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Chapter 174
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"Kill!" Amidst the roar, a soldier of the slave-slaughter army raised his gun to hold the saber slashed by the Tatar soldiers, and the soldiers of the slave-slaughter army who covered his wings took the opportunity to roar at the same time. There was no blood splatter, two [-]-foot-[-]-inch-long triangular army thorns pierced directly through the iron armor of the Tatar soldier, and then penetrated his chest again, until they had no handle.The Tatar soldier was in pain, roared and swung his knife and slashed at the slave soldier on his right hand in an attempt to die together. Unexpectedly, the slave soldier with the knife in the middle suddenly flew up and kicked the Tatar soldier out. Half a foot away, he fell on his back, and the blood blocked by the military stabs flew out as arrows. Three soldiers of the slave slaughtering army rushed forward again, and stabbed the Tatar soldier to death on the ground with their knives.

From the beginning to the end of the actual combat practice, in just a dozen or 20 seconds, three slave soldiers killed a fully armed Tatar soldier in hand-to-hand combat, but they were not injured.Faced with such achievements, the devil instructors of the Tunu Army were of course extremely satisfied. Young Master Zhang also nodded repeatedly, lamenting that the hard work of more than half a year has not been in vain. His own cavalry also practiced the six bayonet styles well, so that they would have more life-saving skills on the battlefield.Only Lord Hou Xunhou, the new Jimen inspector, had trembling legs and his face turned pale, but Young Master Zhang refused to let go of this Lord Hou, who had recommended a great disaster, and dragged him to the side of the corpse, where he was picked up by the soldiers of the slave slaughtering army. After passing a bloody army bayonet, he enthusiastically introduced it to Hou Xun: "Master Hou, please look, this bayonet was created by a subordinate official. It has three edges and grooves, is easy to stab and pull out, is one foot and eight inches long, and weighs two catties. 12 taels, tough and durable, it can definitely be regarded as a melee weapon."

"Tanhualang is really knowledgeable and talented..." Hou Xun's legs trembled, and he refused to look at the bloody corpse of a Tatar soldier on the ground.Young Master Zhang gestured to the military stab again and said: "This kind of bayonet has another characteristic, that is, its blade is poisonous. After stabbing a human body, the wound is poisonous. All the wounds can be fatal." As he said, Young Master Zhang stabbed Hou Xun suddenly with a military stab, which made Hou Xun sit on the ground in fright and screamed like a pig: "Tanhualang, what are you doing? ?”

"Let's make a harmless little joke, Mr. Hou, don't pay attention to it." Young Master Zhang smiled slightly, and beckoned to his soldiers to bring some apples, helped Hou Xun toss an apple on an apple and said with a smile: "Master Hou, you have patrolled us The bayonet tactics of the Slave Army, how about seeing the marksmanship of our Slave Army soldiers?"

"What marksmanship?" Hou Xun was confused.Young Master Zhang put the apple on top of Hou Xun's head, and said with a smile: "Master Hou, it's better, don't move,..." Before the words fell, there was a gunshot, and the apple on Hou Xun's head responded And broken.The sniper of Young Master Zhang's Personal Squad blew smoke from the gun barrel and laughed grinningly, while Hou Xun's crotch became hot, and he sat down on the ground again, while the surrounding soldiers of the Slaughter Army laughed wildly.

"Tanhualang, what on earth do you mean?" Hou Xun roared angrily.Young Master Zhang said with a smile: "Master Hou, didn't you just say that, please appreciate the marksmanship of our slave-slaughter army soldiers - if you don't make it more difficult, how can you let Master Hou know that our slave-slaughter army's marksmanship is like a god?"

"Then you can't push apples yourself?" Hou Xun growled angrily.Before the words finished, Young Master Zhang had already put an apple on his head, and put another one on Hou Xun's head, and said with a smile: "Okay, this time I will come with Mr. Hou, and prepare..."

"No, no, there's no need to appreciate it," Hou Xun didn't want to go crazy with Young Master Zhang, so he quickly knocked off the apple on his head, ran away without looking back, and rushed out of Jingeryu without looking back, leaving behind a Laugh mockingly.Young Master Zhang yelled again: "Lord Hou, don't you always say that your disciple Yuan Chonghuan's Guan Ning cavalry is invincible in the world? Why did you leave before I asked you to appreciate the cavalry and shooting of our soldiers who slaughtered slaves?" Hou Xun ran away with his head in his arms, but he didn't dare to agree to anything.

