The leader of the invading Han Dynasty, Territory Man, looked surprised when he saw the Ming army that suddenly took the initiative to leave the city and rushed in as if burning the mountains in front into a mountain of flames.
He did not expect that the Ming army would take the initiative to attack his side, and each of them was fearless and fearless. He was even led by a young general wearing cloth armor and felt like he was in a deserted land. Everyone rode their horses like flying, and made arrows rain like raindrops. Generally, they rush into the troops who are besieging the city, so that their troops fall down in rows like stubble.
The Tuman knew that Liaodong was already inhabited by Mongols, Han and Manchus, and most of them had learned how to ride and shoot since they were young. Therefore, most of the military households of the Ming Army were also good at riding. After the food and wages in the border towns were insufficient, most of them lost the enthusiasm to guard the border for the Ming Dynasty. They either starved to live, or fled, or simply defected to their own side, and if they joined the horse, they could compete with their original tribesmen. Let's go and check together.
Because of this, the leaders of the Mongolian tribes like Tuman had the intention to despise the border defense of the Ming army and wanted to make a fortune by seizing the border.
This time, he just wanted to make a fortune through robbery and solve the problem of insufficient tea and salt in his tribe after a winter of consumption.
And he also knew that the Ming army would not fight hard and would only defend the city and fire a few cannons. As long as he could capture the city, not only make a lot of money, he could also force these people to join his side and increase his strength. .
If they can't be captured, the losses won't be big, and the Ming army won't take the initiative to pursue them anyway.
But who knew that this time the Ming army took the initiative to attack.
Tuman became depressed.
"withdraw!"
Tuman decisively gave the order to retreat.
He came here to make a fortune and rob people, not to really conquer Liaodong.
After all, his current tribe size could not accommodate the entire Liaodong, so he decisively chose to retreat instead of entangled with the Ming army, which was actively attacking and had high morale.
What's more, the Tumans were worried that if they stole the chicken but lost the rice and lost too many tribesmen, they might be annexed by other Mongolian tribes.
However, when Tuman led his troops to retreat, they found that the Ming army did not seem to go back because of his initiative to retreat. Instead, they continued to pursue him, and even chased them across the Lanpu River, which was far away from Changyong Fort. The active retreat turned into a rout, and they watched helplessly as these Ming troops harvested the heads of their own people.
This made Tuman very distressed, but it was distressing, so he didn't dare to delay any longer and ran directly to the east bank of the Liao River.
"Has the Ming army in Liao changed its temper?"
The Tuman slandered, and then ordered after returning: "Go ahead, each department will go back and prepare the best new horses, the best mink skins, ginseng, beautiful women, etc. that have been traded, gather them together, and go to Datong honestly." Trade with the people of the Ming Dynasty! You are not allowed to invade the border without my order. If there is a conflict with the Han people during trade, let the local Ming Dynasty officials handle it!"
"yes!"
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The Ming army led by Li Rusong did pursue them until their horses were exhausted and their men were exhausted before they returned under the red sun.
The main reason is that they haven't had this much fun in a long time, and Li Rusong himself is also a young and energetic general who likes to take the lead, and when a war starts, he has to make his arms weak to kill all the fun before leaving, so the people waiting for Changyong Fort When the Ming army came back, almost every saddle was covered with human heads, making the horses look fatter.
Li Chengliang looked at the heads in the yard with a sullen face, and said coldly to Li Rusong who came back: "Why kill so many people? If the Han tribe doesn't come next time, what else are you going to kill?"
"That kid will go to his lair. We will rob them as much as they rob us. It's best to be like Huo Qubing during the Han Dynasty, who also sealed the wolf and lived in Xu Mountain."
Li Rusong said with a smile as he looked at his achievements all over the floor.
Li Rusong was a martial arts scholar and was educated, and his teacher was the talented Xu Wei, so he naturally knew the story of Huo Qubing, and he also longed to imitate the famous historical generals and make contributions.
"You have more than enough loyalty and courage, but not enough scheming! You still need to study more!"
After Li Chengliang said that, he returned to his house.
Li Rusong said yes and followed.
Then, Li Chengliang asked: "How many people died in this battle?
"Including those who were seriously injured and could not be saved, there are fifty-six people."
