Chapter 388: Great Expectations (4)

On the surface, Gao Gong did arrange a good official position for Liu Chaozuo, which could not be better, not only did he mention a product out of thin air, but also opened a road to governorship. You must know that many officials have been stuck on the threshold from five to five all their lives, and they have not been able to raise it until they die. Not to mention the transfer from a county order to the post of the procurator and envoy, and to give the army such an important position.

But the actual situation is that Gao Gong dug a pit for Liu Chaozuo, and this pit is life-threatening. Whether it is the salt method with the pipe, or the city ship, this is all virtual, and the real thing is the position of the soldier.

This post should be responsible for reorganizing the local military armament, which belongs to the work of using literature and military power. If you want to grasp military equipment, you can't do without the foundation of equipment, money and food, but Guangdong is a place where these items are lacking.

Guangdong's military salaries depended on Guangxi for transportation, and Liu Chaozuo cooperated with Wu Guifang several times to clean up Yin Zhengmao, the governor of Liangguang. In the battle for governors, he has to be regarded as the first cadre of Wu Guifang's subordinates.

With this kind of historical problem, Yin Zhengmao must be very grateful to Master Liu Chaozuo and Master Liu for correcting his mistakes in a timely manner, and will definitely actively cooperate with Liu Chaozuo's work. Presumably, next year, you will be able to receive the military rations and salaries of the previous year. As for the equipment, it depends on when the Governor of Yin will gather enough tatters.

How to recruit courage without money and how to raise soldiers without food are all realistic problems that can no longer be realistic. I don't know how many heroes and heroes are planted on the word money. Guangdong does not look at the benefits of salt and sugar now, but the implementation time is very short, and it is very problematic to make up for historical debts, and how much can be used for military equipment.

According to the experience of several high-ranking officials, the salt and sugar in this place is good, and it can enrich some merchants. Being able to become a magistrate does not mean that you can be rich in local undertakings. Take Yangzhou as an example. It was home to the richest group of people in the country, earning nearly 10 million taels a year.

But Yangzhou's armament. It's not been very strong, and when the Japanese invaders were making a lot of trouble, they were almost beaten into Yangzhou City by the Japanese invaders several times. In the end, it was the salt merchants themselves who raised the two battalions of Zaoyong at their own expense to protect their property. This army nominally belongs to the Ming court, but it listens to the tune and does not listen to the announcement, and no one wants to pull them out of Yangzhou for half a step.

Even if the salt and sugar in Guangdong are better, what is the use. At most, this money will be sent to Liu Chaozuo's pocket, and he will not run an army. Leave the money. This is the first step. Although Xiangshan allows the sea to be opened, what is the use of that?

In the hearts of all of you, there is basically one opinion. The purpose of opening the sea is to let those ignorant people not go to the Ming coastal defense as a scourge of the Ming Dynasty, and to be fishermen and find a proper livelihood with peace of mind. As for profits, no one really thought about it.

I have a lot of things and everything. On the contrary, the East and the West are small countries. The country is small and the people are poor. In the past, they relied on tribute to cheat some money from the Ming Dynasty, what oil and water can they have on them? Doing business with them is really more to lose than to gain, it's just to lose money and make money.

Even if this Liu Chaozuo is a well-known scraper. The anger and resentment of the people who are engaged in drawing points in Xiangshan can't make much money. These people who go to sea to be maritime merchants have no background behind them. Don't have a backer? When the time comes, a single distribution of ship guides will make him anxious. If one is not careful, he will become a public enemy of officialdom. Still want to collect taxes? Profit from the sea trade, feedback about raising soldiers, don't even think about it.

Secondly, it is the place in Guangdong, which is a well-known arrogant soldier. The previous Zhelin Mutiny caused a stir in half of Guangdong, don't look at the later well-ended and suppressed the matter. But everyone has a prediction about the situation in Guangdong, and it is not a good place. Guangdong has been in arrears for many years, and the morale of the army is sluggish, and if the military preparation is not strong enough, it will not be able to suppress those Qiu Ba. If you are too strong, you may provoke a new mutiny.

