Compared with the early years, the salary of the Beijing army in five yuan of silver per month has risen a lot, but compared with the current increase in prices, it is far worse.

An ordinary Beijing soldier is paid five silver dollars per month, but the lowest price of grain in Beijing is two silver dollars per stone. In the early years, the military salary in January was one tael, and there were also rice, grain, salt, vegetables, cloth, etc., and the price of a stone of grain was about five dollars of silver at that time. The conversion of silver dollars to silver is two-to-two, and the soldiers at that time also had about three silver dollars a month, but they could buy three stone rice. And now it has risen to five silver dollars, but it can only buy two stones and a half meters, and when it is calculated, in fact, the salary has fallen instead of increasing.

As for Liaoxi outside the Guanxi, the price of rice is higher. Hong Chengchou even once played, saying that the trouble outside the customs is not that there is no silver, but that silver is useless. The price of grain in Beijing is one stone and two silver dollars, while in Liaoxi it is four or even five yuan in one stone. The monthly salary of the soldiers and horses in western Liaoning is the same as that of the Gyeonggi soldiers, and they receive the highest salary of five yuan per month, but in fact, based on the price factor, these five yuan are not as much as half of the Gyeonggi soldiers, and they are not even comparable to the other three yuan of local soldiers in January.

But in any case, the salary is low, but in this troubled world, it is at least a good job. As long as the food can be distributed, they can still have enough to eat, and they can even barely feed their families.

Compared to the Chu army, their situation is a bit miserable. The military salary of the Chu army is not high, and the basic salary is only about four or five yuan, but the Chu army still has rank subsidies, military subsidies, combat subsidies, military merit rewards, etc., which add up to a very considerable amount.

From this point of view, the combat effectiveness of the Chu army is indeed piled up with money. The low combat effectiveness of soldiers and horses in other towns in the Ming Dynasty is also related to the lack of food and salary, which makes them not only low in combat effectiveness, but also often mutinied. In the early years of Chongzhen, there was an important reason why the bandits in Shaanxi were so bad, that is, the Shaanxi border army was short of pay for 30 months at that time, and there was no food and food when they were transferred to suppress bandits and King Qin. When they stay in the town, although they are not paid, they can still go to collect some work to earn some extra money to support their families.

Once they were transferred out of the town, they had no food, food, etc., and their families had no whereabouts, so that many border soldiers eventually had to go into a mutiny, or even mutiny and could only surrender to thieves.

The second enlarged meeting of the Prime Minister's Office ended again, again without a successful conclusion. Because the report of the Ministry of War was questioned, other reports made by the Ministry of Household Affairs were also temporarily shelved.

The final result was that the household department would re-examine the report and review it again after the inspection of the Beijing army.

Chen Xinjia didn't know how he left the prime minister's office. Anyway, I regret it very much.

When he returned to the military headquarters, Chen Xinjia immediately sent people to send a message to the commanders of the towns in Beijing, asking them to find a way to prepare for this inspection

"It is said that the new official took office with three fires, but the fire of this Liaodong county king is also too strong, so he is not afraid of setting himself on fire?"

Wuding Marquis Guo Peimin said compassionately, he is a descendant of the general Guo Ying in the early Ming Dynasty, and he can be regarded as the more famous number one among the Ming nobles. At present, he is the chief military officer of the first town of the Praetorian Guard Battalion among the three major battalions in Gyeonggi, and he knows for himself how many soldiers there are in the first town.

The first town was named Sanwan. In fact, less than 10,000 people are available.

After these five days, how to deal with the past of the school outside Desheng Gate?

The chief military officer of the second town is Chen Yanzuo, the Marquis of Taining, and his ancestor is Chen Qi, who was knighted for military merits in Jingnan. The situation in the second town is not as good as that in the first town. After all, the first town is to guard the palace ban, responsible for driving, and is organized by the guards and pro-army. And his second town is mainly reorganized from the original five military camps. The situation is much worse than in the first town, and there are more vacancies.

"The king of Liaodong is menacing, why don't we break some wealth and make some blood. A great gift? ”

Gu Zhaoji, the chief military officer of the third town, Zhenyuan Marquis, sneered, his ancestor was also knighted with Jing Nan, and he was also a time-honored minister. "Is there anyone richer in this world than the King of Liaodong? How much do you have to send to keep him satisfied? And I think that the king of Liaodong doesn't care about some money at all, and his fire is simply for military power. ”

"Soldiers?" The commander of the Praetorian Guard Battalion, Dingguo Gong Xu Yunzhen, frowned.

Gu Zhaoji said to him, "Don't forget that there are still 30,000 troops of Liu Jun stationed in Lugou Bridge and Xishan. ”

Xu Yunzhen's heart moved, "You mean, the intention of the county king is to insert his 30,000 soldiers into the Beijing camp and stay in Gyeonggi for a long time?" ”

"It must be so, otherwise, why would he risk a grudge with everyone in the Beijing army to stab this stick? Don't forget, the king of Liaodong was appointed as the minister, but the elders of Zhou and Wu were very dissatisfied. If the king of Liaodong can transfer the Beiyang soldiers into Beijing, and install the Beijing army, and stay in Jinggi for a long time, then his position will be stable, with 30,000 soldiers and horses in Beijing, who dares to move him easily. ”

"If so, how can we be good? There are only five days left, and once it is checked, it will definitely not be able to hold the fire. When the gods fight, it is we who suffer. ”

The title of the Ming Dynasty is not as rare as that of the Tang and Song dynasties, and it is difficult to be knighted for non-military merits. In the early years, the nobles of the Ming Dynasty were still very brave, but in the battle of Tumubao that year, the Beijing camp was mourned, and even many nobles died there. Since then, not only has the Beijing camp been sluggish, but even these martial arts families have been squeezed out of their backbones.

