Qiming 1158

Chapter 794 Make money, not shabby

When the Ming army launched a sudden attack, the main person in charge of the calm Saijun Division was Ren Dejing's nephew Ren Chunzhong.

Before, he led [-] troops to the Jingsai Military Division to assist in the defense. In addition to the [-] troops that the Jingsai Military Division originally had, he felt that [-] troops were enough.

[-] troops are guarding the border. Even if your Ming army is really mad and wants to start a war regardless of the domestic economic situation, you may not be able to succeed, right?
Ren Chunzhong felt that his safety was still somewhat guaranteed in this way. Coming here may not be a funeral, but a heartbeat journey.

But after he came to the Jingsai Military Division, he discovered that the heartbeat journey turned out to be a process, and the funeral might be the result.

The matter of his mother's empty pay is not just for the Han people to play, but the party members are also very playful.

The main person in charge of the Jingsai Military Division was a party member named Egui.

Ren Chunzhong was only ordered to count the number of troops and preparations of the Jingsai Military Division in preparation for the Ming army to fight. As a result, Egui obstructed and did not cooperate in every way. Hold on, investigate immediately.

I didn't know the result, I was shocked when I checked it.

The 3 quota of the Jingsai Army Division was emptied by him and his subordinate officers, leaving only more than 1 people, and only about 1 of the 6000 people can fight, and the remaining [-] are handymen. , belonged to those who specially served the officers and uncles and worked as cows and horses.

Cooking, washing clothes, cleaning the house, and carrying the sedan chair for family outings.

Good guy, this skill of taking empty pay is simply self-taught.

Ren Chunzhong was furious, and immediately ordered the arrest of E Gui and the group of officers who had been befriended by him. Anyway, their total strength was not as many as those brought by Ren Chunzhong. All arrests.

After that, Ren Chunzhong escorted the group of people to Xingqing Mansion and handed them over to Ren Dejing for disposal, and he dealt with the border defense of the Jingsai Military Division in a daze.

Then he found that the defense here was a complete mess.

If the rectification is not carried out, when the Ming army really comes over, the Jingsai Military Division is almost equivalent to opening the door to warmly welcome everyone from the Ming army to come and give guidance, and even welcome everyone from the Ming army to give valuable guidance on the defense level of the Xixia border pass. Opinion.

Although Ren Chunzhong came here with the mentality of going to the funeral, there is still a difference between actively going to the funeral and passively going to the funeral.

Ren Chunzhong felt that he could still be rescued, so he decided to struggle a little bit, and he would not be too unwilling to be passive at the time of the funeral, so he bit the bullet and sent the news to Ren Dejing, asking for reinforcements, asking for help, and various requests.

Then put the more than 4000 capable soldiers left by Egui under his command, and disbanded more than 7000 old and weak miscellaneous soldiers to save military expenses. The mediocre people are all abolished.

He formulated a series of plans to reorganize border defense, but before they could be implemented, on December 27, the second year of Hongwu, the Ming army was beyond their expectations. Regardless of the severe winter and the upcoming New Year's stalls, they directly launched Military action.

The Xixia army on the border was caught off guard, and Ren Chunzhong was even more unprepared, and the important border checkpoint was quickly lost.

Jiang Liangping, deputy general of Tianxing Army under Su Haisheng's command, led an elite army to sneak attack on Shangyikou, and used the Thunder God cannon to bomb the Xixia defenders of Shangyikou.

Under the wise leadership of Egui, there are actually less than 1000 defenders in border towns like Shangyikou, and most of them are incompetent in fighting. They didn't react at all, and Jiang Liangping personally led the elite hand-to-hand combat troops Quickly occupy the entire checkpoint, and reward the Yikou defenders with annihilation.

Jiang Liangping continued to advance at a rapid pace. On the morning of December 29, before all the troops were defeated, Jiang Liangping entered Weizhou.

Ren Chunzhong, who has been sitting in Weizhou, has no idea when the Ming army launched an attack.

In the absence of any support, there are still subordinates who suggested that Ren Chunzhong should close the city and stay there.

Ren Chunzhong thought about the only capable soldiers in his hand, and then thought about the past achievements of the Ming army...

Ok.

Ren Chunzhong suddenly felt that the gates on all sides of Weizhou were closed, and that was a coffin tailored for him. When the Ming army surrounded the city, it was blowing suona, knocking gongs and setting off firecrackers for his funeral.

Funeral on the spot is equivalent to.

Either Ren Chunzhong is worthy of being Ren Dejing's nephew, he quickly calmed down and made a decisive decision quickly.

He immediately led his cronies and guards to leave everyone behind, and launched a major turnaround before the Ming army broke Weizhou.

