Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 161
"Damn it! I'm blowing wind and eating snow in Liaodong, and the court treats me like this?!"

"Call Zongbing Yang to go up and comment! Why should the three towns in Shanxi and the guards in Shanxi be abolished!"

On October [-]th of the first year of Tianqi, hundreds of Shanxi soldiers and horse officers who aided Liao Dynasty gathered at the gate of the Shenyang General Army's mansion along with shouts.

They yelled, but soon the yelling was met with a response.

Suddenly, the sound of armor appeared, followed by white soldiers in cloth armor, Liao soldiers and Ji soldiers in armor, pouring out from the alley.

In just a quarter of an hour, they were besieged by thousands of soldiers and horses. At this time, the gate of the commander's mansion was also opened. Qin Bangping walked out first, followed by He Shixian, You Shigong, Yang Zhaoji, Lu Qin, Zhang Jixian and others.

"What are you doing?! Are you going to rebel?!"

Qin Bangping yelled at hundreds of officers, completely disregarding Yang Zhaoji's face.

The three of them stood behind Qin Bangping, and behind the three of them were He Shixian and You Shigong.

Standing in the middle, Zhang Jixian was sweating coldly on his forehead. He had no doubt that He Shixian and You Shigong would draw their swords against him if he dared to incite soldiers and horses.

The three of Zhang Jixian did not speak easily, which made the more than [-] Shanxi officers who were reprimanded lose their courage.

At the end of October, there was already a light snowfall in Liaodong, but at this moment, the more than [-] officers in Shanxi felt flushed and their blood was surging.

They originally wanted to hold their own troops and use power to overwhelm others, but they didn't expect that Qin Bangping had already prepared troops and waited for them for a long time.

"Damn... Li Big Eye, let someone fight with them by firing arrows!"

Among the officers, one opened his mouth cautiously, but the general standing in the front showed embarrassment.

They just want to ask for an explanation and give the court the illusion that they dare to rebel.

But the problem is, this is just an illusion. If it is real, how many people would dare to play it?

This is not Shanxi. If it were in Shanxi, there would still be people supplying food and grass, but here, where would the people of Liaodong care about their lives?

Take refuge in Nurhachi?Don't be kidding, in addition to their nearly [-] Shanxi soldiers and horses in Shenyang City, there are also nearly [-] Sichuan and Liao soldiers and horses.

The gates of the city are guarded by soldiers and horses from Sichuan and Liao. As long as they guard the top of the city, even if they want to break the city, it will take a long time.

The distance from Shenyang to Liaoyang is only a hundred miles. If they can't attack Shenyang City in an hour, then more than [-] Zhejiang cavalry from Liaoyang will approach the city, and more than [-] Zhejiang soldiers will arrive one after another in four hours.

Not to mention that Man Gui recently led the soldiers and horses of the Three Guards of Daning to farm outside the Great Wall a hundred and thirty miles to the west.

What's more, if they really want to rebel, they must be ready to put all their eggs in one basket and abandon all their wives and children in Shanxi.

Therefore, rebellion is impossible. It is okay to fight from Shaanxi to Shanxi, but it is just a joke to fight from Liaodong to Shanxi.

The Sixteenth Guards Army and the Twelve Arch Guards Battalion in Beizhili did not eat dry food.

"The abolition of the three towns and the guards in Shanxi is the will of Long Live. The officials of the guards will be abolished, and the official positions will be retained, and the rest of the guards will be confiscated."

"The local battalion will be merged into the [-]th Gongwei Battalion outside Shanxi, and the military salary will be fifteen taels!"

Qin Bangping told the news about the battalion soldiers and guards staying in Shanxi, and some lower-ranking officers were surprised when they heard this, and they hid in the crowd and yelled:

"What about us?"

"Yeah, what about us?"

"It's impossible for us to become motherless children!"

When one person spoke, a large number of battalion officers immediately asked about their placement, and Qin Bangping also said to them:

"According to the will of Long Live, you and others compiled Shenyang, Zhenjiang, Liaoyang, Jinzhou, Fenghuang City, Kuandian and other cities into the Liaodong [-]th Battalion."

"You and others will disrupt Shenyang's troops and transfer them to Fengji Fort, Wang Daren Tun, Wujing Yingbao, Weining Yingbao, Haizhou, Gaizhou, Fuzhou and other places. Rise to fifteen taels."

Qin Bangping's words instantly calmed down the [-] officers who had been making a fuss.

The officers' salaries have been increased fivefold, which means that the annual salary of the generals has risen from [-] taels to [-] taels, and the guerrilla salary has also increased to more than [-] taels.

