It's easy to get things done with money.

In his hand, he held an account opened from the Nanzhong Guanyin, and it was written in cinnabar, "Yao Ji has a full amount of silver dollars under the name of 40 million yuan." and so on. Ma Shiying thinks that everything can be done!

Originally, it was said that 30 million silver dollars belonged to the name of the cabinet, and he was directly in the hands of the cabinet chief, and even this account was taken from the word Yao with his name, "Yao Cao". In addition, there are 8 million yuan in arrears of military salaries from the four towns in Jiangbei, and the total should be 38 million yuan, but Li Shouhan waved his hand very generously, "A husband can't be without power for a day, and he can't be without money!" With more money in hand, the Prime Minister and the Prime Minister can also release the means to do things! ”

With such a sum of money in hand, Ma Shiying's courage suddenly strengthened a lot!

At the court meeting, in front of the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty and in the name of the cabinet, he proposed to Zhu Yousong his next step of governance.

"Your Majesty, a few days ago, the collection of arrears of money and grain accumulated over the years has achieved initial results. The Cabinet now has 30 million silver dollars in its hands. Compared with the time of the two ancestors, the treasury can also be called rich. His Majesty did not give up, and he was the first assistant of the cabinet, and he should be exhausted in order to recover. ”

Although he stood in front of the queue of courtiers, holding a wat board in his hand, and talking eloquently to Zhu Yousong, who was high on the throne, Ma Shiying could feel the hateful gaze of these courtiers behind him who wanted to kill him and eat him alive from the subtle expression on his face and the information from his sixth sense.

For those hundreds of hellish fire-like eyes, Hongguang Emperor Zhu Yousong was very comfortable. Now, he has millions of silver dollars in his private money, and he has ordered people to choose a place in the palace to survey, draw, prepare materials, and prepare for the construction of a new palace after the weather warms up. "I won't be like Emperor Wuzong, who has been criticized for building a leopard house and being criticized in various ways! There are old horses in the government and government, and all military affairs are handed over to the national government. I just drink and sing and dance in the palace, and I sit firmly on the Diaoyutai platform! Let them let go of it, and I will be ready to be the master of Zhongxing! ”

Compared with his cousin, Zhu Yousong has reasons and capital to be proud.

"Look at you, you add three salaries everywhere in the sea, and the sea is boiling, and thieves are everywhere. But how much silver have you made? But it's more than a million pieces of silver, right? If it weren't for my general and Liang Guogong to give you money and food every year, I'm afraid that you would not be as good as my long-term companion back then! But if you look at me, I just made a will, let the general collect the money and grain accumulated over the years, and they will do the bad guys, and they will be infamous for their backs. However, I have tens of millions of silver in my hands to supply the inner palace. You and me, who is the faint king? ”

Not to mention that Zhu Yousong had a conversation with Emperor Chongzhen under Jiuquan in his heart, ridiculing and squeezing him a few words. Let's talk about Ma Shiying alone.

Ma Shiying himself naturally knows very well that the 40 million silver dollars in his hands now, as well as the 50 million silver dollars that have been allocated to the palace and are in the hands of Zhu Yousong himself, most of this terrible silver money comes from the group of colleagues behind him.

These ministers who took the road of learning and excelling, the so-called "Chaowei Tian Shelang and Ascended to the Tianzi Hall", flaunted their so-called farming and reading heirlooms, and in the agricultural society where reading was respected, the top two were among the farmers and industrialists. However, when the skin of the painting is peeled off, most of them are young master lambs with ten fingers that do not touch the spring water. Often, the family members rely on business as the main source of wealth, and rely on the advantages of the policy system of preferential exemption rules to occupy a large area of fertile land in the countryside. In this clean-up of the arrears of money and grain, their group suffered the most losses.

It is the so-called cutting off people's money and robbing people's money, such as killing their parents. Originally, the contradictions and conflicts between the various factions and various mountains in the DPRK and China were complicated, but on the premise that all of us had suffered huge property losses, we had to give up our previous suspicions and deal with the faint monarch and the traitor in front of us! It's good to be still bright, and the world is a bright and peaceful world!

