After listening to Yuan Keli's words, Sun Chengzong turned his head to look at him, and said with a smile: "You are really good, at this time, you are still thinking so carefully." ”

Yuan Keli sighed and said helplessly: "I'm not like you, sometimes I have to move like this." ”

"Okay, listen to you." Sun Chengzong thought for a while and said, "This Sun Chuanting is recommended by you." ”

Seeing that Sun Chengzong understood what he meant, Yuan Keli said with a smile: "It's best to be so natural." ”

After the two of them finished discussing, Yuan Keli left. It's getting late, and it's not fit for him to stay here any longer.

When Yuan Keli left, Sun Chengzong also went to rest.

By the next day, the news had spread completely.

Up and down the court, no matter how big or small, officials are all discussing this matter. For this newly established staff office, many people have moved their minds, and obviously they also want a piece of the pie.

At the same time, Zhu Youxiao summoned Chen Sihai in Xiyuan.

Glancing at Chen Sihai, who was a little tired, Zhu Youxiao said: "Look at you very tired, you have been very busy these days, right?" Also pay attention to rest, the body is important. ”

"Thank you for your concern, the minister is not tired." Chen Sihai hurriedly said, of course, this is just lip service.

Chen Sihai can be said to be very busy during this period of time, how can he not be tired?

Chen Sihai obeyed Zhu Youxiao's holy decree and began to find out the guards in various places, and he was very busy.

Zhu Youxiao glanced at Chen Sihai and asked, "Then let's talk about it, how is the situation?" ”

Listening to Zhu Youxiao's words, Chen Sihai's expression also became serious, and he said in a deep voice: "Returning to Your Majesty, it can only be said that it is shocking. Daming's guard house, I'm afraid it's rotten to the roots. ”

After saying this, Chen Sihai did not speak, but raised his head to look at Zhu Youxiao.

After so many years in officialdom, Chen Sihai knows very well that there is a very important principle of acting in officialdom, that is, to report good news and not bad news.

If you give good tidings, you may well be rewarded; But if you report your worries, not only will you not get a reward, but you will probably put yourself in it.

What I investigated this time was simply shocking, and those people below could be said to be crazy.

In such a situation, if you tell the truth in front of Your Majesty, it is likely that Your Majesty will not be able to accept it.

If it weren't for the fact that His Majesty had asked the General Administration Department to investigate many major cases, and even punished King Fu and thoroughly investigated the Henan officialdom, Chen Sihai would not have dared to think about such a thing.

Even if you dare to say it, it can only be a cautious temptation.

Seeing that Chen Sihai didn't speak, Zhu Youxiao raised his head and glanced at him, and said in a very casual tone: "Say, why don't you say it?" Don't dare to say? ”

After saying this, Zhu Youxiao himself laughed first.

Then he waved his hand and said, "Don't scruple about it, in this deep palace, I want to know something, and no one tells me the truth, so you want to check because I want to hear the truth." ”

"So what do you say, but it's okay to talk about it, and it's not a bad thing you do, what's the weakness of your heart?"

"Yes, Your Majesty."

With Zhu Youxiao's words, Chen Sihai's heart is also a lot more steady.

Your Majesty has killed a lot of people since he ascended the throne, and the reputation outside is not very good, and some people say that the tyrant is faint.

But the people who work closely know in their hearts that although His Majesty has no rules in doing things, he also kills a lot. But there is one thing, His Majesty never blames people indiscriminately, and even if there is really something, he will not use his courtiers to block the sword.

These courtiers who do things have a number in their hearts. As for whether Cheng Guogong and his ilk were cheated or not, it doesn't matter at all. Those people's corpses are vegetarian meals, and they are not material for doing things at all.

So hearing Zhu Youxiao say this, Chen Sihai can still rest assured. So he said: "Your Majesty, the time is still short, the minister just checked the guards in Shandong, Henan and other two provinces, and what he found has already made the minister frightened, these people are really too bold. ”

Zhu Youxiao didn't care, leaned back on the chair, shook it slightly, and said, "Let's talk about it, see what good things these people have done." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." Chen Sihai hurriedly said: "After the minister's investigation, I found that the most thing these people did was to embezzle public land. ”

The fields of the Ming Dynasty had public and private fields.

Gongtian belongs to the imperial court, and the local government has a part, but most of it is in the hands of the army, because this is a system invented by Zhu Yuanzhang, called the tuntian system.

The implementation of the guard system on top of the tuntian system, it can be said that the tuntian is the foundation of the guard.

