Han Yi glanced at a few people in the living room, and suddenly said to Mao Yuanyi, who was at the head of the house: "Shi Min, your family is knowledgeable and strategic, what do you think about this matter?" ”

Mao Yuanyi arched his hand to the top, and he was not polite, so he said bluntly: "The honorable families in Beijing control the important positions of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, the Beijing Camp and other places, collude with the upper and lower levels, embezzle military salaries, embezzle military resources, and labor sergeants, resulting in the slackening of the military equipment of the Beijing camp and the slackness of military discipline, which is nothing new.

The students thought that these nobles were loyal to the Ming Dynasty, but not to His Majesty. Today, Your Majesty took advantage of the changes in the Xiangjiao Sect to rectify the Governor's Mansion and the Beijing Camp of the Five Armies, which is an expression of Your Majesty's determination to forge ahead.

His Majesty's use of brocade clothes to control the army inside and outside the capital is not a long-term strategy. From the point of view of students, His Majesty will naturally withdraw from the brocade guards in the army soon, so why should we provoke Your Majesty's evil at this time? ”

Although Yuan Chonghuan is good at talking wildly, he is a person who is most unaccustomed to others not following the rules in front of him. He said to Mao Yuanyi in a somewhat unkind tone: "Your Majesty will withdraw the Jinyi Guard soon, how can you be so sure?" ”

Mao Yuanyi smiled and said, "Your Majesty ordered Master Sun to set up an officer training school, and among the students who have been sent one after another, can there be a Jinyi guard?" The students heard that Jin Yiwei had established a school internally, but what was taught in it was not about the military formation, but about investigating and investigating cases. It can be seen that His Majesty has no intention of controlling the army inside and outside the capital with Jinyi Guard, and Senior Yuan is too worried. ”

When Yuan Chonghuan wanted to continue to refute, Han Yi said: "What Shi Min said is reasonable, I might as well wait for a while, if Your Majesty refuses to remove the Jinyi guards in the army inside and outside the capital, it will not be too late for me to wait and tell my feelings." ”

Sun Chengen thought about it, and then said approvingly: "It's okay, the old man has been busy communicating with the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Household recently, and the matter of building the Fengcheng camp, it is better to wait and see what happens." ”

Mao Yuanyi got up again and said, "There are some things that students don't know whether to say or not. ”

Han Yi was in a good mood, and couldn't help but say: "Shi Min has something to say, but it doesn't hurt to say it, everyone here is his own people, there is nothing inconvenient." ”

Mao Yuanyi suddenly said: "The students thought that after the Wenxiangjiao rebellion subsided, there would be no hindrance to the reform of the military system in Yingzhou Santun. We should start preparing for the recruitment of new soldiers, and by the way, we can also transfer the Jinyi Guard back from Yingzhou Tunwei, so as not to continue to make trouble outside. ”

Yuan Chonghuan, who was originally quite dissatisfied with Mao Yuanyi's ruined plan, was moved now.

After the Wenxiang Sect mutiny, there was almost no doubt that the land occupied by Yingzhou Tunwei was recovered, and presumably no one in the local gentry dared to compete with Jinyiwei.

In this way, these reclaimed lands have become eye-catching wealth. If you can take over Yingzhou Santunwei, you will naturally be able to get a piece of the pie.

Several people immediately began to discuss how to take over the plan of Yingzhou Tunwei.

In the Qianqing Palace, after Wang Chengen returned to the study after completing the things Chongzhen explained, he saw Chongzhen looking dissatisfied, rubbing a piece of paper and throwing it into the paper basket on the side. In the paper basket and on the ground nearby, more than a dozen paper balls have been dropped.

Zhu Youzhen finally dropped his pen and stopped writing, and after he saw Wang Chengen come in, he said: "Wang Banban, you pass on an edict for me, and let the bachelors of the Hanlin Academy and several editors of the Daming Times write articles for me." ”

Wang Chengen bowed down and replied, "What is the question of Your Majesty?" ”

Zhu Youzhen thought for a while and said: "The master has already explained the benevolence of benevolence and righteousness perfectly, but I am confused and puzzled by what the master said about benevolence, and I ask the gentlemen to understand it.

The benevolence of the Master, the one who can give, the king? Scholars? Shang Jia Yan? What about the people? Slaves?

There are no format requirements for this article, so they are free to play freely, and the time is limited to three days. ”

Wang Chengen withdrew from the study again, but this time he did not leave immediately, but called a little eunuch and told him to go in and clean up His Majesty's wastepaper basket.

On the edge of the paper furnace outside the hall, Wang Chengen waited for the little eunuch who came over with the waste paper basket, he rummaged through the waste paper basket, put away a ball of paper with the largest number of words, and then ordered the little eunuch to burn all the other papers.

In the waiting hall of the Hanlin Academy, after Wang Chengen explained Chongzhen's will to several Hanlin on duty at night, he said to Sun Zhiqi, who was reviewed by the Hanlin Academy: "Your Majesty still wants me to pick up a book, please take me to the library." ”

Sun Zhiqi nodded again and again, and in the library on the east side of the back hall, Wang Chengen took out a ball of paper from his sleeve and handed it to him and said: "This is Your Majesty's waste manuscript, you can take a look at it and see if you can figure out an article that suits Your Majesty's heart." ”

Sun Zhiqi took the paper ball in Wang Chengen's hand with both hands, smoothed it out, looked at the candlelight on the side a few times, and respectfully returned it with both hands.

