Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 128 The Innovation of Jinyiwei

"what!"

"Run? Run again!"

In an alley in Mingshifang, the capital city, several "Jinyiwei" wearing scarlet-colored clothes and waist knives were being besieged by other Jinyiwei.

At the entrance of the alley, the people passing by blocked the entrance of the alley, watching the battle between the two sides of Jin Yiwei.

After a while, the sound of the armor sounded, and then someone shouted: "Xicheng soldiers and horses are doing business, everyone who is idle, go away!"

As the people from Xicheng Bingmasi came, the onlookers left reluctantly. At the same time, a hundred households also led a dozen soldiers in armor to appear at the alley.

"How come..."

The hundred households still wanted to ask what to say, but when they saw the Jin Yiwei who was wearing a crimson color and wearing a Yanling knife, they immediately shut their mouths, and even turned around and wanted to leave.

However, as soon as he turned around, a large number of Jinyiwei poured out from the alleys, and the commander Yang Huan also walked out of the Jinyiwei, looking at this Baihudao:
"Li Zhao, you are the backer of these few bluffing Jin Yiwei, aren't you?"

"Waiting for you for a long time!"

"This, this, this... my lord... misunderstood." Baihu was frightened and stupid. The official position of the soldier and horse commander was lower than that of the normal guard. He was just a Baihu from the eighth rank. Jin Yiwei in official uniforms?
"Misunderstanding? Okay, then go to the prison of Fusi in Nanzhen to explain and take away!" Yang Huan turned and left, and those who pretended to be Jinyiwei, as well as Li Zhao, a hundred households of Bingmasi, were also arrested by Jinyiwei was taken away.

The people around were not surprised by such a scene, because this kind of thing started six days ago.

Ten days ago, Jin Yiwei began to arrest a large number of people who used to pretend to be Jin Yiwei and officials in the capital. The momentum was so great that even some thieves were directly arrested by them.

Some soldiers and horse officers who protected these thieves and robbers were also taken down and sent to the imperial prison of Fusi in Nanzhen.

Not only in Beijing, Nanjing, Jiangnan, but also in some important prefectures and counties, images of Jin Yiwei holding people appeared.

In just ten days, it is estimated that the number of people captured in the whole world has reached no less than [-]...

"here you go!"

In the courtyard of Nanzhen Fusi, Cui Yingyuan looked at the document in his hand, feeling extremely happy.

In just ten days, more than [-] people from Nanzhen Fusi arrested more than [-] people pretending to be Jinyiwei, officials, and guard officers, and tens of thousands of thieves and robbers. A total of [-] cases were sorted out.

This is only ten days. After a year, I am afraid that hundreds of thousands of people can be arrested and tens of thousands of cases can be handled.

Thinking of this, Cui Yingyuan even thought of how to divide the classes.

But at this moment, the sound of footsteps suddenly sounded, and someone outside the door shouted: "The commander is here!"

"rub"

Cui Yingyuan, Yang Huan and others stood up at once, and at this time Lu Wenzhao also walked in and saw Cui Yingyuan and Yang Huan.

"See Commander!" Cui Yingyuan and the others all bowed and saluted, while Lu Wenzhao nodded, walked to the case, picked up the file to read, and then said:

"In Jinyiwei, in addition to the Fusi of Nanbei Township, a new Supervision Division has been established."

"All your cases will be handed over to the Supervision Department for review, and one point will be awarded for the qualitative case, and ten points will be deducted for the misjudged case."

"In addition, Long Live has agreed to ransack the homes of all those pretending to be Jinyi Guards, officials, guard generals, thieves and robbers."

"All the money from the house raids goes to Jin Yiwei..."

Speaking of this, Lu Wenzhao glanced at Cui Yingyuan, and said:
"From the proceeds from the ransacking, the Jinyiwei who executes the case will get [-]%, the local hundred-household office and the thousand-household office will get [-]%, the Zhenfu department will get [-]%, and the remaining [-]% will go to the Jinyiwei Bank Treasury!"

"The humble official takes orders!" Hearing this, Cui Yingyuan's eyes lit up, but he was also a little worried.

He was happy because there was another way to make money, but he was worried because of the so-called inspectorate.

Lu Wenzhao only mentioned this yamen, but did not say how many people there were.

But now it seems that they should use the old team from the former Nanzhen Fusi.

In this way, framing the case will not work.

but……

"Hmph! Even if I can't frame the case, I have more cases than Beizhen Fusi!"

