Although the news of the imperial court was also 600 miles expedited, it was still more than two days slower than Gao Pragmatic to get the information, and because Gao Pragmatic got the news at night, the imperial court actually learned of the fall of Xining on the third day.

Although Xining is important, it may be due to its remote location, and the reaction of the court is not as big as Gao Pragmatic and the three imagined.

Shen Li, the head of the household, was not very "professional", and when he heard that Xining was lost, his first reaction was to go to the military department to visit Liang Menglong and Gao Shishi. Since both sides were ministers of the Shixue School, Shen Li didn't make much of a detour, and asked them bluntly if they planned to "use big soldiers", and without waiting for them to answer, he first said to himself that the household department would not be able to come up with the money.

What Shen Li means is that if you want to fight, the budget of the Ministry of War this year will be allocated in about half a month, so you can take this budget and do it yourself, anyway, don't reach out to me for money in the follow-up.

Liang Menglong didn't reply with a calm face, of course he couldn't agree like this - the budget of the Ministry of War this year does not have funds for the use of troops.

This is because at the beginning of the year, when the government was just reopened (starting work at the end of the Spring Festival), Zhu Yijun conveyed his will, and this year's imperial court's financial budget is fully inclined to the "ban on opening feudal domains". Not to mention that there was no war budget in the military department, even the change of outfits and all kinds of maintenance were kept to a minimum, and only the four towns under the jurisdiction of the Jiliao Governor (Jizhen, Liaodong, Changping, and Baoding) maintained their peacetime military expenditures, and even the military expenditures of the three towns of Xuanda (Xuanfu, Datong, and Taiyuan) were reduced by more than 20 percent and nearly 30 percent.

As for the three sides of Shaanxi, it is needless to mention that they have directly cut three into five, and it stands to reason that they will be transferred to defense in an all-round way.

At this time, let the military department use its own budget to mobilize troops to recapture Xining, wouldn't it be a good fight at the beginning of the year and a crematorium at the end of the year? Oh, and it may not last until the end of the year, and the crematorium will be in the middle of the year......

Although the court seems to be arguing fiercely, in fact, everyone does not rely on this money to eat, and the quarrel is just to show that they are honest and honest.

Arrears of military salaries are very fatal, especially in some remote places, military salaries are insufficient, and they are always deducted by Shangfeng in various ways, and they are often in arrears, there will often be commotions and even mutinies, which is a common thing in the Ming Dynasty, and everyone knows it very well.

Under such circumstances this year, if the Ministry of War can stabilize the situation in various localities, it will have to make great efforts to send personnel to inspect -- this is a method that Guo Pu has engaged in during his tenure, and basically the Ministry of War has sent personnel to investigate the distribution of military salaries in various localities.

The original historical Arsenal Clearance Division was reformed in the ninth year of Wanli, but now due to the reform of the Shixue School, the department has been strengthened, mainly to strengthen the supervision of the dispatch of military salaries, ordnance, military materials and other materials, and the Arsenal Clearance Division is also responsible for the supervision of the military industry and private sector, which is even more impossible and abolished.

When this year's budget came out, the Ministry of War had already discussed the need to exercise stricter supervision over the deduction of military salaries in various localities, because it was worried that the local armies would mutiny, so how could they dare to embezzle the budget here to fight a war now?

However, Liang Menglong did not blame Shen Li, he knew that Shen Li was also under a lot of pressure now, and as soon as he took office, he was faced with a major event that required a large amount of money to support the ban on opening the domain. Moreover, Shen Li has no experience in working in the household department, and now he is so busy all day that his feet do not touch the ground, and everyone has lost more than ten catties, and his originally square face can now see obvious cheekbones.

So Shen Li said that he couldn't get the money, so it should be that the household department really couldn't do it. Last time, he even came up with a "bad idea" to open two or three new seaports led by the household department, and then sell them to Jinghua.

It's a pity that this idea also died, because of two points: one is that the household department has no money left now, and the opening of the port is not even good at laying the foundation, how can it be sold?

Second, Gao pragmatic said that Jinghua is also very nervous this year, and it is estimated that there is no money to buy a port - he is not joking, the investment in southern Xinjiang is too large, and the main investment is Jinghua's own money, relying on the income of the countries in southern Xinjiang to make ends meet.

As a matter of fact, except for Annam, the finances of all countries in southern Xinjiang have entered the "profit", and the rest of the countries, whether it is Siam, Bago, or Nanzhang, are completely "loss-making", not to mention Cambodia. At the same time, Jinghua is building Dingnan City, and it also needs to repair some cities damaged in the war, which will cost money.

Jinghua is certainly rich, but throwing money into several kingdoms at once, of course, will be tight, where can I buy any seaport? Of course, this can be done in the future, but forget it now.

