Starting in Saarhu, it is a bit difficult to make a comeback.

Chapter 55: Hands over to shopkeeper Wanli (please read the new chapter)

Sure enough, old ginger is still spicy, and I have to say that Fang Congzhe made the wisest choice.

Although the three parties of "Zhejiang, Chu, and Qi" are now in power in the court, the Donglin Party has been eyeing it and is ready to launch a "counterattack and liquidation" at any time.

They used Beijing Cha to expel only a group of senior Donglin Party members. Among middle and lower-level officials, the Donglin Party still has strong power.

Therefore, the true content of this "good news" cannot be known to these people for the time being.

In fact, it is common for frontier troops to falsely boast about their achievements. Yang Hao's "good news" of first a big defeat and then a big victory seems unreliable no matter how you look at it.

In particular, Li Xianzhong's record is really unbelievable. If it weren't for the fact that he captured Li Yongfang alive and killed Abatai and Amin in a formation that could not be faked.

Both of them felt that this was Yang Hao's serious nonsense.

Huang Jiashan said: "According to what Yang Hao said, Li Xianzhong's gains were all supported by the heads of the Han army."

"Although the killing of two thousand Han troops cannot be identified by their heads, there is living evidence of Li Yongfang."

The Ministry of War of the Ming Dynasty naturally had a method for identifying the heads of Jianluo.

They will use braids, teeth, and skull structure to distinguish whether the reported head is a real prisoner.

It is easy to distinguish between freshly braided hair and braided hair that has been braided for a long time, so trying to pass it off by shaving and braiding the head is simply not feasible.

Jianlu's head was related to the reward of silver, so the Ministry of War naturally strictly controlled it.

Even if the head braid you handed over is real, the Ministry of War will not recognize it if the face is smashed with a fire blunderbuss.

The Ministry of War will definitely remove the heads of old, weak, women and children for you.

Therefore, the number of first levels that the Ministry of War finally confirms can be used to issue bounties must be far smaller than the number you reported.

In the Ming Dynasty, the heads of both Mongolians and Jurchens have always been a cash cow for the generals to make a fortune. Both Li Chengliang and Ma Fang relied on a large number of harvests in exchange for silver rewards.

Originally, the heads of the Tatars were the most valuable. First, they were powerful and a great threat to the Ming Dynasty. Second, these Tatars were not easy to kill on horseback.

If you defeat tens of thousands of enemies, it is very likely that only a few hundred will be beheaded.

At the highest level, if a soldier captures a Tatar head, he can be directly promoted to one level and receive 20 taels of silver reward; if he is not promoted, he can directly receive 50 taels.

This Tatar has simply become a copy of the border general's gold rush, so it is not difficult for you to understand why Li Chengliang and others have to conquer the barbarians every year.

The heads of Japanese pirates are the least valuable. After all, most of the Japanese pirates are not real Japanese pirates, and the court's bounty is not so easy to cheat.

Originally, the bounty on the heads of the Jianlu was only half that of the Mongols. However, as the threat of the Jianlu became more and more serious, their heads also increased. In other words, the heads of the Tatars were not so valuable anymore.

In this expedition to Hetuala, in addition to the bounty of 2000 taels of silver offered by Nurhaci and the bounty of 20 taels of silver by Houjin Dabeile, each prisoner's head can also receive [-] taels of silver.

Yang Hao naturally knew about the verification of heads by the Ministry of War. Since he dared to say this, he must have achieved certain results.

The heads of Amin and Abatai have been sent to the Ministry of War together with the "good news" from Liaodong. Li Yongfang is still on the way to be escorted.

However, it is enough to use the heads of these two enemy chiefs to release a "big victory" news from the Ministry of War.

Huang Jiashan said: "Don't worry, Mr. Fang Ge. I will arrange for someone to release the news to the Ministry of War, but how should we report it to His Majesty?"

The Donglin Party can still fool it for the time being. After all, it is normal for the Ministry of War to need time to verify the data. No one can say that the Ministry of War is wrong.

But Wanli is probably not easy to fool.

