After listening to Zhu Youjian's words, Zhu Chunchen really felt like he wanted to cry without tears - of course he didn't want to be the master of a guard outside the border wall of Ji Town!
What Zhu Chunchen wanted, such as hereditary power, permanent rule, and having to eat only one guard's food and salary... were not what Zhu Chunchen wanted. He was not his ancestor Zhu Neng, and he was not that capable or ambitious.
Zhu Chunchen just wanted to be a free-spirited nobleman of Beijing. Even if he couldn't become a general and couldn't get a quota, he would be satisfied as long as he could live a stable life in Beijing and eat the capital embezzled by his ancestors. Got it!
But the little emperor of the Zhu family is so tossing... After being the emperor for more than a year, he has made Zhu Guobi, Zhao Zhilong, and Xu Yunzhen loyal and loyal, and Li Shouqi seems to be almost a benevolent one.
My destiny is good, and it is still intact for the time being, but whether I will be so lucky next time, only God knows. If you don't agree now, I'm afraid the little emperor will force you to go to the battlefield and become a loyal martyr tomorrow!
"My...my heart is indeed moved!" Zhu Chunchen had no choice but to turn his heartache into a heartbeat in order not to be loyal.
"Okay!" Zhu Youjian nodded approvingly, "I will make your family a hereditary and irreplaceable military and civilian commander... As long as your family can recruit 1,000 military households to cultivate outside the wall, I will give you With the salary of 1,000 households, your family will be allowed to use 300,000 acres of cultivated land outside the wall. Duke Cheng, can you attract 1,000 military households?"
"I, I will find a way. I will definitely bring these 1,000 military households here." Zhu Chunchen nodded repeatedly.
Pulling 1,000 households around the capital to colonize outside the wall was really a piece of cake for a noble man like Zhu Chunchen.
This is not the 17th year of Chongzhen. The population around Beijing has dropped sharply due to war and plague. Today is still the first year of Chongzhen, and there is still peace within the border wall. There are many households without land and industry at the feet of the emperor.
Moreover, Chengguofu itself was a large landowner and also engaged in "small loans". There were more than a thousand poor farmers who owed Chengguofu usury money and could not pay it back even if they worked as cattle or horses in their lifetime. As long as the Chengguo government is willing to waive some interest rates, these "certain white laborers" will have to go out and farm the land honestly!
"Just being able to pull people is not enough," Zhu Youjian continued, "You also have to equip the strong men who are pulled out with equipment and train them rigorously to become garrison troops! I will give your family a military salary of 1,000 soldiers. , including silver and grain, converted into silver, it is 30,000 taels a year. This is not free, your family has troops to fight for me!
In addition, your family has to build an acropolis outside the wall... If this acropolis is taken away by the Northern and Eastern captives, it will be the responsibility of losing the land! "
Zhu Chunchen was no longer distressed, but his heart was bleeding.
The little emperor didn't "confer" a guard to his family. He basically asked the Chengguo government to send someone to pay to go to the court to occupy a stronghold outside the border wall. When all kinds of Tatars came, they had to defend the city for the little emperor!
Zhu Youjian paused, and then said: "But it's not enough for you to be moved by yourself! You have to mobilize some Xunwei gates to open up outside the wall... I will give you 9 more guards. For the quota, you are responsible for attracting people. If you attract a duke or marquis, you will be granted the title of military and civilian commander, and the earl you attract will be granted the title of a thousand military and civilian households.
This position of guard is actually just a title. Regardless of whether it is a guard or a post, they all have 1,000 troops and 300,000 acres of land, and the guards do not govern each other. Above the guard post, there will be a separate garrison office. One garrison office has jurisdiction over 10 guard posts. Cheng Guogong, if you can recruit 9 guard posts, I will grant you another guard post.
In addition, this time I have sealed off all the remaining 30,000 troops in the Beijing camp to you! There will no longer be three major camps in Beijing! "
Zhu Youjian wanted to engage in true feudalism in the Yanshan and Liaoxi mountainous areas, so of course he had to control the scale. A feudal lord owned 1,000 military households and 300,000 acres of land that could be cultivated (hills that could not be cultivated were not counted). The scale was quite moderate. If 5,600 households were sealed off, it would be too big.
In an important territory like Yanshan close to Beijing, if a feudal military guard of 5,600 households messes up, the losses will be huge. If it is done too well, it will be too dangerous.
So he simply came up with a one-size-fits-all "thousand-household system" and issued 30 thousand-household (guard posts) to Beijing nobles. At the same time, he also wrote off all the 120,000 soldiers recruited by the Beijing camp - the 120,000 soldiers recruited by the Beijing camp. The salary is more than three million a year. The 30,000 troops in the 30 guard posts outside the wall total a salary of 900,000. Each time they enter and exit, they can save more than 2 million...
Zhu Chunchen patted his chest and promised Zhu Youjian: "I will definitely win over nine noble families for your majesty!"
This is actually not difficult.
