It’s okay, I’ll pay for it first, and this matter must not be delayed!

This is true in history, Chongzhen’s original deity said it.

During the Tianqi period, Tianqi abandoned the government affairs, and Eunuch Wei was in power, and the nine borders owed as much as tens of millions of taels of taxes.

In the first year of Chongzhen, the little emperor had not yet sat on the butt, and the border army mutinized.

Ironically, the first thing Yuan Chonghuan did as the governor was to settle the mutiny.

Otherwise, Liaodong would be abolished directly.

The little emperor was full of confidence and wanted to make great achievements. When he knew the mutiny in Liaodong, he realized that the problem was far from as simple as he thought.

He was forced to take out the treasury and pay the border troops to fill the loopholes during the Tianqi period.

These accounts are clearly remembered in Bi Ziyan's "Duzhi Memorial".

The emperor paid off the treasury, but the noble officers and ministers were still trying to embezzle military pay.

Now, Zhang Chen has paid for it himself.

I had no money, but I finally made hundreds of thousands of taels of soap.

Will history repeat itself?

If the Ministry of War is not avoided, history will repeat itself.

It is too cruel for middlemen to make a profit difference.

This is the reason why a new military and political yamen is set up separately.

Of course, the treasury belongs to the treasury.

Get it from the emperor first, and wait until the treasury has money before making up for it. The accounts must be clearly distinguished.

From this point of view, the main goal is to make money.

Chongzhen did some calculations. In the fourth year of Chongzhen, he had to prepare at least 30 million taels to play the whole game of chess, otherwise the situation would be worse and history would still follow the original trajectory.

In other words, he will still go to Coal Mountain to hang crooked trees.

In the next few days, Chongzhen waited for Cao Huachun to report the corruption.

As for the trolls in the Ministry of War, let them swear first.

At the end of the third year of Chongzhen, something unknown happened in the distant northwest and Qinghai.

This matter was not known by several major forces at this time, but it will indeed affect the direction of the entire East in the future.

What exactly is going on?

Liu Ce met Lin Danhan.

Speaking of Lin Danhan, in history, although this last Mongolian nominal communist had no social relationship with the Ming Dynasty Emperor Chongzhen, these two had many similarities in their behavior.

Maybe he likes to show off and betray his life.

Lin Danhan’s most pretentious thing was that he could not beat Nurhaci, but he insisted on writing a letter to Nurhaci with a very contemptuous attitude, asking Nurhaci to kneel down and beg him as the descendant of the Golden Family.

In short, it is the kind of dead duck's hard-mouthed pretentious act.

This is very deadly.

Liu Ce was so cold that his whole body was trembling. Ten days ago, he was infected with the cold.

But he still stood firm all the way and arrived at Lin Danhan's royal court.

When Chongzhen ascended the throne, Lin Danhan sent an envoy to meet the new emperor, hoping that the Ming Dynasty could give him some money.

Because during the Tianqi period, the Ming Dynasty and Mongolia formed an alliance, and the court gave Lin Danhan a lot of money.

The price was that Lin Danhan sent troops to attack Jiannu.

As a result, in the Battle of Guangning in the second year of the Tianqi period, Lin Danhan lost his links, while Wang Huazhen, a fool, was very unreliable and was fooled.

Guangning was defeated, and from then on, the Ming Dynasty's last strategic core in Liaodong was lost.

The gap between Jiannu and Kalaqin tribe was completely opened up, which also laid the foundation for Huang Taiji's later conquest of Mongolia.

Not only that, Guangning City was equivalent to an arm for the Ming Dynasty.

This arm was cut, and the strategic depth after that was directly pressed to the western Liaoning Corridor.

Everyone had no choice. Xiong Tingbi, who had a clear mind but a stubborn personality, was killed by Tianqi.

Until Sun Chengzong stood up and said that there was no way out, so he should build the city and build the Guanning Jin defense line.

So, no one in the Ming Dynasty liked Lin Danhan.

When Chongzhen ascended the throne, Lin Danhan came to ask for a reward. He didn't understand anything and felt that the Ming Dynasty was invincible, and directly cut off his relationship with Lin Danhan.

In order to cater to His Majesty the Emperor, the people below even beat Lin Danhan's envoy to death.

This led to the fact that in June of the first year of Chongzhen, Lin Dankhan led his army to attack Datong Town, burning, killing and looting Datong Town.

In the end, the court had no choice but to give Lin Danhan some money.

So, now that Wang Ce comes to see Lin Danhan, the relationship between the two sides is actually very tense.

Because there were all kinds of distrust in the past.

However, international relations are extremely fragile, not to mention that the supreme leaders on both sides were strange.

Returning to the essence of things, although international relations are fragile, as the supreme leader of the empire, we must start from the actual situation and try our best to maintain this relationship until we achieve practical results.

Just like China in the 21st century, no one knows how much humiliation China has endured in diplomacy at the beginning.

But those endurances brought good food and clothing to the people of their country and laid a solid foundation for their subsequent rise.

Liu Ce kept the emperor's words in mind: He tried every means to rebuild the alliance with Lin Danhan so that Lin Danhan could advance eastward.

Lin Danhan was in the camp, but he just didn't see Liu Ce.

It was not until Liu Ce was left outside in the cold weather that he was allowed to come in.

You should know that the temperature in Qinghai at this time was terrible.

Lin Danhan sat in his seat, drinking and eating meat, and was still hugging the beautiful woman in his arms.

Surrounded by Lin Danhan's generals, there was a fire in the middle, and a roasted lamb was sandwiched, and the entire tent was filled with meat.

Everyone's eyes fell on Liu Ce, and there was contempt in his eyes.

Because of the defeat of Datong Town, the Ming Dynasty was completely defeated.

So of course, what I received was contempt.

Lin Danhan ate a few pieces of meat in big mouthfuls, but his eyes never fell on Liu Ce from beginning to end.

One of the Chinese-speaking translators said in a high tone: "Who is coming?"

"I am the envoy of the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty."

Everyone looked at each other, and a few of them talked in Mongolian, which roughly meant that the envoys of the Ming Dynasty had the face to come here.

The translator translated Liu Ce's words to Lin Danhan.

Lin Danhan still didn't say anything.

The translator said: "What are the messengers coming here to do?"

"I come to the emperor's order to reward Lin Danhan."

Liu Ce said this very well.

He did not say that I came to join you on the order of the emperor, but said that I would like to reward you.

This way the other person is interested in listening.

Sure enough, after hearing the translator's words, Lin Danhan raised his head and looked at Liu Ce. A trace of surprise and doubt flashed in his eyes, but then a smile appeared on his face.

"Send me, please sit down."

Only then did Liu Ce's subordinates support Liu Ce and walk aside.

The Mongolians packed up a seat for Liu Ce.

"Can the rewards mentioned by the messenger explain?"

All eyes were gathered on Liu Ce, and Liu Ce said slowly: "My emperor is grateful for the help of the Khan to the Ming Dynasty, so he sent his envoy to inform the Khan. His Majesty the Emperor is willing to give the Khan an additional reward of 500,000 taels to the Khan every year."
Chapter completed!