Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 218 Tattoo Pioneer
He Tengjiao was tall, tall and burly, wearing red and sitting on a python, he was comparable to Wang Zhiren, the governor of the Beijing camp.

Being criticized so mercilessly by Jian Guo, he couldn't help but blush, and he gritted his teeth to refute after holding back for a long time, "Don't you know what Jian Guo said, but where does the money come from?"

"A Yanzhou mansion, even if the stalls are divided into mu, if the full amount is collected, it will only be twelve stones of grain and 2 taels of silver, and no more than half of it will be shipped to the imperial court. On the contrary, the imperial warriors stationed in Yanzhou will spend a year The salary alone costs more than 20 taels, and there is food, equipment and equipment. You have to pay for the war, you have to settle down when you recruit soldiers, and you have to pay for the casualties. Where does the money come from?"

"All the land and silver in Yanzhou are fully supplied to the army, and there is still a huge deficit. Is it possible to rely on plundering property?"

Zhu Yihai was not angry with these rebellious confrontations.

"If you don't have money, isn't Gu trying to find a solution? Isn't all of this aimed at solving financial problems? Land and silver are indeed not enough, but Gu has already started to let various places form lijin Bureau, started to collect lijin, opened mines and farmland, borrowed money to raise food, isn’t it all trying to figure out a way?”

"Don't Gu know it's hard, so if it's hard, don't do it, and if it's hard, just lie down and die equally?"

"Gu Ye, He Qing, please think about it carefully. The Tartars are in such a bitterly cold place outside the pass. With that small population, they can annex Liaodong, and even enter the pass in a big way. Now they occupy half of our Ming Dynasty, and even have the heart to swallow it. How can they do it? Get up? Why are they able to raise soldiers and give them generous pay and compensation?"

"To put it bluntly, just use the money wisely."

"No matter how poor you are, you can't have poor soldiers!"

"Nowadays, the scholar-bureaucrats are exempting money and food, annexing land, and taking advantage of it. On the other hand, the soldiers braved the wind and snow, endured hunger and starvation to fight for the country. Isn't this putting the cart before the horse?"

"Silver is not so valuable now. Prices are soaring. A stone of grain costs two or three taels of silver. A family buys clothes at least three taels a year..."

"Today, I also explained to Zhu Qing that in the current situation, everyone really needs to tighten their belts to live, but it is not the belts of soldiers, but Gu Yuqing, etc., who tighten their belts together with scholar-bureaucrats and officials. Give priority to the supply of the army and protect the soldiers. This is the basic national policy of the imperial court in the future, and the army must be paid first, and everything should focus on the recovery of the Northern Expedition.”

After these words were released, He Tengjiao couldn't reply.

The Chongzhen Dynasty spent 500 million yuan a year to support the Guan Ning Army. The Guan Ning Army was indeed trained, but it failed to defend the Ming Dynasty, and even now it has become the vanguard of the Tartars' southward invasion.

But because of this, he gave up eating because of choking, lying flat and not resisting?
If you want to resist, don't you have to rely on warriors and soldiers?
Jian Guo obviously doesn't trust Fang Guoan, a traditional martial artist. He wants to build his own imperial army and build a Ming version of the Shence Army. This kind of thinking can't be said to be wrong. After all, Jian Guo went to Sanwu He took a trip, but he came back with a reputation, won countless prestige, and even beheaded Fang Guoan, who claimed to have a hundred thousand soldiers, with his own strength.

If he can go to Zhenjiang city for a while, Jian Guo's words will be more confident.

He Tengjiao is not convinced, so why don't you take back Wuchang, Jingzhou, and Xiangyang?
No matter how He Tengjiao refuted, Zhu Yihai only needs to refute with one sentence, and you can do what you want.

"What Gu and the princes need to do now is to ensure that the soldiers have sufficient protection, so that they can fight on the front line without any worries, and that the common people can farm in the rear with peace of mind, and let the craftsmen, craftsmen, and merchants buy and sell. Only in this way can we talk about other things. "

"Otherwise, the soldiers will suffer from lack of pay, food, hunger and cold? How can they guard the frontier and fight? The people suffer from taxes and labor, and the income from farming is not enough to turn in, so they can only be forced to flee and flee. Where does the court's money and food come from?"

There was a silence in the hall.

Zhu Yihai's words are straightforward enough. The great Ming Dynasty has been caring for nearly 300 years. Now that Daming is about to fall, they should also contribute.

The clean-up and rectification of Yanzhou is just the beginning, and it is bound to be rolled out across the country. It must be done quickly and vigorously, and the fields occupied by the gentry must be recovered. clear.

Zhu Yihai can not investigate other places for 20 years, he can not investigate them thoroughly, and he can not impose huge fines and interest on them. The premise is that they also have to cooperate. Go up and return the occupied fields.

If you do this, the previous ones can be hooked.

If you can't do this, Zhu Yihai doesn't mind letting Yuying clean up Yanzhou and demonstrate it again.

Daming is about to perish, why is Zhu Yihai being polite to him?
Under the premise of survival, Zhu Yihai can't care about other offending scholars.