"Bah! You idiot who ruined the country and the people!" Young Master Zhang spit out thick phlegm, then turned to Wu Liuqi and Lu Xiangsheng and the others and said, "Let's stop practicing bayonets here today. From now on, we should strengthen musket shooting practice, and don't be afraid of wasting bullets and gunpowder." , you help me save money, I will not appreciate it." Lu Xiangsheng and other generals clasped their fists and agreed, and hurriedly commanded the slave slaughter army to line up and restart the strict shooting training.Young Master Zhang led Zhang Shitou and Song Xiance up to the podium swaggeringly, supervising the military training while acting as an official document.

"Boss, judging from the responses from various places, the sweet potatoes in the Jiuwei Army of Jimen are growing very well. It is estimated that the sweet potatoes will be harvested in two more months." Song Xiance reported with a stack of official documents : "Also, our spies reported that military households sold potato seedlings and civilians stole potato seedlings to varying degrees in the nine guards. The repeated prohibitions continued, but the commanders and envoys in various places were afraid that you would hold them accountable. Concealed and not reported, please pay attention to the boss."

"Don't worry about them." Young Master Zhang said calmly, "I was the one behind the push for the stealing and selling of potato seedlings. I sent secret agents from Dongchang and Zhenfusi to spread rumors among the people, saying that I was the one who grew up because of eating sweet potatoes." If you are admitted to Tanhua, you can live a long life if you eat sweet potatoes. In the next life, you will vote for a good family, and incite the common people and gentry everywhere to steal and buy potato seedlings for planting. In this way, although our army will lose some It is conducive to the popularization of sweet potato planting, and it is also easy for the people to quickly accept this brand new crop."

"Boss, I've convinced you." Song Xiance smiled wryly, "People and officials are all afraid of Dongchang Town Fusi when they mention Dongchang Town Fusi, and that's you, who can play Dongchang and Zhen Fusi so superbly. "

"Everything has two sides, the key depends on how you use them." Young Master Zhang smiled, and asked again: "Where is there any big movement in the capital?"

"There is no big news for the time being, but the queen's son, Man Yue, was named Zhu Ciyi by the emperor." Song Xiance flipped through the official document and said, "In addition, there is news that the emperor has decided to make this son the crown prince, and it may not take long. , and the canonization ceremony is about to be held. However, I heard that Mrs. Fengsheng is strongly opposed to this matter. It may be related to her niece entering the palace as a concubine. I guess she is planning to wait for her niece to give birth to a child before agitating The emperor made her niece's son the crown prince."

"Let's go dreaming, Nine Thousand Years is not so stupid." Young Master Zhang snorted coldly, but he really missed Zhang Yan's son in his heart, and he didn't know if Zhang Weixian and others' plan to replace the civet cat with the prince was successful.Over there, Song Xiance made another report about the peasant uprising in Shaanxi and the establishment of slaves in Liaodong, and finally said: "Master, there is one more thing you may want to pay attention to. It has been more than nine months since the formation of the Slave Slaughter Army. The military expenditure of more than 30 taels was spent on the treasury without fighting. The court and local civil servants and military generals were quite critical of this, accusing the slave slaughter army of wasting national power but failing to build an inch. Year-old will have some opinions."

Young Master Zhang was silent. The military expenditure of the Slave Slaughter Army was huge, ten times higher than that of an ordinary army of the same size, and the treatment of soldiers was much higher than that of ordinary troops. It is said that the high cost of rifled guns and Mini bombs cannot be lowered, even the food expenses of soldiers, Mr. Zhang does not dare to skimp a little bit - rigorous training with a lot of exercise must be based on a reasonable diet with high protein. common sense!After hesitating for a long time, Young Master Zhang asked, "Did the imperial court allocate the military salary and food for April?"

"Not yet." Song Xiance replied with a shrug.Young Master Zhang gritted his teeth, and ordered: "Anyway, if you are a villain, send an official document to the Ministry of War, asking the Ministry of War to allocate three months of food and grass to the Jimen defense area, and another [-] catties of gunpowder and [-] rounds of bullets. These things Once you get it, you won't have to look at the face of the Ministry of War within three months." Song Xiance had no choice but to draft the text according to the order, and after the signature and seal of Young Master Zhang, he sent a fast horse to the capital.

