The capital at the end of October was colder than usual, and the early dynasty was undoubtedly a sinful job.

Zhu Youzhu was lying in the comfortable quilt, and after hearing the sound of the cloud board outside and the "Chicken Song" sung by the eunuch, he reluctantly kicked the quilt away.

No matter how reluctant he was, he had to get up against the chill in the air and let the palace maid who was already waiting outside serve him.

Originally, he didn't want to waste his energy on this kind of insignificant early dynasty, but now is not the time to "turn his face", and he also needs to declare his imperial power to middle and lower-level officials through continuous exposure.

Although the interests of the civilian clique will converge, officials at the top and at the bottom will eventually have different demands, so it is easier for officials at the bottom to show loyalty to themselves.

Taking the great ceremonial controversy in Jiajing as an example, the real support for Jiajing is still those officials who speak lightly, and the real upper-level officials always stick to the camp to defend the interests of the civilian clique.

This loyalty from the middle and lower classes often comes from their pursuit of power, but as long as they grasp this scale, then they will also be an important pawn that they can use.

"Your Majesty, please sit down!" A young and beautiful palace maid who had just risen looked timid.

Since the implementation of the salary reform in the Qianqing Palace, these palace maids have been significantly more meticulous in their work, especially those beautiful eyes that are obviously shining.

Zhu Youzhu was relatively tall, so he sat on a stool covered with warm cushions and let this young and beautiful palace maid clean his face.

I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, this young and beautiful palace maid was obviously closer, so that she could smell the body fragrance on the girl's body very clearly.

Guo Yong, who was waiting next to him, paid attention to this side, and saw Zhu Youzhu suddenly raise his hand, and was about to wave the dust to let the others leave.

"That's it!" Zhu Youji's brows itched slightly, so he raised his hand and scratched it.

Several palace maids serving here carefully poured down even if they packed up the copper basin and other things.

"Your Majesty, it's cold this morning, it's windy outside, and the slave has already taken the mink clothes!" Guo Yong realized that he had misunderstood, and proposed quietly.

Zhu Youzhu didn't want to freeze outside, so he chose to put on the mink clothes that had been prepared, and couldn't help but say when he was dressing: "This mink is a tribute from the Jianwen Jurchen?" ”

"This ...... The slave maid also does not know the origin of this mink clothing! Guo Yong couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and then said bitterly.

Zhu Youzhu actually asked casually, the mink fur in this period was naturally from Jianzhou Jurchen, but if you really talk about the texture, it actually has to be better in North America.

When I went outside to ride the dragon chariot, although my cheeks were blown by the cold wind, I really felt the chill outside, but the whole person was really comfortable hiding in the mink.

No matter what era it is, it is always the lower class who suffers, and the upper class always has a way to live comfortably.

The square in front of the Fengtian Temple, where the cold wind is raging.

"Long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

Familiar scenes and familiar voices, but being shouted too much, it is inevitable that you will feel numb.

Responsibly speaking, those networks emphasize that being called more addictive is actually a lie to you.

Zhu Youzhu sat down on the dragon chair as usual, and these civil and military officials were still shouting long live, but as soon as these guys stood up, the style of painting suddenly changed.

"Today's military department is short of fine iron, please take back your majesty's order!" He Cong, the left attendant of the Ministry of War, led the officials of the Yamen of the Ministry of War to stand up and object.

"The annual consumption of three thousand heavy cavalry is huge, please take back your Majesty's life!" Li Si, the head of the household department, led the officials of the household department to stand up and object.

"Three thousand heavy horses need thousands of good horses, and good horses are fed five times as much as regular horses, and please take back your majesty's life!" Jia Jun, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, led the officials of the Ministry of Industry to stand up and object.

"Today, the Ming Dynasty should rest and recuperate, and it is not suitable to use war, so it is not appropriate to form a heavy cavalry battalion, please take back your Majesty's life!" Liu Jian, the new left attendant of the Ministry of Rites, led the officials of the Ministry of Rites to stand up and object.

"Please take back your order!"

Although Li Yu, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, and Du Ming, the secretary of the Criminal Department, did not participate, many officials under him also stood up and also expressed their opposition.

"Please take back your order!" The same is true of the martial arts led by Funing Hou Zhu Yong, who stood up one after another to express their opposition.

This......

Guo Yong looked at this scene and couldn't help but turn his head to look at Zhu Youji worriedly.

Things have to start from yesterday, just when everyone was still paying attention to which minister Zhu Youzhi was going to take the knife, a bombshell news came from outside the city.

More precisely, the news came from the twelfth battalion.

Zhu Youzhi took advantage of the turmoil of seizing the door to take charge of the 12 battalions through the 12 supervisors, first kicked out the 12 commanders who were close to the civilian officials, and then dismissed the 12 nominal commanders of the corpse position, and finally re-evaluated and appointed the generals of the 12 battalions.

