Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

Speaking of this, some people may have doubts in their hearts: You must know that both Wu Shigong's King Qin's army and Qin Liangyu's King Qin's army went to the capital.King Qin, as the name suggests, is to save the emperor, but in the Ming Dynasty, which paid attention to "loyalty", saving the emperor was the top priority.But why is the local government in Northern Zhili unwilling to provide supplies for these King Qin's troops?

This starts with a fiscal system in the Ming Dynasty.When Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, he formulated a financial management method that was handed down to the end of the Qing Dynasty out of his idea of ​​managing the country's finances with the financial thinking of small farmers.

Zhu Yuanzhang discovered that each local government has to turn over a lot of money and food to the state treasury every year, and every year, the state treasury also allocates a lot of money and food to each place. Isn't this causing trouble for oneself?

So Zhu Yuanzhang stipulated that those local government's annual fixed expenses do not need to be handed over to the national treasury, and let each locality keep it for themselves, as long as the account books are reviewed by the Ministry of Households every year.

This financial system, if a person with modern accounting knowledge can definitely see that it is very inappropriate.Because one of the basic rules of modern accounting is the two lines of revenue and expenditure.As for the disadvantages of adopting Zhu Yuanzhang's financial system, those who have studied modern accounting knowledge will definitely be able to tell one, two, three, four, five.

However, some people said that the specific situation should be analyzed on a case-by-case basis.There were no banks in the Ming Dynasty, and the transportation conditions were so poor, so the court and government had to adopt this financial system.

Anyway, this is not the place to discuss the pros and cons of this financial system.The key point is that this financial system caused great trouble to the supply of supplies for the Ming army.

We already know that the army of the Ming Dynasty had two systems: local military households and war soldiers.In the early Ming Dynasty, except for some frontier soldiers, there were no other soldiers at all.Wars must be completed by military households.And these military households fought wars with the local government where they were located to provide supplies.

Because in the early Ming Dynasty, the situation in various places was relatively stable, so there were no battles to fight in the interior.Therefore, there is no major problem in this mode of local government supplying the supplies of the local army.

Of course, in case the imperial court mobilizes these local troops to gather and leave the local area to fight, in addition to the supplies provided by the local government where these troops are located, the imperial court will also provide some supplies for these troops.

And after those troops left their hometowns, the governments in other places were not obliged to provide supplies for these troops.Unless these armies use silver to buy.Of course, there is also a workaround.These governments first provide the supplies for these troops, and then ask for them from the imperial court or the local government where the army is located.

It can be seen from this that it would be very troublesome for the government to ask the court or other government for it after supplying the military supplies.As a bureaucrat, I will definitely follow the principle that one thing more is worse than one thing less.

This situation led to the unwillingness of the Ming Dynasty army to leave their hometown to fight.Later, in order to make up for it, the court of the Ming Dynasty stipulated that the military merits of the troops who left their hometown to fight would be doubled.But even so, the army of the Ming Dynasty was still unwilling, because it was too difficult to provide supplies for their own army in other places.

Let's take a look at Wu Shigong's King Qin's army again. If he marched from the side of the Grand Canal, his army's supplies would be provided by the water transport warehouses on both sides of the canal. Because these water transport warehouses are directly managed by the imperial court, the supplies of Wu Shigong's army The problem of supply is not so big.

But then Wu Shigong's King Qin's army turned.The supply and supply problems encountered by his army in Henan were relatively small, but after leaving Henan and arriving in Beizhili, the government in those places refused to supply them at all.It wasn't that Wu Shigong would play a rogue, his army was already hungry.Unless Wu Shigong used his own money to buy food and grass to supply his army.

After understanding this problem, we all know the difficulties faced by Qin Liangyu's white-armed soldiers.

On the second day, Ma Xianglin came to Wu Shigong's place and announced Qin Liangyu's order to let Wu Shigong's army serve as auxiliary soldiers. Unexpectedly, Wu Shigong readily agreed.This surprised Ma Xianglin, because in a strict sense, although Qin Liangyu's official position was much higher than that of Wu Shigong, Wu Shigong and Qin Liangyu had no subordinate relationship.Wu Shigong did not have to obey Qin Liangyu's orders at all.

Compared with Wu Shigong's arrogant attitude yesterday, today's Wu Shigong's kitten-like attitude is too strange.Ma Xianglin didn't know that yesterday's Wu Shigong was not arrogant, nor did he look down on Qin Liangyu, a woman.It's just the evasive attitude after doing something wrong.

And why did Wu Shigong so readily agree to be Qin Liangyu's auxiliary soldier?The main reason is that for Wu Shigong who wants to preserve his strength, there is nothing wrong with being an auxiliary soldier.Anyway, in the battle, Qin Liangyu's white-armed soldiers rushed to the front. If the battle situation was unfavorable, Wu Shigong's army in the rear would have enough time to escape.For Wu Shigong, it was just a loss of face.Wu Shigong didn't know the great names of Qin Liangyu and Baiganbing, otherwise he would have felt more at ease.

