As soon as Zhai Ruwen took over as prime minister, he encountered the army establishment plan submitted by the Ministry of War.

He's got a big head!

Zhai Ruwen found the military expenses related files of the former Song Dynasty, stuck them in the pile of paper and consulted them for two days, and then convened a meeting of cabinet members: "Have you all read the slash of the Ministry of War?" ”

Li Bangyan covered his mouth and yawned, looking like he was overworked last night and couldn't wait to catch up on sleep.

Whoever cares about things that have anything to do with the army, Li Bangyan will not get involved anyway.

At the time of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Lee Bang-yan was the third in the cabinet.

Zhang Gen and Gao Jingshan retired and died, and it stands to reason that Li Bangyan should take over as prime minister. He was secretly excited for a few days, but it was Zhai Ruwen who succeeded Gao Jingshan, which caused Li Bangyan to lie down completely.

"The annual military salary is more than 7 million yuan, which is much less than that of the former Song Dynasty." Liu Ying's attitude is a little vague, but he tends not to mess with the prince.

The planter said, "It's not much. ”

Xiao Chu said: "After destroying the Jin State and Western Xia, Shaanxi, Hebei, and Shanxi will not need to garrison many troops. When the time comes, military spending should be able to be reduced. ”

Huang Shang, like Xiao Chu, was pulled into the cabinet by Zhu Guoxiang to balance the five elements of virtue last time.

Huang Sheng is more like he came to make soy sauce: "I don't know much about military affairs, so I won't express my opinion." ”

After Zhang Gen resigned and returned to his hometown, another person was made up as a cabinet minister, and the promotion path was particularly strange, and he actually entered the cabinet as a political envoy of Hebei Zuobu.

He is...... Zongze!

In addition, Zhang Chunxiao, who led the weak soldiers to defend Taiyuan for two and a half years with the prefect of Taiyuan and the political envoy of Shaanxi Zuobu, was also transferred back to the central government this time to serve as the left attendant of the military department.

Zong Ze said: "The military department's slashing is realistic, not made up randomly. If the prime minister thinks that military spending is too much, he must not reduce the salaries of non-commissioned soldiers, and where to reduce the number of troops is the right way. ”

Seven cabinet ministers, only they oppose the plan of the Ministry of War?

Zhai Ruwen felt very outrageous, and he took out a set of actual data in the file: "More than seven million yuan is not much, but this is just a military salary." For example, during the previous dynasty Yingzong, the military salary this year was about 9.94 million yuan, but 7.42 million horses of cloth, 23.17 million stone of military food, and 24.98 million bundles of grass were also spent! ”

"So much?" Li Bangyan was stunned when he heard this.

Seed Master Dao explained: "During the Yingzong period of the previous dynasty, although there were no major battles, they had been building military fortresses on the northwest border, and many of them were taken to the Song and Xia borders to build cities. To build a city, it not only required the protection of the army, but also the collection of a large number of people, earth, stone and wood. Can this annual fee be less? ”

After speaking, the planter added: "Of course, there is definitely no need for 23.17 million stone grains per year, and no one can understand how to use it." Even during the Xuanhe period (Huizong Dynasty), after the Great War, it was not so outrageous, and there must have been people in the Yingzong Dynasty who were wantonly embezzling and misappropriating it. ”

Zhai Ruwen also said: "Last year, Zhong Xiang was destroyed first, and then he fought with the Jin State, and countless armor and firearms were also made. Although last year's military salary was only more than 4 million yuan, the total military expenditure reached 28 million yuan, and more than 4 million horses of cloth, more than 12 million stones of grain, and more than 13 million bundles of grass were consumed! ”

Zong Ze reminded: "I don't know elsewhere, a lot of the military rations in Hebei are used to resettle displaced people after the war. When the Jin people evacuated, they burned, killed and looted everywhere, and hundreds of people needed help. ”

"Nearly half of Hunan's military rations were used to relieve the hungry people after the war." The seed master said.

