Chapter 35                                                             �

Yesen's actions were not covered.

It can't even be concealed.

After all, there are countless people in the tribes under his command with various thoughts. Therefore, when Ye Xian expressed his intention to go south in Zhaozhou, he had to know how many Jinyiwei went to Beijing to report the news day and night.

Just three days later, Zhu Qizhen learned about the news.

Zhu Qizhen was shocked.

In fact, while Yexian was surprised by the progress of the Ming army, Zhu Qizhen was also surprised by Yexian's speed.

Yexian took more than a month to kill all the sons in Tuotuobuhua, including his sister's son. No male member of the Golden Family's direct line has survived.

This speed is already surprising.

But think about it, there is not such a difficult offensive and defensive battle on the grassland. Although the pursuit battle is a little harder, it always has an end.

The Ming army was unfamiliar with the grasslands, so the Mongolians had a place to hide. However, for the Mongolians themselves, although the grasslands were vast, they had no place to live.

Even in the end, these people were preparing to go south and defect to the Ming Dynasty, and were finally killed in Hetao by Yexian.

This is reasonable.

But Zhu Qizhen was even more surprised when he fought first and then started an Eastern Expedition despite his fatigue.

From the beginning of the rebellion to the present, the headquarters has been fighting for thousands of miles. From the spring to the summer, although I dare not say that I am in a state of being trapped, I am definitely not in good condition.

The decision of ordinary people should be to make some adjustments. At least one or two months later, fight again.

But Yesen didn't dare to do this at all and went straight to Liaodong.

I really don't know the confidence he comes from.

Zhu Qizhen immediately summoned the cabinet to discuss with the Governor's Office of the Five Army in Wuying Hall.

As soon as this information was transmitted to the ministers below, Chen Xun's heart moved and immediately said, "Your Majesty is indeed wise and powerful. In this way, there must be a collusion between Li Ni and Wassai in North Korea. If your Majesty had not made a quick decision and a large army to attack, once Li Ni joined forces with Wassai, Liaodong and Haixi would be in danger."

"My emperor is wise."

After hearing this, Zhu Qizhen smiled bitterly in his heart.

Although Zhu Qizhen was so flattering that he felt very comfortable.

But there are many things that are wrong. For example, because the Ming Dynasty attacked North Korea, North Korea had to join forces with Titan, and North Korea was first engaged with Titan before being attacked by the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Qizhen felt that the fact is the former.

Li Jiang was not that stupid. After all, after the establishment of Haixi Town, North Korea and Tissue were no longer boundary. Most of the time, the distant water could not relieve intimate thirst.

But Chen Xun's flattery is not meaningless.

He is setting the tone.

What to set? Let’s decide. This time, the Watanabe went south in a large-scale manner. It was definitely not caused by His Majesty’s strong advocacy of the Eastern Expedition, nor was His Majesty’s decision-making mistake.

Therefore, the only thing written in historical books and in court documents is the latter, that is, the relationship between North Korea and Watanabe, Li Yong is unfaithful, filial, merciful, and unparalleled, and unpardoned, which makes His Majesty furious and issued an edict to conquer.

Although Zhu Qizhen didn't feel that he had made any mistakes in the decision to destroy North Korea, he could only accept Chen Xun's loyalty.

I just think that the Prime Minister should not put his mind on these paths.

Zhu Qizhen said: "It's over here, and it's useless to say more. The Wassat army will arrive in Liaodong in a few days. How should we deal with it?"

"Your Majesty." Shi Heng said: "I have been in Haixi for many years and know the foundations of Haixi and Liaodong."

"Haixi Town is newly built, with a total of about 30,000 soldiers. Although militias can be recruited in the war, the number of powerful men in Haixi is not only 100,000."

"The most elite among them is General Jin's troops."

"Haixi is indeed empty now."

"The Liaodong Town is also quite empty. There are about 65,000 soldiers in Liaodong Town. Now most of them are conquering Korea. In addition to the war soldiers, there are still an equal number of troops stationed in the border walls."

"These soldiers are stationed in various castles. Although their combat effectiveness is not as good as that of combat soldiers, they are also very cautious in guarding the city."

"Just this happens, Liaodong Town is in a completely passive situation."

"I ask for a fight. I will lead my troops to help Liaodong and Haixi."

