Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 428, many ills

"Is this the armor?"

Zhu Houzhao looked at the padded jacket in front of him with a dark face. The cotton stuffed inside had turned black, and even the blackened cotton was very thin, even the padded jacket was thicker than it.

And this is the armor issued by Hubu, and it is also called "Bright Armor".

Hearing Zhu Houzhao's words, looking at the cotton armor and the blade in Zhu Houzhao's hand, Liu Yu's forehead was covered with cold sweat like a bean.

"What's the matter?"

Zhu Houzhao looked at Liu Yu and asked coldly: "Is it true that our soldiers wear such armor and carry such weapons to fight against the Tartars?"

"Chen...Chen..."

For a moment, Liu Yu didn't know how to answer, and he fell to his knees immediately.

As for the frontier soldiers below, when they heard Zhu Houzhao's words, they couldn't help but burst into tears in their eyes.

That's right, they have always been wearing such armor and holding such weapons to fight against the Tartars. In many cases, it is not that these frontier soldiers have no courage to fight against the Tartars, but because they don't have the courage to fight against the Tartars. Guys, courage alone is useless.

You can't go up and fight the Tartars with your bare hands, that's basically going out to die.

Finally, His Royal Highness noticed them, and finally someone spoke for them.

"Say, what's going on?"

Zhu Hou looked at Liu Yu's appearance and roared angrily.

Even though he was still young, he was only in his teens, but he was full of arrogance, and Liu Yu trembled secretly when he was frightened.

"Your Highness, these are the armor and weapons issued from above. Our frontier army has nothing to do. We can only use whatever armor and weapons are given by the above."

Liu Yu thought for a while and said helplessly.

At this time, he can only kill the fellow Taoists and not the poor, and push the responsibility to the higher authorities. Of course, in terms of weapons and armor, he really has no responsibility, and it is true that they use whatever the superiors send.

"What kind of armor weapons are issued from above, what kind of armor weapons do you use?"

"As the trilateral commander, you shoulder heavy responsibilities, how can you be so childish, don't you know if there is any problem with this armor weapon?"

"Or, are you like me, seeing this armor weapon for the first time?"

Zhu Houzhao looked at Liu Yu coldly with small eyes and asked sharply.

"The minister... the minister is guilty!"

There is no way, most of the responsibilities can be shirked several times, but the responsibility of inspection is absolutely inevitable. After the weapons and armor are issued, how can he, the Tripartite Commander, not know what it is like.

Logically speaking, if there is a problem with this armor weapon, he should submit a memorial to Emperor Hongzhi, explain the situation to Emperor Hongzhi, and then Emperor Hongzhi will send someone to investigate the matter thoroughly.

But all along, this matter has never appeared on the desk of Emperor Hongzhi. From the perspective of Emperor Hongzhi, this military expenditure is spent every year, weapons and armor are also built every year, and money and supplies are allocated. The craftsmen in the army did not work less, and the armor weapons used by the army here should be guaranteed.

However, the fact is exactly the opposite. Not only are the armored weapons not issued every year, but once every two or three years is considered good, the armored weapons issued this time are simply shameful.

But in this matter, because the military power is in the hands of the civilian group, the general system of the army here is all civilian officials, and there is at most one eunuch supervising the army. The general Xungui group has no control and influence over the army at all. None of them count.

Therefore, the control power is in the hands of the civil official group, and the power to allocate funds, materials, etc. is also in the hands of the civil official group. After all, all these things are handled by the civil official group.

If Emperor Hongzhi's father Ming Xianzong, he would have used the power of the factory guards to supervise, and these civil official groups would not be so rampant.

But Emperor Hongzhi, he was an emperor who was almost fooled by the civil official group. He listened to the civil official group for everything, and he didn't trust the factory guard at all.

Naturally, these civil official groups were unscrupulous, and they did whatever they wanted, anyway, nothing happened. Even if something happened, if the above casually fooled Emperor Hongzhi, it would turn into a big thing and a small thing.

This is the serious disadvantage of the dominance of the civil service group.

The civil official group is naturally opposed to the military general Xungui group. Naturally, the military general Xungui group must be suppressed, and the civil official group should control the army and build a legion.

Armor weapons and ammunition equipment are only a small part of it, but it can be seen from this that Ming's army has long been full of problems.

"guilty?"

"Would you like to shirk responsibility if you say you're guilty?"

Zhu Houzhao looked at Liu Yu coldly.

"I, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, shed their blood for the country, and you let them wear such armor and use such weapons to fight against the enemy?"

