Early the next morning, the sky cleared up and Chang Yu led his troops to leave. Mu Tianbo and other officials saw him off, only ten miles away, and saw more than a thousand riders slowly leaving. Mu Tianbo felt mixed in his heart and could not express his exact feelings. The little eunuch ran away across mountains and rivers. He was grateful for Qianli's help, but he was very disappointed when he was directly removed from the rank of general. Moreover, he performed terribly in the process of suppressing the rebellion of the two chieftains. He was completely a soy sauce, especially He was greatly humiliated by the Wan family's nearly breaching the city.
Moreover, as a man who likes martial arts, he was brutally tortured by the young eunuch in martial arts, and his military talent that he had always been proud of was also rubbed on the ground. They decided to play chess and strategize the Wan family without leaving Kunming City. He Wu Bikui managed it easily. In addition, how the three battalions of warriors under the little eunuch were trained made him feel ashamed. They could attack like a tiger and defend like Mount Tai. What was shocking was that Chang Yu led three battalions and one guard to run five to six thousand miles, crisscrossed mountains and rivers, defeated generals, and fought a fierce battle under Kunming City, but did not lose a single soldier!
This is simply a miracle!
Miracles are created by people, and Chang Yu, who created this miracle, was riding a horse and humming a song, looking leisurely and contented. It has been too hard for more than a month. Now that this is happening, he feels a lot more relaxed, not to mention memorizing... With more than three hundred thousand taels of silver.
But Li Muxian has always been worried about it, and kept talking around Chang Yu: "Didn't we come here to make money? A wealthy family like Mu Prince's Mansion only made a mere 300,000 taels, and 150,000 of them were In fact, the Mu Palace only received 150,000 yuan as compensation for Wu Bikui and Sha Dingzhou, which is simply a drop in the bucket!"
Besides, these 300,000 taels of silver may sound like a lot at first glance, but if you divide it this way, that amount, and turn it over, what else is there?
"Taoist Priest is becoming more and more dissatisfied now." Chang Yu laughed and scolded: "In the past, the imperial court sent troops to suppress thieves, and the tens of thousands of troops were only one hundred thousand. We have only a thousand people this time. Including Zuo Liangyu's, it is nearly four hundred thousand taels. And then You don’t have to worry about bursting your belly when you eat.”
But Li Muxian still kept talking, which made Chang Yu a little annoyed, so he couldn't help it anymore: "The Taoist priest has always heard that you should take a long time to catch the big fish!"
Li Muxian was startled and scratched his head: "So this is just a deposit?"
"Has the Taoist Master ever thought about where we will send troops and food when we attack Zhang Xianzhong in the future?"
The words woke up the dreamer, and Li Muchian opened his mouth wide: "Isn't this a bit too harsh? It's not easy for Prince Mu's family to accumulate a fortune over hundreds of years!"
Bah, Chang Yu laughed and scolded: "This shows that you are a good person again."
Chang Yu has never been soft-hearted or soft-hearted when it comes to big players. Taking Mu Tianbo's 150,000 taels of silver now is not painful for him, but it is indeed just a deposit as Li Muchian said. Just imagine going back to conquer Zhang Xianzhong. Where did the troops, horses, and food come from? The imperial court had no available troops in Sichuan. It would be a long distance to transfer thousands of miles. Not to mention the waste of people and money, it was impossible to transfer many troops, even if Li Zicheng in Xi'an was defeated at that time. , and some troops and horses must be left behind for garrison.
And more importantly, how to solve the problem of food and grass? Not to mention the difficulties of transporting grain and grass over thousands of miles, there was no grain at all!
Therefore, at that time, whether it was soldiers, horses or food and grass, we could only get them from nearby!
Who is near? Who is fat?
it goes without saying.
By then, there will be a lot of blood in Prince Mu's Mansion, but now Mu Tianbo is still immersed in the cake and unable to extricate himself, and he cannot react to the little eunuch's plan. He still feels that someone has sent troops and efforts from thousands of miles away to help solve the problem, and his own expenses of hundreds of thousands are really not much.