There is another reason.Although Wu Shigong marched like a tortoise in order to avoid the war, he also understood the reason why the military situation was on fire, and he was always a little worried about rushing to the capital so late to serve the king.

But now that his own army has served as Qin Liangyu's auxiliary soldiers, Wu Shigong can completely distinguish his accusation and say: "It is the general Qin who insisted on treating my army as her army's auxiliary soldiers. I have no way to get there." It’s so late in the capital. Who made General Qin’s official position much higher than mine?”

In fact, Wu Shigong didn't know that almost all the troops who came to the capital to serve the king were not very fast. Not every official who led the troops had the same strong loyalty to the emperor as Qin Liangyu.

Even the King Qin's army that had already arrived in the capital, they all set up their own camps in the cities near the capital. They said it was to protect the safety of the capital and prevent the Tartar army from attacking the capital again and startled the holy car.It simply did not take the initiative to attack the Hou Jin army that was still raging in Beizhili.

What's even more ridiculous is that although those king Qin's army kept defending the capital, they stayed in their own city, and they didn't even dare to go out to touch the Tartar army that was currently sweeping around the capital.

When Ma Xianglin saw his mother, he asked Wu Shigong's army to serve as an auxiliary soldier. Although he didn't know why Wu Shigong agreed so readily, Ma Xianglin must have continued to pinch Wu Shigong's soft persimmon.

Ma Xianglin then asked Wu Shigong's army to be responsible for the logistics work such as camping and cooking for the two armies, and asked Wu Shigong's army to allocate [-] shi of grain and hundreds of horses to the camp of the white soldiers to strengthen the combat strength of the white soldiers.

In addition, Wu Shigong was required to assign some firecrackers and all the artillery, as well as the personnel who operated the firecrackers and artillery, to Qin Liangyu's command.

After hearing Ma Xianglin's words, Wu Shigong was stunned.It's okay to ask your soldiers to do some logistical tasks such as camping and cooking, but if you let yourself take out the belongings you have saved with great difficulty, isn't this taking Wu Shigong as a fool?

So Wu Shigong flatly refused, and only answered Ma Xianglin with two words: "No way!"

That Ma Xianglin also had a fiery temper. Seeing that Wu Shigong didn't know what to do, he rolled up his sleeves and shouted: "Today, you have to give if you give, and you have to give if you don't. Look at the bears of you soldiers, such a good guy, stay with you It's all ruined by the hands of these soldiers."

When Ma Xianglin said this, he had a fierce face, and he was blinded by a bow and arrow in the battle with the Tartars before, so the expression on his whole face was particularly fierce.

But who is Wu Shigong?Would he still be intimidated by a few words?He also rolled up his sleeves, and shouted to Ma Xianglin: "Cyclops, what do you want? Do you want to grab it? Tell that old woman not to dream about spring and autumn, and use any tricks. Grandpa, I will follow up here. "

Seeing Wu Shigong insulting his mother again, Ma Xianglin burst into anger, and rushed towards Wu Shigong immediately.And Wu Shigong was not to be outdone, and rushed towards Ma Xianglin.Seeing that the two of them were about to stage a martial arts show, the soldiers of both sides hurried forward to separate the two of them.

In the end, Wu Shigong didn't agree to anything other than agreeing to serve Qin Liangyu as an auxiliary soldier, so Ma Xianglin had no choice but to return to his camp angrily.After he reported Wu Shigong's answer to Qin Liangyu, the mother and son discussed it, but found that it was impossible to do anything to Wu Shigong at this moment.

In the subsequent march, Wu Shigong's army did a good job as an auxiliary soldier, and took over all the logistical tasks such as camping and cooking for the two armies.That is, Wu Shigong, Qin Liangyu, and Ma Xianglin's mother and son seemed like passers-by, and they didn't even talk to each other after they met, and let the soldiers around them pass the word on anything.

However, although the relationship between the two parties was bumpy, Qin Liangyu was very satisfied with the work of assisting Wu Shigong's army.At least the white soldiers have a lot less tiring work.Especially Wu Shigong's rogue grain requisition method made Qin Liangyu and her white-armed soldiers gasp in amazement.

But after walking a certain distance, Wu Shigong found that something was wrong. The direction of the march was not at all heading towards Tongzhou, the place where King Qin's army assembled.

At the end, Wu Shigong couldn't bear it anymore, and asked Qin Liangyu, "Mr. Qin, where are we going? It seems that this road is not the way to Tongzhou?"

Hearing Wu Shigong's words, Qin Liangyu frowned and scolded Wu Shigong: "Since you are the king of Qin, go to the capital to fight the Tartars. If you have no courage to go, you coward, then go back to your hometown and give me your soldiers' guns and horses." stay."