Chapter 573
Liu Mingyu knew when to be arrogant and when to pretend to be grandson. When he should be arrogant, in front of Emperor Chongzhen, he dared to get angry in the dynasty and beat the censor and censor in the palace.
This was the first military minister to beat a censor since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and nothing happened.
It cannot be said that there is no, Liu Mingyu was fined for half a year's salary. Just kidding, he never received Liu Mingyu's salary at all. He is not a person who lives on his salary.
Zu Dashou was very jealous of Liu Mingyu. Now Guan Ningjun is transforming from an old man to a grandson. As long as he can protect the interests of the Liaoxi generals, what if he pretends to be a grandson?
The Battle of Guangning really hurt the Later Jin Dynasty, so that it did not launch an attack on the Ming Dynasty for more than a year. The rare peace came outside the pass. The military and civilians in western Liaoning had a rare life. Although the decline in the position in the court made the entire Guanning army very nervous, that was something that the big man had to consider.
Zu Dashou was not idle either. He took the Guanning Army to take the opportunity to Daxing the military camp, reclaimed more than 500,000 acres of military fields, planted wheat and soybeans, and achieved a good harvest.
Especially after the Battle of Guangning, the Guanning Army's military farming became more vigorous, and the scale of the farming expanded to one million acres. Zu Dashou even proposed to build the Dalinghe City and control the Linghe River in all directions.
The problem he had with headaches was his headache, which sounds like a tongue twister. At any time, the boss and the employee never occupy the same chain of interests.
For example, the Guanning Army soldiers, who were originally from Liaodong, took off their clothes, threw down their weapons, ran to Liaodong, defected to the Liu family army, and became the people of Liaodong.
This is the most fatal problem. In the eighth year of Chongzhen, the Guanning Army actually ran away more than 4,700 people, which made people panic and their morale almost collapsed.
Ordinary military households and soldiers will not care about these things. They only care about the harvest this year and whether the military pay can be paid on time.
For example, now, dozens of soldiers in Octagon Fort are complaining, saying that the military pay has not been paid yet: "Damn it, this military pay has been delayed for three months, and it has not been paid yet. Can we drink the northwest wind?"
"That's it! It's rare that I didn't have a war this year. I thought I could live a little more comfortable life, but I didn't expect it to be even worse!"
"I don't know when it will be sent down!"
"Don't complain, it's good to be able to deliver it before the Chinese New Year!"
A general flag sneered: "Don't you know? The court distributed a large portion of the salary that should have been given to us this year to the Liaoning Army! Do you still want to pay the salary on time? It would be good if you can have a meal!"
A group of soldiers were immediately exploded: "That's our money, why give it to the Liaoning Army?"
The chief flag smiled bitterly: "When the imperial court saw that Jiannu was weak, he thought we were useless and wanted to kick us away with one kick! Humph, I have seen through this imperial court for a long time. They don't treat us as human beings at all. When we need us, they will use it to death. If we don't need it, they will be as far as possible!"
The soldiers cursed, and they all burst into anger.
Since the establishment of the Guanning Army, for more than 20 years, the 7 million taels of Liao pay per year has been unstoppable. If the tax collected every year is not enough to pay them, the emperor has to do everything possible to raise them even if he sells his kidneys.
Even if the refugees swept across the northwest and Central Plains like sparks, they would never dare to touch the money to suppress the bandits. So in the eyes of the Guanning Army, that money belongs to them, and no one is allowed to touch it!
Now that I heard that the court actually gave their money to the Liaoning Army, I was so angry that if there were soldiers of the Liaoning Army present, they would definitely be scouting the guys.
It’s like the same beggar. If you slap him every day, and suddenly you don’t want to slap him any day, this is called kindness; if you give him a cake every day, it is called tragedy.
It is obvious that the Ming Dynasty court has encountered such a tragedy now. Chongzhen said that he wanted to embezzle Liao's salary, but the court's resistance was too great. Otherwise, Lu Xiangsheng would not have been able to guard the defense line of thousands of kilometers and was also responsible for encircling and suppressing the peasant army. Unfortunately, he was unable to expand his army.
