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Chapter 452 (Three hundred and fifty-one)

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    At this time, Zhang Huanghu has a strong army and horses, and his strength is extremely strong.

    Although Shang Meizhang's troops are elite soldiers, but the number of them is not large, and he has gone through many battles, chasing the bandits all the way and running around. At this time, he has just fought against Fang Jianfang and needs to rest urgently, so he does not intend to  Leading them to face Zhang Huanghu, who was in full swing at this time, he stood still for the time being.

    At this time, in Wuchang City, there is a shortage of major generals, and the defense is empty.  A group of local gentry officials had no choice but to find a way to recruit troops to defend.

    However, conscription requires money. To be a soldier, you need to pay for settlement and food, but the treasury in Wuchang Mansion is now so empty that even a mouse would sigh and shed tears after walking around in it. Where can there be food and money for conscription?

    The imperial court hasn't even paid officials' salaries for several years.

    Someone then thought of Zhu Huakui, the king of Chu. As a royal vassal, he owned thousands of hectares of farmland rewarded by the emperor.  Stealing and plundering, cruelly depriving the people, so his family has accumulated millions of dollars, and the money is like dirt.

    The country gentry publicly recommended He Yuxian, a senior scholar, and Shi, the third secretary, to the Chu Palace to ask the Chu King to lend them 300,000 taels of silver to recruit soldiers, and then pay him back when the rent and taxes in the coming year come up.

    The king of Chu didn't say that he didn't want to borrow. He said that it is the duty of the imperial court to suppress bandits. It is not suitable for the royal family to participate in matters such as recruiting soldiers.  And if you can't collect it, you all know that the Chu Palace has such a big family business, why don't you want money?  Nowadays, food and clothing expenses are also embarrassing. We are still worrying about where to get a injection of money to tide over the difficulties, and where is the money?

    Just like this, He Yuxian and the chief of the third division, Shi, hit a soft nail and came out.  There is no money to recruit troops, but Wuchang Mansion still has to be defended. Zhang Huanghu's team may arrive at the city someday.

    The big country gentry in Wuchang Mansion have their manor roots here, and it is impossible for them to give up the manor to escape, which is almost equivalent to giving up everything about themselves.

    However, the officials of Wuchang Mansion are responsible for guarding the land. If they abandon the city and run away now, and the court blames them, it will be a crime of ransacking their homes and destroying their families.

    So everyone recommended He Yuxian, a senior scholar, to write a letter to Shang Meizhang, who is currently standing still downstream, hoping that he can quickly send troops to attack Zhang Huanghu and defend Wuchang City.

    In the letter, He Yuxian stated the current situation facing Wuchang City, and said that Wuchang City was of great military and strategic significance for resisting bandits. By the way, he also mentioned that he and other gentry and officials wanted to recruit troops to defend, but suffered from lack of food and pay, so they asked the king of Chu for help.  , but the king of Chu did not agree.

    Shang Meizhang quickly replied to the letter. He said in the letter that he was now defending the border between Sichuan, Shaanxi, Hubei and Hunan, preventing the bandits from going south and north, especially guarding against the big bandit Li Wuke.  Although he was beaten away, he was not completely wiped out. He was still active nearby, and was slowly regrouping, showing signs of resurgence. His army was unable to rush to Wuchang Mansion for a while.

    In the letter, he praised He Yuxian's idea of ??recruiting troops for defense, and suggested in the letter that he try to borrow money from the King of Chu again.

    He attached a letter to the King of Chu, in which he stated his interests, and assured the King of Chu that as long as the King of Chu could provide him with a salary of 100,000 soldiers, he would be able to keep Wuchang City.

    Shang Meizhang's idea was to borrow money from the king of Chu to expand his army. On the one hand, he kept Wuchang City and could be rewarded for his meritorious service in the court.

    But the king of Chu still had two excuses, one was that the royal law cannot be broken, and the vassal kings cannot interfere in politics, let alone such things as recruiting soldiers with money, and the other was crying for poverty.  The Chu Palace should respond in an emergency.

    After Shang Meizhang got this letter, he no longer cared about it.  Not to mention that Zhang Huanghu is in great power now, if he wins the fight, even if he wins, the court will not reward him much, and his own army will definitely be damaged.

    Now at this time, there are not many people in the court who are doing things attentively, and the emperor in the palace is not sympathetic to his ministers at all.  Just kill him, he is still leading the army today, but tomorrow he will be caught in Beijing and sent to prison, and he will be asked to lead the army the day after tomorrow.

    The son fought on the front line, but the father was imprisoned.  The imperial court could not pay the food and salaries, and the eunuchs and local civil servants who supervised the army were greedy for the military salaries, which led to the mutiny of the soldiers. In the end, it was the generals who led the troops who were punished, regardless of whether they participated or not.

    Even a titan who has always won battles, as long as he makes a slight mistake, he will be arrested and returned to the court, accused and beheaded.  Titan He Feihu, that is the name Zhang Huanghu and Li Wuke were afraid of when they heard it in their dreams.Just because of a defeat on the battlefield, and the main reason was not with him, other colleagues who were more at fault than him but had a harder background put all the faults on him and were killed by the court.  The old emperor didn't ask clearly at all. In his eyes, the ministers and the generals who fought were slaves who worked hard, and there was no distinction between superiors and inferiors. If you kill one, you will kill it. If you kill one, there will be countless others.

    And when He Feihu died, Zhang Huanghu and Li Wuke all celebrated.

    Shang Meizhang has seen through all this a long time ago. Now only by holding soldiers in his hands can he save his life and his own glory and wealth.  Not free from death.

    Wuchang, whoever he loves, he doesn't intend to go into this muddy water, the people of your old Zhu's family don't care, let alone him.

    Of course, he also has no manor property in Wuchang Mansion.

    He Yuxian and the others met two soft nails in a row with the king of Chu, and there was no reply after the second letter from Shang Meizhang, so they had no choice but to "ask for others rather than themselves".

    He Yuxian called together the country gentry and wealthy households, and asked them to donate money to recruit country soldiers.

    The country gentry and rich households originally planned to count on the imperial court, but now it seems that the imperial court can no longer count on it, but the manor and family property are their own. Once the bandits come, they will burn, kill and loot, and they will have nothing. I am afraid that they will lose their lives.  .

    So they stopped being stingy and took out the silver one after another.

    It is easy to do things with money, and soon the work of recruiting rural soldiers began.

    As the saying goes, "there is no such thing as a road to heaven", and they encountered a good opportunity to recruit rural soldiers this time.

    If the soldiers were recruited from ordinary people's homes, they would not know how to fight at the beginning, and they would inevitably lose their combat effectiveness when they rushed to the battlefield and needed training.  But if you can recruit veterans who have already been trained, you will get twice the result with half the effort.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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