In this way, there are more and more people who send their children to the palace to serve as shìwei, and the quality of shìwei is getting stronger and stronger.

After all, when I first entered Nanjing, there was no way, as long as I could ride a horse and shoot arrows, and the instrument could be watched. At that time, what was needed was the loyalty of the officials and gentry, and the ability of the shì guards could only be considered later.

Now it is completely different, for most of the past six months, it seems that everyone has done nothing in the city of Nanjing, but after dozens or hundreds of edicts and orders from the Military Affairs Department and the cabinet every day, the situation has miraculously turned around.

At this time, the queue to sign up at the shì guard every day is not visible at a glance!

"It's time to go down," the first-class shì Wei Ma Luan squeezed his eyes at a few colleagues around him, and said softly: "After a while, will you go to the Ding family river house or the Li family river house?" ”

The guards are also on duty in shifts, and this will stand in the day shift of His Excellency, and after a while, the other shift will be on duty, and the night shift is much easier, and it is okay to guard between the inner and outer courts, and you can also sleep in shifts.

As for the large area between the inner and outer imperial cities, it is now patrolled by the two pro-military camps of Gongsheng and Yulin, and the shìwei only takes care of the palace.

To talk about these shì guards, in fact, the flow products are also very complicated.

Some of them are from the Jiangmen families in Beijing and Nanjing, and they are considered generals, although most of the Jiangmen families are unusable, but it is not difficult to select some children who can stand straight and ride horses with bows and arrows.

The children of the families of the civil and military officials of the central center are also a major source.

Then there are the children of local officials in various places, such as Ma Luan, when he entered the shì guard, his father Ma Shiying was also a local governor, behind Ma Shiying. Children sent by local officials at the state level. It's also quite a bit.

There are also lower ranks, the children of the gentry families of the higher grades, who are unlikely to be picked in the first and second ranks, and almost all of them are picked in the third class.

At present, there are more than 500 people in the first, second and third ranks, who take turns on duty, and the Nanjing Palace is very safe and reliable.

In fact, whether a dynasty is still alive or not. Whether there is a possibility of continuation, just look at whether the palace ban is strict.

When the Han Dynasty was strong, the people of the people prepared their own armor halberds, and their children went to the court to serve as halberd Langjun, serving the royal family, and at the same time they also had the opportunity to be favored by the Son of Heaven and appointed as officials. Guarding the court with a halberd with a sense of honor gives many people a powerful wake-up call, the luck of the Ming Dynasty is far from the time of the country.

"Still going?"

A rather heroic-looking shì Wei shook his head again and again. replied: "I went back once, and I told Old Man Feng that no one of the five military sticks ran away, so you said that you just listened to the tune and ate flowers and wine, is it worth it...... Those famous prostitutes have a lot of problems. Don't laugh at it, don't laugh at it, you might as well go home and eat yourself! ”

"That's it, the rules are so strict, let's be honest."

"Three more days later, exam, Ma Luan, look at you like this. Can you pass the level? ”

Speaking of this, Ma Luan, who was originally very disdainful of the timidity of his colleagues, was also dumbfounded, and suddenly became listless.

Of course, the most important thing is to guard against the palace ban, but because there is a premise that it is possible to be released, it must be learned.

Many of the children of the generals and the children of the eunuchs originally advocated that they come in and mess around, and they were on an errand in front of the emperor, and they were also doing a good job, and they were on the top and bottom every day, and the family had to boast that they were doing a good job, so as not to embarrass the family. But the errand is actually very easy, staring at those people with a waist knife on his shoulder, if there is anything wrong, just get rid of it.

Then it is to inspect the items prohibited in and out of the palace, fire prevention or something, these things have certain rules, and it is not difficult to do.

Originally, it was like this, everyone lived a very comfortable life, but the two Feng Yuanbiao brothers looked very unhappy, and took advantage of the excuse to prepare for the release, and took the bow and sabre gun once in three days...... This is non-negotiable, in the whole world, who doesn't know that these two old men don't give face?

Not only bows, sabers and guns, but also learning firearms and artillery, learning golden drums and banners, and setting up camps, these generals must learn the courses that are also in the required courses.

There are also some detailed courses, and even some regulations and military discipline that are ready to be tried out, are also used for examinations, such as the detailed rules of military discipline in the city defense battalion, how the generals communicate and cooperate with the officials of the garrison, how to deal with the gentry, and what items can be accepted and what cannot be accepted...... Everyone was scorched in the exam, and they were full of resentment, if they were bold enough, several ministers who led the guard would have been cut into meat sauce long ago.

Don't dare to cut people, there are many people who sue the emperor, but Chongzhen's most trusted ministers now, the ones who lead the shì guard account for more than half, who dares to talk more, the emperor must turn his face and deny people, after a few temptations, everyone will give up their thoughts.

