What?
In exchange for eating a dried sweet potato, you have to join the army as a soldier? You, Long Live Master, are too evil-hearted, right?
The ministers in the East Nuan Pavilion of Wansheng Palace frowned slightly when they heard this, while Sun Chuanting, the Minister of the Ministry of War, stepped forward to plead for the people in full view of the public.
"Your Majesty, there are many disaster-prone places in the world now. There are droughts and locust plagues everywhere in the northwest and Zhongzhou. There are more than millions of ordinary people who are struggling to survive. Do they have to be recruited as soldiers? Isn't this how the Song Dynasty recruited victims in disaster years? Is it a way to serve as a soldier? Although this method can control all the strong men among the victims and reduce the risk of civil commotion, it will easily produce redundant and weak soldiers, and will also increase military expenses sharply, making the court already unable to The abundant finances add insult to injury. Please think again, Your Majesty."
Zhu Youjian listened to Sun Chuanting's words and chuckled: "Mr. Sun, do you think I am as kind-hearted and soft-hearted as the Emperor of the Zhao family?"
that's true! Sun Chuanting was right when he thought about it. You, the emperor, have a dark heart. How could you let the military households eat dried sweet potatoes for free?
But thinking of this, Sun Chuanting frowned even more tightly, "Your Majesty, do you really want to use these military households recruited from the hungry people to open up new territories?"
Zhu Youjian laughed and said: "Mr. Sun, do you think my dried sweet potatoes can be eaten for free? If you eat my dried sweet potatoes, of course you will have to work for me! Moreover, the military household system of this dynasty has long been full of disadvantages, and it is difficult to To protect our country, we must go back to the drawing board and recast it.
When I was in Nanzhili before, I easily dispersed the guard posts in the three provinces of Nanzhili, Huaidong and Huaixi. The old guard offices in Bafu, Datong and Xuanfu of Beizhili have also been disbanded. Although the old guard offices in Huguang have not been disbanded, they are still in existence and are all under the jurisdiction of the major prefectures. Many old guard offices in Sichuan and Guizhou have also dispersed.
While these old guards were being cut down and abolished, I also established many new thousand households, and also granted more than 200 real titles with military households (after conquering Lushun, I granted another group, There are also many veteran nobles who have also received real titles, but neither the veteran nobles nor the Zheng brothers have received silver rewards). So the new military household system has actually been established! "
This is Zhu Youjian's brilliance now!
The military, financial, and government reforms he has implemented since his reign are so powerful that they can be said to be unprecedented in the Ming Dynasty after Zhu Di. Compared with the vigorous New Deal of Zhang Juzheng and the New Deal of Zhu Youjian, it pales into insignificance.
However, such a large-scale reform was promoted to the point where it was almost complete in less than ten years by using a step-by-step approach of only doing it without talking about it, and making major changes in silence.
The civil and military affairs of the Manchu dynasty were led by Zhu Youjian - many of Zhu Youjian's reforms were carried out bypassing the six cabinet ministries, and they were not global in the beginning, but local pilots. Try to try. , the commotion got bigger and bigger, and got out of control.
Moreover, when encountering difficulties in reform, Zhu Youjian was very good at taking advantage of the situation, or taking advantage of the victory over the Northern and Eastern slaves. Or create millions of beggars so that neither the court nor the local government dares to rebel. Or maybe some thief was promoted to the king of Chuang, and while frightening the powerful gentry in the southeast, he "kidnapped" all the sons of Nanjing's nobles and used them as hostages.
In short, various methods emerged in endlessly, and each move was just right, so that the courtiers and nobles could not counterattack, and could only be led by the nose to move forward step by step.
However, this black-hearted emperor is quite kind to his subordinates, and he is not a master who can't get rid of the dirt in his eyes. Although he had done many things to scare the monkeys, most of the officials who hung out with him were pretty good. Even the vassal kings, nobles, and ministers who made mistakes could correct their mistakes, pay money to atone for their sins, and very few of them would be beaten to death with a stick.
By the way, I don’t use the royal stick anymore. Anyone who really offends Zhu Youjian can at most become a loyal martyr and be remembered in history...
Zhu Youjian's eyes swept through the West Nuan Pavilion of Wansheng Palace, as if he was looking for Zhonglie, but he couldn't find it. Then he smiled and said: "This major reform of the military household system can be completed in Shaanxi and Gansu..." .... Just finish it before I personally conquer the Chagatai Khanate next autumn!"
