I, the grandson of the second emperor of the Ming Dynasty, earned 100 million taels at the beginning

Staring at the kneeling people inside and outside the door, the smile on Zhu Zhangui's face didn't know whether it was cold or angry.

He reached out his hand vigorously and pointed at these people, "Look at these people, which one of them is not gray and handsome, which one is not a pillar of the imperial court, which one is not full of literary talent and sage knowledge."

"To establish a heart for the world, to establish a life for the living and the people, to inherit the sage's knowledge, and to bring peace to all generations, these words are sung more beautifully than they are sung every day. Loyal to the emperor, patriotism and loyalty to the emperor, they shout louder than anyone else."

"But look at them all, but when the camouflage is torn off from them at this moment, they become a pile of disgusting rotten meat!"

Zhu Zhangui's shout spread throughout the entire hall, the entire palace, and the entire capital through the four loudspeakers installed on the steps in front of the palace.

At this moment, no matter whether it was the officials, the servants and guards in the palace, or the people outside the city who were busy with their day, they all stopped their movements and looked at the palace silently and listened quietly.

"The ancestors brought down the country and handed it into our hands. They wanted us to take over their banner and lead all the people of Ming Dynasty to continue to prosper and prosper, and no longer be oppressed by foreign races. But look at us, we But it made Jiangshan look like this."

"Let me ask you all, if you have made the country that our ancestors gave us like this, do you have the face to go down to meet our ancestors, the emperor Taizu, and those who helped our Han family back up again and sacrificed their blood? Righteous men?"

Everyone was silent, not sure if they were ashamed in their hearts, or they were thinking about something.

Zhu Zhangui took a few breaths, calmed down, and pointed at the officials present.

"And you, although all of you are standing in the court hall, but you take out your heart and ask yourself, are you so clean?"

"The emperor knows, and the common people all over the world know that some of you are even more corrupt than these 40 people, and your relatives in your hometown are even more rampant than their relatives."

The sound of the huge trumpet and the humming of the trembling hall made everyone's hearts tremble slightly.

"I once said that when you have time, you should dig out your heart, liver, spleen, stomach and kidneys, dry them in the sun, wash them, and tidy them up. Otherwise, if they are rotten and fester, you will have no chance to clean them up."

Taking a cold look at the officials, Zhu Zhangui turned around and walked back slowly.

"The emperor's grandfather once told me that the scourge of our Ming Dynasty was the barbarians in the north. In order to eliminate this scourge, we Yongle once ruled, went through a lot of efforts to rule, mobilized our troops, and went to the north many times."

"For more than ten years of fighting, countless money and food were spent, 10,000+ soldiers were buried in other places, and several generals were shrouded in horse leather. Finally, they drove away the barbarians in the north and brought peace in the Central Plains."

"Later, Grandpa Huang told me that the scourge of Ming Dynasty was food. Without food, the common people would go hungry, so we went to find food."

"Grandpa Huang, in his old age, took tens of thousands of soldiers across the ocean to build a paradise for growing grain. The British Duke Zhang Fu is still leading tens of thousands of soldiers overseas to guard our country. A piece of land that can feed us."

"Zheng He, Lord of Zhenhai, led the soldiers, and even drifted across the ocean for several years. After experiencing countless hardships, they brought back high-yield grain."

"The enemy has been beaten away, and the food has been brought back, but why are the common people still starving, and why do the common people rebel."

Zhu Zhangui's rhetorical question caused those important officials who were concerned about the court to fall into deep thought, and the old man's expression changed for the first time.

He looked at the grandson who was angrily questioning the officials under the steps, and unknowingly brought his father into it.

Like, just too much like it!

He seems to remember that when his father first discovered the large-scale corruption of his courtiers, he was so angry and helpless.

No one answered, and no one dared to respond.

"I understand the business in Shandong."

Facing everyone, Zhu Zhangui said with a heavy tone: "The scourge of Ming Dynasty is not outside, but in the court."

