“What did Zhang Baoban say?

In the second half of May, the eunuchs who could get close to Emperor Wanli in the palace discovered that Zhao Jinliang had been missing for a few days, which was a rare thing. Everyone thought to themselves that it would be the first important task to get Zhao to leave the palace.

In fact, he didn't see him for three days. Three days later, Zhao Jinliang returned to the palace and hurried to the study of the Ganqing Palace. Emperor Wanli was waiting to see him.

"Eunuch Zhang said that he lived in Weixian in Tianjin and rarely even went out. The situation was also confused. When Emperor Longsheng asked him, he did not dare to come up with any ideas. He was afraid that he would delay the big matter and asked Emperor Longsheng to atone for his sins.

Zhao Jinliang answered very clearly, but Emperor Wanli was a little discouraged when he heard this. No one was a fool. Zhang Cheng clearly had the same meaning as the ministers in the outside dynasty and did not want to express his opinions.

"My mother only said she should treat it with caution, and Zhang Baofan said the same thing."

Emperor Wanli took a few steps anxiously, turned to Zhao Jinliang and said:

"Do you know what Master Shen said?"

"Don't I know?"

"He said that everyone in the world is watching this matter, and the army has made great achievements this time, and Wang Tong's status is extraordinary. He should join the Holy Prison here."

Zhao Jinliang lowered his head and didn't dare to speak. These big guys mean the same thing. Outsiders can't speak for this matter. Long lively, please make your own decision.

It was a coincidence that when Emperor Wanli was in a dilemma, there were hurried footsteps outside, and Zhao Jinliang frowned. He was originally an eunuch in charge of the Qing Palace. Who was so ignorant and had no moral integrity? He was about to go out to scold him, but the door was opened, and the person who appeared at the door was Tian Yi.

Since Tian Yi became the eunuch in charge of seals, he has always paid attention to the prime minister's demeanor. It is rare to see such panic when Tian Yi opened the door and kowtowed, and said:

"Long live the emperor, Wang Tong's eight hundred miles of urgent secret memorial!"

The people in the room all trembled. Emperor Wanli stared at Tian Yi and asked:

"What is it said?"

"I dare not open it, so I handed it over outside the palace, and I took it and sent it over.,

Emperor Wanli nodded, and Zhao Jinliang quickly trotted over and took the presentation, saying it was a secret fold, but it was not a thin book, but a thick stack, looking like a few books.

Put it on the desk and untied the cover of the bag outside. There was an iron box inside. Zhao Jinliang had always had a silver chain hanging around his neck. He thought it was something like a hundred years old. Few people knew that the silver chain had a key hanging. He opened the iron box with the key and took out the memorial from it.

Emperor Wanli picked up the book on the top and opened it. After reading a few sentences, he was stunned. Zhao Jinliang and Tian Yi stood beside him. Although they were respectful, they were all looking at Emperor Wanli's expression attentively. They had been with Emperor Wanli for a long time, and they could estimate a lot of things even when they looked at the expression.

After standing there for a while, Wanli Huangge sighed, but sat on the chair, threw the memorial on the table, and said:

"Wang Tong resigned from office.

Emperor Wanli said something a little depressed, but Zhao Jinliang and Tian Yi below were all trembling and shocked. In order to reward Wang Tong, the capital created a trend of various and such situations, and even Emperor Wanli was in a difficult situation. He even gave up his face to ask Empress Dowager Cisheng for the Marquis of Wuqing.

No one gave Emperor Wanli a clear suggestion, which further demonstrated the embarrassment and embarrassment of this responsibility. Who would have thought that when he was in a dilemma, he would voluntarily submit a memorial and resign.

It seemed that this side had accumulated enough strength and was careful to beware of various possibilities, but unexpectedly, one round of the game hits the empty space, and a series of considerations were completely useless.

"Tian Yi, read the memorial, I have no intention of reading it.

Emperor Wanli said weakly, and Tian Yi agreed, but picked up the memorial and read it.

Regarding the reasons for resigning, Wang Tong naturally would not say that he knew the court was difficult to deal with, so he simply resigned. He only said that he had an acute illness. After the doctor's diagnosis and treatment, he said that he would go to a warm and humid place in Jiangnan to recuperate. It was a great damage to his body in a bitter and cold place. This time, he felt uncomfortable.

However, military affairs are important, and they don’t care about so much. After clearing the remaining troops of the enemy and capturing and killing the enemy chiefs, they were in a bitter and cold place for a long time and could no longer withstand it. So since the situation was stable, Wang Tong didn’t care about continuing to command the troops and went to Songjiang Prefecture, Jiangnan to recuperate.

In the memorial, Wang Tong apologized to Emperor Wanli, saying that he did not bid farewell without saying goodbye when he was in command of the army. It was really a serious crime. He asked His Majesty to be angry and guilty. He also said in the memorial that he was a patient and always had to be taken care of by his relatives, so his wife and children also went together to ask Emperor Wanli to be approved. After reading these, Emperor Wanli looked up at the sky, smiled bitterly a few times before signaling Tian Yi to continue reading. This is a thin book, and there are many more.

