I buried myself with my father-in-law, Emperor Chongzhen.

Therefore, since Zhou Xian became sober, he has not dared to urge Sun Chuanting, the general soldier of Shaanxi and Gansu.

Because of the rebellion against Li Zicheng at the end of the Ming Dynasty in history.

There is a chance to turn the tables.

The main reason is that Emperor Chongzhen urged Sun Chuanting to go out of Tongguan, and the urging was too tight.

So much so that Sun Chuanting was not prepared and was forced to go out to face Li Zicheng.

In the end, the last generation of famous generals at the end of the Ming Dynasty also fell.

If the court dies, the Ming Dynasty will die.

This is all based on historical judgment.

In addition, Zhou Xian also had to care about the woman named Chen Yuanyuan.

Prevent Wu Sangui in Yunnan from using that woman as an excuse to raise troops and rebel.

At the same time, it is necessary to get local Jiannu to break through the Beiping Mansion and threaten his own power.

All in all, the current Emperor Chongzhen is facing a triple crisis.

And Zhou Xian was pushed to the forefront by him.

It has become a shield for imperial power.

Then again.

This time, the problems exposed by the border army, although Zhou Xian had a comprehensive plan.

But I was never 100% sure.

But in any case, he will not waver in the idea of refreshing the bureaucracy.

Because the Ming Dynasty has never lacked soldiers.

Why can't we gather soldiers when there is a war?

It is because they sacrificed for the country and did not get the pension they deserved, not even the military salary they deserved.

The border towns were forced to fight, and most of the people who came out were old, weak, sick and disabled.

So as soon as the battle is fought, it will be defeated.

As soon as he was defeated, he completely developed the psychology of fear of the enemy.

In the final analysis, it was the ruling power of the imperial court that was not enough.

This led to big problems in the military system.

And those border generals who raised their own dignity were the driving forces behind the defeat of the Ming Dynasty.

The situation in the last years of the Ming Dynasty was very similar to that of the Northern Song Dynasty.

The national strength is stronger than Jiannu, but it can't beat Jiannu.

It's all because the clique of civilians, officials, and doctors is greedy for life and afraid of death, and they fill their pockets.

The military generals secretly colluded with the civil officials in the court.

The border towns of the imperial court were regarded as their own business.

Can an army cultivated in such an environment fight a war?

Can you win?

The few people who can cultivate the three views are already smoking from the ancestral grave.

It was afternoon.

Zhou Xian's table was a little more twisted and turned.

It was handed over by Di Changgong.

He made three copies a day, constantly reporting the situation in Wucheng.

In the midst of the compromises, the military salary of the Xuan Mansion has been distributed.

Zhou Xian didn't expect it to be so fast!

After all, that's 60 million taels of silver, and it's all over in one day?

That must be full of loopholes.

This is good!

I'm worried that I can't catch your fox tail.

However, there was no large-scale corruption on the Xuanfu side, at least now all the 30,000 or 40,000 people in the Xuanfu have received military salaries.

And it's all double.

The low-level soldiers of Xuanfu are carnivaling in the barracks today!

Praise the kindness of the Ming Emperor.

What?

The person who paid us the military salary was the master of the court?

Then sing the praises of the kindness of the horse master!

Xuanfu is done!

For at least a year, the soldiers will not follow the generals into any weird moths.

Rebel?

It can't be either!

After all, they sang the praises of the kindness of the horse master today.

Then the remaining problem is the situation on the Wucheng side.

The situation in Wucheng, Di Changgong also made a report.

When Chen Qingzhi and Chen Donghua, the imperial historian, spread out the silver box with 40 taels of silver per capita for the defenders of Wucheng, and presented it under the city wall in a straight line.

The defenders of Wucheng have all straightened their eyes!

It was barely half an hour after a thousand years.

The matter of the imperial court's salary is well known to everyone in Wucheng.

"Hey, did you hear that? The silver taels of the imperial court were sent. ”

"It seems to be 40 taels per capita."

"40 taels? Really? Lao Tzu only got 4 taels last year. ”

"I'm also 4 taels. However, I heard that the imperial court has doubled its normal salary this year. ”

"That's not right!"

"On the basis of last year, it doubled, then we should have taken 20 taels last year, why is it only 4 taels?"

"Who? Which eldest brother is educated, help me calculate, my 4 taels of silver last year, is it right? ”

The soldiers in the martial city gathered in groups of three or five.

Conspiracy theories have begun......

On the other hand, a group of people has no interest in studying previous years' salaries.

They only felt that they would give 40 taels at once, and the horse master in the court was their parents.

No, it's closer than mom and dad.

There are 40 taels of silver, and he is a proper winner in life in that year.

At least they are guarding the frontier outside, even if they are shrouded in horse leather, they don't have to worry about their wives and children suffering in their hometown.

The soldiers who had no worries were united in their hatred of the enemy, and they wept with gratitude.

"The court has not abandoned us."

"Yes, the court still remembers us."

"We must serve the court."

"Long live my emperor, long live the horse......"

The crowd in Wucheng was boiling.

At this time, Lu Delin, who had been waiting outside the gate of Wucheng all day, gradually lost his patience.

Why?

Because the soldiers of Wucheng wanted to come out to get the money, but they were hindered by the obscenity of Dou Xiao, the general of Wucheng.

The cadres did not dare to speak.

For this reason, Lu Delin directly shouted to the captain on the city tower: "Giving you a stick of incense is an ultimatum, if you still can't hold on, the commander will be punished as a rebel." ”

When the captain of the city gate heard the news, his neck was cold, and he hurriedly retracted his head, and ran towards Dou Xiao's point hall in a panic.

Lu Delin said cruel words, so he moved a chair under the city and sat down.

Someone else brought a piece of incense and lit it.

As the minutes passed.

That incense has been completely extinguished.

However, the gate of Wucheng still did not move at all.

This made Lu Delin angry.

To tell the truth, he has led the army to fight for many years, and he has never seen such an iron-headed general.

The key is that if the commander of your martial arts city can use this unyielding spirit on Jiannu, he would have already been out of the picture, okay?

Now playing a scoundrel in front of your own family?

Can I spare you?

At this time, the Lieutenant of the Shenji Battalion, who was waiting beside Lu Delin, cautiously asked: "Qi Lu Shuai, the incense has been extinguished." ”

"Ben Shuai knows." Lu Delin suddenly got up, pushed away the chair behind him, and said in a deep voice: "Siege!" ”

"Yes!"

The lieutenant of the Shenji Battalion quickly returned to the position of the red-coated cannon, only to see his right hand held high, and a command flag fluttering in the wind.

As he called the shots.

A deafening explosion was remembered outside the city.

Powerful artillery attacks the city walls.

The defenders standing on the walls of Wucheng were frightened and abandoned their armor and looked around for cover.

And the pedestrians in Wucheng City were also violently shaken, and their bodies trembled in shock.

The ground trembles beneath their feet, to be exact.

The red-coated cannon is Daming's black technology.

It is the same as the three-male bed crossbow and the divine arm bow in the Northern Song Dynasty.

It's all the high technology of the dynasty.

It's just that the Ming Dynasty in history didn't really play this thing well.