Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 220
"Boom boom-"

"kill!"

On July [-]th of the third year of the Apocalypse, after many days of artillery bombardment, the Jin army in Jiefan City finally couldn't bear the casualties and withdrew, and the Ming army successfully captured Jiefan City.

At the same time, Daishan in Tieling organized more than ten days to rush to complete the harvest. Hundreds of thousands of men from Tieling, Kaiyuan and other places took the mountain road to retreat to the north of Wula City.

On July [-]th, the Ming army regained Tieling and obtained an empty city.

On July [-], the Ming army regained Kaiyuan and the entire territory of Liaodong. The only places they got were empty cities and the Great Wall, and only some people who fled in time remained.

So far, the battle to restore the Liao Dynasty has ended across the board, and it can also be said that except for the encirclement and suppression of Nurhachi, the rest of this battle is very dull.

It seems that when Nurhachi was severely injured, the direction of the war had already come to an end.

However, Zhu Youjian was not happy about this...

"Uh..."

"It hurts..."

"hiss……"

The Shenyang barracks, and here at the moment, are full of cries and wailing, and busy medical craftsmen walking back and forth in front of the tents.

This is the current wounded barracks. More than [-] soldiers with minor or serious injuries rest and recuperate here. Zhu Youjian can only provide spirits for disinfection, so as not to let inflammation take their lives.

Opening a camp tent, what Zhu Youjian saw was lying on a simple wooden bed, some soldiers who had lost their hands and legs and were unconscious, and some soldiers who had suffered severe injuries and internal injuries.

He wanted to go up to comfort, but looking at himself, he really didn't have the qualifications to comfort others.

"Your Highness, are you here?"

At this time, a medical officer who was over seventy years old came quickly not far away, and when he saw this person, Zhu Youjian also said:

"Mr. Chen, the autopsy of Jin Jun's corpse went well, right?"

"It's going well. I have figured out some human body structures that I didn't know before, and I have good experience in treating our soldiers." The medical officer nodded in response, and he was Chen Shigong, the first surgeon in the late Ming Dynasty. There is a book "Surgery Authentic".

Before the start of the war, Chen Shigong had brought more than [-] medical craftsmen from Beizhili to Shenyang. During the Liao Dynasty, they were rescuing injured soldiers every day, and Chen Shigong was in charge of using corpses to study the human body.

"My subordinate has compiled everything I can see into a book, and I believe that in the future, I can teach these surgeries to the students of Yanshan Medicine."

Chen Shigong accompanied Zhu Youjian while explaining.

With his sixty-eight years old, he was walking like flying at the moment, and he didn't seem to be so old at all.

Zhu Youjian followed him to see some soldiers who had recovered from their injuries. Seeing this group of people shouting "Your Highness" with respect in their eyes but with severed limbs, Zhu Youjian couldn't bear it, but he still pretended to be Have fun and talk to people.

"Your Highness, we heard that there are pension fields and pension silver for those who died in battle, then we..."

Sitting next to the hospital bed, Zhu Youjian looked at the soldier lying on the bed with a broken leg and spoke, and he quickly interrupted:

"Yes, you are all dedicated to the Ming Dynasty, the people of the Ming Dynasty, and the people of Liaodong. The pension silver and pension land will be distributed in the same way as the soldiers who died in battle."

"In addition, the disabled brothers were promoted to one level, and Wang Chengen and the others were ordered to build a school in Yanshan, named Yanshan Military Academy."

"After the Liao war is over and the brothers have recovered from their injuries, please invite Qi Jin, Qin Bangping and other generals to go to the school to rest for three months, and at the same time teach the disabled brothers military."

"Three months later, the brothers who have studied will be transferred to the other capital and ten provinces of the two capitals of Daming to prepare for the guard camps in each province and serve as the instructors of the guard camps in each province."

After Zhu Youjian said a few words, he arranged for thousands of disabled soldiers in the First Battle of Liao Dynasty.

