Chapter 891: Military Households

Since he came out with the officers of the Ministry of War today, since the things that should be asked have been asked, and the people who should have seen it, Zhang Yue naturally couldn't really stay for dinner, so he only sat for a while and said goodbye to Xu Kuo. When he returned to his box, he saw that the table was empty, and there was not a single dish, and the people who had said that they were hungry enough to eat a cow were now sitting upright, and he was relieved to see him return.

"Your Excellency, you're back!"

When Zhang Yue heard this pitiful voice, he immediately turned his head, and saw that it was the Arsenal Division, who was about the same age as himself and liked to tell jokes the most, and couldn't help but feel very strange: "Didn't I ask Shu Zhen to tell you that you don't have to wait for me, what are you waiting here for?" You weren't so polite before, so when didn't I leave for a while and the cups and plates were messy? ”

"At this time and that time, now the adult is the real commander of our military department, how can he be so unruly?" Cui Fanzhi bit the real words, and when he saw Zhang Yue glaring back in disbelief, he had to spread his hands and say, "It's not my idea, it's that a few of them have no rules, saying that they want to make a bet on whether you will eat with that Lord Xu...... But in general, everyone really means that, the chief officer who paid for the treat didn't come for no reason, and our subordinates who ate ate and drank nonsense instead ate and drank. ”

Although most of the six departments have changed their chief officials, the other Yamen scholars and servants are all a lot older, the younger they are, and they don't like to blindly pretend to be serious and distance themselves from their subordinates, so occasionally someone makes a joke about him, and he doesn't think it's wrong. Therefore, he chose to skip the bet in front of him, and hurriedly ordered someone to call the man to serve the food. After a while, a table full of all kinds of dishes was placed, and most of the poor Beijing officials suddenly saw their eyes light up.

After moving the capital, the price of goods has become more expensive, but the Beijing officials' money is not increasing but falling, after all, the treasure money is becoming more and more worthless - in this way, Hu Hu, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites who is also in charge of the household department, also proposed to reduce the proportion of rice money from one stone to 25 yuan to 15 yuan when Du Zhen proposed to reduce the proportion of rice money - therefore, most of the Beijing officials live alone, and a small number of people who drag their children are living more hard. The officials of the Ministry of War have subsidies because of the festival, and Zhang Yue will be a host from time to time, so he can go down to the restaurant.

At this time, more than a dozen people stretched out their chopsticks towards the delicacies on the table, and there were still people there to distinguish the origin of the dishes, Zhang Yue ate with Zhu Zhanji for the first time, although he felt delicious, but he was not good at counting the plates, and he was the host at this time, so he naturally didn't have so many worries. Among the dishes on this table, there are four ways to make carp alone, plus crucian carp, white fish, herring, etc., there are soups, braised and steamed, all of which are delicious, and the two plates of vegetables that Zhang Yue specially ordered in order to eliminate greasy are not touched. In Shi An's helpless words, that is, if you don't eat two bowls of vegetables all year round, why do you eat Nalaoshzi at this time?

After a full meal, Zhang Yue saw that some of the people who were full of wine and food stroked their stomachs with satisfaction, some stretched their waists with a smile, and some licked their lips with unfinished thinking, so they had to cough lightly, and then put away their smiling faces.

"You should know about the affairs of Hongwen Pavilion this morning, after you go back to the Yamen, you will finish the matter at hand, and Shen Zheng will come to the back hall at the right time, I have something to tell you. It's everyone, not just the heads! ”

Officials have to hold frequent meetings, which has been unavoidable in all dynasties from ancient times to the present. In addition to the daily court meetings and the regular meetings of the yamen, today's officials also have to hold meetings and quarrels between the yamen, so they are also used to these. But the regular meeting of the Yamen of the Ministry of War has always been one of the four Shilang plus one Zhang Yue, a total of five people, and it is rare to gather all the people together, so at this time, everyone looked at each other for a while, and promised to agree, but they were all a little confused.

Since there was one person on duty in the four divisions of the yamen, Zhang Yue had already instructed the men to cook a few more dishes and send them to the yamen of the military department. Since it was opened to welcome officials, and a certain restaurant on the other side of the Yuhe Middle Bridge was famous for delivery, the shopkeeper didn't say anything, but because he heard the word "military department", plus a sentence intentionally or unintentionally when the pioneer Xu Kuo left, he had a certain reverie. Therefore, Zhang Yue and his party went downstairs along the staircase, and the shopkeeper and a few guys all came up. Several pairs of eyes looked left and right on everyone's faces, and finally the shopkeeper came to Zhang Yue with his hands rubbed.

