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"Run? Run again! ”

In an alley in Mingshifang in the capital, several "brocade guards" wearing crimson drags and waist knives are being beaten by several other brocade guards.

At the entrance of the alley, the people passing by blocked the alley, watching the battle between the two Jinyi guards.

After a while, the sound of armor sounded, and then I heard someone call: "Xicheng Soldiers and Horses Division is doing business, and the idle people are all gone!" ”

With the arrival of the people of the Xicheng Terracotta Division, the onlookers reluctantly left, and at the same time, a hundred households also led more than a dozen soldiers wearing armor to appear at the entrance of the alley.

"What's ...... back?"

These hundred households still wanted to ask what to say, but as soon as they saw the brocade guard who was wearing a scarlet towing and wearing a goose sword at his waist, he immediately closed his mouth, and even turned around and wanted to leave.

However, as soon as he turned around, a large number of Jinyi guards poured out of the alleys, and the commander Yang Huan also walked out of the Jinyi guards, looking at this hundred households:

"Li Zhao, you are the backer of these swaggering and deceiving Jinyiwei, right?"

"I've been waiting for you for a long time!"

"This, this, this...... This lord ...... Misunderstanding" Baihu was scared stupid, the official position of the Terracotta Division is lower than that of the normal guard, he is just a hundred households from the eighth grade, how can he let the brocade guard wearing the official uniform of the fourth grade go out?

"Misunderstanding? Okay, then go to the edict of our Nanzhen Fusi to explain and explain, take it away! Yang Huan turned around and left, and those who pretended to be Jinyiwei, as well as Li Zhao, a hundred households of the Soldiers and Horses Division, were also taken away by Jinyiwei.

The people around us were not surprised by such a scene, because it had been happening since six days earlier.

Ten days ago, Jinyiwei began to arrest a large number of people who used to pretend to be Jinyiwei and officials in the capital, and the momentum was so great that even some thieves were directly arrested by them.

Some of the officials of the Terracotta Division who protected these thieves and robbers were also taken down and escorted to the edict prison of the Fusi of Nanzhen.

Not only in Beijing, Nanjing, Jiangnan, but also in some more important prefectures and counties, there are pictures of Jinyi Wei taking people.

In just 10 days, it is estimated that no less than 10,000 people have been captured......

"Well done!"

In the courtyard of Fusi in Nanzhen, Cui Yingyuan looked at the document in his hand and was extremely happy.

In just ten days, more than 40,000 people from the Fusi Division in Nanzhen arrested more than 4,000 people who pretended to be Jinyi guards, officials, and officers of the guards, and tens of thousands of thieves and robbers, and combed a total of 2,400 pieces of eucalyptus.

This is only ten days' volume, and in a year, I am afraid that we can catch tens of thousands of people and process tens of thousands of eucalyptus.

Thinking of this, Cui Yingyuan even thought of how to divide the class in his heart.

But at this moment, footsteps suddenly sounded, and someone outside the door shouted: "The commander is coming!" ”

"Rub"

Cui Yingyuan, Yang Huan and others stood up all of a sudden, and at this time, Lu Wenzhao also walked in and saw Cui Yingyuan and Yang Huan.

"See the Commander!" Cui Yingyuan and others saluted one after another, while Lu Wenzhao nodded, walked to the eucalyptus, picked up the booklet and flipped through it, and then said:

"In addition to the North and South Town Fu Division, Jinyi Weizhong has also set up a new Supervision Division."

"All your cases will be submitted to the Supervision Department for review, and one point will be deducted for those who are classified as eucalyptus, and ten points will be deducted for wrongful judgment."

"In addition, Banzai has agreed to raid the homes of all the pretending Jinyi guards, officials, generals of the guards, as well as thieves and robbers."

"All the silver obtained from the seizure of the house will be returned to the Jinyi Wei ......"

Speaking of this, Lu Wenzhao glanced at Cui Yingyuan and said:

"The income from the stolen family, the Jinyi Wei who executed the eucalyptus received one percent, the local hundred households, the thousand households received two percent, the Zhenfu Division was three percent, and the remaining forty percent went to the Jinyi Wei Silver Treasury!"

"Humble command!" Hearing this, Cui Yingyuan's eyes lit up, but he was a little worried.

He is happy because he has another way to make money, and he is worried about the so-called Supervision Department.

Lu Wenzhao only mentioned this yamen, but did not say how many people there were.

But now it seems that it should be the old team of the former Nanzhen Fusi.

In this case, the false accusation will not work.

But......

