Cheng Shijie said: "If you face a favorable opportunity, you need to attack decisively. Just like in the Tang Dynasty, the Turks were powerful and fierce, and the Turkic cavalry galloped across the northern prairie. Countless tribes surrendered. The powerful Xianbei tribe,

Completely disappeared, the powerful Turks even launched 200,000 cavalry to the city of Chang'an, forcing Emperor Taizong Li Shimin to empty out the Tang Dynasty's treasury. In the second year of Zhenguan, there was a great famine in Guanzhong, and people died of hunger everywhere. The Tang Dynasty was at its weakest.

, the country's soldiers did not exceed 200,000, and the cavalry did not exceed 20,000. However, in the winter of the third year of Zhenguan, a rare snowstorm hit the grassland. More than half of the East Turkic cattle and sheep were lost, and they were very weak. Li Weigong and Li Jing only relied on three

With just a thousand Qingqi, the Turkic tribe, which has the ability to mobilize hundreds of thousands of cavalry, will be completely wiped out."

Cheng Shijie looked at the generals and asked: "Do you know why Li Weigong was able to easily destroy the Eastern Turks and capture the Eastern Turks' Jieli Khan?"

Liu Qingsong raised his hands very excitedly and said: "I know!"

"speak!"

Liu Qingsong listened to Song Xiance's analysis of this battle. The Eastern Turks encountered a snowstorm. Jieli Khan led an army of hundreds of thousands south to escape the cold. From Jieli Khan on down, almost all the Eastern Turks despised the Tang Dynasty and believed that the Tang Dynasty did not dare to attack.

The East Turks, the defenses of the East Turks were very lax, followed by the Weishui Alliance. For the proud Tang people, this was a great shame and humiliation, and the seeds of revenge were planted in the hearts of every Tang people.

Just when Cheng Shijie was training General Ning and the generals of the Dongjiang Army on the battlefield, the soldiers of the Dongjiang Army also started training. Their training was relatively simple, such as standing in a military posture and turning around in three major steps.

In order to allow Dongjiang Army soldiers to distinguish between left and right feet, the left foot was not allowed to wear socks. In such cold weather, the ankle was exposed to the air, which gave a very sour taste.

In particular, Ning Haijun's instructors were simply a bunch of beasts. At dawn, they would rush into the dormitory with a pointer and drive them out. Then they would go on a five-kilometer cross-country trip in full gear. If they ran too slowly, they would be gone when they came back.

Even the food is gone.

The officers and men of the Dongjiang Army were a little dissatisfied. The Huotou Army said that military expenses were tight. As long as the three sentries who came back late could only eat one less meal and make do with it, they would not die if they missed one meal.

At this time, the soldiers of the Dongjiang Army realized that it would not be easy for them to eat Cheng Shijie's food.

However, think about how difficult it is to find a place to eat now. Although the instructors of Ning Haijun were trained hard and were simply inhumane, the soldiers of the Dongjiang Army gritted their teeth and persisted. No one was willing to leave, because if they left the Jinzhou Guard, they might

die.

Compared with the five-kilometer cross-country, the queue training was even more disgusting to the Dongjiang Army soldiers. They hated Ning Haijun's instructors to death.

"To the left!"

"turn right!"

"turn back!"

"Turn left and back!"

"Stand still!"

"Look to the right!"

These passwords made them so dizzy that they could hardly tell the difference between east, west, north and south. Or they were standing in military positions, and some nasty guys deliberately took them to the wind.

The cold wind is like a knife. Even if they wear cotton-padded clothes and stand still for half an hour, their bodies will still be numb from the cold...

In the Forbidden City in Beijing, Emperor Chongzhen has not had a peaceful night's sleep since the tragic defeat at Dalinghe. He fought hard for more than three months and lost hundreds of thousands of troops.

The crux of the problem is that Chongzhen, the young emperor, has no solution at all. The Ming Dynasty is now like a broken house with air leakage everywhere. In Shaanxi, Shanxi, Ningxia (the Ming Dynasty is not a provincial level, it is just a prefecture) and Henan, rogue bandits are everywhere.

Like a gourd in a water tank, if you press one end, the other end will rise again.

The key point is that the defeat of Guan Ning's army made the young emperor very worried. If Huang Taiji's head got hot and he led an army of 60,000 to 70,000 to the capital city, Huang Taiji was not prepared last time and did not have the heavy siege force.

