Daming wolf ride

"Which idiot is giving the emperor a random idea! Doesn't he know what Liao pay means to Daming! Damn... Damn!..."

Sun Chengzong was furious, and he slapped his palm on the table, so angry that his beard was about to stand up, and everyone shrank their necks in fright when they saw it.

Shi Dayong was also so shocked that he couldn't say a word. Apart from shock and disbelief, it was more of a pain in the flesh.

Liao pay Liao pay, as the name suggests, is the military expenditure specially allocated for Liao affairs.This Liao pay was suspected to be the motivation to support the Ming army outside the Guan, and if the Liao pay was cut off, it was suspected that the backbone of the Ming army outside the Guan was broken.

In the past, most of the Liao salary was spent on Zu Dashou and his Liaodong army. Now that Zu Dashou is dead, his Liaodong army is gone. The heavy pillar, most of the Liao pay fell into his hands. [

It is self-evident what a few million taels of silver means to Shi Dayong, to the Songshan Army, and to his great cause.

With money, he can do things freely, without money, he will be unable to move an inch.

Wars are fought over finances.

Where there is money, there is everything.

Now, this thunderbolt came, although it was not a cut off of Liao's salary, it was just a distribution, but it was also a heavy blow to Shi Dayong and the Ming army outside Guanwai.

Who knows if the next time the imperial court will completely cut off Liao's salary and abandon the territory outside the pass, which will make him look forward to pass through with great courage and sigh in vain.

Lu Shanji was also shocked, but he still held his breath. He was not as excited as Sun Chengzong, and calmly asked Zhou Shangmin: "How much Liao's salary was allocated by the imperial court? Where is it used?"

"Two million taels are used to suppress bandits in Henan." Zhou Shangmin whispered.

"One million taels?!"

After hearing this number, Lu Shanji smiled wryly, and said to Sun Chengzong with some grief and indignation: "My lord, the imperial court is going to abandon us!"

Hearing this, Shi Dayong was startled: The consequences are so serious?How much silver is there in Liao's salary?

He asked Lu Shanji for advice: "Master Lu, I wonder how much this Liao salary is?"

Lu Shanji didn't hide it from him, but told the truth, "800 million taels."

"One million taels?!"

Hearing that Liao's salary was 800 million taels, Shi Dayong felt relieved and said disapprovingly, "If 200 million taels are allocated to suppress the thieves, then there are still 600 million taels left, so it doesn't mean that the imperial court will abandon us, right? .”

After Lu Shanji heard this, he smiled sadly, shook his head and said: "General Shi Shen doesn't know something, the imperial court expropriated 800 million taels of silver in the name of Liao's salary, but the actual distribution to us was only about 700 million taels to close the door, and this Another discount of 700 million taels, to tell you the truth, 500 million taels of Liao’s salary in our hands is too much. Now it’s 200 million taels all at once, you say, relying on this 300 million taels of silver, we What can we use to fight against the Eastern captives? Inside and outside the pass, where do you not use money, the military salary alone costs 200 million taels a year, let alone building cities and forts. How can such a small amount of money be enough?!"

"How could this happen?" Shi Dayong was really confused now, even if he took away 100 million taels, but there were still 700 million taels in real terms, how did Lu Shanji say that it was only insufficient? 500 million taels.Where did the 200 million taels in the middle go?

"How could this happen?" Lu Ming glanced at Shi Dayong, and said calmly: "The reason is very simple, the imperial court has no money." [

"No money?" Shi Dayong was even more confused. Didn't Liao pay 800 million taels? Why is there no money?

Seeing that Shi Dayong didn't understand, Lu Ming sneered secretly, and said calmly, "Do you think the imperial court really collected 800 million taels of silver?"

"What is the meaning of Mr. Xiaolu's words?" Shi Dayong was confused by the uncles and nephews of the Lu family. Jiang Wanli and Cao Bianjiao were also dumbfounded, with puzzled faces. What the uncles and nephews said was too profound. It is incomprehensible.

Lu Ming moved his lips, wanting to explain this to Shi Dayong, but thought it would be too long to explain, so he shook his head and said: "Forget it, let's not talk about it, let's think of a way to make up for it This hole." After finishing speaking, he looked towards Sun Chengzong and secretly figured out how to make up for the gap of 200 million taels.