"Humph! Even if I can't be framed, I have more eucalyptus under my command than Beizhen Fusi! ”

Cui Yingyuan was confident in his heart, after all, he was targeting the officials and people of the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty, more than 1,400 counties.

Looking at Li Ruolian again, he is only targeting some frontier soldiers and generals, as well as small foreign countries, no matter how ......

"By the way, Li Ruolian has searched more than 1,900 pieces of information about soldiers and horses from all over the country, you have to work hard, don't be caught up by him......"

What?!

Lu Wenzhao's words made Cui Yingyuan's back molars crushed.

They had the largest number of people in the southern town of Fusi, more than 40,000 people, and they worked day and night for ten days and ten nights to deal with more than 2,400 pieces of squeezed pieces.

Then Li Ruolian's Beizhen Fusi is only 30,000 people, how can he deal with more than 1,900?

Cui Ying wanted to scold angrily, but he didn't dare to show it in front of Lu Wenzhao.

However, Lu Wenzhao said that a new supervision department has been established, and he hopes that this supervision department can find out Li Ruolian's eucalyptus.

When Li Ruolian thought so, Lu Wenzhao also put down the document book in his hand, and then said:

"Let me tell you the good news, Jinyi Wei Yulu, it has risen since today."

"The commander of the Nanzhen Mansion Division has one Tongzhi, an annual salary of 5,000 taels, two commanders, an annual salary of 2,000 taels, and four town envoys, an annual salary of 1,500 taels."

"There are four people in 1,000 households in South Beijing, 1,000 taels a year, 15 people in 1,000 households outside, 1,200 taels a year, 38 deputy 1,000 households, and 500 taels a year."

"One hundred and ninety households, three hundred taels per year, three hundred and eighty people in the total banner, one hundred and twenty taels per year, one thousand nine hundred people in the small banner, and fifty taels per year"

"In addition, the largest number of generals, captains, wrestlers, counselors, and school commanders have an annual salary of fifteen taels each."

"This, this, this and this ......" When Lu Wenzhao said what everyone was doing, everyone stammered and looked at Lu Wenzhao in surprise.

In particular, Cui Yingyuan, Yang Huan, Wei Zhao, Hou Keguang, Hou Guoxing and other envoys and thousands of households were the most excited.

Not only them, but everyone else.

How much was the Ming Dynasty Jinyiwei? Perhaps many people in later generations thought that Jinyiwei's Yulu was very high, but as a Jingwei in Beijing, ordinary Jinyiwei only had an annual salary of five taels or six dollars.

In exchange, it is more than 460 wen per month, barely enough to support himself.

Further up, there are only a dozen taels of small flag officials, forty taels of general flag officers, more than 60 taels of 100 households, and more than 80 taels of 1,000 households.

Even if he is a commander and a fellow knowledge, it is only one hundred and fifty or sixty taels of silver a year.

It may sound impossible, but the main reason is that the Ming Dynasty has not risen for more than 200 years.

This is still Jinyiwei, if it is an ordinary official, it is even worse, such as Yang Lian at the moment, he is a seven-grade official position with only twenty-seven taels of silver.

Therefore, under the inflationary Ming Dynasty, officials who were not greedy really couldn't support themselves, although this is not an excuse for corruption, but it is indeed a fact.

Cui Yingyuan and the others never thought that they would increase the price of Yu Lu dozens of times in one go, and ordinary Jin Yiwei did not expect that the price of Yu Lu would nearly triple in one go.

With such a year, you can already live a very good life.

Therefore, Cui Yingyuan and others, no! It should be said that the entire Nanzhen Fusi sang loudly:

"Long live thank you! Thank you, Commander! ”

"Hehe, it's not a difficult thing...... Lu Wenzhao said with a smile:

"It's not for nothing......

When he said this, everyone's hearts froze, and they listened carefully, and the next second, Lu Wenzhao said with a smile:

"Beizhen Fusi's side, I've already told you, as for your side, I'm only coming now, after all, there are a lot of people in you."

"This is an increase, but if the Supervision Department finds corrupt officials under the rule of the thousand households, and there are still people who know about it but accept bribes and do not report it, then all the people in the thousand households will be fined half of the money."

"In addition, each 1,000 households, 100 households, and the Suppression Division can also supervise each other, and once the 100 households are reported for corruption and do not report it, then they will receive half of the ...... of the reported health office."

When Lu Wenzhao said this, everyone was shocked in their hearts, this is playing spy in spies......

There are at least three or four hundred people in a hundred households, so half of the fine is at least a few thousand taels of silver, which is really too poisonous.

