Chapter 89 Qi Jiguang: So many rebels in dragon robes? I’m crazy! (5K!)
Zhu Biao’s gaze was 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.
"Okay."
Ji Boying nodded.
A space-timer can bring an attendant of the emperor.
The Dengzhou Guards who went to the Jiajing time and space this time were not going to fight, but to let these emperors and princes see 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 system was only suitable for deployment at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty."
"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 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 limited to Ji Boying.
If anyone else wants to teach the big boss Hongwu how to do business, there is a high probability that they will be separated on the same day, or they will sink Qinhuai like the Korean prince.
I just reflected and thought about it for a long time, but still can’t figure it out.
In fact, this is no wonder Lao Zhu, Ji Boying can easily point out the shortcomings of Lao Zhu's system, that is looking at the problem from a historical perspective.
But Lao Zhu cannot escape this limitation.
This is just like doing analytical 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 children and grandchildren.
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 I glanced at the blood stain on the mace, my mind flashed, and I suddenly realized something.
No wonder I always felt that something was wrong after I came back. It seemed that someone was missing, and the Orthodox Fort Sect was still left behind in Tianshun time and space.
‘Forget it, wait until this section 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 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.
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This time, Lao Zhu didn't smile as proudly as he did last time, because he knew there was another but behind him.
"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 a grain tax to the state, and the tax ratio is a high 50%. What's more, they have to be forced to build canals and embankments to transport grain."
"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 to the soldiers by the court, and they did not need to pay food or taxes, let alone be drafted by the powerful.
"Of course, I can understand the reason why Hongwu initially set such a high grain tax on military households, in order to reduce the taxes on civilian farming and use military 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 directly 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 and grain tax 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 that he relied on the support of military camps.
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 is also 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 more incredible.
"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?
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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 a military household would have more and more mouths.
"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 are passed 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 Lao Zhu liked to make all the rules set in the Hongwu Dynasty into ancestral systems, 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."
"Because some military households can give birth to ten children after one generation of reproduction, while some people can't give birth to one."
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.
An 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 powerful 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 own fields."
"The vicious cycle that goes around and over again indirectly aggravates the process of land annexation. The land annexation in the Ming Dynasty started in self-defense."
"Master Immortal, if a soldier fled, why didn't the military attaché stop him?"
Xiao Zhusi asked again.
He vaguely remembered that the Ming Dynasty laws stipulated extremely harsh punishments for military households who fled. If a fugitive was caught, he would be directly interrogated and his wife, children, and children would all be 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 fled, but the quota of the guard station did not change, so the military attaché could 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 had almost no hesitation.
"Only a fool would stop it."
As soon as the words fell, all the emperors and princes felt heavy.
Especially Emperor Xuande, who ordered a thorough investigation of military settlement registrations several times, but it was still in vain, and the escape 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.
Until the fall of Zuo in the Ming Dynasty, the military garrison system still existed. Its essence was due to the existence of the ancestral system.
Many people of later generations believe that the ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty was used by the emperor if it was useful, and was not used if it was useless.
But this is not the case in reality. When an ancestral system involves too many interest groups, for example, the military camp system involves almost all military attachés across the country, as well as the interests of countless powerful people in temples.
This is like a big corrosive net, tightly wrapped around Ming Dynasty, deep into the bone marrow, and even if you want to get out, you can't get out.
Even if future generations of emperors had the will, they would not be able to completely outlaw it. Just saying that the laws of the ancestors cannot be abolished would overwhelm people.
Therefore, by the mid-Jiajing period, although the recruitment system had actually occupied the main combat strength of the imperial army, and the guard army had become a member of the camp system, the garrison system still existed.
"The third point is that the military positions associated with military garrison posts are hereditary. Not only the military households in various garrison posts are hereditary, but also the military positions below the commander and envoy of the guard post can be hereditary. This group of hereditary military attachés have been entrenched in the local area for generations.
In his eyes, all military households are like slaves."
"This is one of the main reasons for the sudden decline in the status of military households. Military households became despised and inferior citizens in the Ming Dynasty."
In fact, looking at the things that Lao Zhu thought of in his head, it is really difficult for people to figure out the reasons for doing so.
You said that military households should be hereditary, which is understandable. After all, it is to ensure sufficient supply of soldiers.
But why do the officers in the guard station also engage in the tactic of replacing the father with the son? What is the difference between this and raising rice bugs?
"The fourth point is that since Hongwu, the combat effectiveness of the guardsmen has dropped sharply."
"If you have been farming for too long, you will really become a farmer, and you will no longer have the blood of a soldier in your bones."
This is also natural.
The first generation of military households followed Zhu Yuanzhang's uprising and fought hard. They were all real men who had licked blood from their swords.
The second generation of military households can still barely inherit the legacy of their father. After all, Yongle once suppressed all the grassland tribes and beat them wildly, and Yongle's martial arts style was not inferior to Hongwu's.
It can be passed down to the third, fourth, fifth, and Nth generation as a military household.
With Hong Xi and the Xuande Dynasty, the national war has completely subsided. Do you still expect this group of military households who have been facing the loess and back to the sky for decades since they were born to carry knives and kill people?<
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Dreaming.
I still want to go home to harvest wheat, so why bother fighting with you?
This is why the guard armies in the middle and late Ming Dynasty were basically defeated at the first touch. Apart from being able to draw out the bluffing people, their actual combat power could not even be rated as fighting against the five scum.
Ji Boying glanced at the solemn-looking emperors and princes, and then gave a staged summary.
"The traditional military system of military garrison can only be used in times of chaos and stability, and can only be used for twenty years, which is the time of one generation."
Next.
"I'll give you a quarter of an hour to clean up."
