Before discussing a sensitive topic like the nationalization of the military, Yang Shen should be allowed to use his superb acting skills.
In the next few decades, he completed his self-cultivation as an actor and successfully broke away from his status as a sideshow in the official history.
When Yang Shen spoke, it was an afternoon in September of the second year of Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty. The autumn air was crisp and the sunlight slanted into the main hall of the palace. Through the hollow windows, mottled light spots were reflected on the ground and sprinkled on the ground.
One hundred and fifty new recruits, the young lady, were also sprinkled on the emperor, ministers, eunuchs, guards and Young Master Yang.
The main hall was rebuilt from the meeting hall in the Imperial Mansion, and it still smelled of wood and paint, but no one spoke, and it was so quiet that you could hear everyone breathing.
"You have the emperor's grace to come here to serve as soldiers." Yang Yongxiu was indeed the top talent. Knowing that these bumpkin boys were farmers, fishermen and herdsmen, they had just entered the martial arts academy and had no education, so he wrinkled his writing.
The mandarin at the scene was replaced by the vernacular used by rural aunts when chatting, "It is the blessing accumulated by our ancestors for generations. Even if it is windy and rainy, sitting in the tent is still indispensable for your daily salary. Who gave you this money?"
Yours?"
Not long after they entered school, the new recruits had to read the "Quotations of the Holy Emperor" written by Zhu Shou himself in addition to their daily literary and martial arts exercises.
As an ambitious emperor, Zhu Shou's goal was to promote his "Quotations of the Holy Emperor" to become the most printed book in the world. He even had the ambition to add "history" after "global".
superior".
However, the ministers did not dare to ghostwrite the emperor's words. This was a serious crime against the nine tribes, so Zhu Shou had to think hard on his own.
Poor otaku, his cultural literacy is so low that he can't even remember a certain quotation from later generations. No matter how awesome the emperor is, he can't just talk nonsense, so he compiled it very laboriously. After two or three months, he only published three, and
It's all blatant plagiarism.
Article 1: It is the bounden duty of all officers and men to obey orders; Article 2: There is nothing in the world that can last long without being achieved through hardship; Article 3: Be strict and decisive, have great ambition, be firm and without falsehood, and be simple and simple.
Don't bully.
In fact, it was these three items that Zhu Shou thought about for several days and gave a rough idea before Yang Shenrun wrote them. From this, it can be seen that the global road of "Quotations of the Holy Emperor" is quite far and long.
With the "Quotations" and the monthly salary payment, young officers above the general banner had to come to Zhu Shou to receive it in person. Of course, it was impossible for Zhu Shou to hand out the money to them personally. He was the emperor and could not
Doing something so cheap.
However, when receiving the silver coins from the eunuchs, the young officers would burst into tears. In addition to expressing their loyalty to the emperor, there was another reason: their salary was at least five times higher than that of military attachés of the same level.
These 150 young men were the elites selected from the 1,500 students mentioned above, and the actual court official positions they were awarded were all small banners. However, during their studies at the martial arts academy, Zhu Shou decreed that from the beginning
The three thousand households, the fifteen hundred households and the thirty general banners selected from the one hundred and fifty small banners all enjoy five times the salary of the official officers of the same level.
The military establishment of the martial arts academy is not complete. It was originally a hundred households with 112 people, but there are only 100 people, including senior officers.
The promotion of officers is only temporary. In the words of old man Xu Jinxu, let them be proud for a few days. When they arrive in the army, only those who survive after hundreds of people die can be called qualified.
officer.
These words are not a joke.
The young officers who had lived a golden-collar life hundreds of years in advance, when they heard Yang Shen's question, naturally shouted loudly without hesitation: "Long live my emperor! Long live! Long live!"
After more than two months of baptism, although the teenagers are still new recruits, they have gained some energy. More than a hundred people shouted in unison, the momentum was amazing, and the dust on the beams was shaken off...
"Before coming to the martial arts academy, you were all common people who farmed, fished and hunted," Yang Shen continued. "The hardships at home are different from the ease of food and money when you are an official. Think carefully about this. This is the emperor's love for you. What will you do?
repay?"
Under the guidance of the three leading Qianhu, the teenagers shouted in unison: "Be loyal until you die."
Yang Shen finally concluded: "The emperor has raised you for a thousand days, but he only hopes that you will kill the enemy in one moment. If you refuse to kill the enemy, what is the use of the emperor raising you? Even if the military law allows you to slip through the net, God will take your life!"
It was still the three young men Qianhu who took the lead: "Wherever Banzai Lord points, we will hit!"
The last sentence was Zhu Shou's bad taste. He had ordered Yang Shen and the three young men Qianhu to practice skillfully beforehand, so as to achieve the effect of understanding from top to bottom.
Zhu Shou's drama was not a complete fooling around. As mentioned above, both he and Zhu Houzhao knew one fact: most of the Ming Dynasty's army was not under the control of the emperor.
Why?
It's very simple. Regardless of ancient or modern times, what is fought in wars?
Two words: logistics!
Of course, if you want to make a joke about hundreds of thousands of troops carrying rations and sweeping the world like in the novel, I can't do anything with you.
