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Chapter 310 Go Away, Taunting Lao Tzu

"Brother, brother."

In the Xuan Mansion, Lu Xianglin ran into Lu Xiangsheng's room quickly, and shouted at the top of his voice. Lu Xiangsheng was looking through the documents. Seeing that his usually calm brother was so anxious, he asked, "What's the matter?"

Lu Xianglin looked at Lu Xiangsheng and said, "Brother, just now I got a report from Lantian that Jiannu and Prince Dorgon of Shuorui, who personally commanded 3 horses from the two white flags, set off from Shengjing and arrived in Guihua City in [-] days. In addition to Dorgon, there is also Duoduo, and the dog thief Fan Wencheng."

Lu Xiangsheng was taken aback when he heard this, and said, "Did Lan Tian inform you of this news?"

Lu Xianglin said: "Yes, the Lantian cavalry just entered the city early this morning."

That's right, Li Chaosheng used cavalry to inform Lu Xiangsheng. The cavalry came to report. It should have been 20 days.

After hearing Lu Xianglin's words, Lu Xiangsheng said, "Has Lantian's secret work penetrated into Shengjing?"

Lu Xianglin was taken aback, then nodded and said: "It should be."

Lu Xiangsheng looked at Lu Xianglin upon hearing this and said, "What about our detailed work?"

Lu Xianglin smiled wryly and said, "I haven't even left Shanhaiguan, and it's not an important position."

After hearing this, Lu Xiangsheng sighed: "The gap is so big."

Lu Xianglin also sighed, but immediately recovered and looked at Lu Xiangsheng and said, "Brother, shall we?"

Lu Xiangsheng said: "Get your troops and horses ready and prepare your luggage. This time the Tatars come to Guihua City, we can't watch. Although I don't care much about Li Chaosheng's credit, but when the country is in danger, whoever attacks the Tartars will Let’s help whoever is right.”

"Yes."

Lu Xianglin nodded in agreement, and Lu Xiangsheng said: "Choose ten thousand elites from the Tianxiong Army, and I will personally lead them to fight against the Tartars."

After Lu Xiangsheng finished speaking, he put down the brush in his hand, and looked at the armor and sword on the shelf beside him. A man should hold a three-foot sword, guard the border for the country, and bring peace to the people. This is Lu's lifelong wish.

Lu Xianglin turned and left, ready to count the troops, and prepare the gunpowder by the way, especially the gunpowder. They want to see how much gunpowder is left to support a war. After all, the gunpowder of Xuanfu Datong needs to be reviewed by Gao Qiqian, the eunuch who supervises the army sent by the imperial court. .

Although this Gao Qiqian was Lu Xiangsheng's warlord, he was cowardly and afraid of fighting, and had many quarrels with Lu Xiangsheng. In a rage, Gao Qiqian ran to Xi'an Mansion to enjoy the blessings on the grounds of preparing for the army, but he choked Lu Xiangsheng's army's lifeblood, especially gunpowder, he was even more unwilling to give Lu Xiangsheng more.

But Lu Xiangsheng has no choice, even if he writes a letter, because Gao Qiqian is His Majesty's most trusted eunuch, he can't move Gao Qiqian down, and may even anger Gao Qiqian. After all, Gao Qiqian still provides Lu Xiangsheng with Part of the gunpowder, 5000 troops, at least he will provide a full amount of gunpowder for about 5000 people, so that each of the 5000 people can fire one or two shots evenly.

Lu Xiangsheng has nothing to do about this. Although Wei Zhongxian was eliminated, it seems that His Majesty no longer reuses the eunuchs, but with the blows to His Majesty in Liaodong and Shaanxi over the years, His Majesty has become more and more distrustful of the Wenchen Group, so he started to use it again. The re-use of eunuchs, great eunuchs Cao Huachun, Wang Dehua, and Gao Qiqian are all Chongzhen's checks and balances.

Except that Wang Chengen in the imperial court kept himself clean and didn't care much about government affairs. Of course, it was only relatively speaking. Wang Chengen still had power and a high status. He was a person close to Chongzhen. With Wei Zhongxian's lessons learned from the past, Chongzhen was still very strict with the eunuch Bingbi around him, so Wang Chengen did not interfere much in politics.

However, the political environment of the Ming Dynasty was that the civil officials were desperately suppressing the eunuchs. As long as the eunuchs were suppressed, the civil official group would expand itself and start to do something. At this time, the emperor noticed the signs and would send the eunuchs down. The eunuchs were actually extended by the imperial power. A tentacle that balances the civil servants.

