Chapter 445 Motion  Punishment

The layoff of the troops from the Nine-sided sides was a bold suggestion. Everyone present looked at Sima Tai with wide eyes.

Sima Tai, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, looked calm and said:

"Your Majesty, don't think that my subordinates are talking nonsense. There are no Tatars in the north now. I have heard the words of traveling outside the border in the capital. Now I have gone thousands of miles away and may not meet a barbarian for several months. I dare to ask Your Majesty, have there been warnings from the border in the past two years? Have there ever been any envoys from the Tartars?"

This is a real situation, because Jiang Feng's guards would carry out a clearance on the grassland every few months, adding Dingkou and cattle and sheep to the pastures and farmlands near the Tarhe West Fort. The Mongols who were beaten in the two wars could not resist it.

Many people went further west, some went to the north to join the Shbiel Khanate, and some people continued to join Jiang Feng's command, and were dispersed by the tribes and were dispersed under the leadership of various guards. In fact, with the combat power of more than 1,000 guards and two thousand regiments, they would not have such serious damage to the scattered tribes. However, many Mongolians who surrendered to Jiang Feng either took the lead in fighting for a better life or in order to integrate into Jiang Feng's system.

But these people are familiar with the grasslands. Even if their former tribe wants to hide, they have no place to hide.

Except for the garrison facing the west of Shaanxi, the other border towns in Jiubian have become more relaxed. They often ride horses for a hundred miles and cannot see any enemies. A large number of military households and civilians are hired by merchants to farm or work in manual workshops.

If the border is quiet, it should be the officials of the Ministry of War. However, the border generals have had a deep grudge with Sima Tai, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue. The amount of military pay was issued by the Ministry of War. After the Ministry of Revenue approved it, the silver was allocated for distribution. Of course, the transfer of large amounts of silver was always available for the personnel to obtain. Civil officials at all levels of the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of War were naturally unlimited.

However, Sima Tai, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, had a slimming mouth and his appetite was getting bigger and bigger. He didn't know what he came from. After the Tatar tribe and the Watshu tribe outside the pass disappeared, the nine-sided generals began to rent out military households to merchants for work, or enclose them to farm in large farms.

In other words, in addition to the military pay they deducted, the officers of these border towns also had the money they exploited from their subordinates. Sima Tai, the assistant minister of the Ministry of Revenue who was responsible for the payment of military pay, sent people to discuss with the border generals and demanded that the extra points be deducted from the military pay they were paid every day.

At that time, Zhou Lin was leading troops to Beijing to assist Emperor Jiajing in cleaning up the Beijing Merchants Corps. The border generals all felt that the emperor would have to rely on military personnel in the future, which was a arrogant state, and it was related to money. This was more important than anything for those who were officials just to make money.

As a result, Sima Tai, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, was not only rejected, but instead he wanted to file a lawsuit in the capital. Of course, many of them were unwilling to make a fuss about this matter. Sima Tai, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, had a very unhappy relationship with the military generals in the border town in the end, and the two sides parted in disagreement.

As a result, two years have passed, and the situation of being used by the military people in the past has not yet appeared at all. Instead, civil officials have reached the peak of power step by step. In fact, emperors of all dynasties have the same idea. They would rather be greedy than military officials than have power.

You should know that civil officials are most greedy and despised, and military officials have power but they have to change the world. In the past two years, the Ministry of Revenue has naturally made many small moves against the border generals who were against him at that time, and it was also considered a breath of breath. Those border generals also caused a lot of trouble for Sima Tai.

However, now, there are new problems in the new era. Merchants from all over the country are hiding powerful ministers to evade commercial taxes. This is originally a privilege for civil servants.

However, in various parts of the Jiubian, the generals of the border town often took this privilege into their own hands. There were also craftsmen camps and various official workshops in the army. Naturally, the procedures were convenient. The money was earned in their hands, and the money that fell into the hands of civil officials was naturally much less.

The money problem is often a big deal in the end, and no one wants to make a little less. If it were said that Sima Tai proposed to abolish the Nine Borders in the past, I am afraid that the emperor would not speak out, so his colleagues would come out first and demand to kill the traitor. The Mongols in the north would invade the country.

The situation has been different in recent years. Everyone knows that the Tatars and the thorns have disappeared on the grassland, and the Mongolian tribes seem to have suddenly disappeared.

As the saying goes, the rabbit is dead and the dog is cooked. There is no threat outside. The necessity of the border generals in this town is much worse. But these officers are all rough people. Instead of finding some ways to make up for it, they are boasting about the peace on the border and the barbarians are gone.

