Chongwen Street, Magpie Hutong, Sunjia Teahouse.

Zhao Qi and Qian Ba walked into the private room on the second floor of the teahouse as usual, not for the leisure of the past, and their faces were full of sorrow at this moment.

"I don't want to drink tea today!" Zhao Qi threw the teacup on the ground and said suddenly.

"I don't want to drink either, Xiao Er, go to drink!" Qian Ba shouted.

"Seventh Master. Eighth master, the teahouse doesn't sell alcohol......" Cha Xiaoer walked over with a look of embarrassment.

"Didn't go to buy it for Lao Tzu, what nonsense?" Qian Ba shook his hand and splashed the tea on Xiao Er's face, and scolded angrily.

Xiao Er wiped the tea on his face, very aggrieved but didn't dare to say anything.

"The two masters forgive me, this will let people buy wine for the two masters, is it to drink Fenjiu or Du Kang?" The shopkeeper of the teahouse hurriedly came over and apologized again and again.

"What Fenjiu to drink? If you don't get addicted, go buy a jar of burnt knives! Qian Ba commanded.

"Okay." The shopkeeper pulled Xiao Er down.

"What is fierce, I don't know how many days I can be an official in Beijing." Xiao Er muttered.

"Since you know that they are about to be dismissed, you are in a bad mood, and you still don't go along with them? He deserves to be scolded. The shopkeeper reprimanded in a low voice.

Xiao Er pouted and went to buy wine.

In the private room, Zhao Qi and Qian Ba were sighing together.

"What do you think Your Majesty, the good Beijing camp is about to be disbanded, what about the fifty or sixty thousand soldiers, they don't even want it, if the Manchu Tartars or the chaotic people attack the city of Beijing, who will defend against the enemy?" Zhao Qi sighed.

"Alas, we don't know what Your Majesty thinks, and we don't want to know, but we know that this ancestral military position is about to be gone. His Majesty decreed that the officers and soldiers of the Beijing camp were all converted from military to civilian registration, and the military registration was gone. Qian Ba sighed.

"For quite a few years, my ancestor followed Grandpa Cheng Jing Nan from Beijing to Nanjing, and then changed this hereditary position of a thousand households, but I didn't expect that I was finished, how can I explain to my ancestors?"

"Your ancestor is the hero of Jingjing, and my ancestor also fought in the desert with Chengzu, isn't it the same? Let's stop talking about uselessness, let's discuss what to do next. Zhao Qi sighed, "Your Majesty gave two ways, one is to go to other provinces to continue to be an officer, and the other is to receive money to buy out the hereditary military position, what do you think?" ”

"I don't want to choose any of them!" Qian Ba said angrily, "If you go to other provinces to be an officer, not to mention whether you can find a real shortage, there is, the interests of the fields in the field guards have long been divided up by the local officers, and we will definitely be excluded if we go." Besides, I don't want to leave Jingshi and go to another place. As for buying out the official position, this is a hereditary thousand households, and the hardcore crops passed down from the ancestors are worth three hundred taels of silver? ”

"I heard that Your Majesty is very dissatisfied with the combat strength of the Beijing camp, and this time he is determined to replace the Beijing camp with the Praetorian Guard, I am afraid that we have no way at all." Zhao Qi sighed, "At least we still have a choice, those ordinary soldiers will be compensated with ten taels of silver each, and they will completely buy out the military status." ”

"Hmph, those bastards, they just don't give them money, and they also want to change their military registration to civilian citizenship." Qian Ba snorted coldly, "His grandmother's, Lao Tzu is still the head of a thousand households, and now he can't control them, I ignore them one by one, don't you just go to the Praetorian Guard, it's not the same as being a soldier, look at them one by one, I don't know and think I'm a general!" ”

Zhao Qi smiled bitterly and did not answer. Although they are all ordinary soldiers, can they be the same in the Praetorian Guard and the Beijing Camp? Not to mention the small amount of money paid in the Beijing camp, they were also deducted by the officers, and they could not even support their families, and many soldiers could barely survive by carrying work for others to subsidize their families. And went to the Praetorian Guard, and the salary alone was enough for the family to live well.

"Qian Zhu, do you remember, it was the family member I let out to be the general flag, that dog, he actually gave up the position of the general flag, and also ran to the Praetorian Guard to enlist as an ordinary soldier! This shit, I persuaded him not to go to the Praetorian Guard, he was perfunctory to me at first, and then he hid when he saw me! Qian Ba continued to scold.

Zhao Qi shook his head, he didn't know what to say. From the moment the emperor ordered the recruitment of Praetorian Guard soldiers from the Beijing camp, the hearts of the people in the Beijing camp were scattered, and the soldiers were each looking for a way out, and they naturally would no longer be respectful to the officers who had detained and enslaved them in the past.

If the imperial court dared to make such a move in a border town, the officers could incite the soldiers to make trouble and persecute the imperial court with a little demagogy. But this is Beijing, the capital of the Ming Dynasty, and the status of the Beijing camp is really low, and the officers dare not do that at all, and they dare not do anything to raid their families and exterminate the clan under the nose of the imperial court.

Since you don't dare to fight against the imperial court and the emperor, you can only complain, and in the end you have to accept the arrangement of fate.

The wine was bought, and the two poured wine from the tea bowl to drink, and when the wine was drunk, Zhao Qi suddenly said: "Eighth child, I have decided to buy out the hereditary military position with the three hundred taels of silver." ”

"Are you crazy? The hereditary thousand households, are they worth these three hundred taels of silver? Qian Ba said incredulously.

"I'm not crazy, I think very clearly." Zhao Qi said lightly, "The family is in Beijing, I don't want to go to other places to be officials, with these three hundred taels of silver, plus the previous family background, at least I can buy a shop, and doing some business casually is no worse than being a thousand households in Beijing."

Old eight, some time ago, in the assassination case, many nobles' shops were raided, and the imperial court is selling, otherwise let's buy a joint share, what do you think? ”

Qian Ba shook his head: "I don't want to be a flat-headed commoner, I also think about it, so I'll go to other places!" Whether it is the end of the world or the cape, as long as I can keep the position of the hereditary thousand households, I am willing to go! ”

The two of them made up their minds, and they both knew that they had their own choices. It's just that from now on, it will be impossible to get together all day long to drink tea and drink like now, and it is likely that they will not be able to see each other in the near future. Thinking of this, I feel melancholy, and I can only drink it.

The choice of most of the officers in the Beijing camp is like this Zhao Qi Qianba, although he is full of unwillingness, no one makes excessive moves. After all, Jingying is not a border town, and the officers of Jingying are not as arrogant and inferior as the generals of border towns, and they do not have the confidence and ability to make chaos.

The nobles were still frightened by the assassination case, and they did not dare to oppose it at all. Civilian affairs have nothing to do with themselves, and they have little to do with the Beijing camp, so they are happy to see the Beijing camp succeed in banning the weak combat effectiveness, and naturally they will not oppose it.

As a result, the matter of banning the Beijing camp was carried out calmly, although there were occasional noises, but it could not make much waves.

The silver was constantly moved out of the inner treasury and used to pay the officers and soldiers of the Beijing camp as a buyout. When Li Banghua took the account book and reported that he had spent a total of 1.2 million taels of silver, Zhu Youzhen knew that Jingying had completely ceased to exist.

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