Not only must they supervise hundreds of officials, but they must also be inspected by the Supervision Department, and finally they must be supervised by other hundreds and thousands of households, which is simply living in the life of supervision.

In this way, the cost of bribery is increased in disguise.

Each thousand households will report it internally, and the Jinyi guards are afraid that half of the broken Yulu will also be reported.

Therefore, if you want to buy Jinyiwei, you can only pay half of the silver taels to bribe.

Small merchants had to bribe everyone who saw what was going on, while big merchants, gentry, squires, and officials could only bribe a few hundred, or even a thousand, of houses.

This kind of bribe is tens of thousands of taels of silver.

Not to mention the ordinary businessmen, even those rich and powerful nobles in the northern and southern capitals need to cut their meat before they can be taken out.

Therefore, when Lu Wenzhao said about the increase and fine, Cui Yingyuan knew that in the future, I am afraid that the trust between Jinyiwei will be very strong.

But this is not what he thinks, he Cui Yingyuan was originally a street gangster pretending to be a brocade guard, and he only got into this position by chance.

Five thousand taels a year! He only receives bribes of 1,000 taels of silver a year, and now he has 5,000 taels of silver every year for doing good things, and he can still divide 200,000 taels of silver at the end of the year, what kind of corruption and bribery is he engaged in?!

Thinking of this, Cui Yingyuan said to Lu Wenzhao with righteous words:

"Commander, please rest assured, my Nanzhen Fusi is honest and honest, and those who try to embezzle and accept bribes are the scum of my Nanzhen Fusi, and everyone will be punished!"

"Well, that's good, Banzai and the Fifth Highness give you a million taels of silver every year, you don't want to live up to their wishes." Lu Wenzhao is meaningful.

"Yes!" After Cui Yingyuan heard the three words of the Fifth Highness, he immediately understood.

Zhu Youxiao was the first person to propose a salary increase for soldiers and horses, and if he proposed a salary increase, then the current emperor would inevitably agree.

And no wonder......

Cui Yingyuan took a deep breath, and Lu Wenzhao also smiled:

Okay, you guys keep busy, all the pieces are taken care of, and I'll go first.

"Congratulations to the commander!" Thousands of people sang loudly, which greatly satisfied Lu Wenzhao's vanity.

He quickly left with people under everyone's attention.

After that, the people of the Supervision Department also quickly collected all the documents of the North and South Towns and Departments and began to investigate all the cases.

Just after Lu Wenzhao announced the increase in income, the three fast horses were sent to the Yanshan camp with the yellow book and letters of Jinyiwei in the afternoon of the same day.

By the time Zhu Youzhen got the yellow book and letters, it was already the seventh day of the third month.

He carefully looked at the letter arranged by Lu Wenzhao for various things in his hand, and was silent.

But Wang Chengen, he knew everything, and couldn't help but say:

"Your Highness, if it goes on like this, I'm afraid we won't be able to hold out until the end of the year......"

"It's up to Lu Jianxing......" Zhu You responded without raising his head.

As for what Wang Chengen said in his mouth, he couldn't insist, it was because the money of the Imperial Horse Supervisor was not enough.

got 800,000 taels of silver from the internal treasury, and the spring ploughing has begun, Zhu Youzhen's heart has also begun to be active.

He began to carry out his plan and consulted with his brother in letters.

Give Jinyiwei a New Year's salary and formulate rules, these are all Zhu Youzhen's ideas.

The Beizhen Fusi supervised the frontier armaments, collected intelligence in the countries of the Ming Dynasty and Yanbian, and supervised all the guards.

The Nanzhen Fu Division supervised hundreds of officials, merchants, and soldiers and horses, as well as the salt department and tax collection department in various places, and so on.

The reason why he started monitoring was because Zhu Youzhen already had enough capital at the moment.

At present, the inventory of the Tuntian of the 48 Wei 6 Institutes in Shuncheon and Yongpyeong has begun to come to an end.

Nearly 100,000 people have checked the two prefectures, which is not fast, but it took a month to check everything completely.

Of course, this is thanks to the help of people everywhere.

Knowing that they wanted to divide the fields, they took the initiative to help measure the acres.

Maybe the measuring equipment will not work, but there are many of them, and each of them tied a three-foot rope to his ankle, and then began to walk around the field, and soon walked out of an acre of land.

It was with the help of these millions of people that the measurement of the Imperial Horse Supervisor was basically completed, and only a few scattered places were left that were not reported.

