"What my father said is extremely good, they collect some rice and grain, and collect some cloth, all for the people, which is very different from the Zhu family's desire for poverty and luxury!" Li Laiheng paused and said, "So the people of Sichuan and Yunnan must be able to understand their suffering." ”

Can you be considerate? Li Guo is a little skeptical!

I think that the Zhu Ming court, who was extremely poor and extravagant, paid only 1 million stone of rice in Sichuan a year, and there was no household survey, and most of the handmade products collected were later converted into commercial taxes, and I don't know if there were 200,000 taels that could be obtained in a year? Now the land tenant adjustment collected by Dashun has increased more than tenfold......

Li Laiheng said again: "In order to let the people know that the income from the additional distribution is not spent indiscriminately, Erchen suggested that a few projects be set up for the additional land tenants. ”

"How many?" Li Guo frowned, thinking: How much is this going to add?

"Yes!" Li Laiheng nodded, "The first name is Zhu rice, which is the rice that they collected to fight against the Zhu family's 500,000 army. An additional 5 million stone white rice is levied a year! ”

Li Guo asked, "Is there a second one?" ”

"Of course!" Li Laiheng said, "The second is Saiyong, which is to build fortresses in important places...... Dashun has always been a light tax and light servitude, so the people can be considerate of sending a little more Saiyong. ”

Li Guo sighed: "What a good people! ”

"And a third!"

Li Guo took a breath: "How can there be?" ”

"And Burmese."

"Free of what?" Li Guo didn't understand.

"Burma's Burma, the tune of the household." Li Laiheng said, "It is the household survey added to open up Myanmar...... Zhu Jiaxing's seven-way army attacked me, one of which was to attack Burma. Myanmar is the retreat of the Great Shun, no, it is the foundation of the prosperity of the Great Shun. Myanmar has thousands of miles of fertile fields, and there are sea routes that can reach all countries in the world. Now that the population of Sichuan is gradually increasing and the land is limited, in another twenty or thirty years, I am afraid that Sichuan Tian will not be able to support Sichuan people. When the time comes, how will the people live? How can the country be safe? Therefore, Erchen also wanted to increase the conquest of Burma to open up the land of Burma, build a city fortress in Burma, and gradually send the mouth of the landless and unemployed in Sichuan to live in Burma. ”

Li Laiheng glanced at his father, and saw that he was wrenching his fingers with a bitter face, and knew that his "woman's kindness" had committed it again, and hurriedly said in an accentuated tone: "Ada, this Burmese tune is really for the sake of the people!" There are large areas of flat and fertile fields in central and southern Myanmar, which together are larger than the land of Sichuan, and the population is very small, and there is a lot of wasteland, which is just enough to feed the Sichuan people. ”

What Lee Rae-hyung said certainly makes sense. What could really pose a mortal threat to the Dashun Empire, which was entrenched in Sichuan and Yunnan, was not Emperor Zhu's so-called 700,000 crusading army.

Because there are no 700,000 crusaders at all, how can there be so many? The current Ming Dynasty basically does not have a land military service system, and mainly relies on state mercenaries to maintain its rule - state mercenaries are very expensive!

The monthly salary of the lowest-level guards during the garrison period is two taels of silver (two bank coins), which is issued for 13 months a year, a total of 26 bank two coins. The monthly military ration is five buckets (60 catties, food stamps are issued, and you can change meat or cloth if you can't finish eating), one or two vegetable gold is given in four months, two military uniforms are made a year (inside and outside), two pairs of military boots are given a year, and six pairs of cloth shoes are given. In addition, there are some miscellaneous supplies, and if all the silver is converted, the personnel expenses of a guard in the garrison for a year will always be between 40 and 45 taels of silver. If it is a veteran at the samurai level or the rank of captain, the cost will be even greater, not to mention the officer.

Such an army needs to raise 700,000, 30 or 40 million a year, and if you want to send them to war, I am afraid that 70 or 80 million will not be enough...... Therefore, now the Ming army and army directly under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty are 31 divisions (including a young guard division), plus one province and one superintendent, four rivers, two lakes, two Guangzhou, two rivers and mountains, Shaanxi, Shandong, Liaoyang, and Fujian 15 provinces are fifteen superintendents, plus some independent troops and military academies directly under the Generalissimo's Office, there are less than 600,000 under the full strength, and they can't make up 700,000 when they are sent.