Every army will have a large pile of fields, which they fight in wartime and cultivate in their leisure time. Part of the land was handed over to the imperial court, and part was reserved for the army's own use.

In this way, the imperial court does not have to allocate military rations to the army, which is a good thing. On weekdays, the army can also cultivate the land on its own and expand the scale of its own fields.

It seems to be a matter of mutual benefit, the imperial court increases its income and reduces its burden, and the army can also be self-sufficient. At the same time, it is accompanied by a hereditary monarchical household system, and the population and land of the army are not mobile, which is stable enough.

But here's the problem.

Farming requires a lot of energy. For many years without fighting, most of the military households can only farm.

And those hereditary officers, they can get their hands on these grains, and even turn the public land into their own land, which is not uncommon.

And the imperial court also needs people to fight, which has evolved into two arms, military households and private soldiers. Although nominally they are all Ming armies, in reality they are not like that.

The so-called private soldiers are actually the armies adopted by hereditary generals, who use the output of the land and the money they embezzle to raise a part of the elite soldiers. If the imperial court needs to fight, then use this part of the people to fight.

Since whoever you choose is to choose, you naturally have to choose your own people and henchmen, so you are a private soldier.

After several generations of development, the orders of the imperial court are sometimes not easy to use, which is why the army in the late Ming Dynasty sometimes does not listen to the greetings, because they are the private soldiers of the generals. When fighting abroad, the generals do not want to sacrifice their private soldiers and will be timid.

As for the remaining military users, they are left with only farming. But the food they grow does not belong to them, and every day they are even starved of clothes and food, and a large number of deserters appear.

These deserters were homeless people, and the peasant uprising in Shaanxi was so powerful because there were a large number of deserters.

It can be said that the system has completely collapsed.

Zhu Youxiao knew very well in his heart that he asked Chen Sihai to investigate, just to find out. So no matter how bad the situation is, he can accept it.

"What about the embezzlement of public land?" Zhu Youxiao looked at Chen Sihai and asked.

"Your Majesty, these people embezzle food and salary, and basically every part of the population has empty salaries. The most serious situation is a health center in Shandong, which has an establishment of 12,000 people, but only 4,000 people. ”

"Shocking, heartbreaking, these people deserve to die."

"What about the others?" Zhu Youxiao looked at Chen Sihai and asked slowly.

You have to know that these posts are full, which means that there should be so many people. Now that these people are gone, where have they gone?

"They all fled." Chen Sihai said with some embarrassment: "The minister asked people to check, and tens of thousands of displaced people from Jingxiang and other places are pouring in every year. Even as far as Shaanxi, the mountains are full of displaced people, and these people are all fleeing households. ”

"Most of them are people who have lost their land, and a large part of them are also military households. After these military families fled, the local generals concealed it and did not report it, and they directly ate empty salaries. Everyone eats their brains full of fat, which can be seen to be corrupt. ”

Zhu Youxiao looked at Chen Sihai, nodded and said, "I have already thought of it." ”

In fact, this has always been the case.

Why couldn't the southeast fight against the Japanese invaders win back then?

Is it really because of the high combat effectiveness of the Japanese robbers?

Not really, here's why. On the one hand, if the private soldiers who lead the army are not fought, those military households have long become farmers who farm the land, what kind of battle can they fight?

If you don't have enough food every day, you can't warm your clothes, you can't be hungry, and you have to be bullied by your superiors, how do you live?

There are old and young, and it is not realistic for you to let them play with their lives.

Qi Jiguang has done things like empty salaries, let alone others?

It's just that Qi Jiguang eats empty salaries to raise soldiers, and it is clear that the military salary of 100,000 people is not left in Qi Jiguang's hands for 50,000 people.

Therefore, it is simply necessary to have an establishment of 200,000 people, and then pay 100,000 people. In this way, 100,000 military salaries could be embezzled, and the officials at all levels were happy.

It can be seen that the Ming Dynasty is corrupt to this extent, and the army is rotten to this extent.

Listening to Chen Sihai's reports to himself one by one, nepotism, oppression of the people, and treating generals as slaves, everything can make the emperor vomit blood angrily, which shows how rotten the army of the Ming Dynasty has been.

This is also the reason why in the face of the peasant army, the Ming army can't beat it. Because when you fight the army, you become a peasant army, and there is nothing to say.

Chen Sihai said as he peeked at Zhu Youxiao, with a hesitant expression on his face.

He originally thought that His Majesty would be furious, but he didn't expect His Majesty to seem to have no reaction, and his expression was still so flat. This made Chen Sihai a little unsure if it was time to continue.

