"The minister dares to ask Your Majesty, what do Your Majesty want them to do with the 2,400 craftsmen of the Martial Arts Three Guards and the 1,100 military craftsmen of the Jinyi Guard?"

Yu Qian didn't reply, he was silent for a long time, but instead threw out a question.

Zhu Di raised his head and thought for a moment, as if he wanted to answer, but he looked very puzzled, and asked suspiciously: "Hey? I'm the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, right? ”

"The emperor of the Ming Dynasty, when will he have to answer the questions of his courtiers?"

Yu Qian didn't talk nonsense, he stood back directly, and said, "That minister doesn't agree." ”

"Hey? You old thing. Zhu Di crossed his waist and almost scolded out, but then smiled helplessly: "You, you, that's okay, I'll tell you." ”

"These craftsmen, I plan to integrate them and allocate them to Wang Gongchang, so that they can make new firearms, weapons, and armor for Daming."

"Even if it is allocated to Wang Gongchang, these craftsmen are not expelled from the army, you are a military secretary, what are you thinking about so much?"

"The minister is the secretary of the military department, and he must consider the Ming army." Yu Qian smiled with relief and said, "Since this is the case, the minister can say that His Majesty has done the right thing." ”

"Don't have any opinions?" Zhu Di said unexpectedly.

Yu Qian bowed his head and said: "Your Majesty's move is beneficial to the country and the people, and it is more conducive to updating the armament, the minister has nothing to oppose, Your Majesty just has to do it." ”

"What about the Ministry of Industry and Jinyiwei?" Zhu Di stared at him for a while, then asked.

Wang Ying immediately came out and said, "Your Majesty, Nanzhen Fusi has nothing to say. ”

When these two of them expressed their attitudes, Jiang Yuan breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and finally passed this pass, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, the ministers have no opinion. ”

"That's okay, it's settled, the three guards of martial arts will be laid off from now on, and each ministry will be busy with whatever it should be."

Zhu Di patted his thigh, raised his head and said:

"The abolition of the three guards of martial arts is only the first step, I plan to leave only the upper twelve guards set up by Emperor Taizu, and the ten guards added by Yongle and the four guards added by Xuande will all be cut."

As he spoke, Zhu Di smiled and asked, "What about your opinions?" ”

Jiang Yuan finally ran out of trouble, so naturally he wouldn't look for it again, in case he made any more troubles, it would be completely unnecessary, so he just closed his eyes and didn't hear it.

After the martial arts and three guards, the streamlining of the pro-military guard has nothing to do with the Ministry of Industry, and the ministers of the Ministry of Industry are also very honest.

As for the five ministries of rites, households, and criminals, soldiers, works, and officials, the streamlining of pro-military guards did not have much impact on them, and there were not many opposing opinions.

The pro-military guard is directly under the emperor, and the abolition of the pro-military guard, to put it bluntly, the emperor wants to cut off his wings, and the civil officials are too late to be happy, so how can they oppose it.

At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang set up this thing in order to allow the emperor to have a pro-army that could be mobilized at any time and only obey his own orders, and when he couldn't fight others, he could lift the table at any time and not play.

Zhu Di's dismissal of the pro-military guard was also a helpless move after the change in Tumubao.

After the Tumubao Incident, the pro-military guard and the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies basically existed in name only, especially the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, and the rights and interests of various places were basically robbed by the Ministry of War.

The pro-military guard originally rated a total of more than 200,000 people, and after the civil fort, Liu Ju eliminated the old and weak and some **, and now there are more than 20,000 people left.

There are more than 20,000 people, but there are 26 guards, and they are all commanders and commanders of various pro-military guards, and those who are officials are almost more than those who are soldiers.

Such a bloated system cannot be solved by conscription alone, and now the army is used year after year, after the civil fort, the families of the 500,000 defeated soldiers who were paid by the imperial court have emptied their savings over the years, and there is no money to expand it at all.

This is the root cause, if you have money, it is very easy to solve, there is a lot of money anyway, you are not afraid of anything, there are not enough people, recruit! As long as the salary is good, there are still few people who want to be soldiers?

The problem is, there's no money!

Therefore, we have to start from the roots, that is, to lay off some of the pro-army guards, and then gradually expand the remaining pro-army guards, only in this way can we have confidence in our hands.

When the right time is right in the future, it will not be difficult to add ten or eight pro-military guards.

Wang Wen, the left capital of the Imperial Palace, said: "Your Majesty, the pro-army and the guards are involved in the abolition, not only involving the hereditary soldiers and generals of the guards, but also a large number of officials. ”

"These people should be given a certain amount of bereavement in accordance with their official positions, so that there is no need for disorder."

Zhu Di nodded, looked to the side and said: "Yes, this opinion is very good, the household department and the official department will draw up the bereavement pension of each guard from the commander to the soldier in detail according to the official position." ”

Jin Lian, the secretary of the household department, and He Wenyuan, the secretary of the ministry, came out one after another, and obeyed the order.

There is nothing to say about the household department and the official department, since it is necessary to abolish the pro-military guards, those hereditary officers are the first problem, people used to have iron rice bowls, but now the bowls are gone, they must not be happy.

However, it is estimated that it is not enough to give bereavement pensions, and there will definitely be trouble, but the problem is that the abolition of pro-military guards is a situation that the Wenchen clique is happy to see.

In short, it was an act of weakening imperial power.

For Zhu Di, now the hereditary officers who are pro-military guards, these corpse vegetarian meals, still cut off the early Lisuo, and it is a waste of money and food to keep them.

Hubu Zuo Shilang came out and said: "Your Majesty, most of the pro-military guards are hereditary family members of meritorious people in the previous dynasty, and their soldiers are also hereditary. ”

"I want the soldiers not to rebel against the masses, and the minister proposes that their hereditary military registration should be abolished, and they should be returned to the civilian registration and managed by the household department."

The military department was dumbfounded all of a sudden, to put it well, why did you suddenly rectify this sentence of tiger and wolf?

Okay, you're all out of the cards, I don't follow the cards aren't afraid of you?

On the side of the military department, a Lang Zhong immediately stood up and said, "Why do you have to return to the people's nationality? Wouldn't it be better to change the military status to Jingwei and fill the vacancy? ”

Changing from military to civilian status is, to be honest, a plan that should be more acceptable to military households.

In the previous life, Zhu Di had a lot of headaches about the escape of military households in various places, and of course Zhu Di didn't know much about it, so he took care of the northern expedition to bully Mongolia.

This kind of thing has always been handled by the crown prince Zhu Gaochi.

Zhu Di only knew that compared with the hereditary military households, the soldiers who were laid off by the pro-military guard must be more inclined to civilian registration.

If they want it, why don't I give them this grace?

Zhu Di had already thought about it, and when he looked down, the military department and the household department were already arguing with a red face and a thick neck, and the ministers scolded each other in front of the palace, which was not soft-mouthed.

When it comes to interests, the military department and the household department are fighting all of a sudden, although their chief officer and soldier department secretary Yu Qian and household department secretary Jin Lian have not moved.

Regarding the battle between the ministers, Zhu Di was also happy to watch the play.

The ministers always agreed, what else did they do as the emperor, let them fight, and the more fierce the fight, the happier Zhu Di became.