The key to the victory or defeat of a battle lies in logistics supply.

In particular, this kind of tactics with the intention of encircling the city for the purpose of besieging the city and sending reinforcements are even more tests of logistical pressure.

After arranging the siege strategy, Yang Chengying first ordered three trenches to be dug outside Anshan City.

The first ditch is one zhang deep and one zhang wide, and the wall outside the trench is one zhang high, and the wall is battled.

The second was dug about five feet from the wall, five feet wide and seven feet six inches deep, and the trench was covered with straw and then covered with a layer of earth.

The third trench was outside the barracks, around which a barrage five feet deep and five feet wide was dug around.

Through the siege on all sides, as well as the three trenches guarding the city of Anshan, Jilharang and 10,000 blue flags were physically blocked.

While digging the trench, Yang Chengying gave Fan Wencheng an order.

Fan Wencheng arrived in Gaizhou and organized people to transport supplies from the direction of Jinzhou and Jinzhou to the front line.

On the sixth day of October, Fan Wencheng traveled 100 miles a day and arrived in Gaizhou. Together with Wu Xiang and others, Hui organized the transportation of materials.

The entire people of Gaizhou and Haizhou were mobilized.

They shouted the slogans of "return my rivers and mountains" and "every grain of rice transported is a gun to destroy the enemy", and transported the materials to Anshan by small carts and carriages.

The ranks are so vast that there is no end in sight.

Fan Wencheng also flexibly used Yang Chengying's reward system to reward the trolley with the most transportation, and draped the trolley with red colors.

All the people were paid for each trip with silver, or food, or cloth.

On the 9th of October, it snowed lightly.

The majestic horses galloped in the Nansha River Valley, and Yang Chengying carried a bow on horseback and laughed loudly.

More than a dozen guards drove herds of sika deer and scurried around the valley.

There are three treasures in the Northeast, ginseng, mink, and deer antler.

Unlike later generations, which were strictly protected, sika deer are everywhere in the undeveloped mountainous areas of the Northeast.

Yang Chengying opened his bow and set up an arrow, and shot an arrow at an adult sika deer.

"Yang Shuai, what a clever archery."

Yang Sichang reined in his horse and watched the sika deer fall heavily to the ground, being slowly dragged away by the guards with ropes.

Their ultimate fate is to appear in front of the wounded together with the Ula grass.

Venison became a delicacy, while ura grass became a good material for heating.

Yang Chengying handed the bow to Yang Sichang and said with a smile: "Governor Yang, don't you come with an arrow?" ”

"Nope." Yang Sichang pushed, "I'm already very good at riding a horse, if you want me to shoot prey, let me be spared." ”

"Hahaha...... Governor Yang was modest. ”

Yang Chengying put the bow back in its place, took the wolf tooth arrow handed by the guard, and inserted it back into the quiver.

It was intended to call it a day.

"Yang Shuai, there are so many deer, why don't you fight?" Yang Sichang asked.

"That's enough, there's no need to kill."

Yang Chengying had something to say.

"That's just as well. Since the war has been won, there is no need to kill them all, let alone kill them all. ”

Yang Sichang smiled and said.

He believed that Yang Chengying was referring to 20,000 captives.

As soon as the war ended, Yang Sichang thought that the 20,000 captives should be punished and their leaders should be dispersed and incorporated into various units.

Yang Chengying did not agree, but directly according to the establishment of the division, greeted and reorganized it on the spot, and divided it into the new second division and the new third division.

Shen Zhixiang and Zu Zeyuan, who were born in the army, temporarily served as division commanders.

In order to alleviate the logistical pressure, the two divisions went to Gaizhou for training and teaching.

Kong Youxing, who was in charge of teaching, and Shang Kejin, had already gone to Gaizhou.

The follow-up candidate, Yang Chengying is still under consideration.

"There's one thing I've never figured out."

Yang Sichang asked while riding a horse, "I wonder if Yang Shuai can tell me?" ”

"Governor Yang, please ask, I will not hide what I can answer."

