Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 290
Zhu Cijiong scratched his head and said, "Father, this is somewhat similar to the government military system in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. If you enter, you will be civilians, and if you leave, you will be soldiers. You need to prepare your own weapons and dry food."

"It's really similar to the military system of the government." Chongzhen nodded, and said: "But our Ming Dynasty will not be so picky, and the military equipment and food must be prepared for the militia."

It originated in the Western Wei Dynasty, was perfected in the Sui Dynasty, and reached the ultimate level in the Tang Dynasty. It is Chongzhen's favorite military system.

Looking at the [-]-year history of China, the government soldiers in the Sui and Tang Dynasties can be regarded as capable of fighting, at least far better than the recruiting troops in the Song Dynasty and the Weisuo Army in the Ming Dynasty, and more advanced than the compulsory military system in the Qin and Han Dynasties.

To put it bluntly, the fubing system is to select a group of professional military households across the country.

These professional military households do not have to bear heavy corvee, miscellaneous labor, or even pay taxes, and specialize in fighting.

The state provides these professional military households with relatively good living conditions. When a war is about to occur, each of these professional military households will send a mansion soldier from each household to carry ordnance, horses and even dry food to fight for the court.

Moreover, fighting is obligatory, there is no salary or lumi, but there will be rewards for victorious battles, and a part of the property captured from the battlefield can also be shared.

This is somewhat similar to the threshing valley of the nomadic regime.

This kind of government soldiers, because they are part-time, have sufficient training time, and have relatively high military literacy, and because their families are relatively wealthy, they can afford good armor and weapons, so most of them are very powerful in combat. And Tang Jun's battlefield performance can be seen.

So Chongzhen wanted to rebuild and improve the military system.

"But the government military system also has flaws." Zhu Cihong said.

"The mansion army system and the land equalization system complement each other. When the Tang Dynasty came to Xuanzong, the land equalization system was destroyed, and the mansion army system also collapsed. The only way to fight abroad is to recruit soldiers."

"After the Song Dynasty, there has been a recruitment system."

"However, the defect of the recruitment system is that soldiers have low willingness to fight and are prone to pay."

"So in this dynasty, Grandpa Taizu created the Weisuo system, which can be regarded as a disguised restoration of the Fubing system."

"However, the guard system is also unable to overcome the shortcomings of the military system. The senior generals of the guards have begun to encroach on the fields, and the low-level military households have no food and have to fight for the court. They have no time to train, which leads to the deteriorating combat effectiveness. , the guard army in Jiajing was already useless."

Speaking of this, Zhu Cihong paused for a while and said: "When the Japanese Rebellion broke out, the Ming Dynasty could only resume the recruitment system and recruit miners from Yiwu to fight against the Japanese pirates, because the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Guards have long been rotten and unable to fight."

Zhu Cijiong also echoed: "Father, it seems that this method is not a long-term solution."

"How can there be any long-term solution in the world? Any policy or law, as long as it can ensure that it is effective at the beginning of its promulgation, it can be called good law and good governance." Waving his hand, Chongzhen said again, "However, the Western Wei Dynasty and the Sui and Tang Dynasties The government military system and the Weisuo system created by the great grandfather were all defeated by land annexation, so it is worth discussing one or two."

Zhu Cilang said solemnly: "It's not just the military system of the government and the Weisuo system that were defeated by land annexation. Since ancient times, the collapse of many dynasties has been caused by land annexation. The same is true for my Ming Dynasty."

"If it weren't for the vassals and relatives of the provinces who invaded too much farmland,"

"If it weren't for the officials and gentry in various provinces to avoid corvee and slavery through tricks, flying, etc.,"

"My country of Ming Dynasty will not be embarrassed to the point where it is now, let alone be dragged down by several million Liao salaries."

After a pause, Zhu Cihong said again sadly: "The hateful thing is that last year when my father raised money from those royal relatives, he still had the face to cry for poverty, and deliberately set up a stall on the street to sell the utensils in the house, and those officials Gentleman, while opposing the opening of the sea in a high-sounding manner, he is enjoying the sea trade, and shouting that the court cannot compete with the people for profit, but at the same time pockets all the mining tax, commercial tax, and city tax. It is really hateful and deplorable kill!"

"Hey, this topic is too big." Chongzhen waved his hands.

"Unless the Ming Dynasty banned land sales, it would be impossible to fundamentally eliminate land mergers."

"However, it is obviously impossible to completely ban the sale of land. If the sale of land is really banned, in a few days, the father may follow in the footsteps of Emperor Wuzong and your uncle, and fall into the water, ha ha."

What Chongzhen said was interesting, but Zhu Cihong and Zhu Cijiong's younger brothers looked awe-inspiring. It's not easy to be the emperor of Ming Dynasty.

"Let's not talk about that." Chongzhen waved his hand, and said again, "Speaking of land annexation, it is impossible to completely eliminate it, at least within the past fifty years, but it is still possible to prohibit land transactions of a specific nature."

Land annexation is indeed difficult to suppress in an all-round way. The landlord class's greed and demand for land are engraved in the genes. The bourgeoisie is also greedy for land annexation. It is nothing more than a different use. Houses, factories and large farms.