This is not a hothead, but something he thought about early in the morning.

What are the special features of the Outer Arch Guard Camp?Or what is the reason why Zhu Youjian set up it?
All of these, he had already thought about it at the beginning of the establishment.

There are three purposes of the Waigongwei Battalion. The first point is to station soldiers and horses in the local area. When it is appropriate to make tax reforms, it will cooperate with Yanshan students to carry out reforms.

The second point is to accommodate veterans who are disabled and unable to go to the battlefield again, and let them train the Wai Gongwei Battalion and develop the Wai Gongwei Battalion into a reserve for the Shangzhi Guards.

As for the third point, it is to select a group of ambitious people to participate in the overseas battles of the feudal vassals in the future.

The Shangzhi Guards will not be dispatched to help the vassal king fight, even if it is Zhu Youjian's own vassal state, he will not mobilize the Shangzhi Guards, because the Shangzhi Guards must be pure Ming Dynasty's foreign war troops.

As for Zhu Youjian's worries about keeping the Shangzhi Guards in Daming, he wasn't worried at all.

Unless Brother Huang speaks, he will not give up the military power of the Shangzhi Guards and stay in Daming.

Everything that Zhu Youjian explained was heard by many wounded soldiers in the camp. For a while, everyone felt relieved and thanked Zhu Youjian.

It was just for their thanks, Zhu Youjian smiled and nodded slightly, and then repeatedly told them to take good care of their wounds before leading them out of the camp.

But when he walked out of the tent, the smile on his face disappeared.

The death and injury of more than [-] people, although the entire Liaodong was conquered, and Jiefan City and Hetuala were captured outside the Great Wall of Liaodong, what Zhu Youjian had to face was the aftermath of more than [-] people and the treatment of their families. Apologizes.

After the First World War, I don't know how many people in the North will ask Daming for their husbands, fathers, and children...

"Huh..." Exhaling the suppressed breath, Zhu Youjian took Lu Wenzhao to bid farewell to Chen Shigong, and then settled in the temporary general manager's office in Shenyang.

If it is difficult to say outside, you can boldly say it when you come back here.

"Your Highness, the case of the Liao merchants has come to an end. Jinyiwei dealt with a total of [-] Liao merchants, involving [-] masterminds and [-] accomplices, all of whom were beheaded."

"In addition, there are more than [-] people involved in these Liaoshang families who have not been dealt with."

"The number of acres of land seized this time is more than [-] mu, with more than [-] taels of silver, more than [-] million copper coins, and more than [-] million shi of grain."

Lu Wenzhao's report gave Zhu Youjian good news.

However, Zhu Youjian felt a little regretful when he heard about the family property of the Liao merchants. The money was only worth more than three million taels, and the number of acres of land was not too much, but there was quite a lot of food.

"Save the money first, wait for the Yumajian to escort the money to Liaodong after the autumn harvest, and then issue the reward silver and pension silver that should be issued for this battle."

"Acres of land are used as compensation land and distributed to soldiers who died in battle. In addition, if the soldiers are willing, they can also exchange reward silver for acres of land. Five taels of silver per mu is half of the market price."

"The [-] people were all moved to Hetuala, and the food was reserved for the people who entered Liaodong to open up wasteland..."

Zhu Youjian quickly arranged the whereabouts of all the money, grain and fields, and just after he finished speaking, when Lu Wenzhao heard about rewarding silver and pensions for Tian and Yin, he opened his mouth and said:

"So far in this battle, our army has suffered more than [-] casualties. According to your standards, the beheading will cost more than [-] million taels of silver, the compensation for the dead will be more than [-] million taels, and there will be more than [-] mu of compensation land. "

Having said this, Lu Wenzhao was a little startled, and continued:

"More than [-] mu of pension land, at least three to four million taels of silver, which means we have to scrape together tens of millions of taels of silver for this battle..."

