"What else?"

In the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Youxiao was interested in what Zhu Youzhen said, grabbed Zhu Youzhen's hand, sat on the chair next to him, and the eunuch in the palace brought two bowls of sour plum soup with interest.

"And ......" Zhu Youzhen smiled bitterly:

"My brother and brother only know that, and no matter how much, my brother really can't say it."

"Forehead......" Zhu Youxiao was slightly stunned, and then said with a smile:

"It's also something that the hundreds of officials in the DPRK and China can't discuss, my younger brother can think so clearly when he is only ten years old, and it's difficult to think about this kind of thing."

"Since this is the case, then my brother will give an order now, first transfer the Shizhu native soldiers and Zhejiang soldiers to guard Liaoshen respectively, and dismiss the Liaoshen soldiers and horses."

"No!" Hearing this, Zhu Youzhen was anxious and hurriedly stopped:

"Brother can't, if this thing is thought to come true, we must send Ti cavalry to step up day and night, urging the two armies to march quickly."

"First of all, I ordered to be transferred to Changping, and temporarily granted the official positions of the Shenyang General Army and the Liaoyang General Army, but it cannot be directly said that they should disarm the Liaoshen soldiers and horses."

"Why?" Zhu Youxiao smiled, obviously knowing the doorway, but he still wanted to see Zhu Youzhen say.

Zhu Youzhen had no choice but to explain it thoroughly:

"The 50,000 soldiers and horses in the two towns of Liaoshen will be ordered now, I am afraid that within a month, they will all flee into the countryside, and then Liaoshen will be empty, and I am afraid that they will be occupied by the old slaves."

"This matter should be done quietly and not let outsiders know."

"We must first let these two troops enter Liaoshen, and then announce the reduction of Liaoshen soldiers and horses, so that it can be safe."

"At that time, the rebellion of the 50,000 troops of Liaoshen can be easily suppressed."

"You're so confident?" Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but glance sideways at Zhu Youjian.

After all, what he said was that the southern soldiers, whose combined number were only 7,000 people, could suppress the 50,000 Liaodong soldiers and horses.

"My younger brother is not confident, but he understands the combat power of the southern and northern soldiers." Zhu Youzhen reluctantly explained:

"I have always been strong and weak."

"In the early years, the northern army was strong, because the Mongols in the north kept knocking on the border, and the Jurchen was chaotic, so there were often big battles, and the northern soldiers were also strong."

"It's just that after Li Rusong died in battle, the northern soldiers are not as good as day by day, that Li Rubai, now the government and the opposition say that he is a thief, but he has been at home for 21 years, and he doesn't know that the soldiers and horses in Liaozhen are corrupt."

"In the first battle of Salhu, the soldiers and horses under Li Rubai are no longer the Liaodong iron cavalry left by Li Chengliang back then."

"Therefore, the southern soldiers are not stronger than the northern soldiers, but the stone pillar Tusi soldiers in the southern soldiers and the Zhejiang soldiers trained by Qi Jin are strong."

Zhu Youzhen's words are not to overturn the case for Li Rubai.

To put it bluntly, everyone is responsible for the battle of Salhu, and Li Rubai also has it, but he shouldn't be held back from all the responsibility.

He had already been retired for twenty-one years, and he was sixty-eight years old, and the sudden revival of the military department meant that no one was available.

Li Rubai was just a pioneer under Li Rusong's account, and he was not strict in governing the army.

The Ministry of War did not give him time to train the troops, and the soldiers and horses under his command were still left by the former commander-in-chief.

A sixty-eight-year-old veteran with all other people's soldiers and horses.

As a result, he led a group of rabble to hurry up, just met the Houjin soldiers and horses, and before he gave the order to set up the formation, his large formation was chaotic, trampling thousands of people on his side.

In the battle of Salhu, someone must have betrayed the information, but this person is not necessarily Li Rubai, he may be a Liao who was bought, or he may be Li Rubai's wife and concubine, and it is more likely that he is from North Korea.

Xiong Tingbi himself once said: "There are many Liao people who have joined slaves, and there are many guests in the city. ”

In short, all the reasons are because of the eunuch Gao Huai's rebellion in Liao, which caused the Liao people to distrust the Ming Dynasty and get close to Mongolia and Jiannu.

