Why did the emperor rebel?

Chapter 591 Helpless but realistic logic
In the Hall of Martial Heroes, Yu Qian's tone was heavy, and the final conclusion was decisive.

However, there was nothing special on the faces of the other elders.

Saying what you have to do is extremely urgent, and you can't do it if you don't do it. This is a common method used by the court.

Having been in the officialdom for so many years, the bosses naturally have standards in their hearts to measure whether the matter is necessary or urgent.

However, I have to say that Yu Qian's remarks are indeed exaggerated, but the corruption in the military colony is indeed shocking.

Not only that, after seeing the specific situation in depth, the bosses also frowned in unison.

They thought that it would be very difficult to straighten out the army, but they didn't expect it to be so difficult.

Just like what Yu Qian said just now, the problem of military settlements is actually divided into two big parts.

First of all, the first big piece is the problem that the imperial court's original farmland was occupied by various forces in various ways and concealed.

This point can be very intuitively reflected from the data provided by the Ministry of War. Compared with the Xuande period, the number of military settlements today is less than [-]%, let alone compared with the Hongwu period.

Of course, after all, Yu Qian was secretly inspecting, and it was not comprehensive. What he presented was only the general situation of several key military towns, but it should be said that it was still very representative.

As for the reason, it is very complicated, and it is not just as simple as the border general or someone else occupying it.

The decrease in the number of military settlements is partly due to the registered decrease, and the other part is due to the unregistered decrease. These two types should be treated differently.

Most of the reduction in registration is justified.

For example, the field is insufficient, the harvest has been poor year after year, it is difficult to cultivate, or the local area is often plundered, and after the people migrate, the frontier army shrinks and has no time to take care of it, or it is due to various other reasons. Next, the fields that were removed from the army.

In this part, many problems were discovered in the process of inventory first. The reasons reported by the frontier army were true and false, and sometimes they were half true and half false. The cultivated fields were destroyed openly and squarely.

For this kind of thing, it is not easy to verify, and it takes a lot of manpower and material resources. Not to mention, it is even more difficult to recover.

Because, although it is said that the fields are there and will not run away, it does not mean that the imperial court can send people to investigate.

After many years, perhaps the land was indeed not fertile at the time, but after a few years of recuperation, it became fertile again. Perhaps at the beginning, some tribes did often come to plunder this place, causing the people to migrate, but after a few years, with the border Stability, the mobilization of frontier troops, this place has become a safe haven again.

It is very difficult to track down all kinds of things like this.

Even if the original responsibility is not pursued, it is very difficult to just recover the land.

You must know that after these lands are concealed in various ways, they are not necessarily occupied by the people who disappeared at that time. They are likely to be traded out and become the private fields of the people, and even some of them have become official lands of the local government. field.

Many fields may even have been officially registered by the local government and paid taxes to the court on time.

Under such circumstances, it is difficult for the imperial court to have evidence to prove whether this field is a military settlement that the imperial court should have, a field reclaimed by the common people, or a field distributed by the government to the common people.

Even if it can be proved, it is even more difficult to take it back.

For the common people, the land is their life, and it is inevitable to go all out to rob their land, and forcibly taking it back can easily lead to civil uprisings.

What's more, those who made mistakes were those frontier generals and frontier soldiers who privately occupied and sold the land. The common people bought the land with money, which was illegal but reasonable.

The court wants to take it back, but no one compensates the people for their losses, so why are the people guilty?

If compensation is required, let alone the fact that the imperial court cannot afford the expenditure, even if it can afford it, to get back the official land that originally belonged to the imperial court, you still have to pay. What is the difference from buying land directly from the people?
In fact, this is the biggest deadlock.

The purpose of the imperial court's rectification of the army is to make the frontier army self-sufficient and restore the number of acres, not just to punish those bastards who practice favoritism.

If at the end of the rectification, only a group of people were killed and the number of military settlements did not recover, then no matter how many people were killed, the imperial court's rectification this time was also a failure!
In addition to this part, of course, there are also some occupied military fields, which were enriched by the frontier generals.

It is relatively simple to check these fields, but it is not easy.

The simple reason is that neither officials nor generals have the power to resist when facing the state apparatus.

It can be said that as long as the court can obtain enough tangible evidence, it will be easy to take them down.

However, there is still the problem, stability!

These bastards invaded the military settlements and used them for their own use. It is true that they are filling their own pockets, but it is impossible for them to cultivate these fields by themselves, but to hire tenants to cultivate them.

It is easy for the imperial court to take back these fields, but after they are taken back, they must be handed over to the officers and soldiers for cultivation. Even if they are still handed over to the original tenants for cultivation, then the higher taxation of military settlements than civilian fields may not necessarily be theirs. I can afford it.

Taking back this batch of fields will inevitably produce a large number of unemployed refugees. How to resettle them is also an issue that the imperial court must consider in advance.

This is actually very unreasonable.

It was obvious that the frontier soldiers and generals made mistakes, but in the end, the court had to clean up the mess they left behind.

But there is no way to do this. The imperial court is supported by all people, so it should protect all people.

No matter who made the mistake or whose problem it is, as long as there is a problem, it must be the court that needs to consider how to solve it.

This is where the responsibility lies, and it is incumbent!

As for those unregistered reductions, this part of the field is registered, but the grain that should be given cannot be handed over.

As for the reasons, there are all kinds of reasons, but it is difficult to refute.

To put it bluntly, farming depends on the weather. Drought, hail, locust plagues, and various problems may lead to reduced production.

Still the same sentence, it is difficult for the imperial court to check each of these situations in detail, relying on local officials... Well, everyone understands.

When the local reports come up, even if the imperial court sends imperial envoys to investigate, they often return without success and can only swallow the bitter fruit.

Even if there is no such natural disaster as a pretense, due to the special nature of the military settlements, there is an absolutely irrefutable reason for the frontier generals everywhere.

Wala disturbs the side!

The border has always been uneven, and the various small tribes of Oala often come to plunder in groups, which is inevitable.

As an army guarding the border, the primary duty of the frontier army is to protect the border and the people, followed by other things.

Therefore, due to repeated looting and frequent mobilization of frontier troops, it is often necessary to temporarily deploy garrison troops to participate in the war. The delay in farming seasons leads to reduced production in the fields, which is also one of the reasons the Ministry of War often receives.

The Oirats come and go like the wind, and there are countless large and small conflicts and encounters every year. It is simply impossible to check the situation in detail.

Therefore, in the face of these various reasons, it is difficult for the imperial court to blame the frontier army and generals for anything.

The end result is that there are so many registered fields, but the actual taxes paid are far from enough.

In addition, the registered fields are also sold privately or occupied as private fields. Therefore, if the investigation is to be carried out, how to appease the people is still a difficult problem to solve...

(End of this chapter)