My God, I am the emperor, the lord of mankind.

Chapter 251 The North
After all, they are all the real beneficiaries of the north as Li Wenzhong calls them.

He was born in the north, grew up in the north, and may be buried in the north when he dies.

For a long time, as the backbone of the Ming court's military power, the north had borne huge military pressure.

The north produces people, the south produces food, and each performs his or her own duties.

Now some people in the imperial court want to use the issue of grain adjustment in Zhejiang as an excuse.

How could these Ming court generals not feel uneasy?

"Tomorrow we will send light cavalry along the coast to investigate the shark caves along the coast. After ascertaining the true and false facts, the imperial court will send troops to clear them out——"

"By the way, when the fleet is in place, the sailors recruited from the southern provinces can also cooperate with the imperial soldiers to eliminate the sharks."

Zhu Houcong said, the slightly strange attitudes of the Ming generals in front of him were naturally noticed by him.

However, Li Wenzhong's memorial has not yet been submitted to the imperial court, and the imperial war on the coast has not yet ended.

Now is not the time for a showdown between Zhu Houcong and these civil and military ministers.

The ideas of Li Wenzhong and Jinling Southern officials are actually easy to understand.

In the final analysis, it is a question of resource allocation.

Because the Ming Dynasty has been experiencing constant wars for decades.

In order to make up for military needs, the imperial court squeezed the Southeast, which was still relatively stable, too hard.

The gold, silver and grain in the southeastern treasury were plundered by the imperial court through various means. Even the wealth of the people was collected into the northern treasury through taxes and high corvee.

Of course, the Ming Dynasty could not get much profit from the wealthy families before Zhu Houcong came to power.

Those who can plunder are ordinary farmers and small traders.

The people have been squeezed to the limit, if Zhu Houcong hadn't come to power and unleashed a wave of powerful people, and through the Datong Mutiny, he had unleashed a wave of blood on all the powerful people in the world.

Then the various warlords, rebel bandits, and peasant armies in the early Jiajing years will most likely continue to emerge in endlessly like in the previous life.

This made even the people in BJ City panic. Officials were robbed by horse bandits as soon as they left the city in broad daylight, and they ran back to the capital naked to report the crime.

Instead of like now, when the imperial court has money, it can also pay some salaries to officials at all levels to maintain the operation of the imperial bureaucracy.Let the knights from the patrol camp eliminate banditry around the capital and maintain law and order.

By the way, local officials were asked to transport food from wealthy areas to disaster-stricken areas.

Set up porridge sheds to distribute some food to the refugees so that they will not starve to death.

It is precisely because of this that we can see that the country is getting better little by little, and there is still hope for saving the country.

Only then did Li Wenzhong decide to risk his life.

Trying to fundamentally change the current distorted pattern in which the burden of running the entire empire falls entirely on the lower class society in the southeast.

Zhu Houcong expressed his appreciation for this.

It means that the warlords and generals in the north and the gentry and landlords in the south should have beaten them hard long ago.

The gentry in the south can cut flesh with a big knife, but the generals in the north have to take it step by step.

Once the sharks are defeated, the Mongols in the north, the demons in the northwest, and the Jurchens in the northeast will all need to be defeated.

So far it seems they are still of some use.

However, starting from Xianzong in the north, because the imperial court could not pay military salaries, the various regions in the Nine Borders were asked to raise their own funds to fill military needs, creating warlords in the towns of the Nine Borders.

It would be better to deal with them first.

Taking advantage of the mutiny in Datong, he sent Jin Yiwei to attack Xuanfu, one of the three major towns, who was ready to make a move during the mutiny.

The general of Xuan Mansion and all his cronies were slaughtered in public, and the news spread that Jiu Bian had frightened a wave of arrogant generals and various warlords from Jiu Bian.During this period of time, after witnessing the Ming Dynasty's invincible conquests in the east and west, and realizing that the Ming Dynasty gradually regained its strength and began to reorganize many forces in the country, these nine-sided generals became much more honest.

In addition, the imperial court began to make up for the previous arrears.

He honestly cooperated with the imperial court in the reorganization and restructuring of the Beijing Army and the Northern Army.

