I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 412 Ming Royal Navy Royal Army
Chapter 412

The problem of the Ming Dynasty was a financial problem, and the financial problem had been tormenting the Ming Dynasty since Zhu Di, and it became more and more serious as it went on. By the time of Chongzhen, it was almost to the point of terminal illness.

Although with the rise of the Ning Haijun Group, the Ming Dynasty has new tax sources and the situation has improved, the problem is that with the Ning Haijun Group becoming the ruling party of the Ming Dynasty, and after this battle, most of the north was destroyed. , plus millions of military households and military dependent immigrants, as well as captive immigrants, it would be difficult to restore the Ming Dynasty's north in a short time without tens of millions of taels of silver.

The money spent here is all over the place. Where can I find so much money?
Anyway, Sun Zhiman couldn't think of a way. Sun Zhiman's inertial thinking was to increase revenue and reduce expenditure, but there is no way to reduce expenditure at the moment. Cheng Shijie, the regent, didn't even want to build the Forbidden City because of the repair. The Forbidden City needs to be built, the city of Beijing needs to be built, and the people of the capital need to be appeased and bribed. Real money needs to be spent everywhere.

What was a little more than the conventional thinking was to launch an economic war or a military war against Jiangnan, and use war methods to plunder the wealth of the Jiangnan gentry, but he did not think of attacking the vassal king.

When Cheng Shijie mentioned the word "vassal king", Sun Zhili suddenly understood and opened up his thoughts and patterns. In Sun Zhili's understanding and cognition, the two dynasties with the most serious corruption in the past dynasties were actually the two dynasties with the most serious corruption. It was the Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty. From Cheng Shijie's point of view, the most serious one was actually the Qing Dynasty.

However, these three types of corruption all have one common characteristic. There is a group of people who have been issued a corruption license by the court. In the Song Dynasty, they were the generals of the Northern Song Dynasty, in the Ming Dynasty, they were the feudal clans, and in the Qing Dynasty, they were the clans, feudal princes, and the Eight Banners hardcore crops.

If you want to be corrupt in the Shou Dynasty, you have to surrender to the generals. If you want to be corrupt in the Ming Dynasty, you have to surrender to the vassal king. In the Qing Dynasty, it is even easier to become a slave.

Xie Zongze said with some difficulty: "Your Majesty, this... is a little inappropriate, isn't it?"

"There's nothing wrong with it! The imperial court has no money, so if the feudal lord is copied, won't it make money?"

As soon as Cheng Shijie finished speaking, all the civil servants rolled their eyes.Aren't you afraid of being criticized for treating the clan members harshly?Hey... the Zhu family clan has nothing to do with Cheng Shijie or the vassal king.Wouldn't it make money if the feudal king's house was confiscated?Could you, old man, be more simple and rude?

Seeing the reluctance of everyone, Cheng Shijie said calmly: "Back then, Chengzu made an agreement with the vassal kings to exchange wealth and honor for military power. Now I am making another deal with the vassal kings, exchanging military power for wealth and honor. They can use fields, food, and money. and treasures in exchange for their military power!”

Sun Zhili smiled bitterly and said: "Even if they are rich, those feudal princes may not be willing to sell their fields to the court... They take their fields too seriously and will never sell their fields unless they have to!"

Cheng Shijie said calmly: "Then spend more time to investigate their evil deeds of corruption, corruption and violation of law, and occupation of people's fields, and then hang them all on trees. In fact, I prefer to hang them on trees. This will save trouble and make it easier." Get a lot of money!”

Zhang Yu, Zhou Ning and other generals were excited and eager to try, while the civil servants rolled their eyes fiercely.

As a result, another imperial edict was drafted. The cabinet would form a statistical team within a month to measure the property of vassal kings across the country and conduct an inventory of land registrations.

Except for the land that was awarded during the founding of the People's Republic of China and the land that was awarded by previous emperors, other land is regarded as illegal occupation. The illegally occupied land will be recovered in accordance with the law. At the same time, back taxes, late payment fees, and interest must be paid...

This new policy caused an uproar, and as expected, many feudal lords jumped up and rebelled.

They have saved these properties for several generations. Why do you take them all back with just one word?Why?Even if they want to be honest, it won't work. They can't afford the late tax and interest fees and interest if they sell out all their property. Otherwise, they will have to die.

