When Yunxi returned to the palace, the first thing he did was to take off his shoes and socks, and told Wang Xi: "Quick, pour me hot water to soak my feet!"
Wang Xi followed Yunxi's instructions and said with a smile: "What's going on, Your Majesty?"
"I stood in the martial arts hall for an hour! Although I walked back and forth, I never sat down." Yunxi enjoyed the comfort of the hot water soaking his sore feet and said, "It would be really uncomfortable if I hadn't soaked my feet in the martial arts hall.
To be fair, I soaked my feet right then."
"Your Majesty, why should you inflict trouble on yourself?" Wang Xi said.
"Hey, sometimes you have to suffer this crime. As an emperor, you can't help yourself." Yunxi said. After he finished saying this, he added: "Have all the commanders of the Shangzhiwei entered the palace? Also, have they entered the palace?"
Chen Xingshan and several governors of the Fifth Army Commandery Mansion?"
"Your Majesty, they have all entered the palace and are waiting for your Majesty's summons," Wang Xi said.
"Okay, let me soak my feet for a while and then go see them in a quarter of an hour." Yunxi said.
A quarter of an hour later, the hot water had turned into lukewarm water. Wang Xi dried his feet, put on socks and shoes, and allowed Xi to go meet the people he had summoned to the palace.
The first person to be met was the commander of the Shangzhi Guards. What Yunxi told them was very simple: "You are eleven guards. Each guard chooses a hundred households to contact each other and walk together, goose-stepping. I will ask the guards to show you what it means later.
Goose-stepping and walking in unison.”
"After a month, I will personally check how well the hundred households selected by you, the eleven guards, are practicing walking in step and walking in step. Those who practice best will be rewarded by me! Not only the officers and soldiers of the hundred households will be rewarded.
, you commanders will also be rewarded by me."
"Furthermore, I also ordered the students of the Jiangwu Hall to also contact the goose-stepping and Qi-stepping walks. If any one hundred households have better contact than the students of the Jiangwu Hall, all soldiers will be awarded the virtual title of trial hundred households; hundred households, trial hundred households
Promoted one level!"
These people were as baffled as the students in the martial arts hall: What's the use of practicing this 0? But after hearing Yunxi's reward, they all put their doubts aside: What's the use of it! As long as there is a reward, you can get your majesty's reward
Blue Eyes, that's not important.
Several people agreed one after another. Looking at their backs, Yunxi felt that some people's backs were much straighter and their spirits were different.
Yunxi then went to meet the people he summoned into the Palace of the Fifth Army Commander-in-Chief.
Yunxi chatted with them for a while first. Most of the people in the governor's mansion of the five armies of the Ming Dynasty were nobles, and some of them were Yunxi's elders, such as Yin Qing, the consort of Princess Hanshan, and Li Jian, the consort of Princess Daming. Although Yunxi had already
Many undesirable people rushed home and let them eat themselves, such as Princess Huaiqing's consort Wang Ning. But at this time, military commanders were more qualified than civil servants, and his cronies were too young to be governors, so he still had to fight with
They are vain and conceited.
After a while, the greetings were completed. Yunxi didn't waste any time and said directly: "I called you all here today because I have something to tell you."
Yunxi ordered two things. The first thing is that from now on, when people with hereditary positions are allowed to commit crimes, except for murder and heinous crimes, they are allowed to offset the crimes with their hereditary positions;
Second, increase the salary of the Shangzhiwei soldiers, so that the Jingwei will receive half of the salary of the Shangzhiwei soldiers.
As soon as Yunxi's words came out, the people below immediately started talking, but of course, they all supported Yunxi's two things. Many of their descendants obtained worldly positions. Although most of them were fictitious, according to His Majesty's
The will can also offset the crime when committing a crime; as for the latter one, although it is not directly related to them, it does no harm to them, and they are also happy to have the soldiers' treatment improved.
Only one person objected. "Your Majesty, it is said that princes are guilty of the same crimes as common people when they break the law. Why does your Majesty give preferential treatment to military households?" Chen Xingshan said.
"Chen Qing, since you have a worldly position, then either your ancestors have made contributions to the Ming Dynasty, or you have made contributions to the Ming Dynasty. In this case, why shouldn't I give some preferential treatment to these meritorious ministers?"
Chen Xingshan argued with Yunxi for a few more words, but was suppressed by Yunxi. Yunxi wanted to give preferential treatment to soldiers. How does a person's high status reflect in feudal society? Being able to have some privileges is a reflection of high status. Yunxi gave him some benefits.
The privileges of worldly military generals who use their worldly rank to offset their sins are an important way to elevate the status of soldiers.
Why do many of Fuso's samurai and European knights live in such a miserable state that their lives are not as good as those of ordinary people, but there are still countless ordinary people and even wealthy businessmen who envy samurai or knights? It's because Fuso's samurai and European knights
Knights have special privileges, and nothing will happen if they casually kill ordinary people.
The ancient Chinese noble class, which is equivalent to the high-level noble class in Europe, has various privileges, but the middle and lower classes have hereditary civil and military affairs, similar to European knights, and have almost no privileges. They just have more food and clothing than ordinary people.
That's all.
Of course, the Ming Dynasty is the most equal country in the world. It is definitely not possible to allow soldiers to have the same privileges as their counterparts in Europe and Fusang. Not only the common people and literati cannot accept it, but even Yunxi is afraid that the power of the army will expand to their European and Fusang counterparts.
The emperor's rule is influenced by his colleagues, but it is still okay to give him some privileges.
As for the second article, it is also to improve the status of soldiers. In the Ming Dynasty, except for the Shangzhi Guards, other guards had no salary and had to farm to support themselves. In this way, Zhu Yuanzhang was able to spend very little money to feed an army of more than 2 million.
.But this policy has drawbacks.
First of all, just like the collapse of the military system in the Tang Dynasty, if ordinary soldiers were fighting abroad all year round and no one would cultivate the land at home, they would gradually be unable to support themselves through farming. Historically, many Ming troops started to go out to fight in the middle of the Ming Dynasty.
Just like the beggar.
This brings up the second problem. In order to survive, they often rob and rob along the way while fighting in other places to compensate for their losses due to the inability to cultivate land while fighting in other places.
This eventually led to the complete collapse of the guard system. From the emperor to local civil and military officials at all levels, some guard soldiers were selected and incorporated into the battalions and became the main army fighting in the late Ming Dynasty; while other guard soldiers were completely reduced to
Farmers. Those who become farmers are quite lucky. There are many guards who are close to the sea and there is not much cultivated land. Not to mention ordinary soldiers, even hereditary generals have become beggars.
Yunxi's current financial situation is far better than that of the Jianwen and Yongle years in history, so he can give most of the army salaries and turn them into professional armies instead of suspected armies similar to beggars in history.