This, of course, has some drawbacks.
For example, once the officers and soldiers of the garrison join the military, they will serve as soldiers for generations.
To a certain extent, this kind of policy was also one of the triggers for the decline of the army and the military during the late Ming Dynasty. However, future generations cannot look at their predecessors from the perspective of God. This system is not perfect, but it is most suitable for today's young people.
The Ming Dynasty regime.
And throughout the ages, any country that wants to be strong and hegemonic must have a large number of professional soldiers. These people do nothing but only have one skill, and that is fighting.
One million elite soldiers can be mobilized to fight Tibet, enter the Western Regions, and conduct expeditions beyond the Great Wall. What a powerful national power this is, and what a powerful military force it is.
But after being excited, Zhu Yunxi gritted his teeth with hatred. The good cards left by his ancestors were ruined by future generations.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, soldiers were not able to eat enough, let alone the monthly rations. Of course, all this was due to the decline of national power. More importantly, the Governor's Mansion of the Fifth Army, which was in charge of the world's guards and the power of soldiers and horses, was officially
Group disruption.
The guard station became official land and went into the pockets of the officials. The food and salary provided by the imperial court to the border officers were exploited layer by layer starting from the central government. When the remaining thirty thousand taels arrived at the place, they burned high incense and euphemistically called it "piaomo".
Lost.
It’s simply the most ridiculous thing in the world!
Zhu Yunxi gritted his teeth in his heart and looked down.
"The Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies was set up to control the internal and external armies. Two large and small battlefields were set up inside and outside the capital, and forty guards were trained separately."
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"Every year, the capitals, Shandong and Henan, are transferred to the capital, and the troops and horses from each capital go to Beijing for training. They are led by meritorious generals and take turns fighting at the border."
"The soldiers and horses of the Beijing camp, the heavy armored cavalry and the Shenji camp are the emperor's personal troops."
"The firearms of the Shenji camp include three thousand muskets, one hundred and twelve cannons, and two hundred and thirty-two cannons."
"Under the Governor's Office of the Fifth Army, the number of craftsmen is 232,099, divided into 22 lines of silver, iron, cast iron (steel), nail hinges, tin, and armor piercing. It is equipped with gunpowder, magic weapons, etc.
Two sentences of arrows, and I will be in charge of them personally as the military commander."
"The craftsmen belong to the war bureau, military weapons residence, and quick processing factory of the inner government. There are 20,000 craftsmen in the military and guard in various places. The craftsmen work ten days a month and are given monthly rations by the officials!"
"Military uniforms produced by the Inner Court Weaving and Dyeing Bureau, Shenbo Fang, Houhu (Xuanwu Lake, Nanjing). Weaving in Sichuan, Shaanxi Province, and Shaoxing, Zhejiang."
The further you look back, the more detailed it becomes. With the cooperation of the guard station and pure field troops, a large number of production and design units, and a large number of craftsmen are all to ensure the combat effectiveness of the troops.
"There is 37,430,000 kilograms of iron in the inner storehouse."
"There are ironworks in the world, and talents are promoted in Jiangxi, a new metaphor, and they are suitable. Huguang rejuvenates the country, and Huangmei. Laiwu, Shandong, and Yangshan, Guangdong... have thirteen places each."
"More than 1.4 million kilograms of iron are transported every year!"
"There is lead in the inner storehouse, 323,000 kilograms."
Suddenly, Zhu Yunxi saw Zhu Yuanzhang's red pen annotations outside these small regular script letters.
"Mining consumes people and money, and it is difficult to cut mountains. Every year, more than 2,000 households in Shandong Province are forced to work. This is a remnant of the people!"
"Exploring mines benefits the officials and harms the people. If there is no shortage of military supplies, if we continue to mine, we will spare our lives and it is absolutely undesirable!"
Seeing this, Zhu Yunxi couldn't help but laugh.
The old man is really a kindhearted person, and he always stands on the side of the people when looking at problems.
