My Ming Dynasty, I have the final say

The day is right, in Xiyuan, in the emperor's study room.

"How many are there?"

Putting down the pen in his hand, Zhu Youxiao breathed a sigh of relief, looked at Liu Shimin beside him and asked.

"Back to the emperor, there are already more than one hundred and thirty."

Hearing this, Liu Shimin, who was working at another small table next to the emperor, raised his head, counted the memorials on his desk, and whispered.

"Both were impeached by Dong Yingju and Deng Shiliang."

"They said they were killing court officials in the street, which was damaging to the country."

On the small table in front of Liu Shimin was a memorial sent by the Superintendent of Ceremonies.

Because Liu Shimin had to be at the emperor's side, the eunuchs who approved the scandals would simply write down a note and send it to Liu Shimin, so that he could comment on the matter when the emperor asked about it. An understanding.

"More than thirty courses, so free."

Hearing this, Zhu Youxiao shook his head.

"Stick to your duties."

He picked up the pen and wrote four words and handed it to Liu Shimin.

"Everyone criticizes this word."

"The slaves obey the order."

Taking the note written by the emperor from the emperor's hand, Liu Shimin bowed and quickly returned to his desk to start copying the memorial.

This is the emperor's way of handling things like this where a group of people come together to write a letter because of one thing.

He has read these four words too many times in the past few days.

In today's Ming Dynasty, there are too many people who want to sell their political ideals, but their memorials often receive such instructions after entering the ceremonial office.

Although he was dealing with some "junk" memorials, Liu Shimin couldn't help but glance at the pile of memorials on the emperor's desk.

Those piles of memorials were all about impeachment.

I don't know what Liu Shimin is thinking, but Zhu Youxiao's attention is focused on Dong Yingju's new policy report at the moment.

With the help of the Imperial College students, the land clearing work in Shuntian Mansion was carried out very quickly.

In just half a month, more than 300,000 acres of land have been cleared and registered.

In contrast, the number of reported corrupt officials has shown a linear upward trend.

"Everyone deserves to be killed!"

Seeing Dong Yingju's report against corrupt officials, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but curse in secret.

At this moment, he realized why Yongzheng would angrily scold people for their inadequacy in his later years.

Based on the original Ming Dynasty salary, he tripled it and distributed real money.

Not to mention other places, the officials of Shuntian Mansion got real silver coins. In the market, one silver coin can be worth two taels.

In this way, there are still people who risk losing their heads by embezzling and accepting bribes to cause trouble for him.

Moreover, according to Dong Yingju's report, these people had quite a good time.

It is nothing new for large households to collude with the Qingzhangke to allocate common people's acres of land to their own names.

Most of them point to the barren hills and say they are acres of land, and then more land deeds should be created for the people.

What's even more outrageous is that a group of Imperial College supervisors actually dared to change the measuring tools.

For the standard bow made by the imperial court, two more measuring tools, large bow and small bow, were created.

Large households used large bows to measure their acres, so the measured number of acres was less than the actual number of acres. They also had land deeds and account books, but in the end they paid less tax.

For ordinary people, they use small bows to measure. In this way, the measured acres are more than the actual acres. Although there are more written on the land deeds, the people pay more taxes.

"There are bad guys in the team."

Looking at these diverse talents with all kinds of tricks, Zhu Youxiao, a future generation, couldn't help but sigh, you still know how to play.

In this era when there are no remote sensing methods for monitoring, there are too many tricks when it comes to measuring acres.

"I feel like these students are not very easy to use."

Seeing Dong Yingju emphasize at the end of the memorial that these students were lazy and that the work of clearing the emperor of Shuntian Mansion might take another month, Zhu Youxiao sighed again.

"Should we let the students from the Military Academy go?"

Suddenly, an idea came into Zhu Youxiao's mind.

But immediately, Zhu Youxiao threw this idea behind him.

The officer training school should focus on training officers first, so don't make mistakes.

Tapping his fingers on the notebook, Zhu Youxiao thought about how to solve the problem in the process of measuring the acres.

There is definitely not much that can be done to completely eliminate corrupt officials.

At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang was trying to peel off the skin and use all kinds of methods. In the end, there were not enough officials, and all the methods were used to make criminal officials work in chains, but corrupt officials still flocked up like moths to a flame.

Tapping his fingers on the table, a word suddenly appeared in Zhu Youxiao's mind, defeat magic with magic and let the official figure it out.

I stopped by to see if I could get one or two more people who only wanted to get an official title and didn't care about the lives of their colleagues.

"Transcribe the passage I circled and give it to the General Affairs Department."

After thinking for a while, he handed the memorial in his hand to the eunuch on duty as the Supervisor of Ceremonies beside him, and Zhu Youxiao ordered.

"Let the officials of various yamen in Beijing think about the bad policies that occurred during the land clearing and how to prevent this kind of harsh treatment of the common people during the implementation of the new policy."

