My country is dead again [Rebirth]

Xie Ruzhuo, who was used to getting up early no matter how late he slept, woke up earlier than Shen Ci, but when he moved, Shen Ci woke up too.

Shen Ci sat up and stared at Xie Ruzhuo for a moment, then recovered and said: "I will dress your Majesty."

After helping Xie Ruzhuo put on his shoes and reluctantly put on his outer robe, Shen Ciwei bowed his body and tied a belt on Xie Ruzhuo's narrow waist. To be honest, he had never served others to dress, and he was a bit out of order, let alone I have used such a belt with such a complicated buckle before, and I have not figured it out after fiddling with it for a long time.

The distance was too close, and Xie Ruzhuo's warm breath was evenly attached to his ears. After a while, his fingers became a little stiff, and his whole body became stiff, making it even more difficult to fasten.

Xie Ruzhuo didn't speak or move, the corners of his mouth curled up where Shen Ci couldn't see, and he took the time to wait for him to fasten slowly.

However, it was a long time to wait, the belt had slipped off for the tenth time.

Someone knocked on the door of the house, He Xiaoman asked a question, got Xie Ruzhuo's answer, pushed the door in and saw the scene, hesitated for a while, but when he saw the belt slipped down again, he stepped forward and said: "Shen Go through, let me do it."

Shen Ci also felt that he didn't fit the belt, rubbed his nose, and stepped aside in embarrassment.

He Xiaoman half-kneeled on the ground, fastened his belt, and straightened the messy hem of his robe. After Shen Ci, he realized why he hadn't thought of using the half-kneeling position so that he could stay away from Xie Ruzhuo. Clicked.

Tsk, misstep.

It seemed unreliable to touch Shen Ci, He Xiaoman didn't ask Shen Ci to help, went to get the calculus and blue salt, and brought a moderate temperature facial cleanser, and waited for Xie Ruzhuo to finish washing.

"When does Your Majesty plan to return to Beijing?" He Xiaoman asked.

"We can't stay outside for too long." Xie Ruzhuo sighed reluctantly, "Oh, let's go back tomorrow."

"What about Bachelor Du and the others?" He Xiaoman glanced at Shen Ci, "Go to other places to check, or go back to the court first?"

Xie Ruzhuo was even more unhappy. He glanced at Shen Ci one after another, and said in a muffled voice: "Go to other places to check directly. You will be dragged by the cabinet again when you return to the court. I will discuss everything with my husband later."

Shen Ci was very clever this time, he understood Xie Ruzhuo's expression, and said with a smile: "I will finish the investigation and return to Beijing as soon as possible."

"Of course you have to come back as soon as possible." Xie Ruzhuo said righteously, "I haven't learned how to ride and shoot for a few days, I'm so stupid, I almost forgot."

Shen Ci: "..."

Speaking of this, he had to admire Xie Ruzhuo again for his conscientiousness in acting. A person who is skilled in horse bow and horse has acted as an idiot in horseback riding and archery in front of him for several months, and his skill is also profound.

He thought to himself: You are not stupid, it is me who is stupid, I have been cheated by you for so long, like a fool.

"Your Majesty is so smart, you won't forget it." Shen Ci chuckled, "I will continue to teach Your Majesty after I return to Beijing."

Xie Ruzhuo nodded in satisfaction: "Yeah." Turning his head, he began to think about how he would show that he hadn't practiced for a long time and forgot all about it.

How to teach without forgetting?Don't you teach how to ride a horse and shoot arrows with General Shen, with your back against your chest?

Shen Ci saw at a glance that the man's eyes were fiddling with something, a narrow smile flashed across his eyes, and he thought: Just act, I will let you have a good time acting.

After all, he quite likes watching His Majesty acting in front of him, it's really cute.

After eating the court food, Du Ruo heard that Xie Ruzhuo was going back to Beijing tomorrow, so he handed over to Xie Ruzhuo a playbook about the reform of the Guards Army that he had written these days. What I have seen and heard, lists the advantages and disadvantages of the guards, and what should be done if the system is to be reformed.

Xie Ruzhuo looked at it carefully, and sighed: "If possible, I would also like to go to various guards to take a look in person, but unfortunately I don't have this opportunity. Fortunately, there is still a gentleman. If you see it, it means that I have gone to see it."

"Your Majesty's words are serious. If you want to reform the system, you always have to see the current situation in person, and you can't just talk about it on paper. It's not that there were no reforms in Dayu in the past, but it often had little effect. In the final analysis, how to reform the system is up to the civil servants. But if the civil servants haven't personally seen what they want to change, how can they change it." Du Ruo said, "I haven't seen enough, and the quarrel with Pei Yunfeng in Weishan was too stiff. I just went to visit some military households during the day, and went to a few military camps for a while. There are discrepancies. Afterwards, I will go to other places, and I will take a look around and add new content to Your Majesty."

In fact, Dayu’s scientific examination is not only about the Four Books and Five Classics. Students have to test the classics, history and classics, but they also need to test current affairs and political views. From this point of view, the civil servants who can enter the Tianzitang should be "knowing that this matter must be practiced". People, but after entering the court, promotion, power struggles, and calculations more and more occupied the hearts of civil servants. No one remembered what they had written during the palace examination.

They ruled the world together with the emperor, and most of the world's government orders came from civil officials, but how many of these government orders were really useful, they themselves couldn't tell.Standing in the bright hall of the capital and overlooking the world, what they see is the surface of the most superficial problems, but few people are willing to see the crux of the problem for themselves.

