At this moment, if anyone looks down at the earth from the air, he will be surprised to find: on the official road from Tianjin to Zhangjiakou, there are long gray dragons advancing northward in a mighty manner.
At almost the same time, Tongzhou's Hubucangchang and the Tianjin section of the canal had also been completely taken over by the new army.
When fighting, we fight for money and food.
If the army has no food to eat, how can it get fighting power?
If the packhorse has no fodder, how can the artillery be towed?
Even during World War II, the German army fighting the Blitzkrieg needed more than just fuel.
There are millions of packhorses responsible for transporting logistical supplies.
Yuzhu met Sun Zhaji, the Minister of Household Affairs, in the signing room of Nanxun Hall.
Yuzhu knows Sun Zhaji's old background very clearly.
This Duke was affiliated with Xianghongqi Manchuria. His promotion to the Ministry of Industry was due to the vigorous promotion of Song Zhu, the former chief Manchurian scholar.
"Mr. Sun, have you received the imperial decree?" Yuzhu looked at Sun Zhaji expressionlessly.
Sun Zhaji did not dare to insist on it, so he could only whisper: "To be honest with you, the prince, where did the 4 million taels of silver in the Ministry of Revenue come from? Take a look...take a look..." After analyzing a lot of necessary expenses,
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In the end, after much calculation, the Ministry of Accounts not only had no money to allocate, but also needed Yuzhu to bring back the money to fill the hole.
Yuzhu knew in his heart that what Sun Zhaji told was the truth.
After the death of Emperor Daxing, the Ministry of Household Affairs first allocated 4 million taels of silver to pay for the funeral. Later, an additional two million taels were allocated.
The Qing Dynasty ruled the world with filial piety. In order to reflect filial piety, the funerals of Daxing emperors were as extravagant as possible.
Not to mention anything else, the total number of lamas, monks and Taoist priests invited exceeded the three thousand mark.
Basically, all major temples and Taoist temples near the capital have been emptied.
Previously, the northwest had been using troops, and the expenditure was extremely huge.
What's more important is that Qiu Fu from Jiangnan has not yet been deported to Beijing, so there is indeed room for mice to escape from the Treasury's treasury.
Yuzhu is in charge of the transfer department, so he naturally knows the reality of the transfer department.
"Both the Fourteenth and Fourth Lao have rebelled against the imperial court. The banner men in Beijing should also share the difficulties with the imperial court." As soon as Yuzhu said these words, Sun Zhaji's expression immediately changed.
Sun Zhaji never expected that Yuzhu would dare to raise banners.
Banner, commonly known as: hardcore crops among the people.
Of the hundreds of thousands of bannermen in Beijing, less than 30% are actually eligible for banner pay.
In fact, the living standards of ordinary bannermen are even worse than those of some hard-working small traders.
Do you usually want to eat meat? It doesn’t exist.
Ordinary bannermen are not allowed to do business, farm their own fields, or open small workshops.
To put it bluntly, the imperial court wanted to force ordinary bannermen to practice bow and horse training and then work for the imperial court.
However, the positions in the Beijing Eight Banners Army are always limited. As time goes by, there will be more and more bannermen who are idle and idle.
"Your Majesty, is this something inappropriate?" Sun Zhaji himself was a Manchurian bannerman. He knew very well that the consequences of offending all the bannermen would be extremely miserable.
Yuzhu smiled slightly and said: "Mr. Sun, ordinary bannermen will not be affected in any way, and they can receive whatever they want. However, bannermen with nobles can definitely postpone the distribution of hard-core crops for a few months."
After the Qing army entered the customs, various customs of the slave society still remained among the Eight Banners soldiers.
Ordinary flagmen, on the surface, enjoy superior treatment.
In fact, as long as the population of an ordinary bannerman's family is slightly larger, they will be so poor that they can only eat sparsely.
Sun Zhaji understood that Yuzhu's intention was to deprive the princes and nobles of their hard-core crops first.
Hey, good guy, isn't this just poking a hornet's nest?
However, after Sun Zhaji calmed down a little and thought about it, he immediately understood Yuzhu's sinister intentions.
As a foreign relative, Yuzhu was appointed as the political king. Among the bannermen, it is conceivable that there were many opponents.
However, when the Fourteenth and Fourteenth brothers took the opportunity to start an army together, the princes of Manchuria and the royal community were in dire straits. Who dared to openly oppose them?
Sun Zhaji had been the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs for many years. He did a little mental calculation and said: "If the pay of Youjue's banners is suspended, two million taels of silver can be transferred in a short period of time."
Yuzhu nodded with a smile. Sun Zhaji, the Minister of Household Affairs, had nothing to say about his professional standards.
"All projects of the Ministry of Internal Affairs will be suspended." Yuzhu's words once again shocked Sun Zhaji.
Well, no one dared to stop the various shady projects of the Ministry of Internal Affairs before.
Unexpectedly, just after Yuzhu became the political king, he cut off the financial resources of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
To be honest, Sun Zhaji has long been tired of those vampires in the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The princes outside can only spend a thousand taels of silver to build a small pavilion.
Those beasts in the Ministry of Internal Affairs have tens of thousands of taels of silver in their mouths.
Sun Zhaji suppressed the secret joy in his heart, blinked and said, "Your Majesty, is this appropriate?"
His subtext is, can the Queen Mother and the Emperor in the palace agree?
Yuzhu waved his hand and said, "I will explain it to the Queen Mother and the Emperor, so you don't have to worry too much."
