Chapter 560

The capital is the capital of the Ming Empire and undoubtedly the core area. If it was in the past, the imperial court would not apportion here even if it was difficult.

After all, it is the capital of the Empire. At the foot of the emperor, there are too many officials here, especially in the concentration of clean officials. If there is a slight carelessness, it is impeachment and writing, which makes the world boiling, and even the emperor can't carry it. Therefore, if there is any apportionment, it won't be done here. It can't be called political harmony, but at least it won't apportion indiscriminately.

This time, the Ming court was burning with anger. There was no choice but to make such a bad decision.

Daming's finance has always been on the verge of collapse. Every day, they tear down east walls to make up for west walls, fill in holes, and a new one appears in other places, but the Grand Canal has been cut off, so they can no longer play this hand.

Therefore, Liu Jiajun's action has become a 7-inch key to hit them. They can't ignore what they say. They can only do everything they can to mobilize all the forces they can to deal with Liu thieves, at least to regain control of the canal.

Daming still has several provinces in the north, which do not need to rely entirely on the canal to transport the tax silver, but these provinces are either war or natural disasters, and most of them are in famine years.

It's not necessary for the imperial court to release money and food for disaster relief. Even if the imperial court wants to make money from this place, it will take time.

All the officials of the imperial court knew that if they did not take away the hundreds of thousands of troops outside Xizhimen, there would be chaos sooner or later.

That's why they used such a trick to make a big apportionment from the capital and collect a sum of money first.

In this way, these officials are happy and smiling, because they can reach out and get a sum of money to make up for the loss of donations a while ago. The people are complaining and complaining.

After all, the capital is the capital and the richest place in the Ming Dynasty. Officials made up their mind to make money. They really got a lot of money. The money was finally handed over to Hong Chengchou and Lu Xiangsheng. They had 500000 Liang as their military expenditure.

It is conceivable that there are 500000 Liang in their hands, and after the layers of wild goose plucking and profit sharing of these officials, they don't know how many they have collected. No wonder the people in the capital are full of complaints.

However, there were many complaints. They finally put together a sum of life-saving money, and immediately let Hong Chengshou and Lu Xiangsheng's army send it to the following troops, and then let them drive away immediately.

No matter how stupid the imperial court is, they all know that there are no officers who don't deduct their military pay. Therefore, in order to prevent the imperial court from embezzling some life-saving money that they have managed to get, this time, the officials of the Sixth Department and the royal princes of the Metropolitan Police Academy took the roster and went to the military camp. One hair is two months' military pay, but it must be according to people's hair, The officers can't report as much as they want. Otherwise, the money will be embezzled by them.

In this way, the officers are extremely angry. You should know that the military pay has always been allocated by the superior to the general, and then by the general to the officers at all levels. This has been a common practice. This is also the embodiment of the authority of the general and officers. Now, it's good. It's not issued directly, but directly to the soldiers.

This is what Liu Jiajun did, but isn't Liu Jiajun a thief? Isn't it our enemy? Why learn their tricks? This is also an extreme distrust of officials, which also makes these officers and generals complain that they will not make a living in the long run.

Anyway, they managed to collect a sum of silver, so they were asked to go south to destroy the Liu thieves in Shandong immediately. However, there may be some problems in the process of raising money, that is, the imperial court owes military pay and food. They just collected military pay, but the military food is still not enough.

You should know that people are iron and rice is steel. Soldiers can't go to war hungry. The imperial court only cares about raising money for them, but forgot military food. Finally, there's no way. They can only take the money to buy food in the city first, and then go south on a large scale after buying food and cotton clothes.

However, businessmen in the capital found business opportunities. He knew that so many people wanted to buy food, which would certainly cause great demand, so they immediately raised the prices of grain and cotton clothes. These prices could only barely make people eat saturated and put on new clothes. Then they had to fight hard, and the money in their hands soon flowed into the hands of businessmen.

This makes the soldiers complain. The soldiers are still happy when they get the silver. Who knows, you have to take the silver to buy food and cotton clothes before you cover the heat. Otherwise, you have to go to war hungry. This really makes the soldiers angry.

You should know that the imperial court distributes grain ring. His name is grain ring. In fact, it includes two parts. One part is grain and the other part is army ring. Most of the time, these soldiers score and distribute them. Now the imperial court only pays military salaries, but they don't pay them. They have to let the soldiers buy them themselves. There's no one to operate like this. It really makes the soldiers angry.

