Be the emperor from the postman

Chapter 438 Learning the Art of War (Fourth Change)
Emperor Chongzhen's assessment of the Liao's salary was extremely strict, and he specified that the Liao's salary must be collected in full, and no one cent should be in arrears.

In order to better collect Liao's salary, a method of installment payment was even prescribed.

In the first phase, [-] points will be pre-collected for the Naga faction in the first month, and in the second phase, [-] points will be completed for the Naga faction and [-] points for miscellaneous items in April.

In the third period, Naga sent three points and miscellaneous items were completed in June, and in the fourth period, miscellaneous items were completed in October.

The urging is too urgent, not to mention whether the people can live, which destroys their habit of paying taxes, and also makes the local officials panic.

Officials were often punished. Some local officials were killed by the people because of Cui Zheng's sudden change, or committed suicide in fear of being arrested.

The more urgent the urging, the more taxes owed in various parts of Daming.

But can these millions of taels of Liao pay really be used for Liao affairs?

First of all, money and food were transported from various places to the household department, and the household department was escorting them to Liaodong. During this period, they went through many transportations and handed over.

The waste of money and food, the falseness of people and horses, or the indiscriminate filling of numbers.

When Yuan Chonghuan was still a Fuchen, he reported that there were less than 8 people in Liaodong, and the military salary was paid according to less than 11 people.

What's the point of drinking the blood of soldiers, but also the blood of horses!

Buying horses with money, it is common to see horses without money.

Those who have a little conscience are short of money to buy a lean horse for work, because the horse will die soon, so they can eat meat and gnaw bones.

As a result, soldiers in Liaodong cannot become soldiers, and horses cannot become horses.

Embezzlement is more common. During the process of liberation and transfer, transportation officials, border town officials and generals in the army embezzled and withheld food and salaries.

The freight of Liao Xing alone is a huge burden.

To transport grain and grass, a wide range of ox carts must be prepared, and the cost of transporting human grain, cattle feed, etc., is conservatively estimated to exceed one million taels of silver.

As for why it costs money, because some people want to earn shipping money.

From Runfeng to transport grain to Shanhaiguan, which is [-] miles away, each cart transports [-] small bundles of grass, and the foot fee is [-] yuan.

If you want to come back to the place, even if you sell the donkey cart, it is impossible.

Later, when the price was raised to three taels, no one went, and all the car owners fled.

If you ask how many meters this car can carry?

Can only hold three stones.

A bunch of grass is no more than four cents, and three stones of grain are used, and three taels of silver are used.

And then transported from Shanhaiguan to Liaoyang, thousands of miles away, the freight will only increase. The key is that this little money will not fall into the hands of the transporter.

As for shipping by sea, it can be seen from the official report that when the grain transport ships departed from Tianjin and crossed the ocean, they encountered either strong winds or strong waves, and the grain ships sank to the bottom.

Seven or eight times out of ten times, it is a great achievement to successfully reach Liaodong. As for the few times when we arrived in Liaodong, the number of ships before and after departure was different.

The question is how many grain transport ships sank in the middle of the journey. If you ask, it is a natural disaster. It is either windy or rainy, and the ships are all blown to the bottom.

As for whether it really sinks to the bottom or has other uses, it depends on the specific situation.

In short, there is a saying in the Ming Dynasty that the most difficult part of aiding Liao is shipping.

Therefore, whether it is by land or by sea, the loss of transportation in the Ming Dynasty is extremely astonishing.

The embezzlement and embezzlement of money and food are common in the Nine Sides now that the government is corrupt.

In the case of insufficient Liao pay, many soldiers lost their living security.

Especially when the war broke out and the price of goods in the border areas rose, even if it was distributed in full, it would not be enough to spend, let alone not in full.

This should not be blamed for the decline in combat effectiveness of soldiers, lax training, and lax military discipline.

The lives of the people who were taxed were not easy, but the lives of the soldiers who received Liao's salary were also very difficult.

Where did all the money and food go?
When the regent Dorgon came to Beijing, he announced that starting from the first year of Shunzhi, all additional missions would be cancelled, and offenders would be punished severely.

Can it really work?
Both the tariff and the salt tax are higher than those of Ming Dynasty, and they can still collect money, which is probably speaking with a knife.

Chongzhen issued an imperial decree to increase Liao's salary, and I don't know how many waves of rebels will be stimulated.

Hequ County.

A series of studies were carried out in the courtyard of Zhenfusi.

The artillerymen next to them are learning artillery ballistics.

Because in the military books before the Ming Dynasty, there was almost no mention of artillery aiming technology.

Xu Guangqi's student Sun Yuanhua compiled a few books, such as the Western Fa Shenji, which He Jinzhao bought, and let the artillery captain Zhou Da combine theory with practice.

By the way, he taught Zhou Da how to find the distance with his thumb artillery, which he thought was a bright sword.

Simple knowledge of parabolas and the use of gun gauges.

Different angles correspond to different ranges, from one degree to six degrees (45°).

Now it is necessary to make a gun table for each gun, and record the range and elevation angle of each gun, make it into a book, and divide it into three points.

One is kept by the craftsman who casts the cannon, one is kept by the Zhenfu Department, and one is kept by the soldiers. The soldiers who operate the cannon must memorize these things.

Especially for the artillery on the Hequ County, the gunners should keep in mind the elevation angles corresponding to the intersections and bridges and other landmarks, and make a secret mark, and mark them on the artillery list booklet.

It is necessary to systematically learn the instruments such as the gauge, the scale, and the ruler. When shooting in the field, it is equipped with special instruments, common instruments for measuring elevation angles and distances, and the methods of use are simple and convenient.

During the battle, the firing range at different elevation angles can be quickly calculated to improve the accuracy of artillery aiming and shooting.

This kind of thing is not paid much attention to in Ming Dynasty's gun science, and it is mostly used in mathematics works.

The last is the core, the matching ratio between the projectile and the gunpowder, so as not to have too much or too little gunpowder, making it impossible to achieve the shooting target, and instead will explode the chamber and hurt yourself.

For this, He Jinzhao did not know how to calculate the formula quantitatively, but Zhou Da and others worked out an approximate ratio of shells to gunpowder.

Similarly, He Jinzhao is also setting up an advanced lecture hall, and these captains were all called by He Jinzhao to Hequ to study.

First of all, the first thing to teach is the guerrilla warfare method. In any case, it is necessary to have as little confrontation with the official army as possible.

When the enemy advances, we retreat; when the enemy is stationed, we disturb; when the enemy is tired, we fight; when the enemy retreats, we pursue.

There are still many supporters of the Chongzhen faction alone, and it is inevitable that there will be a few ruthless people.

"Why do we have to learn the sixteen-character art of war first in class?" He Jinzhao put down the stick in his hand and said with a smile:

"As long as we survive the next attack from the imperial court, is it possible that we will only stay in one place in Shanxi?"

Liu Erhu and the others' eyes lit up, the captain finally wanted to expand.

"As for the two capitals of Ming Dynasty and the thirteen provinces, we can use Shanxi as our base to venture out and turn the entire Ming Dynasty upside down."

He Jinzhao stretched out his hands and said with a smile: "At that time, each of you will expand abroad alone, and it is very likely that you will face the superior strength of the official army.

Fighting outside, if you can't fight, you have to run away, save your own strength, and come back for revenge! "

(End of this chapter)