I Am the Grandson of the Second Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Earning 100 Million Taels at the Beginn

Chapter 291 Defend the soil and resist the enemy, everyone is responsible, and it is imperative for everyone to serve!
Watching the officials present slowly backing away, before reaching the jade steps, Zhu Zhangui turned around and bowed to the deep-thinking old man who was sitting at the top, expressing that he had finished speaking.

The old man came back to his senses, glanced at the ministers below, wanted to say something but looked around, finally sighed and waved his hand.

Little Snot, who was waiting by the side, quickly picked up the tray on the table, walked to the second step, knelt on the ground and held the tray in front of Zhu Pangpang.

"Declaration!"

Zhu Pangpang shouted with a serious expression, and all civil and military officials, including the feudal king Zhu Zhangui, knelt down to listen to the holy words.

Reaching out to pick up one of the imperial edicts, Zhu Pangpang opened it slowly with a serious expression on his face, and read aloud:
"By heaven's blessing, the emperor issued an imperial edict: Zhu Yan, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, Xun An, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, and others have despised the laws of the country, deceived the emperor, embezzled and accepted bribes, harmed the country and the people, and their crimes are unforgivable!"

"Today, according to the order of the superior, he will be abolished from his official position, and all his family properties will be confiscated. Within three generations of his own nine clans, he will not be allowed to enter the court as an official."

"Zhu Yan and the others have committed an unforgivable crime. They should have been stripped of their skins and turned into grass, but they were sentenced to beheading and executed at a chosen date. Those who committed crimes in their families will be punished according to law, and those who are innocent will be expelled from Beijing."

"The other officials who committed the crime in Shandong will be punished as crimes, so please!"

"Thank you for my emperor's grace!"

Zhu Yan and the others kowtowed in tears to thank them.

"Squeeze it down!"

The old man didn't want to look at them anymore, so he waved his hand and asked Ji Gang, who had been waiting at the door, to lead people to take all the forty people away.

After the prisoner was taken away, Zhu Pangpang told everyone not to get up, and picked up an imperial decree from the tray.

"By God's blessing, the emperor issued an imperial edict: From today onwards, the right of the county government to adjudicate cases will be revoked. From now on, the current chief officer will only be responsible for local management and development, and must not intervene in any case without authorization."

"From today onwards, all cases, big or small, across the country will be handed over to the newly formed censorship guards. This yamen will be directly managed by the emperor's grandson, so please!"

The faces of the civil servants group darkened. They understood that this was the beginning of the royal family's distribution of power in the hands of civil servants from all over the country.

Although they were very upset, they didn't dare to stand up against the situation today, so they could only grit their teeth and think about how to deal with it later.

But before they recovered from this incident, Zhu Pangpang announced another imperial decree, which directly put them in place.

"By God's will, the emperor issued an edict: Taizu established the military household system, but after decades of development, the disadvantages have emerged. After careful consideration, from today onwards, the status of the older generation of military households will remain unchanged, and newborns born in military households will , all become citizens.”

"In addition to the national military equipment, starting from the beginning of the first month of next year, all adult men over 16 years old, except for the special case of disability, dementia, and foolishness, all men registered in the Ming Dynasty, regardless of poverty or wealth, regardless of whether they are civil, military, agricultural, or commercial, after reaching their age. Serve in the army for two years, and anyone who escapes from the military service will be severely punished!"

"Wow!"

At this moment, the whole court was in an uproar.

It is the inner thoughts of many people that soldiers are more expensive than civil servants and martial arts are inferior. If they are allowed to serve as soldiers, isn't it killing them?

"Bang bang bang!"

The old man picked up Yu Ruyi from the jade case and knocked on the table, looking coldly at the uproarious officials below.

"In the future, the imperial examination will enter the round of the Beijing examination. Those who have reached the age of sixteen and have not served in the army will not be allowed to participate in the scientific examination."

"Your Majesty, the scholar is weak, and if he joins the army for two years, he may not be able to bear it!"

As soon as the old man finished speaking, an old pedant stood up.

"There is nothing to bear. The newly learned child soldiers are not trained every afternoon. Are you scholars even inferior to children?"

"Besides, don't you Confucius pay attention to the six arts of gentlemen? Why do you scholars, the more you live, the more you go back, and you don't even dare to suffer a little bit."

"That is, the scholars in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty were good men who could secure the world with a pen and kill the enemy on horseback. But look at the scholars today, let alone kill the enemy with the sword. They go to the brothel for a night, and the next day they are holding Walking out of the wall, with this physical strength, let alone killing the enemy, you may not be able to win a fight with a girl!"

"Hahaha…"

Before the old man could open his mouth, the generals, who were so happy to hear the imperial decree, jumped out hurriedly.

Nima is so cool, the emperor really wants to serve us as a soldier.

We have long seen that this bunch of listless scholars are not happy, and they still use literature to defend martial arts. Now it has fallen into our hands, let's see how we toss them.

