I will be the prince at the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 26 Harvest
Following the charge of the cavalry, [-] infantry moved slowly and followed the cavalry into the city gate under the leadership of their respective generals.

Half an hour later, the Ming army took control of the entire city. At this point, the entire Chuxiong City fell into the hands of the Ming army. This was the second mansion in Yunnan that the Ming army recovered after Dali Mansion. With the increase in territory and troops, Zhu Cixuan began to care about the seizure of spoils. If you want to recruit soldiers, you must first have money and food in your hand.

Even though the people in Yunnan are loyal to Ming Dynasty because of the brutality of the Tartars, and they are willing to join the army to fight against the Tartars, you can't ignore the people's food, you can't just pay the army.

If you don’t have enough to eat, how can you have the strength to fight? If you don’t pay the army, it may be okay at the beginning, but it will definitely not work after a long time. It will easily lead to low morale, and it is more likely that soldiers will hide their spoils and even loot the people.

The current situation is not stable yet, and it is not yet possible to forcibly collect food and taxes from the people.At the very least, we have to wait until the situation has stabilized. After the entire territory of Yunnan is recovered, the people will be able to farm the land with peace of mind and business will return to normal.

Therefore, now, every time a place is conquered, Zhu Cixuan immediately runs to the place where the money and food are stored. After all, Chuxiong has just been occupied by the Tartars for more than two months, not too long ago, and there should still be stored in the treasury the time when the Ming army hastily retreated. With the money and food left behind, plus the tartar raids during this period of time, I don't know if the treasury of Chuxiong Mansion can bring surprises to me.

"His Royal Highness, please go this way!"

Commander-in-chief Wang Sheng led Zhu Cixuan to inspect the treasury. This is a huge warehouse with a height of three feet and an area of ​​more than ten mu. There are as many as five or six seats.

At this moment, more than 100 soldiers of the Ming army stood guard in front of the gate of the warehouse. Zhu Cixuan walked into the warehouse. In this huge warehouse, bags of grain were neatly stacked and piled up like a mountain, which is breathtaking.

A scribe in the army was leading more than a dozen soldiers to count the grain depots. Seeing the prince Zhu Cixuan leading a few commanders in, the scribe hurriedly stepped forward to salute, "See His Highness the Prince."

Zhu Cixuan nodded with a smile, "Excuse me."

He walked to a bag of grain and patted the sturdy grain bag. This big bag of grain weighed a stone, and a handful of rice flowed out from the gap in the bag. Zhu Cixuan reached out to catch it, using his internal strength secretly, Remove the rice husks and put a few in your mouth to chew. It should be the late rice harvested in November last year.

He suddenly remembered that the early rice in the south is usually sown in March and April, that is, around Qingming. Now is the season for sowing, but he is not good at civil affairs because his eyes are smeared!What can we do, Zhu Cixuan couldn't help frowning.

Seeing Zhu Cixuan's frowning, the scribe next to him trembled in his heart, and said tremblingly: "Your Highness, what's wrong?"

Seeing the terrified look of the scribe, Zhu Cixuan couldn't help smiling, and said, "Don't be afraid, it has nothing to do with you. I just remembered that now it's the season of planting early rice. We have been busy fighting and worried that we might miss planting rice."

The clerk wiped the cold sweat off his forehead and said with a smile, "Your Highness, it's okay."

"Oh? Why?" Zhu Cixuan asked curiously.

"His Royal Highness does not know something. Jin Wang is an old man who is not only good at fighting, but also good at farming. His Royal Highness is worried about planting early rice. His Royal Highness must have made arrangements."

oops!Don't mention it, Zhu Cixuan really didn't expect Li Dingguo to be good at civil affairs besides being good at war, which was a surprise.

"Really?"

"Really, His Royal Highness, during these years in Yunnan, the King of Jin has arranged the farming in an orderly manner every year. The food harvested is not only enough for the people to eat and supply the army, but also has surplus."

"Okay, that's great." Zhu Cixuan rubbed his hands happily and said.

Reassured, Zhu Cixuan turned around and asked the scribe: "How much grain is in this warehouse, have you counted it yet?"

"Reporting to the prince, this warehouse has been counted. There are a total of [-] shi of grain, which is consistent with the records in the account book."

"Then how much grain is there in the entire granary group? Have you checked it?" Zhu Cixuan continued to ask.

"Beizhi has roughly estimated that it is about 35 shi. There should be no mistake."

35 shi, that's great. In this way, you don't have to worry about running out of food between now and August. Zhu Cixuan estimated in his mind that at present, the Ming army has about [-] troops and tens of thousands of family members, Dali and Chuxiong. The grain seized by the two prefectures will support the early rice until August. There is no problem at all.

Even if Kunming is captured and the total number of troops and family members reaches 30, there will be no food crisis, because the food in Kunming will only be more than that in Dali and Chuxiong.After all, Kunming is now the tartar's logistics base in Yunnan, and there must be a lot of food, grass, armor, and military pay in the city.

Zhu Cixuan went to other warehouses. There were mountains of armor, tents, and war drums. These were the supplies left by the Ming army in the past two months. As time went by, they returned to the hands of the Ming army.Relying on these armors, the army can be expanded again.