Because the accounts of the soldiers in the Beijing camp have been evened out, there are only 30,000 people on the account, and 60,000 to 70,000 people were reported for those who were killed, seriously injured, and those who fled! Most of them are fleeing... What are we waiting for if we don't disband this army? Now to give 30,000 troops to the nobles and let them go out of the wall to develop, it is already extremely merciful.
If the noble families in Beijing cannot secure a place in the guardhouse, they will be left idle and fall into decline step by step!
Zhu Youjian asked Zu Dashou, who was squinting to one side and pretending to be transparent, "Zu Dashou, are you excited?"
"Your Majesty, of course I am moved!"
Zu Dashou is actually not too tempted. He still prefers to maintain the status quo and continue to take short quotas in western Liaoning.
But the little emperor is so fierce!
The little emperor really dared to take the lead, rush into battle and kill people, and even defeated a 2,000-strong red flag horse team! In the world of emperors, this kind of bravery can only be compared to Master Chengmiao of the Ming Dynasty and Taizong Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty. Zu Dashou didn't have the guts to go against such a "murderous master".
Moreover, Zu Dashou was more enthusiastic about going outside the wall than Zhu Chunchen. Although his ancestor was also an old brother of Zhu Yuanzhang (Although Zhu Yuanzhang killed many great heroes, he was still very kind to those old brothers who did not threaten his own world. There were more than 500 guards and more than 2,000 wards in the country, which were actually enfeoffments. The territory given to the old brother), but it has not yet reached the level of Xungui. So he was granted the title of Ningyuan Guard and became a military aristocrat of the Ming Dynasty. When it was passed down to Zu Dashou's grandfather Zu Ren and his father Zu Chengxun, the Ningyuan ancestral family was already the leader of Wangzu with a large number of people. Zu Ren and Zu Chengxun had also reached the rank of general soldier and stood in the border town. The pinnacle of generalship. By Zu Dashou's generation, taking advantage of the Ming Dynasty's collapse in Liaodong and Sun Chengzong and Yuan Chonghuan's desperate efforts to spend money in western Liaoning, the Ningyuan family had developed into a feudal warlord.
Of course the feudal warlords needed territory, and because Xiong Tingbi gathered two million and hundreds of thousands of Liaodong refugees into Shanhaiguan after his defeat in Guangning, most of them had a difficult life. If they can be given a piece of land in the Liaoxi Valley, they can definitely recruit refugees who cannot survive in the pass to work as farmers.
Zhu Youjian looked at Zu Dashou and said, "Zu Qing, how many thousand households should I give you?"
"Chen..." Zu Dashou was asked by Zhu Youjian and found something was wrong.
We have many soldiers and horses! How many troops are needed? In addition, we still have a lot of vacancies!
Thinking of this, Zu Dashou had no choice but to look at Yuan Chonghuan for help.
Yuan Chonghuan's face was solemn. He knew that the uncles in Liaoxi were not useless Beijing camps... If they wanted to check their accounts, they would have to find out the mutiny. Then he, the governor, would not be able to protect them!
"Your Majesty," Yuan Chonghuan quickly came out and said, "Liao Town and Shanhaiguan Town have a total of 120,000 troops and more than 4 million in pay, all raised by Kaizhongfa..."
"Oh." Zhu Youjian nodded and said with a smile, "There are so many troops in Liao Town and Shanhaiguan Town! Yuan Qing, if not, Liao Town will be moved to western Liaoning, and Shanhaiguan Town and Ji Town will be merged.
I also sealed 30 thousand-household settlements outside the wall for the generals of Jizhen after the merger, and paid 30,000 soldiers... This food and salary does not need to come from Kaizhong. The remaining soldiers in Ji Town, together with Liaoxi Town, were all supported by Kai Zhongfa. Yuan Qing is in charge of the towns of Ji and Liao, so Yuan Qing will be the governor of Ji and Liao and sit in charge of Shanhaiguan! What do you think of Yuan Qing? "
Finally became the governor of Jiliao! And he also saved a vacancy for a group of Liao Town military leaders!
Yuan Chonghuan was overjoyed and immediately kowtowed to express his gratitude and accepted the errand of Governor Ji Liao.
Zhu Youjian then said: "Zu Dashou, you are still the commander-in-chief of Liaoxi... There are also 30 thousand-household settlements sealed outside the Liaoxi wall. You can discuss the military pay and soldier quota with Governor Yuan."
"I accept the order." Zu Dashou breathed a sigh of relief - he can still continue to eat if he has an empty quota! And we can also get the land in the mountainous area of Liaoxi, this is a great opportunity!
"Zhao Shujiao!" Zhu Youjian named the somewhat uneasy Zhao Shujiao again - this time the slave thieves broke through his defense zone!
"I'm here."
"Beyond the 60 guard posts and 6 garrison offices outside the walls of Ji Town, there must be a general military office. You can be the general military officer of Yanshan Town!" Zhu Youjian said, "I will recruit 15,000 more soldiers for Yanshan Town. Well, the food and salary are the same as in Liao Town."
