"I'm afraid Sun Boya will be rewarded again, this time he pacified Suizhou, eliminated the internal thieves, and subdued the mountain harrier, this merit is convincing!"

"The weather in Nanjing, after July, is simply going to be hot."

The one who spoke was Lu Zhenfei, who was smiling, wearing a scarlet official robe, and strode in. But the one who answered was Ma Shiying, who was calm and sitting on the chair in the middle.

The scene before the hour is still in the morning, the morning breeze is slow, and there are a lot of dewdrops that have not disappeared on the flowers and trees in the palace. ”

Lu Zhenfei went on a march and looked at the Military Affairs Department, after Ma Shiying answered the question, he closed his eyes again.

Wu Weiye shook his head with a wry smile at him, Qian Qianyi smiled silently, anyway, he, the Minister of Military Affairs, was devoted to culture and education, and military affairs were sparse. looked again, looked for a long time, only to find that Wang Jiayan was not there...... Seeing this, Lu Zhenfei could only sit down and be silent.

Ma Shiying's attitude has a different origin. In short, this foreman and minister of military affairs are becoming more and more domineering, and he will be very dissatisfied with anyone else meddling in military and political affairs, and as for wearing small shoes, he will be very dissatisfied.

It's not the first time that this kind of answer is not asked, and it is not the first time that it has been satirized.

In this period of time, the military system of Fujian, Zhejiang, Yunnan, and Guizhou provinces was changed, redundant generals and redundant soldiers were abolished, and strong generals from all over the country fought in the ring, especially in Huguang, Zuo Liangyu has always been domineering and did not talk about him, and several governors and patrols from the Donglin Party were also frequently played.

Huguang and Sichuan, under the control of the imperial court, the local number of soldiers is more than one million, He Tengjiao a governor signed up for more than 100,000, the court does not pay him and he doesn't care, Lezhou County, the people's resentment is boiling, this bastard bastard is the local town of the Donglin Party, there are really many people who speak for him in the government and the opposition, and the Military Affairs Department has ordered several times, this He Tengjiao just dares not to do it, not only that, but also openly wrote a book, impeached the Military Affairs Department, said that it was not in line with the ancestral system, did misdeeds, and even impeached Wang Jiayan, all kinds of acts are so arrogant and rude, After several conflicts, the Military Affairs Department not only did not exempt He Tengjiao, but on the contrary, Wang Jiayan became ill...... If you want to really do something, it is difficult to do something in the current Ming Dynasty.

However, Lu Zhenfei's mood is not bad.

In any case, Fujian, Zhejiang, and Yunnan-Guizhou are in the process of restructuring, and the initial budget may be able to reduce more than 200,000 soldiers and horses. In other places, Yunnan and Guizhou Zunyi and other key passes can still add a few associations and more than a dozen battalions of garrisons and horses to come out.

Of course, the area around the center and left is still under the rule of the Zheng family, and it is impossible to control how the Zheng family changes the imperial court, but fortunately, the sailors and officers and soldiers of the Zheng family have always been Zheng Zhilong's own responsibility.

As for the control and reorganization of this maritime tycoon, it was caused by the warships in Zhejiang and Nanjing, and the successful re-training of the sailors, and the re-integration of the sea introduction system into the imperial court system, and only then could we talk about the control of the Zheng family.

The formation and training of the forbidden army is also very effective, in the past, the Beijing camp and the Yingjiang River were not available at all, and now the battalion system is re-approved, and the generals are dispatched, and the full amount is paid, and the Huaiyuan Marquis Chang Yanling is very competent, and the leader of the army is not necessarily good, but these trivial and test of character are not necessarily possible, and the soldiers and horses of the Beijing camp are initially 60,000 soldiers, and the mules and horses are more than 10,000, and they are trained by Qiu Yuanyi and other generals in the battalion, and after half a year at most, Nanjing can have more than 60,000 elite soldiers, for Lu Zhenfei and other ministers of the Military Affairs Department, this is a real achievement, enough to comfort themselves, The upper can explain to the emperor, and the lower can also question the reproaches of the hundred officials and colleagues.

As for the guards, the qualified guards sent in by the court officials and gentry have been fully staffed, and there are more than 300 guards, divided into ranks, holding halberds and guarding the court every day, which is very competent.

The rest of the two battalions of Yulin and Gongsheng are also full, adding up to about 4,000 people, and there are three teams of cavalry, with excellent armor and stomach, all of which are allocated high-grade armor and weapons.

The historical Nanming Hongguang, although he was not as greedy for money and lustful as the shameless literati made up after ascending the throne, he was really not a good bird. Overhaul the palace, love to drink, draft girls, and lose the hearts of the people and morale.

The palace guards did not pay attention to such a major matter at all.

As soon as the Qing army arrived, Hongguang simply fled with only a few eunuchs and took refuge in Huang Degong's army, and then he was tied up and dedicated to the Qing army, without even a buffer.

If this guy is a good guy to get some reliable pro-army guards and flee all the way south, it will be much better than setting up princes and supervising the country everywhere in Nanming, fighting for the clouds by himself, and wasting national strength!

Like Zheng Chenggong's heart is the Tang King, so Li Dingguo and others, who support King Gui, can only be false and wrong, Li Dingguo attacked Liangguang, how smooth it was, and Zheng Chenggong's appointment did not arrive, and Li Dingguo was sold.

Once again, he made an appointment with Zhang Huangyan to rendezvous at the mouth of the Yangtze River and attack Nanjing.

