By the end of the Ming Dynasty, many groups had become gigantic, decaying, parasitic-

For example, the civil Donglin Party, such as the founding fathers of the Emperor Qi Gong, and the military attachés of Liaoxi Jiangmen and Jiubian Jiangmen, these people have been officers for generations, enslaving hundreds of thousands of border troops and millions of military households under their hands, encroaching on more than 15% of the total cultivated land area of the Ming Dynasty, mastering more than ninety percent of the northern border trade of the Ming Dynasty, and consuming tens of millions of silver in the Ming Dynasty every year.

At the same time, the war was almost never won.

These groups are like huge tumors, attached to the body of the Ming Dynasty, eroding flesh and blood, making this huge empire weaker and weaker.

The low combat effectiveness of the army in the last years of the Ming Dynasty cannot be completely blamed on the enslavement of civilian officials and the lowly status of military personnel, and the unbearable side of these military generals is also an important reason. They are almost illiterate, extremely vicious to the people, afraid of Jiannu like a tiger, killing good and risking merit without blinking, and leading troops to fight in a mess. After fighting for power and profit, it can be said that they are a group of incompetent people who are greedy for money and afraid of death, and there are very few people who can be used. Speaking of which, there are still a few heroes such as Sun Chengzong, Hong Chengchou, and Lu Xiangsheng among the civil officials.

Although the civil and military officials deliberately suppressed it, the incompetence of the military generals is also an important reason. is as talented as Qi Jiguang, strong and domineering as Li Chengliang, and he is just a good general, but he is not a hero who reads > novel. Such as Gao Huan'er Zhu Rong, such as Chai Rong and Liu Rengong.

The soil of the Ming Dynasty does not breed heroes.

Except for the last years of Chongzhen.

Everyone eats empty salaries, and the garrison of the town fort naturally has no reason not to eat.

In fact, he ate a lot of empty salary, with 699 officers and soldiers, 82 horses and mules, and 300 permanent soldiers, as for the war horses and cavalry, it may be just a dozen or so family members under his command.

The garrison was also quite well prepared, and he had already called hundreds of military men and people from outside the city to wait on the school grounds, and taught them how to speak and other words to prepare for the charge. As a result, I waited under the sun for a day, and the Lord of the Soldier came in the evening.

The garrison dismissed all those who had been summoned.

This is also the proper meaning, the Ming Dynasty has never had a precedent for reviewing the army at night. In this era, most people have night blindness, and large gatherings at night can easily cause uncontrollable chaos.

As a result, Liu Ruozai did just that.

After seeing the garrison of the townside fort, Liu Ruozai was still smiling at first, and then suddenly turned his face and detained the garrison of the townside fort and the officers who came to greet him, and he was not allowed to move.

Immediately afterwards, he ordered Xie Dingkun to lead his men to guard the four gates and all key intersections, not allowed to enter or exit, and all those who passed were taken down for questioning. Then, under the escort of Dong Ce and others, he came directly to the barracks.

In this way, compared with Xie Dingkun, he still has more trust in the combat effectiveness of Dong Ce and others. Even if there was a mess, Dong Ce's nearly twenty elite cavalry would be enough to escort him out.

As soon as they arrived at the barracks, they sounded the trumpet and rallied - no one paid any attention, of course. Dong Ce's face naturally couldn't make Liu Ruozai unhappy, so he immediately ordered his subordinates to act separately, and after breaking into a barracks, no matter who it was, he smashed his head and covered his face, and got the soldiers to gather on the school ground.

The torches around were extinguished, and the small school field was illuminated, and the cavalry under Dong Ce were wandering around, the weapons in their hands flashed with cold light, and Zhou Zhong and a few other archers shot accurately, and they had already sandwiched the big arrows with long tail feathers between their fingers.

The meaning of the threat is about to come out.

Under the threat they could see, there were hundreds of soldiers standing in the school yard, although they were in a mess, but they still looked like they were not moving around and shouting.

On a three-foot-high earthen platform, Liu Ruozai stood in the center, expressionless, and Dong Ce stood behind him with a cold face. On the other side, several high-ranking officials of the town's border fort who had already unarmed their weapons turned pale.

Then the number of soldiers was counted, and there were 240 soldiers in the fort on the edge of the town, about a little more than one-third of the required number of soldiers, and as for the cavalry, there were only 30 men, all of whom were the families of the high-ranking officers, of whom the garrison families accounted for fifteen.

It's quite ruthless to eat empty wages like this.

Liu Ruozai was naturally furious and fiercely reprimanded the garrison and officers of the town's border fort, and the officers naturally quickly confessed, knelt on the ground and kowtowed, and begged Liu Ruozai's leniency.

That's all there is to it.

Unless it is a real moment of military emergency, or a ruthless person like Yuan Chonghuan, it is absolutely impossible for a fifth-grade soldier to easily kill a garrison master who is also a fifth-rank garrison - not to mention, this garrison still has the title of commander and acquaintance, and it is a third- or fourth-grade Zhu Zi member.