At this time, Chen Qian, the commander in chief, ran over excitedly and said, "His Royal Highness, go and look at the money bank! You don't know, the pearls and gems in there just dazzled my eyes, the white silver and the yellow Chengcheng The amount of gold is uncountable."

Um?I like the white silver and the yellow gold, so that I can recharge again.Therefore, Zhu Cixuan said with a smile: "Go, take the prince to have a look."

Zhu Cixuan followed Chen Qian to the money bank guarded by dozens of soldiers at the door. When he went in, he saw that it was full of gold, silver and jewels, so he asked a military clerk beside him: "Have you counted the things in this bank?"

"His Royal Highness, I haven't had time to count."

"Then, you guys go out first, don't let anyone in for the time being, the prince can go around casually."

The clerk took a deep look at Zhu Cixuan, said: "I obey." Then he turned and walked out.

Seeing that Chen Qian, Wang Sheng and the others did not leave, Zhu Cixuan waved at them: "You also come to our gate to guard."

Chen Qian, Wang Sheng and the others looked at each other and bowed out.

At this time, Zhu Cixuan didn't care what they were thinking. Seeing that several people had walked out, he began to recharge crazily, until he suddenly heard "Ding Dong, congratulations to the customer for recharging 24 gold coins today, M[-] wooden handle grenade Unlock sales."

He immediately stopped recharging, looked intently at the system mall panel, and found that although the icon of the M24 wooden handle grenade was on, the icons of the M79 40mm grenade launcher and 40mm×46mmSR grenade were still gray.He looked at the balance of 228550 gold coins again.Then Zhu Cixuan stopped recharging, picked out some exquisite and expensive jewelry, put them into the system space, and left the warehouse.

To the military clerk at the door, he said: "All the materials in the treasury should be registered and recorded one by one, and presented to King Jin and me. Go."

Then, surrounded by Chen Qian, Wang Sheng and other general soldiers, Zhu Cixuan found Jin Wang Li Dingguo, and said: "Jin Wang, the things in the treasury are being counted and compiled. What do you think of each soldier being paid two taels of silver for a month?"

"It's not impossible to reissue the salary of two taels of silver a month." Li Dingguo said hesitantly.

"Is there any question?" Seeing that Li Dingguo hesitated, Zhu Cixuan couldn't help asking curiously.

"The crown prince doesn't know that since the Tatars entered Yunnan, the salary in our army has stopped. It is good for the soldiers to have enough to eat every day. The salary is two taels of silver a month, which is really a lot, because I was paid in the Ming Dynasty. The highest frontier army is only 18 taels of silver a year, let alone now.

If these soldiers knew that His Royal Highness gave them two taels of silver a month, they would be happy.It's just that I'm a little worried. I'm worried that we won't have so much income to pay the soldiers in the future. "Li Dingguo smiled wryly.

"Is that so?" Zhu Cixuan rubbed his chin in thought for a moment, and said, "Prince Jin, what do you think of this? From now on, we will pay each soldier two taels of silver a month. When we recover the whole territory of Yunnan, we will discuss a unified tax rate, don’t we have silver?”

"Okay! Let's do it according to His Highness the Crown Prince's idea." Li Dingguo finally agreed with Zhu Cixuan's opinion. After all, does His Highness the Crown Prince want to give face?Don't think that Li Dingguo's EQ is low. If his EQ is low, he won't be able to manage Yunnan in an orderly manner.

"By the way, King Jin, it's almost April, and the early rice has started to be planted! I don't know what King Jin has to say." Zhu Cixuan seemed to have just remembered the matter of planting early rice.

"Well, His Royal Highness, don't worry, all the chieftain mansions that have not been invaded by the Tartars have already been arranged, even Tengyue Mansion, Dali Mansion also has arrangements, and when we march into Kunming, I will also arrange people for Chuxiong Mansion, delay No farming time."

"His Royal Highness King Jin can do a lot of work. I don't know much about farming, so I will trouble King Jin to worry about it."

Zhu Cixuan bid farewell to Li Dingguo, came to the arranged residence, Qingchan, and Qingyu had already prepared the meal, and waited for a long time, Zhu Cixuan had dinner under the service of the two daughters, then rushed into the house to ask people not to disturb him.

He sat on a chair and concentrated his mind on the system mall in his mind. He saw two glittering golden cards floating in front of the system mall. This was what appeared when he first entered Chuxiong City. I didn't read it, but I can take a look at these two cards at this time.

The first card, "Skill Card, Lightness Kung Fu is facing the three folded clouds, and the three folded clouds are reversed, please use it." Lightness kung fu?Finally, he has done lightness kung fu. Isn't it Tian Boguang's famous stunt to pay attention to the three-fold cloud and turn his back on the three-fold cloud?Let's wait and see what the next skill is.

Zhu Cixuan transferred his mental power to another card, "Skill card, Huashan Lightness Kungfu and Jinyan Kungfu, from Huashan School, please use it." Huashan School's lightness skill?Isn't Jinyan Kung Fu the basic lightness kung fu taught by Quanzhen?Guo Jing seems to be practicing the Golden Goose Kung Fu. It is said that it is of great help to the cultivation of inner strength. Why don't you try it?

(End of this chapter)