Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1144
On the fourth day of July, Prince Shaobao, Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of War, and Gao Wushi, the assistant manager of the Jingying Rongzheng, came to the former military governor's mansion as scheduled to meet with a group of dignitaries.

Although it has always been said that the "Five Armies Dudufu", but only in terms of Yamen, its "Five Armies" are separated and lined up on the west side of the main street between Chengtianmen and Damingmen from north to south.

Today's Governor-General Jingying Rongzheng (previously called Prime Minister Jingying Rongzheng, Zhao Zhenji changed it during the cabinet period) is held by the military minister Xungui, but this military minister Xungui is neither Zhu Yingzhen, the Duke of Cheng, nor Zhang Yuangong, the British Duke, nor is it Dingguo Duke Xu Wenbi, but an old minister: Zhangwu Bo Yang Bing.

The title of Uncle Zhangwu does not belong to the Jingnan family, but it is not from the founding family, but was conferred after the restoration of Yingzong.The status of this line of earls is not prominent, and the right to speak among the nobles of Shenjing is not great.However, it is ridiculous that it is precisely for this reason that the great seal of the Governor-General of the Jingying Rongzheng fell on his head-even he has been doing it for more than ten years.

There are roughly two reasons for this: first, it is less likely to be suspected of being the governor of the Jingying Rongzheng by a noble who has no right to speak; It is regarded as hopeless, so the higher the status of the honorable person, the less he wants to be involved in this unlucky job.

But today's meeting made Gao Wushi realize that maybe a third point should be added: the governor of the Jingying military administration has no right to speak, so the position of the left servant of the Ministry of War as the assistant to the Jingying military administration in the Beijing camp It was very prominent - anyway, as soon as Gao Wushi entered the Baihu Festival Hall of the former military governor's mansion, he found that all the nobles who had positions in the Beijing camp had arrived, and when they saw him entering the door, they all got up and saluted.

According to the system, the meritorious officials in the Ming Dynasty are different from the ranks of the clan. All these nobles belong to the "super class". Seriously speaking, they should not take the initiative to salute a servant of the Ministry of War, even if the servant has a prince. It's useless to add a title to him - the crown prince Shaobao himself is only a second rank, and he is still in the rank, so how can he be more prestigious than the super rank Xungui?
However, this is just a theory. In fact, the Shangguan (Shangshu and Shilang) of the Ministry of War during the Jialongwan period were all masters in front of any military officials and generals. Except for the Jingjun directly under the Yumajian, there is almost no military affairs that the Ministry of War cannot intervene intervening.

It may be an understatement to say "intervention". In fact, it should be said that almost any military affairs other than the clean army are under the management of the Ministry of War, and the nobles basically only need to be named.

If there is any special case, it is the household registration of military households. This thing was determined to be dead by the Taizu.

However, it may be precisely because of this reason that the Ministry of War has not been able to assist the military administration of the Beijing Camp for so many years, and it is not clear how many soldiers there are in the Beijing Camp.

Gao Wushi is different from the past today. He came to the meeting as an actual superior, so his face was so serious that Zhu Yingzhen and Zhang Yuangong, who had always been friends with him, did not dare to be presumptuous and gave up their plan to greet him with a smile. Follow Zhangwu Bo Yang Bing honestly to see him.

Gao Yushi's face was indifferent, and he bowed slightly to return the salute, and then said directly: "Are you all here? Well, when you are all here, we will start the meeting."

Everyone didn't expect Gao Yushi to be so straightforward in his opening remarks. They looked at each other and invited Gao Yushi to sit down.

According to Gao Yushi's previous style, he must be humble at this time, but not this time, he actually became the chief without saying a word.The top dignitaries around Uncle Zhangwu Yang Bingchao - mainly the Duke of the Three Kingdoms - took a look.

Zhu Yingzhen and Zhang Yuangong smiled, but they didn't respond at all, that is, they didn't give instructions.Xu Wenbi, the oldest Dingguo Duke, might be a little soft-hearted, and nodded slightly at him.

Yang Bing heaved a sigh of relief, followed Gao Yushi step by step, and sat on the second seat.According to the usual rules, the three princes are divided according to age, so Xu Wenbi is the first, Zhu Yingzhen is the second, and Zhang Yuangong is the second.Afterwards, the Marquis and Earls also found their seats according to the traditional rules.

"Thank you for waiting for a long time." Gao Yushi really has a unique style. The opening remarks of the meeting were just this sentence, and then went straight to the topic: "My Gong Bao's first position in the Ministry of War is to assist the military administration of the Beijing camp. I don't know, but the Beijing camp has been going back and forth over the years, and it is still a mess.

