Emperor Ming Dynasty

Chapter 1062
After the military judge arrived, the four of them unified their thinking and must report it.

As soon as the new military uniform was put on, Ma Wei couldn't wait to leave the barracks and came to the regiment headquarters.

The establishment of the Beijing camp has been changing, from the initial battalion system, to the wing coordination system, to the current division system.

That is, 3000 people form a regiment, set up five battalions, and then add a regiment headquarters of 500 people.

These include scouts, cooks, soldiers, staff officers, medical offices, luggage, etc., as well as the two hundred guards he personally leads.

The three regiments are one division, with 9000 people plus [-] headquarter troops, totaling [-] people.

At the regiment level, it is already the backbone of the army, it can be said to be extremely important, and it has independent command power.

His name is Guerrilla General.

The division is the commander-in-chief or deputy commander-in-chief, and the chief of staff of the division is generally a general.

The five divisions camped in the Fengtai area separately and did not interfere with each other, but the imperial court set up the left and right governors of the big camp to monitor and administer the affairs of the big camp and perform the responsibility of supervision.

The four walked together, and as the chief officer, Ma Wei was one step ahead, the military judge walked half a step behind, and the deputy battalion chief and the chief of staff followed closely behind.

The military judge is in charge of the distribution of money and food, meritorious service awards, and supervision of the daily life of the army.

Naturally, the military rank is the same.

But Ma Weigao couldn't hold back the right colonel, who was one level higher than his military judge's sergeant, so he had to go from shoulder to shoulder to half a step behind.

However, the chief of staff and the deputy battalion officer, who were only half a step behind, now need to be one step behind, as if they have become followers and personal soldiers.

The military ranks on the clothes of the four were clearly visible, and the patrols and soldiers along the way had to give way and curtsy.

That is, half-kneel on your right leg, and at the same time support your knee with your left hand, straighten your body, and look straight at your eyes.

This kind of kneeling ceremony is a common etiquette in the army. It evolved into a greeting ceremony in the Qing Dynasty. After all, the Eight Banners rule the people with the army.

Kneeling on the ground is kneeling, which is a higher level than that.

To bend one knee is to face an officer whose rank is too much higher than his own. If he is only one rank higher, such as when the right sergeant sees a sergeant, he only needs to bend half of his knee, that is, bend half of his leg, and there is no need to kneel.

In addition, when performing tasks, such as patrolling, cooking, digging, etc., you only need to bend your knees.

Kneeling and bowing, etc., is a formal occasion, where etiquette lies.

The four went straight all the way, not knowing how many people were shocked.

"Please wait!"

After the soldiers stopped the four of them, they left in a hurry.

Soon, they were admitted to the hospital.

With the establishment of the four major camps, the construction of military camps gradually began, changing from military tents to brick and tile structures, and becoming a military city.

Walls, moats, playgrounds, dormitories, stables, schools, libraries, everything is available, just like a city.

And each regiment is a small town, and the battalion is a large courtyard.

The regiment headquarters is naturally the most comfortable and spacious place in the small town, occupying two to three times the area of ​​an ordinary battalion.

Although it is not a pavilion, it is also simple and elegant, with fineness in roughness.

One of them monopolizes a courtyard.

Among the five rooms, there is a study room, a bedroom, a living room, a guest room, and a mixed living room.

Toilets, kitchens, and stables are all available.

There is a row of weapons in the martial arts arena.

Several people watched intently, and even saw two beautiful maids.

This is the prerogative of the leader.

Ma Wei's envious saliva almost flowed out.

He is a battalion leader, and lives in several rooms with a few soldiers. Although he has a single room, compared with the regiment leader, it is heaven and earth.

The head of the regiment is like this, so the chief soldier must not be a palace?
Soon, several people saw the head of the regiment in the living room, whose rank was lieutenant colonel.

If the qualifications are older, it may be the left school.

Since the founding of the country was only 20 years old, almost all the middle and upper-level military officers in the Beijing camp held titles.

Ma Wei knew that the leader Li Tianshi in front of him was a serious baron with five hundred households.

"The last general Ma Wei (...) has met the regiment leader!"

The four got up and bowed their hands in salute.

If it was a formal occasion, the four of them would at least have to kneel on one knee.

"Get up!" Li Tianshi rubbed his eyes and yawned: "If I remember correctly, today is the day for distributing the robes, and the battalions should be very busy. Why did your second battalion come to me?"

Faced with this tremendous pressure, Ma Wei could only say: "Head, the military robes that were handed out today are tricky."

He said indignantly: "You also know that our Beijing is no better than the south, and we have to wear thick clothes in winter, and the things under the crotch can be frozen!"

"So the autumn clothes are at least six catties of cotton. It was just distributed this year, and it is only three catties."

"I don't care about some black-hearted cotton, but if the three catties of cotton go down, how much frostbite will our brothers suffer? Maybe we have to walk a few more..."

