After Chengde received the silver from the household department, he went directly to the upper floor of Pingzemen City.

He was accompanied by more than a dozen household officials he was accustomed to in his daily life.

Then there is a Dongchang head wearing a pointed hat, white leather boots, brown clothes, and a small silk tie, with a team of fans, responsible for the escort of silver.

Wang Chengen is meticulous and familiar with the inside of officialdom, and this team of Dongchang people is actually used to support Chengde.

A six-pin Lang official of the household department is really not ranked in the capital, not to mention that the current situation is chaotic, and the voice of the martial artist is becoming more and more powerful.

Chengde is completely inadequate than these people.

But there are more East Factory......

Although Wei Zhongxian has long been eliminated, the prestige of this place is enough to make everyone's hearts tremble.

Even if you are a big official, in the face of the "Dongchang case", you are not trembling and being arrested.

Na Juetou also made it clear to Cheng De: "The subordinate is responsible for escorting and ensuring the safety of the adult, if you want to kill someone, Lord Cheng can also do what she asks, and we will do it, but after the killing, you have to end it yourself." ”

Dongchang Juetou is also a six-grade official and Chengde, the Ming Dynasty is noble and cheap, but Dongchang ...... Ahem.

The meaning of the words is very clear, the fans are used to support the scene, and it is best not to let them go, because the consequences will be serious.

Chengde nodded and thanked him.

On the way to the castle tower, he could only shake his head.

No wonder Jiang Dejing took care of it again and again, and Dongchang sent people to cheer, this thing is really difficult to do.

But even if it's hard, it's going to be done!

The voice just now: "The silver has been issued, the silver has been issued" was shouted by Chengde's subordinates first.

In order to create a momentum first, gather all the Qiu Ba on the city tower.

Today's paycheck is definitely the first time in the history of the Daimyo!

Cheng De gritted his teeth and said to the soldiers around him: "Today's salary, that is the grace of the Son of Heaven, the emperor personally raised a large amount of silver to reward everyone." ”

"In total, I owe everyone five and a half months' military salary, and this time I will make up for it according to half a year. Double pay per person! All this silver was taken out by the emperor himself! The household department is just distributing it on behalf of the household! ”

As soon as these words came out, all the soldiers were shocked!

This time, there are eight months of military salary, not to mention anything else, at least the family can eat enough and eat some meat.

Ou Tianpeng took the lead in shouting: "Long live my emperor, long live the Ming Dynasty"

There were waves of sound, and Chongzhen listened in the corner but didn't see a smile.

"Long live, the military heart is available," Hu Rong said on the side, "But, the slave doesn't seem to be happy at all when she looks at Long Live Lord......"

"Sprinkle the family...... I feel that I feel sorry for these soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, it is natural for them to be soldiers and eat food, and now they are just giving them what they deserve, but they are already so cheering, what a good people! ”

Emperor Chongzhen sighed: "In the past two hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, the national strength has been strong, but it is indeed too harsh on the people under his rule. See, if you give them a little good, they will know that it is this kingdom, and that this king has given such good people...... Really, really, really......%"

Lu Zhishen couldn't say any more.

He could see that these cheering soldiers, although they were ragged and had a good face, were still guarding the city walls in such a time of crisis, which showed that they were loyal to the court and the king.

It's a pity that the former monarch of the Ming Dynasty didn't understand this simple truth.

The court was wrong in arrears of military salaries in the first place, not only did not repent, but intensified its demands, and the soldiers had to support even if they were "sparrows and mice".

doesn't even let people have enough to eat, and they still rely on others to protect their own safety, how can there be such shameless thoughts in the world.

After that, the Qi family army made a fuss, and thousands of elites were deceived into the school field and slaughtered.

The idea of the superior is really strange, requiring the soldiers to serve the country bravely in the face of foreign enemies, but also asking them to be submissive in the face of exploitation by their superiors, where in the world does this version of good things come from.

