Qiming 1158

Chapter 789 The Ming Army Is Coming
The last preparatory link in this mutiny operation was that the Ming army moved closer to the border, threatened Xixia, and forced Ren Dejing to dispatch the army to respond.

Since the army is to be dispatched, of course, a sufficient reason is needed. The army is dispatched inexplicably to threaten people, whether it is in the Southern Song Dynasty or the Goryeo or the grasslands, they will all be afraid of this.

It is not conducive to Daming's next operation.

So there must be a good reason for dispatching the army.

There are of course reasons.

The messenger that Ren Dejing sent to China to explain to Su Yonglin and admit his mistake was harassed by Su Yonglin.

Su Yonglin not only asked Ren Dejing to admit his mistake and apologize, but also asked Li Renxiao to remove Ren Dejing from the position of prime minister and let him go out of Xiazhou.

Su Yonglin believes that Ren Dejing will not have good results if he continues to stay in the central government, and will only continue to threaten Li Renxiao's status as a monarch. Therefore, Ren Dejing must leave the central Xixia and go to the border to become an official, so as to ensure that everything is safe.

The messenger turned pale in shock, and he never dared to agree to Su Yonglin's request, so he could only vaguely say it.

Such an attitude made Su Yonglin furious.

"If Ren Dejing doesn't resign and goes to Xiazhou to defend his sins, I will definitely send troops to question him! Let him think carefully! Make the right choice!"

Su Yonglin's attitude was very firm.

However, this requirement is related to Ren Dejing's core interests, and he cannot back down no matter what.

Once he gives in, it means that he has handed over the important central authority to Li Renxiao, and he will retreat to the border, and will no longer be able to return to the central authority to take charge of the world.

For the sake of the chaotic ministers and thieves since ancient times, how to control the capital and control the central court?

Of course, there is a reason for this, and now Ren Dejing has finally mastered the central court and wants him to go back?
How easy is it?
Ren Dejing was very angry when he learned of this, and felt that Su Yonglin was too deceiving.

But if it really got to this point, it would be a disaster for the Ren family, so after hearing the news, the Ren Dejing family's leaders and the arrogant bastards persuaded Ren Dejing not to agree to Su Yonglin's request.

"The capital of the country is the most important place of the country, the place of life and death, and the way of life and death. You must not hand over to others. Otherwise, it will take five years and three years, and you will suffer from it! Please think twice."

A Han advisor whom Ren Dejing admired very much persuaded Ren Dejing not to back down.

Of course Ren Dejing didn't want to back down. It was impossible for him to leave Xingqing Mansion and go to Xiazhou. Otherwise, what would be the difference between self-exile?
But he was also worried.

"But if the Ming Kingdom really attacks with soldiers, what should I do?"

The counselor disagreed.

"This move of the Ming Kingdom blatantly interfered in the internal affairs of Daxia, and it must be ridiculed and resisted by people of insight in the world. You can see whether the Emperor Ming dares to do such unpopular things at the risk of the world. I think the Emperor Ming is the most unpopular. All he cares about is people’s hearts, and he doesn’t dare to actually send troops.”

Ren Dejing then calmed down a little.

But that's for a while.

On December [-], the Jingsai Military Division and the Jianing Military Division sent important military information at the same time, stating that a large number of Ming soldiers had been stationed in Huaide Prefecture and Baoan Prefecture in the Xia Ming border area. The large-scale performance of martial arts on the ground shows signs of invading the border of the Xia Kingdom.

The transmission of this military situation made Ren Dejing stunned, and it also made the previous adviser who firmly confirmed that Su Yonglin would never attack Xixia was disgraced, and he directly submitted his resignation and chose to run away, so as not to interfere in this matter.

This can make the Ren Dejing Group people very nervous, and they have overturned the previous misjudgment.

They think that Emperor Ming is really here, and he really wants to let Dejing leave Xingqing House and go to Xiazhou, otherwise they will not give up easily.

Even the army was used for this.

Damn, the Ming Dynasty is overhauling the Yellow River, and has just finished the battle of the grasslands. Shouldn't it be logical that the country should be too exhausted and unable to start a war again?
Is this a bluff or a real attack?
After the misjudgment last time, this time no one dared to slap their chests to make sure.

