Soon Emperor Chongzhen and the officials of the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Revenue regretted that the demonic wind that arose from which bastard was idle and went to impeach Hongniang. Now that he has offended the prince, how can he deal with the aftermath?

Zhu Cixuan took this opportunity and refused to let go. He needed equipment and military supplies after finishing, and supplies after finishing, and supplies after finishing, and supplies after finishing, and supplies after finishing.

Finally, he even asked Chongzhen's treasury that he had 50,000 taels of silver, withdrawn 30,000 stones of grain from the Ministry of Revenue or the soldiers' settlement expenses, and asked for a large amount of weapons from the Ministry of War. Emperor Chongzhen's own treasury had already been exhausted, and the 50,000 taels of silver can be said to have been accumulated from the gap between his teeth.

In this way, Zhu Cilang only expressed his satisfaction moderately. He continued to say that when war started, the inadequate things would continue to be supplemented.

As the night was long and the dreams were too high, the food from the imperial village arrived one after another. Zhu Cilang chose to keep it confidential.

Even Emperor Chongzhen himself didn't know how much food this rebellious son took away from the imperial village, let alone those ministers. He asked, "No, not much."

The situation is still serious, and the 12th Regiment Battalion is about to go to the expedition. The capital can be said to be doing its best to ensure that the soldiers will go to the expedition.

The army had not moved the food and grass before the food was harvested, and the grain in the imperial village had not yet been harvested. A large number of sweet potato seedlings were filled with military rations, and the output of these sweet potato seedlings was almost twice that of other grains. The sweet potato seedlings that were directly dried were not eaten, so they really became grass.

The fresh sweet potato seedlings need to be steamed and cooked before they can be dried. In this way, the dried sweet potato seedlings can be stored. First, cut the sweet potato seedlings, steamed and dried, and then stored. Then mixed with other grains and used as military rations.

In this era, food that even if you don’t even know how to feed pigs is the food for the soldiers on the front line to fight.

However, if you want to allocate a large army to fight, it is not only a solution to the problem of food and military pay, but also requires cooperation from all departments. First of all, military equipment must keep up, the army's march route and where to set up camps, etc.

After all, this is a regular army, and the 12th Regiment Battalion Army set out to fight. It takes at least three days to prepare for it alone.

Within three days, each regiment battalion urgently dispatched and Huben camp was the pioneer. However, it would take at least one month to reach the Henan territory.

At this time, Li Zicheng and Feng Juan Canyun, after occupying Guangzhou, began to rapidly expand his territory.

The bandits became increasingly powerful. As the disaster continued, there was a shortage of food even during the autumn harvest. A large number of refugees flocked to Li Zicheng.

One rises and the other falls, and bandits are everywhere in Henan. Even three or five people dare to rob, saying that they are: to act on behalf of heaven.

For their own interests, local landlords have also begun to hire large numbers of guards to deal with small bandits.

For a time, wars were everywhere in the Central Plains, and the local bureaucratic system of the Ming Dynasty became paralyzed. Because the bandits were so hungry that they could not survive, the first ones to attack were the government offices in various places.

In addition to the Xinyang City guarded by Li Yan and Hong Niangzi, who were barely struggling, Henan at this time was another Huguang. It didn't take long for these bandits that sprouted like mushrooms after a rain to merge with each other. When their power grew stronger and difficult to control, they were then incorporated by Li Zicheng one by one.

To put it bluntly, famine and war gave Li Zicheng the soil for survival and development. He quickly grew his power like a balloon.

If the Ming Dynasty court system was complete, and through the spontaneous resistance organized by the prefectures, prefectures and counties in various places, the bandits would definitely not have risen so quickly. However, the court system had already collapsed in the late Chongzhen period, and even the county and prefectures and township exams were blatantly marked prices.

If you are poor scholars, you have no way out. As long as you are a prominent family and have money at home, you can buy whatever you want.

Even for the juren in the provincial examination, you will be able to get the money as long as you have money. As for the lack of officials in various places, the price is clearly marked. A county magistrate ranges from 2,000 to 10,000 taels of silver. This is because the county has a large size, and the prices of remote areas and rich counties are also different.

Officials colluded with each other and made money. However, the lives of these local officials are not as good as before. First of all, you don’t have to put all the money into your own pocket. You need to make some money, such as a county magistrate who is short of fat, and you need five thousand taels of silver.

The five thousand taels of silver are not covered by an official's pocket. You need to pay the money to your boss, the boss and the various departments. If someone forgets to pay, something big may happen.

When he writes a letter to impeach you, he will not directly say that you have received bribes privately. After all, everyone is the same. People just say that the official you recommend is not worthy of his position, and the five thousand taels of silver they spend may be wasted.

This impeachment is very important. Often, many officials are on the way to take office. As a result, your official position will be gone because of an impeachment.

But people spend money and use money to eliminate disasters for others. If they give you money to buy an official, you have to refund the money if you fail. Otherwise, they will promote it. Your official position will not last long.

Those who spend money to buy an official will inevitably plunder after taking office. They have to regain their capital first and then continue to plunder for a few years. When the county is in a mess and there is no oil to reap, pat their butt and leave. Then, replace the next one and continue.

This caused a huge disaster for the people. The people were slaughtered and poorer, while the officials became richer. At this time, the people of the Ming Dynasty had been exploited to the extreme. They worked hard all year round, but in the end they were poor and had nothing.

The harvest year is better, at least you can have a meal. It will be even more miserable when you encounter a disaster year. In desperation, people who have no food can only go to large households to borrow grain. If the crops continue to fail next year, they can only sell land and become tenants. At that time, you will only become a slave to the landlord and become a landless farmer.

Historical dynasties can never escape this vicious cycle. Generally, dynasties have already been exhausted in two or three hundred years. At this time, the world is in chaos, and a new dynasty will be reshuffled.

Unless a revival master can appear. However, there are no such talents. Zhu Cilang really wants to be such a person, but he doesn't know whether he can do it or not.

Three days later, the 12th Regiment Battalion began. Zhu Cilang was busy for two days and all the matters in the general were arranged. He decided to go to Huajiazhuang to see Xiao Shishi.

The battle is imminent, and I am still caring about the love between children, which is very inappropriate. But Zhu Cixuan still decided to go there, after all, I don’t know when I will meet again after this fare.

This matter cannot be known to the army, otherwise it will affect morale. A commander who goes to meet a woman in private before the war is a sign of defeat.
Chapter completed!