"Boom, boom—"

"Kill!"

On the 14th day of July in the third year of the Apocalypse, after many days of artillery bombardment, the Jin army in Jiefan City finally could not bear the casualties and withdrew, and the Ming army successfully captured Jiefan City.

At the same time, Daishan of Tieling organized more than ten days of harvesting to complete, and tens of thousands of men in Tieling, Kaiyuan and other places took the mountain road to retreat to Wula City in the north.

On July 17, the Ming army regained Tieling and obtained an empty city.

On July 20, the Ming army regained Kaiyuan and recovered the entire territory of Liaodong, but the place where it was obtained was an empty city and the Great Wall, and only some people who escaped in time remained.

At this point, the war of Fuliao ended on all fronts, and this battle can also be said to be very peaceful except for the encirclement and suppression of Nurhachi.

It seems that when Nurhachi was severely damaged, the course of the war was already over.

However, Zhu Youzhen was not happy about this......

"Uhh......h

"Pain, pain, pain, ......"

"Hiss......"

The Shenyang barracks were filled with cries of pain and wails at the moment, as well as busy healers walking back and forth in front of the tents.

This is the current camp for wounded soldiers, where more than 10,000 soldiers with minor and serious injuries rest and recuperate, and Zhu Youzhen can only provide spirits to disinfect them, so as not to let the inflammation take their lives.

Opening a camp tent, Zhu Youzhen saw some soldiers lying on a simple wooden bed, some soldiers with broken hands and short legs, and some soldiers who had suffered heavy injuries and internal injuries.

He wanted to go up and comfort him, but when he looked at himself, he really didn't have the right to comfort others.

"Your Highness, are you here?"

At this time, a medical officer who was over seventy years old came not far away, and when he saw this person, Zhu Youzhen also spoke:

"Mr. Chen, the dismantling of Jin Jun's corpse is going well, right?"

"It's quite smooth, I figured out some human body structures that I didn't know much about before, and I also have good experience in treating our soldiers." The medical officer nodded in response, and he was Chen Shigong, the first person in surgery in the late Ming Dynasty, who compiled the book "Surgical Authenticity".

Before the start of the war, Chen Shigong had already arrived in Shenyang with more than 600 medical craftsmen from Beizhili, and during the Fuliao War, they were rescuing the wounded soldiers every day, and Chen Shigong was responsible for studying the human body with corpses.

"Xia Guan has compiled all the things that can be seen into a book, and I believe that these surgeries can be taught to the students of Yanshan Medicine in the future."

Chen Shigong explained while accompanying Zhu Youzhen.

At the age of sixty-eight, he walked like a fly at the moment, and he couldn't tell that he was so old.

Zhu Youzhen followed him to see some soldiers who had recovered from their injuries, and saw this group of people shouting "Your Highness", with respect in their eyes, but the soldiers with broken hands and feet, Zhu Youzhen couldn't bear it in his heart, but he still pretended to be happy on his face and talked with everyone.

"Your Highness, we heard that there were pension fields and pension silver that died in the war, so we ......"

Sitting beside the hospital bed, Zhu Youzhen looked at the soldier lying on the bed with a broken leg and spoke, and he hurriedly interrupted:

"Yes, you are all people who have dedicated themselves to the Ming Dynasty, the people of the Ming Dynasty, and the people of Liaodong, and the pension silver and pension fields will be distributed according to the same as the fallen soldiers."

"In addition, the disabled brothers were promoted to the next level, and then ordered Wang Chengen to build a school in Yanshan, named Yanshan Military Academy."

"After the war in Fuliao is over and the brothers have recovered from their injuries, I invite Qi Jin, Qin Bangping and other generals to go to the academy to rest for three months, and at the same time teach the disabled brothers military affairs."

"Three months later, the brothers who have studied will be transferred to the remaining Beijing and ten provinces in the two capitals of the Ming Dynasty to prepare the Gongwei battalions in each province and serve as the head of the Gongwei battalions in each province."