A day later, Young Master Zhang sent an official document urging food and payment to the capital, and handed it directly to Wang Yongguang, Shangshu of the Ministry of War.After reading the official document, Wang Yongguang, who was having a headache for the Shaanxi military salary and the Liaodong military salary, almost didn't cry, but he didn't dare to call back to Jimen directly to veto it. The official document was handed over to Feng Quan, Shangshu of the Ministry of Household Affairs. Feng Quan almost didn't cry when he saw it, so he had to bite the bullet and took the official document to find Wei Zhongxian, crying to Wei Zhongxian: "Nine thousand years old, Zhang Haogu sent someone again It’s time to ask for food and pay, and the first thing you want is three months of military pay and food, it’s really impossible to take such a humble job.”

"Three months of military pay and food? Not much, why don't you just allocate it to him?" Wei Zhongxian really had nothing to say to Young Master Zhang, and agreed to Young Master Zhang's request as soon as he opened his mouth.Feng Quan replied with a sad face: "Nine thousand years old, it's not that the lowly position intentionally made things difficult for him, but the army in most parts of the country is in arrears of salary. The two places where the wars were fought in Liaodong and Shaanxi can only be paid on a monthly basis, but Zhang Haogu It will take three months once you open your mouth. If the humble job agrees, how can this humble job be explained to other troops? And the grain and grass. In places like Liaodong and Shaanxi, each soldier’s ration is two catties per day. Zhang Haogu’s But the slaughtering slave army wanted six catties of food, and the subordinates were already full of resentment, accusing the humble official of favoritism, and the humble official gave him an early payment, which is even more impossible to explain."

"The food and grass for the slaughtered slave army is to be exchanged for cattle, sheep and eggs to replenish the soldiers' strength. Our family has known this for a long time, and we have also agreed to allocate it according to the request of the little monkey boy." Wei Zhongxian said, tapping the table with his skinny fingers. "Besides, our family also knows that since Zhang Haogu took office, he has never deducted a tael of military pay or a catty of rations from the soldiers of the Slaughter Army. This monkey boy will live up to our family, and our family will not let him down. Give him, Don't care what other people say."

"Follow your orders." Feng Quan agreed with a sad face, but lamented in his heart that people are different. Other troops need food and pay, and Wei Zhongxian has to do the calculations. He is afraid that he will give a catty of food and a tael of military pay, but only Young Master Zhang wants it. Wei Zhongxian never counts money for food, he gives as much as he wants, and secretly often takes out money from the internal treasury to buy weapons and equipment for Young Master Zhang. This partiality has almost reached the East China Sea Dragon Palace.After hesitating for a long time, Feng Quan peeked at Wei Zhongxian's face, and said cautiously: "Nine thousand years old, please forgive me for speaking bluntly. Since the establishment of the Slave Slaughter Army, the military pay and food that have been consumed are more than enough to form an army of [-], which is more than enough—— However, for more than nine months, the slave slaughter army has not fought a single battle, and has not achieved an inch of merit. They only know how to ask for money, food and weapons all day long. It's not good for your reputation."

Wei Zhongxian also fell silent, and after a long time, Wei Zhongxian forced a smile and said: "It's not surprising, the monkey boy was famous in the first battle in Liaodong, and after he took office in Jimen, the [-] Horqin Tatar army was driven away by him again. The other small Tatar tribes have eaten the guts of the leopards, and dare to attack the Jimen Great Wall? Without enemies, how can you call monkey cubs to make achievements? It is worthwhile to spend these money and food to buy the Jimen Great Wall! Mistakenly chopping firewood, the monkey boy has trained his soldiers well, and the future battles will be easier to fight, right?"

"Damn old eunuch, you just say you're biased, why are you making so many excuses?" Feng Quan was angry in his heart, but he didn't dare to show it on his face.After thinking about it for a while, Feng Quan whispered to Wei Zhongxian: "Nine thousand years old, I have an idea to stop the mouths of the people below."