Mining in this era is actually extremely dangerous, with human lives being involved.
"There are more than 540,000 pieces of cotton in the Jingying warehouse, and 110,000 catties of cotton!"
"The Capital Guards Station has 270,000 pieces of cotton cloth and 50,000 kilograms of cotton!"
"The Liaodong Guards has 102,112 soldiers, 430,000 pieces of cotton, and 37,000 jins of cotton."
"Huh?" Seeing this, Zhu Yunxi's eyes shrank.
"My fourth uncle has a lot of money. The amount of cotton cloth alone is more than 400,000 pieces?"
Cotton cloth is more valuable than real gold and silver. The area where the old man started is the area where the country is best at weaving cotton cloth. Cotton cloth is the lifeblood of the Ming Dynasty's economy, and it is also the biggest technological advantage to the surrounding vassal countries.
Cotton cloth has always been a necessity in Jiangnan to replace money to pay taxes.
Clothing, food, housing, and transportation always come first. In the 23rd year of Hongwu, Lan Yu went to the outside of the Great Wall. When he returned to the dynasty with a victory of 190,000 troops, he was rewarded with more than 300,000 pieces of cotton, which attracted nearly 200,000 troops.
Long live, deep in the palace, you can hear the deafening cheers outside.
Cloth is money.
A piece of cloth is enough for a professional soldier to feed his family for a year.
Putting these aside for the time being, Zhu Yunxi continued to look down.
"Details of military expenditure sources!"
"The salt tax on the two rivers and the Huaihe River is reduced to more than 12 million taels per year, and is distributed to the Jiubian Jingying Camp, the craftsmen of the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion, the mines, etc."
"The total amount of taxes and grain in the world is more than 29.43 million shi. In Zhejiang, it is more than 2,752,000 shi, and in Suzhou, it is more than 2,090,000 shi."
“So many in Suzhou?”
Zhu Yunxi was a little surprised. The tax revenue of Suzhou actually exceeded the entire province of Zhejiang, which is the richest.
But after thinking about it, I felt relieved.
The old man doesn't like people from Jiangsu and Zhejiang very much, especially people from Suzhou.
One of the reasons is that these people supported Zhang Shicheng back then, especially the people of Suzhou. After Zhang Shicheng's death, they built an ancestral hall for him, and the people privately called him King Zhang.
Therefore, since the founding of the People's Republic of China by Hongwu, the old man has implemented the policy of exempting all taxes from taxes every year. However, the taxes on Suzhou and the original base of Zhang Shicheng have never been reduced, but have been increased.
But the more important reason is that this place is too rich.
Their money still comes from cotton cloth. Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Suzhou, Songjiang, Hangzhou, Jiaxing, Huzhou and other places are considered to be the world's cotton cloth producing areas. It is no exaggeration to say that the total cotton cloth produced here exceeds that of the world in this era.
Go to any country.
Moreover, these areas are not traditional in which men farm and women weave. Instead, businessmen take the lead in setting up cotton factories and hiring weavers. Many women even show up to work.
Dozens of people in small factories and thousands in large factories start working from early in the morning until midnight every day. After midnight, the second shift of workers continues to work, stopping the looms and weaving all night long.
The taxes in these places were all replaced by cotton cloth, which shows how rich they were.
The old man naturally doesn't like people who are too rich. This is a fact.
Not only did they increase taxes in these areas, but they also restricted the wealthy people in these areas from taking scientific examinations and becoming officials.
At first glance, it seems to be tyranny. But considering the reasons for the demise of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yunxi can also understand a little bit of the old man's good intentions.
The plutocrats in Jiangsu and Zhejiang can use their huge financial resources to buy supporters who speak for them in the government even if they have no children to serve as officials at home. If their children become officials, wouldn't it be more important to the national policy?
In these affluent areas?
In addition to raising taxes, there are also moral policies. The old man has set a policy of not charging business taxes, making these people richer and richer.
