"May Emperor Wen bless his younger brother to grow up safely and bless the Ming ......"

The spring breeze gently blew on the hills, and on Tianshou Mountain, Zhu Youxiao took many ministers and began to worship the imperial tombs under the arch guard of Tengxiang Zuowei.

Other emperors worship their ancestors and hope to bless the court, but Zhu Youxiao, first of all, asks the ancestors to bless Zhu Youzhen to grow up alive.

If this scene is seen by Zhu Youzhen, it is estimated that he will have mixed feelings.

Perhaps for Zhu Youxiao, the untimely death of five younger brothers in a row has made him tired in his heart.

At present, he only has one younger brother left, and this younger brother has been working hard for his throne and the world, and he is really afraid that God will take away this younger brother.

At the same time as he worshipped, the British prince Zhang Weixian also walked into the Qi'en Hall of Zhu Di's Changling Mausoleum of Ming Chengzu, looking at the Qi'en Hall with a portrait of Zhu Di, Zhang Weixian also knelt on the futon, bowing his head.

At this time, Zhu Youxiao also raised his head, then glanced at Zhang Weixian, and waited for Zhang Weixian to get up before he spoke:

"What did they say, old man?"

"Hehe, what else can I say? Long live the soldiers and horses were beside them, and they didn't dare to say anything for fear of anything. Zhang Weixian smiled helplessly.

After his words were finished, the hall fell into calm again, and it was only after a while that Zhu Youxiao spoke:

"The guards of Shuntian Mansion and Yongping Mansion, as well as the other guards of the Twenty-six Guards of Shangzhi, I hope that they can be abolished."

It is rare for him to use the self-title of me, which also shows that he is not discussing, but informing Zhang Weixian.

Zhang Weixian also knew it, so he said:

"Long live the world, long live what to do, how to do it, don't need to tell the minister."

"Even if the Beijing camp is abolished together, it should also be ......"

It is unimaginable that Zhang Weixian saw it so openly, and even dared to say the words of abolishing the Beijing camp.

Maybe he knew that Zhu Youxiao would not abolish the Beijing camp, so he said so, or maybe he was really loyal to Daming, even if he lost his interests, he was not afraid at all.

In short, his words were listened to by Zhu Youxiao, but Zhu Youxiao knew that with the current situation, the abolition of Yongping Mansion and Shuntian Mansion Guards, as well as the replacement of Jizhen, were already the limit.

Yongping Mansion and Shuntian Mansion, plus eighteen of the twenty-six guards of Shangzhi, a total of forty-eight guards and six guards.

These include the three guards of martial arts, the three guards of Yongqing, the eleven guards of the imperial tomb of Tianshou Mountain, the thirteen guards and six guards of Shuntian Mansion and Yongping Mansion.

This involved a total of 274,800 military households, 13.74 million mu of military tuntian, and a major change in the population of more than one million.

How long it will take to digest them, Zhu Youxiao himself doesn't know, he can only choose to believe his younger brother.

Thinking of this, he looked at the sky that was about to get dark, got up and sighed: "Okay, let's rest overnight in the Tianshou Mountain Palace today." ”

"I will return to the Yanshan camp tomorrow, and I will make an order after the matter of the guard station returns to Beijing."

"The old minister receives the order......" Hearing this, Zhang Weixian knew that Jingying could still belong to Xungui for a while.

It's just that whether this period of time is long or short, there is no fixed number in everyone's hearts.

Zhang Weixian retreated, and Zhu Youxiao also got up and walked out of the Qi'en Hall after a while, and then rested in the palace of Tianshou Mountain for a night, and then returned to the Yanshan camp the next day.

Since there was no prison in the middle school, Zhu Youxiao had no way to stay in the Yanshan camp for a long time, so after he came to the Yanshan camp, he did not enter the camp, but asked Zhu Youzhen to go to the Xuanfeng Building at the south gate.

Rustle of falling leaves, snow and rain......

The teapot of the official kiln pours out the tribute tea water, which is calm and slowly fragrant after tumbling in the teacup.

Zhu Youzhen, who was sitting on the table in Xuanfenglou, looked at the imperial brother with his eyes lowered, and was a little restless.

After a few seconds, Zhu Youxiao came back to his senses, looked up and smiled at Zhu Youzhen:

"The matter of Suncheon and Yongping's guard has been finalized."

"I will arrive in the capital in three days, and my brother can thunder in these three days and eliminate all the forty-eight guards and six institutes."

