Chapter 232: No Regrets

What is the price code offered by Zhu Qizhen? The first is exemption. For the gentry, they didn't care about this, because the scholars were originally exempt from military service, and even if they were not exempt from military service, they had money and could find someone to serve on their behalf.

And even if the tenants had ideas, they were not allowed to produce a labor force that did not work. In the ancient countryside, a woman could not live, and men were called pillars, and if they were not for some family background, they could not afford to be a strong laborer all the time. Even though there will be money.

But even in the countryside a few decades ago, it was not just about having money, let alone in ancient times.

Only the farmers who are alone are interested in the price offered by Zhu Qizhen.

First of all, exemption from military service is very important to them. After all, hard labor is too much of a delay in farm work. Homesteaders, on the other hand, are financially independent, and if they have more sons, they can spare one child to serve as a soldier.

Not to mention the annual salary of more than ten taels of silver, which is also a lot of money for the farmer.

Moreover, after the construction of the water conservancy project, Hebei will be able to change the wind and rain every year, which will lead to a large-scale birth wave, or a large number of children will survive.

After all, it wasn't before that there weren't so many children, and there was no contraception in this era. It's just that more often than not, it's just that they can't be raised.

Under such circumstances, they always told their parents that if they let their eldest son go out to earn military salaries, they would work hard for a few years, and when the children below were eleven or twelve years old, they would be able to use them as half a laborer.

Therefore, Zhu Qizhen's conscription policy, for various reasons, has been responded to by many people. It's just that there are some things that these magistrates may understand, or may not understand, and may not even be willing to understand.

They would rather push all these things above His Majesty's holiness.

Zhu Qizhen is actually immune to a lot of sycophants.

After all, in his position, he comes to shoot every day.

If Zhu Qizhen really has the organ of sycophancy, his daily ass must be red, and he must be swollen by someone.

But at this moment, Zhu Qizhen knew that what Wang Ji said was exaggerated, or that he intended to shoot the horse, but he still had a feeling of being drunk and fluttering.

Because he finally understood and believed in one thing at this moment.

In the river of history, all his struggles are like splashing in the river, no matter how he moves, the water will only ripple and then return to its original place.

It looks like he's done nothing. Or what he did, it was useless.

In particular, the defeat of Maoerzhuang attacked his self-esteem all the time.

It seems that he has struggled for more than ten years, but he has just turned it into a Maoerzhuang with a civil fort.

But at this moment, he knew.

It's not that everything he does has been assimilated by this era

, he responded, it's just that the inertia of history is too strong, and his reaction loop is too slow.

It's not like you're going to get a response right away.

It's a matter of years, decades, or even after he's dead.

But that's how life is.

Although Zhu Qizhen has been in this world for fifteen years, he is really in charge of power after the death of the Empress Dowager.

In the intervening years, he has done a lot of things.

There are good things and bad things, but every good thing is just the reason for buying a good one, and when it bears good fruit, I don't know when.

But before Zhu Qizhen came, the Ming Dynasty had already planted an unknown number of evil fruits, and at this moment it was just Zhu Qizhen to bear it.

At this moment, Zhu Qizhen suddenly felt that the big stone in his heart had been removed.

Since he came to this era, there has always been a sense of urgency to change the world.

Although Yang Shiqi, Yang Pu, and even the Empress Dowager can see it and point it out, Zhu Qizhen has not changed it, and it seems that it can't be changed.

But at the moment he understood.

Life is not a game, the feedback mechanism of the game is very fast, almost instant feedback, every time you do something, kill a monster, charge a sum of money, you can immediately become stronger.

But every effort on the road of life, but I don't know when it will be fed back to you, and every person who is admitted to Tsinghua University and Peking University is not because of the hard work of a month before the college entrance examination, or even a year of hard work, but because of the feedback that he can get from his efforts in the least few years.

Even some people work hard all their lives and can't get what they want.

Before the victory, it is not known how many bones of the losers there were.

But in this way, don't you work hard, don't struggle, don't move forward?

No, do good deeds, don't ask about the future.

It is enough to do what you think is right.

