Chapter 155 Chongzhen's difficult scripture

The situation of the imperial court was indeed expected by Xiao Tianjian, which is basically the same as what Xiao Tianjian said. Although Chongzhen was anxious to send the northern border troops south as soon as possible to deal with Xing Tianjun, this matter was indeed not an easy task.

Those soldiers outside the customs have basically formed a warlord group now. They all have their own interests outside the customs. Suddenly, the court and Jiannu discussed peace. Although they are happy to see such a situation, they don't have to worry too much about Jiannu's entry into the army in the future. They have to fight desperately, but let them go south immediately, but Still can't do it.

After all, the matter of peace between the court and Jiannu came too suddenly. These officials are easy to say. They are happy to make peace with Jiannu, so they don't have to fight with Jiannu. However, the people and soldiers outside the customs are very dissatisfied. They think that the court is simply a betrayal of the country by doing so immediately. It's messy outside.

When these military generals encounter this situation, they have to calm down the emotions of their generals and suppress the opposition of the local people on this matter, which takes time.

The court was anxious to send them to Guannei to deal with Xing Tianjun, which is not good news for them. First, they have to go south and give up many vested interests outside the customs. At the same time, they can't do anything without money for such a large-scale operation. These military generals are patriotic. They were not very enthusiastic. They worked for the court, which was to make money for themselves. It was impossible for the court to say a word. They paid out of their own pocket and took out the money to give the generals money, such as money.

According to the practice of the imperial officers and soldiers, it is okay for the officers and soldiers to go to war, but they have to pay them first, and they have to pay money for a month or two. Otherwise, they will not do it. Even if they are forced to leave, they will be paid from time to time on the road, and even mutiny will occur because the soldiers's are not in place. Besides.

Therefore, these generals will not easily lead the army to set out before they get the money. Therefore, if the court wants to mobilize them, it must first take out the money. Guanwai is also in chaos because of the withdrawal from Jinzhou. Many places have to give up or change their defenses. In a short time, although the court has a purpose to let the army go south, but There is no real departure. They are all waiting for the money to be in place, and they have arranged the things at home, so that they may take the troops to the south.

And it is also very difficult for the court to mobilize so many people to take out a large amount of money, but what the court lacks the most is money. Over the years, the household department of the court has been poor. After collecting some money, it will immediately spend it. This forced the court to increase the salary, practice and suppress the salary for years. As a result, the more The world is more and more chaotic, and it has fallen into a dead cycle.

Therefore, it is really more difficult to let the household department take out millions of taels of silver at once than climbing to the sky. In Chongzhen's inner money, it is not really like Gao Qiqian said. There is a large amount of silver, and he is reluctant to take it out. Although there is still some silver in the inner money, the world is like this. Chongzhen also likes to prepare for a rainy day. The person knows that the little money can't be used easily. If it is used up at once, he can't get it anywhere in the future. Therefore, the limited money is very careful, but this time it's different. Chongzhen has completely felt that Daming is really on the edge of life and death, and he must deal with it. After going through this difficult time, he was no longer stingy this time. He issued an order to allocate 300,000 taels of money, and ordered the Ministry of Household to find a way to make some, first allocate it to the officers and soldiers outside the customs, and let them move first.

Chongzhen is also very helpless about the faction of these arrogant soldiers and tough generals at present. He really wants to arrest these bastards who violate his holy decree, but he doesn't dare, because he knows that he is the time to use people now. Although these military generals are arrogant, they have It is the last available card in his hand. Once he attacks them, no one can guarantee whether these bastards will rebel immediately. Once these people are forced to rebel, he will really have no power to return to heaven. Therefore, although he hates this group of generals in his heart, he has to be polite to them, which is also Over the years, once he encounters a defeat, he first picks those civil servants to plead guilty, but rarely really arrests and kills some military generals. Even if he really kills a few military generals, he is a little mouse to do it, or fights up his military generals.

As a result, the more they did this, the more the military generals saw the weakness of the court, and the more arrogant they became. The more they refused to work their lives when they went to battle. They cherished their soldiers to make money one by one, for fear that they would spend all their old money. When they had no capital to bargain with the court, they were arrested by the emperor and cut off their heads. In this way, the officers and soldiers The combat effectiveness is much worse. This is also because over the years, whether the officers and soldiers are dealing with the Jiannu army or the Xingtian army, there are often generals who are afraid of destroying their troops after being defeated, so if there is a little momentum, they will immediately lead the army to escape, making the combat effectiveness of the officers is not as good as one day. God.

But money alone is not enough. Tens of thousands of troops go south to eat and drink along the way. If you have money, you can't fight without food. Therefore, the court should not only solve the problem of silver, but also solve the problem of food.

But grain is not easy to deal with. Originally, due to the influence of the small ice age in the north, grain production has been worse year by year over the years. There is also famine at all times. In addition, the continuous increase of various taxes by the imperial court has almost squeezed out the last grain in the hands of the people. In addition, last year, the Tatars just entered the bandit and plundered in Beijing. After a while, the people became even worse. A large number of people were abducted by Jiannu, or followed Xing Tianjun to the south. Some people abandoned their homes and fled directly to the south. On the contrary, the number of people in the area controlled by Xing Tianjun increased, and the population of Jingfu has decreased a lot. Even if there was a field, no one cultivated it, and collected grain in the north to satisfy. The use of so many officers and soldiers is unrealistic at all. Even the people in the Beijing Division mainly rely on the transportation of rice from the south to meet their needs.

What's more, Huguang, the largest and most important grain-producing area in Daming, has been occupied by Xing Tianjun. At present, they can only transport grain to the north from Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and other places. Even the grain in Sichuan can't be transferred out of Sichuan because Xing Tianjun captured Huguang and cut off the water transportation of the Yangtze River, making the south transfer. There are fewer and fewer boat boats to the north, which are all the great difficulties faced by Daming.

Therefore, Chongzhen solved the problem of military rate and wanted to solve the problem of food. As a last resort, he had to make an order to let Ding Qirui quickly find a way to requisition a large amount of food in Nanzhili and transfer it from the canal to the capital to meet the use of the army going south. In this way, it took a lot of time.

Ding Qirui also knows the difficulties of the court. At the same time, he also knows why Chongzhen is so risking the world and negotiates peace with Jiannu. If Chongzhen does not do so, then Nan Zhili is likely to be unpreserving. Once Nan Zhili is not guaranteed, the Ming Dynasty is basically over. Therefore, he did not dare to neglect it. Even if he ordered Dasuo in Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and other places, he would find a way to collect all the grain that could be recovered and send a large number of ships to ship to the north.

In this way, when everything in the court is ready and all the soldiers and horses begin to go south under the order, it is already mid-February of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen. The preparation time of the whole strategy has lasted for several months, and the sudden delay of any battle has long been lived up to due to these reasons.

The court's peace with Jiannu this time was just a slight delay in Xing Tianjun's use of troops against Nan Zhili. After making peace with Jiannu, as imagined by Chongzhen and Chen Xinjia, they immediately transferred the army south to launch a stern blow to the Xing Tianjun. Without giving Xing Tianjun a little time to react, He uprooted the old roots of Xing Tianjun and took advantage of the situation to hang Xing Tianjun with the soldiers and horses of Nanzhili.

However, because of the problem of money and food, everything they imagined became a bubble. When they were really ready, Xing Tianjun was almost ready.

(Chapter 2 is presented! Update another chapter in the afternoon!)