Zhu Yijun soon received Ye Shixin's request to the imperial court to exempt Ding Yin's punishment if there was a large-scale plague in the future. peep

"This will be for the sake of the people, send the cabinet, and put his name on the screen."

Zhu Yijun also said with a smile because of this.

The cabinet of ministers is going to discuss Ye Shixin's vote on the household, and let him consider how to use this matter to avoid trouble.

After the discussion of the household department, the reply said that it was suggested that only half of the money should be exempted first, and half of the money collected should be used as a reward for the meritorious officials and the people in the troubles, so as to encourage the people to actively guard against the troubles of the people for not paying the silver.

After Zhu Yijun read it, he didn't say anything, but still asked the celebrant to send the reply to the cabinet of the household department.

The Cabinet voted again to say that it was feasible.

Only then did Zhu Yijun let the celebrant approve the red, and then formed a holy decree. peep

During the whole process, Zhu Yijun, the emperor, did not have to make a specific reply himself, but was only responsible for whether to let the approval opinion that was finally drafted by the cabinet finally form a holy decree.

This can be regarded as a great reduction in Zhu Yijun's workload, and it also makes the handling of a government more reasonable and has a more practical role.

It's not just Ye Shixin's recital.

After he had already approved the Privy Council's request for the conquest of the Japanese state, the bureaucracy represented by the Privy Council began to do the work of conquest of the Japanese state in an orderly manner.

As early as the eighth year of Wanli, the Privy Council asked Wu Weizhong to be able to contact the Korean government cheaply and requisition the power of Korean civil and material resources.

In the end, after the political affairs court discussion, Zhu Yijun issued an order in March of that year, allowing Wu Weizhong to serve as the military and civilian envoy of Xuanfu Korea and the chief military officer of North Korea, referred to as the Korean Xuanfu envoy and the chief military officer of North Korea.

Among Wu Weizhong's official titles, there is a right Yushi who belongs to the civil service, in order to facilitate Wu Weizhong's management of the civil affairs of the garrison in Korea, and has the power to directly impeach the Korean vassals, so as to make the Korean vassal more able to cooperate with the conquest of the Japanese. peep

This can be regarded as the situation that the Ming Dynasty once again appeared as a military general.

Originally, this situation only appeared in the early Ming Dynasty, but now it has appeared again, which can be regarded as a real re-entry between the civil and military forces of the Ming Dynasty, rather than the civil and military systems since the civil fort.

Of course, Zhu Yijun's ruling ministers are willing to increase the power of military ministers in this way, and it is only because Wu Weizhong is working in a foreign domain, which is a special situation, so they are willing to do so, and at the same time, it is also related to the fact that the current ruling ministers are mainly reformist civil officials such as Zhang Juzheng and Fang Fengshi, and their mustard heart for military ministers is not so important.

Because they pay more attention to cultivating military ministers and strong national martial virtues, rather than sacrificing national martial virtues in order to restrict military ministers.

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In addition, Qi Jiguang also ended the official position of Prime Minister Ji Liao in the ninth year of Wanli, and was promoted to the Left Governor of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies and the Deputy Privy Envoy, the Right Squire of the Military Department, the Right Deputy Governor of the Imperial History, and the Military Affairs of the Asahi War, becoming the commander of the war against the Japanese, and went to Busan in that year and set up his own strategic yamen in Busan.

In order to achieve victory in the war against the Japanese as much as possible, Zhu Yijun and his ruling ministers did make the most enlightened decision, letting Qi Jiguang directly serve as the commander-in-chief, and concurrently serving as a civilian, and did not send a senior civilian official to be the commander-in-chief, but hindered the matter of conscripting the Japanese.

After all, among today's civil officials in the Ming Dynasty, there are not many governor-level civil officials who are familiar with the war against the Japanese, Hu Zongxian, Wang Chen, Tan Lun, etc. peep

Therefore, Zhu Yijun and his ministers Zhang Juzheng and Fang Fengshi directly let Qi Jiguang take command in person.

Just like in history, Zhang Juzheng and Tan Lun directly asked Prime Minister Qi Jiguang to be the general soldier of Jiliao Zhuzhen.

However, the Ming court did not send civil officials to participate in the war against the Japanese, and Song Yingchang came to Busan at this time because of the order to patrol the army, which was regarded as not only receiving training, but also supervising the army for the imperial court.

Pusan.

Outside the expanded port, thousands of sails are lined up, barns are like forests, and flags are flying.

"Turn it up! Don't stop! ”

"Those who hold their breath underwater will hold their breath for a while." peep

"Now the wind is coming just right, let Lao Tzu get on the boat and run laps!"

At the same time, a large number of Ming officers and men received all the training to adapt to water operations and landing operations.

In addition, a large number of local Korean people were recruited here, and under the supervision of the Ming army, new branch cities and branch roads were built.

