That's the way it is, just like there is a story in later generations, you give a beggar five dollars a day, and it becomes a habit.
And all of a sudden you have five dollars out of your pocket and only give him four dollars, and this beggar definitely thinks that you are deducting what you should have given him, and this is the human heart.
Looking at the different food in their hands, the soldiers began to complain from whispering to complaining, and the dissatisfaction began to spread at an irrepressible speed in the barracks.
Xu Jie and Cheng Guoyuan, who had a sad face, kept walking here and there, trying to comfort the soldiers' emotions, but what they said often made things backfire.
The huge gap between the two overseers is in their constant legends, and the soldiers are more and more aware of it.
And there is another reason that makes the soldiers begin to miss their old supervisors, that is, these soldiers are almost all from Shanxi, and it was Lu Hanqiang who led them to the battlefield to this point, giving them a chance to survive and honor at the same time.
And now this overseer has made them starve and ignore their appeals, and that's the difference, the big difference.
The soldiers' grievances are slowly accumulating, and an inevitable outbreak is coming, but at this time, Shi Kefa has no such worries and premonitions, because in his opinion, as long as the soldiers can eat a mouthful of food, whether the meal is gruel or steamed buns, they should be content.
This kind of thinking stems from Shi Kefa's general understanding of the early indica rice army, so in his and his staff's view, the current crisis has passed, anyway, the food is available, and the soldiers are stable, but the matter is far from over, if there is no money and food to continue, the matter of bombing the camp will definitely happen, so Shi Kefa returned to his study and immediately drafted a memo to the emperor, applying for the payment of military salaries and pensions to the Fuliao army, as well as four million taels of silver to repay the debt.
This recital was sent back to the court as quickly as possible, and put it on the table of the household department, the household department was furious at the time, do you Shi Kefa do anything again, the original Fu Liao army did not take a penny or a penny from the imperial court, this has become a habit, you are good, as soon as you take office, you will open your mouth to manage the household department to ask for money, is there still a reason for this, so immediately this recital, directly bypassed the military aircraft department, and threw it on the table of the cabinet, the problem of money and food is indeed under the control of the cabinet.
Sun Chengzong also expressed serious dissatisfaction with this excerpt of the application for salary, this time because he was dissatisfied with the trend of dumping Lu, and also because now all the money in the household department has gone.
At the beginning, when Lu Hanqiang, as the largest shareholder of the bank, made a loan to the imperial court, he imposed a very unreasonable requirement at the time, that is, the bank supervised the whereabouts of the money, that is, the imperial court must display the plan of the money in detail, and only release it if the bank's board of directors thinks it is indeed reasonable.
Now it seems that the conditions imposed on the management of the imperial court's money and financial expenditures at the beginning were the most standardized methods of governments at all levels to live within their means, and after two years of implementation, no matter what the purpose, this method was applauded from top to bottom, which was also Lu Hanqiang's subtle reform of the entire Ming Dynasty's finances.
As a result, this is the case now, the financial budget for the past year has already been completed, and the economic and financial expenditures of the entire Ming Dynasty are being implemented in an orderly and orderly manner, and there is no preparation for the resumption of the Liao Army at all Gao Hongtu and Jiang Yueguang, as well as Qian Qianyi, also felt that this matter was not good, so far Donglin has just taken over the Fuliao Army, and there is such a big thing as a result, which is really embarrassing, but in order to sit firmly in Shi Kefa's position, it seems that some money still needs to be allocated.
So he sent the matter of this appropriation to the household department, which was originally Lu Hanqiang's base, and this opportunity to embarrass Donglin must not be let go, and the two sides began to fight each other.
For the kung fu of ripping off, whether it is the officials of the Donglin Party or the Guchen Party, they are all familiar with it, and they can basically give you a place where the world is desolate.
But you can't talk about it now, because hundreds of thousands of Liao troops are waiting to be fed, the Manchu Emperor Taiji is ready to move, the war is about to break out, there is no money and no food, how can this battle be fought In case Shi Kefa just came to power and made a fiasco because of lack of money and food, it would be a serious slap in the face, so the cabinet ministers decided to report this matter to the emperor, and let the emperor's internal funds contribute to the emergency.
As a result, Chongzhen was furious when he saw it, you always say that Donglin's Shi Kefa is a celestial man, and his ability is far above Lu Hanqiang, and the superintendent Liaodong must be a hundred times stronger than Lu Hanqiang, is this stronger than Lu Hanqiang It's also strong, and if you want money as soon as you take office, you still want money that doesn't cost a penny at all, what is this There is another thing that makes Chongzhen very angry, before this reversal of the Lu trend, his own internal money can only enter and exit, more and more abundant, and after this trend, in order to transfer 50,000 Beijing camps to the northeast, it is very much from the internal money to take out a sum of silver, and in order to take Hong Chengchou, and bear the salary of 100,000 troops in Shanxi, this calculation, he can be regarded as a big loss, if this time to Shi Kefa to plug the hole, then his own small treasury will be bottomed out again.
This can't work, so Chongzhen summoned Sun Chengzong and Gao Hongtu from the cabinet, Jiang Yueguang Qian Qianyi, and told them directly: "I definitely don't have money, but the war will continue, not only must it continue, but also hurry, so that when the Huang Taiji beaten by Lu Hanqiang has no power to parry, he will be hit hard again." ” So, this matter was pushed to the cabinet again, and Sun Chengzong was asked to take out a strip to show it, but this time the master suddenly became deaf and dumb, just humming haha There is no quasi-Pu, so the remaining three people have to think about it, but the three of them don't know anything about financial management, what do they think about this rut So, everyone continued to argue.
But this ramp-up is a big deal.
The reason for the outbreak of this major event was that 50,000 well-equipped Beijing battalions arrived in Tai'an and joined the sequence of the Fuliao army.
The arrival of the 50,000 Beijing camp made Shi Kefa, who was originally equal to the commander of the light pole, immediately strengthen his waist, and now Shi Kefa not only mastered the actual 38,000 troops, but also accepted the bill of exchange for the 2 million military salary brought to him by the emperor.
With money, of course, you can buy military grain and grass according to Lu Hanqiang's money-saving method, so he immediately traded with the merchants of the wealthy families in the south who followed, but the grain and grass that he purchased was not allocated to the Fuliao Army, which had drunk gruel for five days and was about to be interrupted again, but all of it was allocated to his own lineage Jingying, because in the eyes of Shi Kefa and others, the Fuliao Army was already dispensable, even if you want to make trouble again, I have a large army in hand, you can't make any trouble, if you dare to make trouble, we can suppress you, strengthIt is the confidence to speak and do things.
As a result, such a stark contrast made these Fuliao troops even more angry, so the long-suppressed anger of the Fuliao army accumulated again, and a greater turmoil broke out at the sight of it.
So, Xu Jie and Wang Dazhuang immediately wrote a detailed report for instructions, which was urgently delivered to Lu Hanqiang, asking for instructions on what to do next. t1706231537: