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The soldiers and horses did not move, and the grain and grass went first.

The army of 20,000 marched out of Shandong, and it cost a lot of money to eat horses and chew along the way.

Jiang Yueguang, the head of the household, had a headache.

It stands to reason that the Shence Army is a new army trained by the Son of Heaven, and it should allocate silver and grain from the inner treasury. However, some time ago, a large part of the grain stored in the treasury was used to stabilize grain prices.

In desperation, Jiang Yueguang had no choice but to go to the emperor and request that the grain in the Shen family's grain depot be used as military food for the army.

Zhu Cihong was angry and laughed when he saw this recital.

is a good household book, and when he encounters a problem, he only knows how to reach out to me. If everything has to be solved in the end, what else do you want you to do?

Zhu Cihong also knows where the crux of the problem lies.

Since the founding of the People's Republic of China by Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming Dynasty has remeasured land and implemented a redistribution of resources throughout the country.

It can be shown that the distribution of land resources was relatively equal at the beginning, and the contradictions between landlords, yeoman farmers, and tenants were not serious.

But as time went on, land annexation became more and more serious, and more and more land was concentrated in the hands of a few.

These minorities are generally divided into two categories, one is the meritorious scholars.

Generally, as long as more than one person is raised, you can get tax exemption privileges, and the land under your name can be exempted from taxes.

It is said that the Ming Dynasty did not raise too many people, and thousands of people did not occupy too many resources.

But there are policies and countermeasures.

In order to exempt the land from taxation, ordinary homesteaders attach the land under their own names to the names of fellow villagers and jinshi, which is the so-called contribution.

Under the operation of one pass, the land from the cultivators has become the land of the master of the people and the master of the jinshi, and naturally it can no longer be taxed.

There is also a category of people who are royalty.

Zhu Yuanzhang's descendants are reproducing very quickly, and there are tens of thousands of clans in the Zongren Mansion for more than ten generations.

Of course, these people are not all county kings and princes, but may only be the lowest level of clan relatives.

But to some extent, it also shows the huge number of clans.

Take the county king and the prince as an example, they all have their own farmland.

These farms are also tax-free.

It stands to reason that the number of farms of the prince and the prince of the county is fixed, and it will not have a big impact on the overall tax revenue of the imperial court.

But rules are dead, people are alive.

It was not uncommon for feudal kings to encroach on people's land, and it was not uncommon for yeoman farmers to donate their land for tax exemption.

Most of the local officials turned a blind eye and pretended not to see it.

Otherwise, what should I do, do I rush to the gate of the palace with dozens of "wolf-like-tiger" servants to ask the vassal king why he has embezzled the land?

It was these two types of people who made a large amount of land tax-free, and the imperial court was able to collect less and less tax silver.

In desperation, the imperial court had no choice but to distribute more taxes to powerless yeoman farmers, which led to more and more yeoman farmers going bankrupt.

A large part of the large-scale peasant uprising that broke out in the late Ming Dynasty was due to land annexation, and the Xiaoice period was only a catalyst.

Neither of these problems is easy to solve.

Take the tax exemption for scholars as an example, if Zhu Cihong does some land reform now, it will definitely push the gentry and landlords who originally supported the Ming Dynasty to the opposite side, and directly force them to be the leading party of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Even if land reform is to be implemented, it is not now, and it must wait for the complete defeat of the Manchu Qing before it can be implemented.

Moreover, in order to carry out land reform, it is necessary to re-measure the land of the whole country. Now the fish scale atlas in the hands of the imperial court was drawn when a whip law was implemented in the early years of Wanli, and it has long been impossible to count.

This is a huge amount of work, and the current situation of the country is in danger, and it is by no means a time for distraction.

Small-scale land reform is possible, but it will not produce much. Zhu Cihong felt that it was more in line with the current situation to go all out to resist the Qing Dynasty.

The matter of silver is easy to solve, and the seizure of corrupt officials and profiteers is very effective, and the inventory alone is enough to spend at least three years.

But food is a problem.

Nanzhili has limited grain production, and it is not even as much as Liangguang. The whole of the South is actually dependent on Huguang for food imports.

And Huguang is not completely in the hands of the Ming Dynasty now. Bai Wangbu and Zuo Liangyu confronted each other across the river, and friction occurred from time to time.

In the event of a war at any time, it is not very easy for the peasants to calm down and cultivate their land properly.

Because they have to worry about being caught at any time and go to the army to be a master.

In the final analysis, this is a proposition of family and country.

The war will also skyrocket the already unstable price of food, which cannot be bought even if you have the money in your hands.

Therefore, for Zhu Cihong, the significance of recovering the four prefectures of Xiangyang, Jingzhou, De'an, and Chengtian is no less than the significance of recovering Shenjing.

The former can allow Daming to monopolize the Huguang granary and solve the problem of having enough to eat. The latter is more of a political symbolism.

If the original historical development is followed, Li Zicheng is likely to abandon Guanzhong and flee to Huguang. At that time, the chances of Zuo Liangyu falling into the desert and fleeing down the river greatly increased.

What Zhu Cihong has to do is to avoid this from happening.

Therefore, the Manchu Qing must not be allowed to take Guanzhong easily.

The Gao Jie Department of the Northern Expedition became the most critical part of the whole plan.

If necessary, Zhu Cihong even wanted Qin Gongming's troops and the 10th battalion of the Shence Army to reinforce Gao Jie.

Of course, the most important thing at the moment is to supply the army with military rations.

Gao Jie's military rations allowed him to raise them on the spot in Shandong. However, the military rations on the road of the Shence army had to be allocated by the imperial court.

Zhu Cihong didn't plan to let the Shence Army raise food according to the guest army model, which was no different from the barrage, which would make the Shence Army on a blank sheet of paper dirty and black.

Zhu Cihong could only choose to allocate the grain in the Shen family's granary that had just been confiscated to Zhao Xin and let him use it as food for the army.

Alas, the grain went out after pouring his hand, and Zhu Cihong played the role of a grain shop guy.

I only hope that this Northern Expedition plan can have the desired effect and buy more time for Zhu Cihong and Daming.

The decisive battle with the Manchus was far from coming, and Zhu Cihong still had a lot of work to do before that.

"Come on, pass on the decree, order Lu Zhenfei, the secretary of the Ministry of War, Gao Hongtu, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, Jiang Yueguang, the secretary of the Ministry of Households, and the commander of the Shence Army, Zhao Xin will quickly enter the palace to see His Majesty."

The Shence army is about to start, and Zhu Cihong still has a lot to instruct.

It involves some cooperation and cooperation of various departments, and he has to make it clear to Lu Zhenfei, Jiang Yueguang, Gao Hongtu, and Zhao Xin in person.

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"All of us are united, and the mountains can be shaken.

Only loyal and righteous, angry bullfighting.

The Lord will kiss me better than my parents.

Committing military law is not free.

The order is clear, and the reward and punishment letter is written.

Go to the water and fire, dare to stay late!

Report to the Son of Heaven and save the head of Qian.

Kill all the captives and find a marquis. ”

The soldiers of the battalions of the Shence Army gathered in the large school field and sang the military song together.

The military song is loud and bright, singing the feelings of the Han family's sons and daughters, the ambition and pride of the descendants of Yan and Huang, and the pure hearts of the sons and daughters of China.

Liu Sanshui had already dumb his throat, his eyes were red, and he clenched his fists and silently recited in his heart: Report to Tianzixi, save Qianshou. Kill all the captives and find a marquis!

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