Chongzhen Wiretapping System

Chapter 161 Vigorous Action

Hearing this, the eyes of many people in the Chinese military camp immediately lit up.If this is the case, the speed of the infantry can be accelerated. No matter how fast the Jianlu army is, after all, they must be faster than the Ming army with mules and carriages to escort the looted Ming people!

Hong Chengchou didn't believe this.Because in his experience, what he saw more often was that the local gentry in Daming called him to suppress the thieves one by one, but when they asked them to pay some money, they all cried poorly.How did it come into the hands of this little Zhizhou, that he has the ability to make all the gentry in Jinzhou donate their animal power?
Thinking of this, he immediately asked with a little curiosity: "How do you get them to donate? So sure?"

"Back to the words of the governor! If the subordinate officials are not sure, they dare not bring it up here." Chen Hongxu immediately replied with cupped fists, "The subordinate officials share their troubles with them, and I believe they will listen to the subordinate officials!"

After hearing this, Lu Xiangsheng smiled and explained to Hong Chengchou: "Heng Jiu didn't know that he was under tremendous pressure for the people of Jinzhou. , Under the attack of the whole army of Jianlu, the city was defended and the people in the city were saved. Now the squires in Jinzhou listen to him. At the beginning, they were thinking of paying money to find someone to deal with Liu Yuliang's crimes against Liu Yuliang. he."

In fact, it didn't take long for this incident to happen. Hong Chengchou had been on his way, and when he arrived, he fought with the Manchu army.At this time, Liu Yuliang's head had long been hung on the Zhengyang Gate, and not many people still mentioned it.Therefore, Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting couldn't help being surprised when Lu Xiangsheng said this, and then they looked at Chen Hongxu with admiration in their eyes.

Wang Cheng'en didn't understand military matters, but he knew something about the matter at this time, so he said: "The emperor publicly praised Chen Zhizhou as the pillar of the country, and he will definitely use it when the Jianlu soldiers retreat!"

Upon hearing this, people who heard it for the first time, including Lu Jiude, Liu Yuanbin and other members of the Yongwei Battalion, were also surprised.That is the emperor's compliment, then this person will definitely be promoted!

Sun Chuanting originally thought that he had been bold enough to adopt the policy of "clearing the village for payment" and offended many people.But he didn't expect that a small Zhizhou would dare to refuse the first assistant's request to enter the city. This is really courageous enough!
If he knew that Chen Hongxu was not even a Jinshi, but just a Juren, he would probably be even more surprised.

In the Chinese military tent, after a side-talking chat, Lu Xiangsheng quickly brought the topic back to the main topic, and heard him ask Chen Hongxu seriously: "How many mules and carriages can Jinzhou use?"

"Maybe we can make up two hundred cars, or a little less." Chen Hongxu made a calculation in his mind and replied immediately.

A car can't pull too much weight, otherwise the animals won't be able to bear it.Counting five infantrymen with armor, there are only 1000 people, which seems a little too small.However, something is better than nothing.

The emperor's appreciation and support also made them feel the pressure. If they didn't try their best, they would be ashamed of the emperor.

Lu Xiangsheng thought about it, and immediately made a decision, and said resolutely: "Immediately pass on the military order of my officer, and all the animal power in the surrounding states and cities will be requisitioned. Anyone who dares to refuse will be punished as a prisoner."

If it were Hong Chengchou, I'm afraid he wouldn't be able to say such a thing.However, Lu Xiangsheng has already made a decision, showing his tough side.

However, after saying this, Lu Xiangsheng paused and added: "Those who make a living by animal power, give them the market price of silver, and they will be bought by the imperial court, and there is no excuse."

Speaking of this, he turned his head and looked around at the officials and supervisors who were present, and said in a deep voice: "If the court blames this matter, I, as the commander in chief, shall bear it myself."

Hearing this, Sun Chuanting recalled the emperor's secret decree before, and couldn't help feeling a little more confident in his heart, and said, "Your Excellency is also willing to bear the burden with you!"

This time, no matter what Hong Chengchou was thinking in his heart, in front of so many supervisors and generals in the army, he couldn't help but say: "The lower officials are willing to bear the burden with adults!"

Lu Xiangsheng did not compete with them to resist responsibility, but just glanced at them in relief. It is rare to have such colleagues working together.

Of course, he is not stupid, he knows that the reason for this result is because there is a taller person who is more responsible, so that they can rest assured.

No time to think about it, Lu Xiangsheng's brows did not loosen, and he continued: "However, the surrounding area has been ravaged by Jian captives. Even if we can gather a few more states and cities, I am afraid that we will not be able to transport many troops. However, when the country is in crisis, the only way to do it is to work hard on national affairs. That's all. The generals will obey orders!"

When they heard that an official military order was about to be issued, all the sitting people stood up, and those generals stepped out of the line, clasped their fists together and echoed: "The last general is here!"

