Zhu Yuanzhang can see my dreams

Chapter 308 Chapter 308 Is the Ming army so rotten?
So from the very beginning, whether you were the real planner or were forced to board the ship, you cannot escape the responsibility.

The governor in charge of the northwestern border submitted a memorial to Emperor Wanli in which he exaggerated the role of Haibai and his son, avoided mentioning the issue of Dang Xin, and exaggerated the connection between Haibai and the Mongols.

The small-scale fighting between these rebel soldiers and the surrounding Ming army intensified, and there were rumors that Haibai had received help from Mongolian cavalry, and that the Mongols were coming in large numbers to support him.

A vanguard soldier named Liu definitely has nothing to do with the Mongols, so it must be Haobai who is in secret contact with them.

Only with such rhetoric can this incident be characterized as a premeditated war by the Mongols, rather than an internal rebellion caused by the governor's mismanagement.

Although the rebellion of the natives of Ningxia caused a great shock to the whole of Shaanxi, none of the Ming government troops in the surrounding areas acted rashly.

It wasn't like the imperial court owed wages to just one town in Ningxia; the soldiers from the other towns were just there to watch the fun.

At this time, the court officials finally noticed the problem of unpaid wages.

They were afraid that things would get out of hand and the Mongolian cavalry would collude with Haobai to invade the territory on a large scale. They were also afraid that the soldiers in other towns would follow suit and rebel.

The Ministry of Revenue then urgently transported silver from Shaanxi, Henan and Sichuan to pay the Ming army soldiers who had not yet rebelled.

After receiving the money, the Ming army, which had not acted rashly before, immediately surrounded the city of Ningxia.

Zhu Yuanzhang:? ? ?

"I never thought that my Nine Borders would be turned into this state by them."

In order to stabilize people's hearts and improve their treatment, Zhu Yuanzhang often gave temporary rewards to soldiers serving in remote areas and doing hard work.

Rice, clothing, money, cotton, etc., especially for the soldiers in Ningxia, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Sichuan and other places.

For this purpose, a special order was issued to prohibit generals from being tyrannical and harsh on border soldiers. Because Xue Xian, Marquis of Yongcheng, killed clerks, veterinarians, firemen, cavalry and centurions of soldiers without authorization, he was demoted to Hainan, and two-thirds of his salary was distributed to the families of those who were abused and killed as a support fee.

Although Xue Xian was transferred back from Hainan to fight with Xu Da within a year, and stayed in Beiping to cultivate land after the defeat in the fifth year of Hongwu, it can be regarded as an example set by Zhu Yuanzhang to consolidate the morale of the army.

The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty now refuse to fight without pay, which really makes him at a loss as to what to say.

He also remembered that most of Li Zicheng's troops were Ming soldiers from the three borders of Shaanxi, who also joined the rebellion because they had not received any pay.

Counting on my fingers, it has been less than fifty years.

How long has the Ming Dynasty owed its soldiers wages?

Zhu Yuanzhang saw that the orders to mobilize troops in the Ming Dynasty no longer came from the Grand Marshal's Office.

During the Hongwu period, the Grand Marshal's Office had great power and was in charge of all the military forces in the world. Now the orders are directly given by the Ministry of War.

Then the new Ningxia general Li Rusong led the troops from Liaodong, Xuanfu, Datong, Shanxi, Zhejiang, Miao and others to carry out a siege.

Zhu Yuanzhang knew about the Zhejiang soldiers, who were recruited by Qi Jiguang and were all miners. They were good at fighting.

Zhu Yuanzhang did not expect that there were so many talented people in Zhejiang. According to his understanding, the people in these areas were not poor at all, so why would they join the army?
But he had never encountered the Miao soldiers.

To see whether they are really useful or not, we will test their skills when we attack Yunnan.

The ending was not very interesting to Zhu Yuanzhang. What would be the final outcome of a large army besieging an isolated city?
It was all internal fighting and requests for surrender. They didn't even have the courage to break out.

"It seems that disasters will occur one after another in the northwest region, so that even farming cannot provide enough food for the soldiers."

Zhu Biao noticed something. Not only did the imperial court not give money, but they couldn't get much food from their own farming.

"At present, the orders issued by the court are really not as effective as money."

Zhu Yuanzhang stroked his beard and thought that if Wang Buli lived in the late Ming Dynasty, he could use his money to gather a group of people who would work for him, and he might be able to follow Li Zicheng to fight for the world.

Such a great victory prompted Emperor Wanli to come out of the palace and start looking at the prisoners of war who were sent to the capital. He then went to the Taimiao to tell his ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang about it.

