The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 380

Fang Zhenghua knelt down and said: "Your Majesty, please take care of the dragon body. There is nothing to worry about in the mere rogues and Denglai rebels. I am afraid that Dongnu's life will not be easy in the future. With Huang Han in Jinzhou, how can Dongnu attack the fortresses with peace of mind?" The city of Jinzhou?"

Chongzhen was awakened, and murmured: "Yes! Jinzhou can only be defended with the presence of the 'Red Banner Army'. Transferring this department to other places is not worth the loss."

Fang Zhenghua said: "Your Majesty, the 'Red Banner Army' suffered more than half of the casualties in the bloody battle in southern Liaoning in a few months, and it is already difficult to defend Jinzhou at this time.

But rest assured, as long as Huang Han is given money, food and troops, the 'Red Banner Army' will not only be able to recover its vitality, but also double its expansion in one year. At that time, it will be possible to send 6000 to [-] troops to support other places. "

"Hey! I can give Huang Han time, money, power, who can give me a peaceful life?"

Both Li Ruolian and Fang Zhenghua knelt down and said, "The ministers and ministers are willing to share the worries for His Majesty before dying!"

Seeing these two people, Chongzhen's expression improved a lot, and he said gently: "You take good care of Shenshuying and Jinyiwei, and I will also give you money, food and time. Next autumn, I must bring ten thousand tiger and wolf teachers to me."

The Jingshi Jingying, also known as the Three Great Battalions, includes the Five Army Battalion, the Shenshu Battalion and the Shenji Battalion.Theoretically, there are 10,000+ troops, which refers to the existence of military pay on paper, and half of the actual troops are insufficient.

Check these men and horses again, I am afraid that there are only half of them young and middle-aged. If you subtract the noble children with mixed identities, God knows if you can get [-] to [-] soldiers who can fight in the end. The enemy broke up.

Fang Zhenghua thought it over, he already had more than [-] officers who had gone to the battlefield to prove their loyalty and received the great benefits of being promoted and getting rich.

Based on these people, 7000 people were selected from the entire Beijing camp to strengthen training for a year and a half. Even if they are not as good as the 'Red Banner Army', they must not be worse than the people in Dongjiang Town.

Relatively speaking, Jinyiwei is easy to deal with. After all, the upright Jinyiwei captains and warriors belong to the jobs that ordinary people, young and middle-aged people yearn for.

This is the same as some units in later generations. Those who receive high wages and enjoy the best benefits are those who do not need to do hard work and have a well-organized existence. Those who endure hardship and sweat on the front line are all temporary workers.

As long as he has money and food, Li Ruolian will choose half of the thousands of gangsters with martial arts skills to mix with sand.

There are Lou Yun, Zhang Chao and other seventy or eighty officers who have been on the battlefield, made military achievements and rewards for propaganda and demagoguery. It will take less than half a year for three thousand households and three thousand three hundred and sixty soldiers to be fully staffed, and all of them can fight. Not afraid of death.

There were wars in the Ming Dynasty, most of them were in need of emergency, reinforcements, money and food, and pensions.

Only the Great Victory in Southern Liaoning wiped out more than [-] Dongnu soldiers and civilians, and [-] to [-] Han people were taken back. This undoubtedly greatly curbed the development momentum of Dongnu, and also made Daming, who had been beaten repeatedly, feel proud.

At a time when the imperial court needs to use soldiers and talents everywhere, how can the three armies be encouraged to die if they don't give generous gifts to the civil servants and military generals who have made great achievements in the world?
In the Great Court Meeting, there were expectations and no objections from the ministers regarding the rewards for the Great Victory in Southern Liaoning, but it was just embarrassing the cabinet.

Because there is no precedent for the rewards in this battle, after all, the rise of the Dongnu is unstoppable, and the Ming Dynasty has been defeated many times, losing troops and generals, and the number of commanders, guerrillas, and generals who died in the battle is no less than a hundred.