By the way, drive the little people into the factory to work.

Anyway, the land must be taken away from the common people.

Without the backing of the state apparatus, ordinary people would not be able to hold onto the land at all.

So what Chongzhen has to do is to use the state apparatus to back up certain groups of people.

It is wishful thinking to act as a backing for all the common people and completely lock the land annexation.

In a word, it is impossible for Chongzhen to offend all those with vested interests, so doing so is courting death.

If land is not allowed to be bought and sold freely, the landlord class will definitely not be happy, neither will the bourgeoisie, nor will the key ordinary people.

Just say now, if the village cadres stop the demolition,

Do you think those villagers are happy?Dare to kill you with a knife!

So Chongzhen would not do such stupid things, at most it would limit a part of the land.

Zhu Cihong's political savvy is indeed very high, and he immediately reacted when Chongzhen said it.

Immediately Zhu Cihong said: "Father, you mean that the four million mu of official land used for the frontier troops of the thirty towns is forbidden to be bought and sold?"

"It's not just the four million acres that are forbidden to buy and sell." Chongzhen said thoughtfully, "In the future, when the second batch of recruits retires, they must also follow this. Let’s talk about rewards! Let’s say that in order to reward the soldiers who have made military achievements for the country, the imperial court rewards each person with the purchase amount of twenty-five acres of benevolent land!”

"That is to say, they can buy twenty-five acres of endowment land in limited state capitals at an ultra-low price of twenty-five yuan per mu."

"The twenty-five acres of benevolent land is a gift from the court and a reward from the emperor, so buying and selling is strictly prohibited, because buying and selling the benevolence of the court is a crime of disrespect, and anyone who violates it shall take back the benevolent land."

After a short pause, he added: "This article needs to be included in the emperor's ancestor's precepts."

Instead of seeking a comprehensive ban on land annexation, only seeking a small-scale ban on land annexation, and with the double endorsement of the court's grace and the emperor's ancestral precepts, Chongzhen believes that this article should have a chance to continue for a long time.

Then there are [-] border towns like Xuzhou, and Daming has [-] million soldiers.

The land that is restricted from trading is only [-] million mu, accounting for only slightly more than [-]% of the [-] million mu of arable land in the Ming Dynasty, and it should not attract crazy attacks from various land interest groups.

The descendants of the Zhu family should not be so stupid as to dig this foundation.

In this way, the Ming Dynasty had more than [-] million government soldiers, and the ownership of the Entian of these government soldiers was locked in the name of Emperor Ming Zuxun, and they would never be annexed.

Zhu Cilang thought for a while and said: "If this is the case, the Entian of these frontier soldiers will indeed not be annexed by others, but there is still a problem that cannot be ignored, that is, the population will increase after two generations, what should we do?"

Zhu Cijiong nodded repeatedly and said, "That's right, after two generations, it may have multiplied to hundreds of people. A mere twenty-five acres of Entian is divided into more than one hundred households. Each household has no more than half of the land, so they can't afford to support government soldiers."

Chongzhen said: "Then compulsively divide the family, and only the eldest son is allowed to inherit the favor. As for the other sons, they cannot inherit even a share of the favor from Lao Tzu. If they want to support themselves, they can only go out on their own. But when the court has When the new conscription quota is set, it can be given priority.”

Regarding this point, Chongzhen obviously also considered it.

It cannot be said that it is completely impossible to reproduce to Baiding after two generations as Zhu Cijiong said, but it is definitely very rare.

Because this is calculable, twenty-five acres of endowment land can guarantee a good life, but it is impossible to live a shameless life with three wives and four concubines.

At best, one wife and one concubine are the best.

If there is one wife and one concubine, the maximum number of children that can survive is ten.

Assuming ten children with half male and half male, that is five sons.

This is a special case, usually five or six children, two or three sons.

In other words, twice as many Fubing will be born within [-] years. Assuming that ZTE retires [-] recruits in the early days, a million Fubing will be born within [-] years. Isn't this a burden at all?
Because at this time, it happened to catch up with the expansion period of Ming Dynasty.

These one million soldiers who have received strict military training from their parents since they were young and do not need to pay a penny will become the most solid military backing for the Ming Dynasty to expand abroad. It is perfect!

Well, Chongzhen even calculated the expansion after twenty years.

Thinking of this, Chongzhen said again: "After laying down a new territory, we can build a new military base. These new military bases can not only guard the frontiers for Ming Dynasty, but also serve as the central government's military base when there is a big war. The imperial court provides a steady stream of reserve soldiers, so that our Ming Dynasty will remain invincible for hundreds of years."

"Father, do you mean overseas territories?" Zhu Cijiong's eyes lit up.

Subconsciously, Zhu Cijiong glanced down at the waist knife that Chongzhen rewarded him.

Immediately, Zhu Cijiong said: "Father, one day, my son-in-law will take these newly grown soldiers to go overseas to expand the territory for the Ming Dynasty, and realize the true dynasty of all nations."

(End of this chapter)