The lowest captain, calculated according to the salary of a ninth-rank official, also has a military salary of ninety-five taels, which is simply...

For a moment, more than [-] of the [-] officers suddenly stopped talking, just because their official positions were post commanders, and each post was in charge of [-] people. But there are only two hundred people.

Their previous military salary was only nineteen taels of silver per year, even if they were empty, it was only sixty or seventy taels of silver, but now the legal increase has suddenly increased by five times, and their annual salary is suddenly close to a hundred taels. Naturally, they do not want to follow the rebellion up.

In this way, the rest of the middle and high-level officers of the Bailai number will be anxious.

They can eat thousands of taels of silver at one bite, and the higher the position, the more points they get, so naturally they won't be able to satisfy the salary of more than four hundred taels of silver, so they immediately looked at Qin Bangping and the others.

"Come on!"

Suddenly, Qin Bangping pointed at the middle and high-level officers of the Bailai, and said:

"The officers who did not leave after a stick of incense were arrested and imprisoned one after another, and handed over to the military department for disposal!"

"Yes!" The besieging officers and soldiers responded one after another, which made the mid-level and high-level officers who only had a hundred or so people feel uneasy.

As for the more than [-] whistle chiefs, they had already retreated a few steps, and only a few twenty or so front whistle chiefs stayed by their side.

In the family system of the late Ming Dynasty, even the battalion soldiers were divided into ranks, and the front team was basically served by the general's cronies, with the best treatment and the most money, so naturally they were unwilling to abandon their own generals.

But even though they were unwilling to give up, facing the dangling spears of the white soldiers, most of the officers swallowed and retreated.

In this way, there were only about thirty stubborn officers left.

"call!"

All of a sudden, the surrounding white soldiers took a step forward, instantly causing the thirty people to take a few steps back, and in a panic, some people retreated.

And this retreat means that everyone has retreated cleanly.

A raging soldier, and a raging nest.

This sentence does not only refer to the generals, but more accusations against these generals.

If all the generals in the three towns of Shanxi were fearless, brave and good at fighting, I Dahan would not have been arrogant on the side wall of Shanxi for decades.

The brave ones either died or were promoted, and the rest were those who could not achieve high or low.

A group of guys who couldn't even make a mutiny were disrupted by Qin Bangping, and mixed nine thousand Yongping Ji soldiers and seven thousand Liao soldiers from Shenyang City into them, and found an excuse to abolish the most stubborn thirty-odd people Officers, put General Ji Bing and General Liao on top.

Some generals who stood out from the white pole soldiers were also placed among them. In the end, [-] Shanxi soldiers were merged with the [-] Sichuan and Liao Ji soldiers to form [-] battalions.

According to Zhu Youjian's order, seven battalions of soldiers and horses were transferred to Fengji, Haizhou and other places, and finally only eight battalions were left to garrison Shenyang City.

Even so, counting the auxiliary soldiers, there are still nearly [-] soldiers stationed in Shenyang, which is far from a place where Nurhachi can head-on.

The follow-up of the three towns in Shanxi is over, but Zhu Youjian's arrangement has made some people vigilant.

But such vigilance was swallowed up by a piece of news on the first day of the winter month.

Li Rubai, Li Ruzhen, and Yang Gao were pardoned.

Not only that, but Li Rubai was reinstated as the commander-in-chief of Guyuan Town, Li Ruzhen was appointed as the deputy commander-in-chief, and Yang Gao was appointed as the minister of the Ministry of Rites. After the spring, he went to North Korea for inspection.

When this news spread, Xiong Tingbi of Guangning was the first to think it was impossible, because he knew that Li Rubai and Li Ruzhen were involved because of party disputes.

But I didn't expect that the emperor didn't kill them now, but appointed them as officials after letting them go.

"In my opinion, how about transferring Zhu Wanliang and others to Guyuan while it's at the moment?"

In Guangning Jinglue Mansion, Yuan Yingtai was advising Xiong Tingbi who was sitting next to him, and Xiong Tingbi was also a little melancholy upon hearing this.

Zhu Wanliang, Jiang Bi and other troops involved with the Li family were more laborious for him to command.

In the current situation where Karaqin is safe and secure, fried flowers are grazing with peace of mind, and there are three guards in Daning under Mangui's command outside the Great Wall, the importance of Guangning has greatly declined.

It can be said that at present they only have two responsibilities, that is, to protect the Liaoxi Corridor and to support Liaoshen.

As a result, the [-] to [-] Liao soldiers west of the Liaohe River are a bit too much.

