Be the emperor from the postman

Chapter 288 A Heart (Second Change)
He Jinzhao came back fanning his cattail fan again, listening to Chen Chong's stuttering talk about Hou Jin.

Presumably, his own argument just now must have touched the depths of his soul.

Otherwise, this traveler wouldn't be so gaffe.

Thinking back when he was in Ganquan City, he toughened Hong Chengchou and had conflicts with him, but he had never lost his sense of proportion like today.

It was probably because Chen Chong suddenly felt that what He Jinzhao said was too right, too much!
This Daming's sky, I'm afraid it will no longer be Daming's sky.

Then they, the group of insects that cling to the big tree of Daming and desperately suck the juice, can they have a bright future?
The Marquis of Ningyang of the Ming Dynasty is very majestic when he speaks out!
But once the Ming Dynasty is gone, Marquis Ningyang will become a joke, and will inevitably be liquidated by the new dynasty. These are all things that should be considered.

There are no finished eggs under the nest!
He Jinzhao slapped Chen Chong a few times to bring him back to his senses:
"Brother Chen, don't be too pessimistic, what if Huang Taiji suddenly gets sick and dies.

The possibility of what I said is much smaller, isn't that the reason? "

"Ah, yes yes yes."

Chen Chong nodded quickly, but he knew that this possibility was extremely small.

He Jinzhao was just trying to comfort him.

Now Chen Chong has to think about how to keep his glory and wealth if Daming really collapses.

He couldn't have been a businessman for half his life, and he had never thought about the tragic scene of starving to death on the street without food and clothing when he was old.

But today, through what He Jinzhao said, Chen Chong's heart was shaken and he panicked completely!
Who can guarantee that the Liaodong Tartars will not besiege Beijing for the second time?
Who dares to pat his chest to guarantee it!

Even if Sun Chengzong can command the overall situation, that old man can still live for a few years.

He is dead, is there anyone in Daming who can convince all the King Qin soldiers from all over the Ming Dynasty?
Chen Chong suddenly felt melancholy, feeling sad about Daming's future.

"Brother He, Daming is really hopeless?"

He Jinzhao pondered for a while: "The Battle of Salhu has been going on for so many years, you said after this battle.

What is the reason for the Ming Dynasty's loss of soldiers and generals in Liaodong? "

In the battle of Sarhu, more than 300 civil and military generals of the Ming Dynasty died, nearly 5 soldiers died, and nearly [-] horses, mules, and camels were lost.

"It's my fault for coach Yang Gao's indiscriminate command, and Li Rubai in the middle on the right side just sits idly by and doesn't help."

"Listen to what you said, it must be recognized by the Ming court!"

Chen Chong nodded. Coach Yang Hao had already been executed by the emperor in the second year of Chongzhen.

At that time, the four armies, Juniper and Liu Ting had died on the battlefield, and Marin also died in Kaiyuan three months later.

Three of the four chief generals of the Ming army lost three of them. Li Rubai was the only one who never met the enemy, but was impeached by the officials a few days after the battle.

A year and a half later, when things in Liao Dynasty got worse, the matter was brought up again, and Li Rubai committed suicide to show his ambition.

"The real reason for the failure of the Battle of Salhu lies in these two people. Do you believe this?"

Chen Chong was sweating profusely from He Jinzhao's soft and slow questioning. He opened his mouth several times, but couldn't speak.

The reason for the failure of the entire Saarhu battle was attributed to two people, who would believe it?

He Jinzhao slapped him a few times:

"Emperor Chongzhen didn't know the real reason, and the ministers under him didn't want to know the real reason either.

Everyone wants to cover up, so they can't even come up with actual coping strategies for the post-Gold Tartars.

Daming can only go from one failure to another, from finding one scapegoat to another, and repeating itself.

As long as there is a scapegoat, the princes in the court will feel that this matter is over.

As long as someone else is responsible for the defeat, as for the real reason for the failure, who would do such a thankless thing.

That's why I said that these insects can't be controlled by Daming at all! "

Chen Chong wiped the hot sweat on his forehead with his sleeve, and looked at He Jinzhao in horror, only to hear him continue:
"Let's talk about this battle to defend the capital. Before the Hou Jin Tartars retreated, Yuan Chonghuan, the coach who was familiar with the Hou Jin Tartars' tactics, was arrested.

Does Chongzhen feel that he is sure to control the entire Guan Ning army?
I really don't know where his courage comes from, maybe it's the layman guiding the expert, there will always be inexplicable courage filling his body!
As for Yuan Chonghuan's "suspension of troops without fighting" and "staying in the city", it may be against the rules.

But Brother Chen also said it just now, because Guan Ningjun is not Houjin's opponent either! "

Chen Chong nodded: "My Ming soldiers have few opponents from Liaodong Tartars."

"Yuan Chonghuan fought his back at Guangqu Gate, with his back against the city wall, and it was difficult for the Jin army to form an encirclement.

Guan Ning's army finally fought a battle that was actually not too big, with hundreds of casualties and casualties, and the two sides fought a tie.

If Yuan Chonghuan led the Guanning cavalry to confront the tens of thousands of post-Golden cavalry in a frontal field battle, it would probably not be the Emperor Chongzhen's turn to drag him into prison.

The only force that the Ming army could fight against the Hou Jin army was the Guanning iron cavalry led by Zu Dashou.

If it's gone, it's all gone, so he won't take it all out and desperately.

Man Gui led a total of 4 reinforcements, but they were wiped out by the Houjin army within a day.

The four commanders were either killed or captured, and the defeat was miserable.

