Chapter Seventy-Four: Cutting the Guard

Seeing Guo Yunhou so excited, it made Zhu Youzhen a little surprised, listening to the account that Guo Yunhou calculated for himself, it also made him feel quite pressured, although relying on Wei Zhongxian's family foundation for himself, let him have some confidence, but Zhu Youzhen knew that sooner or later this money would have to be spent, and those imperial villages could only add 500,000 taels of silver to the inner treasury at most every year, which was only enough for the palace every year, he knew that from the first year of Chongzhen, he would tear off his hypocritical mask and show his true face to those rich businessmen and squires, However, everything he did at this time was also prepared for this, otherwise he was no different from Emperor Chongzhen in the last time and space, because of the disaster in Shaanxi and the chaos in the north, as the ruling group, he could only increase taxes and pay for the army, and there were two groups that could increase taxes for the imperial court, one group was the ordinary people, in the last time and space, Emperor Chongzhen imposed taxes, and actually changed the annual tax from three million taels to twenty million taels, and this burden was all spread on the ordinary people, which also caused a result, more and more displaced people, There are more and more rebellions, and the other group is the rich squire, these people are the moths of the Ming Dynasty, they control more than eighty percent of the wealth and grain of the entire country, Zhu Youzhen wants to take a completely different path from the last time and space Emperor Chongzhen,

The political strategy implemented by Emperor Chongzhen in the last time and space can be known from which he is an extremely contradictory person, after ascending the throne, under the gallop, he eliminated the eunuch party led by Wei Zhongxian and reactivated the Donglin Party, but in the end, he found that he could not do anything if he only relied on the Donglin Party, so he re-supported the new eunuch force and went back to the old way. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

But now that history has changed, he is no longer the swaying Emperor Chongzhen in the last time and space, he dares to think and dare to do, and the Ming Dynasty is destined to survive the difficulties.

Zhu Youzhen in the Heart Cultivation Hall looked at Guo Yunhou and sighed and said: "Guo Yunhou, I know your intentions very well, but the addition of the Northwest Battalion, the Imperial Court has to be, as Huang Liji said, I can reduce the thousands of households in Shaanxi and Shanxi, put away the military fields, distribute them to the local people for cultivation, and give the Northwest Battalion food." “

"Does the emperor really want to set up a northwest camp in Chang'an Mansion in Shaanxi?" Guo Yunhou reprimanded loudly.

"Yes."

Hearing Zhu Youzhen's answer, Guo Yunhou knelt down and said: "Weichen has no virtue and can't bear the burden given by the court, so I beg the emperor to allow Weichen to return to his hometown." ”

After Zhu Youzhen listened to Guo Yunhou's words, he was furious, and patted the dragon case and said: "The Quartermaster Department has just acted, and you want to leave and return to your hometown at this time, and what is the point of going to the imperial court." ”

"Then the emperor insists on adding a camp in the northwest, what is the situation of the household department?" Guo Yunhou argued on the basis of reason, Guo Yunhou felt that what he did was right, Daming's finances were extremely tight, and he really couldn't make up for the big hole in the Northwest Battalion.

Zhu Youzhen stood up, walked down, walked back and forth beside Guo Yunhou, and then said, "Since you don't want to be the head of the household, I'm ready." ”

As soon as Zhu Youzhen said these angry words, the whole hall was shocked, at this critical juncture, Guo Yunhou was indispensable to the imperial court.

Li Guopu took a step forward and said: "Your Majesty, you must not act impulsively, Guo Shangshu is the pillar of the country, how can he be easily deposed, since the Northwest Battalion has been added, Guo Shangshu does not agree, then the Emperor also took a step back, deposed all the thousands of households in Shaanxi, and only trained the new army, so that the vacant land and silver are enough to make up for the hole in the Northwest Battalion." ”

Li Guopu is really afraid that Zhu Youzhen will be impulsive and really depose Guo Yunhou and return to his hometown, Guo Yunhou is not only in charge of the affairs of the Quartermaster Department at this time, he also knows the financial situation of the Ming Dynasty very well, and there is no one in the entire court who can replace Guo Yunhou, Guo Yunhou is gone, and it also has a great impact on the governance of the cabinet.

