Zhu Yijun, who was sitting in the chariot and walking slowly, would also look back a few times to see the soldiers who appeared on the mountains and plains from time to time.
He could see how hot the eyes of those camp soldiers were, and he could also see that these camp soldiers obviously had a little respect for him, just like the eyes of the unruly wild wolves when they looked at the Wolf King.
But looking at the rags and cotton on their bodies that had not yet been replaced, and the peeled trees on the mountain plain, Zhu Yijun would still think of these camp soldiers who looked the same as hungry people when he first arrived. I don’t know. They had no idea that they would be Ming Dynasty's regular field army.
"Return to Your Majesty."
"Some of them still thought they were going to fight today, so they were reluctant to put on their newly issued winter clothes immediately, for fear that they would be damaged on the battlefield."
"But then, they should be willing to put on new winter coats."
Not long after.
Zhang Jingxiu came back and reported to him the result that he had sent the Jin Yiwei to ask why the soldiers in the camp did not wear new winter clothes.
Zhu Yijun nodded after hearing this, and then said to Zhang Jingxiu:
"Siwen, our people of the Han family really need to be treated more kindly by carnivores like you and me!"
"His Majesty said yes."
"As His Majesty mentioned in the Hadith in "Explanation of Foreign Affairs", it is not enough to just provide peace of mind to the people. Preventing the heads of Guizhou from starving to death and filling the ravines is only the minimum requirement for those who govern the country. It is also a matter of benefiting and enriching the people and satisfying the people's increasing needs. Increasing legitimate needs is the awareness that those who govern a country should have."
Zhang Jingxiu bowed and replied.
Zhu Yijun nodded after hearing this, and continued to explain his feelings, saying:
"So, I feel that the court's kindness to our people is not enough!"
"If we just want to make people gain something from their hard work, this is something that many meat eaters can do. Even foreigners who are Chinese masters can do this if they want to. As our ancestors share the same origin, we must be able to treat ourselves There are higher requirements for ruling this world."
"If we really allow our people to be treated poorly and even suffer from hunger and cold, wouldn't it mean that if any foreigner gives our people some food, they will be willing to be slaves?"
"Even if a foreigner is slightly kind to him, he will feel deeply about it and be willing to point the knife at his own compatriots!"
"And if we want to treat our people well, we need to raise the threshold for them to be bribed. We don't have to worry about them being bribed by some small favors."
As Zhu Yijun said this, he thought of the historical situation where the Han troops who surrendered to them had greatly increased their combat effectiveness after the Manchus and Qing dynasties entered the Pass. He knew that there was a reason why ordinary Han officers and soldiers themselves were not taken seriously by the imperial court.
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"Your Majesty is so kind to his people!"
"I'm really afraid that there will be more and more unruly people in the future because of this."
In Yilu Town, the only place to go to Guyuan, Gu Wenjin, a squire here, couldn't help but sigh when he saw a group of civilians who were transporting food for the emperor's army queuing up to receive wages from officials.
Mao Weili then echoed: "Isn't that right? Not only do the peasants who transport grain earn wages, but also if the grain transport carriage accidentally overturns and destroys the young crops, there will be a grain officer who will be responsible for compensating for the young crop fees, directly in cash! In addition, if there is a temporary need, A few common women are paid for washing and cooking. They are just a few women, so what? , but also thank you for your willingness to help?”
"If I accidentally destroy the young crops, will I not only have to pay the young crops, but also have to send someone to the door to apologize?"
"yes!"
"This is simply not good for education! In the future, the simple and honest style in the village will disappear!"
"People will only ask for money when they need their own efforts, and they will even wait for those who travel far to get into trouble."
Gu Wenjin agreed and poked the ground with his crutch several times.
"At least now there are more and more unruly people!"
"My tenants no longer come to deliver winter livestock. If I force them to do so, they won't be willing to rent anymore, and would rather go to work. They said that last winter, because I needed manpower to build a house, I had to start paying wages. And I have to pay more, otherwise they won’t do it! He said that if the wages given are similar to those given by His Majesty, then it would be better to work for His Majesty, because working for His Majesty would at least feel more honorable."
As Mao Weili spoke, he asked Gu Wenjin: "Tell me, is this a growing trend of evildoers, and is it because of profit and gain?"
"I'm afraid that if you get used to this kind treatment for too long, it will be difficult to correct it even if you want to correct it."
Gu Wenjin sighed.
Gu Wenjin and other squires obviously had different ideas from Zhu Yijun whether ordinary soldiers and civilians should be treated well.