"But before the dismissal, I still need to ask my brother one more thing......" Zhu Youxiao looked directly at Zhu Youzhen, and said with a rare serious expression to him:

"How is my brother going to be dismissed? And how are you going to deal with the more than 270,000 military households? Can Jizhen change its guard smoothly? Will it allow the northern captives or the barbarians to take advantage of the situation? ”

These appear to be four questions, but they are actually three questions.

For these three questions, Zhu Youjian already had a draft in his chest, took a deep breath and looked at the imperial brother, and then said in a deep voice:

"Last night, my brother learned about some of the Yanshan battalion, and there are currently more than 87,400 soldiers, of which more than 22,300 have joined the army for less than two months."

"Even if these people change their armor and stomach, they will not be able to deter them to dismantle the guards."

"Therefore, there are only more than 55,100 people who can really dispatch to dismantle the guard post and replace the soldiers and horses in Jizhen."

"What the courtiers want is to divide them into a thousand households, divide them into forty-eight branches, and march to the forty-eight guards respectively."

"Regarding the matter of the guard, the younger brother let Lu Wenzhao get information early, and the officers of the forty-eight guards and six institutes together are only more than 3,300 people."

"In the face of the dispatch of the forty-eight thousand households of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, they are categorically unstoppable."

What Zhu Youzhen said is the question of whether or not the 48 Wei and Six Institutes can be successfully abolished, and this question is not difficult.

Now that he has finished speaking, he has to answer the second question, that is, how to deal with the more than 270,000 military households.

To this question, Zhu Youzhen simply replied:

"Honorable nobles, commanders and other military household officials have encroached on ordinary military households for a long time, and ordinary military households are regarded by them as their slaves, and it is no longer a day or two for them to suffer."

"The 48 guards and six institutes are definitely more than more than 13 million mu of military tun fields, and as long as the fields of the guards in the governor's mansion of the five armies are checked and the fields they have encroached upon are recovered, there will be enough arable land to be distributed to military households."

"Not only that, but after the cultivated land is completed, it is also necessary to move all the officers above the general banner of the 48th and 6th Guards to the capital."

"When the time comes, the Imperial Horse Supervisor will give them the money, and they will be placed in a mansion in the capital, but the official position will be cancelled."

"However, in the previous official position, the military tun fields that belonged to them still belonged to them, but the fields would be disrupted."

"For example, Yongpingwei's command has 1,300 acres of military tuntian, which is the tuntian of the official position, and it still belongs to him after the cancellation of military status, but the land has been changed to Miyunwei."

"In doing so, we will be able to pull out their local roots, but we will not let the officials of the other provincial capitals think that the court is ruthless."

Speaking of this, Zhu Youzhen also sighed in his heart.

In terms of his style, what he hopes to do most is to kill all the traitors in this group of people, and raid the house to supplement the imperial horse prison.

But he couldn't do that, because Daming still had countless guards, and he would only wary some guards by doing so.

Although he didn't think that this group of people could make any tricks, Da Ming couldn't stand too much tossing.

He gave in a step, but this step was not big, the officers of the 48th Wei and 6 Institutes gave them land according to their official positions, at most one million mu, but Zhu Youzhen could get tens of millions of mu, so that the military households who were exploited by the officers to the point of being breathless could have their own fields.

According to the model of the southern field of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, this more than 12 million mu of military tun field, after paying the Liao salary and field tax for the household department, can also add more than 7 million stone grain to the Imperial Horse Supervisor.

It's just that he still needs to take out these grains to raise an army and raise a team of soldiers and horses to defend Shuntian and Yongping Mansion.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen continued to answer the third question:

"I only mobilized 48,000 people, and there are more than 7,000 people, and what they want to do is to take over 37 important passes such as Shanhaiguan, Dongjiakou, Xifengkou, Shimen City, Ertoucheng, Yulinkou, and Jianchangying."

"After they take over, the courtiers are ready to divide the soldiers and horses of the Imperial Horse Supervisor into the Shangzhigong Guard Battalion and the Outer Expeditionary Guard."

"Outside the guard?" Hearing Zhu Youzhen's words, Zhu Youxiao frowned slightly, and Zhu Youzhen also explained:

"The Shangzhi Gongwei battalion is to use the battalion to defend Shuntianfu and Yongpingwei, and the guard of the external expedition is used to fight outside and quell the rebellion."

"The minister's plan is to set up the 16th Guards of Shangzhi and the 12th Battalion of Shangzhi."

"The name of the 16th Guards of Shangzhi is selected from the 26th Guards of Shangzhi in the north and south, and the Gongwei Battalion is named after the garrison."

"As above, the Sixteen Guards, 5,600 people per guard, a total of 89,600 people"

"Among them, there are four mobile guards of pure cavalry, namely Xiao Cavalry Guard, Tiance Guard, Yulin Guard, and Long Xiang Guard."

