Emperor Ming Dynasty

Chapter 593 Over Budget
However, with the progress of the autumn harvest, most of the north and south of the Ming Dynasty ended with a bumper harvest, no matter how bad it was, it would be an ordinary year, which made the people who had suffered for decades burst into tears.

Even to the point of unbelievable.

In Guizhou, where there are many mountains and little land, Guiyang Prefecture is located in a basin. Although it is mostly hilly, with an average elevation of about 100 meters, it still has a lot of cultivated land.

The joy of the autumn harvest was all over the faces of passers-by. Men, women and children were wearing short jackets, and some strange clothes could be seen intermittently. Many women even showed their navels, walking around without feeling ashamed.

Li Dingguo has become accustomed to this. In the past, he even saw women wearing underwear outside in some mountains, their breasts twitched violently when they jumped.

"Guiyang has a good harvest."

Looking at the market-like crowd, the guards at the side couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

"Harvest—"

When Li Dingguo heard this, joy flowed in his eyes.

When Shaowu came to Guizhou in the second year, the first thing he did was to restore the guards in various places, reclaim wasteland, and implement military settlements.

The arrival of the imperial court's [-] troops put great pressure on this barren province. If it hadn't been for the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, Ding Kuichu, who had sent [-] shi of grain from thousands of miles away (a man who went back and forth ate [-] shi, but actually got [-] shi), they would have already starving.

Yueliang has survived the summer, the army station, survived the autumn and winter, and this summer, it will be self-sufficient.

Now that the autumn harvest is here, can't we save the army rations?
When Li Dingguo thought of this, his heart became hot immediately, and he couldn't wait to ride his horse to the Yunnan-Guizhou Control Yamen.

When Gao Yigong went to Gansu, Li Dingguo was granted the title of General Soldier of Guizhou, while the ruler of Yunnan and Guizhou was Xuan Guogong Zhu Mou, who took full charge of the attack on Yunnan.

"Dingguo? Why are you here?"

Zhu Meng ate the freshly roasted wild boar leg, and looked at Li Dingguo who was in a hurry, and couldn't help but wonder.

"control!"

Li Dingguo showed a trace of embarrassment on his resolute face. It is not a good thing to disturb others' meals.

"Sit down!"

Zhu Meng didn't take it seriously, and asked someone to bring a bench, and asked him to sit down together.

For Li Dingguo, after getting acquainted with him for a year, Zhu Meng no longer has any prejudice against him, but has a great affection for him for his bravery and unyielding.

This Ming Dynasty lacks generals who are not afraid of death.

Li Dingguo was not polite either, he directly picked up a pork leg and gnawed on it, his cheeks bulging.

After a while, the two of them rubbed their bellies and looked at each other with a smile.

"Why didn't you go to inspect the guard, why did you come to me?"

Zhu Meng patted his big belly and asked with a smile.

"Regulations. Last year, the guards were rectified and military settlements were carried out. As far as I know, there are tens of thousands of hectares. Now I am afraid that the treasury is abundant, and it will be able to fight a battle."

Li Dingguo's voice was clear and loud, as if he didn't know what a turn was, and went straight.

"This year is considered to be some surplus food."

Zhu Meng showed a satisfied smile: "I'll tell you the truth, the military base alone can store [-] shi of grain this autumn, and Guizhou can also spend [-] to [-] shi."

"But it's not enough!"

At the end, Zhu Meng sighed.

Today, Guizhou has a total of 20,000 soldiers and horses, including the guards that were rebuilt last year. The real elite are only the [-] people left by He Tengjiao and the [-] people brought by the two of them.

For the conquest of Yunnan, more than [-] shi of grain wanted to be confiscated, and I was afraid that it would be gone as soon as it reached the border between the two provinces.

Li Dingguo refused to accept it, stood up, and said bluntly: "It's human effort. Last year, Guangdong sent 200,000 shi of grain. This year, if the weather is good, we can send 300,000, [-] shi."

