Win the Ding 1617

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"Five thousand soldiers and horses to fight the bandits? Is our Mr. Sun suffering from a fever?"

In the Sanjin Guild Hall, more than a dozen owners and shopkeepers of large and small businesses sat together, sipped tea and chatted while eating the latest fruits from the South Road. @, the topic surrounding it is a major news in the capital recently.

After Sun Chuanting got it right, Chongzhen was overjoyed, and immediately ordered him to be sent by Minister of the Ministry of War, Prime Minister Shaanxi, Sanbian and other places to train troops and suppress bandits, soldiers, horses, food and pay.

Sun Chuanting squatted in the classroom for three years. He didn't know the outside situation. He thought that the strength of the rebel army was still the same as before, so he casually replied that five thousand elite soldiers would be enough.However, before the court was over, Sun Baigu found that his civil and military colleagues all looked at him with the same expression as they would look at a child with cerebral palsy, and some of them had a hint of pity in their eyes.

After he returned to his lower place, he ordered someone to find the manuscripts and transcripts of the residence newspapers from the past few years, only then did he realize that it was indeed a few days in the mountains, but a thousand years in the world.The changes in the world have already exceeded his expectations, and he immediately went to the Shu and said, "Twenty thousand soldiers must be trained, and one million salaries must be paid."

This immediately annoyed Chongzhen very much. Isn't this a loud slap on my face?

So he issued a strict decree to reprimand Sun Chuanting and make him understand the answer.

Sun Chuanting's own ability is mainly reflected in the military. On the battlefield, he belongs to the kind of person who has a mess of political ability but has the ability to make decisive decisions. In this regard, he is quite similar to Lu Xiangsheng, and it is also because of this characteristic. Bad luck fell on me.The exact opposite of them.Yang Sichang's faction was fierce, and his strategy of praising paintings was not bad, but when it came to making decisions before the battle, it was a mess.Therefore, when Yang Sichang sits at the center, he can command well.Once out of Beijing, it would be futile to call him Admiral Yanmei.On the contrary, Zuo Liangyu, He Renlong and other army leaders got a glimpse of the reality, and thus became more domineering and arrogant.

Because of his stubborn and arrogant personality, Sun Chuanting has offended many people over the years, even though the highest ranking Yang Sichang has died.But others are still alive and well.Seeing him deflated, these people must have a heart of gloating, and the news spread in the capital at that moment, and soon spread among the large and small yamen and deep houses.How could these well-informed Shanxi businessmen not know?

"Twenty thousand elite soldiers paid a million?" A small business owner with a Jinzhong accent curled his lips, "Our Sun Xiangyu, if we know whose team is the Dragon and Tiger Camp that is disturbing the world in Shandong right now, I'm afraid The soldiers and horses have been multiplied more than once!"

Because Sun Chuanting is from Daizhou, Shanxi, he is a fellow from Shanxi, and the monks don't kiss each other.so.When these businessmen talked about this fellow who had turned from Xianyu, they still kept some affection in their mouths.

"I heard from the doctor of the Fang Division of the Ministry of War that Mr. Sun not only needs to train [-] new recruits, but also needs two years of training time from the emperor. The troops of the Wanjing camp were put under his command. It is no wonder that the emperor agreed!"

Sun Chuanting's original intention is still the same as when he started training the Qin army in Yulin, Shaanxi, and trained soldiers in Shaanxi.Use Qin soldiers to defend Qin land, and use Qin land to support Qin soldiers.Tuntian management, to solve the difficulty of military pay.

Since ancient times, Shaanxi has not lacked men who serve as soldiers and eat food. Only in Yulin, Yansui and other places, let alone 10 soldiers and horses, even [-] people gathered with their arms raised.However, there is no food and no soldiers.Where do you ask Sun Chuanting to find money, food and weapons to support these soldiers and horses for two years?

What's more, Sanbian, Shaanxi, and He Renlong, Gao Jie and other unruly people, if he is a prime minister who has no money, no food, no soldiers, which general will beat an empty prime minister?

It is also a situation where there is nothing to do with the idea of ​​the Beijing camp men and horses who have been trained in Shandong.Sun Chuanting made the next move.Unexpectedly, only some rumors were released, and there was already a lot of opposition in the court.

"The men and horses in the Beijing camp are the emperor's own army, how can they be wasted?"

"It's so easy for the imperial court to have a military horse that has been trained to beat the Liao thieves. How can they go to Shaanxi to serve as his own soldiers?"