But for Zhu Yijun, the scope of his consideration is not only the stability and prosperity in the immediate ten or twenty years, but also the stability and prosperity for more than a hundred years.
Therefore, he knows that the better he treats his own people and the more he treats his own people as human beings, the more conducive to the long-term stability of this land. The more he cares about the immediate interests and puts his own people to death. Squeezing, or even eating at the same time, and robbing its future production value will cause it to collapse faster.
The effect of Zhu Yijun's patrols around the world based on this idea was that his patrols did not cause disturbance to the people, but instead invigorated the local economy.
Because Zhu Yijun was not only accompanied by a large amount of silver coins, but also a large number of retinue personnel. Therefore, wherever he went, he would drive consumption and change the local social production relations.
"Hey!"
"Hey!"
At this time, on the way to Ningxia, many civilians were taking turns transporting artillery and ammunition to the front line, forming a long queue. Although it was already dark, they continued to actively transport artillery and ammunition to the front line under the light of torches. these things.
Moreover, these civilian husbands are very hardworking.
The reason is that the court gave money.
The key is that there are so many civilian workers who are willing to work hard that they can transport the goods in shifts.
The reason for this is that the court gave money, which made many civilians willing to come and take the hard work.
After all, this is different from working as a corvee. When a corvee works, they have to prepare their own food, so many people will run away from the service and hide. The court not only provides food and accommodation but also pays wages, which naturally makes many people come to help, even if they would rather give in. The farm work at home has been postponed for some time, and I don't want to miss such an opportunity to make money.
Today, the Ming Dynasty has too many people, and landless people have already become the majority of the entire empire's population. Therefore, there is no shortage of idle labor. Naturally, as long as the court pays workers and does not intend to use the people in vain, there is no need to worry about the people who contribute their efforts. .
Because of this.
Many gentry workshops also had to start paying wages to the people who worked for them, instead of just providing them with food and housing, and were forced to start transforming into a wage-based production mode, instead of just providing them with food and housing as before. , or simply let them surrender as slaves.
certainly.
The premise of all this is related to the actual implementation of the policy of eliminating corvee.
Only when the policy of eliminating corvee is truly implemented, can the idle labor force be free to find work, and then be free to earn income other than agricultural production through their own labor.
Regardless of whether the local bureaucrats and gentry took the initiative to comply with the imperial edict exempting them from corvee, or they were forced to passively comply with the imperial edict and implemented the imperial edict exempting them from corvee due to a series of measures taken by Zhu Yijun after he left the palace for a tour to the west.
Anyway, after the corvee was really eliminated, a large amount of idle labor was really liberated, and they were able to increase their income, which in turn brought a more prosperous economy to the country.
As a result, many people began to change from farmers to workers, or at least took on the role of workers and became migrant workers.
As a result, more people have the awareness that their labor force needs to be respected and exchanged with monetary equivalents, and they no longer feel that their strength is renewable anyway, so it is not worth asking for money.
The emergence of more and more workers and migrant workers can be said to fundamentally destroy the landlord economy.
Because workers cannot be self-sufficient, they need to use labor remuneration to trade to obtain various necessities of life. Even migrant workers still need to consume as long as they are still working in other places.
This will further expand the scale of consumption, increase the number of vendors, and further activate the commodity economy.
The landlords and gentry also had to be forced to transform, from mainly recruiting tenants to mainly recruiting workers, from mainly collecting more grain to mainly collecting more money.
It's just that this change was forcibly brought about by the emperor Zhu Yijun and his ruling group.
Rather than this society emerging from the bottom up.
Because in Ming Dynasty, except for coastal areas, most people were farmers and landlords.
Therefore, the wealthy families in the world have not established an employment model for the use of idle labor. They either make them slaves and use them as tenant servants, or they adopt a long-term and short-term labor model with sharing or food and accommodation, or they are organized by the government. For service, there is little talk of wages.
Here, the idle labor force is mainly organized by the government to serve.
After all, landlords have limited land, so they can absorb only a limited number of tenant servants, slaves, and long-term and short-term workers. Most people will never become workers in their lifetime.
Even if someone rises through business, they rarely have the motivation to expand the scale of production and increase the number of workers. Instead, after business income reaches a certain stage, they will purchase fields and become landlords. Who makes the self-sufficient small-scale peasant economy too powerful? , The money earned from business alone is really limited and unstable. It is better to buy land and become a landlord, so that you can be self-sufficient even if you are not rich.
Therefore, the emperor Zhu Yijun is now permanently exempted from corvee service. He also pays wages to the people when he serves them. He is simply digging into the roots of the landlord economy and forcibly using state power to promote the emergence of more workers or migrant workers.
