Chapter 210 I am a great companion! [Ask for a monthly ticket]
Zhu Houzhao was a majestic emperor, but because of Chu Yi's words, he had the idea of becoming like Chu Yi, but it can also be seen how frustrated Zhu Houzhao was as an emperor.
Seeing Zhu Houzhao's happy look, Chu Yi said slowly: "Your Majesty should be careful in his words and deeds."
Zhu Houzhao chuckled and said: "There are no outsiders here. Others don't know how humiliating the emperor has been to me in these years. Don't you still know, my dearest companion?"
As the chamberlains around Zhu Houzhao, Chu Yi and Gu Dayong knew exactly how Zhu Houzhao had come to be over the years.
Under the pressure of hundreds of officials, Zhu Houzhao really had no good life, and was even forced to move out of the Forbidden City.
With a slight cough, Chu Yi said: "Your Majesty, don't worry. When I reorganize the capital camp and your Majesty has the military power in hand, you will no longer have to be angry with those officials."
Zhu Houzhao took a deep look at Chu Yi, his eyes full of emotion, patted Chu Yi's shoulder and said with emotion: "I entrust all my honor and disgrace to my great companion!"
As the emperor, Zhu Houzhao's every move was watched by people. Many things could not be done as he pleased. What he wanted to do could only be done through trusted ministers.
Liu Jin's actions made Zhu Houzhao's efforts in vain. Fortunately, Chu Yi's series of actions far exceeded Zhu Houzhao's expectations.
Now Zhu Houzhao still regards Chu Yi as his right-hand man, and even moved to say that he would entrust the honor and disgrace of his empire to Chu Yi.
If he hadn't trusted Chu Yi to the extreme, Zhu Houzhao would never have been so emotional and said such words given his temperament.
Chu Yi naturally understood Zhu Houzhao's temperament, so after listening to Zhu Houzhao's words, Chu Yi took a deep breath, looked at Zhu Houzhao solemnly, and said firmly: "Your Majesty will leave everything to me."
Gu Dayong stood on the side, looking at Zhu Houzhao and Chu Yi, whose eyes were facing each other. He suddenly felt that he seemed a little redundant, and he couldn't help but feel a bit of resentment.
After the court meeting dispersed, Jiang Mian, Fei Hong and other civil servants walked together. One civil servant said with a bit of worry: "Sir, Chu Yi's move is clearly to seize the opportunity to reorganize the Beijing camp and regain military power in one fell swoop.
At that time, when the nobles rise and the emperor takes control of the army, I am afraid that we will return to the time when Taizu became the ancestor."
When it comes to the great ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang and the great ancestor Zhu Di, which civil servant is not afraid in his heart? Whether it is Zhu Yuanzhang or Zhu Di, they are both iron-blooded emperors on horseback. They kill people without blinking an eye.
Zhu Yuanzhang killed meritorious officials, launched several large-scale prison edicts, and killed many civil and military officials. As for Zhu Di, there was a precedent of killing Fang Xiaoru. Although there was no mass killing of meritorious officials, when Zhu Di was in power, the Xungui Group
The power is so strong that it can suppress the civil servants.
That is to say, after Zhu Di died and Renzong Zhu Gaochi ascended the throne, the civil servants gradually had the right to speak. By the time of the Battle of Tumu Fort, the civil servant group took control of the military and completely suppressed the honorary group.
It can be said that it lasted nearly a hundred years, from being suppressed to rising, and it definitely took the efforts of generations to achieve the status of civil servants today.
However, Chu Yi, together with Zhang Mao and other nobles, made it clear that they wanted to recreate the old scene of equal emphasis on civil and military affairs. This was absolutely unacceptable to most civil servants.
Although the Xungui Group still does not have much say in the court, the right to say depends on the power it holds.
Previously, the Xungui Group lost its military power and naturally had no say in the court. However, once the Xungui Group formed an alliance with Chu Yi and regained its military power, its right to speak would naturally be restored.
Fei Hong frowned, glanced at the man, and sighed: "Everyone, be careful what you say!"
Jiang Mian looked around and whispered: "Chu Yi is now at the peak of his momentum. Anyone who competes with him at this time will definitely not be happy!"
An official said with a bit of reluctance: "Could it be that we can only watch Chu Yi take away the power in our hands bit by bit, and the nobles become bigger, and if we try to suppress it again, do we have to do it again?"
The earthen fort cannot be built..."
"Sir, shut up, you dare to talk nonsense like this!"
The adult was scolded, realized that he had said the wrong thing, and quickly closed his mouth.
Fei Hong glanced at everyone and said: "Please be patient for now, I don't believe that the emperor can trust Chu Yi as always. When Chu Yi falls out of favor, it will be the day he dies."
It is said that the Tian family is ruthless, and the emperor's favor cannot always be in one person. No matter how Chu Yi is favored by the emperor now, there are many such favored ministers in history, but as long as there are favored ministers, there are
How many people will end well?
That's why Fei Hongcai asked everyone to be patient for a while, and wait until Chu Yi falls out of favor, and then everyone can fight back.
The Jingying Campus covers a vast area, and all the soldiers from the Shenji Camp, the Three Thousand Battalion, and the Fifth Army Camp are here.
