Chapter 729: Looking for Money

Xie Sicheng did not make a mistake in judgment, this is indeed an army with an open mind.

As early as when Wei Qian was asked to go to Xuanfu, Zhanhuai arranged this army, but he did not immediately send troops to attack at that time.

The chief general of this army is named Han Shihu, he is a native of Guanwai, he was a slave in Tatar when he was a child, his parents and relatives all died in Tatar, he suffered humiliation, escaped as a teenager, and in the past 30 years, he has only done one thing, that is, to fight Tatar.

At first, he took a dozen people who escaped from the Tartars with him to become horse bandits, specializing in robbing Tartar merchants in the Xuanfu area, killing people and goods, and no matter whether they met good people or bad people, as long as they were Tartars, all men and women were killed.

They grew from a dozen to hundreds of people, and were recruited by the imperial court. But these people are still bandits in the eyes of others, even if they have military merits, they can't be reused, and later transferred to Zhanhuai's subordinates.

In the first battle of Xuanfu, Han Shihu made great contributions, jumped up, and became one of several fierce generals under Zhanhuai.

When Qiqige came to the northwest, he brought the news of the Jiahai soldiers, and also brought a map, which was quietly drawn by Yan Niang to buy a wife of Jiahai, and the specific place of the Jiahai soldiers was drawn on that map.

The Han people may not understand, just know the approximate location of the garrison, why do they still need to draw?

That's because they haven't been to the grassland, they don't know the situation of the grassland, on the grassland, if you want to know where he will attack, you must know the specific location, the grassland is vast, and there is a lack of iconic landmarks, so this map is very useful.

Yan Niang has followed Xie Honglin for many years, she has been a bandit outside the pass, has fought, and can bring Xie Honglin to Tartara from the net of Jinyiwei, she is not an ordinary woman, she has courage, insight and skill, plus now she has money and people, what she asked her daughter to take to the northwest is not an ordinary topographic map, but a military map that she has improved.

It was with this picture that Zhan Huai accurately judged that Jiahai was going to enter the customs from Xuanfu, and also allowed Han Shihu to find a powerful place to ambush Jiahai.

Zhan Huai knew in his heart that with Han Shihu's people, he could only stumble on Jiahai for a while, and when the army of the imperial court came over, Han Shihu's task would be completed.

These days, Han Shihu is waiting for the large army of the imperial court, and this is more than ten days, Wu Tang's head is about to dry when it hangs on the city tower, and the army of the imperial court has not yet arrived.

On that day, the news of the Tatars' entry into the customs reached His Royal Highness, and some ministers were right, Zhanhuai did know that Jiahai would send troops for a long time, so he took Henan, and would rather face Zhang Baochen than avoid the Tatars.

Over the years, the strong soldiers used by the imperial court to resist the Tartars were the army of Zhanhuai.

Now Zhanhuai has been transferred to Henan, and the imperial court has not been able to bring people for a while, but fortunately, in order to intercept Zhanhuai at that time, Xichangbo, who had served as the chief soldier of Shanxi, was sent to send troops, and now he can only pull Xichangbo to Xuanfu again.

Emperor Ming and Emperor were so angry that they were half dead, didn't they all say that Tartar was simple-minded and had developed limbs? You see how calculating they are, if they don't enter early or late, they must wait until Zhanhuai is reversed and there is no one in the northwest before they attack.

Of course, the most hateful thing is Zhanhuai, the court has raised you for so many years, isn't it just to let you fight Tartar? If you don't fight the Tartars, you will be punished!

Emperor Ming He may have forgotten when he said this, not long ago, when the household department and the military department liquidated the salary owed by the imperial court to the northwest army, he found that it turned out that in these years, the imperial court had not allocated military funds to the northwest army once, and it was necessary to rely on Zhanhuai to make mistakes, so that the arrears could be used to offset the punishment that should be given to Zhanhuai.

Over the years, Zhanhuai was feeding the army by himself, but King Rong was pacified, the Tartars were also beaten, and even the Tartar Khan was captured by the imperial court.

Emperor Minghe first sent Xichangbo to intercept Zhanhuai, and now let Xichangbo go to crusade against the Tartars, Xichangbo is already on the way to Shanxi, and he can't pass his reaction back for a while.

But Cui Shilun, the official of the military department, was in a hurry.

Cui Shilun felt that he was very unlucky, and he was indeed unlucky. He was originally only the deputy governor of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, and the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies has always been the territory of the nobles, and his ability to enter was completely the result of the game between the Emperor and the Empress Dowager back then.

He thought that he could sit back and die in that seat without worry, but he didn't expect the little emperor to ascend the throne, whether it was the first emperor or the empress dowager, the little emperor was regarded as a flood beast, and even Cui Shilun himself didn't expect that a huge pie fell on his head, and he became a six-department official in a daze, and a pavilion elder in a daze.

But this pie is not easy to accept, as soon as he took office, he encountered Zhang Baochen's army, and then the former Tianjin Wei commander Qi Yuanshan assisted King Qing in rebellion, and the north Zhili responded to several Davids, and then Zhan Chen sent troops across the river, he was the secretary of the military department, and he didn't even have the qualifications to speak in front of Zhan Chen, he asked Zhan Chen to retire, and Zhan Chen replied with only four words: What are you doing?

In the end, he had to let Zhao Xu, the first assistant of the dynasty, go to Jinling to persuade him personally, and his old face was lost that time.

Now Zhan Huai is reversed, Zhan Chen is also reversed, the Tartars have marched into the army, Xuanfu has lost the town, Zhang Baochen and Zhanhuai have openly grabbed territory on the emperor's territory, Cui Shiwan can't wait to learn from those officials to hit the pillar.

The treasury was empty, and there was no military spending, and the last time Zhang Baochen was attacked, a wind chill almost caused the army to lose itself without a fight.

The enemy they are facing now is not only Zhang Baochen's peasant uprising, but now they have to face the steppe wolf and the sea.

Fortunately, Zhanhuai went to fight Zhang Baochen, otherwise the situation could not be worse.

After Cui Shiwan discussed with the household department, the silver that the household department could take out was very limited, but fortunately, there was a car to learn from.

In the end, Guo Yong and Zhao Xu came up with a way to force the Huo family to take out the silver, and opened the hall of merit, so that the powerful and wealthy families in the capital donated silver, raising a total of 200,000 loads of grain and grass, which solved the urgent need.

This is a good idea, but it should not be used rashly.

The reason why it was implemented back then was because the Huo family was involved in the case of Peng Chengbo's Mansion, and at that time, the Huo family had just entered the capital, and it didn't matter if there was no one to ask for it.

The Huo family supported the door only an eleven-year-old child Huo Jiu, Huo Jiu saw Zhao Xu and was stopped by Zhao Xu in a few words, which made this matter smoothly implemented.

Even so, the Huo family did not have the ability to bear all the military supplies they wanted, it is said that Huo Jiu's child was forced to have no way out, and he had the courage to ask to see the Empress Dowager, so that Yongji Temple opened the Hall of Merit, and the nobles of the clan contributed one after another to solve all the military expenses that the Huo family could not come up with.

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