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Chapter 15 Prepare to send troops

The consumption of hundreds of thousands of bags of instant noodles every day is not a small number. Even if Yan Fei purchases simple instant noodles without packaging, it will cost more than two yuan per bag. The expenses of over one million a day and it is a charity that has no profit at all, Yan Fei is not dissatisfied with it.

For Yan Fei, who has a space-time channel, he can make money after spending money, but the good thing to save so many people is not always encountered.

Of course, Yan Fei was also thinking about how to do the next business. When Li Zicheng entered Beijing, he extorted tens of millions of taels of silver in a short time. Yan Fei didn't think about robbing such a large sum of money by himself. He was going to get it into his own hands by doing business.

Silver in the modern world is cheap, even ten million taels of silver is not worth much. But these silver can be exchanged for gold here, which is the big price.

There are many officials in the capital, but not everyone has the opportunity to reach out to foreigners. Many poor Hanlin people cannot eat meat all year round, and places like the Imperial Heaven Supervision are also perfectly clean yamen.

Wu Chongyi is an eighth-rank official in the Imperial Heaven Supervision, with a meager salary and no chance of foreigners getting a fortune. The court has been owed more than half a year, and the things that can be sold at home have already been sold out. Now more than a dozen people in the family can only live with water all day long. Looking at his thin little daughter, Wu Chongyi wanted to die.

"I'll go to He Shilang's house." Seeing his little daughter drinking water all the time, Wu Chongyi couldn't stand it anymore and prepared to borrow money to buy rice from his distant relative.

People need face, and people in this era even regard face as more important than life.

Wu Chongyi had asked Mr. He to borrow money several times before. His contemptuous eyes and the gifts like beggars were stinging like a knife. But now, seeing that his family was almost starving to death, Wu Chongyi had no other choice even if he was unwilling to do so.

As for going to the porridge shed to help, as an imperial official, it was really the last fig leaf. I would rather starve to death than drink relief.

Just as Wu Chongyi changed into his official uniform and was about to go out, a carriage came down to his doorstep in a team of soldiers from Shenji Camp who were famous recently.

"But Lord Wu Chongyi, the Imperial Heaven Supervisor?" The soldier in a green military coat carrying a bird gun came forward to ask.

"That's right." Wu Chongyi looked at the big cart covered with thick cloth with some confusion, not understanding what this means.

"According to the order of General Yan Feiyan, I will send you the New Year gift to Lord Wu." The soldiers wearing long military coats lifted the thick cloth on the car and introduced the gift list to Wu Chongyi.

"Eight hundred kilograms of rice, one hundred kilograms of meat, two hundred kilograms of vegetables, twenty kilograms of wine, one hundred kilograms of various fruits, ten kilograms of salt, fifty kilograms of oil, and ten sets of cold-proof coats." The soldier took out a document and handed it to Wu Chongyi, "please sign and seal the letter."

"General Yan Fei?" Wu Chongyi looked at the mountains of goods on the cart and was completely spartan.

Yan Fei's reputation has been very famous recently. It is said that he is not only a miracle doctor but also rich enough to rival a country. However, Wu Chongyi never expected that Yan Fei would give him a gift. He is just a small official from the Imperial Heaven Supervision Bureau.

"Only give it to me?" Wu Chongyi asked in confusion.

"It is a list drawn up by Lord Ni Yuanlu, Minister of the Ministry of Revenue. All the officials in Beijing who are unsustainable."

"Hu~~~" Wu Chongyi sighed. It would be simple with Ni Yuanlu taking the lead.

The soldiers helped to deliver the supplies from the cart into the mansion, and Wu Chongyi and his family were very grateful to Yan Fei. This was no longer a timely help, it was a life-saving service!

Seeing his little daughter holding rice bags and moving them home with a smile on her face, Wu Chongyi's eyes turned red. He wrote down Yan Fei's friendship!

There are thousands of lists Ni Yuanlu gave Yan Fei, and each family is a poor household with a difficult life. In addition to those Beijing officials who cannot survive, there are also some poor people. Yan Fei did not care about it after the investigation and included these families in the scope of gift giving.

Yan Fei decided to cooperate with the Ming court, but he also knew that the Ming court was a whole alliance of pig teammates. In order not to let these idiots be busy dragging him back all day long, Yan Fei decided to buy the Ming Dynasty!

It’s not about buying fixed assets, but about buying people’s hearts.

These foods and materials are very expensive in the Ming Dynasty, especially those fruits that are even richer, but for Yan Fei, it is just a small task. Spending some money to win people's hearts will be of great help to all future work.

Of course, it is impossible for Yan Fei to say that no one is jealous of doing such a thing. Especially the Donglin Party, who specializes in attacking his own people, has repeatedly won over Yan Fei and wanted him to pay for the Donglin Party, but he was rejected. He seized this opportunity and launched an attack without hesitation.

A large number of memorials impeaching Yan Fei were almost filled with Emperor Chongzhen's desk. Almost everyone said that Yan Fei invited people to win the hearts of others, and suggested that Yan Fei directly confiscating his house. He also suggested that he would do his own job when he confiscating the house, etc.