As soon as the amount of tens of millions of taels was blurted out, Sun Shoufa, Lu Xiu, Lu Xian and others in the main hall of the General Manager Lue's Mansion were speechless, but Zhu Youjian was not moved at all.

The battle to restore the Liao Dynasty actually cost [-] million taels of silver, because the cost also included the army's rations, gunpowder, military pay and other expenses.

Is it worth the seventy-eight million taels of silver?Undoubtedly worth it.

It was just a battle, beheading more than [-] Jian captives, [-] real captives, more than [-] fake captives, and seriously wounding more than [-] real and fake captives.

How many men are there in the Jin Army?Even if all the one-year-old males are included, there are only a hundred thousand people, and in this battle, one-third of them were beheaded, and almost every family reported their deaths.

The first battle cured the "gold fear" in the Ming army, and also recovered the whole Liao Dynasty, and controlled more than a dozen camps such as Hetuala and Jiefan City in the east of Liaodong.

Zhu Youjian did some calculations, and after conquering Kaiyuan, Fuliao gained millions of acres of land, and most importantly, Fuliao pushed the battle line beyond the Great Wall.

In other words, the people within the Great Wall can engage in production with peace of mind, and because the Jin army suffered heavy losses, the number of Ming soldiers and horses in Liaodong can also be appropriately reduced.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian said to Lu Wenzhao:
"The money that should be distributed should be told to the generals of the army, and let them pass it on to the whole army, and distribute it little by little after the autumn harvest."

"Same as Liaodong, after the abolition of the guards, aid soldiers and horses from Zhejiang, Sichuan, Guizhou and other places can choose to exchange reward silver for acres of land, ten taels of silver for one mu in Zhejiang, five taels of silver for one mu in Sichuan, and three taels of silver in Guizhou. One acre."

"This can be exchanged. The four mu of land originally belonging to each member of the army and the ten mu of land for joining the army will still be issued."

The Tianxia Guard Office is going to be abolished, and Zhu Youjian really can't afford that much cash, so it is more cost-effective to exchange the land for reward silver.

The land complex of the Han people runs through the blood, and they can exchange land in their hometown, and Zhu Youjian sold it to the soldiers at a price lower than half the market price, which can be said to be very tempting.

After Lu Wenzhao heard Zhu Youjian's words, he bowed in response, and Zhu Youjian also said:

"After the counter-insurgency in various places is over, the Shanxi Ninth Battalion assigned to Liaodong can be taken out and transferred back to Shanxi."

"The [-]th Battalion of the Zhejiang Army was transferred to Zhejiang, Nanzhili, and Fujian, and the [-]th Battalion of the Sichuan Army was transferred to Sichuan and Huguang."

"Hong Chengchou's nine battalions were transferred to Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guangxi."

"Yang Wenyue's sixth battalion was transferred to Guangdong, Sun Chuanting's tenth battalion was transferred to Shaanxi, and Wu Aheng's fourth battalion was transferred to Jiangxi..."

Zhu Youjian's words instantly transferred more than [-] soldiers and horses to all parts of the country. As a result, only the Shangzhi Four Cavalry Guards, Three Step Guards, and Daning Three Guards and Thirty-four battalion.

If the seven guards and horses from Shangzhi also withdraw, Liaodong will still have [-] battalions of three guards, nearly [-] people.

On the other hand, on the old slave's side, [-] males in the Eight Banners were beheaded, leaving [-] to [-] males, of which [-] to [-] were youths under the age of fifteen, and only [-] to [-] were available.

If Zhu Youjian remembers correctly, the Ming army wiped out only [-] to [-] Houjin during the [-] years from the [-]th year of Wanli to the [-]th year of Chongzhen.

Of the [-] to [-] Jianlujia, there were only more than [-] traitors left, and about [-] Mongols, and only [-] to [-] soldiers were left.

This is not counting the people who were seriously injured and died after the war. If it is counted, there may not even be [-] people.

