Finally finalized the peace negotiation with Houjin, and Zhu Youzhen's mood finally relaxed a lot. "Today's court meeting may be the longest court meeting in the history of the Ming Dynasty." Zhu Youzhen looked at the orange light shining obliquely on the floor inside the imperial gate, and thought so in his heart.

"Goo" Zhu Youzhen heard the sound in his abdomen, and couldn't help but reach out and press his abdomen. Running back and forth from the Imperial Gate to the Taimiao, coupled with the fact that he hadn't eaten anything for nearly 10 hours, Zhu Youzhen felt a little panicked when he was hungry.

"If nothing happens, let's retire today." Zhu Youzhen said weakly to Wang Chengen beside him.

When Wang Chengen was about to signal to the eunuch who was whipping the whip to withdraw from the dynasty, suddenly the governor of the Chinese military governor's mansion and the Zhiyang Wuhou Xue Lian, the Anyuan Marquis Liu Zuochang, and the Longping Marquis Zhang Gongri came out of the queue and dredged to Chongzhen, "Jinyi Baihu Tian Ergeng, Xiang is the remnants of the eunuch party, and when he was in power in the past Jinyiwei, he openly framed the ministers and brutalized the celebrities. His Majesty was benevolent and did not investigate his crimes, but only seized the title and demoted his post. However, this official did not repent, and under the pretext of His Majesty's cleaning up of the Yingzhou military cantonment, he embezzled the meritorious man's property and whipped the meritorious servants, which was really extremely audacious, and the ministers asked His Majesty to make the decision for us. ”

Fengcheng Marquis Li Chengzuo looked at it with some pity in his eyes, the three noble friends who came out to complain to Chongzhen, when Tian Ergeng cleaned up the Yingzhou Juntun, the Fengcheng Marquis Mansion also had a lot of land cleared in Yingzhouwei.

Xue Lian, the Marquis of Yangwu, once approached him, hoping that he could go to the impeachment of Tian Ergeng together, but Li Chengzuo still refused today and went to the impeachment of Tian Ergeng with them.

He is one of the few people who attaches to Wei Zhongxian, in fact, according to his family background, he doesn't have to attach Wei Zhongxian at all.

When the nobles of the Ming Dynasty reached the era of the Apocalypse, in addition to making money and enjoying themselves, the road to progress has been blocked in their careers.

First, even if the children of the nobles are talented, they have also passed the imperial examination, but the civil service system will also vigilantly exclude these people from the center, and there is no precedent for the Ming Dynasty to enter the cabinet.

Second, although the noble families are all knighted for military merits, entering the military according to the logic is the right way for the noble to rise. But the status of the military generals of the Ming Dynasty is too low, even if he is a general soldier, equivalent to the supreme commander of a provincial army, in the eyes of civilian officials, he is just a vulgar and unliterate martial artist.

The civil officials of the sixth and seventh grades can shout at the military generals of the third and fourth ranks, and the civil officials above the governor can even directly order the general soldiers to take off their pants and beat the board. Wanli time, Zhejiang Benniu surname, deputy chief soldier. Zhang Yongjia is a father-in-law, claiming to be a lackey. Side generals such as Qi Jiguang's position of the three orphans, Li Chengliang's seal of the fifth, etc., when they meet Zhang Juzheng, they also have to call themselves subordinates, Mu En, small, some, Wan kowtow, and kneel.

It can be seen that this military general really has nothing to do, rather than being a military general to be angry with civil officials, it is better to be comfortable as an idle nobleman in the capital.

Again, although the ancestors of the Ming Dynasty were all knighted for military merits, after the change of the civil fort, the adult sons and daughters of the nobles and the martial arts basically died in a battle, and the inheritance of the Ming Dynasty was basically cut off.

