When Yun returned to the palace, the first thing he did was to take off his shoes and socks, and instructed Wang Xi: "Quick, pour hot water for me to soak my feet!" ”

Wang Xi said with a smile while following Yun's instructions: "Your Majesty, what's the matter?" ”

"I have been standing in the lecture hall for an hour! Although I also walked back and forth, I never sat down. Huoran? Wen??? ???． ranena'com" Yun enjoyed the comfort of his sore feet being soaked in hot water, and said, "If it weren't for the fact that I was soaking my feet in the martial arts, I would have soaked my feet at that time." ”

"Your Majesty, why should you find guilt for yourself." Wang Xi said.

"Hey, sometimes this sin is just unbearable, and as an emperor, I can't help myself." Yun said. After he finished saying this, he said: "Have all the commanders of the upper guard entered the palace?" And Chen Xingshan and several governors of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies? ”

"Your Majesty, they have all entered the palace, waiting for Your Majesty to summon them." Wang Xi said.

"Okay, wait for me to soak my feet for a while, and I'll see them in a quarter of an hour." Yun said.

After a quarter of an hour, when the hot water had turned to lukewarm, Wang Xi dried his feet, put on socks and shoes, and allowed him to meet the people he had summoned into the palace.

The first person to meet was the commander of the Kamizhiwei. Yun instructed them to do something very simple: "You eleven guards, each guard chooses a hundred households to contact and walk in unison, and they are walking in unison." I'll let the guards show you what it means to walk in step and walk in unison. ”

"After a month, I will personally check how the hundred households selected by your eleven guards are walking in unison and walking in steps. I will be rewarded for the best practice! Not only will the officers and soldiers of the hundred households be rewarded, but you commanders will also be rewarded. ”

"And I also ordered the students of the martial arts hall to also contact the Zhengbu and Qibu walks, if there is a hundred households better than the students of the martial arts hall, all the soldiers will be awarded the false title of the hundred households; 100 households, try 100 households to upgrade to the next level! ”

These people are just as inexplicable as the students of the Lecture Martial Hall: what is the use of practicing this 0? But when they heard Yun's reward, they all put their doubts aside: what good does he matter! As long as there is a reward and His Majesty's blue eyes, it doesn't matter.

Several people agreed. Yun looked at their backs and felt that some people's waists were much straighter, and their spirits were different.

Yun then went to meet with the people he had summoned to the palace and the governor's mansion of the five armies.

Yun first greeted them for a while. Now most of the governors of the five armies of the Ming Dynasty are nobles, and some of them are still Yun's elders, such as Yin Qing, the concubine of Princess Hanshan, and Li Jian, the concubine of Princess Daimyo. Although Yun has driven many people who disagree with him home and let them eat themselves, such as Princess Huaiqing's concubine Wang Ning, at this time, the military general is more senior than the civil official, and his cronies are too young to be the governor, so he still has to make a false deal with them.

After a long while, the greeting was finished, and Yun didn't talk nonsense, and said directly: "I called you Aiqing over today because I have something to order." ”

Yun commanded two things. First, henceforth, when a person in a hereditary position is allowed to offend the offence against the offence, except for murder and the heinous crimes;

Second, increase the salaries of the soldiers of the upper direct guards, and pay half of the salaries of the soldiers of the upper direct guards for the Beijing guards.

As soon as Yun's words came out, the people below immediately talked about it, but of course, they all supported Yun's two things. Many of their descendants have attained secular office, and although most of them are vain, they may also be offset against sins by the will of His Majesty; As for the latter, although it is not directly related to them, it does them no harm, and they are happy to be treated with soldiers.

Only one person objected. "Your Majesty, the so-called prince is guilty of the same crime as the common people, why does Your Majesty give preferential treatment to military households?" Chen Xingshan said.

"Chen Qing, since he has a worldly position, then either his ancestors have made contributions to the Ming Dynasty, or he has made contributions to the Ming Dynasty, in this case, why can't I give some preferential treatment to these meritorious ministers?"

Chen Xingshan argued with Yun a few more words, but was suppressed by Yun. Yun is to give preferential treatment to soldiers. How does feudal society reflect a person's high status? Being able to have a little privilege is a reflection of high status. Allowing military generals with secular positions to use their secular positions to atone for their sins is an important way to elevate the status of soldiers.

Why is it that many of the samurai of Fuso and the knights of Europe are very down-and-out, and the lives of ordinary people are not as good as those of ordinary people, but there are still countless ordinary people and even merchants with two dollars in their hands who envy the samurai or knights? It is because the samurai of Fuso and the knights of Europe have the privilege of cutting down ordinary people at will.

The ancient Chinese noble class, that is, the high-level aristocratic class equivalent to Europe, had all kinds of privileges, but the middle and lower class hereditary civil and military, similar to the knights of Europe, had almost no privileges, but they were more worry-free than ordinary people.

Of course, the Ming Dynasty is the most equal country in the world, and it is definitely not possible to let the soldiers have the same privileges as their European and Fuso counterparts, not only the common people and literati cannot accept it, but Yun is also afraid that the power of the army will swell to their European and Fuso counterparts to affect the emperor's rule. But it's okay to give a little bit of privilege.

As for the second article, it is also aimed at elevating the status of military personnel. In the past, except for the upper guard, the other guards did not have a salary, and they farmed their own fields to support themselves. In this way, Zhu Yuanzhang was able to feed an army of more than 2 million people at very young cost. But there are drawbacks to this policy.

First of all, just like the collapse of the military system in the Tang Dynasty, if ordinary soldiers are fighting outside all the year round, and the land at home is not cultivated, they will slowly not be able to support themselves by farming.

This brings us to the second problem. In order to survive, they are not conspicuous in their hometowns, and it is common for them to fight in other places and rob along the road, so as to subsidize the losses they have lost when they are fighting outside and cannot grow land.

This eventually led to the complete collapse of the guard system, from the emperor to the local civil and military officials at all levels, selected some of the guards and incorporated them into the battalion, becoming the main army in the late Ming Dynasty; The rest of the guards were reduced to peasants. Those who became farmers were lucky, relying on the guards by the sea that did not have much arable land, not to mention ordinary soldiers, and even hereditary generals who were reduced to Hanako.

Yun's current financial situation is far better than that of the Jianwen and Yongle periods in history, so he can give most of the army a salary and make them a professional army, rather than a suspected army called Hanako in history.