As far as the yellow book is concerned, there are 48 guards and six institutes, with a total of more than 16,364,000 acres of land, more than 1,593,600 males, and a population of more than 3,949,800.

In addition to these, there are dozens of villages and towns that have not been calculated, but they are probably less than 17 million mu of military tun land, and the population does not exceed 4 million.

Compared with the more than 1.3 million people in the 48th and 6th institutes in the early Ming Dynasty, and more than 13 million mu of farmland, the population has undoubtedly increased by more than three times, while the tuntian area has only increased by more than 3 million mu.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen deliberately said:

"Chengen, first demarcate the mountains and fields of officialdom and horse farms."

"The grassland is divided into two million acres, and the officialdom can be on the hill at the foot of Yanyan Mountain."

"Of the remaining 14 million mu of land, the 10 acres of military land promised to the officers and men of the 16 th Guards and the 12 th Battalion of the Shangzhi were given to their families, and their families were divided into four acres of land according to one person."

"The rest of the land was given to the people to divide, and when the fields were divided, everything was said to be done, and the royal horse supervisor divided the grain with them, and the royal horse supervisor paid taxes."

Zhu Youzhen told all his thoughts about this military tuntian, and after Wang Chengen heard it, he called two eunuchs, moved a few desks in the open-air courtyard in the backyard, and then called a few military scribes to start calculating.

The sound of the abacus kept ringing, and after a quarter of an hour, Wang Chengen raised his head and said:

"Your Highness, if this is the case, the 16 guards and 12 battalions of the Shangzhi Army, a total of 125,600 people, need to send 1,256,000 acres of land to join the army."

"Counting his parents and children, there should be at least five people who have a field, and four acres per person is twenty acres, and about three million acres of land need to be prepared."

"After subtracting these days, there are about 10 million acres."

Speaking of this, Wang Chengen seemed to think of something, and said with a smile:

"However, at present, the people recruited in the army are all recruited from the original guards and military households, and here are the fields where the soldiers who joined the army and their families are distributed, and some of the parents of the soldiers in the original Seven Guards and One Battalion are people other than Zhili."

"After all, it should be enough to give only 3.5 million people land."

Wang Chengen's smile gradually froze, as if he sensed that something was wrong, and their field seemed to be a little worse......

Of the 3.5 million people, 3 mu per person is 10.5 million mu, and there seems to be a shortage of hundreds of thousands of mu at the moment.

His smile froze, but Zhu Youzhen shook his head and said:

"I know the shortage, it is enough to reserve an additional 500,000 mu for joining the army, and then I need to do it to other guards in Beizhili."

"First of all, the current military households are satisfied, as long as the 16th Guards and 12th Battalion are well trained, the affairs of Beizhili and Liaodong, as well as the Nine Sides, will be much easier."

With nearly 130,000 soldiers and horses, if it can really be trained to the level of the current seven guards and one battalion, Zhu Youzhen will have the capital to turn his face with Wenchen.

It's just that this time will be very long, because it may take two or three years to equip these 130,000 soldiers and horses, with the financial resources of the Imperial Horse Supervisor.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen said to Wang Chengen:

"Calculate the income of the north and south fields this year, what is approximately."

"Yes" Hearing Zhu Youzhen's words, Wang Chengen began to ring the abacus again, and several other military officials also began to use the abacus to calculate.

However, this time it will be a little longer, because there are straw bundles, grain, cattle and sheep, and breeding officialdom in the north and south fields.

Because it was a bit long, Zhu Youzhen asked someone to prepare some sour plum soup, although there was no ice, it was not bad to drink.

The mountain spring water is cold, and it can also play a role in dissipating heat.

"Your Highness, forget it!"

Half an hour passed, Wang Chengen summarized all kinds of income, and then said to Zhu Youzhen:

"The account book has been written, and His Highness can see it."

"At present, the north and south fields of the Imperial Horse Prison are together, if the three guards of the navy are also recruited, the annual expenditure is 5,402,140 taels of silver, and the annual annual income is 1,248,000 taels of silver."

"At present, there is a lack of three guards for the water division, so the annual expenditure is 391,140 taels less."

"In addition, a piece of income grain in the north and south fields is expected to be about 13.42 million stones, and if it is sold locally, it can be sold for about 5.57 million taels of silver, which is a total annual income of 6.818 million taels."

"After going to the expenditure, the estimated annual income at the end of this year is 1,807,000 taels."

Wang Chengen is calculated, but Zhu Youzhen is in a heavy mood.