"Some people say that a serious illness can't stand strong medicine for a long time, but if this long-sick body doesn't need some tiger and wolf medicine, I'm afraid it really won't be able to get up again. Let's treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor. Time to study slowly. Fight hard, let it go, it is done, and then the national unification will be renewed, and ZTE will be restored. If it fails, then let him die vigorously!"

After saying this, an upright old man like Liu Zongzhou couldn't help but burst into tears. When it comes to loyalty to the emperor, patriotism, and moral character, Lao Liu is first-class, but although they are very principled, they have inherent deficiencies.

It’s just that it’s great to be unrealistic, but it’s not practical.

It's good to be a spokesperson to supervise and even persuade the king, but if you let them formulate the country's major policies, especially for the current mess, it is really embarrassing for him to come up with a quick and effective plan.

Although Song Zhipu had worked in the Ministry of Household Affairs before and served as a prefect in a local government, he still lacked the vision to coordinate the overall situation.

It's not that Zhu Yihai is better than them all, but he is a traveler after all, the fog of history has been blown away long ago, and countless latecomers have summarized problems and even given solutions for him.

Others are blind men and elephants, but he is a prophet.

"The guards can't fight, and there are no soldiers anymore, so even if it is rectified and cleaned up this time, there is no need to continue to exist. The military registration is withdrawn, the guards are dismissed, and the military households are converted to civilian registration. There are field guards, and the county is changed. If there is no field guard, it belongs to the local prefecture and county."

After all the guards are abolished, a burden can be thrown away. Although the guards have been abandoned these years, there are still soldiers in name, and there are even more and more people in the monthly ration book. A large amount of monthly rations, owed more and more, and the guards in the actual guard city were few and far between, but the officers and his servants took possession of the land and pretended to claim it. There is even arrears of payment and food in the account every year.

Now that the tumor has been cut across the board, the monthly food expenses will be exempted in the future.After sorting out the garrison land of the guard, it can be used to recruit tenants and collect rent, and an extra rent can be obtained, and even the original place no longer needs to bear the bulk of the monthly food for the guard.

The burden on the military households in the guards has been reduced, the burden on the people in the surrounding prefectures and counties has been reduced, and the burden on the court has been reduced, so who will suffer?

Those military officers, those local tyrants who invaded the military settlements, they can no longer receive monthly rations and take advantage of the law.

Zhu Yihai is also very straightforward about how to arrange these officers in the guard. First, clean up the fields and properties of the guard. As for the military officers in the guard, they will temporarily retain their grades, but they will no longer be paid. They need to report to the Ministry of War and accept the assessment. If they are capable, They can be recruited according to their talents, given posts, and arranged to serve in town camps or even imperial camps and Beijing camps.

Even if it is a hereditary military officer, they only retain their titles, and they still have to pass the assessment before they can be awarded the post, otherwise they will be deprived of the post.

And the military households, the real city guards, were sent home after half a year's monthly rations. Those who were brave and elite could also apply for the army.Those who couldn't be selected, of course, still took the severance pay and went home to fend for themselves.

And the soldiers in the field are directly converted into civilian households. The original field can be converted into a leasehold relationship. In the future, it will be enough to pay the rent for farming, and the rent rate will be readjusted, not according to the previous set of grain standards, but according to the normal local folk That kind of rent rate will do.

There are many guards in various parts of Daming, at most it is said that there were millions of people, and the city guards had to be hundreds of thousands. The monthly rations are actually a lot of expenses, and the maintenance of the guards will cost a lot of money. There must be all kinds of messy expenses such as clothing, armor, equipment, war horses and barracks.

So one size fits all is the most convenient, trouble-free and efficient.

No matter how many people objected, Zhu Yihai was determined to punish to the end, even if there were some guards that were responsible for water transportation and other tasks, he would not keep them.

In the future, if there is a real need, another one will be set up according to the demand, and it is not necessary to use the form of a guard.

The military households in the guards are so rotten that they cannot be used at home, and most of the provincial and town battalions in various provinces are actually unusable, just like the former Zhejiang battalion, Wang Zhiren, the commander-in-chief, has [-] troops under his name, but how many are there really? Soldier?How much can you fight?
Provincial and town battalions are also supported by family members.

Now the guard post is withdrawn first, and then the battalion is reorganized. The imperial battalion is actually a new army that breaks the old framework and rebuilds, and is not affected by the original rules.

Zhu Yihai was completely disappointed with Daming's original guards and battalion soldiers, so he worked so hard to rebuild the new imperial army.

Therefore, if He Tengjiao dared to oppose the imperial camp, Zhu Yihai would not show mercy to him.

For Zhu Yihai, if a scholar doesn't hear about it and refuses to stick to it, then he can change it to another person. This imperial camp is his lifeblood, his real foundation, so no one can shake the imperial camp.

"Fang Shaofu is a native of Yanzhou, and he is well-known in the local area, so I plan to ask Fang Shaofu to supervise the rectification of Yanzhou Mansion by order. You should go back." Zhu Yihai was very unwilling to talk to these people. In a meeting, I want to slap the table and curse at people while driving.

