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Chapter 201 The Ministry of War

In order to prepare the people, Zhang Zongxian decided to tell the world about the disaster in the next three years.

After the Dragon Boat Festival, the Legislative School first published an article in the national newspaper Legislative Journal, stating that according to thousands of years of climate records, the winter has been getting colder and colder.

Draw a conclusion that in the next three years there will be a multi-year drought in the north.

After the article was published, the Dibao immediately reprinted it, and the cabinet also issued a document to make the yamen in all places, especially in the north, take it seriously.

For a while, both the north and the south of the Ming Dynasty were discussing this matter, and the gentry of the Ming Dynasty were laughing at Zhang Zongxian.

Still predicting a severe drought, do you think you are a fairy?
Just wait until next year, if there is no severe drought, watch Zhang Zongxian's joke.

During this period, Zhang Zongxian also specially met those historical celebrities who were put under house arrest by him.

I made a bet with Sun Chuanting, Lu Xiangsheng, and Xu Guangqi that as long as Zhang Zongxian's prediction is correct and there will be a severe drought next year, they will join the legislative faction, join Zhang Zongxian's cabinet, and help the cabinet save the common people.

In March, the cabinet ordered that in order to save food and expand the planting area of ​​staple food, heavy taxes were imposed on wine brewing, with the tax set at five taels of silver per catty of wine.

This price makes many rich people feel distressed. Naturally, smuggling is rampant. The newly established tax teams in various places are trying their best to crack down on wine smuggling. After all, the more taxes they collect, the more rewards they get.

There are also people who take risks to cover up smuggling, and encourage each other to report on these cabinets. As long as they are verified, they can be promoted and get one-third of the embezzlement amount of the person who was reported.

In order to encourage people to immigrate, as long as they are willing to immigrate to the Western Regions and Dongsheng Shenzhou, the travel expenses will be paid by the cabinet. After the people arrive there, the food for the first three months will also be provided by the cabinet.

And each household can get [-] acres of land. This year, immigrants can be exempted from taxes for the first three years, next year, they can only be exempted from taxes for two years, and in the next year, they can only be exempted for one year.

Even so, less than [-] households in the Central Plains are willing to immigrate, and most of them have gone to the Western Regions. After all, it takes only a week to get there by train.It takes half a year to go to Dongsheng Shenzhou.

Not to mention that the cabinet has improved the treatment for going to Dongsheng Shenzhou, providing food for half a year, and an additional subsidy of ten taels of silver for those who are willing to immigrate.

This time, there are enough [-] households to set off for Dongsheng Shenzhou, and they will reach their destination in half a year through the supply points established on the road.

After three consecutive years of severe drought, the people in the Central Plains will no longer resist going to Dongsheng Shenzhou.

In April, the navy began to attack the Dutch ghosts who were entrenched in the generals. After the war, all the thousand ghosts captured were executed.

After regaining Dayuan, the cabinet ordered to allow Fujian people to go to Dayuan to reclaim land.

One-year land tax for reclaimed land is exempted, and Taiping provides interest-free loans to support people's immigration.

At the same time, the Portuguese forces entrenched in Macau were also expelled, and the churches established by the Portuguese were destroyed.

Soon the navy established a base in Hainan. So far, the navy has controlled the vast sea area from Sakhalin to Hainan. In order to protect the immigrant ships, it began to strangle all the ships that did not have the right of way.

Seriously threatened Spain's rule of the Philippines, the local governor worried that too many Chinese in Manila would help the Ming army to capture the Philippines.

The investigation department learned of the intentional massacre of the Ming people, and the navy immediately organized a fleet to raid Manila.

After occupying Manila, he may have obtained a trade route map for Spanish galleons, thus shortening the journey to Dongsheng Shenzhou to three months.

After the occupation of Manila, the cabinet did not send officials to take over Manila. Instead, the local Ming people elected a governor on their own, who was then appointed by the Ming cabinet.

Provide taxes to Daming every year, and Daming is only responsible for its protection, not its internal management.

In May, the first batch of immigrant ships to Dongsheng Shenzhou began to set off. A total of [-] Dafu ships carried [-] immigrants to Dongsheng Shenzhou.

In June, the cabinet formally established the Ministry of War, with Liang Chen as the Minister of War.

The navy will be renamed the navy, and the navy will set up three fleets, the Beiyang Fleet, the Nanyang Fleet and the Ocean Fleet.

The Beiyang Fleet is responsible for the waters from Sakhalin to Ryukyu.

The Nanyang Fleet is in charge of the vast waters from Ryukyu Island to Malacca.

Malacca is still in the hands of the Portuguese, and the navy will gradually control the Strait of Malacca in the next five years.

The ocean-going fleet is responsible for protecting immigrant ships and defending the Spanish fleet of Dongsheng Shenzhou.

The original Weisuo Army and the Nine Frontier Army were all reorganized into the army. The army kept the total strength at 200 million, of which 60 were field troops, and the rest were used as garrison troops to guard key areas.

The service period of the garrison troops was two years, and a compulsory military service system was implemented. Men of the right age in the Ming Dynasty had to serve in the military, and the field troops were selected from the garrison troops.

The field troops are volunteers, and the treatment is higher than that of the garrison troops.

Divide the whole country into the Protectorate and Garrison.

The war zone is responsible for foreign wars, and two war zones have been established, the Northwest Protectorate and the Southwest Protectorate.

The Northwest Protectorate is in charge of strategic operations in Central Asia. Using the railway as a hub, they will gradually advance to Europe in response to Rakshasa's invasion of Asia. There are [-] field troops under this theater.

The Southwest Protectorate is responsible for the strategic operations of the Indochina Peninsula. It also uses the railway as a hub to establish immigration strongholds until it completes the occupation of the entire Indochina Peninsula. The theater has 20 field troops under its jurisdiction.

The rest of the field troops were deployed as mobile forces, scattered and stationed in Guihua City and the newly conquered North Korea and Japan.

The garrison area consists of the Nuergandu garrison area, the Wusi Zangdu garrison area, Mobei, Monan garrison area, Hexi garrison area, Korean garrison area, Japanese garrison area, Liaodong garrison area, North China, South China, Central China garrison area, and Northwest garrison area. , southwest and southeast garrison areas.

There is a garrison army stationed in each garrison area, and there are ten garrison brigades under it. The soldiers are uniformly recruited by the Ministry of National Defense and serve in different places.

The reorganization of the army and navy is expected to be completed within three years.

Since the cabinet announced that officials and gentry should pay taxes together, tax resistance incidents have emerged in various places in the south of the Yangtze River. After entering August, various places began to collect the tax of the year.

The anti-tax campaign in the Jiangnan area reached its peak, and there were reports of tax collectors being beaten to death in various places, among which the Donglin Party members were the most rampant.

In response to the tax resistance of the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River, the cabinet mobilized soldiers and horses into the south of the Yangtze River to suppress them. Those who owned more than [-] mu of land and who failed to pay taxes within one month would be confiscated and exiled to Beihai.

And like the exiled clan nobles, they cannot serve as soldiers within three generations, nor can they obtain fame.

Under the suppression of the army, without the support of the people, the gentry from all over the south of the Yangtze River could only obediently pay taxes, and occasionally the top leaders were exiled to Beihai.

Secretly, the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River were not convinced. They wrote a book and assigned Zhang Zongxian as Wang Mang alive, saying that he was going to ascend the throne.

Zhang Zongxian ignored these defeated dogs and planned to clean them up after the severe drought was over.

(End of this chapter)