Emperor Ming Dynasty

Chapter 302 Elimination of the Military Household System
From Yansui to Ningxia, there are nearly [-] miles of defense line, and there are countless fortresses of various kinds. Relying on the Great Wall, they are rooted in northern Xinjiang.

It is undeniable that in the era when the Mongol forces still survived and cheated corpses from time to time, the frontier army was like the pillar of the Ming Dynasty.

The three major campaigns of Wanli rely on the frontier army.

Similarly, the three major symptoms of moss scabies had to rely on the frontier army in the end, which also showed the weakness of Ming Dynasty.

You must know that in the Ming Dynasty, the Liaodong Army was the most powerful of the Nine Frontiers. It stretched from Fenghuang City in the east to Shanhaiguan in the west, with a total length of about [-] miles.

The army numbered nearly 200,000 at its peak and [-] at its minimum.

In this way, it has been corrupted step by step to the present situation, and the collapse of the military household system is indispensable.

As a time traveler, Zhu Yixi certainly understands the root cause of the collapse of military households - the land system.

The so-called military household system is just a variant of the land equalization system in the Sui and Tang dynasties, but with a stronger degree of attachment.

First the inland, then the coast, and finally the border towns, collapsed little by little.

From the rise of the Japanese pirates to the Jurchens, everything shows this point.

During the Jiajing period, the emperor and even the court completely abandoned the military household system.

In other words, the military field has been exhausted, and the huge combination of interests - officers and gentry - prevents the court from acting rashly.

It had to continue to increase military pay from the already fragile fiscal revenue to maintain the nine-sided situation, thus crushing Ming Dynasty.

After all, theoretically speaking, since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the distribution of land has been announced to grant land—to fight wars. This obligation and responsibility is formed, and the court does not need to pay military salaries.

And the military pay went from being a relief at the beginning to a logical and dependent nature, especially the Liaodong Army, which gradually sucked up Daming's blood.

Military households have completely become cancerous.

"Since the military salary is paid, why don't I recruit soldiers, why use military households?"

Zhu Yixi shook his head when he read the information about the frontier army, and said mercilessly:

"Now that we have reached this point, those lands can no longer be left alone, and it will come naturally when they are recovered."

In addition to land factors, population restrictions are also a disgusting aspect of the military household system.

The existence of the Weisuo system makes the army self-contained, and the military households under its jurisdiction, regardless of the increase or decrease in population, are all within the military household land and cannot be separated.

In other words, the official population statistics of the Ming Dynasty never included military households in it, and millions, or even nearly ten million military households, were ignored in this way.

Therefore, the increase in population in the Qing Dynasty was not without reason.

Both land and manpower need to be liberated to ease the population plight of Shaanxi.

Military disasters and plagues have brought Shaanxi's population close to collapse.

Thinking of the chaos in Shaanxi in the Qing Dynasty, Zhu Yixi's heart sank.

The fruit at that time is the cause sown now!
"Anyway, it can't be done anymore."

Zhu Yixi calmed down and began to meditate in his heart.

He admits that he is not the so-called idealist, but more realistic.

Many officials in the shogunate were also extremely indignant at the suffering of the people in the south of the Yangtze River, and they kept admonishing the shogunate to go east.

But so what?
Can you beat the 200,000 people in the Qing Dynasty?Let the shogunate die with it?
Let Li Zicheng enter Shu?
People in Jiangnan are people, but people in Sichuan are not?
If you do it willfully, you will lose everything.

For the shogunate, there is no entanglement. Sichuan is a milk cow, and Jiangnan cannot contribute taxes, so it can only choose Sichuan.

In those books, in order to save the people, he can sacrifice himself, even the protagonist of his family, he really can't learn it.

Why doesn't he want to violently destroy the world and save the people, but the reality is not to write novels or play games, but to pay attention to reason and logic.

In Zhu Yixi's view, saving the people and his unification of the world are not contradictory, but complement each other.

"Your Highness, Li Jingwu and You Shiwei are back—"

"Let them come over!"

Zhu Yixi restrained his scattered thoughts and ordered in a deep voice.

Soon, the two people who were busy in the world were in a state of embarrassment. When they saw the figure of King Yu, they were so ashamed that they knelt down on one knee:

"The last general has no face to see His Highness!!!"

"Li Zicheng also ran away?"

Zhu Yixi was not surprised, her face was flat.

Under the survival instinct of human beings, amazing power can be erupted, not to mention that Li Zicheng is an expert in escaping. He was born as a bandit, so it is a miracle to catch him.

However, in the face of the confession of the two, Zhu Yixi did not let them get up, but let them kneel down.

Rewards and punishments are clearly defined, this is the rule in the army.

The pursuit of Li Zicheng was the first of the two patted their chests, and if they returned in vain, they would naturally have to pay the price.

After kneeling for a while, Li and You didn't dare to look up, they looked at each other, their faces flushed.

This was really a humiliation for the two of them.

"Get up!"

I don't know how long it took before King Yu's voice sounded.

The two were grateful and got up in a hurry, but they knelt for too long, their knees softened, and they almost fell down again.

King Yu chuckled lightly and said, "It's good to learn a lesson."

"The last general is ashamed——"×2
"Let's go to Guyuan Town!"

King Yu's voice was elongated, and it was extraordinarily loud in the whole hall, and it caught my ears.

"Guyuan Town is connected to Raoyang Shuibao of Yansui Town in the east and Lanzhou in the west, with tens of thousands of military households. It is an important town in Shaanxi Province."

Zhu Yixi watched the two rubbing their knees constantly, and continued:
"You are all from Shaanxi Province, you should know a lot about this province. The military towns and vassal kings are constantly sucking blood, so that the local people are impoverished."

"Li Zicheng helped us solve the feudal town issue, and the military households have to find a solution for us."

"So, when you go to Guyuan, you are counting the military households, sweeping out the land, and arresting the silverfish who encroached on the land one by one, so as to make others follow suit."

The two were taken aback and looked terrified.

The military households inside and outside Shaanxi Province are extremely powerful, and those who encroached on the military settlements include not only military officers, but also gentry in many places.

"Your Highness, if this is the case, the whole Shaanxi will be boiled!"

You Shiwei said tremblingly.

As a former general, he knew everything about Junzhen. Even his You family had tens of thousands of acres of land in Yulin, all of which were merged, otherwise how could they support hundreds of families.

Therefore, even in the barren land in northern Shaanxi, the land is the lifeblood.

"boiling?"

King Yu didn't take it seriously, and said with a sneer, "How many troops are there on the three sides?"

As he said that, Zhu Yixi said disdainfully: "Now that I have one hundred thousand soldiers and one hundred thousand captives, I can't believe it. Who would dare to make trouble?"

"It happened to be short of food, so it was cheap to steal the house."

As he said that, he didn't talk nonsense, and directly ordered: "You Shiwei, you are also the commander-in-chief of Guyuan, not only to clean up the army, but also to build a line of defense for me. Don't let the tartars take a step, understand?"

"The last will obey!"

You Shiwei and the two looked bitter.

If they knew that Liu Tingjie had gone to copy the old nest in Yulin Town, they would be even more furious.

However, Zhu Yixi doesn't cut it across the board, and has remedial measures for his own people.

It is nothing more than replacing the land to Xi'an Prefecture.

(End of this chapter)