He asked Wang Chengen: "Honeycomb coal kiln, Huangdian, breeding officialdom, Nanchang tea, all these incomes are counted?" ”

"Back to Your Highness, all counted, the 1,248,000 taels of silver per year is the silver that should be earned in these four places." Wang Chengen responded:

"Your Highness, don't worry, the main head of the Imperial Horse Supervisor is still Tian Fu, and the current income is still positive."

Wang Chengen thought that Zhu Youzhen was worried about money, but he didn't want Zhu Youzhen to be tired.

In the end, he also came to the path of eating the field endowment, which contradicted his original idea of wanting to do something about taxes such as salt, wine, and tea.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen was silent for a few seconds and asked:

"If the grain grows well, how much food can the people under his command have per year......

Zhu Youzhen's question was very inexplicable, but Wang Chengen still thought about it, and then knocked on the abacus a few times and said:

"The people of Nanchang, normally speaking, pay 30% of our rent every year, and they can still have about 1,000 catties of grain."

"What about the North Field......" Zhu Youzhen frowned and asked.

"There are three acres per person in Beichang at the moment, and after paying the rent, there should be more than 600 catties of grain."

One catty in the Ming Dynasty was almost one catty and two taels in later generations, that is to say, the people in Beichang could receive about 720 catties of grain, an average of two catties of rice per day.

Is this good? It doesn't seem to count, even if two catties of rice can cook four catties of rice, but for the people who have no oil and water in their stomachs and no meat, they can only say that they are barely alive.

Zhu Youzhen's mood was very heavy for a while, he asked himself, what is the difference between himself and those landlords?

Compared with his ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang's standard of only asking for 12 stone of grain per 100 mu, his standard is even more difficult to accept.

For every 100 acres, the people should pay 60 stone of grain, and only 140 stone should be left for the people.

But if compared with his contemporaries, compared with those landlords and gentry who were tenants 64 or even 73, the three or seven points of the imperial horse supervisor under his command were simply heaven.

"Let's end this situation as soon as possible......"

Zhu Youzhen took a deep breath and knew that if he didn't rely on the army to Tuntian, he would not be able to raise the army, and he would not be able to defeat the foreign enemy and clean up the internal thieves.

The current situation is already very good, even if a million thieves break out now, Zhu Youzhen has the confidence to clean them all up in a short time.

Even if the 16th Guards and 12th Battalion have not yet been organized, only the 7th Guards and 1st Battalion are enough.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen said to Wang Chengen:

"It is estimated that the recruitment of soldiers and horses will end soon, and I will pass on my order to break up the seven guards and one battalion and mix them into the existing thirteen guards and twelve battalions."

"As for the three guards of the navy, wait for the teak from Siam to be transported to Tianjin Wei and see if we can build a big ship."

"The slave and maid receive the order......" Hearing Zhu Youzhen's words, Wang Chengen returned the salute.

After he responded, Zhu Youzhen also asked: "Qi Yuanfu's 8,000 regular soldiers and 2,000 auxiliary soldiers should arrive in Liaoyang, right?" ”

"Back to Your Highness...... Wang Chengen nodded and said:

"Eight days ago, he was stationed in Liaoyang, and General Qi also transported 50,000 stone of Liaoyang military food to Shenyang, and returned to Liaoyang City safely."

"At present, Liaoyang has 14,060 Zhejiang soldiers, 1,000 Liao soldiers, and 4,000 auxiliary soldiers, a total of 19,600 people."

"Shenyang has 6,000 Sichuan soldiers, 7,000 Liao soldiers, and 3,000 auxiliary soldiers, a total of 16,000 people."

"In addition, before the matter of General Qin's asking His Highness to recruit new soldiers from Jizhen to send to Shenyang, at present, General Manchu has recruited an additional nine thousand new soldiers from Jizhen in Yongping, and he can go to Shenyang after another month of training."

"Can't catch up with the ......" Zhu Youzhen suddenly spoke, making Wang Chengen stunned.

Miss? What do you mean?

"It is estimated that now the old slave is ready to send troops to sweep Liaoshen......" Zhu Youzhen looked at Yanshan in the distance, his brows furrowed.

It also seems to verify his words, and at the same time, Shenyang also captured the information that there were grain ships going down the river in Xinsarhu City.

The battle of Shenyang is about to begin, and whether the old slave can resurrect the dead end depends on this battle.

Lao Nusheng and the Ming army retreated to the west of the Liao River, and the Houjin National Games prospered for several years.

The Ming army won and the Houjin must change the law and find new food replenishment areas, otherwise hundreds of thousands of Han captives will starve to death in the remnants of Changbai Mountain......