"The younger brother inquired about Jingying and Shangzhi Twenty-six Guards, and it is said that the situation is the same among most of them."

"In this way, it seems that there are more than 300,000 horses in Beizhili, but in fact, there are probably less than 100,000 people who can defend the city, and there may not even be 20,000 people who can be pulled out to fight."

Zhu Youzhen directly exposed the hypocrisy of the current Ming Dynasty Jingying, because of getting along with Zhu Youxiao day and night, he had this courage.

He knew Zhu Youxiao's feelings for him, even if he rebelled, it was estimated that Zhu Youxiao would at most confine himself.

The captivity will not die, coupled with Zhu Youxiao's temperament, it is estimated that no eunuch will dare to show his face.

Anyway, according to the historical trajectory, if he doesn't change, he will hang the tree with his crooked neck, and I don't know how much better the result of the captivity is than hanging.

Therefore, he also let go, did not bury the matter in his heart, but had a good relationship with Zhu Youxiao.

"The matter of Jingying, there are also people who are on the concert today, but it is not as exaggerated as my brother said."

After listening to Zhu Youzhen's words, Zhu Youxiao found a note in a pile of notes on the side of the case and handed it to Zhu Youzhen.

Zhu Youzhen took over the song, and immediately saw the name of the owner of the book after opening it.

"Minister, Shandong Provincial Imperial History Zheng Zongzhou, heard that the first emperor died, couldn't sleep all night, kowtowed again in Dengzhou."

"Your Majesty's first time on the throne, please correct Li Kezhuo and Cui Wensheng for the crime of throwing drama drugs in vain."

"In addition, before the minister went out of Shandong, he inspected in Beizhili, and the soldiers of the Beijing camp were 400,000 at the beginning of the country, and more than 200,000 at the beginning of Jiajing, so why stop at 120,000 now, and among the 120,000, not all of them are thrown stones beyond the distance to prepare for war and defense......"

"The Beijing camp is like this, and the border towns can know it."

"The original quota of Liao soldiers was 95,000 and now 82,000 soldiers, why is the daily reduction of Liao salaries from 203,900 after the first year of Longqing, and now it has increased to 525,600 and how is it increasing day by day."

"One town and nine sides can be known, as for the year and day by day, there is no end, such as Jiajing ten years ago, the total salary of soldiers was 6.8 million, and it suddenly increased to more than 40 million after 40 years of Wanli."

sprinkled hundreds of words, Zhu Youzhen didn't read them all, just because in the future, it was all about how to strengthen the army and collect money, although it looked very effective, but Zhu Youzhen knew that it could not be implemented.

All in all, this Shandong imperial history called Zheng Zongzhou is very concerned about state affairs, and his research on military affairs is also good, but some of them are on paper and some ideas are unrealistic.

However, as far as the military is concerned, he can be said to have told some truths.

The actual number of the Beijing camp should be 151,000, but Zheng Zongzhou said that the Beijing camp was only 120,000 people, and the 120,000 people could only barely garrison, and could not do a field battle with a large army.

As for the border towns, after the Liao soldiers were rectified by Xiong Tingbi, there were less than 160,000 people, but there were indeed only 82,000 people and horses belonging to Liao Town, and the rest were guest troops.

However, he did say that the military salary of Liaozhen was less, and the military salary of the 82,000 people in Liaozhen was not 520,000, but increased to one million.

As for the military salaries in the nine borders, from the 10th year of Jiajing to the present, 90 years have passed, and it is normal for the military salary to rise from 6.8 million yuan, but it will not be more than 40 million taels as he said.

At present, the salary of the army in the nine sides is about 9 million taels a year, and hundreds of thousands of horses in the nine sides have to eat tens of millions of stone grains and tens of millions of bundles of forage every year.

All in all, the military expenditure of the nine sides alone accounted for 60% of the Ming Dynasty's fiscal expenditure.

This is already a very terrible proportion, you must know that when Zhu Yuanzhang destroyed the Northern Yuan Dynasty in the early Ming Dynasty, the financial expenditure was only about 30%.

Of course, at that time, it was because of the military tun of the national health center, which could hand over more than 30 million stone of grain to the imperial court every year.

However, from the Jiajing period, not only could the guards not be able to hand over the grain to the imperial court, but also needed subsidies from the imperial court.

The collapse of the Wei system further depleted the finances of the Ming Dynasty.

What Zheng Zongzhou said cannot be changed overnight, and Zhu Youzhen can only start to change it from the Imperial Horse Prison.

Therefore, he closed the recital and said to Zhu Youzhen:

"The younger brother plans to build a guard house outside Xizhimen to house orphans in Xuanfu, Jiliao, and Liaodong."

"I want some students from Guozijian to teach them to read and write, and as for their relatives, it is the Imperial Horse Supervisor and Huangzhuang who arrange the distribution of cattle and land."

"Brother Chen's calculations, at present, the fields of the Imperial Horse Supervisor are 2.15 million mu and the grassland is 420,000, and some land is given to them, and the land is also collected according to June Fourth, and life is better than that of the border town."

"If the soldiers in the border towns know, they will do their best to fight against the Beiyu and Jianyu."

"These orphans and widows, the royal brother can go to see them more, and they can be used by the royal brother in the future."

"As for the matter of the Imperial Horse Supervisor and the Yulin Sanwei, the courtiers will reduce the rent among the tenants under the Huangzhuang to let some men join the army."

"Four guards and one battalion, more than 25,000 people, with the financial resources of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, they can afford it."

"At present, the Imperial Horse Supervisor receives 1.23 million stones every year, and the silver money minister brother wants to find a way, and the military salary of 300,000 taels can still be obtained."

"As long as the army is properly trained, in a year or two, the four guards and one battalion can replace the border troops in the Jiliao area or eastern Liaoning."

"After the border army is replaced and dismantled, it can completely save millions of taels of expenditure for the imperial court every year."

Speaking of this, Zhu Youzhen looked at Zhu Youxiao with a little weakness, for fear that his imperial brother would be unhappy that he was going to get involved in military power and rebellion.

For this reason, he deliberately put the orphans in the border town in the capital, and handed over the profits from cultivating them to Zhu Youxiao.

It's just that he underestimated his status in Zhu Youxiao's heart after all, as well as his performance in the past few days.

Zhu Youxiao suddenly shook Zhu Youzhen's hand with both hands, and comforted him gently:

"Those widows, arranged in the capital is not convenient for my younger brother, tomorrow I will ask someone to grant some wasteland at the foot of Yanshan Mountain in Changping to the Imperial Horse Supervisor."

"When the time comes, you will place those widows there, and the recruitment of the army will ask Lu Wenzhao and Chengen to help find a way, and when the Zhejiang soldiers arrive in the capital, I will transfer them to Changping to help my younger brother train for a month."

"When the Tusi soldiers arrive in the capital, my younger brother will bring the Zhejiang soldiers back, and I will allocate 400,000 taels of silver from the internal treasury, and you will treat them on my behalf."

"But I beg them to go to Liaodong to guard the frontier for the imperial court."

Speaking of this, Zhu Youxiao comforted: "These days, those officials impeached you, you don't have to take it to heart. ”

"I know that you trained the Four Guards and One Battalion because you wanted someone to protect you and my brothers."

"Now that my brother is the emperor, others must not bully you, what do you want to do to tell my brother, my brother is the emperor, and I won't let people bully you......"