This is armor? ”

Zhu Houzhao looked at the cotton armor in front of him with a dark face, the cotton stuffed in it was blackened, and even the blackened cotton was very thin, even the cotton jacket was thicker than it.

And this is the armor issued by the household, and it is also called the 'bright armor'.

Hearing Zhu Houzhao's words, looking at the cotton armor again, and then at the blade in Zhu Houzhao's hand, Liu Yu's forehead gushed out with a cold sweat like a bean.

"What's going on?"

Zhu Houzhao looked at Liu Yu and asked coldly, "Is our warrior wearing such armor and holding such a weapon to fight with the Tartars?" ”

"Minister... Minister..."

For a moment, Liu Yu didn't know how to answer, and the whole person immediately fell to his knees.

As for the border soldiers below, when they heard Zhu Houzhao's words, they couldn't help but burst into tears in their eyes.

That's right, they have always been wearing such armor and holding such weapons to fight against the Tartars, many times, it is not that these border troops do not have the courage to fight with the Tartars, but because there is nothing in their hands, it is useless to rely on courage alone.

You can't go up and fight the Tartars with your bare hands, that's basically going out to die.

Finally, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince noticed this, and finally someone spoke for them.

"Say, what the hell is going on?"

Zhu Hou looked at Liu Yu's appearance and roared angrily.

Don't look at the others are still young, only in their teens, but the king is full of energy, and Liu Yu, who is frightened, is secretly trembling.

"Your Highness, this is the armor and weapons sent down from above, and our border army has no choice, what armor and weapons are given from above, we can only use what armor weapons."

Liu Yu thought about it and said helplessly.

At this time, he can only die and not die poorly, and push the responsibility to the top, of course, in terms of weapons and armor, he really has no responsibility, and it is true that what is sent down from above, they will use it.

"What kind of armor weapons are sent from above, what kind of armor weapons do you use?"

"As a trilateral commander-in-chief, you have a heavy responsibility, how can you be so childish, is there a problem with this armored weapon, don't you know?"

"Or are you, like me, looking at this armor weapon for the first time?"

Zhu Houzhao's small eyes looked at Liu Yu coldly, and asked sharply.

"Minister... The minister is guilty! ”

There is no way, a few times can shirk most of the responsibility, but this responsibility of inspection is absolutely inescapable, this weapon and armor are issued, how can he, the trilateral general system, not know what it is.

It stands to reason that if there is a problem with this armor weapon, he should go to Emperor Hongzhi and explain the situation to Emperor Hongzhi, and then Emperor Hongzhi will have someone on his side to investigate the matter thoroughly.

But for a long time, this matter has not appeared on the desk of Emperor Hongzhi at all, at the level of Emperor Hongzhi, this military expenditure is every year, weapons and armor are also built every year, silver and materials are not less, and the craftsmen below are not less worked, and the armor and weapons used by the army here should be guaranteed.

However, the fact is the opposite, not only is this armor weapon not issued every year, but it is good to issue it once every two or three years, and this armor weapon is not at all unsightly.

But in this matter, because the military power is in the hands of the civilian clique, the general system of the army here is all civilian officials, at most there is a eunuch who supervises the army, and the military generals and nobles clique do not have any control and influence over the army at all, and they can't even speak.

Therefore, the control is in the hands of the civilian clique, and the power to allocate funds, materials, and so on is also in the hands of the civilian clique.

If Emperor Hongzhi's father, Ming Xianzong, still knew that if he used the power of the factory guards to supervise, these civil official groups would not be so rampant.

But what about Emperor Hongzhi, he is an emperor who was almost fooled by the civil official group, he listens to the civil official group for everything, and he doesn't trust the factory guard at all.

Naturally, these civilian-official groups are unscrupulous, whatever they do, it's okay anyway, even if something happens, Emperor Hongzhi will be a big thing and a small thing.

This is the serious drawback of the dominance of the civilian clique.

The civilian clique is naturally opposed to the military generals and nobles group, and it is natural to suppress the military generals and nobles clique, and let the civilian clique control the army and build the corps, and it is no wonder if you are not wasted.

Armor weapons and armaments are only a small aspect of it, but it can be seen from here that the Ming army has long been riddled with ills.

"Guilty?"

"If you are guilty, you want to shirk responsibility?"

Zhu Houzhao looked at Liu Yu coldly.

"I, a Ming soldier, shed blood for the country, and you let them wear such armor and use such weapons to fight the enemy?"

"I see, you people should wear such armor and use such weapons to fight the Tartars once, maybe you will understand the importance of human life and military affairs."