"Isn't that new?" Zhu Youxiao looked at Chen Sihai and asked slowly.

Chen Sihai listened to Zhu Youxiao's words, and hurriedly said: "Back to Your Majesty, there is more." The local military households colluded with the local gentry to jointly divide the public land, and the circumstances were very serious. ”

"At the same time, let the military households help the gentry farm the land, and the grain grown by those military households will be divided between the generals and the gentry."

"Mercenary households farm land with less food than ordinary tenants. Even so, this grain could not reach the hands of military households. It's all in the hands of the generals. ”

After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao slowly sat up and said with a smile: "This is really treating our Ming military household as a slave, good job!" ”

Although His Majesty was smiling and his tone was quite emotional, Chen Sihai still heard the coldness, but this was exactly what Chen Sihai wanted.

After seeing the report handed over by his subordinates, Chen Sihai's whole person trembled with anger!

These people are simply digging the roots of the Ming Dynasty!

Zhu Youxiao looked at Chen Sihai and said with a smile: "Confucianism pays attention to moderation, and everything should not be rushed, but it must be done slowly." ”

"The same is true for reforms, which cannot be rushed, but fine-tuned. The so-called new three years and old three years, and another three years of sewing and mending, I just don't know how many years the Ming Dynasty can still sew and mend for a few years? ”

Hearing Zhu Youxiao's words, Chen Sihai knelt on the ground with a plop and said, "Your Majesty, you can't sew and mend anymore!" There will come a time when sewing and mending will not work, and then it will be too late! ”

"Your Majesty, please let your Majesty investigate thoroughly." As he spoke, Chen Sihai touched the ground with his head.

"You're going to lose your life." Zhu Youxiao looked at Chen Sihai and said with burning eyes: "Do you know how many people are involved here?" If it's really noisy, I'm afraid I won't be able to bear it. ”

"Someone told me that we can't rush into the fight against corruption. not anti-corruption, or able to persist for some years; But if there is an anti-corruption, it may destroy the country. Do you think I should make this decision? ”

"Your Majesty, the Ming Dynasty has reached the autumn of critical survival, and we can't wait any longer." Chen Sihai said again.

"yes, can't wait any longer." Zhu Youxiao looked at Chen Sihai. He smiled and asked, "Not afraid of death?" ”

"There is Haigang Peak in front, and Chen Sihai in the back." Chen Sihai said, his tone firm.

"Then I can't let you die." Zhu Youxiao walked in front of Chen Sihai, stretched out his hand and patted him on the shoulder and said, "Let's go out for a walk with me." ”

Chen Sihai didn't know what Zhu Youxiao was going to do, but he still followed Zhu Youxiao out.

The two men walked out of the palace door.

Zhu Youxiao looked at Chen Sihai and said with a smile: "The world of the Ming Dynasty has been more than two hundred years. Carefully calculated, more than two hundred and forty years. ”

"Looking at all generations of dynasties, three hundred years is already a long time, right? The Han Dynasty has been around for more than 400 years, isn't it? And it is also divided into the former Han and the later Han. Today, Daming is already terminally ill, lingering on the sickbed, and time is short. ”

"Your Majesty." Hearing Zhu Youxiao's words, Chen Sihai hurriedly spoke.

Zhu Youxiao interrupted him with a wave of his hand and said, "I understand that no one dares to say these words to me, and no one will say them to me. Generally speaking, they talk about happy events and sing happy songs, who dares to say such things? ”

"Chen Sihai, go back and check it out and get everything ready. I want to level the world, return a bright future to the Ming Dynasty, and create a prosperous era for the Ming Dynasty! ”

"Although the road ahead is long and bumpy, I am not afraid. If someone rebels because of this, or dies because of this, it is also the qi of the Ming Dynasty. ”

"Daming has His Majesty, and he will be prosperous! ZTE Daming is just around the corner! Chen Sihai hurriedly said: "Your Majesty has been sent, the minister will not hesitate to take this life, and the minister is willing to make a mistake!" ”

Zhu Youxiao glanced at Chen Sihai, and then smiled.

Chao Cuo's death was quite miserable, Chen Sihai quoted Chao Cuo here, the meaning is very obvious, that is, he went to do this, and finally was willing to use his own head to calm the anger of the public, and when the matter was done, he could kill him with one knife.

Zhu Youxiao glanced at Chen Sihai and said with a smile: "You are not Chao Fault, I am not Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, and those people are not worthy of letting me behead my loyal ministers." ”