Wanli Youming

Chapter 163 The Six Guards of the Son of Heaven

Chapter 163

In the Ming Dynasty Political Hall carved with Zhu mantle, after Zhu Yijun asked, Fang Fengshi, the privy envoy, stood up on Zhu Yi's right at this moment, and then came to Zhu Yijun.

Then, Fang Fengshi said: "Qizou Your Majesty, according to the existing number of Southern soldiers defending the third battalion in Jiliao, the Privy Council thinks that [-] Nanbing can be adjusted under the circumstances of continuing to assist in defending Jizhou and conquering the Japanese. Soldiers will enter the pro-military guards, and the number of new troops for the pro-military guards can be set at [-]."

Zhu Yijun nodded after hearing this, and then asked Zhang Xueyan: "How much is the silver for the rest of the year?"

"Returning to Your Majesty, there are now 5 million taels of silver over the year."

Zhang Xueyan also stood up again and replied.

Then, Zhang Juzheng also stood up on the left side below Zhu Yijun, came to Zhu Yijun, and said: "Your Majesty, if the number of troops for this increase is 5000 as agreed by the Privy Council, plus [-] from Liaodong, the Xuanfu will Wan, ten thousand in Datong, and five thousand in Shanxi, there should be a total of one hundred and five thousand people; in this way, the annual increase in military supplies happens to be enough for Sui Yu at this time, but if this is the case, Sui Yu will be less than one million taels , once there is a major event such as floods and droughts or the prince’s resignation, it will cause the year to make ends meet again.”

Zhu Yijun nodded.

He had to admit that Zhang Xueyan, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, obviously sincerely supported the integration of government and gentry in paying food and errands, otherwise he would not have made the financial figures so coincidental.

That is, the national funds of the year-old are just enough to increase the expenditure after increasing the number of troops by more than [-], and there is a little surplus.

But it's not that there is a lot of surplus, but the emperor has the idea of ​​building large-scale construction and even excessively raising troops.

And this means nothing more than supporting the emperor's military training, strengthening the strength of his own military guards, and also supporting the emperor in buying the generals of the border town in the name of increasing the number of troops in the border town.

In short, the root of all this is that he, Zhang Xueyan, supports the New Deal where officials and gentry pay food and errands together.

That is to let the emperor see that if he wants to increase the surplus after the increase in troops, he must pay the food and errands for the officials and gentry, so that he can do greater things in the future.

Because doing big things costs money and increases expenses.

How dare you do big things without first increasing your income?

If it is replaced by a household minister who does not want to continue to pay food and errands for officials and gentry, nor does he want the emperor to train soldiers.

It is absolutely possible to make the financial accounts into the situation of increased expenditure after the surplus of the year is not enough to increase the number of troops when making statistics. It may even appear that some ministers in history would let the emperor only see that although the annual revenue is large, the annual expenditure is also very large. Because the deficit still exists, the emperor still needs to be frugal.

In this case, the emperor should reduce his troops and abolish the factory guards, not to mention training and increasing his troops. At the same time, he should increase the salary. It seems that if the salary is not increased, the country's finances will collapse.

Therefore, the information expressed by the Minister of the Ministry of Households who was the emperor's steward, or the entire civil government system, often determined what the emperor could do.

After all, the emperor lived in the deep palace, and only had a pair of eyes. What is the real finance of the empire? Isn't it the civil servants who are in charge of his housekeeping?

Obviously, Zhang Xueyan really supported Zhang Juzheng's reform of officials and gentry paying food and errands together, and according to Zhang Juzheng's will, the accounts were done, which was just enough to meet the emperor's needs for recruits, but he had to continue to open source after the increase of recruits, that is, to implement officials. The point where the gentry pays food as a whole and is responsible for the New Deal.

"Soldiers must be increased, otherwise there will be problems in both the border defense and the capital defense. I don't want another Gengxu revolution to occur in this dynasty!"

"However, the serious shortage of surplus years mentioned by Mr. cannot be ignored."

Because Zhu Yijun knew that civil servants like Zhang Juzheng and Zhang Xueyan were reformers who supported the New Deal, and he was willing to allow himself, the emperor, to have loyal ministers with his own soldiers and horses, so he cooperated and continued to ask:

"So, what is the best solution for the deficient ministers?"

Zhang Xueyan, Wang Guoguang, Shen Shixing and other ministers participating in the political affairs hall, that is, the ruling ministers, all looked at Zhang Juzheng.

At this time, Zhang Juzheng got up again, stood in front of Zhu Yijun, bowed his hands and said:

"Your Majesty, in my opinion, the only way is to cancel the preferential treatment!"

