A few years earlier, the Beijing Army's monthly salary of five yuan has increased a lot, but compared with the current price increase, it is far inferior.

An ordinary Beijing army sold five yuan silver dollars a month, but the lowest price of COFCO per stone was two yuan silver dollars per stone. In the early years, there were also rice, grain, salt, vegetables and cloth. At that time, the price of one stone grain was about five yuan silver dollars. The silver dollar was converted to two-ton silver dollars, and the soldiers at that time also had about three yuan silver dollars a month, but they could buy three stone rice. But now they have risen to five yuan silver dollars, but they can only buy two and a half meters. In fact, their salary did not increase but fell.

As for the western Liaoning outside the pass, the rice price was even higher. Hong Chengchou even once reported that the trouble outside the pass was not that there was no silver, but that silver was useless. The price of grain in the capital was one stone and two silver dollars, while in western Liaoning was four or even five yuan. The monthly food and salary of soldiers in western Liaoning was the same as those in the capital, and they received the highest salary of five yuan per month. However, in fact, based on the price factors, these five yuan was not as good as half of the soldiers in the capital, and they were not even as good as the local soldiers in the capital for the other three yuan a month.

But no matter what, the salary is low, but in this troubled time, at least it is still a good job. As long as the salary can be paid, you can still have enough food and even barely support the family.

Compared to the Chu army, their situation was a bit miserable. The Chu army's military pay was not high, and its basic salary was only about four or five yuan, but the Chu army also had military rank subsidies, military subsidies, combat subsidies, military merit rewards, etc., which combined, were already quite considerable.

In this regard, the combat effectiveness of the Chu army was indeed piled up with money. The low combat power of the troops in other towns of the Ming Dynasty was also related to insufficient food and salary, which made them not only low combat power, but also often caused mutiny. In the early years of Chongzhen, the bandits in Shaanxi were so powerful. One of the important reasons was that the Shaanxi border troops were short of salary for 30 months at that time, and when they were transferred to suppress the bandits and served the king, they had no food and salary for food. When they stayed in the town, although they were short of salary, they could still take some work and earn some extra money to support their families.

Once they were transferred from the town, there was no food, money, etc., and their families had no place, which made many border soldiers eventually have to go to a mutiny of money and even returned from mutiny.

The second enlarged meeting of the Prime Minister's Office ended again, and this time it also failed to reach a successful end. Because the Ministry of War's request report was questioned, other reports made by the Ministry of Revenue were temporarily suspended.

The final result is that the Ministry of Revenue will review the report again and review it again after the Beijing Army is checked.

Chen Xinjia didn't know how he left the Prime Minister's office, but he felt extremely regretful anyway.

Back to the Ministry of War, Chen Xinjia immediately sent someone to send messages to the generals of the Beijing towns, asking them to find ways to prepare for this inspection.

"It is said that the new official takes office for three fires, but the Prince of Liaodong has burned too much, so he is not afraid of causing the fire to burn himself?"

Wuding Marquis Guo Peimin said sinisterly that he was a descendant of Guo Ying, a general of the Ming Dynasty, and was also considered the most famous number among the Ming Dynasty. He is currently the general of the first town of the imperial guard camp among the three major camps in the capital. He knows himself how many soldiers there are in the first town.

The first town is called 30,000, but in fact less than 10,000 people are available.

How can the soldiers outside the school outside Desheng Gate bench do these five days later?

The general of the second town was Chen Yanzuo, the Marquis of Taining. His ancestors were Chen Gui, who was awarded the title of military merit in Jingnan. The situation in the second town was not as good as the first town. After all, the first town was guarding the palace and was responsible for accompanying the journey, and was reorganized by the personal army of the guards. His second town was mainly reorganized from the original Five Military Barracks, and the situation was much worse than the first town, with more vacancy.

"The King of Liaodong is coming in a fierce manner. Why don't we lose some money and give us a generous gift?"

Gu Zhaoji, the chief officer of the third town, sneered. His ancestors were also named Jingnan, and he was also considered a time-honored minister. "Is there anyone richer in the world than the King of Liaodong? How much can I give him to satisfy him? And I think the King of Liaodong would not care about some money at all. His fire was just for military power."

"Military power?" Xu Yunzhen, the governor of the Imperial Guards, frowned.

Gu Zhaoji said to him, "Duke Dingguo, don't forget that Liu Jun's army is still stationed in Lugou Bridge and Xishan."

Xu Yunzhen's heart moved, "You mean that the prince is to insert his 30,000 troops into the Beijing camp and stay in the capital?"

"It must be so. Otherwise, why would he have to risk a grudge against everyone in the Beijing army and stab this stick? Don't forget that the King of Liaodong was appointed as the Minister of Responsible Affairs, which made the elders of Zhou and Wu Pavilion very dissatisfied. If the King of Liaodong could transfer the Beiyang troops into Beijing and plant the Beijing army, and then his position in Jingzuo will be stable. With 30,000 troops in Beijing, who dares to move him easily?"

"If this is the case, then how can we be? It's only five days, and once the test is done, it will definitely not be able to cover the fire. At that time, the gods will fight, but I will be waiting for the disaster."