Seeing that the morale of these soldiers was even higher, Cheng De gritted his teeth and threw out an even more explosive news: "This salary is due to the emperor's will!" All paid are paid! ”

After these words were spoken, the soldiers who were originally cheering fell silent.

The huge city tower was really silent.

And then there was whispering everywhere.

"Paid? Did I hear me right? ”

"yes, that's never been the case."

"Two brothers, what do you mean by real salary? Hasn't military pay always been like this? ”

"The silver you said when you joined the army was two taels a month, but if you can get it, you can get seven coins, which is Shangguan Kai's grace."

"Yes, it's been like this since our ancestors."

"Therefore, this time I made a decision against my ancestors, saying that two taels would be paid two taels, but I also suspect that I heard it wrong."

"Yes, there are so many officials in the imperial court, they are willing to give up this money."

"If you want to send it, everyone will hang it on their heads! I see, this is to say."

"Who says no, don't say eight months' military salary, if you can get me four months, and then give me a five-percent discount, I'll go home and offer a tablet for our son of heaven!"

It turns out that the salary of the Ming Dynasty is never real, and the silver will go through countless steps from the official warehouse of the household department to the hands of the grassroots soldiers, and each step will peel off a layer of skin.

Drifting, fire consumption is routine, to the big guy Bing Tan Respect is inevitable, these civil officials, the ability is not big, but the heart is not small, three turns and two lanes, to the hands of the generals, the military salary has gone to four stops, this is still not a deliberate difficult result.

And the generals have to keep some of their own, and the best fighting under the command of the generals is the pro-soldiers, these pro-soldiers not only have high salaries and eat well, but also have enough white-flour beef, so that they can practice martial arts.

The cost of one pro-soldier is enough to support ten ordinary soldiers.

Therefore, the life of the Ming army was miserable.

Of course, compared with military households, these recruits are considered to be masters.

Military households are an ancestral industry, and the imperial court allocates fields, cultivates them in peacetime, and enjoys the privilege of being exempt from taxes and paying grain, and when it comes to wartime, they immediately become soldiers, which sounds good.

Emperor Taizu even boasted that he did not spend a penny on the treasury, but hid millions of soldiers among the people.

But in fact, the 200-year-old imperial court has been corrupted to the extreme, and the remaining land in the military household guard is all mountainous and riverflat, which cannot be cultivated.

What about the fertile land that was originally allocated to them?

This is going to talk about the Son of Wanli.

He is the first bad king of the Ming Dynasty, in order to fight against the civil official group, not only did he not go to the court, but he did not even fill the vacancy in the later period, and at the most serious time, there were only two Shangshu and four waiters in the six departments, and the daily work depended on a group of Lang officials, and the same was true in the local area.

There are more than one million science and Taoist officials, and at least there are less than twenty.

There are no officials, no procuratorates, so the local landlord forces can collude with the officers of the guard to embezzle state-owned assets by various methods such as exchanging inferior goods.

Moreover, the officers of the guard station regarded the military households as their own subordinates, cattle and horses, and slaves who did not want money.

So by the time of the Chongzhen period, the military household system of the guard had been completely bankrupt, and except for some unlucky people, most of the soldiers were recruited for money.

By the way, there is a difference between the two words "soldier" in Daming.

The former does not need to be spent by the imperial court, and the latter is paid for military salaries.

While giving money to recruit soldiers, normal generals also gave small favors to military households to prevent them from fleeing too much.

It can be said that the real salary in Daming is unprecedented.

Even if he joined Qi Jiguang back then, Qi Shaobao couldn't do this, because he had to curry favor with Zhang Juzheng.

If it is said that it is sent for eight months at a time, it is to make the soldiers ecstatic.

Paying them a real salary makes them feel unreal.

So much so that from Lu Zhishen's point of view, almost everyone plucked their ears hard, as if they could "refute rumors".