Compared with the civil officials, all of them have fire in their eyes, and in the ranks of honors on the side, they are much calmer, and even have a taste of schadenfreude.

The Nanjing Xungui clique, represented by the Xu family of the garrison, the Xinjian Bowang family, and the Chengyi Bo Liu family, had been selling grain, rice, oil, and salt contracts on a large scale in Shanghai, Nanjing, and other places since they had established strong economic ties with the Nanyue Army through the link of the Jianghai Joint Defense Agreement. Every mansion earns gold and silver, like mountains and seas. This time, all parts of the Jiangnan region demanded the arrears of grain, and one or two percent of the grain and rice contracts flowed out of their hands and sold to the officials and gentry everywhere.

To be able to see the enemies of many years deflated, and to make a windfall in the process of making them deflated, this kind of thing is undoubtedly a thing that the nobles like to see and pleasing to the eye. In order to thank Liang Guogong for his care over the years, and in order to ensure the safety of his property, the nobles of Nanjing collectively deposited the silver money in their hands into the Nanzhong Guanyin.

"Now that Jiangbei is so chaotic, what other place is more secure than Liang Guogong's place?" This is an evaluation of the practices of the elders in the family when the children of several noble families drink together. Even Nanjing City was taken by Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, everyone got on the ship, went to Shanghai County, Guangzhou City, and even Hue and other places, holding their own savings in their hands, not afraid that Liang Guogong would not give money.

"He can't afford to lose this man!" This is the unanimous opinion of the Chinese martial arts masters and noble eunuchs in Nanjing City in private. Therefore, in the Nanzhong Guanyin, there is an endless stream of people who deposit every day. Some people even went through the door of the eunuchs around Zhu Yousong and deposited in Zhu Yousong's name in order to have a high interest.

"Your Majesty, Lord Shoufu, now that the treasury is full, and thieves and thieves are wreaking havoc in Huaibei and other places, I don't know what the plans of Lord Shoufu and the general are?" In the ranks of civil servants, someone asked a question in a non-yin and non-yang manner. You've got all our money, what are you going to do with it?

"When the military salary is sufficient, it is natural to cross the river to the north, recover the lost territory, recover the Beijing division, return to the old capital, and then, plough the court and sweep the holes, and recover Liaodong. It is also possible to let the great tomorrow reappear in a peaceful and prosperous world! Li Shouhan, who was standing in front of the queue of military generals and nobles, announced his thoughts to his group of colleagues in a low voice.

"What the marshal said is exactly what the cabinet meant. The whole army was armed and prepared to cross the river to crusade against all kinds of thieves, in order to recover the lost territory and return to the old capital. Ma Shiying also answered the questions of his colleagues with a righteous face, and helped his allies from another direction.

Now, in the eyes of the righteous men and gentlemen of the Ming Dynasty, they can be described as a model of collusion and collusion. Not to mention the three feet high that they have joined forces to loot all over the south of the Yangtze River, they are even more traitors in the court and control the government.

However, these things are not in Li Shouhan's heart. What if you can't get used to it? Come and bite Lao Tzu? Lao Tzu's gunboats are cruising back and forth in the Yangtze River, and a large group of men and horses are stationed inside and outside the city of Nanjing, and all the key points in the city are under Lao Tzu's artillery fire. I'm afraid you'll scold me in your heart?!

It is based on this psychology that Li Shouhan has recently appeared frequently.

"20 million yuan will be allocated from the proceeds from the sale of grain and rice contracts to speed up the construction of roads, bridges, ports, and wharves in the four provinces south of the Yangtze River.