But he didn't expect that the big head was behind him. When he beat Zhang Xianzhong, it was the time to bleed him.
It seems unreasonable, but to Chang Yu, the imperial court has given you honorable men hundreds of years of glory and wealth, and when you need it at a critical moment, what's wrong with bleeding you?
is there a problem?
If there is any, hold it back, and if you don’t accept it, rebel!
He was neither Emperor Chongzhen nor the imperial court, so he had too many fears and scruples.
His philosophy is simple, direct and brutal. If you don't accept it, he will beat you until you do!
For him, the court and the nobles are dependent on each other for survival and complement each other. You help me conquer the world, and I will give your descendants glory and wealth for hundreds of years. But if something happens to me, I need your money and efforts. Do you say no? That means watching the house collapse, the family being destroyed, and people perishing.
Then why should I spoil you?
Your glory and wealth are all given by me. At critical moments, I will borrow what you need, otherwise I will deal with you. Although it is overbearing, it makes sense. At least it is more confident than when we criticized local tyrants and landlords for dividing their property at a certain period. There are more, and there are more bases.
It seems that Chang Yu's approach is a bit extreme, but think of the late Ming Dynasty in history, Emperor Chongzhen was humble and pitiful and went around raising money and donations. As a result, from his old father-in-law to the relatives of Emperor Wenwu of the Manchu Dynasty, no one came out. Money! As far as they are concerned, your old Zhu family is destroyed anyway, and I am looking for a master to continue to be prosperous and wealthy.
Chang Yu feels angry every time he thinks about this, and even hates Chongzhen for being weak. He is at the critical moment of life and death. Why do he still care about so many things? If fundraising fails to achieve forced donations, is reputation and image more important, or wealth and life?
Of course, now Emperor Chongzhen has slowly become more powerful, and those who are close to Mo are also more and more evil. For example, he appointed Chang Yu as the governor of the East Factory, and tried to make him the governor despite all opinions. Under the pressure of the ministers of the court, and using the power of the court to provide support for him, it can be seen that he is different from the history.
If history could repeat itself, he would no longer be so humble and ask for donations, and he would take some tough measures. History will only repeat itself but never again. Emperor Chongzhen is very different now. He is tougher. He dares to do many things that he did not even dare to think about before, and he does not have to do it himself. He has Chang Yu. The one who takes the blame does it. If there is merit, he will do it on merit. If there is criticism, it will be Chang Yu who takes the blame. He doesn't care anyway.
"When we conquer Zhang Xianzhong in the future, there will be a lot of blood in Prince Mu's Mansion, but this blood may not be splashed on us." Li Muxian is a money fanatic like Wu Mengming. Originally, Wu Mengming was going to accompany Chang Yu this time, but he didn't have anything to do at the last moment. Come (actually the author forgot)
Chang Yu laughed loudly after hearing this. What Li Muchian meant was that at that time, Mu Tianbo spent money and effort on the public, and it might not fall on them.
"At that time, the blood splattered everywhere with one slash, and a few drops on the body were enough for us to drink."
"That's true." Li Muxian chuckled.
Everyone nearby laughed loudly when they heard the sound, and Tu Yuandao said: "Daozhang Li only has money in his eyes, but we are different. We came here for military merit. But this trip, apart from being harder on the road, we didn't do much. This military merit is It’s all in vain, hey, I still thought I could kill everyone and shock Yunnan.”
"No," Ji Jike and Hao Yaoqi also agreed.
Chang Yu rolled his eyes: "I have discovered that you are all dissatisfied now. The benefit of 400,000 yuan is not enough for Taoist Li. Not to mention that he also cheated a lot of private money from Mu Tianbo. Even you few are still here." Do you want to achieve great military success and become king in Yunnan?"
"I don't dare, but it's true that I won't have any military exploits this time," Tu Yuan said seriously.