Chengde is really good at doing things, he immediately said: "I heard it right, it's the actual salary." ”

The soldiers didn't have time to cheer.

I heard an angry shout: "Nonsense! I want to see who dares to change this rule! ”

As he spoke, a civil servant strode in.

"Who are you?" Cheng De asked knowingly

"This official Guang Shiheng, the military department is in charge of the matter, and now he is in charge of supervising the army." The person who came was sent out by Emperor Chongzhen and sent out to Guang Shiheng.

Hikari Shiheng admits himself unlucky.

He also knew that the Son of Heaven had changed, so he would never want to continue to mess around in the court at this time.

Anyway, Li Chuang's army was outside, and Zhang Xianzhong was also very troublesome.

This Ming still has a few days to live, no one knows.

Instead of going to the court to fight the cannon, it is better to take this opportunity to get some silver.

As a military officer, he didn't know anything about the art of war, although when he was on the bullet seal, he often had the remark that "those who can attack move above the nine heavens, and those who are good at defending are hidden under the nine earths".

But this is all copied from "The Art of War", which seems to be extremely correct, but in fact it is useless.

He didn't know anything about how to train troops, how to set up camp, how to coordinate logistics and other professional skills, but it did not prevent him from pointing fingers at military generals.

If you want to shut up, it's easy.

The silver is sent over.

Of course, now, Guang Shiheng is on the front line to supervise the battle.

That's really overworking for the country and the king, and it definitely can't be in vain.

Besides, in the past, the silver was sent to the house, although it was labor-saving, but the amount to give was determined by others.

Today, as a prisoner, he has the right to personally determine the amount of spoils.

Moreover, he can take the lion's share, because this silver must have Wei Zaode's share.

Wei Ge Lao is so noble and honest, he will definitely not see these Qiu Eight generals, and only Guang Shiheng, who is also from Hanlin, is qualified to come to the door.

And holding the silver to meet the elder of the pavilion, it is also hello, hello, hello, everyone, not only enhances the relationship between the two anti-anti, but also allows Guang Shiheng to return to the court as soon as possible.

Of course, at that time, whether it was Zhu Youzhen sitting on the dragon chair was no longer an important issue.

Again, no matter who becomes the emperor, they can't do without the civilian official group to help govern the country.

As soon as Chen Yan died, the big shopkeeper of the old Ming Zhu family was Wei Zaode, and all the civil officials were counting on him to take everyone to a new owner, and then find a way to dig up the ancestral grave of the Zhu family, vent his anger and make up for the loss of "subsidy".

When Guang Shiheng knew that he was going to be paid, he was happy in his heart and shouted that the opportunity had come.

Unexpectedly, this Chengde did not follow the rules.

In the past, after the silver was dragged in.

The household escort officer first had to drink and talk with the prison army and the generals.

During the banquet, everyone first completed a wave of benefit distribution.

Then pat the ass and leave, and then the leading generals are responsible for distributing the silver.

Today's approach to virtue is unprecedented.

"Chengde, do you know what you're doing?" Light Shiheng jumped to his feet and was furious!

"Paying military salaries" Cheng De responded respectfully.

"You're breaking the rules! If it is known by the important ministers of the court, you will have a few copies! "Guang Shiheng was born as a science and Taoist official, and the best thing in his life is to play the bullet seal.

They don't have the ability to get things done, but if they talk about bad things, they are first-class powerful.

This is also Qingliu's biggest reliance.

Originally, the purpose of setting up the Imperial History Observatory was to supervise hundreds of officials, but it unexpectedly became a means for them to collect money for public and private purposes.

Not only did the Taoist officials fail to play the role of supervising the hundred officials, but instead formed an alliance with the corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and used the power of rumors and whistleblowers given to them by the original imperial court to frame Zhongliang.

Even, the target was the emperor.

Lu Zhishen was silent in the corner, and Hu Rong was at a loss for what to do.