Zhu Yuanzhang:? ? ?

"What a good child, he is willing to come out of the palace to meet the ancestors!"

Faced with Zhu Yuanzhang's sarcastic words, Zhu Biao pretended not to hear them.

However, he realized that the capital of the Ming Dynasty was no longer Nanjing, and these people were surrendering their captives in Beijing.

The fourth brother’s territory!
Could it be that the descendants moved the capital in later generations?
Where did the fourth one go?

Zhu Biao had heard Zhu Yuanzhang talk about moving the capital.

Because of Nanjing's location, it is somewhat weak in controlling the north, and it is not conducive to the war against the Northern Yuan Dynasty, and it is impossible to respond quickly.

However, once leaving Nanjing, control over the wealthy areas of Jiangnan would become even weaker.

Compared with controlling poor areas, Zhu Yuanzhang preferred to control the wealthy Jiangnan area and hold it tightly in his hands.

Zhu Biao didn't ask immediately.

Because his father also told him about the fifth brother being named King of Wu.

I didn't think too much about it at the time. I was just happy. I planned to move him to another place after he was enfeoffed.

Then came a letter for help from North Korea.

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded slightly.

Wang Buli’s judgment was correct. Goryeo would not survive for many years. The new dynasty would be called Joseon!
Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who unified Japan, was ambitious. He wanted to conquer Korea first and then the Ming Dynasty, and put Ryukyu, the Philippines, Japan, Korea, and the Ming Dynasty under his rule.

When Zhu Yuanzhang saw this, he pointed at the scene in front of his son and said, "He has become even more rampant."

Zhu Biao also understood what his father meant. He used to think that Japan was an island and naval warfare was risky, so he wondered if it was worth occupying.

But now it is different. Wang Buli said that Japan has silver mines, so Zhu Yuanzhang no longer thinks that naval battle is risky.

Will Japan continue to exist?
However, in the picture, Korea was completely defeated when facing the invasion of the Japanese army. Seoul was captured in 20 days. The party struggle was still going on, and the soldiers did not know the generals or the soldiers did not know the generals.

After the King of Korea retreated to Liaodong, the Ming Dynasty sent 3,000 troops to support him.

Commander Zu Chengxun advanced rashly. It was raining at that time and the roads were muddy. His men were all cavalry, so they could not exert their power.

Moreover, they did not have enough understanding of the Japanese army, and used the same tactics they used against the Mongols to deal with these people, but ended up breaking into Seoul and being ambushed.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the Japanese army's muskets and nodded. He felt that these muskets were different from those he had seen before and seemed to be more powerful.

After the failure of the first aid to Korea, the Ming court once again called in Li Rusong, the commander who had just suppressed the Ningxia rebellion.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the formation of the Ming Dynasty and shook his head repeatedly.

"I understand that Goryeo's terrain is mostly mountainous and has many paddy fields, with very few plains. Of the more than 30,000 troops sent out, more than half are cavalry, the rest are charioteers, and only a quarter are infantry."

"Dad, what you mean is that our Ming cavalry cannot exert its full strength?"

Zhu Biao felt that the Ming Dynasty still did not take Japan seriously. Toyotomi Hideyoshi sent more than 150,000 Japanese troops, but the Ming Dynasty only sent such a small number of people to fight.

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded at his son's words.

Cavalry has an advantage against infantry in plains and wilderness, but it cannot exert its power in Korea, which has many paddy fields and mountains. If it wants to defeat Japan, it still has to rely on the infantry.

"Li Rusong's tone is quite arrogant."

Zhu Yuanzhang clicked his tongue a few times and told the Korean envoy that he could recover the entire territory in three months.

Moreover, he looks like a veteran soldier who has been in the military camp since he was a child and has fought his way up step by step. I like him.

Zhu Biao was slightly dissatisfied with Li Rusong's performance on the battlefield because he did not thoroughly implement the detailed battle plan he had formulated before the attack on Pyongyang.

Not only did they not use poison rockets, red rockets, and artillery for surprise attacks, but they also switched to a violent assault on the city walls.

Although this intimidated the enemy, the casualties were heavy and the firearms in the hands of the Japanese were quite sharp, so the Ming army did not gain any advantage.

Even if he personally took risks to command and motivate the soldiers on the front line, if the battle plan could be implemented, the Ming soldiers would suffer fewer casualties.

"Dad, Li Rusong is brave, but too brave. He doesn't like to use his brain."

Sure enough, in the following Battle of Pyeongyang, Li Rusong was even more careless and aggressive. After being entangled by the Japanese, he was almost shot and killed by them while personally guarding the rear. Fortunately, his subordinates and brothers desperately rescued him, and he was able to escape unscathed.