Daming, there is a lack of elite troops who can confront Hou Jin head-on in terms of numbers.

If Zu Dashou hadn't been paid, there would really be [-] Guanning iron cavalry, and they might be able to head-to-head with the Houjin Tartars. "

"8 people?" Chen Chong shook his head: "Brother He, if Zu Dashou is really full of people, the emperor will not be able to sleep even more."

"Hahaha, yes." He Jinzhao shrugged:

"As a superintendent, Yuan Chonghuan dared to personally fight the Liaodong Tartars. I admire him for this.

But many of his actions are courting his own death, and he can't blame others! "

Although Mao Wenlong was tough and did not obey orders, it was wrong for Yuan Chonghuan to kill him.

Before he killed Mao Wenlong without authorization, he didn't really think that what he said about five years of Ping Liao was true, did he?
"Ping Liao in five years" is Yuan Chonghuan's big talk about Haikou.

"Change of Jisi" makes this big talk a laughing stock.

The young Emperor Chongzhen became angry with embarrassment, his expectations were too high and his disappointment was too great.

Yuan Chonghuan's behavior was a common problem among ministers of the Ming Dynasty at that time.

Many of the words were just slogans to comfort the emperor and boost morale, and no one took them seriously.

But Chongzhen, an idiot who had never been educated by an emperor, really believed it!

It has to be said that he is eager for quick success and quick profit, and wants to become the master of Zhongxing of Ming Dynasty in one go!
Then Yuan Chonghuan was sprained from the beginning, planting the root of disaster, and neither Houjin nor Chongzhen gave him five years to prepare.

The initiative of the war was never in Yuan Chonghuan's hands.

"Brother He, what if I feed back your words to the imperial court?"

He Jinzhao snorted and said, "Do you want to be a different kind of Daming? As far as I know, this kind of person dies the fastest."

Chen Chong wiped the sweat from his forehead, he made a mistake, he made a mistake.

Or He Jinzhao could see clearly that no one was willing to be a martyr, and it was thankless.

"Brother He, tell me the truth, can Daming still be saved?"

"Under the current general situation, it is impossible to turn the tide by relying on the strength of only one person.

The [-] Ming troops under the city of Beijing were wiped out in one day, which shows that the fighting power of the Ming army is far weaker than that of Hou Jin.

Be it Yuan Chonghuan or Sun Chengzong, who can really save Daming? "

Seeing that Chen Chong was silent, He Jinzhao added another sentence:
"Da Ming, top and bottom are rotten. Finding a scapegoat is the best way to escape responsibility for yourself and the group. This is something Da Ming likes to do."

Chen Chong wiped the sweat off his brow, and took out a booklet from his sleeve:

"Brother He, this is the list of goods for this trip, just take a look."

He Jinchao took the brochures, tea, salt, silk, tobacco leaves, cloth, and grain.

Among them, the quantity of tea is the largest, which is [-] catties.

Although Daming official tea has a monopoly position, its transaction volume is the lowest, and smuggled tea occupies the largest share, because there is no need to pay taxes.

In the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, a high-grade horse could be exchanged for a hundred catties of tea, and seventy or fifty for middle-low ones.

The amount of tea leaves exchanged for the next class of horses is getting smaller and smaller.

In short, tea is expensive and horses are cheap.

In the later period, the monopoly of the government was about one horse in exchange for ten catties of tea.

Waiting for the people of King Shunyi to exchange a catty of tea for a horse, that is what they do in Mongolia.

Then smuggling came into being. On the one hand, it was cheaper for the Mongolians, and on the other hand, good tea was also invisibly lost to the hands of big traders.

Inferior tea came to the official Ming Dynasty, high-priced low-quality tea and low-priced good tea, Mongolians voted with their toes and would not choose official tea.

The tea-horse trade was very profitable, and with such a large trade spread, it increased the number of horses for the Ming court and increased fiscal revenue.

But it is almost impossible for this money to reach the central government in full.

Either it is kept for side use, or it is put into the personal pockets of officials, except when the Ming Dynasty was founded, the corruption problem was very serious later.

"Brother He, this tea is not easy to store, you have to take good care of it."

Chen Chong's reminder is not unreasonable, tea is very easy to get wet.

How to preserve it properly has become a problem that Daming must consider.

One is to add storage points in the tea collection area, and the other is to add storage points in the tea sales area.

He Jinzhao nodded, there is no tea cake yet!

But why make tea cakes now?
The Mongols outside the Great Wall can only continue to expand their demand if they do not preserve their tea well enough.

Trade their horses, cattle and sheep for more tea.

Once the tea cakes came out, they were easy to store and directly reduced the sales of tea leaves, which He Jinzhao felt was inappropriate.

He has already given the Mongolians great discounts in terms of price, why should he give them more discounts in terms of technology?
He Jinzhao gave up on the idea of ​​getting tea cakes out.

Now it is self-made, wars are frequent, there is a great demand for war horses, and there is also a "musle-powered" mobile force.

How can I have the leisure to tie my own hands and feet?
"Brother He, these are my congratulatory gifts." Chen Chong sat on the recliner and looked at He Jinzhao.

He Jinzhao looked suspicious: "Brother Chen, do you think I will despise you and force you to confess after I gain a firm foothold in the small Hequ?"

"No, it's our wish, Brother He, don't refuse."

Chen Chong shook his head, thinking that what you said just now is not unreasonable, I would rather not make money this time, but also earnestly befriend you.

　Thanks to the fainted Bird of Paradise for the sponsorship of 500 taels of silver.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)