In this era, the study of the military is all family learning, and there is no open school for the training of generals and non-commissioned officers. The so-called martial arts of the Ming Dynasty only talks about Tao strategy, not the principle of army formation; Only let the martial arts practice martial arts, and do not talk about the main points of commanding various troops. And the teaching of martial arts is not strict, and the students' learning adopts a laissez-faire attitude, and the students who graduate from martial arts are not valued by the imperial court, so the martial arts of the Ming Dynasty is also a place of chaos.

And genius military strategists like Qi Jiguang, Yu Dayou, and Wang Yangming, who rely on self-taught, are very few after all. The vast majority of so-called generalist families need to rely on their fathers and brothers to teach them the experience of commanding the army.

In addition to this family study, the most important thing is the number of family members. By the time of the Apocalypse, the military system of the Ming Dynasty had completely decayed. The people who can really fight are the family members around the generals, and the ordinary sergeants can't even eat enough, and they still have the strength to work for the court. These resentful soldiers are already very conscientious if they don't fire cold arrows at you on the battlefield.

It is precisely because of this kind of drawbacks in the army of the Ming Dynasty that the nobles of the Ming Dynasty, even if they have a certain foundation, are only willing to stay in the capital and be a dog to watch their families, and they will not think about leading the army in the border areas to earn some meritorious deeds.

But Li Chengzuo, the Marquis of Fengcheng, is undoubtedly an alternative among the nobles of the Ming Dynasty, he has a good life of honors, but he actually goes to attach Wei Zhongxian, this person is keen on utilitarianism.

However, after Wei Zhongxian lost power, although these eunuchs were not pursued, Chongzhen did not favor them much.

This feeling of sudden marginalization from the center of power made Li Chengzuo a little disheartened, but after Chongzhen reinstated the right deputy envoy Li Kuilong, he was a little nervous.

Jinyi Wei 100 households cleaned up the Yingzhou Weijun Tun, and actually cleaned up the grange in the Fengcheng Marquis Mansion, and Li Chengzuo, who had just received the notice from the manager of the Yingzhou grange, was a little angry.

When did a small brocade-clothed guard dare to touch the noble field. Even if he lost his holy family in Fengcheng Houfu, but the Ming Xungui was in the same spirit, as long as it was not a matter of standing in line politically, basically Xungui would still be able to maintain internal unity.

Li Chengzuo was thinking about whether to contact a few nobles who also had a grange in Yingzhou and cry to Chongzhen together.

Yang Wu Hou Xue Lian came to the door, and from Xue Lian's mouth, Li Chengzuo learned that this Jinyi Wei Baihu who dared to clean up Xungui Grange was actually Tian Ergeng, the governor of Jinyi Wei, who was demoted not long ago.

It is no wonder that the granges of more than a dozen nobles in Yingzhou were cleaned up, but none of them dared to resist. And the nobles who were taken away from the grange, only three or four families such as Yangwuhou stood up, and the other nobles were watching.

In order to calm Li Chengzuo's heart, Xue Lian, Marquis of Yangwu, also quietly told him a piece of news. This time, Tian Ergeng was impeached not only by a few nobles, but also by several gentry in Yingzhou, who also went through the door of the Taoist officials of the Central Committee of the DPRK, and prepared to impeach this number one eagle dog under Wei Zhongxian together.

Li Chengzuo ambiguously dealt with Xue Lian, the Marquis of Yangwu, and then sent him away. After sending Yang Wuhou away, Li Chengzuo always felt that this matter was a bit strange. At this time, the eunuch officials who did not hug their new thighs were honestly like turtle grandsons.

Tian Ergeng spared no effort to do things for Father-in-law Wei at the beginning, it can be said that the enemy is all over the government and the opposition, what does he rely on, dare to jump out at this time, and make enemies with the nobles and local gentry. The Ming Dynasty has done at least dozens of times to clean up the military tun, and the most famous person who has cleaned up and occupied the tuntian is Hai Rui, but even Hai Jui cannot put an end to the phenomenon of the Xun relatives and the gentry encroaching on the people's land.

