Blood from Daming

Chapter 440 Money
The head of the Ministry of War, Qian Yuanxi, was familiar with military matters and was good at eloquent arguments, so he refuted Cui Chengxiu, the minister of the Ministry of War and the censor of the left capital. This time, not to mention the surprise of the officials, even the Emperor Tianqi couldn't help asking: "Qian Aiqing, now The East and West Route Army of Liao has been defeated, the Eight Banners of Jianzhou are looking around North Korea, and the Liaodong Economic and Strategy Office has no power to look north, so ordering the East Route Army to retreat to Ningjin by land is not self-inflicted."

The head of the Ministry of War, Qian Yuanxi, replied: "Your Majesty Qizuo, although I said that the Eastern Route Army returned to Liaodong by land, it did not turn back now. The imperial court can let the Eastern Route Army fight side by side with the North Korean country, so that Jianlu will suffer from the enemy. In this way, our Ningjin defense line in Liaodong can reduce the danger, and it is also conducive to the imperial court's calm layout in Liaodong. When the Yalu River and Shuangtaizi River are frozen, and when the Jianlu are out of winter, they can slowly withdraw to Liaodong."

After hearing this, Emperor Tianqi found it very reasonable and asked: "What do you think, dear ministers?"

Yan Mingtai, the right servant of the Ministry of War, stood up and said, "Your Majesty, Mr. Qian's plan is really good. As long as the Liaodong Army can withstand the short-term onslaught of the Jianzhou Eight Banners and the subsequent supply of food and weapons, I think this plan is feasible. .”

Emperor Tianqi set his sights on Qian Yuankui. Qian Yuankui did not expect that Yan Mingtai, who had always been at odds with him politically, came out to carry the flower sedan chair. Now the emperor and ministers were all looking at how he could explain.

Qian Yuanxi said: "Qizuo Emperor, North Korea is mountainous, easy to defend and difficult to attack. Our East Route Army rushes to help North Korea. North Korea is obliged to cooperate with the Ming army to fight. I believe that it is impossible to use North Korea's superior terrain to defend Jianlu's attack. No problem, besides, our troops on the Ningjin line in Liaodong can also respond to each other from a distance, as for the supply of food and weapons, this is a matter for the Ministry of War, Tianjin Lord Li, and Denglai Lord Yuan."

Cui Chengxiu, Minister of the Ministry of War, finally seized an opportunity to fight back and said, "Master Qian, the Ministry of War is poor, what will we use to support the Liaodong East Route Army in North Korea?"

Wang Jiazhen, the servant of the household department, quickly said: "Master Qian, the warehouse of our household department can't even hide the rats."

Qian Yuanxi despised Wang Jiazhen in his heart, and said in his heart that we are still allies, how can there be an ally like you, if you mention money, your relatives will deny it, maybe I, Qian Yuanxi, will be suffocated to death by urine, Shanren has his own way to solve it Open this moneyless dead end.

Qian Yuanxi said: "Show the emperor, the Liaodong Liaodong Army successively attacked the city and plundered the village, and also took down the Jianlu King City Liaoyang. The ginseng, fur and so on are exactly what my Ming needs urgently, and the money that I want to rescue the soldiers of the East Route Army in North Korea has a source of food, weapons and other materials."

When Qian Yuanxi said this, not to mention the stunned officials, even Emperor Tianqi was a little embarrassed. The majestic Ming Dynasty provided food, weapons and other supplies to its army, and asked the army to take the spoils in exchange for your money. Yuan Ji is shameless, and I, Zhu Youxiao, can't hold back my face yet.

Emperor Tianqi said: "I intend to discuss in detail with the Ministry of the Cabinet, together with the Ministry of Bing and the Second Ministry of Households, when the detailed victory memorial arrives. Today we only talk about the imperial court's great victory in Liaodong, so that's it."

The deacon eunuch shouted: "Retire."

As soon as the sky dawned in Beijing, every household was talking about celebrating the imperial court's victory in Liaodong, and Xue Rui, the head of the Xue family, knew the detailed battle situation of the Liaodong East Route Army two days ago. General Xue Er contributed the most, but Xue Rui couldn't tell anyone, and even held back for two days. Until today, when the court announced the official news of the victory in Liaodong, he was still vague and ambiguous.

Xue Rui knew that now the Eight Banners of Jianlu were encircling North Korea, Xue Er and the Liaodong Army were in a very dangerous situation, but Xue Rui could not mention it to anyone, so he told the imperial court, how could the remnants of the imperial court's defeated generals in Ningjin, Liaodong, Maybe it can help the Liaodong Army.

Today Xue Rui heavily rewarded the servants of the Xue family's deacons, saying that it was to add joy to the Xue family army's great victory in Liaodong, but Xue Rui secretly celebrated the killing of two arrogant people who dared to challenge the Xue family army's authority.

It turned out that Xue Zhuang received news early this morning that Wu Ermao and Wu Ren, who had burned the Xue family army's heavy camp in Zhonghou City, were secretly escorted to Xue Zhuang by Liaodong officers and soldiers to receive the reward. Xue Zhuang interrogated them by special means. After Wu Ermao and Wu Ren were found, and it was indeed Wu Ermao and Wu Ren, Xue Zhuang paid a bounty of 2000 taels of gold and 1000 taels of silver to the visitors.

