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Chapter 416: Strategic Direction

In March of the fourth year of Chongzhen, the new Zhengke and Enke exams were successfully concluded. According to the rules of the previous year, these tribute students were placed to go to various places to take office. Zhao Xing found that because he transferred money everywhere, the Ming Dynasty's finances were all alleviated. Wen Tiren had just taken office, and the issue of increasing Liao salary was originally aggravated the vicious cycle of the situation in the Ming Dynasty, but because he had been betrayed by everyone, he was not mentioned.

Therefore, in order to reduce the military expenditure pressure of the Ming Dynasty again, Zhao Xing prepared to reorganize the whole country's army and lay off the old and weak's policy of only raising soldiers who can fight. He would never let Sun Chuanting say that if there were soldiers to pay for the money, there would be no one to fight, and when there was no war, he would finish half of the work of reorganizing the border army.

Speaking of reorganizing the border army, reducing military expenditures, and enhancing the combat effectiveness of bandit suppression, Zhao Xing had no choice but to find that he had been in the Ming Dynasty and had nothing to do in the past two years, and always wanted to convince his mother to run away with him.

After I was in operation and gaining power, I started to do the serious business that a time traveler should do. As a result, I had done half of the work, but the remaining three salt inspectors had not yet moved. This was a half-finished project, and it was unfinished.

Then he rectified the border troops and used his own personal payment to reduce the number of military salaries, but there was no follow-up. Another half-finished project was unfinished.

When fighting Huang Taiji, he just drove Huang Taiji away in advance. In fact, he still didn't do anything about him. This is another half-finished project, and it's unfinished.

Then the reconstruction of Dongjiang Town was quite large, but the subsequent resignation was left unattended, and the half-finished project was unfinished.

Chasing Li Zicheng is even more of a half-finished, a landmark building in the unfinished end.

Then we will rectify the administration. Now that the airs are put on, I don’t know if it is broken or not. There is also land reform—

After doing so many big things, none of them had a perfect ending. To count them, I was busy than the cabinet chief and worried more than the emperor. You said that you were a commander of the Jinyiwei, how could you do nothing about yourself and not do your job properly?

Therefore, Zhao Xing thought that he had finally had time to finish all the half-finished projects, and after all the unfinished projects, he would do a safe job in the Jinyiwei's arrest, exploitation and extortion. He would enjoy the filial piety of his mother, love his sister, love his wife, raise his future children, and enjoy the corrupt and corrupt life of this feudal society.

So he decided to start with the reduction of the army. As long as the army becomes stronger and the funds are reduced, everything will be natural.

However, while he was writing the reorganization plan day and night, the Jinyiwei Liaodong Investigation sent back an intelligence, and Huang Taiji was ready to recruit soldiers across the country, which immediately reminded Zhao Xing of a major event that happened in the fourth year of Chongzhen, the Battle of Dalinghe in Zu Dashou.

In a battle where Zu Dashou sieges the city and was defeated in a starvation, Zu Dashou ate all the people in Dalinghe City had to surrender and flee back.

How can such a thing happen again as a time traveler in power?

In this way, the matter of originally planning to propose to the Ministry of War Cabinet and the Emperor to rectify the national army can only be left.

With this information, please see the emperor. This time, Chongzhen attached great importance to the information of the Jinyiwei because he suffered the great loss of the last Jiannu invasion. He immediately summoned the cabinet Wen Tiren, Sun Chengzong of the Ministry of War, and Yang Sichang of the Ministry of Revenue to gather Zhao Xing to hold a small question in Jiying Hall.

"Wen Aiqing, have all military expenditures in western Liaoning last quarter been allocated?"

Wen Tiren replied gentlely: "I have already written to the Ministry of Revenue."

Chongzhen looked at Yang Sichang: "Have you paid?"

Yang Sichang said: "I will make half of the payment for verification."

"Why?"

"I think that if Master Sun blindly builds defense, there is no need to raise the Guanning Iron Cavalry that was originally mobile, which cost countless Guanning Iron Cavalry."

Sun Chengzong's character was old and stronger. He refuted at the time: "The Guanning Iron Cavalry cannot be cut off, but must be strengthened."

Yang Sichang said tepidly: "Since you need to strengthen, you should be the Guanning Iron Cavalry who took the initiative to attack, and you should not spend countless Zhu Lei."

