Zhu Cilang was sincere and sincere. The military pay of the border soldiers of 800,000 taels of silver was compressed into 200,000 taels. At this point, Chongzhen was still hesitating.

There is a 100,000 yuan everywhere, not just you, but the northern border. Is there no urgent situation of domestic thieves? Isn't it urgent to provide disaster relief? The salary of officials... Well, it seems that the salary of officials can be temporarily suspended.

Perhaps it was Zhu Cilang's sincerity that touched Chongzhen, or perhaps Chongzhen had his own ideas, he also felt that if the border did not pay military salaries, it would cause a mutiny from the soldiers.

Thinking of this, Chongzhen leaned over and helped his son up: "Okay, my son, I have agreed to give the border soldiers 200,000 taels of military pay to you for your sincerity. However, you don't have to go to Liaodong in person. There is a dangerous place. What should I do if you have a few things to do?"

Zhu Cilang said proudly: "No, my son is going to go. Father, my son is going to go, can we encourage the morale of the soldiers."

Chongzhen smiled and patted his shoulder: "You are still young now, and I will go there personally, and I will lead the imperial army to fight in person."

Zhu Cilang shook his head: "No, Father, I'm having troublesome, how can you be distracted by so many things in the court? Let the child go. There is a Songjin defense line in the border, which is guarded as solid as a golden soup. Guanning Iron Cavalry is very capable of fighting. When the minister goes, he just wants to comfort the soldiers. This also shows that we have not forgotten them."

Chongzhen's heart moved, yes. This was a way to ask the prince to go to the border to comfort the soldiers and bring military pay. This made the court not forget them, showing the great grace of the emperor.

However, Chongzhen was still a little worried: "Oh, my son, I'm afraid your mother will not agree."

This is true. Zhu Cixuan's mother, Empress Zhou, would definitely not agree. If you ask such a young child to go to the border, or to comfort the soldiers on the front line, what should you do if something happens?

"Father, the emperor guards the country's gates, and the king dies. The country is the most important thing. As long as our Ming Dynasty is forever, what is the plan for personal safety? Although my son is the crown prince, I am willing to follow my ancestors. I also ask my father to agree and allow me to go to the border to comfort the soldiers."

Seeing his son's passion, Chongzhen couldn't help but feel a little passionate: "Yes, you are right, the emperor is right. The emperor guards the country and the king dies in the country. I ordered you to be the supervisor of Ji Liao and set off today."

Emperor Chongzhen meant that since the crown prince had been allowed to go to Liaodong, he should be granted a very large official position so that he could appear grand. Anyway, Zhu Cilang was just a child, and even if he was in a key position, he would not interfere in military affairs.

For example, the status of military generals was improved after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty. In order to prevent local military generals from becoming bigger, the tradition of civil officials to supervise the military was restored. Each army was mobilized to fight, and the supervision agencies such as the imperial court's censorship were sent to supervise the military. Depending on the size of the army, some were supervised by the censors, some were supervised by the censors, deputy envoys, and assistant officials. They could report military information to the court at any time, or impeach generals.

During the reign of Emperor Chengzu, most eunuchs were in charge of the army. Later, the central supervision officials were often asked to inspect local military information to stabilize the central government. Under this background, the system of censors and military supervision was formed.

The inspectors and censors of the Ming Dynasty had great power. They could verify the military pay situation and recruit refugees in the local area. Of course, the most important thing was to supervise local generals to strengthen the central government's control over the local area.

Zhu Cilang himself was the crown prince, so he was given a position as a military supervisor. Although in the eyes of Emperor Chongzhen, this was just to show the great grace of the emperor, it actually gave Zhu Cilang a huge position.

Zhu Cilang is another restless guy. Once he takes the position of military supervisor, he will be able to fly high in Liaodong, and the sky will be high in birds and birds will fly wide in the sea and fish will leap.

Without the constraints of Emperor Chongzhen, Zhu Ciyang could even redeploy troops in Liaodong and fight to the death with Huangtai. The history of the disastrous defeat in the Battle of Songjin must not be repeated in his hands.

However, when Zhu Cixuan went there, his plan to raise 10 million taels of silver within three months was about to fail. But that didn't matter. Anyway, these dog officials couldn't escape. Let them be greedy first, and when they came back, they would deal with them one by one.

As for why Zhu Cilang only asked Chongzhen for 200,000 taels of silver, Chongzhen would not give him any more. Secondly, Zhu Cilang is going to be disobedient.

Don’t forget that the Jinyiwei also searched Chen Yan, Wei Zaode and Wang Zhixin’s 670,000 taels of silver were not handed over to the national treasury, but remained in the Beizhen Fushi.

This money was used by Chongzhen to suppress the bandits and pay salaries to officials, and Zhu Cixuan wanted to embezzle it. Now the Jinyiwei is still in his hands. When Emperor Chongzhen appointed him, Zhu Cixuan brought the 200,000 taels of silver north, he also brought the 670,000 taels of silver with the Jinyiwei.

This is a death sentence of disobedience and he probably died of anger. However, Zhu Cilang didn't care anymore, so he just did it. As for the consequences, just do whatever he wants.

If you take the 670,000 taels of silver to the border to pay military salaries, aren’t you afraid of Chongzhen intercepting it halfway?

Don't be afraid, Zhu Cilang has his own way. Although the court will allocate 200,000 taels of military pay at that time, Zhu Cilang will send postmen to Liaodong to report the letter, saying that the court has brought you 800,000 taels of military pay. Moreover, it is in the name of the court.

By then, the rice will be cooked and the Liaodong knows about 800,000 taels of silver. It was too late to Chongzhen to repent, so he could only grit his teeth with hatred for Zhu Cilang. At this time, Zhu Cilang was already the supervisor of Ji Liao. Even if he wanted to kill his son, he had to wait for him to return to the capital. After all, the soldiers on the front line were waiting for the crown prince.

This is very risky. Zhu Cilang knew that the beautiful image he had finally established in his father's heart would collapse immediately. Even Chongzhen destroyed his heart.

But for the sake of borders and to defeat Jiannu, Zhu Cilang decided to take this risk.

It is really not easy to get money from Chongzhen. Fortunately, Chongzhen was quite happy this time. He announced in the court on the spot that the Crown Prince would take the post of Ji Liao Army Supervisor and go to Liaodong to condolences to the frontline soldiers.

Like last time, the officials neither agreed nor opposed it. Because last time, Zhu Cixuan, the deputy commander of the Jinyiwei, investigated and dealt with three corrupt officials at once, and the Jinyiwei's decisive behavior really scared these officials.

Now that the crown prince is willing to go to Liaodong, it is too late to leave the capital, these officials are happy. Therefore, the progress of things is going smoothly, but the one that is not going smoothly is the one with Empress Zhou. She firmly opposes letting her son Zhu Cilang go to the border.
Chapter completed!