These years of being the queen mother!

After returning to Beijing, Empress Dowager Yang fell into silence. After a long time, she glanced at Zhu Cilin, who was planning how much food and grass was spent, how much silver, and came to the conclusion that it was a loss. She looked depressed and was in a very unhappy mood, and said in a deep voice.

"Does Yang Qing still think it's time to appease Zhang Xianzhong's work?"

Xiong Wencan, the deputy who returned to Beijing to deliver the good news, said. "Reporting to Your Majesty, both Lord Yang and the lower officials believe that Zhang Xianzhong's trilogy should continue to be recruited."

Empress Dowager Yang pressed the case table, her face was calm, obviously thinking whether she should continue to recruit Zhang Xianzhong or not.Since ancient times, it has been said that good people do not live long, and that disasters last for thousands of years. Zhang Xianzhong is naturally not a good person, and in a sense, Zhang Xianzhong is not a bad person either.After all, in history, although Zhang Xianzhong surrendered to Daming Fu and rebelled, but after the Qing soldiers entered the customs, Zhang Xianzhong’s troops became the main force against the Qing Dynasty, and his adopted son Li Dingguo was even more famous. , the No. 1 general in the late Ming Dynasty who resisted the Qing Dynasty and saved the country.

The history of the Ming Dynasty commented on Zhang Xianzhong's cunning, bloodthirsty, not killing people for a day, and he was always unhappy.To be honest, Empress Dowager Yang didn't quite believe this. After all, the history of the Ming Dynasty was compiled after the founding of the Qing Dynasty. According to the urine nature of the Tartars, the authenticity of this is a bit discounted.Soldiers, regardless of whether they are Ming officials or so-called insurgents, have killed people and seen blood, and they often count military merits by killing enemies.If you really want to talk about bloodthirsty, who is as ruthless as the Tartars after entering the customs? Yangzhou Ten Days and Jiading Three Massacres are not fake.

Coupled with her admiration for the No.1 general at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Empress Dowager Yang wanted to recruit Zhang Xianzhong's trilogy from her heart, so after careful consideration, she agreed to the recruiting plan proposed by Yang Sichang.After all, although the Tartars were beaten and disabled, after recuperating, one day they will make a comeback and invade south again.And based on this, Empress Dowager Yang wanted to end the "civil war" as soon as possible, and didn't want her own people to fight her own people.She didn't want to be taken advantage of by Houjin's people when he tried his best to encircle and suppress all kinds of rebels like Emperor Chongzhen in history.To be honest, in history, the Manchurian Tartars were able to attack the Ming Dynasty with a population of tens of millions with a few hundred thousand people. This luck is simply against the sky.

Well, it's all due to Chao Gang's corruption and this little bitch in the Little Ice Age!

Empress Dowager Yang, whose thoughts diverged again, uttered a swear word in her heart. After dismissing Xiong Wencan, she turned her attention to Zhu Cilin, who was obviously still depressed.

"What? Feel like you're losing money?"

"Isn't it a loss?" Zhu Cilin said sullenly, exhaling heavily. "My mother, my son and I have calculated over and over again. Even if you calculate the compensation silver for each dead soldier at 100 taels, the cost of exterminating the rioters is too high, not to mention your mother. The pension silver for the dead soldiers is [-] taels per person. Two silver coins!"

"A hundred taels of silver is a lot!"

It is true that today's prices are very low, 20 taels of silver can be chewed by a family of five in the capital for one year, and one hundred taels of silver can be chewed for five years, but out of respect for the soldiers who defended their homes and the country, from later generations Empress Dowager Yang felt that the price was slightly lower.It's just that no matter whether it's her son, the current emperor of Ming Dynasty, or all the civil and military officials, they all think that the compensation money is frighteningly high. You must know that in the past, ordinary soldiers only received 20 taels of compensation money after they died in battle. The upper echelon is deducted, and in the hands of the soldiers' families, there is only a few taels of silver, or even nothing, so there is a saying that a good man should not be a soldier.