He threw Weizhou to Jiang Liangping with lightning speed, making Jiang Liangping spend a lot of energy because of attacking Weizhou, and he took this opportunity to complete a strategic turnaround, making Jiang Liangping helpless to his turnaround .

Won!

Ren Chunzhong turned in quickly, without turning his head, his whole person was like the wind, so much that Jiang Liangping couldn't catch up with his head and pursued him hard, so he could only follow his ass and eat ashes.

Jiang Liangping captured Mingsha while eating ashes, broke through the gorge, and rushed into the Ningxia Plain, directly threatening Shunzhou.

On the Ningxia Plain, there is almost no dangerous terrain to defend. Shunzhou is actually the southern gate of Xingqing Prefecture. If the Ming army breaks through Shunzhou, Ren Dejing of Xingqing Prefecture will have no danger and can only defend. The face is connected to the big weapon of the Ming army.

When the army led by Su Haisheng opened the situation to threaten Xingqing Mansion, it was actually the fourth day of the first month of the first month of the third year of Hongwu, just a few days before the official start of the war.

It just shows that the military is moving too fast.

At the same time, another Ming army of 3 people under the leadership of the marching clerk Han Wei also made good progress.

This way, the Ming army started from Baoanzhou and went all the way north to take Hongzhou. The Xixia army in Hongzhou was unprepared and was caught off guard by the Ming army. Hongzhou quickly fell.

At this time, Ren Deren, who was previously appointed as the supervisor of the Jianing Army, was in Youzhou.

However, compared to Ren Chunzhong's actions with some military common sense and sense of responsibility, Ren Deren is a relatively pure life person.

In the imperial court, many members of the Ren family were appointed as high-ranking military and political officials, and Ren Deren alone was appointed as the envoy of Xuanhui, who managed the royal internal affairs, and monitored Li Renxiao by controlling the eunuchs and palace maids around Li Renxiao.

Maybe it's the job that he can do well, and Ren Dejing sent him to the army to supervise.

But the supervisor and surveillance are really not the same thing. Ren Deren did a good job in surveillance, but the supervisor smeared his eyes. When he arrived at the place, he was entertained by Jin Ge, the head of the Jianing Military Division, with good wine and good food, and the beauties served him. Soon Just lived his life in Youzhou.

He also figured out that the Ming army is coming, and he can't stop it. Since he can't stop it, why bother to prepare for it?It's better to live a steady life. Whether this battle can be fought or not is still two things.

Therefore, Ren Deren, of course, has no intention of managing military affairs.

Of course, Brother Jin is more authentic than Egui. Although this person is also a member of the party, he has taken refuge with Ren Dejing a long time ago. King gained power and was appointed by him to manage the Jianing Military Division.

After that, Brother Jin found that he was more suitable for business than leading troops to fight, and guarding the border was simply a paradise for making money.

Taking advantage of the convenience of frontier defense, Brother Jin first obtained benefits from the trade with the Jin Kingdom and received various kickbacks.

If the merchants here in Xixia do not give kickbacks, he will detain your goods for various reasons and prevent you from leaving.

After completing the primitive accumulation of capital, he also began to form a caravan to trade with the people of the Jin Dynasty, making a lot of money.

During this process, Brother Jin did not treat his army badly. He knew that to expand the business situation, he needed a lot of free manpower, so he did not take empty pay, but led everyone to do business together, transfer goods, and make money.

Over time, [-] to [-] percent of the foreign trade business in this area was done by Brother Jin.

After earning a lot of money, Brother Jin did not forget to give Ren Dejing a lot of benefits, all kinds of filial piety, not forgetting the old boss, but also giving some benefits to the people around him, managing up and down, and living a small life.

After the establishment of Daming, he repeated his old tricks and gained benefits from the trade with Daming, and continued to lead the army officers to do business with the merchants of the Ming Kingdom, selling everything.

For example, when the Ming army just pacified Guanzhong, the border defense roads were dilapidated, and the transportation of materials was difficult, so that materials were scarce, and it was difficult for soldiers to obtain non-staple food, and the nutrition was not balanced.

Su Haisheng and Han Wei thought of a lot of ways and coordinated with many prefectures and counties, but they couldn't completely solve this matter.

It is really embarrassing to have enough military expenses and not be able to buy enough materials.

Su Haisheng and other senior officers at the command level of the Qilu Corps were having headaches. Brother Jin took the initiative to send someone to contact them - is there anything you need here in Daming? If so, we can talk about a business.

Talk about business?
Our two armies?

Su Haisheng had a meeting with Han Wei and others, and after some discussions, they finally decided to try to talk business with Brother Jin to see if they could solve the problem.

