What would they not dare!

Thinking of the bold and reckless actions of Shen Xingshi and others, Zhu Yijun was stunned, since those civil officials dared to act recklessly, let alone those military attachés.

After a long time, he asked.

"Mr. Zhang, what is the best plan?"

When he said this, he seemed a little lost, and he once again found that many things were not as simple as he imagined.

"The reason why the officers of the guard house oppose the relocation of military households is that many of the lost military households are their tenants, but the loss of military households is not unique to this dynasty, and the ministers think that compared with the loss of military households, they are more worried about the dismantling and merger of the guards after the loss of military households, after all, whether the guards are abolished or merged, their interests will definitely be lost, this, presumably Your Majesty also knows. What the minister wants to say here is how to deal with this matter. ”

Compared with the emperor, Zhang Juzheng was very cautious. Even if he already had an idea in his heart, he still considered every word, after all, in the past two years, he had felt that the emperor was growing up day by day, and his attitude towards him was changing.

The emperor is always growing up, and he always has his own ideas. So it's better to be cautious.

"Since there are few people in this guard, it is a matter of course to dismantle and merge, and now that the imperial court has organized a new army, and the number of military households in the guard is decreasing, why not abolish it? As for the damage to interests, the acres of land in the guard house were all given to military households, and now they have embezzled them, and I have not pursued these things to be extrajudicial to them, they are good, but they are not greedy enough, do you have to let me investigate thoroughly? Then I'll take a thorough look. ”

Zhu Yijun's words were neat, and he thought that he would win Zhang Juzheng's praise, but unexpectedly, Zhang Juzheng shook his head and said:

"Your Majesty, the minister is sick and asks to see you, what I am afraid of is that you will deal with it like this!"

"It's not wrong, it's wrong!"

As soon as Zhang Juzheng said about government affairs, he returned to his rigid nature, at this time he shrugged his eyebrows, and said simply,

"If this matter is thoroughly investigated according to the emperor's will, it seems to be fair, but in fact it is unsafe, and it will inevitably provoke chaos."

"Is it that serious?"

Zhu Yijun asked in amazement.

"Yes,"

Although Zhang Juzheng was sick, his demeanor was still grim enough to be intimidating, and he said slowly,

"If the governance of a large country is small, these few years are the time when I have implemented a whip law and other reforms, the most taboo is to grow branches, although those people are greedy and insufficient, but there is still an ancestral system in the end, and you can't be in a hurry, if you directly abolish it, so many guards will be placed there, and how to maintain it locally, therefore, the minister can't sleep all night."

"So what should be done in Mr. Zhang's opinion?"

Zhang Juzheng heard the unhappiness in Zhu Yijun's tone, so he said:

"Your Majesty, the ministers insisted on clearing the acres of land across the country and implementing the "one whip" law, which meant that one was to manage the money for the court and increase income; The second is to punish the strong and protect the small people. These reforms are all for the foundation of my Ming Dynasty, as for the military households of the guard, the minister thinks that it has also reached the point where it must be changed, especially now, since the new army has been trained, then the military system of the guard is useless, and it is natural to change.!"

"That's what Mr. Zhang said."

Zhu Yijun nodded slightly and said again.

"However, just now Zhang Wusheng said that it is not appropriate to make a big move, so as not to cause chaos, this is to change the military system of the guard, isn't it a big fight."

"Your Majesty."

Zhang Juzheng said in front of the emperor's gaze.

"The restructuring that the minister said is not a big fight, but a restructuring under the preservation of some of its interests/"

"Save its interests?"

"At least part of the interests, the hereditary officers of this guard station, and the rest with the country, is the ancestral system set by Emperor Gao back then, and it cannot be abolished easily, so this part must be kept."

"What Motosuke said is extremely true." Zhu Yijun nodded and said,

"But since there is no guard, but the officers are retained, is it impossible for the imperial court to support these idlers?"

"That's the crux of the matter."

Zhang Juzheng looked at His Majesty and said directly,

"Actually, although this guard system has its drawbacks, such as the loose training of soldiers and the inability to use it, but in terms of locality, there is always some use, and it is still a deterrent for bandits and villains, after all, they are the officials and soldiers of the imperial court, so the minister thinks that the reform of this guard system might as well change the army to the police."

"Change the army to the police?"

Zhu Yijun looked at Zhang Juzheng suspiciously and asked.

"Mr. Zhang, what do you mean by that?"

She is no stranger to "police", after all, he saw this word from another copy last year. He learned about some ideas for this, but he didn't take it to heart at the time. Now when I hear Zhang Juzheng say this, I have some impressions.

