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

When the great victory was reported to the capital, the capital was shocked and the whole country rejoiced.

Lu Mou issued an order to reward all the chieftains of various ethnic groups who participated in the war with captured antiques and treasures.

Because these things are of no use to the finances when they are taken back, and can only be left in internal funds or the national treasury to gather dust.

In August, Zhang Shenyan personally led his troops back to the division and handed over the gold and silver to the national treasury.

The treasury has weathered the economic crisis and is full again.

At the same time, summer taxes in various places have been paid, which is much higher than last year.

In addition, the Municipal Shipping Department has begun to pay tariffs to the Ministry of Household Affairs, and the amount is quite large.

For this reason, Emperor Longwu was overjoyed and praised Zheng Chenggong as a capable person. In addition to still being the Prime Minister of the Shipping Department, he made him the concurrent prefect of Taiwan, which his father had run for many years.

Zheng Hongkui had cooperated in the suppression of bandits for many times and allocated one-fifth of the revenue of the Municipal Shipping Department to the Jiangnan Navy. This became a permanent rule. The Jiangnan Navy was renamed the Nanyang Navy, on par with Yu Minzhong's Beiyang Navy.

Zheng Zhilong's navy was changed to Dongyang Navy, stationed in Keelung, Taiwan. Half of Taiwan's tax revenue goes to the Oriental Navy for military expenses.

The Lianghuai Salt Farm was in calm conditions, and the new policies were implemented smoothly, bringing more revenue to the national treasury.

For this reason, it is estimated that once the autumn tax revenue is collected, the Ming Dynasty's finances will reach an unprecedented height - 40 million yuan, and 20 million yuan will be paid for the service.

Because of this, He Fugui's back became stiffer, his anger became less short, his waist became less hunched, and his body gained weight again.

Every day, he stood at the gate of the Hubu Yamen and shouted loudly to the other six departments in the imperial city: "Whoever is short of money, I have plenty."

Whoever is short of money, Wu Sangui is short of money.

He needs money again. Not only does he need 500,000 yuan to prepare for the winter, but he also needs Shanxi to supply him with 300,000 shi of grain, 200,000 shi of bean feed, and salt and medicine. All of them add up to a million. They also asked the Ministry of Industry for some ordnance and equipment lost in the war.

At this time, Wang Weiwei, the chief envoy of Shanxi who was responsible for supplying the front line, couldn't bear it anymore. He rushed to Beijing with a memorial and landed on Lu Mou's desk.

In Wuying Hall, facing a group of ministers from the Ministry of War, the General Staff and the Ministry of Industry, Emperor Longwu turned the table over again. "What does Wu Sangui mean? He also sent troops in February, and Zhang Shenyan returned in triumph, but he always said that he could not find the main force of the enemy army. He killed a small group of Mongolians and reported a great victory. He asked for rewards of up to 3,000 people at one time. But , but he only sent me three hundred heads.

Forget it, but the report said that the three hundred heads were just Mongolian Qushuai, and he could not kill less than thirty thousand.

Thirty thousand, the one on the left is thirty thousand, and the one on the right is thirty thousand. Could it be that Wu Sangui doesn't know how to add, subtract, multiply and divide? Look, from the war to now, he has reported three million beheadings. Already received three million heads of money.

According to this number, how many people there were in Torgut would have been killed by him long ago. He also said that he could not fight decisively until he found the main Mongolian force. They don't even have any people left, so how can they have any main force? This also said that in order to search the grassland in the early winter, he asked for another 500,000 silver and firewood to attack the depths of the desert. Going deep into the desert in winter, doesn’t he have common sense? What does he mean, exactly? "

The ministers were speechless.

"What he wants to do is to be Nian Gengyao. Then don't I dare to be Yongzheng?"

Everyone looked at each other, wondering which allusion this was. Don't look at me, I don't know.

