In the side hall of the Wenhua Palace, Zhu Yijun had just finished listening to the Japanese lecture and was about to return to the Qianqing Palace, when suddenly an internal attendant came to report, saying that the left attendant of the military department and the assistant manager of the Jingying Rongzheng High Palace asked to see him.

Zhu Yijun subconsciously looked at Chen Ju: "It's all time, and he still came to see me when he sought truth, do you know what he's been busy with these days?" ”

Chen Ju replied: "Back to the emperor's words, the slave and maid are not very clear, I heard that a few days ago, Gao Gongbao has been in the military department to read various documents, and now it seems that he is going to the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies to discuss matters...... Could it be that something went wrong? ”

As soon as Zhu Yijun heard this, he became nervous, his face changed, and he said to the little eunuch who came to report: "Xuan, quickly announce him to come in." ”

The little eunuch hurriedly went, and then Zhu Yijun paced up quickly with some anxiety, stopped as he walked, and said to Chen Ju: "You say, seeking truth won't be the habit of leading troops in Guangxi and Liaodong in the Beijing camp, right?" He naturally beat the people of the guard and the border army when he wanted to, and scolded when he wanted to, this group of people in the Beijing camp ...... cough, these are all nobles, but don't they can't talk about it, and they order the board to be beaten? ”

How did Chen Ju know, so he had to smile bitterly, but he didn't dare to answer easily.

However, it seems that Zhu Yijun didn't expect him to answer, but he rejected the guess just now by himself, and his face became even more ugly: "No, in order to be a real person, he shouldn't do this on the spot...... Hey, I'm afraid he'll come and ask me to issue a court cane, it's not easy to do! ”

Chen Ju laughed and asked meaninglessly: "In case it is really Gao Gongbao who has a conflict with them, the emperor, you ...... Will it fight? ”

Zhu Yijun's face twitched, and he said angrily with a toothache: "Except for the three princes, he has to fight others, don't I have to help him fight first?" He, the assistant manager of the Beijing camp, has just taken office, if I don't help, won't the affairs of the Beijing camp be yellow again? ”

After he finished speaking, he sighed again: "It should be more than a hundred years since the erosion of Jingying, and over the years, various systems have changed and changed, changed and changed, but there has never been a sign of improvement. The last time I was in the suburbs to welcome Qiu Zhen's triumph, I found out that the soldiers and horses in the Beijing camp were compared to the soldiers and horses that Qiu Zhen had fought with in his hands...... Don't look good-looking, that spiritual energy is simply different, don't you know, I had a thought in my heart that day. ”

"What thoughts did the emperor have?" As an excellent person, Chen Ju naturally immediately answered the conversation and handed it back.

"At that time, I suddenly thought that if Qiu was really an enemy general, his thousands of men and horses at that time might be able to capture me in two or three armies with a single charge, just like the change of civil engineering......"

Chen Ju was startled when he heard this, he originally thought that the emperor was thinking about "if these hundreds of thousands of Beijing battalions have this army", who knew that it would be like this, so he panicked and said: "Emperor, the high palace has been loyal and good for generations, and it is your ...... again"

"Oh, I know!" Zhu Yijun waved his hand: "I'm not suspicious of him, I just feel that the disparity between these two soldiers and horses is so big at a glance!" ”

Chen Ju breathed a sigh of relief, and was just about to laugh, but Gao Pragmatic had already arrived - the procedures for the foreign minister to see the driver were very cumbersome, and he had to wait outside the palace gate for summons, and when he saw the emperor, half an hour had basically passed. However, Gao Pragmatism is a special case, Zhu Yijun had decreed before that Enzhun Gao Pragmatism could go to the Wenhua Hall on his own without passing the word - the Wenhua Hall is where their monarchs and ministers have studied together since childhood.

At that time, there was still opposition from the officials, but Zhu Yijun immediately criticized it in person, and used the sentence "The king regards the minister as a sibling, and the minister regards the king as the heart" to go back, and he also gave the official a big hat of "dividing the monarch and the minister", and came to a demote to a foreign appointment, and the world was finally clean.

As soon as Gao Shishi entered the door, he was just about to step forward and bow for a long time, but Zhu Yijun had already walked over quickly, stretched out his hand to support him, and hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Gao Shi was stunned for a moment, and said in surprise: "What happened?" ”

Zhu Yijun was also stunned: "Didn't you come to ask for a dismount for them?" ”

Gao Pragmatic reacted at this time, and said with a smile: "The emperor is too worried, although the minister is the assistant to the military department, but it is different from leading troops to fight, what is worth going to give people power?" Besides, if it really has to do with military law, then the minister can't be allowed to run back to the palace to ask for an order! Your Majesty, this military law can't be as slow and methodical as the court deliberations, you have to fight immediately when you should fight, and you have to kill immediately when you should kill, as long as you hesitate, it may lead to defeat. ”

Zhu Yijun was surprised: "Have you ever killed a general before the battle?" ”

Gao pragmatically shook his head: "No." ”

"Then you said so decisively, I thought you did. I'm like, I don't remember anything like that. ”