In ancient times, a march could only last two or thirty miles a day. If one could travel a hundred miles a day, he could be called a heavenly soldier. What restricted the marching speed was the logistics and transportation capabilities.
Let’s not talk about actual battles, but any major battle will test the logistical strength. If it rises to a decisive battle for the fate of the country, then it will depend on the competition of national strength.
Marshal XX has a very honest saying: "The battle of XX was launched by the common people with millions of small cars."
Indeed, no one dared to disobey the emperor's imperial edict; the Ming Dynasty's army was also under the command of the emperor.
But what about logistics? It’s all in the hands of the civil service group.
"Your Majesty, there is no food", "Your Majesty, there is no silver", "Your Majesty, there is no ammunition", "Your Majesty, the soldiers have mutinied", "Your Majesty, there is no one in the barracks, and there is not even a bird to eat.
"...
If an emperor insists on being tyrannical, mobilizes troops on a large scale, and does what he wants, such as going out to fight with the Mongols, helping the Koreans fight, educate the heroes of the Warring States Period in Japan, and warn some living Buddhas not to split
Motherland, then the above words will continue to appear in front of the emperor's eyes, making all his actions fall into the quagmire.
The Three Great Expeditions of Wanli in later generations used bloody lessons to tell the emperors: Emperors, if you don’t have that ability, don’t play military affairs. Playing with palace maids is great, it is environmentally friendly and green, and it can also train the next generation.
Of course, if His Majesty the Emperor just wants to chop off the heads of certain people, such as the eunuchs, Li Dongyang's faction, Yang Tinghe's faction, and so on, there will still be countless armies listening to the emperor's orders.
Because no group is monolithic, everyone has political opponents, and every faction also has hostile factions.
But if the emperor wants to change the rules of the game and fundamentally remove the control of the military by the civilian group, even surpassing Zhu Chongba and Zhu Di, and establish a military logistics supply system subordinate to himself instead of relying on the elite group, then what will happen to him?
Resisting the pressure would be something no emperor could bear.
Zhu Shou used the simplest method to establish his own noble group and logistics supply system, which was to expand the emperor's internal treasury.
The inner treasury of the Ming Dynasty was established by Zhu Chongba. Logically speaking, the emperor was rich and should not have private wealth. Chongba even criticized Song Taizong, saying that he was petty in setting up the inner treasury.
But Brother Zhongba soon slapped himself in the face and opened a neiku. There are two main reasons.
First, the money in the inner treasury is managed by the eunuchs, that is, the emperor has the final say. He does not need to listen to the nonsense of civil and military officials, which is very useful. Second, Brother Chongba thinks he is very awesome, but it does not mean that future generations will also
He is very good, so it is better to have some money with him than to see the faces of civil and military officials everywhere...
It must be said that Chong Bage's prediction of future history, his grasp of people's hearts, and his understanding of the power of wealth far surpassed other emperors.
Although Zhu Shou did not have a high political IQ, he came from later generations and had never seen pigs running around. He had always eaten pork. He did not need anyone to teach him. Children in the new era all know the truth that money can communicate with the gods.
Therefore, expanding the source of internal treasury is one of the underlying reasons for Zhu Shou to organize the auction.
The inner treasury is also called the inner transport treasury. It, together with the inner palace supply treasury and the key treasury, are called the three major treasuries in the Ming Dynasty. They are all the emperor's small treasury. Today's palm eunuch is Chen Jing, who has appeared in the previous article.
Eunuch Chen.
Eunuch Chen is ten years older than Zhu Shou and is now twenty-seven. He has served Zhu Shou since he was a child. Among the junior eunuchs in the palace, he, Wang Wei and Su Jin are known as the "Three Little Tigers".
The auction can be held once a year, and Donghai Company can continuously earn back money and expand its internal treasury for Zhu Shou.
Nowadays, good news has come from the twenty treaty ports. Major fleets have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, emerging from all the dark corners of the Ming Dynasty and sailing openly and openly to several large and small countries overseas.
According to a secret report by Wang Wei, the construction eunuch of Longjiang Bao Shipyard: the caravan from South Zhili to Japan can make a round trip in more than two months. And this figure at the beginning of the year was nine months!
In fact, the caravan's sailing time was not long. The rest of the time was spent on communicating with both sides, collecting goods, and waiting for the monsoon. Now the time has been shortened to more than two months, which shows that after the expansion of the treaty port, under the temptation of money
, the smugglers of the Ming Dynasty burst out with immeasurable potential and overcame many difficult factors such as monsoons and piracy. Not to mention the court's business tax, next year's auction may give Zhu Shou a surprise.
However, the ensuing commodity impact, farmer bankruptcy and many other problems were beyond what Zhu Shou, an otaku, could have imagined. Even later economists had no choice but to deal with the derivative problems of international trade in the Ming Dynasty.
Chaoye is basically a terminal disease for which there is no cure.
Let these troublesome problems trouble young Zhu Shou a few years later. Now with money in hand, young Zhu Shou is proudly looking at his young officer corps, preparing to start his own training process.