Chapter 15: Good luck in opening (6)

Zhu Zhi was very satisfied with this exercise that was already very close to actual combat. During the exercise, the officers and soldiers of the teaching team showed the results of strict training, including sneak attacks, night marches, strong attacks, harassment, ambush, and various combat forms.

It seems that Qu Neng is indeed well-known and is indeed a good piece of information to lead troops. The thousand people in front of him dare not say that they are the most powerful army of this era, at least they can be considered elite among the Ming Dynasty army.

The exercise ended and the first phase of the five-month teaching team was completed. Zhu Zhi awarded commemorative medals to the top three students.

The first place was Chiho Minami Hachiro, deputy to the Central Camp of the Right Guard of Yulin. Zhu Zhi remembered this official who was temporarily promoted by him on the night of the gate.

Nanbaro said: "My subordinate, Bai Ding, was suddenly promoted to this position by His Highness. Is it unclear what he is doing? So I can only strive to be the first in the teaching team and dare not neglect it."

Zhu Zhi patted his shoulder and said, "We must continue to work hard in the future. I'm optimistic about you."

The second place is Zhuang De. In Zhu Zhi's impression, he is brave and resourceful, but he didn't expect that he could not compare to Nanbalang. Zhuang De smiled shyly and said, "I am a rough man, not as good as Brother Nan."

The third one is Zhang Xu, who is the flag-master in the middle camp. Because he is in charge of a black flag, he is nicknamed "Zaoqi Zhang".

Zhu Zhi suddenly remembered that he had an acquaintance with Su Jie, the chief flag officer of the Central Camp. When he asked Qu Neng, he was also quite outstanding in training, and had already entered the ranks of candidates for promotion, and became the instructor of the second phase of the teaching team.

Tie Xuan handed over the reorganization of the Liaodong Guard. Zhu Zhi took a look at it. In addition to the Liao King's guards, the two troops of Dingliaon Zhongwei and Tieling Guard were rated as top guards.

Zhu Zhi knew what Tie Xuan meant. These two troops were Ye Wang's direct descendants, and they were rated as superior to the top to play a balanced role.

Tie Xuan reported that all the weapons and missing personnel will be replenished before summer, but the premise is to ensure the supply of money and grain. Zhu Zhi saw that there were only 40,000 taels of silver left in his hand, and then gritted his teeth and allocated 10,000 taels, and ordered the Liaodong Army to be given priority.

Zhu Zhi also thought about this carefully. Zhu Zhi had seen the weapons and equipment of the Liaodong Army. Although it was not uneven, it could not be compared with the Liao King's guards. Therefore, supporting the Liaodong Army can not only improve its combat effectiveness, but also soothe people's hearts.

Zhu Zhi also ordered the Yulin Right Guard to replace the defense with the Tieling Guard. As an offensive force, the Yulin Guard stayed in Guangning for defense, which was simply useless. The Tieling Guard was one of the two infantry guards among the upper five guards. Zhu Zhi considered their development direction to attack and defend the city.

Just in Guangning, he was receiving equipment produced by Jiao Zilong Weapon Research Institute nearby. Seeing the adjustment of Liaodong military affairs, Zhu Zhi's heart became much more solid. How could he rest assured if he had no soldiers in his hands?

The second phase of the teaching team was the chief colonel of the two troops of Dingliao Zhongwei and Tielingwei. Qu Neng continued to serve as the captain, and 50 people with outstanding performance in the first phase were left as instructors.

Zhu Zhi asked his father-in-law Guo Ying to join, of course he would not receive training. Zhu Zhi considered to get familiar with Liaodong military training and use his rich combat experience. Finally, he was appointed as the principal of the planned Liaodong Military Academy.

After all, Qu Nengnian and R&F should command operations on the front line.

After the first phase of the teaching team ended, the Yulin Guard officers returned to the battalion to start conducting new training for their subordinates. The other 800 people were assigned to the Dingliao Zhongwei and the Tieling Guard to start training the soldiers of the two garrisons.

According to the plan, after the officers of the two guards were trained, the training of the two guards was almost done, just forming combat power.

In early spring, February is the busy season of farming. Zhu Zhi then discovered that soldiers from various Liaodong garrisons must devote themselves to the military farming at this time. Zhu Zhi could only make it hard and mandatory that soldiers participating in military training are not allowed to go home to farm.

It’s so great that they all went to farm. If the Hu people invade, who will fight?

A few days later, the trouble began. The soldiers from the Dingliao Zhongwei and Tieling Guard stopped working. After the group training, they all shouted that they would go home to farm.

Ye Wang and Tie Xuan reported to Zhu Zhi overnight. Ye Wang said: "Your Highness, every spring and autumn harvest, soldiers will go home to help the military garrisons do farm work. These people are the strong laborers at home. If they are not allowed to go back, everyone is unstable?"

Zhu Zhi really found it funny. He knew the Ming Dynasty military garrison system. It clearly stipulated that the soldiers in the border guards had 70% farming and 30% garrisoning. It's good now, but they don't do training. I just want to go home to farm. Is there such an army?

Zhu Zhi said: "How come there is such a regulation? Isn't 60% of the soldiers necessary to stay in the military camp?"

Ye Wang said: "This is true according to the military system, but it is unwritten to go home to farm during the busy farming period. Each of their families has fifty acres of land. If they don't go home to farm, they may prevent the delay in the farming time."