The title of the Ming Dynasty was not as rare as that of the Tang and Song dynasties, and it was difficult to be awarded without military merit. In the early years, the nobles of the Ming Dynasty were still very brave, but in the battle of Tumu Fort, the Jing camp was mourned, and many nobles died there. Since then, not only did the Jing camp be lost, but even these martial arts families were pulled back.

Although the troops in the capital were led by nobles as usual, in fact, the Beijing army could not even guard the door. In recent years, it was all relying on the border troops. On weekdays, the Beijing camp was negligent in training, and the nobles were just addicted to enjoyment and were busy making money. They used the imperial court's reputation to do some speculative business, and even the Beijing camp they led became their tools for making money.

They even treat the soldiers of the Beijing camp as their servants and let them serve as servants.

They never thought they would lead the troops and practice seriously.

"No matter how hard we fight, we still have to find a way to deal with the level in front of us first. At least, we have to do a good job, and we can't be too ugly when it comes to time."

"Why would you rather hire some people to check it out temporarily?" Chen Yanzuo said.

Xu Yunzhen shook his head, "The hollows in each town are too serious, how many people have to be hired to hire? Moreover, although the emperor is young, the King of Liaodong is an expert in leading troops. The fewer people hired may be fooled, will it be revealed if there are too many?"

"What do you think you should do?"

"Duke, I have a plan, maybe I can do it." Gu Zhaoji suddenly said with a smile.

"Oh, what trick does Zhenyuan Hou have? Tell me quickly." Xu Yongzhen asked impatiently. He was so worried now that the power of the King of Liaodong was frightening.

"Duke of Wei, although this military parade in the northern suburbs is only the military parade of our imperial guards, the other two major camps and six towns cannot be left out of the matter. Didn't the prince of the Governor's Office have said that the point inspection of one town is needed? Let's talk to the brothers of other towns that when we check our imperial guards, the other six towns will lend us the troops first and gather the troops of the three towns to deal with the point inspection. After the test, when they check, we will borrow soldiers from them to help them test. Isn't this just right?"

"Marquis Zhenyuan is really amazing and has a good plan." After hearing this, Xu Yunzhen slapped his thighs repeatedly.

"Prince, someone asks for a visit." Zhu Chenggong reported, and said as he sent a famous post.

Liu Jun took it and saw the three words Wang Dehua. He is not unfamiliar with this name. Wang Dehua is not simple. He served as the eunuch in the Dongchang, and later became the eunuch in the Sili. However, because he was disagreeing with Wang Chengen, he was eventually disliked by Chongzhen. He first went out to supervise the army outside the town. Later, although he returned to the court, he was no longer as good as before. Finally, he became the admiral of the imperial guard camp of the Beijing Army.

Wang Chengen, Wang Zhixin and others who were under him at the time are now above him.

Wang Dehua was a great eunuch who was ranked alongside Cao Huachun. At this time, he came to him, well, the time is interesting.

"Please meet him in the study."

Liu Jun changed his clothes and went to the study to see the guests. Wang Dehua was wearing green laces and was sitting inside drinking tea. When he saw Liu Jun coming in, he quickly got up to greet him.

"Come uninvited late at night, take the liberty to disturb you, please forgive me."

"You are polite, you are here to make the humble house shine."

Wang Dehua was very polite. After the two of them were chattering, they sat down with guests and hosts. Without waiting for Liu Jun to ask, Wang Dehua had already taken the initiative to explain his purpose. It turned out that after discussing the admirals and generals from the three towns of the Imperial Guards, they came up with a plan to find the other two camps to borrow troops to deal with the test, and then reported to the Xiangmao Wu Xiang and the Inspector General Wang Dehua.

Of course, they have to be notified of such a big thing. Moreover, everyone is a grasshopper on the same rope, and they all prosper and lose. If something goes wrong, no one can escape.

But they never expected that Wang Dehua was very impressed by the plan to borrow troops there. When they turned around, they drove to Liu Jun's mansion in a light chariot and exposed their plan to Liu Jun without any concealment.

"Our family is loyal to the emperor, and it is difficult to agree with those people's private fraud. Our family knows that the ancestors and the current emperor trust the princes very much. After knowing their conspiracy, they come to tell them immediately." Wang Dehua looked loyal and selfless.

However, Liu Jun speculated that Wang Dehua just thought their plan was not reliable, so he wanted to abandon the boat and escape first, and use these colleagues as stepping stones to escape.

Wang Dehua was very sincere. In addition to coming to inform and betray his colleagues, he also handed over a list to Liu Jun.

This list is the military list of the Imperial Guard Camp, which records in detail the number of officers and soldiers in the Mark Six Battalions, and even the number of armor, muskets, war horses, and horses.

Moreover, this list is not a fake list for outsiders to see. It is the real list of the Imperial Guard Camp, which was recorded privately by Wang Dehua. He was originally a handful of it, but now it is just used as a letter of fame.

According to Wang Dehua's roster records, the Imperial Guard Camp should have 90,000 troops and horses in three towns, but in fact there were less than 30,000 horses and mules in total, but in fact there were less than 20,000.

The rest of the things were even more shocking.

The so-called new army in the nine towns of the capital was actually just the original three camps of the capital army that changed the soup and the medicine.

Liu Jun accepted the account book and bowed to Wang Dehua, "The prince is very wise and I admire you very much. I will turn around and report to Your Majesty to find out."

Wang Dehua immediately smiled. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!