"Lord Commander, this, this is not a trivial matter, if this is known to the people of the military department, then it will be a big problem!" In the large camp of the Dengzhou Shenji Battalion, the generals of the guards were discussing one by one, and one of them boldly immediately stood up against my opinion.

The Ministry of War, if the people of the Ministry of War want to take care of things, the army of the Ming Dynasty will not become the bird like it is now, since the Ministry of War does not regard our Dengzhou Wei as a thing, then I will naturally not take the people of the Ministry of War seriously. If the Dengzhou guards had been like this all the time, I would have cried so much when something really happened in the future.

"The guard military system is a system set by Emperor Taizu himself, and it is the foundation of the world, does the commander want to violate the ancestral system, if the court blames it, then it will not be as simple as us people losing their heads."

"General Liu's words are wrong, now the general trend is not the same as that of Taizu back then, now the country is in trouble, stubborn to the old law, when the country needs us to wait, will we lead these wine bags and rice bags to fight the enemy?" Just as I was about to refute, a young military attache in the seat suddenly stood up, looking at his age, he was only seventeen or eighteen years old, probably the child of the general's family.

"Which one is who?" I turned my head, looked at Yuruo, who was standing behind me, and asked softly.

"Oh, that's the son of General Nangong Jun, the deputy chief soldier of Dengzhou, and now serves as the Nangong ring of the hundred households!"

"Rub, you became a hundred households at such a young age, it's really better to be good than to be born well! Look at this kid's clear eyebrows, beautiful lips and white teeth, but sharp teeth and sharp mouth! "I leisurely watched this kid named Nangong Jie, arguing with a few grandfathers, speaking of which this kid is really unusual, not only born well, but also good-looking, like a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy, the standard pseudo-girl figure, but in terms of momentum, he did not lose to these old men at all.

"General Nangong is a respected figure by Uncle Li, he followed General Qi Jiguang in his early years, he has such a precious son in his family, it is said that General Nangong originally didn't want his son to join the army, but Nangong Jie overturned more than a dozen of his family's caretakers and ran to the guardhouse. His father had no choice, so he reported his military registration to the imperial court. ”

This kid really has a hand! It's very much to my liking, so I thought about it, so I kept this Nangong ring in my heart.

There are really still a few people who support it, except for Nangong Jie, and other young Zhuang factions, the others are all opposed in unison, and what they said is that my military reform is equivalent to abolishing the guard system, not to mention the stakes, and it directly touches the interests of these people, and they are ghosts if they don't oppose it.

This is the military system that I decided to implement after thinking about it for more than ten days, stopping the current training of the guards, and switching to the conscription system, but the scope of this conscription is not to recruit all the people in Dengzhou, but to directly recruit some guards with basic military training in the current guards, and organize them into a force composed of professional soldiers, these soldiers will no longer be engaged in the agricultural production of the guards, and their salaries and equipment will be borne by the guards, in order to compensate for the losses of these guards and officers, to avoid completely tearing their faces, The prefects of the guards where these people were located could still receive the military salaries from the imperial court and a certain amount of subsidies I gave them, and they could use this money to hire peasant households to cultivate the land for them, and finally 40% of the income was used for the army, and the rest was kept for themselves. To put it bluntly, it is necessary to let these military landlords directly transform into pure local landlords, and then rely on the levy of special taxes on them to raise a professional feudal army.

In order to prevent the officers of the guard from completely turning against me, I have made a big concession by acquiescing to their empty salaries and giving them a certain amount of subsidies, just asking them to reduce a little bit from the exploitation of the guard.

It's just a little bit less, and this group of people is still in opposition.

Making a little less is the same as a dead father, I didn't see you so excited when I beat the Japanese Bandits.

"Lord Commander, this is a big deal, since everyone has different opinions, according to the old man's opinion, please ask the commander to start, let's jointly write to the Ministry of War, and ask the Ministry of War to forward it to the Holy Judge!" General Liu, who was speechless by the momentum of Nangong Jie, immediately turned around and saluted me, and said his plan, as soon as his words fell, a bunch of people hurriedly followed behind and nodded in praise.

Holy judge, your sister! I suddenly scolded in my heart, if Emperor Wanli was in charge, the world would not be so chaotic. This kind of thing must only be the share of soy sauce, to the cabinet, the group of masters who do not understand military affairs must directly say that the law of the ancestors is immutable to call back, this time to say that you can't get the approval, just tossing back and forth for a long time, don't talk about Salhu when the time comes, it's not good that the Qing army is coming to the city.

Besides, if this kind of thing is stabbed, this crime of arbitrarily changing the ancestral system may not be so easy to bear.

In the end, if this group of people takes money to fix the above, then my system will basically not be able to continue.