This number sounds like a lot, but if Nurhachi wants to send troops, he must leave at least [-] defensive troops, and only [-] people can be dispatched.

Among the [-] people, there may only be [-] real captives, because Nurhachi will not rest assured that he will give his lair to the Han army and the northern captives to guard.

The decline in combat power made it impossible for Nurhachi to trouble the Ming army again, at least within five years.

Five years is enough for Zhu Youjian to reform Daming from the guards to the tax system.

"call……"

Exhaling a foul breath, the sense of urgency in Zhu Youjian's heart has been weakened a lot, and now he only needs to target the guards in various places.

"The battle to restore the Liao Dynasty should be over in a month. Tell Xiong Tingbi to restore the stone forts outside the Great Wall, garrison each stone fort, and defend the danger to the north of the Great Wall."

"Thirty-four Liao battalions, only ten of them are needed to maintain stability inside the Great Wall."

Zhu Youjian spoke, and Lu Wenzhao bowed in response.

"Okay, you guys go down..." Zhu Youjian waved his hand, and Lu Wenzhao also led Sun Shoufa and the others back down.

As for Zhu Youjian, he calculated the abolition of the guard post. Fifty-eight battalions went south to control one capital and ten provinces, and basically there would be no problems.

In fact, Zhu Youjian cared more about Wei Zhongxian than the abolition of the guard.

Thinking of Wei Zhongxian being pushed onto the stage, Zhu Youjian put a smile on his face:
"Wei Daban, you have to work harder..."

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"If you want to commit a crime, there is no excuse! Cui Chengxiu, you stray dog!"

Just as Zhu Youjian was thinking about what Wei Zhongxian would do, disaster happened in Yingtianfu's Nanjing city.

Cui Chengxiu received the imperial decree three days ago, and then began to investigate the salt and tea classes as the inspector and capital censor.

In three days, among the more than [-] officials from the six ministries in Nanjing, more than [-] were arrested by thousands of households left behind by Fusi in Yingtiannan Township. Among them, the household department and the official department were the most arrested.

Inside the yamen of the Ministry of Household Affairs, a stout official in his forties, who was dressed in regular third-rank clothing, walked out. Looking at the officials being escorted, he seemed expressionless, but it made people feel that he was laughing at the moment.

"Cui Chengxiu! You stray dog!"

They were escorted to the entrance of the household department and held down and kneeling on the ground. More than [-] officials from the household department yelled and cursed, while Cui Chengxiu frowned.

At this time, a Jin Yiwei standing next to him came out, and the person who appeared was Yang Huan, the commander of the Nanzhen Fusi who had a close relationship with Wei Zhongxian.

"As a criminal, you still insult the court officials with words, slap your mouth!"

Yang Huan raised his jaw slightly, and yelled out a word, and then Yingtianfu's brocade guards grabbed the wooden board from their waists, and hit the household minister who was still barking directly on the mouth!
"Snapped!"

The voice was clear and crisp, and with just one blow, most of the civil servants covered their mouths and crawled to the ground, with blood flowing from their fingers.

What's more, several teeth were knocked out in just one blow.

In this scene, the officials of the household department who followed Jin Yiwei came out, frowning and watching, and some people who were not charged also pointed at Yang Huan and Cui Chengxiu and scolded:
"Yang Huan! Cui Chengxiu! Which of the officials here is not an official of the seventh rank or above, and has not been interrogated by Dali Temple and the Ministry of Criminal Justice. Why do you use lynching?!"

"Huh?" Hearing someone scolding him, Yang Huan immediately looked at that person fiercely, and although they were a little afraid, they still had the courage not to retreat.

"Hehe..." At this time, Cui Chengxiu laughed and said:

"These people withheld money and food for repairing the Yellow River in the Xupi area of ​​Nanzhili, and resisted arrest. It was just a way to let them feel at ease and go to the Zhenfu Division with me."