Sun Chengzong still looked angry, his face was livid and ugly.

Seeing that Lu Ming refused to go into details, and Shi Dayong couldn't force others to do so, he could only press his stomach and wonder, but Lu Shanji had a different attitude from his nephew, and told him very kindly: "The Liao pay is collected from the people. To put it bluntly, it is collected from the hands of the common people. Let me ask, where did they get so much silver? Therefore, when the payment is collected, most of them are paid in kind, so from the beginning, the Liao payment has no actual silver. Withholding and consumption, only four or five million taels of silver were actually handed over to the treasury. The rest was consumed during the process of deportation to Beijing. So although there were seven or eight million taels on the books, in reality it was only Four five million taels."

"I see."

Hearing Lu Shanji's explanation, Shi Dayong nodded with some understanding, and then lost his voice again: "According to this, the imperial court allocated 200 million taels this time, so the remaining Liao pay is less than 300 million taels ?”

"It's not a tael of silver." Sun Chengzong suddenly snorted coldly.

"Ah?!" Shi Dayong, Jiang Wanli, and Cao Bianjiao changed their expressions at the same time: one tael of silver is gone!Where did their military pay come from?Did the imperial court want them to fight the Eastern Captives on an empty stomach?

Lu Shanji sighed, and said: "It's a tael of silver. When Dalinghe City and the forts were built earlier, Mr. Jinglue allocated 200 million taels, and Zhang Bingbei sent his army to help, and took another 80 taels Ten thousand taels. In this way, there are only 200 million taels left in Liao's salary, which was originally used for payment, but now the imperial court allocates all of them to the Henan Ping bandits, so the Jinglue Yamen has no more than one tael of silver. Alas, I really don’t know what the imperial court thinks, aren’t they afraid of stirring up mutiny in the army?”

Lu Ming was a little shameless and said: "Bi Ziyan's elder brother died in a mutiny in the army. He was lucky, and he didn't know how to persuade the emperor. Could it be that he wants Mr. Jinglue to follow the example of his elder brother Bi Zisu? Hmph, Even if things really come to this point, he will be dragged to death with his surname Bi!"

Bi Zisu was in charge of the governor of Guan Ning. He was a strong man. He was angry with the soldiers because of the army's salary.

Bi Ziyan was the Secretary of the Ministry of Household Affairs, his elder brother died in the military pay, and the soldiers mutinied, but now he did not dissuade the emperor from distributing the Liao pay, as if he wanted to put the closed officials in danger.You know, Liao soldiers are fierce, and they are officers and soldiers if they are paid, and they are bandit soldiers if they are paid.If it was because of the distribution of Liao's salary that the soldier's salary caused a mutiny, he could not escape the blame.So it's no wonder that Lu Ming said such cruel words.

Sun Chengzong sighed dejectedly, raised his right hand slightly, signaled Lu Ming to stop talking, then waved his hand to Zhou Shangmin disheartened, the latter hurriedly backed out cautiously upon seeing this.

After Zhou Shangmin went down, Sun Chengzong naively said to Lu Shanji and Lu Ming's uncle and nephew: "The matter has come to this point, so don't blame anyone else. I can only blame the old man for not calling Zu Dashou to repair the fort, which made it so Now it has come to the point where there is no penny."

The uncle and nephew of the Lu family hurriedly said: "My lord (teacher) must not say that. If you want to talk about responsibility, the lower officials (students) are also responsible..."

"okay."

Sun Chengzong interrupted them, thought for a while, and said to the uncle and nephew of the Lu family: "Go and contact some big and rich people in Ningyuan who have closed their doors, and see if you can borrow some money from them in the name of Jinglue Yamen. Let's pass this barrier in front of us."

"Don't worry, my lord (teacher), my subordinate (student) knows what to do." The uncle and nephew of the Lu family nodded in agreement.

Sun Chengzong gave a "hmm" and hesitated for a while, then suddenly looked at Shi Dayong, and asked him with deep meaning: "I don't know how General Shi sees Governor Qiu?"