"Hunan Province is newly established, but there are not many disasters, so we can send some military rations."

"If we wait any longer, the conquest of Yunnan may be far away."

"I have been waiting in Guizhou for a year. I heard that the Hetao in the north has been subdued, and Yunnan is still unknown. I am afraid that Your Majesty has forgotten us in Guizhou?"

"shut up!"

Zhu Meng's complexion changed, and he scolded: "How can your majesty think indiscriminately?"

"I will know my mistake at the end!"

Li Dingguo was heartbroken, and hurriedly bowed his hands.

"Let's go back!"

Zhu Meng lost interest, looked at his leaving back, and couldn't help shaking his head: "After all, he was born in a reckless family, and he needs to be trained more."

However, Li Dingguo said something to his heart. He stayed in Guizhou for more than a year in vain, and then he prepared military households and wiped out the students, but he couldn't get into the eyes of the emperor and the court.

Just farming slowly. At this time, Guizhou has only a million people, and it is not even comparable to Yunnan, so we can only wait to die.

It is urgent to regain Yunnan.

Forget it, he took out the secret box, wrote down the thoughts of the soldiers, mentioned the shortage of food, and revealed his thoughts in a few words, and then he was sent to Beijing.

The unimpeded sea transportation made it easy for letters to and from. The fast boat left northern Guangdong, and within a month, the secret box was in the hands of the emperor.

"Yunnan--"

The secret box letter did not need to go through the General Secretary, but went directly to the emperor.

This is the confidentiality system.

Later generations Kangxi created it, but only a hundred and 80 people were awarded, but Yongzheng carried it forward and expanded it to hundreds of thousands of people.

That's why Yongzheng was so exhausted that he couldn't breathe. Just these secret instructions were enough to make him want to die.

However, the content of the secret can not be seen by others, and most of them are nonsense to ask for peace. You can only bear it yourself, and you can only bear the suffering you planted by yourself.

For Zhu Yixi, he would not do this kind of suffering.

Now the secret box is only given to dozens of people, and it spreads all over the government, and they are all confidantes.

The courtiers and bureaucrats also know this, and the tendency to form cliques has dropped sharply. If you don’t keep your word, people will go to the emperor and use your official hat to get promoted and get rich.

"Yunnan?"

Zhu Yixi was startled, and came back to his senses.

During this period of time, I was busy moving the capital and preparing the frontier army, and I forgot about Yunnan.

In this way, Sun Kewang has been farming in Yunnan for three or four years, so he should make a move.

The intruder escaped after being beaten, and the western thief was not far away.

"Order the Chief of Staff to formulate the marching regulations."

When the emperor issued an order, the staff officer who had not moved for a long time was immediately overwhelmed.

Fighting a war is planning and logistics.

For example, the amount of military rations, where to raise them, whether there are enough equipment, what kind of firearms, how many civilians should be transferred, mules and horses to carry them, all these need to be worked out by the Chief of Staff.

Of course, if you don't think about victory, you should think about defeat first, and all the logistics, materials, soldiers and horses must be prepared in advance and ready to respond.

After a rough plan was drawn up, the emperor asked the cabinet to draft the imperial edict, and the edict for the battle had to be strict.

The six ministries and local yamen cannot rest either.

The Ministry of War has to consider how many more soldiers and horses to send, equipment to support subsequent development, the Ministry of Households considers the storage of food in each province, the Ministry of Rites prepares to appease the Yunnan Propaganda Department, the Ministry of Industry prepares for the road repair project in Yunnan and Guizhou, and the Ministry of Officials begins to plan the appointment and dismissal of officials. In order to stabilize Yunnan in the shortest possible time...

It is also difficult for the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies to be idle. There are also military households in the Yunnan-Guizhou area, which happens to be what they should manage.

I was busy all the way, and finally found that the money had exceeded the budget.

(End of this chapter)