With a few words, Zhu Youzhen arranged a place for thousands of wounded and disabled soldiers in the First Battle of Fuliao.

It's not hot-headedness, it's something he's thought about early on.

What is the special system of the outer arch guard camp? Or what is the reason why Zhu Youzhen set it up?

All of these things he had already thought about at the beginning of the establishment.

There are three uses of the outer arch guard camp, the first point is to station soldiers and horses in the local area, and cooperate with Yanshan students to carry out reforms when it is appropriate to make tax reforms.

The second point is to resettle the disabled and disabled veterans who cannot go to the battlefield again, let them train the outer guard battalion, and then develop the outer guard battalion into a reserve of the upper guard.

As for the third point, it is to screen out a group of ambitious people to participate in the overseas conquests of the feudal domains in the future.

The Shangzhi Guards will not be dispatched to help the vassal king fight, even if it is Zhu Youzhen's own vassal state, he will not mobilize the Shangzhi Guards, because the Shangzhi Guards must be a pure Ming foreign conquest army.

As for Zhu Youzhen's anxiety about leaving the Shangzhi Guards in Daming, he was not worried about this at all.

Unless the imperial brother speaks, he will not give up the military power of the Shangzhi Guard and stay in Daming.

Everything Zhu Youzhen explained was heard by many wounded soldiers in the camp tent, and everyone calmed down for a while and thanked Zhu Youzhen.

It's just that for their thanks, Zhu Youzhen smiled and bowed slightly, and then repeatedly told them to recuperate from their injuries before leading people out of the camp.

Just as he walked out of the tent, the smile on his face disappeared.

More than 20,000 people were killed and wounded, although the entire Liaodong was conquered, and Jiefan City and Hetuala were captured outside the Great Wall of Liaodong, but what Zhu Youzhen needed to face was the aftermath of more than 20,000 people and apologize to their families.

After the end of World War I, I don't know how many people in the north would ask Daming for their husbands, fathers, and children......

"Hu ......" exhaled a breath of suppressed breath in his chest, Zhu Youzhen took Lu Wenzhao to say goodbye to Chen Shigong, and then settled in Shenyang's temporary general manager's mansion.

What you can't say on the outside, you can boldly say it when you return here.

"Your Highness and the Liao Shang matter has been concluded, Jinyiwei has disposed of a total of 75 Liao merchants, 97 masterminds involved in the eucalyptus, and 627 accomplices, all of whom have been beheaded."

"In addition, there are more than 8,430 people involved in these Liao merchant families who have not been disposed of."

"The number of acres of land confiscated this time is more than 653,700 mu, more than 576,000 taels of silver, more than 3 million copper coins, and more than 3.29 million stones of grain."

Lu Wenzhao's reply can be regarded as good news for Zhu Youzhen.

However, listening to the property of the Liao merchants, Zhu Youzhen was a little regretful, the silver was only worth more than three million taels, and the number of acres of land was not much, but there was a lot of grain.

"The silver money is stored first, and after the autumn harvest of the imperial horse supervisor, the silver and the two escorts arrive in Liaodong, and then the reward and pension silver that should be issued in this battle will be issued."

"The acres of land are used as a pension field and are given to the fallen soldiers, and if the soldiers are willing, they can also exchange the reward for the acres of land, five taels of silver per acre, half of the market price."

"The more than 8,000 people, all moved to Hetuala, and the grain was kept for the people who entered Liaodong to open up the wasteland to eat......"

Zhu Youzhen quickly arranged where all the money and grain fields went, and as soon as he finished speaking, Lu Wenzhao said as soon as he heard about the reward of silver and the pension of Tian and silver:

"So far in this battle, our army has suffered more than 30,000 casualties, and according to your standards, this beheading will cost more than 4 million taels of silver, more than 3 million taels of compensation for the dead, and more than 300,000 acres of pension fields."

Speaking of this, Lu Wenzhao was already a little shocked, and continued:

"More than 300,000 acres of pension land, at least three or four million taels of silver, which means that we have to make up tens of millions of taels of silver in this battle......"