Li Bangyan saw that the direction of the cabinet was clear, and he also said: "Last year, more than 28 million yuan was spent, which was to build a large number of armor, firearms, and warships. After these things are built, they don't take much to maintain and repair them every year. Just like the people who build a house, they must spend a lot of money at the beginning, and it is worth it to repair the house and put it there, and it is not to throw the money into the water and listen to the sound. In particular, it has cost a lot to build warships and rectify several shipyards in the old Song Dynasty, and it has already cost a lot to restore the shipyards, and these shipyards can build ships and merchant ships in the future. ”

Zhai Ruwen looked at everyone and finally realized a serious problem.

He is not Zhang Gen, he is not the father-in-law of the crown prince.

He didn't take refuge in Daming very early, and his qualifications and prestige were completely insufficient.

The only thing he can do is the identity of the prince master!

Even Li Bangyan, a minister, can rely on his merits not to dump him, because Li Bangyan has the merit of seizing Tokyo in tandem.

Among the remaining few people, Liu Ying took refuge in Zhu Guoxiang in Sichuan, and he was also Zhang Dan's grandson-in-law, and his qualifications and connections were placed there to crush Zhai Ruwen.

Seed Master Dao has a background in the Western Army, and the army supports him, and the daughter of the seed family also marries the prince as a side concubine.

Zong Ze insisted on resisting Jin in Hebei, and the soldiers of the Hebei system were his supporters.

And Xiao Chu, who was a big celebrity in front of the emperor and the crown prince, made an exception to take charge of the Hanlin Academy with a cloth cloth, and then added to the cabinet from the Hanlin Academy.

After calculating it, Zhai Ruwen suddenly found that as the prime minister of the cabinet, he could only suppress Huang Sheng alone!

Li Bangyan also realized this situation at this time, and for no reason there was a burst of ecstasy in his heart. He was glad that he had not been vacated as prime minister, and began to covet the position of prime minister again, and his cabinet had already ranked second. So, can you win over other cabinet ministers, and after getting Zhai Ruwen down, you can replace him yourself?

"Why don't you vote?" Li Bangyan can't wait to take the lead.

The cabinet vote was made by Zhu Guoxiang, and it was only conducted when the cabinet was unable to make a decision.

It seems to be democratic, fair and just, but in fact it contains huge hidden dangers. In the late Ming Dynasty party struggle in another time and space, the cabinet voting system was carried out on the back of the cauldron, and the cabinet ministers formed gangs to squeeze out the first assistant, resulting in the cabinet becoming a tool for party contention, and it could not function normally for a long time.

Zong Ze looked at Zhai Ruwen, and then at Li Bangyan, and suddenly understood what was going on.

He didn't want to help Li Bangyan override the prime minister, but he also agreed with the proposal of the Ministry of War, and he didn't know how to choose for a while.

Liu Yang also disliked Li Bangyan and reminded: "Li Xiang, you are just a secondary minister. The initiation of a cabinet vote should be proposed by the Prime Minister, and you are requested not to overstep your authority. ”

These words made Li Bangyan's face extremely ugly, and he subconsciously glanced at everyone and found that everyone had expressions of disgust.

The cabinet ministers had such an attitude, which made Li Bangyan's heart cold, and it turned out that his popularity in the cabinet was so poor. Even if Zhai Ruwen was pulled off the horse, he Li Bangyan would not be able to get up, alas...... From now on, let's lie down and live a mixed life.

Li Bangyan began to yawn again, and seemed to be able to fall asleep while sitting.

Whoever you love, Lao Tzu doesn't serve!

