"Several dear friends, Prince Heng has just entered the capital, and Qingzhou Prefecture City has fallen. King Heng and Qingzhou Prefecture City have lived and died together."

Zhu Youjian said in a low voice: "The power of the rebels is getting stronger and stronger now. If they cannot control their limelight, it may lead to a disaster."

Hearing this, Han Yu and others fell into silence. Although Nan Zhili, as one of the two capitals, there were thirty-eight guards and eight offices in the entire Nan Zhili, including the Zhongdu Liukousi. If all of them were transferred,

There were more than 100,000 people, plus the troops of the Zhejiang Provincial Administration Commission, there was no problem in collecting 200,000 troops.

But fighting is not a family. As the saying goes, it is said that if you plan to win, you will lose first. Wang Congyi despised Su Hao before, which led to this situation. If Wang Congyi had planned to lose first, he would keep some of his troops in Qingzhou Prefecture and Yanzhou Prefecture to restrain him.

The rebels, even if they were defeated this time, Su Hao would not be able to conquer Qingzhou Prefecture so easily.

So even if you want to attack Su Hao, Nanzhili must at least leave enough defensive forces to prevent Qingzhou Prefecture from happening again. If Qingzhou Prefecture is lost, the court can still hold on. If Nanzhili is lost, then

The world is really in chaos!

Therefore, we can only transfer troops from Fujian, Zhejiang and Guangdong, and then some of the troops from Nanzhili. However, the order to transfer troops has just been transferred to the Fujian Provincial Administration and Envoy.

If you want to wait for Fujian and all the troops from Guangdong gather in Nanzhili, it will take at least three or four months. It will take at least half a year to wait for the rest and rectify it.

However, it is also beneficial to attack from the south. That is, if you start from Nanzhili, you don’t have to worry about the food and grass being cut off by the rebels again. Moreover, transporting food and grass supplies can also use the river channels, which can save a lot of consumption.

"Your Majesty, why don't you recruit new recruits?"

After thinking for a while, Han Yu spoke, "Now the garrison has been decaying for a long time and the soldiers are useless. Recruiting new soldiers can quell the rebellion faster."

The system of the garrison has long been abolished. Half of the soldiers in each guard can burn high incense. The structure of the border army is basically half of the recruitment of soldiers and half of the guards. The main combat power is recruitment, and the guards are used to fight miscellaneous battles.

of.

It is very difficult to rely on the guards’ soldiers to destroy the rebels. It is best to recruit new soldiers. Just train for a period of time to become elite soldiers, which is much easier to use than guards.

"Recruiting new recruits?"

Hearing Han Yu's words, Zhu Youjian frowned. The court spent millions of taels of silver every year in Liaodong. If some recruitment of troops were summoned, the court would probably not be able to hold on.

Seeing Zhu Youjian's face, Han Yu instantly understood what Zhu Youjian was thinking and sighed in his heart. Although the military soldiers were useless, they did not need to spend money and food from the court at all, and the monthly salary for recruiting soldiers was one.

Two more silver, followed by food. It costs at least twenty taels of silver a year to raise a soldier. With weapons and armor, almost thirty taels of silver is used as a foundation. In addition, false reports and false claims, it costs forty taels a year to raise a soldier.

silver.

Now there are more than 400,000 troops on the border, and there are 200,000 troops. Although weapons and armor do not need to be replaced every year, the amount of money alone costs 4 million taels of silver, plus other miscellaneous items such as building cities and renovating arms, etc.

, tens of millions of taels of silver a year.

In addition to these, there are also Jingying, Shangzhi Guards, plus the royal expenses, the royal family's salary, the salaries of all officials, and the expenses of each department. Now the court is not able to make ends meet. Recruiting new recruits will be confirmed by the court's finances.

Not enough, I can only pay more money.

….

"Your Majesty, if you can recruit new recruits, then it will be faster to quell the rebellion, which will be beneficial to the people."

Seeing that Zhu Youjian was still hesitant, Han Yu could only persuade again: "Now the labor force of several governments around Kaifeng Prefecture is about to be exhausted. If it continues, there may be changes there, and the capital will be in danger by then!"

If we rely solely on those guards, even if the rebellion can be suppressed, it will be a protracted war. Now the transportation of grain is cut off, and a large amount of grain needs to be transported by land, wasting a lot of manpower and material resources, and a large amount of grain is consumed by the civilians who are transported.

More importantly, the corvee service that can be recruited is limited. The transport of grain will delay the cultivation of hundreds of thousands of households. If it is delayed for another year or two, even Henan may become in chaos.

The capital is really over.

Hearing Han

When he spoke, Zhu Youjian's face became heavy, and he finally sighed: "Then recruit new recruits. I don't know how many recruits should be recruited?"

Han Gong bowed and said, "Your Majesty, you must recruit at least 100,000 new recruits and conduct another half a year of training."

"Why do you want so much?"

Upon hearing this, Zhu Youjian couldn't help but exclaim. The Liao salary that is now charged is 5.2 million taels of silver per year. This silver is used for the Liaodong war. The recruitment of soldiers from Liaodong, including Shanhaiguan is only 120,000 to 130,000.

To recruit another 100,000 troops means to collect another double the Liao salary.

Although he had never left the capital, he also knew how heavy the Liao salary was to the people. If the tax was doubled, many people would not be able to survive.

"Your Majesty, Shandong's location is extremely important. You must not form a tug-of-war here. You must do your best to eliminate the rebels, otherwise the Ming Dynasty will be in danger."