These generals also understand this, and they all know that Liu Ruozai can't really do anything to them, there are too many empty salaries these days, why should they take us under the knife? Therefore, this pleading gesture is, firstly, it is a feeling of emptiness, after all, eating empty wages is also to violate the law and discipline, and secondly, it is to find a step down for both sides, after all, it is really a sin for the labor soldiers to be so angry.

In fact, I am still aggrieved in my heart!

Sure enough, Liu Ruozai really couldn't do anything to them, but he just said some cruel words, and after reprimanding them fiercely, he said that he wanted to play the court Yunyun.

These generals are just listening to the sound - who doesn't have a few powerful people behind them? Still afraid of this? Some of these things are said to be loud, but how many can really be implemented in the end?

I didn't care about it, I should still eat and drink when I went back that night, and I found a few red horns to sing at home for a night - although I was reprimanded, but this hurdle was passed.

However, they still underestimated the means of this top literati of the Ming Dynasty who was the champion and was able to write a magnificent book like the Golden Bottle.

The next day, Liu Ruozai read the whole army again, and announced in front of hundreds of people that since there are only so many soldiers, then in the future, they will be paid according to these soldiers, and there is not a word more! When the number of soldiers is replenished, take it to Zhenhe Fort to his old man's house, pass the inspection, and then send the money.

Then a table was set up on the spot, and the soldiers came one by one, and he personally distributed the money to everyone.

This trick is too ruthless.

According to the actual number of people, how do these generals still eat empty salaries and share the benefits?

Moreover, when the soldiers received so much military pay for the first time, their concepts immediately changed - no matter how much they feared the generals before, or how they were coerced and lured to obey, they were not as convincing as the white money in their hands.

It turned out that those grandsons ate a lot of Lao Tzu's money! Or Lord Liu has a conscience!

These generals could immediately feel that there was something wrong with the looks of their soldiers when they looked at them, although the power was still there, suppressing them and not daring to make any moves, but the anger and hatred in their hearts were absolutely inevitable.

This makes them hate Liu Ruozai so much!

What's even more ruthless is that Liu Ruozai also specially instructed him to go down - the salary of every month in the future will be according to this example, if it is less, then someone must have embezzled it, and he can directly go to the military headquarters of Zhenhe Fort to file a complaint against the army. Although the dispute between the military soldiers is supposed to be handled by Yang Hewei, but now Yang Hewei has long lost his power, and the military preparation dao yamen can have part of the authority of the Qing Military Department.

If the generals are not corrupt in military salaries, they will not have much income, and if they are corrupt - the soldiers who already have Liu Ruozai's backing are afraid of them, it is really hard to say, especially when Xuehuayin is in front as a temptation.

It has been an eventful time since then.

In fact, Liu Ruozai's actions are very taboo, which is equivalent to cutting off the financial routes of many people. These officials are not just themselves, they all have some quite powerful forces and figures standing behind them, and a considerable part of their income also falls into the hands of these people behind them.

Liu Ruozai offended a large number of people.

Moreover, with such a provocation, the non-commissioned officers and generals are separated, and it is still two to say what combat effectiveness this army can have.

In the past, Liu Ruozai would have a lot of scruples, but now Liu Ruozai doesn't care. All he is thinking about now is how to integrate the forces in his hands as soon as possible, so that when Jiannu enters the Kou again next year, he will be able to fight a beautiful battle. and from this errand of the army.

It is disdainful to beg him in the song, this is a straight take!

Zhenbian Fort is neither as grassy as Rock Fort, nor as built from the ruins as Hongci Fort, Liu Ruozai is not polite to them, except for the military salary that should be given, not a penny of money or a waist knife has been given, and it is not as generous as Dong Ce and Bai Tianfu.

Not long after the chief officials of the townside fort sent them away with resentment, Dong Ce's outpost left near the left side of the town's fort reported that a horse left the west gate and headed for Datong Town. Needless to say, it is natural to complain and complain.

Dong Ce told Liu Ruozai the news, and the old man just smiled faintly and did not say a word.

On the first day, Hongci Fort.

On the second day, Zhenbian Fort, after a two-day delay in Zhenbian Fort, went to Zhenchuan Fort.

On the fourth day, Jincheon Fort.

Liu Ruozai was the same as last time, so he repeated his tricks and entered the city in the evening. However, the Zhenchuan Fort garrison should have gotten the news, and those who had gathered temporarily to make up a few were still there, and none of them dispersed.

Liu Ruozai was not ambiguous, and immediately ordered the school to order troops. However, unlike the previous civilian officials who hastily called the names of the soldiers and then didn't care about it, Liu Ruozai first asked Dong Ce and others to surround the soldiers and not allow them to speak. Then every time a soldier is ordered, let him tell which general and which team he belongs to, and if he says something vague or dumbfounded, he will immediately be knocked down and beaten with a stick. It's not much, ten military sticks, not to be disabled, but it hurts a lot for a while.

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