Zhai Ruwen did not forcibly initiate a vote, but softened: "Since everyone agrees, then I will no longer insist." But are the 330,000 garrison troops and the 180,000 Cao troops too many? Zhejiang is rich, and there are no mountains and rivers, as long as there is no rampant expropriation, there will never be a giant. There is also Henan, where are the surrounding provinces heavily garrisoned, where can there be 20,000 garrisons? ”

In order to show that he did not deliberately go against the prime minister, he nodded and said: "That's true, Zhejiang's garrison should be reduced from 10,000 to 8,000. The garrison of Henan should be reduced from 20,000 to 10,000. There is also Hubei, even if the prince settles the people to reclaim the famine, the population is still relatively small, and the garrison should be reduced from 10,000 to 8,000. ”

Huang Shang also said: "In the previous dynasty, the post houses were all managed by civil officials, and the cost of the post houses was also paid by the state and county officials. The prince merged the post house and the delivery shop into the Cao army, which allowed the local government to save money, but the court had to increase an additional expenditure every year. It is better to hand over the shop to the Cao Army, and the post house still belongs to the local government. ”

Liu Yang said: "Caojun's salary is indeed a bit high. They don't fight, they just post and transport, so how can they pay such a high salary? ”

In the midst of Li Bangyan's continuous yawn, the cabinet ministers discussed and put forward cabinet opinions on the plan of the Ministry of War, and then submitted it to Zhu Guoxiang for approval.

Zhu Guoxiang saw that it was a major military proposal, and directly criticized it: "Transfer it to the Generalissimo's Office." ”

The proposal submitted by Prince Zhu to the Privy Council and the Ministry of War turned around and returned to Prince Zhu......

After carefully reading the cabinet's opinions, Zhu Ming decided to give some face, but this face could not be given completely.

He agreed to reduce the number of garrisons in Henan, Zhejiang, and Hubei, but he did not agree to hand over the national post houses to the local government, nor did he agree to reduce the food and salary of the Cao army.

In addition, this year, individual provinces have also been re-zoned.

Hanzhong was completely assigned to Shaanxi.

The line of the Han River, which starts from Jinzhou (Ankang), is all under the jurisdiction of Hubei.

Chizhou was split from Zhejiang and assigned to Jiangxi jurisdiction.

The officials of Chuzhou and Wenzhou made a lot of trouble, but the imperial court ignored it, and these two places all belonged to Fujian.

After Zhu Ming made his instructions, he forwarded his opinions to the emperor.

Zhu Guoxiang glanced at it casually, and agreed with Zhu Pi: "Send it back to the cabinet." ”

Seven cabinet ministers, gathered around to read.

The emperor's six words "transferred to the Generalissimo's Mansion" made them silent for a while.

Although Zhu Guoxiang said that he did not interfere in the military, he did it too obviously this time, and he had the intention of expressing his attitude to the cabinet.

Zhai Ruwen was a little frustrated in his heart, but he still smiled and said: "If you can make a change to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and reduce the number of garrison troops by 14,000, our ministers are also useful to Jiangshan Sheji." ”

One of the reasons why Zhu Ming made the military system more comprehensive and regular this time was to place military generals.

Those generals who were wounded and disabled in battle, but did not affect their daily operations. Those officers who have been promoted purely by seniority, but have not performed well in combat in the last two years. There are also a few older generals. and some of the leaders of the Southern Rebels...... They were all stripped out and arranged to be stationed in the defense army and the Cao army system.

Then select some officers and generals with outstanding performance and turn them into the field army system.

And by changing the military system, the forbidden army, the box army and the rebel army at the end of the Song Dynasty were thoroughly digested.

For example, Yao Jiajun was divided into three this time, and it completely belonged to the imperial court-

The old, the weak, the sick and the disabled are all eliminated.

Ordinary sergeant, numbered as the Shaanxi Garrison.

The elite troops were organized as the Daming Field Army, and the generals included Yao Pingzhong, Wu Jue, Wu Lu, Wang De and others. The two Liu Qi brothers were also incorporated into Yao Pingzhong's troops.

The Hebei generals such as Yue Fei, Wang Yan, Li Cheng, Li Qiong, and Zhang Di were also reorganized by the expansion of the army. In the future, regardless of geography and seniority, all of them will be the Daming Field Army.

Only through this reform of the military system can Zhu Ming truly control the national army.

Including the Zhejiajun and Liujiajun, they were all divided, reorganized, and annexed!

(End of chapter)