Since the founding of Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, the military expenditure of these nine sides has been the largest fiscal expenditure, but the survival of the country cannot be lost. In this situation, no one will be lenient. However, if anyone proposed it rashly, no one has to bear some relations. Sima Tai is also an old man in the officialdom, so why would he still make such mistakes?

Sima Tai, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, was also a traitor. He said the following words again:

"Liao Town guards the northern part and Shaanxi's three towns defend the Western Regions. These are important places and cannot be touched. The other towns are now stationed in the local area and are vacancies for the court's food and salary, and should be sacked."

This is wonderful. The three towns in Shaanxi are now all the direct members of Emperor Jiajing. If they are abolished there, I am afraid that the emperor will really have to ignore the sensibility. Liao Town is a tacit matter for all the big guys. Jiangfeng's Huazhou has gradually become a climate, but it is also related to their interests.

We cannot control but we cannot ignore it. The troops in Liao Town have always been strong soldiers in the world. It is just for defense and resistance there, and it is also a plan to make advance plans.

The other towns such as Datong, Jizhen, Xuanhua are close to the essence of Northern Zhili. These families are the places where merchants and farmers evade taxes the most, and are also the places where civil servants compete for the most profits. These border towns mainly deal with the invasion of Mongolian tribes.

Now those threats are gone, just to be cut off and removed. After listening to the suggestions of Sima Tai, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, after only a little consideration, they found that this proposal was beneficial to them. They immediately expressed their opinions. Although there was no clear support in their words, the meaning of the roundabout way was agreed.

After hearing this, the anxious Emperor Jiajing was about to get angry when he heard all kinds of opinions from his subordinates, and they all agreed with them.

Emperor Jiajing is now quite arrogant in the eyes of these ministers. He is extremely calm in the face of things. He can't see his joys, anger, sorrows, and happiness. Even when he was about to get angry, he still had the same calm expression on his face. Xia Yan and Yan Song, who were sitting at the top, both looked at Jiajing's expressions, but they couldn't see any reaction.

The emperor only lowered his head a little while. Eunuch Rui, who was standing beside him, served him closely for a long time. Knowing some of Jiajing's little habits, the emperor often bowed his head to hide the fluctuations of his eyes. Now the emperor is extremely careful in every move. Even the eunuchs and palace maids in the inner palace cannot touch any rules.

Rui Xiaosan has been following him for a long time, so he noticed it, but he didn't dare to say it out. He saw with his own eyes that a eunuch who was serving him personally discovered what the emperor liked to eat from his diet. The next day he specially instructed the young eunuchs to move the dish to the emperor. As a result, he was discovered by Jiajing and was praised at that time, but in the following days he found a reason to execute him.

"This matter is very important. The garrison of the nine borders is the ancestral rule of the court, and I cannot change it at will. Since all my dear friends agree with the abolition, then just write the world and leave it to the people of the world for discussion!"

The civil servants have come to this point, of course there is no reason to object. To think more deeply, the soldiers on the Nine Borders are one of the highest-ranking soldiers in this country and have a certain political say. If these people are separated, the only one with similar influence is the nobles. However, these nobles are almost wearing pairs of pants with civil servants under the current system of business throughout the country.

When I published the discussions among all the people, I would like to put it bluntly that the literati of all the world were still in the hands of civil officials, but the result was still in agreement.

The tools for transportation by civil officials in the Ming Dynasty were not like those in the Qing Dynasty. They were all sitting in sedan chairs, and many people were riding horses, and the literati still had a bit of martial style. However, people like the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet have been able to survive for so many years, even if they have the ability to ride horses, they have no body to ride horses.

After the Xiaogong in the inner study room, more than 20 officials went back to the palace on horseback on sedan chairs and dispersed one by one. Xia Yan and Yan Song were the leaders of civil officials. They used to leave first, but this time they stayed behind, with two sedan chairs parked in the wing room.

The sedan chair owner and the Changsui were both far away, and Xia Yan and Yan Song sat in the sedan chair as if nothing had happened. The thin sedan curtain would not affect both sides. The voice was very low, and it didn't seem like a conversation, just one sentence for you and one sentence for me:

"The emperor is wise and powerful today. I still remember the prosecutor's case and calmly mobilized troops to Beijing. It's really an emperor's scheming!"

"The abolition of the nine borders will definitely cause resentment from those warriors. If they are used by those who are interested, wouldn't it be a disaster?"

"I have a brother-in-law, who is a businessman who travels to the frontier and is going to travel in the near future..."
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