If I fail to overcome the tribulation, I can only return to the Ming Dynasty and become a prince.

Chapter 175 Migration and Distribution

Although the Japanese state in later generations gave people an impression of being brave, fierce, bloody and cruel after it became a military state, in fact the Japanese were not a race that could provide high-quality soldiers.

Because of the phenomenon of island dwarfism, people from island countries like Japan are generally much shorter in stature than people from mainland China.

Later generations of Japanese people improved their own genes through various means, and promoted the development of teenagers with excellent material living conditions. The average height of the people in their country only reached 1.7 meters, and it began to decline due to the economic situation.

It can be said that this is the genetic height limit of Japanese people.

In this era where neither material living conditions nor racial improvement can be discussed, the average height of Japanese people is only between 1.4 and 1.5 meters.

Although there are many tall people with a height of 1.6 meters and 1.7 meters, compared with the average height of 1.6 meters during this period of the Ming Dynasty, they feel a little out of the ordinary.

Therefore, after careful consideration, Zhu Zhanju decided to recruit troops from the Ming Dynasty as the main force. The Japanese recruited from Kyushu tried their best to recruit taller ones from the shorter ones, and selected some guys who were not too short to serve as auxiliary troops.

After all, Kyushu Island was already considered part of the Zhengwang Domain of the Ming Dynasty the moment Zhu Zhantun came to court. Although these Japanese people could not be regarded as people of the Ming Dynasty, they could still be regarded as subjects under the rule of the Ming Dynasty.

It is not unacceptable to let them serve as soldiers, and the Japanese are not afraid of death. To a certain extent, they are very useful death squads or cannon fodder.

Zhu Zhanchun could not bear to let the Jade Guards he had carefully trained become death squads or cannon fodder. He would feel bad losing even one of them.

"Your Majesty, there is still an issue that requires His Majesty's decision regarding the expansion of the army. I would like to ask His Majesty's permission whether the soldiers recruited for this recruitment should relocate their families." Hearing that Zhu Zhanquan asked him to recruit troops, Zuo Changshi did not directly accept the mission. , but raised a very important question.

Zuo Changshi has been in charge of the expansion of the army. He is in charge of all correspondence with the imperial court and the arrangements for related matters.

Therefore, Zuo Changshi also knew everything about the important issues in army expansion.

Whether to relocate the families of soldiers is indeed a very important issue, and even related to the combat effectiveness of soldiers.

"What is the court's practice?" Faced with this question, Zhu Zhanqi did not make a hasty decision, but first asked how the court dealt with this issue.

"In fact, according to the past court practice, family members were not relocated. Most of the soldiers in the guard station were recruited from nearby military households to join the army, so as to prevent the soldiers from leaving their homes too far and missing their hometown and having no desire to fight." When it comes to this issue, Zuo Changshi said He did not give a long speech to Zhu Zhanquan, but only gave a brief introduction and then explained: "But our Zheng Fan's expedition to the Japanese country this time, the soldiers have been too far away from their hometown, especially your Qingyu Guards, they are all from Jiangsu and Zhejiang. .

Coming from the south of the Yangtze River to serve in the north is already far enough, but now that we have arrived in the Japanese country, the situation of soldiers missing their hometown has become quite serious in the army.

If it weren't for your rigorous military management and strict discipline in the army, and if you conquered the Japanese country and alleviated the Japanese problem in your hometown, I'm afraid the morale of the army would have been weakened. "

What Zuo Changshi said was a bit serious, but it was also true.

This was the feudal era when transportation was very underdeveloped. At this time, if someone went from the south to the north to join the army, they would probably never have the chance to return to their hometown again.

Not to mention dying in battle, just the distance and difficulty in returning home, and the fact that there is no living space of their own in their hometown after serving in the army for more than ten or twenty years, have greatly affected the soldiers' morale to join the army in a different place.

