My Ming Dynasty, I have the final say

Chapter 43 Is this my Ming Dynasty’s army?

"what!"

With a scream, the skinny monkey-like man rolled to one side and shouted while running.

"Come on, come on, everyone, come on, there's a corrupt official here!"

"Why, I haven't been here for several months, and you don't even recognize me anymore?"

With his riding whip on his hips, Zhang Weixian shouted loudly as he looked at the soldiers who had gathered around him with unkind expressions on their faces.

"Mr. Gongye."

Seeing the Leopard Tao Guards who were already guarding Zhang Weixian and Zhang Weixian sitting high on the horse, among the crowd, there were soldiers who had been "invited" to work for the Zhang family and stood up to salute.

"It's the British Duke!"

"My lord!"

"Master, you have to make the decision for us."

An old pawn who was already 50 or [-] years old saw Zhang Weixian coming and knelt down in front of Zhang Weixian's horse with a plop.

"Master, I haven't seen any pay for three months. The whole family is waiting for dinner. I beg you to be kind and give us military pay."

"Master, my baby is sick and needs money urgently to buy medicine. I beg you, please do me a favor."

As the old pawn knelt down, the crowd behind him knelt down in cheers.

"This..."

As soon as Zhang Weixian appeared, the soldiers in the camp knelt down one after another. Sun Chuanting and Qian Shizhen looked at each other and stepped forward with a flick of the reins.

"Grandpa, is this?"

"This is where the Yanshan Vanguard was stationed back then."

Zhang Weixian turned around and glanced at the Jinshi whose ancestors were once Zhenwuwei Baihu, and Zhang Weixian explained calmly.

"I am the Left Commander of the Central Military Governor's Mansion, and I assist in leading the Beijing camp. I go to each camp every month, and I will help those whose families are in difficulty, and they will get to know me."

"Please, sir, make the decision for us."

"Please put down the people above."

"Sir, this dog eunuch stole our military pay, we are going to kill him."

Hearing Zhang Weixian ask to put Li Fei down, someone in the crowd suddenly shouted.

"Hmph, who told you that he embezzled your military pay?"

Hearing this, Zhang Weixian snorted coldly and looked at the person who made the noise.

"Who is your commander? Let him come out to see me."

"Back to you, sir, we don't have a commander."

After hearing Zhang Weixian's question, the old soldier who first recognized Zhang Weixian said.

"After the previous commander passed away, our battalion has been without a commander for three months. Since then, we have never received military pay."

"These bastards from the Ministry of War."

After hearing the old pawn's words, Zhang Weixian instantly understood what was going on.

The commander of the soldiers of this battalion died of illness, which was really a good time.

The old emperor Wanli passed away, and Taichang didn't have time to make up for it, but Tianqi didn't want to make up for it. .

The commander did not make up for it, and other people went to the Ministry of War to get their pay, and they talked like farting. If they couldn't get their military pay, the civil servants deducted their military pay directly.

Just when Zhang Weixian was about to say something, there was a rapid sound of horse hooves, and Zhang Shize was seen galloping over on a white horse under the protection of several guards.

"grandfather."

Panting and not caring about saluting, Zhang Shize stopped his horse and said beside Zhang Weixian.

"The emperor has said that you should focus on comforting him and take him to Nanhaizi."

"I know, let's go down and have a drink of water."

After hearing Zhang Zhiji's words, Zhang Weixian was relieved of his fear that the emperor would massacre the mutinous soldiers of the battalion.

"Everyone, listen to me. Line up quickly and follow me to Nanhaizi. The Emperor will make the decision for you!"

With Zhang Shize's words, Zhang Weixian immediately had a backbone and quickly ordered people to rectify these soldiers.

Two hours later, the officials who had received the news and rushed to Nanhaizi from the capital stood together on the high platform and looked at the mutinous soldiers coming in "surrounded" by Bao Tao Guards.

"This girl is called an army?!"

Zhu Youxiao looked at Huang Jiashan, Minister of War, with a shocked look on his face. "This is the capital camp that your military department manages for me?!"

The weapons and armor were probably confiscated by Zhang Weixian.

Look at what these people are wearing. It's already autumn. They are wearing tattered clothes. They don't even have hats on their heads, and their faces are red from the cold.

All of them were dressed in rags, depressed and thin.

"This is a beggar! He is worse than a beggar!"

Thinking again about Xu Guangqi's memorial, Zhu Youxiao felt that his hands were shaking again for some reason.

"I have been in office for less than a year, and as the governor of Liaodong is engaged in the war, I have no time to take care of the capital camp."

He knew that the emperor would definitely be furious when he saw the state of Jingying, but there was nothing Huang Jiashan could do. It was not him who caused this.

The capital camp has long been rotten to the core. Pay and money are being withheld, and the guard fields have been occupied. The life of the soldiers may really be worse than that of beggars.

"Moving forward, who will be in charge of the capital camp?"

"Back to the emperor, I am a humble minister."

Upon hearing the emperor's words, Huang Kezhan of the Ministry of Punishment quickly stood up.

"However, Wei Chen has been in office for less than two months and has been responsible for cannon casting."

"How about going further?"

"Back to the emperor, it was Xue Sancai, but he died of illness last year."

"..."

Hearing this, Zhu Youxiao's forehead was full of black lines.

Damn it, Wanli is an old man and wants to use some older officials. Now I can't find anyone to settle the score with.

"The military department is on track."

"The minister is here."

Hearing Zhu Youxiao's shouting, the two people standing behind quickly stood up.

These two people are Xue Fengxiang, the commander of the military department, and Zeng Ruzhao, the commander of the military department.

As for Zuo Zhi's case, it was Yang Lian, who was probably on his way to serve as an evangelist at this time.

"Your military department is responsible for inspecting the military headquarters and inspecting the Beijing Camp. Is this the Beijing Camp you are inspecting for me?"

"Your Majesty, I will only be in office for two months."

After hearing the emperor's words, combined with Huang Jiashan's words just now, the military department all gave Xue Fengxiang a hard answer.

"Currently, the Donglu are invading the border. I and others have been inspecting the ministry affairs and have not yet bothered to inspect the capital camp."

"..."

Zhu Youxiao raised his eyebrows when he heard that there were two more officials who had taken office less than three months ago.

Come on, this is promoted by Taichang. It has been a long time since he was in the military department.

"Did you go on inspection in Liaodong, or are you still so blind that you can't even see the capital camp so close at hand?"

"Chen wait to be found guilty."

The two of them did not dare to talk back to the emperor, who was clearly angry at the moment, and knelt down to apologize.

Without saying anything else, Zhu Youxiao asked another question.

"What about the wages that were deducted from these soldiers? Who embezzled them?"

"Return to Your Majesty and send it to Jiubian."

Lifting his eyes and glancing at the emperor cautiously, Huang Jiashan said with an embarrassed look.

"Since the 35th year of Wanli, the imperial court has been in arrears of wages. In order to supply Jiubian's food and wages, it has deducted [-]% of the food and wages of some of the Beijing camps, and some even deducted [-]% or even [-]%."

"How much does Jiubian owe so far?"

Knowing that the Ming Dynasty's economy had irreparably collapsed since the mid-Wanli period, this group of people's method to prevent further collapse was to withhold the pay of the Beijing army. Zhu Youxiao looked at Huang Jiashan in shock.

These people are crazy, this army is very close, right under the nose of the capital.

"It's hard to say for the Jingying camp, but the three towns of Yansui, Datong and Xuanfu already owe more than 150 million taels of salary even if they misappropriated part of the Jingying camp's food and salary."

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