Yang Chengying left a back hand.

"Why don't you attack Anshan City directly, and besiege it with such painstaking efforts?"

Yang Sichang has long been used to it, and he is not displeased, but feels that it should be like this.

"Governor Yang has forgotten the events of the first year of Chongzhen?"

Yang Chengying replied very happily this time: "Once our army withdraws, in order to alleviate the internal contradictions, Huang Taiji will not hesitate to lead the army to Jizhen and invade the Beijing Division." ”

Yang Sichang was stunned, he really didn't expect this.

"Although there are many of our troops, they are mainly infantry."

Yang Chengying continued to explain: "Besides, although I am not in charge of Jiliao, I have the title of commander of all military affairs in Liaodong. Something happened, and it was finally on my head. ”

"That's just as well. It is a great sin to lose a city and land,"

Yang Sichang thought so.

His father, Yang He, succeeded Wu Zhiwang as the trilateral military affairs of the Ming Governor, dealing with the thieves led by Shen Yikui and Wang Jiayin.

What kind of material the father is, he knows it all too well as a son.

So I was deeply worried about my father's fate.

"On the other hand, I also want to take the opportunity to expand the results."

Yang Chengying looked at Anshan in the distance, "There are tens of thousands of Eight Banner soldiers in the city, and these soldiers are all good combat power." ”

Hearing this, Yang Sichang's heart sank, if he continued like this, could the court still be able to control him?

The court can control it, Chongzhen has no time to care, there is one thing more headache and imminent than Yang Chengying.

This matter is the finance of the Ming Dynasty, and it can't hold it anymore.

Contrary to what many people think, the tax system of the Ming Dynasty adopted a policy of low-cost operation and tax increases in case of accidents.

This has led to the people at the bottom being repeatedly taxed, and they are so poor that they have risen to the top.

As for the imperial court, he was so poor that he couldn't even afford to build the mausoleum of his brother Emperor Tianqi.

What's the problem?

The three major tumors of the Ming Dynasty's finances, one is the clan, which occupies half of the fertile land; the second is the squire, who uses his fame to evade taxes and avoid taxes; The third is corrupt officials and corrupt officials, who take advantage of repeated tax collections to make reckless robberies.

In later generations, some people calculated that the actual tax amount of the notorious "three salaries" plus the original tax was not high.

Both the Qing Dynasty in history and the Li Dynasty, which imitated the Ming Dynasty, continued to collect until the middle of the dynasty.

Now, Chongzhen is facing a problem, that is, the three major tumors attack together, resulting in an empty treasury.

What to do?

Chongzhen issued an edict to the ministers and asked for ways to save money.

Don't think about open source for the time being, but you can give it a try.

There is a criminal department in the matter, named Liu Mao (mao), to Chongzhen: Tianxia Prefecture and County allocated about 78 out of 10 to the post station, and only 2 out of 10 of the post station is used for official business, and 8 out of 10 is used for private affairs.

Conclusion: Abolish the post station.

Chongzhen looked at the song and asked Zhou Yanru: "What do you think about this matter?" ”

"The reason why Emperor Taizu set up the post station was to encircle the strong men of the world, consume their energy, and restrain their behavior.

so that they will not do evil in the society and harm our people. ”

Zhou Yanru replied: "If the post station is abolished and these people are displaced in society, I am afraid that there will be no peace in the world from now on." ”

Chongzhen nodded in approval.

Uphold the principle that Zhou Yanru agrees, and I oppose it.

Wen Tiren came out and said: "The minister thinks that the post station is no longer a public matter but a private matter, so what's the point of keeping it like this!"

The minister asked His Majesty to grant Liu Mao's request, abolish the post station, and support the people and the government. ”

Chongzhen also felt that it made sense.

He thought about it for a while, and suddenly had a brilliant idea: "I have decided that Liu Mao will be reappointed as the military department to take charge of the affairs of the post and rectification." ”

Hey...... There is a back pot.