Chapter 32                                                             �

Li Jing received a letter from Han Huiming and stood there for a long time.

I felt exhausted both physically and mentally, and suddenly remembered Li Taibai's poem, "The setting sun shines, the Han Dynasty's tombs." It is extremely consistent with his current state of mind.

What can he do now?

The Yalu River fights on the front line. There are more than 200,000 troops on both sides, and there will be a battle of more than 10,000 people within three or five.

Cao Yi wanted to cross the river again and again, but was defeated by Li Jing again and again.

Li Jiang's way of using troops was undoubtedly revealed. He dared not say that he was a peerless talent, but he was definitely within the qualified range. Therefore, the two sides fought wits and courage, and were plotting openly and secretly. He was beaten by Cao Yi several times, but he still saved the situation.

But Li Jiang is very self-aware.

All his victory was based on geographical advantages. The army abandoned the Yalu River to retreat, which was the beginning of a disaster.

An inevitable defeat.

But if the Ming army did not withdraw, the Ming army would continue to enter North Korea from Jianghua Island. What is the significance of what he did here?

Northern Korea is relatively barren. Without the food supply from the rear, how could Li Jiang afford to support this army of more than 100,000?

If you retreat, you will die, and if you do not retreat, you will die.

But retreating is still a glimmer of hope, stick to Seoul and wait for changes in the world.

For example, if Watshu goes south again, it will show the record of the Battle of Yemaoerzhuang again.

The Ming army will withdraw its troops.

Although everyone knows that this is a low-probability event. But this is Li Jiang's last hope.

Even so, Li Jiang still blocked the news and the retreat plan was in secret. The retreat of more than 100,000 troops was also a very big problem.

And it can't be hidden from Cao Yi.

So almost when Li Jing led his troops to retreat to Pyongyang first, Cao Yi immediately knew.

The result of the Battle of Jianghua Island was already in Cao Yi's hands. Cao Yi immediately affirmed that Li Jing was going to withdraw his troops. With this preconceived view, even if Li Jing concealed it, it would be useless.

In May of the 18th year of Zhengtong, just when the wheat was ripe in the north, the battle of North Korea, which had just begun less than three months ago, made breakthrough progress.

Cao Yi captured the Yalu River.

The cavalry drove straight in and surrounded the Korean rear army within a 100 or 200 miles east of the Yalu River. There were about 60,000 in total. Li Yong cut off his tail and survived. He crossed the Qingchuan River.

After that, the Ming army marched like a marching force, and the entire Anping Road surrendered to the Ming Dynasty.

Cao Yi didn't care about these things at all, and he left them to the official Wang Yue, who was sentenced to the matter.

This time, Wang Yue was appointed as the severance officer of the Eastern Army, in charge of all military laws. When there were insufficient Chinese military officials, the comfort, suppression, and food transportation in the rear were taken over by Wang Yue. This was also the idea that after Zhu Qizhen's thought, the severance officers in the Ming army will be widely popularized in the future. When the war was on the expedition, there would be a general, and there would be a severance officer, in charge of a series of military affairs.

Form a military supervision system based on judging officials.

Wang Yue was also appointed as an exception, so who made few scholars in the army?

However, Wang Yue also put forward his own point of view, that is, after entering North Korea, he should not be injustice and be inseparable from the people. Zhu Qizhen's intention may be a mystery to outsiders, but Zhu Qizhen did not hide his conquest of the Eastern Army.

Therefore, everyone knows that North Korea will be the territory of the Ming Dynasty in the future.

Of course, we must strictly enforce military discipline.

However, the military discipline of the Ming Dynasty was already a chronic disease.

The military discipline during the Taizu period was quite good. The reason why Emperor Taizu won the world was actually because Emperor Taizu was among the best military discipline among the various rebels at the end of the Yuan Dynasty. However, after the Jingnan Dynasty, the military discipline of the Ming Dynasty was not very good, but because in the early Jingnan period, Emperor Taizong was extremely difficult and had done many things that made civil officials taboo for the respected ones. The upward and the lower, the following naturally followed.

It was also an extraordinary time, and it was just an extraordinary solution to solve the problem.

But if you open a head, it will be difficult to finish below.

Not to mention, with the collapse of the garrison system, the supply of soldiers was extremely difficult, and they had no food and clothing, so they could only rob. This fundamental contradiction was not resolved, and it was impossible to improve the military discipline of soldiers.

