Forbidden City, Wenhua Palace.
It's time again for the cabinet ministers, the ministers of science and education, the Rongzheng of the capital, the commanders and supervisors, and the commanders and supervisors to stand in separate groups, report on matters, and wait to retire from the court.
Zhu Youjian looked at everyone with a smile, then reached out and picked up a memorial on the desk, showed it to the ministers in the Wenhua Palace, and said with a smile: "My lords, Mr. Sun, the censor of Zuodu, gave me a memorial. ..."
At this point, he suddenly stopped, his eyes became very sharp, and he glanced over the ministers. Whoever his eyes passed by, his heart trembled.
There is no way, they are all eunuchs and traitors! Sun Chengzong's memorial must be a bullet. Judging from the emperor's face, he may have believed it... Amitabha, Infinite Heavenly Lord, Heavenly Father and Emperor God bless you!
Seeing the trembling looks of the traitorous ministers, Zhu Youjian said heartily: The traitorous ministers are really useful! Especially the treacherous ministers who hold the handle, all of them have guilty consciences, and each one is more obedient than the other... It seems that no one will object to the opening of the Chinese method.
Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian lowered his voice: "Mr. Sun suggested that the Kaizhong Law should be restored, and that the Metropolitan Procuratorate should be fully responsible for salt affairs, and that salt should be exchanged for grain to provide food, pay, equipment, horses and other expenses for the 80,000 soldiers in western Liaoning. .....What do you think, sir?"
What?
Sun Chengzong wanted to restore the Open Law... and also let the Metropolitan Procuratorate under his jurisdiction take over the salt affairs. This was a money grab! Isn't it because he, the leader of Donglin, has a clear wind in his sleeves? Why are you so greedy?
The traitorous ministers were all shocked, and they all cast doubtful eyes on Sun Chengzong, who had a serious face... The more they looked at him, the more they felt that he was a corrupt official!
By the way, the Donglin Party is not an honest official! They were originally in the same group as the Anhui merchants and maritime merchants in the southeast area, and they were all corrupt officials!
The treacherous ministers of the Manchu Dynasty soon "figured it out"... Sun Chengzong wanted to lead the Anhui merchants and maritime merchants from the southeast to seize the plate of the Shanxi and Shaanxi salt merchants - most of the Shanxi and Shaanxi salt merchants relied on currying favor with the military in the north. Xun came to power, because they also relied on Kai Zhongfa to monopolize the salt industry back then, so they colluded very closely with Wu Xun, who was in charge of the army at that time.
When the Kaizhong Law was implemented, salt merchants delivered grain to northwest military towns such as Datong, Taiyuan, Yulin, Ningxia, Guyuan, and Gansu. Therefore, those who benefited were Shanxi and Shaanxi merchants. These profiteers did not really transport grain from the southeast, but opened "merchant villages", that is, commercial farms, near border towns in the north. Use the grain produced on the farm in exchange for salt... And it is impossible to open a farm on the northern border without colluding with the border army general.
And this time when we open China, we will not supply the northwest frontier towns, but supply western Liaoning... Western Liaoning is close to the sea, and the area is small, so there are no trading villages, so we can only transport grain by sea.
Therefore, those who can benefit from the opening of China this time must be the Southeast maritime merchants who collude with the Donglin Party.
Only they can transport millions of stones of grain to western Liaoning!
And Sun Chengzong, Yuan Chonghuan and the Donglin traitor party in the Metropolitan Procuratorate will definitely be able to use their hands to gain a lot of votes...
"Your Majesty," Zhang Weixian, the British commander in chief of the Beijing camp, has already stood up. "I believe that the terrain in western Liaoning is narrow. Although it is close to the sea, there are no good harbors to rely on. It is very difficult to supply supplies. Therefore, it is difficult to defend and attack. I stationed heavy troops in Jinzhou and Ningyuan. It's all a waste, and the troops should be reduced to Shanhaiguan.
With such an arrangement, 30,000 men can protect the enemy, and there is no need to station 80,000 troops. The saved troops can also be transferred to Jizhou, Xuanfu, and Datong Towns to ensure that the northern line of the Great Wall is as safe as Mount Tai! "
It turns out you are also a traitor!
After Zhu Youjian heard this, he was not angry at all... You Zhang Weixian turns out to be knowledgeable, why didn't you say it earlier? Why didn't you tell me in your previous life? As a result, I was deceived by Yuan Chonghuan and almost destroyed the Ming Dynasty!
Sun Chengzong was also angered by Zhang Weixian's words, and immediately retorted: "According to the British Lord's wishes, doesn't it mean that the land in western Liaoning must be abandoned? After abandoning western Liaoning... how can we restore Liaodong? Is it possible that Liaodong and Liaoxi Are all the ancestral lands lost? If they are to be restored in the future, will Liaoxi castles have to be conquered one by one?"
