Chapter 219: Behind the Decay of the Guard

Zhu Qizhen was silent.

In this case, Zhu Qizhen knows or not, and he knows.

Jinyiwei and Dongchang are within the scope of the capital, and the news is still quite well-informed.

But know, what can be done?

Sweeping sweep of these people? The dog is in a hurry and bites, not to mention the nobles who hold military power? Zhu Qizhen remembered one thing, in the change of seizing the door, several nobles made up thousands of families and made Beijing change the emperor.

If the Jingnan group wins in this big battle, Zhu Qizhen will have to wait. But since they lose, their use value is greatly reduced.

So, it's time to settle accounts.

Faced with Wang Ji's words, Zhu Qizhen was silent.

Silence is originally an attitude, even an attitude of encouragement, and Wang Ji naturally understands it.

If you say who has the most comprehensive grasp of the black history of the guard, it is naturally Wang Ji.

A lot of Wang Ji's news was not collected by Wang Ji, but Yang Rong's original opinion, Yang Rong, as the minister who knew the most soldiers at that time, why was he full of distrust of the generals around the country, and even exploited the power of the generals and brought them under the rule of civilian officials, Yang Rong wanted to let the military department seize the power of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, so that the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies would completely become a pension structure, which of course had the natural distrust of civilian officials in the generals, and Yang Rong knew the rotten foundation of the guards, he did not believe that such an army could protect the Ming Dynasty, To solve this problem, it is necessary to let the most loyal and progressive force of the Ming Dynasty, that is, the civilian officials, intervene in it. Only then did he have all kinds of political opinions.

His essence is to solve this problem.

It's just that people's butts are different, and they come up with different solutions to the same problem.

Since Yang Rong's death, Wang Ji's political ideas have been suppressed, and now that he has the opportunity, he naturally spoke freely and told all kinds of shortcomings of Wei.

Wang Ji directly pointed the finger at the most core point, and said: "Your Majesty also said just now, although the imperial court claims to spend a penny and raise millions of soldiers, but does it really not cost a penny?" That is Emperor Taizu will more than 4 million hectares of land are divided through the guard, nearly half of the world, this is the result of raising a million troops without spending a penny, not only do not spend money, but also pay the grain salary, the Ministry of Industry figures Yongle in the first year of the world's military households Tuntianzi grain, 23.45 million stone, and the world's taxes are almost the same, but also one of the main financial sources of Emperor Taizong's Northern Expedition. ”

"But this number will continue to deteriorate day by day, and by the Xuande period, it has reached 2.3 million stones, but it is only one-tenth of the previous one."

"This is also an important reason for the financial crisis during the Xuande period, why the imperial court has always sent the Qing army to the imperial history, and why the Jiangnan grain tax does not come up and the imperial court can't sleep at night."

"Even at the beginning of Orthodoxy

year, the imperial court actually wanted to allocate funds to the nine sides, and now it has become a rule, and the annual allocation is more than one million, and less than hundreds of thousands of taels. ”

"But even if the imperial court spends more money, it is just an empty bucket to draw water, and this bucket is a bottomless pit."

"Where did the four million hectares of land where the imperial court set up the guards, although some of them have been assigned to local jurisdiction, but the imperial court has never stopped tuntian, and the edict urging the sergeant tuntian has never been less, even if your majesty has paid more attention to Haixi and Liaodong tuntian, but the number of tuntian in the world is gone."

Zhu Qizhen was surprised and said, "No? ”

Wang Ji said: "This one is in charge of the Tuntian Division of the Ministry of Industry, Your Majesty can go and ask, is the Tuntian Tianshu still in the Taizu period?" ”

Zhu Qizhen immediately looked at Zhou Chen.

Zhou Chen listened, sighed, knelt on the ground, took off the official hat on his head, and said: "The old minister has the grace of the saint, please beg the bones." ”

Zhu Qizhen immediately knew that what Wang Ji said was true.

Zhou Chen is a very pragmatic bureaucrat.

He will not encounter too much resistance to reform, although his ability to do things is strong, but he is still very conservative in nature, this thing others may not know, but Zhou Chen was deeply involved in the financial system of the Ming Dynasty very early. Won't be unaware.