And now the same is true.

After crossing the Yalu River, the military discipline of the Jingying was well maintained because the Jingying spent twelve taels of silver every year, and the military camp also cared for the cost of food and drink.

The military discipline of the Liaodong Army is not good.

One is a habit, the other is a poor person.

However, Wang Yue had no sand in his eyes. After entering Anzhou, he cut off the heads of thirteen generals in one breath, making Cao Yi furious. In the fierce battle on the Yalu River, he did not kill so many generals in battle. He did not expect that after the great victory, he would rectify the military law.

Cao Yi and Wang Yue had a big fight and parted in disagreement.

Wang Yue had to change his approach and reward the army with a large amount of seized materials first, and then reiterate the military law, which made the storm pass.

Of course, it is inevitable that the two of them will write their own books and go straight to the front of you.

Zhu Qizhen was overjoyed when he saw the two people's documents on the victory.

In less than three months, such a decisive victory was achieved. Although the Korean War will not end in a short while, overall, the overall situation has been decided.

It can even be caused by food.

For example, Wang Yue rewarded the entire army this time and washed the land of Anzhou, plus a large amount of materials left by the North Korean army, can only be achieved.

Even so, it greatly reduced the financial burden of Zhu Qizhen.

There is nothing else. Since spring began today, there has been a severe drought.

This severe drought not only affected Hebei, but also went to Jiangxi in the south, to Hebei in the north, and to Shanxi in the west, and to Shanxi in the west, and it rained very little. Hebei is a little better.

After all, Hebei's water conservancy coverage area is second only to Jiangnan.

Even under the drought, although Hebei's grain production has been reduced, it still has a harvest, and the current summer tax can still be completed. But Jiangxi is different.

In the memorial of Jiangxi Governor Han Yong, Zhu Qizhen saw the cruel situation of Ji'an, Jiangxi as the center and a three-year drought.

Jiangxi is the place where Emperor Taizu of Longxing was densely populated and the people were rich. Although the drought in the past two years was a bit difficult, overall, it was still able to survive and provide relief to the population between tens of thousands and tens of thousands.

However, the first two severe droughts have exhausted Jiangxi's vitality, and this time, the number of people affected by the disaster is more than one million.

One million people and 300,000 households are already one-sixth to one-fifth of Jiangxi’s population.

Multiplying anything by a million is a big problem. This year, Zhu Qizhen faces two million-level disaster relief, snow disaster in Jiangnan and drought disaster in Jiangxi.

Moreover, except for these two places, other places are not without disasters, but are just dwarfed by them.

Therefore, large-scale tax exemption and disaster relief have become a fact.

While Zhu Qizhen allocated funds from the lower house, he asked to try his best to use labor for relief.

The more disasters the more they face, the more intense Zhu Qizhen’s mind is in the mind of the big infrastructure. In his opinion, the so-called disasters are half caused by natural disasters and half because of incomplete water conservancy infrastructure.

How did it be before the north? It was also dry spring and flood in summer.

But has the times changed today? No, but no matter what kind of disaster situation, the people of Hebei can always eat a bite of food. There has been no disaster relief for Hebei for ten years.

Apart from the Yellow River rushing to Daming Prefecture, there is nothing to do.

At most, you can just save some food and grass.

Zhu Qizhen had two major infrastructure projects to be done in his mind. One was to repair the world's water conservancy project. Zhu Qizhen did not calculate the user department, so Zhu Qizhen was sure that this was the amount of money and grain consumption, which was at the level of 100 million. In addition, it was to build the world's road, which was a big deal. The amount of money was not enough.

Not to mention these two things, just now the financial crisis makes him feel breathless.

As the war progressed, five million taels of silver and one million stones of food were being consumed rapidly, and the treasury was also being consumed rapidly during disaster relief.

The inventory of the Taicang silver warehouse has been reduced rapidly in the internal transportation warehouse, which is Jing Warehouse. Because of the supplement of Hebei grain, it is not that ugly. But it is still much less than in previous years.

After crossing the Yalu River, at least in terms of finance, it is great good news for Zhu Qizhen.

As for the conflict between Cao Yi and Wang Yue, Zhu Qizhen knew it very well and never cared about it. To a certain extent, this was something that was inevitable.
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