Chapter 189 The Dilemma of Jiannu

After hearing this, Lu Xiangsheng almost didn't laugh. Now Fu Deming, a household secretary, is a bit like a housekeeper. He talks a lot, and even looks like a market hawker. He cares about everything, and even refutes the military plan of the military department in front of the saint.

However, on the other hand, the Ministry of Household is really not easy. Although the world is relatively peaceful now, after all, the foundation of the Great China and the Dynasties is still very thin. It is really a little unspeakable for the Great Middle and Dynasties to use so many people to launch a big war.

Fighting is different from raising soldiers in peacetime. The consumption of food in marching and combat will be much more than usual. Mushi and horses also need to replenish physical energy for refined feed. In addition to food, the large and medium-sized army also have a great demand for other materials, especially the supply of various ammunition, which will also be astronomical figures. The foundation of the household is not thick. I heard that the military department wants to do so. It's strange not to be in a hurry.

But Lu Xiangsheng also has a kind of bitter hatred for Jiannu. Thinking of the Xuan soldiers and Shanxi soldiers who were slaughtered by Jiannu, Lu Xiangsheng can't wait to send more soldiers and horses to flatten Jiannu in one fell swoop and kill them cleanly. Psychologically, he agrees with the military deployment plan of the Ministry. Of.

However, as the Prime Minister of China and North Korea, now he also knows that he can't consider the problem in this way. He needs to consider more comprehensively and must take into account all aspects. Therefore, he must also pay enough attention to the objections put forward by the Ministry of Household.

After hearing this, Xiao Tianjian nodded slightly, but he asked, "What Fu Aiqing said is also reasonable, but I know that the agricultural recovery in Hebei and Shandong last year was good. Now the grain produced can basically be self-sufficient, and there is still some surplus grain in Shandong. In addition, Shaanxi this year The demand for external grain will also decrease a lot, and Shanxi grain can basically meet the demand.

The harvest in Hubei, Hunan, Anhui and Jiangsu last year was good. The main reason for the lack of grain collected is that I reduced the grain in many places last year, but there are still a lot of grain reserves among the people!

Why can't we use money to buy more food from the people to meet the needs of the Northern Expedition?

Fu Deming immediately shook his head and said, "Although what the emperor said is good, has he thought about it? Last year, the expenditure of this dynasty was also very large. All places have invested a lot in agriculture and water conservancy. The expenditure alone in the repair of the Yellow River embankment around Henan is very large, and the emperor requires all places to build roads. It also accounts for a large amount of fiscal expenditure!

What's more, it also cost a lot to build and expand shipyards along the coast and build warships for the navy last year. The income of the Ministry of Households last year, after subtracting these expenditures, is simply negative. The Ministry of Households can't afford much money to purchase grain from the private sector, and once a large number of grain is purchased, it is bound to raise the price of grain. It has a great impact on the local people's livelihood!"

Xiao Tianjian habitually touched the beard on his chin and frowned and thought about it. What Fu Deming said was the truth. The south was only determined last year. In order to stabilize the situation in the southern provinces, the Greater China and North Korea exempted a lot of taxes from several provinces last year. The fiscal revenue can be said to be beyond the income, and the maritime trading group at present. The company has not made much profit, and they also want to purchase new big ships. At present, they can't provide too much financial support, so the household department is really not having a good time.

So he thought about it and then said, "We can uniformly set the price for the procurement of grain, and all localities should strengthen the monitoring of grain merchants. Once it is found that at this time, those who hoard goods, cherish the sale of grain, and raise the price of grain will be killed without mercy!" So I think there is not much problem in controlling food prices!

As for the lack of money in the household department, I think it's easy to deal with. Isn't there still a lot of rich people in China who store money at home? The mainland now restricts the acquisition of land. For them, the money can't be spent, and they dare not easily take out the money and invest it in industry and commerce, always thinking about buying more land.

I think it would be better to take this opportunity to meet their needs and issue a phase of war treasury bonds in China. The specific amount will be determined by your household department. In short, as long as you can meet the needs of the battle of Liaodong!"