"Finished reading it so soon? Did you write it down? Wang Chengen asked with some surprise.

"The lower officials can't do other skills, is this ability to remember things, it's not satisfactory, please rest assured."

Wang Chengen was worried and told again: "This time you must write a good article, as long as you can overwhelm the article written by Liu Jingting, the chief writer of the Daming Times, the miscellaneous family will definitely help you in the coming year." ”

Sun Zhiqi closed his eyes and thought for a while, then opened his eyes and said: "As long as this Liu Jingting doesn't know His Majesty's thoughts, then the lower officials are seven or eighty percent sure." ”

Wang Chengen immediately left satisfied, and on the way back to the palace, he stopped by the brazier in front of the palace gate, took out the paper ball written by Chongzhen in his sleeve and threw it in, watching it turn into ashes before continuing to move forward.

Early the next morning, when Zhu Youzhen got up to freshen up, he suddenly saw that Wang Chengen looked a little stumbling but didn't dare to say it, so he wiped his face and said, "If you have anything to say, what's wrong?" ”

"Yesterday, those two women were turned away by Li Shilang." Wang Chengen suddenly whispered.

"What woman?" Zhu Youzhen was a little dazed.

"It's the two of Feng Yushi's family." When Wang Chengen spoke, he noticed that Chongzhen's movements paused.

"Oh, and then?" Zhu Youzhen asked quietly.

"That general flag didn't know what to do with these two women, so he asked Dongchang for instructions." Wang Chengen said cautiously.

Zhu Youzhen wiped his face twice, then dropped the towel and said: "The law of the country is the law of the country, since she can't get married, let's do things according to the law." Prepare the carriages and horses, I will inspect the Ordnance Bureau, the War Bureau, and the * Bureau under the Ministry of Industry today. ”

Wang Chengen nodded and agreed to exit the room, and at the corner outside the hall, he called Gao Qiqian, and thought for a long time before ordering: "Go to Jinyiwei and tell Tian Ergeng that the two women of the Feng family are not in court according to the law." When you come back, tell Aunt Cao, who is in charge of the court, that you are taking care of these two women carefully, understand? ”

After watching Gao Qi sneak away, Wang Chengen turned around and returned to the palace to order the eunuchs on the side to start preparing for the emperor's carriage.

The Ordnance Bureau, the War Bureau, and the * Bureau are departments under the dual management of the palace and the Ministry of Industry, so Tu Wenfu did not move these three departments when he reformed the palace craftsman system.

Xue Fengxiang, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and Wang Zaijin, the secretary of the Ministry of War, were both called by Zhu Youzhen to inspect the production of weapons by the three bureaus.

Although the two Shangshu did not think much of accompanying the emperor to inspect the three weapons manufacturing bureaus, they felt that the unfinished business in their hands was much more important than the matter of just weapons manufacturing.

However, the shocking management chaos of the three weapons manufacturing bureaus soon surprised the two Shangshu.

Among the three manufacturing bureaus, the armor workshop of the War Bureau seems to be the best in comparison. There are two types of armor made by it: full-body armor and half-body armor, which are classified according to the method of creation, and are divided into scale armor and plate armor, of course, the number of plate armor can be said to be only a handful.

Each piece of the scale armor is about ten centimeters long and six centimeters wide, with small holes on it that can be threaded with ropes, and the weight of the armor varies from 40 to 25 kilograms.

There are also the most commonly used green cloth armor and purple flower armor used by northern sergeants, which are actually a kind of cotton armor.

The so-called relying on the mountains to eat the mountains and relying on the water to draft the water, it is obviously impossible for the officials of the Military War Bureau and the eunuchs to supervise and supervise them, and want them to be as honest as water.

The two largest raw materials of the War Bureau are iron and cotton cloth, which are naturally the objects of these officials' greed for ink.

The reason why it is said that the War Bureau is better than the Ordnance Bureau and the * Bureau is not that the number of embezzlements is small, but that the characteristics of the armor determine that although the embezzled iron and cotton cloth have reduced the defensive power, they have not yet reached an unusable state.

For the Ordnance Bureau and the * Bureau, the shortage of raw materials will inevitably lead to a significant decline in the performance of finished weapons.

In particular, the manufacture of firearms and the manufacture of *, the finished product can only be used to beat rabbits.

Moreover, in the three weapon workshops, the lowest status is not the craftsman, but the official slave who works for the craftsman and does all the heavy physical work and miscellaneous work. In the Ordnance Bureau, some officials and slaves were even chained to work in front of the iron furnace with ankle chains.

In the workshops of the three weapons bureaus, raw materials were piled up indiscriminately, and the stench emanated from the workshops, as if this was not a workshop for making weapons, but a large garbage dump.

In such an environment, if these craftsmen and official slaves can have subjective initiative, it will be a hell of a thing.

After reading all this, Zhu You understood how the shoddy weapons in the hands of the soldiers in the Beijing camp were made.

Although the three weapons bureaus are under the dual management of the palace and the Ministry of Industry, they are only responsible for completing the quantity assigned above, and no one cares about the quality at all. Because the army, which is the user, does not receive weapons from them at all.

It is the arsenal of the Ministry of War that receives these weapons, and as long as the money is received, the officials who manage the arsenal do not care, what kind of weapons are accepted. As a subordinate of the Ministry of War, the Ming army did not dare to offend the managers of the arsenal of the Ministry of War, because the officials who managed the arsenal were also part of the civilian officials of the Ministry of War.