Chapter 398 The Current Situation in Quanzhou
For Quanzhou Mansion, Hu Ye is not a stranger, although he has not been here before, but this is a famous place, and Zheng He went to the West in the future, which started here, which means that the hydrological conditions here are very good, so there are so many Japanese people who choose to log in here to harass the people.
By the time Zhu Yunwen arrived in Quanzhou with the army, the commander and the prefect had already changed, and when he saw Zhu Yunwen, he was also trembling, after all, they had just taken office, and they knew that this errand was not easy to do.
There have been many years of trouble, and there is no reason why they can be exterminated as soon as they take office, so this time they put their hopes on Zhu Yunwen's body, they don't want to take the name of exterminating the Japanese troubles, they just hope that Zhu Yunwen's army can evaluate this place, as long as Zhu Yunwen has military exploits, their black gauze hat will be saved, and they will not be like their predecessors, who were sent back by Hongling to cut off their heads.
The new prefect is called Han Shiqi, and the commander is called Lu Bing, who used to be officials in Shunqing Mansion, but this time the Bashu people made a civil uprising, and they commanded meritorious, and were recommended by Geng Bingwen, so they came to Quanzhou Mansion to be the prefect and commander.
If they knew that Quanzhou Mansion was like this, I am afraid that they would only stay in Shunqing Mansion honestly, and it would be easy to exterminate the popular uprising caused by the cult, but it would be difficult to suppress the Japanese coquents.
Although the commander and the prefect were changed, the Quanzhou Mansion was still lifeless, because within a month, two villages were slaughtered by the Japanese Invaders, as Ming soldiers, they felt very ashamed, but they could not find the nest of the Japanese Invaders, so they felt that they could not make it.
"Your Highness, as soon as you come to Quanzhou, you will definitely be able to exterminate the bandits and kill all the pirates!"
Han Shiqi is also a standard sycophant, and he keeps patting his ass when he sees Zhu Yunwen.
"Don't talk nonsense, Grandpa Huang asked me to come to Quanzhou just to exterminate the Japanese invaders, not to listen to your sycophants!" Zhu Yunwen walked to the mansion. In the middle, he said coldly, "You have been in Quanzhou for a few days, do you know anything about the Japanese Kou?" ”
"Back to His Royal Highness, the two of us were on duty in Shunqing Mansion before, and we didn't know much about the Japanese Invaders, and they were only transferred to Quanzhou a few days ago. And there are fewer guards. What's more, outside of Quanzhou, there are many islands, which is more conducive to their hiding, as long as they rob their property, the vast sea, there is no way to recover it. Lu Bing replied very seriously, it seems that he has not been idle in the past two days, and he really wants to make some achievements.
"Fewer guards? There is a Chongwu place on the left side of Quanzhou Mansion. There is also the Yongning Guard, and the combined number of people will not be less than my army, why are there fewer guards? Zhu Yunwen asked loudly, since he came to Quanzhou. Naturally, he is also familiar with the surrounding illusions.
"Your Highness, Yongningwei has five thousand households under its jurisdiction, and each thousand households has four hundred households, scattered throughout Quanzhou Prefecture. Counting it, it should be more than 5,600 people in total. But according to Weichen's inspection in the past two days, the number of people reported is indeed so much. But now a hundred households are not the standard 112 people at all, but only 50 people, so calculated, the total number of people in a Yongning Wei is only 2,500 people, less than half of the report, and then scattered to various places, it is not enough to defend at all, so as soon as the Japanese invaders come, there will be a situation where the guards shirk each other, let alone go to the sea to pursue. Lu Bing said with a stern face, he knew that this situation must have a lot to do with the previous commander, maybe the commander was not just as simple as killing the head.
"What did you say!"
Zhu Yunwen was annoyed when he heard this, and slapped the table suddenly, he also knew that there were empty salaries in various places, but there were more than 5,000 people in a guard house, and it was also within the allowable range to report dozens of people, after all, the Ming Dynasty's income was low, and the commanders everywhere had to find a way to make money, right?
Due to the common existence of this situation, the military department will not investigate it deeply, and his grandfather also turned a blind eye, but he didn't expect this Yongningwei to be so strict with empty salaries, and he directly reported nearly 3,000 more people, for example, a soldier is ten taels of silver a year, and 3,000 people come down, which is 30,000 taels a year, and the appetite of this commander is too great.
The previous commander was on duty in Quanzhou for ten years, that is to say, in the past ten years, there were 200,000 taels of silver for greedy ink, which is not only to kill the head to atone for the crime, you must know that Zhu Yuanzhang said, if you embezzle more than ten taels, you have to kill the head, and if you exceed 100 taels, you have to raid the family and exterminate the clan.
"Have you checked all of this?" Zhu Yunwen looked at Lu Bing with some annoyance, this is not a trivial matter, not only the crime of suppressing bandits, but the crime of embezzling more than 200,000 taels is much bigger.
"Your Highness, Weichen doesn't dare to speak presumptuously, and Yongningwei's equipment is generally backward, and many swords are already rusty, not to mention chasing and killing the Japanese Invaders, even if it is used to chop wood, it is necessary to roll the blade, and to kill the Japanese Invaders with such a weapon, isn't that to send them to death?" Lu Bing also said with some righteous indignation.
"I'll just say why there are so many widows, but they chose to do it in Quanzhou, it turned out to see that Quanzhou's guards were weak." Zhu Yunwen's eyes were cold, and then he said, "Zichen, you send someone to investigate at each guard station immediately, if it is true, immediately report it to the imperial court, bring the previous commander to justice, and send additional military salaries." ”
When Yun Zichen heard this, he went out to assign tasks, this matter is not a trivial matter, and it must be treated with caution.