Especially after King Qi established the [-]th Battalion of Liao Town, the number of soldiers and horses in Liao Town has reached [-].

At this time, instead of keeping Zhu Wanliang and others, it is better to be a favor and transfer them to Li Rubai to go to the northwest.

With the transfer of [-] soldiers from Zhu Wanliang and others, more than [-] ordinary Liao soldiers who are just waiting to die will be abolished. Without Zhu Youjian's actions, the military pay of Liao Town can be reduced.

Logically speaking, the transfer of Zhu Wanliang and others would be of great benefit to Xiong Tingbi, but he was very sad.

Because if Zhu Wanliang and others were transferred, he would need to recruit more troops.

Therefore, he needs to recruit another [-] to [-] soldiers to defend the Liaoxi Corridor and Guangning, and he does not want to recruit troops in Liaodong, so he is melancholy.

Facing Yuan Yingtai's suggestion, Xiong Tingbi got up and took a step, and after a few seconds, he opened his mouth and said:

"I need to ask King Qi about this matter. If King Qi is willing to recruit another [-] soldiers for Liao Town in Shanxi and Ji Town, then Zhu Wanliang and others can be transferred."

"Qi Wang is reasonable, and he has been abolishing the guards, so he must agree to Fei Bai's Shangshu." Yuan Yingtai comforted Xiong Tingbi.

But when he said this, Xiong Tingbi suddenly became confident, left the hall after saying "I'll write a letter".

On the contrary, once he left, Yuan Yingtai felt uncomfortable, because there were hundreds of affairs in the meeting hall, big and small, in Liaodong.

Helpless, he could only concentrate on dealing with it, and the letter written by Xiong Tingbi was delivered to Zhu Youjian five days later.

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"Your Highness, Xiong Jinglue has sent a letter. Another group of people who claim to be Li Rubai's servants have come to the camp gate, and they are here to ask His Highness."

"Li Rubai's servant?"

Zhu Youjian, who was warming up in the barracks, watched Lu Wenzhao lift the curtain of the big tent, and saw him handing out a letter with both hands.

Zhu Youjian, who received the letter, asked, "What do those servants mean?"

"The people below didn't ask, but they brought a load of gold and silver, probably to thank His Highness." Lu Wenzhao responded.

"In this case, let their leader come in." Zhu Youjian said while opening the letter.

Seeing this, Lu Wenzhao sent someone to call Li Rubai's servant, and Zhu Youjian glanced at ten lines and quickly read the letter.

Xiong Tingbi's thoughts were known to him, so he couldn't help feeling a little surprised.

If Xiong Tingbi and the others really follow their ideas and take advantage of this opportunity to transfer [-] soldiers from Liaodong to Guyuan, Shaanxi, not only will Li Rubai attack the Ordos Department in Hetao, but also take the opportunity to solve the affairs of Liaodong.

Either way, it's a good deal.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian was thinking about the difficulty of implementing this matter.

But after a stick of incense passed, before he could think of how to solve it, he heard a voice outside the tent.

"Li Mingzhu from the Li family in Tieling, Eastern Liaodong, please see His Royal Highness King Qi..."

"Come in!" Hearing the voice from outside the tent, Zhu Youjian called back, and at this time the curtain was also pulled aside by the guards of Xiaoqi at the door.

I saw a middle-aged general in his thirties coming, then handed over his saber at the door, took off his pocket, and then walked into the military tent.

"Li family, Li Mingzhu, see His Royal Highness King Qi!"

Li Mingzhu knelt down on one knee and bowed his hands, while Zhu Youjian nodded slightly: "Get up."

Li Mingzhu stood up, and Zhu Youjian looked at him and said, "Tell me, what did Li Rubai ask you to do?"

"My father heard that he was able to pardon this time, which is a good word from His Royal Highness King Qi, so he asked the general to come here to give some small things. This is the gift list..." Li Mingzhu took out the blue gift list from his arms and handed it to Lu Wenzhao.

After Lu Wenzhao received it, he stepped forward and put it on Zhu Youjian's case.

He glanced at it, and found that it was thirty thousand taels of silver, as well as various jewels such as Dongzhu and pearls. It can only be said that it is indeed the Li family's army that has occupied Liaodong for half a century.

"My father wants to trouble Your Highness with one more thing..."

Li Mingzhu continued to salute and opened his mouth, which made Zhu Youjian curious: "Tell me."

