But these hundreds of thousands of taels of wealth are accumulated bit by bit by myself, and now suddenly I have to take out 100 thousand taels of silver to waste water. If a normal person is in the mind, it will be particularly uncomfortable.
As time went by, perhaps it was because Qian Zongshu was tired of scolding, perhaps because the cavalry company commander was indifferent and made him feel that it was meaningless to continue scolding, and his face was still full of anger. Qian Zongshu finally stopped.
Staring at a pair of eyes, staring at the cavalry company commander in front to see if there is any room for relaxation.
However, Qian Zongshu was disappointed. From the calm face of the cavalry company commander, Qian Zongshu clearly felt that he would never leave Beijing today if he didn’t pay it.
After taking a deep breath, Qian Zongshu directly recruited his housekeeper and ordered, "Leave two silver cars and two thousand silver to this general. We will go out of the city with the left cart … The Beijing city official doesn’t want to stay any longer …"
When I was in the mansion, I left a lot of property because of the rules of the Tiger and Leopard Army. Now I left the city and left two thousand silver again.
At this time, Mrs. Qian Zongshu, who was wronged all the way, finally broke out and rushed directly to Qian Zongshu and cried, "Sir, these silver can never be handed over. This is the silver we have worked so hard to accumulate … You are not cabinet records. Why are you afraid of these soldiers?"
When I heard that my wife had gone too far, there was also a mass of anger in her heart. There was no place to send money. Zongshu directly pointed the finger at her wife and scolded, "You are a woman’s family. What do you know … The housekeeper dragged her back to the carriage and tied her up? No one can let her out without changing orders …"
In this way, Zong Shu, who paid twenty-two thousand silver dollars, had to leave Beijing to follow Chongzhen to Nanjing with anger and humbling, with the remaining cart and dozens of family confidants.
Qian Zongshu, the records of the imperial court cabinet, surrendered to the tiger and leopard army, which was a sky-high price out of the city, and even worse, his civil and military minister
In just one day, the tiger and leopard troops guarding the major gates of the capital received almost 3.52 million silver from the hands of royalty and civil and military officials.
And as time goes on, more and more people will leave the city.
But this is only the first difficulty that these people need to go to Nanjing.
When the motorcades left Beizhili in a mighty way, they were connected. Tiger and Leopard troops controlled Shandong and Shanxi, and the records of Houge, Qian Zongshu, had to face a problem. After several days of traveling, everyone had eaten all the dry food they carried with them.
In this case, Qian Zongshu’s first reaction was to buy grain with silver along the way.
So more than a dozen confidants directly dispersed to the villages on both sides of the road to buy food from the people …
But in front of him, the fact once again disappointed him. He went out to buy a soldier’s confidant and returned home. Even if he paid five times more than ten times the price to buy food from the people in Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces, no one sold the food to himself, even some coarse grains that he didn’t look at at at ordinary times could not be bought.
Faced with this problem, Qian Zongshu immediately thought of a rule in the Tiger and Leopard Army Agreement.
All the officials and relatives who moved to Nanjing will not be replenished after entering the area controlled by the Tiger and Leopard Army. I hope that everyone can bring enough food when they leave Beijing.
For Qian Zongshu, the best way to ensure that all his family members and confidants can get out of Shanshan area smoothly without going hungry is to vacate a cart to load food.
However, how can anyone be willing to pack very cheap food with a limited cart when even the property can’t be loaded? Besides, who will take this sentence seriously when they are leaving Beijing?
So the officials who went into Shanshan area and almost ten thousand people who were related to their relatives and the country fell into a crisis of ensuring grain at the same time as if they had discussed it.
Of course, these relatives and officials with large sums of money did not compromise.
If there is silver in their eyes, nothing is impossible.
But these people obviously underestimated the influence and appeal of the Tiger and Leopard Army in this area.
No one sold them food no matter how much money they paid. What’s more, people on both sides of the road avoided them as if they saw the plague …
As a last resort, these hungry officials and relatives can pin their hopes on escorting along the way, hoping to buy some life-saving food from the Tiger and Leopard Army.
"This little general, we haven’t eaten for a day. I wonder if your army can sell us some food. We are willing to pay a high price to buy it …" A senior official of the imperial court was as nervous as talking to Emperor Chongzhen, and asked a company commander of a tiger and leopard army around him.
The company commander didn’t refuse to hesitate, but directly offered an unprecedented price …
"But our report said that we can take out some stores and sell them to you … but the price is a little high …"
The official said with a happy face, "Now the food price is five taels of silver a load. I am willing to pay five taels of silver to buy a load of food from the Tiger and Leopard Army …"
In the face of ten times the high price, the official will certainly agree, but the real situation is beyond his expectation again.
Without thinking about the high price of 50 taels of silver, the company commander refused, "No, it’s too low … If you vacate a cart to load food according to the report’s order, this will not happen, but you actually opened the cart to load food with silver, which is why you are not."
"So our sovereign decided to ask you to leave the grain cart with silver, and we will fill the grain cart with enough grain for you to leave Shanshan area …" The second official of the imperial court just turned white the implied meaning in the words of the tiger and leopard army in the blink of an eye, and then wish appeared in an unprecedented shock.
