Over in Europe, when the huge "butterfly wings" flap vigorously. Thousands of miles away in the Ming Empire, people still don’t know that King Louis XIV of France has decided to go to war... The means of information transmission in this era are so inefficient. It takes at least five or six days for a sailboat to sail to Europe and reach the mainland of the Ming Dynasty. Months of time!
Fortunately, the military and diplomatic leaders of the Ming Empire in this era were still relatively sharp. Not only could they see the world with their eyes wide open, but they could also use the abacus beads to calculate the people of the world. They will not wait until the N-nation coalition forces come to the door before they start preparing for war in a panic.
In fact, these people have long been aware that the war is about to break out - even if the French do not take the initiative to provoke a war, they themselves will start the war. So starting from the end of the 25th year of Hongxing's reign, the Ming Empire began to prepare for a world-wide war.
Moreover, Emperor Zhu of the Ming Empire was very "wise" and turned his main attention to the New World across the Pacific from the beginning. Although he has no intention of giving up the Indian Ocean and Central Asia, those two areas do not require much effort from the Ming Empire itself. The Timurid Empire, Jungar, Heshuote, and Dai are supporting them! However, he did not expect that the French would launch an attack on the east coast of the Pacific.
In his opinion, it was difficult for the French and New Spain to move larger fleets from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Moreover, there is not enough oil and water in the Americas, so it should not be as attractive as India.
Therefore, Zhu Cixiang and his Generalissimo's Office did not concentrate all the navy's main ships into the Eastern Fleet at the beginning, and sent them all to the United States of New Zealand.
Instead, most of the main ships were concentrated in Guangzhou Bay, the home port of Nanyang, on standby, and the strength of the Malacca fleet guarding the Strait of Malacca was greatly strengthened.
At the same time, the Ming Navy also began to form a Western fleet, preparing to compete with the French and Dutch in the Little Western Ocean (Indian Ocean).
However, these naval preparations are nothing compared to the two nomadic families that Ming Dynasty is planning to invest in the North American continent.
Two nomadic households are Emperor Zhu's trump card in his struggle for world hegemony - twenty or thirty years earlier, Emperor Zhu himself would not have thought that such a big deal as the struggle for world hegemony would have to be completed by nomadic people. Zhu Hekun and Zhu Hezhen, who were tricked by Zhu Cixi into becoming Ming Dynasty cowherd boys, no, Ming Dynasty cowherd kings, were even more depressed... They originally thought they were "little rich kings", but they didn't expect that they would suddenly become He was tricked by his own father into becoming a Mongolian herding cattle and sheep.
And instead of grazing in the Ming Dynasty or on the grasslands of Chahar and Tumote, they had to cross the ocean and go to the grasslands of the New World continent to nomadically.
Inside the military and civilian command and envoy office of Jiningwei Fort, which is extremely majestic on the outside but very simple on the inside, there is a group of people wearing dirty leather robes and shiny buns on their heads. Officials from thousands of households and hundreds of officials under Jiningwei were sitting on their horses, looking curiously at the distinguished guests who came here today.
Today, most of the dozen or twenty military towns in the Ming Dynasty have restored the settings of guard posts, thousand-household posts, and hundred-household posts. However, these health offices, thousand households offices, and one hundred households offices are still quite different from those in the early Ming Dynasty. What they govern is not the population (households), but the military service fields (pastures) - this is not the early Ming Dynasty, when there were fewer people and more land, and if they controlled the people, they would also control the land. Today's Ming Dynasty has 200 million people. Although it is not as good as the more than one billion people in later generations, there are still more people than there are fertile fields and pastures.
When there are too many people, it becomes difficult to manage them, because to manage people, you have to manage the food! In theory, the land in the garrison is used to raise soldiers, but in practice, raising people is always more important than raising soldiers. Whether it is raising children in an ordinary military household or raising children in a high-level military household, it is definitely more important than raising soldiers. If the land management is sufficient, then it is not a problem. The more people, the better... But if the land is relatively insufficient, the trouble will be big. The cost of raising people will inevitably eat into the cost of raising soldiers, which will be gone when the troops are used.
