"Your Highness, if you are late to welcome me, you will be punished by death."
The fat Qianhu Zhou Fugui rolled like a ball in front of Zhu Yihai, bowed his head and bowed. Seeing this flattering look, Jinwu Commander Zhu Shengli made no secret of his disgust, and even Yulin Commander Yang Boxing looked down upon it.
Go down.
Zhu Yihai stood in front of the Yamen of Qianhu Office. This can be regarded as a city within a city. Although the area is small, the layout is compact and strict. The Yamen of Qianhu Office is located in the north, and then the two corridors in the office are divided into ten Yamen of Hundred Household Offices.
The Zhenfu Hall is located in the south of the yamen city. In front of the yamen is the military warehouse Changjicang, with five warehouses and 21 warehouses in total. Since the Zhengde period, the Changji Hall has been managed by Yanzhou Prefecture, and people have been appointed as Changjicang.
The deputy envoy is also managed by a number of subordinate officials and several people at Dou level.
According to the account book that Zhu Yihai is looking at now, Yanzhou Changjicang should receive and distribute 3,627 shi of natural rice for military autumn grain every year, 252 shi of farm rice, and 437 taels of discounted rice silver.
Yanzhou Prefecture is responsible for collecting 60% from the counties and 40% from the garrison troops to supply the city guards with monthly rations.
Behind the Qianhu Office, there is a row of residences used to entertain visiting officials.
As a military fortress, there is also an arms bureau in this yamen city, which can manufacture 575 pieces of weapons every year, including 20 bright helmets, 20 pairs of iron armor, 5 horse-cutting knives, and 20 waist knives.
, ten long cards, twenty horn bows, forty open strings, four hundred iron arrows, twenty bow bags, thirty quivers, etc.
There are also flags and banners for storing military flags and six banners for worshiping military teeth, and Shuixi Temple for worshiping fallen soldiers. In addition, there are Weiwu School, Academy, City God Temple, Guandi Temple, and Yangong Temple for worshiping the water god in the Yamen City.
Outside the north gate, there is the Bei Campus for training soldiers, Yanzhou Pu for delivering official documents and receiving officials, and 12 hectares and 30 acres of farmland. Forty-two officers and soldiers are responsible for cultivating the land, and pay 252 shi of grain every year.
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Around Yacheng, there are seven piers and platforms and two lookout villages.
During the Jiajing period, to prevent Japanese pirates, a guerrilla force was set up in Yanzhou.
According to the book, this should be a heavily guarded military fortress, but in fact, when Zhu Yihai came over and took a look, what he saw was that this place was no different from Jiande, which was separated by a wall.
Neither the city guards were seen practicing, nor the military households farming in the fields, and there were even few students in the Weiwu School and Academy.
On the contrary, these five thousand households are as fat as balls.
Zhu Yihai looked at Fatty Zhou coldly. According to the intelligence collected, this guy was actually similar to Wu Kai from Haimen, but more greedy. He was more of a landlord and merchant than a guard officer.
Needless to say, he invaded the farmland, deducted monthly rations, and even used the guards to help him smuggle and sell salt and tea. He also used the soldiers to help him grow grain and tea, and even repaired his house and worked for him. He also made loan sharks and trafficked people, etc.
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He also spent money to find a position as a battalion officer. After hanging out for a while, he was called up by the imperial court to go north to fight, and then he immediately paid for his illness and left.
When Fang Guoan came to Yanzhou, he also spent a lot of money, so Fang Guoan also gave him the title of guerrilla and still took charge of this three-acre land.
"Zhou Fugui, Yanzhou should have 1,168 soldiers guarding Qianhu Station, 350 city guards, 818 field soldiers, and 36 hectares of field. I want to ask you.
, Where are the soldiers, where are the fields, where are the grains, where are the armors?”
"The Yanzhou guerrilla camp should have a thousand soldiers, but where are the soldiers and where are the equipment and equipment?"
Fatty Zhou panicked all of a sudden.
