"...Your Majesty knows for sure that this servant has never had any private dealings with Luo Qianhu." Gu Dayong was startled.
"Okay." Zhu Houcong waved his hand, "This is a method. After all, I brought him from the palace, so I can trust him. I have already made arrangements for Lu Song. Zhang Yong, you can find Mai Fu when you go back later.
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The three of them breathed a sigh of relief, as long as the emperor was willing to listen to their suggestions.
"If you think Luo An is qualified, then give him all the people you buried in Jinyiwei." Zhu Houcong looked at them indifferently, "It's the same over in the East Factory and in the palace. They are all your disciples and disciples. Zhang Zuo
I'll send the Chief of Ceremonies, Mai Fu to the Royal Horse Prison, and Zhang Zuo to the Royal Prison. You can take them up first."
"This slave obeys the order..."
"As for the Beijing camp, it is really shocking. Mr. Yang Ge said that there are more than 370,000 people in the Beijing army, flag schools, military craftsmen, etc., and they receive four million dan of food and supplies a year. Is this true?"
"Your Majesty, are you...really serious about massive layoffs?" Zhang Yong's voice trembled slightly.
Gu Dayong gritted his teeth and accepted it sadly: "Your Majesty, these are really your own family assets."
Zhu Houcong was amused: "My own family background?"
Gu Dayong thought that Zhu Houcong did not understand the importance, so he bravely explained: "The number of officers and soldiers in Beijing is actually quite large, but the actual number is very small, and the gap is getting bigger and bigger. Now it is more, mainly because
The Jin Yiwei and the newly trained Beijing camp officers and soldiers."
"Your Majesty, among them, firstly, the number of officials who have been favored, favored, and sent salary by the Holy One is constantly increasing, which involves almost all honorable ministers and relatives of the country, including those civil servants with martial arts. Secondly, the Jinyi Colonel acts as a clan official.
Guards and tomb guards have naturally increased in number over the past dynasties. Thirdly... when Emperor Daxing was in power, he added more imperial guards to select and train new troops, in the hope that Heaven would listen to Guangda and that military preparations would become more and more prosperous."
Zhu Houcong understood, nodded and said: "You mean, you and your disciples and grandchildren have not accepted money from others to serve as evaders?"
Gu Dayong immediately returned his forehead to the ground: "Slave...slave..."
Zhu Houcong said calmly: "The official position and salary cannot be moved, nor can the palace guards and mausoleum guards be moved. The most likely ones to be moved are the people who pretend to be defectors, and there are still vacancies in the abolition of the Beijing camp. Needless to say the former, the personal guard sergeants
With one stone's salary per month, you can also be exempted from the service. In addition to the newly trained regiments and camps, the old army, which is called the hometown, is living on empty pay. If this is touched, the ministers and military ministers will be further suppressed. I can think of these
Understand, I just want to ask, how much free money have you received from the three great men?"
Hearing his final and sinister question, Gu Dayong and the others were trembling like chaff through a sieve and kept begging for forgiveness.
This is the benefit of having done your homework. When Zhu Houcong was in Anlu, he read a lot of discussions and reports on many issues by courtiers in the newspapers. If he had any questions, the officials of the palace who were living leisurely at that time would not dare to ask more questions.
Talk about some real facts.
Zhu Houcong had now solved the problem. Seeing that Gu Dayong and the others were still frightened and did not answer, he finally frowned: "Reply well! The seriousness of this fraud and redundancy is really shocking, and some abolition is inevitable. But soldiers are expensive.
Even if they are more sophisticated but not expensive, I will not let them do anything. I will definitely hold this Beijing camp firmly in my hands! Tell me everything you know!"
He now has an advantage, that is, the succession of the vassal king.
The reason why this is an advantage is because I am afraid that someone will rebel.
On this basis, isn't it natural to retain control of the Beijing camp, take this opportunity of dismantling and reorganization to make the Beijing camp stronger, and win over the military ministers who are overwhelmed by the civil servants?
The three of them finally spoke one after another, and Zhu Houcong frowned as he listened.
The number of people receiving salaries in the Jinyiwei establishment reached nearly 70,000. The Tengxiang Four Guards that Zhu Houzhao focused on training had more than 40,000. The Weiwei Regiment Training Camp and other Beijing Guards that had been abolished added up to tens of thousands more. In the early years of the founding of the People's Republic of China,
The Beijing army once numbered more than 400,000, but now only this is left, and it is said that a large proportion of them are vacant.