Yu Dayou, the chief soldier of Guangdong, is a man who can fight, and his subordinate Min Yong is also a veteran soldier who has fought old battles and has a certain combat effectiveness. But Yu Dayou is famous for his stinky temper, and no one can cooperate with him. This Liu Chaozuo is Zhang Juzheng's son-in-law, he boasts of his identity, he is young, and when he arrives in the local area, he is afraid that he will have to conflict with Yu Dayou in a few days. When the time comes, the generals will not be in harmony, and if this battle is not fought, half of it will be lost first.

Again, I also have to consider Wu Guifang's feelings. Liu Chaozuo's appointment, coupled with his identity, will Wu Guifang like him? Changing places, no one will be happy if anyone has such a high-status subordinate who can do things. If Liu Chaozuo is allowed to make achievements in the position of Bingbeidao, isn't it tantamount to announcing that he will be asked to pick up his seal? I'm afraid that after taking office, the first person to demolish Liu Chaozuotai was Wu Guifang.

If it is a hinterland area, and the military preparation road is just a name, and there is no need to shoulder the responsibility, then none of the above problems are a problem. In order to drink the blood of the soldiers, you can also mix it up.

However, since the Great Buddha Thief has prepared such a battle plan, it seems that his mobilization of troops is an inevitable problem. They were even more fierce than the Japanese invaders, and the Japanese invaded the southeast back then, and several governors lost their heads. Liu Chaozuo is just a fool, can he be better than those bosses?

There is an iron-fisted prime minister like Gao Ge in the court as Liu Chaozuo's strong backing, as long as the war starts, he doesn't want to get a reinforcement from the rear, get a penny, a grain of rice. Nominally, the attack on the Ming Dynasty by the Buddha Lang machine is a war between two countries, and when it comes to the battlefield, it is to Guangzhou, and the big Buddha Lang machine is a country, how can it be undefeated?

The more authority Gao Gong gives him today, the less room he will have to shirk in the future. This is the old method of those people in Guangdong to get Liu Kanzhi, and it is not a new trick, but it is really effective. As long as he loses a battle and loses a territory, Gao Gong can take advantage of the maneuver to investigate him strictly.

How can anyone not drink the blood of soldiers? As long as the evidence of his drinking of soldiers' blood can be found, all the factors of defeat can be blamed on him, and he Liu Chaozuo will be borrowed to atone for the crime of losing his division and losing his land.

This ploy is indeed very good, but it is a little too vicious. Zhang Xiang's daughter is like a flower, and she is at a young age, so she is a widow, and she is really famous.

In case Liu Chaozuo can do a good job, he is also a high-level insightful person and a good recommendation, and he will benefit from Gao Xinzheng in the end. It can be said that this arrangement makes Gao Gong invincible, and Liu Chaozuo is invincible. This kind of arrangement, he can't refuse, otherwise it will be nothing to do, you don't want to do this kind of work, what else do you want to do?

Gao Gong said again: "In order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, this pavilion is ready to send two more battalions of Zhejiang soldiers to enter with Liu Chaozuo." Since the Zhejiang soldiers are the first soldiers in the world, it must be enough to eliminate those big Buddha thieves with the strength of two battalions of Zhejiang soldiers. When the time comes, to protect the peace of the Ming Dynasty and the people, the cabinet will also have to protect Liu Chaozuo's official position. ”

When everyone heard this, they were all a little chilled: Gao Ge, you and Uncle Zhang were also best friends back then, why do you have to be so vicious?

On the surface, the entry of Zhejiang troops into Guangdong strengthened Liu Chaozuo's combat power. But as I said earlier, Guangdong is a poor place, with no food and no salary, and it is already beyond his means to feed Yu Dayou and his Min Yong, otherwise why would Zhelin Shui Shi rebel. If two battalions of 6,000 Zhejiang soldiers also drove in, it would be fatal.

In order to compete for military salaries and rations, I am afraid that if we do not wait for the war with the Da Folang machine people, the troops in Guangdong will have to fight among themselves. This not only harmed Liu Chaozuo, but even the Zhejiang soldiers had to be eliminated. The thinking of the Ming army is strict, maybe the Fujian and Zhejiang troops are merging, and Liu Chaozuo will be in the hands of the chaotic army.

It can be seen that Gao Gong looks like him, who dares to intercede for Liu Chaozuo, so he had to say in unison: "Gao Ge is wise, the arrangement is appropriate, it is really a good person, and everything is fully used, my generation is beyond reach, and I will ask Gao Ge for more guidance in the future." (To be continued!)

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