In fact, there were not many vassal kings in the area controlled by Cheng Shijie. The first was King Zhu Yihai of Lu. He went to Nanjing to proclaim himself emperor, and King Lu's property in Yanzhou was directly seized. As for King Dai, before the city of Taiyuan was broken, He ran away, and now he is squatting in Lu'an Mansion. He has no money and no food in his hands. Whatever you say will happen.

King De of Jinan, King Tang of Nanyang, King Fu of Luoyang, King Lu of Luzhou, King Jing of Linyi, King Heng of Qingzhou, King Hui of Kaifeng, and King Chong of Runing. However, as expected, these vassal kings either ran away or came to the capital. They didn't have the courage to cry to Cheng Shijie and make trouble with Ning Haijun.

At the same time as the reduction of the vassal, various guard posts were also carried out. Some guard posts wanted to rebel. They were worse than the vassal king because Cheng Shijie only targeted the generals and not the ordinary military households. It can even be said that the ordinary military households gained the greatest benefits. The rebellions of most of the generals of the guards rose and fell, and most of the rebellions were suppressed by the military households before Ning Haijun was dispatched.

The generals who wanted to rebel had their heads cut off by their military households before they could raise troops. In the eyes of the military households, the fields of these generals were equal to theirs. This gang had drank from them for generations. The bloody bastards not only refused to hand over their fields, but also took them to rebel against the imperial court who was trying to allocate the fields to them. This is simply unreasonable. I won’t kill you with your surname!
Many generals even had their heads cut off on charges of rebellion before the generals even had the idea of ​​​​rebellion, and then they happily divided their fields and property. For a time, the generals of the guard station became a high-risk Occupation, the seemingly weak and bullyable military households burst into enthusiasm in the face of the hope of obtaining land, which made their livers tremble.

Of course, as far as the shitty things these generals have done, it may be unfair to kill them all, but if nine out of ten are cut off, there must be someone who slipped through the net, so what the court did to the military households was basically nothing. Close your eyes.Those moths have been lying on Daming's body and sucking blood for so many years, so they should pay a price.

The two great redundancies of the Ming Dynasty, the guards and the vassal kings, became a thing of the past without any trouble. Everyone felt that this thing should have been abolished long ago. What's the point of doing something that should have been done 200 years ago? What all the fuss is about?

However, the military reform proposed by Cheng Shijie caused a stir in the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty. He wanted to follow the example of the Tang Dynasty and reopen the Governor's Mansion!
This pricks the ass of every civil servant.Although they were dissatisfied with the stubborn scholar-bureaucrat class's frenzied suppression of the military generals' group and even the destruction of the Ming Dynasty's national defense force, they also did not forget that during the feudal rebellion, the military generals' groups continued to attack each other all year round, and the lives of literati were as cheap as ants. , the people were reduced to the tragic situation of ten rooms with nine empty rations.

Reopen the Dudu Mansion?No, absolutely not, isn't this going to be another feudal rebellion!Absolutely not!The military generals felt it was necessary. Reopening the Governor's Mansion would allow them to gain a higher status and more opportunities for promotion. The benefits were obvious.The civil and military parties started a heated argument, which turned red in the face.In the end, it was Cheng Shijie who made the decision, the Governor's Mansion must be opened!

Of course, unlike the Dudu Mansion of the Tang Dynasty, Cheng Shijie did not need to adopt the method of weak branches and weak poles, because in the era of hot weapons, the central government controlled the channels for weapon manufacturing, and with the large-scale construction of railways in the future, it was impossible for local governments to be like It's the same as before, being the emperor behind closed doors.

The first to be established was the Andong Metropolitan Governor's Palace, the Anton Metropolitan Governor's Palace. The Anton Metropolitan Governor's Palace governed the entire Nurgan Governor's Office, the Korean Peninsula, and the Liaodong Governor's Office.

The second step is to establish the Anbei Metropolitan Governor's Office, Anxi and Annan Metropolitan Governor's Office. After these four governor's offices are put together, they will make every effort to restore the old territory.

