The next day, that is, the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, the fifth day of the fifth month.

According to history, today should be the day when Hong Chengchou and Zu Dashou officially surrendered to Jiannu.

It's just that Lao Zhu doesn't have time to deal with Jiannu's side now, after the first battle of Songjiang, although the nine-sided elite of the Ming Dynasty was buried, but the loss of Jiannu is also not small, whether from the perspective of history or from the actual situation, they are unlikely to pose any threat to the Ming Dynasty in a short period of time.

Therefore, after announcing Li Banghua's order to rectify the Beijing camp in the court, he went directly back to the Qianqing Palace.

At this time, in the Qianqing Palace, Hou Sui and Sun Chuanting were waiting for him.

Yesterday, because he was worried that Sun Chuanting might not be able to fully understand the current situation, Lao Zhu specially sent him the current military situation in Shaanxi and Henan, as well as the current situation of the soldiers in the Beijing camp and the amount of food and salary in the treasury that he asked Jinyiwei to secretly count.

At this time, Sun Chuanting's eyes were bloodshot, and his expression looked very haggard, looking like this, he had been in prison for four years, and he didn't look haggard today.

Thinking about yesterday's things, Sun Chuanting read it, and eighty percent didn't sleep all night after reading it.

"Your Majesty......"

Seeing Lao Zhu come back, Sun Chuanting, who had been holding back all night, couldn't hold back any longer, and asked with a hint of anticipation in his tone: "I, Daming, is there really no army to fight?" ”

To be honest, he didn't pay any attention to Li Zicheng's changes.

Just like he said to Lao Zhu yesterday, the thieves are a rabble, and there is no need to worry about it at all.

No matter how Li Zicheng rectifies military discipline, but a thief is a thief, no matter how many people there are, it is useless, as long as he is allowed 5,000 elite soldiers, he will have absolute certainty to defeat King Li Zicheng like he defeated King Gao Yingxiang last time.

But when he saw the information that Lao Zhu gave him, he was a little stunned.

Jingying claimed to be 150,000 elites, but under the verification of Jinyiwei, there were only more than 50,000 people, and the remaining 100,000 people, all of whom were paid empty salaries, were just a personal name on the register.

What makes Sun Chuanting feel that the most excessive thing is that the people on the roster of the Beijing camp can even be traced back to the Longqing Jiajing era, which has been more than a hundred years, and these veterans will not be immortal?

Of these 50,000 people, there are at most less than 20,000 who can really be called soldiers and have received a little basic military training.

The soldiers have eroded like this, and the armaments do not need to be majority, and the grain and grass stored in the Beijing camp have long been resold, and what is left is just an empty warehouse.

As for the cannons, there is only a pile of tatters left, and the money for maintenance and the purchase of armaments issued by the imperial court every year has long been lost by what they are doing.

What's more, there are 3,000 battalion commanders, who directly rented out the horse farm in Beijing, so that the war horses in Beijing have no place to supply.

Oh, by the way, the war horses in the Beijing camp don't need to be supplied, because the Beijing camp now has no war horses at all except for dozens of old, weak, sick and disabled, and it is also a provincial supply.

"Yes."

Lao Zhu nodded, and then said: "Zuo Liangyu has 80,000 elites in his hands, but he doesn't listen to us, why don't you go and take away his military power?" ”

As soon as Lao Zhu's words came out, Sun Chuanting didn't say anything, but Hou Sui on the side was a little embarrassed.

As Zuo Liangyu's eldest brother, Hou Sui obviously knows what Zuo Liangyu has done over the years, he supports the army and respects himself, does not listen to dispatches, and only thinks about preserving his strength, obviously the court has a lot of opinions about him.

It's just that Zuo Liangyu is the one who was promoted by Hou Sui, and the court still wants to use him to fight at this time, so Hou Sui can only defend Zuo Liangyu and say: "Your Majesty, Zuo Liangyu has always been very grateful for the promotion of the minister, and every time he passes by the door of the minister's house, he will kowtow to the minister's old man." ”

"The minister thinks that such a person who values affection must be loyal to His Majesty, and I hope that His Majesty can learn from it."

