Although Li Xianzhong scolded his mother in his heart, he also knew that it was useless to talk nonsense with Sun Chengzong here.

After all, this Sun Ge Lao is just a microphone for Zhu Youxiao.

Today, there are only 90,000 people in Liaodong, and the monthly salary is 1 and a half, but in fact, the annual salary is only 1.62 million taels.

It is too cheap to exchange this bit of silver for a peace in Liaodong.

What's more, there are copper mines and horse markets in Liaodong to return to the imperial court, and now Zhu Youxiao is relying on this year's 810,000 taels and refuses to send it, which is almost equivalent to the imperial court not spending cash in Liaodong.

Of course, the annual grain and grass of the army, and the replenishment and replacement of armaments are also a lot of expenses for the imperial court.

But these are not directly allocated silver taels, they are not so eager, except for grain and grass, everything else can control the progress.

However, Li Xianzhong must still express his dissatisfaction, otherwise Zhu Youxiao is likely to do something more excessive.

Li Xianzhong said: "Since the 47th year of Wanli, Liaodong's salary has never been in arrears, which is why there is today's situation in Liaodong. ”

"My duke is well aware of the difficulties of the imperial court today, so he has repeatedly reduced the establishment and reduced expenses."

"Now that the imperial court only pays half a salary, it will definitely cause dissatisfaction among the soldiers, if they do something out of the ordinary and cause turmoil in Liaodong, I am afraid that the imperial court will lose more than it gains."

Sun Chengzong knew that Li Xianzhong was threatening the imperial court.

On the one hand, Zhu Youxiao's move was forced to be helpless, and it is true that the financial gap of the imperial court is too big now.

In addition, he also has the intention of creating some chaos in Liaodong, just like before Wanli sent the eunuch Gao Huai to Liaodong to conquer and extort tyranny, just to add chaos to the Li family in Liaodong and prevent Liaodong from becoming a monolith.

He had no choice but to say with a smiling face: "In fact, the salaries of the towns in the nine sides, and even the three battalions of the Beijing Division, have long been in arrears. The imperial court is also trying to increase its income, and for the time being, it can only bother the Duke of Liao to overcome it! ”

Li Xianzhong said: "This guild will write a letter to ask Your Majesty to restore the 'Liaoyu', and if this continues, Liaodong will definitely be chaotic." ”

No wonder Li Xianzhong was angry, Wei Zhongxian and Tianqi canceled the "Liao salary", won a reputation for loving the people, but wanted to deduct the military salary of Liaodong.

I don't have the ability to make money, so I honestly continue to put away the "Liao Salary".

After that, Sun Chengzong went to the area of Tongkuandian Fort in Pingyu County.

Li Xianzhong was naturally unhappy to continue to accompany him, so Yan Mingtai and Zhang Wenbing accompanied this Qincha to continue to inspect Liaodong.

Finally, Sun Chengzong inspected the circle and returned to Beijing by boat from Yingkou.

To be honest, now Li Xianzhong is not short of silver.

Before the Fushe uprising in Chongming, he got 500,000 taels of silk, tea and other materials just by selling arms and warships.

In the end, Zheng Zhilong sold these goods to Japan and Macao, and obtained 1.4 million taels of silver.

These 800,000 taels are nothing.

He had already calculated with Yan Mingtai that even with Liaodong's existing financial revenue, as long as there were no serious natural disasters, there would be no problem for them to feed 100,000 troops.

What's more, he also has the income of North Korea, Ryukyu, Taiwan and Yanzhou, as well as the most profitable Japanese smuggling income.

It's just that he blindly retreated, and it seemed that disarmament and opening up the horse market did not dispel Zhu Youxiao's doubts.

On the contrary, he made him attack Liaodong even harder.

Since the Wanli Dynasty, the imperial court has always wanted to contain Liaodong, but no one dares to really make a move against Liaodong.

Now that the Jianzhou Jurchen has just been pacified, Zhu Youxiao has no scruples about attacking him.

Or is he just testing his reaction at the moment, and if he is easily manipulated, he will take further action next?

It seems that this Daming is still not messy enough, and it was because he was too polite to Zhu Youxiao that he gave him time to deal with himself.

But that's not necessarily a bad thing.

Although he has never expressed his desire to be self-reliant, anyone with a discerning eye can see very clearly that the break between Liaodong and the imperial court is almost a matter of time.

At present, the high-level in Liaodong, Wuwen Wuwu will definitely follow him.

Yan Mingtai, the governor of Jiliao, Zhang Wenbing, the governor of Liaodong, Li Sanshun, the chief soldier of Kaiyuan, Li Huaizhong, the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, and Mao Wenlong, the chief soldier of Liaoyang, and other civil and military officials would follow them without hesitation even if they rebelled immediately.

