Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 38 The Emperor's Brother Is Here
The north wind was blowing, and on the land of Hebei, where the autumn harvest was just in time, Qi Jin could not calm down for a long time as he watched the figures of the Jin Yiwei and the eunuch passing away.

At this time, instead, a general in his forties stepped forward and said:
"Father, I have entered the eyes of His Highness the Fifth Highness and Long Live. As long as we guard Liaoyang well, I am afraid we will be able to shine in the family!"

Hearing this, Qi Jin turned to look at this person, and at the same time saw his other two children.

Qi Yuangong, Qi Yuanfu, Qi Yuanbi...

Among the three, the oldest one, and the one who spoke just now is Qi Yuangong, who is forty-five this year, and is the eldest son conceived by his wife before Qi Jin went north to follow Qi Jiguang to guard Jiliao.

The second eldest, Qi Yuanfu, is thirty-eight years old this year. He was the second son born to his wife after Qi Jin and his uncle Qi Jiguang were pushed back to their hometown by the court officials.

The third child, Qi Yuanbi, is only [-] years old this year. He is the third son of Qi Jin who was born before the second war against the Japanese and aiding the imperial court.

Qi Jin has been a soldier all his life, either in war or on the way to war. From joining the army at the age of fifteen to the present, at the age of sixty-eight, he has spent no more than twenty-five years at home, and the remaining forty-three Every year is on the road of defending the country.

Unexpectedly, at the end, people who were half buried in the earth learned that the court had experienced such a tragic battle as the defeat of Sarhu.

Before Ming Shenzong Wanli could speak, he took the initiative to write a letter, leaving the mountain at the age of sixty-seven, dissipating all his wealth and recruiting soldiers, and preparing to go north to fight against gold.

I just don't want him to train for half a year, and finally trained a traditional Zhejiang soldier of the Qi family army, but ushered in the drama of changing three emperors in a year.

He just wanted to fight a victory for the imperial court and a few years of peace for the people of Ming Dynasty at the last moment of his life.

But right now, like his uncle Qi Jiguang, he is still involved in the political struggle between the court and China.

He held the five-color imperial decree with the golden scroll tightly in his hand, wondering whether he should be happy or not.

But when he saw the eager eyes of his three sons and the four thousand cheering Yiwu Zhejiang soldiers, he was relieved.

No matter what, even if the soldiers of Zhejiang experienced the drama of being betrayed and framed by the northerners again, the Fifth Highness, whom they had never met before, gave them sufficient military pay.

"Forget it, Your Highness and Long Live have treated me like this, the real husband will be shrouded in horse leather to serve my country!"

Qi Jin made a great wish in his heart, and immediately said with a straight face:

"What's it called?! In "Ji Xiao's New Book", what should my Qi's army do on the march? You three have read the military book for so many years, have you read it for nothing?!"

"Yes! This is called subordinate order!" Seeing that his father was angry, Qi Yuangong hurriedly dragged his two younger brothers to lead their trilogy, and organized the four thousand Zhejiang soldiers.

When marching, don't talk, don't whisper, and don't go to the toilet alone.

It can be said that the military regulations of Zhejiang soldiers are not much better than those of later generations.

It is also the iron-like military regulations that allowed this team, which had been trained for less than half a year, to stand still in the face of the [-] Jin army on the banks of the Hun River and beat Jianlu hard.

They stopped celebrating, and a moment later fell into deathly silence.

The army continued to go north, but slightly modified the route, changing the original target of Tongzhou to Changping in the northwest of the capital.

Their move, on behalf of Zhu Youjian, changed the result of the disagreement between Zhejiang soldiers and Baigan soldiers.

Therefore, when Zhu Youjian learned that the Zhe soldiers were on their way to Changping two days later, he breathed a sigh of relief:

"Phew... that's all right. When the white soldiers arrive in a few days, I will sit down and have a meal with the generals of the two armies. I think the relationship between the two teams will not be as bad as it has been in history."

He was extremely fortunate in his heart, and the so-called grievances between the white-armed soldiers and the Zhejiang soldiers were actually due to the shortage of supplies in the Ming Dynasty.