With that said, Deputy Yingxiang handed over the cotton coat.

Li Tianshi weighed it in his hand, and immediately frowned: "Sure enough, it's not six catties."

He stood up with a dignified expression: "According to the military regulations, winter clothes south of the Huaihe River are three catties of cotton, and south of the Great Wall are six catties."

"The frontier troops north of the Great Wall are all ten catties."

"Just a lot and not a little, but if there is a lack of both, it will be punished as murder."

"Damn profiteers!!"

Li Tianshi was furious.

Before Shaowu, the chief general of the army controlled everything in the army, such as salaries, salaries, and clothing. As long as it was money, it would definitely not escape from the palm of his hand.

But after the emperor's reforms, the chief officers of the army had nothing to do with money.

The payment is based on the passbook, and the soldiers go directly to the bank to get it.

Not to mention the robes, the Jingying envoy Si Yamen directly handles them.

Even for the construction of the barracks, and some other expenses, he just sent a note directly.

So he has a clear conscience.

No matter how extravagant it is, it is allowed by the court.

Don't look at the majestic and majestic Yamen of the Beijing Camp Envoy, who is responsible for the daily management of the Beijing Camp, as well as logistical support, and controls the military and politics.

But the military status of the officers is in the hands of the Ministry of War.

The selection of military officers was almost arranged by the emperor alone. If there was a lack of personnel, the envoy of the Beijing camp could only report to the emperor.

Even Yingzheng and the head of the regiment failed to nominate or make suggestions, and the envoy of the Jingying Envoy could not.

As for the military order, it is controlled by the cabinet and the emperor. Without the military order of the emperor's order, the Ministry of War, and the five armies' governor's office, no one can mobilize a single soldier.

In the final analysis, Li Tianshi didn't stick to money matters at all, and he didn't have the slightest benefit, but if he made a mistake, he would have to take the blame.

Who can bear this?
He felt the same as Ma Wei.

Non-combat reduction is extremely important in peacetime, especially in the Beijing camp.

After thinking about it again and again, Li Tianshi kept calm, didn't listen to what he said, and sent someone to search for it himself.

Sure enough, many cotton-padded clothes were not up to standard.

In this case, he can only continue to report to the division.

Whether in the army or in the officialdom, the most taboo thing is to report to the higher level, and the best choice is to report to the next level.

If he didn't report to the commander in chief, but went directly to the Beijing envoy's yamen, or the Ministry of War, or the governor's mansion, then the emperor doubted whether the commander in chief was capable enough to control a division.

The chief soldier was shocked when he heard the news, and he was also taken aback:
There was a shortage of military uniforms, and there was a big problem in logistics.

And there is no doubt that it was Si Yamen, the Jingying envoy in charge of logistics, who had the accident.

At this time, he hurriedly reported to the two governors to enter the palace together.

At the level of general soldier, its military rank is captain, or the level of right general, and the official rank is at the fourth rank, or from the third rank.

And his title is at least a Viscount.

Completely has the right to solo and see the driver.

Unexpectedly, after hearing about this incident, the emperor was unusually calm:
"The profiteers are causing trouble, and we must investigate to the end."

This sentence is relaxed and freehand, but it is a big event when it comes out of the emperor's mouth.

First of all, the Beijing Camp envoy Si Yamen took back the cotton clothes that were short of catty and short, and distributed them according to the list again.

Then, the Metropolitan Procuratorate sent a censor group to conduct irregular inspections of the Beijing camp, which was called the patrol censor.

Compared with the past, today's censors are no longer fighting individually, but are composed of teams.

A team of about a dozen people, including clerks, clerks, clerks, personal guards, and the most important staff.

They were selected and hired by the censor, but they were eating the imperial food and serving the censor exclusively.

In order to protect the safety of these censors, and at the same time control them, a brocade guard was even placed in their personal guards to protect them.

The same is true, the Metropolitan Procuratorate has become more and more closed.

The boundaries between the capital censor, the supervisory censor, and the medium of giving things are gradually blurred.

If you don’t count the titles, there are about 300 censors in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and they are divided into three categories according to their duties:

First, inspect places, such as provincial capitals, saltworks, banknotes, border gates, check papers, patrol warehouses, patrol rivers, patrol cities, garrison fields, India and horses, inspect grain storage, supervise collection of grain and dendrobium, check gates for sergeants, and inspect troops Devices, all narrated but different, etc., specific matters.

The second is to supervise the civil and military officials in the capital, the public officials and nobles, who are the sharpest knives in the court.

The third is to admonish the emperor for his faults and check for gaps.

Because things are done in groups, censors can not only serve as inspectors of the eight prefectures in the local area, but also become censors who patrol salt, and can also supervise hundreds of officials.

And today's patrol censor.

Occupational duties and assignments are also gradually separated.

Of course, the emperor's second major reform of the Inspectorate was to give the power to persuade the emperor only to the censors of the left and right capitals, the censors of the left and right deputy capitals, and the censors of the left and right.

