Thanks to the early blockade of the Nanguan area, and the fact that Jinzhou and Lushun are not closely connected.
On the 14th day after Lushun returned to the Ming Dynasty, the slave chief Nurhaci received the news of the loss of Lushun from Shanxi merchants.
At this time, Su Polu had already completed the operation of the people. Together with the remaining Liao people before Lushun, as well as the Liao people who Su Polu took the opportunity to rescue from Jinzhou, nearly 100,000 Liao people gathered in the Lushun area.
One hundred thousand Liao people say it's not too much, but it's not too much. If managed properly, it can become a strong backing for Su Polu, but once it gets out of control, one hundred thousand Liao people can also swallow up all of Su Polu's troops.
Su Polu was somewhat competent in military management, but managing the people was beyond Su Polu's ability.
Although Su Polu implemented military control, this was not a long-term solution.
In order for Lushun to become Su Polu's backing as soon as possible and to reduce the pressure on the Qiming Chamber of Commerce, Su Polu kept writing to the court to send county magistrates. What's ridiculous is that no one in the Manchurian court who was waiting for officials dared to respond when they heard that they were in Lushun.
In desperation, Wei Zhongxian could only send officials by force. Unexpectedly, the selected officials either resigned or abandoned their official seals and ran away.
What's more, they actually directed and acted themselves to create pressure from public opinion.
Under pressure, Wei Zhongxian finally sent Cao Huachun as the magistrate of Lushun County after consulting Emperor Tianqi.
Before leaving, Emperor Tianqi gave Cao Huachun a brocade box and told Cao Huachun to go to Lushun and meet Su Polu to open it.
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"Your Majesty wants to return to the guard station in Lushun?"
Su Polu and the others were shocked when they heard this. Most of the people in this room were from military households, and they were ordinary military households before. Of course they knew the shortcomings of military households and guardhouses.
"Eunuch Cao, please think twice. Although the officers and soldiers in the army currently have military households, they are all recruited soldiers. If they know that Your Majesty has listed them as military households, it will definitely make people upset, and I am afraid there will be trouble!"
They almost subconsciously thought that the officers and soldiers would be very resistant.
After all, most of them have not read books and do not know the previous history. They do not know the benefits of the Wei Dynasty.
But they know the disadvantages very well. You know, many of those soldiers are from military households. How could they escape from the wolf's mouth? Into the tiger's den again?
"I know what you want to say, why doesn't Your Majesty know the shortcomings of the guardhouse?
The corruption of the officials in the guard station was serious. Not only did they embezzle the land of the soldiers, but the soldiers also suffered from the oppression and extortion of the officials. Since the Zhengtong period, there had been a phenomenon of military families fleeing. Therefore, by the time of Emperor Shenzong, they began to use camps instead of soldiers. Recruitment is in force.
In fact, the guard station only retains the framework. How could your majesty not know this? However, the guard station system is not without its merits..."
When Zhu Wuxin was about to speak, Cao Huachun stopped him with a wave of his hand.
"I know what you want to say! But the guard system your Majesty wants to implement is different from the old guard system.
Although it was also called a guard system, it was essentially different. In addition to each soldier being granted a hundred acres of land, additional farm tools, seeds, and an additional ten taels of Anjia silver, there were other preferential treatments. "
In fact, Zhu Youjian has been thinking about how to maintain the combat effectiveness of the army.
A country cannot stand tall without a strong military.
He consulted a lot of information for this purpose. Although many materials exaggerate the important surnames of generals, they should be combined with the understanding of later generations.
Zhu Youjian finally concluded that generals, soldiers, and equipment are the three elements of a powerful army under the current situation.
Generals are the brains of the army. As the old saying goes, one general's incompetence will kill the three armies, which shows the importance of generals to the army.
Soldiers are consumables on the battlefield. If you want to keep the army strong, you must train soldiers into combat puppets.
This makes soldiers fear the whip in the hands of an officer more than the enemy's bullets and swords.
Of course, you can also maintain the combat effectiveness of soldiers by cultivating their nationalism and patriotism.
But it is difficult to achieve in reality.
Relying on cruel military laws to maintain the combat effectiveness of the army, but this is only temporary. The people are not fools. Without the support of the people, how can the army continue?
Forced conscription? It means losing the support of the people, which is the real way to die.
Finally, after much thought, Zhu Youjian still set his sights on the health center!