No military merit? Chang Yu said with an exaggerated look: "To resolve the difficulties in Kunming, we killed tens of thousands of Wan clan's troops in one fell swoop, divided our forces into Yuanmou, Mengzi and Amizhou, defeated the two groups of rebels one by one and quelled the rebellion in Yunnan. This is not a military achievement." ? What the hell, you still want all the chieftains in Yunnan to rebel, and then make a big stew in the Yunnan iron pot, and kill all the chieftains to be considered worthy of military merit?"
Hearing what Chang Yu said, Tu Yuan and others scratched their heads, as if that was really the case, but Ji Jike asked: "According to what the governor said, we have put an end to the chaos in Yunnan." , It seems that nothing happened to Prince Mu’s Mansion."
"Otherwise" Chang Yu raised his brows: "What did he do? He disobeyed the decree and then got burned. He almost lost the city of Kunming and triggered chaos in the entire Yunnan and even the entire Ming Dynasty. He was merciful even if he was not punished severely. , he has Mao’s merits, Tu Yuan was the one who fought over Wubikui, you were the one who fought Amizhou, and Hao Yaoqi was the one who fought Mengzi, what did he do?”
Everyone laughed loudly, but they were extremely grateful to Chang Yu. Since the little eunuch said this, he would show his merits to the court in this way, so the credit for putting down the Yunnan Rebellion would be credited to them, and the hard work was not in vain. This time around, as for Mu Tianbo, he certainly put in some effort, but it would be useless to atone for his sins. Moreover, Chang Yu only took off his rank of chief soldier, and Wu Zhaoyuan was suspended for inspection. This in itself It's just a favor.
Chang Yu would never owe anything to the soldiers who followed him through life and death. He had to share the money and remember the merits. This is also the reason why a certain type of soldiers under his command are loyal to him.
Although this trip to Yunnan was full of hardships, the rewards were also gratifying.
Money was made, military exploits were gained, problems were solved, wine and food were eaten, beauties...
Hao waved his flag and asked: "Master Du Gong, when you came here you said that there are beautiful mountains and rivers and beautiful girls here, oh no, little sister, how..." Before he could finish his words, Chang Yu shouted angrily: "Wine Jar, don't be shameless. Prince Mu's palace has not entertained you anymore, and don't pretend that I don't know about Li Xuan's business in Kunming City. I don't believe that you went there just to listen and not do anything else."
Hao Yaoqi had an embarrassed giggle on his face. A wealthy family like Mu Prince's Mansion kept geishas to entertain distinguished guests. Naturally, they were also entertaining, not just Hao Yaoqi, but also Tu Yuan and Ji Jike, and even Xiang The smiles of those guys in Ren are so obscene, so you can tell that they are all involved.
"Shameless" Not far away, Su Jing heard them curse in a low voice when they brought the topic to this point, and then glared at Song Luoshu next to her. Qing Yi didn't understand this and didn't care. Song Luoshu was stared at by Qing Yi in wonder. : "I am a family man."
"Tch, all men are the same, whether they have a family or not," Su Jing said and glared at Chen Wangting, Qiao Sanxiu, and Jiang Fa. The three of them had slightly red faces, pretending not to hear or see, and looked at Li Muchian.
"What do you think Pindao is doing? Pindao is a monk and not close to women..."
Pooh! Almost at the same time, more than ten people Tumo Xingzi almost drowned Li Muxian.
"Hey, hey, don't pour dirty water on the poor Taoist. If you don't believe me, ask Mr. Mu, has the poor Taoist ever..." Li Muchian was still struggling, and Hao Yaoqi curled his lips: "Taoist Master, please don't talk about these useless things. Okay, let me tell you how much money you defrauded Duke Mu."
"What is cheating? This is money earned by Pindao's ability. Pindao helped him read fortunes, divination, and fortune telling. These are all university knowledge, and learning requires money..." Li Muchian shouted, and everyone refused to give up. He was booing, but he didn't say anything until Chang Yu said: "Just tell them and let these reckless men see the price of knowledge."
Then, Li Muxian stretched out a finger.
One hundred taels?
One thousand taels?
It can't be ten thousand, right?
Everyone speculated, but Li Muxian just smiled and said nothing.
Alas, Daomen is unlucky! Qing Yi shook his head.