As soon as the number of tens of millions of taels of silver was blurted out, Sun Shoufa, Lu Xiu, Lu Xian and others in the main hall of the General Economic Strategy Mansion were speechless, but Zhu Youzhen was not moved at all.

In fact, 17,800,000,000 taels of silver were spent on the battle of Fuliao, because the cost also included the army's military rations, gunpowder, military salaries, and other expenses.

Is it just worth the seventeen or eight million taels of silver? It's undoubtedly worth it.

It's just a battle, more than 40,000 prisoners were beheaded, 30,000 real prisoners, more than 10,000 fake prisoners, and more than 10,000 real and false prisoners were seriously injured.

"The Legend of the Fairy Tree"

How many men are there in Jin Jun? Even if all the one-year-old men are added, there are only 100,000 people, and a third of the beheadings in this battle are lost, and almost every family is mourned.

In the first battle, the "gold phobia" in the Ming army was cured, and the whole Liao was recovered, as well as more than a dozen camps such as Hetuara and Jiefan City in the eastern part of Liaodong.

After Zhu You checked and laid the Kaiyuan, the acres of land obtained by Fuliao were millions of acres, and most importantly, Fuliao pushed the battle line beyond the Great Wall.

That is to say, the people within the Great Wall can engage in production with peace of mind, and because the Jin army has suffered heavy losses, the number of soldiers and horses in Liaodong can also be appropriately reduced.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen said to Lu Wenzhao:

"Tell the generals of the army about the money that should be issued, and let them spread it to the whole army, and wait for the autumn harvest to be distributed little by little."

"Like Liaodong, after the dismantling of the Wei Institute, the soldiers and horses from Zhejiang, Sichuan, Guizhou and other places who came to aid Liao can choose to exchange the reward for one acre of silver, ten taels of silver in Zhejiang for one acre, five taels of silver for one mu in Sichuan, and three taels of one mu in Guizhou."

"This can be exchanged, and the four acres of land per person who originally belonged to the military family members who joined the army and the ten acres of land that joined the army are still issued."

The Tianxia Guard Office is going to be abolished, and Zhu Youzhen really can't take out so much cash, so it is still more cost-effective to exchange acres of land for silver.

The land complex of the Han people runs through the bloodline, and they can exchange land in their hometowns, and Zhu Youzhen sells it to the soldiers at half the price below the market price, which can be said to be very tempting.

After Lu Wenzhao heard Zhu Youzhen's words, he responded, and Zhu Youzhen also said:

"After the counterinsurgency is over, the nine battalions in Shanxi that have been assigned to Liaodong can be picked out and transferred back to Shanxi."

"The 9th Battalion of the Zhejiang Army was transferred to Zhejiang, Nanzhili, and Fujian, and the 12th Battalion of the Sichuan Army was transferred to Sichuan and Huguang."

"Hong Chengchou's nine battalions of soldiers and horses were transferred to Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guangxi."

"Yang Wenyue's six battalions of soldiers and horses were transferred to Guangdong, Sun Chuanting's ten battalions of soldiers and horses were transferred to Shaanxi, and Wu Aheng's four battalions of soldiers and horses were transferred to Jiangxi ........."

Zhu Youzhen's words instantly transferred more than 176,000 soldiers and horses to all parts of the country, so that Liaodong was left with only the four cavalry guards and three infantry guards of Shangzhi, as well as the three guards and the thirty-fourth battalion of Daning.

If the seven guards and horses of Shangzhi are also withdrawn, there will still be three guards and thirty-four battalions in Liaodong, close to 120,000 people.

On the other hand, on the old slave's side, 30,000 men from the Eight Banners were killed, leaving 60,000 or 70,000 men, of which 10,000 or 20,000 were teenagers under the age of fifteen, and the only thing that could be used was 30,000 or 40,000.

If Zhu Youzhen is not mistaken, from the forty-sixth year of Wanli to the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, the number of Houjin eliminated by the Ming army in twenty-six years was only between 20,000 and 30,000.