The key is that the court has no money to support him.
Although this time, it was mainly because of Sun Chengzong's sect to inspect the Guanning Army and found that the Guanning Army's vacancy was too heavy.
However, the problem is that the Liaoxi generals locked the gate and deliberately dragged it without sending it out.
This is also an old tradition. Even if the court pays the salary on time every month, the general will have to delay it for two or three months before sending it, telling the soldiers that it was only given by them that they tried their best to make the soldiers grateful to them. This is a way to lead the soldiers.
However, what the Liaoxi generals now want is not the gratitude of the soldiers, but their dissatisfaction with the court. It is best to organize another tuition to let the court know their anger!
Seeing that the soldiers were already angry, the general flag became more and more vigorous, and tried its best to stir up the soldiers' anger.
"Reverse, reverse!"
Starting with the Octagon Fort, the Guanning Army had a total of 49 garrisons and more than 30,000 troops participated in the mutiny. They even claimed that they wanted military pay and would not pay them to the Jiannu...
Emperor Chongzhen was originally a person with a temperament. He liked someone, and when he died, he was reluctant to know what compromise was.
The Guanning Army was making military salaries, and the news of the mutiny reached the capital, and Chongzhen was furious.
The Guanning Army spent almost tens of millions of taels of silver in the court, but the result was that the court only cut a part of its military pay. The court was so difficult that they treated the court.
There is no harm without comparison. Now a brigade's troops are still venting their anger in Kyushu and starting to train warriors from the Liu family army faction, allowing them to watch Xiaotianzi's crazy mining of the quarry and the Yinshan Mountain.
At the same time, a fierce battle occurred with the 80,000 Kanto Army, the most powerful shogunate, and the shogunate army was naturally defeated. They sent people to lobby the capital. The small days are a country that is not conquered. It is not worthy of the Ming Dynasty and the Liu family army attacking the small days...
As a result, Liu Mingyu took out 600,000 taels of silver from the seized silver and gave it to Chongzhen.
Liu Mingyu told Chongzhen in a secret letter: "Boss, I miscalculated it. This place is too poor in life. It's just that. The silver mine is being mined... and there is still something behind!"
Other ministers tried their best to make money from Chongzhen. Only Liu Mingyu gave Chongzhen Liaodong specialties, delicacies, canned food, cattle and sheep, and silver.
In contrast, Chongzhen's disgust towards the Guanning Army became even stronger. Recalling the second year of Chongzhen, Jiannu broke through the pass and threatened the capital. The Guanning Army feared the enemy and relied on the Liu family army and Tianxiong Army.
So Chongzhen directly ordered Liu Mingyu: "Put down such a traitor for me!"
On the evening of July evening in the ninth year of Chongzhen, Zhu Weiti was looking for an excuse to discuss Helena's issue with Liu Ming.
"That cannon really cannot be sold. This is a national weapon!"
Liu Mingyu looked at Zhu Weiti and said, "Helena was not made of gold. Even if she was made of gold, she was not worth the price!"
Zhu Weiti's idea was very simple. She could see that Liu Mingyu looked at Helena, not as if he was disgusted with her. He was like a child who wanted to eat candy hanging from the beam of the house, but he couldn't reach it.
"I didn't want to pay attention to this matter at first, but... If the prince-in-law wants to accept Helena, then accept it!"
Zhu Weiti said: "Since the cannon cannot be sold, you can exchange it with other conditions. I'll talk to her again!"
Zhu Weiti did not have much idea about artillery. The Ming Dynasty also bought cannons from Westerners, especially the Folang machine cannon, which was the earliest rear-mounted smoothbore cannon in history.
In her opinion, since the Folang Jiren can sell it, the Liu Jiajun can also sell it.
However, now seeing Liu Mingyu's attitude, she understood that she almost did something bad.
"I was wrong!"
"Just admit your mistake!"
