Ye Fu nodded, looked around, and asked him, "Are these people still obedient recently?" ”

Feng Shen replied, "My lord, they don't dare to be disobedient!" If you don't obey, you don't have to shoot, you starve twice, and everything is solved. ”

That's the truth!

Ye Fu asked Xiong Tingbi about the population, and he did get a lot of support. In the past year, from the beginning of spring to the autumn harvest, there have been many displaced people who have been collected by Ye Fu.

No matter where he fled from, even if he was like Geng Zhongming, who was once on the side of Houjin, Ye Fu did not discriminate equally. As long as they can reclaim the wasteland and farm the land with peace of mind, there will always be a good life, and they can live!

In order to supplement the shortage of military rations, Ye Fu followed the method of ancient times, and took these people into households, with ten households as one and ten households as one guarantee, and each place set up a number of guarantees. Each A is divided into a certain amount of land, and the first leader takes the lead in ploughing, and is allocated to ploughing oxen and farm tools.

The chief of the first is responsible for the harvest of the first one, and the people cannot leave the cultivated land at will, otherwise they will also practice the joint sitting method. That is, one person escapes from one household, and the whole household sits together; If one of the first families escapes from one household, all the first will sit together. If the whole household sits together, the chief of the first will also be punished; If the whole armor sits together, the chief of the security guard will also be punished. Level 1 looks at level to play the role of supervision.

Fifty percent of the annual harvest is used for military rations, and one percent is used to pay for renting cattle and farm tools. The remaining forty percent is at the disposal of Benjia, and the people of Benjia eat in the same pot.

In fact, even if they are not supervised, few people want to escape. After all, wherever he goes, the rent still has to be paid, and Ye Fu is still obedient. What should be collected is collected, and there is no additional apportionment. As long as they do not want to, they do not need to do additional conscription.

Of course, whether it is these engineers who build walls and dig trenches, or the cadets in the academy and the field soldiers who defend the city every day, they are much better off than them. If you want to live a good life, you naturally have to pay some price.

Therefore, when Ye Fu asked if he was disobedient, Feng Shen had to laugh.

These engineers really dare not be disobedient, and it is not easy to survive until the end of the Ming Dynasty. If they could live well, most of these felons would have been clear in the middle of the night that they would not be willing to take the risk of becoming a traitor. Now they only need to participate in labor, and they will have food on time and on time, and it is too late for them to be happy, where dare they be disobedient?

Of course, there are also some people who neither farm nor serve as soldiers.

Under the jurisdiction of the Dangerous Mountain Army, a group of such people have appeared one after another.

Some of them were in business, and some were working in shops. Naturally, there are also people working in the ordnance factories and munitions factories that have been built one after another.

The people who work in the shop, Ye Fu doesn't care about them, whether they are full or not, whether they earn more or less, that is their own business. However, the people who run the shops need to pay Ye Fu a grain tax every year as a reward for not paying grain.

The commercial tax in the Ming Dynasty was very low, but here in Ye Fu, the shops couldn't help but complain, because although the tax was not particularly high, they were indeed still profitable. But giving up a large chunk of profit is something they don't want to give.

However, even if the profit is lost, there is no way. Many of them are in the court, but Ye Fu has also been operating contacts in Beijing for nearly a year. When everyone has connections, Ye Fu will not be too passive. And you yourself are doing business on other people's territory, Liaodong is so messy, I really want to card you, isn't it easy?

Of course, Ye Fu didn't blindly just know how to fish back. All businessmen who were willing to accept exploitation, after being dissatisfied with the eroded profits at first, gradually felt the benefits of cooperating with Ye Fu. In particular, the use of Portuguese people for cross-border trade is too profitable. Moreover, as long as you are obedient, you can obviously feel Ye Fu's care and the inclination of some policies. For this kind of secretly courting behavior, businessmen are still very useful.

As for those who worked in the ordnance factories and munitions factories, they were paid very little. But it can be done, as long as one person works, a family of three can be fed. What's more, they don't have to pay any taxes either.

As the saying goes, the people live on food.

There is food and drink, who wants to carry their heads to fight the world? As long as they can maintain the subsistence line, the common people will generally not easily rise up and rebel.

Therefore, the territory under the jurisdiction of the dangerous mountains has become more and more stable in the past year. Even, even Xiong Tingbi specially wrote to praise Ye Fu's so-called way of stability.

After the heavy snowfall, the weather is getting colder and colder. Houjin, who has been relatively quiet in recent months, began to can't help but make small moves again.

"In recent days, the Tatars have been harassing our border more and more frequently, and small groups of scouts have repeatedly fought with the battalions of our brigade on the border from Kuandian to Sanyang, and each has its own victory or defeat. Most of the villages along the line were attacked by the enemy, the enemy was cunning, and our army's defense was a little loose, so the losses were incalculable. ”

In the general's office, Ye Fu sat in the signing room with a frown, listening to the clerk read to him the military report he had just received from the cavalry ordered by Tang Wang's subordinates.

Since the beginning of winter, this is not the first time that Tang Wang has asked for help from the General Staff, and obviously, the losses have reached a point where it is not easy to control.

Ye Fu gently tapped the armrest of the chair with his fingers, and couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed in his heart.

The cadets of the martial arts academy have just been distributed to various combat units, called probation. According to the regulations of the Academy, all graduates will be comprehensively assessed based on previous assessments and their usual performance. The results of the assessment are then disseminated to various locations.

Half of them were assigned to various departments under the General Staff's Office as probationary scribes; The other half is assigned to each outpost as a trainee staff member.

Ye Fu planned to push down the establishment similar to the staff system, and first test the waters with them. The so-called staff is also a staff officer. The trainee staff is the trainee staff officer. And the whereabouts of this batch of graduates also set a good example for the future, and at the same time, it also sent a signal.

Anyone who wants to serve as a commander at a certain level in a combat unit must have the experience of serving as a staff member (chief of staff) at a higher level. Otherwise, we will not be able to properly comprehend the operational intentions of the higher levels, and naturally we will not be able to perfectly execute and coordinate with the strategy.

Ye Fu has been pushing for various reforms recently.

There is not much time left for him in this era, and every day can clearly feel that time is passing quickly. But he expected that he would be able to hold out until Xiong Tingbi left office, but now it seems that God is still unwilling to give him more time.

"My lord, according to what you can see, should you supervise Geng Zhongming's ministry to strengthen vigilance?"

Lu Ding, chief of staff of the Central Army and the Battalion Affairs Office of the General of Staff, tentatively asked Ye Fu, and he always felt that Geng Zhongming's troops were a little out of the dangerous mountain army. During this period of time, they were indispensable when they asked for guns and salaries, but they were usually not seen practicing seriously, and they could not even find a shadow. In addition, Lu Ding had wanted to recruit Geng Zhongming before, but he was humiliated by him, so that Lu Ding had a lot of opinions about this group of traitors.