What is it hard for Zhu Zhi to blame? It doesn’t matter to the officers and soldiers. It’s all caused by the military garrison system of Lao Zhu. Whoever has land and doesn’t plant it in the barracks for training, and what should I do if the taxes stipulated cannot be paid at that time?

The military garrison system of the Ming Dynasty was very funny, and almost the entire army had to farm. Lao Zhu believed that in this way, raising a million troops would not consume the country's food.

What made Zhu Yuanzhang have such unrealistic fantasies? It is entirely because according to regulations, each military household receives 50 acres of land, with 18 s of rice as the minimum standard, of which twelve stones are used by the military households and six stones are handed over to the military warehouse.

It is also stipulated that the mainland military and guards have two parts, eight parts, farming, frontier military and guards have three parts, and farming have seven parts.

There are even records that the maximum amount of grain paid by military guards is 27 million, almost equivalent to the amount of land taxes in the Ming Dynasty throughout the year. Unfortunately, after later scholars verified that this is just a yy number. The tax and grain paid by military households never reached one tenth of that number.

It is absolutely absurd idea to be a soldier and farm. The average household in the Ming Dynasty paid rent ratio of thirty taxes and one tax; the proportion of a military household paid rent actually reached three taxes and one tax.

I really regard the "People's Liberation Army" as a living Lei Feng for the people's service! On the one hand, we must defend our country, we must shed blood and sweat, and on the other hand, we must cultivate the most expensive land in the world, Ghana's most outrageous rent.

How can you balance the military households psychologically? This is not communism, and the people's thoughts and sentiments are extremely advanced. So why did military households collapse at the end of Yongle? Nonsense, there is no such stupid military place in the world.

Zhu Zhi smiled bitterly and recalled the current predicament, slapped the table and said, "The soldiers should not work hard and support themselves. You can study it and come up with a solution. I see, the government will send Lumi to the military households to make up for the losses of not being busy with farm work.

I think this can be tried from the upper five guards."

Tie Xuan said: "Your Highness, military garrison is a system stipulated by the emperor. This change will lead to great disdain for the world. Furthermore, we have low taxes in Liaodong, so how can we support 110,000 people? Your Highness thinks twice."

Zhu Zhi said: "Then the Iron Chief Secretary has thought of a solution. The Liaodong Army needs training. Who can afford the delay in the farming period?"

Tie Xuan said: "How about this, don't change it this spring, let the soldiers go home for busy farming, and then slowly discuss a solution in the summer and slowly plan it."

Zhu Zhi knew that Tie Hyun had a kind heart, and now he could only do this, so he instructed Tie Hyun: "Okay, let's do this first. Dingshi must help me think of a solution to this problem before July.

I think it's still about conscription. Anyway, 30% of the soldiers in Liaodong are recruited now. "Tie Xuan smiled bitterly, who told me to talk too much and took down this troublesome errand.

Zhu Zhi always thinks about introducing rice in Liaodong. Since he emphasizes that any work starts from reality and practice, it is better to try it yourself.

He and several guards from peasants opened up ten acres of paddy fields next to the military camp and planted rice seeds from Huainan, Chameng and Jiangnan respectively. The officials wanted to see if rice could be cultivated in Liaodong.

Zhu Zhi's behavior aroused the grief of officials. Although the Zhu family has always attached importance to agriculture, Zhu Yuanzhang would go to the suburbs to persuade farmers every spring.

But that was just a hoe, but now Zhu Zhi’s daughter-in-law went to the fields to farm, and the officials couldn’t stand it.

Yang Rong, Yao Shan and others dissuaded them one after another, and Zhu Zhi explained the reason for doing this with great sincerity. When everyone heard this, they both sighed but did not understand.

However, after arriving in Liaodong, officials have become common with Zhu Zhi's new ideas. Since the prince must have made sense of this, even Yao Shan took his beauty to open two acres of land in the backyard to plant rice seeds.

Zhu Zhi's personal farming deeds soon spread in Liaodong. In more than half a year after Zhu Zhi came to Liaodong, he had good governance one by one and had long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Now His Highness, the King of Liao, is working on farming himself, has become a good story among the people.

Some people even secretly got some rice seeds and learned from Zhuzhi to grow rice.

Mr. Zhu felt quite distressed about his son. In the spring of the 27th, the number of immigrants doubled to 30,000.

Fortunately, with the experience of the previous year, Yao Shan arranged 30,000 people in the vast area of ​​Gaizhou and Fuzhou in an orderly manner. Because of the original immigrants, they spread in the shape of a chessboard around the original village residents.

But another sum of seeds, grain and other things were spent. When these things were arranged, Zhu Zhi spent all the 200,000 taels of silver in his hand.

Zhu Zhi asked Qu Yuan for money, but Qu Yuan had no choice. Now it was just beginning, and he only had 30,000 taels of tax and silver in his hand, and he had to pay the Ministry of Revenue.

However, Zhu Zhi was already very satisfied with this achievement. In March, he completed the tax and bank tax of last year. That is to say, by the end of the year, at least nearly 100,000 taels should be invested, and the full annual quota should be paid. The rest are all safe, but they can't count on it now.

This prince is so miserable, how could he be so poor?
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