Chapter 156: Eunuch of the Prison Army
The Ming Dynasty has long had the rule of sending supervisors to the army, and the reason for this is this evil feudal society. Basically, the emperors of the dynasties that have been peaceful for a long time have begun to be content with the status quo, no longer have ambitions for expanding their territory, and just want to keep their current family foundation and live in peace, so they have no ambition externally, and they begin to worry internally. As a result, there was absolute distrust of the generals under his command.
Especially in the later period of the development of the Ming Dynasty, the contempt and prevention of military generals have almost reached the point of no return, and the daily court must argue that there must be a proposal, that is, to prevent the danger of warlords separating feudal towns that may appear hundreds of years later, so, based on this worry, up to the emperor, down to the civil ministers, almost deprived all the generals of the opportunity and right to be independent, and the war is constantly raging on all sides, but there is no need to fight bravely and bravely, and the governors are all civilian officials who do not know anything about military affairs.
And even so, the imperial court was still not at ease with the military generals, so by the side of the various military leaders, the literati supervision army was set up in a grand manner, and the military generals were strictly guarded.
As a result, such a move became the worst demoralization and worst act in the Ming army, which lowered the morale of the already low morale to the bottom because of distrust, and there was a tendency to decline into the trench.
When a person who is dedicated to the country is being watched by blatant distrust, that feeling can be imagined.
But it is precisely because of the emphasis on civil affairs over military force that civilian officials have gradually cultivated a sense of superiority, so that they always feel that their abilities are much higher than these vulgar generals, so they begin to point fingers in the military, simply above these generals who fight, as long as the military generals violate a little, they will shout and kill. In the Ming Dynasty, the killing of generals by the prison army happened from time to time, and it was not uncommon.
However, as the imperial court, it is not the decision of the wronged generals, and the civil officials killed the generals, and the killing was right, of course, it was a compliment. If he made a mistake, the civilian clique would try their best to exonerate him, and in the end, the matter would be over.
At the beginning, he still killed some small soldiers and young generals, and finally developed to Yuan Chonghuan killed Mao Wenlong, who was a few levels older than him and was on the side of Duzhen, with twelve crimes. As a result, Chongzhen still out of trust in the civil officials, in order to achieve Yuan Chonghuan's promise of empty talk about returning to Liao in five years and fooling him, gave an after-the-fact endorsement to this serious matter.
Of course, when Yuan Chonghuan was finally killed, Chongzhen brought up this matter again, pointing out that this was Yuan Chonghuan's biggest culpability, that is, killing the general without the approval of the emperor and the cabinet.
But that didn't help. So Yuan Chonghuan and Chongzhen cooperated, and set a bad precedent, every civilian official was sent to supervise the division, in order to improve his prestige, in order to make the group of soldiers under his command afraid of themselves, they had to kill a military officer with outstanding military achievements to establish his authority, and they believed that the greater the merit and the stronger the ability of the military generals killed, the more they could show that their power was not terrible, and they could not be despised and their prestige would be higher. For example, later, Sun Chuanting killed He Renlong is a reason. As a result, Yuan Chonghuan killed Mao Wenlong, ruined the great cause of recovering Liao, and allowed Huang Taiji's Manchu Qing to occupy the Central Plains. Sun Chuanting killed He Renlong, ruined the war in the northwest, and allowed Li Zicheng to occupy Beijing.
What is the current performance, the civilian officials regard the military as pigs and dogs, and the military generals are like enemies against the civilian officials, and the confrontation between the two sides is getting bigger and bigger, and in the end, the army has no fighting spirit, so there are a large number of officials and soldiers who mutinied, and they have become the main force of the rebel army from all walks of life, and have become the Ming Dynasty who buries the civilian group as the support structure.
At this time, the Ming Dynasty was already worried about internal and external troubles, and the strong enemies outside looked around, and the soldiers needed to resist external humiliation, and the internal strife was endless, and the soldiers needed to work hard. But the armament of the Ming Dynasty is really not good.
So, at this time, Wei Zhongxian stood up and removed the civilian supervisors who did bad things. But in fact, his purpose is not to master the army and become his own foreign aid, his fundamental meaning is money.
The household department of the Ming Dynasty has no money to raise the army, and the money for raising the army is almost all the money from the inside, relying on the reward of five festivals and six longevity, and even if the emperor's own money is distributed to the hands of the soldiers, it is also greedy by bureaucrats at all levels, and it cannot reach the hands of the soldiers at all. In Wei Zhongxian's view, his money must be used in practice, so he sent eunuchs to various places, not to master the generals, but to watch his own money.
But to send eunuchs for the purpose of keeping their own money, this name is really not good, so there is a justifiable name of the prison army.
But Wei Zhongxian also knew that as far as his own group of eunuchs went to the army to supervise the army, they really pointed fingers at the army like literati, which was equivalent to wasting the money they had worked so hard to come up with, and it was equivalent to ruining the emperor's major affairs, so he strictly demanded that all the eunuchs sent to supervise the army, in principle, were only responsible for monitoring the words and deeds of the generals, and then these things would be reported to the heavens, but they were absolutely not allowed to point fingers at the army.
In this way, the generals in various places were not only not as resistant and disgusted as the literati and the eunuchs, or were passively confrontational, but welcomed the eunuchs and the eunuchs. Because they can express their grievances or the actual situation of the war through the eunuchs and this group of emperor's cronies, they are no longer greedy for their military exploits by civilian officials, nor are they forced to bear the black pot by civilian officials. In particular, the only reward of the emperor's New Year, which everyone counts on, will no longer be coveted, which is a demand that both sides are happy about.
Therefore, this time Hangzhou was in danger, and the eunuchs once again emphasized the function of supervising the army, and they must not let the layman guide the insider and spoil the big thing.
"Your only duty is to truthfully report the entire command process of General Yang, so that I can reward you for your merits in the future. Another point is to hand over the donations of the gentry from all over the country to the soldiers for signing. The eunuch took the trouble to teach him.
This general and eunuch kept accepting the salute again and again.
The eunuch of the prison army looked at Father Zhao and Mao Yulong: "The money and food of the signatories in the city and the military salaries and rewards of the soldiers will be supervised by me personally, and I will definitely not let everyone shed blood and tears." Xiao Xiucai has to take more responsibility at this point, just be my deputy, count money and grain planning, and you will have to take a credit in the future. ”
In the face of the promise of the eunuch guarding the town, Mao Yulong, who had long since lost the heart of taking the shortcut to the south of the country, was not happy at all, but said plainly: "Money and food supply, students are willing to serve, but students are more willing to help Daddy Zhao, oh, it is General Zhao, who gives advice on the front line, although my level is limited, but there is no problem in picking up the missing pieces and filling in the gaps." ”
The eunuch who guarded the town understood Mao Yulong's heart at that time, and if he managed this money and food, he would be envied by many red-eyed people, and he would also be hated by those officials who wanted to reach out.
Think about a person with an infinite future, if he makes countless enemies at this time, it is indeed delaying this good jade and beautiful talent, thinking of this, he smiled tolerantly: "Xiao Xiucai said the same, the war ahead is urgent, and one person is also needed to help General Zhao make suggestions, then this matter depends on you, so it is decided." I also hope that you will become Zhuge Liang, the old general of Zhao, and fight this battle well. ”
"The student really doesn't dare to be Zhuge Liang, but he can still be competent as a dog-headed military advisor, so please rest assured that the student will definitely live up to his mission."
For this little half-grown child, although everyone has different moods to boast of such a Haikou, but now the matter is indeed critical, so it should be regarded as a dead horse as a live horse doctor.
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