Regarding these things, Emperor Chongzhen is no longer the young man who was fooled by the Donglin Party when he first ascended the throne. After attracting Ni Yuanlu for careful inquiries, he kept all the impeachments.

Of course, the Donglin Party would not give up easily, and the second round of attacks followed one after another. However, the attack momentum of the second round was interrupted before it was lifted, because an accelerated military sent from the front line attracted everyone's attention.

After Li Zicheng's army captured Taiyuan and captured King Zhu Qiugui alive, the main force went north to attack Datong, the important town of Jiubian, and sent his general Liu Fangliang to lead tens of thousands of troops to attack Zhili westward. The Zhending Prefecture had already captured, and was advancing towards Baoding at this moment.

The entire Ming Dynasty court was in chaos, and the importance of Baoding was self-evident. Once it was lost, the entire capital would be trapped in a pincer attack.

The anxious Emperor Chongzhen once again issued an imperial edict to the whole world to defend the king. It’s a pity that no one is willing to come to rescue him, even if someone is willing to come here, it’s too late.

Baoding Prefecture's emergency report can come several times a day, but Emperor Chongzhen had no choice but to order the army to be mobilized to rescue him.

At this time, the troops that could be mobilized near the Ming Dynasty capital were only three camps left in the capital except for Wu Sangui's Guanning Army in Shanhaiguan. If the Guanning Army had no money, they would never move their butts. There were only three camps left to rescue Baoding.

The Jingying in Zhu Di's era was a powerful existence that could penetrate deep into the grassland to drive the Mongols from the Iron Age to the bone-making era. However, the Jingying in Chongzhen Dynasty was rotten at the same level as the Chinese men's football team in the modern world after more than two hundred years.

Not to mention fighting, it is a bit difficult for the Beijing camp to deal with the Qingsie gangsters.

Eat empty salary, drink soldiers and drive soldiers like slaves, not to mention the ministers, even Emperor Chongzhen knew very well.

The Beijing camp, which claims to be 200,000, actually killed only 50,000 or 60,000. This is the result of counting the ten thousand people under Yan Fei's command. Everyone knows what the outcome would be like for such an army to go out to fight.

So when Emperor Chongzhen ordered the Beijing camp to send troops to rescue Baoding Prefecture, all the generals at all levels from the Duke of England were sick. They all had headaches, fever, falling on horseback, vomiting when drinking, eating, and eating, and epilepsy when doing things.

The civil officials who were responsible for supervising and commanding the army also showed similar behavior. These geniuses were unwilling to supervise the war to command the Beijing camp to fight. That was asking for death, okay?

Emperor Chongzhen was really about to be angry to death. Even though he had been angry countless times by his ministers over the years, he still felt that he was about to be angry to death.

When these bastards were greedy for money, they all seemed to be fed with chicken blood, but when they were fighting, they all became old hens. The emperor, who was full of anger, scolded all officials in the court so much that he was so arrogant.

At this time, the bad nature of the literary people was revealed, and many ministers suggested sending Yan Fei, who was in the limelight recently, to rescue Baoding Prefecture.

The ministers who had crazily slandered Yan Fei changed their attitude almost overnight. They praised Yan Fei for being in the sky and without earth, and they were definitely Han Xin's rebirth and Sun Wu was resurrected. The four famous generals of the Warring States Period were tied up in pieces, but they were not against Yan Fei's hand. As long as Yan Fei made a small breakthrough, he would definitely disappear.

Ni Yuanlu knew very well what these people thought. They wanted to force Yan Fei to die. It is inevitable to beat and lose. If Yan Fei comes back alive, they will have some charges to conquer him. It doesn’t matter if he dies. I heard that Yan Fei has many industries and everyone will share them together.

Ni Yuanlu, full of sadness, was unwilling to let a rare good man like Yan Fei die under a conspiracy, and took the initiative to persuade the emperor to express his objection. However, the situation was already in a state of chaos. When the country was destroyed and the family was destroyed, the ministers could still kneel down and change their masters, but what should the emperor do?

Emperor Chongzhen, who was anxious and red-eyed, had already caught the straw and thought it was a lifeboat and wanted to go ashore. He ordered Yan Fei to send troops to rescue Baoding Prefecture without hesitation.

Ni Yuanlu, who was in a state of grief and indignation, was completely desperate about the court and took the initiative to find the emperor to express his willingness to be the supervisor to fight against the rebel army. He was determined to sacrifice his country for his death and be loyal to this country.

The final imperial edict was issued as follows: Ni Yuanlu was appointed as the Prince's Grand Tutor, the Grand Secretary of Wenhua Palace, and the Minister of War, and the Jingying camp went to fight to lift the siege of Baoding.

In fact, the only one who was the real main force in the Beijing camp was Yan Fei, who was named, and the other battalions had no movement at all. It was not until Ni Yuanlu found the British Duke Zhang Shize that he pieced together a team of four or five thousand people from the other battalions to join it.

Most of these people were temporarily recruited by the men, and there were even many young criminals who were swept in and impersonated. These people probably would have oiled their feet after leaving the city.
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