In the Battle of Pyeongcheon, Li Rusong was eager to lead a small number of cavalry to attack Seoul where the Japanese army was gathered, when the army had not yet completely crossed the river and the southern artillerymen had not followed the army. His rash advance led to failure. After this, Li Rusong's morale was greatly reduced and he retreated again and again.

Of course, it was also due to the weather. It had been raining and the roads were muddy, supplies were insufficient, and the war horses were easily damaged.

What bothered Zhu Yuanzhang the most was the intensified conflicts within the Ming army. They were not united when fighting abroad. How could they win?

The troops that aided Korea were mainly from the north and the south. Most of the southern soldiers were influenced by Qi Jiguang. This group of people were brave and good at fighting. In addition, the terrain of Korea was similar to that of the south, and the Japanese army's tactics were the same as those of the Japanese pirates.

They were well adapted to fighting against Japan, so they made the greatest contribution in the capture of Pyongyang and were the first to breach the city walls.

However, the Northern Army led by Li Rusong was mostly cavalry, who were unfamiliar with the Japanese military tactics and were not adapted to fighting against Japan.

As a result, Li Rusong did not fulfill his promise during the war to reward the first person to capture the city with 5,000 taels of silver. Instead, he gave generous rewards to the Northern Army and very little to the Southern Army which had made great efforts, which caused dissatisfaction among the Southern Army officers and soldiers.

Especially when the rewards were announced, all the top contributors went to Liao people, which made the Zhejiang soldiers and generals curse Li Rusong for not keeping his word and almost got into a fight.

The governor Song Yingchang was from Zhejiang and was supported by the southern soldiers.

Li Rusong had just won a great victory in Ningxia. He was very proud of being a meritorious minister and did not accept Song Yingchang's control, so the general and the commander were not in harmony.

Zhu Yuanzhang patted the sofa and was so angry that he couldn't speak.

Now that the war has reached a stalemate and the costs will only increase, the two sides have begun to negotiate peace.

However, Zhu Yuanzhang thought they were all stopgap measures.

The outcome has not yet been decided, and no one wants to really negotiate, especially since the Japanese have swallowed up so much of Korean territory and have not suffered any substantial damage. How could they spit out the meat in their mouths?
Zhu Yuanzhang thought that the King of Korea was a fool. During the more than three years of peace talks, he did not even think about strengthening training or repairing fortifications. Instead, he started internal factional strife.

The only capable Yi Sun-sin was dismissed from his post because he was involved in party disputes, resulting in the almost complete annihilation of the navy.

The second Japanese attack was even more rampant. In Zhu Yuanzhang's view, the generals sent by the Ming court were not as brave and reckless as Li Rusong. They remained motionless when their friendly forces were in trouble, resulting in the deaths of 2,700 of 3,000 people, and the main general was injured and broke through with a dozen people.

Fortunately, a civil official named Yang Hao repeatedly repelled the Japanese attacks.

During this invasion, the Japanese army burned, killed, and looted wherever they went in Korean territory. Those who could escape were abducted, and those who could not escape were directly killed.

They were sent to Japan to farm the land, replacing the farmers as soldiers, making it easier to invade Korea every year.

Zhu Yuanzhang was even more displeased when he saw that the Ming and Korean coalition forces had suffered a major defeat and a minor victory, and that Korea had placed its entire country's survival on the Ming.

Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to take the Ming Dynasty's plan to attack Japan with him, after all, it would be closer and he could be considered as helping his younger brothers. But now it seems like a hopeless case.

As for the subsequent battles, Zhu Yuanzhang was even more unable to bear to watch them.

How could the Ming army fall to such a state?

It is common for generals to be at odds with their commanders, the quality of the soldiers is too poor, and the commanders are incompetent. Even setting a fire can cause chaos on their own side. On the contrary, the performance of the Japanese army is remarkable.

"Knowing yourself and your enemy is the first priority in combat. Don't these bastards know that?"

As someone who had risen from the bottom, Zhu Yuanzhang really couldn't stand fighting with this bunch of noobs.

Not to mention the commander, even the generals ended up being sacrificed under him!
"We underestimated the enemy and advanced rashly, we retreated when we were afraid of the enemy, we advanced alone, the army was undisciplined, and rewards and punishments were unclear." Zhu Biao seemed calmer: "Dad, if the army is so rotten, it would be abnormal if the Ming Dynasty didn't end."

"We know."

Zhu Yuanzhang stood up and strolled a few steps: "But we have made so many preparations, is it possible that nothing has changed?"