The situation of becoming a eunuch can be divided into four categories: the total number of eunuchs in the vassal government over the clan has exceeded 10,000; the total number of eunuchs under the management of the twenty-four yamen has reached nearly 15,000; the eunuchs sent out from abroad have
There were more than 10,000 guards, mine supervisors, tax supervisors and tomb-guarding eunuchs in total. There were also thousands more who had purified themselves privately and could not enter the palace, but were taken in by them to grow vegetables or do hard work outside the palace.
Then there are the military craftsmen: their status is very special, they are both military members and craftsmen. In essence, the management of these military craftsmen has gradually come under the responsibility of Jin Yiwei and internal supervisors. Even if there are projects at the Ministry of Industry, military craftsmen are also responsible for them.
They are just sent there to work.
These military craftsmen who mastered various skills mainly served the royal family, and almost everything in the palace was made by their hands.
How many people are there? There are 53,000 registered military craftsmen, but nearly twice as many as servants.
Although the monthly rations for these military craftsmen and handymen are less than five pou per person, there are still many of them.
Then the contradiction arises: the grain transported into the capital every year is only enough to feed this group of people. So where do the rest of the capital's population, officials and even the royal family get their rations from? How can the two warehouses in Kyoto store grain?
Oh, by the way, there is a discount. As for the discount of silver or what else, and how much, there is a lot of room for manipulation. For example, treasure banknotes that have depreciated to an outrageous level.
Zhu Houcong narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at them: "Raise your head and look at me!"
Gu Dayong and Wei Bin could not help but raise their heads slightly with fear. How could they dare to look directly at the Emperor?
"With so many people, how much do they receive every year, and how much do they actually pay out?"
This is a fatal question, but these three remnants of the "Eight Tigers" from the Zhengde Dynasty now vividly explain what it means to rely on imperial power.
They could only kowtow and explain vaguely.
Zhu Houcong was a little confused when he heard this: How dare his cousin Zhu Houzhao also get a lot of money through this method?
In line with the attitude of letting his subordinates get greedy, it is better to reach out and get some for himself. Only in this way can Zhu Houzhao be free from the restrictions of civil servants in terms of money and food, and be able to re-train the new army in the Beijing camp.
With so much money and food, naturally the honorable ministers and generals in charge of the troops will get a lot of benefits, but Zhu Houzhao can also achieve his goal.
How do you say it? It’s all “my” money.
It is better than Jiajing. Jiajing is used for cultivating immortals, while Zhengde is mainly used for military training.
After being slightly surprised, Zhu Houcong was no longer surprised.
In the era of family and world, for Zhu Houzhao, it was just a matter of left hand and right hand. By the way, it could also help him train new troops and win over his cronies.
Of course, Gu Dayong and the others were by no means untouched, and they even had a lot of hands on it.
Now that Zhu Houcong had asked about this data, he already had some idea in his mind.
"According to what you said, there are more than 100,000 people involved in fraud. I will check whether this is true or not. If I don't check, someone else will check it out. Now someone wants to check it out, and I can't stop it.
Live. Do you understand?"
Hearing Zhu Houcong's words, Wei Bin quickly replied: "I understand... I don't know how many of the foreign ministers are truly loyal to your majesty at the moment. In each yamen, the foreign ministers also have many eyes and ears..."
"In the Chenhao Rebellion, Brother Huang certainly considered taking the opportunity to stabilize the military power, but you cannot suppress your grab for credit and credit. Wang Shouren and others have not yet claimed their merits. The soldiers who really put down the rebellion cannot wait long.
It’s irreversible that Qian Ning and Jiang Bin are in jail, and Zhang Zhong and the others’ confessions, how much of them involve you?”
When Zhu Houcong talked about this, Wei Bin and the others knew that what they really cared about tonight was coming.
After a pause, Zhu Houcong said: "Gu Dayong has made great contributions to welcoming Li. I can allow him to renovate his father's mausoleum and stay there in the future. Wei Bin, I will also renovate some palaces in the palace later. You can go inside
It would be best if the officials and supervisors retire. As for Zhang Yong... I remember that you and Yang Yiqing have a good relationship."
Zhang Yong was startled by these words: "I only contributed to the rebellion of King Anhua with Mr. Yang Ge and overthrew Liu Jin. There is no friendship at all..."