"This will not only greatly increase the current state's money, but also prevent the future state from being unable to function due to more and more gentry and mergers!"

After hearing this, Zhu Yijun nodded and said: "I remember that Zhao Qing's family mentioned this matter back then, and now it's rare for Mr. to propose this matter, I agree!"

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

Zhang Juzheng and all the ministers in power also hurriedly flattered him.

As a result, the new policy of increasing troops and strengthening the army and paying food and errands for officials and gentry was decided in this way.

And then, the Privy Council thus obtained the order to recruit brave men from the strong men with clear backgrounds in Gyeonggi, and draw brave men from the frontier troops with clear history to form new pro-military guards, setting the number of troops at [-] soldiers and horses.

At the same time, [-] troops were added to Liaodong, and it was decided to set up the Andong Protectorate in Nuergan, and a number of troops were also added to Xuanfu, Datong, and Shanxi.

In total, Daming will increase the food and payment expenditure of hundreds of thousands of troops.

However, the difference here is that the pro-military guards don't have to pay for nothing, and they will actually train [-] troops.

After all, the soldiers and horses directly commanded by Emperor Zhu Yijun himself did not need to rely on empty pay to make a fortune.

At the same time, Zhu Yijun would not use empty pay to win over the officers of the pro-military guards, but would directly use the gold flowers and silver fixed to the emperor every year as a reward for the pro-military guards.

It is worth mentioning that in history, there have been cases where emperors would be so stingy that they would not even pay enough for the military guards, and just sit back and see them as slaves of big families.

Naturally, Zhu Yijun would not do this, he would not take the initiative to turn the knife in his hand into a rusty knife.

In the end, the Privy Council submitted the inscription, Zhu Yijun approved it, and issued an edict to reorganize the three armies of Huben, Yulin, and Jinwu, and each army was divided into two guards on the left and right, which is equivalent to setting up six guards of the emperor, directly commanded by the emperor, plus the existing Jin Yiwei, in fact, in this way, the soldiers and horses directly commanded by the emperor are seven guards.

Originally, up to the present of the Ming Dynasty, most of the pro-military guards have existed in name only, and most of them should be managed by the Ministry of War. Now they are placed under the management of the Privy Council, and Jinyiwei, Tengxiang Zuowei, Tengxiang Right Guard, and Wuxiang Zuo who have not returned to the Ministry of War In the four guard camps of Wei and Wuxiang Youwei, except Jin Yiwei, the other four guard camps were all under the control of the Royal Horse Supervisor, so the emperor could have directly commanded only Jin Yiwei before this.

But now, changing the seven guards to direct the emperor's command will undoubtedly really strengthen the emperor's military power!

Since the emperor wants to command directly, the chief general and official school of the seven guards of the pro-army must be directly appointed by the emperor, and the chief general is also directly responsible to the emperor, instead of being in charge of civilian officials.

Therefore, the chief general of the pro-military guards can be directly appointed or dismissed by the emperor.

It can be decided with a hand letter, without knowing through the civil servants of the foreign court.

The chief general of the pro-military guard will also be granted the privilege of directly reporting to the emperor and accepting the imperial decree, without going through the Secretary of General Administration and the Sixth Division, and not subject to the order of the Privy Council.

In this way, it can be regarded as improving the status of the military minister.

It has changed the reality that since the Ming Dynasty, since the Tumu Fortress, it has become more and more civilized and military.

At the beginning, there were opportunities for military officials to directly contact the emperor without conveying them through civil servants.

But when the imperial edict arrived at the Sixth Division, it was rejected by Xie Jie in the matter left by the Bing Division!

Xie Jie's reason for refuting is that there is nothing wrong in the world, so it should not increase indiscriminately, waste the country's money, and the frontier army is transferred to the pro-military guards, fearing accidents.

The implication is that there is no major battle now, and there is no need to strengthen the army.

And when the 5000 southern soldiers were transferred to the pro-military guards, wouldn't His Majesty worry about Qi Jiguang plotting chaos?

There are good reasons.

But the essential purpose, after Zhu Yijun knew that the Six Divisions had refuted his edict, he knew it very well.

He knew that this was the reason why many civil servants and scholar-bureaucrats still did not want the troops commanded by the emperor himself to become stronger.

The emperor can only exist as the most respected puppet in terms of etiquette and law, and the power can only be exercised through the civil government.

You know, they don't even want to abolish the only Jinyiwei that is still under the direct command of the emperor, and they don't want it to continue to exist, let alone reorganize the seven guards this time to let the emperor directly command?

Let the military officials of the seven guards directly obey the emperor's orders, bypassing the civil government and becoming the emperor's close ministers.

This really touched the bottom line of most literati in the civil government.

(End of this chapter)