"Your Majesty, since the first month of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, there have been 814,000 officers and soldiers in various places, 21,000 fewer than the sixth year of the Apocalypse, from the perspective of the previous dynasties, from the orthodox dynasty of 3 million to more than 900,000 in the Zhengde period, and then to more than 800,000 in the Jiajing period, the Longqing and Wanli dynasties increased to one million due to the training of troops in the previous dynasty to resist the Japanese, but now it has been reduced to the number of Jiajing;

Wechen thought that because of the system of garrisons, the officers squeezed the guards too heavily and caused a large number of soldiers to flee, but the military salary of the imperial court increased by 1.2 million yuan in the sixth year of the Apocalypse, and this year, the budget allocated for military salaries reported by various localities increased by 300,000 taels on the basis of 1.2 million yuan. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Lu Xiangsheng can be regarded as well-read, holding the elephant wat board, and he insisted on reporting a large number of complicated figures.

After hearing this, Colonel Zhu You said: "This is strange, there are more than 20,000 fewer officers and soldiers, but the military salary has increased by hundreds of thousands of taels, why did the imperial historians of the Metropolitan Procuratorate go, don't stare at who snores and who accepts concubines all day long, these trivial things, how many people eat empty salaries, how many empty salaries they eat, you have to check carefully!" ”

When Zhu Youxiao said this, Cao Sicheng, the imperial historian of Zuodu, couldn't help blushing.

In the past few days, the imperial historians of his Imperial Court have been frequently suppressed by His Majesty, either dismissed or transferred, and even many have been killed.

Therefore, the imperial historians who are still in the Imperial Court do not dare to talk nonsense anymore, but the imperial court also has an assessment, and the imperial historian must impeach a few people to be considered competent, otherwise the Jingcha will be evaluated for dereliction of duty.

Therefore, the imperial historians had to find some trivial things to impeach, but now that His Majesty said this, Cao Sicheng can be regarded as understanding, His Majesty does not want them to impeach the big people in the imperial history, but the muzzle of the gun cannot be aimed at His Majesty, and he must be impeached according to His Majesty's instructions.

Next is the most noble of the six departments, the Ministry of Rites, which is in charge of the world's scholars and the etiquette norms of the dynasty, and its weight is sometimes not inferior to that of the Ministry of Officials.

Therefore, before entering the cabinet, most of the scholars were ministers of the Ministry of Rites, and Hanlin also performed their duties in the Ministry of Rites.

And now, although the secretary of the Ministry of Rites in the eighth year of the Apocalypse is Qian Qianyi, most of the affairs of the Ministry are presided over by Li Mingrui, the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites.

At this time, it is natural to stand up and summarize the affairs of the Ministry of Rites.

This close minister of the Son of Heaven, who was promoted to Zuo Zhongyun by the Hanlin Academy, and then directly transferred to the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites, and joined the Xinuan Pavilion, is the person who has been promoted the fastest in the seven years of the Apocalypse except for Lu Xiangsheng, and is also the youngest senior civil official among the ministers.

Zhu Youxiao deliberately made the entire Ming bureaucratic system younger, whether it was the chief military officer of the Nine Sides or the newly promoted senior civil official, they were all Jinshi at the end of Wanli and even at the beginning of the Apocalypse.

For example, Li Mingrui and Lu Xiangsheng were Jinshi in the second year of the Apocalypse, and Sun Chuanting was only a Jinshi in the forty-seventh year of Wanli.

"Your Majesty, more than 670 new children have been raised in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, more than 3,400 new students have been added from all over the country, and more than 400 people have been removed from meritorious service, which has increased twice as much as in previous years.

After listening to Li Mingrui's report, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help frowning, and suddenly added a few hundred people, which means that the tax-free group of the squire has been further expanded.

The officials and gentry must pay for food as soon as possible, otherwise the Ming Dynasty will be hollowed out by this growing group of privileged classes sooner or later.

Of course, the twofold increase in the number of people who have been dismissed from their fame is naturally the result of Zhu Youxiao's bloody suppression last year when he eradicated the Donglin Party and raised his son to make trouble.

Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but wonder if he had to carry out several more large-scale repressive actions to get rid of a few more parasites who did not pay taxes and did not obey their duties.

Zhu Yuanzhang was actually born for 300 years, which is a memorable event in modern times if the centenary of the birth of the founding fathers is a memorable event, and it cannot be taken lightly in the Ming Dynasty.

What's more, Zhu Youxiao also needs to re-brush the sense of existence of the ancient empire of the Ming Dynasty in the world, and also re-display the glory of the Ming Dynasty in the past to revive the morale of the Ming people.

And in order not to let the people of the whole world forget who gave them the peaceful world, Zhu Youxiao nodded and said: "Sacrifice to the filial piety tomb, I will go in person to show filial piety." ”

"Your Majesty, no!"

Shao Zhan Shi Huang Daozhou stood up at this time, and the cabinet scholars and ministers of the court were all surprised to look at this Qingliu official who was only qualified to be a foil.

And Zhu Youxiao was also stunned to look at this thin official Huang Daozhou.

Above the court, the people who speak now are all senior officials above the second rank, when will it be the turn of this fourth-grade official and he is not an idle official of the six ministries and nine secretaries to speak.

It can be seen that he is a nerd-type official who does not know current affairs, Zhu Youxiao frowned and asked, "Why not?" ”

"Your Majesty, the Son of Heaven should follow Yao Shun's vertical arch and rule the world, although filial piety is important, but there is no need to do it himself, it is really unwise, it is a waste of people's wealth, and it is enough to send honors and relatives and ministers."

Although Huang Daozhou said that he was quoting scriptures, which meant that he was deeply afraid that Zhu Youxiao would disturb the people if he went to Nan0 Jingxiao Mausoleum, in fact, he naturally did not want the imperial power to stretch too long, and now going to Gyeonggi was already something that he and other defenders could not tolerate, and His Majesty would go to Nan 0 Beijing, which was simply a move to get involved in the core of their civilian rule.

Most of the important ministers in the court were Zhu Youxiao's personal individuals, so naturally he didn't dare to say much, but he Huang Daozhou had to stand up and express the opinions of the scholars.

Zhu Youxiao was a little speechless, above this court, these officials who didn't know how to raise were really unable to kill and catch up, and they couldn't imagine that there were such people to scare themselves.

Li Mingrui, the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites, saw that His Majesty was displeased, and he also knew that this was the time to use the authority of his dynasty's etiquette system, and he also knew that His Majesty would not have the intention of increasing His Majesty's right to speak on the etiquette system by letting him be the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites.

"Your Majesty is a descendant of Taizu, why can't you respect your ancestors and worship your ancestors."

Li Mingrui arched his hand towards Zhu Youxiao as he spoke, Zhu Youxiao nodded with satisfaction, and now there are also their own shrimp soldiers and crab generals in the court, instead of fighting alone.

At this time, I heard Li Mingrui say again: "And under the world, it is not the king's land; On the shore of the land, it is not the king's minister; Your Majesty is rich in Kyushu and all over the world, why can't you come in person, do you think that Your Majesty is only as big as Wangfu Yin, and can only be the lord of a city in the Forbidden City of Shuntianfu? If Your Majesty does not leave Beijing, it will be difficult to let the Tartars wantonly plunder Gyeonggi, destroy my city, and kill my people! ”

Huang Daozhou was very disdainful of this Li Mingrui, who was in the position of young uncle by subordinating himself to His Majesty, so he was also fearless: "Li Shilang's words are wrong, the Tartars are just rogues, and they will not come in March or April, like a natural disaster, they will leave, why should Your Majesty come in person, it will waste money and food in vain." ”

"According to your meaning, just arbitrarily loot the Tartars in my Gyeonggi, and then watch the Tartars plunder the wealth of my Ming population and leave, Huang Daozhou, what are your intentions!"

Lu Xiangsheng, the left attendant of the Ministry of War, directly asked this Zodiac Zhou, as a minister who saw the tragic slaughter of the people of Fengrun Yutian County, he was the most incomprehensible and hated Huang Daozhou's empty talk and ignorance.