Zhu Jie remained silent, stuffed the silver ticket into his sleeve, drank a glass of wine, and said: "Lord Wu, Lord Gao, the envoy has already said that the emperor asked the envoy to send an envoy to Manchuria and announce the decree to you, but he is just piggybacking, in a short period of time, the envoy has no way to return to the capital, but the envoy has written down this matter, and after returning, he will definitely ask the emperor for instructions." ”

Forehead......

Wu Sangui's expression was stunned, wiped it, you want to go to Manchuria, you can't do this, why do you have to pick up Lao Tzu's silver? Don't you know the truth that you will be unsuccessful and restless? Could it be that the righteousness and strictness of the rumors in the DPRK and China, and the successive anti-corruption and anti-corruption commanders are all in the same direction?

Wu Sangui and Gao Di were very dissatisfied, it was 70,000 taels of silver, of which Wu Sangui was 40,000 taels and Gao 30,000 taels, all of which were the salaries that the two of them had received and deducted in the army over the years, and they finally got it, and now they were thrown to Zhu Jie, and they didn't even hear a response.

Zhu Jie looked at the two of them with a somewhat gloomy face, and said with a smile: "Lord Wu, Lord Gao, in fact, this matter is not very difficult to do, since the emperor is going to defeat the army, you have not defeated the army, is there still less common people?" An order to go down, don't say more than 10,000 people, even if it's 350,000 people, I'm afraid it's not a problem, nothing else, there are always displaced people in the Gyeonggi area, right, if you give the emperor more than 10,000 skins, don't you send them directly to Beijing? ”

"Lord Zhu, what you said is light!"

Gao Di was dissatisfied, "This is more than 10,000 displaced people, not more than 10,000 defeated soldiers, and then the defeated soldiers are defeated soldiers, then they are also soldiers, not to mention that the elite forces that come down from Songshan Mountain, where can the common people compare?" When he arrived in front of the emperor, didn't he immediately reveal his flaws? ”

Wu Sangui nodded and said, "What Lord Gao said is right, in this case, if you go up, you will be exposed......"

Zhu Jie pursed his lips and said abruptly: "Okay, you two adults, smart one, confused for a while, just these more than 10,000 defeated soldiers, do you think the emperor will personally receive them?" Joke, do you think this is the army of kings who returned from the victorious expedition to Manchuria? Maybe by the time he arrived in the capital, the emperor had already forgotten about this matter! Even if the Ministry of War wants to investigate, with the two of them in the Ministry of War, the weight in front of Lord Fang, will the Ministry of War still hold on? As long as you deal with the emperor, will the clouds in the sky not disperse? ”

Wu Sangui was overjoyed, this is the reason, Zhu Jie is right, the emperor has always been crazy, a burst of sunshine, a burst of rain, after ten days and half a month, I am afraid that I will forget this matter to death!

"Haha, thank you, thank you Lord Zhu for mentioning it! Thank you, sir! ”

Wu Sangui picked up his wine glass again and replied.

The three of them drank it all, put down the wine glass, and said hesitantly: "Lord Zhu, I won't tell you, this matter is solved, but the emperor wants to reduce our military salary, there is no military salary, this is a war, but what should I do?" The brothers under his command, who is willing to listen to our brothers, think that at the beginning, when Zuo Liangyu was fighting in Liaodong, because he couldn't get the reward silver, he was hung up by the soldiers and beaten half to death! ”

Wu Sangui's heart also trembled, and he looked at Zhu Jie.

Zhu Jie smiled and said: "Lord Gao, you are embarrassed for me, your ministry sent away more than 10,000 defeated soldiers in one go, and you still want to continue to ask for a military salary of one million taels of silver, how is that possible?" The emperor is not a fool, rest on you, do you believe it? In these years, it's better to be cautious, don't go to the end, the money is not fished, and the little life is lost, then you can't do it, Tian Hongyu, Wei Zhaocheng and others are role models......"

The two of them fell silent for a while, they had already heard about the affairs of the capital, Tian Hongyu sold illicit salt, Wei Zhaocheng embezzled military salaries, and they had already been sentenced to death, and all family property was confiscated! If the two of them collide at this time, regardless of life or death, maybe they will become the next Tian Hongyu or Wei Zhao.

Wu Sangui smiled bitterly and said: "Lord Zhu, you know this kind of thing, we know it, we tacitly know, we don't take a little military salary, deduct a little military salary, how can our brothers rely on a meager salary to support a large family?" Isn't it? Alas, since the court is like this, we can only admit it, alas......"

Zhu Jie said with a smile: "Lord Wu, you are the pillar of the sky in Liaodong, the emperor has treated anyone badly, he will not treat you badly, and you have a heavy responsibility on your shoulders, this Shanhaiguan, but it all fell on the two adults, how many troops does Shanhaiguan have now, can they stop the iron cavalry of the Manchurian Eight Banners?" ”

"It's hard......"

Wu Sangui smiled bitterly: "This Shanhaiguan, I and the two towns of Gao, together there are 60,000 troops, once the Qing army knocks, we can still gather 20,000 young people to join the battle, if it was before, relying on these forces, we can barely block the Qing army, but now it is different, before we had Hongyi artillery, the Qing army was cavalry, no artillery, lack of siege experience, now, the Qing army has more artillery than us, and also formed the Han Army Eight Banners, used to be cannon fodder in the siege war, We have lost our original advantage, and if the Qing army does not come, it will be enough, and once it comes, I am afraid that the Shanhai Pass will not be able to hold it for long......"

60,000 troops, Zhu Jie secretly sneered in his heart, this Wu Sangui is really cunning enough, he is definitely watery, and now it seems that their strength is estimated to be less than 50,000, that is, more than 40,000 people, among them, the one who can fight is the Guanning Iron Cavalry, well, there are almost more than 20,000 people.

"Two, this is more to the two of them work together to resist the Qing army, this envoy to Manchuria, in fact, is also for the Ming Dynasty to fight for more peace time, as long as the eight banners of Manchuria are stabilized, let us free up our hands to clean up the thieves and thieves, when the time comes, the elite of Inspector Sun will gather in Shanhaiguan, Manchuria Eight Banners? It's useless, no matter how many people there are, it's hard to get down to the impregnable Shanhaiguan! ”

Zhu Jie said: "Think about you, it's already good, at least the military salaries can be paid as usual, and the rest of the departments, including the army of Sun Inspector, are often in arrears for three or five months, and the state affairs are difficult, and no one can do anything about it......

After a banquet, Zhu Jie's words finally frightened Wu Sangui and Gao Di, and the two of them admired Zhu Jie incredibly, this general is really powerful, too powerful, and extraordinary, but you can't tear your face with him in the future.

Zhu Jie only rested for a day, and then led fifty guards out of Shanhaiguan and went straight to Shengjing, but one of the guards had already rushed back to the capital with Zhu Jie's handwritten letter.