Among them are the voices of honorable fathers and soldiers of the Beijing camp, originally!Our son followed Uncle Ning Yuan in Shandong. It is good to enjoy the shade under the big tree, eat well, use well, fight with ease, and make a fortune by breaking thieves.Why go to that poor place in Shaanxi to drink wind and eat sand, and fight desperately with a group of bitter thieves?

"Old man Sun is having a hard time!"

A shopkeeper knocked on a pipe pot made of copper, and knocked out the soot and sparks in the pot: "He plans to farm in Shaanxi to raise soldiers, and the emperor has agreed to him. But what about the grain and farm tools for the farm? Figure it out yourself!"

"That's right! Back then when Lu Xiangsheng was in Xuanda, Master Lu was in a much better situation than he is now. What's more, Uncle Ning Yuan also subsidized Lu Jiandou with so much money, food and farm tools back then!"

"Several big shopkeepers, Mr. Sun is so short of money and food, and the court is in urgent need of money and food, why don't you find a solution with Uncle Ning Yuan? It is said in letters and correspondences that there is a lot of money and food in Uncle Ning Yuan's jurisdiction. Good harvests year after year."

"Not only is there a lot of money and food, but it also has the meaning of helping Daming to farm the land. As a result, Mr. Sun is eager to try it. It's a pity that the court is full of opposition."

Usually, the imperial court was short of money, food and equipment, so it was inevitable that Chongzhen would come to Shou Han and ask him to temporarily allocate some for military supplies.However, since Shou Han published the report on the implementation of the New Deal that day, the attitude of the entire imperial court towards him has quietly changed.

"Without Uncle Ning Yuan's money, food and equipment, let me see where the food and salaries for the [-] new troops will be raised! Could it be that the emperor should pay for it himself?"

"That's right! Uncle Ning Yuan, he was bewitched by someone who didn't know who, so that he couldn't die. He wrote that copy of the memorial book, and why did he work as a errand and pay for food together? Originally, the government and the public thought that he was the white jade pillar of the Ming Dynasty. Zijinliang, it's a good thing now, from the ginseng soup that hangs people's lives, it has become Pan Jinlian's medicinal soup!"

In a word, it is true.

Now the status of Shou Han is quite embarrassing. He wrote the title book that suggested that the emperor should first set up a combination of officials and gentry to pay food for errands in various places in Ming Dynasty, even in Shaanxi, Gyeonggi, Shandong, Henan, Denglai, Jimen, etc. He was completely pushed to the opposite of officials and gentry.

This system is different from the previously proposed system of paying money and food with silver dollars, and returning fire consumption to the public.Paying money and grain with silver dollars, officials and subordinates from all over the country can still do their best, and businessmen can buy low and sell high, and everyone can still make a fortune.But this whole body is a matter of paying for food.But it deprives everyone of their dignity.

In this way, Shou Han, who was in the court and the opposition, of course became the bowl of medicinal soup in Pan Jinlian's hand for Wu Dalang.

However, right now the Ming Dynasty.In fact, it was barely maintained by Shou Han's money and food. (Of course, Shou Han also made his body stronger by exporting grain and various agricultural products and industrial products to the imperial court.) Without food, sergeants can't even do basic training. If they want to train elite soldiers, they need a lot of meat, otherwise Forcible drills or rectification will only lead to mutiny.

Why did the Ming army appear as a servant?It's not because of the lack of food and salaries that the various ministries have to maintain their combat effectiveness by assigning some people to have enough food and clothing, and the rest to starve.These people became elite servants.At the beginning, it was very effective, but now, it has become the source of private troops, and the court is also helpless.

The premise of rectification has always been that there must be enough food and wages to put it down, otherwise all previous efforts will be wasted.

"Put Uncle Ning Yuan and his old man idle away. What about the 3 new army's food and equipment that Mr. Sun said? Where can I find it? Xu Guangqi used to train troops in Shandong at the time, with four ranks of soldiers, front soldiers, strong men, and sergeants. Soldier selection. Not to mention the sergeant needs to pay four taels of soldiers every month, even the mere soldiers. They also need to pay one tael or five dollars a month, which is already the price of servants in many places! There are also An Jiayin, food silver, and armor Swords and guns, which one does not require money?! Twenty thousand new army soldiers, even if calculated according to the military salary of one tael or five dollars, they need at least 36 taels a month, and [-] taels a year!"