In fact, both Yingzong and Xianzong have reformed the Beijing army, after all, this is the army that consolidates the safety of the Jingshi and the imperial city, so it is natural to put a little more effort into it.

It's just that whether it is Yingzong or Xianzong, it mainly starts from the control of Jingying.

Even if Xianzong has been wary of the civilian-official group, he is also creating a mutual check and balance model of the three parties, unlike Zhu Youji, who directly controls the Beijing army through twelve eunuchs.

What people never expected was that everyone thought that Zhu Youzhi should stop controlling the twelve battalions through the twelve prisons, but now he suddenly threw out Wang Zhan.

"Each battalion selected 250 elite soldiers to form a heavy cavalry army of 3,000, which was called: Aegis Battalion. The new battalion is ten miles away from Beijing and is stationed in a place, and every five days is a drill, and the Gong guards the safety of the Beijing division! ”

This holy decree to set up the Aegis Battalion was issued by the Imperial Palace, and Zhang Shanji of the Military Department wanted to prevent the raid of Xie Yikui's house earlier, but he did not dare to refute this holy decree.

In fact, he couldn't refute it, after all, Yingzong and Xianzong had both played the trick of "withdrawing the camp" and "setting up the camp", and now the 12 battalions were originally expanded from the three battalions.

It's just that the formation of the A.R.D. Battalion let Wen Chen know, and it was like a frying pan.

From ancient times to the present, everyone knows that heavy cavalry is invincible in close combat, but why are there so few dynasties?

If you want to maintain a heavy cavalry force, not only does it require a huge upfront investment, but also the maintenance of ordinary times requires a huge amount of expenses, which is simply a gold-swallowing beast.

In China, the Heavy Cavalry Army actually has a unified name - the Tielin Army.

The name alone is enough to illustrate the need for fine iron for the heavy cavalry, and the army's daily rations and horse rations would be a large expense.

In wartime, this kind of expense may be a last resort, after all, winning the battle is more important than anything else. It's just that now the Ming Dynasty is in a period of peace, and there is no need to form a heavy cavalry at all.

Although 3,000 heavy cavalry does not seem to be much, it is also a huge military expenditure in the long run, not to mention that the ghost knows if Zhu Youji will continue to expand the army?

It is precisely because of this that when he learned that Zhu Youzhu was going to set up an Aegis camp, no matter what reason Zhu Youzhu was based on, the civil and military officials headed by Xu Pu immediately jumped out to strongly oppose it.

They came this morning against the cold wind to stop Zhu Youji's mediocre behavior.

"Don't talk about S.H.I.E.L.D. camp this morning! If you have any objections, you can play on the original play! Zhu Youzhu also didn't expect to be opposed so strongly, and immediately suppressed the anger in his heart and said lightly.

Liu Jian, the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites, glanced at Xu Pu, and said again: "The Aegis Camp is related to the rise and fall of the Ming Dynasty, please ask Your Majesty to invite the hundred officials!" ”

"Please Your Majesty, please be invited by the hundred officials!" Officials such as Li Si, the head of the household department, followed suit.

Zhu Youzhu saw that these Wenchen were united again, and found that these people were all on the same path after all.

What these civil servants want is to hold great power and seal their wives and children, but they have never been strong and the people rich. The so-called "establishing a heart for heaven and earth, establishing a life for the people, continuing to learn for the saints, and opening peace for all generations" is just Ye Gong a good dragon.

In the original history, it was the Ming Dynasty dominated by these civil servants that caused the relationship between the Ming and Mongolia in the Hongzhi period to change from the original plunder and tribute to the two sides on an equal footing.

From the point of view of the ruling class alone, it is actually in everyone's best interest to choose to be trapped and be a turtle with a shrunken head now.

He, the emperor, is naturally a delicacies of the mountains and seas and three palaces and six courts, and these officials who have worked hard for ten years hold heavy power and seal their wives and sons, as for being harassed by the people in the border areas, they can ignore the report.

In their hands, even if the border people were slaughtered cleanly, they may also focus on describing the picturesque Jiangnan and singing the praises of this prosperous era of Hongzhi created by them.

"Liu Shilang, I'm just going to set up a small SHIELD BATTALION, DO I OWE YOU A debt?" Zhu Youzhi asked angrily in the face of this group of civil officials who wanted to force the palace.

In his previous life, he was a member of China, loved his own nation, and had the dream of chasing Britain and catching up with the United States.

In this life, he is already the master of China, and he also loves his own nation and land, so he naturally wants to shoulder this mission like thousands of Chinese travelers.