Therefore, those military towns with a high degree of autonomy began to implement the "military service land" system. They no longer controlled how many households, but only how much land. The land (pasture) is distributed (to the meritorious officials) or contracted out (ordinary soldiers and civilians can contract it), and then the soldiers and civilians who inherit the land are asked to serve as soldiers or pay taxes. This makes management much more convenient. The military town only needs to follow the land registration to manage the people and money below.
Another advantage of implementing the "military service field" system is that it can implement official transfer management and examination management to a certain extent. If you manage people's households, it will be easy to form layers of attachment, and it will be too difficult to rectify the whole body if it is involved.
However, this method of managing land without paying attention to people also has a disadvantage, that is, there are too many Dingyu who have no future - because in the case of managing land, if you cannot complete your military service and cannot pay the money, the land will be confiscated. Under such circumstances, the military and civilian households below who have contracted the land are not willing to raise idle people, nor can they afford it!
Therefore, there were more and more Dingyu who had no way out and no industry, which became a big problem for the northern soldiers.
Fortunately, the Ming Dynasty has expanded everywhere in recent years, and the court also recruited scouts from military towns, so Ding Yu from the North Military Town still has somewhere to go. Not only does he have a place to go, but he can also pick and choose.
The first good place to go is, of course, to be a Scout - this is almost the way to heaven for a boy from a border town in Northland! In recent years, at least one-third of the new officers in the Ming Dynasty Army were from Scouts.
In addition, many Scouts became civil servants after retiring and became bureaucrats with no worries about food and clothing. And these Scout officials who have become successful can often marry wives who are from Yingtian nobles and southeastern capitalists. These people marry them with a lot of money... To put it bluntly, these people are working from the bottom up. Afterwards, he entered the ruling group of the Ming Dynasty, and his role was similar to that of the imported "Xiaoge Lao" from the Tianfang Sect.
The second best place is to follow the princes of the Ming Dynasty or the young masters of the feudal town to form a group and go out...that is to act as lackeys and minions. The "soft rice kings" of the Ming Dynasty cannot only rely on their father-in-law. You also have to have your own people. Although this group of lackeys may not necessarily become officials, they will definitely be allocated a large piece of land and have many opportunities for advancement, which is much better than suffering in this town.
Leaving the town to enlist as a soldier was the third place to go. It was not a good place, but it was still a way out. The new army of the Ming Dynasty now implements a recruitment system, and recruits soldiers mostly from the cold and barren lands. This is Emperor Zhu's little calculation. Not only are elite soldiers produced in the poor and remote areas, but rebels are prone to emerge from the cold and barren lands! If the strong men there could be recruited as soldiers, wouldn't there be no one to become rebels?
Now, the Qianhuguan and Baihuguan here in Anbei Town have heard about the fourth good place... to be a cowboy in the New World!
Is this a good place to go? Those who herd cattle and sheep can do so here in Anbei. Why go to the New World?
Looking at the thousands of households below, they were just dumbfounded and did not speak. Anbei Jiedushi Zhu Hebao and the very depressed "big cowboy king" Zhu Hekun (his younger brother He Zhen was the little cowboy king and was now deceiving people in the Daning Army) ) looked at each other, both of them dumbfounded.
But no matter whether we laugh or cry, we still have to do the errands assigned by the emperor.
Zhu Hebao, the son of the acting king Zhu Cijiong, coughed, nodded to the people below and said: "The number of people who go to the New World to join the nomadic households is limited... A hundred households only have seven boys and seven girls, that is, seven For a couple, the age of the couple cannot exceed 25 years old, and they can take or not bring children. It does not matter whether they are Mongolian or Han, but they must be able to speak Chinese.
A couple can pay 100 taels of silver as a settlement fee, and then follow His Highness King Huai (Zhu Hekun) empty-handed... His Highness King Huai will not treat them badly!
In addition, for every hundred households that can meet the recruitment target of seven households, one will be added to this year's Scout recruitment target. If they can exceed the target of ten households, two will be added to the target... How about this? Can it be done? Tell us all! "
