Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 202 Starting from Yanzhou

Yanzhou guards the Thousand Households.

"Your Highness, I am late to greet you, and I will be punished with death."

The fat Qianhu Zhou Fugui rolled in front of Zhu Yihai like a ball, bowed his head and bowed. Seeing this flattery, Zhu Shengli, the general soldier of Jinwu, made no secret of his disgust, even Yang Boxing, the general soldier of Yulin go down.

Zhu Yihai stood in front of the office of the Qianhu Office. This is a city within a city. Although the place is small, the layout is compact and rigorous.The yamen of the thousand households is located in the north, and then the two corridors of the yamen are divided into ten halls of the yamen of the hundred households.

The Zhenfu Office is located in the south of the Yacheng. In front of the Yamen is the Changji Warehouse, a military warehouse, with five warehouses and a total of 21 warehouses.Since the reign of Zhengde, Changji Hall has been managed by the Yanzhou government, who has been appointed as Chang Jicang's deputy envoy, and has been managed by officials of Zandian and Dou level.

According to the ledger that Zhu Yihai is looking at now, the Changji warehouse in Yanzhou should send and receive 620 seven shi of natural autumn grain for military use each year, 250 taels of tun rice, and 430 seven taels of discounted rice silver. Sixty percent is collected from the county, and [-] percent is collected from the garrison army to provide monthly food for the city guards.

Behind the Qianhu Office, there is a row of residences for visiting officials.

As a military fortress, there is also a military weapon bureau in this Yacheng city, which can manufacture 570 pieces of military weapons every year, including twenty helmets, twenty pairs of armor, five sabers, twenty waist knives, and long cards. Ten faces, twenty horn bows, forty bright strings, four hundred iron arrows, twenty bow bags, thirty quiveres, etc.

There are also military flags stored, flag noodles for worshiping the six flags of military teeth, and water rhinoceros temples for worshiping fallen soldiers. In addition, there are Weiwu School, Academy, Chenghuang Temple, Guandi Temple, and Yangong Temple for worshiping the water god in Yacheng.

Outside the north gate, there is the North School Field for training soldiers, Yanzhou Shop for delivering official documents and receiving officials, and 42 hectares and 250 acres of farmland, which are cultivated by [-] officers and soldiers, and [-] taels of grain are paid every year.

Around Yacheng, there are seven piers and abutments and two watch villages.

During the Jiajing period to prevent the Japanese, Yanzhou set up a guerrilla.

According to the books, this should be a heavily guarded military fortress, but in fact, what Zhu Yihai saw when he came here was no different from Jiande, which was separated by a wall.

Neither the city guards were seen practicing, nor the military households farming the fields, and there were not even many students in the Weiwu School and the Academy.

On the contrary, these five ranks of thousands of households are as fat as a ball.

Zhu Yihai looked at Fatty Zhou coldly. According to the collected information, this guy was actually similar to Wu Kai from Haimen back then, but more greedy. He was not so much a guard officer as he was a landlord merchant.

Needless to say, he invaded and occupied farmland, withheld monthly grain, even enlisted guards to help him smuggle and sell salt and tea, and enlisted soldiers to grow grain and tea for him, and even repaired houses for him. .

He also spent money to seek a position as a battalion soldier, and after a while because the imperial court conscripted him to go north to fight, he immediately paid for money and left, claiming to be sick.

When Fang Guoan came to Yanzhou, he also spent a lot of money, so Fang Guoan also gave him the title of guerrilla, and still managed the three-acre land.

"Zhou Fugui, there should have been 160 soldiers guarding the Thousand Households in Yanzhou, 810 guards in the city, 36 soldiers in the field, and [-] hectares in the field. I ask you alone, where are the soldiers and where are the fields? , where is the food, where is the armor?"

"The Yanzhou guerrilla camp should have a thousand soldiers, where are the soldiers, where are the equipment?"

