“…… Your Majesty knows that the slave maid has never had private dealings with Luo Qianhu. Gu Dayong was taken aback.

"Alright." Zhu Houxi waved his hand, "This is a method, after all, I brought it out of the palace, and I can trust it." I have already made arrangements for Lu Song, Zhang Yong, you will find Mai Fu when you go back. ”

The three of them breathed a sigh of relief, and the emperor was willing to listen to their advice.

"If you think Luo An is competent, then hand over to him all the people you buried in the brocade guard in the past." Zhu Houxi looked at them lightly, "The Dongchang side, in the palace, are all the same, they are all your disciples and grandchildren." Zhang Zuo and I sent the celebrant supervisor, Mai Fu went to the imperial horse supervisor, and Zhang Yue went to the imperial eunuch, you bring them up first. ”

"Slaves obey ......"

"As for Jingying, it's really appalling. Elder Yang Ge said that there are more than 370,000 people in Beijing, including the official army, flag school, and military craftsmen, and they receive 4 million stone of food and grain a year, is this true? ”

"Your Majesty, be ...... Is it really going to be abolished? Zhang Yong's voice trembled slightly.

Gu Dayong gritted his teeth and accepted it painfully: "Your Majesty, these are really your own family background." ”

Zhu Houxi listened to the music: "I am from my own family? ”

Gu Dayong thought that Zhu Houxi didn't understand the severity, so he had the courage to explain: "The number of officers and soldiers in Beijing is actually quite a lot, but the actual amount is very small, and the shortage is getting bigger and bigger. Now there are more of them, mainly the Jinyi Guards and the newly selected Jingying officers and soldiers. ”

"Your Majesty, among them, one is the grace of the saint, and the number of officials in the shadow and the post is increasing, which involves almost all the lords and relatives, including those who have martial arts. Second, the captain of Jinyi served as the honor guard of the clan and the guard of the tombs, and there were naturally more and more of them since many dynasties. Third...... When Emperor Daxing increased the Jinyi Guard and selected and trained the new army, he also hoped that the sky would hear Guangda and the military equipment would flourish. ”

Zhu Houxi understood, nodded and said, "You mean, you and your disciples and grandchildren didn't accept other people's money for people to join the army?" ”

Gu Dayong immediately returned to the ground with his forehead: "Slave...... Slave ......"

Zhu Houxi said lightly: "The shadow post can't be moved, and the palace honor guard and the mausoleum guard can't be moved, and the most likely thing to move is to pretend to be the person who surrenders, and the vacancy in the Beijing camp will be abolished." Needless to say, the former guards have one stone of food a month, and they can also be exempted from errand service, and outside the newly trained regimental camp, the old army called the hometown eats empty salaries. As soon as this is moved, both the ministers and the military ministers will be further suppressed. I can figure it out, I just want to ask, three Da Jue, how much empty pay have you eaten? ”

Hearing him ask so sadly at the end, Gu Da trembled like a sieve of chaff with them, and kept pleading guilty.

This is the advantage of doing homework, Zhu Houxi read a lot of discussions and performances on many issues in the newspaper when he was in Anlu. If there was any doubt, the officials of the royal palace who were leisurely at that time also dared to talk more about the truth.

Zhu Houxi now solved the question, and seeing that Gu Dayong was still frightened and didn't answer, he finally frowned: "Talk back!" The severity of this pretension is truly appalling, and the reduction of the part is inevitable. But the soldiers are expensive but not too expensive, and I will not let them cut things, this Beijing camp, I will definitely hold it firmly in my hands! Tell me everything you know! ”

He now has an advantage, which is the succession of vassal kings.

The reason why I say that this is an advantage is that in one sentence: I am afraid that someone will rebel.

On this ground, it is not natural to retain control of the Beijing camp, take the opportunity of the dismantling and reorganization to make the Beijing camp stronger, and win over the military ministers who were overwhelmed by the civil ministers, isn't that a matter of course?

The three of them finally spoke up with one word at a time, and Zhu Houxi frowned as he listened.

Nearly 70,000 people received salaries in the Jinyi Guards, more than 40,000 Tengxiang Four Guards that Zhu Houzhao focused on training, and the training camps of the Mighty Regiments and other Beijing Guards that were already among the ones that had been abolished added up to 100,000 yuan. In the early years of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Beijing army was as high as more than 400,000, and now there is only so much left, and it is said that a large proportion of them are empty.

