After Shen Yiyi and Yu Shenxing, who came up with him, and the other ministers heard Qi Jiguang say this, they all looked at Li Chengliang, and then bowed their heads one after another.

Li Chengliang froze in place.

It didn't take a while.

Li Chengliang straightened his chest and said: "For the sake of the country, give up the benefits of commerce and trade, and have no regrets!" ”

"So, you don't have to look at me like this, not to mention that our government is no longer doing business, even if you are still dealing in ginseng and mink in Liaodong, you will support the introduction of a luxury tax!"

"Although a certain martial artist, he also knows the truth of thrift to cultivate virtue and suppress luxury and wealth."

"The cardinal is noble, which makes us admire."

Shen Yi waited and replied.

And Qi Jiguang also smiled: "If everyone in the world is not as profitable as the public, why worry that the country will not be able to maintain peace and stability for a long time." ”

"yes!"

The ministers present all sighed.

The ministers of the Ming Dynasty seem to be very willing to see Li Chengliang so important to virtue and light profit.

In fact, whether they are sincere or false, they really can't directly say that thrift is wrong, nor can they say that sacrificing their own interests is wrong.

After all, these ministers were taught to be frugal and to value profit over justice, and they often used this idea to admonish the emperor and others.

It's just that now that Li Chengliang has been praised by Qi Jiguang, and Li Chengliang has also taken the initiative to cooperate, it makes it impossible for hypocrites to stop the emergence of luxury tax by instigating Li Chengliang, and they have to continue to praise Li Chengliang for this.

……

Privy Councillor's Residence.

"This old relative, back then, he put a high hat on Zhang Taiyue, saying that he could make the Ming Dynasty prosperous, and now he is wearing a high hat for me, saying that I can make the Ming Dynasty live for a long time."

"Although he is a military minister, he is more cunning than Wenchen, and it makes people angry when he thinks about it!"

"Now, those powerful people in the world still have to scold me Li Chengliang to death? will say that I, Li Chengliang, are shameless, and I do not hesitate to attach myself to him Qi Yuanjing for the sake of fame and fortune, and become his lackey, and sell all the family property, in order to facilitate him to push the luxury tax. ”

And Li Chengliang finally couldn't help it after returning to the official residence, so he complained about his son Li Rubai and others.

Li Rubai said: "Isn't it okay if my father doesn't cooperate, or prove it to the world?" ”

"Prove a fart!"

"The real master of the Ming Dynasty is Your Majesty, not a person from the world, he Qi Yuanjing is responsible to His Majesty, then Lao Tzu can only be driven by him, and he should only prove it to him, how can there be a truth to prove to the people of the world?"

"Your Majesty doesn't get rid of Qi Yuanjing for a day, and Lao Tzu will have to be his lackey for a day."

Li Chengliang scolded, then picked up the tea on the side of the table, and just brought it to his mouth to drink a sip, he smashed it on the ground and scolded: "Bastard, do you want to burn me to death!" ”

"Father, didn't you feel hot when you served it?"

Li Rubai asked at this time.

Li Chengliang looked at Li Rubai after hearing this: "What do you mean?" ”

"No, it's not interesting."

Li Rubai hurriedly replied, and hurriedly changed the topic and asked:

"Father, the matter of military reform has really been decided, and those military households are really going to be expensive?"

"Of course!"

"It is beneficial to you who have no interest, and in the future, Lao Tzu's grandchildren will not be unable to read and even starve to death because of lack of interest."

Li Chengliang replied angrily, and said: "We, the children of military families, may not really have to show favor to the scholars in the future, and we must change from Jiangmen military households to Confucian scholars in order to maintain our wealth forever." ”

……

Two months later, Nanjing Xiaolingwei.

Syllable!

Syllable!

"Give Benxian a hundred sticks to this military household first! dared to prevent Benxian from entering the filial piety mausoleum, and also contradicted Benxian. ”

Gong Yunzhi, the inspector of the imperial history, was drunk because he was prostitutes and wanted to enter the filial piety tomb with a prostitute, but was stopped by Mei Hai, the military household who guarded the filial piety tomb.