Weapons, if it were to happen again, Huang Taiji would definitely bring cannons. Let alone capture the city of Beijing, as long as a slave slave appeared under the city, where would the young emperor's face be?

The young emperor Chongzhen wanted to build slaves. Not to mention the generals of the Ming army who were as fearful of the enemy as tigers, what was more important was the empty treasury and the increasingly depleting tax sources...

The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and ordinary people still have to pay off their debts before the end of the year. He, the big boss of the Ming Dynasty, also has to pay salaries to officials. But the problem is, he has less than 600,000 taels of silver in the national treasury, so how can he pay them?

Where is the hair?

The composition of the fiscal expenditures of the feudal dynasty was also relatively simple, consisting of nothing more than the royal family, administration, military expenditures, river engineering, and relief. Among them, the royal family, administration, and military expenditures were the three major components, that is, supporting the royal family, supporting the bureaucrats, and supporting the army.

The thought of paying wages to those officials gave Emperor Chongzhen a huge headache. After being the emperor for more than four years, he had already seen that these officials were not good at what they did, they didn't have enough to eat, and they were just a bunch of losers.

There are so many major affairs in the country, but there is nothing that can make him worry. Since he came to the throne, he has not had a chance to breathe. Natural disasters, slave establishment, and rogue bandits are getting closer and closer. In the dead of night, when people are quiet, he can clearly listen.

The cracking sound made when the big hollowed-out tree slowly fell down in Daming was not loud, but it made his hair tremble.

Daming can't hold it any longer...

Thinking about it, Ming Dynasty has not fallen yet, he is not dead yet, so he still has to do things and worry about this rotten country. The Battle of Daling River is in the past, it is useless to think about it, it is better to think about it like celebrating the New Year

Bar.

He steeled himself, suppressed his inner restlessness, and listened to the opinions of his courtiers.

When it comes to how to solve financial problems, the ministers of the imperial court are still repeating the same old tune. There are only two methods, increasing revenue or reducing expenditure. When the ministers think about how to reduce expenditure, they first attack the clan.

But the problem is that since his grandfather, Emperor Wanli, has begun to default on the salary of the clan. Now, 1.92 million shi of grain must be allocated from the treasury every year to the vassal princes and the clan. This number is very huge.

, accounting for slightly less than one-third and slightly more than one-quarter of the Ming Dynasty's fiscal revenue, which was also a heavy burden.

Ming trolls on the Internet have been trolling the Ming Dynasty. However, the problem is that the annual expenditure for raising Eight Banners disciples in the Manchu Dynasty ranged from more than 1,300 taels of silver to 16 million taels of silver. This figure is much higher than that of the Ming Dynasty.

The clan was three or four times bigger. But the problem was that the Qing Dynasty levied excessive taxes on the gentry class, so they could collect money. Especially those who were killed in Daxing Literary Prison, Kangxi's Thirteenth Case, Yongzheng's Seventeenth Case, and Qianlong's One Hundred and Thirty Cases.

They are all the gentry class, that is, the wealthy class.

Lao Cheng did not find out the exact number of this number, but in just one Ming Dynasty case, seventy people were killed, eighteen people were killed in Lingchi, and more than three thousand people were implicated. Almost all of these people's homes were ransacked.

In the early Qing Dynasty, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong escaped from the Jiangnan gentry and were massacred and their homes ransacked. The Qing Dynasty obtained a large amount of silver and money, most of which went into the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

But the emperor couldn't do it. He didn't have the execution power. The second solution of the civil servants was to raise taxes, which was to increase taxes. Emperor Chongzhen forced millions of peasants to rebel because of the tax increases in the four years of Chongzhen. He saw the result.

We know that we can no longer raise taxes. If we continue to increase taxes, the Ming Dynasty will be gone.

At dinner time in the evening, facing a bowl of millet porridge worth thirty taels of silver, Emperor Chongzhen only drank more than half of the bowl. What he didn't know was that such a clear and watery millet porridge only cost two cents if left out.

In terms of money, even thicker millet porridge can be sold for seven or eight cents at most. Even if it costs ten cents, it is still three thousand times more than what is available on the market outside.

"Your Majesty, get up and seek an audience!"

"pass!"

Chongzhen had actually forgotten the news about Cheng Shijie's troops in Liaonan, because his brain was blown away by these gossiping ministers.

Emperor Chongzhen was very surprised when he saw Gao Qiqian again. Gao Qiqian's face was blown blue and white by the north wind, and his lips were cracked by the frost. Although his clothes had been temporarily wiped, there were still a lot of mud, making him extremely miserable.