Stretching out his hand and pointing vigorously at the officials kneeling inside and outside the door, Zhu Zhangui's voice suddenly increased, "It's in this Fengtian Temple, right among the honorable princes of civil and military vassals in the Manchu Dynasty."

This time Zhu Zhangui attacked with full firepower, not only pointing the finger at the minister, but even pointing at the vassal king and nobles.

Yesterday was specially notified by the old man that the old feudal lords of Zhu Di's generation who came to court had a slightly unhappy expression on their faces.

After all, Zhu Zhangui is their grandson. Saying this in front of so many people is not giving them face at all. They really don't understand the rules. How did Zhu's fourth grandson teach?

Also, this kid doesn't look like a good stubble. If he becomes the throne in the future, I'm afraid his family will have a bad life. It seems that he should be careful in the future.

Zhu Zhangui ignored those old vassal kings with unchanging faces, and said to the ministers sadly: "If our court is a bit rotten here, the whole Ming Dynasty will be rotten. If you are all rotten, the whole Daming people will be like the end of the Yuan Dynasty." , rose up everywhere, knocked us down, and let us die without a place to die."

"Think about it, it's only been a few years since the good times, and the family has only had enough to eat and wear warm clothes for a few days, and how far Yuan Ren's knife is from our necks, I have forgotten, ah!"

"Let me tell you, those ancestors who died tragically under the knife of the Yuan people, the innocent people who starved to death in the wasteland, and the souls of countless soldiers who died on the battlefield are still staring at you underground every day!"

After a burst of extreme output, Zhu Zhangui exhaled heavily, as if he wanted to exhale all the depression in his heart.

"There must always be a reason for this. Today I will say it all. I hope you will do it and cherish it."

"Here I advise everyone, when you are drinking people's blood and eating people's meat to collect black money, reach out and touch your neck to see if it is your neck, whether it can hold the steel knife in the future. Look at the open space of your family's ancestral grave , can you bury your family?"

"Although money is a dead thing, it has a hand that seduces the soul. It can allow you to enjoy all the wealth and honor in the world, and it can also bring you, your whole family, and your nine clans to hell!"

Chapter 291: Defend the land and resist the enemy, everyone is responsible, and everyone is imperative to serve!

Watching the officials present slowly backing away, before reaching the jade steps, Zhu Zhangui turned around and bowed to the deep-thinking old man who was sitting at the top, expressing that he had finished speaking.

The old man came back to his senses, glanced at the ministers below, wanted to say something but looked around, finally sighed and waved his hand.

Little Snot, who was waiting by the side, quickly picked up the tray on the table, walked to the second step, knelt on the ground and held the tray in front of Zhu Pangpang.

"Declaration!"

Zhu Pangpang shouted with a serious expression, and all civil and military officials, including the feudal king Zhu Zhangui, knelt down to listen to the holy words.

Reaching out to pick up one of the imperial edicts, Zhu Pangpang opened it slowly with a serious expression on his face, and read aloud:

"By heaven's blessing, the emperor issued an imperial edict: Zhu Yan, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, Xun An, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, and others have despised the laws of the country, deceived the emperor, embezzled and accepted bribes, harmed the country and the people, and their crimes are unforgivable!"

"Today, according to the order of the superior, he will be abolished from his official position, and all his family properties will be confiscated. Within three generations of his own nine clans, he will not be allowed to enter the court as an official."

"Zhu Yan and the others have committed an unforgivable crime. They should have been stripped of their skins and turned into grass, but they were sentenced to beheading and executed at a chosen date. Those who committed crimes in their families will be punished according to law, and those who are innocent will be expelled from Beijing."

"The other officials who committed crimes in Shandong will be punished as crimes, so please!"

"Thank you for my emperor's grace!"

Zhu Yan and the others kowtowed in tears to thank them.

"Squeeze it down!"

The old man didn't want to look at them anymore, so he waved his hand and asked Ji Gang, who had been waiting at the door, to lead people to take all the forty people away.

