On the road leading to Shanhaiguan, a group of people and horses are marching like a gallop.

Zhu Jie gave Fang Yuegong the idea of midnight, and only then did he finalize the charter, and when he returned to Zhu's mansion, the sky had already begun to brighten, and he had a hasty rest, Zhu Jie resigned and led fifty personal guards and cavalry out of Beijing to rush to Shanhaiguan.

In order to protect Zhu Jie's safety as much as possible, Xu Yifan can't wait to send all the elite soldiers and strong generals under his command to Zhu Jie, each of which is carefully selected, with one enemy hundred, too exaggerated, with one enemy ten, there is absolutely no problem!

There are still the affairs of the Fourteen Guards and Tianjin Wei waiting to be dealt with by him, where does Zhu Jie dare to delay so much time, naturally he is working day and night.

From Jingshi to Shanhaiguan, more than 300 miles away, in just two days, Zhu Jie arrived at Shanhaiguan.

"What? The emperor's will has arrived? ”

Wu Sangui, who was resting at the Yamen of the General Army, got the news, quickly stood up, looked at Gao Di beside him, and shouted: "Lord Gao, you and I will welcome the holy decree together." ”

"Fengtian carrier, the emperor said: I heard that Shanhaiguan for more than a year, collected more than 10,000 troops in Songshan, brought great inconvenience to Shanhaiguan and Liaodong towns, and was deeply disturbed, after Wu Sangui and Gao Di received the order, immediately rectified all the defeated troops, all sent back to Beijing, and waited for the military department to deal with, but all the soldiers who were not within the rated range of Shanhaiguan and Liaodong towns were repatriated, and there must be no mistake, Shanhaiguan military salary, according to the number ruled at the beginning of the year, will be allocated in the near future, but the imperial treasury is empty, and the finance and taxation are difficult, so temporarily allocate three months of silver, 360,000 taels, You must pay attention to state affairs, appease the soldiers, and guard the border gates...... Chin this! ”

Zhu Jie opened the holy decree and opened his mouth to read.

Wu Sangui and Gao Di were like five thunderbolts, wiped it, originally asked for one million taels of silver for half a year, but in the end they only allocated three hundred and sixty thousand taels of silver! The difference is very different! The most important thing is not that the allocation of military salaries is less, but that there are more than 10,000 people in the ranks of the defeated soldiers, in the past year, where have so many defeated soldiers come over, combined, the defeated soldiers are less than 2,000 people, and most of them have been dismissed by two people, it's okay, who left them behind to empty the military salary?

In the compromise, he said that more than 10,000 defeated soldiers were gathered, but it was just to extort some more silver taels from the imperial court, and he just reported it, 14,600 people, where did he get so many defeated soldiers? Now that the imperial court has begun to ask for people from itself, where can I find so many defeated soldiers? This is a terrible thing, once you can't come up with more than 10,000 defeated troops, it will be a big crime of bullying the king and destroying your family!

However, where to take out the defeated army of more than 10,000 people? Where to find so many people to make up? You must know that Shanhaiguan is just a pass, not a state capital, there are a lot of soldiers here, but there are not many ordinary people!

Wu Sangui and Gao Gao were completely dumbfounded!

"Lord Wu, Lord Gao, take the order!"

Zhu Jie looked at the two of them with a smile and said.

"Minister Wu Sangui (Gaodi) thank the lord Longen!"

The two of them gritted their teeth and thanked them and stood up.

"Master Zhu, I heard that you are coming, the two officials have prepared a banquet for you, and please enjoy your face......

Wu Sangui barely suppressed the restlessness in his heart and said to Zhu Jie with a smile.

Zhu Jie nodded and said: "I have long heard that General Wu is a young hero, heroic and extraordinary, and when I saw it today, it was really not bad, since Lord Wu invited him, it would be disrespectful!" ”

Wu Sangui laughed and said: "Master Zhu, you are laying down the face of the official, if I am a young hero, then what about you, I am afraid that you are more than ten years younger than the lower official, we have all heard in Shanhaiguan, you assisted Inspector Sun in Henan to fight even a victory, and the thief will be defeated!" In front of you, the lower officials dare not call themselves young heroes! ”

After sitting down before the banquet, Wu Sangui asked in a low voice: "Lord Zhu, you are the emperor's confidant and favorite general, you have given the lower officials a thorough explanation, what's wrong?" Why did the emperor suddenly want to send more than 10,000 defeated soldiers back to Beijing? Doesn't he know that Shanhaiguan is strategically important, and now he still thinks that his troops are insufficient, why does he have to transfer more than 10,000 defeated troops? So what can we do with this, this Shanhaiguan? Once the Qing army arrived, the lower officials were not sure to resist it......"

Zhu Jie smiled secretly in his heart, what the hell, could it be that if you were given more than 10,000 defeated soldiers, you would be able to defend Shanhaiguan? Joke! The Qing army was blocked by the defenders of Shanhaiguan several times?

However, in this case, Zhu Jie is inconvenient to say to Wu Sangui, after all, Wu Sangui is still the chief soldier of Liaodong Town, responsible for the safety of the Shanhaiguan area, and the entire Ming Dynasty, such as Wu Sangui, a general who can fight well is even rarer, although this person's conduct is not good, but his ability is indeed first-class among the general soldiers in the late Ming Dynasty!

"Lord Wu, this matter is not very clear to the envoy, after all, the mission of the envoy is to send an envoy to Manchuria, this is to send you a decree, it is just a piggybacking thing, but, in the opinion of the envoy, the emperor recalled the more than 10,000 defeated troops, and also had his own intentions, now the troops of the four guards of Changping and Miyun have been transferred to Tongzhou for rectification, and the defense on the north side of the Beijing division is empty, presumably the emperor recalled these defeated troops in order to defend the back of the Beijing division......

Zhu Jie replied lightly.

Wu Sangui and Gao Di glanced at each other, although there were still some doubts in their hearts, but, after all, it was also a statement, and it was a reasonable statement, the defense behind the Beijing division was empty, after all, the Qing army had several times in Koubian, in addition to sending troops from the Xuanda region, it was from the territory of Miyun, but Shanhaiguan because of the city is high, steep and abnormal, but it has become the safest area, and there has been no war for more than ten years.

"But don't hide it from your lordship,"

Wu Sangui remained silent, holding a handful of silver tickets in his hand and stuffing them into Zhu Jie's hand, and then said: "My lord, the rout of more than 10,000 people has been replenished by Xiaguan and Gao Daren into Liaodong Town and Shanhaiguan Town, Songshan battle, our two departments also suffered heavy casualties, and they have not been replenished, just to replenish them, and now the emperor is going to transfer them away, this, what should I do with this Shanhaiguan?" ”

"Yes, Lord Zhu, please have a few kind words in front of the emperor about this matter, and see if this transfer of troops will be exempted......"

Gao Di on the side hurriedly cooperated with Zhu Jie and said.

Zhu Jie glanced at the silver ticket in his hand lightly, and the first one was a silver ticket of 10,000 taels of silver! Looking at the thickness, there are at least seven or eight of them, this pile of silver tickets, to say the least, must have fifty or sixty thousand taels of silver, these two damn bastards, it seems that there is really no less embezzlement of the army's military salary!