GBP Chapter 472 This bastard is just taking advantage of our soft heart!
Chapter 472 This bastard is just taking advantage of our soft heart!
Emperor Zhu was somewhat doubtful of his ears.
"Explain this to us."
Emperor Zhu stared intently at Yang Shaofeng and said, "What do you mean by saying that if a commune doesn't have a granary, people will laugh at it?"
Just how rich has Ningyang County become?
Damn it, the imperial court hasn't even figured out the Taicang, Changpingcang, and reserve granaries yet, and your Ningyang County has already started setting up community granaries.
Yang Shaofeng chuckled and said, "Well...didn't my father-in-law issue an edict to exempt people from taxes for three years? Since the people don't need to pay taxes and can't brew wine, there's naturally more grain left at home."
"But the people of Ningyang County are a bunch of fools who are afraid of poverty and hunger."
"Even for grain purchased at the fixed price, we can only buy from the granaries of the Ever-Normal Granary, the Reserve Granary, and the Charity Granary."
"It's absolutely unacceptable to let them sell grain."
"In addition, Ningyang County's treasury itself is extremely poor."
"So those idiots built their own granaries to store grain."
"It's called a granary, but in reality, each household stores its own grain."
Emperor Zhu really wanted to ask Yang Shaofeng if there could be more idiots like him.
Or rather, when will all 60 million people of our Great Ming Dynasty become such idiots?
wrong.
That bastard just said that because the people couldn't pay taxes or brew wine, they had more grain left over.
If we pay taxes or use the grain to brew wine, won't there be less grain left?
Also, is this bastard taking the opportunity to be sarcastic again?
Just as Emperor Zhu was pondering this in secret, Yang Shaofeng became more and more enthusiastic as he spoke.
"If you ask me, those fools shouldn't have hoarded so much grain."
"Sell what you can."
"If all else fails, we should stockpile new grain and sell old grain."
"These idiots are so good at it. They can't bear to eat the new grain, so they just store it up and it becomes old grain."
"We couldn't bear to sell the old grain, so the whole family had to work themselves to the bone eating it every day."
"I hope the people here in Dengzhou Prefecture aren't so foolish."
"After all, fruit doesn't keep as long as grain."
"..."
Emperor Zhu had no intention of paying attention to Yang Shaofeng at the moment.
Only after leaving the Xiguan Market did Emperor Zhu sigh and say, "Let's go back to the government office. We need to think this over carefully."
……
"You take a look first."
Emperor Zhu pushed several memorials directly in front of Yang Shaofeng and said, "Take a look and tell me your thoughts."
Yang Shaofeng picked up the memorial with suspicion.
After reading the memorial, Yang Shaofeng was completely dumbfounded.
Yang Shaofeng never expected that before he could even cause trouble for the Ministry of War, the Grand Commandant's Office would betray the Ministry of War first.
"The military officers of the inner and outer garrisons are unable to control their soldiers, resulting in an increasing number of desertions. Regulations should be established to punish them."
On the surface, the memorial from the Grand General's Office made no mention of the Ministry of War; in fact, it could be said that the Grand General's Office was stabbing itself in the back.
After all, it is the military officials who have failed to control the soldiers, leading to an increasingly serious problem of desertion. If anyone should be punished, it should be the military officials.
The problem is that those deserters did not desert on the battlefield or during the march, but rather they ran away before they were even encamped.
To whom should this responsibility be shifted?
The Grand General's Office certainly bears some responsibility.
But is your body, Ministry of War, really so clean?
After all, your Ministry of War is mainly responsible for military administration, including military system, training, conscription, garrison, border defense, ceremonial guard, imperial guard, postal service, stables and livestock, ordnance, tally and seal, military register, and martial arts.
There are now a large number of deserters in various garrisons, and your Ministry of War must bear the main responsibility for this.
Good guy.
I wondered why the memorial was sent to Emperor Zhu in Dengzhou Prefecture. It turned out that the matter of the deserters from the garrison had been exposed.
Could it be that even Zhu Biao, the executive vice emperor of the Ming Dynasty, dared not make a decision on his own?
After placing the memorials down, Yang Shaofeng bowed directly to Emperor Zhu and said, "Your Majesty, I believe..."
Emperor Zhu glared at Yang Shaofeng and snorted coldly, "Is this a time for the emperor and his ministers to have a proper audience? You scoundrel!"
Yang Shaofeng snorted inwardly and bowed to Emperor Zhu again, saying, "Father-in-law, I think this matter is really not a big deal."
Emperor Zhu was slightly taken aback and asked, "Isn't this a big deal?"
Yang Shaofeng smiled and replied, "I had already discussed this matter with His Highness the Crown Prince before."
After a slight pause, Yang Shaofeng added, "Actually, the desertion of the garrison soldiers was inevitable, even..."
Emperor Zhu hummed in agreement and asked, "Even what?"
Yang Shaofeng pondered for a moment, remained silent for a while, then gritted his teeth and said, "Even the failure of the Northern Expedition is inevitable."
Emperor Zhu was furious.
Two consecutive inevitabilities.
The desertion of the garrison soldiers was inevitable.
The failure of the Northern Expedition was inevitable.
So, the military system of our Great Ming Dynasty was fundamentally flawed?
How did our Ming Dynasty win its previous Northern Expeditions?
How was this land conquered?
Could it be because Hu Yuan is kind-hearted?
The more Emperor Zhu thought about it, the more unhappy he became.
Damn it, this bastard is taking advantage of the fact that it's my first time being a father-in-law, and I'm too soft-hearted to beat him up.
Otherwise, just based on those two things he's bound to do, we'd have to teach him a lesson today.
Emperor Zhu couldn't help but glance at Yang Shaofeng, and said with a forced smile, "Then tell me, what exactly is this inevitable method?"
Yang Shaofeng cupped his hands towards Emperor Zhu and said, "What I just said was inevitable for the soldiers of the garrison to desert. Firstly, because the soldiers of the garrison are also human beings. They also need to support their families and hope that their children can be successful."
"Or to put it another way."
"They may not be afraid of death, but most of them do not want their children to go to war like they did."
"They probably hope their children and grandchildren can study, become officials, or engage in business or agriculture."
After pausing slightly to give Emperor Zhu some time to process the information, Yang Shaofeng continued, "The second reason is that the commanders, captains, centurions, flag bearers, and squad leaders of the garrisons are also human beings."
"As long as you are human, you will have greed."
“If even one person receives a salary without working and forces soldiers to do their jobs, the soldiers in the garrison will lose heart.”
"Taking the previous blank seal case as an example, in more than a thousand prefectures and counties of the Ming Dynasty, more than seven hundred officials with official seals were involved, and the number of assistant officials, clerks, servants, gentry and other personnel involved in the case was more than two thousand."
“These people may not have initially intended to print money and grain treasuries to embezzle funds.”
"Some of these officials even thought of establishing a life for the people and creating peace for all generations when they first took office."
As soon as Yang Shaofeng finished speaking, the anger in Emperor Zhu's heart vanished.
No, it shouldn't be said that it disappeared; it should be said that it was extinguished by a bucket of ice water.
Emperor Zhu frowned and muttered to himself, "Could it be that the garrison system was wrong from the very beginning?"
Seeing that the Emperor Zhu was getting stuck on some details, Yang Shaofeng couldn't help but ask, "Why would my father-in-law think that way?"