There are only more than 10,000 traitors left in the 30,000 or 40,000 Jianlujia, about 20,000 Mongols, and only 60,000 or 70,000 actual soldiers and horses.

And that's not counting the people who died of serious injuries after the war, and if you count them, maybe not even 70,000.

This sounds like a lot, but if Nurhachi were to send troops, he would have to leave at least 30,000 defenders, and only 40,000 could be dispatched.

Among the 40,000 people, there may only be 20,000 true captives, because Nurhachi will not rest assured that the old nest will be defended by the Han army and the northern captives.

The decline in combat power made it impossible for Nurhachi to trouble the Ming army again, at least for five years.

Five years is enough time for Zhu Youzhen to change the law from the health center to the tax system of the Ming Dynasty.

"Hoo ......"

Exhaling a breath of turbidity, the sense of urgency in Zhu Youzhen's heart was weakened a lot, and now he only needed to take action against the various health offices.

"The battle of Fuliao should be over in another month, tell Xiong Tingbi to restore the stone forts outside the Great Wall, garrison each stone fort, and resist the danger north of the Great Wall."

"Thirty-four Liao battalions, only ten need to be left to maintain stability inside the Great Wall."

Zhu Youzhen opened his mouth, and Lu Wenzhao also responded.

"Okay, you guys go down......" Zhu Youzhen waved his hand, and Lu Wenzhao also took Sun Shoufa and they retreated.

As for Zhu Youzhen, he calculated the matter of dismantling the guard post, and the 58 battalions went south to control one capital and ten provinces, and basically there would be no problems.

In fact, compared with the dismissal of the guard, Zhu Youzhen is more concerned about Wei Zhongxian's house.

As soon as he thought that Wei Zhongxian was pushed to the stage, Zhu Youzhen had a smile on his face:

"Wei Daban, you have to work hard......"

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"If you want to add sin, there is no excuse! Cui Chengxiu, you gelding! ”

Just when Zhu Youzhen was thinking about how Wei Zhongxian would play, Ying Tianfu suffered a disaster in Nanjing.

Three days ago, Cui Chengxiu received the holy decree, and then began to investigate the matter of the salt class and the tea class as an envoy and the imperial history of the capital.

In three days, more than 3,000 officials of the six ministries in Nanjing, more than 400 were arrested by the Fusi of Tiannan Town, and the largest number of people were arrested in the household department and the official department.

In the yamen of the household department, an official who was nearly forty years old, with a somewhat strong figure, dressed in a three-grade costume, walked out, looking at the official who was escorted, he seemed expressionless, but it could make people feel that he was laughing at the moment.

"Choi Chengxiu! You gelding! ”

was escorted to the entrance of the household department, and was held down and knelt on the ground, more than 30 household officials scolded him, and Cui Chengxiu frowned.

At this time, a brocade guard standing next to him walked out, and the person who appeared was also Yang Huan, the commander of the Nanzhen Fusi who had a close relationship with Wei Zhongxian.

"As a criminal, he also insulted the officials of the court, and slapped his mouth!"

Yang Huan raised his chin slightly, scolded him with a word, and then grabbed the wooden board from his waist and hit the mouth of the Hubu Wenchen who was still barking!

"Smack!"

The voice was crisp, and with just one blow, most of the Wenchen covered their mouths and prostrate themselves to the ground, blood flowing from between their fingers.

What's more, several teeth were knocked out with just one blow.

This scene made the household officials who followed Jinyiwei out and frowned on the onlookers, and some people who were not charged with the crime also pointed at Yang Huan and Cui Chengxiu and scolded:

"Yang Huan! Choi Chengxiu! Which one here is not an official above the seventh grade, without the interrogation of Dali Temple and the Criminal Department, why do you use lynching?! ”

"Huh?" Hearing someone scolding him, Yang Huan immediately looked at the person fiercely, and although they were a little afraid, they still had the courage to not retreat.