As a result, the problem was really solved.

Brother Jin likes copper coins, as well as gold and silver. As long as you give money, you can sell anything to you.

Military rations, meat, and vegetables and fruits that are rarely seen in the army can also be sold. Even important weapons such as war horses, armor, and divine arm bows can be sold to you, as long as you give money.

Not only that, they are also responsible for the transport, they can contribute to transport the materials to the designated location of the Ming army, saving a lot of things.

The main people who use Jin Ge are soldiers. For the officers, it is almost zero-cost to do business. The soldiers are supported by the imperial army anyway, so they don't need to spend money.

The main person responsible for trade with Brother Jin is Han Wei, secretary of the Qilu Corps. Han Wei cooperated with the Grain and Pay Department in the army, which is responsible for the transportation and distribution management of military supplies. The problem of having money but nowhere to buy supplies.

At that time, Han Wei was also very curious, and once asked the officers in charge of the transaction on Brother Jin's side, and asked them what to do if someone above came to find out that their military supplies were missing.

The officer smiled and told Han Wei that there were many ways.

For example, the weather is dry, and many places are prone to fires. They set fires to several empty warehouses, and then put the blame on the scapegoat.

Sometimes there are not enough scapegoats, so they go the way of the management personnel who provide the materials, give them money and ask them to give more materials, and they themselves will falsely report their needs, and the extra part will be traded.

Of course, there is also the most fundamental approach, which is to deduct soldiers' rations and other military supplies.

It's enough for a big-headed soldier to eat a mouthful of food and not starve to death, and a full meal can't starve a person to death.

As long as you don't starve to death, you can use the remaining food and military supplies to trade with the Ming army, in exchange for copper coins, gold and silver, good things!

The life of the officers and gentlemen is really good. Even if the big-headed soldiers starve to death, it is normal. It doesn't matter.

Make money, not shabby.

After hearing this, Han Wei was speechless. After he went back, he wrote this incident on a playlist and played it to Su Yonglin, so that Su Yonglin would know how those officers in the feudal army who did not do things in the mortal world operate the things in the mortal world.

After learning about it, Su Yonglin was also quite speechless, so he changed hands and sent a document to the Privy Council, asking the Privy Council to pay special attention to these matters. The Audit Department of the Privy Council should pay special attention to this matter.

Every time I go to the audit of military materials, I have to do a life-threatening investigation, and it is a great achievement to find out.

There are not many operations that can make Su Yonglin quite speechless, Brother Jin has done it, so of course his army is also a sieve, and it will be rotten with a poke.

When the Ming army threatened Youzhou, he picked up the drunk Ren Deren without saying a word and started to turn in at a fast speed.

Han Wei chased, chased and chased, but he couldn't catch up, so he had no choice but to give up. After sorting out the local seizures, he continued to march, aiming at Xipingfu, an important town in Western Xia.

The two Ming armies quickly penetrated the Xixia frontier defense and began to march towards the core of Xixia in the Ningxia Plain. When all this reached Ren Dejing's ears, Ren Dejing even thought that the war had not yet begun, but was just a prelude.

At that time, Ren Dejing was still angry at Ren Chunzhong's investigation results, and felt that the frontier army needed a major rectification to restore its combat effectiveness, but the war had indeed progressed to the middle stage.

Ren Dejing was so shocked that he didn't even have time to ask why the Ming Kingdom launched the attack so quickly, and he didn't even bother to scold Ren Deren and Ren Chunzhong for their failure to perform their duties, so hurry up and dispatch troops.

However, this battle has just begun, and Xixia is about to be beaten to the capital by the Ming army.

In fact, the Xia Kingdom was not so good at the beginning. In the early and middle stages of Li Yuanhao, the Xia Army could even compete with the Song and Liao kingdoms by a powerful force, but after the death of Li Yuanhao, the Xia Army no longer had a strong combat effectiveness.

In the era of Song Shenzong and Zhezong, the Song army even had the feat of opening the border of the Xihe River.

If it wasn't for the success of the Jin army's southward movement, Xixia would almost be killed by the Northern Song Dynasty.

In the end, it is because the country is small and the people are tired, and the country's ability to bear is too low.

Therefore, Su Yonglin once guessed, and finally thought that the reason why Xixia was able to dominate in that era, in addition to Li Yuanhao's personal ability, was the result of the excellent matching mechanism in East Asia in the first half of the eleventh century...

Without this excellent matching mechanism, Xixia really has nothing left.

Therefore, it is not surprising that the Ming army was pushed into the core area of ​​​​the ruling after more than ten days of war, and even the capital was threatened.

(End of this chapter)