In other words, in their eyes, these political opinions are not for solving problems. The struggle for power and factional struggle seem to be the things that should be reconsidered when every government order is issued.

Xie Ruzhuo was very glad that there was Du Ruo in the hall, but also lamented that there was only one Du Ruo.

"With Mr. here, I can rest assured about everything." Xie Ruzhuo smiled knowingly, "There is no need to wait for the reform. I will discuss this matter with the cabinet after returning to Beijing. I may trouble you to investigate and implement the reform. .”

"Your Majesty is very happy." Du Ruo thought for a while, but still worried, "Has Your Majesty figured out how to deal with the cabinet?"

Xie Ruzhuo snorted contemptuously: "If the cabinet doesn't agree, I will do it anyway. Anyway, there have been several troubles, and this time is not bad."

Du Ruo recalled that Sun Bingde was also in a complicated mood, so he didn't mention it any more, and instead talked about the matter mentioned in the memorial, saying: "The most serious thing about the lack of pay for the guards today is the root cause of the guards themselves. The territory of Dayu is vast. In the past, when Tai Zu went to war in the south and north, it was indeed an excellent way to set up a guard post. He set up an army station on the spot, and set up camp in the newly stationed city with the fastest speed, so as to stabilize the morale of the army and be self-sufficient. This is the advantage of the guard, it saves the imperial court the rations to feed so many sergeants, separates the military registration from the household registration, and adopts the hereditary system, which can provide Dayu with a fixed and long-term source of troops."

Xie Ruzhuo answered the words tacitly: "But such an advantage is conditional. Back then, the guard army was a brave army that conquered the country with Tai Zu. The strict discipline was tempered from the battlefield. After that In the past few years, the sergeants in the future will not have that kind of discipline and quality, and there will be no force to unite them from top to bottom. The emergence of disadvantages is inevitable. And the military settlement has become a place beyond the control of the imperial court. By embezzling grain and silver, these farms have in fact become the private fields of the officers, while the lower-level sergeants are no different from tenants, and there are only layers of exploitation between the officers and soldiers. Besides the northern border, Dayu has a long hinterland. Decades of comfort, without the encouragement of wartime military achievements, it is difficult for sergeants to climb the sky, and the hereditary military status has become a low status that will never make it to the top. The sergeants do not usually practice. Carrying sedan chairs to feed horses, farming and harvesting grain, just like their slaves."

"Many sergeants are overwhelmed. Just like farmers who lost their land, they choose to flee, but it is a felony for a sergeant to flee. If they can escape, they have no household registration. They become refugees with nowhere to go. Most of them will be arrested and executed. How many people are there in this group? I don't know, but the number must be astonishing. They should have appeared in the Qing Dynasty list, but most of them are still listed in the military collection list, and they have become the source of empty pay for the guard. In addition, the sergeant has no children, so he has to go to his family Looking for relatives to fill in, but later the guards were too lazy to fill the vacancies one by one, and it became a big way to pay for empty wages. The huge number of guards has become a big burden today, eating away Countless real gold and silver were poured into the imperial court, but what was raised was a powerless army."

Although the memorial wrote in detail the disadvantages and root causes of the guards, Du Ruo was still shocked by Xie Ruzhuo's words. For example, he never thought that the corruption of the guards later was due to the lack of cohesion and some kind of power that could only be achieved during wartime. The quality of tempering, but if you think about it carefully, the corruption of civil servants is not the same.

Which dynasty will not experience corruption in the middle and late stages? The group of people at the founding of the country, regardless of whether they were civil servants or generals, have experienced bloody wars and witnessed changes in the future. In terms of altitude, the future generations will be at ease for a long time, and countless people will indulge in the prosperity and prosperity, and they will never be able to refine such a high character and integrity, with a breeze in their sleeves.

Xie Ruzhuo sees many things very clearly, but Du Ruo sometimes wonders about this strange transparency, like an outsider looking down on all living beings and the passage of time, not like a worldly person walking here.

Regarding the understanding of the disadvantages of the guard house, the two coincided with each other. Du Ruo nodded and said: "I have some lies in the memorial, but it is what I think in my heart. Now we suffer from the great power of the northern border, but the power of the northern border The rise of the army was also due to the helplessness of the decline of the guard army. There were also guards under the four major military bases, but the guard army could not meet the needs of frontier warfare. They need money and power. After a long time, the four towns in northern Xinjiang have become similar to the warlords of the previous dynasty. For a loyal family like this family, it may be tempting to lure them with benefits, such as Wu Xianrong and Qi Junmao. And Pei Yuankai is someone who can't hold him down even with small benefits. His power is so pervasive."

"Mr. is not talking nonsense, the fact is true. So I can understand Wu Xianrong and Qi Junmao. They want to benefit from the imperial court, and I agree. After all, they have not gone too far." Xie Ruzhuo's eyes became colder, "But Pei Yuankai is very important to the imperial court. It's already crossed the border, no matter what, I can't keep him."

The author has something to say: Regarding the content of the reorganization of the guard, I checked some information and found that there are historical facts. Then I added some my own understanding and fiction. Don't take it too seriously, you just need to read the plot.

ps Yesterday's chapter was a bit miserable, and I changed some discordant places (although I don't think I wrote anything), but the plot is no different from the original version~