There is no backstage in the DPRK.

The Liaoxi Jiangmen military group enjoys exclusive Liao pay in the DPRK, with six to seven million taels of silver every year. These silvers have become a small treasury for the civil servants and bureaucracies and can be withdrawn at any time. With this benefit transfer relationship, Guan Ning's army is in the DPRK.

His backing was very strong, and it was almost an unspoken rule. Everyone from the Minister of War to the Ministry of War endorsed Guan Ningjun.

Because money, a huge sum of three to four million taels of silver, is the most stable alliance of interests. Any cabinet, any minister of the Ministry of War, can take money from it. If you don't take it, you will end up like Lu Xiangsheng and become a civil servant.

Let’s kill the enemies of the bureaucracy first.

Cheng Shijie's rise is so fast that people can't see it. The purpose of Cheng Shijie's coming is worth pondering. Zu Dashou is also thinking about this question. Is Cheng Shijie the candidate for the next superintendent?

It’s impossible. Civil servants will never allow a warrior to rise. It’s absolutely impossible for him to become the governor of Jiliao. So what’s the point of sending someone here?

After thinking for a long time, Zu Dashou still couldn't figure it out. In desperation, he had no choice but to put on his armor and meet Ning Haijun's envoy.

The envoy from Ning Haijun is Zhou An, the former hot spring town guard of Ning Haijun and one of the three major guards of Ning Haijun. He is the person with the most powerful backing. His father is Zhou Yandong, the deputy general of Ning Haijun.

According to Zhou Yandong's wishes, his eldest son Zhou An should wait more than ten years until he is old and then take over his position.

But Zhou An didn't think so. He thought Zhou Yandong's idea was too naive. Ning Haijun had already switched from the original Dengzhou Weizuo Qianhu to the frontier army system, and the hereditary system would not work.

Especially his younger brother Zhou Ning, in less than half a year, he had been promoted from a small soldier to a full-ranked fifth-grade general with moral integrity, serving as the commander-in-chief of Ning Navy's Right Command and Zuo Qianqian.

The guard of Ning Haijun is a private officer. In fact, Zhou An's job is still an official of hundreds of households. Although the Qianzong in the imperial court belongs to the sixth rank, the Qianzong of Ning Haijun is equivalent to a general at the level of general, and the general of Dongjiang Army

A general can only lead between 800 and 1,200 people, but a thousand commanders in the navy can oversee more than 1,500 people.

What's more important is that Zhou Ning, the Right Capital Secretary and the Left Front Chief, has many opportunities and is easy to be promoted. What chance does Zhou Ning, who only relies on farming, have a chance to be promoted? The weather is weird and abnormal right now. It's a drought.

Waterlogging is waterlogging, let alone promotion, whether we can guarantee officials for hundreds of households is a problem.

When Cheng Shijie proposed to send someone to Jinzhou, Zhou An volunteered.

In fact, this is a deadly job. Cheng Shijie has already made up his mind to cut off a piece of flesh from Guan Ning's army. You must know that more than 8,000 prisoners are digging coal in the coal mine and do not get a penny of wages. Instead, they want to pay tribute to Zu Dashou.

I want one tael of food per person.

One tael of silver is equivalent to more than 700 taels of purchasing power in later generations. For more than 8,000 people, it is more than 8,000 taels of silver in one day, and more than 80,000 taels in ten days. However, Zhou Ning deliberately spent 700 or 800 miles on the road and just left.

Half a month is equivalent to walking fifty miles a day. In this half month, he created hundreds of thousands of taels of silver for Cheng Shijie.

Of course, the risk of blackmailing Zu Dashou is extremely high, and if you don't do it right, your head will fall off.

But Zhou An is smarter. He knows that Zu Dashou's son is in the hands of Cheng Shijie. If Zu Dashou dares to chop off his head, Cheng Shijie might chop off Zu Zerun's head.

It doesn't seem like a bad idea to exchange his own head for the head of Master Zuze Runzu. Once this is done, Zhou An will also be able to enter Cheng Shijie's field of vision.

"Commander Zu has arrived!"

Just when Zhou An was thinking about it, a chorus of singing came from outside the door.

Zhou An quickly stood up and bowed: "Ning Haijun, Zhou An pays homage to Commander-in-Chief Zu!"

"No gift!"

Zu Dashou was also sizing up Zhou An secretly. Zhou An's military uniform was black, with a black cotton coat on top and black cotton shoes on his feet, but it had a strange smell.

Of course, if you don't take a shower for more than half a month, your body will definitely not smell better.

Zu Dashou said: "I wonder why your commander-in-chief asked you to come to Jinzhou?"

"Zu Shuai, do you have money?"

"Be bold!"

Zu Dabi glared at Zhou An and said, "You dare to be so presumptuous in front of Commander Zu, you are tired of living!"

Zhou An, however, was not afraid at all of Madman Zu Er, who had the courage to defeat tens of thousands of people. He smiled lightly and said, "Zhou came to Jinzhou with the intention of making a deal with Commander Zu!"

"Buy or sell?"

Zu Dashou shook his head and said: "I am not interested in doing business!"

"That's such a shame!"

Zhou An stood up, cupped his fists towards Zu Dashou and said, "Farewell Zhou!"

"Wait a minute!"

Although Zu Dashou was a little confused, he didn't want to miss anything. He didn't guess what kind of medicine Zhou An was selling in the gourd. But the problem was that as Cheng Shijie's subordinate, he couldn't offend him too much. This was Zu Dashou's way of doing things.

Tao, as long as there is no conflict of interests, he is willing to smile at any beggar. If there is a conflict of interests, he will fight until death.

