Yes, what Wang Qia said is precisely the disaster that has occurred over the past four years of war. This kind of thing has not been done in history.

After four years and three battles, the rest time was not enough. For the soldiers on the Nine-side who had been recruited several times, they would basically be ordered to go to the battle every few months of rest.

Although the imperial court gave generous rewards, they are human beings after all. If they are human beings, they will be exhausted physically and mentally. Are there few such examples in later generations?

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Zhu Youxiao was correcting, and Li Banghua advised:

"Your Majesty, I also know that the army's conquests and high opinions should not affect the front-line battle strategies, but this is the time to resolve the war on the Western Front once and for all."

Wang Qia also said: "Your Majesty still remember that when you first succeeded to the throne in the 47th year of Wanli, how many soldiers were registered in the Ming Dynasty on the nine sides?"

Zhu Youxiao didn't know about this, so he could only shake his head.

"Twenty-two thousand!" Wang Qia said loudly, "Until the fourth year of the Apocalypse, His Majesty launched three large-scale foreign wars, all of which won, both pros and cons!"

"The advantage is that the situation in the border area of ​​the Ming Dynasty is very good, and it has never been so good! But the disadvantage is the void of the elite border troops on the nine sides!"

"Nine borders still have 200,000 registered soldiers. But I am not afraid of death. Please listen carefully to your Majesty and punish me for being disrespectful!"

Wang Qia said, kowtowing three times in the Hall of Supreme Harmony.

"In the second year of the Apocalypse, there were two battles in the third year of the Apocalypse. After the war, there were also 20,000 or 30,000 or 30,000."

"The rest of these people, His Majesty has transferred more than 100,000 to Chahar, and the rest will be assigned to various important places to guard the border forts and post stations. Now in the hinterland of the Nine Borders, the motorized forces used to accompany the camp are less than 20,000."

"But at present, Jizhou has rectified its military equipment, and the soldiers there are almost no elites. After going to these, Your Majesty, there are actually no soldiers to adjust in the nine-sided towns!"

Speaking of this, Wang Qia's expression seemed a little sad.

Zhu Youxiao was like a bolt from the blue. He was too arrogant and focused on fighting Jiannu, killing the Western Lu, and his illusory civil and military skills. He did not notice that the elite troops on the Nine Borders had been seriously damaged.

As long as there is a failure, the Nine Borders will be in a slump. How the Jizhou Army declines is still in front of you. This is the last elite of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Youxiao once thought that even if he lost, he could afford to lose. Now it seems that he was wrong. Like Lindanbatur and Nurhaci, he could not afford to lose once.

Hearing this, Cui Chengxiu, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, felt a cold heart and suddenly felt that a disaster was coming.

This was his mistake when he was the Minister of War. First, because he did not understand military affairs at all. Second, he was devoted to Du Donglin and flattering Wei Zhongxian at that time, and did not care about the military preparations in various places.

This is why Wang Qiao, the next Minister of War, took office and found that the military preparations of the nine sides and various regions were sluggish and exhausted.

In fact, when he was the Minister of War, although Cui Chengxiu didn’t understand military affairs, he knew a little about some of the **s in the army everywhere.

For example, if a general was given a vacant salary, there were 500 infantry soldiers, but he was reported to him as two thousand.

For example, some generals treat the soldiers of the official family as their own tenant farmers, farm and transport them, and they do all their private affairs.

The reason why the Shanxi and Shaanxi Governor Zhu Xieyuan was unable to lead his army out of seclusion was because he discovered these situations when he was rectifying the military facilities of the Shanxi and Shaanxi Victims.

At present, Zhu Xieyuan is fighting with local military generals there.

Cui Chengxiu knew all these, but he didn't take them seriously, nor did he know what to do. He didn't expect that the current Ming Dynasty official army had reached this point.

Of course, he understood the meaning of "no soldiers to adjust" in Wang Qia's words. No one in the court's civil and military affairs is a fool!

