The Most Powerful Man in the World

Zhu Houzhao looked at the memorial on the reorganization of the Beijing camp presented by Chu Yi and Zhang Mao and others, and could see that Zhu Houzhao was very excited.

After reading it, Zhu Houzhao raised his head, glanced at Chu Yi and the others, and said with a bit of joy on his face: "If there is no accident, this memorial should be from the hand of the great companion."

Chu Yi has read many military books, and it can be said that he is proficient in the art of war. Zhu Houzhao can guess that this memorial is definitely from Chu Yi's hands just by looking at the many suggestions in the memorial.

It's not that he despised Zhang Mao, Zhu Fu, Xu Guangzhao and others. Perhaps these nobles still have loyalty to the Ming Dynasty, but if they really have the ability of their ancestors, Zhu Houzhao dares to say, except for very few. Apart from people, most people are afraid that they have long since cut off their ancestral inheritance.

Zhang Mao and the others looked at each other and saw Zhang Mao bowed his hands and said, "Reporting to Your Majesty, His Majesty's eyes are like torches, and he has insight into Qiuhao. This memorial is indeed written by Director Chu in his own hand.

Zhu Houzhao nodded and said: "Reorganize the Beijing camp and set up a naval division, I am sure!"

Speaking of which, Zhu Houzhao looked at Chu Yi and said, "I looked at it, and the big companion said that it would cost at least millions of taels of silver to reorganize the Beijing camp and set up a naval division. Five million taels of silver, if it is not enough, I will order the Ministry of Household to make some adjustments."

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The army is definitely a beast of gold, if there is not enough gold and silver, let alone expanding the army, I am afraid that it is not bad to be able to maintain the current army.

What's more, Chu Yi, Chu Yi, is preparing to perform a major operation on Jingying, not just a few changes as before.

According to Chu Yi's plan, this time, the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled in the Beijing camp will be directly cut down, but all the old, weak, sick and disabled will not be ripped off.

In this way, there are more than [-] people in the Beijing camp, at least half of them must be eliminated, and even those who can stay in line with Chu Yi's requirements in the end are lucky to have [-] people.

But how to arrange the [-] or [-] old, weak, sick and disabled soldiers who were eliminated is a big problem. If it is not handled properly, it may lead to a mutiny.

The best way is to take out a large amount of grain silver to disperse these old, weak, sick and disabled. In the short term, it does cost a lot of grain silver, but in the long run, this is equivalent to cutting off a tumor.

After all, these old, weak, sick and disabled people also need the court to provide silver taels to support them. After all, Jingying is different from the soldiers of the local guards. After hundreds of years of corruption, the soldiers of the local guards have been reduced to the point where they are inferior to ordinary people.

The Jingying still retains a bit of combat power, which is not bad.

But even so, Chu Yi decided to take advantage of this time to completely eradicate the old, weak, sick and disabled people who were in the army.

At that time, if a soldier is calculated according to 50-100 taels of silver, that is the severance cost of three to five million taels.

To tell the truth, it is indeed a bit high to spend so much silver in the dismissal of a soldier, at least according to the current situation, it is really high.

In the Ming Dynasty, according to the usual practice, even if it is pension silver, it is nothing more than that, but Chu Yi is ready to use the silver to smash it, and there is no resentment for these soldiers.

Hearing Chu Yi mentioning that he had to take out so much grain silver to demobilize the old, the weak, the sick and the sick, both Zhang Mao and Zhu Houzhao couldn't help being stunned.

Zhang Mao couldn't help looking at Chu Yi, and exclaimed: "Professor, if you follow your specifications, I'm afraid that the cost of dismissing the soldiers alone will cost nearly four million taels!"

Chu Yi nodded slightly and said, "Yes, about 300 million to 400 million taels of silver."

Xu Guangzhu said, "Isn't this a bit high? If you want me to say, twenty or thirty taels of silver per person is enough."

Chu Yi shook his head and said: "Ding Guogong wants to be worse, since they are old, weak, sick and disabled, once they are abolished, they will lose their means of livelihood, and only twenty taels of silver will be enough for them for a year. These people will be the source of unrest once their hands are depleted of gold and silver."

Zhu Fu said: "If this is the case, even if it is 50 taels of silver per person, it will only make them last for another year or two, and then it will become the source of chaos."

Chu Yi said slowly: "That's why I still ask Your Majesty to promise me one thing!"

Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but curiously said: "Oh, my partner might as well say it bluntly, I agreed."

Zhang Mao and the others on the side saw that Zhu Houzhao agreed without even mentioning Chu Yi's request, and they couldn't help but sigh that Zhu Houzhao really trusted Chu Yi.

Chu Yi said with a straight face, "Reporting to Your Majesty, the property confiscated by officials involved in Lu Wenyang's rebellion is currently being counted, and the confiscated property is probably no less than several hundred thousand mu. [-] mu of land production will be allocated to these old, weak, sick and disabled soldiers to cultivate and support them!"