If it is the prince who is serving on the side, I am afraid that he will immediately understand the mind of the saint: at the end of February, Zhu Youzhen had already moved his mind to move the capital to Nanjing.

But this person has a very good face, and if he doesn't speak by himself, he motioned to the right concubine, Li Mingrui, who is in charge of the right Chunfang seal, to move the capital to Nanjing.

It was this Guang Shiheng who jumped out of opposition, and even admonished: Not killing Li Mingrui is not enough to calm the people's hearts.

Chongzhen has Dongchang in his hand, of course he knows that this is actually what Chen Yan meant.

But what can he do?

The relocation of the capital was not possible.

After Li Chuang's army arrived in Zhangjiakou, it was too late to leave.

The original Zhu Youzhen may not understand the Tao in it, but Lu Zhishen is like a mirror in his heart.

Guang Shiheng is not a good person!

The plotter is great!

It's a pity that Hu Rong is in the palace prison all day long, and he doesn't know much about it.

I just felt that the gaze of the Son of Heaven seemed to be cold.

Guang Shiheng continued to jump to his feet: "Chengde, you are a six-rank Lang official of the household department, what kind of thing are you!" How dare you go against your toes? Hurry up and dismiss the people! ”

Chengde's old face flushed, and his shame and anger were overflowing.

Guang Shiheng is revealing the shortcoming.

Chengde and Guang Shiheng are both six-grade civil officials.

It stands to reason that it is the same level.

In fact, this is not the case, Chengde is a prisoner from the country.

That is, he participated in the examination but did not succeed, and was selected by the Hanlin Academy to study in the country, and he was also a master in terms of identity, and he could also be an official after completing his studies.

It's just that compared with Guang Shiheng, who has been admitted all the way up the palace exam, it is more than a cut behind.

is also a six-product, Chengde can only be a Lang official in the six departments in this life, and he works hard to deal with various things every day, maybe one day Shangguan will be kind, and he will be sent out to the county to be a magistrate, and earn a few years of snowflake silver, and this life will be over.

And Guang Shiheng is different, after the palace examination, he directly entered the Hanlin Academy as an editor, don't look at this is just a seven-grade petty official, but he is extremely noble and has a bright future.

After that, whether it is transferred to the Taoist official, or goes to the six ministries to experience, or simply releases, they are all figures in the hearts of the officials and the emperor, as long as they have the opportunity to be promoted very quickly.

At the same time, the editor of the Hanlin Academy also served as the priest of the country, in other words, Guang Shiheng was younger than Chengde, but in terms of qualifications, the two could barely be regarded as teachers and students.

It can be said that the starting point of Shiheng is almost the end of Chengde.

In daily life, Chengde and Guangshiheng are also well water and do not interfere with river water.

The latter is a guest of the old man, and he has great power when he can enter the cabinet, and Hanlin is the favorite protégé of the old man, because he is young, because he is smart, and because he will be promoted very quickly in the future.

Chengde is bitter haha, most of the elders of the pavilion have the function of Shangshu or waiter, they are Qing officials, this Qing refers to leisure, and everything is done by Chengde.

But the more you do, the more you get wrong.

If you meet a loyal person like Jiang Dejing, it is enough to be considerate of your subordinates.

If Chen plays Wei Zaode...... Hehe, I'm afraid that I will be thrown out as a scapegoat.

Seeing that Shiheng slapped people in the face, although Chengde was good at self-cultivation, he couldn't hold it back.

Chengde is not a stupid person, on the contrary, when it comes to wisdom, I am afraid that he is still far above Guang Shiheng.

He coughed and laughed, but secretly he was lucky.

Then he spoke, and his voice was like a bell: "Gentlemen! You will defend the city for the country, even if Li Chuang is ten miles away, you will never retreat. ”

"The emperor knows that all of you are loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty, so let me bring silver to pay you for your loyalty.

