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Chapter 637 The Queen 15
But in fact, the navy spends very little money from the national treasury. Last time it went out, it gave one million taels and nothing else. Compared with the millions of taels spent by military generals everywhere, the navy It's all costless.

Besides, the warlords in various places only wanted money and did not bring any benefits to the court. Unlike the navy, which brought a large number of imported goods to the court, which could make money, they could not fulfill their responsibility of defending the territory - the barbarians from the north would go south to rob the country at every turn. Loot and let them guard the north, as if they were not guarding it. Over the years, the northern territory has been lost again and again, and a lot of territory has been lost.

In addition, these warlords also regard the northern territory as their private property, and they are the kind of warlords whose territorial output belongs to them, and they can also ask the court for money.

Not only these problems, these warlords also have the problem of maintaining self-respect as bandits, otherwise the barbarians can develop easily?

It’s not that the warlords guarding the border, in order to get more military pay from the imperial court, deliberately allowed the Hu people to plunder everywhere in order to force the imperial court to pay them and let the imperial court know that if they didn’t pay, something would happen in the northern territories. A secret threat.

The imperial court used half of the fiscal budget, including millions of military pay, to pay the generals in the northern prefectures.

All the finances have been used to pay these warlords, and there is no money left to care about people's livelihood. It is no wonder that uprisings are happening all over the world.

What makes people even more angry is that with this money, the warlords will naturally get rich, but the soldiers cannot get the money. Many soldiers have to rely on the prostitution of their wives and daughters to survive, because their military salaries are The warlords took it away.

How can soldiers who can't survive like this have any combat effectiveness? Even if they do, they are malnourished and their physical strength cannot keep up.

In addition, the generals also make money by eating empty salaries. For an army of several thousand people, they are considered to be conscientious if they report hundreds of thousands of people. There are also some who falsely report hundreds of thousands. When they mention it, they say that barbarians are invading and they need to recruit more. The soldiers guarding the border are actually false reports.

The imperial court paid money per person, but in fact there were not that many soldiers at all. When a war really came, they would be unable to resist at all times, which is normal, because the army did not have that many people at all. On the surface, it was hundreds of thousands of soldiers. There are ten thousand barbarians, but in fact it may only be five thousand against ten thousand barbarians.

The fighting ability of the Hu people is not bad. Dayan is still planning to fight five thousand against ten thousand. It will be strange if Dayan does not lose.

Then the battle reports became ugly. They frequently boasted that the Hus were great at cavalry and shooting. Dayan's hundreds of thousands of infantrymen were no match for the Hus. They needed to recruit more soldiers to fight. Then none of them were recruited, but military pay was paid according to the increased number of people. It's nice to be able to catch more.

In addition to depriving soldiers of their pay, they also reclaimed land in the north. These lands became the fields of these warlords. They were not like generals, but like big landowners, while the soldiers were like tenants.

By taking empty pay, depriving soldiers of their military pay, and operating land, these warlords made as much money as the civil servants in the south.

Moreover, many of these people are flirting with the barbarians, and even secretly have entangled interests. Think about it, isn't it funny that such a group of generals who only know how to make money are asked to guard Dayan?
Linlang had long thought about cleaning up these warlords who were only greedy for money and did not know how to serve the country. He planned to wait until the northern fortress was almost built, then he would start purging the warlords entrenched in the north, just like purging those who stood behind the Central Government. It's the same as the civil servant group of wealthy families.

These two parties, the civil and military groups, are both moths. They have hollowed out the entire country, and it is not enough. If they continue, and the north grows further, these moths will definitely not be able to stop the Hu people from going south, and the country will definitely perish, because they will not fight to the death. , who are used to enjoying wealth and honor, they will think that as long as they surrender to the Hu people, they can continue to enjoy the glory and wealth in the new dynasty, and the Hu people are afraid that they will surrender in this way. In this way, who will resist, this is obvious Not what Linlang wanted to see.

At that moment, Linlang said that the navy could use no money from the treasury this time to go to sea, but only money from internal funds, so that it would not delay the court's use of money to defend the north.

In the end, Linlang said this, and the civil servants disagreed, saying that the treasury had too little money, and now Beimo needed more money to defend the border, and asked Linlang to use the internal funds instead of building a navy. , Hurry up and give it to the troops on the border. Look at the battle report, and there are barbarians who have taken over our area again, and so on.

They said righteously: "Although the money from internal funds is your Majesty's personal property, if something happens to the court, no matter how much money you save from internal funds, it will be of no use. Your Majesty, please quickly transfer the money from internal funds." , use it to guard the border, and stop trying to expand the territory. If our own homeland is lost, what is the use of opening more borders. "

If I hadn't known that this group of rubbish was preventing the navy from going to sea in order to sell their foreign goods at a high price, just by looking at their speeches, I would have thought that these people were completely loyal.

That's what civil servants are like. They are all very talkative and what they say is high-sounding. No matter who listens to it, they can't say that they are not doing well. They always like to stand on the moral high ground.

After hearing what they said, Linlang said calmly: "Another barbarian has taken over a piece of our land... After spending so much money, the territory is still being lost year after year. Is there something wrong with General Wang guarding Mobei? Let's do this. Let General Zhang, who is guarding Zhenbeiguan, replace him. As for Zhenbeiguan, let General Yang from the Beijing camp pass, and then let General Fang from the central part come to the Beijing camp. As for General Wang, let him guard the central part. "

The central part is not Mobei. All we need to do is prevent civil unrest. It is very comfortable. Since it is comfortable, if you want to make money, in addition to deducting soldiers and eating empty pay, you want to apply for a large military salary from the court, and also reclaim land, become a big landlord yourself, and make soldiers It is impossible to use it as a tenant and let soldiers help farm the land. In other words, if the person named Wang moves to the mainland, his income will be greatly reduced.

The people Linlang replaced may not necessarily be the best. These people are also suspected of being free of charge, but at least they are pretty good to the soldiers and not so shabby. Judging from the current situation of Linlang's investigation, they are better than that General Wang. That's why Linlang was prepared to change people like this.

She didn't deal with people from the military for the time being, so among these people, she could only pick out some of the less rubbish ones and send them to the border.

People in the capital who had been given countless gifts by General Wang began to object when they heard Linlang's distribution, saying: "The situation in the north is complicated, and it is most taboo to change generals at short notice. What will happen if something goes wrong?"

But...there are already some people in the court who belong to Linlang's influence.

These people used to be the kind of people who stayed neutral. Because Cui Shoufu and Han Cifu were so powerful, they could only stay neutral. But now, after the Ma family, Cai family and others fell, and some people were brought in, third-party forces gradually emerged. These Linlang thought that there were many people, which was not bad, so now Linlang arranged it this way, and these people agreed with Linlang's arrangement.