"It's not far from the capital to Shanhaiguan. Within ten days, I will arrive in Liaoyang."

Shi Heng looked at Zhu Qizhen with bright eyes, and there was a light radiant in his eyes, as if a wild beast had seen his prey.

The generals of the Beijing camp asked for battle, except for Meng Ying.

Zhu Qizhen coughed gently, and everyone immediately calmed down. Then Zhu Qizhen asked Wang Ji and said, "Mr. Wang, what are your opinions on this situation now?"

Wang Ji said: "The wise and wise are not your majesty. Now, in the battle of Korea, we have won consecutive battles and won't fail. Therefore, no matter what we do, we cannot withdraw our troops from North Korea. This kind of increase in troops from Liaodong has become inevitable."

Zhu Qizhen also understood in his heart that the main forces of the Eastern Army were Jingying and Liaodong Town, and the soldiers of Liaodong Town were all in Liaodong. Once the news of the chaos in Liaodong reached the army, some major chaos might occur.

Therefore, in the current situation, Liaodong must be protected, and the Korean War of Expedition to the East must also be carried out.

Now after the Battle of Yalu River, the Battle of Pyongyang, the Battle of Two Great Wars, and the Battle of Hamgyong, the Navy went south to clear the remnants of the North Korean Navy, and the battles of all sizes.

The army has arrived in Seoul.

It is already separated from Seoul by a river.

South Korea is also in a turbulent manner, with troops supporting Seoul and local commanders holding troops to their own strength.

North Korea has now reached the brink of the understanding.

If the troops retreated, not to mention that the previous victory results were all gone, I would just say that the Ming Dynasty did not destroy North Korea for the first time, and Li Jing's reputation would bottom out and rebound.

The Ming Dynasty wanted to have a second Eastern Expedition, but it was definitely not as easy as it is today.

Therefore, you must never retreat.

Therefore, supporting Liaodong and western China has become inevitable.

Wang Ji said: "But now there is one difficulty, that is, the court lacks money and food."

When Zhu Qizhen heard this, he immediately frowned. He seemed to find that he had never had enough money and food in the war. Most of the money and food he prepared for the Northern Expedition were consumed on disaster relief and water conservancy.

When talking about money and food, the officials in Wuying Hall also fell silent.

Zhu Qizhen couldn't help but sigh and said, "Can you use Mr. Zhou's old strategy to embezzle the treasury of the governments in Hebei, Shanxi, Huguang, Henan first?"

Zhou Chen initially insisted that the misappropriated funds would be returned to the local area, which was a sum of millions of taels of silver. In addition, the taxation was actually in progress. The summer tax was relaxed until autumn, and the autumn tax was relaxed to March of the next year. Generally, there was always a sum of money and grain to be transported to the court.

Liu Dingzhi said: "I have a plan to solve Your Majesty's difficulties."

Zhu Qizhen said, "Sir, please speak."

Liu Dingzhi said: "I have been in charge of the Shaofu for a long time. After all, I have assigned workshops in various places to the Shaofu for responsibility. However, in my opinion, some workshops are indeed like a useless person. Sending people to host them is a waste, but not sending people to host them is a waste. However, the court can indeed use them."

"I have always wanted to sell these workshops. Everything goes well, and I guess I can get three to five million taels of silver."

Zhu Qizhen was overjoyed and said, "You will tell me in detail."

Although auctioning state-owned assets is a prodigal act, Zhu Qizhen could not take care of so much at this time.

And in history, this is not the first time. If you count it carefully, similar behaviors were performed in the Han and Song dynasties.

Now Zhu Qizhen only wants to get a sum of money.

Liu Dingzhi immediately said in detail.

In fact, Liu Dingzhi has long disliked these useless ones.

The Shaofu was created by Liu Dingyi, and many workshops in the Palace, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Works, etc. The workshops in the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Works are better. Many workshops in the Palace have long been disliked by Liu Dingzhi.

In particular, Liu Dingyi wanted to carry out large-scale production and divide labor. However, there were many workshops in the palace, all for large-scale use, and only for large-scale use. The annual output was only a little, so it was meaningless to increase the output, but it occupied a large number of people.

Especially when Liu Dingzhi expanded several major industries such as steel, textile, mining, porcelain, weapons, etc., he often felt that he was not enough staff, and he felt even more disliked when looking at these workshops.
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