Ming Taizi's Total War

Chapter 91 Reward 40 taels
Apocalypse Chongzhen has worked hard for decades, and there is almost no province in Ming Dynasty that has not had peasant uprisings. Although Chongzhen is finished now, except for Li Zicheng, peasant uprisings in various places have not stopped.

If I don't come up with this five-capital system, what if I lead my troops to fight, and there will be a peasant uprising or a general rebellion?
"The ancestral system is the old Huangli calendar in the reign of Taizong Yongle. Don't mention it again. I have already made up my mind. If it is said to be the system of five capitals, it is the system of five capitals."

"For the time being, let Jinling, the southern capital, stay behind as Prince Xianma Li Wenkui, and Fengyang, the central capital, stay behind as Qian Qianyi."

Although Fengyang, the central capital, has special political significance, its terrain is not dangerous, its economy is underdeveloped, and its population is not densely populated. Meaning, let him name it.

Qian Qianyi didn't even have the ability to deal with general government affairs, let alone major military and political affairs in one place, and besides, it was impossible for him to go to the local government to manage Fengyang when he served in the central government.

Letting him be Fengyang was more for Zhu Cixiang's good reputation, and it seemed that he valued Fengyang.

"I obey the order." Qian Qianyi stood up from his chair, bowed in front of Zhu Cihong and said.

From Jinling all the way to Yangzhou, Qian Qianyi has understood a lot of things. Now it is really different from before. He is king with soldiers, and a ruler like Zhu Cihong is king of kings with soldiers.

Qian Qianyi thought to himself, if the emperor dared to announce an order without saying a word like Zhu Cihong when he had just passed the Juren and Jinshi exams, he would be scolded by the courtiers, and finally revoked himself in despair. The command.

It's a pity, now it's not the Wanli and Tianqi years, the current Daming is Zhu Cihong's speech, no one can object, no one can express his rejection.

Zhu Cihong saw that Qian Qianyi had finished speaking, and no one came forward to speak. Although he was secretly happy seeing that everyone dared not oppose him, he didn't want to just stand in the cold like this.

So he said, "The Northern Expedition is imminent. If you have any difficulties in commanding the soldiers and horses of Qing and others, you can tell them as much as you want, and I will deal with it according to the situation."

After Zhu Cixiang said this, he saw the four pairs of eyes of Gao Jie looking at each other for a second, and then the four of them stood up and said, "Your Majesty, our four towns have insufficient military expenditures to raise troops and are short of rice and food. I beg your Majesty to allocate more money and food."

"Didn't the imperial court send you 40 yuan of salary and 20 stone of food and grass to each town before? Why didn't you say it was not enough? Where did you use it?" Zhu Cixiang patted the handle of the seat and roared.

The money, food and grass that the imperial court gave them in each town was equivalent to 60 taels of silver. This amount of silver was more than the expenses of the palace on the ground, so how could it not be enough.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, [-] yuan is needed to buy mandarin ducks and battle jackets, cloth face armor, waist knives, shields, war horses, pack horses, and to support a large number of civilian husbands and military families. Although there is a lot of money and food, we are still powerless. "The four said together.

"Really?" Zhu Cixi smiled evilly.

When Liu Zeqing, Liu Liangzuo, and Huang Degong saw Zhu Cihong's smiling face, their chrysanthemums tightened, and their hearts were not good. The emperor must know something, and even the four of them had something to do with it.

Only Gao Jie smiled bitterly in his heart and said, "You insist on me standing up and talking together, okay now, you will have to suffer the same treatment as before."

Our emperor is quite different from the previous emperors. He is very shrewd and well-informed. It may not be so easy to steal money from him.

"Liu Zeqing, you are doing a lot of construction work in Huai'an to build palaces, do you think I don't know about it, and you have recruited countless strong men, and you still have the face to come to me for military expenses." Zhu Cihong suddenly changed his smile and shouted at Liu Zeqing angrily.

He wanted to know what Liu Zeqing had done, and he didn't even need to go to Huai'an Mansion to investigate, as long as he recalled the history was enough.

Historically, when Liu Zeqing was in Huai'an, he was engaged in large-scale construction projects in Huai'an Mansion. Even Shi Kefa, who went there in plain clothes, was arrested and worked on the construction site for a few days. It was not until Liu Zeqing visited the construction site that he was released.

Sure enough, upon hearing Zhu Cihong's words, Liu Zeqing was angry and frightened, his face turned livid, his lips turned pale, and his back was covered with sweat, but he didn't dare to say anything, because what Zhu Cihong said was the truth, and he didn't have the confidence to respond.

"And you Liu Liangzuo, you followed Gao Jie's example and ransacked your territory, recruited strong men, and expanded your army. What do you want to do?"

"Huang Degong, I don't understand. Why do you stand up with the three of them? Do you really think that the four towns in Jiangbei are united? Or do you think that you have more people and more power, or that the law does not punish the public? Can you disobey the emperor's order?"

Zhu Cihong still has a good impression of Huang Degong. In history, three of the four Jiangbei towns surrendered without a fight, and only Huang Degong fought until the last moment of his life.

He was not soft and obedient when dealing with civil strife. He tried his best to resist Zuo Liangyu's army on the Yangtze River. Later, the Qing army went south and escorted Emperor Hongguang to escape.

Against the background of the traitors and lackeys in Nanming, Huang Degong is simply a loyal minister and good general who is rare in a century.

"I dare not." Huang Degong did not expect that his unintentional action would cause the emperor to be furious.

As a military general, he actually had no political acumen. He just felt that standing up and speaking with Gao Jie and the others was just asking the emperor for some money, so it was no big deal.

"Your Majesty, forgive me." Gao Jie, Liu Zeqing, and Liu Liangzuo, seeing that Zhu Cihong was angry, immediately knelt down and begged for mercy.

In fact, the moment Zhu Cihong saw them kneeling down, Zhu Cihong's anger had already dissipated a lot.

He thought to himself, he was much stronger than Hong Guang, at least the courtiers and generals below would be afraid to beg for mercy when they saw him angry, and they would come over without saying a word when he summoned them to Yangzhou.

You must know that when Hongguang delivered the decree to the four towns in Jiangbei, whenever they encountered a decree that did not suit their wishes, they would easily snatch the edict from the angels. On the ground, and then step on two feet.

"However, I also know that it is not easy for you to raise soldiers and it costs a lot, so I will allocate 40 taels of silver from the internal funds and reward you with [-] taels of silver per town."

Zhu Cixiang gave him a stick first, and then gave them some sweetness, so that they would not hate Zhu Cixiang, but would be grateful to him.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Gao Jie and the others originally thought that they would be punished this time, or their official positions would be lowered, or even their titles would be cut off, but they didn't expect that Zhu Cihong would give them real money.

(End of this chapter)