To tell you the truth, Ben Gongbao spent half a month in the Ministry of War, reviewing countless files, and in the end, he couldn't even find out the actual number of soldiers in the Beijing camp today, which is really weird! "

After saying these words, since the Three Great Dukes, all the nobles lowered their heads subconsciously.

Of course, they weren't afraid of Gao Pragmatism's accountability, after all, this shit didn't start with them.If the responsibility is to be pursued, which generation of ancestors must be pursued?

Bow your head, just acquiesce that there is such a thing, and at the same time avoid being shot out of the head - of course the top nobles will not die in this kind of thing, but there is no need for everyone to anger Gao Yushi, and finally be ordered by the emperor to be strict, right?

Of course, being severely punished by the emperor is not the most serious thing. After all, the emperor will at most dismiss them from their posts in the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, and their salary will be reduced every year. It's no big deal.

But it is very serious to offend Gao Shishi. During the last investigation of the land and acres in the world, because the emperor took the lead in selling a large number of Huangzhuang to the tenants of the Huangzhuang at a discount (the tenants asked Jinghua Bank for loans to raise funds), the nobles finally had no choice but to be kind. Reluctantly followed up some, and then participated in the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance.

This trip was incredible, and the nobles soon discovered that engaging in sea trade was much more cost-effective than farming. In the past, relying on military households to farm for money, it took an average of 30 years to pay back the cost of buying an acre of land, but engaging in sea trade soon At least ten times—at present, there is no company that has not returned its capital in three years. In fact, most of them have recovered their investment in two years, and almost all of them are net profits afterwards.

Even some of the fastest businesses can pay back the cost directly by one boat trip, such as the sale of Japanese fans, and even after two years, the price of Japanese fans in Daming has been reduced.

Gao Yushi is the initiator and actual leader of the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance. If he does not get his approval to hang the "Book and Sword" banner, he will not be able to go anywhere in the sea. Therefore, offending Gao Yushi is tantamount to offending the God of Wealth. The loss of office is much more serious.

Gao Wushi didn't care what they thought, but asked directly: "Uncle Zhangwu, you are the governor, can you give me a real number—how many soldiers are there in the Beijing camp now?"

"This..." Uncle Zhang Wu Yang Bing said awkwardly: "Gao Gongbao is asking about the number of soldiers on the list?"

Gao Wushi waved his hand: "There are 41 people on the register - what's the use of asking this?"

Yang Bing coughed lightly, and said again: "Gao Gongbao, the Beijing camp is divided into two categories, in addition to the three major battalions, there are also troop troops..."

"Leaving aside the army squad, let's talk about the three battalions first."

Yang Bing coughed lightly again, and said falteringly: "Well, if you don't care about the army, the three battalions probably... probably have more than 4 people..."

Gao Wushi sneered when he heard the words: "In the early years, there were 41 registered, and there were still 14 in the 17th year of Zhengtong. After the civil engineering, Yu Zhongsu (Yu Qian, posthumous title) selected and edited elite regiments with [-]. In the early years of Zhengde, only With [-] left, I had no choice but to choose the frontier army to join the guard, known as the four foreign families... But now, there are only [-] left—compared to the early days of the Kingdom, the number of personnel in the Beijing camp has already dropped to nine out of ten !"

He paused for a while when he said this, and then asked: "This is just the number of posts. I would like to ask one more question: Can these 4 people go to battle—who can answer me?"

Of course, no one could answer, so I just kept silent.A group of nobles suddenly discovered that their boots were very beautiful, and they all lowered their heads to study the toes.

Gao Wushi glanced around, and stood up slowly. Everyone was looking at him from the corner of their eyes. When they saw him get up, they all stood up, including Xu Wenbi, who was very old among the three princes. Meet the appearance of the Shangguan.

Gao Wushi walked down the center of the festival hall, and while walking slowly, he said: "Everyone and I are new acquaintances, you should know my habits, I can turn a blind eye to some things, but I want to do it Things... are never discounted."

Everyone was shocked by this sentence, and they all raised their heads, looking high and pragmatic.

Of course they know that Gao Yushi's words are not a joke, but they are afraid that Gao Yushi will not know that the troubles in the Beijing camp are rooted in the root cause. ", that would really kill the old man, even the revival of the great ancestor can't be done!
After all, Yang Bing is the governor of the Beijing camp, and he was clearly in a July day, but he was in a cold sweat, and he was about to speak, but he didn't want Zhu Yingzhen to be the first to speak this time because of the deepest friendship with Gao Yushi. mouthed.

