Daming iron-blooded Chief Assistant

Chapter 159
After ordering the soldiers in Gansu Town, Zhang Zongxian went to Ningxia Town without stopping.

30 years ago, the general who surrendered from the Tartars, Qiaobai, saw the ruins of the guards and the low strength of the Ming army. Instigated the rebellion of the 4 battalion garrisons who suffered from long-term arrears of payment.

In order to suppress it, the imperial court almost used more than half of the country's mobile troops.Including the famous titan Li Rusong who later became famous, also rose rapidly in this Ningxia battle.

Even so, more than half of the frontier army in Gansu Town is now composed of Tartars.

With the lessons learned from the past, Zhang Zongxian made complete preparations for the call of troops in Ningxia Town, and mobilized a cavalry brigade from Sufang City to come to suppress the formation.

Under the pressure of the cavalry brigade, the counting of troops went smoothly.After eliminating the old and the weak, Ningxia Town has a total of [-] soldiers.

Including Guyuan and Gansu towns that have already been counted, the entire trilateral non-legislative army directly controls 5000 troops.

In order to completely control all the military power of the Sanbian Army Town in Shaanxi, Zhang Zongxian ordered in the name of the governor,
The soldiers and horses from Guyuan were transferred to Ningxia, and then the two towns were led by their respective commanders to go out of the side wall to sweep up the scattered Tartar tribes, and let the soldiers and horses of Gansu Town go out to Xiningwei to sweep up the Tumote tribe in Qinghai.

In order to motivate the soldiers and horses of the three towns, Zhang Zongxian offered a reward of five taels of silver to the heads of the Tartars. For the captured war horses, cattle and sheep would be bought at market prices.

After transferring the soldiers and horses of the three towns, Zhang Zongxian quickly transferred back two cavalry brigades from outside the side wall, plus a brigade that had previously held the formation in Ningxia, and stationed these three in the three towns respectively.

After all this was done, the time limit for requesting the return of the army field came.

Except that the towns and border generals reported the encroached land, and then bought the land at half the price.

There are only a few gentry who are occupying military fields everywhere, and only a few people are willing to buy the occupied military fields. Others are waiting and watching, thinking that the law does not blame everyone.
For such a result, Zhang Zongxian had expected it a long time ago. These gentry are the ones who don’t cry when they don’t see the coffin, and they are only afraid of the knife rest on their necks.

According to the report of the investigation department, ten families were selected, and the gentry families in Yurou Township, who were full of crimes on weekdays, directly ordered the local government to expel the members of these ten families from their careers and ransack their homes into exile.

And asked Zhao's staff to send a message, either to return the military field, or to buy it, but now it is not [-]% off the market price, but [-]% off the market price, and it will be [-]% off the market price in five days.Those who have not returned to Juntian in another month will be ransacked and exiled.

After some gentry saw the governor's behavior, those who paid paid the money, and those who bought the land bought the land, but some people did not follow the governor because someone in their family was an official, and they still went their own way.

There were also some gentry who sent people to Beijing to file complaints, but they were all stopped by the investigation department. Afterwards, for these gentry who filed complaints, they were also ordered to expel their names and ransack their homes into exile.
When the one-month deadline came again, most of the military land had been bought by the occupied gentry, and Zhang Zongxian also issued land deeds to them.

For those gentry who remained indifferent, Zhang Zongxian directly ordered Zhao's staff to lead the governor's army to confiscate these families one by one.

In addition to these border generals and gentry, there is another force that is also a big family that swallows up the military land. They are the bureaucrats who were originally responsible for distributing food and salaries to the frontier troops.

I feel that the governor's Shangfang sword can only kill military officials, but not their civilian officials. It is true that Shangfang's sword cannot kill them, but they are all corrupt and corrupt, and it is a crime to check them casually.

Zhang Zongxian directly sent disciples of the school to check the accounts one by one, and arrested one if he found out. Those who were not of high grade were all directly killed during interrogation, and those with high grade were directly dismissed from office and escorted to the capital.

Zhang Zongxian also took this opportunity to insert a large number of disciples of the school. Although they are all officials without rank, they are all in charge of real power at the grassroots level.

Zhang Zongxian's reputation as the King of Hades once again resounded throughout the Sanbianjun Town, and the local gentry wished to drink his blood and eat his flesh.

There are also smart people who want to be promoted. They took this opportunity to please Zhang Zongxian. Zhang Zongxian also took advantage of the trend and subdued many grassroots bureaucrats.

At the same time, the impeachment of Zhang Zongxian also flew into the cabinet like snowflakes. The cabinet also wanted to take this opportunity to dismiss Zhang Zongxian from office, and the entire court shouted at Zhang Zongxian to kill him.

Mr. Ma was so busy dealing with these impeachments every day that he fell ill. After Zhang Zongxian learned about it, he wrote to Mr. Ma. Don’t worry, he will immediately send 100 million taels of silver to the emperor’s internal money, saying that it is for the emperor to repair the palace. use.

In this inventory of military land, more than 150 million taels of silver and 50 shi of grain were obtained.Zhang Zongxian took out 100 million taels of silver and used it to bribe the emperor, even if he was afraid of Donglin's impeachment.

After receiving the silver apocalypse, Longyan was delighted, Zhang Zongxian was more caring than eunuchs, Wanli sent mine supervisors to increase internal funds, if Daming was an official like Zhang Zongxian, how the royal family would build a palace would depend on the cabinet's opinion.

So the inner court completely rejected the impeachment of Zhang Zongxian, and Tianqi also reprimanded several speech officials who danced the most vigorously.Let the Ming court appreciate here, Tianqi's favor to Zhang Zongxian.

Taking advantage of the apocalypse and being happy just after receiving the money, Zhang Zongxian went up to play, proposing to exempt the additional Liao pay to reduce the burden on the people of the whole country, and the military expenses saved by the three sides of Shaanxi were enough for Liaodong.

After all, although Daming is now on the defensive in Liaodong, Tieling, Kaiyuan, and Fushun are still in the hands of the Ming army.As long as these three places are guarded, Jiannu will not be able to make waves.

The memorial also suggested that he should continue to check the military farms. In places like Xi’an Sanwei, a large number of military farms have also been occupied. The military camps in these places have long been corrupted. Taxes directly raise soldiers.

Xiang Tianqi said that once the military fields of all guards in Shaanxi are cleared, the financial situation of the Ming Dynasty will be greatly improved. Not only does Shaanxi not need to be dispatched by the imperial court every year, but it can also pay a large amount of taxes to the imperial court.

The royal family of the Ming Dynasty had always spent a lot of money, and the emperor had no restraint in spending money. For a capable minister like Zhang Zongxian, Tianqi was satisfied from the bottom of his heart, he could expand the territory, and he was considerate of the emperor. Sending money from internal funds is not like those civil servants who only know how to pay from internal funds.He didn't understand the emperor's difficulties at all, forcing the emperor to compete with the people for profit.

In May, the apocalypse decreed that Zhang Zongxian be crowned as the prince and Taibao, and given silver coins in python clothes, and gave Zhang Zongxian the decree to check the military fields of all the guards in Shaanxi.

(End of this chapter)