Of course eating is a big deal!
Now Zhu Youjian only looks like a child emperor, but in fact he has already become an old fox. Of course, we will not fail to consider the food problem of the 20,000 to 30,000 people who have been laid off from the PLA... But don't lay off another PLA version of King Li Chuang!
"Sister-in-law, don't worry," Zhu Youjian said with a smile, "I have already considered the problem of feeding the two to thirty thousand people... Don't we still have twenty-seven vassals in the Ming Dynasty? Now the court has no money, but Every vassal government has money! Moreover, when our ancestors divided the vassal kings, they all had guards assigned to them. Later, these guards were laid off one after another. Until now, these vassal kings of our Ming Dynasty are all There is land and money but no guards, and the world is not peaceful. Bandits are everywhere. They may rob the palace of any feudal prince. So I thought, it is better to distribute the pure troops cut off from Nanhaizi to each feudal mansion as guards. These pure troops Although he is a eunuch, he has been trained, so it should be enough for him to look after homes and nursing homes."
It turns out that Zhu Youjian's method is to let the eunuchs laid off from the palace go to various feudal mansions for dinner... He now knows how rich the feudal mansions are!
The Ming Dynasty was poor, but the poor were the court and the common people at the bottom. No one was poor, including the vassal princes, scholar-bureaucrats, officials, and of course the great officials in the court. Especially those 27 feudal lords who are just waiting to die, all of them are extremely rich! In Henan and Shanxi provinces, where vassal offices are concentrated, the royal grain collected by the government every year is not even distributed to the vassal offices and clans!
What is even more despicable is that these vassals also relied on their noble status and tax-free privileges to engage in "cheating" - that is, letting private landowners send their fields under the name of the vassal government to achieve the purpose of evading taxes and evading corvee.
By the time of Tianqi and Chongzhen, the land in Henan and Shanxi had already "half entered the vassal government". The two provinces of Henan and Shanxi combined had nearly 100 million acres of land! This does not include hidden fields... And half of 100 million acres is 50 million acres. How fat are the vassal mansions in Henan and Shanxi?
Later, when the rogue rebels came to the gates of each vassal prince's palace, one of the vassal princes was more powerful and was willing to use his family's money to recruit troops. But most of them are owners who still have nothing to lose even when they are about to die. The money hidden in the cellar finally gives the bandits an advantage!
When Zhu Youjian thought about this, he became very angry, but he couldn't evacuate all 27 vassals just because of his anger and things that hadn't happened yet... Not even one vassal could be evacuated. ah! If one family is withdrawn, the remaining palaces are not allowed to cause trouble together? Moreover, even if the rabbit is dead and the fox is sad, the vassal mansion can be withdrawn, but the duke's mansion, the marquis' mansion, the uncle's mansion, and those useless military honors cannot be withdrawn?
Now Zhu Youjian is not the Zhu Cihong who conquered the country. The latter is almost the founding king and is not bound by the family laws of his ancestors. But Zhu Youjian does not have such great authority... The source of his throne is the family law of his ancestors. Therefore, he cannot go against the ancestral system, at least not now, otherwise his authority as an emperor will be greatly reduced.
Therefore, Zhu Youjian could only change his mind - since the property of the feudal government cannot be confiscated, then let the feudal government help the court raise idle people!
Twenty to thirty thousand eunuch soldiers were distributed to 27 vassals, and each family only had 1,000 people. With the financial resources of each vassal government, it was more than enough to support 1,000 more eunuchs!
Moreover, there are already eunuchs in the vassal palace. At most, they will not recruit new eunuchs in the next few years. When the old eunuchs in the palace are no longer useful, these pure army eunuchs will be used to fill the vacancies.
After all the idle Jingjun are dispatched, we will find a way to lay off half of the Jin Yiwei... and let them serve as guards in various feudal mansions!
Each vassal government has so much money and so much land, so they must send more people to protect it!
This is the safety of Emperor Zhu's relationship with the vassal government, and the great favor of the emperor!
"This is a way..." Queen Zhang frowned, thought for a long time, and then nodded gently and said, "We have laid off 20,000 to 30,000 people at once, and we can save hundreds of thousands a year just in terms of monthly income." Stone, coupled with clothing, salt, vegetables and gifts during the New Year and festivals, you can always save a lot of money in a year."
The statutory salary for eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty was not high. According to Zhu Yuanzhang's ancestral system, "Every generation of internal officials has their own quotas for food and clothing. How can Peter use his salary? But one stone per month is enough." In other words, in addition to food and clothing, the basic work of eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty was to earn a living. It’s indeed not high, but it can’t handle the crowds! There are tens of thousands of eunuchs, and the most basic monthly rice alone will cost 700,000 to 800,000 dan per year. Add in the more than 10,000 palace maids and female officials, and millions of dan of rice can be distributed a year.