"Treasurer Cao said that it is the military salary that is head-to-head. This is the military salary of the soldiers, but they still have armor. Xu Guangqi said that a pair of fine armor needs 16 taels, and Mao Yuanyi said that a pair is only three taels. How many taels are we? Don't worry about it," the shopkeeper Han Da who was speaking sneered, glanced at a minister next to him who specialized in military business, and said: "The shopkeeper Wang Da of the Russians here knows the inside way best. In this way, Russian The court doesn't have that much money, so it's impossible to arrange for them all to wear South China Armor. But at least spearmen and sword and shield soldiers need to wear iron armor? Firecrackers use cotton The armor is ready, 10 pairs of iron armor will cost 5 taels of silver. A pair of cotton armor will cost three to five taels, and the same [-] pairs will also cost three to [-] taels! This armor will always need to be replaced, and more should be prepared silver……"

The big shopkeepers and the small shopkeepers are old fritters who have dealt with the frontier army for a long time. They are more familiar with the way of military pay and weapons than the soldiers of the Ministry of war. It's clean, and I owe a lot of money!

The above calculations are only the expenses of the people, and the expenses of the horses in the army have not been included.Leaving aside the horse price for buying horses, we only talk about the money spent on raising horses.There is a saying in the army that one horse wins three men.It is said that the cost of one cavalry is about equal to the cost of five infantrymen, and the horse team must also be equipped with blacksmiths, carpenters and veterinarians, etc., to hit horseshoes, saddles and treat horse diseases.The cost of these is also not small.Regarding this point, Sun Chuanting himself also understood. He once said in his inscription when he was the governor of Shaanxi Province: "One thousand, 320 eight horses, each with eight cents of grass and silver per day, and 54 mules, each with daily expenses Grass silver five points."

A horse costs eight cents of silver a day, and nearly 30 taels of silver a year, which is still when it is garrisoned.When the war starts, there will be more horse feed such as wheat beans and hay.This is just the breeding method of the army in the interior. If the breeding method of the Southern Guangdong Army is followed, each horse will have a ration of salt and grain supply, and even bone meal will be added to the feed.These expenses are even more staggering.

"Look! How should the imperial court answer Old Man Sun? If there is no such money for him, the recruits in Shaanxi will not be able to train, and Wang Qiaonian will hide in Tongguan and cannot come out. Mr. Chen's method of suppressing from three sides is just a dead letter. But let Sun Chuanting go to train soldiers, without money and food, what will he use for training?"

"Look! The big bosses in the court and Uncle Ning Yuan are fighting, this exciting thing is still to come!"

Sitting around the banquet, tasting the highest-grade eight dishes and eight bowls of noodles in Jinzhong area, everyone expressed their opinions on Fengyun.

"Leave it alone! Let's just drink and do business! Tomorrow, let's go to Longsheng outside Chaoyang Gate and see if we can get some grain to sell in Shaanxi!"

"Yes! Master Cao is right! I also heard that Uncle Ning Yuan had the idea of ​​those Huangzhuang owned by Emperor Chongzhen. We have to curry favor!"

Because Huang Taiji's resident festival is here, the Qingyan Temple in Yiwulu Mountain was rebuilt to conform to his status as emperor.In the second courtyard of the temple, a room on the east side serves as his residence.It's a bedroom.This room is divided into front and back.Each has a big Kang.The remaining three-quarters of the area are places for worshiping gods.

According to customs and etiquette, the door of this house is opened in the southeast corner.There are two large iron pots in the north and south respectively, and pork is cooked in the pots.Next to the cauldron is a big kang.

According to the customs of Manchuria: the seat of the god is on the west side, the south side is the upper side, and the north side is the lower side.The antler armchairs on the southern kang were intended for the emperor to sit on, while the antler armchairs on the northern kang were reserved for the empress.But at this time the queen was still in Shengjing.So the chair is empty.

The big kang on the west gable wall is a place for worshiping gods, and various ritual objects for worshiping gods are placed.There is a small wooden board on the gable wall with yellow silk curtains hanging on it, which is called the god board.On the kang in front of the god board, there is a black lacquer seat with a backrest, on which sit two puppets wearing clothes, which are said to be Mongolian gods.There are colorful scrolls hanging on the walls on both sides of the god board: statues of Sakyamuni, Manjushri, Avalokitesvara, and seven fairies (that is, the fairy Buddha Kulun who swallowed vermilion fruit is in the middle, and the two sisters and other fairies are sandwiched between the left and right. Manchurians Legend has it that there is a pool at the foot of Changbai Mountain named Buer Lake. One day, there are three Tiannv sisters, the older one is called Sigulun, the second is called Zhenggulun, and the younger one is called Fokulun. They take a bath in the pool. Put it on Fokulun's clothes. Fokulun held the vermilion fruit in his mouth, and he didn't feel it in his stomach. After giving birth to a boy, he was the ancestor of the Manchurians.) In addition, there is a statue of Guan Fama with a red face and squinted eyes (that is, Guan Yu, Fama means Lord in Manchurian).

