In just over three months, Zheng Xunrui played a dazzling set of combination punches, completely rectified the order of Caoyun, and also completed the last Caoyun task of the year, which made everyone look at each other, even those Donglin Party members in the capital watched and couldn't find any fault.

Zheng Xunrui, the governor of Caoyun, can be said to be the most daring and sharp governor, he is not satisfied, and there is the most tricky thing next, that is, how to rectify the affairs of the guards.

Zheng Jinhong has concurrently served as the commander of Wei Caodu, which is equivalent to saying that Zheng Xunrui controls the military power, but there is one of the most critical issues here, that is, how to thoroughly regulate Wei Cao's soldiers.

Known as 18,000 Wei Cao soldiers, the actual number is only 6,400 people, almost only one-third of the total number, which can be seen from the Wei Cao commander and many other officers, do not know how much empty pay they ate, originally eating empty pay is the general situation of the army of the Ming Dynasty, some places are even stricter than this, but the duties of the Wei Cao soldiers are different, their responsibility is to escort the completion of the Cao Yun task, keep the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal unblocked, and let this blood related to the rise and fall of the Ming Dynasty smooth.

Such an important escort task, there is actually a situation of empty salary, and it is very strict, which shows how rotten the army of the Ming Guard has become.

At the beginning, the northern rogues plundered, and the guards were ordered to exterminate them, but the final result was that the more and more they suppressed, the more powerful the rogues became, and many of the soldiers of the guards simply surrendered directly to the rogues, which has to be said to be a huge irony.

Zheng Xunrui had already set out to exterminate the Cao Gang, re-established the Hongmen, replaced the Cao Gang's Cunzài, and began to coordinate many matters of the Cao Gang. Moreover, he also completely adjusted the Caoyun Governor's Mansion and many officials in Huaibei, and he put the matter of rectifying the Wei Cao soldiers at the end, which is also the reason why he fully estimated the contradictions and possible problems in it, so he made this decision.

Integrate the Guards. It is simple to say, but in practice, the difficulty is very great, after all, the army is a matter of special concern to the imperial court, Zheng Xunrui's creation of the Zheng family army has caused the uneasiness of the imperial court, and it can even be said that it has aroused the suspicion of the emperor, but the Zheng family army is extremely brave, which makes the soul of the rogue frightened. Let the Houjin Tartars suffer a defeat, in such a situation, the imperial court will not dare to disintegrate the Zheng family army lightly, if it does so, it will undoubtedly be self-destructive.

Wei Cao Bing Ding is an important military force in the south, except for the Nanjing Jing Ying, it is considered Wei Cao Bing Ding, because of the different responsibilities they undertake. Wei Cao Bingding attracted the attention of the imperial court even more, of course, the Wei army was tired. The Ministry of War also knows this, but the law does not blame the people, everyone does this, and the Ministry of War has no way to rectify it.

Zheng Xunrui also integrated the army, such as the Yulin border army, which is said to have some experience. However, the situation of the guards is different, and if they are rectified according to the previous methods, there will definitely be no effect.

The shady scene of Caoyun involved the Wei Cao soldiers, especially those officers such as the commanders, the Wei commanders, the thousands of households, and the hundred households. They can be said to have relied on Cao Yun and greedy for a lot of money, even if they were ordinary soldiers, most of them also obtained some money from it, which is like an officer eating meat and a soldier drinking a small amount of soup.

From this point of view, Wei Cao's officers and soldiers are living a very good life.

Zheng Xunrui has cut off the chain of interests in Caoyun, which can be regarded as completely reducing the burden of the people, and Wei Caobing will have a real income in the future.

Analyzing such a situation, Zheng Xunrui understood two problems, one is that the Wei Cao soldiers are basically comprehensively corrupt, such soldiers cannot have any combat effectiveness, to put it mildly, it is waste, even if it is integrated, they do not have much effect, and they cannot exert their combat effectiveness, and the second is that the comprehensive rectification of the Wei Cao soldiers, there are huge difficulties, and it is impossible to dismiss all the 6,400 Wei Cao soldiers, which will definitely cause a commotion, and at the same time will lead to the impeachment of some adults in the court.

The special moment is the moment when Zheng Xunrui moves from guerrilla to regular, and he needs to be cautious and cautious in everything he does, taking into account the overall situation, and at the same time taking into account the harmonious environment in which he has come out.

So after such a long time, how to integrate Wei Cao Bingding has always been a problem that Zheng Xunrui has been thinking about, he has done a lot of things perfectly, thinking that everything is perfect, the possibility is not great.

Caoyun Governor's Palace, Donglin Book House.

Zheng Jinhong was reporting the details of Wei Caobingding, and Zheng Xunrui, Xu Wanghua, Shi Kefa, Ma Shiying, Su Jiancheng, Zhao Danyu, Liang Xingli, Gu Menglin, Cao Chi, Wen Kun and others were all listening attentively.

