Chapter 144 Countermeasures

"Lonely and have no money!" Zhu Zhishu, the king of Shu, rolled his eyes and said to Chen Shibo, the governor of Sichuan, "'The vassal king eats Lu and does not cure things'!" Chen Aiqing, you save the money in the provincial treasury yourself, but you come to ask for money, what kind of reason is this? ”

Chen Shibo replied with a bitter face: "A thousand years old." Silver for flood control, disaster relief, road construction, warehouse repair, and troop mobilization...... Spent like flowing water, the provincial treasury is only fifty or sixty thousand taels of silver. The minister really doesn't dare to move anymore! ”

"Then Chen Qing's family came to fight Lone's idea? You won't teach the people to give more? These many people, one point per person, isn't it eighty or ninety thousand taels, two or three taels per person, I'm afraid it's hundreds of thousands of taels? Zhu Zhishu said angrily.

"Chitose." The one who spoke was Liu Ziqi, the new imperial historian who succeeded Tu Jichun, "Just after the catastrophe, the people's fields can't be supported by themselves, and now they are all barely living on wild vegetables, and it is impossible to get a copper plate anymore." These are what the ministers have seen with their own eyes, and they dare not be bullied. The ministers heard that there was a poem among the people: 'Go out with a basket in the morning and return with a basket in the evening.' Ten fingers want to drip blood, and the eyes are urgent. 'Minister, please Chitose See*! ”

"Lord Liu, I have also heard this poem you read. But you're only halfway there, and there's four more sentences to follow, right? Chitose, the minister made up those sentences for Lord Liu: 'There is no millet in the official warehouse, and the grains are hidden in the pearls.' One grain is not out of the warehouse, and the rats in the warehouse are fat! 'Lord Liu, I remember the last few sentences, right? Chen Shibo continued almost in tears, "Chitose! Listen to the next few sentences! This is not only disrespectful, it is simply dry firewood and fire, Chitose! Lord Liu didn't dare to read it all, and the ministers went out! At this time, the people of Shu are already struggling to make a living, and if we urge again, the ministers are afraid that the big change will be between the elbows and armpits! ”

Zhu Zhishu was angry and slapped the dragon chair heavily: "The people are not happy? Whose business is it to persuade farmers to prosper all industries? Whose business is it to educate the herdsmen? Whose business is it to defend the land against the enemy? Are you waiting for these heavy responsibilities to be left alone? ”

Hearing Chen Shibo say everything he didn't dare to say, Liu Ziqi's face turned red and he felt a little ashamed: Don't look at the low grade of the imperial history, but the identity is different, on behalf of the Holy Son of Heaven patrols the place! A magistrate dares to make a direct admonition, what are you afraid of? It's a big deal to let the King of Shu complain to the Zongren Mansion! Thinking of this, he simply let it go: "Chitose!" Mr. Chen was right. The minister has checked, Sichuan Province has a total of more than 134,000 hectares of private land, the year before the disaster paid a total of 1030,000 stone of grain, the year before last flood, about 50,000 hectares of land destroyed, millions of people were displaced, last year still paid 60 percent and a half, this year to now, Wang Zhuangtian has been fully reclaimed, Juntun has also recovered more than 70 percent, but the private land is not yet half, and the field has been harvested nearly 40 percent! Chitose, you must not move the idea of folk Tianfu anymore! The minister is by no means alarmist, no matter how much he forces the people, he may not need to beware of Zhang Thief's house, and our own people will be in chaos! ”

"Liu Ziqi is unformed!" Zhu Zhishu, who was so angry that he was robbed, was so angry that he directly called out Liu Yushi's full name, "You don't want to use such things to intimidate Yu Gu!" ”

The ministers knelt on the ground and pleaded guilty, and according to the inspector Shen Jishan (Zi Zhiyan) kowtowed and said: "Chitose Rong." The ministers really didn't dare to speak. Huayang and Chengdu are all here, and Chitose will know it when he asks. ”

Because the official position was too low, the two magistrates who were almost kneeling at the entrance of the hall said in unison: "A thousand years old, it's true." The ministers did not dare to bully the king. ”

Looking at the officials kneeling on the ground in front of him, the King of Shu was a little unable to get down: "Okay, okay." Turn around and take a thousand taels alone. This is the court's support for Lonely, but you waited for a few words to ask for it, you yourself wonder if it is unreasonable! As he spoke, he patted the dragon chair again, "This is the chair of the King of Shu given by Taizu." Oh, it's inlaid with some gold, and if you say that silver is not enough, whoever will take it! ”

When it came to this, the officials had no choice but to bow down and resign, and staggered out dejectedly.

