(This is chapter 329, you can go back and look at chapter 328, I didn't expect to miss so many chapters...... Tears ran away...... I got a WeChat public account, thank you for your attention. After WeChat > entered the wax moon, although with the ice of the Yellow River and the canal, the Qinghe wharf has lost its former liveliness, but the city is more lively, and the streets are full of passers-by who buy New Year's goods.

Compared with the bustle of the outer city, the old city once seemed a little depressed, as the people and shops in the old city continued to move to the outer city, there were only a few yamen left in the old city. In the past year, Qinghe has opened several yamen in addition to the Yamen, which is the original six rooms of the Yamen, such as the household yamen is naturally the household room of the past, as for the military yamen, it is the military room of the past, which is in charge of recruiting soldiers, horses, and training Ding Zhuang in Jiangbei, and the suppression of bandits, city defense and other matters are under its management.

Among the yamen under the Economic Strategy, that is, the number of military affairs yamen, the scale is the largest, and only the public works yamen can compare with it, but although the public works yamen has many subordinates, most of them are scattered in various factories outside the city, in contrast, there are hundreds of officials in the military affairs yamen to work in it, handling various affairs.

Although according to Jiangbei's "week system", "Riyao Day" is a rest day, but in the military affairs yamen, in addition to the officers on duty normally, there are also officers who are working overtime, in their eyes there is no such thing as "Riyao Day", and this "Riyao Day" rest, is the rule of Jiangbei, half a year ago, Zhu Mingzhong used this time calendar to arrange the 28 nights in the order of day, month, fire, water, wood, metal, and earth, seven days and one week, and the cycle repeatedly, called the week of "Qiyao", formulated as "week". The seven-day week in the Western calendar was alluded to, which also changed the original system of "ten days and one rest" for officials, and one day off for every six days of work. Although it seems that the rest time has been increased, in fact, overtime has long been normalized in various yamen in Jiangbei, especially in the military affairs yamen, and at least half of the people here will stay here to work overtime every "sunset".

On the desk is a mountain of reports, in this office, an officer is there looking at the report in front of him, his left hand, a wooden prosthetic hand, pressing the report, right hand looking at the report, for Yu Renhui, the year before last, he was still the head of a battalion of the Loyal and Righteous Army, and now he is the military affairs Yamen in charge of retired military affairs in the township commander, the reason why he transferred to civilian work is fundamentally related to the loss of his arm in the battle of Suqian, but, even so, and as a township commander, He still dutifully completed the task that had been strategically deployed - to formulate appropriate implementation methods for military merits and honors.

"The number of acres is ...... now"

Looking at the number of acres of official land of the shopkeeper of the Jiangbei government on the table, especially the number of acres of official shortage, after all, the number of acres of these fields is directly related to the resettlement of hundreds of thousands of loyal officers and soldiers in the future.

"At least 100 acres, with different military ranks......"

Thinking of Jingluo's request, Ding Renhui counted the number of officers and soldiers at all levels in the army from time to time, ranging from 100 mu to 1,000 mu, and these lands were the land that would be granted to the loyal officers and soldiers in the future, which would be used as a reward for their blood and sacrifice in service.

"Well, that's how much you need to ......."

After carefully calculating a number, seeing that the numbers of the two were basically equal, Yu Renhui couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and looked out the window, because of the heater, there was a layer of fog on the window, but the winter snow outside the window could still be faintly seen.

"Otherwise, the materials will be presented to Jinglu in the afternoon."

Thinking like this in his heart, Ding Renhui returned to his desk and redrafted the official letter.

"100 acres for privates, 150 acres for privates, 200 acres for regular soldiers, 250 acres for non-commissioned officers, 300 acres for non-commissioned officers, 400 acres for non-commissioned officers, 500 acres for sergeant majors......"

Looking at the official letter mentioning the number of acres of land granted, Zhu Mingzhong's eyebrows raised slightly, the number of acres of land granted, beyond his original plan, initially, his plan was only 100 acres to 200 acres for soldiers, and the officers of the colonel were at most 1,000 acres, but I never thought that Ding Renhui's preliminary plan, the land granting can be said to be simple and rude, completely based on the number of acres of land in Jiangbei, and then based on the simple division of the number of officers and soldiers in the army, and then subtract the fraction, it has become the standard for granting land, in other words, More than 100,000 loyal and righteous troops will occupy more than 60% of Jiangbei's land.

If the ass really decides the head, if the civil service group is allowed to do so, it is estimated that such a method of granting land will never be formulated.

"Why are lieutenant-level officers awarded 600 acres, school-level officers awarded 800 acres, and general-level officers awarded 1,000 acres? Why is there no hierarchy between them? ”

Zhu Mingzhong did not immediately say his opinion, but just asked Ding Renhui like this.

"Back to the scriptures, because they have already received official salaries when they are in service, so the granting of land should be reduced, and the military rank is a quota, which can avoid some problems."