Cui Yingyuan is confident in his heart, after all, he is targeting officials and people in the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty, more than [-] counties.

Looking at Li Ruolian again, he only targeted some frontier soldiers and generals, as well as small foreign countries, no matter what...

"By the way, Li Ruolian has searched more than [-] pieces of information on soldiers and horses from various places. You have to work hard, don't be caught up by him..."

what? !

Lu Wenzhao's words broke Cui Yingyuan's back molars.

They had the largest number of people in the Fusi Division in Nanzhen, more than [-] people, and they worked around the clock for ten days and nights to handle more than [-] cases that were squeezed.

Then Li Ruolian's Beizhen Fusi has only [-] people, so why did he deal with more than [-]?
Cui Yingyuan wanted to curse, but he didn't dare to show it in front of Lu Wenzhao.

However, Lu Wenzhao said that a new supervision department was established, and he hoped that the supervision department could investigate Li Ruolian's case clearly.

When Cui Yingyuan thought so, Lu Wenzhao also put down the document in his hand, and then said:

"Let me tell you some good news, Jin Yiwei's salary has increased since today."

"There is one commander and magistrate of Nanzhen Prefecture, with an annual salary of [-] taels, two commanders with an annual salary of [-] taels, and four town governors with an annual salary of [-] taels."

"Four people from one thousand households in South Beijing, with an annual salary of one thousand taels, fifteen people from one thousand households with an annual salary of one thousand two hundred taels, thirty-eight people from one thousand households with an annual salary of five hundred taels."

"One hundred and ninety people from one hundred households, with an annual salary of three hundred taels, three hundred and eighty people in the general banner, with an annual salary of one hundred and twenty taels, and [-] people in small banners, with an annual salary of fifty taels."

"In addition, the generals, lieutenants, warriors, counselors, and school orders with the largest number of people have an annual salary of fifteen taels each."

"This..." When Lu Wenzhao told everyone's salary, everyone stuttered and looked at Lu Wenzhao in surprise.

Especially Cui Yingyuan, Yang Huan, Wei Zhao, Hou Keguang, Hou Guoxing and other envoys and Qianhu were the most excited.

Not only them, but others as well.

How much was the salary of Jin Yiwei in the Ming Dynasty?Perhaps many people in later generations think that Jinyiwei's salary is very high, but as a Jingwei in Beijing, ordinary Jinyiwei only has a salary of five or two or six dollars a year.

In exchange, it is more than [-] Wen per month, which is barely enough to support myself.

Further up, there are only a dozen taels of small flag officers, forty taels of general flag officers, more than sixty taels for a hundred households, and more than eighty taels for a thousand households.

Even if it is a commanding colleague, it is only one hundred fifty or sixty taels of silver a year.

It sounds impossible, but the main reason is that the Ming Dynasty has not raised the salary for more than two hundred years.

This is still Jinyiwei, if it is an ordinary official, it will be even worse, such as Yang Lian now, he is a seventh-rank official with a salary of only twenty-seven taels of silver.

Therefore, under the rule of the Ming Dynasty with constant inflation, it was true that officials could not support themselves if they were not corrupt. Although this is not an excuse for corruption, it is indeed a fact.

Cui Yingyuan and the others never imagined that they would raise their salaries dozens of times in one go, and ordinary Jin Yiwei never thought that their salaries would nearly triple when they doubled.

With such an annual salary, one can already live a very good life.

Therefore, Cui Yingyuan and others are wrong!It should be said that the entire Nanzhen Fusi sang loudly:

"Thank you Long Live! Thank you Commander!"

"Hehe, it's not difficult..." Lu Wenzhao said with a smile:

"This salary increase is not in vain..."

What he said made everyone's hearts tremble, and they listened carefully, and the next second, Lu Wenzhao smiled and said:
"Beizhen Fusi's side, I have already informed, as for your side, I will only talk about it now, after all, you have a lot of people."

"This is a salary increase, but if the supervisory department finds corrupt officials who break the law under the administration of the thousand households, and there are still some people who know about it but accept bribes without reporting them, then everyone in the thousand households will be fined half of their salary. .”

"In addition, the Thousand Household Offices, Hundred Household Offices, and Zhenfu Divisions can also supervise each other. Once the Hundred Household Offices report corruption but do not know about it, then they can get half of the salary of the reported guards..."

When Lu Wenzhao said this, everyone felt terrified in an instant, co-authoring this is playing Mission: Impossible...