But eunuchs are not selfless. They go down to make profit, to make money, so they bring disaster to the place again.

Looking at Chongzhen's coquettish operations during the late Ming Dynasty, one of them is obviously to change the ruling unit back and forth. After a while, all the eunuchs will be demoted, or they will be taken back to the palace. group.

After repeated operations like this, Emperor Chongzhen thought he was doing micro-manipulation, that he had a full grasp of the situation in the court, but he was a fool, and it was because of his desperate tossing that the collapse of Ming Dynasty was accelerated.

A place is first governed by a civil servant. When a civil servant takes office, he will definitely formulate some relatively good policies, and then start to make money. Too poor, you just smashed the marrow of your bones, how much you can suck, you still have to find a way to make them rich.

But what did Emperor Chongzhen see at this time? What he saw was that when the civil servants arrived at the place, they began to collect money and began to fish and meat the common people. This is a bastard. The hard-working guys in the country should be more reliable than these civil servants.

So it is the eunuch who supervises the place. Similarly, the first thing the eunuch does when he takes office must be to criticize the policies formulated by the original civil servants, but these policies are actually good, but, His Majesty sent himself down, it must be these dogs. Where things are not done well, the eunuchs will take out good policies and bad policies as negative models, criticize them, and then formulate new policies in a daze.

Immediately after, they began to make money, but the place had just recuperated and was about to cut the next batch of leeks, but the leeks did not grow, so the eunuchs came to cut them, so the local people were exploited even more severely. Rest and recuperate, ready to grow up and cut the next crop.

At this time, someone will tell the emperor what the eunuch has done, and the emperor is furious. The eunuch is a dog, and the eunuch is not obedient. Sure enough, the eunuch is unreliable. Just like Wei Zhongxian, thinking that the emperor began to reuse civil servants again. Start to let civil servants re-govern the place.

When civil servants take office, they are still the old three. Overthrowing the previous policy, making money, formulating new policies, and then being reported again, the eunuch has come to power!
Repeatedly like this, the people of Ming Dynasty had to have a rich family background to make such a toss, which made the people unbelievably poor, the national power of the Ming Dynasty declined rapidly, the court was in a hurry to pay taxes, and the court ran out of money.

The imperial court has no money, but the frontier army doesn't care, we are desperate, if you don't give us money, you are a bastard, if you don't give us money, we won't do it.

The frontier army was asking for money, so the emperor could only ask the Ministry of Households for money pitifully. The Ministry of Households said, we have no money, and our budget for this year is tight, or your majesty should pay from within, so the emperor is pitiful Take money from your own private coffers and fill this big hole.

But how much money there is in the internal funds is enough for a country to toss, so the poor emperor was pushed into a desperate situation step by step, and in the end he couldn't even get the 100 million taels of King Qin's military salary.

I ran to the court and cried and begged all the officials to donate. These families have beautiful wives and concubines. Ministers who are richer than the emperor, you are 100 taels, and I am 20 taels. Everyone says they are poor.

Even the emperor's father-in-law, Zhou Guozhang, looks like an old man who has nothing, nothing, don't look at the old man, and then Queen Zhou sees that his father is really outrageous. At this time, he can't take the lead and model, when will he take the lead and model , So Queen Zhou gave Zhou Guozhang 1 taels of her own money.

He also clearly stated that when His Majesty calls for donations tomorrow, you should take the initiative and take the lead, so that the officials can follow suit. Zhou Guozhang agreed on the surface, but the next day he only donated 5000 taels of silver.

The money also made Zhou Guozhang take kickbacks himself, and the angry Queen Zhou wanted to sever the father-daughter relationship with Zhou Guozhang.

As for the officials, they continue to cry about being poor and have no money, Your Majesty, you see that the old minister's clothes are all patched, and he has no money to replace them with new ones.

After such a toss, Li Zicheng entered the city, and the banner of the king was changed at the top of the city, and then all civil and military officials knelt at the gate of the city to greet him, welcome, welcome, warmly welcome.

Li Zicheng is also very happy. Well, they are all good officials. If so, who will report the military expenses of the army.

No money!

This time, the civil and military officials still use the trick to deal with Chongzhen, I have no money, what can you do with me?What can you do with me?
But this time they miscalculated, Li Zicheng is not Chongzhen, he is a bandit, if you play a rogue with him, then he will let you know who is your father.

Come on, old Liu!

With an order, Liu Zongmin ransacked houses from house to house with a stick. I'm desperate. You still want to fool me like this. You don't treat me, Liu Zongmin, as a human being.