Zhu Biao feels that not much preparation has been made at the moment!
In particular, even if you, as the founding emperor, have formulated policies, your descendants may not necessarily follow them.

"I feel my face hurts too much." Zhu Yuanzhang looked very unhappy: "Could it be that nothing we do will be of any use?"

Zhu Biao shook his head slightly. He felt that it was useful, but the future would not be so easy to change.

"Dad, if we do nothing, maybe the future of Ming Dynasty will be even worse?"

Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned.

What my eldest son said makes a lot of sense!

"Ah."

Zhu Yuanzhang saw that the subsequent Bozhou Rebellion did not cause much trouble, and it seemed that the Yang family's marriage alliance was broken and the internal structural power balance was unbalanced.

In addition, the imperial court was busy with the war to aid Korea and did not have much energy to pay attention to it, so Yang Yinglong's rebellion surrendered twice and lasted for ten years before it was completely eliminated.

The land of Bozhou no longer belongs to the Yang family. They originally occupied this place in the late Tang Dynasty.

The envoy of Bozhou during the Hongwu period was named Yang Shijian. Zhu Yuanzhang had a good impression of him and surrendered to him very quickly.

This is also the main way that the Yang family has been able to occupy Bozhou throughout the dynasties. No matter who is the emperor in the Central Plains dynasty, my Yang family will definitely surrender and just stay in this place and be my local emperor.

Don't disturb each other.

"For the battle in Yunnan, we have to send troops from Bozhou. I think he is quite good at fighting against Tusi. Otherwise, how can he intimidate the Tusi of all sizes around him?"

The territory occupied by the Yang family was not small. According to the division during the Wanli period, one was Zunyi Prefecture and the other was Pingyue Prefecture.

Most of the income Zhang Juzheng had earned over the past ten years was spent on these three wars.

Before they could think about it, Zhu Yuanzhang and his son saw Wang Buli sitting next to the magic weapon, holding something in his hand, shouting and yelling, not knowing what he was doing.

I vaguely guessed that it was something for fun.

Zhu Biao is quick to accept new things.

He discovered that Wang Buli used the magic weapon in his hand to control the glowing magic weapon, and there was a little man inside who was controlled by Wang Buli. It was really strange.

"wrong."

Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly remembered: "I did not order the use of human heads to record military achievements."

Zhu Biao thought about it carefully and realized that many Ming army soldiers were busy cutting heads and rarely chased the Japanese, so they let them escape.

Zhu Yuanzhang's basic principle of rewards and punishments was that all officers and soldiers who fought bravely, had outstanding military achievements, were well-trained, and had good military management skills would be rewarded.

Although the scope is very broad, the procedures have strict requirements for senior generals who return victoriously.

The Secretariat would first report to the Grand Marshal's Office, the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Personnel would arrange for honorary positions, the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Rites would arrange for rewards, and the Secretariat would finally determine the level of rewards and report to the emperor for approval, and a grand award ceremony would be held to show honor.

For military officers and soldiers of lower ranks, each unit can hold a ceremony after the battle without delaying.

"Dad, it takes a lot of money to reward the soldiers. They put all the money into their own pockets. How can they be willing to give it to the soldiers?"

Zhu Biao looked at Wang Buli playing games and said, "So in order to reduce losses, we use heads to record. It's simple and convenient. Even if it affects the combat efficiency, it's not like those civil officials are going to the battlefield.

They only need to use the heads to verify the credit after the war, and they can even use the heads to find faults, saying that you killed people and took credit for it. "

After hearing his son's words, Zhu Yuanzhang also sat on the soft sofa in a depressed mood.

I have to say, this is much more comfortable than the hard Huanghuali chair he has to sit on every day.

"Hahaha."

Zhu Yuanzhang heard the laughter and saw his son laughing, thinking that Wang Buli was looking dejected.

"Dad, the villain controlled by Wang Buli died several times and couldn't get over it."

Zhu Biao said in amazement: "Even though he has a destiny with immortals, he can't fully control the immortal instruments he can touch. What a pity!"

Zhu Yuanzhang thought more than his son.

"The Japanese have more advanced firearms. Our Ming Dynasty's firearms are not as good as theirs. That won't do." Zhu Yuanzhang leaned back on the sofa:
"This time, go find Wang Buli and ask him to take charge of the firearms. I remember that he used the immortal fire gun in the fairyland. He was really domineering."

Zhu Biao stared at the screen and shook his head:
“Dad, although Wang Buli has used it before, it’s obviously unrealistic for you to ask him to make it.

Don’t you see how clumsily he uses this, how can he make advanced firearms?”

(End of this chapter)