Chapter Seventy-Six: Dirty Deeds
The method proposed by Master Qian is indeed a good way to find another way to solve the problem of encirclement and suppression, without the need for the government to send a penny of money and grain to a soldier.
The private armed forces of the Ming Dynasty are no longer a new taboo, in the Ming Dynasty, there will be a family general, and the people will have a family and a family to be brave, which is no longer a new taboo.
In the late Ming Dynasty, it was an extremely common phenomenon for generals to withhold food and salaries from soldiers. They used their exploits to live a corrupt life of spending all day and night, and bribed officials of the military department, supervising eunuchs, and Ji Gong Yushi to seek promotion or exoneration. This determines that the contradictions between them and their soldiers will inevitably intensify, and there will be a lot of friction in peacetime, and it is even more impossible to achieve unity from top to bottom in wartime. In order to save their lives and status, the generals adopted the method of supporting their own families. They took out some of the money they had withheld, raised a small group of selected soldiers, and gave them better living conditions and equipment such as horses and equipment. Even if the generals are dismissed from their posts and leave their posts, their families are still brought back to their hometowns to support them. In this way, at the critical moment, the family has become the trump card or the shield of the general's escape.
In fact, strictly speaking, Qi Jiguang and Li Chengdong are both regular private armed forces approved by the imperial court.
Due to the abolition of armaments, the poles and bandits and exiles in various places are even surging, even some border soldiers and guards are so hungry that they desert, and they go up the mountains and fall into the grass, and those landlords and gentry scattered all over the country have huge wealth, and it has become impossible to rely on the strength of the government to defend the furniture, so the landlords and heroes in various places have invested in the formation of their own armed forces, called Xiangyong, especially in the later period, Xiangyong has become the most important force against the peasant uprising, and the only problem is that the government has not integrated this force. Otherwise, Li Zicheng would not have been able to mix in Beijing, but in the end, Li Zicheng still died in the hands of Xiang Yong.
Master Qian's method in disguise is to use the military generals appointed by the imperial court to integrate the village bravery, and justifiably do not want the government to pay for food and wages, but only give an empty official body to make up for the lack of the official army's strength to suppress bandits.
If this matter can be done, then not only will the rice fat be preserved, but it will also be possible to level the poles in Yan'an and other places in one fell swoop, which is a great merit to the sky, and it will be reported to the little emperor who is bent on his ambitions.
But in the blink of an eye, no one dared to make this decision.
This is a good method, but this is a traitor, and if the Taiwan officials stand in another angle and impeach, then everyone will not be able to eat and walk around.
In fact, in the time of Wei Zhongxian, the selling of officials and beards was already the same as the robe cabbage in the vegetable market, but that is called an unspoken rule, and if you say it in a grand manner now, it is a big sin, although this is the right thing, it is even worse to do the right thing.
The official in charge of the proclamation wanted to stand up, everyone was disappointed when they saw it, the official looked left and right, and suddenly thought that this is the only way to protect the rice fat, and for the survival of the rice fat, he also has the fault of supervising the unfavorable, and compared to the matter of recruiting Xiang Yong, who sells the official mantle, it is better to suppress the matter of the rice fat first, thinking of this, he sat back in his position again, closed his eyes and recuperated to make the appearance of the spirit.
Seeing that the imperial history was so groundbreaking and didn't jump out to stir up the situation, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
So this matter was decided, Yan'an sent a deputy chief soldier of the light pole, let Master Qian cooperate, and recruit the villagers around Mizhi, ready to give the besieging pole allies to join forces inside and outside, and wipe it out in one fell swoop.
At the same time, he made meritorious contributions to Master Qian, Yue Hesheng praised him on the spot, super-promoted Qian with money and light, praised the painting of the governor Yamen, awarded seven products, and reported to the Ministry of War.
Now Master Qian, no, now it's Qian Zan's painting, from a white cloth to a seven-grade official, he can no longer be reserved, he plops down and kneels, and he is already grateful.
Send away Qian Zanhua, Yue Hesheng and Xu Zhifu have a pair of eyes, and the next step is how to hide this earth-shattering disaster before the war Xiao Ping.
These people are all deceived and concealed, and they always report to the world for a long time, but how do they know that there is such a big disaster now, and the sin of deceiving the court and being incompetent under the rule cannot escape.
This Jinyiwei reported the situation of the emperor in various places, that is, within his own position, Jinyiwei had nothing to do, and nailed these officials to death, and now, it is the kung fu of this meeting, it is completely possible for Jinyiwei to weave a dozen or twenty major crimes, this is not to rush to give away the credit of others, and ruin the future of himself and everyone? Therefore, it is serious to settle these thousands of households first, and when the thieves disperse, and then turn the big things into small things, it is a means of operation.
Yue Hesheng turned around and bowed deeply to the Jinyi Wei Qianhu who was standing next to him without saying a word: "There is something that adults have to take care of." Yue Hesheng immediately whispered to the thousand households.
"Your Excellency, please speak." The thousand households have been in officialdom for a long time, and they know that the drama meat is coming, so they asked with a smile.
"It's just that this time I hope that the adults don't report to the emperor, I'll bring this room full of civil and military affairs to you." Na Yue twisted in harmony, told the reason, bowed to the ground as he spoke, and stuffed a gift slip into the hands of the thousand households when the thousands of households were supported, which was the one given by Zhang County's order, very rich and real.