"Moreover……"

"No matter what you say, you need evidence!" Suddenly, at this moment, an old official in a second-rank official robe came out.

"Li Shangshu..."

"Li Shangshu, you take care of it, more than a hundred people were arrested in three days, and the Ministry of Household Affairs is still in operation!"

"Li Shangshu, you..."

Seeing Li Changgeng coming out, the officials of the Nanjing Household Department seemed to have a backbone, and asked Li Changgeng to help.

It's funny to say, ever since Li Changgeng was arranged by Zhu Youjian to Nanjing to serve as the Minister of the Household Department, this group of officials from the Jiangnan faction looked down on Li Changgeng, who was born in Huguang, and did things that he did.

It's just that at this juncture, they began to beg Li Changgeng to take action.

There is no other, but seeing a group of colleagues being dealt with by Cui Chengxiu and Yang Huan in such a way, it is a little bit sad.

They were afraid that they would encounter such things in the future, so they forced Li Changgeng to speak up, using their position and morals to kidnap Li Changgeng, so that Li Changgeng would do the same when he saw them being humiliated in the future.

Unfortunately, before Li Changgeng could react, Cui Chengxiu suddenly changed his tune:

"Forget it, doing these things in front of the household department is indeed out of style and out of manners. This is the fault of the lower officials."

As he spoke, Cui Chengxiu bowed to Li Changgeng, then turned around and was about to leave.

Seeing this, Yang Huan waved to the many Jinyiwei, and then left the household gate with the Jinyiwei escorting the officials.

During this process, Li Changgeng did not take any action to stop it, because he knew that if he spoke, it would be tantamount to helping the various parties in the south of the Yangtze River.

Although he always thought that he did not support the party, in the eyes of others, he was an official transferred to Nanjing by Zhu Youjian after all, and he had already had a mark of "Qi Royal Party" on his head.

If you help the parties in the south of the Yangtze River speak up, it is no less than becoming a traitor who betrayed the Qi royal party.

It's just that if you don't speak up and let Cui Chengxiu do such nonsense, the Ministry of Households will not be able to collect taxes from the south.

We must know that the Nanjing Six Departments are not completely waste, in fact, there are still many things that need to be done.

For example, the Ministry of Households is mainly responsible for collecting taxes and grains in Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Huguang provinces, and the taxes and grains paid by these four places accounted for almost half of the Ming Empire.

Not to mention, the Ministry of Households is also responsible for water transportation, national salt introduction and survey cooperation, and the collection and management of the national yellow book.

It is precisely because the Nanjing Household Department is so important that Zhu Youjian sent Li Changgeng to this position.

Li Changgeng didn't care about the party struggle between Cui Chengxiu and the three parties of Zhejiang, Xuan, and Kun. He was just afraid of delaying the payment of the autumn tax and the North Movement.

Thinking of this, Li Changgeng had no choice but to turn around and return to the household department. At the same time, he also saw the contemptuous expressions of other household department officials towards him.

He didn't care, but after returning to his study, he ground it by himself, and then wrote a letter.

The content of the letter is mainly about Cui Chengxiu's various actions and the impact on the Ministry of Household Affairs.

After finishing writing, Li Changgeng wrote on the envelope the six characters "His Royal Highness King Qi personally acknowledges".

"Send this letter to Liaodong to His Royal Highness King Qi, and it will be urgent within five hundred miles." Li Changgeng handed the letter to the trusted official next to him.

"Yes..." The official took it, and then ordered someone to deliver the letter to the north.

Just when Li Changgeng reacted, Cui Chengxiu, who left the household department, sat on the second floor of an elegant garden not far from the Qinhuai River.

When the window is opened, the Qinhuai River is not far away. The houses on both sides of the river are neat and clean, and the flowers and trees are sparse, which is far from a dusty environment.

