Traveling through the Ming Dynasty, as soon as you open your eyes, you will die

Chapter 155 The Regent’s money was robbed

Talking to Zu Dashou about Wu Sangui, the old fox prevaricated him, and the conversation could not be discussed. Lu Mou, who did not achieve his expected goal, could only drive herds of cattle and sheep with Li Yan and the idle third party. The Third Army and the Fifth Army have returned to Beijing.

The cattle were handed over to the local government and provided free of charge to the Han people they brought back. They contracted land for them and started farming intensively.

In this way, together with Zu Dashou's family, the imperial court contracted out nearly three million acres of land. Not counting the abundance of food from the autumn harvest, just the money for labor and land rent, after autumn, the household will increase by one million.

Now, Lu Mou is confident.

The first thing he did was to reorganize the cavalry army.

Because Lu Mou captured more than 50,000 good horses in the grassland last time, Lu Mou decided to officially replenish the cavalry army under his control. There are 20,000 people in the two divisions and six regiments, and then they are put on the Bashang grassland for training.

Bashang Grassland refers to the vast grassland area from Zhangjiakou to Yongning and Huailai, between the Outer Great Wall and the Inner Great Wall.

In fact, it is behind Wu Sangui, which means, you taste it, you taste it carefully.

Lu Mou chuckled: "I just put the cavalry troops there to familiarize themselves with grassland battles and follow Guan Ning to observe and learn. Don't over-interpret, don't over-interpret."

Wu Sangui was frightened every day. Now his Guan Ning was in a fierce battle with Yuan Zongdi, one of Li Chuang's most outstanding generals, and he only had 30,000 left. And Lu Mou arranged 20,000 cavalry troops equal to his own behind him. What do you mean? Don't let me interpret it too much. I believe you, little brat, you are very bad.

But fortunately, at the beginning of this year, Lu Mou magnanimously followed his previous practice and allocated Wu Sangui's 30,000 guanning and 600,000 military pay in advance. Although he was not allowed to make up for the vacancy, he was not directly strangled to death, which made Wu Sangui feel a little relieved.

But the current situation also puts him in a dilemma. Let's fight, one Yuan Zongdi is already too much for him to deal with. If he continues to go west in the future, he will directly face Li Chuang's second fierce general Gao Yigong and the powerful Hao Yaoqi. That situation is even more difficult.

Don't fight, there are imperial cavalry troops behind you to supervise the battle.

But in fact, in his heart, Wu Sangui disapproved of using troops against the northwest now.

The reason is that in the two northwest provinces, there are still Li Chuanggao's troops with 200,000 troops and Hao Yaoqi's troops with 200,000 troops. Together with Yuan Zongdi in front of him, the total is nearly 500,000 troops. And how many troops does the Ming Dynasty have now? The Fifth Army will form an independent division with a total of 160,000 troops. In terms of military strength, this is more than half the difference with the northwest bandits?

In addition, you have to keep troops to defend Shandong and Henan, cavalry to defend the north, and a section of the capital to guard. After all, the ones that can move are only 100,000, which is not bad at all.

One hundred thousand versus five hundred thousand, there is absolutely no chance of winning. What's more, when we reach the northwest, it will be a tough battle one by one, requiring more men and horses. Isn't it said in the Art of War, attack with five punishments? As a result, if others are five times stronger than you, you should be beaten violently by others.

Therefore, now that he has not really seen Lu Mou's army combat effectiveness, he has no confidence in regaining the northwest.

In his opinion, I will stop the bandits from entering Zhili for you, so you can reorganize the finances well, and when the finances are strong, then recruit troops, let alone millions, how can you be on par with the enemy? That will be more reliable. .

Wu Sangui was prepared to talk to the regent about his thoughts as a veteran military officer at the appropriate time.

But at this time Lu Mou had no time to care about him because he had to spend money.

As a result, when Lu Mou wanted to spend money, his money was robbed.

At that time, Lu Mou was furious: "In this world, I am the only one who robs other people's money, but there are still people who rob me? Isn't this boring?"