The important thing is that now except for Wang Chengen, all the eunuchs have been recalled to the inner palace, and they don't even have a chance to go out. If you want to get into any slander, you have to have a good husband to start, and now the husbands have become serious geldings, and no one helps to hand them in, how can you flutter the method?

can only be tossed by these old things, if you don't study, you will be reformed, and when the time comes, it will be light when you go to the home tuǐ discount, such a good opportunity, people stay well, you kid was actually fired? Needless to say, the reputation of the family is not to be said, and those who have been expelled can eat old rice at home for a lifetime, and the things in this life will be thought about.

The consequences are severe, and everyone has to grit their teeth and suffer. Fortunately, the lowest level of these shìwei are all from gentry families, and there are a number of outstanding literary talents, and there is no illiterate one, as long as they are honest and learn, there is nothing that they can't learn, but their original kind of heart is indeed suppressed a lot.

For a while, everyone was speechless, just standing with a knife on their waists, and after a while, they saw the court officials rushing out, first the low-level officials in green robes, and then the ministers in scarlet robes came out in a whisper, first the officials of the Ministry Cao Tang, and then the Metropolitan Procuratorate, it is worth noting that the newly established Honest Government Yuan, which is also the same as the Metropolitan Procuratorate, is only responsible to the emperor, and the branches of various places are also the same as patrolling the imperial history, only responsible to the emperor and the headquarters.

There is a duplication of functions between the Integrity Yuan and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Imperial History and Governor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate are responsible for local civil affairs, and after the Imperial History is placed as a patrol press, it is responsible for monitoring officials and generals, inspecting local military and civilian affairs, and corruption matters, of course, it is also under the control of the Imperial History.

Because of this, ordinary old-fashioned officials such as Liu Zongzhou and Huang Daozhou felt that there was no need for a new ministry and were suspicious. But the crown prince's determination to establish and implement it is unshakable, and the patrol is divided into provinces according to the imperial history, just one person, how many places can he take care of? However, the branch of the Anti-Corruption Institute is a huge organization, divided into many departments such as internal and external inspections, from the management of confidential files to the regulations for local inspections, all of which are readily available, and are specifically responsible for investigating corruption and cracking down on corruption, dealing not only with officials, but also with military generals, merchants, landlords, and so on.

Such a department, of course, is significantly different from the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

In fact, everyone knows that the corresponding part of the Anti-Corruption Department is to mint silver coins on a large scale, and then carry out fire consumption and return to the public. The next step is to adjust the salaries of officials.

At present, the salary of an official at the level of the prime minister of the cabinet is only a few hundred taels of silver, and after the Houlu Law, the annual salary of the cabinet and the minister of war is 18,000 yuan of silver.

Grain in kind is distributed in two seasons, and it is also more than 10,000 stones.

In addition to the ration of materials such as firewood and other winter and summer seasons, the prime minister's level is supplied by the state with 30 yuan servants, and the annual salary of each prime minister-level official is close to about 40,000 taels of silver.

This was an unimaginable amount of money before!

Even if it is corruption, you should be content to get this amount in a year.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, even if there was too much silver inflow and inflation, but silver is silver, it is not paper money, there is always a certain value of more than 40,000 taels, the previous prime minister knew about it, and he crawled out of the cemetery in a hurry!

The old Zhu family is too stingy and doesn't treat officials as people. It is said that a first-class official has a fortune of several thousand stones a year, but since the founding of the country, I am afraid that no official has ever taken all the fortunes.

In the early years, Emperor Taizu took paper money to fold, and only one hundred times should be a consistent envoy, and Emperor Chengzu continued to use paper money to offset it, and added what spices and other messy things as a fortune. A magistrate's annual salary of dozens of taels, seven deductions and eight deductions, a month really get more than ten taels of silver, not even as good as the shopkeeper of a big business.

In this situation, if the officials are not greedy or take a little, and do not fight each other in the autumn wind, is it true that the ten-year cold window is out to suffer?

In this matter, the emperors after Zhu Yuanzhang were too taken for granted and naïve.

The officials they are reluctant to reluctant, the officials will double down on the people to get it back, after Hai Jui, there is no so-called incorruptible outlier at all, the entire officialdom is a confluence, and anyone who may damage the operation of the bureaucracy will be regarded as an outlier and will be collectively blocked!

Later generations have studied that the reason why the doctors of the Ming Dynasty stood opposite the royal family and became a self-contained system was because the official salary was too low, and the officials could not stand on their own, and they had to leave room for each other, because being an official was temporary, and if they wanted to be safe, they could only be attached to the group, otherwise, they would be proud for a while and frustrated for ten generations.

In the past few days, the court has officially established the Institute of Integrity and has begun to recruit talents and set up administrative departments across the country, which has become a news that has attracted people's attention.

Because everyone knows that further down, it will be the time for the whole country to implement the Houlu Law, and when they think that the number of Lulu will increase, which one is not itching in their hearts?!。

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