It is true that a large number of literati are needed to govern the country, but the defense of the country can only rely on warriors who are despised by the literati and called warriors.If you really depend on literati for everything, heh, Empress Dowager Yang believed that when the enemy army came under pressure, the literati would allow one to surrender, kneel down to recognize the new master, and then, like a dog, lead the new master to deal with the old master. The Northern Song Dynasty, the Southern Song Dynasty, or the Ming Dynasty, isn't it all the same?

Therefore, the literati should use it, and the warriors should use it more. If you are afraid that the power of the warriors will be too great, if there is a mutiny in Chenqiao, and someone like Zhao Kuangyin will be added in a yellow robe and overturn the court, then you should hold the military power tightly in your hands. As long as the military power is in your hands , I believe that no matter how domineering and brutal the incumbent is, no one dares to speak out.Just like the so-called tyranny of the Qin Dynasty, the so-called militaristic Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, when Yingzheng and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty were alive, who would dare to clamor in front of them that the people of Qin were cruel and inhumane? It's just a raise by later generations!

The more Empress Dowager Yang lives now, the more she feels that one sentence is really good. After I die, I don't care about the flood.The time traveler is just like this, she doesn't bother to care about what future generations will say about her queen mother who doesn't take an unusual path, and she doesn't care about what future generations will do after the person who loves money like Zhu Cilin really achieves the ambition of being the land of the Ming Dynasty under the sun Commenting on him, does it mean that he is militaristic, warlike, or he is an unworldly Mingjun? Empress Dowager Yang does not want to guess. She feels that life energy is limited. In this life, she will spend her energy on how to transform Daming into the world. It's good to be a strong country, don't worry too much about other things!

But now...

Empress Dowager Yang rubbed her temples, it is best to educate Zhu Cilin now.His mother actually used the amount of pension money to measure whether a war was a loss. It can't be described as a love of money. Could it be that this brat was reincarnated by money strings!

"Saburo, that's not how battles are calculated."

"Then how do you calculate it?" Zhu Cilin's eyes widened and he hurriedly interrupted Empress Dowager Yang.

"Don't interrupt, let your mother tell you in detail." After suppressing the urge to give Zhu Cilin a hard time, Empress Dowager Yang took a deep breath and said slowly. "You calculate gains and losses based on the amount of pensions for the soldiers. No matter how you calculate, it is a loss. You must know that no matter whether it is an officer or a rogue, they are all Ming people and their own people, so whether it is a small win or a big win, it is a loss. .”

Zhu Cilin nodded thoughtfully, and did not express any dissenting opinions, but continued to listen to Queen Mother Yang's explanation of the 'fallacy' she understood.Just listen to Queen Mother Yang continue.

"It's like you fought with a foreigner once, and the foreigner was defeated. You can choose to pay for compensation, or you can choose to be in the name of benevolence and righteousness. The former is beneficial, and the latter is false. In terms of human nature, the choice is to be beneficial. , but I don’t know whether it is made by history or the more I read the book, the more stupid I am. Too many literati and inkmen who boast of their ability to govern the country choose to have a useless name. Often the court spends countless food and sacrifices the lives of countless soldiers to fight against foreign races. As long as the aliens surrender and show their submission, the literati who govern the country will encourage the king to punish them symbolically, and even to show mercy, the king who thinks the literati are right will also give gold and silver treasures to the surrendered aliens...

Without practical punishment, the aliens are naturally confident. If they lose, they just surrender. Anyway, the foolish Heavenly Empire will give them gold and silver treasures to recuperate for the sake of showing kindness.So this is the most fundamental reason for the continuous border troubles in the past dynasties! "

"Queen, I think I understand what you mean. You can't calculate the gains and losses based on the pensions of the soldiers who died in battle. Instead, you need to calculate the post-war compensation based on the victory of the battle."

Zhu Ciling wrenched his fingers, and suddenly said regretfully. "It's a pity, the last time I defeated the Tartars and returned home, I forgot to ask for war indemnity from the Tartars, what a loss!"