However, the current situation is that only most areas of Anbei and Anton are under Cheng Shijie's control, and most areas of Anbei are not actually under control. In Cheng Shijie's plan, the Anbei Governor's Palace covers the entire Siberia, all the way to Lake Baikal. The responsibility of the Anbei Governor's Office is to completely incorporate this vast and cold land into the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

First of all, if there is no accident, Li Xiaodong, who is under the command of Chang Yu, will serve as the guardian of Anton, and Shen Shikui, the former naval commander, will serve as the deputy governor.

The Governor of Anbei will not be established for the time being. The Governor of Changyu Anxi will protect the mansion. The Governor of Annan will be Shen Mingyu, and the Annan strategy will be launched soon.

It is worth mentioning that all governors are not hereditary and are swapped every five years.Similarly, the troops of each governor's office swap defense areas every ten years, which not only gives each governor the maximum autonomy, but also gives them the maximum restrictions. The defense area swaps and the exchange of governors and subordinate troops are basically the same. It cut off the possibility of the governors supporting their own troops or even rebelling.In five years, no matter how savvy the careerist is, it is impossible to make all the preparations needed for rebellion.Of course, there is no way for a fool like Cheng Shijie to use common sense to deduce.Without an order from the court, local troops are not allowed to enter the city in an organized manner, even on holidays. Those who violate the order will be severely punished.

The Ming Dynasty will abolish the military service system that combines recruitment and compulsory military service.

Cheng Shijie originally wanted to adopt a compulsory military system, but the problem is that there are now more than 1000 million conscripts of the right age in the Ming Dynasty, of which the male proportion will reach 600 million. How to make them compulsory?

Cheng Shijie cannot afford 600 million soldiers and horses. Even if Cheng Shijie only controls a little more than one-third of Dayou, the problem is that it can still be expanded to 300 million soldiers and horses. The key is that he does not need that many.

In particular, Ning Haijun's treatment is the most suitable way out for young people in the Ming Dynasty. It is even more promising than studying and becoming an official. Studying may not necessarily lead to becoming an official. It requires thousands of troops to squeeze into a single-plank bridge, but being a soldier is different. Ning Haijun is especially enthusiastic. The soldiers with weapons basically went up to collect the corpses after the cannon cleared the ground, which was very safe.

Cheng Shijie stipulated that all young people of appropriate age, as long as they are not disabled or have congenital diseases, can take a physical examination and be admitted on a merit-based basis. Those who meet the requirements will enlist in the army and receive two years of training in the army. After two years, they can be recruited on a voluntary basis. Next, participate in the selection of non-commissioned officers, and those who pass the test can stay in the army.

Those who have made meritorious service in the army can be promoted. Except for emergency temporary promotion on the battlefield, normal promotion requires full-time study at a military academy and will be uniformly assigned after graduation...

The pinnacle of military generals is the marshal. A marshal has a lifelong tenure. Once promoted to a marshal, he becomes a senior staff officer of the General Staff of the Ming Dynasty. However, the highest leader of the entire empire below the emperor is the imperial prime minister. All matters related to people's livelihood, economy, politics, diplomacy, and personnel appointments and removals are made by him. The Prime Minister is solely responsible and the Marshal has no right to interfere.

Of course, the prime minister implements a campaign system, and a marshal can also run for prime minister, but he must take off his military uniform and sever ties with the military before the election, otherwise he will not be allowed to run.

This article undoubtedly gives Wenchen Group a reassurance.Although the reopening of the Governor's Office and the establishment of the Navy and Army Field Marshal's Office basically eliminated the possibility of civilian officials intervening in the army and greatly improved the status of military generals, the basic national policy of the Ming Dynasty is still to govern the country by civilian officials, and their status has not been reduced. I just have to accept a limited challenge from the military commander group.

The military rank system of the Ming Dynasty is not directly linked to the military service system. Currently, there is no way to link it. The Anton Governor's Office is basically an armed inspection, and there is not much possibility of war. The situation in Anbei is similar, but there is a possibility of encountering Mao, Ning The main development direction of the navy is in Anxi, that is, the Guanzhong area. Changyu is in charge, Annan is in charge of Shen Mingyu, and as for the Jiangnan area, Cheng Shijie is in charge, and Song Xiance is assisting...

When Changyu takes over the Anxi Governor's Mansion and restores it to the territory of the Anxi Governor's Mansion in the Tang Dynasty, he will be promoted to Marshal of the Ming Dynasty. At the same time, Shen Mingyu also needs to capture the entire Annan. This task is not easy to accomplish.

