Today is the day when Zhu Gaoxu's troops are off for three days.

Zhu Gaoxu was at the palace and when Chen Wen came back, he brought two news.

Li Youzhi and Duoyan Sanwei.

Duoyan and the Three Guards were too far away and unrealistic. They obviously dealt with him casually, but Zhang Xin said that Li Youzhi was obviously of special meaning.

The military weapons and weapons reserves in the Ming Dynasty were responsible for the military weapons bureau under the governor's office.

Li Youzhi, a warehouse envoy of the Beijing Military Weapon Bureau, is a ninth rank.

Li Youzhi is from Qingwan County, Zhili, and his hometown is in Hebei, which is close to Peking.

Zhu Gaoxu also had an impression of him, because every time he went to war with the King of Yan, he would ask Li Youzhi to take his troops. He was about 20 years old and was relatively young. He was always polite and could tell that he wanted to please the King of Yan.

Zhu Gaoxu used to be nowhere to be known why, but now Zhu Gaoxu thinks about it, maybe Li Youzhi's hometown is nearby.

Zhang Xin is an old fox and actually has a good relationship with Li Youzhi. If Zhu Gaoxu could remember the details of history, he would know that in the original history, it was these two people who reported the imperial court's secret order to arrest him one after another.

"Your Highness is really a god, and Zhang Xin really has a different ambition." Chen Wen did not forget to flatter Zhu Gaoxu at this time.

But to be honest, Chen Wen didn't really want to flatter, because Zhu Gaoxu was right.

Zhu Gaoxu sent him over and bought soldiers and horses, all of which were fake, just to test.

Sure enough, it was tried out as soon as you try it.

Zhu Gaoxu looked proud and thought, I can't remember Li Youzhi, but I can still remember Zhang Xin, the second-five-child.

"But you can't believe it easily." Zhu Gaoxu said seriously: "Often a person has many choices before he sees despair. Some people make choices that outsiders cannot understand because of despair."

If the court suddenly transferred Zhang Xin away, would you tell me if Zhang Xin would immediately report the matter of the Gaoyang County Prince buying troops and the matter of the private chief.

Zhang Xin is secretly celebrating Zhu Gaoxu now because he is afraid of death because he is in the center of the vortex.

Chen Wenshen agreed, and what Your Highness said always makes sense. He thought for a while: "If you put pressure on him, force him to surrender as soon as possible."

"That's not necessary. Maybe the court will force him." Zhu Gaoxu knew that if history had not changed, the court would issue a secret order to urge him to take action as soon as possible. In the end, Zhang Xin forced him to report to the King of Yan, but he had to think about this credit.

Get it in hand.

The two discussed how to find Li Youzhi. As for buying a horse, Zhu Gaoxu was just an excuse and did not really plan to buy a horse, because once the King of Yan decided to rebel, he would naturally have a large number of horses.

Originally, his military armor was not required to be prepared, but the King of Yan turned against him and had everything.

But now he has to train troops so he will find a way to get some armor.

After a while, Zhong Xian came in outside and said that many people were coming.

Zhu Gaoxu said: "Please go to the front hall to wait for me."

Zhong Xian left in response.

When Zhu Gaoxu and Chen Wen arrived at the front yard, almost all his confidants were there.

Wang Bin, Wei Da, Sheng Jian, Zhou Hu, Song Meng, Hou Hai, Qian Xun, Qian Chang, Jing Sheng, Li Mo.

"Greetings to Your Highness." Everyone saw Zhu Gaoxu saluting.

"Sit, sit, sit." Zhu Gaoxu prepared many stools in the hall this time, and everyone has a seat.

Everyone sat down casually.

It’s a bit strange like Hou Hai and the others. After all, they never sat here during a meeting before.

Moreover, Zhu Gaoxu rarely convened so many people for meetings in the past, but after returning this time, he had already convened several times.

But this change made them very happy.