Not to mention people like Fan Wencheng Brothers, Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, Mao Yuanyi, and Yu Wanli, they were all pulled up by themselves.

However, those officers and soldiers at the bottom may still have some concerns.

After all, rebellion is a matter that affects the whole family, and cronies who are not the Li family may not be willing to take this risk.

Previously, he had taken advantage of the opportunity of the dismissal to clear out some people and generals who were not his descendants from Liaodong.

It was just the right time to take advantage of the opportunity of the imperial court's arrears to increase the dissatisfaction of the soldiers with the imperial court.

By the way, observe the thoughts of those generals.

Soon the imperial court could not pay the salary, and the news that this year the salary could only be received first spread throughout Liaodong.

The news really exploded in an instant.

The generals from all walks of life in Liaodong protested, and the soldiers were also in a mood.

A few years ago, there were still Tartars that could be exterminated, and the reward for beheading was quite rich.

Even if the imperial court has always owed these bounties, there are still Jianzhou and Mongols who can fight the autumn wind, and the soldiers of Liaodong can get some silver taels or war booty.

These soldiers of Liaodong had a good life, and many of them married daughters-in-law after they had silver.

Nowadays, many people have wives and children, and the monthly salary of 1 tael and 5 yuan per month was originally tight.

But now even this amount of money has to be owed by the imperial court, how can they accept it.

However, soon news came, saying that now that Jianzhou had been pacified, the imperial court was unloading the mill and killing the donkey.

not only owed the soldiers salaries, but even asked the Liao State to dismiss more than half of the men and horses in Liaodong. A few days ago, Sun Ge Lao inspected Liaodong for this matter, and the Duke of Liao was unwilling to dismiss a large number of Liaodong soldiers, and he had already quarreled with the imperial court.

The arrears of wages by the imperial court were only the beginning, and there were more policies against Liaodong after that, and even the removal of the Duke of Liao.

After years of development, the Intelligence Department has long penetrated into all corners of Liaodong.

The speed at which this gossip spreads is staggering.

The sergeants and generals of Liaodong soon found that they had the wrong object of protest, and it was useless to protest to the Duke of Liao and the Yamen of Liaodong.

Now it is unrealistic to ask them to go directly to Beijing to protest.

You can't kill all the way to Jingshi to petition, and this is no different from rebellion.

So someone proposed to directly intercept the silver taels of the imperial court.

Now the copper mines and horse markets in Liaodong sent silver directly to the imperial court, so the angry Liaodong border army rushed into the horse markets in Kaiyuan and Quang Ninh, not only beating the court officials who stopped them, but also storming the treasury of the horse market, looting the tax silver in the treasury and the physical goods collected from the merchants.

On the Liao River, the officers and soldiers of Liaoyang Road directly set up a card on the Liao River and detained the copper ship of the imperial court. He claimed to use these ingots to pay for his monthly salary.

Of course, in order to ensure that normal business travel was not affected, Li Xianzhong still sent a lot of men to protect the merchants' goods.

For a time, there was a storm on the ground in Liaodong, and there was a mutiny.

There were even cases where some soldiers surrounded the government and killed officials.

The entire Liaodong is completely chaotic.

Everywhere were Ming soldiers asking for pay, and the Liaoguo Mansion in Kaiyuan, as well as the Yamen of Jiliao, the governor of Jiliao in Liaoyang, and the Yamen of the governor of Liaodong were surrounded by soldiers and protested!

Li Sanshun said: "There have been incidents of sergeants killing officials in Fushun Guan and Kuandian Road, and now the list of the Intelligence Department must be loyal to the imperial court, and those officials who are not of the same heart as us have been killed. ”

Li Xianzhong said: "Let the governor of Liaodong Yamen directly replace these officials with our people, and send some funerals to the mansions of these officials in the name of the Liaoguo Mansion." ”

Sun Chengzong's inspection of the Nine Sides was very hard, and it took three or four months to walk almost the entire Great Wall back and forth.

Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Apocalypse is also very grateful to his teacher, what he did this time was all offending people, and there was considerable resistance.

Overall, Sun Chengzong did a good job.

However, he is most concerned about the actual situation in Liaodong.

Sun Chengzong said: "The state of the Liaodong Army is very good, whether it is armament or combat power, it is the crown of the nine sides!" Not only that, but now a large number of displaced people are flocking to Liaodong, whose population is close to 3 million. ”

"The governance of Liaodong is very good, and from the perspective of the old ministers, in a few years, Liaodong will be able to achieve self-sufficiency."