"20 million yuan will be allocated for planning compulsory education and vocational education in the four provinces, so that in the future, every town will have a primary school, and children over the age of six will be provided with pen and ink textbooks and a lunch in all places, regardless of gender. If you don't send it to your home, you will be handled in accordance with the laws of the Southern Guangdong Army. ”

"In addition, the system of integrating officials and officials implemented in the areas under the jurisdiction of our Nanyue Army can also be handled on a pilot basis in Nanzhili, Zhejiang, and other places. In the future, it will be rolled out everywhere. This activity is to be discussed by the officials, the ceremonies, the household division, etc., and you must come up with a charter, and the required expenses and manpower must be detailed. ”

"Erya, Shi Lang, and Hua Bao, the three of you must be cautious, keep the 10,000,000 silver dollars we got in Jiangnan, and transport them back to Nanzhong in batches to mobilize soldiers and horses, train troops, train soldiers, and prepare for the restoration of the Central Plains."

In the tightly guarded warehouse, Li Shouhan was very serious and assigned tasks to a son, a daughter, and a son-in-law, the three most capable cadres in Nanjing. The division of tasks between the three of them is also very clear. Li Huabao, because he was in charge of the garrison of Nanjing City, it was his duty to guard the 10,000,000 silver dollars and not let the slightest mistake in this money.

Li Huamei and Shi Lang were responsible for transporting these silver dollars out of Nanjing, at least to the commercial and trade areas of Shanghai County, Ningbo, Guangzhou, and other places under the escort and supervision of naval gunboats in installments and batches. These silver, as Li Shouhan said, should be used for military expenses for the Northern Expedition.

Since ancient times, there has been no food and no soldiers. Sun Wuzi, a soldier in the Spring and Autumn Period, had this understanding: "Where the method of war is used, thousands of cars are galloped, thousands of leather cars are taken, 100,000 armor is brought in, and grain is fed for thousands of miles." Then the internal and external expenses, the use of guests, the material of glue paint, the dedication of the car armor, the daily cost of thousands of gold, and then 100,000 teachers. "Those who make good use of the soldiers, no longer serve in the army, the food is not for three years, and it is used for the country, because the food is for the enemy, so the military food can be sufficient." The poverty of the country is far from the teacher, and the people are poor if they are far away; Those who are close to the teacher are expensive, and if they are expensive, the people will be exhausted, and if the wealth is exhausted, they will be anxious to serve. The strength is bent to the wealth, the Central Plains is empty at home, and the people's expenses are seven out of ten; Public expenses, broken armies and horses, armor and arrows, arrows, halberds, shields, spears, and carts, six out of ten. Therefore, the wise will eat the enemy, eat the enemy for one minute, and be my twenty minutes; One stone, when I twenty stones. Therefore, those who kill the enemy are angry; Those who take advantage of the enemy are also goods. The car battle gets more than ten cars, and the first winner is rewarded and the flag is more. The car is miscellaneous and multiplied, and the good is raised, which is said to defeat the enemy and become stronger. "During the Spring and Autumn Period, Sun Wuzi was able to realize the importance of logistics support and supply capacity to an army and a country, not to mention the Nanyue Army, an army with a complete range of naval forces and firearms, and an army with a strong modernization color as the main weapon, and its dependence on logistics support capabilities was even stronger.

Therefore, Li Shouhan wanted to frantically build roads and bridges in various parts of the south of the Yangtze River, and on the other hand, he wanted to raise a large amount of funds for the purchase and preparation of various military supplies.

Although food, meat, weapons, armor and equipment, medicines, bandages, ships, horses, vehicles, etc., all come from the Nanzhong system, but everyone's things are all exchanged for sweat beads falling to the ground and falling eight petals, not as the adults and gentlemen think, the wind blows.

"Lonely's equipment and materials, which are also produced by the common people with one hand and one foot, also cost money to buy!"

However, the gentlemen in the court did not see it that way.

Hearing that Li Shouhan and Ma Shiying mentioned the word "military discipline" and "martial arts", some people immediately felt that they had grabbed the handle and immediately jumped out.