Ever since, after a meal, crying father and mother, a capital city copied out 7000 million taels of silver, which was the fiscal revenue of the three years at the end of Ming Dynasty. You must know that at that time, Ming Dynasty could collect 2000 million taels of tax in one year. 7000 million taels, tax for three and a half years.

7000 million taels of silver were hidden in the homes of these ministers, but Chongzhen was only 100 million taels short of allowing Wu Sangui to return to King Jingqin. At that time, the Ming Dynasty could continue, and then, 100 million taels of silver forced an emperor to death. It's really sad.

Therefore, it is useless to say that Emperor Chongzhen is completely useless. If he is smarter, he can take these ministers first and get the money first, and the rest will be much easier. Unfortunately, Emperor Chongzhen has limited ability, and he has no power to recover. .

Lu Xianglin counted the gunpowder in the army and found that the amount of gunpowder was seriously insufficient. It was only enough to prepare 5000 people to shoot three times. As for the artillery, there were only 25 red cannons in the All-Tianxiong Army. This time, we must not take all of them. Lu Xiangsheng planned to take half of them. , Take [-] guns, and each cannon can only allocate two shells, and they are all solid shells.

Solid bullets have limited lethality and are mainly used for siege and bombardment of city walls.

After counting the quantity, Lu Xianglin went back to tell Lu Xiangsheng the situation, and Lu Xiangsheng said: "That's the only way to go, tell the generals to be ready, you take them to the grassland to ambush in ten days' time, this time we will cooperate with Lantian to severely damage the enemy. "

Xuanfu Datong once again made a noise.

At this time, Guihua City was also preparing. At this time, Li Chaosheng in Guihua City was inspecting the army's luggage. For this task, Li Chaosheng would come to the army to inspect it before the war.

However, the army is so large that Li Chaosheng can't inspect each of them one by one, so Li Chaosheng usually randomly checks three troops, and no one knows which three troops to check in advance, so as to prevent fraud.

Today Li Chaosheng is inspecting the independent regiment under Li Chaohu's command, under Qian Twelve's command, Qian Twelve is carefully accompanying Li Chaosheng at this time, don't look at Qian Twelve's bravery in fighting, but when he sees Li Chaosheng, he is a mouse When I saw a cat, I was very honest.

At this time, Li Chaosheng walked past the energetic soldier, touched the soldier's ammunition bag, and said to the soldier, "Take the gun down, let me have a look."

Hearing this, the soldier handed the 1633 made in Lantian to Li Chaosheng in a standard manner. Li Chaosheng manipulated it skillfully, and then opened the ammunition pouch that the soldier carried. The ammunition pouch was made of cowhide. Inside are well-packed oiled paper bags, which contain a fixed amount of gunpowder.

Li Chaosheng poured out all the gunpowder and said to Gu Zi, "Count it."

Gu Zi immediately came over to count, and after counting, Gu Zi said: "Report to the commander, there are fifty bags in total."

Li Chaosheng nodded. This was stipulated by Li Chaosheng. During wartime, each soldier is equipped with fifty packs of gunpowder, which means that a soldier can fire fifty shots if he is not killed.

Why is it fifty shots? Because a soldier can’t fire so many shots in a battle, and it’s already too many to fire twenty or thirty shots. After all, it’s cumbersome to load bullets. It is obviously not enough to plant dozens of bullets per shuttle.

But this kind of one-shot, one-shot bullet, and it is a front-loading musket, which is even more cumbersome. However, the life of Lantian is more important than the materials. If the materials are gone, Li Chaosheng can make them, but if the people are gone, then Li Chaosheng can make them. There is no way.

Therefore, the bullets carried by each soldier are doubled, enough to support two or three wars.

"Well, put on a hair for me, and I'll try."

"Yes."

Li Chaosheng ordered Guzi to attack, but Li Chaosheng said to the soldiers, "Come here."

"Yes."

The soldier saluted, followed by skillfully opening the oiled paper bag, then erected the gun, poured the mixture of gunpowder and bullets in the oiled paper bag, and then took out an iron stick and poked it into the barrel to tamp it down.

After finishing everything, Li Chaosheng took aim with his gun, followed by a quick shot, which happened to hit a target in the distance, but it was not in the center, but at the fifth and sixth ring roads.

"it is good."

clap clap clap!
Li Chaosheng fired a shot, and the next moment Qian Twelve took the lead in applauding, followed by all the soldiers applauding, the scene was very spectacular, Qian Twelve said from the side, "Commander is good at marksmanship."

Li Chaosheng kicked Qian Twelve, but he didn't use much force, and laughed and cursed: "Go away, are you mocking me?"

(End of this chapter)