After the military judge arrived, the four of them agreed that they must report it.
As soon as he put on the new military uniform, the horse guard couldn't wait to leave the military camp and came to the regiment headquarters.
The establishment of the Beijing Camp has been changing, from the battalion system at the beginning, to the wing association system, and now to the division system.
That is, there are three thousand people in a regiment, five battalions, and then a regimental headquarters of five hundred people.
These include scouts, cooks, soldiers, staff officers, medical offices, baggage, etc., as well as two hundred guards led by him.
The three regiments form one division, with 9,000 men plus 1,000 of our own troops, totaling 10,000 people.
At the regiment level, it is already the backbone of the army. It can be said to be extremely important and has independent command authority.
His nickname is Guerrilla General.
For a division, the general is the general or deputy general, and the division's chief of staff is usually the staff general.
The five divisions were camped separately in the Fengtai area and did not interfere with each other. However, the imperial court set up the left and right commanders of the camp to monitor and administer the affairs of the camp and perform supervisory responsibilities.
The four of them walked. As the chief officer, Ma Wei was one step ahead. The military judge walked with him and was half a step behind. The deputy battalion commander and chief of staff were one step behind and followed closely behind.
Military judges are in charge of the distribution of money and food, rewards for meritorious service, and supervision of the daily life of the military. They can be said to be the censors of the military, and their status is comparable to that of the military commander.
Naturally, the military ranks are also the same.
But he couldn't stand up to Ma Wei's right colonel, who was one level higher than his military judge's sergeant, so he had to go from shoulder to shoulder to half a step behind.
The chief of staff and deputy battalion commander, who were originally only half a step behind, had to be one step behind, as if they had become followers and personal soldiers.
The military ranks on the clothes of the four men were obvious, and the patrols and soldiers along the way had to get out of the way and curtsy.
That is, half-kneeling on your right leg, while supporting your knee with your left hand, keeping your body straight and looking straight.
This kind of curtsey is a common etiquette in the military. In the Qing Dynasty, it evolved into a greeting ceremony. After all, the Eight Banners used the army to rule the people.
Kneeling on one's knees is Kneeling, which is a higher level than kneeling.
Bend one knee when facing an officer whose rank is too high for you. If you are only one rank higher, such as a right sergeant meeting a sergeant, you only need to bend half a knee, that is, bend half of your leg, and there is no need to kneel.
In addition, when performing tasks, such as patrolling, cooking, digging, etc., you only need to bend half of your knees.
Like kneeling and bowing, it's a formal occasion and etiquette.
The four of them went all the way, surprising many people.
"Please wait!"
After the soldiers stopped the four people, they left in a hurry.
Soon, they were admitted to the hospital.
With the fixation of the four major camps, the construction of military camps also gradually began, changing from military tents to brick structures and becoming military cities.
Walls, moats, playgrounds, dormitories, stables, schools, and libraries are all here, just like a city.
And each regiment is a small town, and the camp is a compound.
The regiment headquarters is naturally the most comfortable and spacious place in the small town, covering an area two or three times that of an ordinary camp.
Although it is not a pavilion, it is still simple and elegant, rough and delicate.
One of them occupies a courtyard to himself.
Among the five rooms, there is a study room, a bedroom, a living room, a guest room, and a mixed living room.
Toilets, kitchens, stables, and more are all available.
There is a row of weapons placed in the martial arts arena.
Several people were fascinated and even saw two beautiful maids.
This is the prerogative of the leader.
Ma Wei was so envious that his saliva almost flowed out.
He lives in a few rooms with a few soldiers. Although he has a private room, compared with the regiment commander, it is like heaven and earth.
If the regimental commander is like this, then the commander-in-chief must be the palace?
Soon, several people saw the regiment leader in smart uniform in the living room, whose military rank was lieutenant colonel.
If you are someone with more senior qualifications, you may still be from Zuo School.
Since the founding of the People's Republic of China was only twenty years old, almost all the middle- and upper-level officers in the Beijing camp had titles.
Ma Wei knew that the leader Li Tianshi in front of him was a serious baron with a household of 500 households.
"The last general, Ma Wei, has met the regimental commander!"
The four of them stood up and bowed.
If it was a formal occasion, the four of them would have to kneel down on one knee at least.
"Get up!" Li Tianshi rubbed his eyes and yawned: "If I remember correctly, today is the day to divide the military robes. Each battalion should be very busy. Why do you, battalion B, come to my place?"
Faced with this huge pressure, Ma Wei could only say: "Captain, there is something fishy about the robes handed out today."
He said angrily: "You also know that Beijing is no better than the south. We don't have to wear thick clothes in winter, and the things under the crotch can freeze!"
"So the autumn clothes are at least six pounds of cotton. I just gave them out this year and saw that they are only three pounds."
"I don't care about some black-hearted cotton, but if these three kilograms of cotton are used, how much frostbite will our brothers suffer? Maybe a few of them will have to walk..."
