026 Dig the corners of the imperial court with drifting

Shen Yue wants to have his own armament!

What are you used for?

Shen Da looked at Shen Yue with complicated eyes, and he really couldn't understand how the young master, who was originally just a gentleman, became like this, good or bad?

Rebellion is a great crime for the Nine Clans!

The richest maritime merchant families dare not have the idea of rebellion, and the young master really dares to think about it.

"What do you think? Armed and self-defending, it is not a rebellion. What does it mean to rebel? What about being an emperor? The emperor sits on the world and is rich all over the world, but he can only live in the Forbidden City, and the amount of silver he can use is not as much as that of his officials, what does it mean? Shen Yue couldn't help but smile when he saw Shen Da's complicated face. If it weren't for the Zhang family and others who deceived people too much, how could I have such an idea? ”

Shen Yue himself just wants to be a landlord who eats and waits for death, comfortably enjoys the rotten life of the feudal landlord, patrols his own land when he has nothing to do, and in his spare time, he makes fun of the little maids around him, marries a large group of wives and concubines, and then goes to the street to be a gentleman or something when he is in a good mood.

"Young master, most of the armed forces of the maritime merchants are family members...... This is also why the people on the boat given by the Zhang family also left ...... "Shen Da will no longer continue to dwell on this matter."

"How did you settle those people?" Shen Yue handed over the sailors who were handed over with the ship to Shen Da in the morning.

"Equal to the family, temporarily placed in the abandoned barracks of Longshan." Shen Da replied.

Shen Yue nodded to show that he understood, he was going to Xu Yaozong to talk about the four warships that Longshan was idle, and he didn't have the heart to go back to talk to the sailors about ideals and life first.

Shen Qi did not return, the master and servant parted ways, and Shen Jiu followed Shen Yue to the Xu Mansion again.

Entering the door of thousands of adult homes twice a day, except for Shen Yue, there is no one.

Mrs. Shen had already left, and I didn't know what the two sides had discussed, Xu Yaozong's attitude towards Shen Yue changed again, and as soon as they met, they said, "Nephew, how is your ship?" ”

Shen Yue didn't hide it, and directly told Xu Yaozong that the Zhang family had cheated him, and the ship of 2,000 materials was real, and the keel and mast needed to be replaced, and it would cost 8,000 taels of silver, and all the family assets of the Shen Mansion were also this amount, and it was absolutely impossible to use all the family assets for the repair of this ship.

It will take four months to repair, Shen Yue can't wait, and Xu Yaozong can't wait.

"Going to the Ryukyu country is not profitable at all. The sea ships that went north to the east would be replenished in the Ryukyu Kingdom, and ordinary cargo was not uncommon. Your ship can't go to Dongying, and you can't go to the South Seas...... Virtuous nephew, what are your plans? Xu Yaozong also knows that the real profit of maritime merchants is to go further.

The Dongying Wa Kingdom is rich in silver, and the nobles are very fond of Ming porcelain, silk, tea and various handicrafts, these goods are common things in the Ming Dynasty, so there are huge profits in Dongying.

The farther in the South Seas, the more profitable, cloth, porcelain, silk, etc., were exchanged for expensive spices and other Ming luxuries, if you meet a red-haired ghost from Europa in the south, a shipload of goods can be exchanged for a shipload of silver.

The Ryukyu country, the country is weak and the people are poor, where can the profits.

"My lord, the four warships of our Longshan Institute are idle......" Shen Yue came for these four warships.

"Do you want the idea of fighting a warship? If Guanhaiwei Town finds out, you will have to lose your head! Xu Yaozong was frightened by Shen Yue's boldness.

He didn't dare to use those four warships indiscriminately.

The 400-material warship is the largest warship in the Ming Dynasty, and it is used privately, and the crime is not small.

"My lord, the warship was originally used to defend the coast and defend against the Japanese invaders. Now the Japanese slaves are in chaos and unable to invade, the imperial court forbids the sea, and there are few people within a hundred miles of the coast...... It is normal for the warships of Longshan to be idle for many years and fall into disrepair. It is better to repair than to rebuild, and the imperial court has no silver to allocate ......," Shen Yue said calmly.

Xu Yaozong was dumbfounded.

What he didn't expect was that Shen Yue was extremely familiar with the affairs of officialdom, "My lord, the military salary and monthly rations allocated by the imperial court, the civil officials have drifted, send ten to six, or even ten to four, they can drift, why can't we drift?" ”

Shen Yue's statement allowed Xu Yaozong to transfer the hatred of his military households for his deduction of military salaries and food to civilian officials.

The word drifting belongs to the characteristics of the Ming Dynasty.

Since the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, it has admired literature and suppressed martial arts, and the status of soldiers is low.

The imperial court was controlled by civilian officials, and military salaries, grain, grass, ordnance and other materials were all escorted by civilian officials.

During the escort process, things were easily damaged, and the explanation of the civil official drifted away. was actually deducted by civilian officials, and at the beginning, the practice of drifting was 20%, and 10,000 taels of silver were paid to the barracks, and there were still 8,000 taels left.

In the later period, the greed of civil officials became even worse, and they were deducted layer by layer, and even disappeared to forty percent. When the military salary or grain and grass of ten thousand taels of silver arrived at the barracks, only six-tenths or less remained.

The military attache has a small income, takes care of his superiors, feeds a large family, supports a group of subordinates, and has to deduct the salaries of his subordinates, and finally goes to the hands of the sergeant, no more than two or three out of ten.

Even an arrogant person like Mao Wenlong, the former Liaozhou economic envoy, had to acquiesce in the civil officials' drift of the military salary he demanded from the imperial court, and the default amount of civilian officials was "100,000 per year, and the end is 60,000 or 70,000, and the rest will be reported as 'drifting'."

This is still the case in the border troubles, not to mention the guards.

"It's a warship! Thousands of pairs of eyes in Yongsan are watching! Xu Yaozong took a deep breath.

Shen Yue subverted his opinion.

The kid in front of him is more daring than his father.

"My lord, you appointed me as a hundred households, in charge of the military craftsmen of the Longshan Institute, and gave the villain a task to solve the needs of the military craftsmen's life...... It is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, how can my Shen family fill such a big hole! Shen Yue looked at Xu Yaozong dissatisfied.

The attitude is obvious, you directly give me a hot potato, I don't ask you for money, I don't even give two warships, and I make a yarn.

Xu Yaozong is at a loss.

"My lord, the Longshan Institute itself bears the heavy responsibility of coastal defense, the two ships are in disrepair and unusable, and the wood that can be used is used to repair the remaining two, and the two warships that have been repaired need to bear the responsibility of guarding the sea for the imperial court, so they naturally need to go to sea......" Shen Yue's idea was not two, but all four.

Xu Yaozong's face was so gloomy that he could drip water.

Shen Yue's greed was something he didn't expect.

"You want all the ships? If there is a sea bandit, Guanhaiwei Town asks the warships transferred by Longshan to resist, and there is no ship to adjust, which will ...... the consequence "Xu Yaozong acquiesced to Shen Yue's "drifting" of the two warships.

The other two, no matter what, it is impossible for Shen Yue to get rid of them.

As he said, once there is a war, none of the four big warships of Longshan will be left......

"My lord, the commander asked the Longshan Institute to train five hundred soldiers, but not a penny of food was allocated...... Shen Yue was still calm, "The four warships of the Longshan Institute are all rotten and unusable......"

Shen Yue not only had the idea of fighting the warship of Longshan, but also asked Xu Yaozong to ask the commander for the warship.

There are a lot of warships in Guanhaiwei Town.