The scrolls of the statues of the gods are all rolled up when not offering sacrifices to the ancestors.Encased in yellow or red lacquered wooden slips.There is also a magic arrow hanging on the wall, with the arrow pointing down.On the tail hangs a strand of hemp; on the other side hangs Sheng Shinso's yellow Goryeo cloth bag.There is a stone seat not far from the southeast outside the gate of Qingning Palace. On the day of offering sacrifices to heaven, a wooden pole with a length of one foot and three feet was erected on it the day before, called the sacred pole, with a wooden bucket on it.There is no sacrifice to heaven today, so the stone seat stands empty.There is no magic pole.

The sun went down completely.Lights were lit inside and outside Qingyan Temple, and many candles were lit indoors.Some tallow candles are as thick as a mallet and painted red on the outside.Cigarettes, candle smoke, wood smoke from the stove.The water vapor emerging from the big meat pot mixed together, making the atmosphere more ambiguous, mysterious and solemn.

Today is the day of offering sacrifices to the gods.

Two particularly fat pure black pigs were selected, their front and rear legs were tied, and they were carried into the temple, and they were supported to face the divine table, standing on their hind legs like a human being.After the shaman danced to the gods, he poured hot wine into its ears. It struggled and moved, shook its head and ears, which showed that the gods were very happy to accept it.

Hearing what Wu Bai said, the Lord of the Eight Banners and Huang Taiji who were present were very happy.Everyone has been fighting hard for many days, and they are already exhausted physically and mentally, just waiting for good news to come.Hearing Wu Bai's words, everyone's hearts suddenly brightened.

Headed by Huang Taiji, everyone turned west and knelt down to salute the statue.After saluting, he sat down in the antler armchair on the big kang.Afterwards, the witch called Mrs. Shaman wore a god hat with feathers on her head and a waist bell around her waist. She shook her head and swayed her waist, and beat the skin drum with her hands. the son of.The god of tin.An Chun.Ayala.Molly.Muliha.Nathan.Dai Hui.Narhun.Xuanchu.Sidu miles.Monk solid.thanks full.Zhang Jing.Nathan.Weihuli.Sidu.Montgomery.Katun.Noyen. ...

(Don't ask the author what these words mean. No one has understood these congratulations since the Qianlong period.)

Mrs. Shaman recited the most important point, as if she was insane.The faster the recitation, the more intense the dance, the more urgent the bells and drums.After a while, the recitation was almost finished, and the shaman seemed to be in a daze, as if the god had already leaned on her body, staggered backwards, and seemed to be unable to stand and wanted to fall backwards.Two accompanying maids supported her from left and right, and she sat on a chair.She suddenly became quiet, pretending to hold her breath with her eyes closed.The maidservants quietly removed the skin drum, god hat, and waist bell for her, so as not to make any sound.After a while, Sama opened her eyes and pretended to be surprised, clearly she thought it was rude to sit in front of the throne of God and the emperor and princes Baylor.She hurriedly kowtowed to God, then to the emperor and princes, and then respectfully withdrew.

Huang Taiji saluted to the gods again, and then the prince, county king, Baylor, Beizi and others behind him saluted in sequence.

Those who were called tonight were all people with relatively high status in the Qing army.Dorgon who came from Jinzhou, Daishan who came from Shengjing, Li Wa, the eldest son of the Korean king, Li Cheng, the second son of Fenglin Dajun, who were taken as hostages, several North Korean ministers as hostages, and escorted [-] shi of rice, [-] shi You Yizheng Jin Zidian, who served in the army before the army, and others lined up, first saluted the gods, and then saluted the emperor.

After the ceremony, Wu Bai ordered a group of Kabush virtuous soldiers to move the small table and spread a piece of felt on the floor for each person to spread on the floor.After everyone sat down on the felt, these Kabush warriors put a plate of white meat, a glass of wine, and a bowl of white rice in front of everyone.A bowl of broth.

These rice were either purchased from within the pass, or donated by the Lee court of North Korea.Everyone took out a knife from his waist, and cut and ate the pork on the plate.Although according to Manchurian customs, it is a great honor for the emperor to bestow meat, but the three-inch square, fat and greasy white pork boiled in white water is really unpalatable. (to be continued..)