Mei Haiyan said that he could not enter the filial piety tomb with the smell of wine and disheveled.

Gong Yunzhi was furious because of this, and on the grounds that Mei Hai prevented him from reviewing the affairs of the Xiaoling Guard, he directly ordered his soldiers to reprimand Mei Hai with a cane.

Mei Hai was beaten to the point that her skin was broken, but she still endured the pain, did not beg for mercy, and only shouted: "You are drunk and prostitutes in the mausoleum is not an official!" When we get the command, if he lets you in, you will enter, and you will not be able to enter until he comes! ”

"How dare you defy this constitution?"

"Fight to the death!"

Gong Yunzhi was still angry for a while, so he said it again.

"Stop!"

At this time, an officer came on horseback with a number of officers and soldiers, and shouted.

Gong Yunzhi looked back, but it was himself and Liu Fangyu, the commander of the department, Mei Shi and others, so he asked, "Brother Yaozhong, why are you stopping me?" ”

"Naturally, because you have been transferred to the Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate, the new inspector is already contemptible, and the existing holy decree and the documents of the Metropolitan Procuratorate are here, if you don't believe it, you can check it."

Liu Fangyu replied.

Gong Yunzhi had no choice but to let his soldiers stop and asked, "Is there such a thing?" ”

"It's true!"

Liu Fangyu replied, and really let people show Gong Yunzhi the holy decree.

Gong Yunzhi asked, "Why did the imperial court transfer me?" ”

"Yuan Fu presided over the military reform, and the people who could be transferred to the military in each province were transferred to the military status, and the people who were born in the military were naturally sent to replace the public."

Liu Fangyu replied.

"Military reform."

Gong Yunzhi woke up more than half of his wine in an instant.

Liu Fangyu looked at Mei Hai at this time, and immediately frowned:

"The imperial court has just issued a new law, unless it is a violation of military discipline, the army can be used by the superior with a military stick, and the official is not allowed to whip his cane, and the public is already against the decree to do so."

"The express delivery hasn't arrived for a few days, I haven't paid attention, and I ask Brother Yaozhong to be accommodating."

Gong Yunzhi replied.

Liu Fangyu glanced at Gong Yunzhi and smiled: "You are just a Confucian jinshi, how can you be qualified to be a brother and sister with my military jinshi, don't you know that the imperial court now values military status?" ”

Gong Yunzhi was stunned on the spot.

Liu Fangyu asked Mei Hai to be carried down for treatment here, and said: "Don't worry, this constitution will make the decision for you, and will not let you suffer this grievance in vain, nor will it let people trample on the order of the noble and lowly in vain!" ”

Mei Hai thanked him a little incomprehensibly.

And Liu Fangyu here instructed Mei Shi, the commander of Xiaolingwei, who came with him: "Commander Gao, call those who are over fifty years old, and this constitution will give them pension money, and by the way, publicize the next policy of excellent army." ”

Mei Shi said yes.

According to the original military household system of the Ming Dynasty, the military household of the guard not only had to fight hard from the conscription, but also had to farm the land, and the expenses such as clothes and food from the levy had to be prepared by themselves.

The military households that did not follow the levy had to pay the tuntian, and the tuntian had to pay the tuntian grain of silver, that is, pay taxes, and also have to bear the labor arranged by the officers of the guard.

Some guards would even collude with local officials to make the guards bear local conscription.

It is equivalent to the military household of the guard station is to support themselves at the same time, but also to work hard for the imperial court, pay taxes, and contribute.

In addition, according to the military household system at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, those who were over 60 years old, disabled and young, were allowed to cultivate and feed themselves, and there was no so-called pension money.

Naturally, there will be no special medical institution to treat their injuries and illnesses.

In short, according to the original guard system, ordinary military households other than officers lived the worst in Daming.

And because of this, the system of health soon existed in name only.