"Your Excellency the Governor is polite, since we are under your rule, of course, I am in the same mood as all my lords, and I don't want to offend my colleagues, this is not good for me, this matter can be big or small, I will try my best to cover it up." When he spoke, he smoothed the gift list into his cuffs, and pinched the thickness of the gift list to know the weight of the gift list, which was his own extra income in the end, and it was easy to share it with those brothers who would support their families.
"Thank you, sir." As long as it can be covered up, everything will be fine, Yue Hesheng let out a sigh, and couldn't help but wipe a cold sweat secretly. There was also a lot of gas in the lobby.
"But." Lord Qianhu changed his words and frowned.
Everyone's hearts sank, and they couldn't take back the breath they had just breathed, their faces turned blue, and their hearts were about to be bad, and they all looked nervously at the brocade guard.
"But the tens of thousands of displaced people attacking the county seat can't be hidden, although I can try my best to cover it up, but there are still imperial historians, and if one is not good, it will be passive."
"Your Excellency said yes, how is this good?" Being mentioned like this, everyone felt that this was indeed a tricky matter, and Yushi turned his head and ears with panic on his face.
Qianhu is right, the imperial historian is also the master who has nothing to do, and he has nothing to do to please the emperor, the rank of the supervising imperial historian is not high, but they are all literati, so it is not as easy to deal with these soldiers, the literati are inclined to each other, and it is more cruel than using a knife to tear it, this big thing is that paper can't hold the fire, and now Yue Harmony has no idea.
Look at the pale-faced guys, the thousands of households are disgusting and want to vomit, although the hundreds of thousands of homeless people in the land of Shaanxi have natural disasters, but it is also the so-called sins of you who are dedicated to the country and the people, but unfortunately most of the emperors grow in the deep palace, and they are blinded by your bullshit folds full of flowers in the clouds and fog, where can the taxes, money, and food conscription stipulated by the imperial court in a year really force people to die, and it is not that these sanctimonious guys have been added dozens or hundreds of times to make it like this?
But hate is hate, now it's hard to protect yourself, and you want these pickled guys to be merciful, so try to inform them of the way, which can be regarded as a personal favor and a handle.
"I don't think it's as good as this, let's find a scapegoat to top the tank for everyone, it's better to die one person than to kill everyone." Qianhu squinted his eyes slowly, and then slowly drank tea and stopped talking.
Finding a scapegoat is something that Jinyiwei is familiar with, and don't you civil officials often do this? Now how can I forget this method?
A word woke up the person in the dream, Yue Hesheng patted his head and said happily: "Ah, this is exactly the method." ”
Yue Hesheng couldn't help but say after thinking about it: "But this Mizhi County Commander is taking on the immediate matter of resisting the Liukou, but he can't be moved. ”
If Zhang Guang knew that he had been in the governor's mind and walked in the palace of the king of Hades for a while, and he didn't know how to feel, maybe it was really a heavy responsibility on his shoulders, or maybe it was the role of the thick gift list that saved him a life.
"By the way, although this non-muddy incident occurred in Mizhi, but his eight generations of ancestors were the people of Wubao, and he could be sued for the Wubao County Order, being cruel and mean to the officials, colluding with local bullies, making the people desperate, causing the people's resentment to boil, so that they forced the good to be thieves, and after the incident, they deceived the upper peak, whitewashed the peace, and then beggar-thy-neighbor and poisoned the place."
Thinking about this Wubao County Order, it is a disaster, and I don't know how I died, so it's a decision.
"In this way, you can block the mouth of the imperial historian, and there is, if the Mizhi County Order is effective, it is just a matter of defending the county seat, and the victory is your credit, but if you lose, one neglects his duties, and the thief is unfavorable, then the two of them will be responsible for the dead ghosts." The prefect also stepped forward in a yin and yin way, and the civil and military officers below nodded together, and they really had the appearance of celebrating with a crown.
Hearing this, Lord Qianhu couldn't help but sigh and mourn secretly in his heart, saying that our brocade guards were ruthless, but compared to these sanctimonious Qingliu scribes, it was really a small thing.
So a sloppy plan was freshly brewed in the continuous improvement of this high-hanging mirror lobby, and even more in the quarrel of the interests of the post-war victory.
The brocade-clothed Wei Qianhu just drank tea cautiously on the side, watching these dirty things coldly, and didn't say a word.
After waiting for an hour, the officials of the entire Yan'an reached an agreement, everyone divided their own benefits and shirked their respective responsibilities, and at the same time, the Jinyi Wei Qianhu also achieved the goal of sharing the spoils with these bigwigs.
Yue Hesheng once again issued a warrant document, sent his capable subordinates to rush to Mizhi overnight, and after appeasing and encouraging Zhang Xianling, he no longer spared those things that were not in his hands, and finally promised him half a year's tax grain and grass to recruit the township warriors, and also took out a large number of low-level officials and officials to report to the blanks in order to reward those who had made meritorious contributions to the war, and gave ten carts of military supplies, and also guaranteed that no matter what happened, he would ask the court for merit for him.
This matter is scheduled like this for the time being, and everyone is anxiously waiting for the news of Mizhi's victory or defeat.
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