I'm really not the carpenter emperor

Regarding Sun Chuanting's matter, he broke his teeth and could only swallow it in his stomach. How to fight depends on his own performance. It is wrong to remotely control people from a long distance.

No matter how difficult it is, we must ensure sufficient logistics. If you have anything to say, wait until the battle is over!

The significance of this battle is too great, even if Zhu Youxiao sells all the iron, he has to let Sun Chuanting finish it, even if it takes a month!

All the ministers didn't know what to do, they were summoned by the sound of bells and drums, and when they saw the emperor's anger, they didn't intend to be troublesome at first, and they all felt lucky in their hearts for Wang Qia and Li Banghua who were beating the drums and the bells.

"Yes! I don't dare to disturb Shengjia anymore!"

Zhu Youxiao walked a few steps, but didn't hear anything to add later, his heart lightened, and his face couldn't stop turning up.

It seems that pretending to be angry really works!

It's true to say that, I am already like this, who would be so blind?

But just halfway through the smile, Li Banghua's words later froze the smile on Zhu Youxiao's face, stagnating in an embarrassing state of half-smiling and half-not-smiling.

"Your Majesty needn't worry too much about the military situation in Liaodong, because compared with the Five Divisions of Neikalkha, the imperial court has more important things to worry about at this moment."

"To this day, Sun Chuanting has stood still in Guihua City for four days in a row, and the military expenses and food he spends every day are sky-high!"

Having said that, Li Banghua acted according to circumstances, cupped his hands and said:

"Your Majesty is wise and wise. With his mere Chahar, it is not enough to shake the foundation of my Ming Dynasty. As long as His Majesty makes an imperial decree, and Sun Chuanting rushes to help the left wing, Chahar will be defeated!"

Wang Qia, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, didn't seem to understand the expressions of the surrounding ministers looking at them as if they were ghosts, so he stood up and played together:

"Your Majesty, Chahar's army pretends to be iron cavalry, but they are nothing more than a mob. How can they compare with my 300-year Ming Dynasty!"

"Today's plan, issue an imperial decree now, ordering Sun Chuanting to send his troops to the west to help the left wing, and win all the battle in one battle!"

Zhu Youxiao stopped walking. Now, he was really angry.

For these two people, it was no longer a question of whether they had eyesight or not.

It seems that today they can't run away, and if they don't give them an explanation, not only Li Banghua and Wang Qia will not buy it, but also the Ministry of Household Affairs, the Ministry of War and the Metropolitan Procuratorate will not just let it go.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youxiao turned around and sat back on the Kowloon throne again, and asked:

"Since that's the case, tell me, why does Sun Chuanting insist on entering the army, and how much food can he spend in Guihua City?"

Wang Qia didn't think too much, and talked eloquently, cupping his hands and saying:

"Returning to Your Majesty, in recent years, our court has continued to engage in military affairs, three wars in four years, and the towns on the nine sides have no longer enough soldiers."

"According to my understanding, after this expedition, the towns on the nine borders can only mobilize less than [-] soldiers at the moment."

"Once the slaves are established and the army is raised at this time, and Liaodong is violated again, the important town on the nine borders will be useless, and there will be no soldiers to move!"

"If the war against the Western Captives is not resolved quickly, Jiannu will sooner or later find out that the Nine Borders are empty, so what should we do then, should we send troops from the Central Plains?"

"Your Majesty, the soldiers and horses of the Central Plains have never fought against Jiannu. After years of military preparations, the soldiers are weak and have no experience in wars. It is useless to transfer them to Liaodong, no matter how many or how many they are!"

Zhu Youxiao sat on it, speechless for a while.

Wang Qia, Minister of the Ministry of War, is indeed more dedicated than Cui Chengxiu, but he is a bit too annoying. Like Li Banghua, he belongs to me and I think he will die against me.

Such people are indispensable, but Zhu Youxiao is afraid that he can't hold back and chop them off.