"My lord, if you are still satisfied with the whole fish banquet in the small shop, why don't you leave a handwriting, today's meal will be considered by the small shop, please all the adults. If you come back in the future, the shop will definitely be even more entertained. ”

Looking at this shopkeeper, Zhang Yue suddenly remembered the inscription of the first freshest in the world on the Wanshi Festival, and thought that this one was very likely to be happy at the beginning, plus the free treatment and the promised preferential treatment in the future, so he wrote such an inscription with a stroke of the pen - of course, although the Beijing official is poor, there are various ways to make money, and he can't sell his handwriting, but the temper of the guy on the Wanshi Festival is different from others - therefore, he beckoned the two entourages waiting at the bottom to come up, and saw that they took out a stack of brand-new treasure money and settled the account, The shopkeeper was a little frustrated, but he didn't pay much attention to it.

His words are not as free as the Wanshijie, if you dare to be so ostentatious, you will have to be impeached if you look back at the imperial history!

After the meal, the group that returned to the yamen naturally went back to their own places, and the people who guarded the yamen also had a full meal, so after a while, the various chambers were quiet, only the footsteps of the scribes entering and leaving, and the occasional footsteps. When Shen Zheng was in time, which was the standard time to disperse, everyone gathered in the second hall of the Yamen of the Ministry of War.

The lobby of the military department is the place where the military attache returns to Beijing on weekdays to meet and take office, and Zhang Yue thinks that he is a squire, so he rarely uses this place, and most of the time he only discusses in the second hall. Seeing that everyone had arrived at this time, he opened his mouth and said: "Even if you didn't go to Hongwen Pavilion in the morning, you should know what is going on, and I invited you over today just to discuss it." ”

The Fourth Division of the Ministry of War, the Department of Staff, and the Department of the Treasury were all once served by Zhang Yue, and there have been few changes in personnel over the years, but there have been many transfers between them; Wu Xuansi didn't interfere at all, but because there was a big mess before, he transferred someone in, and it was much easier to use; Although the car driving division is the most unpopular division, it can manage the defense of the imperial city, and it played a major role in the unpeaceful time in the vanguard palace, so he naturally got closer to Zhang Yue. Therefore, today's military department, although it cannot be said that Zhang Yue is a one-man man, can be silently moisturized for many years, and his compatibility is very unusual.

"Xiaguan wants to ask your lordship, is the drunkard not in the drunkard's intention to drink? Not in the martial arts, not even in the officers, but in the military households? ”

The person who asked was Jin Cheng'an, the new martial arts selection slang, who was in his early forties, and he was relatively old among the current full hall of officials. In addition, although the Wuxuan Division is inferior to the Ministry Division, it is the first class in terms of real power, so it is naturally most appropriate for him to ask questions. Therefore, the rest were originally full of suspicion, and they didn't speak again at this time.

"You are right, your name is in the martial arts, and you are really a military household."

Since Zhang Yue joined the Ministry of War, he first worked in the Arsenal Division, and then in the Department of the Ministry of Justice, and once went to Xinghe, accompanied the Northern Expedition to the North, and let go of the political envoys of Guangdong, so his understanding of military households is naturally no worse than that of those old people who have been immersed in the Ministry of War for decades. At this moment, he nodded lightly and sighed again.

"Regardless of whether you are in the military department, you should know that today's military households are far inferior to those in the Hongwu period. At that time, each military household only had one person to serve, but now it is often a family with two dings, or even three or four dings to serve in the military, and the weight of the service is no more than that of the military household, what is the reason? At the beginning, the Hongwu period was to fight, and the military households on the yellow book were still enough at that time, but now in the world of Chengping, why do the military households have to make up for it again and again? Without him, the service is too heavy, so more and more military households are fleeing! ”

Zhang Yue raised his voice suddenly, and when he saw that there were few indifferent people in the room, he couldn't help but feel relieved, so he took another sip of tea to calm down his mood, and then said slowly: "At the beginning, the Yellow Book divided the people of the world into people's households, military households, artisan households, stove households, etc., nothing more than for the people's safety, not to classify the people outside the households as untouchables, but what is the situation now? Artisans are like slaves, stove households are exploited, military households can't help but flee, and others are just as difficult. Families hardly intermarry with these families and have effectively regarded them as untouchables. If this is the case, how can the military be expected to contribute to the defense of the border or the war? ”

"However, at the beginning of the emperor's accession to the throne, he once granted amnesty to the world, abolished the heavy military service, and the Zhao family had to become an army."