Zhu Fu immediately said: "Although this is a good move, I am afraid that a considerable number of these soldiers will exchange the allocated fields for silver, and then they will have nothing."

Chu Yi sneered: "The Governor never said that these fields belonged to them, but the imperial court took pity on their old and weak and leased them to them."

Zhu Houzhao laughed when he heard it and said: "This plan is very good, my partner, I own the fields and acres, and I do not charge their rent, but allow them to cultivate to support their bodies. To avoid someone taking the field and selling it."

Zhang Mao and the others looked at Chu Yi with admiration.

Although these methods still have various disadvantages, at least the advantages outweigh the disadvantages, which is enough.

Zhu Houzhao pondered and looked at Chu Yi and said, "It seems that I'm still a bit petty. I'm afraid that five million two is not enough, so I will make the Ministry of Household..."

Chu Yi shook his head and said, "Your Majesty doesn't need to assign silver to the households. Originally, there would be opinions from the hundreds of officials in the reconstruction of the Beijing camp. If it consumes too much silver, the officials will probably be even more opposed. Except for the five million taels, the rest Let's draw the silver grains from the confiscated property from here."

A bright light flashed in Zhang Mao's eyes and said, "I don't know if Lu Wenyang's comrades have been copied this time, how much money is there?"

Chu Yi shook his head slightly and said: "Because there are so many officials involved, it has not been counted for a while, but according to Chu's estimate, excluding fields, restaurants, shops, etc., the gold and silver are estimated to be five million taels. Its gold and silver jewelry Antique calligraphy and paintings are probably worth millions of taels together.”

Compared to Lu Wenyang's accumulation of tens of millions of taels of property, it was not a small amount that these officials in Beijing were able to confiscated so much property.

Dozens of officials, even some people who were implicated by them, were able to confiscated nearly ten million taels of property, which is really quite a lot.

After all, for an earl's family like Jing Anbo, it was not too bad if he didn't get [-] to [-] yuan.

These noble families are really rich. Let’s not talk about other things, just talk about the British Duke, Dingguo, and Chengguo. The accumulated wealth, the sum of the various properties of any family, is probably not less than a few million taels.

Or it was the stimulation of a large stroke of silver like Lu Wenyang, so Zhu Houzhao was not surprised when Chu Yi said that these officials only copied tens of millions of taels of property.

Zhu Houzhao waved his hand and said, "It turned out to be just this request, I agreed."

Chu Yi said with a bit of joy on his face: "I will thank your majesty for this."

It can be said that with such a wealth in hand, Chu Yi is full of confidence in the next reorganization of the Beijing camp and the formation of naval divisions.

As long as you have money, it is really not difficult to recruit troops.

On the morning of the second day, Zhang Mao and others jointly made a memorial to the emperor, affirming the emperor's approval, reorganizing the Beijing camp and forming a navy.

As soon as the invitation came out, all the officials were in an uproar. Except for Zhang Mao and others, there was no news from the generals Xungui. , but only seeing that it was Zhang Mao and others who made the petition, these noble generals would naturally not come out to object.

However, this was not the case for the civil servants. Immediately, a censor jumped out and shouted: "Your Majesty, it is absolutely impossible, the Jingying has just been reorganized, and the Jingying has been reorganized again. Is it a bit labor-intensive and wasteful? As for the formation of a naval division, it is really ridiculous. Taizu's legacy, the implementation of the sea ban, I Daming not only do not need to form a navy, it is even justified to abolish the navy..."

Several officials jumped out and made it clear that they were advising the emperor, and they must not waste the people and waste money.

After all, these officials were afraid of the strength of Wu Xun, and they reorganized the Beijing camp. Needless to say, Wu Xun was the one who got the benefits.

In this court, martial arts were not as low-key as before, and now they are trying to stand up to them in court, which makes the civil service system feel a great threat.

Zhu Houzhao looked at the civil and military officials below with a calm expression, and almost didn't scold each other. Even if the civil officials objected, Zhu Houzhao was not annoyed.Because Zhu Houzhao knew very well why these civil servants would object, after all, he was afraid of the rise of the Xungui Group.

After seeing through its essence, Zhu Houzhao naturally has a mind like a mirror.

With a light cough, Chu Yi, who had been standing there for a while, suddenly took a step forward with narrowed eyes.

Chu Yi coughed lightly, and all the officials suddenly quieted down. Even the few censors who jumped out and sprayed furiously at Wu Xunyi all returned to their seats honestly.

Seeing this scene, Zhu Houzhao said with a smile on the corner of his mouth: "Chu Yi, what do you have to say?"

Chu Yi said slowly: "Your Majesty, I feel that the old country's public statement is justified. There are many old, weak, sick and disabled people in the Jingying camp, which is really detrimental to my Ming military prestige. ."

The old minister Niu Xi stepped forward and said to Chu Yi: "Mr. Chu, it is absolutely impossible, this move will cost the people and money..."

"Ok!"