Han Yu sighed, if Su Hao, like An Bangyan, occupied a remote area far away from the Central Plains, he would never make this suggestion, but now Su Hao is occupying Shandong, threatening the safety of the capital, and threatening Nanzhili,

As the center of the Ming Dynasty and the richest place in the world, half of the taxes of the imperial court came from Jiangnan.

In addition, Su Hao also cut off the canal, the lifeline of the court, and a sharp dagger aimed at the heart of the Ming Dynasty. In terms of the degree of danger, Su Hao was bigger than the Jurchens in Liaodong and the Mongols on the grassland. If not

Now the Mongols and Jurchens are sharpening their swords and staring at Northern Zhili. He wants to ask Zhu Youjian to mobilize elite border troops to enter Shandong to suppress the rebellion.

"Add to get extra."

After a long time, Zhu Youjian closed his eyes in pain: "I have another year of hardship!"

He always wanted to be a good emperor, but as soon as he ascended the throne, the eunuch party was rampant and the country was in chaos. He finally defeated Wei Zhongxian, and Su Hao, the eunuch party, rebelled again. Outside, the Jurchens and Mongols peeked at the Central Plains.

There were rebellions and natural disasters, and the entire Ming Dynasty was in turmoil.

………

Jinan Prefecture, Jinyiwei Yamen.

"Master, Qingzhou Prefecture has been taken down."

Ding Zimo hurried to Su Hao.

"Has Qingzhou Prefecture taken it?"

Hearing Ding Zimo's words, Su Hao raised his head. He was not surprised by this result. Now there are not many troops in Qingzhou Prefecture and Denglai Prefecture, and even if it is a strong attack, he can easily take it down.

"The commander of Qingzhou Guards Gao Ting turned against him at the last minute, and Jiang Baihu and others took over Qingzhou Prefecture without paying much."

….

Ding Zimo bowed and said, "Jiang Baihu and his friends have sent someone to escort Liu Yingjiu, the governor of Qingzhou Prefecture, and Zhu Yihu, the King of Heng."

When Su Hao heard this, his eyes lit up. For him, these Ming vassal kings were big gift packs. These people had been in power for decades and had a great deal of cause and effect.

In fact, in addition to the vassal kings, there are also a large number of royal relatives such as princes, generals of the state, and generals of the state. He has killed several of them before, but the cause and effect of these people is surprisingly small, even more so than

Not to be a clerk like a captain.

The main reason is that since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, there have been too many royal relatives. In addition to the rise of civil servants' power and decline of imperial power, in addition to the vassal kings, these royal relatives such as princes and generals of the state have already been

He has no more status, and even bullying the people has to think carefully about whether he will be impeached by civil servants and lead to his title being taken away.

After all, the imperial court is almost intolerable to the huge annual salary of many royal relatives, especially the princes. There are only less than thirty princes in the entire Ming Dynasty, but there are thousands of princes.

You should know that the annual salary of the prince is 2,000 stones, and other miscellaneous cloths can reach more than 2,500 stones, and more than 2 million stones for thousands of people. Moreover, the sons of the prince are in the town

The general of the country has a salary of one thousand stones per year, and the number of generals in the country is several times higher than that of the princes. Therefore, the court is extremely active in revoking the royal titles. It is difficult for the princes to withdraw, but the princes and the like.

A slight sin is to revoke the ban.

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"Will they surrender?"

After retracting his thoughts, Su Hao asked.

Ding Zimo bowed and said, "Master, they don't want to."

"Then let's go to death."

Su Hao waved his hand and said, "Appointment of death."

Now he is the leader of the country and cannot always kill people in public, otherwise others should think he is a madman, and he will naturally not do this kind of destruction of his image.

For this reason, he set up a death row prison and refined a paper man who was similar to a normal person to act as an executioner, and used it to reap the enlightenment points in justification.

"Yes, Master!"

Hearing Su Hao's words, Ding Zimo nodded, then took out a list from his sleeve and said, "Master, Jiang Baihu and his friends have also sent someone to escort the wealth accumulated by the Heng Palace in the past two hundred years."

"How many?"

Su Hao took the list and now he has nearly 130,000 troops under his command, and it is still being recruited. In another month, it should be more than 150,000. Before the next conquest of the court, there should be

There are 200,000 people, and the monthly salary and food are the same as a huge number.

In addition, there are various equipment, weapons and armor, and so on. I have seized a lot of them before, although many of the weapons and armors seized are old antiques from my grandfather's generation, he only

I have selected some newer ones, but there are many. Now the weapons workshop is also casting new weapons day and night.

And now he has built a firearm factory with more than 2,000 people in Jinan Prefecture, and has made large quantities of red cannons, muskets and other firearms.

….

There are also various cities defending and siege equipment that are also built overtime. Each of these is silver. The more than 6 million taels of silver he had plundered from the Dewang Mansion and the Tong family had already used one-third of it.

, if he doesn't make any payment, he will have a headache.

Ding Zimo replied: "Master, there are more than one million acres of fields in King Heng's Mansion, and there are four pastures, with more than 4,000 good horses and tens of thousands of livestock. In addition, there are thousands of shops.

It is distributed throughout the world, with more than three million taels of gold and silver."

Hearing this, Su Hao nodded with satisfaction. With the more than three million taels of silver, he would not have to worry about military pay in the next two years.

At this time, Ding Zimo continued: "In addition to gold and silver, there are more than 80 precious medicines from three to five hundred years, twelve treasure medicines from thousands of years, and one spiritual plant from five hundred years of age
To be continued...