In fact, not to mention ordinary soldiers, even many of the officials in Prince Zheng's Mansion complained about this. However, they were officials after all, and as long as they could gain a foothold in the Japanese country, they could still take over their families.

It was precisely with this in mind that Zuo Changshi proposed to Zhu Zhanjuan the suggestion of relocating military households and their families.Of course, there is another consideration in this, which is to "conquer Japanese with Mei".

After all, Kyushu was a newly conquered area. The main population here was still Japanese, and there were not many Han people. In the long run, it would definitely be detrimental to the Ming Dynasty's rule of the Japanese country.

Therefore, migrating Han people from the country to settle here could change the local population structure and stabilize the court's rule over this area.

This is different from the colonial plunder of the West. The Han people migrated to settle down, live in the local area, spread the Han culture and way of life, and eventually make this area sinicized and become part of Chinese civilization.

It is precisely because of this method of migration and expansion that the Chinese civilization was able to gradually expand from the Yellow River Basin to the entire land of China, eventually encompassing such a vast territory, and at the same time, it allowed the population to flourish to a level that was unimaginable for other races and civilizations.

"Is the morale of the army fluctuating? This is an oversight." After listening to Zuo Changshi's words, Zhu Zhanjuan thought for a while and said to him: "In this case, if an order is issued in the army, the Qingyu Guardsmen can protect their family members within three generations. The royal family will pay for the travel expenses when they come to Japan, and every household willing to move to Japan will be given twenty acres of fertile land and will be exempted from land tax for three years."

Zhu Zhanquan said that it would be somewhat difficult to divide the fields in the Ming Dynasty. After all, even if he was a vassal king, the land under his name was limited. Even if the vassal king could order the reclamation of wasteland, it would still not be easy to get tens of thousands of acres of land at once. owned.

And even if a feudal prince had so much land under his name, he would not be willing to give out tens of thousands of acres at once to his soldiers and people.

But for the Japanese country, this is very simple, because in the just-concluded land inspection, a large number of fields were added to Zhu Zhanqi's name. According to the stone height of the Japanese country, he has a territory of about 50 shi. .

Calculated based on one acre of land and one stone of grain, this is at least 50 acres of land.

Although the stone height of the Japanese country is not actually calculated in this way, and the land cannot be said to have the same yield, in general this is a very astonishing number.

Of course, part of this is the family territory of those who surrendered to the samurai that Zhu Zhanyu promised to preserve, but it only accounts for a small part of it. The rest is basically in the hands of various daimyo on Kyushu Island and them. The domain of high-ranking retainers.

Now that these territories are under Zhu Zhanjun's name, it is a convenient thing to give some of them to his soldiers.

After all, no matter how talented Zhu Zhanjuan himself was, he would never be able to cultivate hundreds of thousands of acres of land. If the land was distributed to the soldiers, he would also be able to obtain food and tax revenue from the land.

　Japan's Ishigao is actually a very complex system. What's weird about it is that it calculates area based on output, not area, so people who don't know it look very abstract.

　　However, according to the records of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's Taikou land inspection, 1 stone = 10 buckets = 100 liters = 1000 pieces.

　　The calculation of field area is about thirty steps = 1 mu, ten acres = one mu, ten fa = one town, and one town is roughly equivalent to one hectare today.

　　On the contrary, the output of Shangtian is one stone and five buckets of rice. In other words, if converted into Chinese acres, one mu of Shangtian produces one stone of grain.

　　However, I haven’t found out how many kilograms a stone weighs in Japan. One theory is 30 kilograms, but some people on Zhihu also say it is 130 kilograms. I haven’t found any more accurate historical data.

　　During the same period, the rice yield per mu in the Ming Dynasty was about one stone and five bushels, but this one stone is the weight unit of the Ming Dynasty, which is roughly converted to about 92-94 kilograms.

　　The so-called "one stone" in the Ming Dynasty was 120 kilograms. The kilogram in this statement was 16 taels per kilogram in the Ming Dynasty, which was six taels more than the current kilogram.

　　
　
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