Sweat dripped from his forehead, "Your Highness, the guard station has been in ruins for hundreds of years, and military families have been fleeing. Many of them are due to long-standing deficiencies. When the humble ministers took over, it was already a mess."
"Can you get rid of the problem with just one sentence? Do you think I can't check the accounts? I don't care if the military household in the guard station escapes, but there are files for checking the farmland in the guard station. Whether it's embezzlement or stealing, these are all there.
It’s something that can be relied upon.”
"From now on, the Yanzhou garrison of thousands of households will be withdrawn, and the original Yanzhou guerrilla camp will also be withdrawn."
"The soldiers of the guard station have all been converted to civilian status, and the cities and villages of the guard station have all been transferred to the management of local prefectures and counties. The former farmland of the guard station has now begun to be evacuated."
The fat man sweated more and more.
Zhu Yihai asked the military men who were guarding Qianhu Station in Yanzhou to come over. After waiting for a long time, only two to three hundred people came, and most of these people were in tattered clothes and looked disheveled.
This year's severe drought has caused food prices to rise sharply in various places. Especially when the Qing army approached the Qiantang River and a large number of troops gathered to defend the river, food prices soared.
Fang Guoan stationed himself in Yanzhou and exploited and exploited them in every possible way. The people of Yanzhou could no longer live happily any longer.
"Sheng Sheng, please ask someone to fetch some food first, and distribute some food to everyone to satisfy their hunger."
Originally, Zhu Yihai planned to have a good chat with these military households, discussing reform of the guard station, liquidation of the fat man next week, clearing out the farmland, etc., but when he saw how hungry everyone looked, he couldn't bear it anymore.
When food is brought in, food is distributed first.
One bucket of rice for each family.
Zhu Shengli stood there with great experience, and kept warning the military households loudly, "After receiving the food, cook some porridge and drink it first. Drink and cook it. Don't cook it into dry rice. If you are hungry for a long time, eat dry rice directly, especially rice."
Too many will kill people."
"Drink porridge for three days first, wait for a while, and then eat dry rice after your stomach gets used to it."
In fact, military households don't know this. It's not the first time that everyone has been hungry. Who can survive these days has not been hungry every day for three days, and everyone has gained experience.
Seeing their misery, Zhu Yihai felt uncomfortable.
People were asked to directly set up the pot and start cooking porridge. Many people no longer had the energy to light a fire to cook porridge, and even had no firewood at home.
Yanzhou is still in the rear area, but it is all in such miserable condition. You can imagine how miserable the people are in the Central Plains at this time.
Zhu Yuanzhang's military status system made the group of people who should be the heroes of the country and the country's pride become the lowest class, suppressed by several mountains and unable to lift their heads.
If these soldiers who defend the country don't get even the slightest respect and protection, how can we expect them to defend the country?
Isn’t this nonsense?
We can still be harsh for more than 280 years. It is really rotten and should have perished long ago.
If it weren't for the invasion of foreign tribes, Zhu Yihai would be happy to welcome the righteous army to support the new dynasty.
The gruel without adding anything made all the military households' eyes shine. Everyone was holding their bowls and waiting in line. Some children were even crying in a hurry.
Zhu Yihai looked at Qianhu Zhou Fugui, who was now fat as a ball, and couldn't help but kicked him to the ground, "Take this thief down, behead him in public, confiscate his home."
It started with guarding thousands of households in Yanzhou, and started with killing thousands of households and Zhou Fugui.
Every acre of the 3,600 acres of farmland originally distributed across the counties of Yanzhou by the Yanzhou Guards' Thousand Households Office will be taken back. No matter whose name it is now, or how it is bought and sold, Zhu Yihai will take back all of it.
Regardless, these are military camps and must be taken back.
After taking it back, it was handed over to the Yanzhou Town Grain Station to recruit tenants and rent it out. The tenants would farm the land and then collect the tenant rent uniformly. The grain obtained would be used first to supply the Yanzhou Warrior Town Royal Camp.
"All the military households in the Yanzhou garrison will be converted into civilians, and all the grains they owe will be exempted. As long as the original city guards are actually on duty as soldiers, they will be given three months' monthly rations and they will be converted into civilians.
membership."
