"Your Majesty, Li Yuzhi spread rumors and incites the emperor. As a minister, he does not want to serve the country. Instead, he tricks into power and impeaches the ministers. I think he should be imprisoned, punish him for overstepping power and resuming the party dispute."

Li Yuzhi had just finished speaking, and before Chongzhen could do anything, another minister immediately stepped out of power, stood beside Li Yuzhi, and said righteously.

Seeing that the visitor was Shi Yongan, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of War, instantly caused a lot of discussion. Before the ministers could react, several civil officials stood out from the civil servants' queue, stood behind Shi Yongan, and said loudly.

: "I and others agree."

Shi Yongan has many people to help, but Li Yuzhi is not a lonely person. There is no need to wait for Li Yuzhi's eyes to look at him. However, after Shi Yongan stood up, Li Yuzhi's "friends" were naturally not to be outdone, and they all walked out of the ranks and stood there.

Behind Li Yuzhi, he said excitedly.

"Your Majesty, Lord Li is loyal to the country and serves the country all his life. He is so embarrassed that Chen Qiyu and others are in vain that they miss the opportunity. The thieves are becoming increasingly powerful and difficult to control. However, there are some people in the court, regardless of the facts, only

For the sake of one's own selfishness and to protect his accomplices, he falsely accused Lord Li. He and others believed that these talents should be imprisoned and punished to quell the public's anger."

"You said I'm waiting for a gentleman to form a party?" The person behind Shi Yongan was instantly furious and questioned wildly.

The person behind Li Yuzhi was naturally not showing any weakness and refuted: "Isn't that? Lord Li discussed the matter and impeached Chen Qiyu and mediocre people. However, the villains such as you actually blocked Chen Qiyu and you, and ignored the people in the world.

, If it is not a clique, what is it?”

"Ah~ah~Yeah, how dare you bully me like this?"

"Bully you? I want to hit you, see what I want to do."

Seeing that the two men and horses were becoming more and more fierce, they were about to evolve into full martial arts. Chongzhen, who was sitting on the dragon chaise, had his face getting darker and darker, and his suppressed anger was about to gush out.

But at this moment, Wen Zhenmeng, who was observing the emperor's face, stepped forward and scolded Shi Yongan and others: "The ancestors' early court discussions are just to ask people to speak freely. How can you let others blame others? Not too fast

Go back soon.”

Wen Zhenmeng has a low status, only a bachelor's degree in Hanlin Academy, and a seventh-rank official position. But his position is very special, because he talks with him every day, and the person who listens to him is Emperor Chongzhen. It can be said that

Wen Zhenmeng and Emperor Chongzhen spent day and night. This alone made him, although Wen Zhenmeng was not in a high position, he was able to control the court. He was really an important figure.

When Shi Yongan and others saw that it was Wen Zhenmeng, they immediately looked like a ball that was deflated, lowered their eyebrows and said with a pleasing eyes: "I am missing the etiquette in front of the palace, I beg you to surrender your crime."

Shi Yongan and others were cowardly, and Li Yuzhi and others naturally did not dare to take advantage of the victory to pursue them. Otherwise, wouldn’t they have done it in a solid manner? So they all fell down and knelt down to apologize.

The ball was kicked at Chongzhen's feet. What could Chongzhen do? Do all these people? Then if the court lost 1 and a half of the people in an instant, the court would become chaotic. Besides, even if all these people were really removed,

So what can? Can people who change back be obedient? Can they stop forming cliques and making private interests? 1. Be loyal to the public?

At the beginning, the young and energetic Chongzhen did this, and he labeled more than half of the people in the court as eunuchsmen. Those who should be imprisoned were imprisoned, those who should be removed from their posts and returned home, and then replaced them with a righteous gentleman from Donglin.

At that time, the imperial court claimed that the court was full of people. But as a result, the court should be in chaos or chaos, and the faction of forming cliques was constantly banned. Even the treasury that could barely be maintained during the Tianqi period became empty

Empty.

The soldiers in front of him were short of food and clothing, and had been lacking in food and wages for several years, while the people increased taxes, so that the people were in poverty and rose up. Why is this? Chongzhen also thought about it day and night, but he was unable to do so. Chongzhen, who was hit, was hit.

, he is no longer the naughty man who just ascended the throne. He doesn't want to make the same mistake again for the second time.

However, Chongzhen did not make these people feel good, and no one was fined half a year for punishment. This matter passed like this, which could be considered to have made some contributions to the treasury.

