Seeing Tu Shan come in, Chongzhen walked forward excitedly. Tu Shan quickly walked over and paid homage.
After all, all the officials from the six departments were here at this time.
"I have met your Majesty," Tushan said respectfully. Although Tushan was an old man who believed in the prince's palace, he would never go beyond the rules of etiquette and be arrogant with favors.
"Tu Shan, get up quickly, there's no need to be polite!" After Tu Shan got up, he saw all the ministers and cabinet elders looking at him.
He knew that he came to him to understand the situation. When something serious happened, these old people had to be reliable.
Chongzhen said in his heart. Although Luo Yangxing was born in the Jinyiwei family, his background and connections were not good after all.
I don't have much handy work at hand, so I suffered a huge setback this time. I still don't understand how Jizhou got to this point.
"Your Majesty, gentlemen, the matter in Jizhou has been investigated clearly." Tushan cupped his hands and said slowly and logically.
Seeing the anxious looks of Chongzhen and other ministers, Tushan recounted the information he had just compiled.
"Wang Yingzhi was the first person responsible for the rebellion. Liu Ce, the governor of Jiliao, committed major dereliction of duty. He sympathized with the rebel soldiers, and his inaction resulted in the missed opportunity to counter the rebellion, which in turn led to the failure of the Five Guards of Yingzhou.
Corruption." Li Banghua asked puzzledly: "Originally, the disarmament plan reported by Jizhou was the most detailed and well-arranged. Why did it suddenly become like this?"
"Wang Yingzhi fabricated data to suit his superiors, saying nonsense that most of the new recruits in Jizhen were paid without pay and that there were no actual soldiers. He forced his subordinate battalion officers to report the list of those who had falsely reported that they were paid without pay and eliminated them. Naturally, the battalion officers below would not agree. Wang Yingzhi
They used military law to suppress them, and many battalion officers were beaten with military sticks until they were bed-ridden. They really couldn't survive the beatings, so they violated the court regulations and turned in their empty pay lists." Qian Longxi and others nodded, fearing that this was the source of the trouble.
If they are treated as empty pay, there will be no need for compensation. This will result in a large number of soldiers not receiving compensation and being directly expelled from the camp.
And Wang Yingzhi has identified His Majesty's purpose of disarmament. Your Majesty just wants to save money. If he can do this for Your Majesty beautifully, he can save a lot of money.
You can enter His Majesty's eyes. A person who is smart, capable, and courageous in taking on tasks is indispensable. He was promoted to governor in three years by flirting with the eunuchs. Now he wants to get on His Majesty's and Donglin's boat again.
There are no fools in the court, and his little thoughts are obvious.
"The actual situation is not like this. The actual number of people in the New Army should be 80%. Wang Yingzhi probably wants to take the lead in the Qing army and attract the attention of His Majesty and the Cabinet." Li Banghua was furious and said: "I have interviewed you many times.
The purpose is to find out the real situation in Ji Town. I have repeatedly stressed that telling the truth, if the conditions in Ji Town are not suitable, the Ministry of War can completely not place the pilot project in Ji Town. Wang Yingzhi is so courageous, hiding the truth from his superiors and bullying his subordinates." Everyone sneered,
The Qing army's pilot project was placed in Shuntian Prefecture and Jizhou.
In Wang Yingzhi's view, this was a piece of cake. How could he give up such a good opportunity to get ahead?
To be honest with you, he would only push the opportunity away if he is mentally ill. Li Biao said doubtfully: "I saw Jizhou's disarmament plan. More than 30,000 people were disarmed, of which 12,000 were taken over by the Guan Ning Army. Fire along the Great Wall
Ludun and Fengsui received 8,000 people. The actual disarmament was only 13,000 people. According to the usual practice, the disarmament is to eliminate the weak and retain the strong, and the remaining ones are the old and weak. There is no way it could be like this." All the cabinet ministers
The six ministers nodded their heads one after another.
The cabinet and the Ministry of War are not so easy to deceive. The plan reported by Wang Yingzhi has been approved. Disarmament, eliminating the weak and retaining the strong, is a common practice and an unspoken rule. This is a time-tested political method.
Young people are full of blood and will do nothing if they are forced to do so. To deal with them, they need to be brainwashed and deceived. Direct suppression will easily lead to resistance.
