Chapter 445: Motion Fraud Prevention

Cutting off the soldiers and horses on the nine sides was really a bold suggestion, and everyone present looked at Sima Tai with wide eyes.

Sima Tai, the head of the household, looked immovable, and said calmly:

"Your Majesty, don't think that the ministers are vain, and now there is no Tartar activity in the north, the ministers in Beijing have heard the words of the merchants outside the Sai, and now they go out thousands of miles, and they may not meet a barbarian for a few months, dare to ask Your Majesty, in the past two years, has there been a warning signal at the border gate? Were there any envoys of the Tartars? ”

This was a real situation, because Jiang Feng's guards would clear the grasslands every few months, adding dingkou and cattle and sheep to the pastures and farmland near the West Fort of the Taer River, and the Mongols, who had been beaten in the two wars, could not resist at all.

Many people went further west, some people went north to defect to the Obir Khanate, and some people continued to defect to Jiang Feng's command, and were broken up the tribal formation, scattered under the leadership of various guards, in fact, with the combat strength of more than 1,000 guards and 2,000 regiments, there would not be such serious damage to the scattered tribes, but many Mongols who returned to Jiangfeng, these people were either for a better life, or in order to integrate into Jiangfeng's system, and fought bravely.

However, these people are familiar with the grassland, and even if their former clansmen want to hide, there is nowhere to hide.

Except for the guard post in Shaanxi facing the west, the rest of the border towns are relaxed, they are now often a hundred miles long, and there is no enemy in sight, and a large number of military households and civilians are hired by merchants to farm or work in handicraft workshops.

If it is said that the border pass is quiet and quiet, it should also be the officials of the Ministry of War, but the border generals have a deep grudge with Sima Tai, the squire of the Ministry of Households, and the distribution of such military salaries is the amount proposed by the Ministry of War, and after the approval of the Ministry of Households, the transfer of silver taels is distributed.

However, Sima Tai, the squire of the household department, was already eating slippery, and his appetite was getting bigger and bigger, and he didn't know the news from there, and after the Tatar and tile spurs outside the gate disappeared, the border generals of the nine sides began to rent out the military households to those merchants to work, or encircle them in large farms to farm.

That is to say, in addition to the military salaries deducted, the officers of these border towns also had the silver they could get from the military households under them, and Sima Tai, the household servant who was responsible for the distribution of military salaries, sent people to discuss with the border generals and asked for a few points to be deducted from the military salaries distributed every day.

At that time, it was when Zhou Lin led his troops into Beijing to assist Emperor Jiajing in cleaning the Beijing merchant group, and the border generals felt that the emperor would borrow heavy warriors in the future, which was in a state of arrogance, and it was about money, which was more important than anything for these people who were officials just to make a fortune.

As a result, the request of Sima Tai, the head of the household, was not only rejected, but he had to go to Beijing to file a complaint, of course, many of them were not willing to make a fuss about this matter, and Sima Tai, the head of the household, was very unhappy with the generals in the border town in the end, and the two sides broke up unhappily.

As a result, two years have passed, and the situation that the warriors originally thought of being used did not appear at all, but the civil officials have reached the peak of power step by step, in fact, the emperors of all dynasties have the same idea, and they would rather be greedy and despicable than have the power of military attachés.

You must know that the greed of civil officials is at most the people's misery, and the military attache has the power to change the world, and in the past two years, the household department has naturally made a lot of small moves against the border generals who were against him at that time, and it can be regarded as a breath of relief, and those border generals have also found a lot of trouble for Sima Tai.

However, now, the new era has brought new problems, and merchants everywhere have used it to evade commercial taxes, which was originally the prerogative of civil officials.

However, in various places on the nine sides, the military generals in the border towns often took this privilege into their own hands, and there were also artisan battalions in the army, as well as various government-run workshops, which were naturally convenient for the procedures, and the silver was earned in their hands, and the money in the hands of Wenchen was naturally much less.

The problem of money is often in the end is inextricable, no one wants to make less money, if it is said that in the past, Sima Tai put forward the proposal to abolish the nine sides, I am afraid that the emperor did not speak, his colleagues will jump out first, ask for the punishment of this national thief, the Mongols in the north will come in but will perish.

In recent years, the situation has been different, everyone knows that the Tatars and the thorns have disappeared in the steppe, and the Mongol tribes seem to have disappeared suddenly.

The so-called rabbit dead dog cooking, the threat from the outside is gone, and the necessity of the border generals in this town is much worse, but these officers are all rough people, not to find some way to make up for it, but to boast there that the border is too peaceful and the barbarians are nowhere to be found.

