"At the beginning, the ancestors set up the Beijing camp to protect Shenjing, deter the local disobedience, and protect the light with the meaning of heavy control. The state affairs have deteriorated to such an extent, and the monarchs still don't want to cheer up, and they still learn from the transfer of the soldiers of the Beijing camp to work in the work, is this because the Beijing camp is not decayed enough?

And the Jingying army and the 26 guards are the basis of my rule of the Ming Dynasty, and today some people dare to regard them as their own slaves and craftsmen, and they are shouting about it, what do you want to do? Zhu Youzhen retorted unceremoniously.

Wu Chunfu was silent, although Chongzhen suddenly became angry at him, but in his opinion, this anger was more like the young emperor's retaliatory counterattack because he had been attacked by the courtiers before he sent the brocade guard.

Regarding the matter proposed by Chongzhen, no one among the courtiers came forward to oppose it. There have been more than one ban on the use of sergeants to serve in labor, and since the beginning of Sejong, special personnel have been sent to clean up the affairs of sergeants, but each time it stopped, it began to be repeated, and the scale of the dispatch of sergeants became larger.

This situation occurred mainly because the emperor had a huge project to repair the palaces and tombs, and in order to save money and time, he often began to drive free sergeants to serve in labor. After all, there are no less than 300,000 soldiers on the roster of the Gyeongying soldiers, and the vicinity of Gyeonggi has been peaceful for a long time, and these sergeants are a group of white rice eaters in the emperor's eyes, and it is too wasteful not to use them.

The emperor had this idea, and his ministers, except for a few knowledgeable ones, were basically similar to the emperor's thoughts.

The most important thing is that there were no professional construction companies in this era, and the construction of palaces, mountains, city walls, roads, water conservancy and other major projects either conscripted the nearby people into conscription, or drove these seemingly idle soldiers.

For the ministers of the imperial court, this is a very simple question of whether to let the people who pay the taxes delay the agricultural time to serve the labor, or let a group of idle sergeants to serve the labor, as long as it is a normal person, this decision can be made.

When Chongzhen had almost vented his anger, Wu Chunfu said in embarrassment: "But Your Majesty, because the people in the left and west of the capital have to bear the labor of the military grain transportation in Liaodong and the transportation of canals, the local people are no longer able to afford the labor of the construction of the mountain mausoleum, and there are not enough labor manpower, I am afraid that the construction of the mountain will go against time." ”

Zhu Youzhen did not directly answer Wu Chunfu's question, but turned to the British Duke who was sitting on the side and asked: "The Rong government is in charge of the three major battalions in the capital, and the British Duke is the governor of the Jingying Rong Administration, I don't know what the British Duke thinks about this?" ”

British public Zhang Weixian is old and frail, and after winter, he is bedridden because of the drastic changes in the weather. After he supported Chongzhen to ascend the throne in accordance with the will of the apocalypse, he thought about fading out of the center of the power struggle and preserving the transcendent status of the British public lineage in the court.

Moreover, Zhang Weixian also thought that after the death of His Majesty the Apocalypse, the eunuch party, who had lost the emperor's trust, would definitely not be the opponent of the Donglin party. And in the winter of these years, his body has been lingering, and Zhang Weixian knows that his deadline is not far away.

Not far from death, he really didn't have the energy and courage to stand by Chongzhen's side to fight against the growing power of the Donglin Party. At this time, he just wanted to preserve the British public energy to continue.

But then the battle in the court developed, but it was beyond Zhang Weixian's expectations, and the Donglin Party members who seemed to be imposing in the court failed to help the remnants of the eunuch party who were loose after Wei Zhongxian went to power.

Originally, in his eyes, Emperor Chongzhen, who was young and inexperienced in the world, actually learned the way to balance the government without a teacher after ascending the throne. This also made Zhang Weixian more cautious, making the British public more low-key.

Yesterday, Chongzhen inspected the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, and was furious because the subordinate officials of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies left their posts and the sergeants were deprived of their military salaries and winter clothes. Although Chongzhen lightly dealt with the matter afterwards, the guards of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies and the distribution of military salaries fell into Chongzhen's hands.

When this news reached the ears of the British public, Zhang Weixian was taken aback, and he immediately inquired about the cause and effect of the whole thing.

When he knew that at the previous court meeting, Marquis Yang Wu and others gathered the court officials to impeach, and the emperor personally promoted the presiding officer of the restructuring of the Yingzhou Guard. Zhang Weixian immediately understood that this was Chongzhen's warning to the nobles.

Therefore, Zhang Weixian dragged the unhealed sick body, regardless of the dissuasion of the prince Zhang Zhiji, and forcibly supported the sick body to participate in the court meeting.

The purpose of his coming was to suppress the nobles at the court meeting and not to continue to participate in this matter.

Although the Rong government was in charge of the three major battalions in the capital, the salaries of these sergeants were still distributed by the governor's office of the five armies.

Chongzhen's action of supervising the distribution of military salaries by the Governor's Office of the Five Armies undoubtedly stuck the lifeblood of the three major battalions in the capital, and the little power left by the Rong government, which had been seized by civilian officials, was now even more left.

For these nobles, Zhang Weixian knew very well that in addition to Li Chengzuo, the Marquis of Fengcheng, who still had some ability, he was either a drunkard or a miser who was bent on accumulating wealth, but the newly enthroned Emperor Chongzhen was a milk tiger.