"To be honest...uh, Gao Gongbao, the problem of the three major battalions has a long history. The so-called freezing three feet is not a one-day cold. This matter has been accumulated for almost 200 years. If you want to clear it up, It's really troublesome for me to watch..."

"6 people." Gao Wushi interrupted Zhu Yingzhen's words, and said blankly: "I will give you five months, no matter whether you are recruiting or selecting from military households, in short, before the end of this year, I want to see that there are [-] young and strong in Beijing, but there is one thing I want to declare in advance: I don't want those rogues found in the market."

"This..." Zhu Yingzhen's face turned bitter, and he didn't know what to say for a while.The rest of the nobles also looked unlucky about being forced to eat shit.

Zhong Xungui looked unlucky, but he didn't dare to joke about such a big business of his own, just like the scene of collective constipation.

The prestige of money is so great.

In the end, it was Xu Wenbi, the old man who was well-informed, and slowly said: "I am afraid it is difficult to select young and strong soldiers from among the military households. The only way is to recruit soldiers. Years have been used. The only thing to worry about, where does the money for this recruitment come from?"

Gao Wushi seemed to have guessed this question long ago, and asked Xu Wenbi instead: "What did the old man teach me?"

"Don't dare, dare not." Xu Wenbi had already experienced the power of high pragmatism as early as the Longqing period. Now that more than ten years have passed, Xiaoge Lao has become a real servant. How dare he take the word "teaching"? modest.

"In previous years, if the army register and personnel needed to be checked, the imperial court allocated additional money for the recruitment of soldiers. Since Gao Gongbao needs to raise the amount of 2 people this time, Gao Gongbao will ask Gao Gongbao to report the required expenses to the cabinet. The ticket is drafted, the emperor approves the redemption, and then the household department allocates the silver tael. Naturally, our five-army governor's office will follow everything, and we must strictly select and recruit, so as not to miss the important tasks of palace protection."

Gao Wushi thought to himself: Xu Wenbi is really a bad old man, he dug a few holes for me to jump.

This old guy first described the "raise" as my personal request, and then asked me to ask for the money myself, which is to put me and other related yamen aside.

Right now the chief assistant has been replaced by Shen Shixing. Although I still have to call him "Mr. Shen" in name, we obviously can't pee in the same pot. "Mr. Shen" will happily draw up a ticket for me. The councilor"?
Well, even if other elders help, for example, Senior Brother Wu Duiwu is now in charge of the Ministry of War, and he helped to submit the essay and agreed to it on the draft, so what?Can Zhu Yijun still withdraw such a sum of money from the household department this year?Even if he is willing, the premise is that the Ministry of Households must have it!
The Ministry of Household Affairs is already in a deficit this year. If I hadn’t produced the Yunnan war money and helped win the war against Myanmar, the Ministry of Household Affairs would have been scolded by now.

But even though the Dianzhan Baochao has shared a large part of the pressure on the Ministry of Accounts, the income from this treasure in turn is not a big deal to the Ministry of Accounting-the Ministry of Accounting can only get 8 taels of compensation per year, but that We have to start counting from next year, because Myanmar has emptied its treasury this year, should they pay it back?
What's more, the Ministry of Household Affairs is originally the real school's own position. The former Shangshu Zhang Xueyan is doing better, and now Shen Li, a novice in finance, has taken up the post. It is estimated that he has just figured out the basic situation after more than half a month. In the tense financial situation, spending an extra sum of money to recruit soldiers for the Beijing camp, even if it is not much different from forcing him to hang himself.

But... Gao Wushi sneered in his heart, if you want to use money to kill me, you are probably thinking too much.Although I definitely can't use my own money to spend on Jingying, but in my hands, can't Jingying find a way to make money by giving away my money for recruiting soldiers?

"I heard that one of the major disadvantages of the Beijing camp is that people from the Beijing camp are always employed in various projects of the imperial court, such as flood control of the Yongding River, construction of the imperial tomb, maintenance of the Great Wall in Shuntian territory, construction of hollow enemy towers, etc. Beijing camp dispatcher?"

As soon as Gao Wushi mentioned this matter, all the nobles became energetic, and each of them seemed filled with righteous indignation—mainly because the Beijing Camp often took on these tasks with a large amount of work, and the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of War and other yamen gave The wages are extremely low.Although the military households in the Beijing camp have already become their private property, the key is that this "sale" is not worthwhile, and the profit is meager.

Gao Wushi smiled slightly: "How about this, I will find something to do for the Beijing camp, I will earn some money by the way, and handle the recruitment of soldiers by myself, without worrying about the court... What do you think?"
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