"Ridiculous, nonsense." Zhu Houwei reprimanded: "Shi farmers and industry and commerce, each performing their own duties, does not distinguish between high and low, but the scholars look down on all non-scholar classes, but they forget that there is nothing to eat from farmers, where to enjoy no craftsmen, and where to enjoy food and clothing from businessmen."

However, in the eyes of scholars, as long as they are not scholars, then they are lowly, so the descendants of craftsmen can only be craftsmen for a lifetime, and those who are soldiers are good sons and daughters who protect their families and defend the country, but in your eyes they are puppets, and they are puppets for generations, how ridiculous! ”

"Your Majesty's words, the minister thinks it is inappropriate." Liang Chu got up and said: "As the so-called everything is inferior, only the reading is high, since ancient times, the Ming household system has not forbidden non-scholars to study and participate in the imperial examination, over the years there are not a few people who study and become officials, the so-called class, since there is no distinction between high and low."

Zhu Houwei was speechless, the Ming Dynasty's household registration system was rated as one of the most cheating systems in later generations, but it is now taken for granted by the vast majority of people, including the people who have suffered greatly but do not realize that there is anything wrong with the household registration generation system.

This kind of deep-rooted thinking wants to change, it is by no means an overnight thing, and it is not something that can be clearly explained by arguing with a few old men in this imperial study.

So Zhu Houwei directly chose not to talk about it, there are too many things he wants to change, and the household registration system is just a trivial matter.

"It's ......okay to give all the money of Yanzheng to the household department," Zhu Houwei paused.

How deep is the Cabinet Seven Old City Mansions, when today's belly is very black, can he be so happy?

Definitely not, so none of the seven elders were excited, waiting for the Son of Heaven to follow, and then calculating the gains and losses.

"First of all, I want to reorganize the 26 guards of the Beijing camp, like the Shence Army, reorganize into the Tiance Army, and establish the Beijing Division Military Region, the 26 guards are full of almost 150,000 people, I feel that the Gongwei Beijing Division will not use so many people, after the old and weak are removed, the 100,000 establishment will be retained, and if it is insufficient, new recruits will be recruited."

The seventh elder still didn't speak, after the Son of Heaven reorganized the three battalions, sooner or later he would make a move on the twenty-six guards, which the seven elders knew, so they were not surprised.

However, the reorganization of the Shence Army cost the emperor's own silver, and the foreign dynasty was not distressed, but now that the twenty-six guards are reorganized, the emperor obviously intends to use the silver obtained by Yanzheng.

This made the seven elders a little unhappy, after all, they had automatically transferred the silver of Yanzheng to the household department, even if the Son of Heaven had not agreed, they could also grind their skin, and the emperor was afraid of trouble, so they would make the emperor annoyed, and finally disarm and surrender.

But the Seventh Elder still didn't speak very tacitly, because the emperor just said first, that is to say, he wants to use the silver of Yanzheng, and he has to do something other than reorganize the Tiance army.

They had to wait until the emperor had played all the cards, and then it would not be too late.

"The army is related to the safety of the Ming Dynasty, the forbidden army is the last force to defend the capital, the border army is to prevent the people in the interior from being poisoned, and the role of the garrison is to calm the place."

Zhu Houwei turned around and sat down and said: "So in my eyes, the forbidden army, the border army and the garrison are all very important, and it is precisely because of their importance that they must be changed, the third battalion of the forbidden army and then the twenty-six guards, and then the border army."

The Tartars on the grassland will become strong every few decades, and their ambition to invade the Central Plains has never been cut off for a day.

Now Dayan Khan has risen, with 100,000 male soldiers under his command, Koubian has become the norm, and the nine-border border army has many defeats in waiting for battle, so that countless men in the Ming Dynasty have become slaves of the steppe Tartars, and countless women have become wanton humiliation and fertility machines of the Tartars.

In the long run, where is the prestige of the Ming Dynasty? In a few tens or hundreds of years, if a male lord is born in the grassland, and hundreds of thousands of people who control the strings are raised to conquer the Ming Dynasty, will it be possible that the Ming Dynasty will not repeat the mistakes of the former Song Dynasty?

Therefore, the nine sides must be changed, what I want is a strong army that can fight tough battles and can lead defense with offense, not a few troops that only family members can fight, and other soldiers are waste, and they are useless soldiers who are returned to the generals to eat empty salaries openly.

I will transfer the Shence Army to the border, let the forward battalion disperse and settle in the Nine Border Military Town, and fully implement the Shence Army system......

As for the garrison, I will not move in a year or two, but I will definitely change the system in the future, and it will not be too late to talk about how to change it at that time.

I will give you a thorough understanding of Aiqing, and when the army reform is completed, then the military expenditure of the Ming Dynasty will not be less than 20 million a year! ”

The seven elders looked at each other, 20 million military expenses a year?

The Son of Heaven is going to reorganize millions of elite divisions like the Divine Army.

How much does Daming spend on military spending a year now? Almost 3.5 million taels, the Son of Heaven has increased sevenfold with this change!

What is the Son of Heaven doing?

Yang Tinghe said in a deep voice: "Dare to ask Your Majesty if you plan to go on an expedition to the desert?"

"Nature."

Yang Tinghe shook his head and said: "The grassland tartar is like a hundred-legged insect, it can be suppressed but it is not stiff, if Your Majesty wants the border army to be calm, the minister thinks that 300,000 male soldiers are enough, as for the garrison soldiers who do not waste the imperial court's food and salary, they can not move at all, so that the annual military expenditure is at most 10 million taels, and the extra 10 million taels of silver can do too many things."

Zhu Houwei smiled and said: "The grassland is not quiet, not because of whether they can exterminate or hurt the Tartars, but whether they can survive."

The seven elders were dumbfounded, the people of the Central Plains knew that the grassland was a scourge, and it had plagued the Central Plains for thousands of years, but neither the Han nor the Tang Dynasty could make the grassland extinct, of course, the people of the Central Plains wished that the grassland could be extinct, and now the emperor actually said that the grassland people could not survive, it was incomprehensible.

Zhu Houwei didn't mean to explain, because this involved trade, and it was obvious that talking about trade with the Seven Elders and the grassland was purely playing the piano to the cow, and it would definitely be desperately opposed.

The problem now is that Zhu Houwei's fist against the DPRK and his fist against the grassland are not hard enough.

If his fist against the grassland is hard enough, he can completely knock the grassland down first, and then talk about other things.

If his fist against the DPRK is hard enough, then he can use high-pressure policies to force civilian officials to compromise.

"Your Majesty." Yang Yiqing got up and said, "If it's just military expenses, the household department is willing to bear it."

Yan Zheng is at least 25 million taels of silver per year, and the military expenditure is only 20 million taels at most, which is still the cost of all the armies in the world after the reorganization, although there will be a surplus of 5 million taels every year in the future, which is the same as the price offered by the emperor, but this year can at least increase the income of the household department by 10 million taels, how to calculate this account is very cost-effective.

And the cabinet can see that nine times out of ten it is the reincarnation of big businessmen, and there are many ways to make money, if this salt policy is attributed to the inner treasury, if there are any tricks to play in the future, do they want to ......

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