Zhu Qizhen asked himself, maybe because of his lack of ability, there were such and such setbacks and failures, but since the first day, his belief has never changed.

Let more people live, let more people have enough to eat, let more people be free from war, and let the Ming Dynasty enter industrialization at a faster speed. All sorts of things.

There is no mistake in the starting point, there is no slackening in the effort, even if there is no success, see the best result, what is it?

"What is the so-called thing about reading the books of the sages? Now and then, you can have no regrets. ”

"I also have the rest of my heart to do good, although I have died nine times, I still have no regrets."

"I ask for the heart of the ancient people with lofty ideals, but that's it." Zhu Qizhen only felt that his heart was completely enlightened, and he secretly said in his heart: "In this way, why do I hate it?" ”

Zhu Qizhen ignored the presence of the cabinet, suddenly laughed, and said: "Okay, order the Tongzhou battalion to enter Beijing, cut down the walls on both sides of Chang'an Street, and I am at the palace gate."

Former military parade. ”

In later generations, Chang'an Avenue was the first street in Beijing and even China. But today's Chang'an Avenue has its name, because the section in front of the Forbidden City is separated by two city walls, and the so-called Tiananmen Square in later generations is simply a royal forbidden place at this moment.

Zhu Qizhen was still a little constrained in doing things before, but he was worried that this would not work, that would not be good, but at this moment, Zhu Qizhen thought about it, and he didn't care so much about doing things.

For example, this Chang'an Street, Zhu Qizhen has long wanted to get through.

I've been hesitating.

was worried about attracting criticism, but at this moment, when he gave an order, few people dared to make a hard top, and immediately a soldier punched two big holes in the two long streets.

This is the plan of the Ministry of Industry to improve, not to tear down the wall, but to dig out two city gates, after all, even if Zhu Qizhen opens up here, how many people dare to pass by at the door of the emperor's house?

Therefore, it is better to open two doors to facilitate the entry and exit of hundreds of officials, or to do some ceremonial purposes, just like now.

This so-called military parade is actually very simple, but under the leadership of Jiang Gui, 50,000 personal soldiers, divided into dozens of phalanxes, passed by Chang'an Avenue in columns, and hundreds of civil and military officials watched from the top of the city tower with Zhu Qizhen. Although the people of the capital did not dare to come to the palace, the streets outside the palace were also full of people.

For the quality of these 50,000 people, Zhu Qizhen is also difficult to say, as Wang Ji said, plus tens of thousands of old, weak, sick and disabled people in the city, it is enough to defend the city. This is also thanks to Liu Dingzhi.

Under Liu Dingzhi's management, Shaofu performed well, and in just over a month after the Battle of Maoerzhuang, the Ming army's weapons shortage was filled.

Of course, Shaofu also had a certain inventory before, but even so, it has to be admitted that Shaofu is super efficient in the military system.

100,000 cavalry was destroyed, and I don't know how many weapons and armor were discarded, but the Ming army never worried about this matter, and it was Liu Dingzhi's credit.

Even the recruits are the same, with bright armor and excellent weapons, just looking at it, they really think they are a heroic soldier in a hundred battles. And on the walls of Beijing, the accumulation of all kinds of firearms is also more and more, what cannons and small cannons, thousands of enemies swarm, the water conservancy workshop by the Luding River with an incomprehensible efficiency of the Ming Dynasty, spraying finished products outside.

Zhu Qizhen secretly said in his heart: "Liu Dingzhi can be promoted." ”

This is not only Zhu Qizhen's idea, but the difficult thing is the opinion of the cabinet, the cabinet intends to let Liu Dingzhi go to the military department, Wang Ji knows that he can't support it for long, and intends to cultivate a successor who conforms to his own ideas. Wang Ji chose Liu Dingzhi.

Zhu Qizhen has not yet decided. Just wait for the end of the war.

It's just that after Zhu Qizhen had just paraded and calmed down the hearts of the people of the Beijing Division, he got a not very good news, the Tile Thorn Assassin Department had begun to move eastward, and after calculating the time, it had reached the Bauhinia Pass.