"What my father said is extremely good. We collect some rice and some cloth, all for the sake of the people. It is very different from the Zhu family who only indulge in extravagance and lust for themselves!" Li Laiheng paused and said, "So The people of Sichuan and Yunnan will definitely understand our difficulties."
Can you understand? Li Guo was a little suspicious!
I recall that the yearly land tax of the extremely extravagant Zhu Ming court in Sichuan was no more than 1.0 million shi of rice, and there was no household adjustment. Most of the handmade products collected were later folded into commercial taxes. I don’t know how much they could obtain in a year. Do you have two hundred thousand taels? Now Dashun’s income from land tenants has increased more than ten times...
Li Laiheng added: "In order to let the common people know that the income from the extra distribution is not spent randomly, I suggested that we set up several names for the tenants of the extra distribution."
"How many names?" Li Guo frowned, thinking: How many more names will be added?
"Yes!" Li Laiheng nodded, "The first name is Zhumi, which is the rice we collected to fight against the Zhu family's 500,000-strong army. An additional 5 million stone white rice was collected a year!"
Li Guo asked: "Is there a second one?"
"Of course!" Li Laiheng said, "The second one is Saiyong, which is the tax collected to build forts in important places... We, Dashun, have always been light on taxes and corvee, so If you send a little more Sai Yong, the people can understand."
Li Guo sighed: "What a good people!"
"And a third one!"
Li Guo took a breath: "Why is there still more?"
"And Burmese tune."
"Excuse me for what?" Li Guo didn't understand.
"The Burma of Burma is the tune of the household tune." Li Laiheng said, "It is the household tune added to open up Myanmar...Zhu Jiaxing's seven-pronged army attacked me, and one of them was to attack Myanmar. Myanmar is our Dashun. The retreat route, no, is the foundation for the prosperity of Edashun. Myanmar has thousands of miles of fertile fields, and there are sea routes that can reach all countries in the world. Now Sichuan’s population is increasing and its land is limited. In another twenty or thirty years, I am afraid that Sichuan’s fields will not be able to support it. Sichuan people. How can the people make a living then? How can the Dashun River be safe? Therefore, I also want to recruit Burmese troops to open up the land in Burma, build Burmese fortresses, and gradually send away the landless and industryless mouth of Sichuan. Go and live in peace in Myanmar.”
Li Laiheng glanced at his father, and when he saw him wringing his fingers with a grimace, he knew that his "women's kindness" had been violated again, and he quickly emphasized his tone and said: "Ada, this Burmese tune is really for the sake of the people! There are large areas of flat fertile fields in central and southern Myanmar, which together are larger than the land of Sichuan. The population is very small and there is a lot of wasteland, which can just support the Sichuan people."
Of course what Li Laiheng said makes sense. What really posed a fatal threat to the Dashun Empire entrenched in Sichuan and Yunnan was not Emperor Zhu's so-called 700,000 crusade army.
Because there are no 700,000 crusade troops at all, how could there be so many? Today's Ming Dynasty basically has no land military service system, and mainly relies on state mercenaries to maintain its rule - state mercenaries are very expensive!
The monthly salary of the lowest-level guard during the garrison period is twenty taels of silver (two bank two coins), which is paid for 13 months a year, totaling 26 bank two coins. The military rations are five dou per month (60 kilograms, and food coupons are issued, and if you can't finish it, you can exchange it for meat, vegetables or cloth), one tael for food every four months, two military uniforms a year (both inside and outside), and one tael of military boots. Two pairs are given per year, and six pairs of cloth shoes are given. There are also some miscellaneous supplies. If all are converted into silver, the personnel expenses of a guard in garrison status for a year will always be between 40 and 45 one-tael silver coins. If you are a warrior-level or captain-level veteran, the cost will be even greater, not to mention military officers.
Such an army needs to support 700,000 people, which costs 30 to 40 million a year. If you want to send them to fight, 70 to 80 million will not be enough... So now the Ming army directly under the jurisdiction of the Ming court is 31 Each division (including a young guard division), plus one supervisory standard for each province, four rivers, two lakes, two Guangxi, two rivers, mountains, Shaanxi, Shandong, Liaoyang, Fujian and fifteen provinces are fifteen supervisory standards, plus some independent ones directly under the Generalissimo's Office The troops and military academies, at full strength, are less than 600,000, and even if they are all sent out, they will not be able to collect 700,000.
