The ruthless emperor in the late Ming Dynasty forced Chongzhen to abdicate at the beginning

Chapter 114 The New Guard System

under the city walls.

After Zhu Cihong finished speaking, more than 5000 people looked at each other in blank dismay, secretly startled, and even more nervous.

You look at me, I look at you, no one is the first to stand up and hand in things, there is reluctance, worry, and more entanglement on their faces.

Zhu Cihong stood at the top of the wall with his hands behind his back, just staring at them without speaking.

And among the 5000 people, no one dared to speak, not even whispered, and the atmosphere became more and more oppressive.

As the soldier at the front couldn't stand it and stood up first, he threw the two ingots of ingots on his body into the wooden box in front, and other people with dirty hands and feet rushed up.

In the end, the five large boxes were full, with the most silver, followed by gold nuggets and jewelry.

Almost 5000% of the [-] people took it, including the eunuchs who supervised the army, and Wu Sanfu was the only one who didn't take it, obviously he didn't like small money.

At this time, Wu Sanfu was also very nervous, he didn't expect His Majesty to be so serious, this kind of petty trickery is perfectly normal, as long as he doesn't hide his secrets, no emperor will care about it.

"All the eunuchs in the supervising army were killed on the spot! They were accused of violating the law, and instead of supervising and stopping them, they followed them!"

Zhu Cihong waved his hand.

What he said about giving him a second chance did not include the eunuchs who supervised the army. His attitude towards these eunuchs who supervised the army was zero tolerance.

Originally, these eunuchs should stop this kind of thing in time, but instead of stopping it, they followed suit because they were greedy for petty gains.

Can this **** be a military eunuch?Maintain military discipline?
"My lord, please forgive me, the slaves will never dare again..."

A dozen or so eunuchs knelt on the ground begging for mercy in fright, but were dragged out by the imperial guards directly, with their knives in their hands.

The other imperial guards began to search their bodies one by one.

As long as no large ingots of ingots, gold, nuggets and jewelry are found, some broken silver and copper coins are considered their own.

While all the soldiers were terrified, they also felt that His Majesty was too ruthless, so fortunately they all handed it over honestly.

"Do you think I'm too serious? Too ruthless?"

"I will tell you today that the rules are the rules that must not be broken. It is you who will not lose any points, and you will not be allowed to take any points!

A soldier must behave like a soldier, and my soldiers in Ming Dynasty should stand upright, be fearless in life and death, and never lose their ambitions!
To be loyal to the country, to the nation, to the emperor, to help the weak, to be manly in every word and deed, to act upright, and to have a clear conscience. Master of all battles!

What about Cole?

How is such behavior different from a woman who is greedy for cheap?

What is the difference from the generation of chickens and dogs?
Since I ascended the throne, have you ever waited for half of the military salary?Has the reward ever been honored?

Or was your monthly military pay and food embezzled again?

If there is, stand up and tell me now, no matter who it is, I will definitely kill it! "

"Answer me, have you?"

"no!"

Faced with a series of questions and lessons from the emperor, all the soldiers bowed their heads in shame, and the dissatisfaction in their hearts had long since disappeared without a trace.

"This is the first time and the last time, I don't care about it, if this kind of unclean hands and feet happen again in the future, the army will be wiped out, and the army will be executed if it is serious!
Because I don't need people who scream like dogs and thieves, and I don't need women who are greedy for petty gains. Such people are not qualified to be my son of heaven's army.

What I need is an upright, dignified man, a good man of the Han family who will never give up, help the weak, and be loyal to the emperor! "

At the end of Zhu Cihong's speech, she opened her arms and roared loudly.

He didn't want his army to be full of treacherous villains and people who were greedy for cheap. Soldiers were different from civil servants. Soldiers should be upright and upright with a sense of justice.

"We must correct ourselves, be loyal to His Majesty, to the nation, to the country, to be upright, to help the weak, and to stand upright! We will never be thieves, nor will we be women who want to be cheap!"

