The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 718
Chongzhen had long called on all major military towns on the frontiers to hoard land and train their own soldiers. Now only Tianjin, Jizhen, Dongjiang Town, and Lushun Town are doing better, they are self-sufficient, and they don’t need the imperial court’s military pay. And the chief soldiers of these towns , are all from Dongjiang Town.

Cai Maode is already thinking beautifully in his heart at this moment, after a year or two, my Datong Town will be self-sufficient, and the pressure on the imperial court from the nine border towns will be less and less.

If all major towns were like this, the imperial court would have spare money to deal with Jiannu and the peasant army, so he cooperated enthusiastically with Ding Yi.

After Ding Yi saw the roster, he was quite speechless when compared with reality.

According to the roster, three years after Chongzhen, there should be [-] soldiers and [-] horses in Datong Town.

According to the information obtained from Hong Mozhang, the prefect of Datong, and the General Military Office of Datong.

The actual number of Zhenrui soldiers in Datong is now more than 3, and the number of horses is less than [-].

Of course, in the previous battle of Songjin, he was wiped out for a while and swallowed by Ding Yi.

But calculating in this way, the local generals, at least ate nothing, and ate about half of it, which was worse than when they were in Dengzhou.

For the guards and battalion soldiers in Dengzhou, it is considered cruel to eat one-third of their salary.

Directly half here.

In addition, according to the information obtained from Datong Prefecture, Datong Prefecture governs four states and seven counties, and its area is slightly larger than that of Denglai and Denglai Prefectures combined. The actual grain fields are probably more than 240 million mu.

With such a big gap, apart from a large number of officials and gentry who do not need to pay taxes and are not included in the statistics, there are also the fields of the kings.

Shanxi is one of the provinces with the largest number of vassal clans.

Wang Shizhen, the procurator of Shanxi during the Jiajing period, made statistics in those years. At that time, the distribution of the clan population was the largest among the eight provinces except the capital, and the total accounted for 41.1% of the eight provinces.

In the 13th year of Jiajing's reign, Zong Lu, the master of the Shanxi vassal king, was 95 shi a year.

It can be seen how far the Shanxi clan had developed at that time.

Statistics in the 37th year of Wanli (1609), Qiao Yun, the governor of Shanxi, said: "Datong is the place where the vassals were enfeoffed, and Shanxi is the place where the Jin and Shen vassals were enfeoffed. Shu Zong didn't agree with him.

In Wanli, the population of the clan far exceeded that of Jiajing, and there were 8000 people who took Zonglu.

When it came to Chongzhen, now only the Datong Dynasty's palace had a yearly expenditure of 12 million shi.

The local tax land is 240 million mu, and an average tax of five buckets per mu is enough to pay for the royal family.

In this year's situation, the imperial court can't afford it, and natural disasters everywhere in the south of the Yangtze River have resulted in loss of harvest. In addition, there is a larger Jin Palace in Taiyuan. Chongzhen must have a headache now.

After Ding Yi read all the materials, he already knew it.

He provided rice porridge and rice cakes to the refugees in the city to drive them to build military camps, craft bureaus, warehouses and other facilities for themselves.

At the same time, find a way to take the soldiers and horses of Datong Town into the pack first, and expand their own strength.

There are currently about [-] actual soldiers and horses in Datong, mainly distributed in the three cities of Nanguan, Beiguan, and Dongguan, and more than [-] in the guards outside Datong.

In addition, Jiang Yu, the deputy general, has five hundred family members. He has a camp around the Jiang Mansion in the west of the city, covering an area of ​​more than 200 mu. There is a playground called "Xuanwu Field" specially for his family members to train soldiers.

Shenjiang Wang's family is in the east of the city, on the same street as Jiang's house, covering an area of ​​more than 200 mu, and there are also [-] family members in the family.

Before Ding Yi came, Wang Quan led the East Gate, and there were about six or seven thousand soldiers and horses. The empty salary here was equivalent to that of their Wang family. When his brother was there, the merchants entered from the east gate, and the money here was collected. The money also belongs to their royal family.

