At this moment, Zhu Yijun glanced at Chaoyang in the distance.
At that time, the sky was already red, and the sun was shining all over the world.
Zhu Yijun smiled slightly at this, and then told the British Duke Zhang Yuangong, who was in charge of the internal funds: "Although the people don't care about these losses now, compensation must still be paid."
Zhang Yuangong here said yes.
Queen Du Shi also smiled and glanced at Zhu Yijun affectionately.
Next, Zhu Yijun and his southern patrol team naturally stayed overnight in the morning, ate hungry and thirsty, and unknowingly arrived at Xingzhou Zhongtunwei.
Talk.
Ren Yonggang, who was originally a military household in the Xingzhou Zhongtun Guards, did not expect that the imperial court would honor the army and carry out military reforms. This allowed him, a fugitive military household who returned to the Tun Guards, to witness with his own eyes the changes in his own Tun Guards, as well as the changes in his own troops. How can a household suddenly become richer and richer?
Now, because of the excellent military subsidy and the free tuition for his children, Ren Yonggang used all the profits from the pencil business to find someone to invest in and open a pencil factory. This made him an instant success during the year of military reform. Became a wealthy man in Wei.
This made Ren Yonggang now have several Japanese maidservants to serve his wife Ruiya and himself.
However, even though Ren Yonggang became rich, he still sent his children to the government-run health school in Weili.
Because as far as he knew, the teachers hired by the School of Health were all Juren graduates, and many of them were Juren graduates from Xingming Academy. However, he could not hire any of these by himself, so he did not hire any teachers himself.
On this day, just as Ren Yong was riding a carriage to pick up his children from health school, he heard his son say that the emperor was coming to garrison him, so he asked in surprise: "Is the emperor coming?"
"Yes!"
"Gentlemen, the Emperor is going to pass by us on his southern tour, and has decided to stay here for a day. Tomorrow, officers and soldiers from Jinwu Guard will come to guard the place first!"
"In addition, we students of health science will be announced to the emperor, and the emperor will test our knowledge."
Ren Yonggang's son Ren Aiming replied at this time.
After hearing this, Ren Yong told his son: "Then you have to prepare carefully. Don't embarrass me and me in front of the emperor when the time comes, and don't let the emperor down. You have to know, I can have you, and everything will be fine." It was only because of the kindness of the current emperor that you and I had the opportunity to make a fortune by buying subscription tickets from the imperial court, and then we got your mother. It was also because the emperor exempted us from corvee labor and horse payment silver that we were able to return to Weili and farm in peace. Now it's even more because you gave military households like me a lot of subsidies and set up medical clinics so that you can have someone to take care of you. When you get sick, you can still have the medical clinic in Weili to treat you for free. Otherwise, you would have suffered a serious illness last year. There’s no one there for a long time.”
"I know, and I also know that it's because of this that you named me Aiming and asked me to love Daming."
Ren Aiming replied.
"It's good to know. People should know how to be grateful. The emperor's kindness is also a kindness."
Ren Yong just nodded, took a puff of dry cigarette after speaking, and then looked out the car window with excitement on his face.
At this time, the carriage of the Ren family was approaching his home, so Ren Yonggang had already seen his wife Ruiya, with her big belly, waiting outside the door with her two maids.
Ren Aiming had already jumped out of the car and ran towards Ruiya.
Ren Yonggang also got out of the car shortly after that and said to Ruiya: "My wife, I have some news for you."
"What news?"
Ruiya hugged her son Ren Aiming and asked.
Ren Yonggang said with a smile: "The emperor wants to come to our defense."
After hearing this, Ruiya immediately laughed and said: "This is really big news, but I don't know if I will have a chance to meet him in person. The fact that we can live a life of no worries about food and clothing, and someone to take care of us depends entirely on him."
"Yes, if it weren't for the emperor, Mr. Liu next door would still be begging for food for hundreds of families! How could he suddenly get pension subsidies because he is a military household, and now he can still have food and clothing every day, and even his son is back? ”
Ren Yonggang agreed, and Qi Ruiya ordered: "Go down and tell me that after the emperor comes, all shops will not be opened and everyone will have a holiday to see the emperor."
"Why!"
Ruiya smiled and agreed, then asked again: "When I go to see the emperor, why don't I bring something to the emperor? Whether I can hand it over or not, it's still a new idea."
"That makes sense. If you bring a few bundles of the pencils we Wei made ourselves, we might be able to enter the palace to participate in that expo."
"At that time, by the way, I will kill the big rooster raised at home, burn the feathers, boil it and sprinkle it with salt water. Whether the emperor can eat it or not, it is the wish of us military households."
"Okay! I'll arrange for them to prepare."
…
Because of Zhu Yijun's noble army, the life of military households is indeed much better than before.
Not only the widows, widowers and lonely people are supported, but medical security, educational support and housing subsidies are also much better than those with other household registrations.
After Zhu Yijun came to Xingzhou Zhongtun Guard, accompanied by the guard commander Deng Ning and others, he saw with his own eyes that there were residential areas full of brick and tile houses around the entire Xingzhou Zhongtun Guard.