With that said, Deputy Yingxiang handed over the cotton coat.
Li Tianshi weighed it in his hand and immediately frowned: "Sure enough, it's not six pounds."
He stood up with a solemn expression: "According to military regulations, winter clothes south of the Huaihe River are three pounds of cotton, and south of the Great Wall are six pounds."
"For the frontier troops north of the Great Wall, the uniform weight is ten kilograms."
"Only more than less is allowed. Anyone who is short of a pound or less will be treated as murder."
"Damn profiteers!!"
Li Tianshi was furious.
Before Shao Wu, the chief general of the army controlled everything in the army, including pay, salary, and robes. As long as it was money, it would definitely not escape his control.
But after the emperor's reforms, the army chiefs had nothing to do with money.
Salaries were paid through bankbooks, and soldiers went directly to the bank to withdraw money.
Not to mention the clothes and robes, the Jingying Envoy Si Yamen took care of them directly.
Even for the construction of military camps and other expenses, he paid them directly.
So he has a clear conscience.
No matter how extravagant it is, it is still allowed by the court.
Regardless of the majesty of the Jingying Envoy Si Yamen, he is responsible for the daily management of the Jingying, as well as logistical support and control of military affairs.
But the military status of officers is in the hands of the Ministry of War.
The selection of military attachés was almost entirely handled by the emperor. If there was a shortage, the Imperial Envoy Office could only report the matter. The emperor would make the final decision, and the Fifth Army Commander-in-Chief would check and make up for the deficiencies.
Even Ying Zheng and the head of the regiment were unable to nominate or make suggestions, but the Jing Ying Envoy was not able to do so.
As for military orders, they are controlled by the cabinet and the emperor. Without the orders of the emperor, the Ministry of War, and the five-army governor's office, no one can mobilize a single soldier.
In the final analysis, Li Tianshi had nothing to gain from the money matter, but if something went wrong, he would have to take the blame.
Who can bear this?
He felt the same as Ma Wei.
Non-combat reduction is extremely important in peacetime, especially in the Beijing camp.
After careful consideration, Li Tianshi remained calm, did not listen to his side of the story, and sent someone to search for him personally.
Sure enough, many cotton-padded clothes were not up to standard.
In this case, he could only continue to report to the division.
Whether in the military or in official circles, the most taboo thing is to report beyond the level, and reporting level by level is the best choice.
If he did not report to the General Soldier, but directly stabbed the Beijing Ying Envoy Si Yamen, or the Ministry of War, or the Governor's Office, then the emperor would doubt whether the General Soldier was capable enough to control a division.
The commander-in-chief was shocked when he heard the news:
The military uniforms were short of weight and there was a big logistical problem.
There is no doubt that the person who caused the accident was Si Yamen, the Beijing envoy responsible for logistics.
At this time, he quickly reported to the two governors and went into the palace to see him.
At the level of the general soldier, his military rank is captain, or right general, and his official rank is at the fourth or third rank.
And his title is at least viscount.
Fully capable of soloing and driving.
Unexpectedly, after hearing about this incident, the emperor became unusually calm:
"The unscrupulous businessmen are causing trouble, and we must investigate it to the end."
This sentence was relaxed and freehand, but when it came out of the emperor's mouth, it was a big deal.
First, the Jingying Envoy Si Yamen took back the cotton-padded clothes that were missing a few pounds and redistributed them according to the list.
Then, the Metropolitan Procuratorate sent out a censorship group to conduct irregular inspections of the Beijing camp, which was called the patrol censorship group.
Compared with the past, today's censors no longer fight alone, but are composed of teams.
There are about a dozen people in a team, including the editor, the clerk, the clerk, the bodyguard, and the most important staff.
They are selected and hired by the censor, but they eat royal food and serve exclusively for the censor.
In order to protect the safety and control of these censors, a royal guard was even placed among their personal guards to protect them.
Likewise, the Metropolitan Procuratorate has become increasingly closed.
The boundaries between the capital censor, the supervisory censor, and the ministerial censor gradually blurred.
Excluding those with titles, there are about 300 censors in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, who are divided into three categories according to their responsibilities:
First, supervise places, such as provincial governments, salt fields, bank checkpoints, border checkpoints, inspection records, warehouse patrols, river patrols, city patrols, farmland patrols, sealing horses, grain storage patrols, grain harvesting supervision, gate sergeants, and military inspections Utensils are all described but different, etc., specific matters.
The second one is to supervise the civil and military officials of the capital, including officials and nobles, who are the sharpest swords in the court.
The third one is to admonish the emperor for his mistakes and find out the deficiencies and make up for them.
Because they work in groups, the censors can serve as inspectors of eight prefectures in the local area, become censors of salt patrols, and supervise hundreds of officials.
And today's patrol censor.
My duties and assignments gradually became separated.