But Zhu Yijun was able to give the Ming court enough financial resources to use state power to force the emergence of more workers and migrant workers because his court seized a lot of wealth from overseas.
Otherwise, how could he have so much money to spend?
He even said very generously that the entire western tour would be borne by internal funds, and tens of millions of taels of internal funds had been prepared in advance as the cost of the western tour.
This is consistent with the fact that the landlord economy of ancient Chinese dynasties was very powerful and not easily destroyed. It was the wealth obtained by the huge landlord class by not treating its own people as human beings. This made the society dominated by the landlord economy very strong and difficult to destroy. The reason for the change is the same.
Zhu Yijun was able to tap into the roots of the landlord class because he made many foreigners bear the cost of being squeezed so hard that he could tap into the economic roots of the landlord class.
Otherwise, Zhu Yijun would not be able to reduce internal tax sources while permanently eliminating corvee. When touring the world, he would repeatedly treat soldiers and civilians as human beings, and then spend money crazily, thereby destroying the landlord economy that has a stable history of thousands of years. More cracks began to be carved out of the solid ice.
When productivity has not increased significantly, if any reform is to succeed, someone will bear the cost of the reform.
Zhu Yijun let the foreign barbarians bear the main price of his reforms.
"If this society must cannibalize people in order to maintain long-term stability, then can it be considered an improvement to turn cannibalism from cannibalism into cannibalism?"
In March of the 20th year of Wanli, Shaanxi Zhenrong Station.
Zhu Yijun stood on the city wall here, looking at the setting red sun and the large amount of smoke rising outside the city, as well as the soldiers and traders cooking meat in the smoke, and couldn't help but murmured this.
These traders and peasants all traveled long distances to follow the imperial driver, and they all came to make money, and they all made a lot now, so they were all smiling and singing and dancing from time to time.
As Zhu Yijun watched this scene, he felt a sense of accomplishment.
He had food, women, property, etc. all at his fingertips, and the scene and atmosphere where all the people were peaceful, happy and satisfied made him feel even more happy.
"His Majesty!"
"The soldiers waiting to receive their rewards have arrived."
At this time, Tian Le came and reported to Zhu Yijun.
It turned out that Zhu Yijun heard that the 300 military households in the Zhenrong Station repelled more than 5,000 captives who invaded the border wall from Ningxia in the past, and also killed a Tatar 10,000 households and hundreds of captives. It was decided to personally give additional rewards to these 300 officers and soldiers in recognition of the merits of these guardsmen who did not fall into the prestige of the military family in the early days of the country.
Therefore, at this time, Tian Le brought nearly two hundred military households from the Zhenrong Station who were still able to move around.
After Tian Le said this, Zhu Yijun said "hmm" and then looked towards these military households.
"I am very pleased that the country still has you loyal and brave men who dare to sacrifice your lives to serve the country and defend the family. And I happened to be here today in person, so I will give each of you fifty taels of silver dollars and ten bolts of silk as a reward. It can be regarded as an additional reward in addition to the rewards based on merit."
Zhu Yijun said and ordered people to bring up the silver coins and silk cloth.
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
Then, Zhu Yijun personally took Zhang Jingxiu, Tian Le and Chen Wenliang to distribute the silver reward and silk reward to these officers and soldiers.
These officers and soldiers either had their mouths pursed or pursed, and their eyes were watery. Each of them had obviously killed someone before, but now they looked more fragile and sensitive than children.
At the same time, Zhu Yijun also sent a whistleblower box to each officer and soldier, saying: "Remember to write to me."
Then, Zhu Yijun smiled and said: "Go down and prepare for the banquet. I asked the imperial chef to prepare delicious food for you. You can also taste the imperial banquet that princes, princes and ministers usually eat at Guanglu Temple."
Zhu Yijun did all this to practice his philosophy of governing the country by treating ordinary soldiers and civilians as human beings. Whether it was materially or spiritually, it gave him the feeling of being seen and respected for his contribution to the country and the people. The effect of this , is now manifesting itself in the form of war in Ningxia Town.
The former King of Qin, Zhu Yifang, and his ministers, at this moment saw helplessly only a few hundred officers and soldiers defeated his more than 20,000 soldiers and horses, and pushed the chariot and broke into his guarding firearm formation without fear. , and therefore had to cry:
"I want to surrender, I want to go back to Xi'an, I am in trouble! These officers and soldiers are too scary! Woohoo!"
Sorry, I am too busy today and my efficiency is too low. I can only update one chapter.
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