Chapter Twenty-Three: The Initial Team

Just when the whole court was concerned about how the emperor would investigate the eunuchs and to what extent, Zhu Daming took Wang Chengen, Sun Chengzong, Zhang Weixian and others to the Wuying Hall not far from the right front of the Huangji Palace. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

This is a relatively independent courtyard, in the middle of the south facing north hall, is the tall and spacious Wuying Palace, in front is a small square, the east and west compartments are two rows of long houses, in front of the Wuying Gate, out of the Wuying Gate, is a section of the Jinshui River flowing through here, there is a bridge on it, and after the Jinshui River, continue to the south, is the official room of the six science corridors.

The official room of the Six Branch Corridor continues to the south to the noon gate, and in the noon gate, directly opposite the six branch corridor is the office where the cabinet is located.

Wuyingdian is the place where the emperor of the Ming Dynasty handles military affairs, but unfortunately not many emperors really use this place, and most of the military affairs are handed over to the cabinet and the celebrant to take care of together with other government affairs, so Wuyingdian basically does not have much time and opportunity to play the functions that he should play.

But from now on, this place will belong to the newly established Military Aircraft Department, and it can be regarded as having an office that matches its name.

Sun Chengzong, a scholar of the Ministry of War and a scholar of Wuyingdian University, of course, concurrently served as the foreman of the Minister of Military Aircraft, and was regarded as the number one person in the Military Aircraft Department, as for the British Duke Zhang Weixian, he also served as the Minister of Military Aircraft, after all, Zhang Weixian was the Metropolitan Governor of the Five Military Governors' Mansion, and he was also the head of the three major battalions of the Beijing Division.

The Governor's Office of the Five Armies is responsible for the daily management of all the guards in the world, and now although the Governor's Office is in ruins, and the loss of military households is serious, the emaciated camel is bigger than a horse, and the Military Aircraft Department wants to unify military power and lead the military affairs of the world, and it is still impossible to bypass the Governor's Office of the Five Armies.

Besides, although Zhang Weixian has no military talent, his prestige among the nobles is still very high, and he has also made meritorious contributions to Emperor Chongzhen's ascension.

It was this Zhang Weixian, after the death of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, who took the lead in rushing to King Xin's Mansion to welcome Zhu Youzhen, who was still King Xin at the time, into the palace, thus seizing the opportunity and successfully ascending to the throne.

According to the practice that I don't know when it was formed, noble and military ministers were not allowed to enter the cabinet, and at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there was even a practice that non-Hanlin could not enter the cabinet.

Therefore, for noble and military ministers with certain political aspirations, it is also a good choice to enter the newly established military aircraft department if they cannot enter the cabinet.

It was with this mentality that the British public Zhang Weixian entered the military aircraft department.

It's not that there are no officials who have written to question it, but the Military Aircraft Department is not a cabinet after all, and the Grand Governor of the Metropolitan Office of the Five Armed Forces entered the Military Aircraft Department as a symbolic figure of the army, which makes sense from a logical point of view, so the voice of doubt and opposition is not loud, and Zhu Daming did not see it at all.

As for Sun Chengzong's right-hand men and staff members when he supervised Ji Liao, such as Lu Shanji, Wang Zegu, Yang Yingqian, Mao Yuanyi, and Sun Yuanhua, who had recently reinstated, without exception, while retaining their original positions, they were all drawn to the Military Aircraft Department, and they were also assigned official offices in the Military Aircraft Department, and they were all concentrated in the Military Aircraft Department, and they were responsible for specific affairs such as military orders, military administration, military tun, military intelligence, military salaries, and military weapons.

Through the Military Aircraft Department, the emperor directly commanded the mobilization of the world's soldiers and horses while informing the cabinet, the military department, and the governor's office of the five armies at the same time, at least in terms of command efficiency, which was much higher than in the past.

For the front line in western Liaoning, which is currently confronting the Jurchens, the governor and the general soldiers have no opinions, whether it is the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, or the Ministry of War, or the current Military Aircraft Department, they all convey the emperor's will, they don't care who will command them, all they care about is when the military salary will be paid in full.

As for Jiubian, from Shanhaiguan to Yansui Town, the question that everyone is concerned about is also the question of when the arrears can be repaid.

The problem of unpaid salaries is a chronic disease in Daming border town. Some of them are in arrears because the court has no money to pay salaries, so they can only owe them, while others are because of the corruption and self-enrichment of the generals in the border towns.

From now on, the military command of the towns in the nine sides will be unified under the Military Aircraft Department, and the military situation of the towns in the nine sides should also be reported to the Military Aircraft Department through the Department of Communications and Administration as soon as possible, and at the same time report to the Ministry of War and other relevant imperial court yamen.

Today, Zhu Daming took relevant people and others to the Military Aircraft Department, one is to see the situation after the establishment of the Military Aircraft Department, showing the emperor's attention to the Military Aircraft Department, and the other is to deal with the first major military aircraft incident reported to him after the establishment of the Military Aircraft Department.

This major military aircraft is the problem of arrears of salaries, and the governor of Liaodong, Bi Zisu, wrote a letter to ask for wages, and the governor of Shanxi, Zhang Xiao, also wrote a letter to ask for wages, plus the previous requests for wages from the governors of Dongjiang Town, Xuanfu, and Datong Town, and the general soldiers, and the problem of arrears of wages in the nine sides seems to be quite serious.