As soon as such words came out, Sun Chengzong was speechless at that time.

Yang Sichang smiled at Sun Chengzong apologetically, and then said with confidence: "Since Zhu Lei, the Guanning Iron Cavalry is useless. Since Guanning Iron Cavalry is useful, then Zhu Lei is useless. So I only allocated half of it and asked Master Sun to choose."

This is very reasonable, and according to the truth, it is indeed impeccable. In order to strengthen his own principles, Yang Sichang also turned to Zhao Xing and said, "Agoing the Jizhou military congress, the commander-in-chief also suggested this, right?"

Zhao Xing grinned and threw this matter to himself. Of course, he didn't want to deny it at this time, so he nodded to Chongzhen: "Jiannu fled a few years ago, and I did make such suggestions to Master Sun and General Man Gui."

Sun Chengzong immediately stood up: "Boy, I accepted your advice at that time, but was this a matter of one stroke? You will ruin the country."

Zhao Xingqian smiled: "Of course, this is a major strategic adjustment and cannot be changed in a short time. This year, under the leadership of Master Sun, the military expenditure in western Liaoning has been reduced by half compared to Yuan Chonghuan's time in power."

Chongzhen muttered: "Don't mention that bastard, he's disgusting."

Sun Chengzong immediately changed the topic: "Although the military expenditure was reduced by half, it did not mean that Guanning's iron cavalry would not be raised, Zhu Lei could not do it. For example, Jinzhou, which was half-finished, should be completed, and Daling River, which was oppressed by Jiannu, must be built. Daling River will be the base for our Guanning to advance to Liaodong, and it is also a barrier to retreat once things go over and over again. Therefore, last month, I ordered the former general Zu Dashou to build Daling River City, so there were so many funding requests. But Yang Sichang, who was infatuated, cut off half of it with the paradox, resulting in only half of the Daling River being built and had to stop working."

Sun Chengzong can call Yang Sichang directly here as a bullshit, and call Zhao Xing directly as a kid, he has his qualifications. If you scold you, you have to listen.

He can be disrespectful to the elderly, but you cannot be disrespectful to the elderly and love the young.

However, this made the atmosphere much easier for the originally serious platform to summon the platform.

Chongzhen took out Zhao Xing's information at this time: "This time, Liaodong Jinyiwei sent back the information, and Jiannu Huang Taiji was ready to move again, and he was about to make big moves. What is Wen Aiqing's judgment?"

After Wen Tiren was passionate and passionate, he said nothing but empty words, but there was nothing real.

Chongzhen sighed in his heart: "It's just a nerd. Apart from the party struggles, it's useless. If I didn't need the party struggles, I would have kicked you to death now."

Chongzhen saw that Wen Tiren was really accurate, but he was still very proud of Wen Tiren. The current chief minister of the cabinet was blindly fighting in the party and internal struggle, but no longer fighting with the imperial power. The cabinet followed everything the emperor wanted to do, which made many things Chongzhen wanted to do smoothly pass. The main struggle of the Ming court seemed to have been eliminated and made the entire court start to operate normally.

This is a good thing.

So he looked at Zhao Xing.

Zhao Xing deliberately pondered for a moment and said deeply: "According to my estimate, Huang Taiji will not do the last method to invade Jingji this time."

This is what Chongzhen was afraid of. He was really scared by Huang Taiji's black tiger.

"Why do you say that?" You have to ask this question accurately before you can feel at ease. You are not careless.

Zhao Xing relied on his historical experience and confidently 'analyses': "Last time Huang Taiji caught us off guard, which made him take advantage of it. But the final result was that he lost 20,000 Zhenjuchens and 30,000 to 40,000 Mongolian troops returned in a mess. This time, the same trick was repeated again, and we already had experience (not yet prepared) to deal with it. At the same time, his strength did not allow him to take risks again. If he summoned the Mongolian Allied Forces again, it would be impossible, so he would not jump into our pit stupidly. If he really dared to jump into our pit, I would dare to bury it."

Sun Chengzong also said: "Last time I was implicated by that traitor, Guan Ning did not dare to act rashly, but I returned to western Liaoning and comforted me. They were already at ease. If he dared to come again, I would attack all the way, dig his nest, enter the pass and join the meeting."

Chongzhen was relieved to hear such an explanation.
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