Zhu Biao's eyes were as intense as the fire in July.

Ji Boying even suspected that if he rejected A Biao, the Hongwu Crown Prince might burst into tears on the spot.

"Can."

Ji Boying nodded.

One time and space can bring one emperor's attendant.

This trip to the Dengzhou Guards in the Jiajing time and space was not to fight, but to let these emperors and princes experience the final glory of the military camp.

After receiving Ji Boying's approval, Zhu Biao immediately beamed.

The joy in his eyes was simply happier than when he entered the bridal chamber for the first time.

"First of all, before we go, I need to say a few more words."

After Ji Boying finished speaking, all the emperors and princes straightened their backs and listened carefully.

"When I was in Tumubao, I told you that the garrison and military garrison system was only suitable for deployment at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty."

"And now, I want to tell you the reasons and the disadvantages of the centralized military garrison system."

"Only after understanding these disadvantages in advance and going there on the spot can you come up with your own answers."

Lao Zhu, listened especially carefully.

Although this military camp is a system that he is proud of.

Ever since he met Ji Boying, Lao Zhu became extremely humble, and even began to examine himself three times a day, thinking about the problems with the ancestral system he had set.

Of course, this modesty is only in front of Ji Boying.

If anyone else wants to teach the big boss Hongwu how to do business, there is a high probability that he will be beheaded on the same day, or Qin Huai will be buried like the Korean prince.

I just reflected and thought about it for a long time, but still can't figure it out.

In fact, it’s no wonder that Lao Zhu and Ji Boying were able to easily point out the shortcomings of Lao Zhu’s system. He was looking at the problem from a historical perspective.

But Lao Zhu could not escape this limitation.

This is just like doing analytic geometry. After you know the answer, it is not difficult to find auxiliary lines.

But when doing it, I just fight to the end. If I can’t solve it, I just can’t solve it.

"Listen carefully."

"If we find anyone distracted in class, don't blame me for reminding them with a big stick."

Lao Zhu glanced at his group of descendants.

The eyes of these emperors and princes subconsciously glanced at the mace that Lao Zhu placed next to the Grand Master's chair. There were still blood stains on it from Tianshun's blackening of Zhu Qizhen, and they couldn't help but sit up and correct themselves.

They have seen it before. When they attacked Zhu Qizhen, it was the ancestors who worked the hardest.

'I wipe.'

Ji Boying also subconsciously followed everyone's gaze and glanced at Lao Zhu's big stick.

When he glanced at the blood stain on the mace, an idea flashed through his mind, and he suddenly realized something.

No wonder I always felt like something was wrong after I came back, like someone was missing, and the Orthodox Fort Sect was still left behind in Tianshun time and space.

'Forget it, wait until this period is over before taking him back to the time and space that belongs to him.'

After Ji Boying made up his mind, he no longer thought about the Pig's Head Castle.

Anyway, if you stay in Tianshun Time and Space for a while, you won't die.

"Same as when I was in Tumubao, I want to make it clear that there is nothing wrong with the military garrison system itself, especially the effect of the garrison garrison in the Hongwu Year was very good, which greatly promoted the stability of the country and the rapid recovery of people's livelihood.

"

This time, Lao Zhu didn't smile as proudly as he did last time, because he knew there was another but.

"But what's wrong is that you shouldn't keep using it."

After saying this, Ji Boying turned around, picked up the pen, and drew "一" on the rice paper behind him.

"Since Hongwu, the shortcomings of military settlements began to appear."

"The first point is that military households must pay grain taxes to the state, and the tax ratio is a high 50%. What's more, they have to work hard to build canals and embankments to transport grains."

"Attention, this is the biggest difference between the military households of the Ming Dynasty and the soldiers who made the Tang army strong."

The soldiers of the Tang Dynasty were given land by the imperial court, and they did not need to pay grain or taxes, let alone be drafted by the powerful.

"Of course, I can understand the reason why Hongwu initially set up such a high grain tax on military households, in order to reduce the taxes on civilian farming and use military farming grain production to support the operation of the national army."

Ji Boying looked at Lao Zhu, who nodded solemnly.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, life was in ruins, and after decades of tax collection, Zhu Chongba's father, for example, received it fifty years later, forcing his father, Zhu Wusi, to hang himself.