Sun Jie was sitting in the tent of the commander of the Chinese army, but today's tiger commander seemed to have completely lost his heroic spirit of the past, as if the chair was suddenly full of spikes - because Chen Shibo and Liu Ziqi actually ran to Dingyuan together, and moreover, they pulled Wen Xiangli of Dingyuan County and went straight into the military tent, and they didn't let Sun Jie go to the county government to meet him!

The unwritten convention in the officialdom is that the status of the second-rank general soldier is slightly the same as that of the fourth-grade prefect, well, in fact, it is still a little lower - the governor of a province and the inspector representing the Son of Heaven personally visited a young deputy commander-in-chief, and it is really no wonder that Sun Jie was a little at a loss for a while.

Hearing the two pour bitter water, Sun Jie calmed down a little, hugged his fists and said: "Please relax a few adults, there will be a few more in the end." As long as the children's food and straw can be supplied, the adults of our department don't have to be too embarrassed. The words of the last general, the sons and daughters still heard it. After exterminating the thief, the last general will directly find the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Household to write it off, and when the time comes, please ask all the adults to sign and be a witness. ”

Chen and Liu couldn't help but shake up when they heard this, glanced at each other, both left their seats, and thanked Sun Jie for their salutes, Wen Xiangli naturally followed, so frightened that Sun Jie jumped up and hurriedly avoided it, and shouted: "The adults can't help it, and the last general is killed!" ”

It's really no wonder that the two of them are so moved, although the Ming Dynasty ancestor system is a civil and martial arts, but Sun Jie's statement is indeed very surprising. According to the usual practice, although the soldier is to serve the imperial court, the imperial court will always deduct the salary through various means such as surveying and verifying the soldiers. It doesn't count after the deduction is completed, but it still has to be in arrears, and when it comes to the localities, civil officials at all levels will go through it again...... For example, if you lead a 10,000 army (don't care if it's true or not), the average soldier and general will be 2 taels of silver per month, and 60,000 taels in three months. The imperial court sent down 40,000 taels, and the other 20,000 were owed first, and finally, it would be very good for the generals who led the army to get 20,000 taels. Generals at all levels also have to use money - then they can only find a way from 20,000 taels! As for whether the soldiers can theoretically get the six taels of silver in their hands to support their families become more than a dozen copper plates, or do they not even have a copper plate, and whether their wives and children gnaw on tree bark or drink wind and eat soil...... No one is going to that heart! Dare to talk nonsense? Send another gang of cannon fodder to chop you!

Therefore, there is naturally a countermeasure in the army: endure it in peacetime, but when you use me, suppress bandits, quell chaos, etc., don't talk nonsense, pay money! Pay the arrears first, and the specific amount can be discussed, and the approximate amount is about 50% or 60% of the total arrears. And then from today onwards, I will be paid in full - if I deduct it at this time, you don't blame me for what I did. Then, when you really want to leave, you have to give a reward for opening up, and if you don't give a reward, you can't leave, and the closer you get to the enemy, the more trouble will be rewarded. At this time, it is necessary to test the prestige of the generals in the army: the chaos that can be suppressed will be smaller, and if it cannot be suppressed, the mutiny of the enemy is also heard from time to time, of course, there are more cases where the generals take this opportunity to make a big profit for themselves. And Sun Jie is a guest army here, which means that they have to be double-people come all the way to save your life from the enemy, and you deserve to die if you commit a financial obsession again!

Sun Jiajun is the trump card of the Ming Dynasty, and the saints have not faded for two hundred years, and the arrears will not be enough. But when he arrived in Sichuan Province, it was the emperor's order to deal with the change of luxury in the past, and the military salary was responsible for the imperial court. Chen Shibo didn't even have enough money to collect the people who assisted in guarding the people, where could he afford to raise more than 10,000 regular troops! Moreover, I don't know how long the battle will take, and every day it drags on, it is estimated that it will cost thousands of taels of silver!

