The biggest drawback of the Song Dynasty is redundant officials, redundant soldiers and redundant expenses, and the starting point of its establishment of the national political system is to prevent the phenomenon of separating feudal towns in the Tang Dynasty.

In terms of internal decentralization, the power of the prime minister was divided, and the governor's office, the Privy Council, the Criminal Yuan, and the Minister of Justice were established, and in order to prevent fraud among officials, the system of separating officials, positions, and errands was implemented.

The separation of official titles and actual duties has caused a large number of officials inside and outside the court to have nothing to do, and their daily errands are like pensions, and officials drink tea, walk around and say some unnutritious words such as "have you eaten" every day.

In terms of recovering power from the outside world, in order to prevent the formation of some possibilities for the secession of feudal towns, the "Caoxian Marshal Warehouse" was set up in the localities, which were in charge of the local Cao Yun, prison, military, and Changping, and firmly controlled the local finances in the hands of the central government.

In addition, for the sake of the stability of the central government, the forbidden army was stationed in the Beijing Division, and then stationed in the place in the order of the Xiang army, the township soldiers, and the feudal soldiers. Once there is any disaster, the local people will be organized into the Xiang army, it can be said that all the officers and soldiers of the Song Dynasty combined are more than any dynasty, but the officers and soldiers who can really fight are less than thirty percent of them.

In the end, the result of the Song Dynasty was that the number of officials and soldiers was overstaffed, which led to the state's finances exceeding its means.

The lessons of the predecessors and the teachers of the future generations, the Ming Dynasty fully absorbed the lessons of the predecessors, and the officials were assigned to the household registration of the soldiers, which effectively avoided the situation of redundant officials and redundant soldiers.

But a new problem has appeared, Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang in order to let the people can perform their duties, specially formulated a household registration policy, those who work have a work registration, and those who are soldiers also have a military registration, and there is a hereditary system, that is to say, if Lao Tzu is a soldier, there must be a son in the army.

Over time, many families with military status can only serve as soldiers and have no other work, so they are willing to stay in the barracks and serve as soldiers. Once they leave the barracks, they have no ability to live, so many officers and soldiers who have passed the age limit will not leave the barracks, resulting in the situation that the officers and soldiers in the army are older.

Zhu Youzhu and the three scholars once had the idea of reforming the military system, but the military system is deeply rooted and difficult to change.

Now, Cao Wei has opened a new path, or to give those officers and soldiers who have returned to the field a way to live, and this way of life is better than staying in the barracks. In this way, the soldiers will be relieved!

Courage and morale are always temporary, interests are eternal, a person is doing things for himself and doing things for others, his mentality is different, this has nothing to do with spirit and morality, after all, there are only a few saints in the world, and the rest are worldly people.

“…… lure them with gold and silver, increase their morale and strike at the enemy. Set up mercenary guards, use local silver to suppress local bandits, and supplemented by self-support for transporting goods, self-fertilization of tuntian, self-supply in multiple ways, not to raise them with the salary of the imperial court, and the soldiers of the country will solve their own problems......"

After reading it, Zhu Youzhu said with a smile: "What do you think Aiqing? ”

After a period of silence, Li Dongyang arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty, it is too condescending to put this Cao Wei in the Jinyi Guard, this method does not hurt the country, does not move the country, and the officers and soldiers are complacent and have no grievances, it is really wonderful!" ”

Xie Qian said: "Your Majesty, since Cao Wei has the material to govern the country, why don't you summon him to the Sixth Ministry, maybe he also has a strategy for governing the country and securing the people in other places." The minister heard that he is quite literate, so he might as well let him participate in the spring festival of the coming year, and His Majesty will point him as a jinshi, and the court will add a capable minister to rule the world! ”

Border Guanfang City is now getting bigger and bigger, businessmen from all over the world gathered, Fang City expanded again and again, and it already had the appearance of a town in just a few months. Cao Wei originally proposed to build a city without a city wall, and the princes of the court and the central government still had some doubts, but now it seems that he is completely right.

From here, it can be seen that Cao Wei's ability to govern the world, and now Cao Wei has proposed a way to solve the military problem, and the two scholars naturally want to pull this pillar of the tree to the court.

Of course, Li Dongyang was out of official considerations, but Xie Qian had some selfish intentions, Cao Wei was his junior, but he didn't have a good impression of the military attaché, so he thought of taking this opportunity to pull Cao Wei into the camp of civil officials.

The two scholars thought very beautifully, but some people didn't agree, Mu Bin was dumbfounded, angry, and felt that he had finally found a good seedling, and now there were two old thieves who wanted to pick peaches halfway, it was really unbearable for uncles and aunts!

Before Mu Bin could speak, the scholar Liu Jian arched his hand and said, "Your Majesty, summoning Cao Wei to the Sixth Department, the minister thinks it's inappropriate!" ”

Zhu Youzhu smiled and said, "I thought that the three of you scholars jointly decided to make a decision on this matter, but now it seems that it is not, I don't know what Xixian has to say?" ”

"Your Majesty, Cao Wei's talent is outstanding, but his actions are also a little biased, this time he privately gave 500,000 taels of silver, and gathered more than 5,000 soldiers, which is the taboo of officials and ministers.

Cao Wei may be true temperament, but this example can not be opened again, he is a piece of jade, if he really wants to be transferred to the sixth department of the central government, he must also polish it, so that he can be entrusted with reuse, and please Your Majesty Mingjian! ”

Liu Jian spoke impartially, discussing business with official affairs, and the other two scholars couldn't say anything.

Zhu Youzhu laughed and said: "Three Aiqing, you considered whether to transfer Cao Wei to the Sixth Department, but you didn't think about whether he was willing to serve in the Sixth Department. As far as I know, during Cao Wei's tenure as a pacification envoy, he went to the Yamen on errands no more than ten times, so how could he be allowed to serve in the Sixth Ministry?

Let him be, he is a monkey, no matter where he jumps, he can bring surprises to me, so the court must not control him too much, this monkey is still good to raise! ”

Mu Bin said with a smile: "Your Majesty Mingjian, what Cao Wei played ......"

"Exactly! Set up a mercenary guard in Nanjing, with Cao Wei as the commander, but the rank of this commander can only be set at the fourth grade, and the number of mercenary guards cannot exceed 5,000 people, and the court does not pay money, let him toss! ”

Liu Jian frowned and said, "Your Majesty, I'm afraid that the ministers are too gracious, so it's better to add a post of supervisor to the mercenary guards......"

Zhu Youzhu waved his hand and said, "No need, I can trust him!" ”

When the emperor said this, Liu Jian couldn't speak again, after all, this world is still the old Zhu family in the final analysis, as a courtier, he has the responsibility to advise, but he can't force the emperor, and the courtiers who do so are all Muggles. Liu Jian is not a Muggle, otherwise he would not be able to do the position of a university scholar.

After the ministers left, Zhu Youzhu began to review the folds again, and suddenly said: "Kneeling in the mourning hall and crying, writing and sacrificing texts to express your heart, do you say that when I die, Cao Wei will be so sad?" ”

Xiao Jing, who was standing on the side, was stunned, and then said firmly: "It will definitely be, the old slave has lived for so many years, and he hasn't looked away!" ”