After Zhu Daming received these people whom he respected very much in later generations, he held the first meeting of the Military Aircraft Department in the Wuying Hall to discuss how to repay the military salaries of the Nine Sides. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Zhang Xiao, the governor of Shanxi, and Bi Zisu, the governor of Liaodong, and Sun Chengzong and other officials from the Military Aircraft Department have all seen it and have their own ideas.

Zhu Daming asked Lu Shanji to hand over these folds to Zhang Weixian to see first, and then asked Sun Chengzong and others how the arrears of Jiubian should be paid.

Sun Chengzong immediately replied: "Your Majesty, the arrears of the nine sides have been a long time, from the fourth year of the Apocalypse to the present, the three years of salary and silver have not been paid in full, the minister thinks that he wants to make up for the arrears, and the top priority is to verify the number of soldiers. ”

While the emperor was pondering, Sun Chengzong motioned to Wang Zegu, who was standing on the side, to speak, Zhu Daming looked at Wang Zegu and nodded, Wang Zegu took a step forward, and said respectfully: "Your Majesty, Wechen is responsible for matters related to military salaries and food in the Military Aircraft Department.

"In the four years since the Apocalypse, the reason why the military department and the household department have not been issued in full is that the treasury is tight and Taicang is short of silver, and the second is that considering the flight of the soldiers, all the border towns are not satisfied with the plot, and the full amount is just a cheap part of the army.

"It is Yiwei Chen who implores His Majesty to first send personnel to verify the number of soldiers in the Nine Frontiers before making up for the arrears of the Nine Frontiers, so that they can be distributed according to the personnel, firstly, they can save part of the salary, and secondly, they can also have a clear idea of the defense of the Nine Frontiers. Please let Your Majesty know it. With that, he stepped aside.

Zhu Daming didn't say anything after hearing this, looked at the British Duke Zhang Weixian, and said: "The British Duke is the Grand Governor of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, what do you think about this?" ”

Zhang Weixian sighed for a moment and said: "Your Majesty, the importance of the nine-sided towns goes without saying, and the imperial court cannot delay the issue of arrears for a long time, let alone turn a blind eye.

"Now that the Cabinet has handed over the matter of the repayment of the silver to the Military Aircraft Department, it may not be an opportunity for the Military Aircraft Department.

"The Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies is in charge of the military registration of the Beijing camp, the guard and the towns of the Nine Borders for His Majesty, but as far as the minister knows, the current military registration has not been re-counted and corrected in the fifteenth year of Wanli, some occupy the service, some have escaped, and some are out of number, and the old files retained by the Governor's Mansion are very different from the actual number of mouths.

Therefore, the minister agrees with Sun Ge Lao's statement, before making up the arrears, please verify the number of soldiers in the Nine Sides first, and pay them according to the actual posts.

"In addition, the minister also suggested that Your Majesty's arrears in the Beijing camp are also quite serious, and ask Your Majesty to make up for the arrears of the three major battalions of the Beijing Division and the towns in the nine borders."

When the Ming Dynasty was just established, the Ming army was also a strong army that fought all over East Asia, but unfortunately after more than 200 years of stagnation, the decline of the Ming army is really a low point in history.

Of course, compared with Chongzhen eleven years later, today's Ming army still looks like a strong army, although it is strong and strong, it is no longer available, but in the eyes of the Jianyu Jurchen, the Mongolian tribes and the people everywhere, at least the army composed of soldiers recruited by the towns of the nine borders still has a certain combat effectiveness, and it can be called an army.

In fact, since the establishment of the guard system by Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang in the early Ming Dynasty, in addition to the army raised, the military households of the guard have no salary for serving as soldiers.

Because it is a hereditary obligation for a military household to be a soldier, the imperial court allocates land to you to cultivate, and at the same time does not let you pay taxes or serve you in conscription, just to let you serve as a soldier and serve the imperial court.

It is precisely because of this system that Zhu Yuanzhang was very proud to say in the early Ming Dynasty that the Ming Dynasty could raise millions of soldiers without spending a penny from the imperial court.

Unfortunately, this system did not last long, and as peace passed, only a hundred years later, the system gradually became abandoned.

The military households of the noble military ministers at all levels and the officers of the guard station not only occupied a serious position, but also occupied a serious area, and the military households that were originally not of low status gradually became the slaves of the families of the noble military ministers and the officers of the guard station, and the cultivated land of the guard station was gradually lost and concentrated in the hands of various magnates.

Some of the oppressed or overwhelmed guards began to flee, and then became homeless or hidden families of the powerful, and became domestic slaves of the powerful.

In this way, the existence of the health center system has not played a positive role, but has become a kind of fetters to social development.

By the time of the Jiajing period, the military households in the northern and southern garrisons could no longer be used to fight wars. They live in poverty, have a low status, and rarely participate in training, so they are not at all useful in the fight against the Japanese invaders.

The imperial court had no choice but to use the silver to recruit young men from the society, and then train them into an army to resist the attacks of the Japanese invaders.

Qi Jiguang's Qi Jiajun and Yu Dayou's Yu Jiajun were recruited and trained in this way, and they were all paid silver.

Later, the towns on the nine borders from Liaodong to Yansui adopted this method to recruit young and strong soldiers on the basis of the guards, and also paid a certain amount of military salaries to the children of military families who served, so that they could barely maintain the peace of the northern frontier.

Sun Chengzong and Zhang Weixian, you said a word, and I said a word for a long time, and finally let the emperor understand the current situation.

