At the same time, Zhu Youzhen also readjusted the personnel in the palace by the way, which is simply to divide power and analyze responsibilities. Since he is not yet officially opening the government, the personnel in the government are relatively simple.

Wang Chengen was in charge of everything as the chief eunuch of the palace, and then he managed the accounts, managed the warehouse, managed the kitchen, managed the purchasing, managed the cutting and washing of clothes, and so on. Although the palace originally had these positions, under Zhu Youzhen's adjustment, there was an additional link in budgeting, cost accounting, and final accounting.

Gao Qiqian, who was originally in charge of the procurement of kitchen materials, found that this guy had embezzled 80 taels of silver in less than 3 months after Zhu You checked the account books. This made Wang Chengen, who only received a bribe of 30 taels of silver from Gao Qiqian, almost crooked his nose in anger.

Originally, I thought it was a high dive that was unaware of the ghosts, and the five bodies fell to the ground and wept and begged the king to spare his life. Although Wang Chengen was annoyed that this guy had eaten a lot of his head, he was afraid that Gao Qi would sneak out and bite him out, so he still helped him intercede on the side.

However, who has always been at odds with Wang Chengen, Wang Dehua, the deputy head of the palace, said on the side: "Gao Qiqian has betrayed the trust of His Royal Highness, and he should be held responsible, and the person who recommended him should also be jointly and severally responsible." ”

As soon as Wang Dehua said this, Wang Chengen also had to kneel down and excuse himself, because he was the one who recommended Gao Qiqian.

Zhu Youzhen casually flipped through the account books, and the corner of his eye secretly glanced at Zhou Yufeng, who was sitting beside him. Zhou Yufeng, who found that he had been deceived, had a red face, and his eyes were staring at Gao Qiqian who didn't dare to raise his head below.

Zhu Youzhen found that Zhou Yufeng was very lively and cute at this time, and he didn't want to embarrass Zhou Yufeng, who was the housekeeper before.

After Zhu Youzhen cleared his throat, he said with a smile: "Gao Qiqian, your account book is quite good, did you remember it yourself, or did someone else help you remember it?" ”

"It was written by the minister himself, and there is no one else." Gao Qiqian's forehead was pressed to the ground, and he had already knocked out the bloodstains, and he gritted his teeth and carried it down alone in response to Prince Xin's question. Hearing Gao Qiqian's reply, Wang Chengen, who was kneeling on the ground, breathed a sigh of relief.

"The accounts are well kept, and the words are neat. I asked the kitchen and they said that after you did the purchase, the fruits and vegetables were fresher. I also checked your ex, and the price of your purchase has only increased by half percent. So you can see that 40 taels of the 80 taels of silver you have saved. As the saying goes, merit will be rewarded, and fault will be punished. You saved money for the royal palace procurement, I should have rewarded you, now, I will cancel out your reward and punishment. But you have to return the 80 taels of silver, do you agree? High take-off dives. Zhu Youjian said gently as water.

Gao Qiqian, who originally thought that he was going to suffer from flesh and skin, listened to Zhu Youzhen's words, and was immediately overjoyed, and said that he was willing to return the compensation.

When Zhou Yufeng heard that Zhu Youzhen let go of Gao Qiqian so easily, he immediately turned his head to look at Zhu Youzhen, wanting to say something. But Zhu Youzhen shook his head at her and motioned for her to keep quiet.

Although Wang Dehua, the deputy manager on the side, regretted that Wang Chengen escaped, he immediately realized that now was a good opportunity to seize the shortage of kitchen procurement.

"Your Highness, Gao Qiqian embezzled public funds, and he is no longer suitable to continue to hold the position of kitchen procurement, please order His Highness to replace the task of managing kitchen procurement."

Wang Chengen and Gao Qiqian were not surprised by Wang Dehua's fall, because they would do the same if they were to do the same. ”

Zhu Youzhen yawned, dropped the account book and said, "No need, just let Gao Qiqian continue to work, and the next time you commit another crime, you will be punished for both crimes." Okay, you all go down, and let Wang Chengen take care of the rest. ”

After the three eunuchs left the Yin'an Hall for a distance, Wang Chengen suddenly turned his head to look at Wang Dehua, snorted at him, and left with Gao Qiqian. Wang Dehua looked at Wang Chengen, who was walking in front, and bent over like a dog in the back, and couldn't help shaking his head and sighing. He knew that Wang Chengen hated him, but he didn't care. It's just a pity that such a good opportunity to hit Wang Chengen was gently let go by Prince Xin.

