Now the Ming court has very tight control over the armies everywhere! The most important way to control them is through food and salary! As for the guard, although the court lacked sufficient control, the method adopted by the civil servants was to let him rot until he had no strength! At this point, it doesn't matter whether you can control it or not!
Therefore, the civil servants who control food and wages are extremely ruthless! When the food and salary allocated from the Ministry of Household Affairs were transferred to the Ministry of War, 30% of it had already been "disappeared"! After leaving the Ministry of War, there will be another 30% "drift"! Going down three levels and three levels like this, when the food and wages fall into the hands of the soldiers, they can only stay alive! Soldiers even had to go out and find work to support their families!
As the saying goes, cutting off someone's financial path is like killing one's parents! The nobles' requests were met with strong counterattack by civilian officials! Even several people from the Anhui War Department were fired by civilian officials with excuses! In the end, when the situation was tense, Xungui and others panicked and asked Liu Haojia for help!
Liu Haojia originally told Xungui that the current profits are enough, so don't push the civil servants to a dead end! Just like boiling a frog in warm water, slowly let the civil servants adapt to the existence of nobles and the right to speak in the court! But I didn't expect that these nobles would forget everything after seeing their power. They even forgot everything Liu Haojia warned them! As a result, the trouble is revealed now, and he has to make up his mind!
In Liu Haojia's view, Xungui's actions were like having the word "pig teammate" written on his face! But even if he is a pig teammate, even if he is looking at these nobles gnashing their teeth and wishing to take a bite of each one, he must help those who should be helped!
As the saying goes, there are three gangs of heroes. Without honor, he can't defeat these civil servants! So in the end I could only help them come up with ideas after thinking hard!
At this time, the civil servants have made all preparations and are waiting for the nobles to fight back! In their opinion, what Xungui can do is limited. It doesn't matter, it just collects evidence and takes down some officials! As for finding trouble in other areas such as governance, the honorable nobles are not opponents, even if Liu Haojia is included! ..
So at the same time, they also collected a lot of corruption, bullying, and domination of women by nobles, and prepared to push it back when the other party presented evidence of their own crimes! At the worst possible time, we have to carry out cash transfers. We civil servants have a reserve army!
But what they didn't expect was that after they had waited for a long time, the nobles not only did not fight back, but instead held up songs for the soldiers from all over the court one by one! Some people cried that the soldiers there didn't even have enough food to eat; some people cried that the soldiers there didn't even have all the weapons; and some people said that the cotton-padded clothes sent by the court were all rotten and could not be used at all!
Although there were many things to do, there was not a word about civil servants from beginning to end! But everyone knows that this is no different from mentioning it! And what's even more terrible is that all the matters raised by the nobles have been verified personally. There are witnesses, testimonies, and evidence!
Helmets as thin as paper, cotton-padded clothes with black cotton wool, moldy food...! Everything was used as evidence, and all the testimonies of soldiers from various places were sent to the main hall!
And the nobles made it clear! The soldiers can tolerate this situation for one or two years, but this situation has been going on for many years! Except for the army in Jiubian, the armies everywhere have been in this state for a long time! It is completely changing towards the Xiang army of the Song Dynasty! Even for the Jiubian army, there is a trend of reduction in food and salary!
If this continues for a long time, don't expect any soldiers to resist if the Japanese invade the border! Think about it, why did the soldiers not resist when the Jin soldiers came to the city in the Song Dynasty? Because they have suffered enough and would rather die together with this decadent regime!
Not only did the nobles cry with snot and tears in the court, but they also started small actions in the local area! That's the local soldiers making a fuss about their pay!
Instigating pay is a trivial matter that Xungui is familiar with! Just send some confidants to contact the leaders among the soldiers and provide some resources, of course, mainly money! You can provoke the soldiers to cause trouble! ..
Because the soldiers themselves are already very poor and have the desire to make money! And if someone returns the money, it can ensure the livelihood of the family during the payment process! The most important point is that the people who came to instigate the trouble also made it clear that they were only allowed to make trouble and must not make the matter bigger! If the leader is fired, should we compensate him with money or arrange another way out?
You can do it all the way!
With these conditions, the soldiers would have no psychological pressure when making trouble! And it’s not like there have been quarrels before, so it went smoothly. Soldiers quarreling over pay began to appear in more than a dozen places across the country at about the same time!
This made the officials in the court very anxious! Because they can guess that there is someone behind the soldiers' pay dispute! But the soldiers did not make the matter a big deal, and their demands were reasonable, so it was not easy to suppress them directly!
Especially when someone helped the soldiers deliver the love letter with bloody fingerprints to the court, the civil servants knew that they had made a mistake this time! Because all the food and wages allocated by the imperial court have accounts that can be checked. As long as you follow the accounts and check them, no one who embezzles the food and wages will be able to escape! .
Especially when Jin Yiwei is already eyeing him, they can't afford to take this risk! So civil servants and nobles began to contact each other quickly! At the same time, the civil servants took the lead in showing goodwill and recalled three people who wanted to be expelled, and then the two parties began to contact each other privately!
The nobles were not as open-minded as the lions this time, and honestly made their requests in accordance with Liu Haojia's opinions! The first thing is to place more noble nephews in the Ministry of War! But they have to make sure that the people coming in can obey the orders.
Secondly, they don’t ask civil servants to stop corruption, they just ask them to reduce the amount of money lost, and at the same time, they can also increase the estimated amount of food and salary in various places!
Seeing that the nobles were so understanding, the civil servants quickly reached a settlement with them! As a result, there are many more distinguished disciples in the Ministry of War! Moreover, the amount of food and salary distributed to various places has also been increased, and the amount lost has also been reduced!
All things considered, soldiers everywhere received much more food and pay than usual! I dare not say anything else, but at least it is possible for the family to have enough to eat! If the soldiers and their families were more diligent, there might be some savings at the end of the year! So the chaos quietly subsided before Emperor Wanli could figure it out!
In fact, it was not that Emperor Wanli was confused, but that he acted after discussing with Liu Haojia! Liu Haojia told him that it was impossible for him to be completely in power now! As long as there is Zhang Juzheng, it is impossible to defeat the united civil servants!