Fatty Zhou panicked all of a sudden.

Sweat dripped from his forehead, "Your Highness, the guard house has been abandoned for a hundred years, and military households have been fleeing constantly. Many of them are old malpractices. When the humble minister took over, it was already a mess."

"Can you get rid of the relationship with a mess? Do you think I can't check the accounts? I don't care about the escape of military households in the guards, but there are files to check in the farms of the guards. Whether it's embezzlement or stealing, these are all there. Provable."

"From now on, the Yanzhou Guard Thousand Households will be withdrawn, and the former Yanzhou guerrilla battalion will also be withdrawn."

"The soldiers of the guards are all converted to civilian registration, and the castles of the guards are all transferred to the management of the local prefectures and counties. The former guards' fields are now being cleared."

The fat man sweated more and more.

Zhu Yihai asked the soldiers from the military households who had summoned Yanzhou to guard the Thousand Households to come over. After waiting for a long time, only two to three hundred people came, and most of these people were in ragged clothes and looked disheveled.

This year's severe drought has caused food prices to rise sharply, especially when the Qing army approached the Qiantang River, and a large number of troops gathered to defend the river, which made the price of food soar.

Fang Guoan was stationed in Yanzhou, and exploited and squeezed in every possible way, the people of Yanzhou couldn't live longer.

"Victory, you ask someone to bring some food first, and distribute some food to everyone to satisfy their hunger."

Originally, Zhu Yihai planned to have a good chat with these military households, talk about the reform of the guards, the liquidation of the next week's fat man, the clearing of the farmland, etc., but he couldn't bear to see everyone's eyes dazzled by hunger.

When the food is brought, the food is distributed first.

One bucket of rice for each family.

Standing there with great experience, Zhu Shengli kept admonishing the military households loudly, "Cook some porridge to drink first after receiving the food, drink and boil it, you can't cook it into dry rice, and eat dry rice directly when you are hungry for a long time, especially if you eat If there are too many, people will die."

"Drink porridge for three days first, take it easy, and wait for the stomach to adapt before eating dry rice."

In fact, the military households don’t know this. It’s not the first time for everyone to go hungry. If they can survive these years, who doesn’t go hungry every day, and everyone has experience.

Seeing their miserable appearance, Zhu Yihai felt uncomfortable.

Let people set up the pot and start cooking porridge. Many people have no energy to start a fire to cook porridge, and even have no firewood at home.

Yanzhou is still in the rear, but they are all in such a miserable state. One can imagine how miserable the people are in the Central Plains at this time.

Zhu Yuanzhang's military registration system made the group of people who were supposed to be the heroes of the country and the pride of the country become the bottom, unable to lift their heads under the pressure of several mountains.

Even these soldiers who defend the country are not respected and protected at all, so how can we expect them to defend the country?

Isn't this bullshit?
Everyone has been so harsh for more than 280 years. It is really rotten and should have perished long ago.

If it were not for the invasion of foreign races, Zhu Yihai would welcome the righteous teachers to support the new dynasty.

There was no gruel added, but the eyes of the enticed military households were shining. Everyone was waiting in line with bowls in their hands. Some children were even crying in a hurry.

Zhu Yihai looked at Zhou Fugui, who was plump into a ball, and couldn't help but kick him to the ground, "Take down this thief, behead him for public display, and confiscate his home."

It starts from Yanzhou guarding thousands of households, and starts from beheading Zhou Fugui from thousands of households.

Of the [-] mu of farmland distributed by the Thousand Households of Yanzhou in various counties of Yanzhou at the beginning, every single mu of land left must be taken back. Regardless, these are military settlements and must be taken back.

After taking it back, it will be handed over to the Liangtai of Yanzhou Town to be responsible for recruiting tenants and renting them out. The tenants will cultivate them, and then collect the rent uniformly.

