Chapter Eighty-Four: Where to Get the Money?
Tianqi gave Sun Chuanting the same treatment as Lu Xiangsheng, and directly appointed him as the deputy envoy of the Zuo Participation in Politics and the Criminal Prosecution Department, which can be said to be reused.
Since Sun Chuanting has no official status at the moment, he has no jurisdiction, which requires the apocalypse to arrange the place where he works.
Under normal circumstances, to form a new army, it is naturally most appropriate to start from your own jurisdiction, or hometown, after all, they are all familiar places, and it is easier to carry out work.
In the official history, Sun Chuanting formed the Qin army because he served as the governor of Shaanxi, and now he has no jurisdiction and has not been an official in Shaanxi, so it is a good choice to start from his hometown of Shanxi.
But Apocalypse has his own plans, and he has already ruled out this option.
And now he didn't have so much time to send Sun Chuanting to Shaanxi to serve for a period of time before forming the Qin army, so he didn't hesitate to send him directly to Shaanxi to recruit troops.
This was not decided by a hot head, but after careful consideration, and the places he chose were also very particular, namely Yansui Town and Yan'an Mansion.
Yansui Town, also known as Yulinwei, is located in the north of Yan'an Prefecture, both of which belong to Shaanxi.
It is adjacent to Mongolia, and because of its long-term resistance to Mongolian attacks, the people are fierce, which can be seen from the fact that several major peasant armies that rebelled in the late Ming Dynasty came from these two places.
For example, Mizhi came out of Li Zicheng, and there were several generals under his command.
What are the names of the two surnamed Wang in Fugu, and Tianqi can't remember it for a while.
and Gao Yingxiang and Zhang Xianzhong are both from Yan'an Mansion.
Now, these people have not yet rebelled, and directly sent Sun Chuanting to recruit soldiers, if some of them are recruited into the army of the imperial court as errands, it will be interesting, this is called the real bottom of the kettle.
Of course, at this time, Sun Chuanting naturally couldn't think of the intention of the apocalypse, and the apocalypse didn't tell him about the existence of these people, which would be too deliberate.
Because Daming's current problem is not the problem of these people, even if Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong are found out and dealt with in advance, there will be Wang Zicheng and Li Xianzhong, and maybe it will be even more powerful.
Iron has to be its own, otherwise, even from God's point of view, you can make some arrangements in advance, it will be useless.
Therefore, the more important reason why Tianqi sent Sun Chuanting there was that the people there were fierce, and the young and strong were more suitable for being soldiers, which was also the main reason why the elite troops under the command of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong had strong combat effectiveness.
As long as more young people here are recruited to join the Qin army, even if there are rebels like Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong in the future, they will be able to recruit fewer elite soldiers.
Sun Chuanting also wanted to start from his hometown, but since Banzai explained this reason, he no longer insisted on it, because the quality of soldiers is fundamental.
"Sun Qing, I hope that you can recruit a strong army for the Ming Dynasty like the army of Qin tigers and wolves, and don't fall into the prestige of the land of the Three Qins, so I will give the name 'Qin Army', I hope Sun Qing and all the soldiers will always remember."
The Apocalypse still follows the name in the official history, and directly names the army recruited by Sun Chuanting as the "Qin Army".
It seems that Banzai does have high hopes for himself, Sun Chuanting did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly thanked him: "Banzai Xie gave the name, Weichen must always keep in mind that the teacher of Qin Tiger and Wolf is the goal of graduation pursuit." ”
After receiving the order, Sun Chuanting did not stay in Beijing for long, and immediately rushed to Shaanxi to take up his post.
At the same time, the six prefectures of Baoding, Hejian, Zhending, Shunde, Guangping, and Daimyo, under the order of Lu Xiangsheng, had begun to recruit soldiers in full swing.
Lu Xiangsheng recruits soldiers, in addition to being young and strong, there is also a special requirement, which requires fellow villagers, friends, and brothers to come to sign up.
If a group of relatives and friends come, even if some conditions are not as good as others, there is a high probability that they will be included in the army.
Because Lu Xiangsheng wanted to maintain this army with emotional ties from the beginning, with the blessing of this special emotion, once his relatives and friends died on the battlefield, the rest of the people would share the same hatred and morale.
Of course, there are pros and cons to everything, and if someone runs away, people who may be familiar with him will also turn around and flee without fighting spirit, and it depends on the coach's command art.
In this regard, Tianqi is not worried about Lu Xiangsheng at all, and since the birth of the Tianxiong Army, it has never fallen into the name of "Tianxiong".
However, in less than two months, Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting were each asked to form a new army, two destined to be extraordinary, which is cool, but how can the army not cost money?
The more warlike the army, the more expensive it is to spend money on building their equipment.
The treasury has been struggling to make ends meet for many years, where does the money come from? At the beginning of the year, the household department cried poor several times, and the officials of various ministries also asked for more pay many times.
The so-called increase in salary is to increase the distribution of land endowments, and the burden is directly on the heads of ordinary people.
As the soul of the later generations, the apocalypse knows that this is to drink the duck to quench the thirst, once the increase continues, as long as the money is not enough in the future, these people will think of continuing to increase in other names, such as cutting salaries and training salaries, until the people are forced to a dead end.
The official history has proven that this path will not work, so the apocalypse can only think of another way.
Moreover, he had been thinking about it for a long time, and he really thought of a way to make money quickly, but the road was a little wild, very wild.
At this time, it is difficult for Tianqi to come forward, so Wei Zhongxian can appear, and he can also take the opportunity to test his loyalty.
Summoned by the emperor, Wei Zhongxian was both nervous and excited, nervous because he was worried that something bad would happen to him, and excited because as long as Long Live could think of him from time to time Wei Zhongxian, it would show that he was safer.
"Wei Daban, now that the treasury is empty and you need money everywhere, what good plan do you have?" Apocalypse throws this conundrum directly.
Wei Zhongxian didn't expect that Long Live would be such a tricky question as soon as he opened his mouth, but he still answered honestly: "Back to Long live, the slave maid is dull, except for the discretionary endowment, the slave and maid can't think of any other good plan for a while." ”
Tianqi sighed and didn't speak again, the scene fell silent for a while, and Wei Zhongxian was a little apprehensive, because he knew that Banzai was not satisfied with this suggestion, otherwise he would have approved the courtier's superiority.
Suddenly, Tianqi, who was pacing, stopped, and asked in a serious voice: "Wei Daban, I heard that King Fu was tyrannical in his fiefdom, usurped people's land, and beat up the officials of the imperial court. Have you heard of this? ”
Wei Zhongxian couldn't help but be surprised, why did this suddenly come to King Fu's head? He immediately began to figure out the meaning of the apocalypse.
After all, the sentence just now is not a good word, it contains a lot of information, once you understand the mistake, it will be a big problem.