Even if Hong Chengchou and his two men urged them again and again, the soldiers were unwilling to buy food to fight.

When the situation reached this stage, not only the soldiers were angry, but also the emperor Chongzhen. Were these soldiers still soldiers of the Ming Dynasty? Let them fight a war? Either they want food or they want to ring. They want food after they want military pay. I'm afraid that after they want food, they will want new weapons. This is endless. When will it end?

In his anger, the emperor immediately sent Cao Huachun, who had escaped from Shaanxi, to serve as the military envoy, and took a team of royal guards to force these soldiers to fight. If anyone dared not listen, those who were officials would be arrested in the prison, and those who were soldiers would be executed on the spot. It depends on whether these people will go or not.

Hong Chengchou and Lu Xiangsheng both saw that the imperial court did so, which really lost the soldiers' only morale.

This war is impossible to fight.

Since ancient times, soldiers have not been allowed to fight desperately, and others have been allowed to buy food with their own military pay. It must be the food wrapped in the army. Now the imperial court has asked people to fight desperately, but dare not let people eat enough. How can we fight this war?

Therefore, Hong Chengchou and Lu Xiangsheng immediately wrote to the court and asked the court to pull out another amount of food. If they didn't have enough food, they couldn't fight. Although the court forced them to fight first and raise food locally, they knew that JianNu had robbed them all the way, and then hundreds of thousands of troops passed by like locusts, Where else can they raise food for them?

Moreover, it is no secret that they are short of food. People who believe in Liu Jiajun will also implement the policy of strengthening walls and clearing fields, evacuating local people and removing food. You want to attack Liu Jiajun and rob each other's food. This idea is not reliable at all.

Hong Chengchou, in particular, has been taught and beaten several times by Liu Jiajun, but he knows Liu Jiajun's strength. It's good to win a war with them, and he hopes to rob them of their food as military pay after winning them. It's too arrogant.

The imperial court was taught by JianNu like grandson, but Liu Jiajun forcibly defeated Huang Taiji's army in southern Liaoning. I don't know where the imperial court's confidence came from. They went south to fight Liu Jiajun. They didn't even need to prepare food. They let them prepare food themselves and go to Liu Jiajun's territory to raise food at that time.

Hong Chengchou said to Lu Xiangsheng, "the imperial court thinks highly of us, but I can't do it like this."

Lu Xiangsheng is the best at fooling others, but he also feels helpless when he sees such a situation. The imperial court actually operates like this. There is no one. Since ancient times, the three armed forces have not moved, and food and grass have taken the lead. They are good. The three armed forces have moved, but food and grass have not been done. Food and grass have been raised in the enemy war area. After reading the books of war, they have never heard of such a practice.

Lu Xiangsheng was a very loyal and upright man, who vowed to be loyal to the imperial court to the death. But seeing this situation, he had nothing to say. He said, "unless the imperial court gets a sum of food, we can't go out."

At this time, Cao Huachun brought a large number of royal guards. They came to the barracks to inspect. They found that the officers were very angry, the soldiers were very angry, and their morale was very low. They all sat in twos and threes in the barracks, which was not like the Barracks at all.

Cao Huachun wanted to catch people. He thought that only some people took the lead, but he was surprised when he looked inside the barracks. This is that no one incited and took the lead. At all, the morale of the whole army is gone. How can such an army fight?

Cao Huachun has also been out to supervise the army. He knows that the main thing for the army to fight is morale. For such an army, you can expect him to win the war. Is that ridiculous?

Originally, he was ordered by the emperor to take a group of officers and soldiers for surgery. Now he finds that everyone is like this. Who should you catch? Do you want to catch Hong Chengchou and Lu Xiangsheng? Do you want to take the chief soldiers of the unified army in their hands? It's impossible.

Moreover, Cao Huachun also knows that no matter how ignorant a man is, he must understand the most basic truth, that is, if he wants people to fight, he must let people eat enough. Now he doesn't even have enough. What should he do?

Cao Huachun hated those profiteers in the capital who took the opportunity to raise food prices. If these people hadn't done this, the soldiers could also take some money to buy food for a few months. It is estimated that they have nothing to say. Unlike now, their military pay is only reluctantly buying food for two months, which can't be used for other purposes at all.

No wonder the soldiers were angry, so he immediately went back to the imperial court and said that it was all these unscrupulous businessmen who were at fault in today's situation. Why not catch all these unscrupulous businessmen and enlist their grain and cotton clothes for military use. Hasn't this solved the problem?