Hai Rui said yes without saying anything.
Because this is not because the emperor wants to gain more mining profits, but because the current situation requires the emperor to gain more profits to benefit the people of the world.
Therefore, Hai Rui actually took away some 600,000 taels of silver coins from the internal transportation warehouse, thus completing all the tasks of selling subscription coupons.
Hai Rui was in charge of the household department, which was indeed reassuring. All the silver coins obtained after selling subscription tickets were handed over to the commerce department, so that the subordinate officials in the household department who wanted to take the opportunity to embezzle some were dissatisfied.
The Ministry of Commerce took the silver dollars raised through the sale of subscription coupons and officially started the business of increasing off-site minerals.
Pan Jixun, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, convened a ministry meeting based on the mining issues discussed by the political hall after the sale of subscription tickets. Therefore, he proposed to use the part of the mining profits belonging to the imperial court's public funds to build an additional government building in Daning. Road, and requested an order to recover the old Ming Dynasty areas in Daning and rebuild the city of Daning so that the coal can be transported directly to Liao in the future.
The reason is that Liao is more bitterly cold than Guannai, and there is a greater need for sufficiently low-priced charcoal for heating. This will reduce the number of Han people in Liao who are suffering from the cold and promote the increase in the Han population in Liao.
Zhu Yijun's imperial approval said: "According to the proposal, we also ordered the establishment of Daning Chief Secretary, Dusi, and Chasi, as well as a governor to educate the local Han-Mongolian population."
Therefore, Daning was once again classified as the territory of the Ming Dynasty.
As a result, the Ming court needed to recruit more people to build roads and more officials and soldiers to serve in the Daning area.
When the matter was discussed in the political hall, Qi Jiguang requested an order to rectify the troops and horses in the Beijing camp, verify the number of the Beijing camp, and hoped that he would be allowed to transfer all those who failed to pass the training in the old Beijing camp to the border defense to build roads.
at the same time.
Qi Jiguang also hoped that those who had passed the training would also be sent to Daning to serve as border troops, and they would get the opportunity for actual combat training by fighting against the Mongolian tribes that might rebel during the recovery of Daning.
As for the Xinjing Camp, Qi Jiguang proposed to recruit Zhuang Yong to form it again.
Zhu Yijun agreed with this and ordered Qi Jiguang to formulate the recruitment system and retirement regulations.
That is to say, although the Ming Dynasty is destined to gradually transition from a guard system to a military system based on recruiting soldiers, it cannot be a soldier for a while, which will result in no brave men to join the army. After all, no one likes to leave their hometown for the rest of their lives, even if they get brocade clothes and generous rewards. So what?
Therefore, it is necessary to implement a retirement system, that is, the recruited brave men are allowed to return to their hometowns after joining the army for a few years, and travel expenses and subsidies are paid. The outstanding ones are assigned to local positions.
The reason why the recruitment system is mainly used instead of completely changing to the recruitment system is because considering the actual situation, in some frontier areas and overseas areas, a guard system model integrating soldiers and farmers is needed.
No system can die quickly, nor can it rise quickly. There will be a gradual process.
Zhu Yijun told Qi Jiguang this request. Qi Jiguang knew that the emperor really treated the soldiers as individuals, and he claimed to comply with the order, so he complied with it.
So, next, the entire Beijing Guards and Ban Army were gathered together.
During the Longqing period, the officers and soldiers of the Beijing camp made up for their bravery, with more than 60,000 soldiers. However, after more than ten years, more than 30,000 soldiers were still occupied by the powerful. Some rich people bribed the generals in the camp without training and only started doing business. The only thing a craftsman can do is that the poor and unable to afford bribes to the camp generals and the old and sick remain in the camp.
After Qi Jiguang verified the actual number of troops in the Beijing camp with Zhou Yong, the assistant manager of the Rongzheng of the Beijing camp, Xu Rucheng, the admiral of the Beijing camp, and Xu Guangen, the new patrol camp commander, he said to the participating guerrilla and camp commanders of each battalion:
"How many soldiers each of you has given to your superiors and released from the battalion to make other livelihoods should be reported immediately and verified by the head of the Qing Military Department of the Privy Council."
In order to check the actual number of troops in the Beijing camp and the whereabouts of the sergeants on active duty, the Privy Council set up a Qing military department, and selected a number of officials with the reputation of Qing Zheng from among the county magistrates across the country to be in charge, to investigate the whereabouts of these sergeants.
