A thousand households make up 6,000 taels of silver a year!

Wu Sangui's breathing became short...... He finally has a chance to be a bad guy in his life!

He has 330,000 households, and if they all move to Anxi, it will be a subsidy of 1.98 million taels of silver a year, and nearly 39.6 million taels in 20 years...... Even if the subsidy is halved after 20 years, there will be 990,000 taels of silver a year.

This real deal of immigrants can be done!

Zhu Cihong looked at Wu Sangui's excited expression, and said with a smile: "Uncle Chang, the finances of Pingxi Town are independent, so the debts of Pingxi Town will not fall on Anxi Town...... The position of the protector of the capital of Anxi will be inherited by your descendants in the future, from generation to generation, and the town of Anxi will be forever! ”

Get rich!

Be rich, rich for generations!

Wu Sangui is about to cheer!

Zhu Cihong's meaning is very clear, the feudal domain of Pingxi Town is about to be withdrawn, and the millions of feudal debts will be asked for by Emperor Zhu in the future!

And after the Wu family threw out the deficit of the Pingxi Domain, they could still get a domain in Anxi Town, which is a clean and high-quality domain without a penny of debts!

If Wu Sangui can pull all the 330 thousand households of the Pingxi Domain to Anxi, it will be a subsidy of nearly 2 million taels of silver a year......

These 330 thousand households are 330,000 households on the books, nearly 2 million people. However, not all of them are military households, most of them are civilian households that support military households, and there are only 80,000 military households that need to bear military service, and these are the ones that need to be subsidized. It is enough for a household to make up 20 taels of silver, 80,000 households are 1.6 million taels to survive, and the remaining 400,000 taels is profit.

Moreover, the territory of the Anxi Domain is very large, from Hamiwei in the east, from the Tianshan Mountains in the north, to the west to the south. Although it is not a rich place, it is also the passage of the Silk Road in history, and if you really take care of it, you can still dig out a lot of inputs.

If it can really be used for generations to come, Yongzhen Anxi, then the Wu family will be a rich and wealthy family who will rest with the country.

Seeing Wu Sangui beaming, Zhu Cihong was of course also happy.

He is now the emperor, but this idea is still relatively commercial, with special emphasis on "cash flow" and economic benefits.

It is not that "loss-making trades" that cannot generate positive cash flow must not be done, but that it is necessary to live within your means and keep the cash flow of the entire Ming Empire positive—at least to the point where it can be maintained through financing and borrowing.

Otherwise, once the capital chain is broken, he will become the second Chongzhen.

Therefore, after he took over the Ming Dynasty, he took a series of stop-loss and contraction operations, and used the main forces to operate the four rivers and two lakes that were easy to generate a lot of income, Fujian and Guangdong - in order to suppress the possible resistance, Emperor Zhu also divided a large number of northern armies into various parties, so the previous two northern expeditions did not invest enough strength.

Now, the four rivers, two lakes, Fujian and Guangdong have been able to contribute more than 100 million taels (stones) of taxes to Emperor Zhu, and there is also a financial market that can provide 20 million taels of loans for the Ming court every year.

So Zhu Cihong had enough financial resources to support the Northern Expedition and the westward advance!

Of course, if you have some money, you can't spend it indiscriminately, and you have to be careful where you should be careful.

Therefore, he did not choose to rule Anxi with liuguan, but set up a feudal town and let Wu Sangui contract it...... also used a subsidy of 2 million taels a year as bait to let Wu Sangui move all 330 thousand households in Pingxi Town to Anxi, which is much more cost-effective than forced immigration.

The subsidy of 2 million taels a year seems to be a lot, but the actual expenditure of the Ming court is not so large. Because after the relocation of Pingxi Town, most of the nearly 20 million mu of land they occupy in Shaanxi (they will definitely have to keep a few million mu) will be handed over to the Juntun Division and become Juntian. This part of the land alone is a rent of more than one million stone flour a year, which is almost more than one million taels.

Moreover, once the two feudal domains of Anxi and Beiting were developed, special products such as horses, camels, and jade from the Western Regions would be imported into the Central Plains through Shaanxi. Silk, porcelain, tea, and ironware from the south of the Yangtze River will also be exported to the Western Regions through Shaanxi. Under the opening of the Silk Road, Shaanxi's commerce will also prosper again.