The meaning of this is that the Ming Dynasty can now be used to fight, including the Nine Bian Army and the Yongwei Camp.

Once the troops are used in other places in the future, the border troops and the Yongwei Battalion will be restrained, and the official troops in other parts of the Central Plains will not be able to take on major responsibilities.

Because even the Ministry of War, I don’t know what the real situation of the troops in various places is now, who is worried that something will happen to send such officers and soldiers to fight.

Once the failure occurs once, the fatigue of the official army is discovered by the bandits, and it will become a bottomless pit!

After a long silence in the hall, Zhu Youxiao came back from his thoughts and immediately threw the memorial to the stairs, scolding: "Cui Chengxiu--! How did you become the Minister of War over the years?"

"Why don't you report these things to me earlier!"

Cui Chengxiu has been thinking about countermeasures since he just started. He has been an official in the court for many years and has already understood the general trends of the three parties. Although he is not good at military affairs, he has his own strengths.

Without this kind of flexibility, he would not have been able to stand in the court for so long.

He quickly stepped forward and said:

"Your Majesty, these are all my sins. My previous resignation was because these disasters were not handled in a timely manner, which caused inconvenience to the court."

"I will go back and sell my family's wealth. I will get 800,000 taels of silver. Now the West Wing is in a tight position and I can use it all for military expenses!"

"In this way, there is no need to embezzle Your Majesty's treasury, you can collect enough troops, horses, food and money from the Northern Expedition Army in one month, and even the weapons and armor of the new army in Jizhou are almost the same."

After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao's expression changed.

Seeing that the emperor's expression changed, Cui Chengxiu was afraid of remorse and shouted:

"Your Majesty, as long as you can protect the country and make meritorious service in the Ming Dynasty, even if you spend all your money, what will you do?"

After saying that, Cui Chengxiu bowed her head to the ground, which attracted many discussions from the ministers.

This 800,000 taels is indeed his entire wealth. He has been a greedy person for so many years, but basically the majority of the money was taken by Wei Zhongxian and the emperor.

Now that I have saved this little money, I planned to return to my hometown to buy land this year, but I didn’t expect that the disaster would come and I had to spend money to avoid disaster!

Cui Chengxiu thought about it for a long time before, but now the only way is to have this one. If he doesn’t produce heavy blood and express his attitude to the emperor, it will be over.

If you feel sorry for such a little money and can't come up with any practical solution, you can't even do the Minister of Revenue. If you lose the emperor's trust, you will only die even worse.

If you lose your family fortune, you can still be greedy. If the emperor's trust is gone, nothing will be gone.

Zhu Youzhao had a relative government office, so people like Cui Chengxiu naturally had to investigate. I knew in my heart that his entire property was no more than one million taels.

I don’t know if this 800,000 taels can be matched with the food and salary for the front line for a month, but this is at least an attitude.

At least, Cui Chengxiu reacted so quickly that he took out almost all his property for emergency response. Isn’t this much better than the Donglin Qunxian, who was still stubborn in the later generations, who were still stubborn?

Thinking of this, Zhu Youxiao's expression eased a little.

Indeed, Cui Chengxiu proposed a solution, which is a solution that embezzles silver money from other places and dismantles the east wall to repair the west wall. Sooner or later, it will collapse.

If Sun Chuanting was affected by this, he would replicate a battle in the Persimmon Garden, and he would eventually be threatened, even the entire Ming Dynasty.

"What do you think?"

Hearing this, the ministers looked at each other and spoke in a lot, but in the end no one said anything.

Now that Cui Chengxiu has taken out the 800,000 taels, at least there is a place to pay for money, the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Revenue have nothing to say.

After all, Zhu Youxiao is different from four years ago. The Ministry of War and the Ministry of Revenue are silent. The censors of the Censorate naturally dare not directly contradict the Holy Will.

As we saw, the tone of this court meeting was about to be set.
Chapter completed!