"The third thing is that Mr. Yang wants to rectify the Liaodong army during this patrol of Liaodong. The contents of the rectification are: the elderly sergeants in the Liaodong Army should be rehabilitated; The number of troops stationed outside the customs should be adjusted;

Between Ningyuan and Shanhaiguan 200 miles, a reserve military camp was set up, and the foreign soldiers were divided into three parts, and they were rotated between Guangning and the reserve military camp. The area north of Ningyuan City is no longer allowed to be cultivated, the land in the eastern Liaodong region must be redistributed, and the military cantonments in the eastern Liaodong region should be abolished.

Military discipline and logistics institutions should be established in all the armies of Liaodong, and I also plan to establish a suppression organization in the Liaodong region, to screen out the post-Jin spies among the military and civilians in Liaodong, and to examine unreliable officers. General Man Gui, do you have any questions about this? Zhu Youzhen looked at Man Gui's expression and said clearly and slowly.

Man Gui subconsciously objected: "Your Majesty, although the Liaodong Army has a lot of numbers, if you want to quell the rebellion and restore Liaodong, you still can't catch it. Now that the number of sergeants is reduced, I am afraid that the Liaodong Army will not be able to recover the Liaodong homeland.

Moreover, the Liaoning West Corridor starts from Jinzhou in the northeast, reaches Shanhaiguan in the southwest, borders the Songling Mountains in the northwest, and borders the Bohai Sea in the southeast. Jueyuan City is only the middle of the Liaoxi Corridor, and only by seizing Jinzhou can we bring the entire Hexi Corridor into our hands, and if we abandon the area north of Ningyuan, our army will no longer be able to map Liaodong.

In this 200-mile-long, 4-60-mile-wide narrow plain, the land is all owner's land, and there are nearly 300,000 fugitive refugees and sergeant families in Liaodong. ”

Yang Hao suddenly opened his eyes and said: "If the land is given according to the dictation, 10 acres of strong and strong, and the old and weak women and children are halved, then the land is enough to distribute the military and civilian life in western Liaoning." ”

"However, how could the original landlords in Liaoxi be willing to give up their land? Most of the land from Ningyuan to Shanhaiguan is owned by local officers in western Liaoning, and if the land is forcibly granted, it may cause chaos, and the most capable sergeants in the Liaodong Army are all pro-soldiers in the hands of the officers, and the ministers are worried..."Man Gui couldn't help but defend himself in embarrassment.

"So what I mean is to straighten out the army first, and then go to the land after the army is organized, and there will be less resistance. The family system in the army must be controlled, if the generals in the army take the family as the combat force and the soldiers as slaves, then how can my Ming army be strong? Zhu Youzhen looked at Man Gui's expression and said.

Man Gui's face changed many times, and then he said with some bitterness: "The minister also knows that this Ding system has many drawbacks, but now the bad habits in the army are like this. The transferred garrison army was ineffective; Although the recruited soldiers dare to fight, they cannot endure hard fighting, and if they are at a disadvantage, they are easy to disperse.

Even the minister also has more than 1,000 families around him, and if he doesn't have these families by his side, the minister will not dare to go out of the city to fight with Jiannu. If Your Majesty abolishes the family members around the officers, and fails to improve the combat effectiveness of the Liaodong sergeants, I am afraid that when Jiannu attacks, there will be no army available in Liaoxi. ”

"Bold, are you holding the army hostage with the intention of intimidating the imperial court?" Yang Hao stared at Man Gui coldly, and said in a stern tone.

Maybe in the eyes of others, Man Gui can be regarded as a handsome man who guards one side. But in Yang Hao's eyes, Man Gui was still just an unknown young general under his account back then.

"Don't dare..."Man Gui's heart was shocked, and he immediately knelt down and asked Chongzhen for sin.

Zhu Youzhen interrupted Man Gui's words and said: "There is no need to be like this, it's just a matter of facts, there is nothing to say, General Man Gui hurry up."

However, General Man Gui is also right, if the family members in the army are abolished, not only will the combat strength of the Liaodong Army decline, but the generals who have been dismissed will also be dissatisfied.

The imperial court cannot handle political affairs in a one-size-fits-all manner, which complicates the problem. The abolition of the family system is a good thing, but if it is not handled properly, it becomes a bad government. So General Man Gui, I want to ask you, how much silver does it cost to support a family member in a year? ”

"A family member needs 30-60 taels of silver a year." Man Gui said in a huff.

The family members around Man Gui alone have more than 50,000 military salaries, and the family members around the large and small soldiers are afraid that it will cost hundreds of thousands of taels, no wonder the military salaries in Liaodong have been high.

Zhu Youzhen thought for a while and then said with an unchanged expression: "In this way, I will give you a subsidy of 80,000 taels of silver for a year, and other Liaodong officers will be given subsidies according to their official ranks, but the total amount will not exceed 320,000 taels.

However, if I take the subsidy and have other ideas, and I don't accept the imperial court's rectification and transformation of the Liaodong Army, then it will no longer be my Ming army. As for Jiannu, you don't have to worry, it should be able to stop for a while, you just need to pay attention to whether the Guanwai army will be in chaos. ”

Regarding Chongzhen's thoughts, Man Gui's mood was very delicate. The subsidy given by the emperor was a thirst-quenching nectar for him, because he was just a guest general in Liaoxi, and he didn't have much land, so it was really a bit stretchable to raise so many families.

However, for some local officers in western Liaoning, it was bad news. For example, the Zu Dashou brothers and others, they were stationed in Ningyuan, and almost all the land near Ningyuan fell into the hands of these people.