Although it is only afternoon, you can still see a lot of playboys coming and going, and on the second floor of the brothel, you can see skinny horses all over their bodies, walking back and forth with a round fan in their hands from time to time.

There are also traffickers and pawns on the street, and ordinary people, but these existences do not belong to the scenery in Cui Chengxiu's eyes...

"When the night is cool and the people are settled, the wind is clear and the moon is bright, celebrities are all over the city, and hairpins are around the temples, walking hand in hand, leaning on a railing..."

"At night, the Qinhuai River is the busiest time. Inspector Cui, excuse me for being late."

There was a voice in the private room, and Cui Chengxiu turned her head to look, and she saw Yang Huan and Wei Guogong Xu Hongji walking in the door.

As one of the participants in the great famine in Huaibei, this guy not only bought and sold food, but also involved the salt tea in the south of the Yangtze River.

After Cui Chengxiu came to Jiangnan this time, he made such a big move that Xu Hongji, who was afraid that he would be implicated, had to come forward and invite Cui Chengxiu to come to his elegant garden.

"Wei Guogong rewarded his face and gave him a banquet. This is the blessing of the lower official. How can he blame him?"

Cui Chengxiu said the scene, it sounds like she is not angry, but in fact?

"Hehe, I heard that the inspector Cui Yin and Commander Yang went to the south of the Yangtze River. The merchants in the south of the Yangtze River all hope to get the calligraphy of the two. This is a gift from Runbi. Please give me the calligraphy."

Xu Hongji could hear Cui Chengxiu's dissatisfaction, so he smiled and took out two gift slips.

When putting the gift list on the table, he took out another copy and said:

"I heard that Wei Zhangyin is buying fields recently. These are the mansions that Jiangnan merchants want to sell. I don't know if Wei Zhangyin is interested. If you are interested, please pass it on to the inspector Cui..."

Xu Hongji is not a fool, it is useless to feed Cui Chengxiu, he has to feed the people behind him.

The so-called asking for calligraphy is nothing more than a legal bribe, and the price of selling the mansion is also a low price, and there is still a lot of money in the mansion.

If you look carefully at the sales slips, you can see how many Mimai are written on the back of each mansion, but the unit behind Mimai is not a "stone" but two.

In this regard, Cui Chengxiu is quite satisfied with Xu Hongji's way, at least with his method, these houses and money will be legal.

Because of this, Cui Chengxiu put down her airs, and then said:
"Then I will thank Wei Guogong for Wei's handprint. In addition, I also asked Wei Guogong to help with the Jiangnan salt and tea lessons..."

Cui Chengxiu has been the governor of Huaiyang for a long time, how can he not know the tricks of the salt class?If Wei Guo opened his mouth and someone among the nobles gave it away, the money for the salt class would soon go up.

In other words, even if they are not allowed to pay, but the nobles and gentry raise the price of salt and use the money earned from the salt price increase to pay taxes, the money for the salt class will soon reach a level that satisfies the emperor. degree.

Not only salt, but also tea.

"Naturally, I won't bother the Inspector Cui with this matter. Please give me ten days from the Inspector Cui. After ten days, I will definitely give the Inspector Cui a satisfactory textbook."

Xu Hongji came ready to bleed, so he had already guessed what Cui Chengxiu was thinking. Seeing this, Cui Chengxiu also walked to the table and sat down. After raising his hand to signal Xu Hongji to sit down, he raised his glass and said:

"In that case, then I would like to thank Duke Wei..."

"Restraint, restraint, it's the old man serving wine to the inspector, hahaha..." Xu Hongji picked up the wine glass, toasted with Yang Huan and Cui Chengxiu respectively and drank freely.

The table of wine for the three of them also represented the soft attitude of Jiangnan Xungui, and for Cui Chengxiu, since the Xungui was soft, it was enough to rectify the gentlemen in Jiangnan...

Thinking of this, Cui Chengxiu narrowed her eyes...

　Four o'clock and one more

　　
　
(End of this chapter)