"You wait to select the most elite soldiers under your command, and go north as soon as the animal power arrives."

"Obey!" These generals took orders together without hesitation.

Soon, all the outside and inside of Jinzhou City immediately started to move.Zhizhou Chen Hongxu mobilized in the city, and mules and carriages were quickly delivered to the army outside the city.The barracks outside the city are all preparing to move out.In addition to having a car and taking a car, the other infantry also had to go north on foot to complete their tasks.

Although Emperor Chongzhen was far away in the capital, he knew all the content of this military meeting through the wiretapping seeds on Wang Chengen.So, he immediately asked someone to bring the relevant map and studied it carefully.

Lu Xiangsheng and others have already mentioned the possible moves of Jianlu and their countermeasures.Emperor Chongzhen saw it this way, and he just confirmed what they said.

On the route the Ming army planned to advance, Hejian Mansion had already been breached by the Manchu Qing army, so forget it here.Next, Wen'an, Baoding, and Bazhou can be regarded as big cities, and there should be a lot of animal power available.This may not be enough, then add another Gu'an.

After considering this matter, Emperor Chongzhen had to sigh with emotion that without mechanized troops, it would be quite expensive to rely on animal power to transfer military power.Especially in this severe cold weather, this kind of large-scale use of animal power, not to mention the consumption of rations, will cause many animals to freeze to death and exhaust themselves.In other words, it's all money!

However, war is like this, fighting is money.

Emperor Chongzhen also considered that if Lu Xiangsheng collected the animal power nearby, if he was in a hurry to go on the road, many animals might die in the second half of the journey.In this case, he felt that the above few cities were not safe.

After thinking for a while, he fixed his eyes on the capital, the largest city in the north of Ming Dynasty.The number of horses in the Jingying and Xungui's homes alone is very large.Right now, a major treason case has just been handled, and those nobles have been beaten a lot, and they are trembling, if they don't speak now, when will they wait!

Thinking of this, he passed an edict to the cabinet, the supervisor of ceremonies, and the six ministries and nine ministers to discuss matters in the Wenhua Hall.

As soon as the people arrived, Emperor Chongzhen announced straight to the point: "Now the war against the captives has reached a critical juncture, and the soldiers in front urgently need horses for military use. I have decided that I will recruit horses from nobles. As long as they are horses, except for young horses, they cannot be humped." Anyone who is not a person will be recruited. As for the civil servants and generals in the capital city, Qing and others will go to recruit, do you have any opinions?"

If it was changed before, maybe someone would come out and object.But at this time, a major treason case had just occurred in the capital, and the reason was that the relevant people did not want to waste money for the country.So, one lost 40 taels, plus the title was cut, and the person was gone;As for the other two rebels, let alone.

This bloody lesson made the officials in the hall, or the entire capital, recognize the fact that in times of national calamity, if they can spend their money to eliminate the disaster, then let it go.

Compared with the rumors in the capital that the emperor decided to borrow money from the civil and military officials and the emperor's relatives, the matter of recruiting horses was more responsive.

After all, if you want to borrow money, how much money should you lend?If you borrow too much, how did you get the money?Did you tell the emperor clearly that I am greedy and that I have money?If there is less borrowing, will the emperor feel that there is no sincerity, which will lead to disaster?And horses don't have this concern. If there is one, there will be no. Anyway, the loss will not be too great.

Besides, the emperor himself made it clear about this matter, and he went to recruit Xungui.With such a precedent, it is not abrupt for them to issue orders to the civil and military officials to urge the horses.

Thinking this way, after the hall was quiet for a while, everyone unanimously responded to the emperor, saying that there was no problem.

In this regard, Emperor Chongzhen also felt a little smooth. It should have deterred the courtiers before, and the effect was not bad.Therefore, he struck while the iron was hot, and at the same time, because of the urgent need ahead, he immediately called all the nobles in the capital to the Hall of Martial Arts to have an audience.

It can be said that the nobles of the capital all came to see them with trepidation.It was a recent incident that frightened them.One duke, two marquises, and one earl were severely punished. Speaking of which, the lightest one was Yuan Jiading Bo, who was only fined 30 taels of silver and returned the property of the shop that he had stolen.

Although these nobles have never done anything against the prince, there are always some illegal things.For example, there are even a few of such things as stealing and extortion, and they are also connected with the palace. They have been worried that they have done a good job, and the emperor will suddenly find out, and then they will end up like the few nobles in front of them.

In the Hall of Martial Heroes, although there are many nobles, even if the emperor hasn't come yet, everyone is very quiet and obedient!

As soon as Emperor Chongzhen arrived, he immediately realized this and couldn't help but sneered in his heart when he saw the nobles attending the ceremony.To put it bluntly, these nobles are actually like urchins. When the original Emperor Chongzhen had no ability to control them, they behaved mischievously one by one. , while having benefits, they also have corresponding obligations.