In the three years of orthodoxy during the reign of Emperor Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty, 1.2 million military households fled from the world, accounting for half of the total number of military households in the country.

Now, more than 100 years later, in the Wanli period, there are even fewer of them.

At present, the remaining military households are either the officer class in the military household and the scholar class that has been successfully transformed, or the middle and lower strata of the original officer class have fallen into ordinary military households and have not had time to flee.

Although the military household system of the guard station has existed in name only, Zhu Yijun did not directly abolish it, but lifted the ban, allowing ordinary military households to become homeless without fleeing and becoming homeless, but directly becoming civilian households.

Meantime.

Zhu Yijun also used the original guard system to reform and cultivate the military aristocracy step by step, that is, to borrow chickens and eggs to improve the status of military households who were not naturalized, and to win over the basic power of ruling the Ming Dynasty for himself.

As mentioned earlier, many of the existing military households are the officer class in the original military households, either who have been converted into scholars, or who still have hereditary official positions and have become successive generals.

If Zhu Yijun arbitrarily abolished the guard system, there would undoubtedly be a impact on the interests of the noble generals and military families with hereditary military positions in the world.

Because the direct abolition of the guard system means that the iron rice bowls of many noble generals and military soldiers will be devalued, such as the hereditary commander of the Dengzhou Wei of the Qi Jiguang family, it will become an empty official position that can only receive a salary, and cannot be responsible for some government affairs of the Dengzhou Wei, which naturally has a lot less benefits.

And you must know that although the Ming Dynasty has now dominated the battalion system, that is, the recruitment system, the main generals and colonels in the battalion are basically people who are from the officers of the guard.

Because after all, these people are hereditary officers, and if they have a good family education, they have never been left behind in the knowledge education of martial arts and soldiers, which makes most of the people who can be admitted to the martial arts are still these people.

still take Qi Jiguang as an example, before he took the martial arts and became a general of the battalion, he was the commander of Dengzhou Wei.

Therefore, the direct abolition of the guard system will also affect the emperor's control over the battalion.

To sum up, Zhu Yijun did not choose to directly abolish the guard system, but filled the old bottle with new wine, and transformed the original guard system into a military aristocracy with the needs of actual expansion.

That is, the military household is no longer a serf whose personal relations are severely constrained and the labor payment is severely oppressed, but a nobleman with a higher political and economic status.

In the past, when the military households were exempted from conscription, they were also exempted from conscription and strictly forbidden, and local slavery of military households was strictly prohibited and not mentioned, and now Zhu Yijun also decreed that the military households were permanently exempted from the Tuntian Zi Grain Silver, and also gave preferential treatment and leniency to the military households in the criminal law, and also stipulated that the military households of different levels can be discharged after reaching different ages, and after the discharge, there will be a silver payment, and there will be an additional pension silver payment for those over 50 years old, which is also gradient, which is equivalent to the older the more the age.

Now, after receiving the will of the military reform, Liu Fangyu, according to the imperial history, decided to give the military households of Xiaolingwei the pension silver first.

After all, Xiaolingwei has a special status.

Liu Fangyu also personally came to Xiaoling Wei to issue silver to convey the policy, instead of issuing a constitutional ticket and letting the officers of the local guard station implement it.

"My emperor has mercy on you for guarding the mausoleum, so the special decree filial piety Lingwei has an additional first year pension silver collar double, now first hold the household post to line up to receive the silver signature, and thank you in front of the holy decree."

And after the old soldiers of Xiaolingwei came to Liu Fangyu's front to finish the queue, Liu Fangyu first commanded loudly.

As a result, these old military households began to line up one after another to come to the household post to receive the silver.

Masuda Nagamori and his entourage also came to this vicinity because they wanted to see the situation of Nanjing Zhuwei nearby, and saw this scene from a distance on a mountain that was not set as a forbidden area for filial piety.

"These sergeants are obviously old Tang people with bright hair and silver beards, and this officer is still giving silver dollars to these old Tang people!"

Masuda Nagamori was stunned when he saw it.

(End of chapter)