There are at least three or four hundred people in a hundred households, so half of the salary is fined at least a few thousand taels of silver. This trick is really too vicious.

Not only do you have to supervise hundreds of officials, but you also have to be inspected by the Supervision Department, and finally you have to be supervised by other hundreds and thousands of households. It's like living a life of supervision.

This in disguise increases the cost of bribery.

The thousands of households will report internally, and Jin Yiwei is afraid that half of the salary will also be reported.

Therefore, if you want to buy Jinyiwei, you can only bribe them by spending more than half of the salary.

Small businessmen have to bribe everyone who sees the matter, while big businessmen, gentry, squires, and officials can only bribe a few hundred households, or even a few thousand households one by one.

This kind of bribery is worth tens of thousands of taels of silver.

Not to mention ordinary merchants, even the nobles in the southern Beijing city who are so rich that they need to cut their flesh to get it out.

Therefore, when Lu Wenzhao talked about the salary increase and penalty, Cui Yingyuan knew that the trust between Jin Yiwei and Jin Yiwei would be very weak in the future.

But this is not what he thought, Cui Yingyuan was originally a street gangster pretending to be a Jinyiwei, and he got into this position by chance.

Five thousand taels a year!He only received a thousand taels of silver in bribes a year, and now he has a salary of five thousand taels a year for doing good things, and can distribute [-] taels of silver at the end of the year. What kind of corruption and bribery is he doing? !
Thinking of this, Cui Yingyuan bowed to Lu Wenzhao righteously:
"Commander, please rest assured, our Nanzhen Fusi is clean from top to bottom. Those who try to embezzle and accept bribes are all scum in our Nanzhen Fusi, and everyone will be punished!"

"Well, that's good. Long Live and His Highness the Fifth Prince give you millions of taels of salary every year. Don't let them down." Lu Wenzhao meant a lot.

"Yes!" After Cui Yingyuan heard the words His Highness Fifth, he immediately understood the general idea.

Zhu Youjian was the first person to propose an increase in military pay for soldiers and horses. If he proposed an increase in salary, then the current emperor would definitely agree.

No wonder...

Cui Yingyuan took a deep breath, and Lu Wenzhao also said with a smile:
All right, keep busy, all the cases are handled properly, and I will leave first.

"Congratulations to the Commander!" Thousands of people sang loudly, which greatly satisfied Lu Wenzhao's vanity.

Under everyone's attention, he led the people away quickly.

After that, the people from the Supervision Department also quickly took away all the case files of the Nanbei Town Fusi and began to investigate all the cases.

Just after Lu Wenzhao announced the salary increase, three fast horses took the Jinyiwei Yellow Book and letters to the Yanshan Camp that afternoon.

By the time Zhu Youjian got the yellow book and letter, it was already the seventh day of March.

He carefully looked at the letters that Lu Wenzhao had arranged for various things in his hand, and remained silent.

But Wang Chengen, who knew everything, couldn't help but said:

"Your Highness, if we continue like this, I'm afraid we won't last until the end of the year..."

"It depends on Lu Jianxing..." Zhu Youjian responded without looking up.

As for what Wang Chengen said in his mouth, if he could not persist, it was because the money of the Yumajian was not enough.

After receiving [-] taels of internal funds, and the spring plowing had already started, Zhu Youjian's heart became active.

He started to implement his plan and discussed it with the emperor's brother.

It is Zhu Youjian's idea to increase the annual salary of Jin Yiwei and formulate rules.

Beizhen Fusi supervised the frontier armaments, collected intelligence in the Yanbian countries of the Ming Dynasty, and supervised all the guards.

Nanzhen Fusi supervises all officials, merchants, soldiers and horses, and salt and taxation departments in various places.

The reason to start monitoring is because Zhu Youjian already has enough capital now.

Right now, the garrison inspections of the [-] guards and six institutes in Shuntian Prefecture and Yongping Prefecture have begun to draw to a close.

Nearly [-] people searched the two prefectures. The speed is not bad, but it took only one month to check everything.

Of course, this is also thanks to the help of people from all over the world.

Knowing that the fields should be divided, they offered to help measure the acres of the fields.

Maybe the measuring equipment is not good, but there are many of them. Each of them tied a three-foot rope around their ankles, and then began to walk around the field, and soon they walked out of an acre of land.

It was with the help of these millions of people that the measurement of the Yumajian was basically completed, leaving only a few sporadic places that were not reported.

