Early the next morning, the sky cleared up and Chang Yu led his troops to leave. Mu Tianbo and other officials saw him off only ten miles away. He watched more than a thousand cavalry slowly leave. Mu Tianbo felt mixed in his heart and could not express his exact feelings. The little eunuch ran away across mountains and rivers.
He was grateful for Qianli coming to help, but he was very disappointed when he was directly removed from the rank of general. Moreover, he performed terribly during the process of encircling and suppressing the rebellion of the two chieftains. He was completely a soy sauce, especially
He was greatly humiliated when the Wan family almost broke through the city.
Moreover, as a man who likes martial arts, he was brutally tortured by the young eunuch in martial arts, and his military talent that he had always been proud of was rubbed on the ground. They decided to play chess and strategize the Wan family without leaving Kunming City.
He Wu Bikui managed it easily. In addition, how the three battalions of warriors under the little eunuch were trained made him feel ashamed. They could attack like a tiger descending the mountain and defend like Mount Tai.
What was shocking was that Chang Yu led three battalions and one guard to run five to six thousand miles, crisscrossed mountains and rivers, defeated generals, and fought a fierce battle at the foot of Kunming City, but did not lose a single soldier!
This is simply a miracle!
Miracles are created by people, and Chang Yu, who created this miracle, was riding a horse and humming a song, looking leisurely and contented. It has been too hard for more than a month. Now that this happened, he felt a lot more relaxed, not to mention memorizing
With more than three hundred thousand taels of silver.
But Li Muxian has always been worried about it, and kept talking around Chang Yu: "Didn't we come here to make money? A wealthy family like Mu Prince's Mansion only made a mere 300,000 taels, and 150,000 of them were
In fact, the Mu Palace only received 150,000 yuan as compensation for Wu Bikui and Sha Dingzhou, which is simply a drop in the bucket!"
Besides, these 300,000 taels of silver may sound like a lot at first glance, but if you divide it this way, that amount, and turn it over, what else is there?
"Taoist Master is becoming more and more dissatisfied now." Chang Yu laughed and scolded: "In the past, the imperial court sent troops to suppress thieves, and the tens of thousands of troops were only one hundred thousand. Our troops this time are only more than a thousand, including Zuo Liangyu's, it is nearly four hundred thousand taels, and then
You don’t have to worry about bursting your belly when you eat.”
But Li Muxian still kept talking, which made Chang Yu a little annoyed, so he couldn't help it anymore: "The Taoist priest has always heard that you should take a long time to catch the big fish!"
Li Muxian was startled and scratched his head: "So this is just a deposit?"
"Has the Taoist Master ever thought about where we will send troops and food when we attack Zhang Xianzhong in the future?"
The words woke up the dreamer, and Li Muchian opened his mouth wide: "Isn't this a bit too harsh? It's not easy for Prince Mu's family to accumulate a fortune over hundreds of years!"
Bah, Chang Yu laughed and scolded: "This shows that you are a good person again."
Chang Yu has never been soft-hearted or soft-hearted when it comes to eating big money. Taking away Mu Tianbo's 150,000 taels of silver now is not painful for him, but it is indeed as Li Muchian said, it is just a deposit. Just imagine going back to conquer Zhang Xianzhong, and provide food and supplies for the soldiers and horses.
Where do they come from? The imperial court has no available troops in Sichuan. If it is transferred from afar, it will be thousands of miles away. Not to mention the waste of people and money, it is impossible to transfer many troops. Even if Li Zicheng in Xi'an was defeated at that time, some troops would still be left behind for garrison.
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And the most important thing is how to solve the problem of grain and grass? Not to mention the difficulties of transporting grain and grass thousands of miles away, there is no grain and grass at all!
Therefore, at that time, whether it was soldiers, horses or food and grass, we could only get them from nearby!
Who is close? Who is fat?
it goes without saying.
By then, there will be a lot of blood in Prince Mu's Mansion, but now Mu Tianbo is still immersed in the cake and unable to extricate himself, and he cannot react to the little eunuch's premeditated plan. He still feels that he has sent troops all the way to help solve the problem.
Spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on your own is really not much.
But he didn't expect that the big head was behind him. When he beat Zhang Xianzhong, it was the time to bleed him.
It seems unreasonable, but to Chang Yu, the imperial court has given you honorable men hundreds of years of glory and wealth, and when you need it at a critical moment, what's wrong with bleeding you?
is there a problem?
If there is something you hold back, if you don’t accept it then rebel!
He was neither Emperor Chongzhen nor the imperial court, so he had too many fears and scruples.
His philosophy is simple, direct and brutal. If you don't accept it, he will beat you until you do!
For him, the court and the nobles are dependent on each other for survival and complement each other. You help me conquer the world, and I will give your descendants glory and wealth for hundreds of years. But if something happens to me, I need your money and efforts. You say no? That is
It looks like the house will collapse, the family will be destroyed, and everyone will die.
Then why should I spoil you?
Your glory and wealth are all given by me. At critical moments, I will borrow what you need, otherwise I will deal with you. Although it is overbearing, it makes sense. At least it is more confident than when we criticized local tyrants and landlords for dividing their property at a certain period.
The more there are, the more evidence there is.
It seems that Chang Yu's approach is a bit extreme, but if you think about the late Ming Dynasty in history, Emperor Chongzhen was humble and pitiful and went around raising money and donations. As a result, from his old father-in-law to the relatives of Emperor Wenwu of the Manchu Dynasty, no one came out.
Money! As far as they are concerned, your old Zhu family is destroyed anyway, and I am just looking for a master to continue to be prosperous and wealthy.
Every time he thinks about this, Chang Yu feels angry and resents Chongzhen for being weak. He is at a critical moment of life and death. Why do he still care about so many things? If fundraising fails to result in strong donations, is reputation and image more important, or wealth and life?
Of course, now Emperor Chongzhen has slowly become more powerful, and those who are close to Mo are also more and more shady. For example, he appointed Chang Yu as the governor of the East Factory, and tried to make him the governor despite all opinions.
Under the pressure of the courtiers, he used the power of the court to provide support for him. It can be seen that he is different from the history.
If history could repeat itself, he would no longer be so humble and ask for donations. He would take some tough measures. History will only repeat itself, but it will never happen again. Emperor Chongzhen is very different now. He is tougher. There are many things that happened in the past.
He dared to do things that he didn't even dare to think about, and he didn't have to do it himself. Chang Yu was the one who took the blame. He was responsible for meritorious service, and Chang Yu took the blame for criticism. He didn't care anyway.
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"When we conquer Zhang Xianzhong in the future, there will be a lot of blood in Prince Mu's Mansion, but this blood may not be splashed on us." Li Muxian is a money fanatic like Wu Mengming. Wu Mengming originally wanted to accompany Chang Yu this time, but he was unavailable because of something unexpected.
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Chang Yu laughed loudly after hearing this. What Li Muchian meant was that at that time, Mu Tianbo spent money and effort on the public, and it might not fall on them.
"At that time, the blood spattered everywhere with just one cut, and even a few drops on the body were enough for us to drink."
"That's true." Li Muxian chuckled.
Everyone nearby laughed loudly when they heard the sound, and Tu Yuandao said: "Daozhang Li only has money in his eyes, but we are different. We came here for military merit, but this trip, apart from being harder on the road, we didn't do much. This military merit is
It’s all in vain, hey, I still thought I could kill everyone and shock Yunnan.”
"No," Ji Jike and Hao Yaoqi also agreed.
Chang Yu rolled his eyes: "I have discovered that you are all dissatisfied now. The benefits of 400,000 yuan are not enough for Daoist Li. Not to mention that he also cheated a lot of private money from Mu Tianbo. Even you few are still
Do you want to achieve great military success and become king in Yunnan?"
"I don't dare, but it's true that there will be no military merit this time." Tu Yuan said seriously.
No military merits? Chang Yu said with an exaggerated look: "To solve the difficulties in Kunming, kill tens of thousands of Wan clan's troops in one fell swoop, divide the troops into Yuanmou, Mengzi and Ami Prefecture, defeat the two groups of rebels one by one and put down the Yunnan rebellion.