"What idea?" Wei Zhongxian asked calmly.Feng Quan said in a low voice: "Since the Tatar army dare not attack the Jimen Great Wall, it is better to transfer Zhang Haogu's army to Shaanxi and let him fight the rebels in Shaanxi! The rebellion in Shaanxi can make Zhang Haogu's slave slaughter army make great achievements, and let everyone in the world know that Jiuqiansuu's hard work on the slave slaughter army is not a waste, wouldn't it kill three birds with one stone?"

"Let the monkey boy go to fight the Shaanxi rebels?" Wei Zhongxian was quite tempted, but after thinking about it for a while, Wei Zhongxian shook his head and said: "No, our family and the emperor have promised the little monkey boy to give him a year of military training. It's less than nine months now, our family can't break our promise to our son. We will discuss the matter of mobilizing his army to quell the chaos in a few months."

"Well, since your old eunuch is so biased, I can't help it. Anyway, everyone knows your relationship with Zhang Haogu, and you are the one who gets scolded the most." Feng Quan snorted coldly in his heart, and replied: " I understand that I hope Zhang Haogu will not disappoint Jiu Qiansui's expectations of him."

"No, our family can trust Monkey Boy." Wei Zhongxian said beautifully, but he felt a little guilty in his heart, "Monkey Boy, don't embarrass our family, you know, the Emperor also knows that you spend money lavishly. .”

Sure enough, after Feng Quan gritted his teeth and transferred the military pay, food, grass, weapons and gunpowder that Young Master Zhang wanted to Jimen, all civil and military officials suddenly became dissatisfied with Young Master Zhang's extravagance and waste, and accused Young Master Zhang of wasting the country's power, wasting the people and money without meritorious service. .The armies all over the country were even more resentful, "I have owed the military salary for so long, and I still don't know when I will get it! You are good, the military salary is several times that of ours. How dare you have the face to ask for payment in advance, once you ask for it for three months, you opened the national treasury?" Even Young Master Zhang's father-in-law Xiong Tingbi and Governor Sun Chengzong of Shaanxi and Gansu were very dissatisfied, annoyed that Young Master Zhang didn't know how to advance or retreat, knowingly It is very difficult for the national treasury to support two battlefields at the same time. You hide behind and just train your troops without fighting, but you still have the face to ask the court for so much military pay?But fortunately, Wei Zhongxian had a little patience for this, and resisted these pressures for Young Master Zhang, so Young Master Zhang was not immediately pushed to the forefront.

The impact of the Little Ice Age is still expanding. Seven years after the apocalypse, more than four months have passed. The famine-stricken areas in Shaanxi, Henan, Shanxi, and Gansu have not received any rain, and the terrible famine is still expanding rapidly. Intensified, the uprisings and rebellions of the refugees in the disaster-stricken areas also occurred one after another, causing wildfires to start a prairie fire.Although Sun Chengzong, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, and Hong Chengchou, the governor of Shaanxi, tried their best to suppress them, they couldn't take care of the east and the west, and they couldn't deal a fatal blow to the overwhelming number of rebel troops.Moreover, because the treasury could not provide money and food for relief, even if the suppression was successful, it could not appease the local hungry people. As soon as the official army left, the hungry people turned back. It is deteriorating rapidly, and there is no hope of calming down at all.

Faced with such a situation, Wei Zhongxian was so anxious that he couldn't sleep all night. He wanted to listen to the opinions of hundreds of officials countless times, and transferred the young master Zhang to rebel in Shaanxi. Xi Zong asked for an order, calling on the royal family and vassals to donate money and food to assist the officers and soldiers to quell the rebellion.I never thought that just after the decree of Ming Xizong was promulgated, most of the vassal kings scolded their mothers, saying that I have no money or food, and if I want money or food, there is one thing!Many vassal lords even talked about Young Master Zhang, saying that Young Master Zhang's army spent so much money and raised it with a lot of money and food every month, but it hasn't fought a single battle yet, and it hasn't made any achievements. A dog would work better than that, wouldn't it?In the end, after arguing and arguing, Ming Xizong's decree only raised 5 taels of silver and [-] shi of grain in total, which was a drop in the bucket, and it didn't help at all.

