My Ming Dynasty, I have the final say

Chapter 11 I am intermittent blind

Early the next morning, while Zhu Youzheng was whittling wood with a file, the eunuch of the Supervisor of Ceremonies came over carrying several boxes.

"Your Majesty, these are the memorials to impeach Xu Xianchun."

"What did Xu Xianchun do? So much?"

He dropped the wooden pole in his hand and flipped through the memorials. Most of them were from the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Sixth Section Gallery, saying that he was outrageous and lawless, and that he was indifferent to human life.

Looking at the dozens of memorials selected, Zhu Youxiao was a little confused.

It's only been one night, what has this kid been doing?
Although he was a little curious, Zhu Youxiao didn't intend to interfere.

Jinyiwei is a secret service organization. Only if someone impeaches him will he, the emperor, be relieved.

If no one impeaches him, he should think about whether to clean up the Jin Yiwei.

Putting aside a pile of memorials to impeach Xu Xianchun, Zhu Youxiao continued to sketch on the paper.

The current Ming Dynasty can be said to be in deep trouble. If you want to save this country, you must carry out restructuring.

But restructuring does not mean that it can be changed by changing the system. It involves too much, and it really affects the whole body.

Moreover, some problems were big holes left by Zhu Yuanzhang when the country was founded, and it was difficult for thieves to fill them. Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di did not have time to solve them, and future generations of emperors would do so. . .After the Tumubao incident, we simply didn’t dare to solve it.

The current situation of Ming Dynasty, to be honest, this pot is broken beyond repair. It is necessary to build a new pot and install the sign of Ming Dynasty.

At the same time, a problem arises. Before a new pot is built, you still have to use the old pot.

To re-make the pot, money is needed. Now there are only more than 700 million taels of silver left in the internal funds. The idiot Emperor Taichang spent more than 400 million taels in a month. The money spent made Zhu Youxiao feel distressed and urgently needed a pair of white pots. Gloves, to make money for himself, he needs one or even multiple Sang Yanghong.

It will definitely not work if the managers are eunuchs, they must be professional businessmen.

Don't talk about confiscation of the house, whether it is low or not, let's just talk about the well-known traitor Shanxi merchants in history, what happens after the house is confiscated?
Have all the prisoners’ belongings been sold?There must be a big disturbance in the important town of Jiubian. You must know that Shanxi merchants not only sold grain, salt and iron to the Jiannu privately, but also shouldered the task of transporting salt, iron and grain to Jiubian and sold them to the Jiannu. Things are shipped to the border under the guise of military supplies from the Nine Borders.

The current situation of the Ming Dynasty is very similar to that of Maozi in later generations. Merchants from Shanxi and Huizhou are like the oligarchs of Maozi's family, ensuring the operation of the country.

But at the same time, they are the blood-sucking insects in Ming Dynasty. Without them, Ming Dynasty will only become worse.

After writing for a while, Zhu Youxiao picked up a petition written by Xu Guangqi a month ago - "Oli Si Zhou Shi Chen Shi Bing Qing Shu".

Xu Guangqi inspected Changping, Tongzhou. The original number of soldiers and horses was 10600. After excluding those who fled to aid the Liao Dynasty, there were actually only 6837 soldiers. 839 new soldiers were recruited, leaving a total of 7676 soldiers in the three battalions who needed food and pay.

The remaining three battalions of more than 7000 people were divided into three levels by Xu Guangqi.

First of all, there is not a single one who is of the upper class. We can only select 715 people of the middle and upper class and 1193 people of the middle and middle class from the middle and lower class. These people can still be used after training.

There are 2122 people in the middle and lower classes, who can barely do some odd jobs as soldiers.

The remaining 3646 people are all inferior. What do you mean by inferior? The inferior is: the old, weak, sick and disabled.

At the end, Xu Guangqi concluded that of the more than 3 soldiers in the three battalions, only 7000 were able to handle weapons, barely enough to make up the number of 2000.After training, there are only one or two hundred people who can be called elites.

