Chapter 55: Liaoxi is in chaos
After all, it is about the restructuring of more than 200,000 clans, and there are too many aspects involved, and it is by no means child's play.
And those vassal generals will never want to see their interests suffered, and it is difficult to say what kind of reaction they will have, and they may even openly rebel.
But after all, the clan has been raised as pigs for more than 200 years, and they have long lost their sharpness and power, and if they really dare to rebel, they only need the local government to send a team of officials to quell the rebellion. There is no need to make a big deal like dealing with King Fu.
Moreover, whether it is Zhu Youzhen or the officials of the DPRK and China, they all wish that someone would rebel, so that they could directly get rid of the vassal and save a lot of money on the expenses of the vassal king......
Twenty-seven princes and more than 900 county kings are distributed in various provinces, and it is necessary to send a large number of people just to check the acres of land they illegally occupy. It is completely the responsibility of the local government and it is not at ease, and it must be taken care of by the people sent by Beijing. The hundreds of imperial historians of the Inspectorate put down their work and went to various places with a group of brocade guards.
The matter of the clan reform was so big and cumbersome that the courtiers forgot to try King Fu's rebellion and check King Fu's property, and of course Zhu Youzhen would not mention it again.
In fact, there is nothing to judge, the "evidence" of King Fu's rebellion is conclusive, Zhu Youzhen issued an order to abolish the title of King Fu of Zhu Changxun, and also abolished the position of the son of King Fu of Zhu Yousong, and both father and son were escorted to Fengyang to take care of them. It stands to reason that the title of King Fu should be inherited by Zhu Changxun's other sons, but Zhu Youzhen ignored the etiquette system at all, but directly announced the abolition of the Fu Domain, directly removed the country, and King Fu's other sons were all reduced to commoners.
A large part of the wealth copied from the Fu Wangfu was escorted to the Jingshi into the inner treasury, and the rest was left for Lu Xiangsheng to be used as a recruit and food for the Praetorian Guard. Zhu Youzhen has already decided to recruit another 10,000 soldiers in Henan, transfer soldiers with good performance from Cao Bianjiao's Zhongyong Battalion as officers, and then divide the martial artists in this year's new examination into some of them and reorganize them into three battalions.
Soldiers are recruited from the poor tenants in the area of Henan Prefecture, or the old policy, one person enlists in the army and the whole family is exempted from taxes and servitude, and the soldier is paid a monthly salary, if the army performs well and makes military merits, it will be directly given to the field, anyway, there are hundreds of thousands of acres of land confiscated from the Fuwang Mansion.
As soon as the policy of recruiting soldiers was announced, the poor tenants in the Henan Prefecture immediately rushed to tell each other and enthusiastically signed up. A good man is not a soldier, a good iron is not a nail, this is an old folk custom, but this time the soldier gave too much!
Just exempting the whole family from the levy tax made the poor people's minds surge, and the heavy levy tax pressed the ordinary people to no longer be able to lift their heads and breathe.
Of course, such a good treatment also aroused the jealousy of the local army in Henan, but so what, people recruited the Praetorian Guards, the personal guards of the Son of Heaven, how could they be compared with ordinary guards and soldiers? If you're really jealous, just sign up.
Of course, not everyone can be selected, because the recruitment criteria are very strict.
Lu Xiangsheng is still personally responsible, carefully selecting the young and strong people who sign up, and the ones selected are all young, strong and honest and obedient croppers, like the ** in the Ming army in those places, they can't enter Lu Xiangsheng's eyes at all.
It took more than half a month to recruit 10,000 recruits, and 1,000 people were drawn from Cao Bianjiao's Zhongyong Battalion as officers, and another 1,000 recruits were added, so that the combat effectiveness of the Zhongyong Battalion was still there.
10,000 recruits, who are trained for three months before being reorganized into battalions.
Such a large-scale recruit training naturally could not be placed in Luoyang City, so Lu Xiangsheng ordered people to find a suitable camp by the Yellow River in the north of Luoyang City as a training place. This is a valley in the Bishan Mountain Range, leaning on the Bishan Mountain and relying on the Yellow River, the location is remote, the terrain is relatively open, and the gravel geology is not suitable for farming, so it is a suitable training place.