After the prisoner was taken away, Zhu Pangpang told everyone not to get up, and picked up an imperial decree from the tray.

"By God's blessing, the emperor, the imperial edict said: From today onwards, the county government's right to examine cases will be revoked. From now on, the current chief officer will only be responsible for local management and development, and must not interfere with any cases without permission."

"From today onwards, all cases, big or small, across the country will be handed over to the newly formed censorship guards. This yamen will be directly managed by the emperor's grandson, thank you!"

The faces of the civil servants group darkened. They understood that this was the beginning of the royal family's distribution of power in the hands of civil servants from all over the country.

Although they were very upset, they didn't dare to stand up against the situation today, so they could only grit their teeth and think about how to deal with it later.

But before they recovered from this incident, Zhu Pangpang announced another imperial decree, which directly put them in place.

"By God's will, the emperor issued an edict: Taizu established the military household system, but after decades of development, the disadvantages have emerged. After careful consideration, from today onwards, the status of the older generation of military households will remain unchanged, and newborns born in military households will , all become citizens.”

"In addition to the national military equipment, starting from the beginning of the first month of next year, all adult men over 16 years old, except for the special case of disability, dementia, and foolishness, all men registered in the Ming Dynasty, regardless of poverty or wealth, regardless of whether they are civil, military, agricultural, or commercial, after reaching their age. Serve in the army for two years, and anyone who escapes from the military service will be severely punished!"

"Wow!"

At this moment, the whole court was in an uproar.

It is the inner thoughts of many people that soldiers are more expensive than civil servants and martial arts are inferior. If they are allowed to serve as soldiers, isn't it killing them?

"Peng Peng Peng!"

The old man picked up the jade eucalyptus and knocked on the table, looking coldly at the uproarious officials below.

"In the future, the imperial examination will enter the round of the Beijing examination. Those who have reached the age of sixteen and have not served in the army will not be allowed to participate in the scientific examination."

"Your Majesty, the scholar is weak, and if he joins the army for two years, he may not be able to bear it!"

As soon as the old man finished speaking, an old pedant stood up.

"There is nothing to bear. The newly learned child soldiers are not trained every afternoon. Are you scholars even inferior to children?"

"Besides, don't you Confucius pay attention to the six arts of gentlemen? Why do you scholars, the more you live, the more you go back, and you don't even dare to suffer a little bit."

"That is, the scholars in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty were good men who could secure the world with a pen and kill the enemy on horseback. But look at the scholars today, let alone kill the enemy with the sword. They go to the brothel for a night, and the next day they are holding Walking out of the wall, with this physical strength, let alone killing the enemy, you may not be able to win a fight with a girl!"

"Hahaha…"

Before the old man could open his mouth, the generals, who were so happy to hear the imperial decree, jumped out hurriedly.

Nima is so cool, the emperor really wants to serve us as a soldier.

These listless scholars, we have long seen that they are not happy, and they use literature to defend martial arts, now it has fallen into our hands, let's see how we torment you.

"Vulgar warriors, you know what I know. I read the books of sages. Although I am weak, what I have learned is not the way of governing the country, not the skills at hand!"

"Haha, the way of governing the country, the more than 40 people who were arrested just now, it seems that you all learned the way of governing the country, if the way of governing the country is like this, I don't think you should learn it, and slash the enemy with us , and maybe a little more reliable."

"you you…"

"What's wrong with me? Am I wrong? Look at the whole Shandong, almost all the culprits are you literati, and Shandong is still the hometown of saints. You dare to do this under the nose of Confucius, but Think how dirty you people who read sage books are."

"me…"

"Oh, you don't care about me. You literati are useless, but you are useless. Isn't there a saying? Righteousness comes from the generation of slaughtering dogs, and ruthlessness is mostly scholars. You scholars are full of flowers. Calculating this and that all day long, I think it’s idle, go to the battlefield to play two knives, and you will be exhausted every day, so you don’t have so many crooked intestines.”

For a while, the originally quiet court hall became a vegetable market entrance, and the civil and military ministers of the two sides who had disliked each other immediately rolled up their sleeves and started spraying.