Of course, in addition to these armies directly under the imperial court, the Ming Dynasty also had many internal vassal armies, excluding the misnamed Beiting Protectorate. Now the Ming Dynasty has a total of Anxi, Hexi, Shuofang, Anbei, Beiping, Daning, and Heilongjiang. , Jianzhou, Dongning, Jinou, Jinghai, Xichuan, Sichuanbian, Pingman (General Pingman), Guizhou (the Guizhou Governor's Department has been abolished and replaced by the governor of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan, and is therefore also a vassal town). The number of troops in these fifteen vassal towns varies, with an average of around 20,000, and a total of about 300,000.
However, the defense areas of these vassal armies were spread far and wide, and the number of people who could be used to attack Dashun was really limited. In other words, the four military towns specifically designed for Dashun, Xichuan, Sichuanbian, Guizhou, and Pingman, can send more troops. Including the entire army under the direct control of the imperial court, it is estimated that it will not reach 700,000... Moreover, it is impossible for all the troops directly under the imperial court to go out. In principle, the provincial governors do not leave the provincial boundaries. In addition, the Pingliao Army has not been disbanded yet, and more than 100,000 soldiers are still stationed in Liaoyang and Horqin Grassland.
Therefore, the 500,000 troops calculated by Song Xiance were already the limit of Ming Dynasty's troop dispatch. The limit cannot be maintained for a long time, so even if Zhu Cixiang goes all out to use his troops, the number of troops that can be invested in the war against Dashun for a long time is only about 300,000.
And Dashun, who had an advantage, was very capable in military mobilization. Through the land military service system (fu army system), he could maintain an army of 350,000 for a long time, which was 50,000 more than the Ming Dynasty. Even if the combat effectiveness is inferior, there is still no big problem if you rely on the terrain to hold on.
But these 350,000 soldiers and 50,000 officials (also soldiers) put great pressure on the small peasant economy of the Dashun Empire - these 400,000 people alone accounted for half of the land in Sichuan and Yunnan provinces. Even more...the conflict between man and land in Sichuan and Yunnan has been greatly intensified because of this!
Niu Jinxing, the prime minister of Dashun, also had a sad face and agreed with Li Laiheng's opinion. He said: "Your Majesty, His Highness the Crown Prince is not wrong. Now that Sichuan people are breeding more and more, the land is not enough. If we increase the number of soldiers by ten Tens of thousands, and more than 10 million acres will be occupied at once. If we can't open up more land in Myanmar, I'm afraid that in another twenty or thirty years... we don't need the Ming Dynasty to fight, we will collapse on our own ”
Li Guoxin said: More than 10,000,000 acres of land are enclosed, and additional rents have to be paid... Chongzhen is not as ruthless as I am! If things continue like this, will Dashun still have another 20 or 30 years?
"I'm afraid that the Sichuan people won't agree and will rise up one after another!" Li Guo said in a low voice.
"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid!" Liu Zongmin, the king of Han Dynasty, waved his hand and chuckled, "Our military government is divided into various parts of the town, and officials from top to bottom can also fight. If the Sichuan people dare to rebel, they will be killed!"
"No, not yet." Gu Junen shook his head, "Your Majesty, you are worrying too much. Although Sichuan people are suffering, they are still better off than when the Ming Dynasty ruled. At that time, all the fields in Sichuan were owned by the gentry, chieftains, and princes. , the common people could only rent land to make a living, and most of their hard-earned income went to the gentry, chieftains, and princes. Moreover, the Ming Dynasty had long given up on suppressing business, allowing profiteers and evil merchants to run rampant in the countryside. Most of the gentry also engaged in industry and commerce, lending money through buying and selling. We are waiting for other methods to crush the people's bones. However, our government is based on agriculture, and restricts mergers and suppresses commerce. Therefore, the people still have half of the land and will not be exploited by businessmen. Although they are poor, they are average and can still survive. Otherwise, the population in central Sichuan would not have grown so much in the past ten years or so. As long as we can give those people who really can't live a way out, the people in central Sichuan will not rebel."
"Ada!" Li Laiheng said, "Now that we can't go north, we have no choice but to go south."
"But Myanmar is full of miasma!" Li Guo asked, "What should we do?"
Li Laiheng said: "I thought of a way, which is to exchange Burmese cloth for Burmese field soil around Awa and Shalian... There are fewer diseases in mature fields than in raw fields, and it is easier to survive. Sichuan people They are not accustomed to the acclimatization and do not know how to open up Myanmar's forests. It would be death for them to settle in the raw land. They can only try to live in the mature land.
Um, we collect Burma tunes all for the sake of the people! "
Li Guo sighed and said: "Then let's accept it. In addition to the additional levies of Zhumi, Saiyong, and Burma... In addition, I will issue a decree saying that in order to protect the people, I will also conduct the expedition myself. Leave Yong'an and fight to the death with Emperor Zhu!"
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