Wanli Youming

Chapter 231 Conquest of the Japanese is imminent, and the army is stationed in Busan!

Chapter 231 Conquest of the Japanese is imminent, and the army is stationed in Busan!

Not long after, Zhu Yijun received Ye Shixin's memorial to ask the imperial court to grant Ding Yinjuan immunity in areas where large-scale Japanese invasion occurs in the future.

"In this matter, I will think about the people, let's send it to the cabinet, and put his name on the screen."

Zhu Yijun also said something with a smile.

The cabinet's plan for Ye Shixin's memorandum and bills was discussed by the Ministry of Households, and it was asked to consider how to use this matter to avoid Japanese troubles.

After the discussion of the Ministry of Household Affairs, Fu Ben said, it is suggested that only half of the money should be exempted, and the half collected should be used as rewards for officials and people who have contributed to the Japanese invasion, so as to encourage the people to actively guard against the Japanese invasion because of not paying the small silver. thing.

After Zhu Yijun read it, he didn't say anything, but still asked the supervisor of ceremonies to send the Ministry of Household's proposal to the cabinet.

The cabinet voted again that it was feasible.

Only then did Zhu Yijun get the supervisor of ceremonies to approve the red, and then formed an imperial decree.

During the whole process, the emperor Zhu Yijun didn't have to make specific comments himself, but was only responsible for whether or not the comments drafted by the cabinet finally became an imperial decree.

This can be regarded as greatly reducing Zhu Yijun's workload, and it also makes the handling of a government affairs more reasonable and more practical.

It's not just Ye Shixin's memorials.

The whole war of conquest of Japan did not end with Zhu Yijun personally doing specific things. After he had already approved the request of the Privy Council to conquer the Kingdom of Japan, the bureaucratic group represented by the Privy Council began to carry out the conquest of the Kingdom of Japan in an orderly manner. thing.

As early as the eighth year of Wanli, the Privy Council requested that Wu Weizhong be able to contact the North Korean government cheaply, and solicit the power of Korean people and material resources.

Finally, after the court discussion in the Political Affairs Hall, Zhu Yijun decreed in March of that year that Wu Weizhong, as the governor of the capital and the censor of the capital of the right, was appointed as the envoy of the military and civilians of Xuanfu North Korea and the commander-in-chief of North Korea, referred to as North Korea. Xuanfu envoy and North Korean military officer.

Among Wu Weizhong's official titles, there is a Youqin capital censor who belongs to a civil position, so that Wu Weizhong can manage the civil affairs of the garrison in North Korea, and has the power to directly impeach the North Korean vassals, so as to make the North Korean vassals more able to cooperate with the Japanese expropriation. thing.

This can be regarded as the situation where military generals hang civilian posts again in Daming.

Originally, this situation only happened in the early Ming Dynasty, and now it reappears, which can be regarded as making the civil and military relations of the Ming Dynasty really tend to be civil and military, instead of the civil and military control since the Tumubao.

Of course, Zhu Yijun's ruling ministers are willing to increase the power of military officials in this way, only because Wu Weizhong is working in a foreign domain, which is a special situation, so they are willing to do so. Lord, their grudge against Wuchen has nothing to do with it.

Because they pay more attention to cultivating military officials and strengthening the country's martial arts, rather than sacrificing the national martial arts in order to restrict military officials.

In addition, Qi Jiguang also ended the official position of Prime Minister Ji Liao in the ninth year of Wanli, and was promoted to the left governor of the Chinese military governor's office and the deputy envoy of the privy, the right servant of the Ministry of war, the right deputy capital censor, and the military affairs of Japan and Japan. The commander in chief of the battle, and went to Busan that year, and set up his own economic office in Busan.

In order to win the war against Japan as much as possible, Zhu Yijun and his ruling ministers did indeed make the most enlightened decision to let Qi Jiguang directly serve as the commander-in-chief, and he also served as a civilian. Constrained the matter of recruiting Japanese.

After all, among the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty today, there are not many governor-level civil officials who are familiar with the war against the Japanese. Hu Zongxian, Wang Yan, Tan Lun and others have passed away.

Therefore, Zhu Yijun and his ministers Zhang Juzheng, Fang Fengshi and others directly asked Qi Jiguang to take command in person.

Just like in history, Zhang Juzheng and Tan Lun directly asked Qi Jiguang to be the commander-in-chief of the Jiliao towns.

However, it was not that the Ming court did not send civil servants to participate in the war against the Japanese. Song Yingchang, who was involved in the military affairs of Zuowei, came to Pusan ​​at this time because he was ordered to patrol the army to praise the painting.

Busan.

Outside the expanded port, there are thousands of sails, barns like forests, and flags flying.

"Turn it! Don't stop!"

"If you hold your breath underwater, let me hold it for a while longer."

"The strong wind is coming right now, let me get on the boat and run around!"

At the same time, there are also a large number of officers and soldiers of the Ming army receiving all the training here to adapt to water combat and landing operations.

In addition, a large number of local Korean civilians were recruited here, and under the supervision of the Ming army, new branch cities and branch roads were built.

Song Yingchang, who was going to see Qi Jiguang with Wu Weizhong, was watching this scene with a calm expression, and when he saw a Korean man carrying bags of grain on his shoulders, he couldn't help but whispered to Wu Weizhong: "The Privy Council Prime Minister Fang Shu asked me to tell Yu Gong."