"Vulgar warriors, you know what I know. I read the books of sages. Although I am weak, what I have learned is not the way of governing the country, not the skills at hand!"

"Haha, the way of governing the country, the more than 40 people who were arrested just now, it seems that you all learned the way of governing the country, if the way of governing the country is like this, I don't think you should learn it, and slash the enemy with us , and maybe a little more reliable."

"you you…"

"What's the matter with me? Am I wrong? Look at the whole of Shandong. Almost all of the criminals are you literati, and Shandong is still the hometown of saints. You dare to do this under the nose of Confucius. Think about it. How dirty you people who read sage books."

"me…"

"Oh, you don't care about me. You literati are useless, but you are useless. Isn't there a saying? Righteousness comes from the generation of slaughtering dogs, and ruthlessness is mostly scholars. You scholars are full of flowers. Calculating this and that all day long, I think it’s idle, go to the battlefield to play two knives, and you will be exhausted every day, so you don’t have so many crooked intestines.”

For a while, the originally quiet court hall became a vegetable market entrance, and the civil and military ministers of the two sides who had disliked each other immediately rolled up their sleeves and started spraying.

The literati who are good at playing tricks should have the upper hand, but today I don't know what kind of chicken blood the generals have used, and they even suppressed the civil officials.

Even a few veterans with fierce fighting power directly covered the chests of a few old scholars opposite, and almost passed out.

The old man sitting on top of his hands didn't say a word, subconsciously put his hands in his sleeves and looked lively.

It was Zhu Zhangui who brought up the matter of letting the world's top champions enter the army for training.

As early as a few years ago, before Yao Guangxiao died, Zhu Zhangui talked about the issue of military households.

Although there is no big problem with the military households now that the old man is watching, it will not be guaranteed in the future.

What's more terrible is that this system was established by Lao Zhu, and the general descendants of future generations do not have the guts to dare to change it at all.

That is to say, if the old man is alive and able to move, if it is someone else, even if Zhu Pangpang starts this system, it will be very difficult.

After several years of adjustment and preparation, the matter of changing the military household to the place of origin is no longer a problem.

But Zhu Zhangui thought about changing all of them at once, which is a very troublesome thing, and it is easy to cause troubles, so he proposed that the people with military household registration should not change, starting from the next generation of newborns.

In this way, with the departure of the older generation of military households in a few decades, this system that may bring harm in the future will be completely changed and disappeared.

Changing the military household system is not an idea that Zhu Zhangui came up with in his head, but there are many considerations in it.

In the future, the recruitment system will definitely be changed to an application system.

If all the troops in the future are conscripted, then military households will have no other meaning besides paying taxes.

Back then, in order to reduce the burden on the common people, Lao Zhu added part of the taxes originally borne by the common people to the military households.

In this way, if there is no change in the future, many people will be dissatisfied that military households live the same life as ordinary people, but they have to pay more taxes.

The imperial court is based on the people, and if the common people are dissatisfied, there will definitely be troubles.

So after careful consideration, Zhu Zhangui decided to take advantage of this opportunity to release the military household reform together, and at the same time announced the military service system.

The reason why Zhu Zhangui chose the compulsory military service system was because he was afraid that no one would sign up for the recruitment system.

There is a common saying among the people, good iron does not make nails, and good men do not serve as soldiers.

The country has been in a state of war for a long time, and enlisting in the army will either make a fortune or die, and the former is very rare, almost most of them are the fate of the latter, and the better ones will go home disabled.

Coupled with the imperfect pension system before the imperial court, many disabled soldiers had no support after returning home. They either died of starvation or their families were broken up. Some even chose to commit suicide in order not to drag their families down.

It is precisely because of these reasons that the common people of Ming Dynasty have some resistance to being a soldier.

If you choose to join the army voluntarily like in later generations, I am afraid that the recruiting office will really not be able to recruit people

Therefore, it is still too early for Ming Dynasty to choose the voluntary military service system. It is the best choice to take the lead in introducing the compulsory military service system.

The benefits of this choice are firstly that it can strengthen the national physique, secondly, it also strengthens the imperial army reserve, and thirdly, it can also unify ideological education in the army.

Although I dare not say that two years of military service can make these people follow the imperial court wholeheartedly, but it is still possible to make them feel more belonging to the imperial court in their hearts.

"Okay, okay, stop arguing, let me say a few words."

Zhu Zhangui, who was standing on the stairs, saw that there was a lot of quarrels below, and saw that some old guys who had become angry were about to perform martial arts, so he stood up quickly and stopped between the two parties.

"His Royal Highness, you still need to think about this matter."

"Leaving aside the matter of literati serving as soldiers, the court may not be able to afford so many people from all over the country to join the army."

"Let's not talk about salary for now. The food consumed every day is an astronomical figure."

On the civil servant's side, an old pedant was as a representative, talking earnestly about the issue of the military service system.

Although this old man is full of words for the sake of the court, Zhu Zhangui can still hear that the old man's inner and outer meaning is that it is too insulting to let a literati serve as a soldier.