"All the military households of the thousands of households guarding Yanzhou were transferred to civilian registration, and all the grain and grain owed were exempted. As long as the original city guards were actually on duty, three months of monthly rations would be reissued, and all of them would be transferred to civilian status. membership."

The previous relationship was cut off, and the grain owed was exempted, and the monthly rations owed by the soldiers on duty were reissued for three months at a time, and they would no longer be soldiers.

As for the ones whose names are in the register, the officers will be punished by pursuing the responsibility, returning the stolen goods and fined silver, and the soldiers will be removed from the list.

The guards are useless anyway, the guards along the canal have to take on the task of transporting water, and such as Yanzhou guarding thousands of households, it is purely a pussy burden, the sooner you get rid of it, the better.

"This yamen city will be used as the military city for the warrior town to guard Yanzhou in the future."

Warrior Town is organized by the new army. There are two bids under one town, and two associations under each bid. There is a battalion under the association, and a sentry team under the battalion.The commander-in-chief led a bid to station in Yanzhou Fucheng, and the deputy commander-in-chief led a bid to station in Suian in the west.

Although the clean-up of the farmland of the Thousand Households and the check of the grain and moon food this time may involve local snakes from all sides in Yanzhou, but Zhu Yihai doesn't care anymore. After cutting it off, would you still care about these local snakes?

If these pustules were not cleaned up in the guardhouse, Zhu Yihai's supervising court would not be able to last long. Since the country would perish if it was not rectified, why hesitate.

The back of the guardhouse involves a huge group of military attachés in the guardhouse, local powerful groups, and even battalions and middle officials guarding the place, but will Zhu Yihai care now?
The lesser of two evils.

In the past, the princes of the Ming Dynasty were unwilling to do anything to the guard, and they could delay it for a day, and no one was willing to break through this pussy, but now Zhu Yihai can't afford it anymore.

To be honest, Zhou Fugui is not the only one, and he did not even start this kind of mess in the guard, nor should he be responsible alone, but Zhu Yihai will not tell you now, he only has one Case by case.

Fatty Zhou really invaded the farmland and withheld monthly grain, even embezzled grain and grain, privately served military households, etc., then he deserved to die, Zhu Yihai didn't care how much of his family's money was embezzled according to the law, and how much was managed by himself All proceeds are now confiscated.

In the same way, no matter how those military settlements flowed out or how the current occupants transferred them to them, Zhu Yihai did not pursue the matter. He only focused on the military settlements and took them back directly.If you have a problem, you can go to your home.

Not only those who currently occupy the military settlements must immediately return the settlements, but they must also be severely punished.

Buying and selling is the same crime.

If you dare to buy and sell the army to garrison land, beheading will be cheap for you. Now you are only asked to hand over the land, and you will be fined to pay the food, which is already considered polite.

At this time, you must be ruthless.

Now is not the time to argue with them.

To rectify the guards and rectify the army, we must attack hard, so that we can make an example and advance smoothly.

He didn't come up with a charter in the court first, and then implement it in various places. Instead, he came directly to Yanzhou and chose the Yanzhou Shouyu Qianhu Office for surgery. He wanted to come up with a typical, standard case first, and then everywhere Follow this case law.

To directly propose reforms in the court would definitely involve arguing with those ministers, involving complex interests of all parties, and there would be some disputes at that time.Why don't he deal with Fatty Zhou directly now and kill him directly.

The land was collected, and the problems of military households, farmland, and Weisuo City were quickly cut.

"Your Highness, what should we do with the Deputy Qianhu, Zhenfu, Baihu, etc. of Yanzhou Guarding Qianhu Office?"

Zhu Yihai said disdainfully, "As long as these guys are willing to honestly return the farmland, return the income from occupation and embezzlement over the years, and pay a heavy fine, then I can spare their lives. As long as the matter is settled, the past will be forgotten. But If anyone dares to play tricks on him, then you don’t have to be polite, just cut it off and confiscate the family property!"

(End of this chapter)