"It's nature." Hong Chengchou said, "Those officers in the Beijing camp can also think of other methods, such as giving a certain amount of money and food to buy out their secular positions and cancel their military status. Another example is that they can be transferred to the provincial armies by the Ministry of War, or they can simply form an army, include all these people, and send them to Jiangxi, Guizhou and other places to suppress bandits! ”

The rebellion in Guizhou has been pacified, but the power of Tusi is still huge, and I don't know when there will be a Tusi rebellion. In Jiangxi, although Yuan Chonghuan was sent as the governor of Jiangxi, the rebellion in Jiangxi was not completely quelled, and there were still peasants everywhere in Ganzhou, Ruijin and other places to rebel.

"One last resort!" Zhu Youzhen said with a smile, "Just send them to Jiangxi to reinforce Yuan Chonghuan." ”

It is undoubtedly a one-for-one method to include officers who are unwilling to give up their posts in a battalion and send them to other places to suppress bandits, and to stay in other places directly after the crackdown is successful, and not to allow them to return to Beijing.

The minister suggested that the ban on Jingying could be taken in two steps. The first step was to issue a notice in the name of expanding the Praetorian Guard and recruit soldiers for the Kyoto camp. The salary and silver treatment of the Praetorian Guard, those soldiers in the Beijing camp have long been envious, if there is a chance to become the Praetorian Guard, many soldiers in the Beijing camp must be very happy. Tens of thousands of soldiers in the Beijing camp, although the combat effectiveness is weak, but there are still those who dare to fight and have bravery, let's first absorb this group of soldiers into the Praetorian Guard.

Then it was announced that the Beijing camp would be banned, and from now on, the establishment of the Beijing camp would be completely abolished, and all soldiers would be changed to peasant registrations.

In fact, in recent years, the money and food of the imperial court have never been distributed in time, and coupled with the layers of deductions by the officers, the money and food of the soldiers in Beijing cannot support their families at all. In order to support their families, most of the soldiers in the Beijing camp have other part-time jobs and cancel their military status, although these soldiers do not have a fixed amount of money and food, but they no longer need to be bound by the Beijing camp, and they are no longer enslaved by the leading officers, they can naturally find a way to support their families, and many soldiers wish to do so.

Of course, in order to appease these soldiers, a sum of money can be given to settle down, and ten taels per person is enough. ”

Hong Chengchou stopped as he said and looked at Zhu Youzhen, this is a lot of money.

Zhu Youzhen nodded: "Yes." ”

As long as the Beijing camp can be banned, it is still possible to pay a price. Besides, more than a dozen nobles have just been confiscated, although they have not counted how much family property they have confiscated, but there should be millions of taels of silver. Forty or fifty thousand soldiers in the Beijing camp is twenty taels per person, and one million taels of silver is enough. It is still cost-effective to spend one million taels of silver to solve the corrupt Beijing camp once and for all.

Seeing that Zhu Youzhen promised to give the silver, Hong Chengchou continued: "And it is not these soldiers who are really unwilling to cancel the Beijing camp, but the officers of the Beijing camp that the minister just mentioned, and they are the ones with vested interests. For these people, we can take a two-pronged approach, one is to follow the method of ordinary soldiers, and also give them scattered silver to buy out their positions, and we can give different buyout silver according to the level of their official positions. For example, one hundred taels for one hundred households, one thousand taels for one thousand households, and so on. ”

Zhu Youzhen had a toothache, there were at least thousands of officers in the Beijing camp, and if they wanted to buy out the hereditary official positions of others, they would definitely not do it if they gave less money, which was a huge expense. Maybe the silver that had just been copied from a dozen nobles would be spent again.

"No problem." Zhu Youzhen gritted his teeth. If you can solve the Jingying problem peacefully, spend some money. Spending a sum of money now, but you can leave a large sum of money and food every year in the future, and it is still worth it.

"Of course, there may be some officers who are unwilling to give up their posts, and Your Majesty may decree that these officers may be reassigned to them by the Ministry of War, and sent to the provinces as officers.

