Santun Yingcheng, Ji Town Administrative Office. Liu Ce, governor of Ji Liao, and Wang Yingzhi, governor of Shuntian, were having a secret conversation in a secret room.
"Your Majesty must know that your Majesty is determined to disarmament. I understand your thoughts, but the matter is already done, and there is no point in opposing it. Besides, if you offend the emperor and offend Donglin, I am afraid that your life will not be easy in the future.
It's better." Wang Yingzhi advised.
Liu Ce looked angry and said: "I don't know which bastard in the court gave your majesty a bad idea. In order to save money, I didn't even give up my face. Ji Miyong's three alliances have a total of 106,000 soldiers.
The annual fee for this army of nearly 110,000 people is 910,000 yuan. Those who were ordered to be laid off were the recruits among the 106,000 Ji Army. After laying off these more than 30,000 recruits, the annual fee for Ji Miyong Sanxie was 91 yuan.
Ten thousand was reduced to 750,000. Moreover, not only the annual fee of the Ji army in the second year of Chongzhen was calculated as 750,000, but the annual fee of the first year of Chongzhen was also settled according to the new amount revised in the second year. In other words, the annual fee of 750,000 in the second year of Chongzhen would also be deducted.
The so-called extra 160,000 yuan in the first year of Chongzhen's reign can only be 590,000 yuan." Liu Ce put the tureen heavily on the coffee table and said, "Isn't this a fool's errand? It's the officers who are more capable than the soldiers.
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"Your Majesty, please calm down. Your Majesty, please calm down. How could I not know that this is a bad thing like giving birth to a child without an asshole? But this matter was ordered by His Majesty. What can we, the ministers, say? What is the priority at the moment?
We have to get over this hurdle first and then talk about it." Wang Yingzhi advised.
Liu Ce said a little discouraged: "When your Majesty first came to power, he was very wise in rectifying the legacy of the Wei Dynasty. How could he make such a foolish move at this time? Alas!" Wang Yingzhi also said with a bitter look: "Why don't I do this?
I know that even if the abolition is successful, the problem will be more serious than it is now. These more than 30,000 people must be resettled. Otherwise, the more than 30,000 soldiers who are starving and dying will be thrown out. Just thinking about it makes my scalp numb." Liu Ce
Said: "The abolition is your Majesty's wish now, but if something goes wrong in the local area, it is our responsibility. It is really a dilemma." Wang Yingzhi said in a low voice: "Everyone will die when the sky falls, and there will be a fool across the river. There is no one to governor Ji now."
Isn't Liaojin the prime minister of military and civilian affairs? Isn't he afraid of the chaos in Ji Town?" Liu Ce's eyes suddenly lit up and he said: "You mean to let the Guan Ning army take over the eliminated new army. Can Governor Yuan agree?
." Wang Yingzhi said: "We can't do it without abolishing the system. We can only find a way on our own. We and Governor Yuan are grasshoppers on the same rope. Even if he doesn't want to take over all of them, it's good to be able to arrange some of them. We can help Yuan.
The Superintendent sent a letter asking him to incorporate part of the disbanded New Army into the Guan Ning Army, but still station it in Jizhou." Liu Ce said: "If Superintendent Yuan places some of them, we are thinking of ways to place some in Ji Town.
, this matter can be resolved. Just drive away the old and the weak. As long as the young and strong are caught, you won't be afraid of them causing trouble." Soon, Chongzhen received Yuan Chonghuan's memorial.
What Yuan Chonghuan meant was that in order to restore the Liao Dynasty in five years, the time was tight and the task was urgent. It was very necessary to add another part to the 140,000 Guanning Army.
He proposed that the more than 30,000 soldiers eliminated by the Sanxie Army should be retained by the Guan Ning Army. The military salary would be paid out of the total salary of 4.8 million taels of the Guan Ning Army.
Chongzhen passed Yuan Chonghuan's petition to the cabinet members. Everyone looked at it in silence. Obviously, such a reduction in the army was a joke.