Chapter 534 Dissipate the Family Wealth

That's right, what Wang Qia was talking about was precisely the scourge that occurred during several battles over the past four years. There was no such thing in history.

Four years and three wars, the rest time in between was simply not enough. For the nine side soldiers who had been recruited several times, basically every few months of rest, they had to be ordered to go out again.

Although the royal court rewards them generously, they are human beings after all. As human beings, they will be physically and mentally exhausted. Are there few such examples in later generations...

Zhu Youjiao was thinking about it, and Li Banghua persuaded him:

"Your Majesty, the ministers also know that the army's conquest and high opinion should not affect the front-line strategy, but this is the time to settle the war on the western front once and for all."

Wang Qia also said: "Your Majesty, do you still remember how many soldiers of my Ming Dynasty were on the nine sides when you first succeeded to the throne in the 47th year of Wanli?"

Where did Zhu Youxiao know this, he could only shake his head.

"22!" Wang Qia said loudly, "Up to the four years of the apocalypse, His Majesty launched three large-scale foreign wars and won all of them. There are advantages and disadvantages!"

"The advantage is that the situation in the border area of ​​Ming Dynasty is very good. It has never been so good! But the disadvantage is the void of the elite frontier troops on the nine sides!"

"Now there are still 20 registered soldiers on the Nine Sides, but I am not afraid of death. Please listen carefully to your majesty before punishing the minister for disrespect!"

As Wang Qia said, he kowtowed three times in the Hall of Supreme Harmony.

"There were two battles in the second year of Apocalypse and three years of Apocalypse. What was not replenished after the war, and the imaginary numbers that the generals took for nothing, would be twenty to thirty thousand."

"For the rest of these people, His Majesty dispatched 10,000+ to fight Chahar, and the rest will be assigned to various important places to guard the frontier forts and post stations. Now the hinterland of the nine borders can be used to deploy mobile troops for the camp. It's less than [-]."

"But right now, Jizhou is rectifying its armaments, and the soldiers there can hardly be called elites. If you go away from them, Your Majesty, the towns on the nine borders are practically without soldiers at the moment!"

Speaking of this, Wang Qia's expression looked a little sad.

Zhu Youxiao acted like a bolt from the blue, he was too self-determined, he was so focused on beating slaves, killing captives, and the illusory martial arts, he didn't notice that the elite troops on the Nine Sides had been seriously depleted .

As long as there is a defeat, Jiubian will be devastated. How the Jizhou Army will decline is still in sight. This is the last elite of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Youxiao once thought that even if he lost, he could afford to lose. Now it seems that he was wrong. Like Lindan Batur and Nurhachi, he couldn't afford to lose once.

Hearing this, Cui Chengxiu, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, felt cold, and suddenly felt that a catastrophe was imminent.

This was his mistake when he was Minister of the Ministry of War. Firstly, it was because he didn’t understand military affairs at all. Second, at that time, he was all focused on fighting Donglin and flattering Wei Zhongxian, and he didn’t care about the military situation in various places at all.

This is how Wang Qiayi, the next Shangshu of the Ministry of War, took office, and found that the military equipment in the Nine Borders and other places was sluggish and exhausted.

In fact, when he was Minister of the Ministry of War, although Cui Chengxiu didn't understand military affairs, he knew more or less about corruption in the armies of various places.

For example, there are generals who are on empty pay and have 500 infantry, but report as 2000.

For another example, some generals treat the soldiers of the official family as their own tenant farmers, farming and transporting, and all they do are private affairs.

The reason why Zhu Xieyuan, the governor of Shanshan and Shaanxi, was unable to lead his army out of the customs was because he discovered these situations when he was rectifying the armament of the Shanshan Guard.

Right now, Zhu Xieyuan was wrestling with the local generals and powerful men there.

Cui Chengxiu knew all this, but he didn't take it seriously, and he didn't know how to deal with it, and he didn't expect the corruption of the Ming Dynasty's official army to reach this level.

