Bury the Qing Dynasty

Chapter 289 Wronged, it is too wronged!

If you want to get to the bottom of the reasons why these officials and gentlemen are getting more and more courageous, you can trace it back to the Dasong period at an early stage, and it can be traced back to the Han and Tang Dynasties, but the real depravity really started with the Dasong period Just after Wen Yanbo uttered the famous phrase "rule the world with the scholar-bureaucrats, not with the common people", the officials and lords at the entrance of the Central Plains are on the road of letting themselves go.

In the Song Dynasty, Kou Zhun could pull the sleeves of the Emperor Dasong and go to the front line, and Baozi Hei could directly spray Dasong with spittle on the emperor's face. .

If the example of Zhu Yuanzhang and the death of some emperors of the Ming Dynasty are not enough to illustrate the problem, then...

How did Ming's army be abolished step by step?
Not to mention that Zhu Yuanzhang planted the root of disaster from the very beginning when he set up the military household system, because for Zhu Yuanzhang, or if he became the emperor, the military household system was the most suitable for the military system of Ming Dynasty at that time, and there was not even the first military household system. The two military systems can be compared with it.

Because before setting up the military system, we must first consider what was the situation in Ming Dynasty at that time - the continuous wars in the frontier years, the population dropped sharply, there was a lot of wasteland but the population was small, and a large amount of gold and silver were brought out of the Central Plains. Together, it caused the Ming court to look poor from top to bottom.

The imperial court is as poor as a dog, and Zhu Chongba wants to do Beiyuan all the time, so naturally he can't starve the army. Naturally, the money and food collected were not much.

In addition, Zhu Yuanzhang was still a ruthless person who would rather be hungry than to promote sociology, which made the Ming court's finances even tighter, and it simply couldn't support so many troops.

It is under such circumstances that the Weisuo and military household systems came into being.

To put it bluntly, it is to ask the guards to solve the problem of money and food by themselves in the form of hoarding the army. On the one hand, it can reduce the financial pressure on the court, and on the other hand, it can maintain a large-scale army, so that Zhu Yuanzhang is happy to brag: "I raise soldiers Millions, without costing the common people a grain of rice."

Of course, the military household system also has its disadvantages. As the world became more and more stable, there was no such thing as the equality of officers and soldiers at that time, and the incidents of generals and nobles oppressing military households to the point of eating empty salaries and drinking the blood of soldiers naturally gradually appeared. As a result, the disadvantages of military households being overburdened began to appear.

After Zhu Laosi ascended the throne, he also issued a decree to punish the corruption of the guards, and came up with the Beijing operation system.

The so-called Beijing drills meant that the local government had to select half of the troops to go to the capital for training and review. On the one hand, it strengthened the connection between the Ming court and the local army, and on the other hand, it also maintained the combat effectiveness of the army, so that the Ming court actually completed the military training. Strong stems and strong branches.

The Beijing operation system also has its drawbacks.

First of all, some places are far away from the capital, and it is very inconvenient to accept inspections. Many soldiers and officers are dissatisfied with this, and they have no enthusiasm for participating.

Secondly, the funds allocated by the imperial court are often misappropriated. Some soldiers are far away in the frontier. It is hard work to guard the frontier. It is very difficult to go to the capital to accept the inspection. As a result, the funds allocated for the inspection did not fall into their own hands. , If things go on like this, it will naturally cause dissatisfaction among the people.

In the early days of Emperor Yingzong Zhu Qizhen's accession to the throne, because of the misjudgment of the strategic situation by the Ming court, the Beijing military operations of the inland troops were stopped, and only the border military operations of the frontier troops were retained. In order to further reduce financial pressure, the Imperial Army, also known as the 26 Guards of Shangzhi, also Put into farming business.

So, by the time Zhu Qizhen took people to smash the scene, the Ming army at that time was basically abolished, plus he was even more familiar with the terrain of Daming than Zhu Qizhen, the emperor of Ming...

After Zhu Qizhen was captured, the battle to defend the capital was to mobilize the north-south direct military troops and the Shandong Beiwa army, and the Shandong Beiwa army was actually a kind of frontier military.

After the battle to defend the capital, battalions with a recruiting nature began to step onto the stage, and became the main force of the Ming army in the next hundred years. During this period, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army rose and fell, but one trend was , The battalion of the self-defense army was selected and eliminated, whether it was a regiment battalion or a front battalion, the Ming army was developing towards professionalization. During this period, the Ming army's combat effectiveness has recovered, and it has also achieved some impressive results.