There are four categories of eunuchs on the side of the clan: the total number of eunuchs in the clan has exceeded 10,000; The total number of eunuchs under the management of the twenty-four yamen has reached nearly 15,000; There are more than 10,000 eunuchs, town guards, mine supervisors, tax supervisors, and eunuchs guarding the tombs; There are also thousands of people who can't enter the palace without permission, but they take them in to grow vegetables or do drudgery outside the palace.

Then there are the military craftsmen: their status is very special, they are both military and artisans. In essence, the management of these military craftsmen was gradually taken care of by the Jinyi Guards and the internal supervisors. Even if there is a project on the part of the Ministry of Industry, the military craftsman is just dispatched to work.

These military craftsmen who have mastered various skills mainly serve the royal family, and almost everything in the palace, including many degrees of use, is made by them.

How much of this is there? The number of registered warwrights was 53,000, but the number of miscellaneous servants was nearly twice as many.

Although the monthly ration of these military craftsmen and miscellaneous servants is only less than five buckets per capita, there are a lot of people.

Then the contradiction comes: the grain transported into Beijing every year is only enough to feed this group of people, so where does the rations come from for the rest of the population in Beijing, hundreds of officials and even the royal family? How can the two warehouses in Kyoto still be able to store grain?

Oh yes, there's folding. As for how much money is sent down or something else, how much is discounted, then there is a lot of room for operation. For example, treasure money that has depreciated to the point of outrageousness.

Zhu Houxi squinted at them slightly: "Raise your head and look at me!" ”

Gu Dayong and Wei Bin couldn't help but tremble and raised their heads slightly, how dare they look directly at the Son of Heaven?

"With so many people, how much do you receive each year, and how much do you actually send out?"

This is a fatal problem, but the remnants of the "Eight Tigers" of the three Zhengde Dynasty now vividly interpret what it means to rely on imperial power to live.

They could only keep kowtowing while explaining vaguely.

Zhu Houxi was a little confused when he heard it: dare to love his cousin Zhu Houzhao, and he also has a lot of money in this way?

In line with the attitude that it is better to let the people under him be greedy, it is better to reach out and earn a little bit himself, so that Zhu Houzhao can not be so restricted by Wenchen in terms of money and food, and he can retrain the new army in Beijing.

With so much money and food, there are naturally ministers and generals who are in charge of the army to get a lot of benefits, but Zhu Houzhao can also achieve his goals.

How so? It's all "me" money.

is better than Jiajing, Jiajing is used to cultivate immortals, and Zhengde is mainly used to train soldiers.

After being slightly stunned, Zhu Houxi was no longer strange.

In the era of the world, for Zhu Houzhao, this only belongs to the left hand to the right hand, and by the way, it can also help him train the new army and win over his cronies.

Of course, Gu Da used them by no means without touching his hands, and even touched a lot.

Now that Zhu Houxi has asked about this data, he already has a bottom in his heart.

"According to you, there are more than 100,000 people in total. I'll check if this is true or not. If I don't check, someone will check it like the minister. Now that the foreign minister wants to investigate, I can't stop him. Do you understand? ”

Hearing Zhu Houxi's words, Wei Bin hurriedly replied: "The slave understands...... Among the foreign ministers, there are only a few who are truly loyal to His Majesty. The various yamen, the foreign ministers also have many ears and eyes......"

"In the Chenhao Rebellion, although the imperial brother has taken the opportunity to stabilize the military power again, but you can't suppress the matter of grabbing merit and risking merit. Wang Shouren and the others have not made any meritorious contributions so far, and the soldiers who really put down the rebellion will not be able to wait long. Qian Ning Jiangbin's imprisonment is irretrievable, and Zhang Zhong's confession, how much of it involves you? ”

Zhu Houxi said this, Wei Bin and the others knew that what they really cared about tonight was coming.

After a pause, Zhu Houxi said: "Gu Dayong has the merit of Yingli, I can allow him to go to renovate his father's mausoleum, and stay there in the future." Wei Bin, I will also renovate some palaces in the palace later, and it is best for you to retire from the inner official prison. As for Zhang Yong...... I remember that you have a good relationship with Yang Yiqing. ”

Zhang Yong was taken aback by this: "The slave maid just made a contribution to the rebellion of King Anhua with Yang Gelao at the beginning, and brought down Liu Jin, so there is no friendship......