After hearing Yuan Keli's words, Sun Chengzong turned his head to look at him, and smiled and said, "You are really good. By this time, you will still have such little thoughts."

Yuan Keli sighed and said helplessly: "I am not like you. Sometimes I have to move such thoughts."

"Okay, listen to you." Sun Chengzong thought for a while and said, "You will recommend this Sun Chuanting."

Seeing that Sun Chengzong had understood what he meant, Yuan Keli smiled and said, "It's natural that it's best."

After the two of them discussed, Yuan Keli left. It was getting late and he was not suitable to stay here anymore.

When Yuan Keli left, Sun Chengzong also went to rest.

By the next day, the news spread completely.

All officials in the court, both big and small, were talking about this matter. Many people were thinking about this newly established staff office, and obviously they wanted to get a share of the pie.

At the same time, Zhu Youxiao summoned Chen Sihai in Xiyuan.

After looking at Chen Sihai who was a little tired, Zhu Youxiao said, "You look very tired. You are very busy these days, right? You should also pay attention to rest. Your health is very important."

"I thank you for your concern. I am not tired." Chen Sihai said quickly, of course, this was just a saying.

Chen Sihai was very busy during this period, so how could he not be tired?

Chen Sihai followed Zhu Youxiao's imperial edict and began to survey the garrisons in various places, and was very busy.

Zhu Youxiao glanced at Chen Sihai and asked, "Then let's talk about it, how is the situation."

After hearing Zhu Youxiao's words, Chen Sihai's expression became serious and said in a deep voice: "Reporting to Your Majesty, it can only be said to be shocking. The garrison in the Ming Dynasty is probably rotten to the bottom."

After saying this, Chen Sihai did not speak, but looked up at Zhu Youxiao.

After spending so many years in the officialdom, Chen Sihai knew very well that there was a very important principle in the officialdom, that is, to report good news but not bad news.

If you report good news, you may receive rewards; but if you report bad news, you may not only not receive rewards, but you may also bring yourself in.

What I found this time was shocking, and the people below could be said to be crazy.

Under such circumstances, if you tell the truth in front of His Majesty, it is very likely that His Majesty will not be able to accept it.

If His Majesty had asked the Tongzheng Department to investigate many major cases, even punished King Fu, and thoroughly investigated the Henan officialdom, Chen Sihai would not have dared to think of such a thing at all.

Even if you dare to say it, you can only be a careful test.

Seeing that Chen Sihai was not speaking, Zhu Youxiao looked up at him and said in a casual tone: "Say it, why don't you say it? Don't dare to say it?"

After saying this, Zhu Youxiao laughed first.

Then he waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, in this deep palace, no one tells me the truth if I want to know something. I ask you to investigate because I want to hear the truth."

"So what you say, but it doesn't matter. It's not a bad thing you did. Why do you feel guilty?"

"Yes, your Majesty."

With Zhu Youxiao’s words, Chen Sihai felt much more at ease.

Since the time of his ascension to the throne, His Majesty has killed many people, and the reputation outside is not very good, and some people say that the tyrants and tyrants have also said that.

But those who do things in person know in their hearts that although Your Majesty has no rules in doing things, he also kills a lot of people. But one thing is that Your Majesty never blames people randomly, and even if there is really something, he will not use his ministers to block the knife.

The ministers who do things have a clear idea. As for whether Duke Cheng and others have been cheated, it doesn't matter at all. Those people are not the only ones who do things.

So when Chen Sihai heard what Zhu Youxiao said, he could still feel at ease. So he said, "Your Majesty, the time is still short. I just checked the garrisons in two provinces including Shandong and Henan. What I found was already scared. These people are really too brave."

Zhu Youxiao didn't care, so he leaned on the chair, shook it gently, and said, "Tell me, let's see what good things these people have done."

"Yes, Your Majesty." Chen Sihai said quickly: "After I surveyed, I found that the most common thing these people did was to embezzle public land."

The fields in the Ming Dynasty included public and private fields.

Public land belongs to the court, and there is a part of the local government, but most of it is in the hands of the army, because this is a system invented by Zhu Yuanzhang, called the military farming system.

The military farm system is implemented in the military farm system, and it can be said that military farming is the basis of military farming.

Every army will have a lot of fields, fighting in wartime and farming in their spare time. Part of the land production is handed over to the court and part of it is left for the army to use for their own use.

In this way, the court does not have to allocate military rations to the army, which is a good thing. On weekdays, the army can also reclaim land by itself and expand its own land.

It seems that it is a matter of mutual benefit. The court increases its income and reduces its burden, and the army can also be self-sufficient. At the same time, it is matched with the hereditary monarchy system, and the army's population and land are not mobilized, which is stable enough.

But the problem arises.

Farming requires a lot of energy. If you don’t fight for many years, most military households can only farm.

And those hereditary officers can start from the food and even turn public fields into their own land. This kind of thing is common.

The court also needed people to fight, which evolved into two armies, military households and private soldiers. Although they were nominally the army of the Ming Dynasty, they were not the case in fact.

The so-called private soldiers are actually the army adopted by hereditary generals. They use the land output and the money they embezzled to raise some elite soldiers. If the court needs to fight, then they will use these people to fight.

Since everyone you choose is chosen, you naturally have to choose your own people and your confidant, so you are a private soldier.