Liu Mingyu smiled faintly and said, "I don't care about the family affairs, I will leave them to Xianxian and you. However, our family should have a family look. Don't bring the things in the palace to your home. We don't talk about husbands as the wife's rule, father as the son, and son as the son!"
The Three Bonds and Five Constant Virtues actually only emerged during the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, and was even stronger during the Song Dynasty and Ming and Qing Dynasties.
In fact, the true Confucian idea is that the king, the minister, the minister, the son, the father, the father, the king, the main appearance of the monarch, the minister should be the operation of the minister, the father should be the father, and the son should be the duty of the son.
However, over the past thousand years, Confucian thought has been changed to a completely different mask.
The corrupt scholars of the Qing Dynasty were not real Confucianism.
The people are the most important and the country is the second priority. This is the true Confucianism.
This reflects the core concept of people-oriented.
Zhu Weiti sighed deeply.
Just then, Liu Yong bowed and said, "Master, Zhao Tiegou is asking for a meeting!"
"Let him come in!"
It didn't take long, and Zhao Tiegou stepped forward quickly.
Liu Mingyu looked at Zhao Tiegou. At this time, Liu Mingyu became more and more powerful as Chen Pingping in "Qing Yu Nian". He seemed like a poisonous snake, ready to choose someone to eat.
"Tell me, what happened!"
Zhao Tiegou's eyes fell on Zhu Weiti.
Zhu Weiti stood up and said, "Mr. Concubine, I'll go back to the house first!"
Zhao Tiegou looked at Zhu Weiti's back and said lightly: "The Guanning Army Mutiny!"
"Zu Dashou may have miscalculated this time!"
Liu Mingyu smiled faintly and said, "In the past, the court owed wages, or something worse than his wishes, he hinted that his soldiers were mutiny. The court was counting on the Guanning Army to resist Jiannu, so he had to coax the Guanning Army and give way to Zu Dashou. Now, Your Majesty has long been dissatisfied with the Guanning Army. At this time, mutiny, wouldn't it be a plea to suffer?"
"The prince's guess is good. The black guard has obtained information. His Majesty's meaning is to ask the prince to lead the Liu family army to quell the Guanning army's rebellion!"
Zhao Tiegou's eyes became deep: "It will take a while before the imperial edict can reach Liaodong!"
Liu Mingyu didn't want to stay in Liaodong anymore because there were too many trivial matters at home, and Helena developed the trick of polishing the word for him, and came to bother Liu Mingyu almost every day.
Liu Mingyu can't turn against Helena. Now that the industrialization of Liaodong has reached a critical moment, with the use of steam engines, the output of various materials has increased greatly.
Although Liaodong can rely on railway construction to stimulate domestic demand, it also needs a place for product dumping, and the role played by the Venetians is very important.
Liaodong not only sells steel and cement to Venice, but also has other daily necessities, in addition to traditional silk, cloth, porcelain, tea, etc., there are also quite a lot of industrial products.
For example, the quality and cheap wool cloth, canned food with a more complete quantity and variety, and even furniture, the silk and porcelain of the Ming Dynasty were very popular in Europe, and the ancient furniture of the Ming Dynasty was also popular in Europe.
Helena's caravans were between the Ming Dynasty and Europe. Now the Venetians did not come from Europe to run, but acted as second-hand dealers, selling porcelain and silk collected from Liaodong to other Europeans.
Although Liu Mingyu didn't want to lose Helena, his trading partner, he didn't want to make his family restless. He could take this opportunity to leave home.
Liu Mingyu looked at Zhao Tiegou and said, "How big is the rebellion of the Guanning Army? Is it a mutiny in the entire army?"
Zhao Tiegou took Xuanyingwei's information and placed it in front of Liu Mingyu.
Liu Mingyu glanced at him briefly: "Only more than 30,000 people mutiny, and the child peed, it's not worth mentioning! I haven't waited for the imperial edict to arrive. Now I'll send troops right away, and I'll talk about it after the battle!"
Liu Mingyu did not have a certain good impression of the Guanning Army, the master army.
Chapter completed!