When Governor Zheng said this to Master Shi, he didn't mean to make excuses. Money is indeed tight now.
In the previous two major defeats in Taohe, not only were several generals down to the deputy commander-in-chief killed, but the heaviest losses were actually thousands of elite soldiers.
When the generals are gone, new ones can be promoted immediately, and when the elite soldiers are gone, they cannot be trained for a while.
In order to fill the vacancies and defend against powerful enemies, troops must be urgently mobilized from nearby towns.
However, according to the rules, when troops are mobilized, rewards must be paid to the soldiers.
The one hundred thousand taels of silver allocated by the imperial court from Taipu Temple was largely for this expense.
Kuai Bai and his son led 3,000 people, and it was under this background that they arrived in Jincheng. Kuai Bai, who had already become an official, took the initiative to ask for a fight.
Originally, there was a lot of criticism of Kuai Bai in Ningxia Town, thinking that Kuai Bai was arrogant and arrogant, but some people also recommended Kuai Bai and his son as "talented generals."
Governor Zheng believes that at this critical moment, what is urgently needed is someone who can fight.
The issue of moral character can be put aside for a while, so we agreed to support Gansu.
After all, Kuaibai surrendered to the Ming Dynasty from the northern captives as early as the Jiajing period, and had many military exploits over the decades.
However, as soon as Kuai Bai arrived at Jincheng, he asked for ten thousand taels of silver as a reward.
Governor Zheng thought it was a bit much, so he casually told Master Shi who also came to ask for the money. He wanted to ask Xining Wei to wait while he applied for a separate sum of money from the court as a reward.
Master Shi thought that since Lin Tailai was coming back soon, he might as well let Lin Tailai handle it.
Lin Tailai, the counselor of military affairs, is not a sole official.
Theoretically, he was just a Zanhua official next to the governor, similar to the staff role in later generations.
Because of Lin Tailai's special talents, he was sent out earlier to advise and urge the captives to leave the West Sea.
Now that the Taolu have left the country and returned north, Lin Tailai has successfully completed his mission, so he must return to the governor's residence.
However, Governor Zheng didn't want to see Lin Tailai because he didn't know how to face this restless young counselor.
The governor himself was still diligently strategizing, deploying troops and generals, checking for leaks and filling vacancies, training new soldiers, repairing city walls, and appeasing the people, while Lin Tailai had achieved two great victories.
But Governor Zheng did not think that what he was doing was redundant or that the pace was too slow.
Lin Tailai's two great victories were too accidental, a bit like opportunism.
The work I am doing is to practice hard on my internal skills, lay a solid foundation, and focus on the long term.
In terms of results, Governor Zheng fully respected Lin Tailai's achievements, and it also reduced the pressure on him as the governor.
But in terms of process, Governor Zheng never believed that it was advisable to take military risks now, and he did not encourage his subordinate generals to take risks.
Therefore, Governor Zheng was always in a troubled mood and didn't know how to face Lin Tailai.
But what must come will come, and it will not depend on Governor Zheng's will.
A few days later, Lin Tailai took Dayun, who was following the action, back to the location of the governor's residence, which was Jincheng.
After taking a short rest, Lin Tailai and Dayun went to visit Governor Zheng together and return to their posts.
In the hall outside the governor's palace hall, a row of civil and military officials were already sitting.
These were all here to visit Governor Zheng, so they went in one order to see him.
As a military and political figure in Gansu, Shaanxi, Qinghai, and Ningxia, Governor Zheng had to receive too many people for official and private purposes.
When Dayun saw this, he took the initiative to walk towards the seat at the end in a very polite manner.
The main reason is that as a fourth-level command officer, the guerrilla general can only be civilized and polite in the "waiting room" outside the governor's hall.
Lin Tailai stretched out his hand, pressed Dayun's shoulder, and asked doubtfully: "Where are you going?"
Dayun pointed to the empty seat at the end, "Let's sit there, where else can we go?"
Lin Tailai scolded: "You, a country bumpkin from a border town, do you know etiquette?"
Dayun, who was about to be civilized and polite, was confused for a while, Counselor Lin, what are you going to say?
Lin Tailai said: "Even if I enter the first assistant's house, the first assistant is waiting for me!
Do I still have to wait in line here? Don’t let people laugh at the Governor for not knowing etiquette!"
Dayun: "."
Forgive him for being superficial, but a small official from a border town really doesn't understand the social etiquette of the capital city thousands of miles away.
At this time, the visitor in front of me came out of the lobby.
Lin Tailai didn't care whether there was a queue or not, he took Dayun and walked forward.
But the group of people at the front of the queue were dissatisfied on the spot.
They have been waiting here for an hour since morning and are already impatient.
Occasionally when it was their turn, someone jumped in line, and their mood suddenly became violent.
This group of three people, old, middle-aged and young, stood up and rushed in front to block the exit of the hall.
The middle-aged man among them had a ferocious appearance and said "arrogantly": "Get behind me!"
This surprised Lin Tailai. Ever since he became famous in the court, he had rarely encountered such situations of being contradicted in the past two years.
He lowered his head and looked at the robe of a fifth-grade civil servant on his own body, and then at the robes of the military generals of the other three.
Feeling a little doubtful about life, Lin Tailai asked Dayun: "Does my official robe look fake?"
Dayun didn't know what to say. Even if a military attache today has a deep foundation, he would not contradict a civilian official.
Because it's not necessary at all, it won't do any good, but it can easily get into trouble or bring huge risks.
Seeing that the other party was also a military attaché, Dayun thought about making peace and asked, "Which family are you from?"
The ferocious-looking middle-aged man replied: "I am the commander of the Ningxia Guard, and the commander of the General Military Base Camp, Kuai Cheng'en!"
Dayun was shocked when he heard this, and subconsciously said: "I have admired you for a long time."
In the northwest, the Yi family and his son are indeed well-known figures.
I heard that the Kuai family and his son had gathered thousands of desperadoes and were rampaging in and around Ningxia Town. Even the general soldiers wanted to give up three points.
If it is difficult to understand the status of the Kuai family in Ningxia Town, then imagine Lin Daguan's status in Suzhou.
Lin Tailai looked at the old man next to Kuai Chengen curiously. He didn't expect to bump into a historical celebrity just by jumping in line. This was the first of Wanli's three major expeditions.
Already one of the biggest celebrities in the world, Lin Tailai, who is increasingly lacking in awe of historical celebrities, asked a little frivolously: "Old man! Are you just saying goodbye?"
With Kuaibai's original status, under normal circumstances, his popularity in later generations would probably not be as high as that of Dayun.
But as he became the first target of the three major levies, his popularity suddenly increased.
In fact, the reasons for the rebellion of foreign races like Kuai Bai and Yang Yinglong are actually quite complicated.
However, as a vested interest in the existing system, Lin Tailai does not need to think about the problem too complicatedly.
If you don't rebel, it doesn't matter if Lin Tailai comes. He doesn't insist on earning your share of the credit.
But if you want to rebel, you are the enemy of the Ming Dynasty and Lin Tailai.