Of course, in addition to these armies directly under the imperial court, the Ming also had many internal vassal armies, excluding the unworthy Beiting Protectorate, and now the Ming Dynasty has a total of Anxi, Hexi, Shuofang, Anbei, Beiping, Daning, Heilongjiang, Jianzhou, Dongning, Jinou, Jinghai, Xichuan, Chuanbian, Pingman (Pingman General), Guizhou (Guizhou Governor Division has been abolished, and it is under the full rule of the Governor of Yunnan, Guichuan, so it is also a feudal town) and other fifteen feudal towns. The number of troops in these fifteen feudal towns varied, with an average of around 20,000, and a total of about 300,000.

However, the defense areas of these feudal armies are all from the north and south of the world, and the number of people who can be used to defeat Dashun is really limited. That is, the four military towns of Xichuan, Chuanbian, Guizhou, and Pingman, which are specially set up for Dashun, can send a little more soldiers. Coupled with the whole army directly under the direct jurisdiction of the imperial court, it is estimated that it will not be able to make up 700,000...... Moreover, it is impossible for all the armies directly under the imperial court to go out into battle, and the provincial governors are not out of the provincial boundaries in principle. In addition, the Pingliao Army has not been disbanded so far, and more than 100,000 soldiers are still stationed in Liaoyang and the Horqin grassland.

Therefore, the 500,000 soldiers calculated by Song Xiance are already the limit of the Ming Dynasty's troops. And the limit is impossible to maintain for a long time, so even if Zhu Cihong goes all out to use the army, he can invest in the army of the Great Shun State for a long time, and it is about 300,000.

The ability of Dashun to make a hole in military mobilization is very strong, and through the land military service system (government military system), it can maintain an army of 350,000 for a long time, which is 50,000 more than the Ming side. Even if the combat effectiveness is inferior, there is still no big problem with holding on to the terrain.

But these 350,000 soldiers and 50,000 officials (also soldiers) also put great pressure on the small peasant economy of the Dashun Empire - these 400,000 people alone accounted for half of the land in Sichuan and Yunnan provinces, or even more...... The contradiction between people and land in Sichuan and Yunnan has also been greatly intensified!

Niu Jinxing, the prime minister of Dashun, also made a bitter face and agreed with Li Laiheng's opinion, he said: "Emperor, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is not wrong, now that the Sichuan people are breeding more and more, the land is not enough, if you expand the government by more than 100,000 soldiers, you will have to occupy more than 10 million mu at once." If you can't open up more land in Burma, I'm afraid that it will take another twenty or thirty years...... If you don't have to fight in the Ming Dynasty, the foreheads themselves will collapse. ”

Li Guoxin said: There are more than 10 million mu of land enclosed, and the rent must be increased...... Chongzhen is not ruthless! If it goes on like this, can Dashun still have twenty or thirty years?

"I'm afraid that the Sichuan people will not want to, and they will rise up one after another!" Li Guo whispered.

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid!" Liu Zongmin, the king of Han, waved his hand and smiled, "Your military government is divided into towns, and officials from top to bottom can also fight." The Sichuan people dare to rebel and kill their mother! ”

"No, not yet." Gu Junen shook his head, "The emperor is too worried, although the Sichuan people are bitter, they are still better than when the Ming Dynasty ruled." At that time, the land in the middle of the river was owned by the gentry, the Tusi, and the royal government, and the small people could only rent land for a living, and most of the hard-earned income went to the gentry, the Tusi, and the royal government. Moreover, the Ming Dynasty had long given up suppressing commerce, making profiteers rampant in the countryside, and most of the gentry were also engaged in industry and commerce, and they sucked the bones of the people through methods such as buying, selling, trafficking, and lending money. However, our dynasty is based on agriculture, and it restricts mergers and inhibits commerce. Therefore, the people still have half of the land, and they will not be exploited by the merchants, although they are poor, but they are also average, and they can still live, otherwise in the past ten years, the population of central Sichuan will not have increased so much. As long as they can give those people who really can't survive a way out, the people of Sichuan will not rebel. ”

"Ada!" Li Laiheng said, "If you can't go north now, you can only go south." ”

"But Burma is full of miasma!" Li Guo asked, "How is this going to be?" ”

Li Laiheng said: "I thought of a way, which is to exchange Burmese cloth for Burmese land around Awa and Salian...... There are fewer diseases in the ripe field than in the raw field, and it is easy to live. The Sichuan people are not accustomed to the water and soil, and they do not know how to open up the forests of Myanmar, so it is to send them to death to settle in the raw land, so they can only think of living in the familiar land.

The people who collect Burmese surveys are all for the people! ”

Li Guo sighed and said: "Then take it, in addition to levying Zhumi, then conquering Saiyong, and levying Burma...... In addition, if I make another will, I will say that in order to protect the people, I will also drive the royal expedition in person, go out of Tun Yong'an, and fight to the death with the emperor of the Zhu family! ”

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