"Ministers to see Your Majesty, Your Majesty."

"Bow down, give me a seat."

The little eunuch who was waiting in the imperial study hurriedly brought stools for Yang Tinghe, Yang Yiqing and Wang Qiong.

When the three of them sat down, Zhu Houwei said with a solemn face: "When I was in Tongzhou, I accidentally found that the bereavement pension of the fallen soldiers in the army was deducted, the tax-free field was gone, and the pension silver was only 10%.

It was the cabinet that was asked, and the most qualified person to answer this was naturally Yang Tinghe, the first assistant, but Yang Tinghe did not speak, but looked at Yang Yiqing.

"Yang Ge is in charge of the household department, and I allocated 250,000 taels from the inner treasury for pensions, where is the silver?"

Yang Yiqing's face remained unchanged and said: "Back to Your Majesty's words, the minister has allocated all 250,000 taels to the Ministry of War."

"Already?" Zhu Houwei frowned and said, "Before Tongzhou or after Tongzhou."

"Before."

Zhu Houwei nodded, the front and back are very important, if it is the front, then the household department is not intercepted, of course, even if the household is intercepted, it is not a big mistake, as long as there is no corruption, after all, the household department is used to being poor, and it is normal for Yang Yiqing to intercept it.

However, Zhu Houwei scavenged a lot of silver from Yan Zheng and the vassal king, and Yang Yiqing asked for three million taels from him for various reasons, plus another five million taels of Yan Zheng silver, and the current household department is not bad for money.

Since it is not bad for money, there is really no need for Yang Yiqing to withhold the money from the pension.

Then the problem naturally lies in the Ministry of War, so Zhu Houwei's eyes looked at Wang Qiong, the secretary of the Ministry of War.

To be honest, Zhu Houwei's impression of Wang Qiong is not bad, because this old guy is definitely not a diehard, otherwise it is unlikely that Wang Shouren will be strongly recommended as the governor of Jiangxi in history, so as to achieve Wang Shouren's qualitative leap.

And Zhu Houwei didn't know what reason Wang Qiong had to deduct the pension money.

What are the functions of the Ministry of War?

It is the appointment and dismissal of military attachés, the distribution of money, ordnance, etc., of course, when you need to use silver, you have to go to the household department to apply.

It's just that since Zhu Houwei integrated the three battalions into the Shence Army, and let half of the Shence Army go to the Nine Sides, and then controlled seven of the Nine Sides, and then integrated the Twenty-six Guards into the Tiance Army, that is to say, for the assessment, appointment and dismissal of military attachés, Zhu Houwei directly deprived them from the military department and directly controlled them himself.

It is also since the reorganization of the army, the salaries of the army generals and soldiers, the armor, weapons, grain and grass needed by the army have all been supplied by Zhu Houwei himself, and the silver is naturally from the inner treasury, and there is no place for the military department to spend money at all.

This is also one of the main reasons why the household department is not bad at all, in the past, nearly half of the taxes paid by the Ming Dynasty had to be used as military salaries, but now, it is directly gone......

Two hundred and fifty thousand taels of silver is not a fart for the wealthy Zhu Houwei, the reason why Zhu Houwei is curious is because he knows Wang Qiong's personality, this old guy has reached his current status, and he can only think about his name before and after his death, and he can't make his old age unsafe for corruption.

However, Zhu Houwei must use the pension money to thoroughly implement the military system and make it a common practice, and it is inevitable that some heads will have to move in the process.

"The pensions of more than 1,000 fallen soldiers were distributed to local governments according to the amount of 100 taels per person." Wang Qiong sat upright and answered, as if she had a clear conscience.

Zhu Houwei said solemnly: "What Wang Shangshu means is that 250,000 taels of silver, and in the end, the military department only took out less than 120,000 taels?"

"Yes."

"So what is the purpose of Wang Shangshu's interception of 130,000 taels of silver, and where are these 130,000 taels of silver now?"

Wang Qiong said: "Most of the weapons and armor in the treasury of the Ministry of War have been damaged or even decayed, and the minister originally planned to ask the Ministry for silver, but since he has this pension silver, he directly embezzled it."

Zhu Houwei looked at him coldly and said, "Misappropriation? Is the household short of money? Special funds, Wang Shangshu can understand, if you want to repair ordnance, you can open directly to the household, why do you want to embezzle the pension silver, Wang Shangshu can know that the government of the pension is related to the heart of the army. ”

"I don't know." Wang Qiong said with a natural expression: "What's more, the minister thinks that one hundred taels of pension silver is enough to compensate, and it is a historical precedent, the minister thinks that this wind cannot rise, as for the tax-free field, it is even more nonsense, it is not a clan, a noble, let alone a scholar, how can an illiterate martial artist be eligible for tax exemption."

Zhu Houwei was stunned, and then angry!

The more frankly Wang Qiong said, the more it shows that he feels that he is right, so there is no guilt for withholding the pension money.

Then there is the superiority of being a scholar, plus the contempt for martial artists from the bottom of my bones.

This is a thinking pattern that has been engraved in the bones of Confucian literati for thousands of years, and it is almost impossible to change it unless Confucianism falls off the altar.

Yang Tinghe and Yang Yiqing didn't speak, but it could be seen that neither of them felt that Wang Qiong was wrong, and even took it for granted.

"What does Wang Shangshu think he can rely on to stay comfortably in the capital? What do you think is the reason why the people of the world can live and work in peace and contentment? ”

"Defend by the army." Wang Qiong knew what the emperor meant, so he responded calmly, and then said: "But the minister knows that if the generals are powerful, the country will be unstable!"

This is an eye medicine for the generals, but also, since the defeat of the God of War in Tumu Fort, the generals represented by Xungui have been pressed by the civilian officials with a hammer, and the hammer is basically used to it now.

The civil and military forces do not deal with each other, it has been the case throughout the ages, but it has developed to the peak after the Song and Ming dynasties.

Civil officials have always been responsible for governing the country and leveling the world, coupled with the disaster of the Tang Dynasty, the military generals of the five dynasties and ten countries were rampant, and then the Song Taizu launched the Chenqiao Mutiny as a military general, all of which made the military generals a label that could not be washed off.

This label is that as long as the generals sit big, they will have different hearts!

A lesson from the past, a teacher of future generations, a gentleman who flaunts his literati for the stability of the country's society, it is naturally not difficult to understand that he suppressed military generals.

"It will be! A soldier is a soldier! Zhu Houwei said coldly: "If a military general has soldiers in his hands, it may breed ambitions, but if the soldiers under his command are loyal to the court and only loyal to the king, then even if the military general is ambitious, does he dare to rebel?" If he rebelled, wouldn't he be afraid that he would be tied up by his own soldiers and sent to me? ”

Wang Qiong sneered: "Your Majesty is right, but when it comes to the means of showing grace, the minister believes that the military will have more ways to make the soldiers under his command loyal to him, not His Majesty, after all, the soldiers often contact the generals rather than Your Majesty, and the generals can promise a lot of benefits, but Your Majesty doesn't even have the opportunity to promise......"

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