Emperor Chongzhen is anxious in the face of internal and external troubles, and the news that Houjin may enter the prison again has not been quelled has not subsided, and the best way to deal with it is, of course, to take the initiative to disrupt the deployment of Houjin, but Daming is also powerless now, Denglai Governor Xie Lian has a test on sending a small force to harass Houjin, but the emperor is worried about who to send to carry out such a dangerous task. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info At this time, Cao Huachun mentioned Zhang Chu.

"Zhang Chu is really capable of fighting, and now I suspect that the rebels in Shandong were scared by Zhang Chu before withdrawing, but Xie Lian said in the recital that he wanted to order Zhang Chu's team to go to Liaodong, but Zhang Chu's team also has a weakness, all the soldiers are from the hungry people in Shanxi. They are all poor and scared, and now they have finally arrived in Shandong to live a stable life, and they don't want to take any more risks. "Emperor Chongzhen is also very helpless, such a team that can fight is going to be destroyed in Shandong again.

"These people are really bold enough to disobey the command." Cao Huachun had to maintain the majesty of the imperial court at all times.

"It's not strange that these people dare to rise up and rebel when they have no food to eat, and they don't obey the dispatch of their superiors, they are originally a group of outlaws, so they are so brave in battle." This time, Emperor Chongzhen thought about it very much.

"Just by them? Now they can live a full life by relying on the grace of the saints, otherwise they would have been exterminated long ago. Cao Huachun could not tolerate this kind of contempt for the emperor's authority.

"There is no way to do this, according to Xie Lian, the soldiers who went to Liaodong this time were to divide into small groups of troops and act alone, if they didn't go willingly, they didn't fight wholeheartedly, and it was possible to even make Houjin." Emperor Chongzhen sat down behind the bookcase, picked up a copy of the book, and continued: "However, Wang Chengen, the eunuch of the prison army, took a copy of the book after Xie Lian and said the solution. ”

"Wang Chengen has a way?" This makes Cao Huachun a little strange, the little eunuch Wang Chengen who he has cultivated is now more and more promising, not only can he report the news, but also can come forward to solve the problem.

Wang Chengen said that he used his status as a prisoner to talk to Zhang Chu and the soldiers, pressuring them to obey orders, and the soldiers had the intention of giving in, but put forward the conditions, they asked for 100,000 taels of silver, and then took their families from Shanxi to Shandong, and asked for a bounty of 20 taels of silver for each Houjin Tatar killed during the battle in Liaodong. Wang Chengen thought that if the families of these soldiers were in Shandong and could survive, they would naturally not betray the imperial court and join Houjin. There are high bounties, and you won't be lazy when you start a war. If the court gritted its teeth, the court could still take out the 100,000 taels of silver, but the bounty of 20 taels per Tatar was a bit high, which was far more than the previous practice. In the past, the court bought Tatar heads from the Mongols for only five taels of silver. "Emperor Chongzhen's dilemma is still the problem of silver.

"The saint doesn't have to worry about this, these soldiers are also poor and have never seen the world, this Tatar head is not so easy to take, our army has been fighting with the Houjin for so many years, and it is a great victory to be able to eliminate dozens of Houjin soldiers, this Houjin soldiers are not like thieves who can eliminate thousands at once, the Houjin is originally sparsely populated, if you can eliminate thousands of Tatars, the Houjin will be greatly injured, and the reward of thousands of Tatars is only a matter of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, and the Shengshang allocates millions of taels of military pay to the army outside the Guanxi every year. In total, they did not kill a few Tatars. Of course, Cao Huachun has to follow Wang Chengen's words, Wang Chengen's achievements are the achievements of the eunuchs, and the eunuchs' ability to raise their heads in the palace is inseparable from Wang Chengen's efforts, so what Wang Chengen wants to do Cao Huachun must strongly support.

"What you said also makes sense, now it is becoming more and more difficult to kill a true Tatar, Zhang Chu and they would be a great achievement if they could kill a few hundred True Tatars, and it would be worth spending tens of thousands of taels of silver for this." Emperor Chongzhen's greatest desire now is victory, and only with victory can the haze that weighs on his heart be swept away.

"Order Wang Chengen to still use his head to record merit, and each person's head must be carefully inspected, and they can't be filled with fake Tatars." Cao Huachun knew that the officials and soldiers had a bad habit of killing good people and risking merit, but this Tatar head was not easy to use fake to fool the test, and the Ming Dynasty had done a very accurate thing about the ugly Tatar head.

Emperor Chongzhen listened to Cao Huachun's suggestion, and immediately ordered Wang Chengen to take charge of some things, and after a while of arguing with the ministers, the household department finally paid 100,000 taels of silver as a resettlement fee, of course? The ministers did not spare the emperor, and forced the emperor to take out 50,000 taels of silver from the inner treasury as a bounty.

Agreed that Xie Lian's plan was sent to Dengzhou with the holy decree and the silver, which made Zhang Chu very surprised, the emperor acted very quickly and surprisingly generous this time, and without bargaining, he directly transported the silver over.

The emperor's silver was distributed separately, and 100,000 taels were handed over to Xie Lian as a settling-in fee for the security army, and 50,000 taels were kept by Wang Chengen, and they were distributed according to their military merits.

Sending the messenger away, Zhang Chu sat there and looked at the silver with his eyes shining, Xie Lian immediately did a good job to the end, and directly transferred the net silver to Zhang Chu's hands, as long as Zhang Chu was willing to send troops, it didn't matter if he lost some money. Zhang Chu accepted the money and turned his gaze to Wang Chengen.

Wang Chengen originally wanted to say that this silver was a reward, and it could only be distributed if there was a war exploit. But after thinking about it, he was not able to protect the 50,000 taels of silver, so he had to respectfully hand over the silver to Zhang Chu, explaining that he was only asked to keep it on his behalf, and he could only distribute it when he had military merits.

"Don't worry, two thousand five hundred Tatar heads will not be owed to you." Zhang Chu smiled, Zhang Chu likes to do this kind of murder and reward.

With the emperor's decree, Shanxi transferred thousands of people, young and old, and there were a large number of talents urgently needed by Zhang Chu in Shandong, and the personnel from Shanxi were easily integrated into Shandong, and the security army's control over the Denglai area was tighter, and the technical level of the factory was improved, and the security army could produce weapons in Shandong.

Zhang Chu didn't want to cheat Emperor Chongzhen out of his money, it was true that he sent troops to Liaodong, and the personnel who attacked this time were not many, but they were all elites, and they had to go through special training.

Zhang Chu selected 2,000 elites as the backbone of this operation, including veteran soldiers from Shanxi and Liaodong people recruited from Liaodong in Shandong, who had an unforgettable hatred for the Houjin people.

These people gathered together and began arduous training, and Zhang Chu decided to open up the Xinhe battlefield in Liaodong in the near future. (To be continued.) )