Today is the day when Zhu Gaoxu's soldiers and horses rest for three days.

Zhu Gaoxu was in the palace, and when Chen Wen came back, he brought two pieces of news.

Li Youzhi and Duoyan Sanwei.

Duoyan Sanwei was too far away and unrealistic, obviously dealing with him casually, but Zhang Xin said that Li Youzhi obviously had a special meaning in it.

The armor storage in the Ming Dynasty is in charge of the Ordnance Bureau under the Political Envoy Department.

The warehouse of the Beiping Ordnance Bureau is Li Youzhi, who is the ninth product.

Li Youzhi is a native of Qingwan County, that is, his hometown is in Hebei, which is quite close to Beiping.

Zhu Gaoxu also had an impression of him, because every time he went out with King Yan in the past, he would ask Li Youzhi to get the armor, he was about twenty years old, relatively young, and he was polite every time, and he could see that he wanted to please King Yan.

The previous Zhu Gaoxu didn't know why at the time, but now Zhu Gaoxu thinks about it, maybe Li Youzhi's hometown is nearby.

Zhang Xin is an old fox, and he actually has a good relationship with Li Youzhi, if Zhu Gaoxu can remember the details of history, he will know that in the original history, it was these two people who successively reported to King Yan about the secret decree of the imperial court to arrest him.

"His Royal Highness is really still a god, Zhang Xin really has different ambitions." Chen Wen didn't forget to slap Zhu Gaoxu at this time.

But in good conscience, Chen Wen didn't really want to make a sycophant, because Zhu Gaoxu was not wrong.

Zhu Gaoxu sent him over, and buying armor and horses was fake, just a temptation.

Sure enough, I tried it out.

Zhu Gaoxu looked proud, thinking to himself, Lao Tzu can't remember Li Youzhi, but he still remembers Zhang Xin, a second or fifth boy.

"But it's not easy to believe." Zhu Gaoxu said seriously: "Usually a person has a lot of choices before he sees despair, and some people make choices that outsiders can't understand because of despair." ”

If the imperial court suddenly transfers Zhang Xin away, do you see if Zhang Xin will immediately report the matter of the private purchase of military armor by the king of Gaoyang County and the matter of the private long history.

Zhang Xin is now secretly communicating with Zhu Gaoxu because he is afraid of death, because he is in the center of the vortex.

Chen Wenshen thought so, what His Royal Highness said was always so reasonable, he thought about it: "Put pressure on him and force him to surrender as soon as possible." ”

"That's not necessary, maybe the court will persecute him." Zhu Gaoxu knew that if history had not changed, the imperial court would issue a secret decree urging him to do it as soon as possible, and finally forced Zhang Xin to report to King Yan, but he had to find a way to get this credit.

At the moment, the two discussed how to find Li Youzhi, as for buying horses, Zhu Gaoxu was just an excuse, and he didn't really plan to buy horses, because once King Yan decided to do the opposite, he would naturally have a large number of horses.

Originally, he didn't need to prepare his armor, but King Yan reversed and had everything.

But now that he has to train his troops, he will find a way to get some armor.

After a while, Zhong Xian came in outside and said that many people were coming.

Zhu Gaoxu said: "Please go to the front hall and wait for the king." ”

Zhong Xian responded and left.

When Zhu Gaoxu and Chen Wen arrived at the main hall of the front yard, almost all of his henchmen were there.

Wang Bin, Wei Da, Sheng Jian, Zhou Hu, Song Meng, Hou Hai, Qian Xun, Qian Chang, Jing Sheng, Li Mo.

"Meet Your Highness." Everyone saw Zhu Gaoxu saluting one after another.

"Sit, sit, sit." Zhu Gaoxu prepared a lot of stools in the hall this time, and everyone had a place.

Everyone sat down casually.

Like Hou Hai, they are all a little strange, after all, they have never sat here in a meeting before.

Moreover, Zhu Gaoxu rarely convened so many people for a meeting before, but after he came back this time, he had already convened several times.