In the Yin'an Palace, Zhou Yufeng finally couldn't help but say, "Why should Your Highness let it go gently." If such corrupt internal officials are not severely punished, will they not condone evil, and who will abide by the law in the future? Doesn't Your Highness hate those corrupt officials in the court the most? Doesn't His Highness often say that Da Ming was hollowed out by these moths? ”

Zhu Youzhen touched his nose and thought, "For people like Gao Qiqian, even if they will exist in a few hundred years." Will there be any purchasers in the future who will not take red envelopes? As a construction background, of course, he knows that the gray interest chain cannot be eradicated.

Hundreds of years later, the so-called socialist republic has not been able to put an end to it, and now in this feudal society to play anti-corruption, doesn't that make him do Don Quixote? Zhu Youzhen admits that he does not have such courage. ”

"As the saying goes, 'punish the former and save the future', can't we beat people to death with a stick, we must always give him a chance to turn around and change his ways. Besides, if you get Gao Qi down and replace it, will it be clean? I don't think so. I think it's quite appropriate to continue to use high diving and at least once that has been caught once, and will always be honest. Zhu Youzhen explained a lot to Zhou Yufeng at length, and finally persuaded her.

Looking at Zhou Yufeng's calm appearance, Zhu Youzhen actually didn't say anything, "In the Ming Dynasty, aren't the biggest corrupt officials and corrupt officials those of us surnamed Zhu?" The people's income in a year is not as good as our meal. If a tiger can't fight, what's the benefit of a fly? ”

In the process of adjusting the power of the palace administrators, Zhu Youzhen also discovered a problem. The literacy rate of the Ming Dynasty is really not high, the literacy rate of hundreds of eunuchs in the palace of King Xin is about 30%, the maids only get 15%, the Jinyi guards are 20%, and the soldiers in the Beijing camp are less than 10%.

He learned from Wang Chengen that although there was a school in the palace to teach eunuchs to read, the conditions for selecting students were very strict, and in addition to being good and intelligent, children under the age of 10 must also be good-looking.

There are more than 17,000 eunuchs in the 24 yamen of the Ming Imperial City, but there are only 7 or 800 people who can choose to go to class. Only these eunuchs who have entered the inner school have the opportunity to become the head of the eunuchs, and as for Wei Zhongxian, there are very few in the entire history of the Ming Dynasty.

As for the officers and soldiers of Jinyiwei, they are finally better treated than ordinary soldiers in Beijing, so some of them can still afford to read. As for the soldiers in the Beijing camp, it was not by chance that they had no chance to study at all. Because of the military household system in the Ming Dynasty, the army grew grain to support itself, and the state only rewarded some clothes or money during festivals.

This system was fairly well implemented in the early Ming Dynasty, with the soldiers growing enough food for their own consumption and the frontier areas uneventful, eliminating the huge cost of transporting grain from the southeast or Huguang.

But in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, it was not good, on the one hand, because the power of civil officials had completely overwhelmed the status of military attachés, and those local gentry began to rely on the power of civil officials to occupy the familiar land opened by the army.

The second aspect is that the hereditary system of the guards has become completely corrupt and degenerate, and these officers have directly turned the military households of the guards into slaves who farm for themselves. Not only that, but they also withheld the salaries and rewards given by the state to their soldiers.

In this case, after working tirelessly for a year, they are not even as good as civilian tenants, and they have to bear heavy military service. But in essence, in the later period, this also became a way for officers to accumulate money.

In the Ming Dynasty, the deserters of the military household of the guard were never broken. Like the guards in remote areas, as long as they don't encounter famine, they can still survive.

However, for example, in the Beijing camp near the capital, not only had to endure the exploitation of military officers, but also had to be sent to various powerful mansions from time to time to labor, or to undertake the construction of palaces and imperial tombs, which was very painful.

