The attacking Han Commander Territorial Barbarian looked at the Ming army that suddenly took the initiative to leave the city, as if burning the mountains in front of them into a mountain of flames, and suddenly looked surprised.

He did not expect that the Ming army would take the initiative to attack his side, and they were not afraid of death, and even under the leadership of one of the young generals in cloth and armor, they were like no one, and everyone rode their horses like flies, so that arrows rushed into his besieging troops like raindrops, so that his own troops fell in rows like stubble that had been cut down.

The barbarians knew that Liaodong had long been a mixed residence of Meng, Han and Manchu, and they basically knew how to ride and shoot since they were young, so most of the military households of the Ming army were good at riding, but after the military households of the Ming army were not enough to pay the border towns due to the lack of financial resources of the Ming State, most of them did not have the heart to guard the border for the Ming court, and they either starved and fled, or simply threw themselves to their side, and they could go to the customs with their original subordinates when they threw themselves on horses.

It is precisely because of this that the leaders of these Mongolian tribes have the heart to despise the border defense of the Ming army, and want to detain the customs and make a fortune.

This time, he just wanted to make a fortune by plundering and solve the problem of insufficient tea and salt in his tribe after a winter's consumption.

And he also knew that the Ming army would not fight, at most it would defend the city and fire a few cannons, as long as his side could capture it, he would make a lot of money, and he could force these people to join his side and strengthen his strength.

If it can't be attacked, the losses will not be large, and the Ming army will not take the initiative to pursue it anyway.

But who knows, this time the Ming army took the initiative to attack.

The barbarians were depressed.

"Withdraw!"

The barbarians decisively gave the order to retreat.

He came to make a fortune and plunder the population, not to really conquer Liaodong.

After all, his current tribe size can't eat the entire Liaodong, so he decisively chose to retreat, and he didn't have the intention of entangled with the Ming army that took the initiative to attack and was in high morale.

What's more, the barbarians were also worried that if they stole chickens and rice, they would lose too many people, and they might be swallowed up by other Mongol tribes.

However, when Tuman led his troops to retreat, he found that the Ming army did not seem to go back because of his active retreat, but continued to chase after him, and even chased after the Langpu River, which was far away from Changyong Fort, and his own side also changed from active retreat to rout, and watched these Ming troops harvest the heads of their own people.

This made Tuman very distressed, but he didn't dare to delay too much, and went directly to the east bank of the Liao River.

"Has the Ming army in this Liao land changed their temper?"

Tu Man's belly scolded, and after he came back, he ordered: "Order, go back, all the departments go back and prepare their own like the best new horses and the best mink, ginseng, beautiful women, etc., gather together, and honestly go to Datong to trade with the Ming people!" Without my order, you are not allowed to violate the border without authorization, and if there is a conflict with Hermes-Epitek trade, you will be dealt with by the local Ming government! ”

"Yes!"

……

The Ming army led by Li Rusong did chase the horses until they were tired and tired, and then returned with the red sun.

The main reason is that they haven't had such fun for a long time, and Li Rusong himself is also a young and vigorous general who likes to take the lead and is willing to leave when he starts a battle, so when the Ming army in Changyong Fort returns, almost every saddle is full of human heads, making the horse look fat.

Li Chengliang looked at the heads of the courtyard with a calm face, and said coldly to Li Rusong, who came back: "Why do you kill so much, if the Han Department doesn't come next time, what else are you going to kill?" ”

"That kid will go to his lair, how they rob us, we will rob them, it is best to be like Han Shi Huo to get sick, and also seal the wolf in Xu Mountain."

Li Rusong smiled and looked at his achievements all over the ground and said.

Li Rusong was born in Wujinshi, he also read, and his teacher was Xu Wei, a talented man, so he naturally knew the story of Huo Quai, and he was also eager to emulate the famous historical generals in his heart.

"More than loyalty, not enough scheming! Still read more! ”

Li Chengliang said and went back to his house.

Li Rusong said yes and followed.

Then, Li Chengliang asked, "How many people died this time?"

"Plus the seriously injured and can't be saved, fifty-six people."

Li Rusong replied.

