I was the emperor in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 193
Of course, the case still needs to be handled, and it needs to be handled beautifully.

From Lu Zhen's mouth, he has already found out that Guo Wenyu colluded with Zhu Rong and others to resell the official food in Taicang.

It is said that there is no small matter in the Tian family, let alone such a major event involving hundreds of thousands of official rations.

But some things should be treated differently.

Just like now, many generals of the frontier army were involved.

This kind of thing belongs to the kind that is not easy to make a big fuss, and it is not easy to tell the world.

Without him, people have soldiers in their hands.

When encountering such things in the past, they would usually turn it into a trivial matter. Huang Yan has been in the palace for many years, and he has already seen this matter very thoroughly.

And the corrupt officials in the DPRK.

These people emerge in endlessly, and killing them will never be clean.

For Li Tian, ​​it can only be punished whoever is found.

For Huang Yan, His Majesty the Emperor is very enthusiastic about money recently. As the Emperor, it is inconvenient for him to collect money by himself, so it is better to be this black face himself.

As long as when the time comes, give Li Tian a large sum of money from the looting to please His Majesty, and keep a small part for himself, I guess His Majesty will not have any objection.

He already knew what he needed to know, and he already got what he needed, so he lost interest in being with Lu Zhenxu and the Snake.

Then he got up and said to Lu Zhen calmly,
"Hehe, envoy Lu Yu is being polite, our family is only capable of this, and it's not as good as yours."

Lu Zhen's smile froze. Although he knew it was not a good word, he didn't really turn his face.

At this moment, there are really not many people who are still willing to help him. If there is one less offending person, it is better to be one less.

"It's all up to you, Lord!"

Lu Zhen's attitude is as low as he wants, who let his current life be in Huang Yan's hands.

Huang Yan smugly smiled, did not continue to say anything, and said to the little official behind him who was taking notes,

"Has Lu Yushi's confession been clearly written?"

The little official carefully dried the ink on the prepared confession, bowed and handed it to Huang Yan.

"To the Lord, everything is clearly recorded, without any mistakes or omissions."

"That's good, let's go, let's go see Guo Shilang!"

As he spoke, he hummed a little tune and walked slowly towards the cell on the other side.

Li Tian doesn't know about Huang Yan's scheming and various ways to amass money.

In the imperial study room late at night.

A large group of people are busy without touching the ground.

Everyone has stacks of files and documents in their hands.

Wang Fu and several young eunuchs were in charge of sorting out and sending the summarized information to Li Tian. Although it was late at night, he was still sweating profusely.

Li Tian, ​​on the other hand, carefully reviewed each one.

He had to be careful.

He already has a general direction for this matter in his mind. If the matter is investigated clearly, he can find out the general situation of guards across the country from point to point.

After several hours of analysis and review.

Li Tian finally figured out the key.

Looking at the shocking data in front of him above, he felt a little shuddering in his heart.

"How many years has it been since the founding of the Ming Dynasty? It's only a few decades."

"The guard system established by Zhu Papi has been corrupted to such an extent."

Only in Datong, there were 20 military households in the guards, and some fled and scattered, and the rest were less than half.

It's no wonder that Zhu Rong, a nobleman of the royal family and a border guard who has repeatedly made military exploits, would use the method of greedy official food to raise soldiers.

Less than half of the military households in the guard, excluding the old and the weak, who may still have the strength to cultivate the military fields, may be less than [-].

How could it be possible to support such a small number of people farming, the frontier army has hundreds of thousands of troops.

This is only found out by myself. If there are millions of troops on the nine sides, it is conceivable how much combat power the frontier army, which lacks clothing and food, can have.

Fortunately, before crossing, the cheap old man Zhu Di made five expeditions to Mongolia and drove Mongolia to the northwest desert in one fell swoop.

If this is not the case, if you stand up again, you will not even have any available soldiers in your hands.

Thinking of this, Li Tian secretly hated Zhu Rong's stealthy methods, and at the same time despised the guard system that ultimately ruined Daming.

"Everyone is suffering, everyone knows this, but why you, Zhu Rong, dare to take the risk and risk beheading for money for the ink officials.

Do you really think that your past achievements can make you a bargaining chip for doing whatever you want! "

"asshole!"

With a roar, the young eunuchs who were concentrating on sorting out the documents jumped in fright.

Everyone stood up silently, not daring to make the slightest sound.

Only Wang Fu asked tremblingly, "Your Majesty has found out something, do you want this old slave to summon all the adults in the cabinet?"

Li Tian was a little tired and slumped on the dragon chair.

He waved his hands and said, "No need, it's useless to call them here if you're not in a hurry!"

Looking at the little eunuchs who have been busy all night and are exhausted.

He also ordered, "Decree to the imperial dining room, make some supper, after you have eaten, you should all leave!"

Wang Fu hurriedly took the lead in kowtowing,

"Thank you Your Majesty for the reward, the old slave is not tired"

Seeing him sweating profusely and looking tired, Li Tian couldn't help but smiled wryly,
"I tell you to get out, just get out of here quickly, there is so much nonsense!"

Wang Fu quickly apologized and waved his hands. The little eunuchs got up one by one, packed up the documents on the ground, and left quickly, but he stayed behind.

Li Tian didn't say much, but his perception of Wang Fu slightly improved.

"Sure enough, he is a slave born in the family. He is really loyal."

Although he has figured out the root cause of the matter, Li Tian has no idea how to deal with this matter and the subsequent solution.

His brows furrowed slightly.

The guard system of the Ming Dynasty was indeed effective during the Hongwu period.

The army and the people are self-sufficient as a whole, serving as soldiers in wartime and farming in leisure time, which saved a lot of military expenses for Ming Dynasty.

However, as corruption became common in the later period, the chief of the guards treated the military households as private property and asked them to cultivate their own private fields and use public equipment for private use, which made the military households miserable.

In addition, the military households have no private property, and their enthusiasm for farming is not high, and as time goes by.

Many military households can't bear the hardships, either fleeing to do business, or fleeing into the deep mountains and old forests, turning into black households.

A similar situation also happened in the Qing Dynasty.

It's just that the veteran soldiers of the Eight Banners received much more comfortable treatment in the early stage than these ordinary people from poor backgrounds.

The reason why the guard system lasted until the end of the Ming Dynasty and has not disappeared shows that it still has its advantages.

But the disadvantages are also very obvious. The so-called Ming historians of later generations have already analyzed it very thoroughly.

However, how to solve this matter once and for all, as a young white-collar worker, Li Tian, ​​who knows only a little about history, couldn't think of a good solution for a while.

Although, finding out the truth about the current guard house left him with lingering fears.

But he was also fortunate that he discovered these disadvantages early, otherwise, when the war came, it would be even worse if he didn't know anything about these situations.

(End of this chapter)