The past relationship is severed, the grain arrears are exempted, and the soldiers who are actually on duty will be compensated for the monthly rations they owe for three months at a time, and they will no longer be soldiers in the future.
As for those whose names are not in the register, officers will be punished by having their stolen goods returned and a fine of silver, while soldiers will be removed from the list.
This guard post is useless anyway. Guard posts along the canal have to bear some water transportation tasks, and Yanzhou Guards Qianhu Post is just a pustule and burden. The sooner we get rid of it, the better.
"This government office will be used as a military city for warriors to garrison Yanzhou from now on."
Warrior Town is the establishment of the New Army. There are two bids under one town, and each bid is under the jurisdiction of two associations. There are battalions under the associations, and sentries under the battalions. The general soldier leads one bid and is stationed in Yanzhou Fucheng, and the deputy commander leads one bid and is stationed in Yanzhou Fucheng.
Then it was settled in the west.
Although the cleanup of Qianhusuo's farmland and the inventory of grain and monthly grains may involve local gangsters in Yanzhou, Zhu Yihai doesn't care anymore. He even gave Fang Guoan, the Zhennan Bo who held tens of thousands of troops,
If you chop them down, will you still care about these local snakes?
If we don't clean up the pustules such as the guards, Zhu Yihai's imperial court will not be able to survive for long. Since the country will be destroyed if it is not rectified, why hesitate?
Behind the guard station involves a huge group of military attachés, local powerful groups, and even battalion soldiers, lieutenants, etc. who guard the place. But will Zhu Yihai care now?
Whichever is the lesser of two evils.
In the past, the princes of the Ming Dynasty were unwilling to take action against Wei Suo, and they could delay it for a day, and no one was willing to open this pustule, but now Zhu Yihai can no longer delay it.
To be honest, Zhou Fugui is not the only one. Even the bad things in the Wei Institute were not started by him, and he should not be held responsible alone. But Zhu Yihai is not going to tell you 2456 now. He only has one thing right now.
Clear everything one by one.
Fatty Zhou indeed embezzled farmland and deducted monthly grains, and even embezzled grain grains, privately served military households and villagers, etc. Then he deserved to die. Zhu Yihai didn't care how much of his family's money was embezzled according to the law, and how much was managed by himself.
All the proceeds are now confiscated.
Similarly, regardless of how the military villages were transferred out or how the current owners transferred them, Zhu Yihai did not investigate. He only focused on the military villages' fields and took them back directly. If you have any problems, go to your home.
Not only do those who currently occupy military camps have to return them immediately, but they must also be severely punished.
Buying and selling are the same crime.
If you dare to buy or sell military farmland, it will be easier for you to be beheaded. Now I only ask you to hand over the farmland, and then pay a fine of silver to make up for the grain. This is already considered polite.
At this time, you must be ruthless.
Now is not the time to argue with them.
To rectify the garrison and rectify the military garrison, we must attack hard, so that we can kill one person as a warning to hundreds and advance smoothly.
He did not first come up with a charter in the court and then implement it in various places. Instead, he went directly to Yanzhou and chose the Yanzhou Guard Qianhu Office for surgery. He wanted to create a typical case first, a standard case, and then all places would follow it.
This case law will be followed.
If he directly proposes reforms in the court, he will definitely have to argue with the ministers, which will involve the complex interests of all parties, and there will be disputes. It is better for him to deal with Fatty Zhou directly now and kill him directly.
The land was collected, and problems such as military households, farmland, and guard cities were quickly cut through.
"Your Highness, what should we do with the deputy Qianhu, Zhenfu, and Baihu of Yanzhou's Qianhu Station?"
Zhu Yihai said disdainfully, "As long as these guys are willing to return the farmland honestly, return the gains from embezzlement and corruption over the years, and pay a heavy fine, I can spare their lives. As long as the matter is settled, let's forget about it. But
If anyone dares to play tricks on you, then there is no need to be polite, they will be cut down directly and their property will be confiscated."