Although the emperor did not go to court at all, if you think he is easy to fool, you are wrong.

His Majesty has been angry with his courtiers because they opposed him for making Prince Fu the crown prince, so much so that he is now completely on strike and does not go to court at all.In order to disgust these ministers of the DPRK and China, he often did not fill the vacancies of officials.Neither retiring existing ministers nor replacing them will increase their workload.

Among the previous nine ministries of the Central Committee (six plus the General Affairs Department, Dali Temple, and the Supervisory Office), only the Household Department and the General Affairs Department had formal chief officials. The Ministry of Punishment and the Ministry of Industry were managed part-time by other departments. The Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of War only had official seals and no personnel. , the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Dali Temple were the most ruthless, even if no one came to work, they even lost their official seals.

If it were not for the conquest of Jianzhou, there would be no Huang Jiashan as Minister of War.

Li Tingji, Ye Xianggao's former chief minister of the cabinet, once submitted 123 resignation letters in one go, but Emperor Wanli refused to approve it.In anger, Li Ge donated his house and sent his family back to his hometown, while he lived alone in a ruined temple.

But Wanli still sent people to deliver the memorials to the temple for Mr. Li Ge to work, so he got the nickname "Miao Zhuge Lao".

In the end, Li Tingji completely collapsed and simply fired himself. He was charged with resisting the imperial decree and risked beheading, and ran back to his hometown in Fujian on his own initiative.

Fortunately, Wanli didn't even bother to pursue him and let him go.

After all, Li Tingji was Wanli's teacher, and the two still had a teacher-student relationship, so Fang Congzhe didn't dare to give up directly.

However, there have been cases of going on strike due to illness. Wanli has long been accustomed to ministers claiming illness.

So while sending an imperial doctor to diagnose and treat you, he also sent someone to urge you to "keep working despite your illness", which directly made Fang Congzhe lose his temper.

Even though Wanli never went to court, he still had a strong desire for control. When Donglin was the leader, he defied all opinions and appointed Fang Congzhe, a member of the Zhejiang Party, as his chief assistant. This one move easily solved the problem. situation.

Fang Congzhe had the courage to fool the officials, but he did not dare to fool Wanli.

He said: "It's getting late tonight, so I won't disturb His Majesty's rest. Tomorrow you and I will go to present to His Majesty."

At Chen time on the second day, Fang Congzhe and Huang Jiashan came to the Forbidden City and asked to see Emperor Wanli.

The reason why he did not go early in the morning was because Wanli had the habit of sleeping in. If he had gone early, the eunuch would not inform him, let alone see Wanli.

Of course, their chances of meeting Wanli this time are also very slim.

In the past 20 years, the only time Wanli took the initiative to summon court officials was four years ago to announce the outcome of the "attack case".

The case involves the prince, and the target is Wanli's favorite Concubine Zheng.Wanli had to personally come forward to quell the situation, which also allowed many courtiers to pay their respects to Long Yan for the first time.

However, as the chief assistant, Fang Congzhe was fortunate enough to meet Wanli several times. Generally, Wanli would never meet people easily unless there was a big deal.

Soon Chang Yun, the eunuch who served as the Supervisor of Ceremonies, came to the two of them.

This Eunuch Chang is already the highest-status eunuch in the inner court today. The eunuch with the eunuch's seal and the eunuch with the pen have long become history.

Wanli not only failed to fill the vacancies of courtiers, he also failed to fill the vacancies of the Supervisor of Ceremonies. Since the death of Chen Ju, Bingbi Tianyi and others more than ten years ago, the Supervisor of Ceremonies has almost become a decoration. .

But to their surprise, they were actually summoned by Emperor Wanli this time.

When they heard Chang Yun say, "The emperor has an edict, the chief minister of the cabinet, Fang Congzhe, and the Minister of War, Huang Jiashan, have an audience." They couldn't believe their ears.

Fortunately for Fang Congzhe, Huang Jiashan was lucky enough to have a second brush with Long Yan, which was definitely a rare thing in the late Wanli Dynasty.

Under the guidance of Chang Yun, the two finally entered the Qianqing Palace.

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