These brick and tile houses are all lined up in a row, neat and clean. Outside each tile-roofed house there is a small courtyard, where fruits and vegetables are grown.
Because it was noon, Zhu Yijun saw that many brick and tile houses were filled with warm smoke, and the sound of roosters and dogs barking was constant. Many people even set up stoves in the courtyard to cook meat, and the piles of coal beside the stoves were piled up like hills.
"Are these the residences of ordinary military households?"
Zhu Yijun couldn't help but ask about Deng Ning at this time.
Deng Ning smiled and replied: "Your Majesty, these are the residences where ordinary military households live together. Due to Your Majesty's great kindness, you have issued housing subsidies to the World Guards. Therefore, I have ordered to hire workers to build them for them." Brick and tile houses were built to prevent them from getting sick because the huts could not withstand the severe cold, strong winds and heavy rains, and even affected the growth of their children. Now all the military households in the guardhouse live in such houses."
Zhu Yijun nodded after hearing this: "Is there anyone who builds his own compound?"
"Your Majesty, there are some who build their own courtyards, and they are all in the guard city."
Dunning replied at this time.
After hearing this, Zhu Yijun asked: "How many people build their own courtyards?"
Deng Ning replied: "Thanks to your majesty's great blessings and exemption from corvee and small taxes, we have created this prosperous era of Wanli. In recent years, many military households in our army have made their fortunes by relying on various policies that benefit the people and their own hard work, whether in business." Either by working as a craftsman or even as a storyteller or script writer, those who became rich could build large courtyards. What's more, the houses built by Weili officials were in accordance with the imperial edict, and military households could only be used after being allocated. There is no right to buy or sell, let alone the right to demolish and build without authorization, so military households who have become rich will basically build new compounds in the city."
Zhu Yijun nodded, smiled and said to his followers Li Chengliang, Wang Xijue, Shen Li and other ministers:
"It would be good if there were many people who built large courtyards. This shows that some military households have indeed become rich. Of course, more importantly, ordinary military households can also have two or three mansions and a small courtyard. This shows that you This guard commander did not embezzle public funds, and he managed it properly, allowing me to see such a large military residential area."
"Thank you for your majesty's praise. I did this out of loyalty to the king, and because I couldn't bear the military households in the guard station to continue living the same life as before. It's also thanks to your majesty that you are a benevolent emperor, so I can have such an opportunity. Thanks to your majesty's favor, Let the military households of our army finally no longer decrease in number every year because of the large number of military households fleeing, but increase in number every year because of the increase in the number of marriages among the military households."
Dunning choked up as she spoke.
Whether he was deliberately showing Zhu Yijun's show of pampering the military households at this moment, or whether he really had fellow countrymen feelings for the military households of his own army, it is certain that he does not dare to deduct the subsidies given to the military households by the imperial court now, nor does he dare to The imperial court's policy of preferential treatment of military households was violated in both positive and negative ways.
Because Zhu Yijun's last western tour had already let the world's bureaucrats know that this was not the emperor's idea alone, so it was impossible for them to resist the imperial court's will. If they tried to resist, the consequences would be disastrous.
Of course, there is another reason: as the interests of the ruling class in the Ming Dynasty grew mainly from the interests gained from external expansion, and in addition to the severe crackdown on internal illegal profit-making, the world's powerful and powerful bureaucrats did not have any regard for internal exploitation. As much as before, he has restrained himself a lot.
Therefore, Zhu Yijun could see many row brick houses in Zhongtunwei, Xingzhou.
And the bachelor Shen Li also couldn't help but said to Zhu Yijun because he saw that there were so many brick and tile houses extending to the skyline, and under the red sun, they seemed to contain countless hopes:
"Your Majesty, when I came to Beijing in the past, there were mostly huts and huts here. And because a large number of military households fled, there were only a few huts and huts. There were neither roosters crowing nor dogs barking. This change would have happened now, if not for your Majesty. I can’t believe it even if I see it with my own eyes, but it’s enough to show that the country has really been as prosperous as heaven these years!”
Zhu Yijun knew that Shen Li, as a son of a military family, would inevitably be more excited to see the military family living such a good life, so he laughed and said, "You never make such remarks to boast about your prosperous life. Now I can’t help but say it first!”
With that said, Zhu Yijun asked Deng Ning: "Why do people cook meat in the garden outside their houses? Is there any different custom in Xingzhou Zhongwei today?"
"Replying to Your Majesty, they all cooked meat at home because they knew that Your Majesty was coming today, and they wanted to serve it to Your Majesty."
Dunning replied at this time.
Zhu Yijun said nothing after hearing this.
But as the chariot he was riding got closer and closer to these brick houses, he saw that a large table had been placed in the brick courtyard of each house, and the table was filled with various types of chicken, duck, and fish.
As a result, Zhu Yijun looked around and saw that the huge residential area for ordinary military households was like a large manor hosting a large banquet. Each courtyard was a private dining room.
At this moment, all these military households looked at him eagerly in the courtyard, with smiles and expectant looks on their faces.
Zhu Yijun was a little touched by the simple expressions of the military households, and couldn't help but burst into tears, but he smiled and said:
"I actually didn't do anything. I just treated them as human beings."
(End of chapter)