So until Shen Li left, Liang Menglong didn't say anything, and after Shen Li left, he said to Gao pragmatic with a sad face: "Truth-seeking, I'm just afraid that there will be real trouble this time...... Do you think Gao Wenchuan can solve this crisis and recover Xining with the strength of the three sides alone? ”

Gao Shishi couldn't answer this question, so he could only say: "Now the three sides of Shaanxi have only reported the fall of Xining, and Gao Wenchuan's sparse article only says that he is coordinating the scheduling, and we still don't know what the specific situation is...... Let's see what he does first, maybe there are any surprises? ”

Liang Menglong sighed, feeling that this was really a bit unreliable, but as Wu Dui said before, it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, and it is useless to say anything without military salary.

There was no conclusion here, and the court didn't care enough about this matter, so Gao Pragmatic originally planned to simply deal with it coldly, and wait for Gao Guangxian to clarify the deployment first.

Who knew that the court was not in a hurry, and in the afternoon, the eunuchs came to the military department to find Gao Pragmatic to deliver a decree, saying that the emperor had summoned him, and asked Gao Gongbao to enter the palace immediately to meet him.

Gao Pragmatic was not too surprised, and simply followed the celebrant into the palace to face the saint.

When he arrived in the palace, Zhu Yijun really chose to see him in the Wenhua Palace. Needless to say, after Gao Shishi was given the gift to sit down, Zhu Yijun asked bluntly: "The matter of Xining, the Ministry of War should have already discussed it, right?" What's the conclusion now? ”

Gao Shishi smiled bitterly: "The military department can't do anything, so I can only wait for Gao Wenchuan to arrange for the recovery of Xining." ”

"Looks like there's no money to make trouble again?" Zhu Yijun pinched his eyebrows with a little headache, and frowned: "Then do you think Shaanxi can recapture Xining by itself?" The "Shaanxi" he here also refers to the three sides.

Gao pragmatic muttered: "If you look at the strength alone, the three sides actually still have this strength, but the trouble is the same as the military department, and the key to how much strength the three sides can exert now is whether they have silver." ”

This is not high-level pragmatic nonsense, and the problem of the three sides really does not lie in the "strength of troops." The so-called three sides, as mentioned above, have a total of four towns, namely Yansui, Guyuan, Ningxia, and Gansu.

Yansui Town starts from Huangfuchuan Fort in the east and reaches Huamachi in the west, with a total length of more than 1,700 miles. In the original history, the garrison strength of the Yongle period was 25,000, and the garrison of the Chongzhen period was about 45,000. And in this plane, the current strength is also between these two periods, last year it was about 37,000 men, no more, no less.

Guyuan Town starts from the west boundary of Raoyang Water Fort in Yansui Town in the east, and reaches Lanzhou and Lintao in the west, with a total length of about 1,000 miles.

This town should be said alone, in the early Ming Dynasty, the northwest region only set up Yansui, Ningxia, Gansu three towns, but because the battle line is too long, the distance is far, once the war encounters, the three towns can not do a distant echo, so in the Hongzhi years and added Guyuan Town. E-Book Workshop

The town's military strength was nearly 60,000 during the Chongzhen period in the original history, and it is almost this number now. In addition, it should be noted that the trilateral governors are stationed in Guyuan, because it is geographically convenient for central dispatch.

Ningxia Town starts from Huamachi in the east to the north bank of the Yellow River in Ningxia Zhongwei Magpie Ditch in the west, with a total length of about 2,000 miles. In the original history, the garrison strength of the Yongle period was about 70,000, the garrison strength of the Chongzhen period was about 25,000, and the current strength is about 30,000 - this is due to the fact that after the surrender of Tumut, the Ordos Department was also relatively honest, so the town garrison was not much.

Gansu Town starts from the north bank of the Yellow River in Lanzhou in the southeast and reaches the Jiayuguan Lai River in the northwest, with a total length of about 1,600 miles. In the original history, the garrison strength of the Yongle period was about 96,000, the garrison strength of the Chongzhen period was about 40,000, and the current strength is about 60,000, less than 70,000.

From this garrison, it can also be seen that the current shift in the center of gravity of the border defense pressure of the Ming Dynasty is relatively small. In the face of the part of Qinghai Tumut, there are more garrisons.

Gansu Town and Guyuan Town, the combined strength of the two towns is nearly 130,000, which shows that the military pressure they are facing must be very great.

This cannot be compared with the four towns of Xuanfu, Datong, Jizhen, and Liaodong, because the first three towns of these four towns are all the gateways of the Beijing Division, and the "work pressure" of the last Liaodong Town is particularly great, not only to directly face the Chahar headquarters of the remnant Yuan, but also to pacify the entire Jurchen ministry, and even actually have the responsibility to prevent North Korea - of course, this article seems to have been ignored now.

