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Fortunately, I had the foresight to prevent this situation from happening. The branch presidents of the two capitals and thirteen provinces have clear instructions to reject all attempts to ask for money based on government power.

But it was also because of this that the governors, governors and other frontier officials of at least three provinces wrote memorials, saying how they were short of money. Since there was money in the Ming Dynasty Construction Bank, they asked the emperor for permission to temporarily misappropriate the money. As for when it will be repaid and what kind of mortgage will be used, basically nothing is written. It means nothing more than the seal of the governor or governor, right? This situation is the same as what happened in the capital before, where Bi Ziyan and the others wanted to misappropriate bank funds!

Among these memorials, the memorials of others can be temporarily ignored. But the memorial of Zhu Xieyuan, the governor of the southwest, cannot be ignored. After all, he is still fighting the rebellion and has a large number of troops. If he really has no money or military pay, the consequences may be serious.

When receiving Zhu Xieyuan's memorial, Emperor Chongzhen had already learned about the relevant situation. In the southwest, there had been wars for years since the end of Wanli. After Zhu Xieyuan was transferred to lead the army to suppress the rebellion, the situation was gradually controlled and the situation in the southwest was stabilized.

During the Tianqi Dynasty, Zhu Xieyuan asked the court for money many times. However, the Ming Dynasty was poor and basically had very little money. Even the money that was finally promised, for example, in the third year of Tianqi's third year, it was promised to give 300,000 military pay. In the end, it was only 30,000 taels in Zhu Xieyuan's hands.

Therefore, Zhu Xieyuan wrote a letter asking for additional taxes in the prefectures and counties under his jurisdiction, and suggested that different levels of taxation could be implemented according to the degree of damage in each county. However, Emperor Tianqi did not agree with this approach at the time.

Therefore, Zhu Xieyuan proposed another solution, which was to allow him to mint copper coins. The imperial court immediately agreed to this, and therefore, Zhu Xieyuan had the financial foundation to suppress the rebellion. But of course this was not enough, Zhu Xieyuan had to cut back on expenditure. After he took control of the situation and took the initiative, he began to reduce redundant troops to save expenses.

Obviously, now that Zhu Xieyuan saw a new source of money, he had the idea of ​​asking for money again.

When Emperor Chongzhen recalled this, he also somewhat understood Zhu Xieyuan's difficulties. The rebellion must be suppressed, but the court does not provide money. It feels like the horse must run and the horse must not eat grass. But the court really had no money, and the court's focus was Liaodong, so it really had no money to give him.

Although I have some money now, it is all used as the principal of the bank, the source of the cornucopia, and must not be misappropriated. I have no idea how much money Zhu Xieyuan needs, whether he is greedy for money, and what the current situation in the southwest is. Although people have been sent to find out the specific details, there has been no response yet and it is not easy to handle.

What I am a bit worried about is, will the chaos in the southwest affect the national policy of my feudal lord to go overseas? Min Hongxue and Tang Wang have already passed, and they should be arriving soon. The situation over there cannot affect their plans for Dongwu!

Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen suddenly felt that there were still too few people in his chat group, so he needed to add more people. This way he should be able to add members from the southwest, who had reliable informants, or who could get to know them more quickly than he could by sending someone from the capital. too much.

However, the most critical battle in Liaodong is about to start now, and where the achievement points are allocated, it is better to wait for now, at least until the outcome of the North Korean food war is reached. After all, adding people is random, and you may not be able to add the people you want to add.

With this in mind, Emperor Chongzhen made the decision to wait for the southwest side. As for the Hetao Plain, as long as they can hold back the Jianlu in Liaodong, I believe that with the ability of Hong Chengchou and his men, they should have no problem if they only deal with the Mongolian tribes in the west.

But he didn't know that Shitu in the west was seeing winter coming soon. His desire for the Hetao area made him ready to take action, and he sent envoys to contact other tribes.

The main force in the Mongolian grassland during this period was the Oirat Mongolia, which nomadically roamed the vast grasslands north of the Tianshan Mountains, and was called Western Mongolia; together with the Khalkha Mongolia (Outer Mongolia) in the center and the Chahar Mongolia (Inner Mongolia) in the east, it was also known as the three largest Mongolia. department.

Of course, at this time, Chahar Mongolia in the east has been annexed by the Ming Dynasty, and only two of the three major Mongolian tribes are left.

Among them, Weite Mongolia is divided into four internal tribes, namely the Junggar tribe, the Durbot tribe, the Heshuote tribe and the Turgut tribe. Legally speaking, the other three tribes of Oirat have taken orders from the Junggar tribe, and their leader Baturhun has become the leader of the Mongolian tribes.

However, this is only on the surface. There are frequent conflicts between these four tribes over the competition for pasture and livestock, and sometimes they are even serious. Among them, the Zhungeer tribe is the most powerful, followed by the Heshuote tribe.

However, due to religious beliefs, wars often broke out between the Oirat Mongolia in the west and the Khalkha Mongolia in the center. According to the original history, Chaoketu of the Khalkha tribe even had plans to unite with Lin Dan Khan for religious reasons, but this plan was scuppered because Lin Dan Khan died of illness in Qinghai.

In this current plane, due to the butterfly effect, it is naturally impossible to appear. After all, Lin Danhan is dead.

On this day, on the grassland far away from Baotou, a cavalry army of about 500 people was slowly advancing westward. It can be seen from the flags fluttering in the wind that this is the cavalry of the Ming Dynasty. The leader looks like a "god" from the flag.

"Brother, according to Master Zhongcheng's order, when we get to the small lake in front, we should patrol back." Shen Yikui reminded Shen Yiyuan who was a little ahead of him.

Shen Yiyuan naturally knew this, but he frowned and thought for a moment and said, "The envoy sent by Lord Zhongcheng to the west is probably coming back soon. If we continue forward, we may not be able to receive it! "

When Shen Yikui heard this, he understood that his eldest brother wanted to make meritorious deeds. After all, he used to be on an equal footing with Gao Yingxiang. Unexpectedly, now, he is not as good as Li Zicheng and Li Guo, and has even become Li Zicheng's subordinate. There must be a gap in his heart, so he just wants to be promoted to Li Feng as soon as possible.

The three of them are guerrillas, and the two brothers are generals. As long as they are promoted to two levels, they will be on equal footing. The difference is not too big.

Thinking of this, Shen Yikui still shook his head and objected: "Brother, I understand what you are thinking, but Mr. Zhongcheng is also new to the post. He doesn't have much favorable impressions of us who are born thieves, otherwise he would not send us to patrol. .Since Master Zhongcheng ordered us to return to the front, then we should go to the front and return without causing any complications!"

Unexpectedly, it was still a little late, it was the next day, but let’s count it as tonight. The first update tomorrow will probably be around 9 o’clock, and there are still 7 updates due.