In the torment of internal and external troubles, the time has come to the beginning of June in the seventh year of the apocalypse, and a good news finally came. Wei Zhongxian listened to Master Zhang's suggestion to forcefully promote the planting of dog potatoes. Each mu of land can achieve a harvest of [-] jin. Although the amount of planting is not large, there is no way to completely change the situation of food shortage in the north. The harvested sweet potatoes must be kept as seeds for planting in the next year, but it also allows Wei Zhongxian to see that Shaanxi has completely calmed down. Chaotic hope.Overjoyed, Wei Zhongxian hurriedly used his residence to report to all over the country, calling on prefectures and counties across the country to promote the cultivation of dog potatoes to reverse the impact of the famine.At the same time, he rushed into the palace happily and reported the good news to Ming Xizong.

"On average, one mu of land can harvest more than 500 catties of grain? Really?" After hearing Wei Zhongxian's report, Ming Xizong, who was doing carpentry work, was overjoyed and couldn't believe it.Wei Zhongxian replied with a smile: "Your Majesty, forgive me for speaking bluntly—the local officials dare to lie about everything, but they dare not lie about this bumper harvest! Your Majesty, don't forget that if their grain is reported as a good harvest, the court will We also need to collect more taxes, money and food from them, and they won’t be so stupid as to cause trouble for themselves. So I dare to assert that this number will only be more, and there will be no false ones.”

"That's great, Zhongxian, you have made another great contribution to me this time." Ming Xizong said with great joy: "Next year, you have to ask the local government to continue to increase planting. With food, we will You don’t have to be so tight.” Wei Zhongxian agreed with a smile, Ming Xizong thought about it, and asked again: “By the way, Zhongxian, recently a censor impeached Zhang Haogu for indiscriminately killing innocent people in Tatars, deliberately provoking Jimen War, do you know the details?"

"My servant knows." Wei Zhongxian replied respectfully: "According to my servant's knowledge, what Zhang Haogu killed was not the innocent people of Tatars, but some Tatar barbarians who deserved their crimes. The female slaves of the Han people were brutally abused, Zhang Haogu fought against them, and has rescued dozens of people."

"That's good." Ming Xizong nodded, and said: "But it's better to let Zhang Haogu restrain himself, and don't make things too big. The imperial court is now fighting against the rebels in Shaanxi and Jiannu in Liaodong at the same time, and the treasury is already overwhelmed. , If the Tatars also attack, the treasury will be even more unbearable. In any case, it is also a national policy established in the second year of the apocalypse to unite the Mongols to attack Jiannu. Don’t force those neutral Tatars to Jiannu’s side.”

"My servant understands that this servant will teach that little monkey a lesson." Wei Zhongxian nodded in agreement.But at this moment, a young eunuch suddenly came to report, saying that Wang Yongguang, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, had an urgent military statement, and Ming Xizong did not dare to neglect, and immediately agreed to meet him.Not a moment later, Wang Yongguang was led into Jingren Palace, and he sweated profusely as soon as he finished the salute: "Your Majesty, Eunuch Wei, something is wrong, and the governor of Jimen, Zhang Haogu, hastened to send a report six hundred miles away. The detailed research in the Mongolian grasslands revealed that Horqin Tuxietu Puppet Khan Oba contacted the Horqin Tatars, and also united with Tumed and Bushituhan and other Inner Kharkha Tatars, intending to launch a large-scale campaign against Jimen. Large-scale attack. According to accurate information, Tuxietu Puppet Khan Oba also sent envoys to Jiannu, asking Jiannu to send troops to help."

"How is this possible? Mongolian Lin Dan and the Horqin Tatars have such a deep hatred, how dare the Horqin Tatars come to attack Jimen?" Ming Xizong and Wei Zhongxian exclaimed in unison.Wang Yongguang replied with a sad face: "I just received the news that the Khalkha Chechen Khan Shuolei in Mobei did not know who had listened to the instigation, and decided to send troops to fight for the Tatar Ujimqin tribe who had been taken away by Lin Dan. The Sunite tribe, the Haoqi Te tribe, and the Abaga tribe have already fought against Lin Dan's army in the Kerulun River area for revenge. For a while, they were unable to take care of the Horqin Tatars, so the Horqin Tatars dared to be so unscrupulous Go to war against me, Ming, and use the banner to avenge the Harqin tribe who has been poisoned by Zhang Haogu!"

(End of this chapter)