In terms of system, the Ming Dynasty has at most ten marshal positions. After ten marshals, one carrot will be needed in the future. Only after the old marshal dies, or after the marshal participates in the election of prime minister and takes off his military uniform, can he be promoted. New marshal.

As for the strategy of Guanzhong west of Jiangnan and Annan, it is estimated that it will take half a year or more to complete. It will take ten years until Chongzhen to complete it. No, it should start after the spring plowing in the first year of Dingxin.

At this time, the small court in the south of the Yangtze River sent a document, which of course can also be regarded as an ultimatum. The first thing was to congratulate the regent Cheng Shijie on his return to Beijing and the expulsion of the Tartars.

Cheng Shijie, the regent, was canonized by Queen Zhou's decree. In fact, he had more legitimacy than the small court in Jiangnan. After all, Queen Zhou and the prince were all in Liaodong, including Emperor Chongzhen.

After a lot of flowery words without much substantive meaning, they put forward the conditions for solving the Jiangnan problem. The first was to unconditionally release Emperor Chongzhen and allow Emperor Chongzhen to arrive in Nanjing safely.

Secondly, they abolished Mohism and Miscellaneous Studies and continued to only respect Confucianism; then the Dingxin Dynasty continued all the policies of the previous dynasty that favored scholars and exempted and exempted business taxes; then, they continued the national policy of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business, and restricted agriculture, industry, and business. The power of the class, non-scholars are not allowed to participate in politics...

There is no need to look at the following conditions. These few clauses alone made the civil servants of the court shake their heads and cursed to death.

Although the vast majority of the Reform Dynasty were from traditional literati backgrounds, they naturally favored the Jiangnan scholar group who had been forced into a desperate situation. They would be happy to see the small court in Nanjing reach a reconciliation with Beijing.

But the question is, release Emperor Chongzhen and allow Emperor Chongzhen to arrive in Nanjing safely?

What is the nature of this?They really dare to think that this disaster was caused by them. If Emperor Chongzhen was freed, the first person he would deal with would be Cheng Shijie.

Abolish Mohism and Miscellaneous Studies... Even Sun Zhiwan cursed people, why don't you fucking die!
How many nephews of our clan have studied Mohism and miscellaneous studies for many years, and have achieved success in their studies. They will soon be able to stand out and show their talents. Now is it time to abolish Mohism and miscellaneous studies?Believe it or not, we will destroy you first!
Continue the previous dynasty’s policy of preferential treatment for scholars and reduce or reduce business taxes?Since Taizu, the Ming Dynasty has treated scholars favorably for more than two hundred years. What kind of weird things have been produced?Either he is a corrupt official who knows nothing but making money, or he is a big slut who knows nothing but scolds the emperor!
This kind of rubbish should be extubated as soon as possible, stopped taking medication, and sent to the crematorium. How about preferential treatment?Give your grandma special treatment!There are also commercial tax reductions and exemptions. Isn’t Ming’s commercial tax low enough?It’s so low that European businessmen are dumbfounded, okay? You’re not willing to pay even this small amount of business tax, and you still want to continue to reduce it. What on earth do you want!
After Cheng Shijie read it, he threw the ultimatum to everyone and read it again. After everyone read it, Cheng Shijie threw it to the ground and stomped on it hard.

"I want to solve the Jiangnan issue through peace, but it seems that they are really determined to do so!"

"Commander, do you want to send troops?"

"No, we can't disrupt our development pace just because of a few clowns!"

Cheng Shijie said calmly: "Military reform cannot be stopped. Where are we talking about?"

"navy!"

Cheng Shijie thought of Lu Xiangsheng at this time, and he couldn't help but get angry.

Now the Ming Dynasty is the Ming Dynasty of Ning Haijun. He has only made Ning Haijun's private army public. The nationalization process cannot be limited to Ning Haijun. If he eats meat, others must also drink soup, otherwise it will cause public outrage.

Cheng Shijie thought for a while and said: "The Ning Navy and Army are now renamed the Ming Royal Army, and the navy is renamed the Ming Royal Navy. By the way, invite Lu Xiangsheng over, I want to talk to him!"

(End of this chapter)