Li Rusong replied.
Li Chengliang said: "Then you go to the nursing home to collect the pension money and submit the list. Remember, it is thirty taels per person."
"Why are there so many this time?!"
Li Rusong was quite surprised, and after asking, he said: "In the past, wasn't it always the case that the war dead were given ten taels of silver as pension? If this were thirty taels, I would really dare to take some men to the depths of the desert to find the Tatar lair!"
Li Chengliang said with a smile: "This is the new pension regulation issued by the Ministry of War. Since the family was rich in finances and the land purification was successful, the emperor agreed to the request of the Chief Sima of the Ministry of War and raised the life value of the military households in the border town to thirty taels. "
"However, even if this is the case, there are still criticisms from officials. Fortunately, I have never looked down upon us military households. I have defied all opinions and insisted on increasing the pension fund and the hospital. It is not bad. As soon as the imperial edict is issued, I will tell you From now on, Liaodong will report the pension according to this example, instead of saying that it will wait for a few years and let Liaodong continue to pay the pension at the rate of ten taels of silver until the censor who patrols the customs can make changes."
"The new dynasty is really governed by officials with a clear mind, and the dynasty is filled with virtuous ministers."
Li Rusong said with a smile, and his desire to make great achievements became more obvious.
Li Chengliang nodded, and then said with a stern face: "One more thing, Qi Yuanjing was awarded the position of Prime Minister of Jizhou. As the governor of the left, he was added as the prince's Taibao! The imperial court asked him to train the soldiers from the south to the north and practice the various arms of the infantry academy. We have coordinated operations, equipped with chariots, firearms, and artillery, and have received a large amount of food and wages and 20,000 new soldiers."
After hearing this, Li Rusong was also quite jealous: "I prefer the southern soldiers! The southern soldiers have higher pay than the northern soldiers. Now, Qi Yuanjing will probably have more food and salary in his hands. The boy was happy just now, but now I want to If we think about what we get in Liaodi, I'm afraid we still can't compare with Jizhou."
Li Chengliang nodded and said: "It can be said that the number of soldiers in Jizhou nominally given to him for training and command has reached one hundred thousand! But we cannot let the court only see the benefits of expanding the infantry according to the model of the Southern Army, but not me. The advantage of the expansion of cavalry in Liaodong is that as long as our military households in Liaodong are given enough food and wages, they can wear armor and rush into battle, which is no worse than the various car camps of the Southern Army. But the key now is to have enough military households to retain, so This time, you have to pay out the pension money in person. You have to pay it fully, do the preaching, and stop the military households from fleeing. Just say that as long as they are willing to come back, the town will ask the Fuyuan to reclaim wasteland and allocate land for them."
"clear!"
Li Rusong replied.
During the Wanli Dynasty, the conflict between the northern and southern soldiers had always been an important contradiction in the military.
Because most of the Southern soldiers were soldiers recruited from the private sector after the establishment of the camp system, and their background was to fight the Japanese, they mainly fought in the wealthy areas of the southeast. Therefore, the military pay was set high from the beginning, otherwise it would be difficult to recruit soldiers.
However, the food and salary of the guards soldiers left behind by the original guards of the Northern Army were much lower, so the contradiction between the two existed.
And as the internal conflicts increased, they became more and more intense. In the end, it happened that the elite southern soldiers did not die on the Korean battlefield when the Japanese were defeated. Instead, they were massacred by the emperor's acquiescence and the civil servant group in conjunction with the northern soldiers. The main reason was that they had no money to support them, which was equivalent to their own. Cut off one of his iron fists.
At this time, conflicts have begun to emerge.
Of course, as long as Zhu Yijun made the Ming Dynasty's finances better and better and allowed the northern soldiers to make up for their salary, there would be no need to use this worst way to resolve the conflict between the northern and southern soldiers.
In short, ruling a huge empire also depends on finances.
As long as the country has money, everything is not a problem.
The Wenhua Hall of the Forbidden City in the capital.
On this day, when Zhu Yijun accepted Zhang Juzheng's reading of the "Emperor's Pictures", Zhang Juzheng also began to mention to him the training of military generals and how the emperor could unite the troops to mediate conflicts between the various armies.