"There are a total of nine guards in the mixed infantry and cavalry, namely Jin Wuwei, Hu Benwei, Shen Ce Wei, Leopard Tao Wei, Ying Yang Wei, Shen Wu Wei, Lu Longwei, Wu Xiang Wei, and Teng Xiang Wei."

"In addition, as the ferry of the Son of Heaven, the Tianjin Weihui stationed three water guards, namely the water guard, the Longjiang guard, and the Henghai guard."

Speaking of this, Zhu Youzhen smiled awkwardly:

"But at the moment, Brother Huang, you haven't studied the big ship I painted for you, so these three guards are put on hold for the time being."

"Forehead ......" Hearing Zhu Youzhen's words, Zhu Youxiao was a little embarrassed.

Although he has been studying recently and has built a large ship of more than ten meters, he has not yet figured out the drawings given to him by Zhu Youzhen.

In addition, Siam has not yet sent teak to Guangdong, so the matter is shelved.

But looking at his brother's appearance, it seems that he only has to work hard to see if he can bring the lie back.

He didn't want to lose face, so he could only cough and say:

"Ahem, the Three Guards of the Water Division is not bad, I have already eaten the drawings given to me by my brother, and I even made a model of it myself."

"However, there is news from Siam that teak can only be shipped to Guangzhou in May at least, and Guangzhou sailors can be shipped to Tianjin at least in July and August, so I can't ...... it urgently."

"I'm not in a hurry." Hearing that the imperial brother had a "guarantee", Zhu Youzhen smiled, and Zhu Youxiao could only divert the topic and said:

"By the way, you're done with the Sixteen Guards, what about the Gongwei Battalion?"

Zhu Youzhen, who was questioned, could only continue to explain:

"The full name of the Gongwei battalion is the 12th Battalion of Shangzhi, 3,031 people per battalion, a total of 36,372 people, each battalion is mixed with infantry and cavalry, one sentry cavalry, one sentry gunner, one sentry gunner, two sentry spearmen, and knife players."

"The subordinates divided their stations into Shanhai Battalion, Yongping Battalion, Zunhua Battalion, Miyun Battalion, Huairou Battalion, Changping Battalion and ...... along the Great Wall."

"As well as the Tongzhou Battalion, Bazhou Battalion, Zhuozhou Battalion, Dagu Battalion, Wanping Battalion, Daxing Battalion and ...... protect the capital"

"As for the outer city inside the capital, it will be handed over to the Beijing camp, and the imperial city will guard the imperial city of Jinwu four guards, the five guards of the government army, the three guards of Yanshan, the left guard of the tiger and other horses, and finally train the dragon and tiger, flying bear, Yiluan three guards"

"There are 16,800 soldiers and horses in the three guards, not to mention guarding the imperial city, that is, when my brother is in danger, he orders them to attack, and they can sweep the capital in one hour."

Zhu Youzhen's words are very confident, not that he looks down on Jingying and the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses, but that they are really not the opponents of these three guards.

However, although Zhu Youzhen was very confident, Zhu Youxiao still hesitated:

"Although my brother said so, if there were only these three guards and two battalions in the huge capital, wouldn't it be ......?"

"Hehe, brother rest assured." Seeing that the imperial brother was worried about this, Zhu Youzhen smiled and said:

"This is the soldiers and horses in the city, and the four guards and cavalry in the sixteen guards of the Shangzhi Guard, such as the Xiao Cavalry Guard, the Tiance Guard, the Yulin Guard, and the Long Xiang Guard, will be stationed on all sides of the capital."

"As long as they are trained properly, there won't be many soldiers and horses in the world who can defeat them."

Zhu Youzhen is not joking, there are a total of 22,400 cavalry guards, all cavalry.

Even if it is Houjin, the cavalry under him at the moment is only more than 20,000, and if it really comes to the time when it is necessary to dispatch them, it already means that the other foreign expeditionary nine guards stationed in Shuntian and Yongping have been completely wiped out.

Even if the current Nurhachi descended from the sky with 100,000 Houjin soldiers and horses, it would be impossible to wipe out the 16 guards of Shangzhi.

Zhu Youzhen's confident smile made Zhu Youxiao nod, feeling safe in his heart, but also worried:

"Will there be too few guards for Yongpyeong and Suncheon in the Twelfth Battalion?"

"It's a lot...... Zhu Youzhen shook his head and said:

"Like the capital, the Nine Guards are mainly arranged near the foot of the Yanshan Great Wall, that is to say, in fact, there are nearly 70,000 soldiers and horses in the Yanbian of the Great Wall."

"If Jiuwei is transferred, then it must be out of the customs to raze the Beiyu, this brother can rest assured."

Speaking of this, Zhu Youzhen grabbed Zhu Youxiao's hand and said: "For me, my brother's safety is the most important ......"

Zhu Youzhen didn't tell a lie, he is not wood, he is not a clay sculpture, even if it is a cat, he will have feelings after raising it for half a year, not to mention the royal brother who has been protecting him for more than half a year?

"My brother has solved another problem for me......"

Zhu Youxiao looked at Zhu Youzhen, smiled and shook his hand with his other hand and said:

"It's just that the sixteen guards and twelve battalions, so many soldiers and horses, can the imperial horse supervisor raise them?"

"Naturally!" Hearing this, Zhu Youzhen smiled and said:

"At present, the three guards of the navy army have not yet been settled, which means that only 16 guards and 12 battalions need to be raised, a total of 108,800 people."

"The military salary given to them by the younger brother is fifteen taels per person on weekdays, and if they are transferred, they will be paid five taels of silver per person."

"Similar to the 16th Guards, if they want to go out to fight, or go to Liaodong to fight, the military salary will be increased to 20 taels, and the beheading of the Jianju will be 100 taels, and the beheading of the northern captives will be 50 taels."

The gap between the Mongols and the Jurchens is twice as much, this is not that Zhu Youzhen looks down on the Mongols, but that the current Mongols have been targeted by the Ming Dynasty to the embarrassing situation that they can't even make an iron pot.

For example, in Inner Khalkha, they may not even be able to pull out 5,000 cavalry wearing double armor, and the Sixteen Guards are simply a dimensionality reduction blow to them.

On the contrary, the Jurchens of Houjin are not good, according to the many blacksmith shops in Hetuala, and there are open-pit iron mines in the Liaodong Mountains, the armor rate of Houjin is constantly increasing.

They will one day be strong enough to be in the period of Huang Taiji, and what Zhu Youzhen has to do is to contain them and defeat them.

"According to you, isn't the annual salary at least 1,600,000 taels?" Zhu Youxiao suddenly spoke, and Zhu Youzhen came back to his senses and explained:

"It is one million hundred and thirty-two thousand taels of silver, and one hundred and twenty thousand stone of grain shall be eaten every year, as well as a lot of meat, oil, salt, and vegetables."

"But don't worry, Brother Huang, after the abolition of the forty-eight guards and six institutes, the imperial horse supervisor will also be able to earn five or six million taels, and then I will get some private salt, and it will be very easy to raise an army."

As soon as Zhu Youzhen talked about the matter of private salt, Zhu Youxiao was speechless, his face was expressionless, and he even said with a little disgust:

"Other people are always sneaky when they do this private salt business, but it's you, my brother, who is not ashamed but proud."

"Hey...... What am I afraid of......" Zhu Youzhen grinned and smiled:

"How much is face worth? If it can be valuable, the courtiers are willing to exchange their face for a few million taels of silver to come back. ”

"How dare you think about it?" Zhu Youxiao shook his head with a smile, and at this time, there was a knock on the door of Xuanfeng Building:

"Long live, the old man said he could go." Wei Zhongxian's voice rang out.

"Well, I know, Zhongxian, bring in the holy decree." Zhu Youxiao spoke to the door, and when Wei Zhongxian heard this, he pushed the door open, and then motioned for a few eunuchs to come in.

In the hands of these eunuchs, they all carried plates of piled up holy decrees, totaling more than sixty copies.

Zhu Youxiao looked at the holy decree, turned his head to Zhu Youzhen and said:

"These are all central decrees that have not been approved by the cabinet and the six branches, although they are central decrees, but presumably my younger brother will not dare to use them."

"The purpose is very good, as long as you have a name." Zhu Youzhen smiled and spoke, and then said to Wang Chengen, who was standing at the door:

"Cheng'en, take the holy decree, according to what I said last night, send the holy decree to the officials of the thousand households, set off tomorrow, and start in three days."

"Slave and maid receive the order......" Hearing Zhu Youzhen's words, Wang Chengen walked in, took the holy decree with someone, and then retreated.

"Okay, my brother is estimated to be very busy during this time, so I won't urge you to go back to the palace."

Zhu Youxiao stood up and finally explained:

"Don't work too hard in the Imperial Horse Prison, let the people below do some things, don't tire yourself."

Speaking of this, he stretched out his hands and patted Zhu Youzhen's arms on both sides, and said with a smile:

"I hope that the next time we meet, my brother will be able to eat fatter."