After hearing this, Wu Weizhong asked, "What do you have to say, Prime Minister?"

"What the Prime Minister means is that although the imperial court is not short of money and food, it can't waste the country's money. The military pay and food for the public should be as frugal as possible, especially for the Korean civilians they use, and they don't have to be treated the same as their own civilians."

"After all, right now, the imperial court still needs to exempt a large number of its own people. Once there are Japanese pirates who really invade the southeast, they will have to exempt Ding Yin on a large scale. In addition, the imperial court has suspended the matter of reducing troops, but it wants to reduce the burden on the people. Taxes, it can be said that the expenditure has not decreased, but in order to prevent the state funds donated by the New Deal from being greatly reduced, the balance can be supported for a few more years. Here, it is necessary to allocate as little as possible to Korean civilians. After all, the Son of Heaven has allowed us to treat the Han people and the barbarians differently."

"Because these things are not easy to see on the stage, you can only entrust me to pass on the message, and it is not appropriate to report to the public by private letter."

Song Yingchang said at this time.

Wu Weizhong nodded after hearing this: "Please reassure the Prime Minister! For the recruited Korean civilian husbands, I have ordered that they will only be treated like long-term workers among the people of my dynasty."

"So cruel?!"

Song Yingchang was very surprised when he heard this, and asked again: "Then why do these Korean civilian husbands seem to be quite active in their work?!"

"I don't know what to tell you. Before these Korean peasants worked for our army, they were not as good as our long-term workers in the Celestial Dynasty."

Wu Weizhong said.

"Kowtow to Xuanfu!"

At this time, Liu Xilin, the North Korean criminal who came to Busan to condolences to the Celestial Army, came back from seeing Qi Jiguang, and happened to meet Wu Weizhong and Song Yingchang, so he knelt down and saluted.

After Wu Weizhong asked Liu Xilin to get up, he asked, "Why did you come to see Qi Shuai?"

Liu Xilin said: "Returning to Xuanfu, I'm here to see Jinglue about recruiting Korean civilian husbands, and at the same time I'm here to condolence to the Heavenly Army according to His Highness's order."

Wu Weizhong asked: "About recruiting Korean civilian husbands?"

"Yes, because the Celestial Dynasty is too kind to our common people!"

"Once those ordinary people are recruited as civilian husbands, the Xuanfu Department actually asks them to use rations of one liter and five times a day. They eat meat every other day in summer and autumn, and eat meat every other day in winter and spring. This is really easy to be arrogant. I am a Korean commoner!"

"They are not worthy of being petty people in a vassal state. After all, how can they compare with the people of the heaven."

Liu Xilin replied.

Song Yingchang couldn't help asking from the side: "Is this considered good?"

Liu Xilin asked back: "Shangguan, isn't this not good?"

"Do you know that because the Heavenly Army gave high treatment to civilian husbands, many slaves from wealthy households fled here one after another and became civilian husbands, even many officials and craftsmen ran here, instead of building ships for their own kingdoms, they came to work for the Heavenly Army. shipbuilding."

As he said that, Liu Xilin cupped his hands to Wu Weizhong and said, "Right now, the people of North Korea call Xuanfu a bodhisattva! But just, please don't give Xuanfu too much blessings to them! Their lives are cheap! It's not as good as the people of the heavens, who have taken too much responsibility. Fortune will shorten their lives!"

"Give them a dry meal, and that's about it."

"After the minister told Yu Qi Shuai, Qi Shuai only told Yu Xuanfu to let Xuanfu decide for you."

"Therefore, I just ask Xuanfu not to give them such good treatment, and it is best not to let them receive the wages."

"As long as Xuanfu agrees to do so, His Highness is willing to let all the government offices in the country take the initiative to recruit more civilians for Xuanfu, so that the Heavenly Army can build more military stations between Uiju and Busan."

Because there is a big gap between the Ming Dynasty and North Korea’s national economy, and the North Korean ruling class is now in a stage of fierce party struggle, political corruption is serious, and no one is actively reforming, which is roughly equivalent to the late Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty in history. Time is severely exploited.

In comparison, the Ming Dynasty at this time was in the early Wanli period. Because of the reforms, the prosperity of the ZTE emerged, and the merger and exploitation of the powerful were suppressed. Therefore, it was an era when the national economy was developing rapidly, the people were poor, and the quality of life was greatly improved.

Therefore, it seems that even if the Ming army stationed in Busan gave the North Korean people the worst treatment they understood, it was still too much in the eyes of North Korean officials.

After Liu Xilin spoke, Song Yingchang smiled at Liu Xilin and said, "Although you are only a minister of the vassal state, you are a capable minister!"

"Then this court will halve the treatment and wages of these North Korean civilian husbands! But you have to take the initiative to recruit more civilian husbands for this court."

Wu Weizhong said.

Liu Xilin was a little disappointed after hearing this: "Why do you still want to pay wages to the untouchables in this country?"

"This is impossible. I also want to not give out any cents, and let your peasants donate money to help the army! But, don't give out at all. You let my merchants from the Celestial Dynasty send the cotton cloth after they come here. To whom?"

(End of this chapter)