Of course, this group of people didn't know how Su Yonglin pleaded with Lin Jingchun after he made this decision, or what kind of expression Lin Jingchun had at that time.

To be honest, Lin Jingchun felt like he was about to die on the spot.

For this reason, after Su Yonglin completely drained Lin Jingchun, he also ordered a batch of captured cattle and sheep to be sent directly to Su Haisheng, so that Su Haisheng could be used for military use.

When the time comes to march and fight, they will march with this herd of cattle and sheep, so that the logistics can keep up. If there are difficulties, the cattle and sheep will be slaughtered and used as military rations, so as to reduce the consumption of military expenditure and local reserves as much as possible, and also reduce the expropriation of civilians.

In this way, Lin Jingchun also presented the table to Su Yonglin for several days in a row, telling him about the difficulty of the country's expenses, telling him about the huge cost of the Yellow River maintenance project, and telling him how much his plan to build the Daqi Road cost.

All the money earned by the state has been smashed to him for infrastructure construction. The central projects of local projects have been scheduled for the sixth year of Hongwu, and the expenditure plan of the central fiscal revenue has also been scheduled for the sixth year of Hongwu. Daming's finances are really tight.

You must never fight again.

This is what Lin Jingchun meant, which made Su Yonglin wonder whether to laugh or cry.

Although it is not appropriate to say that Lin Jingchun only cares about finances and does not care about other behaviors, but Su Yonglin still likes Lin Jingchun's practice of holding the treasury pockets tightly and not letting anyone think inside. Money can only be used when it is critical.

If some people with dirty hands and feet look at the treasury, things will really go wrong.

For example, from the middle of the Zhu Ming Dynasty onwards, many officials would borrow money from the treasury when they did not have enough money. At the beginning, they still borrowed money and repaid it.

When they are short of money, they make a white note to withdraw the money from the treasury, but no one ever comes to repay the money, as if such a thing has never happened.

A sum of money is a small amount of money, but if hundreds of thousands of people are short of money, they will put their hands into the treasury. Isn’t it a terrible thing?

Although Lin Jingchun has the characteristics of a miser, but in this era of the Ming Dynasty throwing a lot of money out, Lin Jingchun is the best financial head. With him, the finances of the Ming Dynasty will not collapse.

At least Su Yonglin can understand the law of his work.

As long as he doesn't cling to a sum of money and don't let go, it means that the money can still be spent, even if it's soft and hard with him.

If he doesn't give money for anything, it doesn't even work for him to come forward, and the dead pig is not afraid of being scalded by boiling water, then it means that the money is really immovable.

Then Su Yonglin should consider using his own small treasury to subsidize the country's needs.

Just like today, Lin Jingchun continued to oppose this military operation against Xixia, but he did not oppose it to the end.

Because this is really necessary, and it is not Su Yonglin's move, but Ren Dejing himself as a demon, forcing Su Yonglin to act on Xixia in advance to prevent Xixia from becoming a complete warlord.

That would be hard to deal with.

After years of hard work, Ren Dejing gradually took control of the military and political power of Xixia, and used his cronies to control the central, southeastern, and southern military divisions of about 20 troops in Xixia.

As for the troops in the west and north that guard against the grasslands and the tribes of the Western Regions, they are not the main force. As long as you control the army's salaries and supplies, you can easily control them.

The army in the southeast and south was used to deal with the Jin Kingdom in the past and the Ming Kingdom in the present. It was a matter of life and death and had to be mastered, so Ren Dejing also paid a lot for mastering these troops.

So knowing that the Ming army had really launched a deterrent action, Ren Dejing suddenly became nervous.

He immediately convened his cronies to discuss, but he couldn't come to an accurate conclusion after arguing. He could only order the border military commander to strictly guard the border and prepare for war, and decided to mobilize troops from Xingqing and Xiping to help defend them.

In any case, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army is there, and it is estimated that the border guards simply cannot withstand it.

Then, in order to ensure the stability of the border, Ren Dejing quickly sent his younger brother Ren Deren and his nephew Ren Chunzhong to the Jingsai Military Division and the Jianing Military Division to serve as supervisors, to control the local military and political power, and to control the army to prevent accidents.

(End of this chapter)