Their greedy Liaodong military salaries, coupled with the trade with the Mongols under their control, earned millions of taels a year. For Chongzhen to take out a part of the military salary in exchange for the land in their hands, these people may not approve.

But for Man Gui, taking this opportunity to attack the Liaoxi generals who have been disobeying his ministers with the king is a good opportunity to kill two birds with one stone.

"If Your Majesty has this determination, the minister will live up to Your Majesty's expectations. But what does it mean that this slave wants to stop? Man Gui finally stood on the emperor's side, the authority of the imperial court had not collapsed at this time, and there was a former Liaodong economic strategy like Yang Hao to operate, Man Gui felt that it was unlikely that the imperial court would fail to rectify the Liaodong army.

Zhu Youzhen hesitated, really thinking about how to open his mouth to tell Man Gui about making peace with Hou Jin. Yang Hao had unhurriedly told him that he was going to send an envoy to Shenyang to negotiate peace with Houjin, and pressed the person who proposed the peace policy on his head.

Although he had received the news that the imperial court was going to negotiate peace with Hou Jin, after confirming the news with his own ears, Man Gui's expression still changed, and he felt that he couldn't get out of his heart with a sigh of relief.

"Your Majesty, Enshuai, please think twice about this matter of peace with Houjin. After Jiannu raised an army, he was brutal and unkind, slaughtering the Liao people. Whether it was under the rule of the Ming Dynasty or the Liao people in the hands of Jiannu, they were all looking forward to it, waiting for the king to go north, recover Liaodong, and relieve the people from hanging upside down.

After the victory of Ningjin, the eastern soldiers were blunt under the city of Jinzhou, and their morale fell greatly. At this time, it is time to fight hard and raise the army to the west of the river, how can we lose money to negotiate peace and hurt the hearts of the soldiers and people of Liaodong?

What's more, Jiannu defeated the Mongolian left-wing 30,000 Inner Khalkha five-tribe alliance last year, and many Inner Khalkha Mongols who were unwilling to surrender to Houjin defected to the Liaodong Army. They have a common enmity with the Hou Jin, which is really the best help for my Ming Dynasty, and now that my Ming Dynasty is making peace with the Hou Jin, won't it disappoint these Mongolian allies and finally turn their backs on us? If the Houjin alliance is reversed, won't my Ming Dynasty be alone? ”

Man Gui was a little anxious to explain to Chongzhen the entangled relationship between the Ming Dynasty, the Later Jin, and Mongolia on the ground in Liaodong.

Zhu Youzhen stopped Yang Hao and personally explained to Man Gui: "After the Liaodong Rebellion, my Ming soldiers were defeated by Qing and Fu, then defeated by Kai and Tie, defeated by Liao and Shen three times, and defeated by Guangning four times, and the blood of hundreds of thousands of Ming soldiers was sprinkled on the land of Liaodong, how dare I negotiate peace with Houjin in private?"

In the past few months, I have checked the war since the beginning of the army of Jiannu, and my Ming soldiers are on the side of the Hunhe River, and the side of the Shaling Mountain can be described as full of corpses and bones, and they have not been able to settle in the ground. When will the soul of Daming return to his hometown and reunite with his family?

I want to negotiate peace, not to seek peace, because I want to converge the bones of the Ming soldiers who exposed the corpses of the wilderness in order to protect Liaodong. If the dead soldiers who are loyal to the Ming Dynasty are not cared about after death, who will sacrifice for this country? ”

Man Gui, who was originally full of grief and indignation because he heard the peace with Hou Jin, was suddenly dissipated by Chongzhen's words. The voices and smiles of those colleagues and subordinates who died in the war in Liaodong suddenly appeared in his mind.

Man Gui, who was angry, couldn't help but lower his head and muttered: "It is naturally important for the dead Ming soldiers to collect the bones, but if you lose the help of the Mongols, it will be even more difficult for the Ming to recover Liaodong in the future." ”

Seeing that Man Gui no longer had the momentum of opposing the peace proposal just now, Zhu Youzhen continued: "Whether or not Liaodong can be recovered is always in me and not in the help of Mongolia. As the saying goes: rely on the mountains and mountains, and rely on the sea to dry. If you want to recover Liaodong, the important thing is to rely on whether Da Ming himself has this ability.

Otherwise, even if you defeat Jiannu and recover Liaodong. Could it be that the Mongols would be so obedient and let us rule the land of Liaodong? It's just that the front rejects the wolf and the back door welcomes the tiger.

Besides, I heard that General Mangui has recovered many Mongols in Quang Ninh, and I don't mean to say that these people are unreliable.

Rather, Jiannu has now defeated the 30,000 Khalkha tribes of the Mongol left flank, and has previously recovered the Korqin tribe. Lin Dan Khan of the Chahar Department is another ambitious and talented guy, and in my opinion, this Chahar Department will inevitably be expelled from the Liaohe Loop by Jiannu.

Jiannu was originally attacked from three sides, but Jiannu attacked Korea this year, forcing Korea to cede land and sue for peace, stabilizing the rear.

The battle of Ningjin was just a test of Jiannu to see if my Ming had the strength to fight back. Presumably, Jiannu is now planning to defeat the wingless Chahar Department first, and at the worst to drive the Chahar Department out of the Liaohetao area.

Once Jiannu succeeds, Jiannu, who was originally attacked on three sides, will be able to solve the strategic disadvantage.

With the poor field combat ability of the Liaodong Army, Jiannu only needs to contain the Ningjin defense line with a partial division, and can gather the main force to make a detour through the grassland to attack Shaanxi, or make a detour to the original station of the Inner Khalkha tribe and break through the pass from Miyun and other places..."

ps: For the support of book friend Yushu Lingfeng, a special chapter is added