"Long live my lord, this is the list of eldest sons who moved to Gansu with the Tang Dynasty drawn up by me... There are 255 families in total, with a population of more than 2,000, and they have occupied no less than 500 young people."
In the Chengyun Hall of Nanyang Imperial City, Tang Wang Zhu Yujian held a list of his attendants and handed it to Zhu Youjian with both hands.
At this time, Zhu Youjian was reading a memorial sent by the governor of Huguang about the land and tax situation of various governments, prefectures, and Wei in Huguang.
When he came to Nanyang from Sichuan, he passed through Huguang ground quickly. Apart from asking Fang Kongzhao, the new governor of Huguang who came to greet him, for the land tax accounts of various places in Huguang (including the jurisdiction of the governor of Pianyuan and the jurisdiction of the governor of Yunyang) in the fourth year of Chongzhen, he didn't see any important people. He just rushed north to Nanyang. Mansion.
The main reason why he did not stay longer in Huguang was that the problem in Huguang could not be solved by him making a private visit incognito as an emperor, killing a few corrupt officials, and stealing from a few wealthy families. It can’t even be solved by moving the Chu, Xiang, Liao, Jing, Ji, Rong, Hui, Gui and other vassals on the ground in Huguang... There are 200 million acres of land in Huguang’s accounts, but only two A tax of one million dan is only a pound of millet per acre!
That’s Huguang! It is the Huguang that "Huguang is ripe and the world is rich"... What does Huguang know well and the world is rich? There was a bumper rice harvest in Huguang, and everyone in the world had enough to eat.
But the problem is that the Ming Dynasty didn’t eat Huguang rice!
Even if the 200 million acres in Huguang were paid one dou per acre, there would still be 20 million shi, enough to keep six million Shaanxi people alive - even if Shaanxi had no harvest, the six million Shaanxi people would still be able to feed themselves.
If six million Shaanxi people survive, the Ming Dynasty will also survive!
Therefore, this Huguang rice is the lifeblood of the Ming Dynasty and the survival rice of tens of millions of northerners - tens of millions, not millions! Because millions of people have no food to eat. As a result, tens of millions of people have no hope of living! If a traitor hadn't been born, tens of millions would have died...
Huguang's "one pound of acre tax" has little to do with the eight vassal princes. No matter how much the eight vassal princes can earn, they will be considered very capable if they can encircle more than 10 million acres in total. There are still 190 million left!
Moreover, Huguang has been relatively peaceful for more than two hundred years, and there are no rebels like She Chongming and An Bangyan causing trouble. They only receive a small amount of imperial food. This means that the local landlords and wealthy people in Huguang have no conscience. .....
Zhu Youjian breathed out, closed the memorial in his hand, then took the list of ministers sent by Zhu Yujian, unfolded it, and started reading.
"All of them are named Zhu! They are all the eldest sons of the Tang Dynasty..." Zhu Youjian looked at the list and asked in a low voice, "Are these all the heroes who helped you seize the throne?"
"Yes, they all once helped me fight against the traitor Zhu Qishuan!" Zhu Yujian said, "I and my three younger brothers have been visiting each other these days, asking them to follow me to Gansu to do something."
"You won't come to the door empty-handed, right?" Zhu Youjian asked again.
"Of course not," Zhu Yujian said, "I still know these people are so sophisticated."
"This is not sophistication," Zhu Youjian said, "this is reward based on merit! These hundreds of people are both your sect and your followers. After arriving in the northwest, they are also your most reliable support. You rely on them , but also to control them, so we must give clear orders and strict rewards and punishments... By the way, are these people still strong? "
Zhu Yujian replied: "They are all quite strong."
"Okay," Zhu Youjian said with a smile, "Then I will help you train them for a few days... Sharpen your guns before the battle, and it will show up if you are not happy! When the time comes, you will take 500 cavalry to Gansu to take office. Naturally, no one will dare to watch. you."
Zhu Youjian is still very interesting and is ready to take action himself to help Zhu Yujian train his subordinates. He paused and then pointed at Zhu Yujian, "By the way, you and your three younger brothers are coming too... The four of you are considered outstanding among the current clan, and you are also thinking of doing something good. And you also have backbone. But your ability is still not enough to support a feudal town, so I have to teach you. But I can't stay in Nanyang for too long, so I will teach you for a month!