The big stone in Sun Zhaji's heart immediately fell to the ground.
Yuzhu is now the political king. Who dares to openly oppose his decisions?
It was Yuzhu who made the decision, and Sun Zhaji was just the executor. If they wanted to hate Yuzhu, the banner princes and the masters of the Ministry of Internal Affairs should hate him.
Sun Zhaji carefully calculated that after all the major projects of the Ministry of Internal Affairs were stopped, the Ministry of Household Affairs had three million more taels of money at its disposal.
The imperial court wanted Yuzhu to send troops, but Yuzhu offered eight million taels of silver.
However, the imperial court really had no money on hand, so it could only halve it and give it to Yuzhu.
Even if it is reduced by half, the Ministry of Accounts will not have any money.
After a lot of twists and turns, Yuzhu got five million taels of silver.
However, this five million taels of silver is like pulling a tooth out of a tiger's mouth!
The fourteenth and fourth sons rebelled at the same time. The princes of the Eight Banners would rather stay in the Yangxin Hall and talk nonsense all day long than actually contribute.
The reason is actually very simple. No matter whether it is the fourteenth or the fourth, whoever becomes the big deal in the end, the hardcore crops of the Eight Banners princes cannot be given half a penny less.
The basis of the rule of the Qing Dynasty was the banner people, especially the Manchu banner people!
Sacrifice the interests of others and just use your words. Anyway, a dead Taoist friend will not die a poor Taoist.
Can you agree to sacrifice your own interests and live a hard life with the royal family?
Hi, as soon as the news spread, many Manchu princes and nobles knelt down in front of Cining Palace, crying and shouting that they were poor.
"Lord Buddha, the slave's mansion has a large population and an astonishing amount of expenses..."
"Empress Dowager, I have borrowed a large sum of money and am expecting to pay back part of it immediately after payment is made..."
"Old Ancestor, the bannermen are the foundation of our Qing Dynasty. We can't let that little bitch from outside the family just mess around..."
If Emperor Chongzhen, who had racked his brains and only managed to get two hundred thousand taels of silver, saw this scene in front of him, what would he think?
In the Cining Palace, Empress Dowager Cikang had nothing to do. She drank tea when she needed tea and ate snacks when she needed snacks.
However, the little emperor, who came to fulfill his filial piety, couldn't sit still.
"Well, I don't quite understand. It's just a temporary stop for a few months. Why aren't they happy?" The little emperor pretended to be puzzled.
Empress Dowager Cikang glanced at the little emperor. This little guy was a precocious and clever man. How could he not understand the twists and turns?
"Emperor, your fourth brother and your fourteenth brother started revolts one after another. If, I mean if, they become a big problem, what will happen to those people kneeling outside?" Cikang did not answer the little emperor directly.
question, but used rhetorical questions to enlighten him from the side.
If the little emperor didn't understand this, how could he openly beg the Queen Mother and agree to Yuzhu's request?
There are so many people kneeling outside, which shows that it is impossible for the Manchurian bannermen to obey Yuzhu sincerely.
Given time, even if Yuzhu is beaten to death, the little emperor will eventually turn around.
This is not a fantasy, but a fact proven by precedent.
This is what the emperor Shunzhi did. In the end, he successfully killed Dorgon and took the opportunity to take charge of the government himself.
Emperor Kangxi did the same thing. In the end, he captured Oboi out of his wits.
Looking through the history books, we can see that when Huo Guang was in power, Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty was just a puppet emperor performing a puppet show.
If Old Fourteen successfully breaks into the capital, the first person to be killed will definitely be the little emperor.
"Emperor, during the Battle of Jingnan in the former Ming Dynasty, the one who opened the city gate for the rebels was a noble among the nobles."
The Empress Dowager Cikang had not read many Chinese books, so Yuzhu secretly taught her to say this.
The young emperor read a lot, and he vaguely remembered that the person who opened the Jinchuan Gate of Nanjing for Zhu Di was none other than Cao Guogong Li Jinglong.
Li Jinglong's father, Li Wenzhong, was Zhu Chongba's nephew. He was considered a proper relative of the emperor.
The little emperor frowned, thought for a moment, and then understood everything!
The enemies on the front are not scary, such as Yuzhu, Laosi, Laosi and Laoba.
What is really scary is the Qing Dynasty's "Li Jinglong" hidden in the capital.
The little emperor had this realization, and he had played into Yuzhu's hands!
Outside the Cining Palace, more and more Manchurian dignitaries came to kneel and cry.
However, the more people crying outside, the colder the little emperor's heart became.
Because, he finally understood one thing. It didn't matter whether the emperor died or not. Their own five melons and seven dates must be ensured to be safe.
Lier is such a Lier!
However, the princes and nobles outside have strength in numbers after all!
Seeing the young emperor fidgeting and looking outside the palace frequently, Empress Dowager Cikang pulled her lips and smiled, deliberately provoking him and saying, "Even if the Yangxin Palace collapsed, what does it have to do with the people outside?"
The little emperor couldn't help but clenched his little fists. Hum, one day, tooth for tooth, blood for blood.
For thousands of years, the rich and powerful with vested interests have always had the same face.
Even if the sky falls, their personal benefits cannot be left out.
The representative figure among them is Prince Qing Yikuang of the late Qing Dynasty.
King Qing Yikuang was afraid of poverty when he was young, but once he came into power, he became even more greedy.
Without the protection of King Qing Yikuang, how could Yuan Xiangcheng's rise be so fast?