Although the soldiers and horses of the Beijing division are all led by the nobles as usual, in fact, the Beijing army can't even guard the door, and it has relied on the border army all these years. On weekdays, the Beijing camp neglects to practice, and the nobles are just indulging in enjoyment and busy making money. In the name of the imperial court, they did some speculative business, and even the Beijing camp under their command became a tool for them to make money.

Eat empty quotas, collect money for people to pay for food, and buy people to hire labor. He even regarded the soldiers of the Beijing camp as his servants and let them do the service.

They never thought of seriously leading troops and drilling.

"No matter how we fight, we still have to find a way to deal with the current level first. At the very least, it has to be made to look good, and it can't be too ugly when the time comes. ”

"Why don't you hire some people to do the test temporarily?" Chen Yanzuo said.

Xu Yunzhen shook his head, "The vacancies in each town are too serious, how many people do you have to hire to count?" And although the emperor is young, the king of Liaodong is an expert in leading troops. Wouldn't it be revealing that there are fewer hired people and that they may still be fooled by the past? ”

"So what do you say?"

"Guogong, I have a plan, maybe it can work." Gu Zhaoji suddenly said with a smile.

"Oh, what is the plan of the Marquis of Zhenyuan, tell me quickly." Xu Yongzhen asked impatiently. He is now sad to death, and the power of the king of Liaodong is terrifying.

"Wei Guogong, although this military parade in the northern suburbs is only for the soldiers and horses of the three towns of our Praetorian Guard Battalion to be reviewed, the other two battalions and six towns cannot stay out of the matter. Didn't the king of the governor's mansion already say that he wanted a town to be inspected? Let's talk to the brothers of the other towns, when we inspected the three towns of our Praetorian Camp this time, the other six towns lent us soldiers first, and gathered the soldiers and horses of the three towns to deal with the inspection. After the inspection, when they are checked, we will borrow troops from them to help them check, this is helping each other, isn't it just right? ”

"The Marquis of Zhenyuan is really powerful, good plan." Xu Yunzhen listened and slapped his thigh again and again

"The king of the county, someone asked to see you." Zhu Chenggong reported and said that he would send a name sticker.

Liu Jun took it and saw the three words Wang Dehua. He is no stranger to this name, Wang Dehua is not simple, he served as the eunuch of the Dongchang palm seal, and later served as the eunuch of the palm seal of the celebrant supervisor, but later because of discord with Wang Chengen, he was finally disliked by Chongzhen, first out of the town outside the town to supervise the army, and later returned to the dynasty, but it was not as good as before, and finally became the minister of the Beijing army guard battalion.

Wang Chengen, Wang Zhixin and others, who were below him back then, are now above him.

Wang Dehua was a great eunuch alongside Cao Huachun back then. This is the time to come to the door, well, the timing is intriguing.

"Invite him to the study."

Liu Jun changed his clothes and went to the study to meet the guests. Wang Dehua was wearing a corner belt in green clothes, and was sitting in it drinking tea, when he saw Liu Jun coming in, he hurriedly got up to greet him.

"Come uninvited late at night, take the liberty of disturbing, and ask the county king for forgiveness."

"The prince is polite, and the arrival of the house will make the cold house full of brilliance."

Wang Dehua was very polite, and after the two of them were noisy, they sat down as guests. Without waiting for Liu Jun to ask, Wang Dehua had already taken the initiative to explain his intentions, and it turned out that after discussing with the commanders and commanders of the three towns of the Praetorian Guard, they came up with a plan to find the other two battalions to borrow troops to deal with the inspection, and then reported to Xiangli Wu Xiang and the minister Admiral Wang Dehua.

Of course, they have to be notified of such a big thing. And everyone is a grasshopper on a rope, one is prosperous and one is lost, and if something goes wrong, no one can escape.

It's just that they never expected that Wang Dehua was greatly admired by the plan to borrow troops over there. turned their heads to the evening, but they ran to Liu Jun's mansion in person and revealed their plan to Liu Jun without concealment.

"Our family is loyal to the emperor, and it is difficult to agree with those who engage in personal fraud. Our family knew that the former emperor and the present were very trusting of the county king, and after knowing their conspiracy, they immediately came to tell him. Wang Dehua looked loyal and selfless.

However, Liu Jun guessed that Wang Dehua just felt that their plan was not very reliable, so he wanted to abandon the ship first and escape, using these colleagues as stepping stones to escape.

Wang Dehua was very sincere, in addition to coming to report the news and betraying his colleagues, he also handed over a roster to Liu Jun.

This roster is the roster of soldiers of the Praetorian Guard Battalion, which records in detail the number of officers and soldiers of the battalion of each town division, and even the number of armor, the geometry of firearms, and the number of war horses and horses.

Moreover, this roster is not a fake roster for outsiders to see. It is the real roster of the Praetorian Guard Battalion, which was recorded by Wang Dehua privately. This was originally a hand he kept, but now it is just used as a nomination.

According to Wang Dehua's roster, the Praetorian Guard Battalion should have 90,000 soldiers and horses in three towns, but in fact it was less than 30,000. There were more than 60,000 horses and mules, but in reality there were less than 20,000.

The rest of the things are even more shocking.

The so-called Gyeonggi Nine Towns New Army is actually just the original three battalions of the Beijing Army changing the soup but not the medicine.

Liu Jun accepted the register and account book, and bowed his hand to Wang Dehua, "The prince understands the righteousness, and the king admires it very much, so he will report it to His Majesty." ”

Wang Dehua suddenly smiled. (To be continued.) )

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