He, Li Jinglong, deliberately deceived Xie Jin.
Xie Jin was named as the prince's calligraphy teacher, and today he was named by the emperor again at the court meeting. It can be said that he is in a state of holy favor.
And the emperor suddenly wanted to create such a new yamen. He, Li Jinglong, didn't know anything about it beforehand, so he definitely wanted to find Jie Jin to test it out. He could ask what was the best, and it didn't matter if he couldn't trick it out. He just treated it as a way to connect with each other.
If something happens to the set, it will be an unexpected surprise.
"Yang Rong is from Fujian, huh!"
In the carriage, Li Jinglong couldn't help but think about Yang Rong's resume, which he had not paid much attention to before.
The Ministry of Integrity and Corruption is notorious, and that person Li Jinglong wants to stay far away. He is an invulnerable person. In order to avoid suspicion in the future, He Guangyi will not be able to get too close.
As for the capable officials drawn from various ministries, no matter whether they were familiar to Li Jinglong or not, they would not be able to start.
Only this Yang Rong can make a difference.
The reason for this is because he is afraid!
At the court meeting, the emperor's words made his heart tremble. Although Li Jinglong did not bend the law for personal gain, bully men and women, occupy fields, etc., his family had too many businesses.
The emperor wants to arrest officials and punish them, just in case...
I'm just afraid that one day someone will give birth to a baby, and I'll find Li Jinglong's head.
The tens of thousands of dollars in wealth at home is hard to explain. Once it is used by someone with ulterior motives, the consequences will be disastrous.
It is said that there are people in the court who want to be officials. Li Jinglong also wants to know what is going on in the new yamen.
Besides, in addition to family business, there have been more and more foreign officials taking other paths in recent years. If the guarantee is not enough, some of them are confused officials like Jurong County.
"Tsk!"
Li Jinglong looked angry as the carriage shook.
"How come you, why have you given so much money to your family all these years?"
Suddenly, he felt a lot of vigilance in his heart.
"In the future, you must never do the job of helping people communicate with each other again. Do the errands assigned by the emperor well, and leave other personnel matters as irrelevant to yourself."
"I have reached the top of my official rank. Any higher positions are just empty titles and not very interesting. I don't want to lead troops. I don't want to be the chief officer. I think it's too tiring, so why bother?"
Then, he started muttering in his heart again.
"As the saying goes, don't hit the smiling person. Now that Jie Jin is about to get ahead, there is no harm in making more friends. He Guangyi, just take it one step at a time!"
Then his face was filled with anger again.
"You little beast used to study hard, but now he's just the prince's companion? Why is he still a bodyguard? I want to find out about him somewhere else!"
The person he was scolding in his heart was his son Li Qi, because he was a bodyguard. The prince was studying in Huadian, and his son could only stand outside and was not even qualified to listen.
The carriage was swaying, and it took an unknown amount of time to return to Cao Guogong's mansion. He did not enter through the front door, but went directly to the back door and drove into the Li family's horse stable.
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The scene changes to Le Zhi Zhai.
Zhu Yunxi had just finished his meal and was sitting on the kang, holding a tea bowl and looking at the memorial in his hand.
These are all secrets, and they are all reported to the commanders of the general military officers and guards in various places. This year's autumn harvest in the fields of the guard, war horses, training of weapons, etc.
"Guardian farm?"
Zhu Yunxi picked up his ink pen and drew a red circle around these words on a memorial.
The old man once said, "I can raise millions of soldiers without costing the people a grain of rice."
The Ming Dynasty's garrison stationed fields and raised troops. In fact, it was a collection of the experience of previous dynasties, integrating farmers and soldiers. If there was a war, they would be mobilized to fight, and if there was no war, they would cultivate the land for the people.
In later generations, this system was criticized by many people, but in Zhu Yunxi's view, there is no perfect system, only a system that suits the times.
The garrison in the garrison to raise troops is not an original creation of the Ming Dynasty. In history, armies that can fight in wars only have perseverance. This is the original intention of the garrison in the garrison.
But there is an unavoidable problem, that is, all soldiers are military households, hereditary military households.
In a hereditary military household, one male member of the family is a regular soldier, and the other sons are Yu Ding. A regular soldier in a military household does not serve as a soldier in one place since he was born. Instead, he has to guard the border and travel thousands of miles away.
