"We want to fight! We want to join the army! We want to fight..."
The shouts like a sea of waves have already crossed the tall walls of Laoshan Palace and reached Emperor Zhu who was listening to the report on the petition of his troops by Hao Yaoqi, the director of the Martial Arts Hall, and Feng Sizhong, the commander of the Young Guards, in the Huangji Palace. in the ears.
Zhu Cixiang stood up suddenly and said in a deep voice: "Let's go and have a look with me."
As he spoke, he quickly walked out of Huangji Palace. Hao Yaoqi, Feng Sizhong, as well as Pan Shuchen, the eunuch of Dongchang who was responsible for the security of Laoshan Palace, Zhang Chaoyong, the son of the British Duke, the foreman guard, and some guards and eunuchs, all followed Emperor Zhu with equipment.
The Huangji Gate has been tightly closed. The Imperial Guards and Dongchang Guards guarding the gate (Zhu Cixiang's safety is jointly taken care of by the Imperial Guards and Dongchang Guards) are all facing a formidable enemy, and they all carry flintlock rifles to the gate tower. .
Outside the city gate tower, there was a sea of people at this time, filling the entire square outside Huangji Gate. The number of people was probably in the tens of thousands! Everyone is wearing a military uniform with narrow sleeves. They should be military cadets and ordinary school students from Pukou and Laoshan, as well as some "scumbag knights" and perhaps some children of the Northern Yimin who came from Nanjing East City.
These people are here to petition, or to be more precise, they are all here to petition!
They were all jealous of the upcoming Battle of Anton and wanted to join them to make contributions and get land coupons.
"Your Majesty, there is some confusion in the Youth Army camp. Everyone is eager to fight. I have strictly suppressed it... Now calm has been restored." Feng Sizhong, who was following Emperor Zhu, reported to the group under his jurisdiction The situation of the Jiubian Youth Army seems to be better than that of the military academy managed by Hao Yaoqi.
Most of the cadets in the martial arts hall are from the N generation. They were already very courageous, but now they have gone to the military academy, and they have been raised by Emperor Zhu as a big bad wolf since they were young, stimulating their ferocity and maintaining their fighting spirit. Now they are a little difficult to control.
The Jiubian boys were poor and helpless, and were detained in the military camp for training and education. They all considered the military camp as their home and Emperor Zhu as their father, and their obedience was much stronger than that of the military academy cadets.
But Zhu Cixiang also knew that this group of young soldiers was really more ferocious when they caused trouble... No matter how much trouble the aristocratic officers and cadets made, they were still the successors of feudalism. They had a share in the Ming Dynasty, so how could they destroy their own country?
"It looks a bit like a revolution..." Emperor Zhu suddenly whispered to himself.
"Your Majesty, you mean...revolution?" Hao Yaoqi asked without understanding what this word meant.
"The revolution of Tang and Wu followed heaven and followed man... This is what is said in "Yi.ge.com.cn"." Feng Sizhong had read many books, and he immediately told the origin of "revolution" .
Hao Yaoqi also understood now that he could be the director of the martial arts hall because he was forced by Li Yan to make up a lot of lessons, and now he was half a civilized person.
"Your Majesty, they, they didn't mean that..."
Zhu Cixi smiled: "I know, I know...I know they are all loyal ministers! They are eager to fight, which is good!"
Now Emperor Zhu has enough resources in his hands to allocate. Whether they are the Nth generation of military officers, the bitter Jiubian boy, or the children of the righteous people, they can all benefit from him. Of course, they will not make a revolution - these people have made it clear. , and is also a member of Zhu Ming's ruling group.
As long as the New World can continue to absorb their surplus personnel, the Great Tomorrow should be able to rely on their force to maintain stability.
Thinking of this, Emperor Zhu finally breathed out and said to his left and right: "It is my decree to allow third-year cadets to graduate early, and to allow second-year cadets to join the army with the title of temporary captain and be incorporated into the Nine-Border Youth Army. Each regiment.
An additional 15,000 quotas will be given to the northern volunteers in Nanjing and Pukou to join the army as volunteers and heroes.
In addition, all athletes who prepare their own good horses and muskets to join the army will be awarded the title of temporary captain and allowed to join the army! "
If someone wants to fight with him, Emperor Zhu of course has to do it... Anyway, land coupons with a face value of 150 million taels can be issued, so there is no need to worry about not being able to pay military pay.