All 5000 people knelt down on one knee and shouted in unison.

Even the Royal Forest Army and some officers and soldiers who came to see the fun also knelt down and shouted loudly.

"Okay! If you know your mistakes, you can correct them. There is nothing good about being good. You can still be a good man, and you can still be regarded as my emperor's army!"

"Wu Sanfu is not strict with his subordinates, severely punish the twenty army sticks, and dismiss the rest!"

Wu Sanfu was about to cry, he was the only one who didn't take it, and would be beaten instead, but he had no choice but to accept his fate.

Who told him to be the chief soldier.

This incident quickly spread throughout the entire army, and the impact was enormous. The eunuchs who were the first to be impacted were almost all of them becoming cautious.

Then the generals at all levels realized His Majesty's attitude and determination towards corruption, and began to plan.

Only ordinary soldiers were affected the most, especially those simple-minded men, who had secretly gritted their teeth in their hearts, and wanted to be the kind of emperor's pro-army that His Majesty asked for, not to be a woman who was greedy for cheap, and a villain who robbed dogs and thieves.

This is the influence of the emperor.

Every word and deed affects countless people.

.........

A few days later, the entire Xuanfu Datong's guards, more than a hundred military officers from over a hundred households, and all the civil officials from Datong Mansion have all arrived, and the total number of people is no less than a thousand.

Although everyone knew that His Majesty summoned everyone to Xuanfu, there must be no good, but no one dared not to come.

One is the awe of imperial power.

The second is the [-] troops intimidated by the imperial court.

There must be no room for so many people in the city, so the meeting had to be held outside the city. Zhu Cilang sat on the high platform, and thousands of people knelt on the ground obediently to listen to the training according to their rank.

Everyone felt uneasy, the most uneasy, especially the prefects, magistrates and guard commanders in front.

"You are all hereditary military officers of the Ming Dynasty. Your ancestors followed the Taizu in the South and North Wars, expelled the Tartars, restored our Han family, and reshaped our Chinese civilization!

In order to commemorate the merits of our ancestors, Emperor Taizu moved them to two places, gave them official positions in fields and houses, guarded the borders and farmed fields, and let the descendants inherit the inheritance from their fathers, hoping that they can guard the border for our Ming Dynasty from generation to generation. It has been passed down to the present, probably more than 20 generations.

My old Zhu’s family has never owed you anything. On the contrary, for more than 200 years, relying on hereditary official positions, they have engulfed all the properties of ordinary military households, but they have not been able to guard the border with due diligence, so that the court had to spend money to recruit soldiers. Come to guard the border.

You are still complaining about the imperial court's arrears of military pay, that's all, the emperor of my old Zhu's family has always turned a blind eye to the merits of your ancestors.

But you and others are not grateful for the greatness of the emperor's kindness, but they are greedy for money. They know that those profiteers are colluding with the slaves and Tartars, but they still provide them with weapons and food. Do you still have the slightest bit of court in your eyes, Junfu?
What's even more chilling is that when the burglars invaded, you should have resisted desperately to repay the grace of the emperor, but you would have surrendered directly, without thinking about the grace of the emperor for many generations. "

"You are ruthless and ungrateful, disregarding the kindness of my old Zhu family and your generations, then the friendship of more than 260 years will be exhausted today, you should not blame me, take back everything that the emperor Taizu bestowed on your ancestors Prosperity and wealth!"

After Zhu Cihong finished speaking, all the military officers were weeping, feeling afraid and feeling guilty and regretful.

"Your Majesty, I know I was wrong..."

"Your Majesty, please be merciful. From now on, we will definitely serve the imperial court, be loyal to Your Majesty, and be loyal to the Zhu family..."

"It's too late, it's like a woman's infidelity, once it's done, it can never be repaired, it can't be washed away!