In the era of the good man Xiaozong, the problem of nobles enslaving the Beijing camp began to emerge, and the combat effectiveness of the Beijing camp collapsed completely. However, Xiao Zhu Xiucai pioneered the selection of elites from the [-]th regiment battalion again. The Warrior Camp and the Four Guards Camp selected from the Four Guards established the East and West Offices.

Later, little Zhu Xiucai fell into the water, and Emperor Jiajing, whose family was clean, sat on the dragon chair. The military system of Ming Dynasty began to toss the provincial and town battalion system again. change.

Even in the early years of the Apocalypse, the 18 elite warriors of the Ming army gathered in Liaodong were wiped out due to strategic mistakes in the battles of Liaoyang and Shenyang. The Ming court was forced to come up with such a magical thing as the Guanning Army, the real core of the Ming Dynasty The elite are still battalions—whether it is the Mangui tribe in the Beijing Defense War, or the Xuandabiao battalion in the Songjin Battle, they all rely on the battalion instead of the Guanning Army.

After understanding the changes in the military system of the Ming Dynasty, it will be easy to see how the military system of the Ming Dynasty was abolished.

The abolition of the guard system, on the one hand, is certainly due to the factors of eating empty wages and drinking the blood of soldiers, but there is another extremely fucking problem that military households are a lowly industry that is looked down upon by others.

That's right, it's cheap business. At this time, no one in Daming wants to take the initiative to become a soldier, and more people are thinking about how to not be a soldier.

During the Jiajing period, Xia Yan, Minister of Rites, won the favor of the emperor because he sponsored Sejong to cultivate Xuanxuan and Taoism.However, Xia Yan's family is a member of the Zuowei Army, and should serve in the military.However, Ding Duji, who is currently serving in Xia Yan's family, is unable to cope with the errands. Neither Jingwei nor Jiangxi's native place has any second Ding Duji.

In this way, Xia Yan’s family really has no one who can serve as a military officer. Xia Yan specially invited the emperor to be exempted from the military by Shizong—this is already a great event of the Holy Grace, and Xia Yan also specially wrote a poem to record this grand event. .

What should ordinary people do if they want to leave the military household?The only way is to get the honor of Juren before joining the army, and then the Minister of the Ministry of War may show mercy for the sake of "our own people".

Then the problem is coming.

What is the reason that caused the problem that military households are cheap?

I'm afraid that Han Qi, Xiangye Han, who said the famous saying "The one who sings with the number one outside the Donghua Gate, is a good man", can't get away from it, and the princes in the Ming Dynasty hall can't get away from it either.

The abolition of the Beijing operation system is also related to this point, and the root cause of the abolition of the Beijing operation is that the funds allocated by the court are often misappropriated, and the soldiers who go to the capital to receive inspection training cannot get it. The food and salaries that belonged to them - this question cannot be blamed on Han Qi and Xiangye Han, the main thing is to ask the civil servants and noble generals in the Ming Dynasty hall what happened.

Of course, what they did was not important, what was important was that they abolished Daming's army step by step, and gradually transferred the military power into the hands of civilian officials.

The reason why these officials and gentlemen in Ming Dynasty can still be obedient is not that they don’t want to do it. The deeper reason is actually the same as those ministers in Zhu Yuanzhang’s period who were able to wear shackles to work, and dare not.

For Zhu Jinsong, the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, if these problems cannot be solved at the root, I am afraid that after Zhu Jinsong controls Bintian, these officials and lords of Ming Dynasty will once again follow the old path of Ming Dynasty.

To put it more bluntly, it is that Dragon Slaying Technique can only buy the first four volumes now - half a year ago, the fifth volume was still available.

Therefore, when thinking of these messy problems, Zhu Jinsong felt a headache, and even wished to time travel again. It would be best if he could travel to Di Wuxiang, hacking Han Xiangye to death first, and then hacking to death those idiots sent by Dasong.

It was not until a while later that Zhu Jinsong tapped on the table again and said: "From then on, Yushitai and the Metropolitan Procuratorate will no longer be responsible to the cabinet, but will be directly responsible to the emperor. The Ministry of Punishment and Dali Temple should also cooperate with Yushitai and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the intelligence of the Jinyiwei and Dongchang supervisory officials should be shared with Yushitai and the Metropolitan Procuratorate.”

After Zhu Jinsong's voice fell, all the bigwigs present were somewhat dissatisfied.

