Chapter 679 Military Reform! The Prototype of a Powerful Warrior!

Qianqing Palace.

Zhu Gaoxu walked slowly into the imperial study room.

At this moment, Zhu Di's face was very ugly, and he had obviously encountered something unhappy again.

And the "culprit" turned out to be the prince Zhu Gaoxu.

The reason why he asked the Ministry of Punishment to investigate Liu Zhong was to dig a hole for the Ministry of Punishment.

Liu Zhong was like a local emperor in the guard house, and the numerous crimes he committed were countless!

Jin Chun, the Minister of Punishment, has always hated evil and enforced the law impartially. After he found out, he would naturally report it to His Majesty the Emperor and ask His Majesty to make a personal decision.

Zhu Di's impression of Liu Zhong was that he was just a mediocre waste.

So he didn't pay too much attention at first. However, when he saw the crimes committed by Liu Zhong, he became furious instantly. Then he sent Dongchang to personally go to various health clinics in Shandong to investigate and collect evidence to find out the truth.

However, the final result of Dongchang's investigation was simply shocking and even more outrageous than what the Ministry of Punishment found out!

Zhu Di looked at Zhu Gaoxu coldly.

"You traitor!"

"Is this all your work?"

Zhu Gaoxu shrugged and did not deny it.

"The guard system is no longer suitable for the current Ming Dynasty."

"It's just that after all, this is the ancestral system set by Emperor Taizu Gao. Even if it needs to be changed, there is no reasonable excuse."

"So you asked the Ministry of Justice to investigate Liu Zhong and then presented this excuse to me?"

Zhu Di gritted his teeth and looked at his son, wishing he could hang him up and beat him.

"Since you already knew that the guard house was so corrupt, why didn't you tell me in advance?"

"I still remember the merits of Liu Zhong's father and brother, and want to show some mercy to him. It's really unreasonable!"

Zhu Di stared and slapped the desk in anger.

"Since the early years of Hongwu, a large number of deserters have appeared in various military posts!"

"In the 31st year of Hongwu, there were tens of thousands of deserters from the guards, and this was only the registered number!"

"The Ministry of War reports that every year every year, the Imperial Guards in the world go to seize the flags of no more than 16,000 to 7,000 military officers. According to calculations, not one or two of the troops seduced reach the garrison."

"The health system system founded by Grandfather Taizu has become so corrupt!"

No wonder Zhu Di was complacent, these data were really too shocking.

It is not difficult to see from these data that the Tianxia Guard Station is almost half empty. Deserters appear from time to time, and the number of deserters is increasing year by year!

If this continues, I am afraid that within twenty or thirty years, all health centers will be completely empty tomorrow!

Then what else could the imperial court do to guard the four directions, and what else could the Ming use to coerce the barbarians?

"Dad, it's normal for deserters to appear!"

"The farmland of the first guard station is already poor, and they have to pay taxes and grains. If the people go to the guard station, they will be even more miserable than normal farmers. It's strange that they don't escape!"

"The second is hereditary officers such as Liu Zhong. They hold high positions due to the merits of their father and brother, and their descendants inherit the official positions of the guards from generation to generation. Therefore, they have become the same existence as those chieftains in the southwest. They are comparable to the emperors in the guards. They are superior. By oppressing the officers and soldiers, enslaving the soldiers, and plundering the people's fat and anointing, how can the defense be incorruptible?"

"Third, the place of residence of military households is too humble. Among the four types of people, including scholars, farmers, industry and merchants, military households have a peasant registration, but their actual status is even more humble than that of merchants. They are not only poor but also dangerous, and they will face death from time to time. Who can Are you still willing to be a military householder?"

Hearing these reasons, Zhu Di's face was livid.

"What do you want to say, you rebellious son?"

Zhu Gaoxu handed Zhu Di his preliminary draft of the new military structure, and his tone suddenly became serious.

"My soldiers of the Ming Dynasty guarded the borders to protect their homeland when there was no war, and rushed to the battlefield to fight bloody battles to expand the territory when there was war. They should not receive such miserable treatment!"

"Even the common people know that if you want a horse to run, you have to feed it. But what has the court done over the years?"

"The hereditary officers are allowed to enslave and exploit the lower-level officers, and the civilians of the military households are allowed to struggle to survive. The reason why the guard system is corrupt is not only due to hereditary officers such as Liu Zhong, but also to the imperial court and you, the Ming Emperor. It has nothing to do with it!"

Zhu Di stared at Zhu Gaoxu angrily.

"Of course, now is not the time to seek accountability."

"This hereditary system of guarding must be changed. If it is not changed sooner or later, the Ming Dynasty will be ruined!"

Seeing that Zhu Gaoxu changed his words and gave him a step down, Zhu Di's expression softened slightly and he calmly read through Zhu Gaoxu's new military system.

After a brief look, Zhu Di frowned.

"Second brother, is your new military system a little too much?"

"Such a high level of treatment for officers and soldiers, and giving them all kinds of preferential treatment, if it makes them feel arrogant and domineering, or even have thoughts that they shouldn't have, what should we do?"

"And the civil servants and gentry would never agree to giving such preferential treatment to soldiers. This is simply more uncomfortable than killing them!"

Zhu Gaoxu picked up the teacup, took a sip of tea, and said lightly: "Dad, have you forgotten?"

"From now on, the royal family will be responsible for military expenditures, and the civil servants and gentry will have no right to interfere!"

"In other words, how the royal family raises an army is a matter of the royal family, not of the civil servants and gentry!"

"Besides, the army's military expenses and salaries all come from the royal family. UU Reading www.uukanshu.net They will only be more loyal to the royal family, and will not develop arrogant and rebellious thoughts."

"After all, if the soldiers can have enough food, clothing, and monthly pay, who would go crazy and follow others to rebel, ruining their own jobs and peaceful lives?"

After a pause, Zhu Gaoxu joked.

"Dad, you are too small-minded and suffer from persecution delusion. You always feel that there are always people out to harm you."

"But don't forget, the people of the world are still simple. As long as you, the Ming Emperor, can keep them fed, clothed and live in peace and contentment, they will spontaneously support and worship you, even if there are only one or two Ambitious madmen want to take advantage of the situation to cause chaos, and they don’t need to wait for the court to take action, the common people can scold them to death with just a spit of spit!"

"This is the true man who wins the hearts of the people and wins the world!"

Zhu Di's face changed slightly and he nodded subconsciously.

Although this traitor's words are unpleasant, I have to admit that his words still make sense.

If we could truly create a peaceful and prosperous age where people no longer had to bear the burden of corvee taxes, how could anyone rebel?

"In that case, then do what you want!"

"Calling all the generals like Xue Lu and Liu Sheng back, we will inform them of the reform of the military system."

Zhu Gaoxu nodded, he thought so too.

In the Ming Dynasty, those who can fight on the battlefield now are these Jingnan nobles.

As for the group that went to Liaodong to open up wasteland, except for Zhang Fu and Mu Sheng, most of them were the remaining founding nobles. They were in their prime and were far from being comparable to the Jingnan nobles.

Let these founding heroes stay in Liaodong to retire!

The prosperous Ming Dynasty now only needs brave generals who can lead troops in war!