Hearing that Zhu Cilin was regretting this, Empress Dowager Yang raised her eyebrows and smiled meaningfully. "Don't worry, there will be a day when I will ask the Tartars for war reparations."

There is a reason why Empress Dowager Yang said this, because when the generals in various states and counties in Huguang fought against Zhang Xianzhong's trilogy, in order to survive better, Dorgon, who succeeded the Great Khan, attacked his former allies and the various tribes of Mongolia. .

In the first battle of Lushun, all the soldiers of the Eight Banners fled back to Shengjing. The losses were too heavy. For at least ten years, when the new wave of young and strong men did not grow up, they would not be able to invade the south.

In the past, it was not a problem to feed them with the fertility of the Hetao Plain, but now due to the fall of the Little Ice Age and the drastic changes in the climate, there are still natural disasters in Daming, let alone outside the pass.

The harsh climate has resulted in poor growth of plain grasslands, grassland and shrubs, and large-scale deaths of livestock such as cattle, sheep and horses.

The death of livestock such as cattle, sheep and horses, even if the nomads who rely on this for a living eat dead livestock, there will always be a day when the dead food will be eaten, not to mention the plague that may appear if it is not dealt with in time.Once the plague that broke out on the grassland spread, it could be regarded as a disaster for the nomads who lacked medical care and medicine.But fortunately, the Little Ice Age is still there, and the weather is extremely cold. Not to mention the plague, even humans and animals cannot survive, so the plague should not appear on the grassland.

However, even if the plague does not break out, the severe cold weather still makes life more difficult for the nomads, not to mention that even if the Liaodong side changes governors and managers, Mangui Children's Shoes, who took office, still insists on implementing the policy left by Mingda. All external checkpoints of the Great Wall were blocked, and merchants were prohibited from selling all kinds of daily necessities needed by herdsmen outside the pass by land.In this way, the Tatars, who were blinded by life, could only choose to attack their former allies when they knew they were no match for Daming. After all, persimmons were still picky!

In the spring of the eighth year of Taichang, Dorgon, the third Great Khan of the Later Jin Dynasty, personally led ten thousand people across the river, and attacked Lindan Khan's tribe Yu Ezhe.After Lin Dan Khan died in battle, his wife and son chose to surrender and handed over the Khan's seal. So far, the entire Monan Mongolia was completely annexed by Houjin.Dorgon, who got his tribe's population, got a little respite and recovered, and also set his sights on Mobei. Although most of them are deserts and Gobi, and most of the herdsmen living there are also in distress, but because they were forced by Daming's vicious methods Facing desperation, Dorgon still decided to attack the Mobei ministries after attacking his former allies!

After all, Hou Jin sharpened his sword and rushed to attack his former allies. After all, he still couldn't hide the fact from the factory guard with excellent intelligence gathering ability. Empress Dowager Yang in the capital received the news, and this is also the most fundamental reason why Empress Dowager Yang mysteriously told Zhu Cilin that there would be a day when she would ask the Tartars for war reparations.

Empress Dowager Yang believed that Dorgon, who was equally ambitious, would refocus his attention on the wealthy Daming after annexing the tribes in Mobei.At the beginning, Huang Taiji could paralyze Daming to actively seek peace, and Dorgon could also voluntarily surrender for better recuperation, recognizing it as a vassal state and Daming as the suzerain state.

It cannot but be said that Dorgon's scheme is not good, because according to the tradition of the Central Plains imperial courts that always care about face, once the foreign race voluntarily surrenders, the face-saving Central Plains court will definitely not blame the foreign race. As long as the Central Plains court wants enough face, the foreign race You can get a lot of gold and silver treasures and the food they urgently need.

Of course, the above are only guesses made by the Tartars based on past practices, but they did not take into account that the Empress Dowager Yang who is now in power in the Ming Dynasty is the one who does not take the usual path, so even if the Hou Jin led by Dorgon really made a The matter of voluntary surrender will not lose benefits for the sake of looking good.

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