Hearing this, the other ministers looked at the emperor and thought to themselves, let alone disbanding on the spot, otherwise these military households would not be able to fight, but the local area would be in trouble! In the former Song Dynasty, even causing trouble for idle people, they were organized into wing troops.

When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he smiled slightly and said, "It is not enough to rely on yamen runners and officials in the local area. There must be a basic army to maintain public order. The combat power may be inferior to that of recruiting troops, but it should be no problem to be stronger than local thieves."

When he heard this, Shen Yongmao was stunned for a while. After all, wasn’t it a matter of eliminating the military system of the garrison?

Emperor Chongzhen ignored him and continued to explain: "My idea is to streamline the military forces of the garrison, eliminate the weak and retain the strong, and to form a new local army to maintain local public order. The military pay is also calculated according to the battalion sentry."

As soon as he heard this, Bi Ziyan, the Minister of Revenue, immediately stepped out and opposed it: "Your Majesty, it's probably inappropriate to do this. Although there are many military troops in the country, the number must be huge. How can the court bear the military pay expenses?"

As for the current military pay expenses of the border army, the court actually barely supported it. Thanks to the past two years, it seems that wars have been made. Otherwise, the little money that was found by searching the Shanxi merchants would have been exhausted long ago.

Shen Yongmao also had objections and followed the remark: "Your Majesty, all the low-level military officers in the garrison are hereditary. If they are streamlined, some of them will have officials but not soldiers. As far as the whole country is concerned, there are a large number of such people. How can they be placed?"

It is a good thing to ask questions. Emperor Chongzhen nodded and said to them with a smile: "There are military fields in various places. These military fields can be rented out. The income is used to support the army. After simplifying, I believe that it can be afforded, right?"

Bi Ziyan was stunned when he heard this. Isn’t this not changing? He still uses military farming to support his army. But looking back, it’s really different. The army in this place no longer has military farming, and the fields are rented out for others to plant. According to this calculation, it seems that it can be calculated. There should be no need for the court to allocate additional funds to this new recruiting army.

On the other hand, when Emperor Chongzhen said this, his eyes left Bi Ziyan, looked at Shen Yongmao, and then looked at the senior officials of the Zuodu Censorate and other Censorate Office. He continued to say calmly: "Those who have been streamlined are mostly old and weak, and they cannot fight, but they can do other things. If the low-level military positions are eliminated, they will do so."

"Please make it clear, how do these old and weak deal with it?" Shen Yongmao asked immediately with concern.

After hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen did not directly answer Shen Yongmao's question. Instead, he turned his mind and looked at Zuo Du Censor and others and said, "I have issued a strict order before. The censor and civil servants will not be allowed to report the news. In order to prohibit our Ming party struggles and internal energy. However, from this, the Censorate has complained about this, so how can we exercise the power of supervision..."

When the emperor suddenly mentioned this, the people from the Censorate looked at each other and didn't understand the intention for a while. Isn't this talking about the reform of the military system of the garrison? Why did this matter be mentioned again?

However, even though they thought so, they were not repulsive. According to the emperor's words, they seemed to have to come up with a solution. A smarter person, in contact with what the emperor said before, guessed something in his heart.

Sure enough, I heard Emperor Chongzhen continue to say: "My Ming Dynasty not only has a vast territory and a large population, but also the highest number of all dynasties! As a result, the number of affairs is far beyond that of all dynasties. However, the Ming Dynasty, the supervisors and censors of the two capitals were all included, and there were only 140 people. They were in charge of the money, grain, salt, soldiers and other matters of the thirteen provinces in the two capitals. In the local area, there was only the provincial level of the provincial criminal supervision envoy. I think that the supervision system has too few people, which seriously hindered the impartial supervision responsibility of the supervision system... "

When he heard this, the ministers of the Censorate could not help but be overjoyed. They all heard that the emperor was going to add people to them, and he would no longer be just a bare official in the future!

As expected, Emperor Chongzhen suddenly raised his voice a little, and he said in a summary: "So, I decided to transfer some of the troops eliminated from the garrison army to the supervision system, enrich the supervision yamen and serve as minions. In addition, in the local area, the supervision yamen should also go to the county yamen level to supervise the local area."

As soon as he finished speaking, Wen Tiren, the chief assistant who had been in the form of a clay bodhisattva, suddenly spoke and bowed and said, "Your Majesty's move is a good strategy that has never been seen in previous dynasties. You should be able to rectify the rules and regulations of the Ming Dynasty. I really admire it!"

Almost at the same time, Cao Huachun, the eunuch who was also the director of the Clay Bodhisattva Prefecture, also responded: "Your Majesty's plan is to benefit the country and the people, and I am really convinced!"

"..." When the other officials in Wenhua Palace saw it, they immediately understood that the two old foxes must have known it in advance, so when the emperor draws the conclusion, they immediately expressed their support.

The Zuodu Censor and others came to their senses first, overjoyed, and immediately expressed their support for this decision. For them, this greatly enhanced their power. In the future, the yamen of the Censorship will no longer be empty yamen, but like the six ministries, even bigger than them, because according to the emperor's wishes, this will be at the county level.

Although this decision was not very satisfactory for other officials, the conflict of interest was not large. The officials in Wenhua Hall were all the highest officials of the Ming Dynasty and were all in the capital. No matter what the Censorate, they were supervised and could be impeached at any time.

To be honest, it is indeed a good thing for the emperor to accept the power of censors and clerks to report the news. As for the staff to be assigned to the Censorate and the establishment of a normal supervisory yamen, it is not unacceptable.

Relatively speaking, local governments will feel uncomfortable in the future. After all, in the past, the inspectors were only once, and as long as they were dealing with it, they would be fine. But from then on, the supervision yamen would have to be opened to the county level and be permanently stationed in the yamen. If you want to do anything, you have to be careful that the supervision yamen stared at the side, and it was far less comfortable than before.

However, the local government did not have the right to speak in the court, and the senior officials in the Wenhua Hall had the final say.

Now the people in Wenhua Hall probably understood the general framework of Emperor Chongzhen's military reform. They suddenly understood that the emperor probably had this idea for a long time, so they had been doing it before, and they had trained the new army as an example, took back the power of news and reports as a foreshadowing, opened a maritime ban to allocate taxes, and included officials in the official system, etc.

This reform was an innovation that was not seen in the previous dynasty, but it seemed natural. I thought it was difficult to reform as hard as climbing to heaven, but the emperor's strategy was also possible. The details in the middle made the ministers amazed.

Unexpectedly, it was not over yet, but Emperor Chongzhen began to explain again.

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Chapter completed!