"The slaves obey the order."

After hearing this, the eunuch took the memorial, took the note from Liu Shimin, and hurriedly walked to the Superintendent of Ceremonies.

Looking at the eunuch leaving, Liu Shimin couldn't help but shook his head.

The emperor's decree is another way of selecting talents, or fishing.

Those who can come up with good solutions are those who can use them.

Those who cannot come up with a solution, and those who take advantage of the situation and want to stop the imperial government's new policies, are those who cannot be used.

But this straight hook fishing can only be caught if you can. . . Strange.

As soon as the strange word popped into Liu Shimin's mind, he stuffed it back again.

Not necessarily, the level of Ming Dynasty's civil servants may be really good.

Behind the emperor, there was a screen. The screen was divided into two sides, front and back, with names of many people on each side.

The names of the people on the memorials in his hand will be affixed to them after he has verified them.

Although so far, Liu Shimin has only discovered the rule that the emperor likes to use people with practical experience, but he always feels that the emperor has other purposes for posting people's names on the screen.

Just when the emperor asked people to classify the ministers, they were outside Chengtian Gate.

"it is good!"

Sounds of cheers came from the Ming Dynasty's Central Military Governor's Mansion and spread to the six yamen.

"Can't we just let that group of people go outside the city? It's so noisy every day, it's very disturbing to people's peace."

"Stop talking and do your thing quickly."

Hearing what his subordinates said, Huang Kezhan, the Minister of War, frowned and scolded.

Then, he turned to the other side and asked.

"What is the other side doing today and why is it so noisy?"

"I heard that the semi-annual competition of the Military Academy is coming soon, and they are practicing in advance."

Naturally, someone had already inquired about it and reported it to Huang Kezhan.

"Oh, that's how it is."

Hearing this, Huang Kezhan nodded, thoughtfully.

Since Yang Gao went to Dingliao Youwei, the person in charge of the Military Academy is now Chen Yin, who is a powerful general of the Ming Dynasty.

Huang Kezhan had seen Chen Yin's resume, so he was relieved to have him train the generals.

"I also want to take a look."

Huang Kezhan is also familiar with the teaching methods and course content of Wulue Academy. It is nothing more than the "Ji Xiao Bing Shu" and other things left by Qi Jiguang.

Somewhat curious about the teaching results of Wulue Academy, Huang Kezhan led a few followers, left the Yamen of the Ministry of War, and went to the Chinese Army Governor's Mansion.

"Nine out of ten arrows hit, super!"

Huang Kezhan had just entered Wu Lue Academy when he heard someone reporting the results loudly.

"Nine out of ten, good shooting."

After hearing the reported results, Huang Kezhan nodded secretly in admiration.

Huang Kezhan's ability to become Minister of War did not just rely on the emperor's trust. He also had the ability to take action.

Not to mention the rigid requirement that the Minister of War of the Ming Dynasty must be able to ride a horse.

Although Huang Kezhan was a Confucian scholar, he had studied the six arts of a gentleman: etiquette, music, archery, charioteering, calligraphy, and numeracy.

"Huang Shangshu."

Chen Yin, who was watching the students compete in archery skills, was not surprised when he saw Huang Kezhan coming in, and immediately stepped forward to greet him.

This Huang Kezhan often runs towards him.

He doesn't do anything else, just come and see, always thinking about his subordinates.

"How come Huang Shangshu is free today to come to my Wulue Academy for inspection?"

Being able to make repeated military exploits during the Wanli period, Chen Yin naturally had a way of dealing with civil servants.

Because he was a warrior, Chen Yin had to respect the Minister of War.

As soon as he opened his mouth, Chen Yin said that the purpose of Huang Kezhan's trip was an inspection, which gave him enough face.

"Old General Chen is so complimentary."

Don't hit anyone with a smile. Huang Kezhan is neither a party nor a friend in the government, but he will not offend anyone for no reason.

"Things are uneasy now. As the Minister of the Ministry of War, I also have my responsibilities. I came to the Military Strategy Academy to have a look, and I feel confident."

After explaining casually, Huang Kezhan asked Chen Yin in a low voice.

"I just came in, and I heard that there was a man who hit nine out of ten arrows, but is it true?"

"real."

After hearing Huang Kezhan's words, Chen Yin nodded and suddenly realized.

"I heard that Huang Shangshu is also proficient in archery. Why don't we let some of the students learn about it?"

"Forget it, forget it. With my superficial skills, I can make a weak bow with just one stone, so I won't be embarrassed."

Hearing this, Huang Kezhan smiled and waved his hand.

He saw, however, that there were long bows on site, and there were all kinds of long bows, but many people were holding soft bows made of stone, and only a few people were holding hard bows.