Subsequently, the rank of the Metropolitan Procuratorate rose, and the censors of the left and right were promoted from the second rank to the first rank, surpassing the eight ministers.

As a result, the censors of the Metropolitan Procuratorate gradually became independent and had independent power to handle cases, and the superiors were not allowed to interfere.

The censors on both sides gradually lost control of their subordinates.

According to the rules, the censor will no longer be released or moved in. For example, the local procuratorate will no longer be held by officials outside the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Ordinary Jinshi start from the censor of the seventh grade, and according to the distribution, they either supervise the eight departments, or go to the local area to monitor the river, or storage.

After that, he was promoted to Shizhong (Zheng Liupin).

After that, Qian Yushi (the fourth grade).

Then there are the censors of the left and right deputy capitals, the inspectors, and the censors of the left and right capitals.

As long as you do things well, you can be promoted very quickly, and you don't need to suffer level by level like ordinary civil servants, and it depends on whether there are official vacancies.

It can be said that the speed of promotion of the censors is extremely exaggerated, but their potential is limited.

These two reforms immediately cut off the hand that the cabinet extended to the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

They also cut off the hands of the nobles.

Guaranteed independent supervisory power.

After all, in the party struggles since ancient times, the censors have always been the vanguard, and they can be better used by the emperor if they are hung on a rope.

The Metropolitan Procuratorate can only be the emperor's dog.

The patrolling censor dispatched three of them, and they moved again and again, almost scrambling to be the first. In less than three days, they found out the truth.

There are four imperial merchants responsible for the robes in the capital, Zhao, Xiang, Gong and Chang.

Belongs to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Zhao and Xiang followed the rules and did not cut corners, while Gong and Chang coveted profit and couldn't help but do it.

After all, 20 Beijing camps, one family is responsible for 5 people, and [-] sets of winter clothes.

Cotton is thirty yuan per catty, three catties less for each set, which is nearly a hundred cash, and 1000 sets is [-] million cash.

That is 1 silver dollars.

However, the purchase price of the winter clothes for the imperial court is three hundred yuan per set, and the net profit of a set is less than one hundred yuan, only fifty or sixty yuan.

After subtracting three catties of cotton, the profit can be more than doubled. How impressive is that?
"Dry land on the outskirts of the city costs more than 1 silver dollars per mu, and irrigated land costs about [-] yuan. [-] yuan is enough to buy three to four hundred acres of irrigated land and a thousand acres of dry land."

The emperor smiled lightly, he knew very well about the land price in the capital.

Hundreds of acres of irrigated land are enough to pass down family members in the countryside, and they can be called landlords.

Even if the commodity economy develops again, it will not be able to catch up with the income of farmland in terms of stability.

Even in the north, one acre of dryland grain is one and a half stones, calculated according to the maximum rent of [-]% promulgated by the imperial court, and it can earn nearly five buckets.

A bucket of rice in the capital is one cent, that is five cents per mu.

The ten yuan dry land has an annual income of 5.00%, which is extremely stable.

So businessmen are more keen to buy land.

Even Britain, the empire where the sun never sets in history, is no exception. Merchants are keen to buy land, whether it is converted into pastures or selling grain, it is more stable than doing business.

According to statistics, in the sixteenth century, three out of every five merchants went to the countryside to buy real estate.

Nearly half of the family property of those influential and high-ranking businessmen was real estate.

Stability is what human beings have always been pursuing.

"Your Majesty's enlightenment." Everyone praised.

The Ministry of Punishment made a handling opinion:
The principal offender ransacked his home, and his whole family was exiled to Anxi; the accessory criminal ransacked his home, and his whole family was exiled to Anxi.

After everyone left, the emperor gave three with one side.

A censor raised his head and said in a deep voice: "According to my investigation, the Patriarch of the Gong family joined the Ministry of Internal Affairs three years ago as an imperial merchant."

"Privately, he has frequent contacts with nobles, so he is qualified to take on the military robes of the Beijing camp, and the one who has close contacts is the housekeeper of the first assistant..."

"sure?"

Zhu Yixi frowned.

"I don't dare to speak nonsense." Yushi said seriously: "It is heard that the Gong family got the military robes of the Beijing camp because of their relationship with the Zhu family. In addition, they also won the military robes of the frontier army this year, and they will supply them to the Chase next year." Hal, Jilin, and Liaodong frontier troops."

In the past, Zhu Yixi would never have believed it, but now he hesitated in his heart.

"Keep your mouth shut, don't talk too much." The emperor ordered in a deep voice.

"I don't dare." Yu Shi bowed his head and said, "It's just that there are too many people in the investigation..."

These words are actually saying that the connection between the Gong family and the Zhu family has probably been known to many people for a long time, and it is difficult to hide the past.

Zhu Yixi's heart skipped a beat, this was the target that was delivered to her door.

(End of this chapter)