Chapter 46: Long Live Lord is fortunate to inherit the gate of heaven and have fun with the people
"Long lively, the cabinet refused to draw an edict, saying that it was the foundation of Taizu's great edict. It was also the beginning of the turbulent times, and it had to be purged with a heavy punishment. However, in the peaceful and prosperous times, this edict is too strict and no longer suitable. However, what Taizu did dare not abolish, so it was only put aside and should not be reiterated with the imperial edict."
The eunuch sent to pass on oral instructions came back to say.
Wanli, who had already walked into the sedan chair, looked at Yang Feng with a smile.
"Your Majesty should be able to write, right?"
Yang Feng said with a pure face.
"snort!"
Wanli snorted coldly.
Then he signaled to the old eunuch, who quickly turned around and left.
"He will send the imperial edict."
He said.
After saying that, he gestured to Sun Xian.
"Let's get on my way, I will be glad to the Heavenly Gate and have fun with all the people!"
The latter shouted.
Then the sedan chair, which was carried by eight people, was lifted up by eight strong eunuchs. As for the emperor's formal car and ceremonial guards, they were not used. It is obvious that although His Majesty the Emperor was inferior to Yang Feng's tyranny, he did not want to use these ceremonial guards to make it very formal...
He also has dignity.
Fortunately, Yang Feng didn't mind this issue.
"Your Majesty, you, the emperor, are not very famous for being a god-supporting emperor!"
Yang Feng said.
Of course they would not follow the previous route, so they went straight through the three halls and left Jianji Hall. Outside the Jianji Hall is the imperial road leading to Zhongji Hall. In fact, on a high platform, most of the palace can be seen in sight, but there is still a small difference from modern times. Since the construction of this palace has been burned from time to time, even these three halls will be burned soon. Wanli should be coaxed to repair the lightning belt, otherwise the reconstruction of millions of taels would be too expensive. If the reconstruction cost was destroyed by the Apocalypse...
That's useless.
There will be no waves.
It is estimated that you will have to be half the less you leave the capital, which is the routine of receiving military pay at this time.
Although Wang Bao was crazy, he actually had no choice. He could not get a single tael of silver without taking out nearly half a dozen points. Most of the finances of the Ming Dynasty were given military expenses, which showed that it was wrong for the army to lack money. The nine sides theoretically had more than 800,000, actually recruiting more than 500,000 soldiers, and spending more than 10 million in military expenses a year.
but……
This is a cake.
It is not used to defend the country, but to transfer the imperial court to the cash boxes of officials at all levels and military systems in the imperial court.
Everyone moved out of the treasury in the name of military expenditure, and then happily divided it up with me. Finally, they saw that there was still some slag left and repaired the box. After all, it would be bad if it was broken. This is what really fell into the hands of the soldiers.
one third?
I'm afraid it's a tough one!
In the end, this formed a vicious cycle.
If the general wants to get the military pay, he has to handle some of it. The cost of the handling is naturally paid out of the military pay. The amount he received is definitely not enough. Instead of starving the entire army, he will not get any benefits. It is better to just eat the empty salary and spend a lot of money to support a servant with enough combat power to protect himself. On weekdays, he fights with the Mongolian tribes outside the Great Wall to make contributions...
Anyway, all Mongolian tribes were broken into sand, so it was impossible to really gather a large army.
Just hundreds or thousands of cavalrymen.
The battle is at this scale and does not require tens of thousands of field troops to deal with it.
In the end, the Ming army completely lost the ability of large corps field battles.
Small-scale cavalry are not afraid of fighting.
Large-scale wars can only recruit cannon fodder at a sudden attack. Cannon fodder also knows that they are cannon fodder. It is a basic operation to collapse on the battlefield. As long as the generals are protected by servants, they cannot die. When they go back, they falsely report casualties and then receive military pay and pensions to handle the issue first. They will not be punished. Then, in a blink of an eye, they will recruit enough cannon fodder.
Some of the Ming Dynasty had a population, while others could not eat as cannon fodder.
Then go to the battlefield.
Then fail again.
Then do it again.
During this process, the officials involved will gain wealth and even skyrocket. The game will continue to be played until it completely collapses.
The people of the Ming Dynasty couldn't hold on!
Once they play like this, countless people will have to lose their families in order to pay the heavy taxes, become refugees, even hungry people, and even become unruly people or even mobs, and finally completely overturn the table with this corrupt court.
Stop playing.
"Yang Yishi, the court has the rules of the court. This imperial edict has always been drafted by the cabinet. The official ritual is just a seal, but it still needs to be handed over to six departments to see if there are any omissions. After all, if there are omissions, it is easy to cause chaos."
Sun Xian said with a smile.
"I understand. As long as I have six subjects, I can still call it back if I don't like the emperor's imperial edict."
Yang Feng said.
Sun Xian smiled awkwardly.
"In fact, even if the six departments have passed, it is useless. After all, the six departments can submit their opinions and oppose them, and the Censorate will join in the opposition. If they really don't care about them, they can draw the imperial seal, but it is really useless. After all, no matter what they do, they have to pass through the court. The young people took the imperial edict to pass the imperial edict. After the imperial edict was passed, no one would do it, or even if the person who received the imperial edict wanted to do it, the imperial edict would not give money, the local area would not help, and it would be useless to ask for people, no one to ask for money or money.
The court has the rules of the court, and both inside and outside the palace and outside the palace will follow the rules as they should. Only by being harmonious can the government be smooth."
He continued.
"What's the point of using the emperor? The cabinet, the rank of the rank of the six departments will be done by themselves. It doesn't matter whether it's the emperor or a puppet on the throne!"
Yang Feng said.
Wanli snorted coldly in the sedan chair next to him.
"No, without Long Live Nodding, even if the cabinet has drafted an order, the Chief Li Zheng dared not execute the seal!"
Sun Xian quickly scolded him angrily.
They just moved forward and walked out of the Huangji Palace...
"What are you looking at? Your Majesty is fortunate to Chengtian Gate and share the joy with all the people. Why don't you open the door quickly!"
Yang Feng stood beside the sedan chair and shouted.
"Your Majesty, I dare not obey the order of death. More than 100,000 unruly people and soldiers gathered outside the Meridian Gate. Even if Your Majesty protects the gods, these people are all desperate. If someone is rude to Your Majesty, I am afraid that there will be something I dare not say, and my body of gold will not take risks. Your Majesty is in the world and must not take risks. I ask Your Majesty to return to the Qianqing Palace. Even if I fight to the end, I will not let the rebels step through the Meridian Gate."
The general guarding the Huangji Sect saluted in front of the sedan chair in Wanli and said.
Then Yang Feng became in front of him.
"Your Majesty, have you issued an order to open the door?"
Yang Feng turned around and asked.
Wanli nodded silently.
The next moment, Yang Feng roared and suddenly kicked the general's chest. The latter's nearly 200-pound body immediately flew backwards, like a dead pig, and instantly flew several meters, then fell directly on the stone floor. Then he twitched and blood flowed out of the corner of his mouth.
Then he never moved again.
Yang Feng maintained a side kicking posture, looking proudly at the frightened generals and soldiers...
"This is the end of the opposition!"
He said grimly.
"Quick, open the door!"
Chapter completed!