After the old man died, the order not to allow these wealthy people to serve as officials became a piece of paper.
You must know that children of poor people and children of rich people cannot be at the same starting point, and the education they receive cannot be the same at all.
After Hongwu, the chaebols in Jiangsu and Zhejiang tried their best to build schools in order for their children to become officials. They invited famous Confucian teachers from all over the world to open schools to teach their children.
Even in one area, all the wealthy businessmen pool their money together and specially select children from their hometown who are good at reading to study for free, in order to make them famous.
Scholars who have achieved fame can become officials, and those who become officials can enjoy tax exemptions and privileges. And those students from Jiangsu and Zhejiang who are better educated, have passed the Jinshi exam, and can enter the government, have become a protective umbrella for the collusion between local officials and businessmen.
These people will have a famous name in later generations, the Donglin Party.
The Donglin Party was the main culprit that caused the Ming Dynasty's finances to dry up and the party and government to be in constant trouble.
During the Southern Song Dynasty, the tariff on tea in the world was as high as two million taels per year, but in the Ming Dynasty, it was only close to 200,000 taels per year, less than one-tenth. Moreover, other tariffs could not be collected.
But you must know that during the Ming Dynasty, silver from all over the world was flowing into the country like crazy. Although the Ming Dynasty did not pay attention to maritime trade, and the old man had a natural contempt for people who did not farm, the transaction volume far exceeded that of other dynasties.
All the silver from the world has gone to the country and is used in exchange for the country’s cotton, silk, porcelain, tea, etc., but the central government cannot collect taxes. Where is the root cause?
It is the Donglin Party.
They controlled the government and took advantage of their geographical origins to unite. Whenever the emperor wanted to collect taxes, they would use their ancestral system to resist. The emperor could kill one of them, but for every one killed, hundreds would make up for it.
The huge economic power was transformed into education, and the Donglin Party, the spokesperson of the large conglomerates in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, continuously became the main force of the Ming Dynasty bureaucracy.
After becoming officials, they used their privileges to repay their families, losing the country's tax revenue and allowing local chaebols to profit. Commercial taxation, the pillar that supports the country's economic system, became a piece of paper.
The chaebols are rich, but the people are still living in poverty. The people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang are also living in dire straits. Their fields have been annexed and they can only work. However, the rewards for working are not enough to ensure that the family has enough food and clothing.
If you don't have money, you will inevitably have to raise taxes.
If the taxes brought about by the collusion between officials and businessmen are not raised, they can only be imposed on the poor people all over the world. Even the tax laws implemented by the famous Zhang Juzheng did not dare to touch the interests of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang plutocrats and the Donglin Party, and the burden was passed on to the people.
By the end of the Ming Dynasty, during the Chongzhen period, the country's annual tax revenue was only more than 300 and less than 40,000 taels, while the annual military expenditure in Liaodong accounted for two-thirds. In the Ming Dynasty, there were also rogue bandits such as Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong.
To suppress.
Without money, where will the army come from?
How can the army fight without money?
The old man was not of high birth, but he saw what happened more than two hundred years later. He may not know anything about Confucian classics, but he knows people's hearts well and understands the greed of human nature.
He limited the children of local plutocratic families to become officials and high officials in order to prevent such harm. However, he did not expect that it was exactly what he was worried about that led to the demise of the Ming Empire he established.
As for those Donglin Party members who came from Hanlin circles and were supported by plutocratic families, they were far from the spirit of those people in the early Ming Dynasty. Outside Nanjing, Donglin Party members knelt down to welcome the Emperor Qing into the city and rushed to become officials.
The world can be without an emperor, but it cannot be without bureaucrats.
The Donglin Party members thought that no matter who became emperor, they would have to rely on them to govern the region and provide money to the central government in the prosperous Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas, but they were wrong.