Li Chengliang said: "Then you go to the Fuyuan to receive the pension money, report the list, and remember that it is thirty taels per person." ”

"Why are there so many this time?!"

Li Rusong was quite surprised, and after asking, he said: "Didn't it be ten taels of pension silver for the war dead in the past?" If this is thirty taels, the child really dares to take some sons to the depths of the desert to find the nest of the Tartars! ”

Li Chengliang said with a smile: "This is the new pension regulations set by the Ministry of War, because the family is financially abundant, and the effect of clearing the acres of land is good, the Son of Heaven approved the invitation of the military department and raised the price of the military households in the border town to thirty taels. ”

"However, Rao is so, and there are also official criticisms, fortunately, this soldier has never despised us military households, and insisted on raising the pension silver, and the nursing house is not bad, as soon as the holy decree came, he told me that Liaodong would report the pension according to this example in the future, and did not say that it would be pressed for a few years first, and let Liaodong continue to pay for it according to ten taels of silver, until the imperial history of the patrol was sparsely impeached and then changed."

"The new dynasty is really a clear and clear rule, and the virtuous ministers are full of courts."

Li Rusong said with a smile, and the spirit of wanting to make contributions became more obvious.

Li Chengliang nodded, and then said with a calm face: "There is one more thing, Qi Yuanjing was awarded the post of Prime Minister Jizhou again, and as the governor of Zuodu, he was added to the crown prince!" The imperial court asked him to train the soldiers from the south to the north, and to train the various branches of his infantry academy to fight together, with chariots, firearms, and artillery, and he had received a large amount of food and 20,000 new soldiers. ”

Li Rusong was also quite jealous in his heart after hearing this: "This soldier is still biased towards the southern soldiers!" The salary of the southern soldiers was originally higher than that of the northern soldiers, this time, he Qi Yuanjing was only afraid of more food and salary, and the child was happy just now, now thinking about what we got in Liaodi, I am afraid that it still can't be compared with Jizhou. ”

Li Chengliang nodded and said, "It can be said that the number of soldiers nominally handed over to him for training and command in the entire Jizhou has reached 100,000!" But we can't let the imperial court only see the benefits of expanding the infantry according to the mold of the southern soldiers, and not see the benefits of the expansion of our Liaodong cavalry, as long as the military households in Liaodong are given enough food and salary, and they are not worse than the various car battalions of his southern soldiers, but the key now is that there must be enough military households to retain, so this time the pension silver, you go to distribute it in person, you must send it sufficiently, the propaganda is in place, and persuade the military households to flee, so as long as they are willing to come back, the town will ask the Fuyuan to give them land reclamation. ”

"Understood!"

Li Rusong replied.

In the Wanli Dynasty, the contradiction between the north and the south has always been an important contradiction in the army.

Because most of the southern soldiers were recruited from the civilian sector after the establishment of the battalion system, and the background was to resist the Japanese, mainly fighting in the rich areas of the southeast, the salary of the soldiers was set high at the beginning, otherwise it would be difficult to recruit soldiers.

And the northern soldiers are many of the guards left behind by the original guards, and the food and salary are much lower, so the contradiction between the two exists.

And with the increase of internal contradictions, it intensified, and in the end, it happened that the elite of the southern soldiers did not die on the Korean battlefield that defeated the Japanese state, but were tacitly approved by the emperor and the civilian group to unite with the northern soldiers to design all the massacres, the main reason is that they have no money to support, which is equivalent to cutting off one of their own iron fists.

At this time, the contradictions have begun to emerge.

Of course, as long as Zhu Yijun makes the finances of the Ming Dynasty better and better, and makes up for the treatment of the northern soldiers, there is no need to use this worst way to solve the contradiction between the northern and southern soldiers.

In short, ruling a huge empire is also a matter of finance.

As long as the state has money, everything is not a problem.

The Wenhua Hall of the Forbidden City of Beijing.

On this day, when Zhu Yijun accepted Zhang Juzheng's lecture on "The Illustrated Narrative of the Emperor", Zhang Juzheng also began to mention to him the training of military generals and how the emperor could unify the army and mediate the contradictions between the armies of all parties in the context of the financial reform.