"Okay, you don't have to excuse him, we know better than you what kind of person he Zuo Liangyu is."

Lao Zhu said with a somewhat gloomy face: "Jin Yiwei's folds about his Zuo Liangyu have been piled up as high as a mountain. ”

"He has self-respecting troops, we don't blame him, he feels that he is not sure and listens to the dispatch of the imperial court, thinking about preserving his strength, and seeing that the situation is erosive, we can endure it."

"But he set up troops to plunder the people, kidnap the people's daughters, and kill the good and take the risk, this is what the officials and soldiers should do?"

When Lao Zhu said this, he suddenly became furious, he stood up directly, glared at Hou Sui angrily, and his eyes seemed to be about to choose someone to eat, "Li Zicheng is a thief who knows not to disturb the people, not to kill innocents, and not to adulterate women." ”

"He is a general soldier, not even a thief, so what is the use of us asking him to be a general soldier?"

Lao Zhu's sudden outburst of thunderous anger frightened Hou Sui and Sun Chuanting a little frightened.

Hou Sui wanted to defend Zuo Liangyu for a few more sentences, but he opened his mouth, but he didn't know what to say, so he had to lean over and kowtow repeatedly, "Your Majesty, now is the time to employ people, and I hope that Your Majesty can allow Zuo Liangyu to make meritorious contributions." ”

"If we wanted to kill him, we wouldn't have told you this today."

Lao Zhu's eyes were still a little cold, if it was his soldiers, he would have been cut a hundred times a hundred times.

But now there is no one available in Daming, if Zuo Liangyu is killed, if the Jiang Han army under Zuo Liangyu riots, then the damage to Daming will be even greater.

It's just that although he didn't plan to kill Zuo Liangyu, Lao Zhu didn't mean to get used to Zuo Liangyu.

"Let's let you come out, in addition to dealing with Li Zicheng, the main purpose is to let you watch Zuo Liangyu."

"We don't care about what happened before, but if Zuo Liangyu dares to set up troops to rob the people in the future, even if we let Li Zicheng go, we will kill him Zuo Liangyu."

"You might as well tell him directly, if he doesn't believe him, you can try it and see if we can do it!"

Looking at Lao Zhu Bing's incomparably cold eyes, Hou Sui's heart trembled, and he bowed his head silently and said: "Your Majesty, rest assured, with the supervision of the ministers, Zuo Liangyu will definitely be allowed to rectify military discipline, if the robbery of the people happens again, the ministers will ......."

Hou Sui paused for a while, and finally closed his eyes lightly and said: "If this kind of thing happens again, the minister will personally behead Zuo Liangyu and use the military law!" ”

"Okay, if you can't do it then, you don't have to come back to see us."

Lao Zhu snorted coldly, not worried that he would force Zuo Liangyu to rebel.

First, it is because of the senior Hou Sui, and now he has just been appointed by himself to be the left servant of the military department, and his position must be on the side of the imperial court, not on the side of Zuo Liangyu.

So after Lao Zhu made a statement, he would only stand on Lao Zhu's side and assist in supervising Zuo Liangyu.

Don't say that this matter is not authentic in the first place, even if Zuo Liangyu is reasonable, Lao Zhu wants to kill Zuo Liangyu, and Hou Sui Bacheng will cooperate.

After all, the prince of heaven and earth, for Hou Sui, sometimes the king's order is more important than the life of his relatives.

Secondly, even if Hou Sui leaked all these things to Zuo Liangyu, would Zuo Liangyu still dare to rebel?

And if he takes 10,000 steps back, what can he do if he rebels? For Lao Zhu, it's just that there is one more person to clean up, and at most it is a little trouble.

But if he turned a blind eye to Zuo Liangyu's actions because he was afraid of this little trouble, and let him continue to kill Liang and rob the people, then he would not be Zhu Yuanzhang.

After calming down the anger in his heart a little, Lao Zhu knocked on the flat thief policy on the table, asked Wang Chengen to hand it to Sun Chuanting, and then said: "This is the flat thief policy written by Lord Hou, take a look." ”

"After reading it, tell me what you think."