The person who spoke said a word, and Cui Fanzhi's refuting voice came from the side: "The imperial court issued an edict like this, but how to implement it is not so easy." As far as I know, my lordship is not bad, I have been in the Arsenal Division for so many years, and I once personally went down to make up for the soldiers, and one of them even had a family of four people who all started to dismiss the military households. There was only one old mother left in the house, who couldn't even walk, and although I left her a little money when I left, I guess she wouldn't live long. ”

After being immersed in officialdom for a long time, most of them will be left behind about benevolence and morality, courtesy, righteousness and shame, but after all, these officials in the military department are still in the prime of life, and they are quite strong, so they are all silent when they hear this. Zhang Yue said lightly: "The situation Fan Zhi said is actually mostly because the service guard is too far away. Most of the troops in our DPRK were transferred from Jiangnan to Jiangbei, and Jiangbei was transferred to Jiangnan, which was originally a precautionary measure, and it cannot be said that it was wrong, but most of the soldiers in the guard station were insufficient, but most of them started from this! ”

He paused for a moment, and then said in a deep voice: "Every year, military households rise to relieve the country, from Shaanxi, Shanxi, Shandong, Henan, and the north to the southern pole such as Yunnan, Guizhou, and Hainan, and from Liangguang, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Jiangxi, Fujian, Huguang, Zhejiang, and Nanzhili to the northern frontier such as Shaanxi and Liaodong. The first ill is that the soil and water are not adapted, the southerners die of cold, and the northerners die of miasma. The second major disadvantage is that the health center is often thousands of miles away from home or seven or eight thousand miles, the road is far and difficult, but the inventory fee has to be paid by yourself, many people die of illness on the way, and more people flee, and even less than 12 out of 10 people go to the health center! For this reason, a military household often has to be ticked again and again, and so on, how can the military system not be bad? ”

At this moment, the rest of the people looked at me, and Shi An opened his mouth and asked, "My lord wants to improve the status of the military household through the martial arts method?" However, the disadvantages have been deepened, and if you want to see results, I am afraid it will not be possible in a day or two. ”

"Is it the depth of the accumulation of disadvantages today, or the accumulation of disadvantages in ten or twenty years, or even fifty years and a hundred years? The emperor is in his prime, and he has the determination to eliminate the accumulated evils, so it is our duty to make suggestions! Zhang Yue saw that everyone nodded and agreed, so he smiled and said, "So, I gathered everyone here today to work together." Wuju is just a reason, and let them argue, what we need to do now is to sort out the next details one by one. ”

Since he, the chief officer, said so, the others stood up in unison and agreed. After a lot of deliberation, when everyone left, Cui Fanzhi and Chen Yong Shi'an stayed. Compared with Chen Yong and Shi An, who Zhang Yue recognized when he was recruiting for Jiaolu, Cui Fanzhi had worked with Zhang Yue for many years, so he would naturally not beat around the bush when he asked at this time.

"Adults don't worry that so many people will know, and when the news spreads, someone will take advantage of the topic?"

"This is the right thing to do, and it is better to show some rumors in advance than to provoke people to jump when things are about to happen. Moreover, this matter was not brought up by me, Yang Ge Lao had told me before. After all, he is also a secretary of the military department, and he has been in the court for many years, so his understanding of these things will only be more detailed than mine. Now there are still a few things entangled in the cabinet, so naturally we will take care of the affairs of the military department. ”

Speaking of this, Zhang Yue couldn't help but glance at the three cronies present, and for a while he remembered the Wanshi Festival that had not yet been returned-Nuer Gandusi is colder than Beijing, can this guy stand it? Having said that, when Wanshijie comes back, Zhang Qi is afraid that he will be on the road again. Just as he promised at the beginning, others were not keen on this kind of drudgery in Liaodong, so it was a matter of great deal for people to go there, and he was promoted by two levels at once. After all, Jingwei's errand is the real hot one.

After some words, the three of them went back to the room to do errands, and Zhang Yue, who returned to the room, quickly waited for Hu Qi, whom he asked him to summon. After asking a few words about the situation of interrogating the two criminals before, he learned that there were still not many clues, so he pondered for a moment and said lightly: "The Queen Mother is almost cured, and Dr. He should be rewarded out of the palace, and at that time, you go to check the relationship between King Yue and that Dr. He." ”

Although it was just a simple sentence, Hu Qiyi was startled when he heard it.

King Yue? The younger brother of the emperor's mother, the second son of Emperor Renzong, King Yue?