The Manchus in the bitter cold land are not as easy to talk to as the Zhu family of the Ming Dynasty, and they do not have any ancestral system that does not collect business taxes.
From Shunzhi to Yongzheng, three generations of emperors raised bloody butcher knives against the Jiangnan plutocrats. Do you want privileges? Do you want not to pay taxes? Do you want to play the trick of fooling the Zhu family in the past? Do you want to control the government? Do you want the right to speak?
go to hell!
The big chaebols and big bureaucratic families in Jiangsu and Zhejiang were full of heads. The Donglin Party members, the cancer of the Ming Dynasty, were directly trampled to pieces by the Manchurian flag.
From then on, they obediently paid taxes and money.
Otherwise, from Shunzhi to Qianlong, where did the money come from for the first four emperors of the Qing Dynasty who repeatedly launched wars to open up new territories? In the later period, where did Jiajing Daoguang suppress the White Lotus Sect and quell the border rebellions? Where did the money come from?
By the late Qing Dynasty, starting from the Opium War, tens of millions of taels of money were spent every year to buy arms from abroad, and the army was repeatedly trained and struggled for decades. Where did the money come from?
Seeing this, Zhu Yunxi frowned under the light.
Pick up the pen and start writing on a blank piece of paper.
The old man's increase in grain taxes on Suzhou is tyranny and wrong.
But not collecting business tax is even more wrong.
The Ming Dynasty could not have a tax-free class, let alone an official group that controlled the government.
It is better to block than to open up. We must transform the power of local plutocrats into the power of the country.
Putting down his pen, holding back his thoughts, Zhu Yunxi continued to read.
"The five military governor's offices, the five capitals on the left, right, front and back, are in charge of the guards, troops and horses of the world!"
This is not just a military group, but a military department that integrates military and political affairs and is dedicated to war. It is equivalent to the Supreme Staff Headquarters in later generations.
"The commander-in-chief of the left army Geng Bing, the commander-in-chief Tongzhi Anluhou Wu Jie, the commander-in-chief Qian Shi Liu Zhen."
"The commander-in-chief of the right army is Ping'an, the commander-in-chief is Tongzhi Yu Tongyuan, and the commander-in-chief Qian is the commander of the Sichuan capital, Qu Neng."
"Oh!" Zhu Yunxi laughed out loud, what a great guy.
If Jingnan, Tiexuan and Ping'an were the ones who could defeat Zhu Di, Qu Neng and his son were the ones who almost killed Zhu Di.
Ping'an is the brains of the Southern Army, and Qu Neng is the courage of the Southern Army.
In the Battle of Baihe Gou, Qu Neng almost captured the King of Yan, Zhu Di, in the first battle. Later, he led the heavy armored cavalry and personally joined Zhu Di's army, killing the border troops in Peiping to pieces. His other son, Qu Liangcai, was only seventeen years old.
The arrow hit Zhu Di's iron helmet and almost killed Emperor Yongle.
The current head of the Qu family is Qu Tong, the old man's favorite general, but he is old and is now being raised at home.
This family has three loyalties. Even Zhu Di, who is an enemy, admires his loyalty.
In the battle of Baihegou, Li Jinglong was unable to run away first, and Qu Neng and his son died in the battle. It was Zhu Di who collected the bodies with his own hands and buried them in a grand ceremony.
"Military Commander Xu Huizu, Commander-in-Chief Li Jinglong, Commander-in-Chief Chang Sheng!"
"Ha!" Zhu Yunxi laughed out loud. Li Jinglong's big idiot actually had the title of a fellow governor. And his uncle was the third-in-command of the military governor.
However, here we can see the old man’s skill in employing people. In his high-power military official position as the Commander-in-Chief of the Five Armies, there are children of meritorious officials, veteran generals of the army, as well as his son-in-law and adopted son. These people can work together and have
can restrict each other.
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Happy the fifteenth day of the first lunar month to everyone. We eat glutinous rice balls in the south and Yuanxiao in the north.
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