Li Banghua, the Secretary of the Ministry of War, was still reporting to Chongzhen to sort out the situation of the Ministry of War's arsenal. The situation was simply shocking. After his inspection, only less than 30% of the materials and equipment in the ledger were in a state of decay, and they were in a state of decay.
At this time, the nobles and the civil servants were arguing endlessly to shirk their responsibilities. The emperor's good mood just now was wiped out. At this time, he looked at them with a sullen face and a cold face.
Anyway, he won't give up until the equipment for the Beijing camp is in place today.
At this time, Yang Fan did not care about their trivial matters, but frowned and thought about the current situation. At present, the drastic changes in the court have shown signs of deviating from the original historical development track. What will happen next?
Must be considered carefully.
Yang Fan actually supported the plan to abolish the nine-border town. It was just that he was unwilling to express his position. At this time, he was more concerned about whether he would suffer losses in this change.
To be fair, there are some troops on the Nine Sides that are relatively capable of fighting.
For example, the Western Army in Shaanxi later fought more tenaciously in the Battle of Songjin.
If they could really build castles and fortified cities one by one on the land of Rehe, they could indeed seal off the slaves.
However, there are many variables here. The situation is like a tangled mess that keeps getting messier. Maybe something goes wrong and things can't go on.
However, Donglin is the one who promotes this plan. Regardless of success or failure, they are the winners.
Chaos has begun in northern Shaanxi, and there are many rebels. Will the soldiers and horses from Yulin Town and Guyuan Town be mobilized? This is all doubtful.
Yang Fan wondered in his heart whether His Majesty and Dong Lin were planning to trick him into going to the northwest.
After destroying Tumut and the Ordos people, he was allowed to stay in Shaanxi to exterminate those who rebelled. Only in this way can the nine general soldiers under the governors of the three sides be mobilized.
Rabbits don't poop in that shabby place in the northwest. Anyone can go there if they want, but Yang Fan has no interest at all. He stays there to suppress bandits, and he won't go even if he is given the title of king.
The key is that the banditry cannot be eradicated no matter how hard it is eradicated. Press the gourd to raise the ladle.
Although Shaanxi has not lost control yet, this situation cannot last long. It is a trivial matter for the people to rebel because they have no food to eat. The key lies in the Shaanxi border army.
It has been a year since Duke Wei, His Majesty, has been on the throne. Except for Tu Shan, who paid military pay once when he went to Yulin Town to deal with the mutiny, he has never paid military pay again. The governors of the three sides mainly rely on Sichuan for their military pay and food.
, Shaanxi and Shanxi provinces can be solved nearby.
There is currently a war in Sichuan. Because of the forced land conversion in the last year of Wanli, the She'an Rebellion broke out. The chieftains in the southwest collectively rebelled. The war lasted from the first year of Tianqi to the tenth year of Chongzhen before it was suppressed.
This chaos that corrupted Sichuan and Guizhou for 17 years cost the Ming Dynasty a huge amount of military and financial resources.
"Records of Ming Xi Zong" has statistics:
"Excluding the war breaks, on average, to suppress the She'an Rebellion, 5.6 million troops should be consumed in the first ten years. 4.5 million transporters, daily silver taels, and daily rice consumption of 72 million shi; centralized generals, partial barnyard generals, and ministers.
There are thousands of seal officials."
Now Sichuan itself has become a war zone, and it still manages the life and death of the three governors. This war will last ten years, and there is no hope for money and food in the northwest.
The crux of the matter is that if we continue to delay the payment of military pay, the border troops will no longer simply be soldiers during the day and turn into bandits at night.
Aren't the staff at the inn not being paid wages? The arrears have been too long, so we are not just opening a black shop. At this time, King Li Chuang is not unemployed yet, and is still looking forward to repaying his wages.
The situation in the northwest became out of control when the border troops began to become organized and surrendered to the peasant army.
If you don't pay me wages, I will find the money myself. Whoever has money and food, I will ask for it.
Originally, thieves could not defeat soldiers. Lu Xiangsheng led 2,000 men and was able to hunt down and kill 400,000 peasant soldiers.
However, in the repeated tug-of-war and protracted battles, the thieves were fully trained. The level of training by the officers and soldiers on the battlefield continued to improve.
In addition, the imperial court could not pay military salaries, so they simply
After the officers and soldiers openly turned into traitors, the situation completely got out of control.
In addition, Ningxia Town has already become a warlord.
At that time, the Jiajing Dynasty mutiny in Ningxia killed the governor and important ministers, but the incident was finally settled.
Since then, the Ming Dynasty's border troops have become a standard operating procedure. This experience has been promoted, and border towns in various places have started the paste-copy mode. The Ningxia mutiny model has become a model for border army mutinies in various places.
Yang Fan was very worried. Once he took the Beijing camp to the northwest, it might not be as simple as just destroying the Tumut and Ordos people.
The cabinet and the emperor are likely to ask him to solve the warlord problem in Ningxia Town and the civil uprising problem in northern Shaanxi.
In this way, Yang Fan will be trapped there. These problems cannot be solved by Yang Fan. The key to these problems is that the Ming Dynasty's economy has reached the brink of collapse.
Military means cannot solve political problems, let alone economic problems. Guns and artillery cannot defeat economic laws. The current economic collapse of the Ming Dynasty has profound historical accumulation and internal logic. Any repairs are of no use and can only be overthrown and started all over again.
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In addition, there is another thorny problem in dealing with the Tumuts, and that is the issue of Xitao Mongolia.
Xitao refers to the west side of the Yellow River, which is a triangular desert area east of the Inner and Outer Hetao and the Helan Mountains of Ningxia, north of the Great Wall of the Hexi Corridor, and south of the Mongolian Gobi.
This is the territory of the Alxa Tribe of Mongolia.
At this time, the Mongolian Mongolia was also the Erut Mongolia. These Varas were mainly composed of four large tribes. Heshuote, Durbot, Junggar, and Torhut were collectively called the Four Erut.
The Alashan people have a close relationship with the Turgut people (those people in the Legend of Heroes Returning from the East).
The Turghuts had a tent of 50,000 people and no less than 50,000 cavalry. They were a large tribe that could compete with the Dzungars for supremacy. In the end, they were forced by the Dzungars and moved westward to the Ukrainian prairie in the lower reaches of the Volga River in Tsarist Russia.
In order to eliminate the Tumuts, Yang Fan must conquer Guihua City, Jiuyuan City (today's Jiuyuan District of Baotou), and Linhe City (built by King Wuling of Zhao, today's Bayannur City). It is very likely that there will be a conflict with Xitao Mongolia.
This led to an attack by the Alxa Mongols.
Especially the Linhe area, which is the jacket area.
The Yellow River is full of dangers, but it is profitable. There are one million acres of fertile land here. It is impossible for Yang Fan to give up. In particular, it is bordered by the Yinshan Mountains and the Mongolian Gobi to the north and the Yellow River to the south. The strategic location is extremely important.
By guarding this place, you will guard the passage for Mongolian Mongolia to move eastward in the desert.
Once Yang Fan's army is stationed here, it will cause tension in the entire northwest region. The ancient Mongols in Qinghai and Tibet, the Mongols in Xinjiang, and the Khalkhas in Outer Mongolia will all be highly nervous.
"Yang Qing, most of the equipment in the Ministry of War warehouse is not in the inventory, and the rest is rotten and useless. Can you see if there is anything you can do about the equipment."
"Ah!" Yang Fan was distracted just now and didn't listen carefully at all. Then the emperor asked him and he came back to his senses.
No more today, will be updated tomorrow.
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