However, due to the financial problems and strategic contraction of the Ming court in the past few decades, the rise of warlords and generals within the Ming army in the north is still a big hidden danger.

You can take advantage of this opportunity to deal with it as soon as possible.

While Zhu Houcong was thinking about how to deal with the northern warlords.

The Ming army generals in front of him provided Zhu Houcong with a new idea.

"Your Majesty, news came from the Governor's Office of the Fifth Army last night. It has been confirmed that Ananda Khan has led his tribes to fight against the khanates in the Western Regions. Now his brother Ji Nang is sitting in the royal court, restraining his tribesmen, and interacting with the Mongolian Khan Bodi Khan. During the confrontation, we no longer have time to look south - and most of our soldiers are veterans of the southwest expedition. In the future, when they have time to repair, they will join your majesty on the eastward expedition again. After several years of expeditions, they have become extremely tired... Can we second elite troops from the important towns in the north for rotation? This will also allow Jiubian Are the warriors sharing your Majesty's worries?"

At this time, Liu Zhong, who was originally the commander of the Military and Horse Division of the Five Cities, was later transferred to the Commander-in-Chief of the Fifth Army to join the army when it went on an expedition.

Zhu Houcong was quite happy when he heard this.

Although it was probably the discussion among the civil servants on the other side of the big tent today that made them, the generals, feel a bit of a sense of crisis.

At this time, they are eager to show their importance through military exploits in order to obtain more resources in this system.

and maintain their current status.

"Yes! I don't know how long it will take to arrive if a letter is sent at this time."

Zhu Houcong asked.

Seeing the emperor was faintly moved, after all, most of the soldiers in the Ming army were still just mortals.

Long-term military life is undoubtedly a torture for them both mentally and physically.

Liu Zhong was overjoyed and said quickly.

"The Chen family has lived in Liaodong for a long time. They have mastered the secret technique of training falcons since they were young. They can travel thousands of miles in a day. If your Majesty is willing, you only need to send orders to all ministries. I will fly to the north and pass on your Majesty's edict. In less than half a month, the army can reach Jinling. , march forward for His Majesty!"

Since he was from Liaodong and joined the Beijing army, he probably settled down in the capital during the Wu Zong period by taking advantage of the opportunity to go to Beijing for training.

The art of training falcons is mostly a technique used by Jurchens and Korean hunters.

In the Han Dynasty, most of the people who kept small falcons were high-ranking officials and nobles who liked to hunt. The raptors they kept were generally small in size and were used to drive away warnings and for their owners to hunt and play.

The border generals in Liaodong tended to breed medium-sized or relatively large raptors such as golden eagles, gyrfalcons, and Haidongqing. First, they wanted to show their status and distinguish themselves from the wealthy families in the mainland. Second, they also deliberately disgusted those in the capital who only knew how to have fun. , but can rely on his own background to easily inherit his father's position in the Beijing army, which means that he is a noble person.

It is not surprising that the wealthy family of Jurchen Korea went to the Ming Dynasty at this time.

It seems that starting from the late Wanli period, a large number of Han people sneaked across the Liaodong front line and went to Manchuria to join Nurha and Huang Taiji.

Then I suddenly changed my identity and said that I was an out-and-out Manchu noble!Directly transform into a Jurchen slave owner!Let this fashionable and relatively simple Jurchen experience the cruel exploitation system of the Ming Dynasty.

Many Jurchens called out the brutality and repeatedly expressed the hope that the Heavenly Soldiers would come to save them.

After entering the customs, these Jurchens found that the so-called soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were really stretched, so they simply supported Emperor Yongli to fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty. After hearing the news, the Han general Wu Sangui brought all the elite soldiers of the Ming Dynasty to these Jurchen Qing Dynasties. It's a treacherous plot.

Fearing that someone would try to support Emperor Yongli again, Wu Sangui strangled Emperor Yongli to death at the speed of light.

Looking at Liu Zhong, who was most likely his ancestor Run who settled in Liaodong during the Ming Dynasty, his appearance was indeed slightly different from that of the Han people.

However, Zhu Houcong didn't think of him differently because of this.

As long as you believe in Chinese orthodoxy and maintain order.

Zhu Houcong was happy to share wealth and power with them.

(End of this chapter)