Seeing Tu Shan come in, Chongzhen walked forward excitedly. Tu Shan quickly walked over and paid homage.
After all, all the officials from the six departments were here at this time.
"I have met your Majesty." Tushan said respectfully. Although Tu Shan believed in the old palace of the prince, he would never go beyond the rules of etiquette and be arrogant with favor.
"Tu Shan, get up, there's no need to be polite!" After Tu Shan got up, he saw all the ministers and cabinet elders looking at him.
He knew that he came to him to understand the situation. When something big happens, these old people have to be reliable.
Chongzhen said in his heart. Although Luo Yangxing came from the Jinyiwei family, his background and connections were not good after all.
There was very little craftsmanship in hand, so this time I suffered a huge setback. I still don’t understand how Jizhou got to this point.
"Your Majesty, gentlemen, the matter in Jizhou has been investigated clearly." Tushan cupped his hands and said slowly and logically.
Seeing the anxious looks of Chongzhen and other ministers, Tushan recounted the information he had just compiled.
"Wang Yingzhi was the first person responsible for the rebellion. Liu Ce, the governor of Jiliao, committed major dereliction of duty. He sympathized with the rebel soldiers, and his inaction led to the miss of the best opportunity to counter the rebellion, which in turn led to the failure of the Five Guards of Yingzhou Corruption." Li Banghua asked in confusion: "Originally, the disarmament plan reported by Jizhou was the most detailed and well-arranged, so why did it suddenly become like this?"
"Wang Yingzhi fabricated data to cater to his superiors. He said nonsense that most of the recruits in Jizhen were on empty pay and there were no actual soldiers. He forced his subordinate battalion officers to report the list of those who had falsely reported empty pay and eliminated them. Naturally, the battalion officers below would not agree, Wang Yingzhi They used military law to suppress them, and many battalion officers were beaten with military sticks and put in bed. They really couldn't survive the beatings, so they violated the court regulations and turned in the empty pay list." Qian Longxi and others nodded, I am afraid that this is the source of the trouble.
Treated as empty wages. There is no need for compensation. This will result in a large number of soldiers not receiving compensation. He was immediately driven out of the camp.
And Wang Yingzhi has identified His Majesty's purpose of disarmament. Your Majesty is just trying to save money. If he can handle this matter beautifully for Your Majesty, he can save a lot of money.
You can enter His Majesty's Dharma Eyes. The praise of a person who is smart, capable, and courageous in taking on tasks is indispensable. He used to flirt with the eunuchs and was promoted to governor in three years. Now he wants to get on His Majesty's and Dong Lin's boat again.
There are no fools in the court, and his little thoughts are obvious.
"The actual situation is not like this. The actual number of people in the New Army should be 80%. Wang Yingzhi probably wants to take the lead in the Qing army and attract the attention of His Majesty and the Cabinet." Li Banghua was furious and said: "I have interviewed you many times. The purpose is to find out the real situation in Ji Town. I have repeatedly emphasized that telling the truth, if the conditions in Ji Town are not suitable, the Ministry of War can completely not put the pilot in Ji Town. Wang Yingzhi is so courageous, hiding the truth from his superiors and bullying his subordinates." Everyone sneered, The Qing army's pilot project was placed in Shuntian Prefecture and Jizhou.
In Wang Yingzhi's view, this was a piece of cake. How could he give up such a good opportunity to get ahead?
To be honest with you, he would push the opportunity away because he is mentally ill. Li Biao said doubtfully: "I saw Jizhou's disarmament plan. More than 30,000 people were disarmed, of which Guan Ning's army took over 12,000. Huoludun and Fengsui along the Great Wall received 8,000. The actual disarmament was only 13,000. People. According to the usual practice, the disarmament is to eliminate the weak and retain the strong, and the remaining ones are the old and the weak. There is no way it will be like this." The cabinet ministers and the six ministers nodded one after another.
The Cabinet and the Ministry of War are not that easy to deceive. The plan reported by Wang Yingzhi was approved. Disarmament, eliminating the weak and retaining the strong, is a common practice and an unspoken rule. This is a time-tested political method.