But such a change still makes them happy.

"A few days ago, this king was on the street and met Jing Sheng by chance." Zhu Gaoxu said.

Jing Sheng's face was slightly red, as if he was a little embarrassed, and everyone looked at him, not knowing what he meant.

"Jing Sheng argued with the butcher over a few taels of pork."

Jing Sheng's face turned even redder and he lowered his head in shame.

"Only then did this king know that it turned out that my officials in the Ming Dynasty were still very hard."

As soon as these words came out, the civil and military officers on the scene, especially the civil officials, almost burst into tears, and His Royal Highness said yes.

The salaries of officials in the Ming Dynasty are simply not comparable to those of the Song and Tang dynasties, especially the Song Dynasty, which is really rich, and the salaries of officials at the same level, the Ming Dynasty is about a fraction of that of the Song Dynasty.

This is also why Lao Zhu can't stop the trend of corruption even if torture is at every turn.

At that time, Li Yu, the political envoy of Beiping, and Zhao Quande, the envoy of the inspection department, together with Guo Heng, the head of the household department, and a large number of provincial officials, embezzled a total of 24 million stone of grain, and the annual income of the Ming treasury was only 29 million stone.

Lao Zhu was furious, and at that time, he killed all the officials below the six ministry, which was equivalent to emptying an official of the imperial court.

In the end, when the case was completed, about 30,000 people were killed one after another, almost killing all officials across the country.

But that's it, it can't be stopped, and there will still be corruption cases every year for successor officials.

There is no way, the Ming court is still too stingy, like Zhu Gaoxu, most of these henchmen are low-level officials of eight grades and nine grades, and the annual income is 33-40 stones, and the Ming Dynasty also has folded color, and some of them will be paid money, and some of them will be grain.

Just like that, the officials who have no oil and water really don't even dare to eat meat casually.

Zhu Gaoxu's words directly hit the hearts of the officials and generals in the center, and some of them were red, and then they listened to Zhu Gaoxu's words: "This king has decided that in the future, you will find Hou Hai to support ten stones of grain or ten taels of silver every month, and ask for grain or silver at will. ”

"Woo" Qian Xun suddenly fell to the ground and cried, and actually squeezed out tears in an instant: "Your Highness is gracious, and the officials are grateful to Dade, you should swear to the sky, be loyal to Your Highness in this life, and never turn your back, if you violate it, the sky will thunder and thunder, and you will not die well---"

Qian Xun is revealing his true feelings, following a leader, doesn't he just want to be promoted and make a fortune and earn some benefits.

Zhu Gaoxu was in a daze a few years ago, and he only knew how to lead troops to fight, but now he finally knows how to care about them.

Qian Xun made a start, and the rest of the people left the stool one after another, knelt down and swore an oath, and the scene suddenly became noisy.

That Li Mo's expression was strange, looking at everyone like this, he hesitated, and quickly knelt down, but he lowered his head and muttered in his mouth, and he didn't know if there was a sound, anyway, there were many people at the scene, and they couldn't hear it.

"Everyone, hurry up, it's the king's carelessness, he has his own fine clothes and food, and he forgets the benefits of his brothers, hahaha." Zhu Gaoxu laughed loudly, and first helped Wang Bin and other generals, and several generals were also red-eyed, and they didn't know if they were desperately squeezed out.

"Rest assured, this king knows that there is still a little less, but this king has just started, there are many places to use money and food, and I will definitely not forget everyone in the future, in short, if this king is developed, I will definitely take all my brothers to get promoted and make a fortune together, and I will never forget each other."

The generals took the lead, and everyone shouted never to forget.

Then Zhu Gaoxu looked at Wang Bin: "Wang Bin, I heard that your house is a little smaller, and you have given birth to two babies. ”

Wang Bin's face was moved, a little incredulous.

"Weida, there is a temporary shortage of people in the house, you ask your daughter to come over to help."

Hearing this, Veda was very excited and said loudly: "Yes, Lord Wang." ”