"...Your Majesty clearly knows that this servant has never had any private dealings with Luo Qianhu." Gu Dayong was startled.
"Okay." Zhu Houcong waved his hand, "This is a method. After all, I brought him from the palace, so I can trust him. I have already made arrangements for Lu Song. Zhang Yong, you can find Mai Fu when you go back later. .”
The three of them breathed a sigh of relief, as long as the emperor was willing to listen to their suggestions.
"If you think Luo An is qualified, then give him all the people you buried in Jinyiwei." Zhu Houcong looked at them indifferently, "It's the same over in the East Factory and in the palace, they are all your disciples. Zhang Zuo I will send the Chief Ceremony Supervisor, Mai Fu to the Royal Horse Supervisor, and Zhang Zuo to the Royal Supervisor. You can take them up first."
"This slave obeys the order..."
"As for the Beijing camp, it is really shocking. Mr. Yang Ge said that there are more than 370,000 people in the Beijing army, flag schools, military craftsmen, etc., and they receive four million dan of food and supplies a year. Is this true?"
"Your Majesty, are you...really serious about massive layoffs?" Zhang Yong's voice trembled slightly.
Gu Dayong gritted his teeth and accepted it sadly: "Your Majesty, these are really your own family assets."
Zhu Houcong was amused: "My own family background?"
Gu Dayong thought that Zhu Houcong did not understand the importance, so he bravely explained: "The number of officers and soldiers in Beijing is actually quite large, but the actual number is very small, and the gap is getting bigger and bigger. Now it is more, mainly because The Jin Yiwei and the newly selected and trained officers and soldiers of the Beijing Camp."
"Your Majesty, among them, one is that the number of officials who have been favored by the Holy Spirit is increasing continuously. This involves almost all honorable ministers and relatives of the country, including those civil servants with martial arts. Secondly, the Jinyi Colonel acts as a clan official. The number of guards and tomb guards has naturally increased over the past dynasties. Thirdly...when Emperor Daxing increased the number of royal guards and selected and trained new troops, he also hoped that the heaven would listen to Guangda and the military equipment would become stronger."
Zhu Houcong understood, nodded and said, "You mean, you and your disciples and grandchildren have not accepted money from others to serve as evaders?"
Gu Dayong immediately returned his forehead to the ground: "Slave...slave..."
Zhu Houcong said lightly: "The official position and salary cannot be moved, nor can the palace guards and mausoleum guards be moved. The most likely ones to be moved are the people who pretend to be defectors, and there are still vacancies in the abolition of the capital camp. Needless to say the former, the personal guard sergeants With one stone's salary per month, you can be exempted from military service. In addition to the newly trained regiments and camps, there are countless old troops who are called home and have no pay. If this is touched, the ministers and military ministers will be further suppressed. I can think of these Understand, I just want to ask, you three great men, how much free money have you eaten?"
Hearing his last sinister question, Gu Dayong and the others were trembling like chaff and kept begging for forgiveness.
This is the benefit of doing your homework. When Zhu Houcong was in Anlu, he read a lot of discussions and reports by courtiers on many issues in the Di newspaper. No matter if there were any questions, the palace officials who were living leisurely at that time also dared to talk more about the real situation.
Zhu Houcong had now solved the problem. Seeing that Gu Dayong and the others were still frightened and did not answer, he finally frowned: "Reply well! The seriousness of this fraud and redundancy is really shocking, and some abolition is inevitable. But soldiers are expensive. Even if they are sophisticated but not expensive, I will not let them do anything. I will definitely hold this Beijing camp firmly in my hands! Tell me everything you know!"
He now has an advantage, that is, the succession of the vassal king.
The reason why this is an advantage is because I am afraid that someone will rebel.
On this basis, isn't it natural to retain control of the Beijing camp, take this opportunity of dismantling and reorganization to make the Beijing camp stronger, and win over the military ministers who are overwhelmed by the civil servants?
The three of them finally spoke one after another, and Zhu Houcong frowned as he listened.
The number of people receiving salaries in the Jinyiwei establishment reached nearly 70,000. The Tengxiang Four Guards whom Zhu Houzhao focused on training had more than 40,000. The Weiwei Regiment Training Camp and other Beijing Guards that had been abolished added up to tens of thousands more. In the early years of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the number of Beijing troops was more than 400,000, but now there are only this few left, and it is said that a large proportion of them are empty.