Mao Yuanyi, a military scholar of the Ming Dynasty, proposed the four major weapons of the Ming Dynasty's frontier troops in his two books, "Wu Bei Zhi" and "Forty Collections of Shi Min", which are soft bows, long arrows, fast horses, and light knives.

The standard bows of the Ming Dynasty are divided into three types, namely the one-stone soft bow, the one-stone hard bow and the two-stone strong bow.

The measurement of bow power is to hang the bow on the wall and then hang a weight on the bowstring. When the bow arm is fully drawn, the weight of the weight is the bow power.

The one-stone soft bow is also called the Kaiyuan bow, and is often equipped with cavalry and guard troops. Of course, although it is called the soft bow in name, it is also compared to the one-stone heavy bow equipped by the Beijing camp.

Compared with later generations, the draw force of the softest Ming war bow has exceeded the upper limit of the draw force of the modern recurve bow used by Ao Yonghui.

As for the two-stone strong bow, it is the Jinyiwei. This is more for decoration than practical.

But in today's world, it is really unknown how many people in the Ming Dynasty's capital army can shoot two-stone bows.

Standing with Chen Yin, he looked at a tall student who was holding a two-stone bow and shooting arrows at the target eighty steps away.

Whenever this person shoots an arrow, the students present will cheer loudly for him.

"This man is a talented person. I wonder if he was sent by the guard?"

Seeing that this man was about to hit ten of his targets, Huang Kezhan couldn't help but ask Chen Yin.

He fell in love with this young man.

"Huang Shangshu, you'd better not have any ideas about this kid. This kid has registered with His Majesty."

Hearing that Huang Kezhan had taken aim at the genius of the current Wulue Academy at a glance, Chen Yin couldn't help but squint his eyes and whispered.

"This man's name is Lu Xiangsheng. He is a military student of Yingyangwei and a scholar of Yingtian Mansion."

"Among the five people sent by Ying Yangwei, this guy is the only one who is successful. The other four were sent back because of their poor health."

"That's it."

Hearing this, Huang Kezhan was not discouraged.

The Wulue Academy was run by Yang Hao, but anyone who wasn't a fool could tell that it was sponsored by the emperor.

The top student in Wulue Academy must be selected first by the emperor.

"I heard that there are many students here who are recommended by military students from various health centers. I wonder if there are any talents who can recommend me."

As he spoke, Huang Kezhan pointed to the side.

"Don't say they can ride horses and shoot arrows. I want someone who can handle accounts and dispatch supplies."

"This... Huang Shangshu needs a talent from the logistics department."

Hearing this, Chen Yin reached out and touched his chin.

"Yes, there is some, but where the students of the Military Academy will go in the future is up to His Majesty to decide, but I dare not speak out."

"Ah."

Hearing this, Huang Kezhan was not surprised. He simply nodded and said nothing more.

He still had to go to the emperor for this matter.

After all, the emperor spent money to cultivate talents, and he did not dare to pick this fruit.

"Ten arrows hit ten, first grade."

Just when Huang Kezhan was thinking about how to talk to the emperor, someone reported Lu Xiangsheng's archery results.

"it is good!"

Hearing this, Huang Kezhan couldn't help but cheer.

Immediately afterwards, another person came on the stage. From the several bows in front of him, he selected a hard bow. After trying the bowstring a few times, he came to the archery target.

I saw him standing up with a bow and nodding an arrow. His eyes were focused. He held the bow in his left hand and pulled the string with his right hand. When the bow was fully drawn, he let go of his right hand, and the arrow clusters flashed with cold light and headed towards the distant target.

"boom!"

With a loud bang, it hit the target.

"What is this person's name?"

"Wu Xiang."

Hearing this, Chen Yin thought for a moment and gave the person's name.

"He is the brother-in-law of Zu Dashou, the current general of the Huxiang Guard. He is a martial arts examiner. He originally planned to participate in next year's martial arts examination and take the exam to become a martial arts scholar. However, after he came to Beijing with Zu Dashou, he was recommended by Zu Dashou. Entered the Wulue Academy."

"Oh?"

Hearing this, Huang Kezhan's eyes lit up.

Because of the Ming Dynasty's military succession system, the officer corps often has family inheritance within it.

For example, Zu Dashou's father, Zu Chengxun, was the deputy commander-in-chief of the Ming Dynasty during his lifetime and participated in the Wanli War to Aid the Dynasty.

The fact that Wu Xiang has entered the circle of his ancestors shows that he is a capable person.

Thinking of this, Huang Kezhan thought of the name Wu Xiang in his heart.

The final result did not disappoint Huang Kezhan.

Ten arrows hit ten, and he was no weaker than Lu Xiangsheng in front.

"He is a talented person, but I don't know if he can be transferred to the Ministry of War. Recently, the Five Cities Military and Horse Division has been unable to control the security of the capital."

Looking at Wu Xiang who was receiving congratulations from people around him, Huang Kezhan touched his chin and thought. (End of chapter)