A month later, I will go south to Huguang, and you will go west to Gansu! "
What can a month teach you?
Zhu Yujian was pounding in his heart, but he still had to do some superficial work.
"Your Majesty personally gave me some guidance. It is because I have been blessed for several lifetimes. After learning the skills taught by Your Majesty, I will no longer be afraid of being unable to control Gansu."
Zhu Youjian smiled: "I have some free time now, so I will give you a lesson alone." As he spoke, he turned to Wei Zaode and said, "Move a chair for King Tang and get a copy of "The King of Tang Dynasty" written by me. "On Feudalism" to the King of Tang Dynasty."
"On Feudalism" is actually the "original version" of "On Feudalism" written by Ji Kun, a cruel official who was favored by Zhu Cixiang in his previous life... It is definitely not plagiarized. "Feudal Theory" came out much earlier than "Feudal Theory". How could it be that "Feudal Theory" copied "Feudal Theory"? At most, the content coincides exactly - both books focus on the "household enfeoffment system" that unites the military and civilians, that is, the military and civilian households are regarded as the targets of enfeoffment.
What was enfeoffed was not the land, but the population.
This feudal method is "prairie style" - the population on the grassland is more valuable than the land! The grasslands and deserts are endless, but whoever can gather 100,000 households will definitely be second to Genghis Khan.
In fact, the Eight Banners of the Later Jin Dynasty were also feudal. The core of the Hou Jin Dynasty was that there were about 50,000 or 60,000 households in the Eight Banners. With the attached Han army, Mongolian army and other miscellaneous people, there were barely 100,000 households. , so he became a strong enemy of the Ming Dynasty.
The disadvantage of this method of enfeoffment is that it is difficult to establish a stable feudal regime, but the advantage is that it is easy to move. This model was adopted by the "Sai King Feudalism" in the early Ming Dynasty.
A Sai king is equipped with at least three guards and commanders, two guards, and one ceremonial guard, totaling more than 10,000 households. These guard posts directly belonging to the Sai king were all non-real guard posts (it was not that they did not have military garrison land, but they did not have a large territory), so these Sai kings in the Ming Dynasty did not enfeoff land or visit the people, but they had military The feudal lord of the household.
The king of Sai whom Zhu Youjian planned to restore was also a king who did not enclose land or visit the people, but had military households.
The current Xinwang Zhu Cixuan has been sealed off from 20 thousand households, which is 20,000 military households!
The King of Tang who moved to Lanzhou will have 10 thousand households, which is 10,000 military households!
The relationship between these military households and the King of Sai was of course one of personal dependence. The military household relied on the king of Sai, and the king of Sai relied on the military household. The military households received land and salary from the King of Sai, and the King of Sai received armed forces from the military households.
The relationship between King Sai and the Ming Dynasty court was also dependent. The king of Sai relied on the court, and the court relied on the king of Sai. The King of Sai received land and military expenses from the court, and the court used the King of Sai to guard the border.
However, unlike the Sai Wang system in the early Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youjian's new Sai King system has an additional middle-level force - in the original system, the Sai King is the top layer, and military households are the grassroots, while the middle layer is actually relatively lacking. of. It's not that there are no middle-level officials in King Sai's guard, but that those middle-level officials themselves are not feudal lords, but merely bureaucrats of King Sai.
Such a King of Sai system cannot be established by Zhu Youjian now, because it means that he has to divide his army to establish a feudal system of King of Sai without middle-level feudal lords - because Zhu Youjian's direct descendants There are no middle-level feudal lords in the army, and those warlords or nomadic tribes have their own systems.
It was impossible for Zhu Youjian to remove all military leaders or feudal lords, large and small, without paying a considerable price, while retaining the soldiers at the grassroots level, and then using his own military bureaucrats to manage them.
As for Zhu Youjian's direct troops, excluding the newly built imperial army, there are only two armies in front of the tent and in front of the palace, with a number of only more than 100,000. They are the capital of Zhu Youjian to rule the world and defend his heart. Of course, they cannot be divided. To King Sai.
Therefore, the King of Sai could only establish his own feudal army by recruiting and rectifying the warlords' armed forces and nomadic tribes.
For former Ming vassal kings like the King of Tang, there were still a large number of "one sects" who followed him to settle, so he could only establish a layer-by-layer feudal system with a huge middle layer.