Although Zhu Daming actually knew a little about these situations in later generations, he still felt a deep sadness when he listened to the two people who have the most right to speak today.

Sun Chengzong and Zhang Weixian watched the emperor fall into deep thought and stopped talking.

After another moment, Zhu Daming said: "Now I already know the situation in the Nine Sides. The problem, while serious, is not unsolvable. I set up the Military Aircraft Division to solve these thorny problems one by one. ”

After speaking, he looked at the people in the hall, and Zhu Daming continued: "Now there are a total of 17 commanders and envoys under the Great Tomorrow, and more than 300 internal and external guards, including the Beijing Division, according to the law of the ancestors, the quota of 5,600 people per guard, counting the officers and non-commissioned officers and soldiers registered in the whole world, nearly 1.7 million.

"If the per capita salary per person is ten taels per year, it will be seventeen million taels, such a figure, the imperial court cannot afford it in any way.

"So I think that what you Aiqing said is very reasonable, before the arrears of the nine sides are repaid, it is still necessary to send people to the towns of the nine sides for actual inspection, and then distribute them according to the actual posts."

After saying this, Zhu Daming paused for a moment, and then said: "I only need the actual number of soldiers on the nine sides, as for the problem of lack of personnel and personnel, I will not be investigated, and those who have pretended to occupy the army in the past will not be investigated, and those who have already escaped, if they are willing to return, I can also be pardoned."

"In short, in the four years since the Apocalypse, the salaries owed by the nine sides will be repaid according to the actual number of people now. The same is true for the Beijing battalion, the number of soldiers on the books is not true, and it is also necessary to refer to the method of the nine sides, verify the number of people first, and reissue them according to the actual number. If anyone still dares to take the lead, he will be killed for the crime of defrauding the king. ”

After Zhu Daming finished speaking, he looked at Zhang Weixian, and then continued: "After the British Duke returns, within three days, according to what I just said, I will take out a note and report it to the Military Aircraft Department. After speaking, he looked at Zhang Weixian.

Zhang Weixian bowed and said, "Your Majesty, if the number of people reported in Jingying and Jiubian does not match the actual number, how should the minister verify it?" And how to report? ”

Zhu Daming first smiled slightly, and then said with a smile: "The British generals are also very clear about the situation and disadvantages in the army. If Jingying and Jiubian, in the inventory and accounting of the Metropolitan Governor's Office, dare to continue to make false claims, no matter who it is, no matter the size of the official position or the level of the title, they will be killed for the crime of bullying the king.

"If this is still not enough to deter the scum in the army, it doesn't matter, I will not give up, after the Nine Sides and the Beijing Camp report the actual number, if the Military Aircraft Department thinks that there are still false reports and fraudulent claims, I will appoint the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Household Department to send personnel to the Beijing Camp and the Nine Sides to inspect one by one, and if the guards enter and exit, they will be guilty of their guard officers, if there are entry and exit in the border towns, they will be guilty of their chief military officers, and if the border ministers are guilty, they will kill the border ministers. These words of mine, the British Duke can also be written into the excerpt and sent to Jingying and Jiubian, I also want to see who will be the first bird. ”

Seeing that Zhang Weixian was speechless, Zhu Daming said to Sun Chengzong again: "In the name of the Military Aircraft Department, Qing can reply to Zhang Xiao and Bi Zisu in the name of the Military Aircraft Department, and tell them that the imperial court will verify the number of soldiers in the Nine Sides in the near future, and it will be reissued before the end of the year." This decree will be sent to the towns of Gyeongying and the Nine Sides today. ”

For the salaries in Beijing and Jiubian, if they are distributed according to the number of people on the books, Zhu Daming really can't afford to pay them. The three major battalions of the Beijing Division claim to have 300,000 registered people, but in fact they may not even have 100,000, and those who can be pulled out to fight are estimated to be enough to gather 20,000.

The number of registered people in the towns of the Nine Sides is close to one million, but in reality, a third is already very good. It can be seen how big the gap between the number of people on the books and the actual number of people.

If it is calculated according to the conscription, ten taels of silver per capita, that is the difference between 13 million and 4 million. If it was four million, Zhu Daming pinched his nose and recognized it. After all, he can still get four million taels of silver.

If the repayment of the silver can be exchanged for the loyalty of the border soldiers, then this silver is also worth it.

I'm afraid that if the money is taken out, it won't fall into the hands of the low-level soldiers in the end, and those who should flee will still flee when they start a war, and those who should surrender will still surrender.

If this is still the case, then the money will be spent too unjustly, but it is better to use it for Sun Chengzong to recruit displaced people, implement tuntian, and select and train new troops.

Zhu Daming's worries are not unfounded. Historically, Emperor Chongzhen also had serious doubts that the silver he took out could finally reach the hands of the low-level soldiers, once he took out 100,000 taels of silver to make up for the military salary of Liaodong Town, and then sent people to follow up and hold accountable, and found that the 100,000 taels of silver allocated from the inner treasury were not even sent to the soldiers in the end, from the household department to the military department, and then to the military department of the customs, and then to the hands of the generals of Liaodong Town, the 100,000 taels of silver evaporated.

After layers of deduction and interception, no matter how much the imperial court sent down, in the end, the soldiers still could not get their due salaries, how could such an army be loyal, and how could they fight to the death when they encountered a strong enemy?

Of course, such a problem can't happen again under Zhu Daming's nose, otherwise even if he understands the trend of history, he will be powerless in the face of thieves and prisoners, and he will also face the fate of Emperor Chongzhen in history.