As far as the yellow books sent so far, there are 1636 guards and six institutes, with a total of more than 4000 mu of land, more than 159 males, and a population of more than 3600.

In addition to these, there are dozens of villages and towns that have not been counted, but it is probably less than [-] million mu of military farmland, and the population does not exceed [-] million.

Compared with the [-] million people and more than [-] million mu of land in the [-] Wei Liusuo in the early Ming Dynasty, the population has undoubtedly more than tripled, while the farmland has only increased by more than [-] million mu.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian deliberately said:

"Cheng En, first draw out the mountains and fields of the officialdom and the racecourse."

"The grassland is only [-] million mu, and the official field is the hill at the foot of Yanshan Mountain."

"Of the remaining more than [-] million mu of land, the ten mu of military land promised to the soldiers of the Shangzhi [-]th Guards and the Shangzhi [-]th Battalion will be distributed to their families, and their families will be divided into four mus per person. field."

"The rest of the fields are handed over to the common people. When dividing the fields, everything is agreed. The Yumajian will share the grain with them, and the taxation will be paid by the Yumajian."

Zhu Youjian expressed all his thoughts on the military settlement this time, and after hearing this, Wang Chengen called two eunuchs, moved a few desks to the open-air courtyard in the backyard, and then called several army officers The scribe began to count.

The sound of dialing the abacus kept ringing. After a quarter of an hour, Wang Chengen raised his head and said:
"Your Highness, if this is the case, the 12th Guards Army plus the 5600th Battalion will have a full quota of 125 people, and 6000 mu of army land will be distributed."

"Counting his parents and heirs, there should be at least five people who will grant the land, and each person will have four acres of twenty acres. About three million acres of land will need to be prepared."

"After subtracting these days, there are still about [-] million mu."

Speaking of this, Wang Chengen seemed to think of something, and laughed again:
"However, at present, the recruits in the army are all recruited from the military households of the original guards. Here are the soldiers and their families who joined the army. In addition, the parents of some soldiers in the original Seventh Guards and First Battalion are from outside Zhili. people."

"After all, it should be enough to give [-] million people the land."

Wang Chengen's smile gradually froze, as if he felt something was wrong, their fields seemed to be a little worse...

Three and a half million people, three mu per person is [-] million mu, and there seems to be a shortfall of hundreds of thousands of mu.

His smile froze, but Zhu Youjian shook his head and said:

"I know the vacancy. It is enough to reserve an extra [-] mu for joining the army, and then we need to attack other guards in Beizhili."

"Satisfy the current military households first. As long as the [-]th Guards and [-]th Battalion are well-trained, the affairs of Beizhili, Liaodong, and Nine Sides will be much easier."

Nearly [-] soldiers and horses, if they can really be trained to the current level of seven guards and one battalion, Zhu Youjian will have the capital to turn against Wen Chen.

However, this time will be very long, because it may take two or three years to equip the [-] soldiers and horses with the financial resources of the Royal Horse Supervisor.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian said to Wang Chengen:

"Calculate the annual income of the North and South Fields this year, roughly how much it is."

"Yes" Hearing Zhu Youjian's words, Wang Chengen started to ring the abacus again, and several other military officials also started to use the abacus to calculate.

But this time it will take a little longer, because the north and south farms have grass bundles, grain, cattle and sheep, and official farms for breeding.

Since it took a long time, Zhu Youjian asked someone to prepare some sour plum soup. Although there was no ice cubes, it was not bad to drink.

The cold mountain spring water can also play a cooling role.

"Your Highness, it's done!"

Half an hour later, Wang Chengen made a summary of various incomes, and then said to Zhu Youjian:

"The account book has been written by the servant, and His Highness can have a look at it."

"Currently, there is one north and south field of the Yumajian. If the three guards of the navy are also recruited, the annual expenditure will be 540 taels of silver, and the annual cash income will be 2140 million taels of silver."

"Currently there are three guards in the navy, so the annual expenditure is reduced by 39 taels."

"In addition, the income of a piece of grain in the North and South Fields is estimated to be about 1342 million taels. If it is sold locally, it can be sold for about 557 million taels of silver, which means the total annual income is 681 million taels."

"Excluding expenditures, the estimated annual revenue for the end of this year is 180 million taels."

Wang Chengen was fine, but Zhu Youjian was in a heavy heart.

He asked Wang Cheng'en, "Have all the income from the briquette kiln, the imperial store, the breeding farm, and Nanchang Chayin been counted?"