"Since it is to reorganize the army and fight the military, in order to cut off the thieves, avenge the king's father, recover the lost land, and return to the old capital. So, why did the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses in the four towns of Jiangbei owe months of military salaries? Hungry and tired, weak war horses, how can they deal with the wolf-like thieves and Tartars? ”

"Exactly! Xingping Bo Gaojie once said that day, the minister let the army suffer from cold and starvation, how can there be any combat effectiveness now, I vow to clean up the hearts of the people, and then reorganize the rivers and mountains. ”

This is to use the mouths of Liu Zeqing, Liu Liangzuo, Huang Degong, and Gao Jie, who has just been assassinated, to accuse Ma Shiying and Li Shouhan of inaction, and let the soldiers and horses of Jiangbei cry hunger and cold.

"This matter does not conflict with the whole army and the military!" Li Shouhan snorted heavily in his nostrils, indicating that this black pot Marshal and Ma Shoufu did not carry it.

"Since Your Majesty supervised the country, the soldiers and horses of the four towns in Jiangbei should be paid 600,000 silver in each town according to the number of soldiers and horses prepared by the Ministry of War, but in just four months since Your Majesty supervised the country, Jiangbei has already given 3.6 million yuan, which is equivalent to a year's and a half years of silver salary in four months. However, Shi Kefa, who was stationed in Yangzhou, complained that the soldiers' food was still in arrears, and the soldiers were suffering from hunger and cold; At the end of the year, they could not get a penny for the feast. The pacesetters of the ministers are like this, and the soldiers of the towns can be imagined. Benjue is stupid and doesn't know where this large amount of military pay has gone? If it weren't for the fact that this prince saw the letter of the Shi Pavilion Department and ordered people to rush the grain and rice to Huaiyang and other places overnight, I was afraid that at the end of the year, the soldiers would be at risk of freezing and starving to death! (The above figures and Shi Kefa's statements are all based on historical facts.) ）

"What the marshal said is very true! Others don't say it, just say that Liu Zeqing, the uncle of Dongping, is crying poor to the court, saying that there are many soldiers and horses, hungry soldiers lack food and salary, but on the other hand, they are building a lot of buildings, and building their own gardens is comparable to a palace. However, after Shi Kefa of the cabinet went out to inspect Huai'an to inspect Liu Zeqing's soldiers and horses, he also asked the imperial court for Liu Zeqing's salary. Is this person's subordinates short of salary? Is there no shortage of pay? ”

Ma Shiying once again launched a response to Li Shouhan from the flank, and released a cold arrow from Shi Kefa by the way.

"Humph! Shi Kefa is a little too pedantic! How can a dead scholar who is ignorant of the world be able to deal with the complex situation in Jiangbei? Alas! It's a pity that my Linqing Marquis, if he is still here, I will hand over this Jiangbei matter to him, and I will sit back and relax. ”

Zhu Yousong, who was on the dragon chair, remembered the "seven musts" charge that Shi Kefa had made on behalf of Donglin behind him, and he was angry. Now that Ma Shiying and Li Shouhan have launched an attack on Jiangbei's affairs, how can they not take advantage of the situation and step on it?

By the way, use Li Huayu, who has been killed in battle, to close the alliance with Li Shouhan.

looked at Zhu Yousong, who was high on the dragon chair, and when he mentioned his eldest son Li Huayu, who had died in battle, his voice was slightly choked, and he wiped the tears in the corners of his eyes with his hands, and did enough to do the scene. In this regard, Li Shouhan also responded with a drum, "Your Majesty has a little credit for the micro minister's dog, and the sentimentality is so, and the whole family is grateful." ”

"The general's family is loyal to the country, and it is also known to all."

This was not said by Ma Shiying and others, but by Liu Zongzhou, the imperial historian of the left capital, who had always been in a pot with Ma Shiying and Li Shouhan.