"Who says they can't afford it? The food shipped from the Asan area every year is enough for these people to eat. In addition, the large-scale planting of potatoes in the next two years, let alone let these people eat it, it can support them to death. .”

Good guy, these two groups of people are also addicted to quarreling.

As soon as the old pedant expressed his concern, a blushing and thick-necked veteran on the other side rolled up his sleeves and refuted.

"Nonsense, the food in the Asan area is the foundation of the country, and it is used to deal with emergencies in various parts of the country. You soldiers have eaten all of them. If there is a disaster, I will use you to rescue the disaster."

"Ha, I said you old bastard is nonsense."

"Did you forget potatoes? They are very productive. This year, both Jinling and Shandong will be planted. This harvest will be enough for people to eat. The food delivered in the Asan area will definitely not be needed." Yes, food is not silver, it can’t be stored for too long, Ah San can bring so much food every year, if you don’t eat it up this year, it will become heavy food next year.”

"Stop, stop, can you listen to me!"

Zhu Zhangui blocked the spout of saliva from both sides with his sleeves, and shouted loudly.

Hearing the words, the two parties snorted coldly at each other, turned and went back to their own queue, intending to listen to what Zhu Zhangui had to say.

After shaking his sleeves and tidying up his clothes, Zhu Zhangui said to the civil and military officials: "The reason why the imperial court wants to implement such a system is based on two considerations."

"The first aspect is that with the increase of our country's territory, the area that needs to be defended is gradually expanding."

"My Daming's troops are almost all from military households, but there are only so many of them. The territory is bigger, and more soldiers need to be added. Our court can't let the military households' families guard the land!"

"So it is imperative to recruit soldiers from civilians, but according to the imperial court's system, once you join the army, you will be registered as a military householder. In this way, some civilians will quit."

"After all, they pay a little less tax when they are ordinary people, but the tax will increase when they become military households."

"So after consideration, the emperor combined with Emperor Taizu's last words, the general's household registration will be gradually cancelled, and those who enlist in the army will no longer change their household registration."

"And the second aspect is to consider the aspect of national self-defense."

"As we all know, every time a clan invades, our people are the targets of massacres, and they don't even have the strength to resist every massacre."

"Although with the protection of the imperial court, this kind of thing will never happen again in the future, but it is normal for ordinary people to encounter bandits and beasts when they go out. If you can resist when you are in danger, you will not be called a lamb waiting to be caught."

"More importantly, if there is a very big national war in the future and the court needs to increase its troops, then the veterans who have been in the army for two years can quickly go into battle with only simple training, forming a team capable of fighting A fighting force."

"Your Highness, these two ideas are good, and the old minister has no objection, but why must the literati join in?"

"They originally had little time to study. If they wereted two years in the army, or even died in a war, then all their years of hard study and the cultivation of their families would have been in vain."

As soon as Zhu Zhangui briefly explained the reason, the old pedant stood up frowning and put forward his own ideas.

Zhu Zhangui looked at him and explained earnestly: "The reason for recruiting literati and martial arts is that the future weapons of Ming Dynasty will become more and more complicated, and will use many aspects of knowledge, such as arithmetic, geography and weather, etc. .”

"As we all know, ordinary people and military households are illiterate. If these high-end weapons are handed over to them, they don't have the knowledge to use them. The weapons are a pile of scrap iron in their hands."

"So it is imperative for the Ming army to join educated soldiers and officers. This is also the reason why the imperial court opened a new school, allowing students to take half a day of astronomy and half a day of martial arts."

"Can…"

"Okay, nothing to worry about."

The old scholar wanted to say more, but Zhu Zhangui reached out and stopped him and said solemnly: "Scholar Chen, there is a saying that is good for the rise and fall of the world, everyone is responsible, guarding the frontier, defending the country is not just a matter for ordinary people. Talented people also have the responsibility of defending the land and resisting the enemy."

"And more importantly, after you hear the next edict, I don't think you have the heart to discuss this issue."

Smiling at the civil servants and generals, Zhu Zhangui turned his head and gave his father a dead wink.

Zhu Pangpang's expression must have been serious, he reached out and picked up the last imperial decree, took a deep breath and said loudly: "Follow the heavens, the emperor, the edict said: Since the incident in Shandong, I have been thinking about it day and night. With the help of the tax-free policy, the common people’s fields are widely collected to offset the imperial court’s taxes, causing local government offices to impose taxes on those who have not taken refuge in the common people.

"After careful consideration, I have decided to abolish the tax exemption policy for officials, scholars and gentry from next year, and implement the official and gentry payment system!"

In an instant, needles could be heard throughout the hall, whether it was civil servants, military officials, or vassal princes, all of them stared round and stared at the squinting old man sitting at the top in disbelief.

ps: I am in the final stage now, my throat is as painful as a knife scrape, and it is expected to be better tomorrow. After the full-time update today and tomorrow, it will return to an update of at least 8000 words the day after tomorrow.

(End of this chapter)