Gansu and Gumo are different in principle, and the main prevention object of Gansu Town is only one Qinghai Tumote, and although Guyuan Town has many tasks in terms of setting, in fact, the main task now is to support Gansu Town, so these two towns are actually because of Qinghai Tumote, so the strength is particularly strong.

But on the other hand, Qinghai Tumut, despite its large area, in fact, the population of this period was very small, even after the Mongols occupied Qinghai, the population of the Mongolian tribes in Qinghai was very limited. For example, the two brothers Huoluochi and Zhulitu, who succeeded in this sneak attack on Xining, have a population of only about 100,000 in their headquarters, and the number of people who control the strings in the tribe is usually more than 20,000, and it is definitely less than 30,000.

According to the information that Gao Shishi learned from the Jinghua Trading Company, the "iron horses" that the two brothers can mobilize are about 50,000 normally - this is still the situation when the whole clan enters the war, and it should be less in peacetime.

The Ming Dynasty held on to the city and the side walls, and in order to deal with the maximum of 50,000 Mongolian cavalry, it had to prepare an army of 130,000, which was the status quo of this era.

The city can't run, and if you want to defend it, you have to be stationed everywhere; The cavalry came and went, and he could concentrate his forces and attack anyone he wanted. The so-called strategic disadvantage is one of the typical examples.

The disadvantages of garrisoning everywhere are obvious, and the troops are scattered. On the Silk Road, the cities on the road are like pearls, and none of them can form a complete pearl chain, so they have to defend everything.

Originally, when Xining was in hand, the main pastures were in the vicinity of Xiaosong Mountain, Huoluochi and Zhulitu, in order to avoid being "burned" by the Ming army, and they did not dare to stay away from the nest for a long time, so the Silk Road north of Qilian Mountain was relatively safe.

Now that Xining is lost, although the Ming Dynasty is still in the south of Qilian Mountain, there are still Dezhou, Jishi Prefecture and other places in hand, but their positions are too far south, and they cannot effectively threaten Huoluochi and the Rabbit brothers, these two brothers have been able to "take time" to go north out of Qilian to pose a serious threat to the Silk Road, and even in case of a gunpowder bombing city again, it is not impossible to lose a certain "pearl".

Zhu Yijun listened to Gao Pragmatic analyze the situation for him in front of Kanyu with a calm face, and after listening to it, he was a little anxious and asked: "We can't do anything if we don't move troops, and this year's budget has already been arranged." Moreover, you brought up the matter of opening the feudal ban, and you also know the importance of this matter, which is related to the final battle of the Xihuaidong system, and we can't mess up the battle now. ”

Gao pragmatically nodded and didn't say anything more. Of course he knew, so he had been planning to wait for Gao Guang to deal with it himself first and see the situation.

But Zhu Yijun had other opinions, he changed his words and said: "We can't move, but can Tumut move?" It was because I was sick before, but now what's going on, is there anything next? ”

Gao Shishi sighed, shook his head and said, "Judging from the latest news, I'm afraid I won't live long." ”

Zhu Yijun frowned, thought for a while, and said, "If he dies, what is Han Naji going to do?" ”

Gao pragmatic said: "It depends on who inherits his inheritance within the Ordos Ministry." ”

Zhu Yijun pondered for a moment and asked, "I heard that Litu and Huo Luochi are both younger brothers?" ”

Gao pragmatically replied: "Yes." ”

Zhu Yijun patted the book case: "I know, I am afraid that the Buzhhatu guy is only afraid to promise Huo Luochi and Zhuli Rabbit that the inheritance after death will go to the two of them!" ”

I have to say that this guess is not far from the correct answer, and Gao Pragmatic basically agrees, but adds a point: "But there is still a problem here." ”

Zhu Yijun immediately asked, "What's the problem?" ”

"Zhuli Rabbit and Huo Luochi are two people, and they have been to Qinghai for so long, if they want to divide up the inheritance, then do they go back to Hetao, or take the remains of Hetao to Qinghai? Or, the two will be reassigned, one will stay in Hetao, and the other will return to Qinghai? ”

Zhu Yijun hesitated for a moment, shook his head and said: "This is indeed a problem, but it is not the key, the key is ...... I remember that he had a son, and Tumen said that he would be rewarded with his two younger brothers. Will his son agree? ”

Gao pragmatic smiled: "This is the key to one and two, two and one: no matter how the two of them want to divide, the king of Shunyi will not sit idly by, and he will definitely help the son of the cut to ensure that the Ordos Ministry is still loyal to Tumut." And since Huo Luochi and Zhuli Rabbit are going to 'divide', no matter how they are divided, there are interests involved in this - interests are involved, which is the basis on which my Ming can get his hands on it. ”

Zhu Yijun's heart moved: "You mean ......"

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