The guard system may have shortcomings of one kind or another, but that doesn't mean there's no room for improvement.
As long as it is improved, the Weisuo system is actually quite good.
After careful consideration, Zhu Youjian told Emperor Tianqi his thoughts.
"What are these preferential treatment? That is, the military fields led by the soldiers of the guard station are only paid 1 dou of grain per acre. The soldiers usually do not perform official duties and various corvee labor!"
Finally, Cao Huachun threw out the trump card given to him by His Majesty.
"In other words, it's just one bucket of grain, so it's not a bad deal."
"What a bucket of food! It's not a job!"
Everyone was shocked. In fact, the military households in the Ming Dynasty did not pay food or do corvee service. But this is only in name only.
In fact, the military households of the Ming Dynasty were, to put it bluntly, similar to the field soldiers of the Wei Dynasty.
More than half of the grain they harvested from farming had to be handed over as "military food", and in many areas the rate of exploitation was as high as over 70%.
To put it bluntly, they are state serfs.
Nominally, food is owned by the state and is used by combat troops as military rations.
But in essence they were dominated by hereditary officers.
Not only that, the hereditary generals also seized a large number of land from guard posts and enslaved military households for farming. The military households turned into serfs of the generals. In this case, it was natural for the military households to be discriminated against and flee.
Except for hereditary military officers, who would be willing to serve as a slave by "devoting his life to his descendants".
Precisely because they knew the truth, they felt that restoring the guard system would definitely cause military chaos.
Now Jiannu is eyeing Lushun. Once chaos breaks out, the consequences will be disastrous.
But now after what Cao Huachun said, everyone only saw the benefits.
However, unlike the surprise of others, Zhu Wu, who was born in an ordinary military household, felt a flash of joy in his heart. What did this seemingly simple "one dou of grain, no duty" mean to ordinary soldiers.
"Eunuch Cao, if this is the case, then the brothers will definitely be very happy. "One dou of grain should not be a job." Even a scholar can only do this!"
"Oh, even a scholar can't compare with it. You know, it's only two dan of grain and two dan. Is that even comparable to this? Eunuch Cao, is it a military household that doesn't require the whole family to do corvee?"
"Yes, if you don't serve a bucket of food, then what do you want them to do?"
Facing their inquiries, Cao Huachun smiled.
"Of course they are required to perform military service! This 1 dou of rations is not a job, but a benefit for soldiers. They don't have to perform military service, so how can they qualify for it? Even after their military service is over, they still need to take time for training. "
At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the soldiers of the guard station "defended the city with three points and garrisoned the fields with seven points." When they arrived in the interior, they defended the city with two points and garrisoned the fields with eight points.
But in fact, no matter whether it is the ordinary guard's garrisons or the whole people's garrisons, the full-time farmers will always account for the majority of production.
Farming is the main business of the officers and soldiers and the basis of survival. Over time, most of the soldiers eventually became farmers.
Of course Zhu Youjian would not make the same mistakes in history. After all, what he needed was a powerful army, not a group of farmers.
There are many successful experiences in the other world that can be learned from this point.
"Well, what do you mean by this training? It means one day of training every few days. Units of 100 households are used as units. During the slack season every year, units of 1,000 households are trained in camps for two months. When you reach the age of 40, you can be exempted from training. Normally. They will only be trained locally. When recruitment is needed, His Majesty will order the recruitment..."
In fact, to put it bluntly, it means turning the guard station into a reserve force. The guard station system has many disadvantages, but it has more benefits.
In the simplest terms, the advantage of having a guard is that it enables the quickest actual occupation of uninhabited areas and newly conquered areas. Just like Yunnan, it was called Nanzhao in the Tang Dynasty and Dali in the Song Dynasty. Even in the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties, local chieftains were autonomous. Why did it become the mainland in the Ming Dynasty?
Isn't it because the Mu family led hundreds of thousands of military households to garrison troops in various parts of Yunnan under the control of garrison. After hundreds of years, Yunnan became a part of China.
There are also chieftains in Guizhou and other places. Why did they agree to change their land and return to their hometown? It was ultimately because of the existence of the Weisuo. The guard station is the best way to encroach on the newly attached area. What would happen if hundreds of thousands of military households were relocated to the Red River Basin after Yongle conquered Annan in the sixth year of his reign?