The training of the Praetorian Guard Battalion into an army was handled by Lu Xiangsheng, who already had enough experience, and now he is even more proficient, with the assistance of experienced officers such as Cao Bianjiao, coupled with sufficient money and food, the training of recruits soon entered the formal.
The recruitment and training of the Henan Praetorian Guard New Army went smoothly, and the reform of the clan system was steadily advancing, although there were small waves, but there were accidents in other places one after another.
In the second half of March, there were mobs in Southern Jiangxi who rebelled, broke through the county seat of Anyuan, looted the county treasury, released the prisoners, and the county governor Shen Kefeng fled. Zhu Youzhen issued an order to lock up the criminal Shen Ke to enter Beijing for the crime of losing land, and at the same time ordered Hong Zhanzu, the governor of southern Jiangnan, to quell the civil unrest as soon as possible.
Gannan is far away in Jiangxi, thousands of miles away from Beijing, and it is far from creating much of a threat, but in early April, the mutiny in Ningyuan suddenly touched the nerves of the imperial court. Ningyuan was the front line of western Liaoxi to resist the invasion of Jiannu, and there was a mutiny there, once Jiannu took the opportunity to attack, the consequences would be unimaginable......
Zhu Youzhen urgently summoned the cabinet elders and Sun Chengzong, the secretary of the military department, to discuss the matter in the warm pavilion of the Qianqing Palace.
Sun Chengzong's face was gloomy, and he reported the incident to the emperor and the cabinet elders.
Because of the lack of pay for four months, a mutiny broke out, and the remaining 13 battalions responded by arresting Ningyuan officials such as Liaodong Governor Bi Zisu, Chief Military Officer Zhu Mei, General Judge Zhang Shirong, and Push Officer Su Hanchun and tied them to the tower.
"Four months without pay? How could I be short of the money I personally ordered to be disbursed last autumn, and where did the money go? Zhu Youzhen was furious.
At that time, not long after the raid of Wei Zhongxian's eunuchs, the minister of the Liao Governor Wang Shu said that the Liao soldiers were in arrears for several months, and asked the imperial court to allocate money and grain, and at the same time proposed to organize the people and military households to cultivate the land in western Liaoning to compensate for the needs of the army. At that time, there was also Mao Wenlong, the chief soldier of the Dongjiang River, who asked for salary, and Zhu Youzhen considered that no matter how hard he was, he could not suffer the front-line soldiers, so he ordered the household department to allocate silver and grain, and he also allocated 500,000 taels of silver from the confiscation of Wei Zhongxian's family property.
How long has it been? There was a lack of pay and trouble!
Sun Chengzong was silent for a moment, and said with difficulty: "The Liao soldiers have been short of salaries for a long time, and the money and grain allocated in the past are probably not enough to make up for the past arrears, plus the generals have embezzled ......."
The imperial court levied more Liao salaries year after year, and the money and grain spent on the Liaoxi army every year was more than 5 million taels of silver, and the state treasury was empty year after year.
This situation is not only clear to Sun Chengzong, but also to the cabinet elders present, but no one can do anything.
It's not a matter of one day, and it's not just the Liaoxi soldiers in the area of Jinzhou in Ningyuan, but the entire Jiubian army is just as corrupt. And now that Jiannu is eyeing the enemy, the imperial court can't do anything to those generals who embezzle military salaries, but has to coax them.
"Jiannu is eyeing the enemy, and the incident should not be expanded, so it should be pacified as soon as possible." Huang Liji sighed and suggested.
"Yuanfu is right, the military rebellion should be quelled as soon as possible now, and the situation should not be expanded, as for other things, we will talk about it later." Sun Chengzong nodded, agreeing with Huang Liji's words.
"The rebellion needs to be appeased, but after such a big incident, it seems that there is no need for Wang Zhichen to continue to be this governor." Zhu Youzhen said lightly.