It seems inappropriate to award rewards by referring to fighting Mongolian Tartars and Japanese pirates. The only way is to refer to the victory of Ningjin in the year of Tianqi or the battle to recover the four cities in the second year of Chongzhen.

It's a pity that the Ningjin Great Victory only killed more than two hundred enemies, and the Four Cities Great Victory was less than two thousand. The disparity in the number of beheads is too great, and the value of the reference is really not high.

At this time, Zheng Guochang, who came to the court specially, played a great deed. All the prefectures in Beizhili except the capital have completed the prevention of smallpox. Facts have proved that it is safe and effective. None of the people infected with smallpox this year has been vaccinated. common people.

Since people who have taken precautions to take care of infected people will not be infected, the number of deaths due to smallpox infection in Beizhili this year is negligible.

Zheng Guochang is the highest local official in charge of Beizhili. He plans to implement vaccinations to prevent smallpox in the capital next spring. He asked if the Forbidden City will participate?
He also proposed to reward Li Zhongzi, Wu Youxing, and Li Zhonghua, the three inspectors and censors, in recognition of their contributions to controlling the epidemic, and emphasized strengthening the hygiene control of the inner and outer cities of the capital, striving for hygiene standards close to those of the Forbidden City.

Huang Han has always worried that the dirty and messy environment will lead to the spread of the plague. The first thing to manage a site by himself is to pay close attention to environmental sanitation and prevent soldiers and civilians from drinking unboiled water.

The permanent population of the capital of the Ming Dynasty was 80 million. Since the Jiannu invaded the capital, burned, killed and looted it, it was like entering an uninhabited territory, but they were unable to attack the high-walled capital.

Therefore, too many soldiers, civilians, and officials believed that the safety of the capital was trustworthy, and the dignitaries and dignitaries in the north who had the conditions entered the capital to settle down one after another.

The unconditional Shengdou Xiaomin did not hesitate to sell himself as a slave and tried his best to come to the capital to make a living. Now the capital is abnormally prosperous, and the population has already exceeded the million mark. It is the largest city in the world today.

The population of the capital is increasing, but the finances of the imperial court are not as good as each year. The money used for border defense is to tear down the east wall to make up for the west wall. There is no such possibility for investment in infrastructure construction. The world's largest city has become more and more dirty.

Huang Han and his father-in-law talked about how to manage the city, and they paid more attention to explaining the inseparable relationship between epidemics and urban sanitation.

At the beginning, Zheng Guochang didn't take it seriously, but when he found out that his son-in-law had really effectively solved the smallpox epidemic, Zheng Guochang already trusted his son-in-law unconditionally.

He deliberately came to court because the effectiveness of Chen Zuo's smallpox prevention was confirmed. Next year, the population of the capital will be given needles, and he proposed to strengthen the hygiene control of the capital.

What the chief envoy of Northern Zhili said was all good deeds, benefiting the country and the people is not difficult to do. When the court was discussing the rewards of Huang Han, his intentions were not in drinking, and all the officials knew it well.

Chongzhen loved his family, and since he had verified the safety and effectiveness of preventing smallpox, he would of course let everyone in the Forbidden City get vaccinated.

The three patrol censors who are medical experts have all been promoted to a higher level. Li Zhonghua will be in charge of the prevention work in the Forbidden City at the end of January next year, and the prevention work in the inner and outer cities will begin in early February.

Li Zhongzi and Wu Youxing were responsible for the promotion to the thirteen provinces and Nanzhili, and tried to spend three years to basically complete the smallpox prevention of all the people.

After the three medical scientists who made great achievements in epidemic prevention and control in history were accepted by Huang Han as apprentices, they received many pointers that people of this era could not understand.

The three of them understood the transmission route of the epidemic explained by Huang Han, and now they all wore masks produced by Huang's Medical Supplies Workshop when seeing patients suspected of epidemics.

(End of this chapter)