But he didn't say it, he just felt that this matter was too appalling, and in the face of this problem, even if he was known as a capable minister, he could only adopt a state of avoidance. I don't know where to start, and I don't know how to start.

Zhu Qizhen knew that there was a problem with the guard, and he was more concerned about the weakening of the guard's combat effectiveness, and did not pay attention to the problem behind it.

I never thought that there was such a big shady curtain behind this.

At this moment, I only felt that my head was buzzing, which was more shocking than when he issued the edict of sin.

He was stunned and said: "Sure enough, in such a situation, it is unreasonable not to defeat the battle." With the last three words, he couldn't hold back his emotions anymore, and almost roared.

"Your Majesty." Zhang Fu knelt down and said: "Please Your Majesty take a break from the anger of the thunder, freezing three feet is not a day's cold, this matter must not be moved lightly, and now that the tile is on the side, let alone ask." ”

Zhu Qizhen felt a chill in his heart.

The benefits of tens of millions of stone grains every year are probably enough to kill an emperor, right?

It's just that he looked at Zhang Fu's eyes at the moment, but Zhang Fu had never seen it. At this moment, Zhu Qizhen seemed to see Zhang Fu for the first time.

In Zhu Qizhen's heart, Zhang Fu has always been loyal, but why did Emperor Xuanzong transfer Zhang Fu, who was in full swing, from the position of real power and into the cabinet, just a position for advisers.

At that time, the cabinet was not as powerful as it is now.

At that time, Zhu Qizhen only felt that Zhang Fu's credit was too great, and he was suspected of being a high-ranking master, but at this moment, it may not be

That is true. Isn't there a reason for this?

Zhu Qizhen said coldly: "I know. ”

He had a lot of problems in his mind for a while, although Jinyiwei and Dongchang were intelligence agencies, there were not many high-IQ talents in them, which required a high-level analysis, which was not something they could do.

Therefore, Zhu Qizhen knew that it was only the matter of large-scale embezzlement of land property in the Wei Institute, but Zhu Qizhen didn't know how big this area was, but he just felt that he should not act rashly.

But never thought it would be so big? It's just appalling.

It turned out that why the Ming Dynasty was struggling financially, and after Zhu Qizhen carried out financial reforms, he could be regarded as relieved, and why was Emperor Taizong able to do so many things?

As if we were not dealing with a fiscal system, it turned out that it was not one.

The water is so deep that the Empress Dowager didn't tell Zhu Qizhen about this matter, probably because she was afraid that he wouldn't be able to hold his breath, Yang Rong didn't say such a thing when he parted today, and Wang Ji didn't say it even if he was far away.

It is estimated that without this defeat, this matter would not have been turned over.

It will only sink to the bottom of the archives, suppressed by layers of documents, and even the original archives are gone, becoming a secret scattered between the lines for future historians to ponder.

Everybody knows, and everybody doesn't.

For the first time, Zhu Qizhen felt that Maoerzhuang had failed well, and Chengguo Gong had died worthwhile.

Zhu Qizhen said: "Don't talk about anything else, let's talk about the expedition first, I intend to order Baoding Hou Mengying to lead the Beijing camp to support Xuanda and take charge of the general seal." ”

"What do you think?"

Everyone was secretly relieved.

Even many people have a hint of disgust for Wang Ji. Such a thing is so big, so big that many people dare not know about it and dare not mention it.

Even now that many noble family heads have died in the battle of Maoerzhuang, there are still many people, such as Zhang Fu, one with Meng Ying as a cabinet minister, and the other as a representative of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies.

This is a question that cannot be dug into.

But Wang Ji was extremely happy.

Wang Ji is over eighty years old, he has been in Yungui before, and he thinks that he is going to die in Yungui, looking back on his life, there are many regrets, the biggest regret is that he did not follow Yang Rong to complete the military reform they wanted to do.

He didn't know when he would kick his legs, so naturally he didn't care about anything else, and took advantage of this golden opportunity to smash this one thing on the table.

As for the future, Wang Ji can't see it anyway, let future generations worry about it. He didn't even think about solving it on the spot.

Faced with Zhu Qizhen's blunt change of topic, everyone said in unison: "Shengming is nothing but Your Majesty." ”