In history, there is no detailed record of why the Baigan soldiers and Zhejiang soldiers disagreed, but it was mentioned that when the two armies were resting in Tongzhou, they quarreled because of some trivial matters.

The two sides fought very fiercely in Tongzhou, and even used artillery to shoot at each other, damaging several houses, killing and wounding a lot of people.

Neither the history of the Ming Dynasty nor the Shilu of the Ming Dynasty recorded the reasons for the two sides to fight, but it can be seen from the fact that Tongzhou, where they were stationed, was a large granary in the North, and Liao was short of food.

Perhaps the two sides started to fight because of the unpleasantness of purchasing supplies.

It is a pity that these two first-class elite troops on the East Asian battlefield in the late Ming Dynasty had a gap because of this incident, and were finally sold by Liaodong generals in Hunhe.

In Zhu Youjian's view, as long as the Baigan soldiers and the Zhejiang soldiers advance harmoniously, even if their total number is only [-], in terms of the Houjin army that is still rising in Nurhachi's hands, it is [-]. Even if the flags are exhausted, they cannot be left behind.

Therefore, what he has to do is to prepare supplies for the Baigan soldiers and Zhejiang soldiers in advance to aid Liao and stay in Liao for a long time.

Thinking of this, he glanced at a military inventory on his desk.

This above records the reserves of various military supplies in Beijing, Tongzhou, Tianjinwei and other three places of the Ministry of War.

For the current Ministry of War, the Zhejiang soldiers and the Baigan soldiers are the main force to aid Liao, and it is impossible to treat them badly.

But what Zhu Youjian is worried about is that the king of Hades is not annoyed, and the imp is difficult to deal with.

The Zhejiang soldiers and the Baigan soldiers gave the officials a very bad impression in the court.

One is the soldiers of Chieftain Manzi, and the other is the troops of Zhang Juzheng's nephew Qi Jiguang.

There is no way, in order for these two troops to help Daming defend the Liaodong Peninsula, Zhu Youjian had to make preparations by himself.

So, he opened the material file of the Ministry of War, and just glanced at it lightly, and he probably thought of what he needed.

This is another benefit of his time travel, his memory can almost achieve temporary photographic memory.

Even in the past few days, I can still remember everything.

Therefore, after reading the incomplete material documents, he said to Wang Cheng'en:

"Chengen, remember, ask the Ministry of War to prepare [-] winter clothes, [-] cloth face armor, [-] gauntlets, [-] hat-shaped helmets, [-] thousand-layer shoes, and [-] catties of iron."

"Sixty cannons for General Shenwei, two hundred cannons for squatting tigers, two thousand blunderbusses, thirty thousand catties of gunpowder, thirty thousand catties of lead, and two thousand stone bullets."

"Also ask Taipusi to prepare [-] horses, [-] straw bundles, and [-] catties of beans."

"Taicang adjusts grain for [-] shi."

"You pass these things to Qianqing Palace, and then tell Brother Huang that they are for Zhejiang soldiers and white soldiers to aid Liao."

"After the supervisor of ceremonies approves the red, you follow to the cabinet and the six departments. When you see that they have approved the note, you ask the people from the imperial horse supervisor to pull things, and bring them to the Changping mausoleum for me."

"So much?" Wang Chengen remembered quickly, but Zhu Youjian needed too much.

"Don't worry, go and ask for it. The sum of these things is only two hundred thousand taels at most. If it's not enough, I will buy it with silver from the Yumajian." Zhu Youjian didn't feel sorry for the silver.

It should be said that he feels bad about giving the money to those wine bags and rice bags on the nine sides right now, but he doesn't feel bad about giving the money to troops that can fight like the Baigan soldiers and Zhejiang soldiers.

Give them hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, and they can protect the safety of three million Han people in Liaodong for several years, but they can't even beat a bubble if they are given to the Nine Frontiers.

Time was running out, Zhu Youjian explained, and urged Wang Chengen to go to work, and Wang Chengen also rushed towards Qianqing Palace with the things he had memorized.

Faster, maybe I can go back to Xuqin Palace for dinner before the sun goes down...

(End of this chapter)