Now that they have killed the chickens and scared the monkeys, they are very worried again, for fear that they will end up miserably. Just looking at them like this, they can know that most of these nobles are actually idiots, and they have long lost the heroic appearance of their ancestors.

Emperor Chongzhen naturally would not give them a good face, and said to them coldly: "I summoned you because the front line is in urgent need of horses, so all the prefectures in the capital, including royal family members, nobles, civil officials and generals, all horses must be recruited. Every government is no exception, who has any opinion?"

He went straight to the point, just so straightforward, let's see if they will give it or not?The attitude shown makes people feel extraordinarily strong.

These nobles were also very surprised by this, and they couldn't react for a while.However, there was one person who immediately replied: "Your Majesty, since it is urgently needed on the front line, I should help you and do your best for the country. This is what we should do. Otherwise, the country will support me for 300 years without doing anything." , it really humiliated the ancestors, ashamed of the grace of the Taizu."

Hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen was a little surprised. It seemed that he was very enlightened, so he looked closely and found that it was Liu Kongzhao, the sincere uncle.

He didn't know that in the original history, among the many nobles of Daming, apart from Mu Wang's Mansion in Yunnan, there was only Liu Kongzhao, the sincere uncle, who used his actions to prove that he had Daming in his heart.

After the original Emperor Chongzhen died for his country in the capital, Emperor Hongguang quickly established a small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty in Jinling.Liu Kongzhao became one of the backbone forces of the Nanming court, and played a significant role in arranging the Qing army to defend the river and cooperating with the anti-Qing hero Zhang Huangyan's navy.It's a pity that Emperor Hongguang's small court fought fiercely and had no cohesion. The Qing army collapsed as soon as it came.

After the failure of Jinling against the Qing Dynasty, Liu Kongzhao went south to rely on the anti-Qing hero Zhang Mingzhen, and went northward to fight against the Qing army many times on naval warships. His son Liu Yongxi died heroically in battle.Later, Liu Kongzhao went south to defect to Emperor Longwu, Lu Wang Zhu Yihai and other Southern Ming forces, but failed one after another.Seeing that the situation was over, Liu Kongzhao sailed into the sea, and has been missing ever since.

As for the remaining nobles, they either surrendered to Li Zicheng or the Manchus, and even some of them first surrendered to Li Zicheng and then to the Manchus. Anyway, none of them wanted to be loyal to the country, and raised them for hundreds of years in vain. Be a white-eyed wolf once.

At this time, in the Wuying Hall, Liu Kongzhao spoke like this. The other nobles came to their senses and did not dare to neglect, it was just a few horses, so they immediately followed and agreed with Liu Kongzhao's words.

Emperor Chongzhen originally wanted to scare them again, but he never thought that Liu Kongzhao took the lead and things went very smoothly, so it would be difficult to have an attack. However, he did not just let them go so simply, and continued to say with a cold face: "The horses need fodder for at least ten days, and you have to prepare it yourself. The imperial court is currently unable to provide a large amount of food and grass materials."

Hearing this, many nobles opened their mouths slightly. They didn't expect this, but Liu Kongzhao, the sincere uncle, replied: "Your Majesty, this is what I should do! Or if I think about it, since it is If the front line needs it, it is better for the ministers to send people to the front line directly, so that His Majesty does not need to worry about such trivial matters."

"..." The other nobles were speechless, they all looked at Liu Kongzhao, thinking in their hearts that you are asking for trouble!What if something happens to the horses?
After hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen stared at Liu Kongzhao, and began to pay attention to Liu Kongzhao in his heart.If this Liu Kongzhao hadn't done a lot of shameful things to be so active, he would be a person who is sincerely for the country and a person worth using.Thinking of this, he decided in his heart to ask the factory guard to check him carefully. If it can be used, it will be good.

For the Xungui Group, we can't always suppress it forcefully, but we must set up a model to reuse, so that the big sticks and carrots can be used together, so that these Xungui can be tidied up.

Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen agreed to Liu Kongzhao's request, and also decided to hand over all the horses obtained by civil and military officials and other means to these nobles and send them to the front line.Each family has registered how many horses it is responsible for sending, and it needs to be stamped and accepted by the front-line commander, so that this matter has been completed.

In any case, this can be regarded as a small test for Xungui.

It has to be said that the most wealthy people live in the capital, the noble group and the civil and military officials, plus the horses in the capital army, such a requisition, there are more than 8000 horses.

On the third day, these horses were sent by Xungui to rush to the front line.

At the same time, Emperor Chongzhen issued an imperial decree to the big city on the way forward of the Ming army, asking the local officials to use Lu Xiangsheng's method to forcibly conscript mules and horses, and prepare to form a relay to transport the infantry.

An action to support the army that had never been seen in the history of the Ming Dynasty was launched in such a vigorous way.

(End of this chapter)