Although the emperor is essentially a member of the ruling class, if there is a ruling class in this era, then he alone is enough.

As for these civil servants who are full of patriotism and love for the people but are mercenary, they will either obediently obey their own orders, or they will all go to hell.

This......

Liu Jian, the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites, has always regarded himself as an emperor, but at this moment, he felt Zhu Youji's anger, and he couldn't help but swallow and spit secretly.

"Your Majesty's cave candle is dead, and now the rebuilding of 3,000 heavy riders is to protect my Ming Emperor is unharmed, this is the policy of the superiors, and the minister seconded it!" Wan An had long been very unhappy with Qingliu, and even stood up and said.

After all, it was the old minister of the Mei Party, and as Wan An stood up to express his position, a large group of officials such as Chen Zheng, the left waiter of the Ministry of Labor, stood up one after another and said: "The ministers seconded the proposal!" ”

Although it is indeed very expensive to set up the S.H.I.E.L.D. battalion, the Ming Dynasty's finances are completely affordable, and now this is not a wardrobe prince, but an emperor with twelve battalions in his hands.

If it really angered this emperor, maybe all the civil and military officials present would be directly destroyed.

Zhu Youzhi couldn't help but feel a little better when he saw the support of Wan An and others, but when he saw Zhang Sheng not far away, he was still standing there, and he sighed helplessly.

I don't know if it's because of Confucian culture, or if these scholars are really used to being turtles with shrunken heads to seek stability, and they don't have the idea of being prepared for danger in times of peace.

Or, in fact, they Wenchen never cared who was on this dragon chair, as long as they had a puppet and a black gauze hat, they didn't care if it was a person or a ghost sitting on it.

In fact, it is not only Zhang Sheng, but I am afraid that Wan An also feels that he is messing around with the formation of the S.H.I.E.L.D. camp in his heart.

After all, if you don't spend this lot of money now, everyone's life will be comfortable. If you tolerate Mongolia in the north, you will have a beautiful world with a wide sea and high sky.

Although there are tens of millions of people, I will go!

At this moment, Zhu Youzhu looked at Zhang Shengdu standing, and felt that he had to rely on himself for this road.

How can there be so many people who abandon their lives and take righteousness, how can there be so many people of insight, what these Wenchen who have been in the cold for ten years want is just the wealth of the world under the peace of the people of the country.

There may be people who want to follow him to seal the wolf Juxu, but he hasn't seen it yet, or he is not here at all.

Cough!

Xu Pu saw that Liu Jian had touched a hard nail, and coughed lightly.

Li Si, the head of the household department, came out with understanding: "Your Majesty, even if the imperial court wants to set up an Aegis battalion, the cost will be hundreds of thousands of taels, but the household department has already set a fixed amount for next year's expenditure, and I am afraid that it will not be able to bear this expenditure!" ”

When the officials heard that they could not afford it, they turned their heads to each other.

In fact, many officials did not have to oppose Zhu Youji, but the cost of building a heavy cavalry camp was indeed not a small amount, so they were all worried about the finances of the Ming Dynasty.

"Can't the household department take out this bit of silver?" Zhu Youzhu didn't know whether the other party was blocking or wanting to hit his inner library, so he asked in a deep voice.

Li Si faced Zhu Youji's questioning, but said directly with a bitter face: "Your Majesty, there are a lot of floods this year, resulting in serious underharvest in all parts of the Yangtze River, and next year's project budget is very huge, I am afraid that I will not be able to take out so many silver taels!" ”

"Since you don't have enough money, why don't you take it off for a while?"

"yes, there's no need to rush this now!"

"It's okay to wait, and now the Tartars are very divided!"

……

When the officials present heard Li Si say this, many officials' eyes couldn't help but light up slightly, but they thought of "procrastination", so they whispered their positions below.

Zhu Youzhi's brows frowned slightly, how could he not see through the careful thinking of these slippery ministers.

Ye Qi turned his head and glanced at Xu Pu, and then suddenly came out and said, "Your Majesty, if you want to solve the urgent financial needs." There is a solution to this! ”

"Speak!" Zhu Youzhu found that the sun came out in the west, but he was quiet.

Ye Qi cleared his throat, then took out a copy of the recital that had been prepared a long time ago and said: "The minister knows that since His Majesty ascended to the great treasure, he has been worried about the matter of the salt law, and he discussed with Master Xu a few days ago, and finally got a good plan. Today, the merchant loses two buckets and five liters of millet, and one lead of salt, which is five cents of silver, and one lead of salt. The minister asked to change the silver method, four coins and two cents of silver, and one salt citation. The new law, salt one leads to eight leads, which can not only solve the financial difficulties of the household department, but also seek eternal life for the Ming Dynasty. ”

(End of chapter)