"I think it's time for you people to wear such armor and take such weapons to fight the Tartars once. Maybe you will understand the importance of human life and military affairs."

When he said this, Zhu Houzhao's voice became very loud and clearly conveyed to the ears of everyone present.

"Good~"

I don't know if I yelled, but it seemed that I felt the same way. Immediately, the soldiers of Daming also yelled along the entire playground.

"Your Highness still cares about us, Your Highness, you don't know, they are so bad, they not only give us such armor and weapons, but even the rice we usually eat is moldy old rotten rice."

"And let's forget about old rotten rice, and don't let us people have enough to eat."

"Your Highness, they are still deducting our military pay. We have not received military pay for more than a year. Last time, the child of Chen's family fell ill and died because he had no money to see a doctor."

It seems that the sore spots of these frontier soldiers were mentioned, and at the same time, everyone couldn't help crying and telling their own sufferings. In this era, being a soldier is really too hard.

Not to mention having no status, it is difficult to even feed and support the family.

As for wanting to rely on wars to make marquises and prime ministers, and to realize Xianyu's turnaround, that is even more impossible. Civil officials have always been soft bones in power. If they can not fight, they will not fight. , Where are the things about these soldiers.

Just like this time, after winning the battle against the Tartars, those who were promoted and enshrined were basically the commanders of the three armies, and they were all civilian officials, and only Yang Yun and a few generals followed suit to gain some benefits.

Withholding military pay, withholding military rations, substituting inferior products for good ones, exchanging old ones for new ones, eating empty salaries, reselling military supplies, etc., there are too many, too many things.

The final result was not only the low combat effectiveness of the Ming army, but also the loss of morale of these Ming soldiers.

No one has enough food, no clothing, no warm clothes, no support for a family, no one can talk about their backbone. Once a person reaches that point, as long as someone gives him food and money, he will work hard for him.

This is why this time, rewarding one hundred taels of silver for killing Tartars and two hundred taels of silver for death in battle will be so tempting.

Because for people like them, nothing is more real than silver. They don't know what it means to be loyal to the emperor and serve the country. full meal.

Originally, these people did not dare to say these things, and no one would listen to them in the past.

But it’s different now, the crown prince Zhu Houzhao is here, and asked him about these things in a sharp voice, plus this time to kill the Tartars, Zhu Hou will do what he says, as long as he kills the Tartars, according to the head, there will be a lot of them Real gold and silver were rewarded, and those who died in battle were given two hundred taels of silver.

This made these frontier soldiers believe in Zhu Houzhao, and believed that Zhu Houzhao would be the master for them, so each of them began to speak out, constantly exposing many problems that existed in the Ming army.

To be honest, if it wasn’t for the household registration system created by Comrade Zhu Yuanzhang, no one would join the army at all.

"Everyone speak slowly~ Everyone speak slowly, come one by one~"

Zhu Houzhao listened to the voice below, and then looked at the angry expressions of everyone, his face was dark.

As for Liu Yu, the trilateral general system, his face is ashen, it's over, all these things have been shaken out, and he can push the matter of weapons and armor to the top.

But there are some things that he has absolutely no way to push to the top.

The deduction of military pay, reselling of military supplies, empty pay, and the fact that he opened a horse market and a slave market on the side of the frontier army, there must be no way to push it to the top. Bob was dead.

"It's over~ It's over~"

Liu Yu collapsed on the ground, and couldn't help but say this in his mouth, this time it's really over.

Even his immediate boss, Ma Wensheng, and his fellow cabinet minister, Liu Jian, couldn't save him, and once this matter got to the court, it wasn't just his Liu Yu's business.

The entire civil servant group will face a storm, and this time it is not known how many people will die.

This is not only the case on his side, but also in the entire Nine Frontiers. In addition, the military household guards in various places are full of problems and have various problems.

These issues were not mentioned before, and even if someone did, they would not reach the emperor's desk at all. Now they are exposed by Zhu Houzhao, and they will be published in the Ming Morning Post at that time.

Then the entire Ming Dynasty will know about these things, and there will definitely be huge waves.

"Get some rice~"

Here, Zhu Houzhao began to check one by one on the spot. The first thing he checked was the military rations of the frontier army. Someone just responded that the military rations he ate were old moldy rice, and they were limited, so he also conducted investigations on the spot. .

Soon, people from the Prince's Mansion of the East Palace brought over generations of rice, and gently scratched it open, and immediately they could see the moldy old rice.

"Humph!"

Zhu Hou looked at Liu Yu and snorted coldly.

(End of this chapter)