Wu Sangui is not as good at settling accounts as Emperor Zhu, but he also knows that he must have made some money in this transaction, so he is half a cut shorter and wants to kowtow to Emperor Zhu to thank him.

Zhu Cihong hurriedly helped him, and said with a smile: "Uncle, don't be in a hurry to thank you, I have other conditions!" ”

It turns out that this silver is not so easy to earn......

"Your Majesty has any conditions, just say it, as long as Sangui can do it, there will be no second words!"

Zhu Cihong laughed and said, "It's easy to do, it's easy to do...... You have 330 thousand households, 330,000 households, more than 200 people, a lot of people, and there are also multiplication, and many boys are born and raised every year, right? ”

"That's natural, those people under the ministers may have been born, and the other thousand households don't know, the thousands of households directly under the minister's jurisdiction, on average, each thousand households can give birth to three or four hundred a year, and the boys among them are about one hundred and eighty, it's nothing now, I'm afraid it will be trouble in the future!"

On average, Wu Sangui's 1,000 households have more than 7,000 people, and the birth rate of 50 per 1,000 is about 350. However, the premature mortality rate is also high this year, and 200 out of 350 people can grow up to be good. However, with such a "growth rate", the population of 330 thousand households will still grow at a relatively fast rate.

Moreover, these military households have no upward path except for serving as soldiers in the feudal towns. No matter how the economy of the northwest develops, it will be like that, even if the Silk Road is restored a little, it will still not be comparable with the four rivers and two lakes in the southeast, Fujian and Guangdong.

As for the "Taixue exam", it is even more hopeless...... It's not that the military households in the northwest can't do it, but that the southeast side will soon popularize primary and secondary education-the southeastern scholars have money, and they are willing to invest in education, and they will learn whatever they take in the imperial examination, and the military households in the northwest are not comparable at all.

However, Emperor Zhu thought of a very special upward channel.

"There are a lot of people!" Zhu Cihong smiled, "How about sending 1,500 10-year-old boys here every year?" ”

"1,500 10-year-old boys?" Wu Sangui was stunned for a moment, "Your Majesty, what do you want so many boys to do?" It can't be a eunuch, right? ”

"Of course ......not," Zhu Cihong waved his hand, "There are a total of three hundred eunuchs in the palace now, how can there be so many candidates?" ”

He paused, "Let me tell you, I plan to recruit teenagers from the nine-sided military towns of Anxi, Beiting, Shuofang, Huaibei, Xuhai, Sichuanxi, Sichuandong, Liaodong, and Nanyang. They were then brought up by the Generalissimo's Office for several years, during which they were not allowed to contact their families, and when they reached the age of 18, they were selected to serve as soldiers.

The Nine Border Military Towns each transport hundreds to 1,000 hundreds every year, and there are always more than 10,000 people in total, and when most of them are available after a few years of education, there will be no shortage of elite soldiers in the imperial court in the future...... When they have military merits, they can also be selected into military schools and promoted to become officers. If they can't embark on a career in office, they can be discharged from the army at the age of 35, and I will give them a piece of property, so that they can marry and have children in the southeast, and settle down. ”

This is copying the Janissaries of the Ottoman Empire, training scouts!

Because the Ming Dynasty was now friends with the Ottoman Empire, Emperor Zhu was also able to study the system of the Janissary legions, and after research, he found that this "scouting" system did have merit. Soldiers who are raised by recruiting poor teenagers are quite guaranteed in terms of combat effectiveness, and they can also become a source of fresh blood for the ruling group.

Without the replenishment of fresh blood, the ruling clique will inevitably gradually decay! Even if Emperor Zhu established an elite education and military education system, it would only slow down their decay.

And the elite of these nine-sided teenagers can enter military academies and serve as officers like the children of nobles, and then transfer from officers to civilian and political affairs. Because they do not have intertwined interest groups behind them, and they are also relatively motivated, they can completely become the mainstay of the army and officialdom.

In addition, for the middle and lower classes of the Nine Sides Domain, which was outside the core group of the Ming Dynasty, the supply of Scouts would also become a shortcut to the upside.

Even if only a few child soldiers can rise to the top, it is more or less a hope for the nine-sided military households.

With this hope, it will not be easy for the military leaders to incite them against the central authorities.

Moreover, the combat effectiveness of the Nine-sided Military Household is unlikely to exceed the Ming version of the Janissary Legion......