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Chapter 966 An Unprecedented Good Strategy

Hearing this, the other courtiers all looked at the emperor, thinking in their hearts, don't talk about disbanding on the spot, otherwise these military households can't fight wars, but they can do harm to the local area!In the former Song Dynasty, they were organized into the Xiang Army even to cause troubles for idlers.

When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he smiled slightly and said: "It is not enough to rely solely on yamen servants and officials in the local area. A basic army must be in place to maintain law and order. The combat power may not be as good as the army of recruits, but it should be stronger than the local thieves. questionable."

Upon hearing this, Shen Yongmao was stunned for a while. After all, isn't it the abolition of the military system of the guard?

Emperor Chongzhen didn't care about him, and continued to explain: "My idea is to streamline the guard army, weed out the weak and retain the strong, and form a new local army to maintain local law and order, and pay the army according to the battalion post system."

Upon hearing this, Bi Ziyan, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, immediately objected: "Your Majesty, I'm afraid it's inappropriate to do so. Although the number of guards in the country is small, the number must be huge. How about the imperial court's expenditure on military salaries?" Take responsibility?"

As far as the current military expenditure of the frontier army is concerned, the imperial court is actually barely supporting it. This is thanks to the past two years. It seems that they have made money in wars.

Shen Yongmao also had objections, and followed up: "Your Majesty, the low-level military officers in the guard are all hereditary. If they are streamlined, some of them will have officials but not soldiers. There are quite a number of such people in the whole country. How to arrange them?" ?”

It is a good thing to be able to ask questions. Emperor Chongzhen nodded and said to them with a smile: "There are military fields in the guards all over the country. These military fields can be rented out, and the proceeds can be used to raise the army. After streamlining, I believe it can also be used. Can you afford it?"

When Bi Ziyan heard this, he was taken aback for a moment. Hasn't this changed?Still use the farmland to support the army.But looking back, it was really different.The army in this place no longer has the act of garrisoning the fields, and the fields are rented out for other people to plant.According to this calculation, it seems that it can be calculated, and there should be no need for the court to allocate additional funds to this new army.

On the other side, when Emperor Chongzhen said this, he turned his eyes away from Bi Ziyan, glanced at Shen Yongmao, then looked at Zuodu Yushi and other senior officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and continued to calmly say: "Those who have been streamlined Most of the personnel here are old and weak, unable to fight, but able to do other things. If low-level military positions are eliminated, follow suit."

"Please tell your Majesty how to deal with these old and weak people?" Shen Yongmao immediately asked with concern.

After hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen did not directly answer Shen Yongmao's question, but changed the subject, looked at Zuodu Yushi and the others and said: "Before, I issued a strict decree that the Yushi and civil officials should not gossip about things. Forbidding me to fight against the Ming Dynasty, it consumes energy internally. However, because of this, the Metropolitan Procuratorate has complained about this, so how to exercise the power of supervision..."

Hearing the emperor suddenly mentioning this matter, the people from the Metropolitan Procuratorate all looked at each other, not understanding what it meant for a while, isn't this talking about the reform of the military system of the guards, why did they mention this matter again?

But even though they thought so, they didn't reject it. Listening to the meaning of the emperor's words, it seemed that they were going to come up with a solution.The smarter people contacted what the emperor said before, and vaguely guessed something in their hearts.

Sure enough, I heard Emperor Chongzhen continue to say: "My Ming Dynasty not only has a vast territory, but also has a large population, and it is also the largest in all dynasties! As a result, the number of affairs far exceeds that of all dynasties. Counting all the history, there are only 140 people. They are in charge of the money, food, salt, soldiers, etc. of the two capitals and the thirteen provinces. At the local level, there are only provincial-level procuratorates. I think that for The supervision system has too few staff, which seriously hinders the supervision system's impartial supervision duties..."

Hearing what he said, the courtiers at the Metropolitan Procuratorate couldn't help but be overjoyed. They all heard that the emperor wanted to add manpower to them, and they would no longer be just polished officials in the future!

As expected, Emperor Chongzhen's voice suddenly increased a little, and he said conclusively: "Therefore, I decided to transfer some of the soldiers eliminated from the guard army to the supervision system to enrich the supervision office and serve as minions. , At the local level, the supervisory yamen should also go down to the county level to supervise the localities."

As soon as he finished speaking, Wen Tiren, the chief assistant who had been acting like a clay bodhisattva, suddenly opened his mouth and bowed and said: "Your Majesty's move is really a good policy that has never been seen in history. It should be able to rectify the morals of the Ming Dynasty. admire!"

Almost at the same time, the eunuch Cao Huachun, who is also the mud bodhisattva's chief rite supervisor, also played along: "Your Majesty's policy is beneficial to the country and the people, and the slaves are really convinced!"

"..." When the other officials in the Wenhua Palace saw it, they immediately understood that these two old foxes must have known about it in advance, so when the emperor came to a conclusion, they immediately expressed their support.

Zuodu Yushi and others from the Metropolitan Procuratorate were the first to come to their senses, overjoyed, and immediately expressed their support for this decision.For them, this greatly enhanced their power.In the future, the yamen of the Metropolitan Procuratorate will no longer be an empty yamen, but a yamen like the six departments, even bigger than them, because according to the emperor's intention, it will reach the county level.

Although this decision is not very satisfactory to other officials, the conflict of interest is not serious.These officials in the Wenhua Palace are all the most senior officials of the Ming Dynasty. They are all in the capital.

To be honest, it was indeed a good thing for them that the emperor had accepted the right to hear the rumors from the censor.As for the allocation of manpower to the Metropolitan Procuratorate to form a normal supervisory office, it is not unacceptable.

Relatively speaking, the local government will feel uncomfortable in the future.After all, in the past, the inspector censor came at most once, as long as he dealt with it, he would be fine.But from now on, the supervisory office will open to the county level, and it is a resident office. If you want to do anything, you have to be careful. The supervisory office is staring at the side. It is far less comfortable than before.

However, the local government has no right to speak in the court, and these high-ranking officials in the Wenhua Palace have the final say.

Now everyone in the Wenhua Palace probably understood the general framework of Emperor Chongzhen's reform of the military system of the guard.They suddenly understood that the emperor probably had this idea a long time ago, so he had been doing it before. He set up and trained the new army as an example, took back the right to gossip and act as a foreshadowing, opened the sea to ban the distribution of taxes, and incorporated officials into the official system etc.

This innovation is unprecedented in previous dynasties, but it seems logical.I used to think that innovation is as difficult as reaching the sky, but the emperor's strategy is feasible.The details in the middle had to amaze the officials.

Unexpectedly, this is not over yet, and Emperor Chongzhen began to explain again.

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