It’s called having no military merit? Why, you still want all the chieftains in Yunnan to rebel, and then make a big stew in the Yunnan iron pot and kill all the chieftains before you can call it military merit?”
Hearing what Chang Yu said, Tu Yuan and others scratched their heads, as if that was really the case, but Ji Jike asked: "According to what the governor said, we have put an end to the chaos in Yunnan."
, It seems that nothing happened to Prince Mu’s Mansion.”
"Otherwise," Chang Yu raised his brows, "What did he do? He disobeyed the decree and then got burned. He almost lost the city of Kunming and triggered chaos in the entire Yunnan and even the entire Ming Dynasty. He was merciful even if he didn't punish him severely.
, he has Mao’s merits, Tu Yuan went to fight Wu Bikui’s side, you fought Amizhou, and Hao Yaoqi fought Mengzi, what did he do?”
Everyone laughed loudly, but they were extremely grateful to Chang Yu. Since the little eunuch said this, he would show his merits to the court in this way, so the credit for putting down the Yunnan Rebellion would be credited to them, and the hard work was not in vain.
In this journey, as for Mu Tianbo, of course he also put in some effort, but there is no merit in atonement, and Chang Yu only took off his rank of chief soldier, and Wu Zhaoyuan was suspended for inspection. This in itself
It is a kind of favor.
Chang Yu would never be indebted to the soldiers who followed him through life and death. He wanted to share the money and remember the merits. This is also the reason why one of the soldiers under his command is loyal to him.
Although this trip to Yunnan was full of hardships, the rewards were also gratifying.
Money was made, military exploits were gained, problems were solved, wine and food were eaten, beauties...
Hao waved his flag and asked: "Master Du Gong, when you came here you said that there are beautiful mountains and rivers and beautiful girls here, oh no, little sister, how..." Before he could finish his words, Chang Yu shouted angrily: "Wine
Jar, don't be shameless. Prince Mu's palace has not entertained you. Also, don't pretend that I don't know about Li Xuan's business in Kunming City. I don't believe that you went there just to listen and not do anything else."
Hao Yaoqi had an embarrassed giggle on his face. A wealthy family like Mu Prince's Mansion kept geishas to entertain distinguished guests. Naturally, they were also entertained, not just Hao Yaoqi, but also Tu Yuan and Ji Jike, and even Xiang
The smiles on those guys are so obscene, you know they all have their share.
"Shameless" Not far away, Su Jing heard them curse in a low voice when they brought the topic to this point, and then gave Song Luoshu a fierce look next to her. Qing Yi didn't understand this and didn't care. Song Luoshu was stared at by Qing Yi in wonder.
: "I am a family man."
"Tch, all men are the same, whether they have a family or not." Su Jing said and glared at Chen Wangting, Qiao Sanxiu, and Jiang Fa. The three of them had slightly red faces, pretending not to hear or see, and looked at Li Muchian.
"What do you think Pindao is doing? Pindao is a monk and not close to women..."
Bah! Almost at the same time, more than ten people Tumo Xingzi almost drowned Li Muchian.
"Hey, hey, don't pour dirty water on the poor Taoist. If you don't believe me, ask Mr. Mu, has the poor Taoist ever..." Li Muchian was still struggling, and Hao Yaoqi curled his lips: "Taoist Master, please don't talk about these useless things.
Okay, let me tell you how much money you defrauded Duke Mu."
"What is cheating? This is money earned by Pindao's ability. Pindao helped him read fortunes, divination, and fortune-telling. These are all university knowledge, and learning requires money..." Li Muchian shouted, and everyone refused to give up.
He was booing, but he didn't say anything until Chang Yu spoke: "Just tell them and let these fools see the price of knowledge."
Then, Li Muxian stretched out a finger.
One hundred taels?
One thousand taels?
It can't be ten thousand, right?
Everyone speculated, but Li Muxian just smiled and said nothing.
Alas, Taoism is unfortunate! Qing Yi shook his head.