Gao pragmatic smiled and said: "The minister has not been killed, because the minister is more convenient than ordinary people - they are afraid of the emperor, so they are also afraid of the minister, so the minister does not have to kill, and they dare not disobey the order, that's all." ”

Zhu Yijun listened to these words comfortably, and laughed: "Fox fake tiger might? Haha, your self-humility is unique. ”

Gao Pragmatic just smiled, but did not answer. Zhu Yijun said: "Okay, since you didn't ask me to help with the board, then you still came to the palace so late, there must be other important things, let's hear it." He pointed to the chair next to him and said, "Sit down and talk, I was so anxious to turn around just now that my feet were tired." ”

Gao Pragmatic realized that Zhu Yijun's walking posture was not natural, and frowned: "The emperor's foot disease has committed again?" But why is there no forbidden? ”

At this time, Zhu Yijun had already returned to the throne and sat down, and replied: "I wrote a good painting yesterday afternoon, and I was happy, and I drank two taels of wine in the evening...... You said that this thing is really tried and tested, only two taels of wine, and now this foot is swollen. As he spoke, the emperor stretched out his right foot and turned his ankle in the air.

Gao Shishi immediately frowned and said: "Your Majesty, 'The son is cautious, Qi, war, and disease. 'The emperor's health is related to the world, and the ministers have to advise ...... when they hear about it."

Zhu Yijun smiled bitterly: "Okay, okay, I know this truth, and I understand your kindness, I will pay attention to it in the future and try to drink as little as possible - let's get down to business first." ”

Chen Ju was amazed on the side, and said secretly: This is also the persuasion of Gao Guan Zheng to be like this, in other words, the emperor doesn't just come to say, 'I have my own measure'?

However, Gao Shishi is not a person who likes to talk all the time, since the emperor said that he would pay attention in the future, he will not say much, and turn to business: "Your Majesty, the remaining soldiers in the Beijing camp are only 40,000 people. ”

The emperor was really taken aback: "How can it be so little?" After the change of Gengxu in the temple, the Beijing camp has been restructured several times, and the recruitment exercises have been performed several times, why are there fewer and fewer? ”

Gao Shishi's face was as usual, and he asked rhetorically: "The first emperor and the emperor have read several times, which time has exceeded 30,000 people?" ”

Zhu Yijun was stunned and said: "That's because they said that 30,000 people in Dayue is enough, and they said that the Beijing camp should control the key passes around Gyeonggi, and it can't be used too much because of the military parade...... Something like that. ”

Gao Shishi coughed lightly and said: "There are indeed some troops stationed in various important places around the Beijing Division, but the minister has already read the case file a few days ago, and those soldiers are all squad troops, most of them are from Shaanxi and Datong. ”

Zhu Yijun's face turned blue with anger, slapped the armrest, and said angrily: "Hundreds of thousands of people are registered, but in fact, there are only 40,000? It's a shame that they spend as much money as the imperial court every year! ”

Gao pragmatic was silent. Anyway, it is useless to say anything, including the emperor's anger, because even if everyone knows that this money is completely unjustly spent, it still has to be spent.

Because Jingying can't be chaotic.

What should I do if it's messed up? Transferred the border army into the guard and suppressed the Beijing camp?

Great idea, great idea! Yuan Shao also instigated He Jin to do this, so Dong Zhuo entered Beijing.

Jingying thing, you don't care what kind of shit it looks like, but as long as it is still "hundreds of thousands", the border troops around the country generally don't dare to have any other ideas. But the premise is that the border troops from all over the country must not gather in Beijing to enter Beijing, otherwise once they know the truth and truth, some things will not be so easy to say.

The reason why the squad army of the Ming Dynasty is now drawn from all over the country in the east and the west, and each team is only about 3,000 people at most, is because it is necessary to prevent the border army from doing anything wrong after entering Beijing. In case they do something wrong, and the court can't suppress them, then it's all exposed.

For example, the border army in eastern Liaodong has about 200,000 troops on the register, but in fact there are 70,000 or 80,000 that are more reliable, and in fact they can make up to about 120,000 (a small number of them do not have field combat capability at all), so the generals on the eastern side of Liaodong generally feel that the Beijing camp still has about 24,400,000 actual troops.

As for the combat effectiveness, the border army did not particularly underestimate the Beijing camp, because they felt that the Beijing camp was well equipped and had high salary, so they thought that although the actual combat experience of this army was definitely a little worse, it should still be able to get out at the critical moment - if the equipment is good and the salary is high, then the family is not strong?

The speculation of other towns about Jingying is also about the same.

Of course, there are two more main reasons why the border army does not rebel: you don't use the border army in a town to rebel, Daming has "nine sides" in northern Xinjiang alone, and you don't need Beijing to go out at all, okay?

What's more, the Ming Dynasty used civil power to control the military, and the governor and the soldiers did not issue orders, and the general army did not dare to transfer troops indiscriminately, how could they rebel? I'm afraid that the news has not yet reached the ears of the soldiers, and the head of the chief soldier himself is gone.

