"If you don't buy it yourself, you have to raise it yourself...... War horses, horses, mules, ploughing oxen. Min Yuanqi's tone was heavy, but his determination had already been made, and he said to Li Guoding: "Six taels of strong oxen, three taels of mules, and the price of pulling horses is slightly cheaper than that of cattle, and it should not be difficult to buy thousands of healthy cattle, horses, and mules...... Every family has to ration livestock, and we will raise it on behalf of them, and they will rent it, which is a way. It is also a way to replace and purchase with tenants, use rent to offset the price of cattle and horses, and return it in installments. If you have money, you can buy it directly. As long as the animal power is sufficient, it is not difficult to cultivate and divert water. ”

"Two more troubles." Li Guoding was also excited by Min Yuanqi...... How can a person who loves farming and has a decent level of skill not be tempted?

Li Guoding took a deep breath and said with a wry smile: "One, no matter how intensively our land is cultivated, the yield is still not high. Second, these lands have long had owners, from commanders to acquaintances, servants, thousands of households, hundreds of households...... We have thousands to hundreds of households occupying a small head, and more than half of the land in the guard house is occupied by the big people above......"

"How can I not know this?"

The soldiers of the guard post have a very limited income from farming for a year, in addition to the heavy labor in the production area, because they have been working for the big leaders of the guard post for the above.

The grains given to the imperial court were all decimal, and the bulk was still given to the military attachés of the guards.

Compared with the people's occupation of land, there must always be a fig leaf, and the generals have no scruples about plundering the tuntian of the guard, which is simply an open robbery.

From Liaodong to Dahewei, to Guangdong, Guangxi, and Yungui, Sichuan, the lack of combat effectiveness of the guard was something that existed in the early Ming Dynasty. The main reason is that the generals have almost divided up the military land, the soldiers have no land to cultivate, and the tenant farmers can also talk about the pound with the acres of land, and the share handed over by the tenant farmers is too high to be unreasonable, so they can quit the tenants, and find other landlords to rent the land for farming, although the landlords take a lot, but the ups and downs on the heads of the tenant farmers are also carried by the landlords, such as taxes, miscellaneous taxes, forced labor, etc., there are landlords in front of them, although they pay more rent, but in comparison, it is more cost-effective to become tenant farmers.

Although the yeoman peasants paid less national endowments, but the government servants went to the countryside to urge the department, the general Jiali was oppressed, endless apportionment and servitude, after the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the government was corrupted, the pressure on the yeoman farmers was getting bigger and bigger, the more bankruptcies, the more annexations, the less taxes the court collected, and then a vicious circle was formed, after the middle of Chongzhen, the nominal income of the three salaries increased a lot, in fact, the income of the imperial court actually continued to decline. Not only are miscellaneous taxes not collected, but also land taxes cannot be collected.

Here in Dahewei, if everything is according to the rules of the beginning of the country, the situation will of course be very different, but to have this kind of discussion with those high-ranking officials of the guard, of course, is to seek skin with the tiger.

"Ignore them." Min Yuanqi smiled and said: "In a few days, the Department of Agriculture will come forward, and the Garrison Department will cooperate, and the public land of the guard station, as well as the private land occupied by the generals, will be measured clearly, and then tenant by household, not only outsiders can tenant, but also local garrison military households, let's calculate it according to fifty-fifty shares, and those who want cattle, horses and farm tools can be dispersed and returned from the tenant." ”

"Five or five points are also earned...... Li Guoding was greatly moved, and said: "Deputy Qianhu is going to poke the hornet's nest?" ”

"They're not hornets, bees aren't either." Min Yuanqi said: "As soon as the guest soldiers came, they shrank in the city of Huai'an Mansion and didn't dare to move, and they didn't even dare to let go of a fart when they were occupied by the Health Department." Even if the palm print commander is only ten or eight family members, I occupy their land, and they will win the lawsuit in Nanjing, or will they go to Yuntiguan to count with me face to face? ”

"That's ...... too"

Not only Li Guoding, but even Wang Sanyi suddenly realized, and everyone laughed together.

Although the imperial court knew about the invasion of the Tuntian of the Weisuo army, and even tried to solve it many times, the law did not blame the public. However, if it is illegal, it is illegal, could it be that these military attachés of the guard station went to the Governor's Mansion of the Chinese Military or the Ministry of War in Nanjing to fight a lawsuit for this matter? Min Yuanqi has just made military achievements, and in the eyes of the big lords, he is an emerging military leader who can shock the place, who will find trouble for this small military leader for a group of incompetent military attachés?

If you want to be strong, the more than 400 banner troops that Min Yuanqi has at hand now are vegetarians?

These fields are recovered, of course, it is impossible for Min Yuanqi to distribute them equally, all the banner troops have land to plant, and there is a stable harvest, and those who want to be soldiers to eat food will be affected.

A household of 50 acres, even if the current output is used to steadily harvest dozens of stone of grain a year, it is much more comfortable than being a soldier to eat grain.

This field can only be fully collected by Gongzhong and completely controlled by Min Yuanqi.

Therefore, Min Yuanqi will understand the entire cloud ladder, vinegar and children's literature in advance, and the number of acres of land near Guan, excluding the acres of land owned by military households and civilian households, more than 30,000 acres of land can be recovered.

Coupled with the wasteland that can be reclaimed, more than 100,000 acres of land will be in hand.

transformed into a landlord in the first sequence of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, Min Yuanqi now has this strength...... Before Chongzhen, those who occupied the land were all pro-domains, nobles, and of course, big officials and gentry.

The most famous is of course Xu Jie, a place like Jiangnan where every inch of land is gold, all the crops are mulberry cotton and other cash crops, even if the Xu family does not occupy 200,000 mu as rumored, 108,000 mu of land is also occupied.

