"My brother asked about Jingying and the 26th Guards of Shangzhi. It is said that most of them are in the same situation."

"In this way, it seems that Beizhili has more than 300,000 troops, but in fact there are probably less than 100,000 who can defend the city, and maybe not even 20,000 who can be dragged out to fight."

Zhu Youjian directly exposed the hypocrisy of the Ming Dynasty's capital camp, because spending time with Zhu Youxiao day and night gave him the courage.

He knew that with Zhu Youxiao's feelings for him, even if he rebelled, Zhu Youxiao would probably at best imprison him.

He won't die in captivity, and with Zhu Youxiao's temperament, it is estimated that no eunuch would dare to show his face to him.

Anyway, according to the historical trajectory, if he doesn't change, he will hang himself on a tree with his neck crooked. I don't know how much better the result of imprisonment will be than hanging.

Therefore, he also let go and did not bury the matter in his heart, but had a good heart-to-heart talk with Zhu Youxiao.

"Someone also filed a memorial today regarding the Beijing camp, but it's not as exaggerated as my brother said."

After listening to Zhu Youjian's words, Zhu Youxiao found a memorial in a pile of memorials on the desk next to him and handed it to Zhu Youjian for reading.

Zhu Youjian took the memorial and opened it and immediately saw the name of the owner of the memorial.

"My minister, Zheng Zongzhou, the censor of Shandong Province, heard that the late emperor passed away. He couldn't sleep all night. He kowtowed again and again in Dengzhou."

"Your Majesty has just ascended the throne. Please correct Li Kezhuo and Cui Wensheng for his reckless use of powerful medicines."

"In addition, before I left Shandong, I inspected Beizhili. At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, there were 400,000 soldiers in the capital camp. At the beginning of Jiajing, there were still more than 200,000. Why are they only 120,000 now? And among the 120,000, not all of them threw stones beyond the range.

It can be used to prepare for war and defense..."

"This is how it is in the capital camp, but it can also be seen in the border towns."

"The original number of Liao soldiers was 95,000, and now it is only 82,000. Why has the Liao's pay been reduced every day since the first year of Longqing? It is strange that the original number was 23,900, and now it has been increased to 525,600.

If there is an extraordinary salary, how can it increase day by day?"

"It can be seen that one town has nine sides. As for the increase every year, there is no end. For example, before the tenth year of Jiajing, the total military pay was 6.8 million, which suddenly increased to more than 40 million after the forty year of Wanli."

There were hundreds of words, but Zhu Youjian didn't read them all, just because what followed were all about ways to strengthen the army and make money. Although it looked very effective, Zhu Youjian knew that it couldn't be implemented.

All in all, this Shandong censor named Zheng Zongzhou was very concerned about state affairs and had good research on military affairs, but he only talked about military affairs on paper and some of his ideas were unrealistic.

However, as far as military affairs are concerned, he has told some truths.

The actual number of the Beijing camp should be 151,000, but Zheng Zongzhou said that there were only 120,000 people in the Beijing camp, and the 120,000 people could only barely defend and could not fight in the field with a large army.

As for the border towns, there are currently less than 160,000 Liao soldiers after Xiong Tingbi reorganized them. However, among them, there are indeed only 82,000 troops belonging to Liao Town, and the rest are guest troops.

But he did say less about the military pay in Liao Town. The military pay for the 82,000 people in Liao Town was not 520,000, but increased to one million.

As for the military pay of the Nine Borders, ninety years have passed since the Jiajing decade. It is normal for the military pay to rise from 6.8 million to 40 million taels as he said.

At present, the military pay of the nine sides is more than nine million taels per year, and the nine sides have hundreds of thousands of horses and horses, and they have to eat tens of millions of stones of grain and tens of millions of bundles of fodder every year.

In total, the military expenditures of the Nine Borders alone accounted for 60% of the Ming Dynasty's fiscal expenditures.

This is already a very scary ratio. You must know that when Zhu Yuanzhang overthrew Beiyuan in the early Ming Dynasty, the fiscal expenditure was only about 30%.

Of course, at that time, it was because the military camps across the country could hand over more than 30 million shi of food to the court every year.

However, starting from the Jiajing period, not only were the guards unable to hand over grain to the court, but they also needed subsidies from the court.

The collapse of the guard system further depleted the Ming Dynasty's finances.

What Zheng Zongzhou said cannot be changed overnight. Zhu Youjian can only change it from the Royal Horse Prison first.

So he closed the memorial and said to Zhu Youjian:

"My brother plans to build a guardhouse outside Xizhimen to accommodate the orphans of Xuanfu, Jiliao, and Liaodong."

"I want some students from the Imperial College to teach them how to read and write. As for their relatives, Yuma Jian and Huangzhuang will arrange for the distribution of cattle and land."

"My brother, I have done some calculations. At present, Yumajian has 2.15 million acres of fields and 420,000 acres of pasture. Give them some land and collect land taxes according to the June 4th Movement. Their lives will be better than those in the border towns."

"If the soldiers in the border town knew about it, they would work harder against the Beilu and Jianlu."

"My brother, you can visit these orphans and widows more often. They can be used by your brother in the future."

"As for the matter of the Royal Horse Supervisor and the Three Guards of Yulin, I will reduce the rent among the tenants under the Imperial Village to get some men to join the army."

"There are four guards and one battalion, more than 25,000 people. With the financial resources of the Royal Horse Supervisor, we can definitely support them."

"Currently, the Royal Horse Inspector Tian Fu can receive 12,300,000 taels per year. Brother Yinqian can still get the 300,000 taels of military pay if he thinks of a way."

"As long as the army is properly trained, the Four Guards and One Battalion can replace the border troops in Jiliao or Liaodong within a year or two."

"After replacing and dismantling the border troops, we can save the court millions of taels of expenditure every year."

Having said this, Zhu Youjian looked at Zhu Youxiao with a guilty conscience, fearing that his imperial brother would be unhappy if he thought that he wanted to get involved in military power and commit rebellion.

For this reason, he deliberately placed the orphans from the border town in the capital and gave the profits from their training to Zhu Youxiao.

However, he ultimately underestimated his status in Zhu Youxiao's heart and his performance in the past few days.

Zhu Youxiao suddenly held Zhu Youjian's hand with both hands and comforted him in a warm voice:

"Those widows are arranged to be in the capital so that it is inconvenient for my younger brother to use them. Tomorrow I will ask someone to grant some wasteland at the foot of Yanshan Mountain in Changping to the Royal Horse Supervisor."

"When the time comes, you will place those widows there, and ask Lu Wenzhao and Chengen to help with the recruitment of the army. When the Zhejiang soldiers arrive in the capital, I will transfer them to Changping to help my brother train for a month."

"When the chieftain soldiers arrive in the capital and my brother comes back with the Zhejiang soldiers, I will allocate 400,000 taels of silver from my own funds. You can reward them on my behalf."

"I hope that after they go to Liaodong, they can guard the border for the imperial court."

Speaking of this, Zhu Youxiao comforted: "You don't have to take it to heart when those officials are impeaching you these days."

"I know you trained the Four Guards and One Battalion because you wanted someone to protect you and my two brothers."
Chapter completed!