After returning to Nanjing again, Zhu Guoqiang immediately summoned Zhang Liang.

Zhang Liang was just promoted to be the censor of Qiandu, governor of Yingtian, Anqing, and Fengyang. The past three governorships fell to him. The reason for this was to assist in the suppression of bandits. Historically, he was the governor of Anqing.

While in office, he was captured by the traitorous general Zuo Mengeng and sacrificed to Duduo. He committed suicide by drowning in Gaoyou.

As an official, he was definitely a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty, but he was not his own loyal minister. Zhu Guoqiang didn't know that, after all, Chongzhen was still there.

But now, Zhu Guoqiang hopes to give him a try!

Seeing Zhang Liang, Zhu Guoqiang asked directly:

"Governor Zhang, Yingtian, Anqing, and Fengyang guards, can they collect grain according to regulations this year?"

Zhang Liang looked troubled:

"General, there are natural disasters and droughts, the land is deserted, and military families are fleeing... I really can't collect food."

Zhang Liang couldn't help but murmur in his heart. Who in the world didn't know that the so-called "military grains" could no longer be collected before Zhengde. After so many years, why did the general in front of him mention it now?

Got this.

Hearing this, Zhu Guoqiang frowned and said:

"During the Hongwu period, there were thirty-two guards in the Nanjing Guards who only belonged to the five prefectures of Nanjing. Two of them could build slaves and join the invaders. When they invaded Nanjing, how many soldiers and horses did the thirty-two guards gather? The military households fled, but their

Where is the land? Where are the grains of grain from the land? The soldiers can escape, but the earth cannot move! Tell me where the land is!"

Of course Zhang Liang knows the answer. Who in the world doesn't know where those places are, but who dares to say.

Zhu Guoqiang snorted coldly:

"It's true that the military households fled, but the land is still there! Can you tell me where the land is?"

Of course Zhang Liang knew where those lands were, and those lands were in the hands of the officers in the garrison. They did not need to sell them in order to avoid land taxes. What was the biggest benefit of military households? It was the exemption from military service! The most burdensome thing in ancient society was never land taxes.

, As for the service, there were different types of service in the Ming Dynasty: one was Lijia service, which was the affairs of one li; the second was Junwei, which was the regular service for the government; and the third was miscellaneous service, which was all the service temporarily dispatched.

What is the most common errand?

Every year, the local government builds water conservancy projects, repairs roads, government offices and city walls, and distributes official grain. These are the most common servants. Basically, an adult laborer works for the government for free for three months every year, until Zhang Juzheng's whipping method

, and converted the servants into money, so that the people could avoid the suffering of the servants.

However, military households do not need to perform official service. Although military fields require two tons of grains of grain, military fields do not need to pay land taxes, and there are no additional taxes such as three wages and other exorbitant taxes in other places. When the grains of grains are embezzled,

Hundreds of millions of acres of military land across the country are simply "white land without food." It is precisely for this reason that in the Ming Dynasty, the most sought-after goods in the land market have always been military land.

Who doesn’t like “grainless and white land”?

Not to mention the guards officers like Hou Fangyu and the Hou family, even the local gentry also likes such "grainless and white land"!

Most of the land now belongs to gentrified guard officers and local gentry. At most, only about 30 to 40 percent of military households can own their own military land.

Because of the wide scope involved, Zhang Liang naturally seemed a little embarrassed, but he still reported:

"Your Highness, most of these lands are now occupied by others."

"Occupying it for others? Military land is used by the country to raise troops. Anyone who occupies it is tantamount to rebellion. I would like to see who dared to invade the military land that raises troops. The imperial court needs to use troops.

We need money and military rations, but my general’s army of hundreds of thousands does not need military pay or military rations!”

Zhu Guoqiang said coldly:

"Zhang Liang, I order you to conduct an inventory of all the military fields in South Zhili before spring plowing! Each guard station will clean up the land according to the number of acres set by the previous imperial court! Comparing the deposits in the register, all the land belonging to the fleeing military households will also be confiscated!

If the inventory has not been completed after the spring plowing, the general will send troops to investigate!"

For Zhu Guoqiang, he now wants to take back all the military fields from the early days of the Republic of China, reward the military fields to the soldiers, and re-establish a new guard system. He does not need the military fields to provide food. He needs a large number of people with constant output and perseverance.

