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

Wu Sangui paid close attention to the movements of the court and his father and uncle.

Everything is developing as planned. My father secretly sent a message, and my uncle felt sorry for his only sister. He was finally persuaded by his father and agreed to respond to him. Throughout the Sino-Mongolian liberated areas, the Wu family's ancestral princes and princes were running around on the grasslands, beginning to recruit liberated herdsmen to join the army, and began to prepare for war.

Wu Zhimao rushed to the Sino-Mongolian Liberated Areas urgently. Not only did he want to represent Wu Sangui and find out whether Uncle Zu Dashou was perfunctory with him, but he also wanted to supervise the extent to which he had prepared for war.

Wu Xiang and Zu Dashou warmly welcomed Wu Zhimao. When only three people were allowed to enter the secret room, Zu Dashou met him directly and saluted: "Prime Minister Wu is here. It is an honor. Please sit high and have a drink. Our department is going to invite the Prime Minister to review."

A sentence of "prime minister" made Wu Zhimao feel ecstatic.

He was not polite and sat directly on the main seat, not even showing any humility to Wu Xiang, the unofficial emperor.

It can be seen how much Wu Sangui and he despise the emperor's father.

After having a drink, Wu Zhimao asked Zu Dashou as if he were an imperial envoy of the prime minister: "How are your preparations, Your Majesty? How many troops can you summon?"

Zu Dashou respectfully replied: "Originally, I, Zhongmeng, could summon 300,000 soldiers, but now I have only summoned 100,000."

Wu Zhimao frowned. Three hundred thousand, this was the number of troops that Zu Dashou recruited during the last world war. This was already included in the number of troops raised by Wu Sangui and Wu Zhimao.

"Why did we only recruit 100,000 people? Is there any difficulty for the ancestors?"

Wu Xiang quickly explained: "Prime Minister, our army was able to control China and Mongolia only by calling on the herdsmen to rise up against the leader. In fact, the basic backbone of our Wu Zu family is less than five thousand elites.

In normal times, herdsmen have to graze their animals everywhere, that is, they are herdsmen. They are only called up during wartime. Recruiting three hundred thousand people at a time is too much for us. This time we summoned 100,000 main troops, but it was unbearable in terms of food and supplies, especially equipment. For this reason, we are also planning to ask Sangui to support us first. "

Wu Zhimao frowned: "In order to accomplish this great event, the prince is also actively preparing to hoard food and supplies. It is really difficult to supply the emperor and the ancestors. No, then how did you recruit 300,000 people before?"

Wu Xiang solemnly said: "The original recruitment was to deal with the Manchus. The herdsmen were afraid of the Manchus and supported the original Mongolian leaders to counterattack. With the mentality of protecting their homes and the country, they voluntarily gathered to join the war. But now, what excuse do we use? ? The only excuse is to reorganize the training of elites to prevent the Qing from counterattacking. In this case, we can only recruit these, and we still have to provide them with food, food, water and equipment. "

This explanation is really reasonable. Is this what the recruitment of Mongolian tribes is like?

A standing army requires the tribal leader to provide money and food to support it. Only in times of war can herdsmen prepare their own weapons to participate in the war.

"One hundred thousand, once something goes wrong, with the overwhelming power of Mount Tai, we can attack the walls of Beijing, but our troops are still insufficient."

Zu Dashou spread his hands and said: "There is no other way. We can only do this. When the war starts in the future, we will recruit people. However, weapons and equipment are a big problem again. What can we do about this? Otherwise, let Sangui mobilize them. Let’s make a batch.”

Wu Zhimao frowned and complained: "Why do you always expect the court to give you money, food and equipment? Can't you think of ways to get it yourself?"

Wu Xiang, who is in charge of civil affairs, also spread his hands: "What should we do? In order to win over the hearts of the herdsmen, we have adopted light corvee and low taxes. We don't have much savings in our hands."

Wu Zhimao immediately rolled his eyes and suggested: "Now that the imperial summer tax has been collected, the harvest is quite rich. Last month, Zhang Shenyan regained Sichuan and captured a lot of Zhang Xianzhong. Now the national treasury is very rich. Why don't you two take advantage of it? Now that the imperial court has enough money and food, can we ask for money and equipment from the imperial court? "

Faced with this proposal, Wu Xiangzu was very embarrassed, "I'm afraid this won't work. In Sangui, it's just and legitimate to reach out to the court for money and food. But when we were sent to the grassland, we were required to be responsible for our own profits and losses. The liberated places count. Ours, but the court only recognized it and was not responsible for supplying materials.