The Ming Dynasty's guard posts were concentrated around Beijing, Nanjing and Shaanxi (including Gansu). Now all the old guardhouses around Beijing and Nanjing have been abolished, and many new households have emerged. Now only the bones of Shaanxi and Gansu are left. After gnawing away, most of the old guard institutions across the country should have been abolished. Next, we can naturally push forward the reform of the military household system to the end.
"I wonder what your Majesty's ideal military household looks like?" Sun Chuanting asked with a frown.
To be honest, it was a bit embarrassing for him to be the Minister of War. The Minister of War should be the important minister in charge of the world's military, but Sun Chuanting found that more than half of the elites of the Ming Dynasty were not under his control... The reform of the military household system seems to have nothing to do with him.
"The ideal military household has nothing to do with me," Zhu Youjian said with a wry smile, "That is the military household of Emperor Taizu Gao. And the military households I can get can only be military households that are not ideal, but are still useful. .The so-called military household is nothing more than an army composed of soldiers and farmers.
With their masses, we can cultivate fields and consolidate the borders, transform barbaric lands into Han lands, and spread the principles of China to all directions. For the masses, the troops are placed among the people, and everyone is armed with weapons, plowing and guarding.
Using its essence, one can become an iron cavalry or a light cavalry, a brave and strong infantry, and can also be followed by honorable ministers to make meritorious deeds together. For those who are excellent, one of the ten can be selected to serve in the army and serve as a garrison for the country.
The young men can then be used to provide young warriors for the armies in front of the tent, and to serve as cavalry for the future heroes of the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, this military household system is actually one of the foundations of the Great Tomorrow Army, and it must be done carefully! "
It turns out that in Zhu Youjian's plan, the new military households were used for two purposes, one as armed immigrants, and the other as the source of blood tax.
Most of them are armed immigrants, specially sent to border fortresses and newly conquered lands. Among them are the elite, the brave and capable soldiers of the border army or the guards of the new nobles. The young people among them can be used as the source of soldiers for the young army in front of the tent. It can be said that it can accomplish multiple things with one stone and has multiple uses in one army.
And Zhu Youjian planned to exchange some dried sweet potatoes for such a useful new military household. It was really evil.
Sun Chuanting thought deeply and said, "I wonder how many new military households your Majesty needs to guard the four directions?"
"Two million households are always needed!" Zhu Youjian reported a quite large number, "Half of them are households directly under the imperial court, with a thousand households as one camp, placed in Yanshan, Daning, Liaoxi, Liaodong, Datongkouwai, Xuanfukouwai, Yulin, Ningxia, Gansu, Yunnan-Guizhou, Sichuan, Guangxi and other border areas. The land that does not occupy the state capital will be placed on the territory of Shitu border towns.
The other half should belong to the Ming Dynasty Sai Wang and Xungui, and the land they occupy is similar to that of the military households directly under the imperial court. However, the jurisdiction is not in the court, but in the hands of the king and nobles. "
"So do military households still have to pay grain grains?" Sun Chuanting asked again.
"Of course I won't pay it," Zhu Youjian said, "but some of the elite must be allocated to serve... Military households directly under the imperial court, five households together provide one infantryman. When you serve in the last round, you can also receive a certain subsidy. As for military households belonging to the King of Sai and nobles, every ten households will have one cavalryman, and they can also receive subsidies when they served in the previous term."
"Long live my lord," Sun Chuanting hesitated for a moment and then asked, "I wonder which yamen is in charge of the military households in the imperial court?"
"Of course...the Ministry of War and the General Counselor Department are jointly managed again!" Zhu Youjian said, "From now on, the military affairs of the Ming Dynasty will be jointly managed by the Ministry of War and the General Counselor Department. The Ministry of War is in charge of military affairs, and the General Counselor Department is in charge of military orders. . In this way, all the armies in the world can be commanded and dispatched in a unified way."
Sun Chuanting was finally relieved that his Ministry of War would not become a fictitious government office... But this did not mean that the bureaucrats in the Ministry of War could continue to give blind orders as in the past.
Zhu Youjian then added, "The rules of the Ministry of War must also be changed. Civil servants who have not served as the general of the army cannot be ministers and ministers of the Ministry of War... and everyone below the minister of the Ministry of War must have members of the bodyguard corps. Origin!”