Fu Deming's face collapsed as soon as he heard this. He bowed to Xiao Tianjian and said, "Qi Zhu Sheng, this dynasty has issued two national debts since the two years of Tianyuan, and the total amount of treasury bonds has reached 26 million dragon coins. It will take five years for this dynasty to pay off. If the war treasury bonds are issued again, the household department will How long will it take to pay it off!"

Xiao Tianjian immediately shook his head and laughed: "Fu Aiqing, don't worry. For the war treasury bonds issued this time, we can use the land in Liaodong after this war to pay off creditors. We can use the land in Liaodong to pay these people who buy war treasury bonds at a discount. Don't they want land? There is too much land in Liaodong. Just give it to them!

Moreover, after this battle in Liaodong, I thought that there would not be many people. In the future, I also need a large number of immigrants to Liaodong, so that these rich people can get the land first. In this way, it is more convenient to speed up immigration to foreign customs in the future. It can be said that it is the best of both countries!

As for your household department's suspicion of using too many troops this time, I think this matter is negotiable, and it is also possible to reduce some troops, but the main troops still need to be guaranteed!

Well, the military department will adjust the original plan, and a division of the Central Plains Army will not go again! In addition, the Northern Army can also reduce the strength of one division, so that the household department can reduce a lot of pressure!"

Fu Deming heard that this is a good way. Liaodong is already vast and sparsely populated. In addition, after the Dazhong army exits the customs, it will definitely kill a lot of slaves. In the future, in order to strengthen the control of Liaodong, it is inevitable to emigrate outside the customs. The best way to emigrate is to use land to attract people inside the customs. Now they first use these unsold land as collateral to collect the remaining money of some landlords. Even if they don't want the land outside the customs in the future, the Ministry of Household can also sell the land outside the customs and pay off the war debt in the future.

However, for Xiao Tianjian's proposal to reduce the strength of the two divisions, it is simply to fool their household department. The two divisions are 20,000 people. Even if they don't go, there will not be much expenditure. Therefore, Fu Deming slandered Xiao Tianjian's fake belly in his heart.

But Xiao Tianjian's words immediately made Liu Bao quit. Originally, Liu Bao was dissatisfied because he could not participate in the battle of Liaodong in person, but the military department allowed the Central Plains army to send an elite division to participate in this Northern Expedition. At least it was a kind of comfort for their Central Plains Military Region. Xiao Tianjian touched his mouth. The division of their Central Plains Army did not need to move. Liu Bao did not do it and immediately jumped up to express his opposition. Even Diao Zheng jumped out and shouted no.

Xiao Tianjian immediately photographed the two guys. Now he intends to ask the cabinet ministers to do more things. Everything can't be tossed by these soldiers. The necessary compromises are still needed, so the opposition of the two guys is invalid and directly rejected by Xiao Tianjian. It made Liu Bao gasp angrily, but there was nothing he could do.

After some discussion, the deployment of troops for the Northern Expedition was finally settled. The number of troops was reduced by two infantry divisions compared with the original plan of the headquarters, but Xiao Tianjian pulled out the cavalry battalions of several divisions belonging to the Central Plains Army in disguise and temporarily formed an independent cavalry regiment. , joined in this Northern Expedition.

This made Liu Bao more or less find a little balance. After all, in this battle, more cavalry is needed to deal with Jiannu's cavalry. If you rely on infantry alone, you can defeat Jiannu, but it is difficult to annihilate them. After defeating them, you must rely on cavalry to pursue them, so that Jiannu can be completely killed. This is also the reason why Xiao Tianjian tried to pull the cavalry on an expedition.

The reason why the Northwest Army wanted to mobilise a cavalry division to participate in the war was that the cavalry of the Northwest Army was the strongest, so the Ministry of War had to draw elite cavalry divisions from them to participate in the battle.