Even if Xu Jie is the elder of the Shoufu Pavilion, so much land is still supporting the Xu family.

The rest of the big officials and gentry and landlords also have a variety of means of occupying land.

The annexation of a large amount of land, coupled with the privileges of the gentry to evade national taxes, the Ming Dynasty was actually on the verge of extinction during the Jiajing period.

The efforts of Gao Gong, Zhang Juzheng and others to reform the tax system are the real reasons why Zhang Juzheng gave Daming a new life.

In addition to the big gentry, the largest area is occupied by the major generals on the nine sides.

The best of these is Ning Yuan's ancestral family, in addition to the ancestral inheritance in Ningyuan, the ancestral family has successively annexed a large number of ownerless acres in the war against the Jurchens.

At least tens of thousands of military households farm for their ancestors, otherwise how can the ancestral family have the money to raise thousands of elite families?

There are thousands of elite families, and the ancestral family dares to occupy land and embezzle military salaries, how can Chongzhen destroy the Great Wall for such a trivial matter?

The big and small generals occupied an area from Ningyuan to Jinzhou, of course, hoping that the defense line would advance, rather than sitting in such a small place as Shanhaiguan to Ningyuan.

For the development and self-interest of his own family, Liaodong tied the door to the local civil officials to advance together, saying that it was to beg for capture, but in fact, the second pole Chongzhen was fooled and lame, and the battle of Daling River was the most painful education of this kind of aggressive policy, and then the battle of Songjin was to wipe out the family of Daming.

It doesn't matter if Zu Dashou can't keep his ancestral business, he patted his ass and cleared up the matter, who did the large number of civil and military officials and loyal and brave soldiers and innocent people who were killed by him go to reason?

Wang Sanyi and Li Guoding not only did not feel that Min Yuanqi was presumptuous or unreasonable, on the contrary, they would quite agree, and even felt that Min Yuanqi's movements were too slow and too gentle.

Even if the military attache of the guard station who was robbed of acres of land was angry and scolded, but deep down in their hearts, they would definitely feel that there was nothing wrong with what the kid of the Min family did, but if they had such strength, this thing would have been done a long time ago, and they would even do it more ruthlessly.

Wang Sanyi thought for a while and whispered: "Actually, it's not impossible for other thousands of households to ......."

Min Yuanqi smiled and said, "For the time being, the action should not be too big, when the recruits are trained, and then find a chance to fight a battle or two, then it will be almost the same." ”

Dahewei and Huai'anwei are in Huai'an Fucheng, stationed in various counties, and the first command set up by Taizu of the Ming Dynasty at the beginning of the country was in Huai'an, with Huai'an Hou Huayunlong as the commander of Huai'anwei.

Later, because the Huai River was extremely wide along the river, a Huai'an guard would definitely not be able to defend it, so a large river guard was added.

Dahewei along the Huai'an Mansion City, to Shanyang County, Shuyang, Guannan, Haizhou, all the way to the Huaihe River estuary of the Yunti Pass, more than 8,900 officers and soldiers, Wanli years to verify the guard of the military households, there are still more than 4,800 in the army, including more than 3,300 transport troops, 40 men of the gate army, more than 1,000 people with the command of the management of the operation of the command of more than 1,000 people to garrison the Huai'an Mansion City, in addition to the palm print command, the command of the exercise, there are a number of commands such as the management of the library and the same knowledge of the management of Cao, the secretary, eight people in a thousand households, 16 people in the deputy thousand households, two people in the town, experience, a number of officials. In the Wanli years, there were more than 1,700 hectares of land, more than 160 hectares of orchard and vegetable fields, and more than 600 hectares of wasteland......

Ripe fields, vegetable fields, orchards, and allocated wasteland add up to less than 200,000 mu, but the 8,000 households are in Shuyang and other five counties in 32 tun houses, and it is unrealistic for Min Yuanqi to want to occupy them all.

It is here in the Yunti Pass, together with more than 100,000 acres of wasteland, so it is very possible to do some things.

"It's enough for the time being......," Min Yuanqi said: "The animal power is enough, the fertilizer is enough, the average yield of three stones per mu can still be done, two crops a year, plus the corners of the plot are also planted with beans to feed the livestock and squeeze oil, there are hundreds of thousands of stone grains in the warehouse a year, I am not afraid of anything in my heart." ”

Min Yuanqi remembered that the Qing army would go south next year, and by that time he hoped that he had saved enough military rations, so that his heart would be much more stable.

Wang Mingyuan subconsciously said on the side: "If there is not enough food, just buy it with silver, let's rely on Huai'an Mansion City, how much grain can't we buy?" ”

Min Yuanqi glanced at this showman, and said calmly: "I can buy it now, but in the future, thousands of banner troops, thousands of workers, and tens of thousands of people will eat at least 10,000 stone of grain a month, and how many people and how many ships will be needed to buy grain every day to supply?" What if the city's grain storage is insufficient? What happens when food prices go up? What should I do if I can't buy food when I start a war? If you produce your own grain and have food in your hands, you will not panic in your heart, and no matter how good the silver is, there will be no edible grain in the warehouse, which is more reassuring. ”

Wang Mingyuan's face turned red, he originally wanted to argue with Min Yuanqi, but in the end, he understood that after all, it was more reasonable for the deputy Qianhu in front of him to say.

At that moment, Wang Mingyuan crossed his hand and said, "It's the student who wants to be left, and what Deputy Qianhu said is reasonable." ”

Everyone laughed, Min Yuanqi also smiled, nodded and said: "Mingyuan is a little bookish, this is not afraid, knowledgeable people learn things much faster than ordinary people, but they are afraid of resting on their laurels and refusing new knowledge, Mingyuan, you are not bad, much better than most of the readers." ”