After several generations of development, the imperial court's orders were sometimes not good. This is why the army in the late Ming Dynasty sometimes refused to listen to greetings, because they were all private soldiers of generals. When fighting against the outside world, the generals did not want to sacrifice private soldiers and would be afraid of fighting.

As for the remaining military users, they only had farming grounds. However, the food they planted did not belong to them. Every day, they even had no clothes to cover their bodies and could not fill their stomachs, and a large number of deserters appeared.

These deserters were refugees. Later, the peasant uprising in Shaanxi was so powerful because there were a large number of deserters.

It can be said that this system has completely collapsed.

Zhu Youxiao knew very well that he asked Chen Sihai to investigate just to touch the bottom. So no matter how bad the situation was, he could accept it.

"What about besides embezzling public land?" Zhu Youxiao looked at Chen Sihai and asked.

"Report to Your Majesty, these people embezzle food and salary, and basically every part of them has empty salary. The most serious situation is a garrison in Shandong. It has a 12,000 staff, but only more than 4,000 people."

"Shocking, crazy, these people deserve to die."

"Where are the others?" Zhu Youxiao looked at Chen Sihai and asked slowly.

You should know that these posts are full, which means there should be so many people. Now that these people are gone, where are they?

"Everyone escaped." Chen Sihai said a little embarrassedly: "I asked someone to go and investigate. Tens of thousands of refugees in Jingxiang and other places are pouring in every year. It even continues to Shaanxi. There are refugees everywhere in the mountains, and all of them are fleeing households."

"Most of them are the people who have lost their land, and a large part are military households. After these military households escaped, the generals in the local area concealed and did not report them, and they just took empty wages. Everyone was full of energy and they were full of energy, which showed corruption."

Zhu Youxiao looked at Chen Sihai and nodded and said, "I have thought of it."

In fact, this situation has always happened.

Why couldn’t the Southeast fight against Japanese pirates?

Is it really because of the high combat effectiveness of Japanese pirates?

No, this is the reason. On the one hand, if the generals do not fight private soldiers, those military households have long become farmers who farm. What kind of war can they fight?

If you don’t have enough food every day, don’t wear warm clothes and go hungry, and you will be bullied by your superiors. How can you live your life?

There are old people and young people above and young people above, it is not realistic for you to let them play to their lives.

Qi Jiguang has done nothing, let alone other people?

However, Qi Jiguang was experiencing empty salary to raise soldiers. Although the military salary of 100,000 people was not left, the military salary of 50,000 people in Qi Jiguang's hands could not be left.

So we simply need to organize 200,000 people and then give 100,000 military pay. In this way, we can embezzle 100,000 military pay, and everyone in the upper and lower levels will be happy.

The Ming Dynasty was corrupt to this point and the army was so rotten, which shows that it was obvious.

Listening to Chen Sihai report to himself one by one, appointing others to oppress the people, treating military households as slaves, and spitting blood in everything that makes the emperor angry. It can be seen how bad the army of the Ming Dynasty has been.

This is also the reason why the Ming army cannot defeat the peasant army. Because as the army is fighting, it becomes a peasant army, and there is nothing to say.

Chen Sihai said while secretly looking at Zhu Youxiao, with a very hesitant expression on his face.

He originally thought that His Majesty would be furious, but he didn't expect His Majesty to have no reaction and his expression was still so dull. This made Chen Sihai feel a little confused if he should continue talking.

"Isn't it?" Zhu Youxiao looked at Chen Sihai and asked slowly.

After hearing Zhu Youxiao's words, Chen Sihai hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, there are also local military households colluding with local gentry to divide public fields together. The situation is very serious."

"At the same time, let the military households help the gentry farm, and the food grown by the military households will be divided by the generals and the gentry."

"Employed mercenary households have less food than ordinary tenants. Even so, these foods cannot be reached by the military households. They all enter the hands of those generals."

After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao slowly sat up and said with a smile: "This is really a slave to our Ming Dynasty military households, what a good job!"

Although His Majesty was laughing and his tone was quite emotional, Chen Sihai still heard the coldness, but this was exactly what Chen Sihai hoped.

After seeing the report handed over by his subordinates, Chen Sihai was so angry that he trembled!

These people are simply digging the roots of the Ming Dynasty!

Zhu Youxiao looked at Chen Sihai and said with a smile: "Confucianism emphasizes the doctrine of the mean. Do not act too quickly in everything, but should do it slowly."

"The same is true for reforms. You cannot act too quickly. You need to make fine adjustments. The so-called "new three years, old three years, and another three years of sewing and repairing, but I don't know how many years can the Ming Dynasty be sewn and repaired?"

After hearing Zhu Youxiao's words, Chen Sihai knelt on the ground with a thud and said, "Your Majesty, you can't sew and patch it anymore! One day, sew and patch it will be useless, and it will be too late at that time!"

"I ask Your Majesty to let me investigate thoroughly." As he said that, Chen Sihai touched the ground with his head.

"You will lose your life." Zhu Youxiao looked at Chen Sihai and said with a burning look: "Do you know how many people are involved in this? I'm afraid I can't stand it if it really makes a fuss."

"Someone has told me that anti-corruption cannot be rushed. If you don't fight corruption, you can still hold on for a few years; but if you fight corruption, you may lose your country. Do you think I should make this determination?"

"Your Majesty, the Ming Dynasty has reached a critical survival and death, so don't wait any longer." Chen Sihai said again.
To be continued...