Young people are full of blood and have no choice but to act calmly. They need to be brainwashed and deceived. Direct suppression is prone to resistance.
Therefore, the imperial court mainly relied on education. Use the high-profile words of serving the court and the emperor to inspire their spirits.
Let them feel happy even though they suffered a loss, with a sense of dedication and mission. In fact, it is an old bureaucrat deceiving a stupid boy.
In the feudal era, the country was a family and a world, so what did it have to do with the people? Scholar-officials rely on preaching that everyone is responsible to shift the burden to the poor at the bottom.
They have been coaxed to work with their butts raised for generations, and they were sold by the gentry and counted the money by the gentry. When they reach the age of thirty-five or even forty, they are severely beaten by society.
It's very difficult to cheat. When a person reaches this age, no matter how dull he is, he still understands. If you still don’t understand what life and society is about.
I won’t understand it anymore. Since I can’t be deceived. To deal with these old gangsters, just threaten them with a knife.
Anyway, there are seniors and juniors at their age, and they have many worries about raising a family. Moreover, without the bravery of youth, most people will not go to extremes.
As long as all the roads are not blocked, they will knock out their front teeth and swallow them. This is the ancient art of governance.
The same goes for disarmament. The young people who are easy to deceive should be recruited and retained, while the weak soldiers and old oilmen should all be fired.
We won't be afraid of them causing trouble if we don't give them enough compensation. If it doesn't work, suppress it, or simply tear up the pretense and be tough.
Li Banghua said: "In addition to resettling 20,000 people, I also specially squeezed out 15,000 loads of grain from the Ministry of War and sent it to Zunhua for the resettlement of demobilized soldiers. Why is it still happening like this?" To be honest. , Li Banghua has done his best.
Now that food and wages are so difficult, it is not easy to squeeze out so much food. It can be seen that he sincerely wanted to establish this example.
I hope Ji Town’s disarmament will get off to a good start and serve as a model for its expansion to the entire Nine Borders.
Chongzhen also nodded after hearing this, Li Shangshu did the right thing. He was afraid that there would be problems in the place, so he made first-hand preparations.
Tushan thought for a moment and then said: "Of the 15,000 dans of miscellaneous grains, only 10,000 dans were taken out. After leaving Chaoyang Gate, there were only 7,000 dans left. When we arrived at Jizhou, we only entered the city with 5,000 dans. Wang Yingzhi actually received 5,000 dans. Loads of grain. He used two thousand loads to place 13,000 recruits as severance expenses." Tu Shan was not originally prepared to go into such detail. Speaking of these unspoken rules would offend people.
But the matter has reached such a serious stage that it is impossible not to make this matter clear. Moreover, he did not have to fight for the civil servants.
He told the actual situation. He had no responsibility. If he didn't tell the civil servants, they wouldn't think well of him. If His Majesty found out about it in the future, he would have opinions about him.
As soon as these words came out, Chongzhen's face turned pale with anger, and all the Dukes of Donglin were very embarrassed. Some of the money and food were greedy, and some were taken by their disciples and former officials.
This kind of collective greed is already a violation of the law, but it doesn't sound good to say it out loud. Tushan sighed inwardly and continued: "If we distribute all two thousand tons, each person will still have dozens of kilograms of grain. With the addition of wild vegetables and porridge, the family can eat for several months. However, the people below are distributing Once again, there was a lot of grain, and it is estimated that only a few hundred tons will be distributed by the quartermaster." Tushan looked at the crowd and said with a rare anger on his face: "The quartermaster is also a talented person. When he saw that there was so little food, There was no way to distribute it, so he simply took half of it himself and cooked the rest into porridge for 13,000 people to eat." At this time, no one spoke, and Chongzhen only felt dizzy. Has the grassroots level of Ming Dynasty become so rotten?
"A meal of porridge is better than nothing at all, but someone poisoned the porridge and killed more than a hundred people on the spot. Hundreds more were blinded and couldn't see. Thousands of people suffered from vomiting and diarrhea. Wang Yingzhi simply couldn't He didn't pay attention to the food distribution situation. He went home and hugged his concubine to sleep. When he woke up, the entire outer city was full of rioters, fires were raging, and the situation had completely collapsed."
