Zu Dashou is very glad that although he has not thrown himself into prison to eat his nest now, the original annual silver of nearly 10 million has become less than 3 million, and these 3 million are still intermittent, and he was killed by Old Man Sun.
What's even more infuriating is that Chongzhen thinks that he doesn't need to have an army of 150,000 troops to sit and watch here, so when the Liukou invaded Gyeonggi, he transferred out his Guanning 50,000 army into the Central Plains with a stroke of the pen, and Gao Yingxiang and other rogues launched a fierce battle, although in the end his Guanning Iron Cavalry won the victory, and drove Gao Yingxiang's 36th battalion back to Shanxi to trap Taihang, but his Guanning Iron Cavalry in front of more than 200,000 strong Liukou, still suffered heavy losses, and when he sent troops, he claimed that 50,000 actually 35,000 men and horses, and his henchmen returned, By the time the battle reached this point, it had lost only 20,000 to the bottom.
However, he wrote several times, asking the imperial court to make up for this gap and restore the combat effectiveness of the Guanning Iron Cavalry in Liaodong, but as a result, whether it was Chongzhen or the Ministry of War, even the cabinet that had eaten countless kickbacks from itself every year, under the opposition of the powerful Lone Chen Party, and under the suppression of the iron-faced and selfless Lu Xiangshengdao, all their demands were rejected.
Because in their opinion, Guan Ning no longer has much effect, and there is no need to spend countless money and food to support this useless army.
Because in the calculations of these ministers and Chongzhen, they also recruit troops and horses in the mainland, and their military expenses are much lower than those of Guanning, that is to say, if they use five million a year to raise 100,000 Guanning iron cavalry, then use these 5 million in the mainland to feed 1 million troops, this account will be calculated by anyone, and everyone has been calculating, of course, this million will not be raised.
And the misfortune is not alone, he has just been transferred out of the nominal army of 50,000, and he lacks more than 15,000 empty income, and as a result, Shandong Kong Youde rebelled again, and Shandong began to be tight again.
Shandong's general soldiers, Wang Dazhuang, the original hardcore brother of Lu Hanqiang, was greeted by Lu Hanqiang, and with his most capable soldiers, he had come to Liaoxi with Lu Hanqiang, so Shandong once again appeared empty of troops, so that tens of thousands of Kong Youde rebels were eroded by half of Shandong, at this time Chongzhen waved his pen again, and once again transferred out 30,000 iron cavalry in Guanning, and this time he had to pinch his nose to admit this, and he couldn't even say anything to refute.
Because Chongzhen directly assigned the leader of these 30,000 horses, it was his brother-in-law Wu Xiang.
This is something that has to be done, because Wu Xiang was dismissed after escaping privately when he rescued the Daling River he was trapped in last time, and this time the condition is that Wu Xiang will send troops and the official will be reinstated.
This thing had to be done and could not be done, so it was transferred away the real 30,000, although Wu Xiang in Shandong was incompetent, but his son Wu Sangui was first revealed, and he fought bravely in every battle, and immediately made a prestige among the young generation of generals in the Ming Dynasty, which made Zu Dashou feel relieved at the same time, and his heart began to pantothenic acid.
But no matter what, Wu Sangui is his nephew after all, if he can make a name for himself, it will also be a help to him in the future.
In the first few days, the Ministry of War issued a letter to itself, asking him to send troops to the Central Plains for the more than 30,000 remnants of the iron cavalry, continue to stay in the Central Plains, and pursue and suppress the remnants of Gao Yingxiang's rogues, that is to say, they are not ready to let them return to the building, Wu Xiang also inexplicably said that he could not exterminate the exhausted Kong Youde Geng Jingzhong, who was left with less than 2,000 left, and the rebels who could not even eat in the mountains, so they could not be built.
In this way, it is equivalent to dismantling the Guanning Iron Cavalry into pieces, and the army under his jurisdiction is getting smaller and smaller, and the opportunity to eat empty quotas and deduct military salaries is almost lost, and the remaining 20,000 Guanning troops in his hands are his own personal soldiers, and the usual military salaries are ten times that of ordinary soldiers.
Although his family is huge and powerful, this is raising an army, this is a bottomless pit, so now his financial resources are stretched and he can't make ends meet.
Fortunately, a few days ago, Houjin suddenly sent a secret messenger to quietly come to his house to buy grain from himself, the price he gave at that time was simply sky-high, a stone of brown rice, as long as it was transported to the ruling area of Houjin, then he would give two taels of silver, and now what is the price of grain in Huludao Port is one stone and eight dollars, which is double the profit.
Doubling your profits is absolutely insane.
However, there is also a problem here, that is to say, the grain unloaded in Huludao Port is all rice from the south, which can only be eaten, not made in the north, so Houjin focused on asking himself to buy seeds for Ming Chun, the high price made him even more excited, a stone of sorghum to himself is five taels of silver, five taels, and now what is the price of a stone of sorghum in Liaoxi Eight dollars a stone, that is to say, each stone can earn seven times the profit, at that time he was in a shortage of funds, so he agreed with a little hesitation.
Anyway, he has Ning Jun in hand, and Lu Hanqiang actually can't do anything about himself, as long as he does this thing secretly, after thinking about it, Lu Hanqiang will also open and close his eyes.
With this confidence, Zu Dashou gritted his teeth and agreed to this business with huge profits, just the first time he sent 2,000 stone of grain to Houjin, he really earned nearly 5,000 taels of silver, and Houjin was very satisfied with the grain he had transported.
However, two thousand quintals of grain is not even a drop in the bucket for the entire Houjin region, according to the evil consequences of Lu Hanqiang's actions described to himself, now there is a large-scale famine in Houjin, this winter and even the following spring, the food required will be calculated in millions of stones, so that as long as you open up this smuggling channel, you can make yourself have an income of millions of taels of silver within a year, so that your economic situation will be completely reversed, and then take this silver, and go into the court by yourself.
It is absolutely not a problem to bribe a few cabinet elders and ask them to restore the number of Guanning iron cavalry in Liaodong, as well as the amount of money and food originally supplied to the Guanning army.
In fact, he is not afraid of Lu Hanqiang's bad things for himself in such smuggling, the first point, although Lu Hanqiang wears the hat of a governor of Liaoxi, but this hat has no grade, he and Lu Hanqiang are almost at the same level, since they are at the same level, as long as they raise their necks and fight with Lu Hanqiang, there should be no big problem.
The second point is that they have figured out the thoughts of Chongzhen and those ministers, and they wish that they would have a stiff relationship with Lu Hanqiang, so that they can rest assured that when they are fighting with Lu Hanqiang, they will not be biased towards themselves.
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