After receiving these excerpts recently, the General Administration Department reported to the cabinet, Shi Fenglai and Zhang Ruitu saw that they were asked for salaries on the nine sides, which has always been the most headache for cabinet ministers, because the treasury has no money, and if you want to pay salaries, you have to ask the emperor to send internal funds, and if you ask the emperor to send internal funds, according to past experience, not only will it be rejected, but it will also offend the emperor and the eunuchs of the inner court.

In this way, the problem of arrears of wages on the nine sides became more and more serious, and the soldiers could not receive the salary and silver, and could not support their families.

The popular rebellion at the end of the Ming Dynasty was because of joining these fugitive border towns, and finally it was out of control.

Therefore, after Shi Fenglai and Zhang Ruitu received such a salary discount, they didn't even think about it, and immediately called back to the General Administration Department, and asked the General Administration Department to report directly to the newly established Military Aircraft Department.

Isn't your Military Aircraft Department going to divide the power of the cabinet and take charge of the military affairs of the world? Now the excerpt of the nine-sided salary is here, and the army in the towns of the nine-sided is paid silver, which is a proper military affair and must be handed over to the military aircraft department to deal with!

This is Shi Fenglai's rhetoric prepared for himself, he wants to wait until the newly established military aircraft department can't get the money, and he is helpless, and when the young emperor consults the cabinet, he will say this to Sun Chengzong.

It's a pity that his idea not only fell through, but also fell into Zhu Daming's arms.

Zhu Daming was thinking about how to consolidate the position of the Military Aircraft Department and establish the prestige of the Military Aircraft Department, and it was a good opportunity to pay back military salaries to the towns in the nine borders.

Of course, this repayment of military salaries is by no means the same as before, you say how many soldiers you have, you will be compensated according to what you say, nor is it how many soldiers are paid to you on the books of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, but it is necessary to review on the spot, from Liaodong to Yansui, each town must take a picture of the imperial history of the supervising army, and after verifying the actual number of people in the imperial history of the supervising army, re-register and make a register, and issue military salaries according to the person, while striving to put an end to fraudulent collection and deduction, it is also necessary to appropriately improve the treatment of border army officers, whether it can play a role in gathering the morale of the army and boosting morale, this is hard to say. But at least let these border troops not become so many fugitives because they can't eat, or become slaves of the powerful because of the arbitrary power of the officer class.

The young imperial historians of the Metropolitan Procuratorate often take the world as their own responsibility, talk about military affairs, talk about the river, the head is the way, always feel that the court sent out are waste, feel that they have no talent, feel that they are the most awesome, this time give them a chance, let them supervise the border towns, verify the actual number of soldiers in each town, and personally pay the border army, maybe it will also receive miraculous results.

Zhu Daming inspected the place where he was in the Wuyingdian Meeting, inspected the official office prepared for the work of the ministers of military aircraft and the military aircraft department, and also met with Lu Shanji, Wang Zegu, Yang Yingqian, Sun Yuanhua, Mao Yuanyi, and others, who have now come to Beijing to take up their posts.

Lu Shanji is a native of Dingxing, Beizhili, a Jinshi in the forty-first year of Wanli, and also a fellow villager of Sun Chengzong in Hebei, now fifty-two years old, if it were not for the sometimes half-closed, sometimes sharp eyes, he would look completely like a black, thin and shriveled little old man.

His grandfather, Lu Jiuzheng, was a jinshi in the early years of Wanli, and he was also a famous minister in the Wanli period.

And Wang Zegu is a white and fat middle-aged scholar, who has served in the household department for a long time before following Sun Chengzong's supervisor Ji Liao.

Although Mao Yuanyi is from Jiangnan, he looks tall and rough, and he doesn't look like a scholar from a family of eunuchs for generations.

Sun Yuanhua is similar, he has served in the border towns and Beijing camps for a long time, and he looks like an old farmer with a face full of wind and frost, and it seems that he has not been happy in the past few years.

These people are the first time to enter the palace to meet the emperor, although they are the most outstanding talents of this era, but they are still very excited to see the emperor, while kneeling to meet him, while verbally thanking him.

In this regard, Zhu Daming also felt embarrassed, if Zhu Daming hadn't reinstated them now, several of them would have been buried and would never have appeared in history again.

And those people who reappeared later, such as Sun Yuanhua, were appointed by Emperor Chongzhen as the governor of Denglai in history, and were specifically responsible for the logistics supply of Denglai Sailor and Mao Wenlong's Dongjiang Town, which should be regarded as attaching great importance to him.

But in history, Yuan Chonghuan fell into the hands of Huang Taiji, the Later Jin Tiancong Khan, and took the Shang Fang sword to cut the first and then play, and after killing Mao Wenlong, many generals in Dongjiang Town rebelled, among which Kong Youde, Li Jiucheng and others gathered people in Shandong to cause chaos, and captured and plundered Dengzhou.

After the incident, the imperial court held him accountable, and Sun Yuanhua, as the governor of Denglai, was framed by Wen Tiren and others as an accomplice of Kong Youde and others, and then was unjustly killed by the imperial court.

And Mao Yuanyi did not Chongzhen reuse it for a period of time, commanding the water division of Juehua Island, but unfortunately after Sun Chengzong fell again, Mao Yuanyi, who had no backer, was quickly deposed, cut his nationality to the people again, returned to his hometown to live idle, and finally died of depression.

This time they met Zhu Daming, naturally there will be no more such fate, and now not only the official has been reinstated, but also entered the military aircraft department, becoming the most trusted initial team around the emperor.