As Zhu Cixiang's oral instructions were loudly conveyed by the edict officials to the young people in the square who were shouting for war, the sound of "Long Live the Mountain" replaced the original noise, and the square outside Huangji Gate was boiling again.
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"Land... coupon? What does this mean?"
Kunming, in the Wuhua Palace, Li Guo, who had just arrived in Kunming, received detailed reports on the re-issuance of land coupons in the Ming Dynasty in early June of the tenth year of the joint rule - this is not a secret, it must be listed. How could the transaction be kept secret?
Moreover, in order to support the economic development of Wuhan Prefecture, Zhu Cixi did not impose a strict economic blockade on Sichuan under Dashun's rule. Instead, merchant ships from Sichuan were allowed to go to Hankou for trade after being inspected at Badong Pass and paying customs duties. Therefore, every year, hundreds of wooden boats from Sichuan and Jiangsu go to Hankou carrying lacquerware, Qingcheng tea, porcelain bamboo weaving, Sichuan embroidery, silverware, Sichuan peppercorns, silk carpets and other products produced in Sichuan.
Nowadays, the industry and commerce in Dashun is mainly government-run, and small private industry and commerce are not allowed to leave the province for trade without permission - Dashun is a feudal country, so the government-run business in Dashun is not the same concept as the state-run business in later generations. The biggest difference between the two is that most of the craftsmen in Dashun's government-run handicrafts are unpaid craftsmen, that is, small craftsmen who perform labor services. If there is no private handicraft industry to provide skilled workers, then the government-run handicraft industry will not be able to continue operating.
Because the industrial and commercial merchants in Dashun were not allowed to leave their homeland without authorization, those who "went abroad" to trade in Hankou were all "royal merchants" sent by the Dashun Industrial Government and the Household Government. Of course, they also had the responsibility of collecting intelligence from the Ming Dynasty.
Gu Junen, the Minister of the Industrial Government who was also in charge of intelligence collection, quickly explained to Li Guo: "Your Majesty, the Emperor of the Zhu family has converted the land outside the customs that he has not yet obtained into 50 million acres, and the price is 3 taels of silver per acres. One hundred and fifty million taels of land coupons are used to pay for the army."
"Then there is no money left in the Ming Dynasty..." Li Guo nodded, "But the idea of land coupons is not bad. Draw a big pie and show it to the people below. Will the people below believe this?"
"You should...you should believe it, right?" Gu Junen said, "It is so big outside the customs, there must be 50 million acres. And last time Emperor Zhu discounted 100 million acres of land in the Central Plains and issued land coupons, it seems Most of them have been cashed out, and only some of the land coupons in Beisan Town are still being traded on the market.”
The land coupons issued in the last round are not one kind, but are divided into twenty-one types according to the location of the land and the quality of the land. They are three types from upper, middle and lower in Shanxi, three types from upper, middle and lower in Hebei, and three types from upper, middle and lower in Henan. There are three species: upper, middle and lower in Shandong, three in upper, middle and lower in Shuofang, three in upper, middle and lower in Anbei, and three in upper, middle and lower in Beiping. These twenty-one types of land coupons are all tradable and tradable. People who want to invest in large farms in the north can purchase corresponding land coupons through the exchanges of Salt Commercial Bank and Maritime Commercial Bank in Nanjing, Shanghai, and Wuhan, and allocate land to them. Those who do not want to farm can sell land coupons for money.
In order to effectively develop the land in the north as soon as possible, the twenty-one types of land coupons have a time limit. Among them, the land coupons in the four inner provinces have a short time limit and are almost expiring now, so they are basically redeemed. land. The land coupons in the outer three towns have a long validity period, so there are still many being traded on the market.
"The land coupons this time are different," Qin Wang Sun Kewang, one of the eight political kings, said with a smile, "This time it's a way of eating Mao Liang, as long as the Mao Liang can be supplied... Your Majesty, you guys also We can do this and issue some land coupons so that the brothers below can have something to look forward to."
"King Qin, are you asking us to follow Emperor Zhu Yin's example of eating the grain?" Li Guo always felt that it was a little bad, "What if the grain will not be available for a while?"
"Hi," Sun Kewang waved his hand, "Your Majesty, a three-year-old boy will eat me to death. Who among the brothers below is not a bunch of boys? They all can't stand it. They are all longing for land, and their eyes are red. Let's Putting some land coupons out will just stimulate their courage and morale, and the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains can be done in one go."