Chapter five hundred and sixteen Veteran value
"You mean a couple of silver and a couple of grains … at such a high price, I just haven’t heard of what you don’t rob …"
Not only the official of this imperial court, but also the company commander of Tiger and Leopard Army, who said this price, thought it was too high, because it was not selling grain at all …
However, in front of the military order, the company commander recognized that these people would not buy it, but they still expressed their feelings and said the price, and then quietly looked at each other and waited for each other to come up with the final decision.
And the present situation once again surprised everyone.
Just let out an exclamation, the second official of the court did not leave directly with anger, but quickly lost in thought.
Family members protect the whole team. There are 60 people who need to support themselves. According to the calculation of two kilograms of grain per person per day, 1,000 kilograms of grain can just fill a big car in half a month …
Buying at the price of one tael of silver and one tael of grain is 12 thousand silver, which is also the capacity of an ordinary carriage.
In the face of this situation, I feel the hunger that has been stuck on my chest and back. Although I am very saddened by this 12 thousand silver, this court official still does not hesitate to nod and agree to pay the silver for food …
Wei Zheng, who is far away from Beijing, doesn’t know these specific things, but he clearly knows that in just a few days, the Tiger and Leopard Army collected 12 million silver from senior officials and relatives who have left Beijing by collecting money and selling food.
It is possible to add 220 million more than 320 million to their property and residence in Beijing.
But at this moment, Wei Zheng has no idea to care about the silver.
Because there is something more important for him to do than silver, that is, recruiting soldiers from tens of thousands of border troops
When Emperor Chongzhen left Beijing, he took away 10,000 imperial troops, but Beijing still stationed 40,000 battle-hardened border troops, and according to the agreement, these 40,000 border troops will leave Beijing for Nanjing in two days.
When the imperial court gives Wei Zheng, it will take two days. When two days, Wei Zheng can keep 40 thousand soldiers in the border army and let them join the tiger and leopard army. It depends on Wei Zheng.
And the first problem that needs to be solved in order to let these border soldiers leave the imperial court and stay in Beijing to join the Tiger and Leopard Army is to enter the military camp to contact these border soldiers …
In order to solve this problem, a large amount of silver in the handshake played an important role again.
To say that the most pitiful group of people in the dynasty are soldiers besides the army.
Due to the influence of the great dynasty, even officers in the army scattered around the country did not have a high status, and the court often made ends meet, and the status of soldiers in arrears was even lower because there was no silver soldier.
I don’t have to say much about my low status. What’s more important is that I have risked my life to kill the enemy in the battlefield and I haven’t got the reward I deserve.
It will certainly be very irritating to watch the generals in the army who are lower than themselves in the imperial court and can be popular in the rear while they are desperately fighting for the front line with meager pay.
In this case, it is a common practice in the army of the dynasty to get money to eat and deduct money from the soldiers’ salaries.
But how much silver can you get just by relying on these generals?
All the military commanders in big officialdom are the poorest except Beijing.
I have worked hard for half a generation, and it is hard for Beijing to save a family business by drinking blood from soldiers. As the emperor moved the capital, the Ministry had to give up.
Those rich civil servants and royalty are nothing. They are strong, well, they can easily buy a new family business in Nanjing, but they can’t do it without enough money.
Tens of thousands of soldiers were in a state of panic after the imperial edict army moved their capital.
In particular, generals at all levels in the military are directly confused about their future.
And just then, a message came as quickly as a gust of wind, and the generals at all levels of the army opened …
"Tiger and Leopard Army welcomes all generals to encourage people to join Tiger and Leopard Army and encourage a veteran to join Tiger and Leopard Army. Tiger and Leopard Army will pay twelve silvers. If the general himself is willing to join Tiger and Leopard Army, Tiger and Leopard Army will give a one-time payment ranging from one hundred to twelve thousand silvers to settle down … but all generals who join Tiger and Leopard Army must re-enter the military school from the military orders of Tiger and Leopard Army to study and rearrange their military positions and ranks according to their academic achievements …"
Zheng Yin was distressed by the news, and the generals in the army immediately moved.
Of course, some people may say that these generals dare not do it even if they want military veterans to exchange silver.
After losing soldiers, even if they arrived in Nanjing, they would be beheaded by the angry Emperor Chongzhen.
But there is a good saying that there are policies and countermeasures.
Although the veterans have no equipment, they can still go to Nanjing Road by themselves to make up for the vacancies in the generals …
Of course, there are also some military generals who are directly interested in the idea of joining the Tiger and Leopard Army.
For these people, they are all real soldiers, and what the imperial court has done has disappointed them again and again. It seems that there is no future for the imperial court to move around. It is better to join the Tiger and Leopard Army and continue to stay in northern Zhili to fight with the Tiger and Leopard Army.
Of course, the strict military discipline of the Tiger and Leopard Army is far from the imperial court … which is also a fatal factor to attract them.
In this way, in just one day, when Wei Zheng arranged the recruiting point at the entrance of the military camp, he received more than 5,000 veterans from loyalist generals at all levels.
Although Wei Zheng paid tens of thousands of taels of silver, Wei Zheng felt no heartache at all.