After listening to Li Guopu's words, Zhu Youzhen's thoughts also calmed down, Guo Yunhou has the ability and loyalty to the Ming Dynasty, it can be said that he needs the most Hubu Shangshu, the only flaw is that he is too angry, and he thinks that he must change his temper in the future.

Since Li Guopu proposed to let himself take a step back, he spoke; "I just Meng Lang, Guo Shangshu is the pillar of the country, if it doesn't go well for a while, how can you talk about resignation, you are old, get up quickly."

After listening to Zhu Youzhen's tone, Guo Yunhou felt more comfortable, and he obeyed the order, and got up.

After Guo Yunhou got up, Zhu Youzhen turned his head to look at Yuan Chonghuan and said, "Yuan Chonghuan, how many thousand households are there in Shaanxi." ”

Yuan Chonghuan said without hesitation: "Your Majesty, there are 30 thousand households in Shaanxi and 22 in Shanxi, a total of 52. ”

"Such a huge thousand households, occupying so many fields in the imperial court, every year the imperial court still has a salary and silver army, but can not fight, I am very sad, cut a thousand households, and those hundreds of thousands of households dare to go home to farm, and no one of the new military candidates recruited can come from the thousand households."

"The ministers obey the order, I don't know that the emperor defines a thousand households in this way." Yuan Chonghuan was very concerned about this matter, and if conditions permitted, he wanted to abolish all the thousands of households that said that peasants were not peasants, and that the army was not an army.

"Guo Yunhou, I and the Ming Dynasty have to rely on you, I will violate the ancestral system for you today, and I hope Guo Shangshu can understand my difficulties." Although this sound a little weak, Zhu Youzhen was full of majesty when he said it.

"Wechen didn't dare, but I was very reluctant to add a camp in the northwest, but as a courtier, I couldn't make the emperor so embarrassed, so I could only go against my heart." Guo Yunhou said reluctantly, in fact, Zhu Youzhen's words made Guo Yunhou also a little moved, but he thought that a change was not as good as a quiet, but Zhu Youzhen said it to this point, he could only agree, just resigned just to force Zhu Youzhen to be soft, which civil official does not love life, he still hopes to be a Zhongxing minister, famous for a thousand years, now the goal has been achieved, the emperor is soft and regressed, and it also makes him a little proud in his heart, who can make the emperor say such things to him in this Manchu Dynasty, I'm afraid that Huang Liji, who is a very human minister, can't do it.

Hearing Guo Yunhou's proposal to agree to the addition of the Northwest Battalion, Zhu Youzhen breathed a sigh of relief, if Guo Yunhou still disagreed, the addition of the Northwest Battalion can only be a joke, the Northwest Battalion and Guo Yunhou, if Zhu Youzhen chooses, he can only choose Guo Yunhou, which is also the bitterness of the Ming Emperor, of course, it is also a blessing.

Zhu Youzhen looked at Yuan Chonghuan and said, "Yuan Chonghuan, you are the secretary of the Ministry of War, do you have ideas." ”

Weichen thought about reducing the 30 thousand households in Shaanxi to 12, then he would be strong, and 20,000 soldiers would be selected and stationed in various places. Shanxi's guards were reduced to ten, and 15,000 soldiers were selected to be stationed in Taiyuan and other places. ”

"What is the place for the soldiers who let them return home?" Although Zhu Youzhen hates these people in his heart, he must also find a way out for them, otherwise such a large-scale reduction will have too many military households, in case they are not convinced, sit together and discuss, the court will not ask about it, but on the contrary, it will damage Zhu Youzhen's prestige too much, so I will prepare all the matters when I talk about it today.

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