Since the founding of Taizu in the Ming Dynasty, the military expenditure of the nine sides is the largest expenditure of the finance, but the survival of the country cannot be lost, and no one will be soft in this situation. It's just that if it is brought forward so rashly, no matter who it is, it will have to bear several responsibilities, and this Sima Tai is also an old oilman in the officialdom, how could he make such a mistake.

Sima Tai, the household servant, is also an old treacherous and slippery, and his next words are to turn the wind back:

"Liaozhen guards the northern land, and the three towns of Shaanxi defend the Western Regions, these are all important places that cannot be touched, and the rest of the towns are now stationed in the local area, and they should be abolished for the imperial court's food and salary."

This is wonderful, the three towns of Shaanxi are now the descendants of Emperor Jiajing, if they are abolished, I am afraid that the emperor will really have to ignore the situation, and Liaozhen is a tacit thing for all the bigwigs, Jiangfeng's Huazhou has gradually become a climate, but it is also related to their interests.

Can't manage but can't ignore it, the soldiers and horses in Liaozhen have always been the strongest soldiers in the world, and they are just put there to prevent and resist, and they can be regarded as making plans in advance.

The rest of Datong, Jizhen, Xuanhua and other towns are close to the essence of Beizhili, and they are the places where the merchants and farmers evade the most taxes, and they are also the places where they compete for the most profits with the civil officials, and these border towns mainly deal with the invasion of Mongolian tribes.

Now that those threats are gone, it is just about to be eliminated, and after listening to the suggestion of Sima Tai, the head of the household department, after only a little consideration, they found that this proposal is beneficial to themselves. Immediately, there were statements one after another, although there was no clear support in the words, but the meaning of the roundabout was the meaning of approval.

After the anxious Emperor Jiajing heard this, he was just about to get angry, but he heard all kinds of opinions from his subordinates, and these opinions were all agreed.

Emperor Jiajing is now quite childish in the eyes of these courtiers, and he is extremely calm when encountering things, and he can't see his joys, angers, sorrows, and joys at all, even when he is about to get angry, he still has that kind of calm expression on his face, Xia Yan and Yan Song, who are sitting at the top, are all peeking at Jiajing's expression, but they can't see any reaction.

The emperor only bowed his head a little there, but the father-in-law Rui who was standing on the side was waiting for a long time, knowing some of Jiajing's small habits, the emperor bowed his head often to hide the fluctuation of his eyes, and the current emperor was extremely careful in his every move, even the eunuchs and palace maids in the inner palace could not touch any rules.

Rui Xiaosan has been following for a long time, so he is aware, but he doesn't dare to say it, he saw it with his own eyes, a certain eunuch who served closely, because he found out what the emperor likes to eat from the diet, and the next day he specially instructed the little eunuchs to move this dish to the emperor, but was discovered by Jiajing, and was praised at that time, but the next few days he found a reason to be executed.

"The matter is big, the nine-border garrison is the ancestral rule of the imperial court, and I can't change it at will, since all of you Aiqing agree with the reduction, then write the world and hand it over to the people of the world to discuss!"

Those civil servants have come to this point, of course, there is no reason to oppose it, and think about it deeply, the soldiers of the nine sides are one of the soldiers with the highest status in this country, and they also have a certain right to speak in politics, if these people are stripped out, the only ones who still have about the same influence are the nobles, but these nobles are almost wearing a pair of pants with the civil officials under the current system of national business.

Publishing the opinions of the people of the world, to put it bluntly, they are the literati of the world, and this public opinion is still in the hands of civil officials, and the result is still agreeable.

The civil officials of the Ming Dynasty did not use the same tools as in the Qing Dynasty, all of them sat in sedan chairs, and many of them rode horses, and the literati still had some martial arts. However, after so many years of staying up, even if they have the ability to ride a horse, they don't have the body to ride a horse.

After the small court discussion in the inner study, more than 20 officials returned to the palace in a sedan chair on their horses, and dispersed one by one, Xia Yan and Yan Song were the leaders of the hundred officials of Wenchen, and the two of them were the first to go in the past, but this time they stayed behind, and the two sedan chairs stopped at the side of the wing.

The sedan chair driver and the entourage were far away, Xia Yan and Yan Song both sat on the sedan chair casually, anyway, the thin sedan curtain would not affect both parties, the voice was very low, and it didn't look like a conversation, just you and me:

"Today's saint is wise and martial, and he still remembers the land prosecution case, and quietly transferred troops into Beijing, which is really the emperor's scheming!"

"The abolition of the nine sides will definitely arouse the resentment of those warriors, and if it is used by those with intentions, it will not be a disaster."

"I have a brother who is a merchant who travels out of Cyprus, and he will travel soon......"