"My father heard that Man Gui, a general under His Royal Highness, defeated the Bayo tribe and captured the concubine of the Bayue tribe..." Li Mingzhu said unnaturally:

"To tell you the truth, Your Highness, my father's seventh concubine is the second daughter of Shuerhaqi, and the concubine of the Bayue department is his younger sister with the same father and mother. Therefore, I would like to ask Your Highness to return the concubine to the Li family."

"If you don't tell me, I've forgotten about it..." Zhu Youjian then remembered that Man Gui had arrested the concubine of the Bayue department.

However, because Shuerhaqi conspired to unite Li's secessionist Jin, he was imprisoned to death by Nurhachi.

This so-called concubine of the Bayue tribe is dispensable to Nurhachi, and has no use value. It doesn't matter whether she is dead or alive, so Zhu Youjian and Zhu Youxiao don't care.

Thinking about it this way, almost half a year has passed, and I don't know whether the person is dead or alive.

Therefore, Zhu Youjian looked at Lu Wenzhao and said, "Where is the concubine of the Bayue tribe now?"

"Returning to Your Highness, I was sent to Mingshifang in the capital by Man Gui two months ago and imprisoned." Lu Wenzhao bowed, and Zhu Youjian also said to him when he heard the words:

"Since she's still alive, let her go."

The concubine of the Bayue tribe is called Sun Dai. Although she was used to marry her and she is also very young, she is not beautiful, and Zhu Youjian has no other thoughts.

As soon as he waved his hand, he asked Lu Wenzhao to arrange for someone to release her.

After all, this woman is Shuerhaqi's daughter, and she may be of some use in the future.

"Thank you, Your Highness." Li Mingzhu bowed in gratitude, while Zhu Youjian said:
"What does your father think about going to Guyuan?"

"My father said that we must guard the border for Ming Dynasty, in order to thank Long Live and Your Highness for your kindness." Li Mingzhu responded:
"If it wasn't for contacting the former servant, my father originally wanted to come to Yangqu to visit His Highness in person."

"No need..." Zhu Youjian frowned slightly, he didn't want to get too involved with Li Shi, he wanted to use Li Shi instead of forming an alliance or affiliation with Li Shi.

Regarding this, he leaned back on the chair and said to Li Mingzhu:

"I heard that Guyuan's soldiers and horses were useless, and I also heard that after Tieling was destroyed, most of Li's family members died in battle."

"So I am going to transfer Zhu Wanliang, the commander-in-chief of the rear guards of Guangning, and Zu Dashou, the guerrilla of the Jingdong camp, to lead the troops to Guyuan. What do you think?"

In one word, Zhu Youjian wanted to transfer [-] soldiers and horses from Liaodong.

Such a military order can only be decided after several consultations between the cabinet and the six ministries and six departments, but he just said one sentence.

Li Mingzhu didn't know if this was a test, so he could only say with difficulty: "At the end, I need to return to the capital and ask my father."

"Well, that's right. If that's the case, then you should ask earlier." Zhu Youjian nodded slightly, then stood up and said to Li Mingzhu:
"Gu has to patrol the camp today, so I won't let you stay overnight. If necessary, someone can arrange for you to stay overnight in Yangqu County."

"Thank you for your kindness, Your Highness. Things in the capital are complicated. My father has urged the general to go back several times." Li Mingzhu was not a fool. He knew that his answer just now made King Qi not very satisfied, so he didn't really think that he could stay overnight.

"In that case, then I won't give it away." Zhu Youjian said with a smile, and Li Mingzhu bowed back:

"I will retire at the end..."

After finishing speaking, he exited the tent, took the bag and the weapon, and left.

Zhu Youjian walked out of the big tent, and Lu Wenzhao followed.

After Li Mingzhu's figure disappeared, Lu Wenzhao said:

"Your Highness, do you want to transfer the soldiers from Liao Town to Shaanxi?"

"Hmm..." Zhu Youjian nodded and said:
"If it's just me transferring them away, they may not necessarily leave. Maybe they will go to Shu and want to defend Liaodong."

"But if we rely on Li Rubai and Li Ruzhen's power and kindness from the Li family, I'm afraid they will have to leave."

Having said that, Zhu Youjian looked at Lu Wenzhao and said:

"Let Cheng'en and Huachun recruit new recruits from the Sixth Battalion."

"Yes..." Lu Wenzhao bowed in response, and at this moment a Jinyi guard Qianhu walked quickly from a distance, and after seeing Zhu Youjian and Lu Wenzhao at the entrance of the big tent, he bowed from a distance.

"What's the matter?" Zhu Youjian asked, and the other party also sent a second-class military report.