Jiang Guan led the Nanguan, and there were about seven or eight thousand soldiers and horses. The empty salary here was equivalent to their Jiang family eating.

There are nearly [-] people in Beiguan. It was originally led by Wang Pu himself. Now that Wang Pu is dead, Zhang Chenghu, a general, is leading here.

Zhang Chenghu was transferred by the Xuanfu, not from the Wang family or the Jiang family.

After Ding Yi arrived in Datong, he was assassinated by an assassin, and then carefully guarded outside the city, and then began to investigate the assassin.

All the generals and ministries of Datong were watching with cold eyes, watching Ding Yi's jokes.

See if he can get a foothold here.

When Jin Guofeng went to Ningyuan to serve as the general soldier, he still could not command the troops. In the end, he was forced to take his son and family members to fight the Qing soldiers to the death. The court had no choice but to let the local Wu Sangui be the general soldier.

Perhaps in the eyes of Wang Quan and Jiang Guan, Ding Yi's fate will be the same as Jin Guofeng's in the future.

So Ding Yi was stationed outside the city, just in line with their wishes, just to live a good life in Datong.

Ding Yi originally wanted to call them to a meeting and solve them like Denglai did back then.

On May [-]th, Ding Yi, in the name of the General Army of Datong, tried to convene a meeting of more than a thousand generals from each battalion.

In the end, Jiang Yu, the deputy commander, said that he fell from a horse during training, and refused because of his inconvenient legs and feet.

General Wang Quan refused the menstrual cycle on the grounds that he was suffering from a cold and was not feeling well.

Dozens of generals, including General Zhang Chenghu, General Xu Fenghe, Guerrilla Duan Haiguang, and Guerrilla Zong Guoquan, used various excuses for not coming.

Finally arrived at the scene, a total of five thousand total.

Among them, there are three chief executives who are respectful on the surface, but their eyes are domineering, and they don't pay attention to Ding Yi at all.

The other two chief executives, one named Yao Qi and the other Wu Zhiyu, immediately bowed to each other as soon as they entered the camp: "The humble Yao Qi and Wu Zhiyu pay their respects to the chief soldier."

The other three bent down, smiling, but did not kneel down.

Yan Xiong gave the three of them a cold look, but didn't hum.

Ding Yi didn't seem to take it seriously, and laughed loudly: "All brothers, get up, you are all your own, come here."

Ding Yi waved his hand, and a soldier behind him brought a plate with 100 taels of silver on it.

"Here is 100 taels of silver, everyone will share it."

"Thank you, Chief Soldier." The other three were overjoyed, and went forward to take it without being polite.

Yao Qi and Wu Zhiyu looked at each other, and quickly said thanks.

The other three despise Ding Yi even more in their eyes, trying to win us over with money?You're overthinking, this is the territory of the Jiang family and the Wang family.

This place is different from Denglai. The Wang and Jiang families are deeply entrenched in the local area. There are thousands of elite servants in the two families, and almost all of them are promoted by their cronies in the whole town.

To be honest, as long as Jiang Guan and Wang Quan raised their arms and shouted, the more than 2 soldiers and horses guarding the three cities of the two families would dare to attack Ding Yi directly.

So they didn't take Ding Yi seriously.

Ding Yi didn't seem to care that so few people came today, so he took the five of them to chat.

In the words, I was very helpless, saying that I didn't want Datong to be stationed in the town, but His Majesty wanted me to come here.

Actually, I don't want to compete with Vice General Jiang for the position of the chief soldier. I thought, I'll hang around for a year or so, and then I'll ask the Holy Lord for instructions to move to another town and let me out of the chief soldier.

The other three had complacent expressions on their faces, and the one surnamed Ding was self-aware, knowing that he had robbed Jiang Tuan of the position of commander-in-chief, which is annoying.

After listening to Yao Qi, he remained calm, but looked at Ding Yi meaningfully. The Ding Yi he heard was not the kind of person who is easy to give up.