The Sanxie was abolished, and Ji Town was handed over to Liao Town. Isn't this the left hand and the right hand? Besides, Zunhua and Jizhou are still stationed.
The officers and soldiers performed their duties, which almost eliminated the possibility of unrest. Wang Yingzhi made a good calculation.
Ji Zhen Xixie also submitted a letter intending to replenish the beacon fire stations in various places and retain 7,810 soldiers. Under this plan, the vigorous reduction of troops in Ji Town actually only reduced the cost of the troops laid off by Chongzhen, but in fact only the troops were laid off.
, because some of the soldiers were taken over by Guan Ning and Ji Miyong themselves.
The number of soldiers was not much reduced, but the money was not given. Therefore, in fact, in the second year of Chongzhen, Ji Miyong's soldiers and pay should be like this.
The number of soldiers was reduced from one person to one person. The pay was reduced from 910,000 to 590,000. The army was reduced by 24%, but the pay was cut by 35%.
The problem in Jizhen has not been alleviated, but has become more serious. Bi Ziyan, the Minister of Household Affairs, his eyelids jumped because His Majesty actually brought this disarmament plan to the court for discussion.
In other words, His Majesty approves. His Majesty's purpose is to save money. He doesn't care how the laid-off soldiers are placed.
Sun Chengzong didn't say a word, he had already seen it. Yuan Chonghuan was going to take action on Mao Wenlong. The reason why Yuan Chonghuan was willing to take over the new army that Sanxie had abolished was actually to strengthen the defense of Ji Town and to deal with the incident in Dongjiang Town.
After the slaves had no worries, they put military pressure on Jizhen.
What's even more strange is that Yuan Chonghuan sent an army from Liaodong to Zunhua. However, Wang Yuanya, the governor of Baoding who was stationed in Zunhua at this time, drove away the army on the grounds that it was not needed.
This shows that Yuan Chonghuan had a clear understanding of the situation. He was extremely worried and Jiannu took a detour to enter the customs.
During this period, he wrote twice to request for increased defense of Ji Town. He believed that some of the soldiers from Jiubian who had been mobilized to build the city along the Liaohe River were not enough to resist Jiannu.
However, the northwest was about to end the war and achieve a complete victory. Both the cabinet and the emperor believed that there would be no problem in withdrawing half of the nine-border troops.
These people were mobilized to the front line of the Liao River and built castles along the river to form a line from Jinzhou to Chahar, which was enough to seal the Jiannu east of the Liao River.
The so-called Jiannu detour to Haraqin's hometown to join the invaders was completely unfounded. The ministers in the court meeting all had their own agendas, and the plan was quickly passed.
At the same time, in view of the fact that the Ordos Plateau had been pacified, an order was issued on the same day to formally abolish half of the troops in each of the three towns of Datong, Shanxi, Xuanfu, and headed to Liaohe to deploy defenses under the leadership of the deputy commander-in-chief.
And it was specified that elite soldiers should be selected to go to Liaodong. By this time, the situation had become obvious. If the elite soldiers were transferred to Liaodong, the next step would be to directly abolish the three towns, because the three towns were already empty.
Bad news spread in Ji Town like it had wings. All the soldiers were whispering among themselves and spreading the gossip.
A large number of soldiers from Zhenwei Battalion and Fenwu Battalion left their posts and fled privately to various beacons in Sanxie, fanning the wind and lighting fires at their strongholds to stir up oppositional sentiments.
Originally, the disarmament plan only made the new army dissatisfied and confused. On the same day, the imperial court issued an order to abolish half of the soldiers in Datong Xuanfu and the three towns in Shanxi, and they were elite soldiers and mobilized them to guard the border in Liaohe River.
This immediately pushed the old army in Ji Town into a panic. In just a few days, the situation deteriorated sharply, and a large number of soldiers carried weapons and left the beacon and stronghold.
This chapter has been completed!