Therefore, from the day the Ming Dynasty was founded, the common people could no longer withstand the hardships.

The essence of Lao Zhu's establishment of military camps was to allow soldiers to farm to support national construction, while Li Er's establishment of a government military system was purely to strengthen the national army. Their initial starting points were different.

"In the first year of Yongle, the tax and grain taxes of military villages amounted to more than 23 million shi. However, the national tax of grain in that year was only more than 31 million shi, and military villages accounted for 70%."

When Lao Zhu Di heard this, he nodded in agreement.

At least, the military settlement system was still the backbone of the country in the early years of Yongle.

It can be said that the main reason why he was able to afford the first and second Northern Expeditions was because of the support of the military garrison.

It's just this ratio. Old Zhu Di thought about it. In the 19th year of Yongle, the proportion of military villages had dropped to less than 30%. This declining ratio was terrifying.

And this was the main reason why the six Yongle tribes unanimously opposed Lao Zhu Di's third Northern Expedition.

Taxes and grains are directly related to national productivity, and the essence of finance is productivity. A significant decline in military cantons means that finances are tight.

As for Emperor Xuande, during his period, the proportion of military and military settlements was even worse.

"The imperial court requires each military household to produce eighteen shi per year, but only half of the food left for the military households has never been considered. Won't military households have children? Won't their families expand their demand base? "

At this point, Lao Zhu's heart skipped a beat and he fell silent.

He only focused on calculating the accounts of the year, and the demand for military households was based on the regulations of the year. He never considered that the number of military households would also increase.

"Then why not issue more land?"

Xiao Zhusi frowned slightly and blurted out the question.

"Good question."

Ji Boying glanced at Xiao Zhu Si, and then looked at Lao Zhu.

"Because this is an ancestral system, because military households have passed it down from generation to generation, and it is also an ancestral system."

When Ji Boying looked at him like this and added the word "ancestral system" to his mouth, Lao Zhu couldn't help but blush.

In fact, Ji Boying was a little puzzled, but for all the rules set in the Hongwu Dynasty, Lao Zhu liked to make them ancestral, with the sentence " descendants and grandchildren, not to be changed."

This is how confident you are in yourself.

“And even if it increases, it’s hard to measure it.”

"Because some military households can give birth to ten children after one generation of reproduction, while some people can't give birth to any."

When he said this, Lao Zhu straightened his back. He first learned from Ji Boying that he had given birth to a total of twenty-six sons and dozens of daughters.

Absolutely productive real man.

Ji Boying paused for a moment after saying this.

"The second point is that military settlement household registration is passed down from generation to generation. When the family cannot support the family, the only way out is to flee. After the military households flee, the land left behind is annexed by the guards officers and local aristocratic families, and they reap the benefits.

The dignitaries then began to expropriate military households on a large scale, so that more military households were unable to farm and fled on their own initiative to vacate their fields."

"The vicious cycle that goes around and over again indirectly aggravates the process of land annexation. Land annexation in the Ming Dynasty started in self-defense."

"Master Immortal, if a military household fled, why didn't the military attache at the guard station stop them?"

Xiao Zhusi asked again.

He vaguely remembered that the Ming Dynasty Laws stipulated extremely harsh punishments for military households who fled. Those who fled were directly interrogated and executed, and their wives, children, and daughters were all exiled.

Ever since Tianshun returned from time and space, Zhu Xiaosi, who was born in Hongwu years, has become extremely excited and inquisitive.

"The military household is fleeing, but the quota of the guard station has not changed, so the military attache can take the vacant quota of the fugitive. If you were this military attache, would you choose to stop it?"

Ji Boying asked Xiao Zhu four questions.

Xiao Zhusi almost did not hesitate.

"Only a fool would stop it."

As soon as the words fell, the hearts of all the emperors and princes became heavy.

Especially Emperor Xuande, who ordered a thorough investigation of military settlement registrations several times, but it was still in vain, and the flight became more and more intense.

At this moment, Lao Zhu took a deep breath.

He never imagined that the garrison and military system he had personally established would have such big drawbacks in his later generations. Instead of maintaining the stability and prosperity of the country, it became a huge burden.
To be continued...