Of course, the emperor's second major reform of the Inspectorate was to give the power of admonishing the emperor only to the left and right censors, the left and right deputy censors, and the left and right censors.
Subsequently, the rank of the Duchayuan rose, and the left and right censors were promoted from the second rank of Congzheng to the first rank of Congzheng, surpassing the eight ministers.
As a result, the censors of the Metropolitan Procuratorate gradually became independent and had independent power to handle cases, and superior officials were not allowed to interfere.
The censors on both sides gradually lost control of their subordinates.
According to the rules, censors are no longer sent out or moved in. For example, the local inspectorate is no longer held by officials outside the capital inspectorate.
Ordinary Jinshi, starting from the rank of censor, are assigned to supervise the eight departments, or go to local areas to monitor rivers, or store warehouses.
After that, he was promoted to Shizhong.
Then he became the censor.
Then there are the deputy censors on the left and right, the censors on the left and right, and the censors on the left and right.
As long as you do your job well, you can be promoted very quickly. You don't need to go through the same level of hardship like ordinary civil servants, and it also depends on whether there are official vacancies.
It can be said that the promotion speed of censors is extremely exaggerated, but their potential is limited.
These two reforms immediately cut off the hand that the cabinet extended to the Metropolitan Procuratorate.
The nobles' hands were also cut off.
The right of independent supervision is guaranteed.
After all, censors have always been the vanguard in party struggles since ancient times. Hanging them on ropes can also be better used by the emperor.
The Metropolitan Procuratorate can only be the emperor's dog.
Three patrol censors were dispatched, and they moved continuously, almost scrambling to be the first. In less than three days, they found out the truth.
There were four imperial merchants responsible for the imperial robes in the capital, Zhao, Xiang, Gong, and Chang.
Affiliated to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The Zhao family and the Xiang family followed the rules and did not cut any corners, while the Gong family and the Chang family coveted the interests and couldn't help but take action.
After all, with a capital camp of 200,000 people, one family is responsible for 50,000 people and 100,000 sets of winter clothes.
Cotton costs thirty kilograms per kilogram, so three kilograms less per set means nearly a hundred kong, and one hundred thousand sets equals ten million kong.
That is ten thousand silver coins.
The imperial court's purchase price for winter clothes is three hundred cash per set, and the net profit from a set is less than one hundred cash, only fifty or sixty cash.
Reducing three kilograms of cotton can more than double the profit. How impressive is this?
"The dry land on the outskirts of the city costs more than ten silver coins per mu, and the irrigated land costs about thirty. Ten thousand yuan is enough to buy three to four hundred acres of irrigated land and a thousand acres of dry land."
The emperor chuckled and knew the land prices in the capital very well.
A few hundred acres of irrigated land is enough to pass down a family in the countryside, and you can be called a landlord.
Even if the commodity economy develops again, its stability will not be able to keep up with the income from farmland.
Even in the north, one acre of dry land produced grain for one and a half dan, and based on the maximum rent of 30% issued by the imperial court, the income was nearly five dou.
A dou of rice in the capital is one millimeter, which means the yield per mu is five cents.
For ten yuan of dry land, the annual income has reached 5%, which is extremely stable.
Therefore, businessmen are mostly keen on buying land.
Even Britain, the empire on which the sun never sets in history, is no exception. Businessmen are keen to buy land, whether it is to transform it into pasture or sell grain, which is more stable than doing business.
According to statistics, in the sixteenth century, three out of every five businessmen went to the countryside to buy real estate.
Nearly half of the property of those influential and prestigious businessmen is real estate.
Stability is what humans have always pursued.
"Your Majesty is clear." Everyone praised.
The Ministry of Punishment issued the following opinions:
The principal culprit was executed, his home was ransacked, and his whole family was exiled to Anxi; the accomplice's home was ransacked, and his whole family was exiled to Anxi.
After everyone left, the emperor said three words to each other.
A censor raised his head and said in a deep voice: "According to my investigation, the head of the Gong family joined the Ministry of Internal Affairs three years ago and became an imperial merchant."
"Privately, he has frequent contacts with nobles and nobles, so he is qualified to take on the affairs of the imperial army. The person who has close contact is the steward of the first assistant..."
"sure?"
Zhu Yixi frowned.
"I don't dare to speak nonsense." The censor said seriously: "It is said that the Gong family obtained the military robes of the Beijing camp because of their connections with the Zhu family. In addition, they also competed for the military robes of the border army this year and will supply them to the inspectors next year. Harbin, Jilin, and Liaodong border troops."
In the past, Zhu Yixi would never have believed it, but now he hesitated.
"Keep your mouth shut and don't say too much." The emperor ordered in a deep voice.
"I don't dare." The censor lowered his head and said, "It's just that there are too many people during the investigation..."
What this actually means is that the connection between the Gong family and the Zhu family has probably been known to many people for a long time, and it is difficult to hide the past.
Zhu Yixi's heart moved. This was a target sent to her door.