Jiaozhi will definitely become an integral part of China.
There are many advantages to health clinics, and there are also many disadvantages. At least for these people here, they simply cannot see any good things about health clinics. After all, no matter how good the system is, if there is no supervision, it will change sooner or later. Smelly.
After so many years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the Wei Institute has long been notorious for being tortured by itself.
To convince them to accept the re-establishment of the health center, they must see the real benefits, and for Zhu Youjian, this is not a big deal.
If the military household is not on duty, it will cost one bucket of food. The benefits are great enough!
"Your Majesty cares about us. Even if we risk our lives, we will ensure that Lushun is safe." Su Polu stood up at the right time and expressed his opinion.
"Well, General Su is indeed a tiger general of the Ming Dynasty. His Majesty has ordered that Su Polu be made General Polu and be fully responsible for all military affairs in the Lushun area."
As he spoke, Cao Huachun took out an imperial edict and conferred Su Polu the title of General Polu in front of everyone.
In fact, before Cao Huachun left the capital, Emperor Tianqi gave him two imperial edicts. One of them stated that if Su Polu fully supported the emperor's order, he would be directly named General Polu and responsible for all military affairs around Lushun.
If Su Polu showed slightly different advantages. Su Polu was only granted the title of Marquis of Shenyang, and his fiefdom was in Shenyang.
Don’t you, Jiannu, call Shenyang Shengjing? Do you still regard Shenyang as your capital? I regard Shenyang as Su Polu's fiefdom. What do you think?
As for Su Polu, what the Ming Dynasty needs is loyal generals. No matter how capable you are, you will be beaten if you are not loyal.
"I accept the order from my humble position. Given time, I will definitely go to the head of the slave chief to repay Huang's favor." Su Polu knelt on one knee, raised his hands above his head, and carefully signed the imperial edict in Cao Huachun's hand.
"Everyone. Your Majesty is wise. You only need to concentrate on killing the enemy and serving the country. Your Majesty will definitely not..."
"This time I brought 10 furlong machines and 20 artillery. Now they are all handed over to General Su. General Su must not let Jian Nu set foot in Lushun again."
'Please rest assured, Eunuch Cao, as long as I, Su Polu, am still alive, Jiannu will never even think of stepping into Lushun's territory. "
"Okay, okay, okay. I brought 1,000 Beijing troops this time to seal the town of Lushun and settle down the people. The establishment of slaves is strong. General Su can recruit 3,000 soldiers before heading to Nanguan... "
With the support of Su Polu and the 1,000 Beijing troops brought by Cao Huachun, Cao Huachun quickly took control of Lushun. Except for the 20,000 Liao residents who were working near Nanguan, all other Liao residents were registered and included in the imperial village.
Except for those military fields in the Lushun area, all the other fields were classified as Huangzhuang.
It is said to be an imperial village, but it is just a household contract responsibility system disguised as an imperial village.
The reason why it is called Huangzhuang is for certain people to rob people of their land.
Although Port Arthur fell into the hands of the slaves for many years, there were still many local landowners and wealthy businessmen who escaped by sea.
If there are no restrictions, it is still very likely that these people, under the control of some people with ulterior motives, will return to Lushun to annex the land of the people.
In order to ensure the stability of Lushun, this kind of trouble must be completely eliminated.
The so-called Huangzhuang is just a helpless move.
"Each person has ten acres, and the tax is 2 bushels per mu in the first three years. After three years, the tax is 5 bushels (0.5 shi) per mu. Those with good health can rent the excess land, and the tax is 6 bushels per mu. This tax is the only tax. , and will never increase other taxes.”
Every hundred households are divided into one village, and ten villages constitute one town..."
"All food can only be handed over to the Qiming Chamber of Commerce..."
As the order was issued, Lushun, which was originally a pool of stagnant water, started to move.
Although the Lushun area can only be planted once a year, and now is not the time for planting at all, this does not hinder the enthusiasm of the people to reclaim the land.
The Han people have a special affection for the land.
As soon as they heard about the land allocation, all the people became excited and even waved their hoes with a little more energy.
"Uncle, the court has issued an order. Each person has ten acres, and the court will provide seeds and tools..." A young Chinese character in his early twenties cheered happily in the field.
"I know, I know......."
"I heard that soldiers have 100 acres of land. I'm going to be a soldier so that you don't have to worry about going hungry anymore."
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