On the other hand, Wu Zhiyu was more honest. He seemed to believe it. After thinking about it, he decisively reminded Ding Yi: "General Ding can ask the Dai Wang for help to ease the relationship with the generals. Dai Wang is a man who is easy to talk to."

Then Wu Zhiyu glanced at a plate of silver in the distance, which was to remind Ding Yi that as long as he gave some money to the Dai Wang, the Dai Wang was willing to be a peacemaker, and Jiang Yu and Wang Quan always wanted to show the Dai Wang some face.

"Thank you, Mr. Wu Qian, for reminding me." Ding Yi slapped his thigh and suddenly realized.

On May [-], Dai Wang once again hosted a banquet for more than a thousand generals in Datong Town.

The current acting king is Zhu Chuan, who was hereditary in the 13th year of Chongzhen (1640). He is relatively young, probably in his early twenties.

When he received the news, Jiang Guan was in the mansion, discussing matters with several cronies, generals, Guerrilla and President Qian.

Someone immediately laughed: "Ding Yi really believed it, this guy actually believed what Wu Zhiyu gave him yesterday? Hahaha."

"You can't say that, we still have to give the king's face." Someone laughed.

Jiang Yan squinted his eyes, stroked the few beards on his chin, and sneered: "It's useless to save face as the king, you bastard, you stole my position in the general army, and you still want to live a good life here?"

He couldn't forget his position in the army, and he insisted on embarrassing Ding Yi.

"Chief Town, shall we go?" a subordinate asked.

"Go to hell." Jiang Guan shook his head directly.

"But acting on behalf of the king?" someone asked.

"So what about Dai Wang?" Jiang Guan didn't pay attention to Dai Wang.

At that moment, they decided not to give the acting king any face, nor to go.

But at this moment, someone called outside, and Wang Quan came.

"Brother Wang, please come in." Jiang Yan said with a smile.

The relationship between these two families is very good. At the beginning, the imperial court was afraid that the Jiang family would become powerful, so they asked Wang Pu to be the commander-in-chief, and Jiang Rang went to Yulin to be the commander-in-chief. Back to Jiang's house, Wang Quan just needs to be a deputy commander in chief.

If Ding Yi doesn't come this time, Jiang Yu will be the commander-in-chief, and Wang Quan will fill Jiang Yu's deputy commander-in-chief, and both will benefit.

Now that Ding Yi came, both of them stayed put, of course they hated Ding Yi.

"Brother Wang."

"Brother Jiang."

The two met very cordially.

After the whole body of the king, he also brought a wave of generals, Guerrilla and Mr. Qian, who were promoted by their Wang family.

The generals led by the two accounted for more than [-]% of Datong Town.

"Brother Jiang, what do you say, are you going to Daiwang's Mansion for dinner today?"

"Of course not, Ding Yi must come to beg us." Jiang Yu laughed.

"Why don't you go?" Wang Quan laughed back.

"?" Jiang Yu didn't understand what he meant.

"We should humiliate him in front of Dai Wang." Wang Quan grinned grimly: "He thought it would be useful to invite Dai Wang? Dai Wang is doing things with money, and if he wants to be a peacemaker, it depends on our brother's mood." .”

"Is there anything more enjoyable than humiliating him in front of Dai Wang?"

"Hahaha." Jiang Yan laughed loudly and patted Wang Quan on the shoulder: "It makes sense, you should go, you should go."

At that moment, the two agreed not only to go, but also to go there with great fanfare, and even to humiliate Ding Yi in front of the acting king.

At this time, a guerrilla general under Jiang Tuan's subordinates carefully reminded him: "I heard that when Ding Yi was the commander-in-chief in Denglai, he used the name of discussion to deprive the officers and soldiers of the subordinates. If we go, will it be a banquet?"

"What the hell, how dare he do this in Daiwang's mansion?"

"Don't even look at where this is?"

"Can those trash in Denglai compare with us?" Wang Quan sneered.

Guerrilla smiled wryly and didn't dare to say any more.

Indeed, at this time, no one would believe that Ding Yi dared to do anything in Daiwangfu.

(End of this chapter)