1 piece returned to the calm that was just beginning, as if 1 piece had never happened.

Chongzhen was a little tired. He had seen such a performance more than once. Whenever there was a major event, the ministers in the court would jump out, attack each other, and accuse each other of forming cliques for personal gain. As for the real major event, who cares?

Li Changgeng, Minister of Personnel, stood up and said, "Your Majesty, I believe that the thief has temporarily occupied 4 Sichuan, but in the short term, most people in the four Sichuan will still care about the court and will not be in conjunction with the thief. I believe that,

Taking this opportunity, the court should continue to organize the official army to attack the four rivers and recover the lost territories. Otherwise, it will be difficult for the court to suppress and attack again when the bandits gain a foothold in the four rivers."

This is what old man planned the country, and Chongzhen sighed.

"The same is true for me. The thieves suddenly got four rivers and had a short foundation. This is the best time to eliminate the thief and appease the people. Zhang Aiqing, is the court's military strength sufficient?"

The Minister of War Zhang Yifeng stood up with a bitter face and said, "Report to Your Majesty, the official army is not strong enough."

"What? The Ming Dynasty has a great reputation, with hundreds of trillions of people and millions of soldiers, why isn't it enough?" The court was talking a lot, and the eyes of the ministers were all attracted by Zhang Yifeng's words.

Chongzhen said with a cold face: "The Ming Dynasty claims to be a million soldiers, why did he just wipe out a rebel in the end, but there were no soldiers available?"

"Your Majesty forgive me," Zhang Yifeng explained to Chongzhen with a bitter face, "It is not that the Ming Dynasty did not have so many soldiers, but that there were not so many soldiers who could go to the battlefield.

Most of the elite troops of the Ming Dynasty gathered in Liaodong and the 9 border areas. The border soldiers in these places must not be used, otherwise the Jianlu might take advantage of the situation. As for the guards in Shaanxi, Henan, Huguang and other places, they have long been corrupted.

It cannot be used very much. Only one that can be used can be used is three of the governors of the border, Hong Chengchou's Hong soldiers, and Henan Zuo Liangyu's Henan army, which can be used can be used.

To eliminate the 4 Sichuan, Pei Xiao2 rebels, initially, it is necessary to have a large army of 300,000. However, if we really want to mobilize 300,000 troops to encircle and suppress 4 Sichuan, then Shaanxi, Henan, Shaanxi, Huguang, Nanzhili and other places

No one can control the bandits, so there is a chance to grow bigger."

"Okay, okay." Chongzhen was overwhelmed with his head, "When the country of Noda paid, it was millions of people, but when it was really fighting, it was extremely embarrassed. What was going on?"

The ministers were silent.

Chongzhen said helplessly: "Zhang Aiqing, according to you, how long does it take to train a 300,000 army?"

Zhang Yifeng said without hesitation: "It will take about half a year to go back to Your Majesty, but"

"Just what?"

"It's just that this military pay is probably insufficient."

Speaking of military pay, Chongzhen had a more severe headache. Silver, silver, and silver were needed everywhere, but if Chongzhen really wanted to get the money, he would not be able to rebel the people.

Chongzhen closed his eyes and asked weakly: "How much money is needed?"

"According to each person, each month, each person will be given 1 tael of silver, plus food, armor, bows and crossbows, arrows, camp tents, iron materials, etc., add 1, and each person will need 2 taels of silver per month, and 1 tael of silver per month.

People only have 600,000 taels per month, and 720,000 taels per year.

The Weichen has already saved to the extreme. In fact, the border troops in Ji Liao, Xuanda, etc. have less than 2 taels of silver per month, and the servants are even higher. The population inside the pass is sufficient and there is no need to face the border areas.

, so military pay is relatively cheap”

What Zhang Yifeng said next? Chongzhen has been listening to it every time. He is now thinking about 7.2 million taels of silver. From the 406th year of Wanli to the 408th year of Guizhou, the whole country has been excluding Guizhou.

Outside a few areas, an average of 9 cents of silver was added to each mu of land, totaling 5.2 million,060,060,200,000.

In the fourth year of Chongzhen, the field quota was raised from 9 cents to 1 cents and 2 cents, and more than 6.67 million taels of silver were distributed. The military was exempted from the waste, and more than 5.2 million taels of silver were actually charged, with tariffs.

The total amount of salt and miscellaneous items was only 7.418,290,800 taels of silver. However, this tax caused the Ming people to live in poverty and complain, and the morning was too late.
Chapter completed!