, if the situation is urgent, he must blow up the Shenwei artillery in his hand, and the method of blowing it up is also simple, that is, fill the muzzle with stones, fill it tightly, and then ignite the Zi Gong to blow up the Shenwei artillery.
The more than 5,000 Mongolian prisoners of war who joined the Jinyiwei New Army also returned to Beijing with Yang Tingjian, and Yang Tingjian was good to the families of these Mongolian cavalrymen and themselves.
Yang Tingjian did not discriminate against these Mongolian cavalry at all, but raised them as his own soldiers, in order to raise these more than 5,000 cavalry, Yang Tingjian's expenses were also huge, of course, Yang Tingjian also gained the loyalty and service of those Mongols.
But Yang Tingjian still has two preparations, if they are not loyal to the death, not only will they be cut off their heads, but their families will also be slaughtered and fed to the dogs, silver and deterrence are under the control, plus the strict military discipline of the Jinyi Wei New Army, these Mongolian cavalry have no choice but to serve to the death.
The insidious Cheng of modern people, Eryu I am much more powerful than the ancients, Yang Tingjian, a modern white-collar worker who traveled through later generations, can already be regarded as a rotten master, and the means of black belly are called a smooth slip.
The whole convoy traveled for several days in a row, and arrived at the Badaling Great Wall Pass, when suddenly a man in coarse cloth clothes came back at night, and he said that his father-in-law who came out of the palace asked to see Yang Tingjian.
Yang Tingjian looked at the white-faced and beardless middle-aged man in front of him, and immediately determined in his heart that this person was indeed a eunuch:
"You say that you are a eunuch from the palace, what is the important matter of asking to see this official?"
"Please Lord Yang to step back and ...... Long live the Lord has a message for you......"
But Yang Tingjian still let people check the waist card of the eunuch chasing his life, and after confirming that it was correct, Yang Tingjian retreated left and right, and then stuffed the eunuch with a silver ticket of one hundred taels, Yang Tingjian sent silver to the eunuch who conveyed Chongzhen's dictation, not to stammer with him, but not to kneel down to the eunuch.
The eunuch who came to convey the edict naturally smiled after seeing the silver ticket, and the fact that Yang Tingjian did not kneel down to give the edict was automatically filtered by him.
After a while, the eunuch imitated Chongzhen's tone and said matter-of-factly:
"Yang Aiqing, I have received it, Qing is loyal and diligent, and I am very relieved...... The library of my house is empty, and Aiqing quickly copied it and did not return to Beijing, so as to fill the library. ”
The treasury of the Ming Dynasty stored different substances, and they were all controlled by each ministry, and the emperor's small treasury was called the treasury, and the silver in it was called the inner currency.
Chongzhen asked the eunuch to pretend to be a civilian to convey the message, that is, Chongzhen did not want to put the silver in the household, but directly in his hands, but Chongzhen didn't want to make it too obvious, so he asked the eunuch to pretend to be a civilian to convey the message to Yang Tingjian.
For Chongzhen's request, Yang Tingjian has no reason to refuse, Chongzhen, as the emperor, absolutely likes the peace of the world and does not want officials to be corrupt, but those officials in the Ming Dynasty, but everyone is corrupt and bribed, such a large sum of silver, if it falls to the household department, how much will it be used for practical things? In fact, even if Chongzhen masters this silver, some systems of the Ming Dynasty do not change, and these silvers will not play much role, and in the end they can only become Tang monk meat.
Absolutely none of the soldiers in Yang Tingjian's entire team were on foot, all of them rode in carriages and war horses, so the speed was very fast, and they could travel a hundred miles almost every day......
Jingshi also heard that Yang Tingjian killed the eight major profiteers and traitors in Shanxi, and there were many folk legends, this is not important, the important thing is that the Ming Cabinet and the six Shangshu eyes were staring at these silvers, so these people hurriedly held a small secret meeting, and the place of the meeting was Zhou Yanru's house.
The annual income of the Ming Dynasty is only four million taels, and the expenditure is as high as more than 10 million taels, and many expenditures can only be delayed again and again.
Daming's messy home is not easy to do, and now he is a person who seeks to be cured, how can he do things without money! No, there was a sudden drop of silver from the sky, Chongzhen actually ordered the eight major businessmen in Shanxi to raid their homes and destroy them, and the silver that was confiscated alone was more than 20 million years, and it was impossible for the cabinet not to fight the idea of these silvers.
Regardless of whether these merchants betrayed the country or not, it was certain that they smuggled them to the Tartars and the Manchus, and it was not wrong to kill them. Of course, the cabinet and the six ministers of Shangshu did not want to argue with Chongzhen whether these eight businessmen were traitors, but the purpose of their meeting was to collect the confiscated more than 20 million taels of silver into the household department.
Attending this meeting were five bigwigs from the cabinet and six Shangshu, a total of eleven people. Don't look at these Wenchen usually fight to the death, but they are surprisingly consistent in their treatment of the emperor, these Wenchen's favorite emperors are like Wanli, who has not been in court for decades, and only asks about political affairs.
The meaning of these civil servants is that the emperor should create people behind closed doors in the deep palace, and they will take care of the affairs of governing the world, but Chongzhen is obviously not such a king, so the contradiction between Chongzhen and his subordinates is still quite big.
After a morning of secret talks in Zhou Yanru's house, the cabinet ministers and the six ministers dispersed, and it seemed that they had discussed a strategy, that is, how to intercept the silver.
[Ask the brothers who like this book to collect, the way of life and death, you must ask for it!! 】
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