The next thing was Wang Tong's suggestions from all aspects. The first one was to abolish Jiubian. With Wang Xijue's previous memorial, he was to explain the specific solution.

Although the Nine Borders are full of ills, they are now burdened with the Ming Dynasty's main defense against the North. It is certainly possible to abolish them, but perhaps they need to find an alternative method.

The method Wang Tong gave was to replace it with a team like the Huwei Army. Among the nine sides, Jizhen and Xuanfu are currently not necessary to move. They and the Huwei Army of Tianjin Wei are just supporting each other and guarding the capital.

If Liao Town is located in other places, if the foreign enemies are currently being wiped out, the three generals are enough to deal with most of the things, and it is best to maintain this state.

As for the remaining border towns, the cavalry were left behind and infantry were abolished. A regiment of the Huwei Army was placed on each side, and then it was expanded into three regiments based on this regiment, as the main force of the town and the cavalry served as auxiliary.

As for the tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of infantrymen, they did not let them go to their hometowns on the spot, but admitted that they were slaves and servants of their subordinates. This was not the military service and generals, which led to warlords. In fact, the military households and soldiers in various military towns in the Ming Dynasty are now servants and even slaves of the generals. They worked for the generals and contributed their efforts. The generals drove the soldiers like cattle and horses, but they never trained troops.

The military households were not clear about the relationship between master and servant, and the military generals also felt that the military households were the Ming Dynasty, so I didn’t have to cherish them. If I used the disabled and died, I wouldn’t do my business. After I made it clear, everyone would have a sense of responsibility.

This was also the intention of appeaseing the generals. They would have the greatest losses to the army town, and they could only use land, houses and slaves to comfort them.

The three regiments had only 5,000 people, but if they were equipped with artillery and fully equipped, they could withstand the impact of several times their cavalry. What's more, the herdsmen and cavalrymen on the grasslands were adjacent to each other, so it was convenient to respond to each other and support each other.

Then, they gave special status such as group training to the guards of Guihua City, Duolun and various commercial banks outside the walls of Liao Town, and the village warriors of the farmland, and admitted that their force was a profession, which could bring tax exemption and other benefits, but without this profession, they were immediately no different from civilians.

Outside the walls of Guihua City, Duolun, and Liao Town, are actually several key points outside the Nine Sides of the Ming Dynasty. If the Nine Sides are in a hurry, these points can be condescendingly for rescue.

Now Jiubian spends more than 10 million taels of military expenditure every year and raises more than one million soldiers. But what can be really taken out in each town is the model servants. The nine sides are only 20,000 to 30,000. If they are abolished, Jiubian will not spend more than three million, but the soldiers who can fight will reach 100,000.

The benefits of this decline and increase are obvious. The newly established troops in the Jiubian are directly under the imperial guards because the number of people is not that large, and they can be rotated regularly to avoid the current tendency to become warlord.

Wang Tong also mentioned that after the former border army would become local landlords, the taxes could not be reduced, and their personal guards and family soldiers should have the power to call. This policy can be used as an example in the future to collect taxes from the gentry of the Ming Dynasty.

The secret complaint mentioned Xiang Shi's words of collecting taxes. Tian Yi's face changed color when he read this. Wang Tong was too bold and dared to say such things.

The memorial clearly states that if people with fame are allowed to pay taxes, the matter of clearing the land and acres cannot be carried out all the time. If they continue to give them tax exemptions, according to the current trend of hidden and investment, the Ming Dynasty will definitely receive less and less taxes. If this continues, the result will be seen without asking.

After the reform of border towns and taxes, Wang Tong said next was to employ people. Even if he could speak more casually after resigning from office, he should not speak out about the employment of people.

However, Wang Tong's angle was quite strange, and those who read the memorials were shocked. What Wang Tong said was that the border towns were reformed, taxes were collected, and ports were opened. Emperor Wanli asked Emperor Wanli to use more internal supervisors and less civil servants. When Tian Yi read this passage, he felt quite strange. He thought this was really ridiculous, but he could not object from his own position, otherwise he would not do anything in the inner court.

Moreover, what Wang Tong said is indeed reasonable. The eunuchs in the internal supervision are often sent out to do things, but they have more than ten years of practical experience. When civil servants come to the imperial examination, they rely on their masters for a few years. What can they do? Moreover, the eunuchs in the internal supervision are slaves of Emperor Wanli after all, and civil servants are the emperor's ministers, but they are the masters of the cabinet and the disciples of the six ministers of the ministers. The tendency of this kind of work is nothing to say.

Wang Tong also mentioned that he had been studying in the Jinshi for many years and had a deep skill in the Four Books and Five Classics, but it may not be practical. However, many of the following juren still have the ability to do practical things. Moreover, for those who cannot be promoted too high according to the rules, the promotion and appointment of Emperor Wanli is a reward. They will remember that it is not as natural as those who have been born in the Jinshi.
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