Now to think about who betrayed the intelligence, it is better to think about how to stabilize the situation in Liaodong.

The strength of the Zhejiang soldiers and the white pole soldiers, Zhu Youzhen didn't have to think much about it at all, as long as the imperial court ordered it, it would be easy to suppress the 50,000 rabble in Liao and Shen.

In Liaodong, as long as they hold on to the city and do not come out, and there is no artillery under Nurhachi's eyes, these two cities alone are enough to grind tens of thousands of people after death.

Of course, the premise of all this is that his idea can be realized by Zhu Youxiao.

Therefore, he looked at Zhu Youxiao, and Zhu Youxiao was also pondering.

After a few seconds, he spoke: "I will let people do the matter of the Shizhu Tu soldiers and the Zhejiang soldiers, but the matter of the salary of the Nine Sides, brother, you haven't made it clear yet." ”

"In your opinion, how much should the nine sides sound? Should we pay the arrears of this year's military salaries directly, or wait? ”

Zhu Youxiao is still worried about money, and Zhu Youzhen can only explain this:

"Brother Yi Chen, I can pay back the sound according to the soldiers in each town who will send two taels of silver first."

"There are 260,000 soldiers and horses in Jiubian and Liaodong Town, 86,000 in Jizhou Town, and 84,000 in Xuanfu Town, with a total of 430,000 people in these three towns."

"There are more than 76,000 garrisons in Datong Town, 53,000 garrisons in Taiyuan Town, and 45,000 garrisons in Yulin Town, with a total of 174,000 people in these three towns."

"After that, the garrison of Guyuan Town was nearly 60,000, the garrison of Ningxia Town was about 25,000, and the garrison of Gansu Town was about 40,000, and the three towns totaled 124,000 people."

"Therefore, there are a total of 729,000 people in the nine towns of Yanbian, and according to two taels of silver per person, it is 1,458,000 taels of silver."

"After this sound, there are still 1,479,400 taels of silver owed."

"But as soon as the New Year passed, I owed 10,227,400 taels of silver......

Speaking of this, Zhu Youzhen smiled helplessly, just because he knew that there were less than 200,000 of the nearly 730,000 people in Mali who could fight.

In addition to defending the Great Wall, the limit of mobilization is 130,000 soldiers and horses, which is also the home of the Ming army in the Battle of Songjin.

Even if 50,000 soldiers and horses in Liaodong Town were dismantled, it would be a reduction in military expenditure of less than 300,000 taels at most.

Therefore, after he reported this long list of military salaries, Zhu Youxiao's face immediately became unpleasant.

Judging from the finances of the Ming Dynasty, there were only 22 million stone of rice and wheat, plus about 4 million taels of miscellaneous, tens of thousands of taels of silver in commercial taxes, and 6 million taels of internal income.

However, the fixed amount of silver for raising the world's clans is 1.5 million, and the local government still has to intercept 30%, and the soldiers and horses in the west and south have to spend 6 million stone of grain.

After such calculations, what was left for Zhu Youxiao was only 8.6 million stone grain, about 7 million taels.

With such a financial income, raising 730,000 soldiers and horses on the nine sides and tens of millions of military salaries is almost like a dream.

Therefore, since the end of the Ming Dynasty after Zhang Juzheng's death, the nine sides have often been undersounding.

In this regard, the only thing Zhu Youzhen can do is to comfort Zhu Youxiao:

"Brother don't worry, brother will go to the Imperial Horse Prison to inspect in a few days, and he will find a way to use the imperial store and the imperial village to earn some silver for his brother."

"Poof...... Zhu Youxiao suddenly laughed, looking at the immature Zhu Youzhen and laughing:

"What use can the hundreds of thousands of taels of silver be used by the Imperial Horse Supervisor? My brother keeps the flowers for himself. ”

Zhu Youxiao joked about Zhu Youzhen, but he still felt very warm because of his brother's words.

He couldn't help but clench Zhu Youzhen's hand, and he smiled very happily on his face......