Chu Yi's eyes fell on Niu Xi, and he hummed softly, and Niu Xi's body suddenly froze. Seeing the chill in Chu Yi's eyes, cold sweat broke out on his back.

Looking at Niu Xi, Chu Yi said slowly: "Master Niu, who do you think is laboring the people and hurting the money?"

Stepping back two steps, Niu Xi shook his head with cold sweat on his forehead and said, "Xiaguan doesn't mean Director Chu, Xiaguan has no other intentions!"

Staring at Niu Xi, Chu Yi said, "Oh, so, Sir Niu, you also agree with the director of the reorganization of the capital, right!"

Niu Xi almost didn't cry, he wanted to object, but he didn't dare, because he was afraid that if he really insisted on objecting, he was afraid that the next moment, the murderous eunuch in front of him would frame him. Throw yourself into a doom and gloom.

"Xiaguan...Xiaguan supports the Director-General to contribute to the country and share the worries for Your Majesty!"

Seeing that Niu Xi was forced to such a degree by Chu Yi, none of the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty dared to stand up. Standing there, Chu Yi seemed to be the villain in some legends, but in Zhu Houzhao's eyes, Chu Yi is really domineering.

With just one sentence, Niu Xi was stunned by one look.

Chu Yi glanced at the crowd of civil and military officials present, with a bit of fierce light flashing in his eyes, and said slowly: "Who is in favor, who is against!"

Zhu Houzhao looked at Chu Yi's back, his eyes were shining brightly, if he wasn't proud of himself, I'm afraid Zhu Houzhao would applaud and cheer for Chu Yi.

In the face of Chu Yi's arrogant and domineering question, everyone was stared at by Chu Yi and bowed their heads, and no one dared to look at Chu Yi.

Jiao Fang took a deep breath, stepped forward, bowed to Chu Yi and the emperor with great respect, and said, "This minister agrees!"

Seeing that Jiao Fang had already bowed down, the rest of the civil servants subconsciously looked at Fei Hong and Jiang Mian.

At this moment, Fei Hong and Jiang Mian were really flustered in their hearts. Noticing everyone's eyes, they dared to hesitate at all. They hurriedly followed Jiao Fang and bowed down, shouting, "Chen, wait for the second opinion!"

All the civil and military people in the hall bowed down and shouted at the emperor.

Zhu Houzhao's face glowed with glory, he nodded at Chu Yi, and then said with a straight face: "Since all the Qing families have no opinion, then this matter is settled."

Speaking of which, Zhu Houzhao looked at Chen Ding and said, "Chen Shangshu, since we are going to reorganize the Beijing camp and set up a naval division, let's draw five million taels of silver from the Ministry of Housing."

"what!"

A group of officials exclaimed in surprise.

This is five million taels, especially if it is a large amount of five million taels at a time. It can be said that in the Ming Dynasty, there was really no such large amount of money as five million taels of silver.

Zhu Houzhao looked solemn, leaned forward slightly, stared at Chen Ding and said, "Chen Shangshu, is there any problem?"

Seeing Zhu Houzhao staring at him coldly, no matter how stubborn Chen Ding is, he knows that if he dares to refute the emperor at this time and lose face of the emperor, then the next moment, he will be demoted to the people , out of the courtroom.

With a sigh in his heart, Chen Ding slowly bowed down and said, "Report to Your Majesty, the old minister will give you the order."

Only then did Zhu Houzhao show a slight smile on his face, and nodded slowly: "This will trouble the Qing family."

Gu Dayi flicked his hand and brushed the dust: "If you have something to play, you will retreat!"

At this moment, Baiguan has been stunned by the news thrown by Chu Yi, Zhang Mao and others.

Zhu Houzhao nodded at Gu Dayong.

Gu Da said sharply: "Retreat!"

A group of civil and military people glanced at Chu Yi with extremely complicated eyes, and then left the court with a complicated look, leaving in twos and threes.

Chu Yi and Zhu Houzhao went to the imperial study room and entered the imperial study room, Zhu Houzhao immediately put aside his status as an emperor, and smiled excitedly at Chu Yi: "Happy, I'm so happy, I have been an emperor for all these years, and I have never been an emperor. Have a good time like today!"

The feeling that no one dared to refute the kind of words that make a statement and the mouth is open, but Zhu Houzhao has never felt it since he ascended the throne.

In Zhu Houzhao's memory, since he ascended to the throne, almost every time he went to court, he was rebuked by a group of ministers that this was wrong, that there was something wrong, that this could not be done, and that could not be done, there was no imperial majesty at all.

This time it was different. In front of the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, although it was said that Chu Yi's credit was included, Zhu Houzhao felt the kind of awe of him by the officials.

Especially when Chu Yi shouted: When whoever agrees and whoever opposes, all officials will be overwhelmed, but Zhu Houzhao has no fear of Chu Yi, but instead has the idea of ​​​​being a man.

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Zhu Houzhao is a dignified emperor, but because of Chu Yi's words, he has the idea of ​​being like Chu Yi, but he can also see how aggrieved Zhu Houzhao is an emperor.