Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 15 The gap between the salaries of the tens of millions of troops
"anything else?"

In Qianqing palace, Zhu Youxiao was interested by what Zhu Youjian said, grabbed Zhu Youjian's hand, and sat on the chair next to him. The eunuch in the palace brought two bowls of sour plum soup with interest.

"And..." Zhu Youjian said with a wry smile:
"Elder brother and younger brother only know so much, no matter how much, younger brother really can't tell."

"Er..." Zhu Youxiao was taken aback for a moment, then smiled again:
"That's right, it's something that even the officials in the court can't discuss. My brother can think so clearly when he's only ten years old. It's hard to think about this kind of thing."

"Since that's the case, then elder brother will make an order now, first transfer the Shizhu native soldiers and Zhejiang soldiers to guard Liaoshen respectively, and abolish the Liaoshen soldiers and horses."

"No!" Hearing this, Zhu Youjian became anxious, and quickly stopped him:

"Brother, you can't. If you want to do this, you must send Tiqi to step up day and night, and urge the two troops to march quickly."

"First order to be transferred to Changping, and temporarily confer the official positions of Shenyang General Soldier and Liaoyang General Soldier, but we cannot directly say that they should disarm the Liaoshen army."

"Why?" Zhu Youxiao smiled, obviously knowing the way, but he still wanted to see what Zhu Youjian said.

Zhu Youjian had no choice but to explain clearly:

"The [-] soldiers and horses in Liaoshen and Shenyang towns, if the edict is issued now, I am afraid they will all flee into the countryside within a month. By then, Liaoshen will be empty and may be occupied by old slaves."

"This matter should be done quietly and carefully, and no outsiders will know."

"We must first let these two troops enter Liaoshen, and then announce the abolition of Liaoshen troops, so as to be safe."

"At that time, even the [-] Liaoshen army will rebel, and they will be easily suppressed."

"Are you so confident?" Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but glance sideways at Zhu Youjian.

After all, what he said was that the southern soldiers with a combined number of no more than [-] could suppress the [-] Liaodong soldiers.

"My brother is not self-confident, but understands the combat power of the southern soldiers and the northern soldiers." Zhu Youjian explained helplessly:

"I am a soldier and horse, and one side is always strong and the other side is weak."

"In the early years, the northern soldiers were strong because the Mongols in the north kept attacking the border, and the Jurchens were chaotic, so there were often wars, and the northern soldiers were also powerful."

"It's just that after Li Rusong's death in battle, the soldiers in the north have deteriorated day by day. Li Rubai, now the government and the public say that he is a traitor, but he has lived at home for [-] years, and he doesn't know that Liao Town's soldiers and horses are ruined."

"In the Battle of Saerhu, the troops under Li Rubai's command were no longer the Liaodong iron cavalry left behind by Li Chengliang."

"Therefore, the southern soldiers are not stronger than the northern soldiers, but the Shizhu chieftain soldiers in the southern soldiers and the Zhejiang soldiers trained by Qi Jin are stronger."

Zhu Youjian's words are not to reverse Li Rubai's case.

To put it bluntly, everyone is responsible for the Battle of Salhu, and Li Rubai is also responsible, but he should not be held accountable for all of it.

He had been retired for [-] years, and he was [-] years old. The Ministry of War suddenly revived him, which essentially meant that no one was available.

Li Rubai was only a vanguard under Li Rusong's tent, and he did not manage the army strictly.

The Ministry of War did not give him time to train soldiers, and the troops under his command were left by the former chief soldier.

A sixty-eight-year-old veteran, all under his command are other people's soldiers.

As a result, he led a group of mobs in a hurry. He had just met the Houjin soldiers and horses, and before he gave the order to set up the formation, his formation was in disarray, trampling thousands of people on his side to death.

In the Battle of Salhu, someone must have betrayed information, but this person may not necessarily be Li Rubai, he may be a Liao man who was bought, or Li Rubai's wife and concubine, or even someone from North Korea.