After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao frowned and asked, "If the Liaodong army is under the city, how long can the Beijing camp last?" ”

Sun Chengzong shook his head helplessly and said, "It is impossible for the Beijing camp to block the Liaodong Army at all, and it is already good to be able to hold it for one day." ”

However, he added: "In fact, whether it is the towns on the nine sides, the Beijing camp can't resist it, it's really that the Beijing camp is too weak!" ”

Zhu Youxiao said: "It seems that the Beijing camp is completely abolished, and now I don't expect these wastes to be reborn, and the monthly salary of the three major battalions of the Beijing Division this year is only half of it." ”

"The silver and two I saved have to train a 30,000-strong army of the Son of Heaven, and this matter has to trouble Sun Ge Lao."

Sun Chengzong originally thought that the Emperor of the Apocalypse was only forced by financial pressure to implement the policy of disarmament and arrears, but he did not expect His Majesty to be so far-sighted.

He said excitedly: "The old minister must live up to Your Majesty's expectations, and train a pro-army of the Son of Heaven who can guard the Beijing Division as soon as possible, and ask Your Majesty to give the name of the pro-army." ”

Zhu Youxiao thought for a while and said, "Let's call it 'Yulin Camp'!" ”

Sun Chengzong hesitated for a moment and said: "Now the combat power of the Liaodong Army is too strong, and Shanhaiguan is also under its control. Lao Chen suggested adjusting the configuration of the nine sides and dividing Shanhaiguan into Jizhou Town. In this way, even if there is a change in the future, the imperial court can rely on Shanhaiguan to ensure the safety of the customs. ”

In fact, Zhu Youxiao has not thought about this problem.

His idea was different from Sun Chengzong's, he wanted to directly set up a Liaoxi town. With the Liao River as the boundary, a separate military town was set up west of the Liao River.

That is, the Shanhaiguan and Guangning roads in Li Xianzhong's hands were separately demarcated.

However, this matter still has to be gradual, after all, he has been acting too much against Liaodong recently, and he can't force Li Xianzhong too quickly all at once.

Although he still trusts Sun Chengzong very much, this matter still needs to be kept secret, and it is inconvenient to reveal his true thoughts to him at this time.

Zhu Youxiao said: "Rong Zhen should think about this matter again, and also take into account the feelings of the Duke of Liao, so there is no need to rush for a while." ”

Although Zhu Youxiao was Sun Chengzong who met alone in the warm pavilion, the conversation between the two was still overheard by the little eunuch outside the palace.

Soon these news reached the ears of the "nine thousand years old" Wei Zhongxian.

Zhu Youxiao's recent actions are really a lot, and the most important thing is that his actions completely bypass the celebrant and the cabinet.

In particular, the fact that His Majesty wants to establish a separate Yulin camp makes him have to be vigilant.

Out of the obligation of an ally, he still told Mao Yuanyi these news, and at present, this "carpenter emperor" has a tendency to gradually get out of control, which he has to guard against.

In the final analysis, he was able to "call the wind and rain" in the court, all thanks to Zhu Youxiao's decentralization.

At the court meeting the next day, Zhu Youxiao ordered the military department to cooperate with Sun Chengzong to form a new Yulin battalion.

Soon, Tobe Shangshu Tian Ji said that he was powerless on the grounds that Tobe had no silver.

Zhu Youxiao immediately announced that only half of the monthly salary in Liaodong and Jingying would be paid this year, and the other half would be owed first.

The silver was used to form the Feather Forest Battalion.

Xiong Tingbi, the secretary of the military department, had no choice but to carry out the preparatory work of the Yulin battalion.

At this time, the British public Zhang Weixian said: "The Beijing camp has been abolished before, and the morale of the soldiers is very low. ”

Zhu Youxiao said: "It's just a temporary arrears, as long as the court collects the arrears of taxes, it will be made up." ”

After that, he ordered Wei Zhongxian to collect taxes in time and dumped the pot to Wei Zhongxian.

Zhang Weixian and others naturally did not dare to challenge Wei Zhongxian, and finally Zhu Youxiao forcibly passed this resolution.

The Yulin Battalion was in full swing, and there was news of the Liaodong Army's "mutiny and salary".

The paid sergeants not only besieged many yamen but also killed officials. He even robbed the horse market and seized the copper ship.

Now the household department is in a hurry, and you will pay 810,000 taels of Liaodong's military salary for half a year.

If the horse market is suspended, the loss of the copper mine for one year will be almost this amount, and the imperial court will not deduct Liaodong's military salary in vain.

Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Apocalypse was furious and demanded that Li Xianzhong, the Duke of Liao, strictly investigate the murderers and restore the transportation of the horse market and copper mines as soon as possible.

Later, there was a recital of Li Xianzhong, the Duke of Liao, pleading guilty and requesting the resumption of the "Liao Salary"!

Li Xianzhong's recital was quickly seconded by most of the courtiers, especially the nobles in the capital!

Although this abolition of "Liao Salary" was proposed by the Eunuch Party, at that time they were trying to compete with the Donglin Party and gain a good reputation for themselves.

Now that the Donglin Party has fallen, there is no need for them to be too concerned about their reputation.