“…… The actual number of Wei Cao's soldiers is 6,364, including three Wei commanders, 15 people from 1,000 households, 150 people from 100 households, 230 other officers of the fourth rank and above, and 840 officers of the fourth rank and above the eighth rank, that is to say, the total number of officers above the eighth rank in the Wei Cao army is 1,235, and there is one officer among the average less than five soldiers. ”

"The military salary of the guards is the same as that of other guards, and the channels for the allocation of military salaries are different, the military department and the household department generals' salaries are allocated to the governor's palace, and the generals' salaries of the governor's palace are allocated to the commander's envoys, and the guards do not directly contact the military department, and the subordinates have carefully cleaned up the military salary allocation in the past three years, and the household department should allocate 110,000 taels of silver every year, as well as 9,000 stone lu rice, and the total of three years is 33 taels of silver, and 27,000 stone lu rice, but the actual military salary allocated by the household department is only 100,000 taels, and Lu rice has not been allocated."

"According to the information learned by the subordinates, the household department has an agreement with the Caoyun Governor's Mansion, and most of the military salaries of the guards are the responsibility of the Governor's Office, as for the source, the household department did not say."

"The subordinates checked the military salaries allocated by the Governor's Palace, and the total amount for three years was 220,000 taels of silver, in addition to the 100,000 taels of silver allocated by the Account Opening Department, the Governor's Palace actually took out 120,000 taels of silver, with an average of 40,000 taels of silver per year......

Zheng Xunrui's face was already a little ugly, he originally thought that the amount of Wei Cao's soldiers who were greedy for ink was not large, but Zheng Jinhong checked the accounts and said that Wei Cao's officers were greedy for too much silver, and Wei Cao's soldiers' military salary was five dollars of silver per month, plus five Hu Lu rice, which was converted into about two taels of silver, but the Lu rice household department did not allocate it, so it was impossible to distribute it, so that more than 4,000 soldiers needed only more than 2,000 taels of silver per month, and it was more than 20,000 taels of silver throughout the year.

For 1,235 officers, the average monthly salary required is about 4,000 taels, or 50,000 taels of silver for the whole year.

The two combined, 70,000 taels of silver for the whole year, which can solve all the military salaries.

In two years, the commander of the envoy issued the full salary, that is, 140,000 taels of silver, and the governor's palace allocated 220,000 taels of silver, which was actually as high as 80,000 taels of silver.

This is an astonishing number, counting the money obtained by Caoyun's shady scenes, Wei Cao's officers can be said to be fat.

No wonder Wei Cao Bing Ding had to stick to it no matter what, Zheng Xunrui remembered very well that in the eighth and ninth years of Chongzhen, when the Liukou attacked Fengyang Mansion City and Luzhou Mansion City respectively, Wei Cao Bing Ding was not effective in resisting, and the imperial court was ready to adjust the defense, but encountered strong opposition, and later someone came forward to do so, so as to avoid being transferred.

Zheng Xunrui needs to take this road, let all the guards and soldiers adjust their defenses, there is no other way, in fact, he knows very well that the guard system has long collapsed, and the guard army in the north is even more in name only, and it has basically been changed to a recruitment system.

Except for Zheng Jinhong, who was also the commander of Wei Caodu, no one from Wei Cao attended the meeting, and Zheng Xunrui would not inform Wei Cao to participate.

"Zheng Zongbing's investigation, you have all heard it, the shady scene of Cao Yuncun zài, basically removed, in this case, it is impossible for the governor's palace to take out so much silver, to raise these pampered Wei Cao officers and soldiers, let them eat empty salaries, they don't want to continue to get money from Cao Yun, so Wei Cao soldiers must be fed, otherwise it will not be maintained, I want to hear what you think, what are the good constructions."

The discussion lasted for more than half an hour, and everyone proposed to put an end to the situation of empty salary.

The last speaker was Ma Shiying.

"My lord, the subordinate officials will be transferred to the Nanjing Beijing camp, and the sergeants of the defense part will be transferred from the Nanjing Beijing camp to become the Wei Cao soldiers, as for the number of personnel needed, the subordinate Jian Yi is 3,000 people, and it is enough to have so many Wei Cao soldiers."

Ma Shiying's construction was quickly recognized by everyone.

Wei Cao soldiers from 18,000 to 3,000 people, I believe that the emperor is happy, the household department is also willing, only the military department needs to do some work, fortunately, the military department is under the direct jurisdiction of Zhang Fengyi, so the Caoyun Governor's Office proposed to integrate the Wei Cao soldiers, which can ensure the passage of guò.

After everyone's opinions were unified, Zheng Xunrui quickly made arrangements, and of course Xu Wanghua drafted the fold.

Three days later, the report on the transfer of defense soldiers was sent to the capital, and several letters written by Zheng Xunrui were also sent to the capital.

After sending it away, Zheng Xunrui breathed a sigh of relief, about the matter of Cao Yun, basically in place, the next focus will be on Zheng Jiajun, especially about the research and development of firearms, with enough silver in his hand, he can let go of the research and development of firearms. (To be continued......)