There are four categories of cases of becoming a eunuch: the total number of eunuchs in the vassal government over the clan has exceeded 10,000; the total number of eunuchs under the management of the twenty-four yamen has reached nearly 15,000; There were more than 10,000 guards, guards, mine supervisors, tax supervisors, and eunuchs guarding mausoleums; there were thousands more who had purified themselves privately and could not enter the palace, but were taken in by them to grow vegetables or do hard work outside the palace.
Then there are the military craftsmen: their status is very special, they are both military and craftsmen. In essence, the management of these military craftsmen gradually came to be the responsibility of the imperial guards and internal supervisors. Even if there is a project at the Ministry of Industry, military craftsmen are just dispatched to work.
These military craftsmen who mastered various skills mainly served the royal family, and almost everything in the palace was made by their hands.
How much is this part? There are 53,000 registered military craftsmen, but there are nearly twice as many handymen.
Although the monthly rations for these military craftsmen and handymen are less than five dou per capita, there are still many people.
Then the contradiction arises: the grain transported into the capital every year is only enough to feed this group of people, so where do the rations come from for the rest of the capital's population, officials and even the royal family? How can two warehouses in Kyoto store food?
Oh, yes, there is a fold color. As for the percentage of silver or other discounts that are distributed, and how much, there is a lot of room for manipulation. For example, treasure banknotes that have depreciated to an absurd level.
Zhu Houcong narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at them: "Raise your head and look at me!"
Gu Dayong and Wei Bin couldn't help but raise their heads slightly with fear. How could they dare to look directly at the emperor?
"With so many people, how much do they receive every year, and how much do they actually pay out?"
This is a fatal question, but these three remnants of the "Eight Tigers" from the Zhengde Dynasty now vividly explain what it means to rely on imperial power.
They could only kowtow and explain vaguely.
Zhu Houcong was a little confused when he heard this: Is it true that his cousin Zhu Houzhao also got a lot of money through this method?
In line with the attitude of letting his subordinates get greedy, it is better to reach out and get some for himself. Only in this way can Zhu Houzhao be free from the restrictions of civil servants in terms of money and food, and be able to re-train the new army in the Beijing camp.
With so much money and food, naturally the honorable ministers and generals in charge of the troops will get a lot of benefits, but Zhu Houzhao can also achieve his goal.
how to say? It's all "my" money.
It is better than Jiajing. Jiajing is used for cultivating immortals, while Zhengde is mainly used for military training.
After being slightly surprised, Zhu Houcong was no longer surprised.
In the era of family world, for Zhu Houzhao, it was just left hand and right hand. By the way, it could also help him train new troops and win over his cronies.
Of course, Gu Dayong and the others were by no means untouchable, and they even had a lot of hands on it.
Now that Zhu Houcong had asked about this data, he already had some idea in his mind.
"According to what you said, there are a total of more than 100,000 people involved in fraud. I will check whether this is true or not. If I don't check, someone will check it out. Someone wants to check it out, and I can't stop it. Stay. Do you understand?”
Hearing Zhu Houcong's words, Wei Bin quickly replied: "I understand... I don't know how many of the foreign ministers are truly loyal to your majesty at the moment. In each yamen, the foreign ministers also have many eyes and ears..."
"In the Chenhao Rebellion, the Emperor has certainly considered taking the opportunity to stabilize the military power, but you cannot suppress your grab for credit and credit. Wang Shouren and others have not yet claimed their merits. The soldiers who really put down the rebellion cannot wait long. It’s already irreversible that Qian Ning and Jiang Bin are in jail, and Zhang Zhong and the others’ confessions, how much of them involve you?”
When Zhu Houcong talked about this, Wei Bin and the others knew that what they really cared about tonight was coming.
After a pause, Zhu Houcong said: "Gu Dayong has made great contributions to welcoming Li. I can allow him to renovate his father's mausoleum and stay there in the future. Wei Bin, I will also renovate some palaces in the palace later. You can go inside It would be best if the officials and supervisors retire. As for Zhang Yong... I remember that you and Yang Yiqing have a good relationship."
Zhang Yong was startled by these words: "My servant and Mr. Yang Ge only contributed to the rebellion of King Anhua and overthrew Liu Jin. There is no friendship at all..."
