While he was thinking this, his driver had already arrived at the main campus.
He held Wang Chengen's hand and stood on the inspection platform, looking at the chaotic soldiers below.
"Wang Banban, where are those soldiers and horses wearing helmets and carrying armor? They are so elite."
As soon as Zhu Youjian stood on the stage, he saw those servants. Which guard's soldiers he thought they were, and asked excitedly.
Wang Chengen also didn't know where those soldiers and horses came from, but he instinctively felt that those people didn't seem to be soldiers and horses of the imperial court, so he didn't dare to speak.
"Your Majesty, I have never been out of the palace and don't know much about these people. However, I am in charge of the Royal Horse Prison and the Four Guards of Tengxiang. I know the military. I can be sure that these people are not my soldiers and horses of the Ming Dynasty. They are They are all servants of the generals, that is, their private armies, but the money used to raise the private armies all belongs to me, Ming Dynasty!"
Fang Zhenghua looked at the private soldiers with helmets and armor, and his eyes were on fire. As the steward of the royal family of the Ming Dynasty, he knew how difficult it was to raise soldiers. Instead of giving the money to the emperor, he and Cao Huachun took all the money they got. The Tengxiang Four Guards were raised. The current Tengxiang Four Guards have been renamed Yongwei Camp.
In the troubled times of the late Ming Dynasty, the Yongwei camp with only a few thousand people became the strongest army in the world. Neither the Eight Banners of the Manchu and Qing dynasties nor Chuang Wang's old camp were as good as this Yongwei camp.
If this force had not been transferred to pursue Zhang Zizhong in the 16th year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng would never have dared to attack the capital, because his men were all frightened by the Yongwei Battalion.
But no matter what, the Yongwei Battalion, a unit adapted from the Tengxiang Four Guards supervised by the eunuch, was the only unit in the troubled times of the late Ming Dynasty that no one surrendered. No matter who the opponent was, the Yongwei Battalion would He will fight his way forward and never retreat.
But this brave guard camp didn't have such good equipment and horses, which made Fang Zhenghua's hands feel itchy, and he wanted to kill someone!
"It's not my Ming Dynasty's army? But it's supported by my Ming Dynasty's military salary?"
Zhu Youjian looked at Fang Zhenghua and asked. Every time he asked, Fang Zhenghua nodded, which made Zhu Youjian's heart feel like it was on fire.
"Why, why is this happening?"
He wanted to know what was going on. Although he was not like Duke Ai of Lu, who was good at women's hands and knew no grief, no worries, no labor, no fear, no knowledge of danger, he was a standard virtuous king who was good at men's hands. , well, the standard virtuous gentleman of the literati.
He knew the sufferings of the people, so he was manipulated by those literati.
Isn’t it funny? Chongzhen was a good emperor who worked hard and loved the people. This is a fact. Unfortunately, the more diligent and caring he was, and the more he cared about the people, the faster the Ming Dynasty would be finished. This is really the biggest joke in the world.
But now that his characteristic of being diligent and caring for the people appeared again, he began to feel that the reward of ten taels of silver per person to those military households was a bit insufficient. If he wanted to increase the money, he would need a hundred taels per person, plus a piece of cloth per person.
This sounds grand, but the money he brings is not enough.
Just when he wanted to change his story, someone had already announced what he said. Each man was rewarded with a hundred taels of silver and a piece of cloth. What kind of reward was this? All the military households knelt down and shouted The slogan "Long Live Chongzhen" resounded through the sky and made the whole city of Beijing tremble. All the civil and military officials felt their scalps go numb when they heard this voice.
The military morale was actually captured by Chongzhen. This was no small matter for civil and military officials, especially for civil officials. You must know that they planned the Tumubao Incident in order to reduce the emperor's military power, and then Emperor Zhengde, who wanted to control the military power, was killed. In this way for a hundred years, the emperor's military power was lost at all. Even the four guards of Tengxiang were eliminated and they were left behind.
But they didn't expect that the emperor would actually let the dilapidated military households shout long live, which frightened them.
Later, many officials from the civil service, Wu Xun, who knew the inside story of the military power, wanted to break in and stop the emperor from taking over the military power. However, Cao Huachun took Dongchang and half of the Yongwei camp and killed their entire family.
When he was killing people, he also wrote a series of handwritten letters about their collaboration with the enemy and treason, written in front of the big bosses, and then in front of them, he wrote a series of imperial edicts to confiscate the family and exterminate the clan, and stamped it The seal of the Supervisor of Ceremonies.
"Cao Gongou, you dare to forge an imperial edict. This is a serious crime of beheading. I want to see the emperor and let the emperor make the decision for me!"
More than one of the civil servants and military officials said this to Cao Huachun.
"This is the imperial edict of our internal dynasty, not the imperial edict of the Ming Dynasty! Besides, the task of the Supervisor of Ceremonies is to draft an edict for the emperor. Come and see, this is the seal of the Supervisor of Ceremonies, and this is the emperor's seal. The jade seal is the small seal of the cabinet. Whichever one you want me to seal, we will seal it for you right now, absolutely!"
Then General Cao Huachun spit on the ground. He really didn't want to see these people. If the emperor hadn't treated them with courtesy, he would have killed them all. They are all sanctimonious hypocrites. Cao Huachun, the factory governor, knew everything.
"Go and send all these gold and silver items to the Emperor. The Emperor is kind-hearted and doesn't want others to suffer. This time he meets the military household, and he will definitely lose a lot of money. The Emperor doesn't have enough money, so send these! "
Cao Huachun, who had ransacked more than a dozen mansions of high officials and obtained millions of taels of silver, said to the people around him while wiping his hands and sword with a silk handkerchief.
Then hundreds of large boxes were loaded into the car and headed to the campus.
The people in the capital who were still scolding the castrated dog for killing Zhongliang stopped scolding them. Everyone knew that even if you were an official for a lifetime, you might not be able to make so much money, but Cao Huachun killed all those civil servants. He only came to power in the first year of Chongzhen. It had only been three years since his death. He had made so much money. He was still a gentleman. Wei Zhongxian wasn't so greedy back then, was he?
Besides, everyone knows that although Wei Zhongxian is greedy for money, Hou Jin was not allowed to enter the country when he was there. Now when everyone is in power, Hou Jin has entered the country. Everyone doesn't say it. They still have a reputation in their hearts. Everyone knows that these people are not as talented as Wei Zhongxian.
But before, everyone thought that although these people were incompetent, at least they were not greedy. But now it seems that this is not not greedy, but extremely greedy.
People are easy to deceive. As long as you have the right to speak, you can say whatever you want. This is what the literati in the past dynasties have done, but there is one requirement for doing so, that is, you must be upright and as clean as water. Mirror, that is to say, if you want to have the right to speak, you must be an upright official.
Only with an honest official like Hai Rui can you have the right to speak. But once you become a corrupt official, everything will be reversed.