"Gao Banban, what's wrong with you?"

"Your Majesty, I have important military information to report, so I rode a fast horse in the wind and snow from Dengzhou all the way back to the capital. I suffered a lot along the way, but the matter was so important that I couldn't care less!"

Gao Qiqian was also an expert in deceiving the emperor. He was riding in the carriage along the way, especially when he saw Sun Yuanhua's four-wheeled carriage, and wanted to ask for it, but Sun Yuanhua did not dare not to give it, so the car he rode was actually given to Sun Yuanhua by Cheng Shijie.

A four-wheeled carriage, this carriage and RV is full of technology.

No matter how bumpy the road is, sitting on the carriage, you can feel the slight shaking, just like sitting on a rocking car, which makes you drowsy. I walked slowly for twenty-three days.

On average, we traveled dozens of miles every day, walking, eating, and accepting tributes from officials along the way, and finally arrived in Beijing happily.

Of course, in order to appear pitiful in front of Emperor Chongzhen, he wore single clothes and froze for half the night outside the capital, which gave him the image of embarrassment. If the cavalry was traveling all night, it would be a problem if the cavalry could not survive despite their high potential.

The key to the problem is that Chongzhen has been kept in captivity in the palace. He does not even understand many basic common sense of life. Looking at Gao Qiqian's embarrassing image, Emperor Chongzhen was so moved that his eyes turned red: "Military situation is of course important, but you

You can’t be too desperate. If something happens to you, who will help me?"

Gao Qiqian screamed very suddenly and loudly: "Congratulations, Your Majesty, Congratulations, Your Majesty!"

Gao Qiqian's voice almost sent Emperor Chongzhen away.

After a long while, Emperor Chongzhen finally came to his senses and said, "Gao Banban is joking, where does the joy come from?"

"Liaonan!"

Gao Qiqian reached into his arms and placed three good news reports in front of Emperor Chongzhen. These three good news reports were reported by the Commander-in-Chief of the Ning Navy, the Left Governor Cheng Shijie, one by Sun Yuanhua, the Governor of Denglai, and one, naturally.

It was Gao Qiqian himself who reported it!

Acting naturally means doing the whole thing.

Cheng Shijie did not report victory to Emperor Chongzhen. In Gao Qiqian's view, Cheng Shijie was a good man and he was more sensible. He knew that even if he wrote a victory report, it would fall into Gao Qiqian's hands in advance. If there was a memorial that was unfavorable to Gao Qiqian, or

It was impossible for Gao Qiqian's dissatisfied memorial to appear in front of Emperor Chongzhen.

In this case, he simply wrote a profit number to Sun Yuanhua and did nothing else, leaving the decision to Gao Qiqian himself.

It is precisely because Cheng Shijie knows his interests that Gao Qiqian did not embarrass Cheng Shijie, but rather praised him.

Gao Qiqian said in an emotional voice: "Since the defeat of Dalinghe, the arrogance of the slaves has become increasingly arrogant, rumors are rampant, and the soldiers and civilians are terrified. General Cheng Shijie resolutely led the 8,000 Ning navy and 6,000 elite civilians without hesitation.

Attacked southern Liaoning and fought bloody battles with Jiannu until the fields were filled with corpses. Ning Haijun devoted himself to serving the country and moved forward bravely, never to retreat..."

"The results of it!"

Emperor Chongzhen was very excited at this time. He hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed Gao Qiqian's hand and asked: "What's the result?"

Emperor Chongzhen was also a fan of the authorities. He had three memorials in his hand, and the results would be obvious just by taking a glance at them.

Gao Qiqian said: "General Cheng restored the Jinzhou Acropolis and the Gaizhou Acropolis, and restored the two states. God bless the Ming Dynasty. Congratulations, Your Majesty, for getting a good general!"

Emperor Chongzhen was so excited that he couldn't help but use some strength to squeeze Gao Qiqian's hand, but he didn't dare to move or say a word.

"Okay, okay, okay, my Changshan Zhao Zilong really did not disappoint me!"

Cheng Shijie didn't know that Sun Yuanhua found him a father, Emperor Chongzhen, who even changed his surname.

PS: I really didn’t hold on last night, I’ll see what happens tonight. It’s a bit special right now, so there won’t be many updates, so I hope everyone will bear with me.
Chapter completed!