Song Yingchang, who was going to see Qi Jiguang with Wu Weizhong, was watching this scene with a calm expression, and when he saw a Korean man loading bags of grain on his shoulder, he couldn't help but whisper to Wu Weizhong: "The Privy Council Minister Fang has something to tell Yu Gong." ”

After hearing this, Wu Weizhong asked, "What did the prime minister say?" ”

"What the prime minister means is that although the imperial court is not short of money and food now, it cannot spend the state money on the military salaries and food of the public, and the public should be as frugal as possible, especially for the Korean people who are used, they should not be treated the same as their own people's husbands."

"After all, at present, the imperial court still has to exempt a large number of its own people, once there are Japanese robbers who really plundered the southeast, they have to exempt Ding Yin on a large scale, and now the imperial court has suspended the reduction of troops, but it is necessary to reduce the people's taxes, it can be said that the expenditure has increased unabated, and in order to make the national funds given by the new policy, not greatly reduced, the surplus can be supported for a few more years, the public here, to the Korean people to try to allocate as little as possible, after all, the Son of Heaven also allows us to treat the Han people and the Yi people differently." peep

"Because these things are not easy to see on the table, they can only ask me to pass on the word, and it is not appropriate to tell the public in the form of private messages."

Song Yingchang said at this time.

Wu Weizhong nodded after hearing this: "Please let the cardinal minister rest assured!" I have decreed that the Korean people who have been recruited should be treated only as long laborers as the people of my Celestial Empire. ”

"So ruthless?!"

Song Yingchang was amazed when he heard this, and asked: "Then why do these North Korean men seem to be quite active in their work?!" ”

"I don't know, these Korean people are not as good as the long-term workers of my Celestial Empire before they work for our officers and soldiers."

Wu Weizhong said. peep

"Knock on Xuanfu!"

At this time, Liu Xilin, the Korean criminal convict who came to Busan to comfort the Celestial Army, happened to meet Wu Weizhong and Song Yingchang because he had just returned from seeing Qi Jiguang, so he knelt down and bowed.

After Wu Weizhong asked Liu Xilin to get up, he asked, "What did you come to see Qi Shuai?" ”

Liu Xilin said: "Back to Xuanfu, I came to see the scriptures for the recruitment of Korean people, and at the same time, I came to comfort the heavenly army at the behest of His Royal Highness." ”

Wu Weizhong asked: "The matter of recruiting Korean people?" ”

"Yes, because the Celestial Empire is too kind to the small people of our vassal state!"

"Once those commoners were recruited as civil husbands, the Xuanfu Division actually let them use one liter of rations every day, and they would eat one meal of meat every other day in summer and autumn, and one meal of meat every other day in winter and spring, which is really easy to pamper my Korean people!" peep

"As small people of the feudal state, they are not worthy of it, after all, how can they compare with the people of the Heavenly Empire."

Liu Xilin replied.

Song Yingchang couldn't help but ask on the side: "Is this very good?" ”

Liu Xilin asked rhetorically: "This Shangguan, isn't this bad?" ”

"You know, because of the high treatment given by the Heavenly Army to the people's husbands, many large family slaves have fled here one after another to become people's husbands, and even many officials and craftsmen have come to build ships for the Heavenly Army instead of building for their own feudal countries."

Saying that, Liu Xilin bowed his hand to Wu Weizhong and said: "Right now, the Korean people call Xuanfu a Bodhisattva!" But just, please don't bless them too much! They're cheap! It's not as good as the people of the Heavenly Empire, and if they inherit too much blessing, they will lose their lives! ”

"Give them a dry meal, and that's about it." peep

"After the minister said Yu Qi Shuai, Qi Shuai only let Yu Xuanfu inform you and let Xuanfu decide you."

"Therefore, the minister only asks Xuanfu not to give them such good treatment, and it is best not to let them receive their wages again."

"As long as Xuanfu agrees to do so, our Highness is willing to let all the officials in our country take the initiative to recruit more people for Xuanfu, so that the Celestial Army can build more military stations between Uiju and Busan."

Because there is a big gap between the national economy of the Ming Dynasty and the DPRK, and the ruling class of the DPRK is now in the stage of fierce party struggle, the political corruption is serious, and no one is actively reforming, which is about equivalent to the late Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty in history, so the Korean people were seriously exploited during this time.

In contrast, the Ming Dynasty at this time was in the early Wanli period, because the reform led to the emergence of a prosperous scene, and the merger and exploitation of the powerful were suppressed, so it was the era of rapid development of the national economy, the poverty of the small people and the great improvement of the quality of life.

Therefore, it seems that even if the Ming army stationed in Busan treated the North Korean people according to the worst treatment they understood, it was still too much in the eyes of North Korean officials.

After Liu Xilin said, Song Yingchang smiled at Liu Xilin: "Although you are only a minister of a feudal state, you are a capable minister!" "Peep

"Then this court will halve the treatment of these Korean people, and the wages will also be halved! But you have to take the initiative to recruit more people for this house. ”

Wu Weizhong said.

Liu Xilin was a little disappointed after hearing this: "Why do you still have to pay the untouchables in your country?" ”

"There's no way around it, I also want to don't give a cent, and let your people donate money to help the army! However, not at all, you asked the merchants of the Celestial Empire to sell the cotton cloth to after transporting cotton here? ”