"Let's talk about the situation of Jiannu during this period! Let everyone know that only when you know yourself and your enemy can you be invincible!" After Xiao Tianjian agreed with the ministers on the scale of the troops, he said to Li Xin again.

Li Xin then stood up again and replied, "Your Holiness, and all your colleagues!" Today's Jiannu, after the fiasco more than two years ago, is no longer as fierce as it was in those years. Under the calculation of the emperor and all the adults, the Eight Banners of Mongolia have long been dissatisfied with Jiannu. Most of them no longer listen to Jiannu's orders. Many Mongolian tribes are contacting me for business with me, and some The tribe has made it clear that it is willing to accept the rule of our dynasty in exchange for the survival of their tribe in the future!

Therefore, the Mongols and Jiannu have now disintegrating, and Jiannu can no longer drive the Mongols to fight against our dynasties as usual. In the past two years, in order to suppress the Mongols and my dynasties, Jiannu has sent troops into Tatar many times to slaughter some tribes that do not listen to them, which is counterproductive, more It increased the resentment of the Mongols towards them.

In order to avoid the attack of Jiannu, some Mongolian tribes either went north to Mobei or south into Hetao. In short, they will no longer listen to Jiannu's orders!

As for North Korea, at the end of the year before last, it had been announced that they were our vassals of China and North Korea. They would no longer support Jiannu's use of troops against Dazhong North Korea, nor would they pay tribute to Jiannu. For this reason, Jiannu originally wanted to use troops against North Korea again, but after General Luo learned the news last year, he led his army to launch an attack on Jinzhou. It forced Jiannu to give up the march on North Korea, so Jiannu can't get a large amount of North Korea's food supplies at present!

Inside Jiannu, according to the detailed return of our dynasty, there are also deep contradictions between them. After the defeat in the first year of Huang Taiji Tianyuan, the prestige among Jiannu has plummeted. Although he still controls the two yellow flags, some people in Jiannu proposed to abdicate and let Dorcon succeed to the throne because of the great defeat. Law.

Therefore, Huang Taiji tried to kill Dorgon, but Dorgon was stationed in Jinzhou and refused to return to Shengjing, which was built by order. Huang Taiji did not dare to attack the Dorgon brothers easily. Now there are two factions among the Jiannu, one is the head of Huang Taiji, and the other is led by Dorgon. Internal disputes. The fight is endless.

Moreover, it is said that in the past two years, Huang Taiji has been in poor health day by day. Recently, it is rumored that he has been unable to get out of bed and walk. Moreover, the emperor defeated the Jiannu army in the Battle of Tongzhou, which made Hao Ge, the son of Huang Taiji, disappear. If he did not return to the customs, he probably did not know where he died in the pass.

And Huang Taiji's son is either young or has no talent. For a while, Huang Taiji failed to establish a crown prince. Now they have a big dispute within Jiannu in order to compete for the throne after Huang Taiji's death. Therefore, in the past two years, Jiannu has been unable to invade the south again and changed to take a defensive posture to prevent our dynasty from suddenly against him. Use troops!

In addition, because the emperor arrested and killed a large number of merchants who secretly connected with Jiannu, he also arrested and killed a lot of fine works for Jiannu. After controlling Dengzhou and Jiaodong, he completely cut off the channels of Jiannu and Guannei trade from land and sea, which made Jiannu's life very difficult. There was another drought in Guanwai last summer. .

In addition, after the defeat of Shanhaiguan, Jiannu lost a large number of Han army flags, which made the Han people feel cold. In the past two years, Han people have been trying to escape from Liaodong and go to Ningyuan. For this reason, Jiannu has increased their control over the Han people outside the customs. In the past two years, in order to prevent the Han people from returning to the south and kill A lot of Han people have made the population outside the customs even more withered, and more and more land was forced to abandon the wasteland.

This has caused a serious shortage of grain in the Liaodong area where Jiannu is located since last year, which has led to an unprecedented rise in grain prices in Liaodong to nearly ten taels of silver per stone. Even so, food cannot be bought on the market, resulting in many people in the city being starved to death.