All the soldiers got the news that the imperial court was going to reorganize the Beijing camp and eliminate the old, weak, sick and disabled. It is said that the emperor spent five million taels of silver and 100,000 acres of land to resettle the old, weak, sick and disabled in the army.
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Therefore, everyone who could move around arrived at the main campus early in the morning under the leadership of their respective corps commanders and generals.
There were more than 100,000 people, and the entire campus was filled with darkness.
Because it was necessary to count the military rosters when dismantling soldiers, Chu Yi specially transferred nearly a hundred officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs, Dongchang, and Jinyiwei.
Thick military rolls filled with several large boxes were placed there. According to the rolls, the total number of soldiers in the Beijing camp recorded on them reached more than 138,000.
Of course, there are actually only about 100,000 people in the entire campus. Some of them died in the battle to put down Lu Wenyang's rebellion, and some of them did not come because they were injured. However, the total number of these people is only 8,000 or 8,000.
As for the difference of nearly 20,000 people, it is obvious that these are people who are free of charge.
These people only exist on the roster. It can be said that real people do not exist at all. However, the salaries of these people are distributed in full. Needless to say, these salaries fall into the hands of certain officials and generals.
Corruption among civil servants is common, and almost all officials are corrupt. In fact, in comparison, military generals are not much better than civilian officials.
There are almost every general in the local garrison. Corruption is considered normal, but not being corrupt is weird.
The capital camp is only slightly better than the local guard station. After all, it has only been about five years since the capital camp was last reorganized.
But even so, not long ago Chu Yi still dug out hundreds of corrupt generals from the Beijing camp, and now they have been detained on that high platform.
On one side were hundreds of corrupt military generals who had been locked up, and on the other side were piles of millions of taels of white money.
Nearly 100,000 soldiers, old, weak, sick and disabled, gathered on the main campus. Looking at the white money on the high platform, they all wanted to rush forward and snatch away all the money.
After the three drums, Chu Yi, Zhang Mao, Xu Guangzha, Zhu Fu, Han Kun, Shi Kui, Zhang Yu, Cheng Xiangwu and others all appeared on the high platform.
Chu Yi was condescending, and at a glance, he could see densely packed black heads, and a hundred thousand troops. Unfortunately, many of them were old and rickety, which made the hundred thousand troops a bit uncoordinated.
There are even gray-haired soldiers among these large armies. This is the Beijing camp that has undergone a reorganization. Even so, the proportion of strong soldiers is less than half.
It's no wonder that Chu Yi insisted on reorganizing the military camp. On the one hand, he used this method to completely control the military power of the Beijing camp. On the other hand, Chu Yi really wanted to strengthen the Ming army.
There was no peace around the Ming Dynasty. Tatar, Oara, Jianzhou Sanwei, Dongying, Annan, etc. could all be called the disasters of the Ming Dynasty.
Not to mention other things, only when Oara invaded the Ming Dynasty did the disaster of civil forts occur, and when the Tatars invaded the border areas frequently, the Ming Dynasty frontier troops guarded the borders.
As for the three guards of Jianzhou, the Jurchen Yi tribe rebelled and surrendered, then rebelled again and disrupted the land of Liaodong. Although it was not as bad as the Tatars and Oaras, it was still considered a border trouble.
Not to mention the land of Japan. At least a few decades later, Japan produced outstanding figures such as Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Oda Nobunaga, and Tokugawa Ieyasu. Toyotomi Hideyoshi even raised troops to invade North Korea in an attempt to use North Korea as a
Pedal invades the Ming Dynasty.
Not to mention Annan, the British Duke Zhang Fu made three expeditions to Annan. During the Jiajing period, Annan wreaked havoc on the southern part of the Ming Dynasty. Sejong Jiajing sent a large army to suppress it. Mo Dengyong was defeated and presented a letter of surrender.
It can be said that there are disasters on all sides of the Ming Dynasty. If there is not a strong enough army, even the Eastern Empire of the Ming Dynasty may not be able to control it.
Chu Yi took a deep breath and roared loudly: "Generals and soldiers, I, together with Duke Ying, Duke Cheng, Duke Ding, etc., are ordered by the emperor to eliminate the old, weak, sick and disabled, and reorganize the capital camp. Your Majesty is kind and compassionate.
The sergeants of the army are specially given five million taels of silver and 100,000 acres of fertile land to resettle and resettle the dismissed soldiers. Long live your majesty, long live long live."
The soldiers below couldn't help but prostrate themselves with a roar, shouting "Long live the mountain" and the sound shook the Forbidden City.
After the soldiers below calmed down their excitement, Chu Yi said again: "Before this, I will kill a group of scum who are greedy for soldiers' pay and silver in front of all the soldiers. I hope all the soldiers will learn from it."
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While they were talking, the hundreds of military generals who had been traced were dragged up one by one. Many people couldn't help but roared and cursed at Chu Yi: "Eunuch, you will not die well!"
"Eunuch, grandpa is still a good man after eighteen years!"
"Haha, who in the army is not greedy? If you have the ability, just kill all the generals!"
Chu Yi turned a deaf ear to the roars of these people, waved his hand and said: "Behead!"
Suddenly the sword flashed and heads rolled down one by one. Seeing the heads of their former colleagues falling to the ground, white sweat oozed from the foreheads of many generals.
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