"Hehe......" At this time, Cui Chengxiu laughed and said:

"These people withheld the money and grain for repairing the Yellow River in the area of Xu Pi in Nanzhili, and resisted arrest, just now it was just a means to let them go to the Zhenfu Division with me."

"Say ...... again"

"No matter what you say, you need to have evidence!" Suddenly, at this time, an old minister dressed in a second-grade official robe walked out.

"Li Shangshu ......"

"Li Shangshu, you take care of it, more than 100 people were arrested in three days, and the household department is still out of operation!"

"Li Shangshu, you ......"

Seeing Li Changgeng walking out, the officials of the household department in Nanjing seemed to have a backbone, and they all opened their mouths to ask Li Changgeng to make a move.

It's funny to say, since Li Changgeng was arranged by Zhu Youzhen to go to Nanjing to serve as the head of the household department, this group of officials of the Jiangnan faction has looked down on Li Changgeng, who was born in Huguang, and he has done things in violation of the yang and the yin.

It's just that at this juncture, they began to beg Li Changgeng to make a move.

Without him, it was just that he saw a group of colleagues being cleaned up by Cui Chengxiu and Yang Huan in this way, and some rabbits died and dogs were cooked.

They were afraid that they would encounter such a thing in the future, so they forced Li Changgeng to speak, so as to use their position and morality to kidnap Li Changgeng, so that Li Changgeng would do the same when he saw them humiliated in the future.

But unfortunately, without waiting for Li Changgeng to react, Cui Chengxiu suddenly changed his tone:

"That's it, doing these things in front of the household department is indeed unseemly and deceitful, and this is not the official's."

As he spoke, Cui Chengxiu saluted Li Changgeng, and then turned around to leave.

Seeing this, Yang Huan waved his hand to many Jinyi guards, and then left the entrance of the household department with the Jinyi guards who were escorting the officials.

In this process, Li Changgeng did not make any moves to stop it, because he knew that if he opened his mouth, it would be equivalent to helping the Jiangnan parties.

Although he always thought that he did not plant party aid, in the eyes of others, he was an official who was transferred to Nanjing by Zhu Youzhen, and he already had a mark of "Qi Wang Party" on his head.

If you help the Jiangnan parties to speak, it is no less than becoming a traitor who betrays the Qi Wang Party.

It's just that if you don't open your mouth and let Cui Chengxiu come so nonsense, the household department will not be able to collect taxes from the south.

You must know that Nanjing No. 6 is not completely waste, in fact, there are still many things that need to be done.

For example, the household department was mainly responsible for collecting taxes and grain from Nanzhili and Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Huguang provinces, and the taxes and grains paid in these four places accounted for almost half of the Ming Empire.

Not to mention, the household department is also responsible for the transportation of water, the national salt introduction survey, and the collection and management of the national yellow book.

It is precisely because the household department in Nanjing is so important that Zhu Youzhen will send Li Changgeng to this position.

Li Changgeng didn't care about the party dispute between Cui Chengxiu and Zhejiang Xuankun, he was just afraid that he would delay the autumn tax payment and the northern transportation.

Thinking of this, Li Changgeng could only turn around and return to the household department, and at the same time saw the disdainful expressions of other household officials on his face.

He didn't care, but when he returned to his study, he grinded it himself, and then wrote a letter.

The content of the letter is mainly about Choi Chengxiu's various actions and the impact it will have on the household department.

After writing, Li Changgeng wrote on the envelope the six big characters of "His Royal Highness the King of Qi personally opened".

"Send this letter to Liaodong to His Royal Highness the King of Qi, five hundred miles urgently." Li Changgeng handed the letter to the cronies and officials next to him.

"Yes ......" the official took it, and then ordered someone to send the letter to the north.

Just when Li Changgeng reacted, Cui Chengxiu, who left the household, sat on the second floor of a grace garden not far from the Qinhuai River.

The window is opened, not far away is the Qinhuai River, the houses on both sides of the river are clean, the flowers and trees are sparse, and it is not a dusty realm.