For a criminal like Tian Ergeng, he should not even speak out in a low-key manner now, so as to avoid public opinion in the DPRK and China from paying attention to him and liquidating his past crimes. Li Chengzuo thought about it left and right, but he couldn't come up with a conclusion.

Subsequently, he called his personal entourage and personally ordered him to go to Yingzhou to inquire about the news. After a day and a night, he personally accompanied Li Geng to bring back the detailed news of the reform of the Yingzhou Weijun Tun.

Yingzhou originally had 5 guards, each guard had 5,600 military households, and each household had a ding, that is, the quota of 5,600 people in one guard, and a total of 28,000 households in 5 guards. The front and rear guards are close to Tongzhou, and these two guards are too close to the Grand Canal, the lifeblood of the capital, so only the left, middle and right guards of Yingzhou were selected for this restructuring.

Tian Ergeng, a hundred households in Jinyi, was only responsible for cleaning up the Zuotun Guard in Yingzhou, but the three hundred households in Jinyi that were sent to the left, middle, and right guards in Yingzhou were headed by Tian Ergeng.

The purpose of the reorganization of the military cantonment guard is to provide sufficient troops for the establishment of a new army. Therefore, the host of the reform of Yingzhou Weijuntun is essentially Sun Chengzong, a scholar of Dongge University, but the person in charge of the actual operation is Tian Ergeng.

There is Sun Chengzong, the former Liaodong Economic Strategy hanging there, and the direct superior of Yingzhou Wei, Daning Dusi, does not dare to ask Tian Ergeng and other Jinyi guards what they are doing in Yingzhou Sanwei.

Although the supreme commander of the first guard is the commander of Zheng Sanpin, they can act as a prestige to the military households and control their life and death in their own guards.

But in front of the Jinyi Guard, who was the emperor's pro-army, especially in front of the former Jinyi Guard's commander, Governor Tian Ergeng, the commanders of Wu, Chen, and Long, the three guards were like cats and mice.

Yingzhou Santunwei is in the suburbs of Beijing, and most of the good land of Santunwei is encroached upon by relatives, chamberlains, local gentry, and officers of the guard.

The land of the garrison belonged to the guard, not to the individual military households. The unclear ownership of the land meant that when the land was encroached upon, these military households could only count on the Wei to come out, and if the Wei did not want or dared to come forward, then they lost the land they were granted by the Wei, but the grain they had to pay would not be reduced.

In this situation, the military households who lost their land had no choice but to flee. However, the 5,600 military households in a guard post is a quota, which means that even if there are not so many military households in reality, the military rations and soldiers that this guard will have to bear will not decrease.

Therefore, once the military households start to flee, then the military households of this cantonment will only become smaller and smaller, because the remaining military households will have to bear the military rations and military service of the fugitives. The fewer military households in a guard station, the heavier the burden on each military household, and the stronger the trend of fleeing from this guard station.

In addition to the left guard, there are eighty percent of the military households, and the number of military households in the middle guard and the right guard is less than half, and the least one is even only one-third. Tian Ergeng only gave the three commanders two choices, either to cooperate with him to complete the reform of the military garrison, or to go to the army to beg for rest himself.

From his personal follower Li Geng's mouth, Li Chengzuo learned that the three commanders of the guard were frightened by Tian Ergeng's prestige in the past, and now treat Tian Ergeng as if he were his own father. And the granges of the nobles, eunuchs, and local gentry who had encroached on the land of Santunwei were all forcibly taken back by the former Jinyi Wei Governor who commanded Sanwei.

But the strangest thing is that it was not Jinyiwei who measured the land and negotiated the seizure of the grange, but the prisoners of the Guozijian.

After listening to the news from his personal inquiry, Li Chengzuo suddenly felt that the water of the military cantonment was very deep. When he went to court today, he refused the request to go up with Yangcheng Hou and others, and vaguely reminded Yangcheng Hou a few words, but obviously this Yangcheng Hou did not listen to his reminder.