After returning to Nanjing again, Zhu Guoqiang immediately summoned Zhang Liang.

Zhang Liang has just been promoted to the imperial history of the capital, and the governors Yingtian, Anqing, and Fengyang, the official positions of the past three governors have fallen to him, and the reason why this is so is to assist in the suppression of Kou. Historically, he was captured by the rebel general Zuo Mengeng when he was the governor of Anqing, dedicated to Duoduo, and committed suicide by throwing himself into the water in Gaoyou.

As an official, he is definitely a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty, but whether he is his loyal minister or not, Zhu Guoqiang doesn't know, after all, Chongzhen is still there.

But now, Zhu Guoqiang hopes to give him a try!

Seeing Zhang Liang, Zhu Guoqiang asked directly:

"Governor Zhang, Yingtian, Anqing, and Fengyang guards, can they collect grain according to regulations this year?"

Zhang Liang's face was embarrassed:

"General, at present, natural disasters and droughts, the land is deserted, and military families are fleeing...... The ministers really can't get the grain. ”

Zhang Liang couldn't help muttering in his heart, who in this world doesn't know that the so-called "military field grains" can't be harvested before Zhengde, so many years have passed, why is the general in front of him mentioning this matter now.

Hearing this, Zhu Guoqiang frowned and said:

"During the Hongwu period, only the Nanjing Guards belonging to the five prefectures of Nanjing had a total of 32 guards and 2 guards, and they could build slaves to enter the Kou, and when they invaded Nanjing, how many soldiers and horses were gathered by the 32 guards? The warlords have fled, but what about their land? What about the grains of the land? The soldiers can escape, but the ground can't move! Tell me, the land is there! ”

AnswerZhang Liang of course knows, who in this world doesn't know where those places are, but who dares to say.

Zhu Guoqiang snorted coldly:

"It's true that the military family has fled, but the land is still there! Where do you tell me the land? ”

Of course, Zhang Liang knew that those lands were there, and those lands were in the hands of the officers of the guards, and they didn't need to sell them at all to escape the land endowment, what was the biggest benefit of the military households? It's free from errand! The heaviest thing in ancient society was never the field endowment, and the errand service, in the Ming Dynasty, there was a kind, one was the Lijia service, the Lijia service was the affairs of one mile, the second was the even-handedness, that is, the regular errand service for the government, and the third was miscellaneous, all the errand service temporarily dispatched. What is the most common type of errand?

Every year, the local government builds water conservancy, repairs roads, official halls, city walls, and official grain transportation, which are the most common errands. Basically, an adult laborer has three months a year to work for the government without compensation, until Zhang Juzheng's whip law converts the errand into silver, so that the people are exempted from the pain of errand service.

However, military households are not required to serve on errands. Although the military fields need to pay two buckets of grain grains, the military fields do not need to pay the field tax, and there is no additional tax on the three salaries and other places to impose taxes and miscellaneous taxes. Because of this, the sought-after goods in the land market of the Ariake generation have always been military fields.

Who doesn't like "no grain for nothing"?

Not to mention the guards officers like Hou Fangyu's Hou family, even the local gentry also like such "no grain and white land"!

At present, the vast majority of those lands belong to gentrified guards and local gentry, and the number of military households who can own their own military land is at most about three or four percent.

Because of the wide range of involvement, Zhang Liang naturally seemed a little embarrassed, but he still reported:

"Your Highness, most of these lands are now occupied by others."

"Encroachment for others? I want to see who eats the bear's heart and leopard gall, and actually dares to encroach on the military field that raises soldiers, and the court asks for silver and military rations, and the general's hundreds of thousands of troops do not need military salaries and military rations! ”

Zhu Guoqiang said coldly:

"Zhang Liang, I order you to check all the military fields in Nanzhili before spring ploughing! Each guard house is cleaned up according to the number of acres of land set by the imperial court in the past! Compared with the depositors on the book, the land of the fugitive military households has also been confiscated! If the inventory is not completed after the spring ploughing, General Ben will send troops to investigate! ”

For Zhu Guoqiang, he now wants to take back all the military fields at the beginning of the country, reward the military fields to the soldiers, and re-establish a new guard system. Even, using military land to cultivate a group other than civil officials - the military elite military group, they may not have the same prominent status as the lords, but the millions of small landlords with military merits will form a new group, which is completely different from the group of civilian officials and is loyal to the emperor.