Although it is only afternoon at the moment, you can still see a lot of gentlemen coming and going, and on the second floor of the Qinglou, you can also see thin horses walking back and forth from time to time.

There are also peddlers and pawns on the street, ordinary people, but these existences do not belong to the scenery in Cui Chengxiu's eyes......

"Whenever the night is cool, the wind is clear and the moon is clear, the celebrities and gentlemen fall into the city, the hairpins are about the sideburns, hand in hand to leisure, and lean on the ...... by the railing"

"At night, the Qinhuai River is the most lively time, Cui according to the envoy, forgive the old man for being late."

A voice sounded in the private room, Cui Chengxiu turned his head to look, and sure enough, he saw Yang Huan and Xu Hongji, the Duke of Wei, who walked in the door.

As one of the participants in the Huaibei Great Famine at the beginning, this guy not only bought and sold grain, but also involved the salt tea in the south of the Yangtze River.

This time, Cui Chengxiu's action after coming to Jiangnan was so big, for fear that Xu Hongji, who would implicate him, had to come forward and invite Cui Chengxiu to his own garden.

"Wei Guogong rewarded the face and gave a banquet, this is the blessing of the lower officials, how can he blame it?"

Cui Chengxiu said that the scene sounded like he was not angry, but in fact?

"Hehe, I heard that Cui Zhicha and Yang commanded the envoy to go to Jiangnan, and the merchants in Jiangnan all wanted to get the ink treasure of the two, which is a gift from the pen, and asked the two to give the ink treasure."

Xu Hongji could hear Cui Chengxiu's dissatisfaction, and he smiled at this and took out two gift lists.

When I put the gift list on the table, I took out another one by the way:

"I heard that Wei Zhangyin has been buying acres of land recently, these are mansions that Jiangnan businessmen want to sell, I don't know if Wei Zhangyin is not interested, if he is interested, please ask Cui Zhicha to help transfer it......"

Xu Hongji is not a fool, it is useless to feed Cui Chengxiu, he has to feed the people behind him.

The so-called demand for Mobao is just a legal bribe, and the price of selling the mansion is also a low price, and there is a lot of silver in the mansion.

If you look closely at the sales slips, you can see how much rice and wheat are written on the back of each mansion, but the units behind the rice and wheat are not "stones" but two.

In this regard, Cui Chengxiu is also quite satisfied with Xu Hongji's upper way, at least with his methods, these mansions and silver will be legal.

Because of this, Cui Chengxiu put down the shelf, and then said:

"Then the next official will thank Wei Guogong for Wei Zhangyin, and in addition, I also asked Wei Guogong to help with the Jiangnan salt class and tea class this time......"

Cui Chengxiu has been the governor of Huaiyang for a long time, where can he not know the greasy nature of the salt class? If the Wei State opens its mouth, and the people among the nobles send it, then the silver of the salt class will soon go up.

In other words, even if they were not allowed to pay for it, but the nobles and gentry raised the price of salt, and used the silver earned from the increase in salt price to pay taxes, the silver of the salt tax would soon reach a level that satisfied the emperor.

Not only salt, but also tea.

"Naturally, this matter will not trouble Cui Zhicha, please give the old man ten days, and after ten days, he will definitely be able to hand over a satisfactory salt textbook to Cui Zhaocha."

Xu Hongji was ready to come with heavy bleeding, so he naturally guessed Cui Chengxiu's thoughts, and when Cui Chengxiu saw this, he also walked to the table and sat down, raised his hand to signal Xu Hongji to sit down, raised his wine glass and said:

"Since this is the case, then the lower officials will thank Wei Guogong......"

"It's restrained, it's restrained, it's the old man who pours wine for the inspector, hahaha......" Xu Hongji picked up the wine glass and toasted with Yang Huan and Cui Chengxiu respectively and drank freely.

The table of wine of the three of them also represents the soft attitude of Jiangnan Xungui, and for Cui Chengxiu, since Xungui is soft, it is enough to rectify the gentry in Jiangnan......

Thinking of this, Cui Chengxiu narrowed her eyes......