If you have a family, you have to take your family with you. According to the military law of the Ming Dynasty, you must be given fields and houses, but in fact, with so many soldiers, there will always be uneven distribution of resources.
Moreover, these military households are different from the banner disciples who were professional soldiers in the early Qing Dynasty. These military households implemented a system of alternating border guarding and farming in the garrison areas. Moreover, most of the food they grew had to be turned over for use as military food.
The life of military households is very hard, even harder than that of ordinary people.
Especially for those benefactors who were sent to the army for crimes, life was even more difficult. The relationship between superiors and subordinates in the army, embezzlement and other matters are much simpler and rougher than those of officials.
Being away from home for a long time and living a difficult life caused many military households to desert. According to the archives of the Ministry of War, there were more than 40,000 deserters in only the third year of Hongwu.
And in the future, as the country's strength grows, such numbers will increase.
It is said that in the prosperous times, military equipment was lax, because there was no need for war and warriors were no longer needed. Their status and treatment plummeted.
In fact, this was true of the Ming Dynasty. Historical records record that there were almost 170,000 deserters every three years. During the Jiajing period, the Ming Empire only had more than 900,000 registered soldiers, and these were all soldiers who were just trying to make up for the numbers.
Qianhu, the hereditary generals of the Guard, have all turned into landlords, and those military households have become tenants. How can such an army fight?
At this time, Wang Sha came over quietly and said softly, "Long live Lord, He Guangyi has an audience!"
"Xuan!" Zhu Yunxi said.
Not long after he finished speaking, He Guangyi, who was tired of work, came in from the outside and said, "Your Majesty, He Guangyi comes to see the Emperor!"
"Give him a piece of cake!" Zhu Yunxi continued to look at the piece of paper, "Did you just come back?"
"I have just arrived in Beijing!" He Guangyi did not sit down, but stood and replied, "I thought that the Long Live Lord wanted to see me, but I didn't bother to wash up and change clothes, so I boldly entered the palace!"
"How did things go?" Zhu Yunxi asked.
"The White Lotus Sect in Shaanxi has been completely wiped out. The leader of the White Lotus Sect, Li Puzhi, is...in the hands of that person. He is leading people to continue searching for the remnants of the White Lotus Sect everywhere!" After saying that, he paused.
"Catch and kill at the same time!"
The person He Guangyi spoke of refers to Mao Xiang.
Zhu Yunxi finally raised his head and looked at He Guangyi, who was in a bit of a mess due to the rush, "You Jin Yiwei are fine for official matters, but you are still good for ferocious hounds against those white lotus rats!"
"I know about his murders. Why do some people stay in this world if they refuse to repent? They can't live a good life, but they have to believe in Maitreya Buddha? Then just go see his Maitreya Buddha!"
Having said this, Zhu Yunxi pointed to the stool and said with a solemn expression, "Sit down, I have something to ask you!"
"Yes!" He Guangyi sat down. For some reason, his heart was not filled with joy at all, but with anxiety.
Before Zhu Yunxi spoke, he glanced at the door. The eunuch outside had already retreated ten steps away.
"There are many deserters from the White Lotus Sect, but is it true?"
"Yes, I dare not lie. Many of the backbones and killers of the White Lotus Sect are deserters from the military!" He said, thinking for a while, "In addition to those who were originally interrogated in the capital, there are almost one or two hundred people."
At this point, he looked at Zhu Yunxi's face and said bravely, "Actually, there are some deserters every year. Especially in border areas such as Shaanxi and Gansu, it is too difficult and the blades lick blood all year round."
"Some soldiers are homesick, some feel unfair to their superiors, and some are simply desperadoes!"
Zhu Yunxi's face became solemn, "With so many deserters, the guards in various places and the commander-in-chief of the capital department have not mentioned a word about the information given to me!"
He Guangyi did not dare to accept these words.
"Come here!" Zhu Yunxi said to the door.
Wang Shai came in and said, "My servant is here!"
Zhu Yunxi didn't say anything. He picked up his pen and wrote on a blank piece of rice paper, "Here, the commander-in-chief of each capital department and the commander-in-chief of each province will take turns to come to the capital to see your majesty!"
Since he came to the throne, he has never seen these local guards in person.
Now, it's time to meet.
This chapter has been completed!