Daming iron-blooded Chief Assistant

Chapter 156

In view of the good effect of the marriage, Zhang Zongxian gathered some of his disciples who had reached the age of marriage, and went on a blind date with a lady from a declining general family in Yansui Town. .

Just when Zhang Zongxian was planning to marry his disciples, Ningxia, Gansu, and Guyuan reported that they had not received Huai, Zhejiang Salt Yinyin, and Shanxi, Henan's people's food since the beginning of spring.

They were already in arrears of wages, but now they are almost unable to survive. Since Zhang Zongxian is the governor of the three sides, he has to solve this matter.

Zhang Zongxian quickly called Zhao's staff for a meeting and asked what was going on?

Zhao's staff didn't know about it either, so he said that the household department was in charge of allocating those that were not paid, so they had to ask the household department.

In fact, Zhang Zongxian couldn't figure out the complicated supply system of Ming Dynasty, so he asked Zhao's staff to talk about how much the military pay for the three sides of Shaanxi is every year?from where?
Soon Zhao's staff reported the specific numbers that the imperial court had given to each military town in previous years.

Yansui: The main soldier, garrisoning more than 19 shi of grain, more than 35 taels of silver per mu, more than [-] shi of grain for the people, more than [-] taels of silver, [-] taels of grass for garrison and people's movement More than a thousand bundles, more than [-] taels of silver from Huai and Zhejiang salts, more than [-] taels of silver in the year of Beijing Yun; More than [-] taels.

Ningxia: The main soldier, garrisoning more than 14 shi of grain, more than 180 taels of silver, more than 5000 taels of silver per mu, more than [-] shi of natural grain for the democracy movement, and more than [-] taels of silver. There are more than [-] million [-] bundles of grass for the civil movement, more than [-] taels of silver for salt in Huaihe and Zhejiang, and [-] taels of silver for the Beijing Yun; guest soldiers, ten thousand taels of silver for the Beijing Yun.

Gansu: 23 taels of grain, 430 million bundles of grass, more than 29 taels of grass silver, more than [-] taels of silver for grain and cloth transported by the people, and more than [-] taels of silver transported in Beijing. There are more than one hundred and two thousand taels of silver in Zhejiang salt.

Guyuan: more than 31 shi of grain for tun, more than 27 taels of grass silver for zhese grain, more than 20 taels of silver for cattle and tools per mu of land, more than 190 shi of grain for the democratic movement, and more than [-] shi of grain for zhese More than [-] taels of grain, straw, cloth, flowers and silver, more than [-] bundles of grass for farming and people's transportation, more than [-] taels of silver for Huai and Zhejiang salt, more than [-] taels of silver for Beijing transportation, and [-] silver for rewards The remaining two.

The grain for the democratic movement is the grain directly transferred from Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Henan, and the bulk is the summer and autumn taxes paid by the people of Shaanxi.
The garrison grain is naturally the military rations handed in by the military households, but these are just the numbers on the accounts, and the grains brought by the military households that have been occupied by the military fields can be handed over.

After the Kaizhong method was abolished, Jiubian has been short of food, and then Zhang Juzheng's one whip method exacerbated the shortage of food in Jiubian. The one whip method collected money, and the frontier soldiers could only buy high-priced grain with the silver. It just fattened the profiteers colluding with the bureaucracy.

Fortunately, the land reclaimed outside the side wall last year was all planted with high-yield crops, and there is still no shortage of grain for cattle and sheep seized, Yinliang can also issue some of the Taiping bills first, but this vacancy cannot allow him, the three side The Governor pays for it himself.

Staff Zhao also had no good solution, so he proposed to ask the capital first to see if something happened.

Immediately, he sent an urgent letter to Mr. Ma, asking Mr. Ma to find out why the Ministry of Household Affairs did not give the money.

I soon received a reply from Mr. Ma. Mr. Ma had already inquired about it. From now on, the Ministry of Household Affairs will no longer have Huai, Zhejiang salt and silver, as well as Shanxi and Henan's grain transportation, and even the annual silver capital of Beijing. there is none left.

The Donglin cabinet said that Zhang Zongxian wanted to reform the Nine Sides, and that he would raise millions of soldiers if he didn't spend a tael of silver from the court. Now that he is the Governor of the Three Sides, it is time to realize the effect of his innovation.

Zhang Zongxian scolded the cabinet for being shameless and tripping him up in such a terrible place. Facing these feudal bureaucrats, Zhang Zongxian sometimes thought it would be better to rebel directly, but thinking that after destroying the production relationship, it was the common people who would suffer. It can't be done in one or two years, and the severe drought will come soon.

Zhang Zongxian has no way to do this in the cabinet?All they want is to impeach Zhang Zongxian for his incompetence in three sides of Shaanxi, and then his officials will be useless even if they sue them now.

Fortunately, Zhang Zongxian's family has a strong family background and can support it, but it is not a long-term solution for him to pay for it out of his own pocket.

It seems that the search for the occupied military fields must be started as soon as possible.

Since it is necessary to track down the occupied military fields, it is necessary to send troops back from outside the side wall, and do a good job of deterring them with force, lest those side generals and gentry jump over the wall in a hurry.

Immediately, he ordered Boren to return to the side wall with five cavalry brigades, four of which were stationed in Yanshou Town and counted as Yanshou Town soldiers.The remaining cavalry brigade served as the governor's standard battalion and followed Zhang Zongxian to Guyuan.

On the tenth day of April, Zhang Zongxian took the governor's battalion to Guyuan. After arriving in Guyuan, Zhang Zongxian immediately ordered the release of the Qingtun notice in the name of the trilateral governor, warning the gentry and border generals who invaded the military settlement.

They are required to report and return to the military base of the country they belong to within one month, otherwise they will be severely punished.Those gentry generals didn't want to return the occupied military fields, but they had also heard that the new governor was ruthless.

These gentry generals began to collude with each other and huddled together to keep warm, in order to resist the orders of the governor's mansion, and some of them even wanted to launch a mutiny in order to force the governor's mansion to compromise.

Zhang Zongxian naturally knew that these people would not easily hand over the occupied military fields. After mobilizing the soldiers and horses in place, Zhang Zongxian then announced in the name of the Governor's Mansion that the number of soldiers in each town would be checked in turn. issued.

First of all, Guyuan Town, where the governor is stationed, is now paid by the Taiping. Naturally, Zhang Zongxian doesn't want to pay these generals to drink blood from his own pocket.

The purpose of this inventory check is to know the specific situation of the Trilateral Army Town and how many soldiers there are.Secondly, it is also necessary to kill people and establish power, so that these generals will understand who will be the master in the future, and show those gentry who invaded the military fields.

Guyuan was originally supposed to have [-] soldiers, but Zhang Zongxian first limited all the troops to gather in Guyuan within five days, because Tumote's troops had been wiped out, and even if all the frontier troops were drawn from the side wall, there would be no Tartars to hold them back. .

The frontier generals of Guyuan Town did not dare to be negligent, and the generals personally supervised the assembly of soldiers and horses from all over the country. However, they are used to being empty on weekdays, and now they suddenly have to check the number of people, and the time is tight. .

Some conscientious people spend money to temporarily recruit people to deal with the counting, and those who are black-hearted directly arrest ordinary people to make up for it. It is really not enough to make up for it. From eighty-year-old men down to ten-year-old children are recruited to make up the number, and the people are panicked for a while.

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