Of course he understood the meaning of "no soldiers to adjust" in Wang Qia's words, no one in the civil and military courts is a fool!

The meaning of these words is that only a few elite troops such as the Nine Frontier Army and the Yongwei Battalion can be pulled out to fight in the Ming Dynasty.

Once the frontier army and the Yongwei Battalion are restrained when using troops in other places in the future, the officers and troops in other places in the Central Plains are not enough to take on major responsibilities.

Because even the Ministry of War does not know the real situation of the number of troops in various places now, so who can rest assured that such officers and soldiers will be sent out to conquer.

Once it fails once, and the fatigue of the officers and soldiers is discovered by bandits, it will become a bottomless pit!

There was a long silence in the main hall, Zhu Youxiao came back from his thoughts, and when he was about to throw the memorial to the bottom of the steps, he scolded: "Cui Chengxiu——! How did you become the Minister of the Ministry of War all these years?"

"Why didn't you report these things to me earlier!"

Cui Chengxiu has been thinking about countermeasures since just now. He has been an official in the court for many years, and he has a clear understanding of the general trend of the three parties. Although he is not good at military affairs, he has his own strengths.

If he didn't have this flexibility, he wouldn't have been able to stand in the hall for so long.

He hurried forward and said:

"Your Majesty, these are all the crimes of the minister. The reason why the minister resigned earlier was that these scourges were not dealt with in time, which caused inconvenience to the court."

"I'm going to go back and sell the property. I should be able to get 80 taels of silver. Now that the west wing is tense, I can use all of it for military expenses!"

"In this way, there is no need to embezzle your Majesty's internal funds, and you can make up for the soldiers and horses of the Northern Expedition Army for one month, and even the weapons and battles of the Jizhou New Army are almost the same."

When Zhu Youxiao heard this, his expression changed.

Seeing the change in the emperor's demeanor, Cui Chengxiu, as if afraid of repenting, immediately shouted:

"Your Majesty, as long as you can keep the land of Daming and make meritorious deeds, even if you spend all your wealth, what is the point?"

After finishing speaking, Cui Chengxiu bowed his head to the ground, which aroused a lot of discussion among the ministers.

The 80 taels was indeed his entire net worth. After being an official for so many years, he was indeed greedy a lot, but basically Wei Zhongxian and the emperor took most of it.

Now that I have saved up this little money, I planned to go back to my hometown this year to buy land, but I didn't expect that disasters would happen, and I had to disperse the money to avoid disasters!

Cui Chengxiu thought about it for a long time before, and now there is only one most direct way, if there is no blood loss, to show the emperor's attitude, then it will be over.

If you feel sorry for such a small amount of money, and you can't come up with any practical solution, you won't even be able to do it. If you lose the trust of the emperor, you will only die worse.

If the family wealth is gone, you can be greedy again, but if the emperor's trust is gone, you will have nothing.

Zhu Youxue has a comparative affairs office, and people like Cui Chengxiu naturally have to be investigated. He already knew in his heart that his entire family property does not exceed 100 million taels.

I don't know if the 80 taels can cover the food and wages of the front line for a month, but at least this is an attitude.

At the very least, Cui Chengxiu reacted so quickly and took out almost all of his family property in an emergency. Isn't this much better than the Donglin Qunxians of the Chongzhen Emperor in later generations who pulled their faces and begged for nothing?

Thinking of this, Zhu Youxiao's expression softened a little.

Indeed, what Cui Chengxiu proposed is a solution, embezzling money from other places, tearing down the east wall to pay the west wall, sooner or later there will be a day of collapse.

If Sun Chuanting was affected by this and reproduced the Battle of Persimmon Garden, he would be the one who would be threatened in the end, or even the entire Daming country.

"What do you think?"

Hearing this, all the ministers looked at each other and talked a lot, but in the end no one said anything.