At that time, Zhu Yancheng, the commander of the camp, couldn't help but stepped out and asked loudly: "I would like to ask, what will be done if the real information comes forward?"
"All soldiers who have been captured will be taken back. Those who captured soldiers will be dealt with according to the law. Those who go out to make a living will have their military status and official status revoked!"
Qi Jiguang replied.
At this time, Dai Liangdong, the deputy general of the Beijing camp, clenched his fists and came out angrily after hearing this, and asked Qi Jiguang: "Since I am a general with military honors, why do you bother to embarrass the generals and military officials? Aren't you afraid of a mutiny in the Beijing camp?!"
Qi Jiguang smiled and said: "You are mutinous and show it to your father."
Dai Liangdong was at a loss for words. After a while, he said: "I don't dare to do this because of my humble position. I just ask the Duke to be considerate of the sergeants. The accumulated shortcomings in the Beijing camp cannot be eliminated in a short time. It is better to make the sergeants dissatisfied if you go too hasty. You should take it easy!"
"No slack! The military order is like a mountain. Anyone who speaks again will be killed without mercy!"
Qi Jiguang said calmly and then said: "Go and verify the report immediately, otherwise you will be charged with dereliction of duty!"
After Qi Jiguang said that, he left here with Zhou Yong, Xu Rucheng and others.
"what to do?"
"This Qi Yuanjing is serious!"
Zhu Yanqing, Dai Liangdong and others couldn't help but find Yongping Bo Chaoshu, the chief military officer of the fifth military camp, and started talking.
Wang Chaofu spat directly and cursed: "Damn it, if Qi Yuanjing dares to do this, I will say that he wants to rebel, so I want to use this to cause trouble. It is obvious that half of the Six Guards of the Emperor's personal army are his old troops, and then Plus, if Jingying really lets him reorganize it, won’t everything become his?”
"What you said makes sense!"
Zhu Yanqing agreed and said, "That's how we go!"
Dai Liangdong said: "We also need to let the hometown soldiers below know!"
The so-called hometown army refers to the soldiers of the 12th Regiment Battalion in the past, that is, the soldiers whose native place was in the capital. These people may have surrendered to the powerful and wealthy as slaves, and at the same time received a military salary, or they have established their own business and are doing other businesses. , and pretended to receive military pay in the military camp, and because most of them were relatives, they were often in the same boat and very arrogant.
Therefore, after these hometown soldiers really knew that they were going to be verified, many hometown soldiers immediately started making noises and began to rush to the official residence, throwing rubble at them and yelling loudly.
"Are you Qi Yuanjing just a low-income person like us, or are you a shameless guy who plays tricks on civil servants, and you have the nerve to take care of us?"
"In order to be the privy envoy, I tried to punish the dissatisfied ministers in the dynasty, and now in order to become the emperor, I have come to punish us again!"
"Qi, please come out and argue with us clearly!"
boom!
boom!
boom!
But what came out was not Qi Jiguang, but the sound of guns and cannons held by Wang Rulong, Chen Ziluan and other regular soldiers of the Beijing camp.
According to the Beijing camp system after Yongle, the Beijing camp was divided into 72 guards in Beijing and soldiers and horses drawn from various guards, and the latter were called squad troops.
However, later on, the squadron troops were no longer drawn from the local guards, but from the border troops. Now the main ones drawn are the border troops trained by Qi Jiguang in Jiliao.
These military attaches in charge of the frontier army were basically Qi Jiguang's old troops.
Therefore, when Admiral Xu Rucheng heard that the troublemakers gathered in the courtyard of his official residence to curse Qi Jiguang and dispatched troops from the Beijing camp to suppress them, most of these troops were willing to obey the order and rushed to suppress them at this time.
For a moment, bullets rained down.
These ruffians from their hometown, who were not accustomed to fighting and would only rely on the rich and powerful to cause trouble, fell down one after another.
"Don't kill me! My sister is Uncle Anshun's aunt!"
"What are you doing? Are you rebelling? We are home sergeants of the Third Battalion and His Majesty's soldiers. How can you kill us?!"
"Run quickly, Qi is really rebelling!"
The Prince of Yongping, who was checking the situation near the official residence, heard the sound of gunfire and these shouts, and hurried to Zhu Yijun, trembling and saying:
"Your Majesty, Duke Ji has rebelled!"
(End of chapter)