Among the armors received from the factory warehouse, only helmets can be used, and body armor can only be used for training and cannot be worn on the battlefield.

Among the weapons, only the steel knife is usable, the rest are just scum.

As for long and short weapons such as spears, forks, golden weapons, sickles, and sticks, they were simply not available in the factory warehouse, so they had to temporarily buy some wooden sticks to make do with them.

As for the standard firearms of the Ming Dynasty: the Pearl Cannon, the Crouching Tiger Cannon, the Three-Eyed Gun, etc., most of them are rusty and open, so I dare not use them at all. There is only one kind of bird gun that is okay.

Looking at the contents of Xu Guangqi's memorial, Zhu Youxiao's face immediately turned green.

Is this the official army of the Ming Dynasty?The Rabbit Army was not so miserable during the war of resistance against Japan when it was at its worst.

In later generations, a Hong Kong police superintendent named Hande said: Corruption has become a way of life in the Hong Kong police force, as natural as going to bed at night, getting up during the day, and brushing your teeth.

This sentence should be placed in the Ming Dynasty, because the salary set by Zhu Yuanzhang for officials was too low, which directly caused officials to be unable to live without corruption, and in disguise promoted official corruption and collusion between officials and businessmen.

According to the calculation of one stone of grain and one tael of silver in the first year of Tianqi, for example, the salary of a seventh-rank official in the capital was seven stones and five dou in January, which is equivalent to seven taels of silver. Half of this is still converted into treasure notes like waste paper. .

What can you do with this little money? You can sell fifteen ducks, or 37 chickens, or 187 pounds of pork. Counting the usual oil, rice, salt, firewood, sauce, vinegar and tea, it is a problem for the whole family to have enough food.

This small salary forces officials to be greedy.

Not to mention local officials, do local officials rely on that salary?
Putting down Xu Guangqi's memorial, Zhu Youxiao was silent for a while, then wrote - military training minutes.

Since the Tumubao Incident, Zhu Qizhen, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, gave away all the elites of the Ming Dynasty. The power of the Fifth Army Governor's Office was confiscated by the Ministry of War, which directly led to the emperor's military power being restricted to an exaggerated level.

Thanks to the strength of Jinyiwei and Dongchang in the Ming Dynasty, it would not be surprising if Wang Mang usurped the throne.

And what are the consequences of military power falling into the hands of civilian officials? Look at Zhao Song, how weak he became.

Before the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty, if Song Huizong and his brother Song Zhezong had not reformed again and restarted the Battle of Hehuang, leaving behind the bloated military group of the Western Army, let alone the Southern Song Dynasty, the Xuanhe Northern Rebellion and Fang La's Rebellion would have almost wiped out the Zhao and Song Dynasties. Sent away.

In the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Di, who relied on military power to seize Zhu Yunwen's world, had a profound understanding of the saying "political power comes from the barrel of a gun." He once told Zhu Gaochi: As long as you are not dead!You have to patrol the Beijing camp every day!
In the feudal dynasty, if an emperor had no soldiers, to be honest, he would not be able to fart loudly.

Think again about the death of Emperor Tianqi in history. . .

Zhu Youxiao suddenly shrank his neck, feeling that the palace was not safe either.

After a while, Zhu Youxiao suddenly turned to Liu Shimin and said.

"Liu Shimin ordered Xu Guangqi to take the new soldiers he recruited to camp in Nanhaizi for training, and allocated 20 taels of silver to him from the internal funds. Anyone who dared to commit corruption would be executed in Lingchi, and then half of the Tengxiang Four Guards were transferred to Nanhaizi. Also, You personally go to the Purification Army and select [-] strong young eunuchs for me, those with a clean background."

"The slaves obey the order."

As a young eunuch left by Emperor Wanli, he was not very obedient. After hearing Zhu Youxiao's words, Liu Shimin hurriedly went down to give instructions.

(End of this chapter)