As soon as these words came out, many soldiers shed tears at that moment.

Especially those military households, who are treated as cattle and horses by their superiors, and can't ask for food and clothing, and come home every day to see their wives holding their skinny children, what can they do?

Who doesn't want their wives to dress up and make their children eat fat and fat?

They are all men, they all have the strength of their arms, and they are not afraid of death!

Why can't you even support your wife and children!?

These military households, illiterate, do not understand the truth in this.

But they only know that the Son of Heaven is good, and his heart aches.

Although they had never seen the emperor, it did not prevent them from holding illusions.

Perhaps this fantasy is their last psychological dependence.

Ou Tianpeng is so.

Why not Qi Dingbang?

With Ou Tianpeng's shrewdness and a hereditary brocade guard, if he voted for Li Chuang, his life would definitely be better than now.

Not to mention Qi Dingbang.

Lu Zhishen saw that he had a sword and shield in his hand, and his eyelids jumped, and he was dressed in tatters, but he was deep and mountainous, and his master's demeanor was fully displayed, this was really the kung fu that rolled out of the pile of dead people.

If he really did it, Ou Tianpeng would be seriously injured within three moves.

This ability, where can the world not go?

Why did Baba have to go up to the city wall, isn't it the breath in his chest~!

Daming is the largest and most powerful country in this era, and the foundation of Daming's strength is these ordinary, seemingly inconspicuous soldiers!

"Sprinkle the family...... Sprinkle family, I'm sorry for them......" The Son of Heaven muttered.

Hu Rong rolled his eyes when he heard this: "Long live, the prince asked the slaves and maids to lead a small team, and they are all scattered everywhere at the moment, you might as well gather and take down this light Shiheng!" This guy is weird, and the slaves and maids hate it! ”

"Hehe," the Son of Heaven waved his hand, "Don't worry!" ”

“？ Well? Long live the explicit word, slave maid, slave maid, blunt! ”

"Sprinkle the family, this virtue is not a good stubble! We don't need to make a move, this light Shiheng can't be good! ”

Over there, Chengde continued to shout: "Long live the full salary to everyone, and no one can be deducted!" Therefore, let's take a team of Dongchang fans because we are afraid that someone will make trouble! ”

Guang Shiheng's face turned green, "Chengde, you are so bold, you are so bloody!" You're going to be opposed! ”

"Master Guang, tell me, why do you have to rebel if the lower officials want to pay all the strong men? Or if you come with that credential, you should say to which lord you should not pay the full salary of the strong man who defends the city. As long as you take it out, the lower official will immediately turn around and leave! ”

"You!" Guang Shiheng was choked and speechless.

Daming has been playing like this for almost 200 years, but this is all the rules under the table, and it never falls into words.

Even if it is floating, according to the regulations of the household department, it is nothing more than two out of a hundred, and the fire consumption was originally one thousand five, but later it became one hundred and one.

This is well documented.

However, the household department allocated 10,000 taels of silver, and in the end, only 3,000 taels became military salaries, which is not in accordance with the rules.

Even the elders who share the profits with their own hands have to say in strict terms: It's too much! When the Taoist official of the department was sent to investigate the matter, the law of the country should be corrected......

In the Ming Dynasty, Buddhism was developed and blended with Confucianism, and the civil officials and important ministers not only had excellent poetry and articles, but also exquisite in the way of Bodhi.

Everyone does things with a little more aura, pays attention to the fate, does the thing is done, and the silver is fished out, but it must not be put on the bright side, which is also the final bottom line of the country's court doctors.

The so-called incompatibility is also.

Even if Chen Yan Wei Zaode took his ministers to hide in Beijing and wait for the price to sell, and wait for the new master to enter the city to serve, then they can know each other, and they will never fall into words or even words, and they know each other well after eye contact.

There is the artistic conception of my Buddha holding flowers and smiling.

It's a pity that the emperor didn't understand it at all.