Ding Renhui replied truthfully that when formulating the method for granting land to military ranks, he had carefully considered the pros and cons of it, and among them, the most headache for him was the granting of fields to generals and schools at all levels.

"Well, that's true, and in this case, although there is no motivation, it can also avoid conflicts."

Zhu Mingzhong nodded, and then said.

"However, this military merit granting is not simply calculated by dividing the number of acres of fields in the world, and in the future, the loyal and righteous army cannot only have more than 100,000 people, and the scale of the loyal and righteous army will only be more and larger in the future, so we must take into account the future granting of land, this plan, you go back and revise it, limit the regular soldiers to 150 acres, and the non-commissioned officers control it within 350 acres, and the field must take into account their military merits, and cannot be simply and rudely divided, after all, The number of acres of land granted to officers and men fighting on the front line is the same as that of the security forces in the rear, and this is undoubtedly an injustice to the officers and men on the front. ”

Although we have to admit that such a simple and crude division has indeed simplified the work of the military affairs yamen, it has created a lot of injustice.

"In addition, this matter should be kept secret, I heard that the current statement in the army about rebuilding military households has been spread, and this kind of statement will shake the morale of the army."

Even if the military affairs yamen transferred the acres of land and the move of the wasteland into the official, it is natural that some people will associate these with the "reconstruction of military households".

If you can grant 50 acres of land according to the military household of the founding military system of the Ming Dynasty, those ordinary soldiers are naturally happy, after all, 50 acres of land is enough for them to maintain a family's livelihood, and their lives are quite rich. Of course, if it is divided among the descendants, the 50 acres will naturally be insufficient. ”

Not only is there a deficiency, it is simply difficult to make a living, the military households of the Ming Dynasty lived increasingly poor in the later period, not so much land annexation, but rather because of the inheritance of land to their children and grandchildren, their lives became increasingly poor, and finally even less than ordinary households.

"Rich for only three generations, his generation still has 50 acres of land in his family, which feeds a family, but in the second generation, he may have to feed two families, or even three or four families, and a family only has more than ten or twenty acres of land, after three generations, how much land can be left?"

With a long sigh, Zhu Mingzhong looked at Yu Renhui and said.

"Therefore, the biggest weakness of this military household system lies in this, even if the military household system is to be restored, the method of dividing the land according to the people must be changed, and the most basic principle should be Rongtian to return to the army, since the other sons have not served, naturally they cannot share Rongtian with the eldest son!"

Can't share Eida with the eldest son!

A seemingly simple sentence, when it came out of Zhu Mingzhong's mouth, Yu Renhui looked at him in surprise, he was born in a big family, he could imagine what kind of uproar it would cause among the people if this law was implemented in the army.

After all, the thousand-year-old tradition that has been formed since the Han Dynasty implemented the "Tui En Order" in the Chinese brothers' divisions, and now the strategy is the opposite, so he asked tentatively.

"Jinglue, do you mean that this merit field cannot be divided among the sons?"

"Gongtian is different from people's property, people's property is the property of the common people, what is Gongtian? It is the reward that soldiers get for fighting for the country, and it is the country's recognition of their meritorious deeds. What is this Gongtian? It is glory, it is the capital on which a soldier depends for his livelihood, and if there are two brothers, one of whom serves and the other who is a businessman, and the merchant who has never served the country, but who has received a share of the land from his father, will not the one who serves suffer? This kind of behavior that harms the soldiers in service is absolutely unacceptable! ”

When he said this, Zhu Mingzhong naturally thought of the nobles in Europe now, who implemented a strict primogeniture system to ensure the connection between the feudal lord and the vassal, and the most important asset in feudal society, land, was continued from generation to generation as a whole, and the obligation between them was also continued - that is, the obligation of military service. If the primogeniture system is not implemented, the already small amount of land will be continuously divided, and only three generations will be needed, which will make it difficult for military households to make a living, which will lead to the collapse of the military household system.

"Therefore, in the future, the principle of the inseparability of the land must be written into the measures, and it must be strictly implemented, only in this way can we ensure that the Ming Dynasty will not be left without troops in the future."

Of course, what is more important is to ensure that in the future there will be a new group of military landlords in China, so as to form two distinct groups from the so-called "Shilin", and unlike the latter, in the future these military landlords will be almost equivalent to Western vassals, equivalent to a certain extent "lords". So as to ensure that the power of Chinese officialdom in the future will not be monopolized by "Shilin".

Balance is the fundamental prerequisite for maintaining power.

Of course, these Zhu Mingzhong will not explain to Renhui, he will not explain that what he has painstakingly created is a huge military class, and this military class will be continued from generation to generation as a whole because of the integrity of its property. So as to ensure that in the future, China's power will not be monopolized by the so-called scholars.

After Ding Renhui left, when the idea of inheriting the eldest son flashed in his heart, he couldn't help but sink when he thought of his own Zhu Mingzhong's thoughts, and his face became a little unnatural......