What do you mean?
Jin Yiwei and Dongchang are in charge of supervising all the officials. Anyway, this is a tradition that Daming has had since the time of Emperor Taizu Gao. If you pick it up and use it now, no one can say anything.

But you old man just said it so openly and directly, is that really okay?

Also, it's fine even if you say it directly, but you old man still wants to separate the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Yushitai and be responsible to the emperor alone?

If it's just like this, then it's okay for us big guys to hold our noses and bear it, but why do you, old man, let the Ministry of Punishment and Dali Temple cooperate with the Metropolitan Procuratorate?Even want to share the intelligence of Jinyiwei and Dongchang to monitor the people with Yushitai and the Metropolitan Procuratorate?

Could it be that we honest gentlemen are so distrusted by your old man?
Thinking of this, Zeng Cheng and other bigwigs couldn't help but feel aggrieved.

Wronged, really wronged!

After being silent for quite a while, Zeng Cheng tentatively said, "Your Majesty, it's okay to separate the Yushitai and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, but the Ministry of Punishment and Dali Temple have to cooperate with Yushitai, this..."

Zhu Jinsong laughed and said, "What's the matter? If the Yushitai and the Metropolitan Procuratorate are still under the cabinet, and the Ministry of Officials will send staff and the Ministry of Households will pay the salary as before, then I would like to ask Ask Zeng Qing, can you guarantee that Yushitai and the Metropolitan Procuratorate will not be influenced by the court princes?"

When asked by Zhu Jinsong, Zeng Cheng and other bigwigs were immediately speechless.

What was the former Yushitai like?On the surface, Yushitai was responsible to the emperor, and the cabinet and the six departments could not interfere with the affairs of Yushitai.

But what about in practice?

In fact, 17 years before Chongzhen, those censors just scolded these bigwigs for such trivial things as appearance, speech, and behavior, and impeaching a bunch of bigwigs was more like impeachment for the sake of impeachment.

Because the censors of the Ming Dynasty have performance considerations, if the number of impeachments is not enough, it will directly affect their performance, which also means that it will affect their promotion and fortune.

This point was almost a tacit unspoken rule in the Ming Dynasty Hall 17 years ago. The imperial historians should impeach the impeachment, and these bigwigs would not take this kind of impeachment seriously, because they are all Insignificant shit.

Even the emperor may not read the impeachment script carefully.

As for Zhu Jinsong's question, can it be guaranteed that Yushitai will not be influenced by the cabinet and the Sixth Ministry... Even if you think about it with your toes, you can know the answer to this kind of thing.

Because the censors also hope to be promoted and make a fortune, the censor platform 17 years ago in Chongzhen was actually more like a mascot-like decoration, and it could not play a real supervisory role at all.

Zhu Jinsong knocked on the table again, and said: "The salaries of our officials in the Ming Dynasty are the highest in all dynasties, even higher than the salaries given to officials in the Song Dynasty, which has always been known as being rich. many."

"However, in the past year alone, there have been a dozen corrupt officials who have embezzled more than 600 yuan, and as many as two hundred who have embezzled less than 600 yuan—so, can Zeng Qing tell me, if lost Supervision, what can they be so greedy?"

"If an official who has been found out is inextricably linked to a certain adult in the court, can the Yushitai and the Metropolitan Procuratorate still report the case?"

"Don't tell me you can. When you want to say you can, ask yourself first, do you believe it?"

Zeng Cheng and other bigwigs continued to remain speechless.

As Zhu Jinsong said, if a corrupt official has been corrupted for tens of dollars or hundreds of dollars, and it happens that this corrupt official is involved with the bigwigs in the court, then Yushitai and the Metropolitan Procuratorate can really guarantee Not affected in the slightest?
Comparing his heart with his heart, Zeng Cheng felt that if he was the censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate or the Yushitai, it would be hard to say that he would not be affected-the official department is in charge of the official hat, the household department is in charge of the money bag, the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the censor Which one does Taiwan dare to provoke?You really don't want to get promoted and get rich in the future?
Even if he is really powerful and doesn't care about getting rich, is he not afraid of being retaliated in the future?

Like Hai Rui, who dared to point to Emperor Jiajing and say Jiajing Jiajing, how much strength is there for everyone to be clean, and Hai Rui really scolded Jiajing?

No, he scolded Xu Jie!
Moreover, the end of the strong orders is usually not very good!

To put it bluntly, what is officialdom?
Officialdom is not fighting and killing, it is an accident of human affection!

(End of this chapter)