In the last years of Chongzhen, why did the emperor become more and more unable to mobilize troops, and killed the ministers of the court and the central government, but he didn't even dare to move the general army with only a few thousand soldiers and horses under his hands? Because the obedient descendants are gone by force, and the rest of those people are old fritters, you expect to use one old fritter to fight another old fritter, you think, they refuse to fight.

At that time, the central finances collapsed, and Wenchen became more and more unable to supervise the military ministers (they could no longer use military food and military salaries to jam their necks, and everyone relied on their own looting), so the situation got out of control, so that on the eve of the fall of Jingshi, Chongzhen wanted to concentrate the soldiers and horses near Gyeonggi to defend the city in Jingshi, but he couldn't even move a Tang Tong who had only a few thousand men and horses in his hands.

It's only the early years of Wanli now, and of course these situations haven't appeared, but everyone understands the reason: Jingying, even if it's "rotten", it's better than "chaos".

So Zhu Yijun was deflated not long after he was angry, and said listlessly: "Then what now?" What is the use of the 40,000-person Beijing camp? This is also Mr. Gao and your uncle and nephew two generations to appease Tumut, if Tumut is still the same as the temple in his later years, then Xuanda and Jiliao as long as they are slightly negligent, will there be another Gengxu change? ”

"So the situation in Jingying has to be improved." Gao Pragmatic sighed and said, "Even if it is unlikely that there will be a disaster like the Gengxu Revolution now, the emperor also knows that the disasters in recent years seem to be becoming more and more frequent, and the disasters seem to be becoming more and more serious.

Although the Beijing division has not been seriously affected at present, it is only the name of the homeless bandits in the name of "hundreds of thousands of troops in the capital camp", but the name of this kind of thing has always been not enough to fear, once one day there are really lifeless homeless bandits to attack Shenjing, and the Beijing camp is powerless to suppress, and even needs the border army to enter the defense in a big way, that ...... The situation is out of control. ”

Zhu Yijun looked worried, and suddenly said: "Truth-seeking, you tell me the truth, now that there are more and more disasters, is it true that I have lost my morality?" But if I think about it, I won't lose my morality to such a point, right? ”

"The way of heaven is constant, and the Zhou line will not die, not for Yao, not for the sake of death." Gao said calmly: "Zi is silent, strange and chaotic, and the minister never believes in any celestial and human induction. Although there are many natural disasters, they are not without rules, but this law has nothing to do with things like the immorality of the Son of Heaven. ”

This is the power of the "Six Champions", and he dares to make it clear that he disdains this long-used theory. After so many years of nurturing hope and prestige, there must be some results, and there may be many people who dare to oppose authority throughout the ages, but the one who can really succeed in opposing almost always has only another authority.

Gao Pragmatic is now a bit authoritative.

Zhu Yijun really perked up when he heard this, and asked, "Is there still a law to natural disasters?" This is quite new, is there any evidence? ”

Gao pragmatic gave a few examples to illustrate the problem of the Xiaoice River cycle (in order not to be said about the number of water words, I will omit this), and explained this thing that future generations dare not guarantee to be correct.

Zhu Yijun was convinced after hearing this-maybe he was just trying to oppose the "immoral theory", and immediately applauded loudly: "I just said why is this God so short-sighted, and he thinks that he has lost his morality?" Co-authoring is nothing to do with me! I think you have a very reasonable point, 'Heaven and earth are unkind and use all things as dogs', how can God care about this! ”

However, this time Gao Pragmatic will not pick up, because continuing this topic will lead to some other troubles, such as "the Son of Heaven is a herdsman of heaven", if you have nothing to do with God...... This is a bit of an encouragement to everyone, "the Son of Heaven, the strong soldier and the strong man do it".

This one is a bit politically incorrect.

Fortunately, Zhu Yijun was not stupid, seeing that Gao was pragmatic and didn't speak, he quickly understood, and immediately turned the topic back and asked, "It's far away, where did you talk about it just now?" Oh, Jingying needs to be rectified, yes, it needs to be rectified...... What are you going to do? One more recruitment? ”

"Soldiers are to be recruited, but that's only part of it, and probably not the most important part." Gao pragmatic said: "The minister has an idea to completely separate the soldiers, craftsmen, and farmers. ”

Zhu Yijun was stunned: "What do you mean?" ”

Gao pragmatic arched his hand and said: "That is to say, the minister wants to reorganize the current Beijing camp and even the military households under the jurisdiction of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, and then subdivide them without changing the nature of the entire military household, and divide them into 'soldiers', 'peasant soldiers' and 'craftsmen'." The soldiers were only responsible for training and preparing for war, the peasants were responsible for the cultivation of the military fields, and the craftsmen were responsible for all kinds of engineering work, including the miscellaneous dispatches that existed in the Ministry of Works. ”

Zhu Yijun suddenly realized, thought about it and asked: "How to arrange the soldiers?" ”

Gao Shishi said expressionlessly: "The three battalions are in the air, and it is announced to the outside world that the elite will be transferred from the three battalions to train the Praetorian Guard, and the first batch of Praetorian Guards will be tentatively set at 60,000 people." ”

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