"The guards are negligent in training, it has long been known to everyone, using them in the Tartar battle, even the elite of the nine sides is more victorious and more losing, now that the national dynasty has formed a new army, then the inland guard post may as well be changed to a patrol police station, so that it obeys the orders of the local magistrate's office, exercises the responsibility of arrest, and avoids local bandits from becoming a disaster. And the officers of the guard post can be reappointed as police officers, which is also a matter suitable for officers and soldiers, and in this way, officers can receive salaries on the spot, which used to be paid only when they are in real positions, but after changing the army to the police, there must be more real vacancies than in the army, and presumably the interests of most people can be taken care of......

Listening to Zhang Juzheng talking about the benefits of changing the army to the police, Zhu Yijun was silent for a long time before he spoke:

"This is also an old method, but in this way, the local expenses will inevitably increase, and now that there is no fire and silver consumption in the local area, how can the cost of this patrol police be maintained?"

Fire consumption!

Two years ago, when the Ming Dynasty implemented the "One Whip Law", there were some disputes over the collection of silver in kind. In the face of some officials' claims that "under the pretext of fire consumption and exploitation", in the end, Zhang Juzheng could only fold and defend himself: "Reform is to seek the prosperity and strength of the country, but it will never expropriate and extort money arbitrarily to obtain additional wealth for the imperial court." The local officials collected taxes for the imperial court, and they acted in accordance with the law, and no one let them prey on the common people!"

In the face of this situation, in the end, Zhu Yijun proposed a solution - made into one tael, five coins, two coins, and one silver dollars by the household department, and avoided local collection of fire and silver through the implementation of silver dollars.

In this way, although the people were allowed to avoid being exploited by the government, the income of the local government was sharply reduced, and the final solution was that the imperial court allowed them to retain 10% of the land taxes for local expenses. Of course, this is also because of the surge in the income of the imperial court in the past two years, otherwise the imperial court would really not be able to take out this silver. When you have money, things are always easier. This is the case for the people to live at home, and the same is true for the affairs of the court.

"Your Majesty, this money can only be paid by the imperial court, the salt law reform in the past two years has begun to show results, it is expected that after two years, the imperial court can collect no less than 15 million taels of salt tax every year, since the imperial court is sufficient, you may as well allow the local government to retain Sanchengtian to pay miscellaneous taxes......"

Zhang Juzheng said that he had already thought of an idea, and the reason why he was so generous was because the income of the imperial court was now sufficient, and the customs duties alone exceeded 15 million taels, compared to the miscellaneous taxes on land were only 8 million taels. Zhu Yijun nodded yes.

"It is also natural for the government to collect taxes, take them from the people, and use them for the people, as long as there is no additional collection, the people can benefit from it, since Mr. Zhang has already thought about it, then do it."

After thinking about it, Zhu Zhu Yijun said again:

"In addition, in order to show my love for the hereditary officials of the guard, I also allocated one million taels of silver from the inner court treasury for the purpose of maintaining integrity."

Zhu Yijun took out his private money so generously to settle the matter, because the palace can get more than 15 million taels of income from customs duties every year, plus the income from the house raid two years ago, so that the inner court's silver money is even more than "inexhaustible", so it is natural to be generous.

No, even if he knew that the emperor was generous because there was silver in the palace, Zhang Juzheng was still quite moved and couldn't help but burst into tears from his dry eye sockets, and choked up:

"Your Majesty, once the hereditary officers of the world's guards know about your generosity, they will definitely run to tell each other, long live the mountain."

Zhu Yijun pouted and muttered:

"I only hope that they can understand Mr. Zhang's hard work, and don't make trouble for Mr. Zhang, Mr. Zhang has worked day and night for the sake of state affairs in the past two years, and I really can't bear to let them make trouble for Mr. Zhang."

It's just that he doesn't make trouble for Zhang Juzheng, and he also doesn't want those people to hate him because of this, and this emperor will cause some trouble at that time. In that case, let's spend a little more money to buy peace. There is already a lot of silver in the palace now, and I can't spend it all.

Hearing this, Zhang Juzheng was greatly moved, supporting his body with both hands, and he struggled to stand up and thank him. However, because his body could no longer hold on, when his hands were propped up, he had no strength to let go, and he collapsed on the chair like a pile of mud. Zhu Yijun and the two guests were suddenly shocked. Seeing the sweat dripping down Zhang Juzheng's thin forehead, Zhu Yijun shouted in horror:

"Mr. Zhang, you, what's wrong with you......"

Zhang Juzheng, who was conscious, still wanted to hold on tenaciously, but his whole body was as weak as cotton, he moved his eyelids, and he didn't even have the strength to speak.

"Mr. Zhang, hurry, call the Imperial Doctor!"

The emperor's order made the guests of the six gods and no masters hurriedly stretched out their heads and shouted outside the door:

"Imperial Doctor!"

The imperial physician who entered the palace with Zhang Juzheng was waiting in the next house, hearing the shouts, he hurriedly ran in, and he didn't have time to salute the emperor, and then hurriedly rescued Zhang Juzheng, who was pale......