However, Sun Jie said that he didn't want any of this, and he would directly find the Ministry of War to verify it in the future, and just make a certificate in Sichuan Province, although people have won the trust of the saint and have this ability, but after all, there was no friendship before, this is a great favor, so the two of them couldn't help but be moved insincerely.

In order to explain the military situation, and also to cover up the embarrassment, Sun Jie pulled a few people to the map of northern Sichuan and pointed and said, "Adults, please take a look." As long as these three places can each be kept for three days, oh, two days, the end will not be talented, but it can protect Sichuan Province without worry. As he spoke, Sun Jie's finger pointed to the first place, "The last general dared to love the adults and ordered, and all the defenders of Tongchuan Prefecture went out of the salt pavilion to defend it. I heard that Zhang Thief used the waist card to pretend to be reinforcements to deceive Nanjin Pass and Baoning South Gate, and the last general analyzed that nine times out of ten, the thieves came down from Xiaotong water. In addition, according to the report of the last general's exploration of horses, the camp of the Liubian Post is still the banner of my Ming Dynasty - the two sides are close to the thief, but the two sides get along safely, and the two situations are added together, the last general asserts that the defenders of the Liubian Post are unreliable! If the thief abandoned the city and fled, the biggest threat would be to attack the salt pavilion from Liubianyi to the west. After that, it either rushed south along the Zitong River to shoot floods, or continued to threaten the state capital (now Santai County) to the west, and then along the Zhongjiang River to disturb Deyang, Hanzhou (now Guanghan), or north to Mianzhou (now Mianyang...... This is what the general is most worried about. What the last general is afraid of is that Zhang Thief will flee west directly if he does not fight with the last general, in that way, the thieves' army will not disperse, and the combat power will still be relatively strong. Therefore, holding the salt pavilion and waiting for the last general to catch up is the first priority! ”

After hearing this, several civil officials admired Sun Jie from the bottom of their hearts: they didn't know anything about the situation of the thieves in Liubianyi in their hometown, and this young deputy marshal had only arrived for a few days, and this kind of information was immediately clear, and the Sun family's art of war was real!

Sun Jie pointed to the second place and said, "The next place is Zitong in Baoning Mansion." The last general probed, but the thief did not go there. Please send people to defend and dig more trenches, and try to keep the thieves out for a while. If the thief flees in this direction, he must be driven out of Baoning Mansion by our army, and then the end will bite the thief to the death, and the pressure on Shou Zitong will be less than that of Yanting, and the end will not be very late. The third place is Qinglinkou to the north of Zitong. These two places are similar, and they are also the possible escape direction of the thief after being defeated by the last general, and the farther away he is to the north, the more frightened the thief is, and the less pressure on the defenders will be. Therefore, of these three places, the most important place is still the salt pavilion. ”

Several civil officials nodded frequently when they heard this, and secretly thought to themselves: This Deputy Marshal Sun only emphasized blocking the escape route of the thief, and did not mention the slightest worry about the outcome of the battle with the thief.

The hanging heart was mostly relaxed.

At the end, Sun Jie said: "The last general begs all the adults to help. The first is food, after the last general establishes a stronghold in the north, he can wave his army to fight the thief, if there is a shortage of food, he can only hold on, and it is difficult for the army to move. The second is people. In the end, 5,000 soldiers will be needed to help set up a supply depot for the march, which will be able to directly attack the thieves' lair. The third is the boat. The greatest possibility of the thief Zhang is to flee north along the Jialing River, and the ships will be collected along the way, and some fire boats will be lowered along the river from time to time to block the pursuit of our army. The ships that will be damaged in the end will not be replenished, and if there are fewer ships, they will not be able to divide their forces and rush in, so they should be prepared more in advance. In addition," Sun Jie pondered for a moment, "I also want to ask a few adults to report to the imperial court - Shaanxi Province, especially Hanzhong Mansion, must be strictly guarded," Sun Jie smiled bitterly, "The last general has no right to mobilize troops and horses in Shaanxi Province......"

Several officials understood what Sun Jie meant, but at the same time, they didn't take it to heart when they patted their chests and took it all - it was no longer a matter of Sichuan Province!

*This poem was actually written by Yang En and was published in "Gongchang Mansion Chronicles". Yang En, the word Yongqing, alias Fengchi, is from Longxi.

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