After speaking, he didn't wait for Zhu Youzhen to say anything, turned his head to look at Wei Zhongxian and said:

"Let's go......"

After that, he took Wei Zhongxian and left, while Zhu Youzhen waited for a moment after him left before he walked behind the rammed earth female wall and looked down.

He watched Zhu You get on his cheeks, and then said to Wang Chengen:

"Tell Sun Yingyuan to take the three guards of Yulin to escort the imperial brother south, and by the way, the three guards of Tianjin and Tongzhou, as well as the other guards of the twenty-six guards of Shangzhi."

"Tell him to follow what I said yesterday, after the guards are abolished, the four guards of Jinwu, the five guards of the government army, the three guards of Yanshan, the left guard of Huben and others will be eliminated and trained into the three guards."

"Your Highness, rest assured, Commander Sun has already led people to wait on the avenue ten miles to the south." Wang Chengen replied, and Zhu You also walked down the Xuanfeng Building after listening.

At this time, Man Gui rode his horse and said to Zhu Youzhen:

"Your Highness, the officers of the new army have been arguing, saying that they will take over Jizhen and the guard with the brother of the old army."

When Zuo Yi said this, Man Gui turned over and dismounted, and Zhu Youzhen also took a deep breath and said:

"The imperial brother has also agreed to the preparation, and it is estimated that the holy decree will come down soon."

"You first organize the new and old soldiers from the Seven Guards and One Battalion into guards, and the guards with more old soldiers can participate, but don't think about the guards who are all new pawns."

"After the other guards removed the guards, they were asked to take over and measure the land, and the teaching and training of the Yanshan Institute were suspended for three days, and they went to measure the land together."

"After three days, half of the teaching will come back first, and the other teaching will continue to measure."

"After dismissing the soldiers and horses of the guards, there must be no delay, and immediately go to the passes of the Great Wall to take over the Great Wall."

"The last general commands!" Hearing this, Man Gui breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that after having an errand, the soldiers of the new army would not make trouble.

As for Zhu Youzhen, he continued to explain:

"When the guards are abolished, you can also choose to recruit some good men to join the army, and tell the people that those who join the army will be given an extra ten acres of land per household."

"Including the soldiers of the old army, in addition to the previous acres, this time they can also replace the acres to other places, and divide ten acres more land."

"The last general commands!" Hearing this, Man Gui's heart was excited, and he had supreme respect for Zhu Youzhen in his heart.

In the late dynasties of all dynasties, there were few princes like Zhu Youzhen who regarded their group of mud-legged people as people.

As long as he has his back to Zhu Youzhen and the support of the emperor, the soldiers of the Imperial Horse Prison are the most nourishing ones in the world.

"You stand down, remember to explain clearly to all the military households when you send troops to dismantle, they are no longer military households, but my ordinary people."

"The tun fields of the various health centers are told to cultivate well, and after the acres of land are measured within a month, the fields will definitely be distributed to them."

"Three transactions per mu of land are rented to the Imperial Horse Supervisor, and the land endowment and additional distribution, and miscellaneous items are paid by the Imperial Horse Supervisor for them."

"Your Highness, rest assured, the general has repeatedly informed his officers of this." Man Gui nodded with a heavy heart, but Zhu Youzhen was still uneasy and said:

"We must also be careful that some people engage in favoritism and embezzlement of acres."

"Yes!" Man Gui nodded again, and Zhu Youzhen also waved his hand and said, "Go get busy." ”

"The last will retire!" Hearing this, Man Gui got up and rode his horse away from the city.

It's just that after he left, Zhu Youzhen said to Wang Chengen:

"Tell all the teachers of the Yanshan Institute, tell them which officers are optimistic, once anyone favoritism and malpractice, embezzle acres of land, and report that they will reward 100 acres of land!"

"Slave maid takes orders......" Wang Chengen responded honestly.

......Seeing this, Zhu Youzhen took a deep breath, calmed down his mood, and walked towards the Yamen of the Imperial Horse Supervisor.

As he walked, his heart was very heavy, and he knew what he would have to face after doing so.

The impeachment of Wenchen, the dismissal of the officers of the guard, and the dissatisfaction of the nobles of the south......

These various problems do not have to be faced by him, but by the royal brother.

What he needs to face is how to rectify the guards of Shuntian and Yongping, how to eliminate the old and weak in Jizhen, and how to train the new pawns in Jizhen.

But all this, he and the imperial brother are mentally prepared.

If the Ming Dynasty wants to prosper, if you want to solve the backlog of grievances in the hearts of the people, you must innovate and change the law!