Following Wanquandushi to enter the busy farming industry, the flag army of Zhuwei was getting used to Chen Mu's training manual bit by bit. In Chen Mu's opinion, the most intuitive feeling was that the flag army was punished for violating discipline.

From tens of thousands of punishment records in January to thousands of times now, this is a gratifying progress.

Under Chen Mu's strict order, the busy farming this year was not related to the affairs of the army, and it was all about the rest of the army to work, because there were more flag troops in Wanquandushi. In the past few months, the commanders of each guard were busy with the gou army, rushing to show his magical powers to gou army.

The "Flag Army Training Manual" sets strict quantitative assessment standards for flag troops in various positions, but there is no assessment for commanders. Chen Mu's assessment of commanders this year is - depending on who has more flag troops under his command. Once a monthly count is made, the most progress will be rewarded and meritorious, and the least progress will be punished and the rewarded commanders will be given to the rewarded commanders.

He was punished three times in a row and changed the commander.

There are too many commanders in Xuanfu, and each guard has no less than ten commanders waiting for this position. Chen Mu does not produce commanders, he is just a porter of the commander.

With more flag troops, there are more military surplus, and the military fields are still so large. This means that this year, the Xuanfu Wanquandu Department will pay less taxes to the Xuanfu local area. Chen Mu has already reported this matter to the matter. Governor Wang Chonggu had nothing to say, so he directly criticized Chen Mu.

I have never seen any general officer who can take office with his own military expenses. This is the only one. In the spring, the Ministry of Personnel needed to pay 30,000 taels of silver to the Xuanfu Beijing, because Chen Mu's appointment was no longer needed.

The Xuanfu just paid the March military pay owed to the 30,000 battalions last year. Wang Chonggu was so worried that he thought about Chen Mu had just made a fortune with coal balls, so he sent someone to send a letter to ask Chen Mu whether the Xuanfu could provide ten months of military pay in the future. General Chen would pay for the coal money for two months.

When the letter was delivered, General Chen had already handed over the military pay for the first two months of this year, 60,000 taels of silver, and he would send it at any time without any refusal. He also reported that the local camps of Xuanfu will be managed by Xuanfu for eight months in the future, and will be paid by Wanquandushi in January, February, June and July every year.

In addition, the Xuanfu clearly reduced the number of troops in the face of 20,000, from 130,000 to 110,000, eliminating the empty salary and reducing the pressure on the court.

This incident made Wang Chonggugang's kindness towards Chen Mu become cautious in a blink of an eye. This is a rocket, and you will never imagine where he will fly and explode.

There are two capitals and 13 provinces in the imperial court, and there is no matter where you have nothing to eat? There are no matter where you have nothing to eat nothing to eat? Everyone knows it.

But who dares to take care of it, who can take care of it?

This is a joint problem. It is not something that can be explained clearly by a general who is corruption alone. It is a chain nature. The Ministry of Revenue provides insufficient salary, and the military soldiers will not be able to make up for the vacancies when they die in battle. The Ministry of War is unwilling to clear the Qing army, and the local government is even more reluctant to get a small salary, and then there will be no salary.

If only corruption is the case, this matter would have been resolved long ago!

The key reason is that the Xuanfu sergeants were 130,000. When did the Ministry of Revenue really pay 130,000? What he paid will always be 50,000 or 60,000 or 80,000 or 90,000 yuan in the year, and the two are both worth one. In fact, the purpose is to try not to let the soldiers who sacrifice their heads and sprinkle blood go hungry and freeze?

But Wang Chonggu knew that any governor knew that using this method of solving problems with policies and countermeasures was just a way to quench thirst.

One day, when the court's finances are even more difficult, I found that you can get 130,000 soldiers and soldiers to receive 70,000 salary. Can I get 30,000? Then, can I just get over it if I don't pay you this year?

Well, I will use the money in a more important place first.

If this really happens, who can provide the court with the support?

No one.

But who can blame this? Blame the general, the governor, and the Ministry of Revenue? This is not the Ministry of Revenue. The court just has no money. The annual tax revenue is quite high, but it spends more. Every time the count is a deficit, and the Ministry of Revenue does not make money, that is a place where the east wall is demolished and the west wall is repaired. Everyone can ask for money when they have no money, but who should the Ministry of Revenue ask for money?

Even if he killed the Minister of Revenue, he had no money.

In Chen Mu's eyes, Zhang Han is a microcosm of the Ming Dynasty officials. Everyone can feel the crisis. The officials in the border areas have their own personal enemy of the southern Japanese and northern Japanese, and the important officials of the national capital have bad financial crises. The Mongolian barbarians in the north often invade, rebellions in the south frequently occur, and the Yellow River that repeatedly breaks.

Why don’t you use all the major plans for a century, just focus on some small profits for three or five years?

Because the entire Ming Dynasty, from the king to the minister, was trembling and trembling, and who would dare to think about what happened a hundred years later?

Now I can’t live for three or five years!

But is it okay to be like Chen Mu?

In a letter sent to General Zhenshuo, Zhang Juzheng pointed out incisively that Chen Mu was inappropriate in doing so, which would increase local power and affect the stability of the center. This is not a good medicine to save the country, but just another level of light on the office and focus on private doors.

It’s just that this private sect is not Zhao Qian, Sun Li, but his Chen family.

Although Chen Mu had the General Seal, he was not a famous general in the hearts of the cabinet ministers. This young young man who had never won the civil service fame and fortune was divided into the scope of "capable ministers" in the eyes of Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng.

What is a famous general? It was like Qi Jiguang and Ma Fang, who gave orders and resources from the court. He trained his troops so that no one dared to attack the places where he guarded and used political power to solve military problems.

Is Chen Mu?

He didn't. If it weren't for the peace negotiation environment, Chen Mu was at most a good general. The place he guarded would be the most serious conflict between the two sides. He could win by relying on the power of guns and cannons.

But it is not a good person who wins every battle.

That's a big bastard who wastes money and wastes money.

Chen Mu did not fight in the place where he was in charge of solving problems. In March, he reduced the number of troops from Xuanfu by 20,000, leaving the court with 100,000 taels of silver. Moreover, he did a good job in training troops to prevent the enemy from fighting the enemy - this is a capable minister.

The method is a bit non-mainstream, so the cabinet ministers are confused. Will you be confused if you keep doing this? Should you be more stable first?

Chen Mu said in his reply to Zhang Juzheng: I know that this is not a solution, but at this moment, the talent of innovation is still constrained and cannot take off. Before the six things of the cabinet Chen master were accomplished, he would only work hard to survive with this temporary measure.

Perhaps only when writing letters to Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng, Chen Mu's sense of crisis about this land could be slightly revealed, because they have enough talent and talents, and are in the corresponding place, and can see the tip of the iceberg of the crisis.

"General, what is this?"

When Chen Mu handed his manuscript to Zhao Shizhen and asked him to copy a copy and send someone to the capital, Zhao Shizhen pointed to the large piece of ink stains that were covered at the end of the letter and asked.

Chen Mu smiled and said, "There are always some things in his heart that are not enough for outsiders to say. It's okay, you go and copy it, just don't worry about where you are."

Seeing Zhao Shizhen nodding and blew the letter and sitting in the master's seat of the study, Chen Mu opened the window and let the cold spring breeze pave the flowers in the yard bloom.

There are some words you can't help but not say, but he can't write them down and enjoy it in his heart.

Chen Mu once wrote this under the ink stains cut from the manuscript.

"You and the emperor, drink more milk and take less aphrodisiacs."
Chapter completed!