If we want to obtain supplies, we have to pay for them. If you don’t have money, there is nothing you can do. "

People are right. When they first occupied China and Mongolia, the regent implemented an outsourcing system. This cannot be changed.

Wu Zhimao thought for a moment and suddenly gave an idea with a smile: "This matter is easy to solve. Doesn't the Central Bank of Ming Dynasty have sufficient funds and continue to lend to the outside world? You can use your grassland industry as collateral, borrow money from the bank, and then purchase ordnance. Wouldn't it be the best of both worlds?" "But the loan must be repaid." Zu Dashou and Wu Xiang immediately looked at each other and laughed.

The central bank is the property of the royal family. I am about to rebel against him. What else can I do? I just take advantage of this opportunity to make a profit first. Isn’t that delicious?

Just do what you say and immediately send personnel to negotiate with the central bank. Using grassland cattle and sheep as security, he borrowed millions to purchase the ordnance of the Ministry of Industry.

After receiving such a request from Zu Dashou Wu Xiang, Lu Mou smiled: "Wu Zhimao came up with a good plan. This is to make me care about his interest, and then he will care about my capital."

Li Yan was also worried: "Although Wu Zu explained that this is the best way to arm their army first without alerting Wu Sangui. But once they hide their evil intentions, won't it be more difficult for us to treat them?"

Lu Mou frowned: "People's hearts are separated from each other. According to our previous analysis, Wu Zu and Wu Zu do not dare to follow in the rebellion, but one is still afraid of what happens."

He walked around a few times with his hands behind his back and called to Sun Bin, the governor of the central bank: "Send the negotiator to tell Wu Zu and Wu Zu in an upright manner: This time he used the cattle and sheep in the grassland as collateral, but the grassland, our Dongchang urged The debt is inconvenient. For this reason, the royal family will send 10,000 guards to look at the mortgage to see if he agrees. "

This is a kind of temptation. If Wu and Zu refuse, it means that they will eventually rebel.

But Wu Zu and Wu Zu accepted it, which is equivalent to Wu Zu and Wu Zu accepting the imperial court to send troops and go to the grassland early to deal with unexpected events. That proves that they are really sincere.

As a result, the people sent to negotiate responded, and Wu and Zu agreed readily.

Moreover, Zu Dashou wrote a secret note and actively requested: "Buy" 100,000 lances and 100 artillery pieces this time. Ammunition is under the control of the Supervisory Guards. It is not distributed when there is no war, but it is available at any time during the war.

One hundred thousand carbines and one hundred cannons from the Ministry of Industry of the Ming Dynasty were not matched with special paper bullets and ammunition, so they were just fire sticks and ornaments.

Such a proactive request really reassured Lu Mou. I couldn't help but sigh: "Zu Dashou and Wu Xiang are indeed loyal to the Ming Dynasty from the bottom of their hearts. After this war, they can be granted the title of true hereditary Duke." Anyway, the Ming Dynasty at this time did not have any fiefdom, it was just a salary.

Moreover, the Ming Dynasty continued to increase salaries and salaries for officials, but only the benefits of titles remained unchanged. According to Ming Dynasty's original plan, the salary of the title was negligible, it was just an honor.

Things went smoothly, but the Central Bank requested that 10,000 Royal Guards be sent into the liberated areas to look at their collateral.

This request seems reasonable. But Wu Zhimao was worried about some conspiracy.

As a result, Zu Dashou and Wu Xiang laughed sinisterly: "Ten thousand well-equipped Guards cavalry are here. Hehehe, isn't this another batch of equipment given to us in vain?"

Wu Zhimao thought for a moment and then smiled brightly: "The ten thousand Guards troops, among the layers of our 300,000-strong army, are undoubtedly our equipment. Lord Zuhou is so calculating."

One hundred thousand carbines and two hundred artillery pieces, escorted by ten thousand Guards, entered the grassland for delivery.

Wu Sangui and others celebrated. Now, defeating the Ming Dynasty was no longer a problem. This little emperor's wool is really slim.

Then wait for the money, food and equipment that you applied for earlier to arrive, and then raise the flag to rebel.

However, this batch of money, food and equipment was blocked by Wang Weiwei, who complained in every possible way, but would not be released.

Just when Wu Sangui and Wu Zhimao thought that the imperial court was alert, the Chinese army came to report: "Report to the Marquis, the imperial supplies have arrived." (End of this chapter)