Before the first month was over, two groups of troops began to be transferred to Liaodong to replenish the already somewhat empty Liaodong troops.
One was Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong Army. There were not many soldiers and horses, only three to four thousand men. They were led by Lu Xiangsheng personally and stationed in Liaoyang, the seat of the Liaodong Governor.
In a sense, this army is more like Lu Xiangsheng's personal army battalion. However, as a governor, he led such a personal army battalion to station in Liaoyang, so he did not have to worry about some generals disobeying orders.
Dongjiang Town is still capable of mutiny. It is not strange for Liaodong soldiers and horses to mutiny after the defeat. With such a force, Lu Xiangsheng has enough power to make what he says and does manifest under this power.
The authority of the imperial court.
The other branch is the Nanhai Guard, which has been stationed in Nanhaizi. The Nanhai Guard was directly changed to the Nanhai Battalion, and was promoted from a guard to a combat soldier. Wu Sangui, the original guard commander, was promoted to staff general, transferred to Dongjiang Town, and led the army to Zhenjiang.
fort.
And the Ministry of Revenue directly allocated a total of more than 400,000 taels of grain and salary to Jiubian. Officials in other yamen may not know what the concept of 400,000 taels is, but the officials of the Ministry of Revenue clearly know that if these 400,000 taels of grain and salary are allocated
, the household department is no longer empty, but there are holes everywhere that need to be filled.
When all the holes are filled, the floods in various places will probably start again this year, and another round of military expenditures will also come. Since the Chongzhen Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty, the money and food of the Ministry of Households have not been in the warehouse of the Ministry of Households.
It’s the Chinese New Year, and this year I’m even more in debt.
Fortunately, the emperor punished many officials this time, and probably did not believe that there were still officials who dared to commit crimes at this time, so he did not interfere too much with the matter of food and salary.
Therefore, the officials of the Ministry of Household Consciously excluded Dongjiang Town from the list of food and salary supplements. Anyway, 400,000 yuan in food and salary sounds like a lot, but tens of thousands here and hundreds of thousands there on the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty are simply not enough.
, just like a person who is very hungry and only eats a pastry to fill his stomach. It is simply impossible to feel full.
Anyway, if you send it over, Dongjiang Town doesn’t want it, so why don’t you just stop asking for trouble?
On the seventh day of February, Wu Sangui led his army to Phi Island, and with him came the imperial envoy to Korea.
On February 12, the Nanhai Battalion arrived at Zhenjiang Fort and replaced the Huwei Battalion that had been guarding Zhenjiang Fort. Huwei Battalion returned to Pidao to rest.
In Zhenjiang Fort, Jiang Wan once again met Wu Sangui, who had been away for nearly a year, and hosted a banquet in honor of him.
"When I heard that your lord won a great victory here in Liaodong, I was always itching in my heart. I wished I could immediately get my wings and go to Liaodong to follow the commander-in-chief to kill the Tatars!"
Wu Sangui, whom he hadn't seen for a year, didn't seem to have changed much. He was still so out of touch in front of Jiang Wan.
"Your Majesty sent me out this time. I had a big feast for three days. Sir, you have to replenish me with this money!"
"Is this a banquet in the capital?" Li Zicheng blinked.
"Of course, it was placed in Nanhaizi!" Wu Sangui said proudly: "I went to invite the ladies. Unfortunately, the eldest lady has difficulty moving, and the third lady and I are not very familiar, so only the second lady came!"
"Does that mean we have to hold a three-day banquet in Zhenjiang Fort?" Li Zicheng chuckled and said, "I don't dare to say anything else. I can guarantee that the commander-in-chief will definitely attend. It will be a big honor for you!"
"Unless you pay for it!" Wu Sangui didn't want to be fooled by Li Zicheng, and kept looking at Jiang Wan.
"Take the brothers from Nanhai camp out to practice their skills later, grab some Tatar things and come back to have fun!" Jiang Wan smiled and waved her hand: "The weather is getting warmer soon, let your people get familiar with the situation here.
That’s good too!”
"You guys all came all the way from the capital, why didn't you bring something good to us old brothers?"
Li Zicheng curled his lips, looking very happy. Feng Wanli, Wu Sangui, Li Zicheng, Gao Jin, Xu Jian, Xu Xianchun, and Tan Chun, who was by Jiang Wan's side when he was in Shaanxi, were almost all of Jiang Wan's team.
, we are all gathered here today.
Even though we are on the front line, everyone feels warm in their hearts.
Li Zicheng is competing with Wu Sangui here. On the other side, Xu Xianchun, Gao Jin and others are chatting with Feng Wanli. Compared with Li Zicheng and Wu Sangui, they are more mature. They are more concerned about being in a new place. Although their boss is still the old boss.
However, you still need to find out clearly what you need to pay attention to.
Xu Jian, on the other hand, was by Jiang Wan's side, chatting in plain English with Jiang Wan. As Jiang Wan's first loyal subordinate, he had the qualifications to chat with Jiang Wan about homely matters.
Of course, Jiang Wan was not that boring. He cared about Xu Jian's family affairs. He just heard some things about the capital from Xu Jian's mouth, and he always felt that they were slightly more real than what he heard from others.
Even Wu Sangui and others may not dare to fool him on these matters, but it is always possible to add some of their own opinions and point of view to talk about these things.
"It seems that your Majesty has really spent a lot of money this time. I thought I would never have the chance to obey your orders again in this life!"
The officers of Nanhaiwei all called Jiang Wan "Sir" as they used to call him, which made Jiang Wan feel a bit friendly.
"I also thought that His Majesty would not let me touch Nanhai Guard again. After all, you are all my old subordinates!" Jiang Wan said thoughtfully: "This time, I really don't understand what our Majesty wants.
What do you want?"
"Of course I hope you will have strong soldiers and horses and beat the Tatars hard!"
Xu Jian said with a smile: "We Nanhaiwei are all your old subordinates. To beat up the Tatars, there is no reason to be worse than the original soldiers and horses in Dongjiang Town. Besides, you can use us old subordinates as well."
It’s not easy!”
Speaking of this, he said as if to show his merit: "I heard that His Majesty intends to send our Nanhai Guard to Jinzhou. After all, Commander Wu's father is also serving as the general soldier in Jinzhou. They all say that father and son will go into battle."
Well, we don’t have to worry about losing money after we get there!”
"Oh!" Jiang Wan glanced at him in surprise.
"But I don't know why His Majesty changed his mind later!" Xu Jian replied honestly: "I just heard Commander Wu say a few words and make a few complaints. What is the specific situation? You can ask Wu
Commander!"
"From now on, you will have to call me General, and you, too. From Qianhu to Guerrilla, this title has changed. You need to get used to it!"
"They're all the same, they're all the same!" Xu Jian chuckled: "They are all officials of the imperial court, and they all work under the command of the Lord. What's the difference? You just know what you are doing!"
"You taught me a lesson and made me know better!" Jiang Wan smiled slightly: "Okay, go over and have a few drinks with the old brothers. Don't keep hanging around me. They might say you said something in front of me later.
Where are their bad words?”
"They dare!" Xu Jian stared, looking at Feng Wanli who was looking over here, Xu Xianchun and others felt a little guilty: "They really dare, sir, I'm going to give them a few drinks...