Professional soldiers need to use military fields to win over the minds of sergeants. They can even use military fields to cultivate a group other than civilian officials - the Wu Xun military group. They may not have as prominent a status as Xun Chen, but there are hundreds of them.

The small landowners who have made great contributions to the army will form a new group, which is completely different from the civil servant group and is loyal to the emperor.

Of course this is just a preliminary idea, but on the other hand, this is just the beginning!

Hearing this, Zhang Liang felt a cold sweat break out on his back. He sent troops to investigate. What would be the result?

Naturally, there are a lot of people!

But how can it be so easy to inspect fields?

The land investigation is easy, but the problem is, after the land is identified, what will the actual owners of the land - the gentry and guard officers - do?

Having passed through the Jiangbei area where slaves were invaded and rogue bandits were rampant, it was okay. Ten houses there were now empty. Not to mention the military fields of the guards, there were many civilian fields, which were abandoned and became an ownerless land. But in Nanjing, in

This is not the case in Jiangnan!

All that land is in the hands of those people!

If a general kills someone's wealth, such as killing his parents, he will offend many people. All the gentry and dignitaries in the south of the Yangtze River will be offended.

As a Sichuan native, Zhang Liang was completely moved by the general's actions for the country and the people. Although he was moved, he knew in his heart that this incident was almost tantamount to seeking death.

Besides, the general had no power to ask him to do this. But Zhang Liang did not refuse. He hoped to use the power of the general to reorganize the military field, even if it was only part of it.

So Zhang Liang whispered:

"General, do you remember the incident of Hou Dingguo, the commander of Fengyang Guards in the seventh year of Chongzhen's reign?"

In the seventh year of Chongzhen, Hou Dingguo, the commander of the Fengyang Guards, relied on the power of the garrison eunuch Yang Ze to oppress the military households. The soldiers of the military households killed Hou Dingguo in Xiguan Village, Linhuai, and then defected to the bandits. A month later, he turned around and helped the bandits capture Feng.

Positive.

Zhang Liang wanted to use Hou Dingguo's incident to remind himself not to push the people in the guard station too hard, as that might make them surrender to the enemy.

Zhu Guoqiang sneered.

"I would like to see whether my knife is stronger or their necks are stronger! Governor Zhang, I heard that when I came to Nanjing, someone said that the "God of Killing" was coming. If I didn't kill people, wouldn't I live up to this reputation?

"

Hearing this, Zhang Liang secretly took a breath and thought that this general was determined to clean up the military fields. Thinking about what this man had done, he was really not kidding.

Killing... to him, it's just killing a chicken!

Zhang Liang is now even guessing that the general may want to use this to scare the monkeys and give Jiangnan Shilin a disincentive.

After Zhang Liang left, he immediately began to arrange for the investigation of officials and government servants. At the same time, he revised several copies of the book and gave them to some close friends, asking them to be prepared to give up their military fields and not to become "chickens" in the hands of the general.

Others follow rules when killing people, but this general never follows rules when killing people. If you get killed, there won't even be a place to cry!

Zhu Guoqiang knows very well what he is doing. The most important thing for him now is to lay the foundation for the future. This is the foundation and solid control.

At the moment, Jiangnan may be under Zhu Guoqiang's control, but this plate is a bit hot. Without control, especially the local gentry, whether they surrender to him or not is related to the long-term stability of the Ming Dynasty in the future. Once he attacks the entire Jiangnan officials and gentry, they will

Whether there will be a strong counterattack is a very important question.

Zhu Guoqiang could fully imagine that once he took action against them, the gentry everywhere would turn their backs on him, and they would even turn to the bandits.

Therefore, Zhu Guoqiang could only start from the guard station, and by rectifying the guard station, he put the knife to their necks step by step. After all, the hereditary officers and gentry of the guard station had always been away from the Jiangnan gentry, and then boiled the frog in warm water and completely controlled them.

Jiangnan.

Solve the problems of some people first, and then solve the problems of another group of people. Zhu Guoqiang knows that things have to be done step by step. If you take too big a step, you will easily break the egg. First, you will attack this group of people, and then wait until the knife is sharpened.
Chapter completed!