Now that Cui Chengxiu has taken out the 80 taels, at least there is a place to pay the money, and the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Households have nothing to say.

After all, Zhu Youxiao's majesty is different from that of four years ago, the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Household Affairs are silent, and the officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate naturally dare not directly contradict the holy will.

Seeing that the tone of this court meeting is about to be set.

Chapter 535 Increased border soldiers by 24 and paid 200 million

"If you have anything to say, just say it. I'm not a monarch who doesn't listen to advice." Zhu Youxiao looked around and looked at Wang Qia. He could tell at a glance that he had a lump in his throat.

Wang Qia believed this.

Before him, Li Banghua contradicted the holy will countless times, but the result is different from Donglin's gang, they are still alive and kicking.

The most unbelievable thing is that this guy was promoted to Zuoqian Capital Censor this year and became the highest official of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

This alone shows that the current emperor is not as foolish as rumors say, who listened to Wei Zhongxian's flattery and acted. On the contrary, Wang Qia faintly felt that it was Wei Zhongxian who was "flattering" according to the emperor's will!

This was a bold idea, and Wang Qia just laughed it off at first, but this idea became more and more serious in his heart as he got in touch with Emperor Tianqi for a long time.

Wang Qia knew in his heart that there was a reason for the emperor's insistence on keeping the eunuch Cui Chengxiu, no matter how much he attacked, it would be useless.

What's more, Cui Chengxiu's generosity this time is really big, 80 taels hard cover the front line's salary for a month, which is not something anyone can give up.

The point is, Cui Chengxiu actually didn't have long time to think from the time when she secretly realized that she was about to face a catastrophe, to when she opened her mouth to admit her mistake and said that she was going to use up all her family's wealth to pay for her salary.

That is to say, when Wang Qia finished the last few words of advice, Cui Chengxiu had already finished all the considerations without even blinking her eyes.

Wang Qia had been silent before, just observing Cui Chengxiu.

Now it seems that this person can be kept by the emperor, and it is true that he has his own use in the court.

No matter how he flattered Wei Dang back then, became the vanguard of Dou Donglin, or lost his family's wealth in this way, it is not something ordinary people can act decisively.

Since the emperor insisted not to deal with Cui Chengxiu, then this article should be published. Only those Donglin Qunxian who are fighting for fame can do it.

"I also have my humble opinion. The towns on the nine borders are all important routes of the country. The current situation of no soldiers can be reappeared. The nine borders are short of troops. We must transfer troops from other places!"

Zhu Youxiao nodded and asked:

"Nowadays, where are the soldiers and horses dispatched from all over the place, so as not to affect the local guards, but also to quickly replenish the elite troops on the nine sides?"

Wang Qia had already thought of a countermeasure in his heart, and said:

"I believe that the four provinces of Fujian, Zhejiang, Sichuan, and Gansu have good military records in the past, and the folk customs are simple. They are also the places where Qi Jiguang, Yu Dayou and others selected soldiers, and they can be transferred to the north."

"The three guards in northern Saibei and North Korea are ordered to send [-] and [-] troops each, and Xiong Tingbi is ordered to add [-] new soldiers to the Liao army, recruit and train on the spot, and organize them into two battalions."

"In this way, the new army can be expanded by 24, and the salary will be increased by 250 million per year!"

"I asked the transfer department what you mean. In a few months, the first batch of Shandong salt tax collected this year will be escorted to Beijing. From now on, the salt tax in Shandong alone will be enough to make up for the 20 new army's food and wages."

Good guy, the Shandong New Salt Law that was completed after such trouble, the salt tax has been transferred back and forth in my own hands, and it will be sent out directly before it is warmed up.

Zhu Youxiao turned back and forth several times in his heart, and asked sideways:

"What does the elder mean?"

Wei Guangwei has also been thinking about whether there are other solutions other than increasing troops and transferring troops from south to north, but after much deliberation, there is really no more suitable one.