Therefore, the imperial court mainly relied on education. It was for the imperial court and for the emperor's high-profile to inspire their spirits.
Let them suffer a loss but still feel happy and have a sense of dedication and mission. In fact, it is an old bureaucrat deceiving a stupid boy.
In the feudal era, the country was a family, and it had nothing to do with the people. The scholar-bureaucrats relied on preaching that everyone was responsible to shift the burden to the poor at the bottom.
They were coaxed into working with their butts raised for generations, and they were sold by the gentry and counted for money by the gentlemen. When they were thirty-five or even forty years old, they were severely beaten by the society.
It’s very difficult to be deceived. At this age, no matter how slow you are, you can still understand. If you still don’t understand what life and society are like.
I won't understand anymore in the future. Since I can't be deceived anymore, I'll just threaten them with a knife when dealing with these old gangsters.
Anyway, there are elders and younger ones at their age, and they have many worries about raising a family. Moreover, without the bravery of youth, most people will not go to extremes.
As long as all roads are not blocked, they will knock out their front teeth and swallow them. This is the ancient rule of thumb.
The same goes for disarmament. The young people who are easy to deceive will be recruited and retained, while the weak soldiers and veteran soldiers will be fired.
If you don't give them enough compensation, you won't be afraid of causing trouble. If it doesn't work, you'll suppress them, or simply tear up the pretense and force them.
Li Banghua said: "In addition to resettling 20,000 people, I also specially squeezed out 15,000 loads of grain from the Ministry of War and sent it to Zunhua for the purpose of resettling the demobilized soldiers. Why is it still happening like this?" To be honest.
, Li Banghua is also trying his best.
Now that food and wages are so difficult, it is not easy to squeeze out so much food. It can be seen that he sincerely wants to set this example.
I hope Ji Town’s disarmament will get off to a good start and serve as a demonstration for its expansion to the entire Nine Borders.
Chongzhen also nodded after hearing this. Li Shangshu did the right thing. He was afraid that there would be problems in the place, so he made first-hand preparations.
Tushan thought for a moment and then said: "Of the 15,000 dans of miscellaneous grains, only 10,000 dans were taken out. After leaving Chaoyang Gate, there were only 7,000 dans left. When we arrived at Jizhou, we only entered the city with 5,000 dans. Wang Yingzhi actually received 5,000 dans.
He used 2,000 dans to place 13,000 recruits as severance expenses." Tu Shan was not originally prepared to go into such detail. Speaking of these unspoken rules would offend people.
However, the matter has reached such a serious stage that it is impossible not to make this matter clear. Moreover, there is no need for him to resist for the civil officials.
He told the actual situation. He had no responsibility. If he didn't tell the civil servants, they wouldn't think well of him. If His Majesty found out about it in the future, he would have opinions about him.
As soon as he said this, Chongzhen's face turned pale with anger, and all the Dukes of Donglin were very embarrassed. Some of the money and food were greedy by them, and some were taken by their disciples and former officials.
This kind of collective corruption is already a law that does not punish the public, but it doesn't sound good to say it. Tu Shan sighed inwardly and continued: "If we distribute two thousand tons, each person will still have dozens of kilograms of grain, plus wild vegetables.
Making porridge can feed a family for several months. However, the people who distribute it below once again have a lot of grains, and it is estimated that it will only be a few hundred tons in the hands of the quartermaster who actually distributes it." Tu Shan looked at the crowd, his face
Rare said angrily: "The quartermaster is also a talented person. When he saw that there was so little food and he couldn't distribute it, he simply took half of it himself and cooked the rest into porridge for 13,000 people to eat and disperse."
Let's finish it." At this time, no one spoke. Chongzhen only felt dizzy. Has the grassroots level of the Ming Dynasty become so rotten?
"A meal of porridge is better than nothing at all, but someone poisoned the porridge and killed more than a hundred people on the spot. Hundreds more were blinded and couldn't see. Thousands of people suffered from vomiting and diarrhea. Wang Yingzhi simply couldn't
Not paying attention to the food distribution situation, he went home and hugged his concubine to sleep. When he woke up, the entire outer city was full of rioters, fires were raging, and the situation had completely collapsed."