This hat is quite big! Even though Sun Chengzong's ability to run the army and fight was poor, he was very good at finding faults in others. Wang Zaijin, Zhang Fengyi, Yan Mingtai, and Gao Di all suffered from his mistakes. If it weren't for the millions of salt profits involved, Zhang Weixian, a distinguished leader, would not confront him!
But now there is nothing Zhang Weixian can do... several million! Can he not fight?
"The General Xian's words are wrong," Zhang Weixian shook his head and said, "Western Liaoning is worse than chicken ribs. It is useless to defend it, and it is a pity to abandon it. If I abandon the enemy, I may not take it...because the Eastern captives will take it. It is difficult to deploy defenses. If they defend the castle in western Liaoning, if there are many soldiers, there will be no food, and if there are few soldiers, they will be surrounded. If the soldiers come, they will not be able to break through Xiongguan if they advance, and they will not be able to protect the food roads when they retreat. Because their food roads are all along the Dongjiang waterway. Under the front!
If we want to restore Liaodong, we must train 200,000 powerful troops! There are no heroic soldiers and only a few empty castles. How dare you talk about restoring Liao Dynasty?
Moreover, there is no need to go through western Liaoning to restore Liaoning. Shaoliang Port along the western coast of Liaoning is difficult to supply. It is better to leave Lushunkou and go along the coast to Haizhou and the mouth of the Liaohe River, which is only 300 miles away. And everything west of the Liao River is mine. Not only Ningyuan and Jinzhou Kaifu, but also Daning are ours..."
As Zhang Weixian was talking, he realized something was wrong!
The Ming Emperor was looking at him fiercely!
Why?
Where does such hatred come from?
Zhu Youjian suppressed his anger and said coldly: "Western Liaoning is the land of our ancestors and we cannot give up...so Ningyuan must be defended! As for training troops...you can also train troops in Ningyuan! The British Duke just now It is said that we need to train 200,000 troops to restore the Liao Dynasty, what do you think?"
When Zhang Weixian heard Zhu Youjian's words, he wanted to slap himself - because he had to train troops again!
And to train 200,000 troops, another round of reorganization is necessary!
"Your Majesty, I think what the British Lord said is absolutely true!" Wang Zaijin immediately took over the topic, "The Eastern captives, including the five Khalkha battalions and the Horqin tribe, have no less than 100,000 troops. Without 200,000 elite troops, how can we dare to claim victory? ?”
Sun Chengzong rarely stood with Wang Zaijin: "Of course, the more elite soldiers, the better. With 200,000 soldiers, we are sure of victory."
Yuan Chonghuan also said: "I also think it is best to have 200,000 troops! I have 80,000 troops training in western Liaoning. Commander Mao has 30,000 troops in southern Liaoning. There are also 30,000 to 20,000 personal troops in front of the tent. The remaining 60,000 to 70,000 should be sent from Jizhou. , Xuanfu, and Datong were all transferred."
Huang Liji, the head of the cabinet, said: "There are also many strong men in the Beijing camp. If they are trained more intensively, they can be used to restore the Liao Dynasty."
What? And Jingying? Zhang Weixian was shocked. How could the Beijing camp fight the Tatars? Do you, the chief assistant, want to kill the officers in the capital camp?
The current Beijing Camp is also known as the three major camps, namely Shenshu Camp, Shenji Camp, and Fifth Military Camp. This establishment was decided during the army reorganization during the Jiajing period, and there were hundreds of thousands of people on the books. The main force is not military household soldiers, but Ding Zhuang recruited from Jifu, Shandong, Shanxi, Henan and other places... In theory, it should be Ding Zhuang, and the officers are basically hereditary military ministers.
However, this army has long been in decay. The officers do not know the soldiers, and the soldiers only pay their names to provide food, buy people and hire servants, and they have no combat effectiveness at all.
In his last life, Zhu Youjian had suffered a lot from these Beijing army accountants, and the Ming Dynasty was almost destroyed by them. Can you let them go this time?
Of course, he would not immediately propose to rectify the Beijing camp... Sun Chengzong and Yuan Chonghuan had just taken away the salt profit, how could they immediately seize the vacancies for the Beijing camp's military honors?
"Forget it," Zhu Youjian said, "The Beijing camp is specially used to defend against Mongolia and does not need to be used to restore Liao... To restore Liao, there are 80,000 soldiers from Liaoxi and 30,000 soldiers from Dongjiang. There are also 30,000 troops trained in front of the tent. Xuanfu, Jizhou, and Datong all have to train 20,000 elite troops. A total of 200,000 troops should be able to restore Liao Dynasty.
Yuan Qing, there are currently 110,000 troops in western Liaoning. We don’t need that much. We can allocate 30,000 to the three towns of Xuan, Da, and Ji, and then use them as bones to train the elite soldiers of this town... Do you think it can be done? ? "