Seeing the emperor who was so angry that he was incoherent again, Li Yan could only stand up and persuade him: "Your Majesty, calm down. I said at the beginning that it was not appropriate to send Wu Sangui. If I had sent Qi Fei according to my wishes, this matter would have been over long ago. "

Everyone heard this and covered their faces: Are you the one who persuades people like this? Aren't you adding fuel to the fire? Aren't you not opening the pot and lifting the pot?

When he decided to destroy Torgut, Li Yan clearly opposed Wu Sangui. And the reasons are unequivocal.

The first point is that when the Ming Dynasty was approaching the city and was about to perish, Wu Sangui had already left Shanhaiguan for a mere 1 taels of departure fees, but he stood still in Yongping. If you don't have the money, you will never send troops. You would rather see the emperor's family ruined and hang himself. It shows how greedy this person is and how unscrupulous he is to achieve his goals.

Once out of the direct control of the imperial court, he would do everything possible to threaten the imperial court.

Another important point is that the Sino-Mongolian region is now completely occupied by Zu Dashou and Wu Sangui's father Wu Xiang. It is almost an autonomous fiefdom of a country within a country.

Once Wu Sangui captured the Mongolian region of Turgut and became one with his father and uncle, if he did not want to come back, it would be entirely possible to form a Mongolian separatist regime. At that time, it will not be a big tail that cannot be lost, but completely uncontrollable.

But when he clearly raised this reason and asked to replace Wu Sangui with Qi Fei, he was firmly opposed by the emperor.

The emperor's reason was very simple and unreasonable: the simple reason was that he believed that Wu Sangui's character, despite its flaws, could still be saved.

The Ming Dynasty was employing people. Wu Sangui was the one who understood cavalry tactics well, and no one else could replace him.

This makes sense and is barely passable.

And his second reason is a bit unreasonable: "After the Longwu restructuring, the royal family has handed over the original 2 Beijing troops to the country and turned them into the country's army. And Qi Fei's 2 cavalry, It was assigned to the royal family and reorganized into the Guards. This is a guard of honor dedicated to protecting the royal family and the emperor. This is the royal family's own army and must not be used in national wars.

This reason will be absolutely tenable in future generations, and will be endorsed by everyone.

But in this era, it is a bit far-fetched and unreasonable.

But my emperor insists like this, what can you do.

In the end, he had to be held hostage by the actual situation in front of him, and finally sent Wu Sangui to lead the troops.

As expected, he returned to his old ways. The second point has not yet appeared, but the first point has been exposed.

A war that could have been decided quickly has forced him to fight a protracted war, and depending on the current situation, there is no prospect of how long it will be delayed.

And taking advantage of this war in which others could not replace him, he began to make various excuses and unscrupulously reached out to the court to ask for money. There are so many different names.

For example, if one war horse dies of illness and needs to be replenished, it will already cost 15 war horses.

He has already replaced his 5 Guan Ning war horses three times.

But now at the Nanyuan Racecourse and the Heba Shang Racecourse, there are still 10 war horses captured by the Ming Dynasty last time, so they can just drive them there.

As a result, Wu Sangui resolutely refused. His reason was that those war horses were Liaodong war horses and were not suitable for Simon's climate and water plants. Sending them there would only severely reduce combat effectiveness and cause even more deaths. Either way, you must die.

For this reason, the only way to maintain its combat effectiveness is to purchase a war horse from Zhongmeng's father.

Because there was nothing they could do about him now, and in order not to give up the war halfway, the imperial court could only pinch its nose and send him money to buy war horses.

With such various excuses and various excuses, in just over half a year, Wu Sangui had already taken away five million silver dollars from the national treasury.

Now that battlefield is already a bottomless pit of funds that cannot be filled up no matter how hard it is, and it is ineffective no matter what. The 500 million silver dollars were thrown there without even making a sound.

Now, the imperial court has been firmly controlled by Wu Sangui. A situation where the tail is too big to lose has been formed, it depends on how far it will develop in the future.

However, the ending is definitely not a good one. Emperor Longwu and his ministers had already foreseen this. (End of chapter)