The literati who are good at playing tricks should have the upper hand, but today I don't know what kind of chicken blood the generals have used, and they even suppressed the civil officials.

Even a few veterans with fierce fighting power directly covered the chests of several old scholars opposite, and almost passed out.

The old man sitting on top of his hands didn't say a word, subconsciously put his hands in his sleeves and looked lively.

It was Zhu Zhangui who brought up the matter of letting the world's top champions enter the army for training.

As early as a few years ago, before Yao Guangxiao died, Zhu Zhangui talked about the issue of military households.

Although there is no big problem with the military households now that the old man is watching, it will not be guaranteed in the future.

What's more terrible is that this system was established by Lao Zhu, and the general descendants of future generations do not have the guts to dare to change it at all.

That is to say, if the old man is alive and able to move, if it is someone else, even if Zhu Pangpang starts this system, it will be very difficult.

After several years of adjustment and preparation, the matter of changing the military household to the place of origin is no longer a problem.

But Zhu Zhangui thought about changing all of them at once, which is a very troublesome thing, and it is easy to cause troubles, so he proposed that the people with military household registration should not change, starting from the next generation of newborns.

In this way, with the departure of the older generation of military households in a few decades, this system that may bring harm in the future will be completely changed and disappeared.

Changing the military household system is not an idea that Zhu Zhangui came up with in his head, but there are many considerations in it.

In the future, the recruitment system will definitely be changed to an application system.

If all the troops in the future are conscripted, then military households will have no other meaning besides paying taxes.

Back then, in order to reduce the burden on the common people, Lao Zhu added part of the taxes originally borne by the common people to the military households.

In this way, if there is no change in the future, many people will be dissatisfied that military households live the same life as ordinary people, but they have to pay more taxes.

The imperial court is based on the people, and if the common people are dissatisfied, there will definitely be troubles.

So after careful consideration, Zhu Zhangui decided to take advantage of this opportunity to release the military household reform together, and at the same time announced the military service system.

The reason why Zhu Zhangui chose the compulsory military service system was because he was afraid that no one would sign up for the recruitment system.

There is a common saying among the people, good iron does not make nails, and good men do not serve as soldiers.

The country has been in a state of war for a long time, and enlisting in the army will either make a fortune or die, and the former is very rare, almost most of them are the fate of the latter, and the better ones will go home disabled.

Coupled with the imperfect pension system before the imperial court, many disabled soldiers had no support after returning home. They either died of starvation or their families were broken up. Some even chose to commit suicide in order not to drag their families down.

It is precisely because of these reasons that the common people of Ming Dynasty have some resistance to being a soldier.

If you choose to join the army voluntarily like in later generations, I am afraid that the recruiting office will really not be able to recruit people

Therefore, it is still too early for Ming Dynasty to choose the voluntary military service system. It is the best choice to take the lead in introducing the compulsory military service system.

The benefits of this choice are firstly that it can strengthen the national physique, secondly, it also strengthens the imperial army reserve, and thirdly, it can also unify ideological education in the army.

Although I dare not say that two years of military service can make these people follow the imperial court wholeheartedly, but it is still possible to make them feel more belonging to the imperial court in their hearts.

"Okay, okay, stop arguing, let me say a few words."

Zhu Zhangui, who was standing on the stairs, saw that there was a lot of quarrels below, and saw that some old guys who had become angry were about to perform martial arts, so he stood up quickly and stopped between the two parties.

"His Royal Highness, you still need to think about this matter."

"Leaving aside the matter of literati serving as soldiers, the court may not be able to afford so many people from all over the country to join the army."

"Let's not talk about salary for now. The food consumed every day is an astronomical figure."

On the civil servant's side, an old pedant was as a representative, talking earnestly about the issue of the military service system.

Although this old man is full of words for the sake of the court, Zhu Zhangui can still hear that the old man's inner and outer meaning is that it is too insulting to let a literati serve as a soldier.