When he said this, Zhu Houzhao's voice became very loud, and it was clearly conveyed to the ears of everyone present.

"Good~"

I don't know if it was screaming, it seemed to empathize, and suddenly the entire playground, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty also shouted.

"Your Highness still cares about us, Your Highness, you don't know, these people are so bad, not only give us such armor and weapons, but even the rice we usually eat, it is also moldy old rotten rice."

"And even if it's old and rotten rice, we won't have enough to eat."

"Your Highness, they also deducted our military salary, we haven't received our military salary for more than a year, last time the child of Chen Laosan's family was sick, and he died because he had no money to see a doctor."

It seems to talk about the sore spots of these border soldiers, and at the same time, everyone can't help but cry and tell about their suffering, in this era, being a soldier is too hard.

Without status, it is difficult to even eat and support your family.

As for wanting to rely on fighting a war to pay homage to the marquis and realize the turnaround of the salted fish, it is even more impossible, civil officials are in power, they have always been soft bones, and if they can not fight, they will not fight, even if they win, it is also the credit of these civil officials, where is the matter of these soldiers.

Just like this time, after winning the battle against the Tartars, those who were promoted to knighthood were basically the commanders of the three-way army, all of them were civilian officials, and only Yang Yun and a few generals had some benefits.

There are too many things to withhold military salaries, deduct military rations, trade shoddy goods, trade in old for new, eat empty salaries, resell military supplies, and so on.

The final result is not only the low combat effectiveness of the Ming army, but also the morale of these Ming generals.

Anyone who can't eat enough and don't have enough clothes, can't afford to support a family, and can't make ends meet, can't talk about backbone, once a person reaches that point, as long as whoever gives food and silver, he will give his life to whom.

This is also the reason why this time, the reward for killing the Tartar is one hundred taels of silver, and the reward for dying is two hundred taels of silver.

Because for these people, there is nothing more real than silver, they don't know what loyalty to the king and the country, they only know silver, because with silver can they support their families, and with silver they can feed themselves and their families.

Originally, these people did not dare to talk about these things, and no one would listen to them talk about these things in the past.

But now it's different, the crown prince Zhu Houzhao is here, and he asked him about these things sharply, plus this time to kill the Tartars, Zhu Houzhao will do what he says, as long as the Tartars are killed, according to the head, a lot of real money will be rewarded, and a lot of those who die will be given two hundred taels of silver.

This made these border army officers and soldiers believe in Zhu Houzhao and believe that Zhu Houzhao would make decisions for them, so they all began to speak out, constantly exposing many problems in the Ming army.

To tell the truth, if it weren't for the household registration system that Comrade Zhu Yuanzhang came up with, no one would have gone to the army at all, they were all helpless, because their ancestors were in the military, so they had to go to the army.

"Let's talk slowly~ Let's talk slowly, come one by one~"

Zhu Houzhao listened to the voice below, and then looked at everyone's angry looks, his face was dark.

As for Liu Yu's trilateral general system, his face is like ashes, it's over, everything has been shaken out, and he can push the matter of weapons and armor to it.

But there are some things that he has absolutely no way to push on.

There is definitely no way to push the things that deduct military salaries, resell military supplies, eat empty salaries, and open a horse market and a slave market on the side of the border army.

"It's over~It's over~"

Liu Yu collapsed to the ground, and the whole person couldn't help but say this, this time it's really over.

Even if Sima Wensheng is on his head, Liu Jian, the first assistant of his fellow countryman cabinet, can't save him, and once this matter is stabbed to the court, it is not just his Liu Yu's business.

The entire civilian clique will face a storm, and this time it is not known how many people will die.

This is not only the case on his side, but also in the entire Nine Border Town, and the military household guards in various places are even more ill, and there are all kinds of problems.

No one said these questions before, and even if someone said them, they couldn't reach the emperor's desk at all, but now they were poked out by Zhu Houzhao, and then they were published through the Ming Morning Post.

Then the entire Ming Dynasty will know these things, and it will definitely set off huge waves.

"Fetch the rice~"

Here, Zhu Houzhao began to check one by one on the spot, the first thing to check was the military rations of the border army, and someone just reacted that the military rations he ate were old and moldy rice, and the amount was limited, so he also conducted an investigation on the spot.

Soon, the people from the Prince's Mansion of the East Palace took generations of rice and gently sliced it, and immediately you could see these moldy aged rice.

"Humph!"

Zhu Houzhao looked at Liu Yu and snorted coldly.