So the first thing Zhu Yunwen did when he came to Quanzhou was to exterminate the Japanese invaders, but to clean up the corruption case of Yongningwei first.
It doesn't matter if you don't check it, if you check it, you will die.
There is a huge Quanzhou Mansion, just one of his commanders, where dare to be greedy for so much silver, there must be dots up and down, so there will be no rumors for so many years.
So in the process of Yun Zichen going to investigate, he naturally encountered resistance, and in the end, it was Zhu Yunwen's army that passed and suppressed the riot. Only then did Zhu Yunwen know that it was not only the commander who was greedy for ink, but basically the officials of all sizes in the barracks were involved.
Now Zhu Yunwen is a little difficult, if all these people are dealt with, I am afraid that Quanzhou Mansion will be in chaos immediately. Don't come to Quanzhou Mansion by yourself, not only did you not solve the problem of the Japanese invaders, but you made Quanzhou a miasma.
But if you don't deal with these people, where is the law of the Ming Dynasty, once it is passed out, won't they all want to be greedy for ink? Isn't that a lack of military discipline?
So Zhu Yunwen had a headache, and called the prefect, the commander, Yun Zichen and Hu Ye to the palace to discuss how to solve this matter.
The prefect's attitude is very clear, these people must be dealt with, otherwise the Da Ming Law is just an ornament.
The attitude of the commander is also very clear, even if you want to deal with these people, it is not this time, after all, Quanzhou is short of manpower now, if you deal with these people on the second floor, I am afraid that the entire Yongningwei will not have any combat effectiveness, and the only way to exterminate the woes is to rely on Zhu Yunwen's 3,000 personal guards, what if there is any accident?
Hu Ye remained silent, it was better not to come out at this time.
Let's deal with it, if I don't get rid of the Japanese in the future, I'm afraid I won't be able to escape the charge of delaying the fighter.
Let's say don't deal with it, there will definitely be people who say that they are covering up corruption, this hat is even bigger, before Zhu Yunwen did not express his opinion, Hu Ye would not dare to be a bird.
Yun Zichen said that those people could be dealt with, even if there was no Yongningwei, he could exterminate all the pirates.
He is still so confident, but in the eyes of Hu Ye and Lu Bing, it is not self-confidence, but arrogance. If the Japanese were so easy to exterminate, they would not have plagued the southeast for decades.
This is a matter of opinion, and the last one to make up his mind has to be Zhu Yunwen.
"Okay, first write down all their accounts, and then deal with them uniformly after the extermination of the Japanese Invaders, if there is a meritorious service in the process of exterminating the Japanese Invaders, this crime will be crossed out. If there is no achievement in the process of exterminating the Japanese bandits, not only must they be dealt with severely, but they must also be punished for a crime of ineffective suppression, and they will be punished for several crimes! ”
Zhu Yunwen made a decision, which was to give those officers and soldiers a chance to make meritorious contributions.
Hu Ye thought that Zhu Yunwen's decision was still good, and at least it could mobilize the enthusiasm of those officers and soldiers.
Of course, Zhu Yunwen's decision will also be sent back to Nanjing, but Hu Ye knows that Zhu Yuanzhang will definitely agree with Zhu Yunwen's decision, because no matter what decision Zhu Yunwen makes at this time, Zhu Yuanzhang will not object, because this is the first time his grandson has made such a decision independently.
Only with such resoluteness will he not be swayed by others in the future, and it is possible to become a qualified heir to the throne.
As for the salaries of the personnel lacking in Yongningwei, Zhu Yuanzhang naturally allocated all the money, and every one was to open the door to Zhu Yunwen, as long as Zhu Yunwen could successfully eliminate the plague in Quanzhou this time, how much money was spent and how many people died, it was worth it for Zhu Yuanzhang.
The Japanese are not stupid, knowing that Quanzhou has Zhu Yunwen's army, naturally they don't dare to make trouble in Quanzhou, but there are a few desperate Japanese who want to go ashore to grab something, but they are caught by the officers and soldiers, and let Zhu Yunwen parade the streets, and then fall to death on the cliff outside the Chongwu Institute, attracting countless seabirds to grab food, which is unbearable.
In this way, Zhu Yunwen won the support of the people of Quanzhou, and with such a wise and martial emperor's grandson, the Japanese naturally did not dare to make trouble again.
The people will always be so blind, as long as they kill one or two Japanese criminals, they will say that Zhu Yunwen is wise and martial, and they don't look at how many men and horses Zhu Yunwen used, and it took thousands of people to catch these two Japanese criminals, then anyone can be wise and powerful, as long as they are not fools, they can do it.
However, if you want to completely eradicate the Japanese plague and wait for the Japanese to come and die, it is definitely not a wise choice, you must take the initiative.
Therefore, after Zhu Yuanzhang's military salary arrived, Zhu Yunwen wanted to build a batch of qualified weapons first and arm Yongningwei's soldiers first. But under Hu Ye's construction, it is better to build a big ship first, you have built a good weapon and a fart, don't you see that your three thousand personal guards are well-armed? But I also arrested two or three widows, didn't I see that downstairs and Xiao Jiuxian kept complaining that no one came to test the medicine?
So, in order to catch the medicine man for the two old men, you must take the initiative to attack, build a ship, and go to the sea to take the initiative to find the widows! (To be continued......)