Of course, this is just the initial idea, and on the other hand, this is just the beginning!

Hearing this, Zhang Liang only felt a cold sweat on his back, and sent troops to investigate, what would be the result?

Naturally, it's a lot of people!

But how can it be so easy to check the fields?

It is easy to check the land, but the question is, what will the actual owners of the land - the gentry and the officers of the guard post do when they find out what the actual owners of the land are?

It's okay to go through the Jiangbei where the slaves entered the Kou and the rogue was rampant, there are now ten rooms and nine empty, not to mention the military fields of the guards, that is, many civilian fields, which are also abandoned in that and have become a borderless land, but in Nanjing, this is not the case in the south of the Yangtze River!

The land is alive in the hands of those men!

Cutting off people's financial routes, such as killing their parents, the general will offend many people if he does this, and the gentry and magnates in the entire Jiangnan will be offended.

Zhang Liang, a native of Sichuan, was completely moved by the general's actions for the country and the people, but he was moved, but he knew in his heart that this matter was almost tantamount to suicide.

Besides, the general has no right to ask him to do this. But Zhang Liang did not refuse, he hoped to use the authority of the general to rectify the military field, even if it was only a part.

So Zhang Liang whispered:

"General, do you remember the incident when Fengyangwei commanded Hou Dingguo in the seventh year of Chongzhen?"

In the seventh year of Chongzhen, Fengyangwei commanded Hou Dingguo to rely on the strength of the garrison eunuch Yang Ze to bully the military households, and the soldiers of the military households killed Hou Dingguo in Linhuai Xiguan Village, and then defected to the Liukou, and a month later turned around and helped the Liukou capture Fengyang.

Zhang Liang wanted to use Hou Dingguo's matter to remind himself not to force the people in the guard too much, which might make them join the enemy.

Zhu Guoqiang sneered.

"I'd like to see if my knife is hard, or if their neck is hard! Governor Zhang, I heard that when I came to Nanjing, some people said that the "killing god" came, if I didn't kill people, wouldn't I be worthy of this reputation! ”

Hearing this, Zhang Liang secretly took a cool breath, thinking that this general was determined to clean up the military field, thinking about the things that this master had done, he was really not joking.

Homicide...... For him, it's just killing chickens!

Zhang Liang is even speculating now that the general may just want to use this to make an example of the monkey and give Jiangnan Shilin a dismount.

After Zhang Liang left, he immediately began to arrange for the officials and officials to be investigated, and at the same time, he repaired several copies of the book and gave them to some close friends, so that they could get ready, let their own military fields out, don't become a "chicken" in the hands of the general, and others kill people and talk about rules, but this general kills people, never pays attention to the rules, don't be killed, and there is no place to cry!

Zhu Guoqiang knows very well what he is doing, and the most important thing for him now is to lay the foundation for the future, which is the foundation is real control.

At present, Jiangnan may be under Zhu Guoqiang's control, but this plate is a little hot and not controlled, especially the local gentry, whether they surrender to themselves or not, which is related to the long-term peace and stability of the Ming Dynasty in the future. Once he uses the knife against the entire Jiangnan gentry, whether they will fight back strongly is a very important question.

Zhu Guoqiang could fully imagine that once he did something to them, the gentry everywhere would betray him if they turned their faces, and they would even turn to the rogues.

Therefore, Zhu Guoqiang could only start with the guard first, and by rectifying the guard, he put the knife on their necks step by step. After all, the hereditary officer gentry of the guard station has always been outside the Jiangnan gentry, and then boiled frogs in warm water to completely control Jiangnan.

Solve the problems of some people first, and then solve the problems of another group of people. Zhu Guoqiang knows that things have to be done step by step, and it is easy to pull the egg if the step is too big. Take this group of people first, wait until the knife is sharpened, and then attack the others, and everything will be logical......