There may be many officers who are reluctant to go to other places, so there is no need to be polite to these people, and according to the minister's suggestion at the beginning, they will be organized into a separate battalion and sent to Jiangxi to suppress bandits! Hong Chengchou said murderously.

Under such division and disintegration, there will certainly be a group of stubborn officers who do not want to go to other places and do not want to be driven to Jiangxi to suppress bandits, but will try to cause chaos. But by that time, not many soldiers would follow them. There is no need to transfer troops from Liaodong, and the Xiyuan Janissaries alone can be easily pacified.

Because he felt that the Beijing camp was corrupt and was not under his control, Zhu Youzhen was very dissatisfied with the Beijing camp, so he wanted to ban and dissolve the Beijing camp. But I didn't think too clearly about how to do it and what the consequences would be. According to Zhu Youzhen's original idea, he directly announced the disbandment, and if the officers and soldiers of the Beijing battalion did not comply, they would be transferred to the Janissaries to suppress it. With a strong army in his hands, he naturally doesn't care about the weak Beijing camp. However, Zhu Youzhen did not think clearly about how great the consequences of the military rebellion in Beijing would be.

According to the method provided by Hong Chengchou, the interests of all strata of the officers and men of the Beijing camp were taken into account, and the officers and men of the Beijing camp were not driven to the Jedi. Soldiers who want to continue to serve as soldiers and eat food and are qualified can be recruited into the Praetorian Guard, and ordinary soldiers who do not want to be soldiers can be dismissed with silver taels, so that ordinary soldiers will not make trouble. And for those officers, they were also given a way out, or they took a buyout of the money, or went to other places to continue to be officers, and when they had a way out, they would not take risks and would not be in chaos.

Of course, according to Hong Chengchou's method, he needs to pay a large amount of silver, and maybe he will have to take out all the silver confiscated from more than a dozen nobles. But if it really caused a mutiny, the money spent on suppressing the mutiny alone was not a small amount, plus the losses caused by the war in Beijing, it was obvious which was a good deal.

"Aiqing is really my son!" The more Zhu Youzhen looked at Hong Chengchou, the more satisfied he felt.

"Your Majesty has praised it." Hong Chengchou said humbly, but he was extremely proud in his heart.

In the following time, the two of them discussed the establishment of the new Praetorian Guard. The Beijing camp is gone, and at least 30,000 more Janissaries must be recruited to maintain Beijing's city defenses. With such a huge army, it is natural that the imperial court will provide money and food, and Zhu Youzhen's own inner treasury cannot afford to support it. The money and grain provided by the imperial court naturally had to be under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of War, and the food and materials could be allocated by the Ministry of War.

However, in order to maintain the independence of the Praetorian Guards and to ensure his control over the Praetorian Guards, Zhu Youzhen told Hong Chengchou that the military department had no right to appoint officers at all levels of the Praetorian Guards. The Ministry of War is only in charge of the logistics of the Praetorian Guard, and of course, the promotion of officers needs to be filed with the Ministry of War.

In this way, the Military Selection Department of the Ministry of War has become an ornament. As the secretary of the Ministry of War, Hong Chengchou was naturally not very happy, which was tantamount to greatly weakening the power of the Ministry of War.

However, thinking about the Praetorian Guard's unique promotion system, Hong Chengchou can understand it again, indeed, if the Ministry of War interferes in the appointment of Praetorian Guard officers, it is likely to mess up the Praetorian Guard.

The matter of banning the Beijing camp was thus decided, and the next thing just needed to be carried out slowly according to the plan.

Hong Chengchou left, Zhu Youzhen's heart also calmed down, there shouldn't be much wrong with the matter of banning Jingying, but thinking of the large amount of silver to be paid for this, I felt very heartbroken.

A large sum of silver, which was so easy to obtain, was about to be paid again, and his inner treasury was soon empty again. Xiyuan Janissaline, business school, arsenal, academy, there are too many places that need money. The commercial tax collected by the Department of Taxation cannot be supported for too long, and now all that can be counted on is the silver of sea trade.