Zhang Weixian didn't want the capital Xungui to become the first target of this milk tiger to show its fangs, since the Tumubao incident, the Xungui group has been suppressed by the civilian group and dare not ask about political affairs.

And now this group of nobles actually dared to get involved in the political struggle of the court for the sake of just the fields, and Zhang Weixian, who wanted to stay out of the matter, had to stand on the court meeting again.

After hearing Chongzhen's question, Zhang Weixian thought about it several times, and finally replied to the emperor: "The old minister is frail and sickly, old and faint, and he really can't think of any way to solve the problem of the training of the soldiers in the Beijing camp, and also to meet the problem of labor in the construction of the mountain mausoleum. Lao Chen thought that it was time for him to abdicate and make way for Xian. Please ask Your Majesty for permission to allow the old minister to go home to recuperate. ”

Zhu Youzhen just nodded to the British duke, and then said gently: "The British duke is old and sick, and it is indeed time to go back to the house to enjoy the joy of family." The Rong government is in charge of the three major battalions in the capital, and it is busy with trivial matters, so it is necessary to find an energetic young man to preside over it. The matter of grace after the British public honor is decided by the Ministry of Rites agreement. ”

To put it mildly, without a trace of resignation, Zhu Youzhen finally spoke again in a gentle tone: "Since you all have no ideas, then I will tell you what you think."

Although there are 300,000 people on the roster of the three major battalions, not only is there a serious shortage of quotas, but there are also a large number of people who are unable to go into battle. My opinion is that, except for the selection of brave men who can still be used, the rest of the troops will all be collectively retired and turned into construction companies. It is a company that sells labor professionally.

In the future, the construction of palaces, mountains, castle walls, and roads will be contracted to these companies after a budget is drawn up. In the future, the Ministry of Engineering will only be responsible for inspecting the quality of the project and supervising whether the construction team is qualified to undertake the project, and will no longer involve specific project construction affairs.

As for the craftsmen responsible for the construction of the French style in the original Ministry of Industry, they were also separated from the Ministry of Industry and became the design institute of the French style under the supervision of the Ministry of Industry. ”

The reform of the three major battalions and the transfer of most of the Beijing army undoubtedly made those nobles who held the official positions in the Beijing camp feel dissatisfied.

Zhang Gongri, Marquis of Longping, stepped forward unwillingly and admonished: "Your Majesty, although there is a shortage of the three major battalions in the capital, the reduction of so many officers and soldiers at once may cause a commotion among the low-level sergeants in the Beijing battalion.

Moreover, the officers in the three battalions are hereditary, and His Majesty has laid off so many soldiers in one go, so how will these officers be placed? The minister thought that it was better to slowly figure it out, and it was the best policy. ”

As for the non-commissioned officers of the three major battalions, the civilian officials of the court and the central government were divided into two opinions, and the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Households, and the Ministry of War, all of which were able to handle the soldiers' money and food, all came forward to echo the opinions of Marquis Longping and oppose Chongzhen's overly impatient reforms.

The other ministries of the six ministries felt that the reduction of the camp in Beijing could save a sum of money, and it was not without benefit.

Even within the Ministry of Households, there was no unity of opinion among the officials, and the officials who objected to the money and food of the sergeants, but for the officials of the Ministry of Household who competed with the Ministry of Industry for the cost of building the mountain tombs, Chongzhen's suggestion was beneficial to them.

Seeing the argument between the two sides, Li Kuilong, the imperial envoy of the left deputy capital, stood up and played: "The officers and soldiers of the Beijing camp have been weak for a long time, and it is also inseparable from the incompetence of the management of these officers of the Beijing camp. Now that even the entire army has been abolished, why does the imperial court still raise these incompetent officers? It should be abolished in one piece. ”

After Li Kuilong was in charge of cleaning up the Kedao, his subordinates, who had been estranged from him in the past, were now reunited under him, and after he spoke out, more than 20 imperial historians also stood up one after another, supporting the idea of reorganizing the three major battalions in the capital.

With the addition of these officials, the voices supporting Chongzhen's reform gained the upper hand in the court.

However, the Donglin Party immediately saw that there was an opportunity to take advantage of it, so the Donglin Minister headed by Han Yi recommended Sun Chengzong to serve as the assistant director of the Jingying Rongzheng affairs, in charge of the reorganization of the three major camps in the capital.

However, Wang Shoulu, a member of the household department, immediately came out and admonished: "Ancestor Fadu, this Beijing camp supervisor has always been unable to serve as a foreign army general, since Sun Shangshu has already held the position of commander of the new army, then he should no longer serve as the assistant director of the Beijing camp Rong Zheng..."

Han Yi, Yuan Chonghuan and others were a little stunned, they didn't expect that the first person to stand up against it would be people from within the Donglin Party.

And Wang Shoulu and others recommended Qian Yuanyu, the director of the Ministry of War, to assist the Jingying Rongzheng, Han Yi immediately refuted the recommendation of Wang Shoulu and others on the grounds of lack of qualifications, and relaunched Yuan Chonghuan, who was also the head of the Ministry of War.

Officials and some nobles of the Donglin Party in North Korea and Central Africa were also unwilling to cede the power of Jingying to the Donglin Party, and some of the nobles of the Donglin Party in North Korea and Central Africa put forward the idea of making Jingying Rongzheng, the Marquis of Fengcheng, the governor of Jingying.