In addition, the food, clothing, salt and vegetables rewarded by these eunuchs and palace maids who don’t know what they are doing, if converted into rice, they will get another million dan a year!
The income from Huangzhuang and Huangdian here in Beizhili is given to them, but it may not be enough to cover expenses!
Now that Zhu Youjian wants to allocate the imperial palace to the knights in front of the tent, he must lay off at least 40,000 to 50,000 eunuchs and maids. According to Zhu Youjian's anecdotes, several thousand eunuchs and maidens in the palace will be enough in the future.
The rest must be sent out one after another!
It's better to lay off the palace maid, but at worst, she will be given to the knight in front of the tent as his wife... The knights in the tent are all good men, so they are better than pairing up with eunuchs to eat and play fake ones, right? Moreover, the knights are all landlords, and the maids who marry them become landlords. This is a good thing no matter how you look at it.
Therefore, it is not difficult to dismiss the palace maids, but the difficulty of dismissing the palace's layoffs is to dismiss the eunuchs!
Because Zhu Youjian's own life is still in the hands of the eunuch... If he doesn't handle it properly, he may die young.
In order to minimize the risk of dying young, it is best for Empress Zhang to be the villain who advocates the reduction of eunuchs.
Seeing that Empress Zhang approved the method of letting the Jingjun military eunuchs go to the feudal mansion for dinner, Zhu Youjian continued: "Sister-in-law, the Jingjun military eunuchs in Nanhaizi are all the survivors of Wei Ni, and they all take turns to serve in the palace. I have been on duty and am very familiar with the situation in the palace. It is difficult to guarantee that there are not many eunuchs who have received great kindness from Wei Ni and the Hakka family and want to repay with their lives. If they sneak into the palace secretly to assassinate... Although there are eunuchs in the palace The horse guards and warriors are on guard, but I’m afraid that I won’t be able to guard against it!”
After Empress Zhang thought about it, she felt it made sense, nodded and said: "Uncle is right, it is better to send Nanhaizi's eunuchs away as soon as possible to make people feel at ease... In addition, I am afraid that there are remnants of Wei Ni's party in the palace, and finally It's good to send them all away, which will make people feel at ease."
Zhu Youjian nodded and said: "Sister-in-law, I have just become a great treasure and have no foundation in the palace. If I rashly propose to send Nanhai Ziwu away, I'm afraid it will upset people's hearts!"
Empress Zhang understood as soon as she heard this... The emperor wanted to make the Ai family a villain!
"Uncle," Queen Zhang thought about it, "the Ai family can issue an edict to ask uncle to dismiss Nanhai Ziwu eunuch... But the remnants of Wei Ni are not only in the palace, but also in the court!"
"I know what my sister-in-law said," Zhu Youjian said, "but first we can manage the family, and then we can govern the country! If we don't clean up the remnants of Wei's rebellious parties in the palace, we will not be able to clean up the rebellious parties in the court. So I plan to first Deal with the rebels in the palace and the royal guards, and then deal with the rebels in the court and local areas!"
There were so many traitors in the Ming Dynasty, so of course they had to line up one by one to buy indulgences... Zhu Youjian would not let them go.
Empress Zhang was not satisfied with Zhu Youjian's answer. She looked at Zhu Youjian and said, "Even if uncle wants to bring order to the family first and then govern the country, he should revive a few upright and loyal veterans to rectify the hearts of the world!"
"I have already resurrected Wang Zaijin, Yuan Keli and Xu Guangqi." Zhu Youjian said with a smile, "They will enter Beijing soon!"
"Where is Mr. Sun?" Empress Zhang looked at Zhu Youjian, "He was the late emperor's teacher, and he also contributed to the rectification of Liao Town and the expansion of territory. Don't you want to call him back to the court?"
Zhu Youjian understood...this was Empress Zhang negotiating conditions with herself!
Empress Zhang can come forward as a villain who advocates the dismissal of Nanhai Ziwu, but the condition is that Zhu Youjian resurrects Sun Chengzong.
Zhu Youjian despises Sun Chengzong... This guy is not good at fighting, and he likes to listen to good words too much, so he is easily deceived by the generals below.
But Zhu Youjian can't let Queen Zhang be a villain for nothing! Moreover, Sun Chengzong, the leader of Donglin, is not without merit. He can keep an eye on the eunuchs of the entire dynasty and make them feel guilty! This way the indulgences can be easily sold!
"Okay," Zhu Youjian said after thinking of this, "then ask Mr. Sun to come back and be the censor of Zuodu!"