It seems that it is a toast and does not eat and eats the penalty wine.

I gave the old man a middle finger from under the table. His face was still full of smiles: "What General Liu said is very true, since all the adults mean this, then I can only act according to what you say, come, Yuruo, bring up the account book of the guard." A few days ago, the Ministry of War was still inquiring about the income and expenditure of the guard, and this time the book was sent to the Beijing Division for the adults of the Ministry of War to take a look at. ”

Before he finished speaking, Yuruo put all the thick stacks of account books that had been prepared from behind him in front of my desk, and the old men who were still excited just now immediately turned green, and looked at the account books on my desk one by one, and the expressions on their faces immediately became a little unnatural.

"Ah, General Liu Qian, last year you received a military salary of 500 people, well, it looks good, presumably these 500 people must be brave and good at fighting under the command of General Liu, there have been a lot of things in Liaodong recently, and the imperial court is the time to use troops, and the elite under General Liu will definitely be able to kill the enemy on the battlefield and make great contributions."

Old man Liu looked at me dumbfounded, and then said with a sneer: "How can the soldiers under him be brave and good at fighting, but the general's Shenji battalion is the elite of my Dengzhou!" ”

"Hey! General Liu is too modest, you see, here, General Liu, you also purchased armor and knives for your subordinates, well, they are all good weapons, such elite weapons, I think the infantry in my Shenji battalion may not be fully equipped, General Liu's subordinates must be the elite of the elite! I flipped through the account book and looked at Liu Qian, who was already drenched in a cold sweat, with a smile.

Yes, all the records in the ledger are the military salaries and weapons records that Liu Qian declared to the imperial court, and there seems to be no problem with these records, but as the commander of the Dengzhou Guard, I definitely know, this old man Liu's subordinates don't say five hundred, two hundred people are not, and half of them are old, weak, sick and disabled, and they can't even hold knives, as for the armor and weapons he purchased, all of them are non-existent things, The salaries of these soldiers, the maintenance and purchase of equipment and armor were all used by this Liu Qian to purchase fields. And the guards under him were all his free serfs.

Eating empty salaries and drinking the blood of soldiers is the most common way of survival of the Ming Guard.

The ** of the guard, it's unbelievable, when I got this account book from Feng Er's hand, even I was taken aback. Compared with the situation that I have been inspecting these days, almost all the officers in the guard station have more or less black money income, it is just a matter of how much. And this General Liu Qian belongs to the kind that is very, very black.

Originally, I wanted to take this account book and kill chickens to show the monkey, but after thinking about it, I decided to knock on the side first, these people have been with Li Guangzhong for so long, Li Guangzhong probably knows the inside story here, the reason why he doesn't want to move these people is naturally his reason, since Li Guangzhong is unwilling to move, then I also have to pay attention, as long as these people agree to my military reform, I naturally won't make too much trouble with them, and they will continue to live their free lives in the future, and I will rectify my guards.

After all, if you push everyone to the opposite side in one go, it won't be easy to get this thing going.

"Actually, I also wanted to go to the Ministry of War first, but as you know, the dragon body has not been safe for so many years, and the adults of the Ministry of War are also busy, I really can't bear to use these little things in our Dengzhou to disturb the nobles of the imperial court, today I am here to summon all the adults, but also want to listen to the opinions of the adults, in the next is only a shallow learner, and it is a new junior here, it is really inconvenient to be arbitrary!" Seeing that the effect was almost there, I smiled and put the ledger back in my hand. Watching Liu Qian's eyes follow the ledger in my hand everywhere, I almost didn't laugh in my heart.

"Poof~" Yuruo, who was standing behind him, probably couldn't help it, and suddenly laughed, this laugh didn't matter, these adults in the hall immediately stood up in unison as if their buttocks had been pricked by needles.

"I'm discussing business with all of you, what are you smiling at a little girl!" I turned my head and glared at Yu Ruo, although Yu Ruo was not convinced, but now she was just viciously white to me, and then pouted and swallowed the laughter into her stomach.

Liu Qian's group of old men took a long breath, and then you look at me, I look at you, and finally lost his gaze to Liu Qian.

"General, you are young, you know that it is our negligence to consider the saint, these little things in Dengzhou are indeed not worth bothering the saint of the Jingshi, don't you adults?"

In this situation, some people say that there are ghosts, and I almost didn't laugh when I saw everyone's heads nodding like chickens pecking rice. Nangong Ring also followed behind as if he was joining in the fun.

"Ahem~ Since all of you adults are so considerate of the saint, then I don't know if you have any objections to the thing I just said?"

Everyone's heads shook like rattles.

Everything went according to plan!

"I have an objection!"