"A quarter of an hour later, we went to Dengzhou Guards in the 25th year of Jiajing to witness it on the spot."
These emperors and princes have been following him around for a long time today, and they haven't even let him go yet.
People have three urgent needs, and the emperor is no exception.
Just in time, Ji Boying took advantage of this quarter of an hour to go to Tianshun to wrap things up.
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Tianshun time and space, the Forbidden City.
Inner Wulong Bridge, the one in the middle.
Pighead gasped for air and lay on the edge of the bridge. He couldn't run anymore, and there was not a piece of flesh in his body that was not in pain.
After all, when the ancestors of the Ming Dynasty beat him, they showed some mercy.
But those ministers of the Zhengtong Dynasty really don't regard the emperor as a cadre, and they are very cunning and specialize in the lower third route. Fortunately, the Pig's Head Fort has been protected, otherwise they would have become the Bird Sect.
"You, you, don't come over..."
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Pig Head Fort looked at the blackened Tianshun Emperor who was approaching him with horror. The blackened Zhu Qizhen was walking with zombie steps and carrying a machete. His eyes were filled with blood.
"You, if you come here again, I'll jump down."
"I really jumped!"
Under the Inner Wulong Bridge is the Jinshui River, which means the moat of the Forbidden City.
However, Emperor Tianshun, who had completely darkened at this time, ignored Pig Head Fort's inner fear and continued to wave his sword.
Pig Head Castle looked back at the Jinshui River, wanting to visually assess the depth of the river.
"Dance or not?"
A voice fell in the ears of Pig Head Castle.
Pig Head Fort was instantly overjoyed and turned his head to look around. Ji Boying stood calmly beside him.
"The Immortal Master saves..."
"Forget it, I'll help you."
Two sentences were spoken at the same time, but before Pig Head Castle could finish speaking, Ji Boying had already pushed him down.
Gudong.
A hundred pounds fell into the water, causing a few splashes.
After calming down for a while, I saw the head of the Pig's Head emerge, slapping the water with all its strength, and shouting loudly.
"I, I am grunting..."
"If you don't know Gulu, you can swim in Gulu..."
Ji Boying didn't care about Pig Head Castle, but looked at the blackened Zhu Qizhen. Ji Boying really didn't know how to evaluate this Tianshun Emperor.
At this moment, Emperor Tianshun also stopped approaching.
Because he couldn't bear the blow, he collapsed and went crazy, but he still recognized Ji Boying.
"Listen to my advice, put down the butcher knife, and devote yourself to learning."
"Go on."
Raising his hand, Ji Boying handed over a copy of "The Record of Biography".
For such people who have become possessed by demons, only the mind-study method that surpasses the Ming Dynasty can save them.
The blackened Zhu Qizhen looked at the booklet handed over by Ji Boying, and his blood-filled eyes were stunned for a moment.
By some strange mistake, he reached out and took it.
"Reform well and be a new person."
After saying this, Ji Boying disappeared.
Also leaving with him were the water-filled pigs that were already floating on the river.
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Hongwu, Zuixian Tower.
Hongwu, who returned after Ji Boying brought the water-filled Pig's Head Castle back to the orthodox time and space, did not return directly to the main hall. Instead, he smoked a cigarette in the elegant room on the top of the pavilion to relieve the fatigue caused by the intense classes.
Then I walked down the mahogany stairs, and the emperor and princes were ready.
"Brother, it's time to go."
Lao Zhu stood up and smiled cheerfully.
"Hmm."
Ji Boying nodded and stood on the stairs and glanced at the emperor and princes.
"Let's go."
In the blink of an eye, all the figures of the emperor and princes disappeared from the main hall in an instant, leaving only the twin sisters Lianxiang Xiyu.
The two sisters have gotten used to it these days and began to pack up and rearrange the classroom.
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Jiajing time and space, the twenty-fifth year of Jiajing, Dengzhou Wei.
Qi Jiguang, one of the commanders of the Dengzhou Guard, is only 18 years old and is in charge of the military camp. This young, fourth-grade hereditary senior military attache is walking on the field path, inspecting the fields of the military camp.
Looking at these fields, and remembering his father's teachings to be upright and honest as an official, he felt for the first time that the world was too dark and too corrupt.
Looking around, we can see that not many of these military settlement fields actually belong to military households, only about 20% at most.
Most of the rest are hereditary officers belonging to various levels of the guards, as well as some local aristocratic families.
The military households who originally owned the fields either fled or became tenants of these powerful people.
It was sunset in the evening, and dozens of military households, whose melons and dates were cracked due to malnutrition, were lying in the fields to rest after planting the last handful of seedlings.
"Lord Qianshi, look, there are a lot of strange people there."
The attendant who followed pointed to an open space ahead.
Qi Jiguang took a quick look and felt that he couldn't see clearly, so he subconsciously walked forward for a while.
The moment when you can see clearly.
Ding.
My heart trembled violently.
‘Why are these people all wearing dragon robes?!’
The first thought that popped into the mind of the righteous Qi Jiguang.
‘What a guy, how dare you collectively rebel and become the emperor!’
Then, there was inner ecstasy.
He doesn't want to spend his whole life waiting to die in Dengzhou Guard like his father. He is worried about how to escape from this miserable place of Dengzhou Guard. Wouldn't the credit for catching the rebels come to his door?!
With so many people wearing dragon robes, Qi Jiguang should be promoted to an official!
"Go and bring three hundred people from the nearest place."
After saying this, Qi Jiguang drew out the saber from his waist and rushed forward alone.
At this time.
Ji Boying, who was surrounded by all the emperors and princes and was explaining the situation of the Dengzhou Guards' Camp, suddenly felt a strong malice, and even the virtual screen in front of him lit up red.