"Commander Zu has changed his mind again?"

"Since it's a business, you always have to tell me what you want to sell, or what are you going to buy?"

"That's right, Zhou sold a group of people to Marshal Zu on behalf of his family's commander-in-chief!"

"Selling people?"

Zu Dashou shook his head and said: "Not interested!"

"Really not interested?"

Zhou An stared at Zu Dashou and smiled playfully.

Looking at Zhou An's face that needed a beating, Zu Dabi wanted to punch his face open.

"If I say that these people are all Marshal Zu's old subordinates, I wonder if Marshal Zu is willing to buy them back?"

"What did you say?"

Zu Dashou suddenly stood up, grabbed Zhou An and said, "What did you say?"

Zhou Andao said: "A part of Commander Zu's old army in Daling River has more than 8,000 people. It may be dead. If Commander Zu is unwilling to buy it, it is estimated that they will all die in the end!"

Zu Dashou's eyes met Zu Dabi's in the air. The two brothers were of the same mind and instantly became nervous.

"Come here, serve tea, serve good tea!"

Zu Dashou asked in confusion: "How come they are in the hands of Marshal Cheng?"

"Zu Shuai's old tribe surrendered to Jian Nu, and Jian Nu rewarded these people to Azig with a white flag. My commander-in-chief fought with Azig, and Azig was defeated. Zu Shuai's old tribe became

We are Marshal Cheng’s prisoner.”

Zhou An said with a serious face: "Although it is said that the Guan Ning Army and Ning Haijun have a close friendship, and Marshal Zu and our Marshal Cheng are also ministers in the same palace, the problem is that our Ning Haijun wants to take back these Guan Ning Army's

Brothers, there are heavy casualties. These brothers were tortured by the slaves. They are weak and people die every day because they can't hold on. We Marshal Cheng is kind-hearted and can't bear to see Guan Ningjun's brothers die miserably, so we will give them to them.

Buying medicine to treat injuries, not only the medicinal materials, but also their food is a huge sum of money. Our Ning Haijun is not as rich as Guan Ningjun, our Ning Haijun is poor..."

Zu Dashou believed Zhou An's words. He didn't know the strength of Ning Haijun, but he knew that with the strength of Guan Ning's army, if he wanted to defeat Azige with a white flag, he would have to mobilize at least 30,000 to 50,000 troops.

, with an advantage of at least six or seven times, and at the cost of tens of thousands of casualties, we could barely do it.

Ning Haijun defeated Jiannu's white flag and rescued more than 8,000 prisoners of Guan Ning's army from Jiannu. They would definitely suffer heavy casualties, and it was not too much to charge them for treatment and food.

The most difficult thing for Zu Dashou is that he has no one in his hands now. If he still has eight thousand old troops, Wu Sangui will never dare to get angry in front of him. He will be as obedient as he is.

The military is always a place that values ​​strength, and strength is everything.

"How much do you want?"

“I’m so embarrassed to ask for money!”

Zhou An smiled proudly and said: "According to our commander's wishes, each person will receive five taels of silver per day, or food of the same price..."

Zhou An's original intention was to ask for the price and ask Zu Dashou to pay back the money.

But the problem is that Zu Dashou is really short of these elites from the old army. Let alone five taels of silver per day, even if it is ten taels of silver per person per day, Zu Dashou will redeem these people even if they sell the iron.

"Okay, how much silver is needed? Please give me a detailed figure!"

"A person has five taels of silver per day. Calculated based on eight thousand people, one day is 40,000 taels of silver, and ten days is 400,000 taels of silver. Counting from the time when these Guan Ningjun brothers were rescued, there are a total of sixteen days. If calculated according to the distance

, Zhou needs sixteen days to return, so it will be thirty-two days, eight thousand people for thirty-two days, then it will take... 1.28 million taels of silver, rounded up, it will be 1.3 million taels of silver.

, no problem?"

"no problem!"

Zu Dashou agreed without hesitation.

Zhou An looked at Zu Dashou's appearance and was secretly surprised.

At the same time, he also regretted that his offer was too low, and he underestimated Zu Dashou's financial resources.

Zu Dashou served as a vanguard general for more than four years and inherited the training from his father Zu. In fact, in 1430, the fifth year of Xuande, as early as 200 years ago, Zu Dashou's ancestors and Zu Qing's family moved here and multiplied from generation to generation.

In the Ming Dynasty, Ningyuan's military positions were continuously promoted and he became a prominent Ningyuan family.

Zu Dashou is the chief soldier. Zu Dashou's father Zu Chengxun and his grandfather Zu Ren are both chief soldiers. They eat the empty quota and drink the soldiers' blood. Not to mention 1.3 million taels of silver, even if it is 3.11 million taels.

Zu Dashou can also get the silver.

However, Zhou An's words had been spoken, and there was no way to change them. Originally, Cheng Shijie only planned to squeeze hundreds of thousands of taels of silver from Zu Dashou, but he had already exceeded the set task.

Zhou An smiled and said: "Commander Zu, our Ning Navy is particularly short of cavalry right now. I wonder if Commander Zu can support some war horses. Of course, our Ning Navy can buy them, so we can buy them with redemption money..."

Before Zhou An could finish speaking, Zu Dashou asked: "I don't know General Zhou's authority..."

Zu Dashou originally wanted to buy some military exploits from Cheng Shijie. He believed that as long as he had money, there was nothing he couldn't do. If Cheng Shijie was willing to let go and write this battle as a victory document and personally prove that it was Guan Ningjun and Ning Haijun who fought together, then he
To be continued...