When Xue Zhuang never heard from his mouth that Wu Sanfeng was injured and fled to Jinzhou, Xue Zhuang secretly promised that if they still hand over Wu Sanfeng's body or head, Xue Zhuang would be willing to buy it at a friendly price of 5000 taels of gold or 2000 taels of gold The visitor was overjoyed and left in a hurry with 2000 taels of gold and 1000 taels of silver.

Xue Rui did not expect that in just over a year, the Xue family would have a news network superior to that of the imperial court, and also have the financial resources to sit down and judge life and death. Now the Xue family is already the top power in both light and dark aspects of the Ming Dynasty, not to mention For ordinary aristocratic families, even if the court and the emperor want to move the Xue family, it is not an easy task.

In the next few days, memorials from the Liaodong Jinglue Mansion and some officials of Liaodong arrived. There was not much difference about the great victory in Liaodong. All Jurchen ministries, even Koreans and Liao people, and Yuan Chonghuan's memorial also mentioned that the Liaodong Army of Liaodong only captured the southern city of Liaoyang.

At this time, some officials from the imperial court took the opportunity to start attacking the Xue family, but most of the officials knew that the emperor was in the mood, and they didn't want to add trouble to the emperor at this time. The Xue family was dirty, so the number of memorials attacking Xue's family was insignificant.

Only some scholars and literati who had suffered from Xue's mansion ran in groups to throw bricks and stones in front of Xue's mansion. Who knew that Jin Yiwei was closely guarded and a dozen people were arrested. Some scholars, The literati were beaten up on the way home, and dozens of them will lie in their houses for several months.

Fortunately, it didn’t take long. The Liaodong East Route Army’s victory team that went ashore from Tianjin entered Beijing accompanied by Tianjin Governor Li Banghua. It was Shanhaiguan Governor Yu Anxing who led the Liaodong East Route Army’s victory team. After entering the city, he was recruited by Emperor Apocalypse to Dongnuange to face the saint.

Yu Anxing, the governor of Shanhaiguan, arrived at Dongnuan Pavilion. When he saw Emperor Tianqi, he handed over the memorial and the list of Jianlu’s property seized. Emperor Tianqi couldn’t help but glance at the list of Jianlu’s property. The monarch at the big scene also blushed, his ears red, his heart beat faster.

Emperor Apocalypse looked at the list of Jianlu's property, which read: The Liaodong East Route Army seized 3 shi of grain, weapons capable of arming 40 soldiers, a large amount of clothes, armor, nearly 500 cattle, alpacas, and horses, and more than [-] gold Two, [-] taels of silver, [-] boxes of jewelry, more than [-] catties of old ginseng, and [-] boxes of furs
Emperor Tianqi roughly calculated in his mind that the food, weapons, and a large amount of clothes, armor, and nearly 200 cattle, alpacas, and horses seized by the Liaodong East Route Army would not be transported back, but gold, silver, jewelry, old ginseng furs, etc. It is a real valuable item, at least it is worth [-] million silver. It turns out that you can make a lot of money in war.

Emperor Tianqi was in a good mood, and immediately ordered the little eunuch to bring Yu Anxing a warm stool. Yu Anxing thanked him and sat awkwardly, waiting quietly for the emperor to read the memorial he wrote.

Emperor Tianqi finished reading the memorial and asked: "Yu Qing, Xue Polu has contributed a lot to this memorial, but there is a memorial in Liaodong that says that he broke the captives, killed innocent people indiscriminately and wiped out humanity. There is this matter."

Yu Anxing said: "Qizuo to the emperor, please punish those who say this."

Emperor Tianqi said: "Yu Qing, what is the reason for this?"

Yu Anxing said: "Your Majesty, Qizuo, this person does not know the real situation in Liaoyang City, and he will be punished for maliciously slandering him."

Emperor Tianqi said: "Yu Qing, what is the real situation in Liaoyang City..."

Yu Anxing said: "Your Majesty, our East Route Army broke through Liaoyang City at night, but the army and civilians in Liaoyang City resisted fiercely, and the soldiers of the East Route Army suffered heavy casualties. After the city of Liaoyang, the generals and soldiers at all levels were consulted, and those rebels who dared to resist the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were executed. More than 2 Liao people who did not participate in the attack on our East Route Army have withdrawn to the territory of North Korea with the team. Waiting to return to the homeland of Ming Dynasty."

Emperor Tianqi said: "It turns out that these rebels should be killed, but the more than 2 Liao people will definitely settle them properly."

Yu Anxing said: "Your Majesty, in order to cover these Liao people from crossing the Yalu River, General Xue and Man Zongbing were besieged on the west bank of the Yalu River by the Abatai tribe of Jianlu, and almost died on the bank of the Yalu River. Let the emperor be the master."

Emperor Tianqi comforted: "Yu Qing, I will definitely investigate this matter thoroughly. Well, Duoduo, the youngest son of the chieftain mentioned in this memorial, can come to Beijing with the boat."

Yu Anxing replied: "Your Majesty, not only Duoduo brought it, but also the valuables captured by Jianlu were transported outside the Meridian Gate of the Forbidden City."

(End of this chapter)