"A few days ago, I met Jing Sheng on the street by chance." Zhu Gaoxu said.

Jing Sheng's face turned slightly red, as if he was a little embarrassed. Everyone looked at him, not knowing what the purpose was.

"I Sheng argued with the butcher for a few taels of pork."

Jing Sheng's face turned redder and he lowered his head in shame.

"I only then did I realize that my Ming officials are still very hard-working."

As soon as this statement was made, the civil and military officials at the scene were almost burst into tears. His Highness said it.

Compared with the Song and Tang dynasties, the salary of officials in the Ming Dynasty was simply unaware of it, especially the Song dynasty, which was really rich. The salary of officials and employees of the same level was probably a fraction of the Song dynasty.

This is why Lao Zhu can't stop the corruption even if he tortures at any time.

The Guo Heng case of the four major cases in the early Ming Dynasty was famous in Peking. At that time, Li Yu, the governor of Peking, and Zhao Quande, the inspector of the Ministry of Revenue, Guo Heng, and a large number of officials from various provinces embezzled a total of 2,400.

Ten thousand stones of grain, and at that time, the annual income of the Ming Dynasty treasury was only 29 million stones.

In a rage, Lao Zhu killed all the officials below the six ministers at that time, which was equivalent to clearing out an official from the court.

Finally, when the case was completed, about 30,000 people were killed, almost killing all officials across the country.

But even so, it can't be stopped. Successor officials still have corruption cases every year.

There is no way, the Ming Dynasty court is still too stingy. Most of the confidants like Zhu Gaoxu are low-level officials of the eighth rank and ninth rank, with annual salary of 33-40 shi. In addition, there are also some of them in the Ming Dynasty, and some of them are paid.

, part of the food is distributed.

With just such a small salary, officials who have no oil and water really don’t even dare to eat meat casually.

Zhu Gaoxu's words hit the hearts of the abdomen's generals directly. Some of them were red in their eyes. Then they heard Zhu Gaoxu say: "I decided that in the future, you will find Hou Hai to pay ten stones of grain or ten taels of silver every month.

I asked for food or silver. In addition, I have prepared some cloth and brocade. Each of you will take some back later and make some new clothes for your family."

"Woo" Qian Xun suddenly fell to the ground and cried, and even burst into tears in an instant: "Your Highness is kind, and the Lord is grateful. He should swear to the sky that he will be loyal to Youth Highness in this life and never betray him. If there is any violation, the sky will hit thunder and will not die well-

--"

Qian Xun is showing true feelings. Following a leader, he just wants to get promoted and make money and make some benefits.

Zhu Gaoxu was confused a few years ago and only knew how to lead troops to fight, but now he finally knew how to care about them.

Qian Xun opened his head, and the rest of the people left the stool, knelt down and swore, and the scene suddenly became noisy.

Li Mo's expression was strange. Seeing everyone like this, he hesitated for a while and quickly knelt down, but lowered his head and muttered. He didn't know if there was any sound. Anyway, many people were there at the scene and couldn't hear it.

"Everyone, it's because I'm careless. I'm frugal and forget the benefits of my brothers, hahaha." Zhu Gaoxu laughed loudly and helped Wang Bin and other generals up first. The eyes of several generals were red. I don't know.

Did you squeeze it out desperately?

"Don't worry, everyone, I know that there are still a little less now, but I just started, and there are many places to use money and grain, so I will definitely not forget everyone in the future. In short, if I become rich, I will definitely bring you all brothers together.

You will never forget each other when you get promoted or get rich.”

The generals took the lead, and everyone shouted that they would never forget each other.

Then Zhu Gaoxu looked at Wang Bin: "Wang Bin, I heard that your house is a little smaller, and you have two children. I have a house on West Street that is empty, so you can live there for the time being."

Wang Bin's face was moved, and he couldn't believe it.

"Veda, the mansion is short of people for the time being. Please ask your daughter to come and help."
Chapter completed!