Anyway, it is the cabinet team that I have chosen by myself. I can't stop one today, avoid another one tomorrow, or even kill one the day after tomorrow. If you rush back, you can't see it, and you really need people to do things.

Zhu Yihai needs them to follow orders, not discuss and make decisions with them.

Now he is very arbitrary, which in the eyes of his courtiers is headstrong and conceited, but Zhu Yihai just wants to save some time for wrangling. What is there to discuss and make decisions? He already knows the future development trend, so he just needs to come up with the corresponding optimal plan That is.

All he needs is how to carry out those optimal countermeasures without distortion.

This is very difficult. Fortunately, he is neither Chongzhen nor Hongguang or Yongli. He now has an imperial camp, which is the guarantee of execution. He will also thoroughly set a typical example in Yanzhou.

Fang Fengnian is worthy of being a chief assistant. Although he made some mistakes in Shaoxing, he regarded Song Zhipu as an opponent, ignoring the fact that Song Zhipu was just a person pushed to the front by Jian Guo.

After dismissing the prime minister and returning to his hometown, he had thought about everything early.

Now, with the title of Shao Fu, he is actively running around Yanzhou, appeasing the folks and gentry, and persuading them to actively cooperate to make up for the deficit, hand over the outstanding debts, return the occupied land, and so on.

Youfang Fengnian took the lead so hard, and the effect was indeed good.

It can be said that the Yanzhou rectification and the killing of Fang Guoan made a good start, and Fang Fengnian's active cooperation continued to lead the way. The Imperial Camp Warriors Town was stationed and practiced every day, and the effect was indeed obvious.

In fact, Zhu Yihai is not afraid of killing people now, whether it is those guardsmen who eat soldiers' pay and blood, or those high-ranking gentry officials in the local area, he will kill anyone who dares to dance with him.

It's such a time, there is nothing to worry about.

Anyway, as long as he doesn't rob like Fang Guoan, as long as he can get the exact evidence of occupying farmland, embezzling government money and food, oppressing people, etc., he will dare to kill as many as he refuses to accept.

Yan Zhou had to make a good head start without any compromise. He had to show his determination, will and means. Only in this way could the smooth implementation be guaranteed.

While eating, Zhu Yihai saw Mr. Liu Mu, the commander-in-chief of Warrior Town, and almost didn't recognize Liu Mu when he saw him.

Killing thieves with a heart.

kill.

Listening to Liu Mu's explanation, although Zhu Yihai felt that this guy's acting skills were a little exaggerated, but this contrived attitude seemed just right and very suitable for the occasion.

After all, Liu Mu is a powerful family in Shaoxing and a former general of the imperial court. With his status as an uprising general, his tattooing to show his loyalty seems to be a good example.

"Liu Qing, this piece of mutton is big and fat, and I'm giving it to Qing."

"Zhaoji and Zhaoxiang, reward each of Erqing with a chicken leg!"

Liu Mu let it go loudly, took the mutton and started eating there, the two little Lius were not as relaxed as his father, a little restrained.

"Your Highness, when shall we fight Hangzhou?"

"I heard that Governor Wang is going to fight Yuhang? I have fought Yuhang three times before, and I am very familiar with the west side of Hangzhou. I am willing to lead the army as the vanguard."

Looking at this face full of the word 'kill', Zhu Yihai couldn't help being distracted.

This guy has gone too far.

"Liu Qing came from a family of generals, and he is still the champion of martial arts. He must have read a lot of books before?"

Martial champions not only have to test riding and archery martial arts, but also have to test essays. To be a martial arts champion, this essay skill is actually no worse than ordinary juren. Although it is not as good as Jinshi, it is by no means a vulgar fool.

Liu Mu has been showing Zhu Yihai the image of a brave and loyal general, but Zhu Yihai is not fooled.

"I have read some books, but I haven't learned much."

Zhu Yihai chuckled, "Then Liu Qing must have read the history of the Song Dynasty. The Northern Song Dynasty inherited the legacy of the late Tang and Five Dynasties. Sergeants had the custom of tattooing characters. In the Song Dynasty, there were three military generals who were famous for their tattoos. One was Yue Fei, who served the country loyally, and the other was Di Qing, a privy envoy with tattoos. Of course, there is also Hu Yanzan who once served as the bodyguard of Song Taizu. He was born as a general in the Northern Zhou Dynasty. He served in the three dynasties of Song Taizu and Taizong Zhenzong. But it’s just mediocre, Hu Yanzan is not only good at iron whips, but also likes to wear an iron hat, and tattoos the words “Killing Thieves with a Heart” all over his body, even his wives, concubines, and children tattooed himself..."

When Liu Mu heard this, he knelt down with a plop.

"I have read about this before, and I admire Huyanzan very much, so I imitate Huyanzan's tattoos to show loyalty, Your Highness will learn from you."

Zhu Yihai smiled and stretched out his hand to help him up, "I don't know how loyal you are, come here, take an iron whip, and give it to General Liu!"

By pointing this out, he actually told Liu Mu that I know all about your thoughts and all the tricks you play.

This is also intended to frighten the general, and then rewards, so that the general will not dare to underestimate him.

(End of this chapter)