Zhu Youjian took it with a frown and opened it. After a glance at ten lines, he narrowed his eyes a little, and handed the letter to Lu Wenzhao.

After Lu Wenzhao took the list, he realized that the information actually came from Zhu Xieyuan's side.

The content of the letter was very simple. The Zhejiang Party sent people to find Zhu Xieyuan, and the purpose of finding Zhu Xieyuan was also very simple.

Zhu Guozuo wanted to take advantage of the She'an Rebellion to find an opportunity for Zhejiang Party officials.

The specifics of this opportunity are to enlarge the scale and scope of the She'an Rebellion, and then send a large number of Zhejiang Party officials to the five southwestern provinces, and use the merits of defending the land to win promotion for them.

However, the people sent by Zhu Guozuo ran away. After defending Luzhou and even counterattacking, Zhu Xieyuan had already moved the governor's mansion to Shihuguan.

According to the distance between the two places and the time of this letter, Zhu Xieyuan should have met the people Zhu Guozuo sent, and now I don't know what Zhu Xieyuan will do in the face of Zhu Guozuo's proposal.

After reading the contents of the letter, Lu Wenzhao raised his head and said, "Your Highness, what Zhu Guozuo has done can completely bring him down. Do you want to..."

"No need..." Hearing this, Zhu Youjian shook his head and said:
"Currently the cabinet just maintains the balance among the parties. If Zhu Guozuo is overthrown, the next high-ranking cabinet minister must be Han Yu from the Donglin Party."

"One cabinet position of the Donglin Party is enough, and if it grows stronger, I'm afraid it will just be the next Zhejiang Party."

"Zhu Guozuo's matter is archived first, and it will be revealed when he is impeached in the future."

"All you have to do is to let Fusi Beizhen keep a close eye on Zhu Xieyuan's attitude. If he agrees with Zhu Guozuo's idea, let me know as soon as possible."

"Yes!" Lu Wenzhao responded, and Zhu Youjian also had mixed feelings in his heart when he saw this.

What Zhu Guozuo did really touched his bottom line. If the Huaibei Famine had not broken out, or if the next cabinet minister was not a member of the Donglin Party, he would not hesitate to overthrow Zhu Guozuo.

But the problem is that there is no one in the Zhejiang Party right now, especially for other parties.

If Zhu Guozuo is overthrown, Han Yu will be in power, and I am afraid that the absurd new policy of the Donglin Party in history will be repeated.

In the current Ming Dynasty's political situation, although the imperial power has the upper hand, the local discourse power is still dominated by civil servants.

Don't look at the imperial power's troops already deployed in various places, and they look like they can directly turn the table.

But as long as the imperial power overturns the table, the region will immediately dare to self-govern.

No matter how many soldiers and horses there are, they are not infinite after all.

As long as the grain is cut off, and the taxes in Jiangnan and Shandong, Huguang and other places are cut off, even if Zhu Youjian has nearly [-] soldiers and horses in his hands, it is impossible to pacify the world in a short period of time.

From Shuntian to Yingtian, it takes more than [-] days to walk all the way without hindrance. .

If there is a city defended to death, it may take half a year, or even a year or two years to fight.

With the financial resources of the Yumajian, Shanxi, Beizhili, and Liaodong alone, Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youjian simply cannot afford to provide more than [-] soldiers with horse chews.

Not to mention that Nurhachi is still watching Liaodong covetously, restraining more than [-] troops.

Right now, it is not possible to directly overthrow the table violently. The political power of the imperial power is still too weak, and we must wait for the scale of Yanshan to form.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian asked Lu Wenzhao:
"How many students are there at Yanshan Institute?"

"Returning to Your Highness, the second batch of students has already enrolled. Compared with the first batch of only [-] students, the second batch has a total of more than [-] students enrolled." Lu Wenzhao responded with a bow, and then hesitated:
"However, the scale of more than [-] students is indeed difficult for Yanshan Institute to digest."

"Let your people find some qualified people in Yingtian Guozijian and Shuntian Guozijian." Zhu Youjian frowned and said:

"In addition, ask Cheng'en to allocate one hundred thousand taels and five hundred thousand stone grains to Yanshan Institute."

"Order Hong Fangyu, Commander of the Leopard Guards, to recruit civilians to build another Yanshan Institute in the area around the original Shixia camp."

"Yes..." Lu Wenzhao bowed in response, and Zhu Youjian also turned his head to look at the sky:
"More than [-] students... I don't know what the world will be like after they leave Yanshan Institute..."

　There is one more at four o'clock in the afternoon

　　
　
(End of this chapter)