It turned out that Jin Yiwei reported that Zhao Zongxian, the prefect of Yongning, transferred one of his troops to the Ministry of Household Affairs after collecting the land rent payment last year. The rest will be transferred to the nearby Shanhaiguan Guan Ning Army according to the transfer payment method of the Ministry of Household Affairs for this year's military expenditure. The total will be 500,000. Then came the New Year's holiday, then King Ding's disappearance, and then King Ding's return to the changes in government affairs and personnel adjustments. Zhao Zongxian, the prefect of Yongning, who was one of the few high-ranking officials under the direct jurisdiction of the imperial court, had been participating in the matter in Beijing. With so many major events happening, he no longer had to worry about military expenditures.

Soon after, Zhao Zongxian returned. As a result, not long after, King Yong from Shanhaiguan came to collect payment and buy rewards for Manchu heads.

Huang Daozhou was puzzled. Zhao Zongxian had already gone back to work. Why hadn't the 500,000 Shanhaiguan military expenditures transferred to him been shipped over yet? But don't let Shanhaiguan rebel again at this time.

Mutinies and quarrels among the Ming army were common in recent years. The court's solution was to find a few governors to take the blame and kill them to calm them down.

But it won't work this time, because this time the governor is the emperor's fourth son, King Yong, and he must not be blamed.

Send someone to rush you immediately. As a result, the people who went to urge him left quickly and came back quickly. They reported that Zhao Zongxian actually exchanged 500,000 silver dollars for jewelry and ran away.

This time, the court was completely shocked.

Just when everyone was in high spirits, something like this happened. It was really an explosion in the court. This incident was much more powerful than the explosion at Wang Gong Factory.

Lu Mou gritted his teeth: "Did you steal my money and run away? Don't let this trend go unchecked. Let's investigate. Mobilize all the imperial guards in the world and dig three feet into the ground for me to find out where he has fled. Even if it's the ends of the world, he must be investigated." I will capture him and rectify him, to serve as a warning to others."

The Jin Yiwei moved upon hearing the news, and the news came out in the blink of an eye. It turned out that Zhao Zongxian had already secretly immigrated his family members to Manchu and Qing Dynasties via North Korea.

Lu Mou laughed: "Haha, are there naked officials in this era? They are quite advanced in thinking. But, even if you escape to an enemy country, do you think the Manchu Qing Dynasty can protect your safety?"

Although there is no extradition law between us and the Manchus, do you think my Jin Yiwei and my Tiqi from Beizhen Fusi are free of charge? Come, call me Wang Shidong, Fusi Town Mansion, Beizhen. "

Xiao Lizi hurried to call someone.

Lu Mou asked the Jin Yiwei colleagues in detail here: "Now, do you know the whereabouts of Zhao Zongxian in the Qing Dynasty?"

The colleague replied: "I forgive my subordinates for their incompetence. Because the Manchus are on guard against us Jin Yiwei and Yan, almost all of our hidden spies in the Manchus have been wiped out by the Manchus. Therefore, this time we only found out Zhao Zongxian's family members. In February of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, he immigrated to North Korea to escape the disaster of national subjugation, then went north to enter the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and then there was no news about him."

At that time, he betrayed the Ming Dynasty, but he did not leave. Maybe he was waiting in the Ming Dynasty to watch, or he was instructed by the Manchu Qing Dynasty to be in Yongning behind Shanhaiguan, waiting to welcome the Manchu Qing invaders.

It seems that once a naked official's family members are abroad, he is destined to be a corrupt criminal, a spy and a traitor. There is absolutely no mistake.

Of course, the Ming Dynasty was not without loyal ministers. According to records, from the time when Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty was hanged to the demise of the Southern Ming Dynasty, more than 4,700 civil servants and generals died for the country. It also ranks among the best in all dynasties.

But traitors are also emerging in endlessly, which must be guarded against.

"You can quietly check and find out who of our officials from the Ming Dynasty has family members in the Manchu Qing Dynasty. We found out that there is one who will not be merciful. He will be sentenced to death by the judge for the crime of collaborating with the enemy and treason."

This fellow Jin Yiwei immediately obeyed the order. This time, I don’t know how many people’s heads fell to the ground.

(End of this chapter)