Ming Dynasty: The opening spoiler: Chongzhen is the king who lost his country

After the two of them sat down, Yun Zheng said: "This, one is to control the logistics of the army, without logistics supply, you can't run." "

"I know this, and the courts have done it for generations. "

Emperor Chongzhen thought that Yun Zheng had a good idea, and he couldn't help but be slightly disappointed when he heard it.

"Don't worry, I'm not done yet. "

Yun Zheng smiled and said to Emperor Chongzhen: "To control the logistics of the army is to separate the quartermaster, not to be subject to the military commander, that is, not to be under the jurisdiction of the commander-in-chief, and to set up a supervision agency." "

Yun Zheng said what he thought, and then waited for Emperor Chongzhen to comment.

Unexpectedly, Emperor Chongzhen shook his head and said, "What do I think is a good idea, you have all of them." "

After a pause, he looked at Yun Zheng and said, "I will tell you about the supervision of this dynasty first. "

"In this dynasty, there are two kinds of supervision mechanisms: eunuchs supervising the army and Wenchen supervising the army, in which the eunuchs and the supervising army are divided into eunuchs, and each road has separate guards, garrisons, and guns. Wenchen has the responsibilities of governor, governor, imperial history, patrol and other military supervision. "

Yun Zheng: "I know the eunuch of the supervising army, isn't that governor, governor and the like also the commander of the army?"

Chongzhen: "It has the right to command the troops, and it is also subject to the supervision of the patrol. Several categories of persons have the right to impeach the relevant dereliction of duty. "

Yun Zheng touched his head, as if he didn't know much about the things of the Ming Dynasty, but the Ming Dynasty army's fraudulent and deducted military salaries, and used the country's salary to support their own families, it seems to be a very common problem, why are these supervision mechanisms useless?

Thinking about his specific situation at that time, he asked Emperor Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, how many eunuchs, ministers and other military supervisors are there, or how many prisoners will there be in an army, and what is the main supervision?"

Emperor Chongzhen knew that Yun Zheng wanted to help him solve the problem, but he didn't understand the specific situation, so he patiently explained to him: "An army generally sends a eunuch as a supervisor, and its main responsibility is to monitor whether the generals have illegal situations, and can also supervise the illegal situations of the civil ministers and supervising the army, such as governors and governors. "

Hearing this, Yun Zheng was a little confused, waiting for Emperor Chongzhen to finish speaking.

Chongzhen: "And Wenchen only had the right to supervise the army at first, and then coordinated the generals from all walks of life, and finally had the right to lead the army. "

Hearing this, Yun Zheng spoke directly: "Your Majesty, do you think that the most important thing in supervising the army is to supervise the lawlessness of the generals who lead the army?"

"Huh?".

Emperor Chongzhen was a little confused, isn't that so?

"Your Majesty, these systems of supervising the army may apply at some point now, but they are certainly not suitable now, or there will be no army running away without permission and dispersing halfway. "

Emperor Chongzhen disagreed: "This time the Guanning army returned to Ningyuan privately, because I promised Yuan Chonghuan before that I would not send eunuchs to supervise the army. "

Emperor Chongzhen still trusts Yuan Chonghuan too much!

"Your Majesty, let's not talk about this. In my opinion, there are the following difficulties in this situation, which are dead knots that cannot be untied. "

When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he brought back his previous disappointment.

"One, if the eunuchs sent by His Majesty are bribed by the leading generals, it does not mean that they want to make a rebellion together, they don't have the courage, but they will deduct money together, resell military supplies and other things, I am afraid they will be done. "

Emperor Chongzhen himself knew that it was impossible for him to send out slaves and maids, all of whom were of noble character. Immediately, he nodded.

"Second, if the eunuchs sent to the country, in accordance with the power given by His Majesty, privately withhold military salaries, extort and extort the leading generals, and even command indiscriminately for the sake of grabbing credit, is it possible that these will happen?"

Emperor Chongzhen nodded again, but said in his heart: I don't rely on these slaves and maids, do I believe in the private virtues of the generals?

Yun Zheng continued along his train of thought: "Both of these situations will greatly affect the morale and combat capability of an army. In fact, not only the eunuchs in the prison army will be like this, but the prison army is a civil servant, and this situation may also occur. What's more, now that Wenchen is leading the troops, it doesn't mean that Wenchen is not good at leading the troops. But at present, it should not be that most of the civil servants are familiar with the matter of leading troops in battle, right?"

"Yes, what is Mr. Yun's opinion?" Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help but nodded.

"Your Majesty, if a person's character cannot be trusted, what about the character of a group of people? With another supervision mechanism, will this be the case?"

"Please teach me, Mr. Yun. "

Emperor Chongzhen said to Yun Zheng very earnestly.

"Don't dare to be, I'm just telling you based on some of my understanding. This is the case: Your Majesty can make the quartermaster in the army independent, not subject to the jurisdiction of the leading generals, and have a separate system, and set up a quartermaster at any level or above, for example, one at the beginning of a hundred households! This quartermaster has two functions: First, it distributes quartermasters' salaries and the like, and directly distributes them to the soldiers. Second, it is also responsible for the ideological education of soldiers. However, it must be made clear that it must not interfere with the command of the commander-in-chief. "

Yun Zheng saw that Emperor Chongzhen was listening carefully, and spoke with great satisfaction: "There are several advantages to doing this. First, the quartermaster is not under the jurisdiction of the commander of the army, and the management of military logistics is equivalent to choking the lifeblood of the army, that is, the general who leads the army has other thoughts, such as wanting to deduct military salaries, or it is very difficult to make a mess or something. Second, if quartermasters at all levels pay their salaries directly to soldiers, they can prevent them from being deducted from their salaries or being fraudulently paid to their soldiers. The third is that the quartermaster is also the ideological education of the soldiers, that is, to be loyal to the monarch and patriotism, and to let him know that the military salary is issued by His Majesty, which can effectively prevent the generals from causing chaos, because even if the generals want to make trouble, the soldiers will not necessarily follow. "

These methods mentioned by Yun Zheng are naturally based on the practice of "building branches in companies" in later generations, as long as they can be truly implemented, the effect is obvious to all!

Yun Zheng's meaning is very simple: the prison army must start with a team of 100 people!

Emperor Chongzhen felt that Yun Zheng's statement was very novel, but it was not perfect, so he expressed the question in his heart: "Then if these quartermasters collude to deduct military salaries and military supplies, how can they prevent it?"

"Suppose that if the quartermaster all colludes to deduct the quartermaster's salary, then the soldier can give a reaction to the general at the next level, and finally let the general of the unified army report the situation to the relevant departments or Your Majesty. "

Emperor Chongzhen drilled the tip of the bull's horns: "Then what if the generals of the unified army and all the quartermasters collude to deduct the quartermaster's salary?"

"Doesn't Your Majesty still have Jinyi Wei and Dongchang? You can secretly arrange for them to enter, or in the soldiers, or in the quartermasters, if there is corruption and other situations, you can report directly to the relevant departments or Your Majesty. "

Yun Zheng thought for a while, and added another point: "Your Majesty can also arrange regular inspections such as imperial history and patrols, so that soldiers can have a second channel to react to illegal things." "

In the end, Yun Zheng concluded: "If these are implemented, the generals who lead the army will only be in charge of the war, and the quartermaster will be in charge of logistics and the army's ideology, and with other supervision measures, they will be able to perform their duties and win the war." "