Hearing this, the other courtiers all looked at the emperor, thinking in their hearts, don't say disbandment on the spot, otherwise these military households can't fight, but they are doing it for the sake of disaster! In the former Song Dynasty, even in order to make trouble for idle people, they were organized into a box army.

When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he smiled slightly and said: "It is not enough to rely on the officials and officials in the local area, there must be a basic army to maintain law and order." The combat power may not be as good as the army of recruits, but it should be no problem to be stronger than the local thieves. ”

As soon as he heard this, Shen Yong was stunned, and when he said it, wouldn't it be the abolition of the military system of the guard?

Emperor Chongzhen ignored him, and continued to explain: "My idea is to streamline the guards, eliminate the weak and retain the strong, and newly form a local army to maintain local law and order, and give military salaries, which are also calculated according to the battalion and sentry system. ”

As soon as he heard this, Bi Ziyan, the head of the household department, immediately came out to object: "Your Majesty, I'm afraid it's not appropriate, how many guards and troops in the country, although it is streamlined, but the number must be huge, how can the imperial court bear the cost of military salaries?" ”

As far as the current military salary expenditure of the border army is concerned, the imperial court is actually barely supporting, thanks to the fact that in the past two years, it seems that the war has been earned, otherwise, the little silver that was confiscated from the Jin merchants would have been consumed long ago.

Shen Yongmao also objected, and followed: "Your Majesty, the low-level military attaches of the guard are all hereditary, if they are streamlined, there will inevitably be some generals without soldiers, and this kind of people, as far as the whole country is concerned, there are a lot of them, and how are they settled?" ”

It's a good thing to be able to ask questions, Emperor Chongzhen nodded, and said to them with a smile on his face: "There are military fields in various guards, and these military fields can be rented out, and the proceeds can be used to raise the army. ”

Bi Ziyan listened, and was stunned in his heart, hasn't this changed? Still use tuntian to raise the army. But in retrospect, it's really different. The army in this place no longer had to settle the fields, and the fields were rented out for cultivation by others. According to this calculation, it seems that it can really be calculated, and there should be no need for the imperial court to allocate additional funds to this new recruiting army.

On the other side, when Emperor Chongzhen said this, his gaze left Bi Ziyan, glanced at Shen Yongmao, and then looked at the side of the senior officials of the Imperial Procuratorate such as the Imperial History of Zuodu, and continued to say calmly: "Those personnel who have been streamlined are mostly old and weak, and they can't fight, so it's okay to do other things." If the low-level military rank is eliminated, it will also be done in accordance with it. ”

"Please make it clear to Your Majesty, what to do with these old and weak?" Shen Yongmao immediately asked with concern.

When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he did not directly answer Shen Yongmao's question, but changed his words, and looked at Zuodu Yushi and others: "I have issued a strict decree before, and the civil officials of the imperial history must not hear about it, so as to prohibit my Ming party struggle and internal energy." However, as a result, the Metropolitan Procuratorate has complained about this, and how to exercise the power of supervision......"

Hearing the emperor suddenly talk about this, the people on the side of the Metropolitan Procuratorate all looked at each other, and they didn't know what they meant for a while, wasn't this talking about the innovation of the military system of the guard, why did they mention this matter again?

But even though they thought so, they didn't reject it, and listening to the meaning of the emperor's words, it seemed that they were going to come up with a solution. The smarter ones contacted what the emperor said before, and vaguely guessed something in their hearts.

Sure enough, I heard Emperor Chongzhen continue: "My Ming Dynasty not only has a vast territory and a large population, but also the largest number of dynasties!" As a result, the number of affairs far exceeds that of previous dynasties. But I, Daming, and the two capitals are all counted as supervising the imperial history, and there are only one hundred and forty people. He is in charge of money, grain, salt, soldiers and other things in the two capitals and thirteen provinces. At the local level, there are only provincial-level procurators. I believe that there are too few people for the supervision system, which seriously hinders the supervision system's impartial supervision duties......"

Hearing him say this, the courtiers on the side of the Metropolitan Procuratorate couldn't help but be overjoyed, they all heard it, the emperor is going to add people to them, and they will no longer be just a bare official in the future!

As expected, I heard Emperor Chongzhen's voice suddenly raise a little, and said in a summary manner: "Therefore, I have decided to transfer some of the soldiers eliminated from the guard army to the supervision system, enrich the supervision yamen, and serve as minions. ”

As soon as he finished saying this, Wen Tiren, the first assistant who had been doing mud bodhisattva-like things, suddenly spoke, bowed down and played: "Your Majesty's move is really a good policy that has never been seen in the past dynasties, and it should be able to rectify the discipline of the Ming Dynasty, and the old minister really admires it!" ”

Almost at the same time, Cao Huachun, the eunuch who was also the master of ceremonies and the seal of the mud bodhisattva, also followed: "Your Majesty's policy, for the benefit of the country and the people, the slave and maid are really convinced!" ”

......When the other officials in the Wenhua Hall saw it, they immediately understood that the two old foxes must have known about it in advance, so when the emperor came to a conclusion, they immediately expressed their support.

The Metropolitan Procuratorate, Zuo Du Yushi and others were the first to come back to their senses, overjoyed, and immediately followed to express their stance and support this decision. For them, this is a huge increase in their power. In the future, the yamen of the Metropolitan Procuratorate will no longer be an empty yamen, but a yamen like the six departments, even bigger than them, because according to the emperor's will, this will go to the county level.

Although this decision was not very satisfactory to other officials, the conflict of interest was not great. These officials in the Wenhua Hall are all the highest-ranking officials of the Ming Dynasty, and they are all within the Beijing Division, no matter what the Metropolitan Procuratorate is, they are all supervised by it and can be impeached at any time.

If you really want to say it, the emperor has received the right to hear about the affairs of the imperial historian, which is indeed a good thing for them. As for allocating manpower to the Metropolitan Procuratorate and setting up a normal supervision yamen, it is not unacceptable.

Relatively speaking, the local government will be uncomfortable in the future. After all, in the past, it was only one time at most, and as long as you deal with the past, you will be fine. From now on, this supervision yamen will be opened to the county level, and it will be a permanent yamen, so whatever you want to do, you have to be careful to supervise the yamen to stare at the side, and it is far less comfortable than before.

However, the local government has no say in the court, and these high-ranking officials in the Wenhua Hall have the final say.

Now everyone in the Wenhua Hall probably understands the general framework of Emperor Chongzhen's military system innovation. They suddenly understood that the emperor was afraid that he had already had this idea, so he had been doing it a long time ago, organizing and training the new army as an example, taking back the right to do things as a foreshadowing, opening the sea to ban the distribution of taxes, and incorporating officials into the official system, etc.

This innovation is unprecedented in the previous dynasty, but it seems to be logical. I thought that innovation was difficult, and it was as difficult as climbing to the sky, but the emperor's strategy was feasible. The details in the middle had to amaze the ministers.

Who knew that this was not over yet, so I heard Emperor Chongzhen start to explain again.