For this reason, Jiannu also tried to go south and invade again, but the Liaodong army took control of the area of Ningyuan, so that Jiannu did not dare to go south easily. He could only go to the grassland of Tatar to plunder the Mongols, which intensified the contradiction between the Mongols and Jiannu, and made the relationship almost incompatible.

So now is the weakest time for Jiannu. At this time, using troops against Jiannu can ensure that Jiannu will be flattened in one fell swoop!"

After listening to Li Xin's brief introduction to the situation of Jiannu outside the customs, the participants showed their joy. Jiannu has been rampant outside the customs for decades. Now, after the defeat in the first battle of Shanhaiguan, it has quickly begun to decline. It is no longer the fierceness of those years. The situation can be said that the situation is precarious.

"Good! This is the result I want! Now is the time to take advantage of his illness! Our original strategy of dividing the relationship between Jiannu and the Mongols has now achieved good results! After Jiannu lost the Mongolian running dog, he became a lame like a broken leg. Now it's time for me to completely clean them up!" Xiao Tianjian immediately brushed the case with a bright laugh and waved his hand and said to the ministers in the hall.

"Lu Aiqing, you can also tell everyone the news you received the other day!" After Xiao Tianjian smiled, he said to Lu Xiangsheng.

Lu Xiangsheng immediately nodded and said to the participants with a smile, "Jiannu has collapsed internally in the past two years. A few days ago, the slave chief Dorcon secretly sent people to sneak into the customs and asked to meet the emperor. He was caught by the Liaodong Army and sent to Nanjing!

After Dorgan learned the news of the pacified in the south, he realized that my dynasty would fight against it next step, so he wanted to negotiate with my dynasty in private, on the condition that my dynasty supported him to take office. Once I helped him enter Shengjing outside the customs, he would be willing to abdicate and become the king and no longer be the emperor. In the future, their so-called Qing Dynasty The country is willing to be the vassal of our dynasty forever, accept the canonization of our emperor, and will never be the enemy of our dynasty forever! ......”

After listening to Luo Li, he didn't wait for Lu Xiangsheng to finish his words, so he cursed in a loud voice, "Bah! This son of a bitch thinks it's beautiful! I want us to help him get on the top and let him continue to live in Liaodong and disgust us! It's true that he doesn't know how ugly he is, and he doesn't know how long his face is. He doesn't pee to take care of his virtue. He also deserves it!"

Xiao Tianjian's face sank and shouted, "Luo Li! Unbridled! What is this place? Lord Lu is talking. How can you jump out and interrupt? If you dare to talk more, I will order someone to fork you out and throw you out of the palace!"

As soon as Luo Li heard Xiao Tianjian's words, he was so scared that his face turned white. He quickly knelt down and pleaded guilty, and turned his head to Lu Xiangsheng. Xiao Tianjian then let him stand up and honestly go back to the column and listen to Lu Xiangsheng continue.

After Lu Xiangsheng smiled, he didn't think it was allowed. After telling Luo Li for him, he continued, "But I'm afraid you didn't expect that when Dorgun sent people to enter the customs, the slave chief Taiji also sent people into the customs!

This Huang Taiji actually has the same intention as Dorgon, saying that in the future, he is willing to serve the Dazhong Dynasty from now on, and is willing to return Jinzhou and other places south of the Daling River to my dynasty with the Daling River as the boundary in the future, but the premise is that I can take it back to Jinzhou by myself. In fact, he is to ask us to do it on his behalf. Get rid of the three Dolgon brothers stationed in Jinzhou! Even if we can't get rid of the three Dorgon brothers, at least we will expel them from Jinzhou. In that case, it will give Huang Taiji a chance to get rid of the three Dorgon brothers!"

After listening to this, everyone looked at each other for a while, and then suddenly, including Xiao Tianjian, they couldn't help laughing. I don't know who started to laugh one after another.

(Today, I will continue to thank General Mao Mao's friend for the reward! Ha ha!)