In this case, the ordinary soldiers of the Beijing camp naturally could not afford to study. In fact, even Zhu Youzhen himself is still a semi-illiterate person. Because of the traditional Chinese characters used in the Ming Dynasty, coupled with the vertical layout without punctuation, Zhu Youzhen had to look at it for a long time to understand what it meant.

"It's not going to go on like this." Zhu Youzhen said to himself silently. "An ignorant army cannot defeat a Tungusic savage like the Manchus."

In Zhu Youzhen's exchanges with the soldiers in the past few days, he found that the Beijing battalion, as the armed force guarding the Beijing Division, had completely lost its organization, ability, and will to fight. And an intelligence agency like Jinyiwei is at most to maintain law and order in the city and find out information, as for the so-called battle in formation, it is no longer a skill that Jinyiwei can master.

As for the dozens of family members led by Zhang Shijie, they have personal bravery, but their understanding of war is about the level of street gangsters with less than 100 people. And Zhang Shijie himself has probably read a few military books, but his understanding of the army is at the level of talking about soldiers on paper.

In Zhu Youzhen's view, letting these people go to war is almost the same as sending them to death. After all, as a construction site worker in his previous life, Zhu Youzhen also had experience in organizing a brawl between construction site workers and villagers.

In Zhu Youzhen's view, the difference between those who have read books and those who have not read is that those who have not read books need to experience everything themselves to know how to do things. And those who have read books can learn about the experience of their predecessors from books to deal with emergencies.

Of course, in Prince Xin's mansion, Zhu Youzhen would not do to teach these people how to line up and how to organize actions, this is a rebellious move. But it is possible to teach these soldiers to learn culture.

Under the assignment of Zhu Youzhen, Wang Chengen and others taught the eunuchs and maids in the palace to read and write, and several literate Jinyi guards taught these Jinyi guard captains and soldiers in the Beijing camp to read and write. Zhu Youzhen's requirement for them is that they just know ten words a day.

In addition, 50 chamberlains, maids and 50 soldiers were also singled out, all of whom were smart and clever people, and Zhu Youzhen personally taught them elementary school mathematics and some superficial geometry every afternoon. For Zhu Youzhen, the biggest problem is that there are no teaching materials, so he can only teach whatever he remembers.

Zhang Shijie knew that after Zhu Youzhen personally gave lessons to eunuchs, maids, and soldiers, he only felt that this Prince Xin was really a little nonsense. Originally, some of his expectations for Zhu Youzhen fell again, and he was a little suspicious that this Prince Xin would not be the second Zhengde Emperor.

However, no matter how much Zhang Shijie slandered, he didn't want to come forward to dissuade him. First, Prince Xin gave lessons to the eunuchs and soldiers in the palace all day long, which was better than wandering the streets; Second, he was still quite interested in the lessons that Prince Shin had taught.

As a family of generals, the most prominent British public lineage of the Ming Dynasty naturally has the so-called family learning. That is, the ancestors handed down the method of commanding troops and training troops according to experience. However, since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there have been few books on the art of war in China that are linked to mathematics. After all, in the era of cold weapons, the center of the two sides was strategy, formation, discipline, courage and logistics.

But in the era of hot weapons, logistics and firepower output have become the key to determining the outcome of a war. Since the forty-sixth year of Wanli, the wars between the Ming and the Later Jin have been defeated every time due to these two reasons. After the Battle of Salhu, the Ming army, which lost its elite veterans, even lost its discipline and courage.

The emperor of the Ming Dynasty counted on one, and did not dare to recover Liaodong with the army of the Houjin army, which was simply a fool's dream. However, the civil elites in the court regarded the war between the Ming Dynasty and the Houjin as an opportunity to make a fortune.

The civilian system continued to force the untrained and unequipped inland guard army to recover Liaodong. Then they increased the three salaries to the peasants in this name, and when the three salaries were levied, the civil officials could make a profit. Then he colluded with the Liaoxi Jiangmen to get kickbacks for military salaries and kickbacks for the construction of the Guanjin defense line.

If this continues, the army loyal to the emperor and the Ming Dynasty, under the inaction of the Liaoxi generals, went to die again and again. In the end, as long as the officers are smarter, they will no longer listen to the orders of the imperial court, but will support the army to protect themselves.