And if the "Liao Tax" is not levied again, the Emperor of the Apocalypse will force them to collect commercial taxes, but in fact, they can't collect so many commercial taxes.

Now Feng Quan, who proposed to cancel the "Liao salary", has long been driven out of Beijing, and out of consideration for reducing his own pressure, Cui Chengxiu and others have also agreed to restore the "Liao salary".

Although Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Apocalypse was very reluctant, after all, this "Liao salary" had only been canceled for a year.

Now that he is going to be expropriated again, the people will definitely say that he has backtracked.

But in the face of the fierce Manchu civil and military forces, he also had to make compromises.

In the end, Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Apocalypse still ordered the resumption of the "Liao salary" in the fourth year of the Apocalypse, but the amount of the levy was only 7% of the previous amount.

However, even if the new "Liao Salary" can be harvested, it will be after the autumn harvest, and it will be almost next year.

This year, Liaodong and Jingying can only pay half of their monthly salary.

Seeing that the goal had been achieved, Li Xianzhong symbolically punished some officers and soldiers as an explanation to the imperial court, and even found a few death row prisoners to come to pay for the lives of those officials.

After doing all this, Li Xianzhong announced that he would sell some of the properties of the Jingshi and distribute the salaries owed by the imperial court to the soldiers first, and it was a one-time distribution.

In this way, these soldiers will get half a year's salary at one time, and they will naturally read the good of the Duke of Liao.

After that, every month when I received half a salary, I would be more jealous of the court.

Liaodong's military spirit was completely recovered by him.

At this time, Fan Wencheng was reporting the situation to Li Xianzhong.

Fan Wencheng is now the commander of the Nurgan Division, and this is a military attache from the second rank.

Nu'er is the second-in-command of the Dusi, because the commander of the capital is concurrently served by Li Xianzhong himself, so Fan Wencheng is now equivalent to the number one.

Since Liaodong is subordinate to the Shandong Political Envoy Division, Liaodong does not have a political envoy.

Now Fan Wencheng, as Li Xianzhong's housekeeper, can be said to control the financial power of Liaodong, which is equivalent to the existence of a political envoy.

Income for the entire three years of the Apocalypse:

Liaodong's commercial tax (including customs tariff and commercial tax) income was 750,000 taels of silver.

The income from trade with Mongolia was 300,000 taels of silver (after the opening of the horse market, the profit of this piece was seriously affected)

The sales revenue of Liaodong commodities represented by Pingyubao was 850,000 taels (mainly a large number of copper products were sold to Jiangnan, North Korea, and Japan)

The sales revenue of Jingshi was 550,000 taels of silver (glass and perfume).

The customs revenue from the port of Incheon in North Korea and the revenue from salt sales were 450,000 taels (the revenue from the Korean War and the change of regime last year was severely reduced)

The Ryukyus' commercial trade income was 190,000 taels of silver.

The Toryukyu Company's annual income from trading and robbery was 2,480,000 taels of silver.

The windfall income was 1 million taels (including extortion of the Qufu Kong family, as well as Jin Zidian's contribution and gun tartars).

The total income was 6.57 million taels of silver.

12,000 taels of gold derived from Hongtoushan copper mine.

Fan Wencheng proudly added: "The silver taels of our income are not much less than those of Daming. However, the expenses of the three years of the apocalypse are also quite a lot. ”

Spending for the entire three years of the Apocalypse:

Liaodong officials' salary and silver subsidy: 400,000 taels.

The army's salary subsidy and additional killing rewards, and the pension of the dead: 500,000 taels.

Pingyu Fort's artillery production, R&D and personnel rewards: 600,000 taels.

The construction of the shipyard and personnel, the cost of building the ship: 1 million taels.

Road repair and Kaiyuan City expansion in Liaodong: 400,000 taels.

Development investment in the Ryukyus and Taiwan: 600,000 taels.

Expenditure on the purchase of grain: 500,000 taels.

The total expenditure was 4 million taels.

The surplus of silver was 2.57 million taels and 12,000 taels of gold.

At present, there are 5.03 million taels of silver and 30,000 taels of gold in the silver vault of Pingyubao.

In addition, the production of Liaodong, Yanzhou, Taiwan and Jianzhou Zuowei minus the consumption of surplus rice, corn and wheat 950,000 stone, sweet potatoes and potatoes 1.5 million stone.

Today, the granary has 2.27 million koku of rice, corn, and wheat, and 1.5 million koku of sweet potatoes and potatoes.

Li Xianzhong didn't expect that his family background was so rich now, and it seemed that it was still the most profitable in sea trade, and there was no one.

Just as he inquired about the situation in Taiwan, news came that the Dutch had entrenched themselves in Penghu and joined the Spaniards to invade Taiwan.

Sun Chuanting asked the sailor to go to Taiwan to help in the war.

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