I actually came here with the army myself this time, and I will never let you stay in Xuanfu Datong again! "

Zhu Cihong got up and shook his head with his hands behind his back. Although his tone was light, he was very firm.

The military attaches naturally heard it, and they all sat down on the ground in despair, waiting for the verdict of fate.

"However, you are ruthless, but I can't be unrighteous. For the sake of your ancestors, death is inevitable, but life is inevitable!
The commanding envoy, guarding thousands of households and confiscating their property, allocating it to Qiongzhou, hundreds of households, etc., confiscating land, grain, and salt, and moving the whole family to the capital, and servants and servants who are willing to follow can take them away.

The general banner and small banners are all demoted to ordinary military households. "

After Zhu Cihong's announcement, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, but at the same time, they felt like mourning.

Although the command envoy and guard Qianhu's life were saved, everything was gone.

Hundreds of households and thousands of households and Tong Zhi, etc., although their official positions were temporarily preserved, their real estate, food and salt were gone.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your grace!"

After regaining their senses, everyone had to cheer up and thank the emperor for his kindness.

"For those who want to relocate to the capital, I will give you half a month to bring your family to the Xuan Mansion to gather. Those who fail to arrive will be punished with disobedience!"

Immediately, the commanding envoy, who guarded thousands of households and prefectures and counties, was locked up. After the house was ransacked, the former and the previously arrested garrison generals were sent to Qiongzhou together.

The latter is temporarily under house arrest in the capital, and after the next autumn harvest, he will be given death together with those civil officials who have surrendered thieves.

This time, Zhu Cilang planned to conduct a thorough rectification of the guards in the two places from top to bottom.

All land was first nationalized, and then reorganized and divided into households. Each household was granted land according to the number of adult men and women, with a minimum of five mu per person.

These lands belonged to the emperor in name, and military households could only cultivate them, and were not allowed to buy, sell or lease them. Violators would be punished as embezzlement of royal property.

At the same time, [-] older or well-performing veterans, as well as mid- and low-level generals, were selected from the entire army.

Veterans are awarded land according to the amount recorded in their records, up to a hundred acres per person, and if it exceeds, they will be given additional money.

They will be awarded the ranks of the small banner and the general banner, and will be assigned to various guards. They can start a family and start a business. The assigned fields are also private fields, but they will not be paid military salaries.

The low-level military officers, who will serve as hundreds of households in each guard, will also be granted private land, up to 150 mu, and they can start a family and start a business, and their monthly military salary will be halved.

The mid-level military officer served as the commander of Qianhu and Hewei, and was awarded [-] mu and [-] mu of Liutian respectively, with no reduction in military salary, and he could start a family and start a business.

In principle, Liutian belongs to their private fields, but each person can only work in a guard for three years, and after three years, he will be transferred to another place, and Liutian will belong to his successor.

Liutian and private land, because the north has been tax-free for three years, can temporarily not pay taxes. Although the imperial land of ordinary military households does not need to pay taxes, they have to pay [-]% of the rent to the emperor.

Nearly a thousand supervisors will also be uniformly awarded the rank of eighth-rank military officer, and sent to various guards to serve as deputy positions, and at the same time be responsible for reorganizing households and dividing fields.

These supervising students are paid monthly, but they don't share land.

Each Baihubao sent one person to test the hundred households, one person from the Qianhu Office to serve as deputy Qianhu, and two people from Weicheng to serve as the left and right co-prefects.

We will try our best to divide one hundred households into one hundred households.

There are ten hundred households under the jurisdiction of the thousand households, and here one guard governs ten thousand households.

Zhu Cihong's plan is to divide the army and the people into rule. In terms of military defense, the chief officer who was born in the military will be in charge, and the civil affairs will be in charge of the literati who are born in the supervisor.

And such a policy will at least last until the world is completely settled, and then Zhu Cihong will make unified revisions and formulate a new land policy.

(End of this chapter)