Xiong Tingbi himself once said: "Many Liao people turned into slaves, and there are many strangers in the city."

In short, all the reasons are the result of the eunuch Gao Huai's chaos in the Liao Dynasty, which caused the Liao people to distrust the Ming Dynasty and get close to Mongolia and the establishment of slaves.

Now to think about who betrayed the information, it is better to think about how to stabilize the situation in Liaodong.

Zhu Youjian didn't need to think too much about the strength of the Zhejiang soldiers and the Baigan soldiers. As long as the imperial court ordered it, it would be a breeze to suppress the [-] mobs in Liaoshen and Shenyang.

In Liaodong, as long as they stick to the city, and Nurhachi has no artillery, these two cities alone are enough to kill tens of thousands of people.

Of course, the premise of all this is that his idea can be realized by Zhu Youxiao.

So he looked at Zhu Youxiao, and Zhu Youxiao was also thinking.

After a few seconds, he said: "I will let people do the matter of the Shizhu native soldiers and the Zhe soldiers, but you haven't made it clear, brother, about the military pay of the Nine Frontiers."

"In your opinion, how much should the Nine Sides sound? Should we pay the military salary owed this year directly, or wait?"

Zhu Youxiao is still worried about money, and Zhu Youjian can only explain this:
"Brother Yichen sees that the soldiers in each town can be given two taels of silver to pay back the debt."

“九边兵马、辽东镇26万，蓟州镇8万6000人，宣府镇驻军兵力8万4000人，这三镇总共43万人。”

"Datong Town has more than 7.6 troops, Taiyuan Town has 5.3 troops, and Yulin Town has 4.5 troops. These three towns have a total of 17.4 troops."

"Afterwards, the garrison in Guyuan Township has nearly 6 troops, the garrison in Ningxia Town has about 2.5 troops, and the garrison in Gansu Town has about 4 troops. These three towns have a total of 12.4 troops."

"Therefore, there are a total of 72 people in the nine towns of Yanbian. According to two taels of silver per person, that is 9000 million taels of silver."

"After this announcement, there is still 147 taels of silver owed."

"However, once the new year is over, I owe another 1022 taels of silver..."

Speaking of this, Zhu Youjian smiled helplessly, just because he knew that there were nearly [-] people in Mali, and only less than [-] could fight.

In addition to defending the Great Wall, the limit of mobilization is [-] soldiers and horses, which is also the property of the Ming army in the Battle of Songjin.

Even if [-] soldiers and horses in Liaodong Town were abolished, the military expenditure would be reduced by less than [-] taels at most.

Therefore, after he reported the long list of military salaries, Zhu Youxiao's face immediately turned ugly.

Judging from the finances of the Ming Dynasty, there were only [-] million taels of rice and wheat, plus about [-] million taels of miscellaneous items, tens of thousands of taels of silver in commercial taxes, and [-] million taels of domestic revenue. .

However, among them, the fixed silver taels for raising the imperial clan in the world is [-] million taels, and the local government has to keep [-]% of it, and the soldiers and horses in the west and south have to spend [-] million taels of grain.

Calculated in this way, what was left to Zhu Youxiao was only [-] million shi of grain, or about [-] million taels.

With this kind of financial income, raising [-] soldiers and horses and tens of millions of military pay is almost like a dream.

So from the death of Zhang Juzheng in the late Ming Dynasty, Jiubian often rang.

In this regard, what Zhu Youjian can do is to comfort Zhu Youxiao:
"Brother, don't worry. My brother will go to the Yumajian for inspection in a few days, and he will find a way to use the Huangdian and Huangzhuang to earn some money for my brother."

"Pfft..." Zhu Youxiao suddenly laughed, looking at the immature Zhu Youjian and said with a smile:

"What is the use of the hundreds of thousands of taels of silver from the Yumajian? Brother, keep the flowers for yourself."

Zhu Youxiao joked about Zhu Youjian, but he still felt very warm because of his brother's words.

He couldn't help but clenched Zhu Youjian's hand, with a very happy smile on his face...

(End of this chapter)