As a result, the surname of the country did not come to the date again, and sold Zhang Huangyan.

This time, it was because the surname Zhang was in the line of Lu Jianguo, so the surname of the country was still not very energetic.

Anyway, the matter of Nanming is suffocating to think about, but there are more things that make people cry and laugh. Isn't it so bad, with the rotten Qing army, and Dolgon's "Rui", why didn't Nanming turn the tables?

The loss of history is the gain of Zhu Cihong. The Suwei forces, the rebuilding of the Beijing camp, the rebuilding of the Yingjiang Naval Division, and the dismissal of rotten generals and redundant troops in various localities, although there were all kinds of resistance, all kinds of discord, and even a military minister who was sick and sick, all the work was carried out in an orderly manner.

As for the financial situation, it is also gradually improving due to the dismissal of many officers and men. Nanming's annual income is six million folded colors, and the true colors are very sufficient, and the folded colors are far from enough.

The annual expenditure on military salaries is 7 million, not to mention the expenses of hundreds of officials, official expenses, the repair of local water conservancy and farmland, and the use of post passes.

By July, of course, there was no improvement in the repair of the farmland water conservancy official road, but the post transmission network had basically been successfully rebuilt, after all, there was less war in the south, and the damage to the post station was not as serious as in the north.

With the post transmission, the communication and administration are very convenient, the upper and lower access, the government and military orders are very fast and smooth, which invisibly, the prestige of the imperial court and the implementation of the administration, are very additional.

It's just that this improvement is also very limited, after all, the reconstruction of the Jingying and Yingjiang water divisions is really too expensive.

Of course, Ma Shiying, the Minister of War, knows these things.

The good ones are taken for their own credit, and the bad ones are passed the buck to others.

For something like today, Lu Zhenfei entered with a seal, and his intention was flying, so he naturally had to pour a little cold water on him first!

………… After all, Lu Zhenfei's qualifications are too shallow, and Ma Shiying is the chief minister, so he can only choose to back down.

Seeing him like this, Ma Shiying also showed a smile at the corner of his lips. However, in the blink of an eye, this smile was also taken back.

As the Minister of War, especially the Minister of War, Ma Shiying has also been worried about it recently.

He naturally felt the grace of the prince's recommendation, but the Generalissimo's Mansion interfered a lot, and the wide range of interests involved, it was also a headache.

His Royal Highness the Iron Ore Prince of Ma'anshan wants to intervene, and His Royal Highness seems to like the copper of Tongling.

Huai'an salt class was restructured, and I don't know how many people were offended.

Then there is the gold system, because the salt class is changed, the salt merchants all bow down, and then there is the change in Yangzhou, and the prince is also unrelenting, so Jiangnan Dahao can only bow his head in desperation.

Grain, cloth, and even tea, that's money when you sell it!

Countless business exchanges cannot be completely cut off because of a few cents of gold cards. In such a situation, the only recourse for the merchants and gentry was to bow their heads.

In a month, I don't know how much silver was collected by His Royal Highness the Prince!

At this level, others are still a little ignorant, and they always feel that the percentage is the number of cups, and there will not be too much silver, but Ma Shiying secretly sent someone to observe it, and he calculated it again...... How nice would it be if you had this number in your own hands?

He is also an ambitious person, if you want to say that the prince is in charge of military affairs, it is okay, and His Royal Highness will intervene in the affairs of industry and commerce, the reform of the forbidden army in Beijing, the reform of the local military system, and other things such as opening up sources and reducing expenditure, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince must intervene.

In this way, in addition to being responsible to the emperor, the Military Affairs Department has to be controlled by the crown prince.

In this way, isn't he a mediocre person who accompanies food and paints?

Stimulated by this emotion, Ma Shiying's dissatisfaction with the Jiangbei camp was indeed a little irrepressible.

This time the Xuzhou strong domain was subdued again, the prince is undoubtedly strong militarily, the dynasty in the Jiangnan area of the strong domain a total of five, Liu Liangzuo is the weakest, Gao Jie is the strongest, although 30,000 people are left after the abolition, but it is enough to resist Zuo Liangyu's so-called 500,000 and 800,000.

Ma Shiying has been in charge of Fengyang soldiers and horses for a long time, and he doesn't need to say much, he knows it in his heart.

Zhu Dadian, the governor of Shandong, and Fang Kongzhao, the governor of Henan, were all sent by the prince. And then there is Xu Huai, who is half of the country in the south, and there are a group of people in the court, who is in the hands of the power of the country, who still doesn't know?

As soon as she thought of these, Ma Shiying's heart felt very uncomfortable, and it was really difficult to suppress it!

"It's time."

When the chiming bell rang in the corner of the outer wall, Ma Shiying flicked the sleeves of his robe and got up and said, "We should come in to see you." ”

The palace was still as usual, everywhere was dilapidated, and even in the brick field that came in from the outside, there were weeds growing everywhere.

Although there are many guards in the palace, they are only guards in shifts, and no one can do the cheap work of pulling weeds. And the eunuchs and palace maids add up to less than three hundred, and there are not a few left in each palace, and these sanitary chores can't be talked about.

Only under the steps of the Qianqing palace can barely maintain the majestic atmosphere of a palace that has a great empire to cut off the core military affairs, two rows of guards press their waist knives, tassels sway, and Ma Shiying and others climb the stairs, in the hall, Chongzhen is sitting in danger, waiting to discuss military affairs with these courtiers!

(To be continued)