"What Master Ma said, the minister also thought so. Liu Zeqing opened the mansion Huai'an, Lei Zhi Domain, and the specifications of the mansion were similar to those of the palace. The first is spacious, the gate is magnificent, the gold is splendid, the magnificence is magnificent, the garden is curved, the high house is deep wall, and the sword guards are numerous. Not only that, but he has always been fond of voice play, and once raised beautiful prostitutes to pet more than 40 people. In Huai'an, he was drunk and dreamed of death, spending all day drinking. Where does the cost come from? All of them are the people's fat and people's ointment, and the military salary is also! ”

Liu Zongzhou began to bombard Liu Zeqing.

Although they are both surnamed Liu, it is obvious that Liu Zongzhou and Liu Zeqing are born to restrain each other, and the two are not at eye for each other. Liu Zeqing even made a statement to the imperial court, asking to kill Liu Zongzhou.

"The women of good families, who are robbing from all directions, rejoicing uncontrollably. He was asked, 'Where did the defense come from?' He said, 'I have come to support King Fu, and he should let me enjoy it, and if something happens, I will choose a county south of the Yangtze River and occupy the mountains as kings.' 'Listen! Where is the slightest thing that a courtier should say?! ”

"And that's not all! This person is ruthless and vicious, and he once called Liu Hongxun, a scholar of the first emperor, as his uncle, and he was very respectful. Liu Hongxun's bones were not cold, so he treated his sons Kong Zhong and Kong He as nephews. He didn't know much about books and was pretentious, and a few days ago he had a banquet in Huai'an, and took out his poems for everyone to see. The guests flattered and praised each other. Liu Konghe was silent, he asked Liu Konghe by name, and Kong He jokingly said: "It's better not to do it." He was immediately furious, and then took the opportunity to send Liu Konghe to lead 2,000 people to cross Hezhou, and suddenly beheaded him under the pretext, and the 2,000 people in his department refused to accept the murder, and he actually killed all the 2,000 people, without missing a single person. ”

In the oblique thorn, Liu Zongzhou's fierce cannon bombarded Liu Zeqing, and immediately turned the direction of the court from Li Shouhan and Ma Shiying, to Liu Zeqing, the most prominent guy in the four towns in Jiangbei, but the weakest soldier and horse.

"There is a folk proverb: 'Long live the lord is not a hungry soldier.'" If you want to regain the lost territory, you must reorganize the army and pay the arrears. This is also the purpose of Shousuke-sama's painstaking collection of arrears. However, every penny is the people's fat and people's ointment, how can it be squandered by this generation? Therefore, the minister asked His Majesty to send personnel to various parts of Jiangbei to conduct a review and inspection of soldiers and horses, and pay the full amount of food and salary according to the actual number of soldiers and horses in each department. ”

Li Shouhan's recital gave people no excuse to object. He was talking about the various places in Jiangbei, not the four towns in Jiangbei. This includes the troops and horses of the Southern Guangdong Army in Shandong. Moreover, as long as the inspection is carried out, the food and salary can be paid in full, which even Liu Zeqing and Liu Liangzuo have to admit that when they fought in Shandong, the uncle did not miss our military salary. Of course, the number of men and horses in your establishment.

Moreover, the imperial court can't intervene in these money and food, whether it is the household department or the military department, at most they can only touch the rice bag, and if they want to deduct and float, they don't even think about it. The military rations and salaries were all issued from Li Shouhan's generals, and the household and military departments of the imperial court could only follow a process.

"The horizontal and vertical proofreading and the inspection of soldiers and horses are also his Liang Guogong's people, let's be happy to have a leisure, just drink and listen to music in this Jinling City." Several Lang Zhong from the military department and the household department comforted themselves in private. In fact, they don't want to think about it, if they go to the four towns of Jiangbei to check, they are afraid that after they arrive in Jiangbei, their heads will be taken back to Jiangnan.

As a result, the imperial court unanimously passed this measure to knock the soldiers and horses of the Jiangbei tribes, but then someone suggested: "Does the imperial court also appease Zuo Liangyu in Pingjiao Town?" What about letting him devote himself to defending the upstream? ”