"Returning to Your Highness, everything has been counted. The annual income of 124 million taels of cash is the money that these four places should be able to earn." Wang Chengen responded:
"Your Highness, don't worry, the big head of the Yumajian is mainly Tian Fu, and the current annual income is still positive."

Wang Chengen thought that Zhu Youjian was worried about money, but he didn't think Zhu Youjian was tired.

In the end, he also came to the road of eating land tax, which refuted his original idea of ​​wanting to do something about taxes such as salt, wine and tea.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian was silent for a few seconds and asked:
"If the food grows well, how much food can each of the people under his command have per year..."

Zhu Youjian's question was very inexplicable, but Wang Chengen still thought about it, then tapped his abacus a few times and said:

"Normally speaking, the people in Nanchang pay [-]% of our rent every year, and they still have about a thousand catties of grain."

"What about the North Field..." Zhu Youjian asked with a frown.

"Beichang currently has three acres per person. After paying the rent, there should be more than [-] catties of grain."

In the Ming Dynasty, one catty was almost equal to one catty and two taels of later generations. That is to say, the people in Beichang could receive about [-] catties of grain, an average of two catties of rice per day.

Is this good?It doesn't seem to count, even if two catties of rice can cook four catties of rice, but for the common people who have no oil, water or meat in their stomachs, they can only barely survive.

Zhu Youjian's mood was very heavy for a while, he asked himself, what is the difference between himself and those landlords?
Compared with his ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang's standard of only twelve shi for every [-] mu of grain, his standard is even more unacceptable.

For every [-] mu, the common people had to pay [-] shi for grain, leaving only [-] shi for the people.

But if compared with his contemporaries, compared with those landlords and gentry who were tenants on June [-]th or even July [-]rd, the three or seven points of the Yumajian under his command are simply heaven.

"Let's end this situation as soon as possible..."

Zhu Youjian took a deep breath, knowing that if he did not rely on the army to garrison the fields, he would not be able to support the army, nor would he be able to defeat the foreign enemies and deal with the internal thieves.

The current situation is already very good, even if millions of thieves broke out now, Zhu Youjian is confident that they will be cleaned up in a short time.

Even if the Sixteenth Guards and the Twelfth Battalion have not yet been organized, the Seventh Guards and One Battalion alone are enough.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian said to Wang Chengen:

"The recruitment of soldiers and horses is estimated to be over soon. I will pass my order to break up the seven guards and one battalion and mix them into the existing thirteen guards and twelve battalions."

"As for the three guards of the navy, wait until the Siamese teak is transported to Tianjin Wei, and see if we can build a big ship."

"The maidservant takes orders..." Hearing Zhu Youjian's words, Wang Chengen responded with a salute.

After he agreed, Zhu Youjian also asked: "Qi Yuanfu's [-] regular soldiers and [-] auxiliary soldiers should have arrived in Liaoyang, right?"

"Return to Your Highness..." Wang Chengen nodded and said:
"It was stationed in Liaoyang eight days ago, and General Qi also transported [-] shi of Liaoyang's military rations to Shenyang, and returned safely to Liaoyang City."

"Currently there are [-] Zhe soldiers in Liaoyang, [-] Liao soldiers, and [-] auxiliary soldiers, for a total of [-]."

"Shenyang has [-] Sichuan soldiers, [-] Liao soldiers, and [-] auxiliary soldiers, totaling [-] soldiers."

"In addition, General Qin asked His Royal Highness to recruit new recruits from Ji Town to send to Shenyang. At present, General Manchu has recruited an additional [-] new recruits from Ji Town in Yongping, and they can go to Shenyang after another month of training."

"I can't catch up..." Zhu Youjian said suddenly, which made Wang Chengen stunned.

Can't keep up?What's the meaning?
"It is estimated that the old slave is ready to send troops to sweep Liaoshen..." Zhu Youjian looked at Yanshan Mountain in the distance, frowning.

It also seemed to verify his words. At the same time, Shenyang also captured the information that there was a grain ship going down the river in Xinsarhu City.

The battle of Shenyang is about to begin, whether the old slave can revive the dead situation depends entirely on this battle.

Lao Nu wins, and the Ming army retreats to the west of Liaohe River, and the Houjin National Games will be prosperous for several years.

The Ming army was victorious, and the later Jin had to reform and find new places to replenish food, otherwise hundreds of thousands of Han captives would starve to death in the remaining veins of Changbai Mountain...

(End of this chapter)